5/30 at 6:15: Now in the kitchen

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky starts knocking dishes and pots around and making other general clatter.

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You must be the change you hope to see in the world.-- Gandhi

[Tony Lone Fight]

Of course, let me whip up some of my famous Indian Tacos. Thank you so much for looking for the spirits of belonging, I've been so busy studying that I've had a hard time working on that.

How many tacos do you want?

Pipestone begins to pull out hamburger, using Kusanagi's good pans and cutting up some fresh vegges. He also begins to heat up a big pot of oil.

[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone gets a bunch of flour, dried milk, salt and sugar and starts mixing the dry stuff together, making a big cloud in the kitchen.

"The key is making sure you mix the dough a lot until it's very firm. Stiff and Slow is the way to go, my mom always said. I think."

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[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone add water to the flour and then mixes it vigorously with his 7 strength. The dough starts off very sticky and gets all over the place.

"Just got to keep kneeding the dough and then adding more water. This is kind of fun."

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky tries to help. She keeps tasting the ingredients.

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[Tony Lone Fight]

"The glutin is now getting fully developed and that's where the flavor is. Strong ropey strands of glutin. Another 10 minutes of kneading and it should be about ready."

Pipestone see the baking soda and realizes he didn't put any in. He offers it to Spooky to taste to see if it should go into the dough.

"Put it in a much as you like, I think it's like pepper."

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky nods. Then she starts sprinkling it in liberally, like pepper.

"So we meeting at McDonalds on Saturday then? Obviously we can't go to the consilium..."

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[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone goes to kneading the dough vigorously after the baking soda is poured in.

"I kind of feel like we should fight for the conselium, but honestly, it's not like it's the first one to be destroyed by some weird effect or wacky mage."

Pipestone smells the air and the faint odor of very hot oil starts to linger in the air.

"Smells like the oil is hot enough. Now let me make some fried bread for the Indian tacos." Pipestone pulls off big hunks of the dough and balls them up and drops them into the hot oil.

"This is what you call 'hearty' ... real rib-sticking stuff."

The ball of dough sizzle and crackles in the over-hot oil. Pipestone seems to nearly burn each one and then soon there is a pile of what look like giant dough cannonballs.

"I remember mother's being more flat."

[Tony Lone Fight]

While I do this, why don't you take that raw hamburger, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and sour cream and mix it together. Then heat up that pan and throw the whole thing in there. Brown it. I think one of Kusanagi's "woks" will do nicely. When it's "browned" put some of that baking soda on it. That should give it a kick!

[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone pulls out his iPhone and types into it. He then calls aroudn to try to find someplace the city can meet.

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky follows Pipestone's letters to a T.  "Kusanagi will be proud of US for putting his won to such good purpose."

She listens while Pipestone makes his calls. "Maybe I can talk the banisher ghost down. The talking cure. You think?"

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[Lucy Arnold]

Ooc: wok not won.

[Tony Lone Fight]

"Talking Cure? Dr. Josef Breuer won't help us here unless we bring him back from the dead too." Pipestone looks back at the raw meat and the veggies and says, "use your hands, really get in there and mix it up. Don't skimp on the Baking Soda. It makes everything better!"

[Lucy Arnold]

"Well, I might have a better chance with this than you all will killing his ghostly banishing ass," Spooky mumbled.

Spooky mixes diligently then adds lots of baking soda. And then a little more for flavor.

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[Tony Lone Fight]

Actually you might be right. Last time we fought Banisher, both Bones and I nearly died. Make sure you get that oil really hot, that's what Kusanagi says.

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky turns the burner all the way up to high, her hands shaking.

"That can't happen. Therapy for the banisher ghost it is."

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[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone watches the sizzling pan.

"You know Spooky, sometimes you have to let Bones and I be soldiers. Sometimes we have to fight. Sometimes stuff has to be expunged."

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky dumps the rest of the box of baking soda into the pan. She whirls to face Pipestone. "If there is something I can do to keep you both from not being dead, I will do that thing." She jabs a finger at Pipestone. "Capiche?"

[Tony Lone Fight]

"You're not making Capiche. you're making Indian tacos."

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky removes her finger from Pipestone's shirt and frowns doubtfully at the "tacos."

"How much longer? I'm starving."

[Tony Lone Fight]

"When the meat is "brown" it's ready. Seems kind like it's getting to be a color. Looks like all the sour cream melted. Maybe we should put more in?"

Pipestone goes to get the cream and hands it to Spooky.

"You know, I'm not sure why, sometimes, you treat me like I'm the enemy. I don't love Bones like you do, but I do love him. There's going to come a time when we all have to risk even more than our lives to protect those that can't even see the threat coming. It's something we all live with."

Pipestone cuts open to of the dough cannonballs and doesn't seem to notice that the insides are doughy and the outsides are tougher than shoe leather.

"When your part is done, just slap it on here and we'll eat up!"

[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky frowns down at the blackish meat concoction. She sighs. "I know, Pipestone. But you charge right in. You are brave, and Bones too. But neither of you know when to back down. When to cower. When to lie your ass off. And frankly, the thing that is going to get you both killed is trying to do the right thing while the rest of the consilum looks around and says, "who me?"

She yanked the pan off the burner. "I am sick to death of the right thing. Sick. To. Death."

[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone take a spoon and scopes a big glop of the mixture and puts it on his dough. He takes a big bite. It takes some mighty chewing but he manages to get it down.

"I'm glad you're watching out for me."

Pipestone puts some ketchup on the glop of food, a lot of ketchup.  He takes another big bite. Chews and chews. Chews some more. After he gets another gulp down he says, "this is really awful."

Pipestone looks at the "food" and then looks back to Spooky, "I don't know what to say. I can try to be subtle, but that's not my strong suit. I'm like this... food... kinda ugly, but tough as hell and vaguely nutritious and hard to swallow. I can't be something like one of the cool things Kusanagi makes."

[Tony Lone Fight]

Pipestone starts to clean up. He puts the food on two big plates in case someone else wants some. With Spooky's permission, he casts a spell on her that makes it so she can eat virtually anything.
He pours the oil down the sink and then scrubs both pans with hot soapy water. He scrubs them hard and puts them away dripping wet.
As he sweeping up he looks at Spooky and begins chanting and concentrating... and finishes the cleaning in a blink of an eye with Evidence shroud.
"Sheeeesh, don't tell anyone. It's covert!"
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[Lucy Arnold]

Spooky shrugs. She doesn't need a spell to eat anything though. She already does.

"Thanks, Pipestone. Now what's for dessert?"