06 - Hearty fish chowder; fresh bread and butter; char-grilled eels on rice; coffee

[tisfinished]

01: sustenance
With refugees in the Vault, the Milk Run as a business is less important than making sure the new ones, the strangers, are properly fed. Senshi and anyone capable who cares to help him have set themselves to this task, making sure there’s enough nice hot soup and bread for any starving miner or factory worker, now cut off from their old life, to at least not have to worry about their next meal.

Whenever possible Senshi takes a moment to make sure the new uns are settled in and have a warm bed, and does his best to make them feel welcome, but he knows with a crowd this size that’s not always possible. So many mouths, so little time. Still, he makes the new arrivals feel human whenever he can.

02: luxury
Senshi is going around with a survey, asking new and old what luxury foods and ingredients they most miss from the Empire and carefully noting down the answers in a notebook.

If asked why, he says, “Simple: next time I’m out shopping with the Milk Run, I’ll try to find some.”

He’s dead serious.

What flavors and treats do you miss most?

Comments

02

[frost_and_shinies]

"... Um. I'm not superbly sure, honestly," Kaitlyn observes in response to the question.

"I was kinda hiding and scrounging so I wasn't thinking of luxury components much. So most of what I'd miss would be from before my time in Empire territory. I don't think sodas are something you'd find so easily..."

She does not necessarily realize she's set off another Sidequest.

Re: 02

[tisfinished]

"Soda. Hmn. Describe it," he says.

Because he has heard other outworlders describe the stuff, and it doesn't sound that hard to make. Iced effervescent mineral water with a flavored syrup stirred in is easy, if you can get the flavor of the syrup correct.

Re: 02

[frost_and_shinies]

"Carbonated water as a method of making it bubbly, strong usually sweet flavorings, not alcoholic. Specific flavors traditionally included the cola nut or a specific root, the result being referred to as 'root beer'. I think the same root used differently meant it was instead called 'sarsparilla'?"

... She's clearly not used to thinking about what she eats and drinks so much.

Re: 02

[tisfinished]

“Kola nut will be a worthy challenge, but I can do some kind of ginger or sasparilla beer no problem,” he says.

He scribbles it down.

“Trying to see just how far around the globe the Milk Run and my Merchant Guild contacts’ll take me,” Senshi says with pride. “And if it means outworlders have refreshing kola drinks, so much the better.”

Re: 02

[frost_and_shinies]

"Makes me wonder if, were it not for what I'm best at, I'd be good for that kind of voyage..."

But she knows her role. Combat and infiltration.