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

01: sustenance

[bearsperminute]

Well, after getting a lecture from him earlier about the importance of keeping her station clean, how could she not come and help out everyone else getting their daily bread?

Besides, it can't all be sorties in the Flotsam detachments. "Here, here." She gives the coin scattered on the counter a brief hairy eyeball.

"... Just take that as payin' it forward, huh..."

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

[harlequinchimera]

Oki does manage to catch him as he's making the rounds and gives him a smile at the question. "Oh, it's simple. Coffee. Coffee and milk - and I may see about the means to make the best use of these."

She looked at him with a smile and a slight tilt to her head.

"I operated a coffee shop once, and I may do so again - I remember just about all of the recipes, but the technology to make best use of them is a step for after I have the time and resources needed. Coffee is simple. Espresso is less so."

She broke into a sunny smile.

"The other supply worth looking into is chocolate, preferably the dark stuff."

02

[spacetogrow]

This gets a smile. "I don't know if they even exist in this world," Ilphyl answered. "And 'foods from deep caverns of my home plane' doesn't exactly seem the Empire's style to bring in, even if they bring in things other than people for forced labor."

02

[theriflespiral]

"... Honestly? A mutton blin, or a Mongolian-styled noodle soup. Hardly luxurious, I know, but... I was not raised in luxurious circumstances."

02

[newmemorywhodis]

When Senshi poses the question, Link blinks slowly.

"From...the Empire?"

Link does not remember ever being given any good food from the Empire. It's not exactly something he's nostalgic for.