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[imaginarymods]

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[imaginarymods]

Good. Cos you're not doing that yet.

[Taako claps Papyrus on the shoulder again.]

I need you to fetch me three round stones about this size- [he mimes the size of an egg] and just like, a sack full of sand. Big ol sack. Just a good ton of sand, my guy.

[he starts to try and shove Papyrus toward the door to retrieve these things, but stops very suddenly to add—]

OH.

And this is really, really important. Don't forget this part, this is really the killer here.

I'm gonna need you to run along down under this kitchen here and grab me one of those jellyfish from before. See, I can replace any of those stones and sand or whatever with stuff here int his kitchen, but I really, really gotta have that jellyfish.

Capische?

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus, being a skeleton w/o gravity manipulation magic and with a lingering eagerness to please, is very easy to shove towards the door. Lingering eagerness, slowly overshadowed by furrows of confusion and frustration as he takes in the changing in structions.]

...Oh. I didn't realize. We were making jellyfish macarons.

[Something about this scenario is frustrating, but also familiar. Eagerly trying to make something happen, going to get trained, some muddle of being diverted into another task that seems completely unrelated...? But in the middle of the conversation is no time to go unpacking memories.

That can wait until in the middle of diving to catch a jellyfish.]

And it has to be one of these jellyfish? Down with the fish that gnaw on bones?

[He'll do it, if Taako insists. He's got the hand lens and everything. But if this turns out to be Aquatic Life Bully Papyrus round 2, he is going to burn some macarons. Or maybe throw a rock at a lich.]

[imaginarymods]

Well, no, it can be pretty much any jellyfish. Or really, some kind of anenome or something. I'm not picky.

Just make it... squishy.

[Why on earth could Taako want this. This is the worst shopping list ever, and yet.]

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus squints sidelong at Taako, trying and failing to gauge whether he's being pranked here. The instructions just keep on shifting; first it's gotta have that jellyfish and now it's anything marine and squishy.]

...Well. I don't know where any anemones are...

[And he's already forgetting the details of the rest of it. Stone eggs? Some sand?]

But, I'll try the fish stall! And come back to go diving, if I don't have any luck.

[And that way he can ask what the rest of it was, later. And hopefully hear something like "nevermind, I just had stage fright teaching the Great Papyrus how to cook, but I'm all ready now" or something.]

[imaginarymods]

Good luck, big top. Get whatever you can in, say, thirty minutes.

Don't worry too much about it if you can't find it.

[He could also just be a lot clearer about these instructions, but it doesn't seem like he's going to be. He turns away from Papyrus to start setting up his mis en place, drawing technically-not-his-hands dramatically outward in a pose before he does so.]

Well? Get on with it, then, we've got a cooking show to make happen.

[when did this become a show]

[spaghettimonster]

[Papyrus doesn't know when it became a show, but he can feel an invisible clock counting down somewhere in the air above his shoulder, instructions not to worry aside. Hopefully the canned laughter added in after everything isn't too unkind. Though, maybe it doesn't have to be canned...]

Yeah! I'll let people know!

[He darts off with that, and without waiting for Taako's' feedback on whether they need a live audience. If the ex-umbrella really doesn't went watchers, well, more people can get the Miso Fou treatment.

For now, Papyrus dashes up through the Boardwalk in search of fish shops and/or sailors, the people most professionally likely to be offering jellyfish... for cooking, he thinks? It's a little ambiguous what the point of the jellyfish is. A hat might be work too.

With that looming countdown in his mind, if people seem resistant to selling or trading, Papyrus may lean on the power of Friendship to try and nudge them his way. He's only extremely recognizable as a living skeleton, after all.]

[imaginarymods]

[Elderflower Macarons Cooking With Taako Sidequest

DC: 15
+3 The Great Assistance of the Talented Chef Taako Himself
= 17 +3 = 20]

Papyrus's quest to find the "ingredients" he's looking for goes very well indeed. Luckily for him, it looks like animalians are no strangers to eating jellyfish! They even offer him a few recipes for jellyfish salad. Somehow, some of them even agree to come see the show.

It looks like that's a good thing too, as Taako really has accumulated quite the audience. Papyrus can't be blamed if he isn't able to recognize Taako at first; he's cast an illusionary spell on himself to make him look like a real, living elf.

After getting Papyrus's attention and explaining that yes, he is in fact still that ex-umbrella'd elf (and that no, by no means was Taako performing in front of a crowd without a lick of makeup even if he had to make the complexion himself, he has an image to maintain), Taako demands Papyrus serve as his sous chef on the show and brings him on without warning.

The animalians actually... seem a little surprised by the demonstration, but the crowd plays along.

Taako is long-winded and self-congratulatory, something Papyrus would know nothing about, certainly. he spends a good minute introducing himself, and then Papyrus, who he realizes right on 'stage' he's never asked the name of prior. With that out of the way, Taako calls for the ingredients.

There's beauty in simplicity, Taako claims, as he describes the recipe for a perfect Macaron. The ingredient portions are the real star of the show, however.

Three egg whites, aged, preferably—
He tosses the egg-shaped stones from one hand to the other, casting a spell as he catches them, and they are no longer stones at all but real non-animalian chicken eggs. He cracks them into a bowl he'd placed out before, separating the yolks from the whites.

One cup almond flour, one teaspoon salt— and reserve half of that for later— and one-half cup of powdered sugar—
Taako pours different measurements of sand into a bowl at this part, but when they hit the other ingredients, they aren't sand anymore. They're transfigured into sugar, almond flour, and salt.

The final transfigured ingredient comes after the cookies are fully prepared, at which point Taako places the jellyfish on the counter. He picks it up between two fingers, drops it into a jar, stirs it with a spoon, and just like that, the jellyfish is no longer fish at all. It's elderflower jelly, which Taako sandwiches between the prepared cookies as he claims to the audience that preserves, not buttercream, are the superior macaron filling.

The show winds down with a few more self-congratulatory remarks, but Taako doesn't end filming without thanking Papyrus for his help in paring their kitchen. He hands Papyrus a bag with quite a few elderflower macarons and shoos him away, claiming he feels a nap coming on.

Papyrus has received Elderflower Macarons from a Centuries Old Recipe.