B1.2 - Kitchen Aide

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B1.2 - Kitchen Aide

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The party walks with the gnome-man past a heap of dead bodies and a hallway intersection to a door (with a second door opposite). The door is heavy oak and a sign in multiple languages says KITCHEN in common.

Island opens the door (it sticks a little but he's a tough-four-foot-high half-gnome) and you see a working kitchen.

The food preparation area for the complex is a very long room with a variety of details. At the southwest corner of the room are two cooking pits, each large enough to cook an animal as large as a deer. One of the pits is slightly larger than the other, but both are about 3 feet in depth. The pits are full of ash and charred remains of cooking fuel. A chimney leads upward, but its small size prevents further investigation.

Long tables line each wall, and there are scattered containers on them, some upturned, with spilled contents moldering on the table top. There are spoiled pieces of food all around, and the smell in the room is very uninviting. One chunk of moldy cheese is particularly noxious, as a fuzzy green growth covers its entirety.

Hanging from above are a variety of utensils, and some other of these are scattered about on the floor of the room. These are nothing more than pots and pans of various sizes, al- though there is a large cast iron kettle suspended from the ceiling by a thick chain. The kettle is empty.

There is a cart with pastries and a carafe of steaming liquid, some cups, little plates and squares of cloth.

There are two dog-like creatures wearing chef toques and aprons. One is putting away some large, quite dirty, cooking sheets. Bits of pastry and icing cling to the sheets. The second is bringing a cracked cup and bowl to the cart.

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One yips at Island, who barks back in a foreign tongue. The other laughs like a hyena at Island's comment.

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| Player |  HP  |
|--------|------|
| Fauk   |  9/9 |
| Slip   |  5/5 |
| Tor    |  9/9 |
| Bert   |  6/6 |
| Trebb  |  4/4 |
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OC: Gnome man is an island. Love it!
Also OC: These two kitchen aides look a lot easier to keep clean than the Kitchen Aide Niamh and I got for a wedding present.

Tor raises the tip of his greatsword reflexively at the sight of the gnolls. "What's going on here! Gnolls and gnomes are not friends."

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Darn right we're not, says Island. These scurvy dogs keep screwing up our orders. We wanted apple and cherry fritters. They made these stinky cheese danishes. And I'm pretty sure that's decaf. They're no friends of mine!

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Sensing something bad about to happen, Bert whispers to Tor "Might be prudent to block that door on the east wall". And with that, Bert starts to move toward the direction of the other door to block possible escape. He tries to cover his movement as just looking over the kitchen.

"Hmmm, we might want to clean up that mold, eh? don't want anyone to turn up sick do we?"

OOC: Bert will discreetly try to block the door in case this escalates, hoping to prevent the escape of the gnolls or entry of possible reinforcements.

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Fauk tries to comprehend what he is seeing. He smiles and asks Island, "Who do these cooks work for?"

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Island looks at Fauk, confusion evident in his eyes, and he says, They work for the same people you do. You’re the caterers right. Hey… you don’t seem like caterers…shouldn’t you be wearing black pantaloons and white shirts?.

The dogs seem to bark in agreement.

Who are you guys really? demands Island, standing up straight and tall. Well, tall-ish…

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Slip tries to listen from the hall, and when she hears Gnome man Island potentially escalate, she attempts to hide in shadows.

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Fauk replies, "Well this is all so confusing! We were hired to replace the caterers that were suppossed to be here! Evidently all of them got in a brawl at the tavern. Locked up, every last one of 'em. We tried to get the right outfits, but just didn't have time!"

"Give us a break, I can serve pastries just as good as they did!"

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This place is a mess. It hasn’t run right for ages now. You’d think they just don’t care, agrees Island who grabs the cart and pulls it from the kitchen, obviously intending to take it down the hall.

He barks something at the cooks who laugh in response. Which seems to infuriate Island even more.

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Fauks nods and says, "I hear you. It must have been a lot better before the new boss started running this place, don't you think so?"

Fauk will help Island with the door and act as waiterly as possible. He'll follow Island back to the gnome conference room.

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