paixaorpg | Foundation Day Festival: Food Tent

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Foundation Day Festival: Food Tent

Character(s): everyone in the food tent
Content: food, and lots of it.
Setting: Joco da Crianca Fairgrounds, food tent
Time: all day~
Warnings: Multithreaded posting format (please include time of day and sub-location in your comment's subject line)

The food tent is the second biggest structure at the fair, next to the Ferris wheel. It's a large white tent set up near the far end of the grounds. Inside, the majority of the tent is filled with long tables (with white plastic tablecloths) and benches for seating.

The food, along one side of the tent, is set up buffet-style. They have a wide variety of hot and cold dishes, and it's all good stuff, having been catered by Café Ersesat. It's always well-stocked, too, somehow; if they run out of anything, it's replenished within a few minutes. There is also a small bar, where alcoholic drinks and cocktails are available upon request to anyone who looks old enough.

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Nina grinned and took one herself as soon as she'd swallowed down the cookie, sharing bits with Alexander as she ate. Everything here was delicious, and there were a million different things to try. Even if she didn't get funnel cake she would certainly have tried a bunch of other things she'd never had before.

"You know a lot about Sora," Nina said in between bites. "You must be really good friends with him!"

Repliku munched on the waffle as he looked around the tables, searching for the infamous funnel cake even though he didn't know what it looked like. He figured it was a worth try, although he had a difficult time imagining what a funnel cake must look like. It didn't take long before he was looking back at Nina. "Do you know what funnel cake looks like? Or what it's made of?"

Repliku paused in his munching at the statement and wondered, did he? Did he really know Sora? His memories were fake after all but it was hard to imagine the Sora who had asked him to protect Naminé differently. One thing he knew for sure though: Sora was Riku's best friend. "Yeah, something like that..."

Nina paused for a moment and moved to her journal, looking through it until she found the comment Alice had made regarding funnel cake.

"A sort of fried concoction made with a silver pan, weaved in just the right way so it looks like an intertwined "cake," served with various topping. Good, in my estimation," the journal chirped.

See, it sounds really really good! But I've never seen it before, so I don't know exactly what it looks like. That didn't dampen her mood one bit, though--it just meant they would have to taste everything to find it!

"I hope you can find him," Nina said; she didn't know where Big Brother, Small Big Brother, or Daddy were, but she had Alexander, and Repliku had been all by himself, so he must have been sad.

Alexander, meanwhile, was continuing to sample everything on the table. Being a large dog with a little girl on his back had its advantages.

Repliku tilted his head and simply listened as the journal told them just what exactly funnel cake was. He certainly had never heard of it before but at least he had a rough idea what it was they were looking for now. It was better than having no idea at all. He nodded and scanned the table once more before slowly starting to move along it, making sure he kept an eye on Nina and Alexander.

"I hope so too," he paused in his search to smile warmly at her. Sadness wasn't something the replica would show easily. He might have been lonely, yes but then if you thought carefully about it he always had been alone, hadn't he? These were thoughts he tried his best not to think about and luckily Nina was there to distract him from them.

Nina smiled back and wrapped her arms around his leg to hug him--she was small, so it was the best she could do. Alexander wagged his tail absently, but was more distracted with devouring an entire plate of hot dogs not too far away.

"Since you're looking for someone and I am too, we should look together!" Nina suggested happily; after all, it was more fun to be around other people.

"But funnel cake first." Nina had her priorities, after all.

Repliku gently patted the child on the head as a way of returning the affection. He briefly wondered whether it was such a good idea to let Alexander roam about, would there be any food left after the dog was done? Then again everything was free, so who cared?

"Oh? Who are you looking for?" Repliku's interest was piqued, were there people from her homeworld here? On that subject, he didn't recall asking her where she was from. "Where do you come from?"

The replica snickered, she sure had her priorities straight although in that kind of fashion only kids could have. There was another quick scan over the tables and a pause when he noticed something that looked like it could funnel cake. "I think I found it," he announced with a grin.

"I'm looking for Big Brother and Small Big Brother," Nina chirped. "I was talking to them with my box and they said they'd come find me but I don't know where they are."

She hadn't received any messages from them lately--she would have to check her box again to make sure. Maybe they were looking for her and just hadn't checked their boxes lately.

"I'm from Amestris," Nina said. "And I live in a big house with my daddy and Alexander! Where're you from?"

Nina's eyes widened at Repliku's last statement, and she hopped up and down, trying to look at the tables. There! "Funnel cake, funnel cake!" She made a mad dash for it.

"Do your brothers have any names?" Nina hadn't mentioned any brothers before and they were looking for her? Repliku would have to see if he could contact them and get Nina back to her family.

Amestris....Not a world he had heard of before but there were many worlds out there and he only knew a few. "I'm from..." Destiny Islands "Castle Oblivion." Again there was no mention of the brothers, but if they were her brothers surely they lived with her? "What about your brothers?"

Repliku followed at a more sedate pace, pausing for a moment to whistle and hope it would prompt Alexander into following. Finally their long search for the famed funnel cake came to an end, it seemed.

Nina spoke only between bites of funnel cake--now that she had it, she simply had to try it immediately, of course. And it was delicious. She offered some to Repliku. When Alexander trotted over, prompted by the whistle, the dog was given a taste as well.

"They're not my brother brothers," Nina explained. "But they're still big brothers!" It made sense to her, anyway--they were like older siblings to her; they took care of her and played with her and had even lived with her for a while.

"They're called Edward and Alphonse Elric! They know alchemy, and they lived with daddy for a while to study for a test, but then they had to go." She frowned--she had wanted to them to stay and play with her longer. Of course, they had promised to come back.

"Castle O-bliv-ian?" Nina echoed. "What's it like there?"

The replica accepted the funnel cake offered to him and took a bite. Now he wasn't usually one to be crazy about sweet things, that was Sora's job, but damn this was good.

"I see," Repliku nodded, strangely enough he understood the concept somewhat. Edward and Alphonse Elric, he'd be sure to remember those names. "Alchemy?" He pondered out loud. "Is that like the synthesizing Moogles do?" It was the only thing that came to mind.

"It's not so different from this place except it's a castle and not a city," he explained. "It's white and I suppose some would call it beautiful like this place, but it's boring."

Nina, like many young children, adored anything sweet, and she was finding the funnel cake quite satisfactory. Alexander was more interested in licking the sugar off than eating the dough, but he was still content.

"I don't know what Moogles are, or what syyyn-the-siii-zing is. But Alchemy is where you draw a picture and turn things into other things! My daddy makes chimeras!"

She finished off her funnel cake in short order. Now that her mission had been accomplished, she could continue on with her other quests! Like finding Big Brother and Small Big Brother!

"Woow, a castle? Living in a castle should be fun!" It didn't seem like a castle could be boring. But maybe that castle had been.

"Moogles are creatures that look like...teddy bears, sort of, they usually have a big red pompom on their head." Repliku might have called them cute but being that type of guy, cute wasn't something that appeared in his vocabulary often. "Synthesizing is when you combine several items together to form a new one," he explained further. Apparently, by the way Nina explained it, this alchemy wasn't quite the same. "Chimeras?" It almost sounded like a type of Heartless but he doubted that was what Nina meant.

"Yup, a castle. It should be but unfortunately this one wasn't as fun." He could imagine the sound of 'castle' to be quite grand in the ears of a child. Something from a fairy tale, unfortunately Castle Oblivion was anything BUT a fairy tale. Perhaps it could have been a better place if it wasn't the Organization that ran it. The poor castle never stood a chance.

"Chimeras are two animals made into one animal! Like you have a dog and a cat and you put them together!" That was the best way she knew how to explain it, anyway. She had been rather fuzzy on the whole thing, as her father was not keen on letting her into the area of the house he created the creatures.

Nina was picturing living teddy bears, now, with pompoms stuck to their heads like a hat. Being a four year old girl, she thought they sounded adorable, and decided if she ever met one, the Moogle would definitely get a hug. "Are there Moogles here?"

Nina had finished her funnel cake with all the speed of a young child who loved sugar--she could win a contest with that speed.

"I wanna go see a real castle, a fun one," Nina said. "But first I wanna see Big Brother and Small Big Brother."

She had her funnel cake. Maybe they could go find them now?

Repliku blinked at Nina's explanation about chimeras, combining two animals? That sounded quite odd, especially the example Nina had given. In his mind cats and dogs just didn't mix although it did make him curious as to what a chimera like that would look like. But why combine two animals anyway? The replica saw no point in it.

"I'm not sure," he replied. "You'll know it's a moogle when it says 'Kupo!' a lot." They were handy little creatures that could even be found in Castle Oblivion, Repliku had no idea how they got there or why they would even want to be there, but their purpose had been about the cards you used in the castle.

Repliku finished his funnel cake a bit slower than Nina had. A real castle, huh? A shame there were none around he could show her though he doubted they would be fun anyway. "Let's go look for them."

Now that Nina's first priority had been settled it was time to move onto the next. He took her hand and guided her out of the tent, hopefully they'd be able to find the persons they were looking for.

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