Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Feet Below Fandom, Saturday

[designateddadfriend]

It was another fine day in the Hole. At least, according to any still working clocks another day had gone by. That was about the only way of tracking them down here, other than general bodily signals like hunger.

Speaking of. Travis had decided he'd had enough sad lumping again, and was attempting to Do Something. Since he still didn't have any ideas of how to get out of this hole, he was shifting his focus to the growing crowd of people down here with him instead.

Who was up for a family style spaghetti dinner today?

[ocd coming HELPS WHEN I DON'T FORGET TO UPDATE THE OOC NOTE FOR HOURS. Open!]

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Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

Hannibal had spent most of the last day trying to straighten the house enough to find things and walk through it. He'd managed to get most of the kitchen done (priorites) and ascertained that his harpsichord was unharmed, if currently upside down. He was just going to leave it there and hope it righted itself when all this was over.

Now he was finding things to add to dinner to stretch it further. He couldn't blame Travis for stress-cooking, but he wasn't going to sit out at least helping.

So far he'd found a loaf of good sourdough, a few sausages (pork and veal) that could go in the pasta or next to it, and a block of excellent asiago. He brought that and a head of broccoli over to the fire station, along with a few bulbs of garlic and some creamery butter.

And a more than decent bottle of red wine, because he suspected that would go over well.

"Good afternoon." He nodded to Travis and unpacked his items. "I thought this might help."

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

Travis looked at the selection and nodded. “More the merrier. Pull up a . . . cutting board.”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

Hannibal nodded and got out a board; he'd brought his own knife. "Do you want to add the sausage to the sauce?" He started trimming the broccoli. "Do we know if anybody has allergies?"

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

“No, and no. Figure it’s best to keep the sauce vegetarian, just in case. Sounds good on the side though.”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

Hannibal nodded. "We can fry them, then, and the carnivores can share them." He frowned. "I have more meat in my freezers than vegetables; I generally buy those fresh. I hope we haven't got too many vegetarians."

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

“And that we’re not down here long enough for anyone to develop scurvy,” Travis said. “Stark’s making a salad out of the last of my fresh veg. Got some canned, but. . . .” Travis paused mid stir and looked up at the middle distance. “That’s just not as nice, you know?”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

"I do," Hannibal agreed, pleased that Travis got that. "I can and have made do with terrible food, but I would rather not, if possible. We'll simply have to do what we can with what we have."

He stripped some leaves off the stem and set them aside. "And save the less savory things in case of need." He was silent for a moment, cutting, before he made a thoughtful noise. "Perhaps if we get a good look at one of the holes when it opens, we can get one of us out, or at least learn more about them."

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

“Without getting clocked by whatever’s falling in? That’s a lot of ‘maybes’. It’s not like they’re predictable so far.”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

"Mm," Hannibal agreed. "And your ladder would be best, but it's not quickly mobile. I have a collar at home that lets the wearer fly."

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

Travis blinked at that.

“Of course you do.”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

Hannibal shrugged. "Are you surprised, in this place? Perhaps one of us should try to use it to investigate."

He didn't particularly want to let anyone else use it, but he also wasn't particularly enthused to be the one having things fall on his head.

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

“Go for it,” Travis said. “I prefer more safety equipment than that when I go up high.”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

"Perhaps tomorrow," Hannibal said. Right now, he was content to cook.

"I shall have to think of a dessert that uses only non-staple items. It wouldn't be wise to use up the milk or eggs, but something of an indulgence might help with morale."

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

“We’ve got some graham crackers around here,” Travis said musingly. “Could make a pie crust with those. Got any fruit?”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

Hannibal nodded. "Apples, peaches, plums, and several types of berries. A pie crust still needs butter, but perhaps a kind of chocolate bark...I could dry the fruit in the oven."

Re: Life in the hole

[designateddadfriend]

“Sounds tasty. Mi oven es su oven!”

Re: Life in the hole

[sharp_man]

Hannibal chuckled. "Gracias. I'll do my best by it."