The Red Crystal Den Delicacy Cooking Event

[LigH]

Esanor came, saw, and won a delicious meal. He ate as many pies as he enjoyed, and hopes that others enjoyed it too. Well, the first who used a bucket did not, obviously, they ate a little too much, trying to win a contest...

[CheatCat]

Looks pretty neat ya'll.   

I got a question for the RCD staff. Would it be possible to reserve the tavern for an event on a specific date by paying a fee? Like, art fairs or things like that?

Or maybe weddings...? 

I can not speak for the RCD staff but I can say that they are very open, so you have good chances I think. The only problem could be preventing uninvited guests, after all RCD is a tavern open for everyone.

Great event by the way!

[gonger]

Esanor came, saw, and won a delicious meal. He ate as many pies as he enjoyed, and hopes that others enjoyed it too. Well, the first who used a bucket did not, obviously, they ate a little too much, trying to win a contest...

I still do not fully understand what happened to me there. During my last training session in the morning, I finished six pies without any problems. And then this, during the contest, could  not even make it two... 
Maybe I must practice harder for the next contest!

Gonger

[LigH]

Or practice less to leave more space in your stomach...

[cdmoreland]

Looks pretty neat ya'll.   

I got a question for the RCD staff. Would it be possible to reserve the tavern for an event on a specific date by paying a fee? Like, art fairs or things like that?

Or maybe weddings...? 

The RCD is available for any event! Just contact me (Waesed) with a pm here or by email via the Ad Libertatem website. You can also contact me or Damola in game.

[gonger]

Or practice less to leave more space in your stomach...

LigH,

I hereby dub you "joke killer".  With smiley this time...

[LigH]

Nothing beats a punchline battle.

Was this above statement too violent?

[Damola]

Okay, so the Pie Eating Contest is over as well.

While it started slowly and participants where late, it grew into a wonderful competition. [With lots of great roleplay, thanks!]

We even had an inofficial contestant who didn´t event wait for the beginning of the contest, while a brave dwarf was quite confident to be able to eat all the cakes by himself – a confidence that to my memory didn´t last very long [ ]:



We had several rounds and our cute cub was so hungry to start in the first round:



But she also ate too much and needed to be cared for and given a digestion potion. That didn´t hinder her to want to eat more cakes later on.

In generally dwarves and enkis were quite fond of eating lots of cakes – as the second round shows:



We had quite some spectators to the contest as well:



And almost unbelievable the lady who was helping to organize the event was into eating pies as well – but unlike other contestant she did so gracefull and by cutting the pie in several handsome pieces:



And here we have the two organizers of the event:



Thanks a lot to Kabitar for having the original idea for this event and its rules and for helping with it. He moderated the whole event!

[LigH]

And eventually, the finals and the prizes. Well, that was some special event.

At first we had the biggest stomaches rewarded with finest tools to cut pies into pieces ... or anything that may fit their blades better. Respect to the smith, the Way of the Hammer was impressed about the quality of Esanor's rewards for the third place. But noone could beat the royal stomach of Korenis Cheshire.

And then the delegation of the Food Association arrived. And ... uhm, polarized. One of them behaved like the chef of the whole octarchy, affronting visitors and even finalists in the cooking contest with deprecative conclusions about their cooking skills (especially disqualifications with far-fetched reasons), but appeared to be just one of many apprentices after all. The other instead appeared to be a good teacher, knowing the essentials about treating pupil respectfully and encouraging them to improve. So after all, everyone won at least a little present, like Solita a well deserved pair of oven gloves, and every participant at least a higher quality kitchen knife of the Den. But the knives for the three finalists were of extraordinary quality, and Licina's recipe for "Hearty Flat Pies" even will get added to the official cooking books of the Food Association.

Congratulations!

Unfortunately, I forgot a few names (my logs are elsewhere now), some of you can certainly complete the list.

And Damola, sorry, Solita forgot to hand you a copy of her "Kartoffel Casserole" recipe. Next time...

[LigH]

Hmm, no official results yet?

[Damola]

Damola clears her throat and announces with great pleasure:

The winners of the cooking contest where:

1. Licina with her Hearty Flat Pie.
With the original idea of a hearty pie, instead of a sweet one she wins a knife of exceptional quality: The Platinum Chef´s Knife.

Also I am proud to announce that the Food Association agreed to add her recipe to the official cookbooks!


2. Lorra with her Apple Juice and Trout and Carp Gorla
I am happy to see the recipe to put the abundant apples with all our apple trees to good use. She wins very good nife as well: The Gold Chef´s Knife. And I am happy that it looks good to have her Apple Juice recipe added to an official brewery book.


3. Enal with his Mineral Rush.
With the only recipe for our Kran citizens Enal won the well made Bronze Chef´s Knife.

While I was less amused with the harsh and disrespectful words of the apprentice cook Mourole, I am more than happy about what our beloved Food Association cook Seduna said afterwards. After pointing out the uniqueness of Mourole´s oppinion she also emphasized the effort Solita put into cooking her recipe at the Den´s right at the Recipe Take-In evening. And also welcomed the recipes our cute cub Jemima turned in.

She gave nice oven gloves to Solita and a good wooden spoon to Jemima!

As we appreciate the effort of every cook who turned in a recipe all cooks who did not receive an other knife got a Chef´s Knife.


As you are aware, we didn´t only do a Delicacy Contest, but also a Pie Eating Contest.

I am happy to announce the winners officially of the Pie Eating Contest as well:


1. With almost five pies: Lord Chesire!
He got five digestion potions, just in case he wants to dive his noble face into that lot pies again. Also he got a fuil suit of perfectly made armor!

For eating the pies in such a fierce manner [i.e. for good roleplay] Kabitar then handed him a a perfectly made scoop as well.

2. Falmer.
We honored him last time already. But he may approach Damola to get two more digestion potions for his alchemy studies!

3. Esanor: With 2 and a half pies.
He got two digestion potions from me.

[Damola]

Damola ponders and memorizes:

What a nice event the prize giving was.

This time already as I opened quite some fellow citizens waited outside, including two eager cooks who turned in a recipe for the contest:



Lot of people wanted to know the winners of the pie eating contest – Kabitar announced them:



Licina, the winner of the cooking contest received her prize – also as you can see our inofficial Pie Eating contestant, the cute little Yulbar was again with us:



After the harsh and disrespectful words of the cook apprentice Mourole the honorable Seduna recognized the efforts of our cute little tabei Jemima, our youngest contestant:



[More images as usual as you removed filename from image link. Hmmm, I want a way to automate most of the image handling – some images have writings of items on them, I didn´t include these]