As usual, a food court is organised on one side of the hill, in the open space, delineated by various stalls and stands offering both ready-made and cooked-on-demand snacks and refreshments. Many are eager to taste the fair fare as it's a rare opportunity to eat something else than their homestead meal while socialising with friends and family. The atmosphere is congenial.
Still, the variety of foodstuffs is limited as the region has no great tradition of culinary innovation and uses mostly local produce and game. The mouth-watering main prize this time, the boar Lydia has hunted down for the occasion, rawness-in-waiting, is looked at with a stretch of imagination that at best involves having it roasted, glazed with wine, served with rice and baked apples. Local dogs wander about, whining and salivating, looking for their own opportunities.
If someone wants to show off their cooking skills and claim the right to cook the boar, they certainly can try!
Appropriate skills to roll (once): Education, Coordination and Survival. If one has two or three, they can add their ranks and treat it as one skill for the sake of the event, and roll it with the trait for the dominant skill. Statements can apply if they fit. The best result gets to cook the boar.
However, there's more at stake. The way to one's heart is through their stomach, they say. The participants may choose if they want to keep it 'Traditional' or commit to 'Something New.' The tally of successes behind each choice is going to determine whether the local population is going to stick to their ways or may actually become more open to offworld people and influences, for better or worse. The choice needs to be denoted in the roll. The difficulty for 'Traditional' is Average, for 'Something New' it's Hard, and upgraded once. However, Triumph for Traditional means 1 success more, Despair 1 success less, while for Something New it's 3 successes more for Triumph and 3 successes less for Despair. Advantages and Threats can be used to create interesting situations around related to the cooking process, like a meat heist of a good boys' gang, the smell reminding someone of their late mum's cooking, etc.
Let there be cook-off, and let there be feasting and fun!
[Observation RP and event rolls are all in this thread together.]
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