TFLN, November 2023

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Texts From Last Night

Welcome to Folkmore's Texts From Last Night meme! This meme can be used as a branch off from our Test Drive Memes and be used as game canon or just for casual fun in the setting! You do not need to be in our game or be invited to play on our TFLN. This can be a great way to meet current players for future invites, get a feel for the setting, or just have some fun.

This can be used for samples on our applications and used as spoons for players accepted into the game!

TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT GENERATOR

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[tooawesome]

[ Oh goody, it's going to look much more like cookies! Nanika measures out the butter. She spills the first wet ingredient carrying it over to the bowl, so she decides to measure the others over the bowl. It's fine. She only added a bit extra that one time. Her face turns in big ticking movements over toward Toge to make sure it isn't too big a mess up. ]

[cursedwords]

Salmon, salmon. [ Toge encourages. She's fine. A tiny bit can be adjusted if it needs to be.

Once she gets the ingredients in, he turns it on so it does the mixing for them. He pulls out a spatula so he can push it down as needed. He loves this mixer. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika watches the mixer with both awe and dismay. Her eyes go to the spoon she used to mix the dry ingredients. It's so fun to mix them together, and the mixer gets to have all the fun. The mixer is probably better at it than she is, so Nanika manages not to pout.

She hovers next to Toge and watches everything swirl together impressively. He tames the mixture, forcing it to stay in the bowl. ] It works so fast. It's not a trick. [ Stories like to make things up sometimes. ]

[cursedwords]

Salmon, salmon. [ That's the easy part, anyway. Then he taps the bowl. He stops the machine and lifts the bowl to pour a bit in and then uses the machine to mix it.

Next, he points at her and stops the machine again. Not all of it, please. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Oooh they add more! Nanika noticed Toge hadn't added all of it. She isn't entirely sure why. Surely a mixer that powerful can handle it. If not, she has... a spoon! Power to the spoon!

Nanika still observes everything carefully. She wants to do it right, and even if she doesn't understand why it's right, he makes it clear there is a right amount. ] Okay! I got it!

[ She lifts the bowl, which feels big and heavy to her and tips it over over over until some of the mixture goes into the other bowl. It feels hard to control but she levels her bowl back out after some comes out. She quickly puts the bowl back down again. Her arms aren't used to lifting anything heavier than schoolbooks. ]

[cursedwords]

[ The mixer probably could handle it, which is a benefit to the mixer, but it's better to add gradually.

Once the dough is mixed together, Toge grabs a handful of flour and dusts the counter top before scooping the pile onto it.

He pulls out a rolling pin and he puts it on top of the dough, using one hand to roll it back and forth just a bit to demonstrate. Then he gestures at Nanika and moves out of the way. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika peers at the countertop amazed that it can be used like that. For real! It's so cool. The simple shapes of her facial features distort to show awe.

She accepts the job of rolling the dough with all the solemnity it requires, which is a great deal for a thirteen year old girl but topped with eager enthusiasm. She holds both sides of the rolling pin and rolls all the way across the dough. And back. And repeats, until the dough starts sticking. Her eyes peer between the bag of flour and the pin. ] Flour the pin?

[cursedwords]

Salmon. [ Toge agrees and demonstrates, grabbing a pinch of flour and holding it over the rolling pin. He puts it back and also mimes running his hands over the pin itself.

He gestures, she's welcome to do it, that's just how. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika watches with wide eyes and immediately steps up next to him to do it with actual flour. It's such a funny texture, the dough and the flour on the rolling pin.

She hums as she continues to roll the dough. ] This is so fun.

[cursedwords]

Salmon salmon. [ Toge agrees, that's why he bakes and cooks so much. He genuinely enjoys it.

He gets a pair of cookie sheets and lines them with parchment paper and uses his spoon to summon them a cookie cutter set. Once she's got it about right, he holds up a hand.

Toge cuts out a cookie and moves it to the tray. See? ]

[tooawesome]

It looks so skinny. [ Nanika hasn't baked before, but she knows what cookies look like. This cookie looks like it's going to collapse from exhaustion. Fortunately there's a fainting couch cookie sheet ready to catch it.

Still, it's the next step! That's important! Nanika cuts out cookies until she can't get the cookie cutter to fit on the remaining dough. A decent amount of dough. ]

[cursedwords]

[ Toge chuckles lightly and gestures, holding his finger and thumb close together, before expanding the distance a bit. They will grow during baking.

As one sheet fills, he swaps it for another and promptly shoves it into his freezer, to cool the cookies down. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika's mouth forms a large oh. She definitely doesn't understand cooking. It seems magical. Yet the instructions themselves are easy enough to follow, and it's fun. Plus she'll be able to give cookies to people and make them feel better.

She stares at the freezer and tilts her head. ] That is important?

[cursedwords]

Salmon salmon. [ Toge agrees, and adds the second pan before going over to his relic and setting a timer. About ten minutes should do it. ]

Some cookie doughs have to be chilled before you bake them, because of the butter.

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika plays with the little bits of dough that stick to her hands while Toge types and does her best to wait. Not to stand and peer around the whole time he's typing.

He explains it, but Nanika doesn't know why butter has to be chilled. She wiggles in place as she decides whether or not to ask. Asking isn't a demand. It's not... she's curious that's all. ] Why does butter need to chill?

[cursedwords]

[ Toge looks pleased she asked though and although he has to type the response, it's not a big deal. ]

Butter makes things kind of crispy, or puffy. Like pie crust too, you know how they're flaky. It's because of the butter. But when it gets warm, it doesn't have the chance to puff desserts up. Cold butter though, makes an air pocket. That's how it makes it puff up into a cookie shape instead of spreading out flat. Not as good.

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika reads the explanation, and her hands motion things puffing up or spreading sadly flatly. Butter is incredible! She didn't know it could do that. She eyes the remaining butter with greater respect. ] Wow. That's important.

[ A flat cookie, a pie that isn't flaky, it's all so so so sad. She's never had a sad cookie or pie, but Nanika is glad to get it right from the start with Toge's help. ] You're amazing.

[cursedwords]

Practice and seeing lots of cooking videos. Thanks though. All the ingredients are pretty important in baking, you have to follow recipes carefully.

[tooawesome]

At cooking too. [ Nanika adds. She meant... generally.

She reads the instructions and nods. She's going to find as many cooking and baking videos as possible and practice aaaaaaall of them. Well, not all of them at first. She'll start with simple things. ] Can we bake regularly? Together?

[cursedwords]

Salmon. [ Toge agrees with a nod, he doesn't mind baking. He does it often enough and Nanika will give him another reason to do it.

He turns on the oven to preheat it and sets the dial. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika vibrates in excitement. She's so pleased. Look at this, another friend! Of her own? It's... she's only ever had two friends in her life, Alluka and Killua. And now...

Toge. ] I love you, Toge.

[cursedwords]

Salmon salmon. [ Toge says agreeably, he loves her too and he pops over to pat her head affectionately before going back to the fridge to take out the trays, and pop them in the oven.

Perfect. All they need to wait is for them to bake and they will be all set. ]

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika smiles happily, a giant wide smile that bursts with joy. No one has ever been happier to hear the name of a fish twice in a row, she thinks. She still remembers learning his language from the alternate world. She can hear the feeling in his voice. It's amazing, to think she's baking cookies with her sempai. Her badass awesome sempai. ]

What's your favorite cookie?

[cursedwords]

[ That seems like a very important question really, and Toge looks like he's thinking about it seriously. There are so many good options. Since they're waiting for things to bake, he doesn't need to strictly do anything but chat with her. ]

Chocolate chip. It's a classic for a reason. Especially warm right out of the oven.

[tooawesome]

[ Nanika waits patiently. She's in no rush. She's glad to spend as much time with Toge as she can. She still needs to master understanding his riceball ingredients. It's nice simply having time together.

The answer is put away for future knowledge, as well as the part about being right out of the oven. That will take more work. Or better timing. At least everything for making cookies is already in his apartment. ] Gooey melty chocolate is best.