darkbaptist: (I caused the apocalypse)
Hikawa ([personal profile] darkbaptist) wrote in [community profile] compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am

1st Conception - Video

[The communication starts with a hissing sound, like you'd hear in a low burn, and then focuses on the source of the noise: two skillets being set down on the burners of a stove. Around the counter viewers can make out cooking ingredients: a stick of butter, margerine, salt, eggs, chocolate, a whipping spoon. After a few seconds Hikawa begins to speak.]

As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.

It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.

[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]

Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.

[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]

While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.

So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-

[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]

Or the dish made with chocolate?

[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
forceofnature: (Exuberant)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly!

The greed and selfishness of man are limitless. You can never have enough! You take and take and take and you never give back! And then you have the audacity to whine when you're trapped in war after war, you're running out of food, and you've reduced the earth to a scorched wasteland!
rewindtime: (Default)

video;

[personal profile] rewindtime 2012-11-22 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her impression was that he was making a point about over-indulgence and the consequences of too much of a good thing. Homura may be young in most peoples eyes, but she was certainly not lacking in common sense and life experience.]

The cake, you mean? It would be just as hard to separate butter and eggs back to their original forms as it would be to separate a cake back into its basic ingredients.
forceofnature: (Smug)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Finally.

I was beginning to think you were all completely brain-dead. I'm just going to go ahead and ignore the last bit that sounded bizarrely cultish and focus on the part where you actually care about the world you have the privilege of living in.
forceofnature: (Scheme)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like we have the same purpose.

I've got enough on my hands trying to keep the rest of your species from using my world as some sort of combination gold mine/litter box, but I can spare some time for the revival of life in this place.

My name is Viridi. Goddess of nature.
second_destiny: (Uh okay?)

[personal profile] second_destiny 2012-11-22 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The equivalent?
forceofnature: (Confused)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Subtlety isn't the Assembly's forte, is it?

Pretending I don't have a basic grasp of Latin roots for a moment... Tell me about your world. Do they actually listen when it's one of their own people speaking the uncomfortable truths?
forceofnature: (Solemn)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone's unique! Just like everyone else.

Free will is fine and dandy, but humans are so predictable that you know what path they're going to choose 9 times out of 10 - the one that puts them on top. ...Or a place where they think they're on top. Everyone makes the same selfish decisions, and the world goes to snuff.

Humans have to change before it's too late. Before every world they occupy turns into this one.
all_wound_up: (relaxed smile)

Video

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2012-11-22 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nano watches curiously, listening as Hikawa explains. Though when he holds up the two skillets, she can't help but laugh for a moment.]
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[personal profile] nyxterious 2012-11-22 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting...

[He's honestly not sure what to pick. The chocolate choice looks worse, but...]

How does the one with the chocolate taste?

[It could be good... ! And then people would just be missing out on it. Even if the normal eggs, with butter, is the way to go.]

I think I would at least try it, before making a decision.
booyaka_boom: (Positive Thinking)

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[personal profile] booyaka_boom 2012-11-22 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
*Selphie pulls a face at that - she can't even imagine. But then, she offers a friendly suggestion*

Maybe that's why at Easter they do chocolate eggs that are just chocolate but egg shaped, and not actually mixed.

forceofnature: (Exuberant)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-22 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree.

We hit the reset button and start over from scratch.
second_destiny: (Serious)

[personal profile] second_destiny 2012-11-23 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Not when the problem becomes that obvious. That's just insanity.
forceofnature: (Confused)

[personal profile] forceofnature 2012-11-23 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. No.

Just on humans.

The rest of the world will be fine if they get straightened out.
all_wound_up: (modest)

Video

[personal profile] all_wound_up 2012-11-23 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It looks like something Hakase would try to make for breakfast!

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