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Post by Doctor Nanjo M.D. on Sept 23, 2023 14:56:02 GMT
[Chapter 2 - Requested by Dae]
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Post by NIKI on Sept 23, 2023 22:33:39 GMT
Dae is currently walking around aimlessly, trying to figure out what to do for the day. He walks into the cabin again and spots Rebecca working on her laptop like she usually does.
Since she seems to not have noticed him, he gets a devious idea...
The popstar sneakily approaches her and loudly exclaims "BECKY! Hi!!" to try and spook her!
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Post by Panda on Sept 23, 2023 23:08:06 GMT
"FUCK!" Rebecca yelled, slamming her laptop shut so fast that she might have damaged it. "Ah, D-Dae, um, hello." She was blushing now; this was probably the most awkward Dae had ever seen her. "You're uh, you're in a good mood, as usual," she said, trying to sound casual.
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Post by NIKI on Sept 24, 2023 1:32:25 GMT
"Hehehe, I guess I am! Sorryyy!" Dae apologizes, looking as punchable as ever. He sits down next to Rebecca.
"So, what were you doing? Work stuff?"
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Post by Panda on Sept 24, 2023 10:00:34 GMT
"That's right. Work stuff," Rebecca agreed, refusing to elaborate. Her laptop remained firmly shut.
"I think this is the first time we've actually talked one-on-one," she then said. She still seemed a little awkward for some reason. "Not that I have anything against you; I usually spend my time alone."
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Post by NIKI on Sept 24, 2023 19:21:31 GMT
"Oh, wow, you're right! I've actually been meaning to talk to you, I just couldn't find the right time, heh."
"So, remember when we did karaoke? I have a confession to make... I snooped through your playlists a little bit." He just smiles.
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Post by Panda on Sept 24, 2023 19:39:10 GMT
"Oh, sure. My tastes run pretty standard, I'm aware," Rebecca replied, shrugging and feigning ignorance.
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Post by NIKI on Sept 24, 2023 19:55:57 GMT
Dae pouts, realizing Rebecca probably wasn't gonna say anything on her own.
"What do you mean? You've got a GREAT music taste, Becky! Ahh, unless... don't tell me you have a younger sibling that downloaded 4*SHORE's entire discography so far on your computer without your permission or something like that..."
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Post by Panda on Sept 24, 2023 20:05:38 GMT
"Ah." The red on Rebecca's cheeks grew more pronounced. "No, uh, I'm an only child and I live alone." She paused for a moment. "...Fine, you got me. I'm a shorty. I really didn't expect to see you here, and I wasn't really sure what to do about it, so I tried to play it cool, but... Well, here we are. I, uh, I'm a big fan of yours, Dae. I have very mixed feelings about you being here, given I entered planning to win it all..."
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Post by NIKI on Sept 24, 2023 21:12:15 GMT
"Hahaha! Aw, that's really sweet, thank you! Hmm, I also never thought I'd meet a shorety in here of all places! Well, it says 5 people can win this thing so surely we can both win, right!?" Dae asks, forgetting the large point difference between them.
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Post by Panda on Sept 24, 2023 21:48:41 GMT
"Well... Initially I'd planned to snag the full $100,000,000 for myself, and leave everyone else with nothing," Rebecca admitted. "But then, you know, Bozo made that announcement and everything changed. Now I just want to make it through this at all."
She sighed. "I can't imagine how your bandmates are taking this. Or your legions of fans. And didn't you have an album coming up?"
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Post by NIKI on Sept 24, 2023 23:15:00 GMT
"Right... I guess we have a common goal, then, haha!" Dae exhales, leaning back into the couch.
"I've been trying not to think about it too much... The album has already been recorded and everyone will be able to hear it once this show ends! So I'm not really worried about the album itself, just, well, the other possibilities."
"I do miss everyone a bunch... but I know Val can take good care of the band as co-leader, at least. He can be a little scary at times, but we all really like him, hahaha!"
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Post by Panda on Sept 24, 2023 23:48:16 GMT
Rebecca nodded, but then sighed. "The band still won't be the same without you." She narrowed her eyes at Dae. "I hope you're not planning to kill anyone. You'll just end up caught and executed. You need to get out of here, you hear me!"
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 0:28:18 GMT
"WHAT, NO!! I could never do THAT!! You can rest assured!!!" Dae explains, his eyes so wide they're about ready to pop out from shock. "If anything, I'm more afraid of someone killing me... blehh. I know my humour doesn't really go over well with some people..."
"You're not planning on doing anything like that either, right Becky? It would be a shame to lose someone with your energy! Well, you just said you wanna get through it, so I trust you wouldn't."
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 9:43:04 GMT
Rebecca shook her head firmly. "I don't want someone's blood on my hands. I wouldn't want to live with that guilt. I have a long, comfortable life planned out, and having murder on my conscience would only drag me down. It's a relief to hear you're in a similar situation."
She seemed more relaxed now. She was no longer clutching her laptop, and she leaned forward to rest her chin in her hand. "I think you're doing pretty good for yourself. Have a reputation for being troublesome, and a killer might think you're more trouble than it's worth. They'll go after the easy targets if they can."
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 14:52:03 GMT
"Troublesome? Hahaha! Yeah, you might be right. Still, the amount of possible weapons here makes me feel a bit uneasy, though..." Dae shivers.
"Okay, enough about that! There's no use in getting so scared right now. How about... let's think of something fun to do to get our minds off this!"
"Um, do you have any ideas?"
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 15:26:35 GMT
"There's plenty to do here!" Rebecca said, brightening up. "Well, maybe not the ATVs, one got trashed when I was racing against Ava earlier... Any interest in baking? Normally I can't really be bothered, but now that I don't have internet access here, I find myself turning to alternate ways to pass the time."
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 15:38:43 GMT
Dae ALSO brightens up significantly upon hearing the word 'baking'. "I'm VERY interested in baking!!! Well, as a shorety you probably already knew that baked goods are my most favorite thing ever. I've never really had time to try it myself, though, hahaha!"
"Wow, what are the odds... Yutaro told me his mom has a bakery so he also offered to teach me some stuff, too! We haven't actually gotten around to it, but I'd be happy to learn from you as well!"
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 15:57:41 GMT
Rebecca definitely knew that Dae-fact, which is probably why she suggested the activity. However, she waved off his latter comment. "Oh, I wouldn't be much of a teacher. The idea of baking's always interested me, but like I said I usually can't be bothered, so I haven't really done much myself. I'm sure it will be fun and enlightening to just try it and see what happens, though. Maybe by the end of today, you'll know enough to surprise Yutaro with!"
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 17:13:00 GMT
"Right! Well, personally, the most baking I've ever done was box-mix pancakes, so... any improvement will be noticeable!" Dae laughs, looking motivated.
"What did you have in mind for us to bake?"
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 18:09:32 GMT
"We could just bake boring, easy things, but this is reality TV! We don't settle for 'boring' here," Rebecca replied, smirking. "I've always been curious about Baked Alaskas. Cold ice cream on the inside, cooked meringue on the outside? I even saw a chef flambé one on a cooking show once! Imagine the looks on people's faces if we could pull that off."
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 19:23:42 GMT
"...YES. That would be PERFECT! It can't be that hard to make, right? Though, maybe we should skip the 'flambé' part, heh. Let's do it right NOW!!!" Dae gets up and walks to the kitchen which is behind the common room in my head. He opens the fridge and freezer.
"Oh, good! There's icecream! And meringue is just eggs and sugar, right? We have those too..."
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 19:36:36 GMT
"We'll need to make sponge cake for the base," Rebecca added, starting to get caught up in Dae's hype. She searched around for a recipe book, but couldn't find anything on the specific dish they were attempting to make. "Hmm. Oh well! Like you say, I don't see why this would be difficult. A simple cake, ice cream, and meringue." Thankfully there was a recipe for sponge cake, at least. "It's a shame about the flambé, but I suppose after what happened at the manor it wouldn't be a good idea... I want to show this off to everyone, after all."
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 19:54:06 GMT
"Yeah! We gotta make something worthy of praise...Sponge cake? Got it." Dae reads over the recipe Rebecca has and goes to get the remaining ingredients like the helpful guy he is.
Everything is neatly laid out in a counter, even one of those fancy stand mixers.
"I think we should make the cake first so we have it cooled down in time. That's a thing right...? So, what's the first step!"
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 20:35:21 GMT
"Just some basic prep-work first. Line some tins with baking parchment," Rebecca said, casually ordering the celebrity around. In the meantime she undertook the demanding task of pre-heating the oven. "After that... it looks like this recipe's rather simple, actually," she continued, sounding disappointed. "Most of the work will be done by that stand mixer. Much better than sweating it out by hand-mixing, at least, but still..." Perhaps she'd been imagining some Great British Bake Off production, even though the pair of them were complete novices.
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 22:01:30 GMT
Dae follows Rebecca's orders dilligently at first, being really excited about baking a cake and all. He looks over the recipe again. He then gets over confident, goes rogue and QUICKLY begins to put stuff in the stand mixer based only on what he remembered from reading the recipe twice. There is way too much flour in that one single bowl.
"Oh, yeah! You're right! Who knew baking would be this easy?"
He's about to start mixing!
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 22:30:14 GMT
Unfortunately for them both, Rebecca was far too content with sitting back and letting Dae do most of the work to actually check. Besides, who could argue with that cheeky grin?
"Hey, wait a moment," she suddenly said. The audience back home held their breaths. "We don't need to limit ourselves to just what the recipe says, right? The real winners at life are those that blaze their own trails, after all." The audience groaned. "Chocolate chips improve any pastry." She quickly poured some in, destabilising the mixture even further. "Full power, Dae!"
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Post by NIKI on Sept 25, 2023 22:41:01 GMT
Dae freezes up as Rebecca adds the chocolate chips. "Becky. You're a GENIUS! On it!"
He sets the mixer to its HIGHEST speed setting, figuring that that way it will get done faster. What happens instead is that when he presses the button to start mixing, a HUUUGE cloud of flour and icing sugar (not in recipe) coats them both and the entire kitchen.
"OH MY GOD- HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN." He coughs, shocked.
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Post by Panda on Sept 25, 2023 23:34:33 GMT
"Argh!" Rebecca stumbled backwards, flailing her hands to try and waft the powder away. "Damn mixer must be faulty! Why doesn't it have a lid?"
She took off her glasses, now caked in (mostly dry) goop, and grumbled as she tried to wipe them clean. It didn't do much good, so she just sighed and pocketed them for now.
"You okay there?" she then asked Dae, in a rare show of concern for another human being. The privileges of stardom.
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Post by NIKI on Sept 26, 2023 4:44:00 GMT
"YEP! I'm fine. I'm fine! What about you?" Dae says, looking like he's about to explode. His eyes are shut tight and he's trying his best to dust himself off. The mixer is still going.
"Ha. Hahahaha! W...well... let's see what this looks like now!" Once sufficiently dusted off, the singer approaches the mixture and notices --to the horror of the audience at home-- that the mixture has... homogenized. Well, just enough to look usable. The vibes are OFF though.
"WOah. Becky, look! It worked...!" Dae turns off the mixer and takes the bowl out to show it to Rebecca.
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