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[parodeity]

Okay, I can totally be Mr. Ice Cream moneybags. But I think I have to kinda at least try a few peppers - it's a team thing, after all.

[ but he'll get her ice cream too??

google seems to indicate it's some kinda contest about eating spicy peppers...one of them can eat the green, one the red. dave will take green they should be milder... ]

Haha, it's less about that for us and more "kinda a weird situation, with the network"?

[buncho]

'cause your parents are on the network, or not? Mine aren't, but things haven't been very different anyways.

[ She picks up her red pepper and twists off the stem. ]

Oh, but let's do this first. The secret to eating peppers is to bite it in half and swallow it whole!

[ and don't choke, or it'll get lodged in your throat and burn a hole through it. ]

[parodeity]

Where the heck did you learn that secret?

[ but he's copying her, warily. ]

We shouldn't taste the spiciness, but I'm pretty sure the effects of spicy will still occur, by the way.

[buncho]

Experience!

[ Which is to say, she hasn't found a better way to deal with it besides swallowing things she doesn't like whole instead of chewing quickly and releasing all the painful acid/fire/whatever makes peppers feel like death and right now she feels like death, eyes watering immediately but

it'll pass! it'll pass in a couple hours, maybe, it depends on the pepper ]

[parodeity]

[ - MAFUYU THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS GOOD ADVICE but dave downs his anyway, blanching immediately even though he got the milder one. ]

- I do not think your experience covered everything, oh my god -

[ what a baby ]

[buncho]

[ Her pain endurance does not quite extend past just normal muscle pain and wounds, and this isn't something she can so easily shrug off through mental fortitude alone. ]

W-we're done, right?! [ DESPERATELY CLINGS ONTO THE REVA WORKER'S PANTS, PLEASE SAY THEY PASSED ] Let's go get ice cream!!

[ she says, already scrambling for the outside, for the snow that she. sticks her face in. take the pain away by any means. ]

[parodeity]

Please let us be done, holy shit. What kind of ice cream do you -

[ okay. mafuyu sure did just shove her face in snow. dave comes to a stop outside and has to. laugh

he loves mafuyu omg ]

[buncho]

[ It's called cryotherapy and this isn't how you do it but I learned about it at school yesterday. Mafuyu still has to get up and breathe though, so it's not long before she pulls her head out of the snow, spitting water out of her mouth. ]

Pink lemonade popsicles.

CHORE 3 START

[parodeity]

All right. We can shovel snow out front of the ice cream shop after we get them?

[ he will offer her a hand if she like...needs help getting up... ]

[buncho]

[ She doesn't, but she reaches up to grab his hand anyways-- grabs his wrist instead-- and hauls him unnecessarily towards the ice cream place she has in mind, a family shop that puts real fruit into their ice cream and Mafuyu is going to be so disappointed when she's reminded she can't even taste it. ]

Sounds good! We can see if they'll give us a free popsicle if we shovel for them!

[parodeity]

[ OKAY GUESS WE'RE GOING TO THE ICE CREAM PLACE MAFUYU KNOWS AT TOP SPEED ]

Even if not, I'm paying, right? Besides, it's charity so we probs shouldn't ask 'em to give us shit.

[buncho]

Charity is like... the spirit of the month. Charity where we shovel sidewalks and they're so grateful that they give us stuff for free too!

[ we're going back to simpler times, Dave. the barter system ]

[parodeity]

That sounds more like economics than charity?

[ also when they get there...he will pop two shovels out of his sylladex and hand one to mafuyu! ]

[buncho]

Why do you carry shovels with you?

[ in your pockets (???) she hasn't seen the sylladex in action before ]

[parodeity]

I grabbed 'em from the charity when I saw our list of chores? Were you thinking we'd do it with our hands, or what?

[ HAHA DAVE JUST DOESN'T EXPLAIN HIS HAMMERSPACE EVER unless asked

why is he this way ]

[buncho]

[ ...

........

Accepting is much easier than thinking about it, so she does just that. ]

Makes sense. Ice cream first and we can shovel while we eat!

[parodeity]

Okay, okay, in we go.

[ AND HE WILL BUY HER THE ICE CREAM so they can shovel? while eating? that sounds complex mafuyu ]

[buncho]

[ She bites through the popsicle like they're chips, holding the chunks of ice in her mouth while she shovels. There is a straightforward answer to everything and as long as she doesn't trip and pierce her throat with the popsicle stick, this is fine ]

[parodeity]

[ PLEASE DON'T FUCKING DIE MAFUYU...dave just puts his ice cream in his sylladex and shovels with both hands. ]

I hate shoveling snow. [ HE HATES SNOW. IN GENERAL... ]

[buncho]

[ Mafuyu loves snow. Snow means no school, it means sledding and ice hockey and snowball fight and especially shoveling snow. ]

I like it! I used to do this when I was a kid too! The neighbors would give me a quarter if I cleared out their yard and driveway and sidewalk!

[parodeity]

[ also our chores are submitted btw so high five ]

A quarter for all that work? You probably could have charged more.

[ dave don't give her ideas ]

[buncho]

[ heck yes, and we can request more chores if you want to keep going? ]

I was five? A quarter's a lot of money for a five-year-old! You can buy like... a whole pack of gum with that much money, I think.

[ She had no concept of money. Hardly does even now. ]

CHORE 1 2.0 START...?

[parodeity]

[ reference and:

1. Bake & Build a Gingerbread house to be served at the Winter Fesitval!
2. Help to paint a Holiday Mural at the Tribunal Terrace!
3. Build a Snowman somewhere around town! ]

I think a pack of gum is like 60 cents usually - but okay. Want to go nab some more chores, or are you tapped out? Hey, are you shooting for any of those prizes, anyway?

[buncho]

[ Man, inflation really sucks. But the best thing about gum is that you can chew on it for weeks if you really want to/have no choice because you're a broke five-year-old, so that's the choice candy. But now? She's not exactly swimming in money, but there are things she can do to get out around paying for things she wants, like charity chores. ]

Let's do more— all of them! I'm going to turn all my tickets in so I can get that nerf gun! What prize do you want?

[ They can get back to the community center to get their assignments, use the kitchens that are normally reserved for cooking classes, and stay in that general area to go through their list in order ]

[parodeity]

I don't think nerf guns are on the prize list. I think one of the dinners or museum passes?

[ BUT OKAY TO THE KITCHENS THEY GO... ]

We should make gingerbread spaceships instead.