LOADING...

[recollecters]

Welcome back, users. Looks like we were able to bring you back online and tracked again...here's hoping the layers are settled now, but the readings are off the chart. We're doing our best to stabilize the city for December while we track some of the magical sources we're picking up. It may take us some time though, so please bear with us! We may be working through the holidays, too, if this keeps up. But it's okay. You opened the doors and new routes for us to check. Stay positive, users. December is a special time of the year. What's your favorite holiday tradition? You'd be surprised how thoughts shape things here. Please take care. Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated Characters' display names are the same as whatever they chose last month and are permanently locked in! Newbies may pick a new name for their first use on Retrospec, but whatever they pick will also become permanent. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a friendly reminder, you may also claim one of this month's freebie by submitting a thread from this mod post. This thread must be 10 comments from you and submitted before AC closes.

Comments

[cardcaptured]

It's more of a New Year's dessert, but tong yuen is pretty good. The traditional gingerbread and almond cookies are nice, too.

I don't think I've tried a strawberry pie, though.

[strawberrypunch]

It's good

I have the recipe but I'm no good at baking or else I'd show you

Tong yuen?

[cardcaptured]

Oh, um-- tong yuen is sort of like... mochi? [More people know what mochi is, right--] It's smaller, though, and served warm, in a sweet soup. It's usually filled with ground peanuts or sesame paste, but I've had it with chocolate, too.

I wouldn't mind seeing the recipe, though? I'm alright with baking, and there's someone I know who likes strawberries a lot, so I wouldn't mind trying it out.

[strawberrypunch]

That sounds good

Hang on and I'll send you the recipe

[And sent! It's nothing too complicated, but it does require someone who is used to working in a kitchen, which Tatsuma is very not.]

There

[cardcaptured]

Thanks.

[Thankfully, Xiaolang's pretty good with cooking and baking because he and Leon would have starved otherwise THANKS LEON, so the recipe seems pretty easy to him! Though a thought comes to mind, with the past tense Tatsuma used with his grandmother and his admitted lack of baking skills, and it is the holidays...]

Um... would you mind if I brought you what I made with it? It's only fair after sharing a family recipe and all.

[strawberrypunch]

!!

That would be great

You don't mind?

[Getting to eat that pie again around the holidays... It's sad in a way, but at the same time, it feels like a good remembrance, too.]

[cardcaptured]

It's fine. Making extra pies is good practice, and I don't think any of my family would mind, either.

I'm not sure if mine would be as good as your grandmother's, though, but I'll do what I can.

[And it's not like this guy is a total stranger... he does remember him from the ghost hunt with Sorey, as hazy as those summer memories were to him.]