Scene #6196: Tower of Santaga

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Tamamo no Mae	Floor 3 of the "Tower of Santaga". It's a floor almost like others but in actuality, it's not! The entire floor is lined with a pantry's worth of food, fridges filled with various food stuffs and all sorts of really interesting cooking supplies! It's then that theme music starts playing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S623yzR6SY A door opens, it's a rice paper door and soon, Tamamo herself walks out, holding a stick mic and wearing a different outfit! https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2551916 "Welcome, welcome! I'm your host, Tamamo no Mae, and you're on a very special holiday episode of Kitchen Calamity!" cue canned applause from somewhere, "I bring three very special judges, straight out of the throne of heroes to judge the fantastic dishes that our contestants will be making today!" A spotlight rolls into the judges table and Tamamo starts speaking. "The Rider-class Servant and one of the Gorgon sisters, Medusa!" "Tamamo, did you really summon me for this?" "Yes, yes I did. The Caster who has a sweet tooth, Medea!" "Do not expect me to be lenient." And finally, the famous pirate and Rider, "Blackbeard!" Blackbeard says nothing and holds up a double peace sign. "Today, our contestants aren't exactly human but we're hoping they give us great meals today! We have Touta, Cu, Solty and...." she looks at a name card... "... oh, he's here?" flatly, "Archer..." Ahem, "With that out of the way, Let's have our contestants say a few words!"
Solty Revant	Solty, the short green-haired girl with strange, furred, conic ears and an unusual outfit looks surprised when a spotlight suddenly lands on her. "Um...h-hello." She coughs to clear her throat, then stands tall with her hands held in front of her politely. "I'm Solty Revant! Nice to meet you! I'm still studying the best ways to cook, but I will do my best to give you a tasty yet nutritious meal!" She bows to the judges after that then steps toward her cooking station...or at least starts to, but seems a bit unsure which one is actually hers. Are there name cards?
Touta Konoe	Touta Konoe has no idea how a dungeon crawler from the first floor of the Tower of Santaga became a cooking show, but he's not complaining! Probably one of the younger looking contestants to arrive on the scene, a young man with spiked black-hair arrives onto the stage waving at the crowd if there is one, and if not just giving a smile to the judges have gone out of their way to be here. While he should probably be surprised at the names that he just heard being said, considering how many times he's dealt with Servants now...Well...On the bright side he's always very pleased to meet new people. "Nice to meet you guys! I'm not too much of a cook myself honestly, but since I'm on here I got to represent for my buddy, Nikumaru who showed me how to cook back home. Anyway..." Touta takes a moment to look at the kitchen and assorted foodstuffs before he looks back at Tamamo, referencing her by the nickname he still uses for her. "So Hime-chan, there any rules we gotta know about? We doing a theme or something for the meal? I've seen this stuff a couple times on television but never really been in a cooking competition before."
Cu Chulainn	When the spotlight shifts to Cu Chulainn, the Servant is alone (Felt's waiting nearby), dressed in a tacky Hawaiian shirt, blue hair in a ponytail and giving a toothy grin. "Yo! Name's Cu Chulainn, and I'm gonna show some Irish spirit! I may not have much cooking experience, but I know how to work with meat!" He looks excited. And then, a nod to the other contestants. "Good luck. This is gonna be great." His spear is not manifested, but he's considering using it as a skewer. It's probably a terrible idea.
Archer EMIYA	The spotlight shifts to Archer, and the only response the nameless spirit gives is an annoyed huff as he places a hand against his hip. He was expecting an actual cooking competition, not those glamourized jokes you see on TV with angry British men. Ah, well, it's still an excuse to put his skills to use if anything, which is something he appreciates. The hero's usual attire is replaced with something a bit more fitting for the occasion, a red apron on top a black t-shirt, with a matching pair of black slacks and shoes. Truly, he is Professional Chef incarnate. Or at least he looks the part.
Tamamo no Mae	"This is how this will work. There are two rounds, the first one is a normal cooking round. You have access to our pantry and you get thirty minutes to cook up a meal for our judges, myself and Seifer. The appetizers must be holiday themed or you will be disqualified and obtain no prizes for this round!" 'Seifer' just stares ahead, looking at everyone with... a really strange 'is this really Seifer' look. "If you notice on your stations, you have three cookies, these are not for you to eat! You can use these in the second round to have one of our judges use their Noble Phantasm on an opponent and really mess up their day! You only get three and others can out bid you, so plot your nastiness later!" She snaps her fingers and a wheel appears, with words on it. She spins it and grins, "And today's first meal will be....." Clickclack, clickclack, clickclack.... "Oooh, this is going to be good. The appetizer round is going to beeeeeeee." She poses, "We want you to make your version of a ham dish!"
Solty Revant	When Touta is introduced Solty waves to him cheerfully. "Hello Touta!" she calls out, perhaps a bit more loudly than is necessary. Then the round is announced, and with only thirty minutes to work with Solty takes off fast enough that her form seems to blur whenever she moves. She knows her mastery of flavors is still not all that good, so she tries to get things cooking quickly so she can focus on making things look good! But, she isn't a total lost cause when it comes to flavor. She knows that Christmas ham is often flavored with cloves and honey, and in order to help things cook faster she cuts her ham into deli-thin slices before brushing them with honey glaze and dotting them with cloves. Once that is in the oven she has a few moments to think, and for some reason she starts gathering cookie cutters with various Christmas shapes.
Cu Chulainn	When the show begins, Cu Chulainn has a ton of energy. He said he knows how to cook meat, and ham's no exception. Cu Chulainn is wicked fast - he's in and out of the ingredient area, grabbing ham, honey, seasonings, puff pastry, and cranberries. Seasoning and preparing the ham, glazing it with honey, he prepares to make puff-pastry-wrapped ham bites. As those cook... Cu goes about creating cranberry sauce. It's going to make the perfect relish to these bites, and also add that much-needed holiday feel to it. When he gets a chance, he talks to the other competitors. "How you guys doing over there? Thinking about quitting yet?" It's all playful, not mean-spirited...but Cu's got a competitive spirit. He's got to win this.
Touta Konoe	"Hmmm...Ham appetizers for the holidays..." Truth be told he's not too sure of what he can do that'll make for a holiday themed ham appetizer. He never really worked holidays with his buddy, but even if that was the case he had no intention to leave a bad record on Nikumaru's reputation. After all, he was gonna be one of the best chefs in the world one day! If Touta couldn't make something delicious with that then there was no way that Nikumaru would let him live it down! Hopefully he doesn't watch this show... "Oh, Solty hey-" And before he can even give enough of a brief response Solty's already on the run. Wait, Solty can cook?! That's news to Touta. If that's the case he needs to get serious to. He starts rolling up his sleeves, puts on a white apron and then...PREHEATS THE OVEN TO 375 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT! While that happens, Touta's already pulling out a bowl to start blending flour, baking powder, baking soda, some salt, butter and then...A bit of buttermilk. Perhaps Cu was hoping for a response from Touta, but he's in the zone. Or he thinks he is at least. He just prepared his dough and actually...When he sees what Solty's doing with the cookie-cutters he's already got an idea of what she might have in mind. "Wow, Solty's really creative. But I can't go losing out either!" He probably could try following her example on that, but that'd be rude to take from her idea at this point so he won't. Instead he cuts out the dough using a biscuit cutter and then starts placing the small bits into a baking sheet. From there, they'd need to spend about 15 minutes in the oven. So during that time... He can start looking over the ham and other ingredients he'll need. He'll probably be ready by the time that the judges need them to present.
Archer EMIYA	Archer rubs his chin in thought. Christmas appetizers? Normally he'd just order like ten buckets of fried chicken from KFC and be done with it as is tradition in the Land of the Rising Sun, but then that wouldn't be much of a cooking competition. Anyway, common sense indicates that good party food should be small and non-messy so that they can be eaten with one's fingers as well as taste good either hot or cold. Also they need to have ham in it. So. Frittatas. That is the logical conclusion that the Heroic Spirit who may or may not be EMIYA has come to. Wasting no time, Archer grabs a bowl,a muffin tray with Christmas shapes, some eggs, milk, parmesan cheese, onions, parsley, and of course some ham. No knives though, he's got that covered. Preparing everything really doesn't take that much time, the 'hardest' part was slicing the ham into thin pieces, but thankfully he has a tool to make that easy enough. A kitchen knife rumored to have been used by a famous American chef with a famous yet short catchphrase and a line of spices that at one point lined the pantry of every aspiring chef. More likely though it's just from that chefs range of kitchenware, but that's less impressive. With everything cut up and eventually mixed into a bowl, Archer pours the mix into the muffin tin and proceeds to stuff it in the oven, his arms waiting for the dish to finish cooking before removing it and placing it on a plate. He finishes the dish off by decorating it with parsley because that's what all professional chefs do. And he's a professional.
Tamamo no Mae	"Judges, while they're cooking, what are you expecting out of them?" "I really do expect a good meal after this. Ham is one of those dishes that can be done right or done /very/ wrong, and I hope they don't do it wrong." "I shall echo Medusa on this. Just because you can do everything to it, doesn't mean you should." "BWAHAHA, I'm just here for the cute girls and the food." Tamamo sighs as she looks towards the contestants, "It seems that Solty's going for something traditional here, but... the cookie cutters? What's she going to make? And Cu's already starting the banter! Will his opponents falter to it or is it going to backfire. As for what he's making, puff pastry... honey... oh Tamamo is going to love eating this!" The judges chime in, "So will we!" "Now Touta's doing a biscuit it looks like, and well, will he finish by the time judging is there?" "And... is Archer making ... Frittatas?!" Tamamo looks at the judges, the judges look back, then look towards Archer. "We're going to have a good show here today!"
Solty Revant	"I never give up!" Solty responds firmly to Cu, a look of determination on her face. She checks on her ham slices, then taps her foot before turning the oven up a bit. While waiting for those ham slices to cook to her satisfation she realizes she could be doing something else. Hmm... While it may cost her some points, Solty goes and gets some wheat bread, some monterey jack cheese, and some parmasean. She quickly grates the hard parmasean into a fine powder, then uses the cookie cutters to cut shapes out of the bread and the monterey jack cheese, which she then toasts in a pan to make halves of grilled cheese sandwiches in festive shapes such as trees, stars, and snowflakes.
Cu Chulainn	"Hah, we'll see about that!" Cu replies to Solty, as he eventually takes his ham bites out of the oven. Making sure they're the right temperature, he moves to take his cranberry sauce and start spreading small amounts on the bites, just the right amount to taste. It's probably not nearly a perfect dish. But Cu knows how meat works, and the ham is cooked super well...so maybe that'll help him out, even if it's his first time making cranberry sauce or puff-pastry bites. He plates the dish, and then looks towards Archer. "Frittata, huh? How is that a holiday dish?"
Archer EMIYA	Archer is continuing to place the finishing touches on his dish when Cu asks a question. He doesn't have time to stop, but if he did one could imagine he'd be placing a hand on his hip as he gives the Lancer a condescending look. "Finger foods are holiday related, Child of Light. I know you probably haven't gone to any Christmas parties, but stuff like this is common place."
Touta Konoe	While it seems like everyone's really getting things done, he knows that when it comes to cooking it's not just about the taste of the food as surprising as it sounds. He always remembers how passionate his pal was when he was cooking. That fire in his eye that one could see in a competitive fighter or something similar. Cooking is an art and with that sort of art you have to have passion. While he isn't sure of how experienced these contestants are he can tell they're all plenty passionate! So he's gotta keep up. The timer on the oven goes off and he smiles. He slowly pulls out the small round bite-sized biscuits, but they're not just any biscuits...They're butter-milk biscuits. Touta gives a smile as he checks all aspects of what's come out of the oven. A beautiful golden-brown exterior, a fresh baked smell, and he even does something a little weird...He takes a plastic knife and sorta looks like he's brushing it over the top of the biscuits as he leans in to listen. There's another smile on his face. "Nice and flakey...Alright, got a few minutes left to start plating." Truth be told, Touta's dish was pretty simple. But that's how it was intended to be. It's an appetizer after all! It's not meant to blow you away, it's suppose to prepare you for the main course. It's to get one's taste buds excited for the main course without being too overbearing. Unlike the other's Touta's not actually cooking his ham. He's using Prosciutto, a type of dry-cured ham that usually you served uncooked. He begins slicing it similar to the others though, nice and thin. Then he takes the biscuits and splits them in half. He's gonna be making a tiny sandwiches out of them?! Seems so. "Alright then...Now to finish this up." Touta takes places arugula on one half of the biscuit. The arugula's meant to give a bit of texture to the biscuit giving it a bit more of a crunch as well as a bit of festive green for this holiday appetizer. Then, Touta has his 'secret' holiday ingredient...It's secret because he didn't even think of it till he started cooking. Something that he came up with on the spot but thinks will turn out nice, fig preserves. He gives a generous helping on the opposite biscuit. The idea behind the preserves was that they would compliment the naturally salty flavor of the cured ham with it's sweeter flavor. Touta puts one of the biscuit sandwiches together and tastes for himself...Crisp and flakey from the biscuits. A nice crunch texture as he chewed from the arugula greens, and an elegant salty-sweet combination of fig and ham. "Alright Nikumaru. Time to show'em what we got." He prepares the rest of the biscuits preparing them almost like tiny sandwiches. Making sure that none of them would fall apart by placing small toothpicks in the midle like what's done for hamburgers to that they aren't taken apart before they were served. Touta walks over to the judges each handing them a plate, it's been decorated a bit with arugula on the side and a drizzle of said preserves on the plate where the biscuits aren't touching. Each plate had about four of these biscuit sandwiches to work as an appetizer but thankfully they shouldn't be too filling even if they ate them all. They're just a bit bigger than portions that might be used for horderves. "Hope you guys enjoy it!"
Cu Chulainn	With his dish plated, Cu Chulainn makes sure it's good. The puff pastry is soft and flaky; the ham is tender, glazed, and extremely well-cooked, and the cranberry sauce is...well, cranberry sauce. There's several bites per plate, and they're probably not bad...though Cu doesn't necessarily have the cooking skill of either Touta or Archer, who have been doing this for way longer with way more experience. Archer gets a glance from Cu. Looks like they're rivals. And then, when it's his turn, Cu presents his dish to the judges. "I'm presenting holiday ham pastry puffs with a cranberry sauce relish. Eat up and enjoy!"
Solty Revant	Solty didn't realize how quickly time was passing! Suddenly there's only two minutes left, and it is only thanks to Solty's speed that she is able to get everything done that she planned to! The ham slices are quickly taken out of the oven, the pan and pieces both handled without any sort of safety equipment. Cookie cutters are used again to make proper shapes for the sandwiches, and each plate also gets a quickly but carefully assembled spiral of folded ham obviously made in the tapered shape of a Christmas tree. Four trees are made, the parmasean is sprinkled over them like freshly fallen snow, and the now ham and cheese festive shape sandwiches are also sprinkled before being tied up with the leftover ham from the cookie cuts before being places around the trees like presents. The ham trees themselves are only a bit taller than the sandwiches that surround them. Solty quickly holds her hands up when time runs out, then wipes at her brow with a gloved hand. "Phew...timed cooking is hard!" She follows after Cu and Touta, smiling brightly as she passes out her dishes. "I don't really know any fancy cooking, so I tried to make it as festive-looking as I could!" she says in that earnest way of hers. "I hope it tastes good!"
Archer EMIYA	Archer finishes up dressing up his dish, and places them in front of the judges. He doesn't bother saying anything, instead letting his dish do the talking for him. Each plate holds three star and tree shaped frittatas and a sprig of parsley. Their texture is quite clearly fluffy in nature, and bits of ham, onion, and other ingredients clearly poke through the top. Overall, they look overwhelmingly simple to make. Then again, most appetizers are.
Tamamo no Mae	"Alright chefs, tools down! The first round is over!" pause "... And you too, Archer." The shade is real. As everyone brings up their meals, Tamamo gives a smile along with the judges. "Thank you contestants, now, to the judging." "All of these dishes look good, you didn't fail me, fox." "I agree. Well done contestants." "WAHAHAHAHA!" Both the women are eating things politely... Blackbeard is shoveling it down his face.. Charming. "Alright, judges? Four contestants, three votes. What do you think?" "I vote for Archer's dish. It was unique in that it was a frittata compared to other dishes. Light, and easy to stomach. Good work." "I rather liked Solty's dish personally. It spoke of character and whimsy, something I like. The taste was good, too." "Waaahah, Cu's dish, for a lancer, was really goood, I still have the taste in my mouth!" "And, personal feelings aside, I liked Touta's, a fresh baked biscuit is hard to top!" Tamamo pauses, "And for that, we have a first round TIE! Everyone gets to move onto the final round!" Insert Canned Applause here. "In this round, you'll be making dessert of your own design inspired by the American South's pecan pie. Now, with this, our judges have been given permission to use their Noble Phantasms to make it as hard as possible for you. Just bet one, two or three of your Command Cookies for a Servant you like along with a Target and watch the fireworks! You can use them at any time but if you run out, you can't use them anymore!" "Final round, BEGIN!"
Touta Konoe	Didn't get a single of the actual judges to like his appetizer? There's a bit of a surprise for a moment on his face until Tamamo casts her vote. There's a brief smile but also a sort of distant look for a moment till she announces the next event. Looks like he needed to collect himself one way or the other. "Going straight for deserts, huh...Hmmm...I really wanted to try some of the other contestant's stuff before we got to the rext round but guess I'll wait till the end." For now, he needed to make up for the poor performance from before. When it comes to pie he can only really think it's baking. He's got a few ideas already sprucing up in his head. "Alright, time to get to work then." Touta heads back into the food stuff's area and returns with a few ingredients. Some seem pretty expectant for the pie with the pecans and crust materials, but it looks like he's also got chocolate...Lots of cream, sugar, milk...It also looks like he has some ziplock bags filled with ice. "Alright, we got alot to do and only a bit of time to get it done. Gonna need to multi-task a bit so if that's the case..." It's at this point Touta does something unorthodox. He pulls out a hula-hoop and starts spinning it around as he starts prepping his ingredients...But as he does so...The ingredients begin flying around him as if they were in orbit! And just as he finished with one set of ingredients he plucks others from out of the air as they were floating around. It seems like he's gonna try to really embrace the 'calamity' aspect of Kitchen Calamity.
Solty Revant	Solty's ears perk and she looks surprised and quite happy that at least one person liked her dish! She bows to Medea then excitedly says, "Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!" When the second round begins and the theme is announced, Solty blinks, then her ears droop. Pecan pie? She has no idea how to make something like that! She hasn't even learned how to make proper pie crusts! But once again they have been given room to make a themed-dish based on pecan pie. So...maybe she can work with the theme of sweet treats based around pecans? It takes Solty a few minutes to even get started, and during that time she is just standing there staring at the ingredients rack with her hands balled up and pressed against her cheeks. "Uuuuunn...what am I going to make...?" Finally she starts moving, but she still doesn't seem to have much of an idea. She gets pecans of course, sugar, corn syrup, and some premade pie crusts and brings them all back to her station. She is distracted by Touta as she tries to think of what to do. Then, she goes back to the ingredients and gets all one needs to make basic cookies, although she gets brown sugar instead of white. She quickly mixes the eggs, flour, and brown sugar, then forms the dough into small balls and flattens them on a cookie sheet before getting them in the oven. Then she sits back and waits, looking a little flustered. Dessert is obviously her weak area. She looks toward her Command Cookies(TM) for a few moments...then shakes her head and gives a double fist pump. "No, I won't use those."
Touta Konoe	Can't really say he wants to impede on someone else's cooking but they were right when they said this was a game. So with that in mind Touta decides to play along. After all, this was a game right? If there wasn't a bit of schenanigans than it wouldn't be entertaining for people to watch. But if he couldn't use Tamamo then who would be the best bet? Medea was a witch but Touta didn't really know about much of her skills. Blackbeard could have probably pillaged Archer's cooking supplies but he wasn't sure how that would go since Archer was a pretty capable fighter. Then there was Medusa...Wasn't she a gorgon that turned people to stone. That sounded like that'd be cool. Maybe turn his ingredients to stone or something. Sounds like that'd be interesting to watch. "Alright, I got this! Medusa by order of all three of my command cookies! Mess with Archer!"
Tamamo no Mae	The Command Cookies dissapear and Medusa just flashes this grin. It's only a small matter of time before Medusa stands up.... and calls out "BELLEROPHON!" She reappears with her Pegasus and /divebombs/ Archer... and... while there's no damage, there's a majority of Archer's ingredients... GONE and a lock only visible to him on the same ingredients in the pantry! it looks like he has to do something else to get his results! She soon reappears at her seat and smiles happily, "That was the most fun I had in a while, I changed my mind, thank you Tamamo." As for Archer's command, all his Command Cookies dissapear and Blackbeard /stares/ at Touta, grinning. "Oh dis gonna be good!" seperating Touta from the rest (so no one else gets hit), he dissapears as well and reappears with ... a boat? "REVENGE OF QUEEN ANNE! QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE!" Tamamo's in the background, facepalming, as cannons fire, aimed towards Touta's.... COOKING UTENSILS! The shells blast right through the pans that Touta was using... and soon, they return back to the field. "WAAAHAHAHAHA!"
Archer EMIYA	Well, they enjoyed his dish, that's reassuring. For certain Archer is out here to win, but at the end of the day, he cooks because he enjoys it and he enjoys watching people enjoy the fruits of his labor, so even if he loses he still wins. Unfortunately the cookie gimmick is probably gonna get in the way of his quality cooking, but whatever. He'll just hold onto his if he really needs them, but given his skill he probably won't need them. Anyway, pound cake. Pecan pound cake. That's the plan, so Archer sets forth. He collects his needed ingredients, eggs, flour, pecans, caramel, everything. He also grabs the required utensils to make his dish. At the moment he's just mixing the dry ingredients and preparing to melt his caramel, when all of a sudden BELLEROPHON comes and undoes ALL OF HIS WORK. "Okay. Yeah. This is FINE." It's not fine. Screw it, using the cookies. "By the order of all my command cookies, I REQUEST THAT BLACKBEARD RUINS TOUTA KONOE'S DAY!" There, that'll show him. Now to go back to gathering all his ingredients AGAIN.
Cu Chulainn	Pecan pie. Cu Chulainn has never made pecan pie, or anything with pecans, so he's sweating a bit nervously. He decides to go simple - just good old fashioned pecan pie...with ice cream. Eggnog ice cream and pecan pie. Cu's never made either, but it's worth a shot! And while the others use their Command Cookies, as Cu's preparing his pie and his ice cream, the Servant lifts his own cookies. "Alright, let's get this party going! Sorry little miss...but let's make this fun. By the order of all my command cookies, I request...that MEDEA USE HER NOBLE PHANTASM ON SOLTY!" And then, hoping Solty's too innocent not to fire back, Cu gets back to working on his dessert. He should progress fairly quickly.
Tamamo no Mae	Ah, Medea's turn! With Cu's Command Cookies all gone, Medea flashes her dagger and looks towards Solty. She looks like a good girl, it's a shame she has to do this... but... "I'm sorry but... RULE BREAKER!" and with that, she launches herself at Solty's..... RECIPIE! The text starts to change and suddenly, all the ingredients... are not the same! IN fact, it's really... weird but it asks for completely random things to be used!
Tamamo no Mae	Ah, Medea's turn... AGAIN! With Solty's cookies now gone, she makes an appearance in front of Cu's recipie book... "Turnabout is fair play. RULE BREAKER!" and, just like with Solty before, Medea stabs the book with her dagger and all the words get changed, minus pecans. "This should make it interesting now.".
Solty Revant	Solty yelps and puts her arms up to block as Medea comes to do something. But then...nothing really seems to happen? Until...oh no! The only recipie guides that Solty had are now very confusing! "...wha-..? But...what happened to the recipie! Spinach would be terrible in cookies!" Now Solty really has to cook from memory! This...may not turn out so well. But, she already had her cookies in the oven thankfully and her plan for after was already formulated. With the cookies now firm but not quite finished, Solty pulls the cookies out and puts on top the pecan and corn syrup glaze she'd put together earlier. She then slips them back into the oven to let the syrup carmalize and the cookies finish. Then, she looks at her recipie and blinks. "...top with...bay leaves..?" she says quietly to herself. "...that can't be right." She reads a bit more. "And...dust with...salt...?" Poor Solty looks very confused now.
Cu Chulainn	Well, that backfired horribly. As Medea changes Cu's cookbook, he frowns, and moves to grab the new ingredients. "Parmesan...eugh." Despite the setback, though, he gets to work making his pie. At the least, the ice cream is pretty much already made, so he doesn't have to change that... In the end, Cu places the parmesan on type of the pie like a garnish, and mixes all sorts of other weird stuff in his pie because the recipe demands it. He moves to start plating. "You know, revenge is supposed to be served cold, little miss."
Touta Konoe	Touta uses the command cookies and thinks that he actually got a good trade out of it. "Sorry Archer! Nothing personal! I'll make you something for next time!" He figures that he owed him...And then Black Beard shows up and...FIRES A CANNON AT HIM. Forget the game show wasn't that a little excessive! The boy's just about ready to counter but it's too late and his utensil are gone! Or at least...His pan and his whisks. That was going to be a problem cause he was planning to make home made whip cream and icecream to go with his pie, but without whisks and pie pans... "Well...How am I suppose to whisk without a wh- Actually...This could be fun!" Touta goes over to his chilled bowl with the ingredients for his whip cream. Usually you'd need to put heavy cream, sugar and vanilla in a bow and try to whisk it at a high speed using a whisk but without one that seemed like an impossibility now. Except...Touta has an idea. So far touta had been revolving things around himself in mid-air using the hula-hoop, the technique he called 'Revolution'. This basically let him spin things around in a circle. So what Touta decides to do is something interesting, he takes the bowl and places one of his hands over the ingredients. It's strange he's not touching any of the contents of the bowl but slowly but surely the contents begin to spiral around as if they were in a vortex. And then he reverses the direction. And slowly but surely...This whipped cream was in fact getting whipped!!! Without a whisk or even touching the ingredients he was whisking his ingredients as if he was using some sort of air magic! Once he gets the hang of working without a whisk he does something very similar with the preparations for the icecream and places the whipped cream in the fridge and the icecream in the freezer to form a bit more. Now was the hard part... Touta had planned to make a chocolate pecan pie. But without a proper pie pan to set the pie into the over with how was he suppose to have the pie in the oven without burning the bottom or getting really awkward railing marks? "Well if it worked for the ingredients..." Touta makes a note to himself. He props the pie dough in a way that it would have been had Touta still had a pie pan to help him mold it so it's hard to say what'll happen. For the most part he gets it to form a somewhat decent pie shape but he knows that if he touches it anymore than he already has it'll probably fall apart...So he lifts it up...Without his hands. Once again he's got something floating in mid-air, and as it floats he opens the oven and places it in the there. But he keeps it stay suspended in mid-air as it cooks. The reason being...To avoid the pie's crust from getting burnt or get those rail marks on the bottom. In fact, because it's being rotated in mid-air it's probably getting cooked more evenly within the oven as well! Who would have thought?! The down side...He's been spinning that hula-hoop non-stop for like the duration of the cooking time so nearly 30 minutes. The eventually the pie comes out looking like a...Actual pie. A chocolate pecan pie at that, and without any pans or whisks to boot! But just as he's about ready to pat himself on the back he hears Tamamo's warning. He places the pie down on a plate and finally puts away the hoop. "Almost done..." He says aloud to himself as he rushes back towards the fridge and freezer pulling out the whipped cream and ice-cream. The cream looked nice and fluffy, and the vanilla ice-cream looked smooth enough. He walks over to the judges finished with his creations. Serving each a plate of his desert. He also hands some for Seifer and Tamamo, and even makes sure there's enough for the other contestants as well if they wanted some when this was over. "Chocolate pecan pie with home made whip-cream and home-made vanilla ice-cream. Dig in!"
Archer EMIYA	Ok flour and eggs are gone, so is the caramel. Archer can deal with this. Plan two is now pecan pie cheesecake. Graham crackers and vanilla wafers, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, pecans, the whole works. Making a cheesecake without eggs is going to be a bit tough, but luckily he's familiar with an eggless variant, so it works out. There's no worry about getting hit by another Noble Phantasm now, so he can make his graham cracker and vanilla wafer crust in peace. Once that done, he starts working on the fillings. The first smaller layer is the pecan one, mixing in chopped pecans, syrup, brown and white sugar, vanilla and other sweeteners into a pan to simmer a before letting it cool off and dumping it into the completed crust. The second layer is just your typical cheesecake filling, save with some added brown sugar to make it a bit sweeter and also give it a brownish tint. Thankfully with the advent of MAGICAL KITCHENWARE, what should have taken four to six hours is completed in a fraction of the time, allowing Archer to finish his cheesecake in a slightly less than comfortable time thanks to Touta ruining his first attempt. Cutting three slices from the completed pie, Archer quickly drizzles some dulce de leche on each slice and tops them with whipped cream and a single pecan before handing them off to the judges.
Solty Revant	With the cookies made and only slightly overdone, Solty puts them on the plates...without using those last finishing ingredients. There's no way she is going to put those things on cookies! So, she has to hope that plain brown sugar cookies with caramelized corn syrup and pecans on top will be good enough. No, it isn't pie. It's pecan pie cookies! ...at least she hopes that's how it will taste. She really has no idea. They are almost guaranteed not to have the full flavor of a pecan pie, but should at least be edible. Solty tries to spruce them up with a dusting of powdered sugar...which turns out to be salt because of mixed text. Solty puts two cookies on each plate, then presents them to the judges. "Here we are! Pecan Pie Cookies!" she says happily!
Tamamo no Mae	With the plating done and all the Noble Phantasm stuff finished, it's onto the taste tests! "Medusa, Medea, Blackbeard." they all nod and move to dig into their dishes and move to discuss... from a distance from Blackbeard, the results. "Judges, do you have your decisions?" comes Tamamo's voice, and they nod in time, "Well, what do you say?" "Solty, your pecan pie cookies were really decent, the dusting of salt on these, while uncommon, actually brought in some good flavor. Good job. Cu, your pie has a unique flavor, can't say that I would have used parmesian in it, but..." there's a side look to Medea, who smirks, "It's passable. Touta you did wonderfully despite not having the gear for it, but aren't you dizzy? And Archer, a pecan pie cheesecake with dulce de leche? I'm surprised to say that this is delicious, I didn't think you could do it after I took some of your ingredients!" "I will have to echo what Medusa has already said, these cookies were really good, though, it could have used less salt. Cu, I wouldn't have used the parmesan at all but it's edible and decent, but I forgot, you didn't have much of a choice after my Rule Breaker. Touta, for the lack of equipment, you did amazing work, it's good, tastes like it should, and chocolate is a weak point for me. Archer, I loved your cheesecake. I really did. Less dulce de leche on my slice though..." "WAHAHAHA. YOU ALL DID GREAT! I'm stuffed... when's dessert?" "You already haddessert you dirty man." "I did? Awww.." "Well, with this, all the judges seem to be in agreement! YOU all win the top prize of three christmas stockings for use in Enkidu's gift shop!"