A. Chicken on a Raft on a Monday Mornin' (Royal Fortune, Arrival)
[One minute, Kotori is about to get ready for bed after a nice day making tasty horse mackerel recipes with Sensei, Tsumugi-chan, and her friend Shinobu and Sensei’s friend Yagi-san, just switched her contacts for glasses. The next… she feels SOMETHING bonk her on the head, a deluge of saltwater pours over her, and she’s sucked into a glass tunnel. It’s all she can do to hang on until she stops moving, the glasses miraculously clinging to her face as she’s tossed and turned and plunges and bobs and… stops. Finally.
And when she opens her eyes, finds herself in a large, wooden kitchen. It’s old-fashioned for sure, lit by lanterns with wooden walls and a metal-plated floor, but VERY clean and orderly… if you don’t count the girl tossed onto the sacks of potatoes like… well, like a sack of potatoes. And why is the whole room swaying still? Is she still dizzy, or… is the room moving?]
Am… I dreaming?
B. Oh, What a Terrible Sight to See (Royal Fortune, Daily)
[After getting her bearings, retrieving her belongings (just, and a brief interview with the Paladin officers about her skills- including faint looks of pity and judgement about her lack of combat, lack of magic, and her fear of knives which keeps her from being a real asset in the kitchen, which she tries to ignore and smile through- Kotori is assigned as… a cabin girl, at least until they get to port.
So she can usually be found about the ship cleaning, organizing the kitchen, taking inventory, mostly keeping to herself, a bit shy to reach out unless she has a question. Thankfully it’s almost all stuff she knows how to do from helping at her mom’s restaurant, but given how BIG the ship is, it’s still taxing work, barely able to distract her from the terror of being isekai’d and separated from her family and friends. (And hungry work; at least they’ll dock soon, the portions are definitely not designed for a food-crazy teenager, and it’s taking every ounce of willpower to NOT snack.) She probably wouldn’t mind some help, or at least a bit of company.]
C. Dabtoes Forward and the Dustmen Aft (Spicy Squid Challenge)
[As weird and terrifying as the whole situation… Kotori had to admit, sailing up to Eltrut had been beautiful, enough to hold back the tide of her nerves for a little bit. The whole turtle-island is so bright and lovely, and so many amazing smells floating from the restaurants. (Already she knows she had to keep a close eye on her purse to make sure she didn’t spend it all on massive meals.) It is getting close to lunch time, though.
“THAT’S RIGHT FOLKS, earn a meal AND a crate of provisions on the houseboat! All you have to do is face Hornswaggle’s Spicy Squid Challenge: a three-pound version of our famous ghost pepper stir fry bowl! Eat it all in an hour, and you’ll eat for free AND get a box of a dried, ship-shape version of our spicy squid for your ship’s provisions!”
Three pounds of food? Including fresh rice? For free? Actually pulling her weight for the crew?
Yup, the mousy little girl suddenly jogs up to the food boat, a sudden fire in her eyes.]
I’ll do it!
D. Sittin’ There Pickin’ at a Chicken on a Raft (Eltrut, Bar Fight)
[Kotori is a little hesitant about going to a full-on bar- she’s definitely not old enough back home- but the others are going, and there are promises of good food there. It’s… not much different from an after-work party, right? And the first hour or so is nice, peaceful, with Kotori mostly drinking in the atmosphere of a full restaurant.
Okay, and maybe some brief rambles about the food.]
Mm! The fish curry is so good~! The fish is so flaky, and the spices—
[Aaand that’s as far as she gets before a REALLY pissed off barrel of a man storms over to the bar, yells at a smirking man who’s struggling to keep his laughter in, and punches him in the face. And then chants of “Fight! Fight! Fight!” ring out through the bar!]
F-fight?!
[Oh god no, she just wanted dinner, why is there fighting? Why is this her life?]
Kotori Iida | Sweetness & Lightning | Paladin
[One minute, Kotori is about to get ready for bed after a nice day making tasty horse mackerel recipes with Sensei, Tsumugi-chan, and her friend Shinobu and Sensei’s friend Yagi-san, just switched her contacts for glasses. The next… she feels SOMETHING bonk her on the head, a deluge of saltwater pours over her, and she’s sucked into a glass tunnel. It’s all she can do to hang on until she stops moving, the glasses miraculously clinging to her face as she’s tossed and turned and plunges and bobs and… stops. Finally.
And when she opens her eyes, finds herself in a large, wooden kitchen. It’s old-fashioned for sure, lit by lanterns with wooden walls and a metal-plated floor, but VERY clean and orderly… if you don’t count the girl tossed onto the sacks of potatoes like… well, like a sack of potatoes. And why is the whole room swaying still? Is she still dizzy, or… is the room moving?]
Am… I dreaming?
B. Oh, What a Terrible Sight to See (Royal Fortune, Daily)
[After getting her bearings, retrieving her belongings (just, and a brief interview with the Paladin officers about her skills- including faint looks of pity and judgement about her lack of combat, lack of magic, and her fear of knives which keeps her from being a real asset in the kitchen, which she tries to ignore and smile through- Kotori is assigned as… a cabin girl, at least until they get to port.
So she can usually be found about the ship cleaning, organizing the kitchen, taking inventory, mostly keeping to herself, a bit shy to reach out unless she has a question. Thankfully it’s almost all stuff she knows how to do from helping at her mom’s restaurant, but given how BIG the ship is, it’s still taxing work, barely able to distract her from the terror of being isekai’d and separated from her family and friends. (And hungry work; at least they’ll dock soon, the portions are definitely not designed for a food-crazy teenager, and it’s taking every ounce of willpower to NOT snack.) She probably wouldn’t mind some help, or at least a bit of company.]
C. Dabtoes Forward and the Dustmen Aft (Spicy Squid Challenge)
[As weird and terrifying as the whole situation… Kotori had to admit, sailing up to Eltrut had been beautiful, enough to hold back the tide of her nerves for a little bit. The whole turtle-island is so bright and lovely, and so many amazing smells floating from the restaurants. (Already she knows she had to keep a close eye on her purse to make sure she didn’t spend it all on massive meals.) It is getting close to lunch time, though.
“THAT’S RIGHT FOLKS, earn a meal AND a crate of provisions on the houseboat! All you have to do is face Hornswaggle’s Spicy Squid Challenge: a three-pound version of our famous ghost pepper stir fry bowl! Eat it all in an hour, and you’ll eat for free AND get a box of a dried, ship-shape version of our spicy squid for your ship’s provisions!”
Three pounds of food? Including fresh rice? For free? Actually pulling her weight for the crew?
Yup, the mousy little girl suddenly jogs up to the food boat, a sudden fire in her eyes.]
I’ll do it!
D. Sittin’ There Pickin’ at a Chicken on a Raft (Eltrut, Bar Fight)
[Kotori is a little hesitant about going to a full-on bar- she’s definitely not old enough back home- but the others are going, and there are promises of good food there. It’s… not much different from an after-work party, right? And the first hour or so is nice, peaceful, with Kotori mostly drinking in the atmosphere of a full restaurant.
Okay, and maybe some brief rambles about the food.]
Mm! The fish curry is so good~! The fish is so flaky, and the spices—
[Aaand that’s as far as she gets before a REALLY pissed off barrel of a man storms over to the bar, yells at a smirking man who’s struggling to keep his laughter in, and punches him in the face. And then chants of “Fight! Fight! Fight!” ring out through the bar!]
F-fight?!
[Oh god no, she just wanted dinner, why is there fighting? Why is this her life?]
E. Hey-Oh, Chicken on a Raft! (Wildcard)
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