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heartless wrote:
"Soup it is", says Wibert. Strangely he feels at home again in this kitchen and makes up a tasteful soup for all to eat, especially Gustave and Desmond who need to recover.

waysoftheearth wrote:

heartless wrote:"Soup it is", says Wibert. Strangely he feels at home again in this kitchen and makes up a tasteful soup for all to eat, especially Gustave and Desmond who need to recover.

Wibert gets to work in the kitchen. The veggies he unearthed in the cellar are, in fact, borderline inedible. But considering the hungry crew of adventurers have eaten little other than hard rations for the last week, anything that resembles a cooked meal will be a welcome change.

Wibert cuts away the worst parts of the onions, potatoes, and pumpkin he has gathered, and then gets his soup cooking in one of the large black pots. Before long he is well into it, and there is a delicious smell throughout the kitchen, and flowing out into the mess hall. The kitchen fire is beginning to warm the place quite nicely too. It is all verging on homely and is very pleasing indeed to the busy Hobbit...

Wibert judges his soup now needs to simmer for a third to a half of one hour to be "just right". In the meantime, he will need to locate and clean some bowls and spoon, and also locate some herbs or spices for a garnish...

waysoftheearth wrote:
Desmond, Gustave, Highbough and Andaros are mightily impressed with the smell of Wibert's soup, and are all suddenly feeling very hungry.

It is, after all, mid afternoon by now, and lunch time has come and gone un-noticed...

tonneau wrote:
"If this tastes anywhere near as good as it smells my dear Hobbit", observes Gustave with palpable anticipation in his voice, "and you decide to one day retire from this wandering life of adventuring, I will gladly provide your recommendation to the legendary kitchen of the Duke of Keebincle myself!"

heartless wrote:

tonneau wrote:"If this tastes anywhere near as good as it smells my dear Hobbit", observes Gustave with palpable anticipation in his voice, "and you decide to one day retire from this wandering life of adventuring, I will gladly provide your recommendation to the legendary kitchen of the Duke of Keebincle myself!"

"I pray I live to long enough to take you up on this offer", replies Wibert. [img]images/smiley/wink.png[/img]

mushgnome wrote:
Highbough keeps an anxious eye on the courtyard as he awaits the delicious soup.

waysoftheearth wrote:
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