After which follows a steaming plate of piping hot transcript straight from the oven, smelling deliciously of doohickeys and generously sprinkled with freshly chopped whosits…
But I understand what @Pacian is getting at. The game-text shows a quite “normal” setup for an interactive fiction game. It being “normal” doesn’t stop it from attracting my curious attention though! After tasting this small bite, I want to have more, muck around in the dish with my fingers and smell what separates the dinguses from the doojiggers.
This whole event being styled as a Japanese cooking show makes me imagine this scene as a heavily cloaked mysterious figure poking various stuff with one of those sharp and pointy meat-thermometers.
(Image of a sharp and pointy
meat-thermometer)
The pencil drawing Pacian shared of the location where all the action of (tentatively called) The Fairy and Her Muscle-Man will be taking place sparks all kinds of questions. The one foremost in my mind is a parallel of “What’s in the Stranger’s pocket?”, to wit: “What’s in that bottomless chasm?”
The looming machine looks like it’s connected to the rim of the chasm via an axle and a drive belt… Will the main dish be hauled up from the fiery ovens of Hell itself once we successfully deduce the machine’s workings?
Only in IF do we get to read this sort of sentences. In a technical discussion about a programming language no less!
Written in some ancient arcane language only the initiated can understand.
But I have to say that both Fukui-san (@improvmonster) and @Draconis are doing a splendid job of trying to educate the unknowing. Less than half is readily understandable to my non-coding brain, but I do think that I at least partly grok the general logic.
The contest is reaching a boiling point. After both chefs have finished their mise-en-place , chopped and softly fried their sofritto base, and planned the further development of their dishes, we’ll see how they manage to keep up their creative culinary skills in the blistering heat of the ovens of Keyboard Stadion!