Charming Elephant, Baltimore, Maryland, Thursday Evening

[mustbeawitch]

Did Lydia know where Laos was, or anything about its food? Not at all! But the photos on the website of Charming Elephant looked delightful, and wasn't that what really mattered? Cute photos of your food for social media?

Hopefully someone in the Supper Club would know something about Laos. Maybe. With this bunch the odds were not strong.

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone!

Comments

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

Ignis' knowledge of a particular area's culinary offering were dependant on three main factors: whether he'd been there, if it produced coffee, and if it produced wine. And, considering Laos had an incredibly robust coffee industry known for quality....well...

He would certainly be prepared for question.

He was always prepared, of course.

Although he might like some coffee first.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

At least someone knew something. That was an improvement on some of their previous supper clubs. "Professor Scientia, I'm so pleased you could join us, sir," Lydia greeted him.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

"Believe me, Miss Bennet," Ignis drawled with a faintly amused huff, considering the reasons for missing a few of the last ones, "as am I. But thank you, as always. How are you this evening?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

Lydia's terrible memory mostly had filed that away as 'something about Ms. Vess's ex on a plane,' which did, in and of itself, sound pretty terrible. "I am quite well, sir, and looking forward to the summer. Have you any particular plans?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

Yes, there had been a plane-devouring entity with a habit of descending people into madness and their worst fears, and Ignis had nearly died several times, but Miss Vess's ex truly was the worst part of it all, so, yes. Miserable, really.

"I...do," he responded, with a bit of a cautious edge, since those plans involved things he was not so readily discussing in the open quite yet. "Unfortunately, though, it won't be teaching. With everything that happened over the past month, I'll be rather engaged back on Innistrad, helping to do what I can with the reconstruction efforts. The plane is in a bit of chaos at this moment, and no surprise there. It was, after all, almost devoured..."

Nice, normal supper conversational topics, truly.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

"It is very noble of you to render aid, sir," Lydia said, her attention honestly wandering off as he spoke. 'Reconstruction' sounded dreadfully dull, so better you than her, Ignis!

Wait. Her attention had wandered back in. "However could a plane be devoured? Isn't it quite large?" Miss Vess had certainly made it sound so.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

To be quite fair to Lydia, Ignis was leaving out the whole 'cavorting with and winning favor of vampires' part, which had the chance of being considerably more interesting.

"Quite," he confirmed, "as was the entity Emrakul. Granted, it was not larger than the plane itself, of course, but I imagine there was some sort of internal void sort of situation going on..."

Somewhere back on the island, Eleanor Zarrin felt her ears burning and couldn't explain why.

"...or it could also likely grow in size as it did with power the more it consumed, until it was indeed large enough to overtake everything with ease."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[mustbeawitch]

Lydia was now imagining something like a very large dragon, because of reasons, and Ignis might notice that she sounded a bit faint when she said, "How hideous," before rallying and saying, "and how fortunate that it was able to be...defeated?" Or whatever had happened, she really wasn't sure, but they hadn't been devoured so that was probably good.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

"Through a bit of powerful mind magic," Ignis noted, "I was actually able to see this creature, and I can confirm that hideous is a very apt description. However, defeated, unfortunately, is not. Contained would be more appropriate, although once we realized that was the way to finally...well, defeat now seems a bit optimistic, so we'll say prevent her from entirely destroying Innistrad...I had inconveniently turned into a carbuncle and Liliana was also a bit indisposed, so everything after that moment, is all from hearsay from the others who were involved."

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[thatwaslucky]

"And how are you this week?" Rey greeted him.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

"Miss Skywalker," Ignis greeted her with a nod. "Quite well, thank you. And yourself? Looking forward to this week's cuisine?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[thatwaslucky]

"Always. I haven't had anything I didn't like so far." Her standards were admittedly trash so anything would be good. "Do you know this one well?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[chef_chocobro]

"As with most of the places I haven't been quite yet," Ignis answered, "I know a fair amount more about its coffee than its food, but I understand it shares quite a bit in common with its southern neighbor of Thailand, which I've been exposed to a bit more. Distinctly different on its own accord, with many shared flavors and concepts, and a particular fondness for sticky rice, incidentally."