camping shenanigans mingle log; open

[equivocations]

WHO: the Lan-Wuxian-Jiang-Meng family + you!

WHAT: camping shenanigans mingle log! Join the family camp for food, conversation, etc

WHEN: spanning throughout the event in the forest

WHERE: the family camp + surrounding area

NOTES: none right now, will update as needed

Night hunts are practically routine where Lan Xichen's from, at least for cultivators, and exploring an unfamiliar forest with relatively unknown dangers doesn't seem any different just because it's in another world. There certainly seems to be something of a sense of ease as they travel, and then as they set up camp.

During the day, there's a flurry of activity as the camp's occupants drift in and out, setting up or taking down tents, making weapons or food, going off to collect firewood or go hunting or fishing, patrol the area or anything else that needs doing.

In the evening there's a roaring fire to ward off the chill, the scent of cooking food and the sound of conversation.

Someone - quite likely Lan Xichen himself - will invite anyone who happens nearby to come sit down, warm themselves by the fire and have something to eat.

At night, there's likely always someone up on watch who might need company, or who might come to investigate someone nearby.

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[soups]

Having a tent to herself, it could be basically anyone who softly knocks at the fabric that makes up her door. Perhaps one of the Wei Wuxian twins -- well, not technically twins. It's still strange to think of two of them being here.

Instead, it's a member of the other duo: the Lan Wangji she's most familiar with.

"Of course, Lan-gongzi." She stands, bowing in return. "What did you need my help with?"

[billowing]

He takes out the basket full of ingredients that should look very familiar. "Wei Ying has requested soup." He knows how to make it, of course, but he doesn't know how to make it like Jiang Yanli.

And he would like to make it exactly as Jiang Yanli does, going forward, when one day they should return and -- he won't talk about that.

"Will you teach me?"

[soups]

The idea of sharing this, which is basically a family secret at this point, with someone whom her brother is so close to actually elates Jiang Yanli, who lights up immediately.

"I would love to. You've got enough there to make more than one batch, so we can definitely teach you." Just in case there's a learning curve. She knows they do things differently in Gusu, even if Lan Wangji is certainly a talented man.

"I'm surprised you found lotus root here -- you'll have to tell me how you accomplished such a feat."

[billowing]

"It was in the gardens," he says, simply. "Before we came. I simply... borrowed some."

Okay, he stole some, which is forbidden in The Cloud Recesses and honestly forbidden for a man such as himself in general, but the Hotel never charges them for anything on the grounds, and he would have gladly paid if they hadn't taken all his money. Surely, they could part with a few lotus roots to feed mouths.

"There are other matters I wish to speak with you about, if you will humor me." After all, though Wei Ying has been disowned by the Jiangs, he still considers them family. And it's important to Wangji to get permission and blessings from his family, from the one person he loves the most.

He would be lying, if he didn't want to learn this recipe for the precise reason that he intended to make it more than once, rather to make it anytime Wei Ying requested. But he won't say why it would be impossible for them to just ask Jiang Yanli to do it. Those matters are best left to someone else to explain.