Berry Picking for Pies!

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RW Abbey: First Orchard


You stand in a sort of verdant sanctuary where the sun is filtered through leaves and thus comes out to be a much softer light, one that's a little more manageable. At least, more manageable than the comparatively harsh light of the more open entryway and a pond area almost completely devoid of large, shade-giving plants that this orchard has in careless abundance. A soft covering of moss and grass finds itself beneath the trees, only serving to add to the quiet comfort of the whole scene.

The stately flora has come alive with youthful blossoms. Flowers of all shades of pastel line the trees, bushes, and ground. Poking around the pink and yellow petals, some fruit has begun to form, peppering the orchard with green apricots and plums and unripe pears and peaches. The air is full of pollen that tickles the nose and dirties clean habits. After a rain, rivulets of water trickle around tree trunks, irrigating the flour before draining into the pond.


Exits: [F]ire [P]it, [S]econd [O]rchard, [D]umble's [L]og, [A]bbey [P]ond

Contents:

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Oz enters the orchards and sets out the pails and baskets to place the berries in, "Alright everyone gets one pail or basket to fill and after we are done we will see if the cooks can make some pie or muffins, maybe both, with some of the berries and the rest can be used for something else another day."

Benick and Luna come a running calling out "BERRIES!”

Maria walk up behind him

Benick looks up, "BIKKETS! Berry Bikkets! "

Kayley walks slowly into the orchards and looks around, she gets a small basket and smiles a little.

Kerr follows all of them

Oz chuckles, "Maybe a berry biscuit or scones"

Luna tugs at Oz "Where is berries? "

Oz points to the bushes, "There, lots of them and more later most likely in few days."

Maria walks over to a basket and picks it up

Luna stays near Kayley

Kayley smiles and goes over to the bush, a couple go in the basket and one in her mouth, couple for basket and one for her mouth as she giggles.

Oz watches, "More in the basket and less in your mouth, or won’t have any for the cooks"

Kerr sits down on a bench

Flicktail smiles watching the dibbuns pick as the sweet berries hang awaiting picking

Kayley pouts and places a lot of berries in the basket, but sneaks one in her mouth. She is careful when she picks them.

Luna puts berries in Kayley's basket and gives her some to eat too "their good”

Maria walks over to a raspberry bush and starts picking them

Oz watches, there are lots of blackberries and some raspberries growing, "There are also strawberries we could pick maybe, "

Benick look up "Zarok the Smooth! BIKKET KNIGHTS! “

Zarok runs over to Benick. "Benick the' Wild! BIKKETZZZ FOREVERSsssss!"

Kayley gets more blackberries and remains careful, she wipes berry juice on her dress and smiles.

Benick gins "we got to get lots a berries make BERRY Bikkets! “

Oz chuckles, "Could try that, will have to see what the cooks say, know one will make a pie, that’s for sure."

Zarok grins back. "Maybe we findssss Bikket berriessss." He begins scrabbling in the bushes for berries.

Kerr grabs a blackberry off a bush and throws it in his mouth

Oz says, "Get a basket Zarok"

Luna smiles and seems attached to Kayley

Flicktail looks to Kerr "What have you been up to Kerr?”

Zarok looks around. "Where.sss...bazzzzket?"

Kerr says, "uh, well I'm just sitin here"

Kayley smiles, she eats another couple berries and has her basket full of the blackberries, she points to the baskets close to Oz.

"Thankzzzz!" Zarok says as he retrieves a basket, hooking it on his club tail.

Flicktail nods to Kerr "Had any adventures?

Oz smiles, he is mainly letting the dibbuns get some, he chuckles and watches them.

Luna smiles, “Kayley FILL her basket!”

The basket's on his tail, so both Zarok's paws are free to grab berries. He moves from bush to bush, tossing his 'prey' into the basket behind him.

Oz asks, "So is all of you having fun?"

Benick pats Zarok "I having fun with Bikket Knights”

Kayley smiles as she sits down "I have fun...umm.." she starts to say something and then just says, "I having fun."

Maria stops picking to say, "yes, hm...Ah haven’t gone berry picking since...”

Oz smiles, he gets a basket and picks a small few, he even tastes one and smiles again, "They are good."

Benick goes to Maria "I'm Benick..were Bikket knights”

Kayley smiles, she sits her basket down where it’s safe and goes over to Oz looking up at him.

Maria looks at him "well, Ah'm Maria MicGrove"

Zarok samples a berry and nods agreement with Oz. Liquid runs down his jaws, but it's not blood from fish this time...it's juice from a berry. He looks at Maria. "Where youssss comezzz from?"

Benick looks at Zarok "Maria be Bikket Princess?”

Oz looks at Kayley, "You alright Kayley?"

Zarok tilts his head a bit thoughtfully, and turns to Benick. "Let'ssss azzzk her! Maria, you a bikket princezzz?"

Kayley nods "I am ok just...." she looks down, "Nothing.." she goes and sits down.

Luna sits with her friend "More Berries?

Maria says, "well, okay..."

Oz frowns slightly and watches Kayley, he then looks to the others, "Ok everyone lets finish soon and see about having the cooks make a pie or maybe scones, they are sort of like biscuits."

Benick points to Kayley "Look Zarok..Princess in a dress....(distress) we go help! “

Zarok heroically proclaims, "I save you from...what you need zzzaving from!" He runs over and hugs Kayley.

Benick moves over to Hug Kayley smiling

Kayley blinks at the sudden hug and looks at Zarok.

Maria's basket is full of raspberries

Oz keeps an eye on the dibbuns and anyone else helping.

Luna smiles "this my BROTHER! “

Zarok tilts his head at Kayley. "Feelzzz better now?"

Kayley smiles a little, she nods slowly.

“Kayley no be sad, you have Bikket Knights now takes care of ya! “

Benick says to her.

Oz asks, "So everyone ready to go to the kitchens now?"

Flicktail says, "That sounds like Fun Oz, the Dibbuns like flour"

Maria says, "yes, Ah'm ready"

Oz says, "well the cooks would mainly use the flour not the dibbuns"

Kayley smiles , "Cooks make pie for dinner?"

Maria says, "Desert"

His mission complete, Zarok unwraps his scaley arms from around Kayley. He runs over to Benick. "Bikketzzz Forever!!!"

Benick smiles and raises his paw "BIKKET KNITZZZZ!" imitating Zarok's speech

Oz smiles "We can go to the kitchens now if like and they will make a pie with the berries we have I am sure of it."

Zarok high-fives Benick.

Kayley smiles. "I like pie!"

Flicktail exclaims, "Alright everyone TO THE KITCHENS!"

Maria walks over from the raspberry bush

Luna claps her paws "PIES!”

Kerr stands up

Oz smiles and leds the way to the kitchens.

Zarok laughs raspily. "FLIEZZZ!" Then he shakes his head. "No, wait...TIEZzz! No, that's not right either..."

Jafari skips off to the Abbey Pond.

Kayley smiles and follows.

They all walk to the kitchens.

RW Abbey: Kitchen


This is a long, narrow room with five large fireplaces set into one wall, and two equally large wood burning iron stoves set against the opposite wall. Several small, rectangular tables rest in here, but there are no chairs available. The rest of the wallspace is taken up by an entire array of shelves, cupboards, and counters which hold the day-to-day cooking supplies and utensils. The kitchen is clean and well maintained, and more recent efforts have been made toward organization of the cooking ware.

On the wall just right of the door leading into Great Hall is a neatly penned chart, which lists the names of beasts assigned to cooking duty as well as the dates and times they are scheduled. A small note above the chart urges residents to volunteer for at least a slot or two a week.

The light from the windows is bright and cheerful. This room is rather warm due to the ovens being used, and at times can get quite uncomfortable.


                       Exits/Entrances:
          [G]reat [H]all     [Wine] Cellar    [Sc]ullery
          [C]avern [H]ole    [Pan]try         [La]rder
          [Ki]tchen [P]ath

Oz smiles, he makes sure all have their baskets and points to where to sit them down.

Maria puts her basket on a table

Zarok dashes in from Great Hall, rolling the last few meters, then rising to his feet fluidly.

Kayley sits her basket down, she eeeeps as moves so the lizard doesn’t crash into her.

Jafari saw the others walk from the orchard and followed them into the kitchens

Flicktail smiles leading in Benick, Luna and Jafari

Kerr come striding in

Oz smiles, "Let’s see what we can do, " He goes over to talk with a cook, and makes sure the dibbuns stay off to the side as he talks, also he doesn’t want anyone to get burnt.

Benick goes over to Jafari "who you? I Benick .”

Zarok stops, then extends his tail to Oz, with the basket still on it.

Jafari says, "I Jafari. What you doing?"

Kayley sits by the wall.

Benick, the little fox dibbun, Smiles "I am a Bikket Knight, this is Zarok the Smooth...you wanna be a Bikket Knight too? we berry pikkin now gonna get Berry Bikkets “

Luna sits with Kayley "you have Martin Doll? “

Jafari jumps up and down. "I want to be Bikket Knight! What Berry Bikkets?"

Maria says, "well that was fun, Ah haven’t gone berry picking since my mother took me'n'my older brother, but that was a long time ago"

Oz looks over at Kayley and walks over to her.

Benick says "What yer name? and Berry bikkets are Bikkest with Berries in em....”

Flicktail smiles to Maria "Perhaps we could go berry picking again some time”

Zarok walks over to Jafari. "sssHi! You need Bikket knight namesss.."

Kayley looks at Luna, "I have one doll"

Maria says, "hm, yes"

Luna nods "Yes I gives you Martin" she smiles

Jafari says, "I told you, I Jafari. I need bikket knight name?"

Oz watches the two dibbuns, he looks back to the cooks and talks with them and then smiles, he looks to the dibbuns "Alright they will make a couple blackberry pies to go with dinner tonight."

Benick nods and says "How do you like...Jafari Swift otter? “

Kayley smiles and nods, she looks over at Oz and back to Luna.

Zarok hears Oz and smiles. "What Pie taste like?"

Jafari exclaims, "I swift otter! That good. We make pie?"

Oz says, "well the cooks are, for dinner to go with whatever else there will be, and pie has different tastes based on what is in a pie"

Benick smiles "Hurray," he does introductions "I am Benick the sly..this is Zarok the smooth..Fourstone the strong is somewhere..and that is Luna and Kayley..Bikket princesses...yea lets makes PIES! “

Zarok tilts is head. "ssso if Zzzarok make fissssh pie, it tastes like fisssshezz?"

Jafari frowns, "We help make pie?" He said hopefully.

Flicktail brings over some dough "Here Jafari, you need to kneed this dough"

Oz hmms, "That is up to the cook, think Flicktail is asking now"

Kayley has been quiet past few minutes as she watches the other dibbuns.

Jafari nods and looks at Kayley "Who you?", He asks.

Flicktail offers a basket of berries to Kayley "need to wash these...I'll pour the water over them if you will hold them”

Kayley blinks, she then nods and smiles, she looks at the otter, "I Kayley.. “,She holds the basket where it can be washed.

Flicktail pours water over the berries, as a Cook looks to Zarok "think you can roll out the dough for the crust?”

Kerr sits down

Zarok nods rapidly. "I roll it so far it go up in sky and come back!"

Oz smiles as the dibbun are able to help some.

Kayley giggles and watches the water wash the berries.

Flicktail says, "Now Kayley....put them in this pie pan"

Kayley nods, she waits till its ok and puts what she can fit slowly into the pie crust that’s on the bottom of the pan.

ACook places the top on and puts the pie in the oven saying to Kayley, "You will make a FINE cook if you want”

Oz sits down in a chair to rest and still watch the dibbuns.

Kayley giggles and smiles, she goes over to Oz and then climbs into his lap, she slowly hugs him, "Papa Oz..." she says slowly and smiles.

Kerr stands up and says, "well, I'm gonna turn in, good evening”

Flicktail says, "Kerr..please come around more..I like seeing ya"

Kerr says, "okay"

Flicktail goes over to Jafari "so where have you come from young Beast?”

Zarok is rolling the dough out on a tabletop with his claws, his tongue sticking out of the side of his fanged mouth with concentration.

Benick moves over to help Zarok

Oz smiles slowly, he looks to the others as he lets Kayley stay on his lap.

Jafari says, "I come with my family here. I like here, don't want go home."

Flicktail says, "Maybe you can visit often"

Zarok stretches the dough out so there's room for Benick to help.

A Cook comes over with a Pie pan for Zarok and Benick

Kayley smiles.

Flicktail says, "Oz is that the prettiest smile you ever saw"

Oz chuckles, "I am just glad she seems to like me now, I was afraid she didn’t for a while."

Flicktail says, "She said you didn't like HER...." He chuckles "You Badgers"

Kayley smiles, "I like Papa Oz now, he is nice"

Zarok laughs. "Wasn't he alwayssss nice?"

Maria asks, "is there something Ah can do?"

Benick puts FLOUR on Zarok

Oz chuckles, he watches the rest of the dibbuns, "Be careful still, and I am glad the cooks let the dibbuns help make the pies"

Zarok laughs. The flour makes him look like a ghost or something he pours some on Benick, too.

Benick laughs and begins tossing dough at Zarok "Got ya! “

Kayley watches then and giggles.

Maria says, "Well, those two are making quit the mess"

Flicktail says, "That’s ok Benick likes Baffs"

Oz frowns, "Alright you two, help clean that please"

Benick groans "Awwwww..But Papa Oz....”

Zarok was about to chuck a large gob of dough at Benick, but he sets it down. There's a few splatters of it on his face, and the young lizard pauses thinking of how to get it off. His tongue snakes out and licks it up like it has a mind of its own.

Oz smiles, "Please, part of cooking a pie is cleaning up afterwards”

Kayley yawns and seems happy in Oz's lap.

Benick smiles "Ok! BIKKEN KNIGHTS! Assemble. We cleans!”

Flicktail smiles and goes about cleaning up...over in a corner of the Kitchen

Zarok stands before Benick, salutes, and begins cleaning up the dough.

Oz smiles and watches the dibbuns start to help clean.

Maria says, "hm..."

Kayley smiles "Pies will be yummy later"

Oz nods, "yes they should be good."

Zarok has finished up cleaning the dough. He looks up at Oz questioningly. "Now can we make another mezz?"

Oz smiles, "Two is enough, maybe another day can make some pie again and the extra berries will be used for something else"

Zarok grins. "Like bikkets?"

Oz smiles, "Possible”

Maria walks over to the door

Zarok looks up at her. "Where you going?"

Maria says, "the Great Hall"

Oz makes sure the rest of the mess is cleaned up and then smiles as he gently gives a sleeping Kayley to a sister of the order.