After sometime, Solfe and Verisa went away from the machine. They stared at each other, but before they were about to say something, a little rumbling sounded. Following the sound, the doors to the meditation chamber opened.
A little figure about 100 cm tall walked out. His looks were like a little old man, with childish pure eyes that sparkled with stars.
The eyes where blue colored with a tinge of silver. Most eye catching part was the difference from the usual type of eyes from this race. The pupils were round, instead of a vertical slit. He didn’t have horns, only a very long-long beard.
The beard he had was full of silver hair. It seemed alive as it moved as another part of the body. It looked well trimmed and fluffy. He looked around with a careful expression and as if finding a landing spot, he used his beard to move. The beard became a spring and he graciously made a jump down the stairs.
When landing he didn't use his feet, but instead, he started walking on his weird beard. It gave the feeling of wanting to ask: 'Is this a famous beard walking technique or is he just so lazy to walk using his feet?'
“Grandpa Ludi!!!” The twins shouted at the same time.
However, before they could go and give their respects and hellos, another person rushed forward while looking rencorously at him.
“Bastard! How can you take so much time to get out of there! You haven’t eaten anything!” Lamy hissed furiously, but she stopped as if remembering something from the past.
“Grandmaster Ludi, congratulations on what should be another satisfying meditation," expressed Miche while trying to reduce the tension.
“Hmm, little girls I suspected you would arrive today. Lamy I’m on a diet so don’t worry, thanks Miche.” said a voice which had childish notes from it.
Even though he was an old man, his voice was strangely high pitched and seemed baby-like. If it was heard without knowing who made it, you will think it was a 4 year old child talking. The strangest thing, I'll mention it again... Was his silver hair, which looked like two little horns, and a very long beard which seemed to have life.
After saying that, the old man was hugged by the two girls, he just coiled his beard around them while seemingly giving them a hug.
Looking at an opportunity, Lamy, who was red-eyed as a volcano about to explode stared. The old man eyed her and stopped the hug, while the sisters separated a little distance.
A leopard could be seen staring at its prey at that moment. Lamy started to run, she seemed as a Ferrari wanting to crush onto him.
Expecting that, his beard enlarged without anyone finding out, and made a grabbing hand to attack her weakest leg.
She slipped, and the force she used to run, sent her in the direction of something she knew. It was a recent experiment she was ordered not to touch. The only one she wasn't allowed to ticker.
It was a new experiment the old man flicked with before closing the door. She though it was another one of those weird food experiments. But now, it looked as a stinky gruel used to capture people.
After some though, Lamy was sure this was prepared for her… She had fallen for a premeditated trap. She hated the stinky bastard so he made her stinky. Utter humiliation was on her mind.
As Lamy struggled on the stinky gruel, —which seemed like a big stinky tofu—, the old man smirked and said: “Lamy, you’re still acting before thinking, you should just be stinkier than me!”
Lamy was raging inside the ball of stinky tofu, she was about to faint, you could see her face going green from nausea.
“Grandpa, you also smell and should take a good bath.” suggested Verisa.
“Ah, that’s obvious... Cute me will obviously smell after all that time inside the chamber.” Said Ludi smiling.
“Huhu, grandpa sure is cute.” Affirmed Solfe.
“I know! But Solfe is the cutest,” Added Ludi while ruffling Solfe's hair.
“Grandpa knows best!!” Solfe grined sheepishly.
“Cute this, cute that… I know you’re... Ugh... awesome but... Ugh so stinky... You are an... old man!" Lamy tried to breathe while declaring with a sour expression, but the smell was invading her nostrils. She uttered her last words before fainting in dizziness. "Even if you... Have a childish... Voice... Ugh..."
"Lamy is right grandpa. The word 'cute' shouldn't be used for such a context." Verisa murmured with a lowered face.
“Aiya! Verisa, you’re always so direct, words like that should be used for affection." Expressed Ludi.
His beard moved and scratched behind one of his strange hairy horns. He knew the girl was bad at getting attention, so he just patted her while she smiled a little. Its obvious that she was a bit jealous, since no one called her cute, maybe.
The old man then mentioned his plans. “Hmm, I will go for a bath now. Miche you can use that to take Lamy out, she needs to sleep for some time. She hasn’t slept for some days while being preoccupied for my wellbeing, so please take her to her room."
After saying some concerning words for the woman he mistreated, he looked towards the girls and said with a childish voice.
"Little girls, after my bath, I will tell you another story as my repayment for being secluded all this time. I also have some other things to give you, as thanks for the stone you gave me, you really saved me a whole lot of time.”
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After that, Miche took Lamy away, while Verisa and solfe went to another chamber called “Player Unknown Battle — Arena” This place was full of Gaming consoles and machines, and gave justice to the name. It had everything a player wanted to play with.
Ludi walked to the bathroom, and while bathing, he was disinfected three times in three different showers. He didn't carry any important germs, but it was for the maintainance of the hotspring inside.
He then arrived to a big hotspring looking bath. “Ahh, this is the best.” He started scratching his head with his beard, washing with his beard, and even somehow drying with his beard. Afterwards he jumped to the hotspring, using his beard as a pool floater.
“With this… all is done… I just hope it works, all that is needed now is to wait." He started making bubbles underwater and swam from side to side.
Afterwards, he got himself changed into what seemed a Japanese style kimono, and took a bottle with a liquid similar to yogurt or milk. It looked like milk but it had a printed logo different from a cow, it seemed more like a lizard.
“Oh! so good, things feel better after a little effort," he exclaimed while getting ready to go out. "Let’s go, Lamy should be still sleeping and I have to give my thanks to the girls.”
Ludi arrived at the P.U.B.A. chamber and played with the girls some VR games. After finishing, they went to another place called the gourmet chamber.
Inside the chamber, they sat on a glamorous table, with patterns similar to marble carrara. Despite that, the the walls looked like a jewel cave, full of different crystals.
Here, they drank some specially made Juice as the temperature was a little hot. The climate of this world in the current station, was like summer in template climates, or sea-level on tropical climates.
It was similar, but hotter than normal earth places; as it could go above 45 degree celcius or even more, in some specific areas. The vegetation and wild life were accustomed to such variation on the planets surface.
The Juice smoothie they were drinking was intriguing, as it had a pale-blue tinge. It seemed that this place had something with the blue color everywhere.
“Ah! so refreshing..." said the three at the same time.
All three of them were eating some-kind of spicy food, that seemed to be made in an Asian style type restaurant of earth.
“This food is delicious, how did you made it grandpa?” asked Solfe while taking little bites because of the spiciness.
“I just asked the bot to make it." He slurped at the smootie, gulped and then continued his descriptive information dumpster recipe, while reminiscing of something.
(Warning read while skipping next, it's on purpose, except those that like cooking a little bit. There is a red text like this at the end of this info dump. It just describes how some things work on this fragment's world.)
"It’s a type of food I like a lot, because it brings back some memories. The history of the dish is a tradition called Sichuan Cuisine, which comes from a place called China.
It’s on another world, Its very far from here. The lifeforms there have more technology than you guys, but what they lack, you compensate in other things. I didn't spend to much time there, but it was a nice experience where I had the chance to share it with someone.
The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
Just so you know, this planet doesn't have the same enviromental conditions. As such, many things needed for the dish had to be made from scratch, searched or experimented.
It uses something similar to fernale and brionivle as the base. (They use the le at the end for prural indication, so the name of a single fruit is Ferna which is similar in flavor to garlic, and brioniv which is similar to some types of chili-peppers).
Actually, the most difficult part of the process, was finding the correct fermentating process. Because you need a thing called soy sauce and vinegar to make the ending sauce.
Soy sauce is a fermented sauce created from something called beans, they look as mandrasle, but the flavor is more like hurele. So I fermented hurele, making them into a paste, and after that I used a fermentation process with Bacillus karlimeanis, Aspergillus Hureae and Saccharomyces Aurenae.
Bacillus bacteria are rod-like microorganisms which are fundamental for fermentation. The name karlimeanis, is because it is found in your region, it seems to be the most common one, so I named it like that.The most important fact, is that it produces lactic acid.
The aspergillus is a type of ramified fungus microorganism, the term hureae is because it has enzymes specific to hurele fermentation and decomposition. The last one, Saccharomyces aurenae is perfect for creating aurenle which is a type of alcoholic substance and is incredibly good after fermentating. It is the best for making beer.
The azurriberle for the juice smoothie, also served as the fruit for vinegar. Using S. aurenae to ferment it gave a good result with an alcoholic fermented flavor.
You looked at my experiments, so you know this.
Then lets talk directly… Experiment 41 was soy sauce, experiment 42 was bioengineering the hurele to give better taste, experiment 43 was for microorganism cultivation... Experiment 44 was for bioengineering for fernale, 45 was for brionivle and 46 was for vinegar with azurriberle... 47 was for onionle, 48 was for jingerle, 49 was for the shrimple, 50 was for…
Oh, I almost forgot to tell. For 49, I catched 2 of those things you didn’t know, I called them Karlimean shrimple and made them have many babies there. I used also some nuts such as the known Pinuotle (similar to peanuts) and other that you don’t know, and called it Karlimean Cashewle.(Cashews similar food…obviously some things were just called by him, since inhabitants of this world didn´t name them).
“The way to make the dish, is actuallly easy. You use a big pan, put some oil made from cashewle and pinuotle, then add the fernale in little pieces, and 1 quarter size the amount (is bigger than garlic), crush some brionevle at least 6 to get the spiciness needed, add a spoon of the made vinegar, a little azurriberle juice, let it cook for 3 min at high fire. Then add the soy sauce with some viliskale (sugar), drop some onionle (onion similar) and some other vegetables that don’t contain too much liquid, I like onionle so I used them… "
"After that, add the shrimps and a little spices like jingerle, (jinger similar) and its done. You will just need some kalele to combine it while eating it.( Kale is the same as rice. A grain of this place, it's transparent silver with some yellow dots, the rice is a little smaller than normal rice more similar to quinoa, but flavor is the same as rice).
I think most of the naggy part of the infodump ends here. You can continue from here then. Sorry for the trouble. This area will be under construction in the future. As I don't know if I'll keep... Or not... This cardboard fragment with the recipe.
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“Sounds hard…” said Solfe while awakening and then yawning, she slept after the first two words.
“Obviously not, the hard part was producing those above,” Said Verisa. She always liked to learn new things, even if they couldn't be put into practise by her.
“So whats the name of the dish?” said Solfe while rubbing her eyes.
“Karlimean Kung Pao Shrimple,” Said Ludi while using his beard for grabing a liquid sphere.
The utensils for the food were different to the known on earth. They were made with a liquid metal which changed shape for grabbing food in the form you wanted. The strange metal made drinking and eating different than usual.
Ludi made something like a fork combined with chop-sticks, it was like a stick with a claw which grabbed a little of all and send it to his mouth.
For drinking they made a sizzling tube that curved from the smoothie to their mouths. Telechinetic Incantations were too inneficient for this, as you couldn't eat with ease. This metal had something like an AI that heed the complexity of the will.
"#%$&@ this is so good!!!!” Exclaimed Solfe with a flushed face.
“Here, there is more. I let the chef bots and waiter bots of the gourmet chamber to bring some to Lamy and Miche,” Said Ludi.
After they finished the meal, they found a strange side effect. Every time a phrase was finished they would unleash a thunderous burp.
“Hmm, the fermetating process made it savory... It's even better than traditional soy sauce
The CO2 produced makes you burp
Should I call this a evolution of kung pao sauce? This really challenges the heavens. It is just perfect
Well, tradition is tradition. So even if it is better, I should always praise the original.” Ludi claims while burping.
Solfe was burping happily, while Verisa was flushed red trying to contain them.
After the side-effects were over and everything regained its calm silence, Ludi took the girls to another place.
“Ok, I’ll pay my debt now, how about it?” questioned Ludi.
“Yay! I was waiting all of this intro for this moment!” Solfe smirked and looked full of energy again.
“Then what are you going to talk about?” verisa looked at Ludi with expectating eyes.
“Oh, I’m going to tell you my best story, It includes all I know about other worlds made into a heroic tale. Maybe it’s real and that hero is me in my young hood, hehe.” Said Ludi while smirking.
“So its an autobiography?” Asked Verisa while amused.
“Maybe or maybe not.” Ludi responded with absentmindedness.
“What’s the point in all the mystery?" Solfe questioned while pouting.
“To make the story interesting.” Affirmed Ludi. He coughed and continued.
"Well maybe till now, you had been bored secondary to all this waiting. But the story I am going to tell you, is a story that tests your minds. It will be long, and it has...The answers to many questions that were always asked in many worlds."
"I don't care about those, I just want to listen to the fights or love scenes. I like mysteriy but I also like spoilers!" Solfe admitted airily.
Ludi and Verisa looked at each other and shrugged.
“The story you asked this time is a real one, so there won't be so much drama or fights as other stories I have told you. You know, a world can be peaceful for hundred of years or in war for hundreds of years. People will not really fight over every little thing. The more peace a race experienced the more they bark but not bite. Like in some forums..." Ludi said with a wary smile towards the end.
"Eh, but then it would be boring!" Solfe exclaimed with a grim expression.
"Sister, sometimes you need to find the exciting parts in those boring moments." Verisa said with a soft tone.
"Then... Will there be music and robots? Maybe big doggies and huge lizards?" Solfe moved her finger in a circle while asking with a depressed voice.
"Mmm I don't know if it will have all of those, but it has an incredible being... No, two extemely cute beings as main characters." Said ludi while winking towards solfe.
"Beings we haven't seen?" Asked Verisa with a watchful gaze.
"Mmm... You could say so..." Ludi scratched his left horn with his beard while giving a thinking expression.
"Then... Then... Will it have a good ending, like happily ever after?" Asked solfe.
"You want me to spoil the story?" Ludi gave a laugh at Solfe.
"Grandpa just begin, Solfe will probably only listen to the fights and the drama, so you can take your time and describe the story with care. I want you to describe the most you can..." Verisa interjected between the two and expressed her desires.
"Heh, you two are really making it hard for me... You two are twins but each has their own strenghts and qualities... Well, I’ll begin... So listen carefully…”
Ludi started the story, waving his hands while looking mysterious. He then seated and made a tridimensional silhouette with his moving magical beard.
At the start It looked like the beard was a sock used in a muppet show. But with increased beardy photoshoping effects and insta-magic, it transformed.
The tip of it became smoke. Following suit, a sun, skies, earth and a little world; appeared. The glowy smoke started forming different things, while a voice came from the visual image, with subtitles included obviously.
It was as if seeing a 4d or 5d cinema. You experienced gravity, momevent, smell, water... If this beard was sold on amazon, its worth would be higher than anything a famous fruit made.
The smoke transformed and a robot shooting lasers appeared in the middle. The robot was enormous. It had some sort of conical hat. The lasers arrived towards it's mighty oponent in the horizon...
The robot was fighting a giant plushie lion on what seemed to be the lost city of 'El Dorado'. Strangely, the robot and lion were giants compared to the surroundings. The golden city below was like the floor tiles they smashed while fighting.
You could feel the shiny sun rays, the smell of oil and cat sand... It was an incredible experience seeing such a mighty and fluffy artifact create such astonishing scenes. The musical sounds and introductory sound effects, turned into a voice that described the story with magnificence.
“Far Far away from here... In a land called O-…” Ludi was immediately interrupted by Solfe pausing the play "You already told us that one!!!”.
Ludi sent his tongue out while making a provocative expression, he adjusted st the girls and psused while saying “It's not OZ... Okay?... It's actually... It's called Zearth!!!"
Verisa replied and said “What Zearth? So its called Earth. Grandpa Ludi just say it normally... It's so obvious when you make those extras, all your stories were altered at the start. Please don't change the names or the like, just tell it as you know it…”
Ludi sighed and clicked his tongue “Seriously...(Sigh)…. Tch….Tch… Ok… I promised you a real story with descriptive explanations and interesting events... So let’s continue with real names. I don't remember them all, so I'll may just skip them...”
The beard started changing a little and started modifying the scenery. With the altered background, Ludy started again: “Far Far away in a land called Earth”… he was interrupted again by Verisa “Planet right?"
Ludi sighed again…”Ahhh! Okay... Planet Earth... Tch.. Why did I tell you that? Your mother still..." He stopped there and added after some thoughts.
“Wait! Stop pausing my story! Don’t you know that if it's interrupted you will damage it? Just hear carefully, I will tell it all perfectly."
“Ok. But please stop the 'Far Far away' intro and the yellow letters with stars background. Also, the 'Tuuuuuuuuu Tiiiii Tiiii Tuuuuu Tuu Tiii Tuuu' music coming from your beard. It's already giving me creeps," commented Verisa with a frowning expression. (Verisa didn’t sing, but it was added, just so you know and can find what kind of music was added in the remark.)
Verisa paused and scoffed "I'll also add that you don’t make any strange apparitions of the 'fluffy monster that doesn’t know how to talk'. Please...” Verisa interjected as if saying that they were already too old for that.
“Ehhhh? But that’s a legendary SW intro!” rebuted Ludi.
“Huhu... Grandpa Ludi Loves making this sloppy intros all the time, just let him sister... He likes it,” said Solfe while smilimg at her sister. She actually liked the fluffy monster, but it was repeated too much in some previous stories.
“Okay, no problem. But make it quicker then” said Verisa in a serious tone.
"Little girls... Okay... Just, no more interruptions. You both will need to read carefully, as the important points in this story may contain many mysteries. Try to find them all and I will prepare some meat for the next time." Ludi told them while proposing a reward.
"Eh, mystery? I like mystery, yay!" Solfe jumped and looked spirited.
"Sister, you will have to be awake to find all of it" Verisa suggested.
"Actually both of you should just cooperate and talk less. I told you, no more interruptions, or no reward afterwards." Ludi whined while giving a mischievous smirk.
Both understood he was making a challenge to them. So they just entered sister coop mode and stared cautiously.
Ludi made the intro again. And after all of that, he finally started telling the story which started talking about a little machine from a planet called Earth.