Indulgence is the name of the game - OPEN

[onaroll]

Who: Amelie and whoever wants to come
What: WORLD GOURMET TOUR
Where: Equestria

It's taken her the better part of a month to set up the transportation network, but Amelie finally has her hoops in pretty much every major city of Equestria now. She takes a moment to drop a message over the mirrors before finishing her preparations and stepping through a hoop to the center of town.

"Bonjour! This is Amelie; I was wondering if anyone wanted to join me for a little trip? I'll be going to various places using my portal hoops to sample the local cuisine; if anyone wants to join me I'll be in the center of town for the next half hour before I leave!"

Amelie is very much looking forward to spending an entire day traveling and eating, and that excitement is expressed quite clearly in her body language as she waits for anyone to show up.

Comments

[onaroll]

The long, slow sweep of Amelie’s lashes as she blinks looks almost lazy.

Then she proceeds to explode into motion, rolling onto her stomach and springing to her hooves as she opens a hoop, her entire body briefly glowing white as she shapeshifts herself clean.

“RUN.”

She refuses to be late to this!

[explosions_are_awesome]

The three take off after Amelie, surprised at her sudden action. "This is the highlight of the night I believe," said Apple as they chased after her.

"Oh good!" Exclaimed Megumin.

"What's the highlight?" asked Twilight.

[onaroll]

Amelie skids to a stop in front of the last restaurant, ‘A Nice Place To Eat’. Walking in, the group is greeted by a green-coated unicorn stallion wearing red framed glasses who seems to recognize both Amelie and Apple.

“Bonjour! Are we late? I’m sorry about that.”

Silver Skillet shakes his head, indicating that no, they’re just in time. Amelie lets out a long, slow sigh of relief before she looks him right in the eyes.

“Okay, so - that’s Princess Twilight, she’s agreed to perform the ceremony for us, that’s Megumin, we’ve basically decided she’s our sister. I am very fond of both of them.”

Amelie nods to herself before leaning closer.

“It means nothing. Crush them just as hard. No mercy.”

With a grin, Silver Skillet nods before trotting off to the kitchen, indicating their table as he goes.

[cidery]

Sitting down next to Megumin, Apple smiled. "You two are in for a treat," said Apple.

"Oh I can't wait," said Megumin as Twilight looked around.

"I think I've eaten here once before..." She murmured. "Before I was ascended."

[onaroll]

"Ah...so yesterday I spent most of the day making sure I could connect to all the hoops I left in each city, and at each one I picked up some ingredients Silver Skillet wanted. So in exchange, he's going to do his best to crush us."

Slight pause.

"Basically he's going to send out as many dishes as possible, and either we'll all collapse or it'll hit midnight before it ends."

[horse_nerd]

Twilight looked faintly alarmed at that for a moment. Before she chuckled. "I expect nothing less. I've been crushed by Applejack before during family get-togethers. My belly sagged to the ground."

"... want," said Megumin, drooling. "I hope I have enough room."

Apple giggled. "You can stop when you can't eat anymore but only when you can't eat anymore."

[onaroll]

As they chat among themselves, the first appetizer arrives - four servings of cotton candy, glowing from within.

"There's a light spell on the sticks for the effect, but the actual trick is that it's smoked for extra flavor. Pear Butter let me take a fallen branch, so now they have enough applewood to smoke things on for the rest of the year."

...does Twilight know about Amelie's duplication power?

[horse_nerd]

"Oh this is beautiful!" Exclaimed Twilight, floating her cotton candy towards herself. "wait you can do that?"

[onaroll]

"Oh, they use a indirect method - by piping the smoke away from the fire you can add the flavor without exposing it to heat."

Amelie is assuming that Twilight knows about her power and is therefore explaining something else entirely.

[horse_nerd]

"O-h I see," replied Twilight, nibbling at her food. "This is really good!"

[onaroll]

The thing about cotton candy is that it disappears almost instantly, and now Amelie is holding a glowing stick. She spends a few moments looking at it before opening a hoop and placing a duplicate inside it.

As she places the original stick back into the holder, she glances over at Apple for an instant before glancing away. She appears to be slightly fidgety; she probably has something more planned.

[cidery]

She probably does, and Apple is finishing off hers before Megumin does next and Twilight last. Placing their sticks into the holder, Apple said, "Well, now the real fun begins."

[onaroll]

Next up: sandwiches. They arrive piping hot, the bread a golden brown, red filling oozing down the sides.

“Grilled peanut butter and jelly. I picked up the maple syrup they made the jelly with, and they smoked the raspberries, too.”

Before they can start eating, though, something else comes - maple milkshakes to accompany the sandwiches.

[horse_nerd]

Twilight looks at the food, rubbing her chin before she takes a bite. "Oh this is good stuff," she proclaims, sipping her maple milshake. "Mmm what a nice taste!"

"It's smokey and it's in a good way, the fruit compliments the peanut butter," said Megumin.

"It is very delicious," added Apple, taking a sip of her milkshake.

[onaroll]

“The maple’s really good! It’s not something I have often, but it’s a lot more complex than honey, isn’t it?”

[horse_nerd]

"Maple is delicious," replied Twilight. "I used to have it in the winter in Canterlot."

[onaroll]

“Ah! I’ve heard of that! You pour maple syrup over fresh snow, right?”

[horse_nerd]

"That's right! You bring the maple syrup to a half boil and then pour it into fresh snow. It makes candy." said Twilight.

[onaroll]

"That does sound good!"

Amelie finishes her sandwich and begins applying herself more seriously to her milkshake.

[explosions_are_awesome]

Finishing up with her sandwich and drinking her milkshake, Megumin licked her lips. "Wow that was pretty good. What's next?"

It was amazing the tiny foal-like pony could pack away so much, and keep up with Amelie's hedonism but Megumin was a very hungry girl.

[onaroll]

The next dish is brought to the table heaped high on an iron plate - a mound of fluffy orange croquettes, studded with bits of scallion.

"Sweet potato croquettes! I think they also have lentils and a little bit of cheese in them as well?"

[cidery]

Apple smiled as she took one of them onto her plate and started with the dipping sauce. "These are some of my favorite dishes in the restaurant," said Apple. "I hope you two like them."

[onaroll]

"He specifically wanted the sweet potatoes from Neigh Orleans, too..."

As Amelie bites into her first croquette, she lets out a little moan of delight.

[horse_nerd]

Biting into the croquette, Twilight let out a surprised noise. "This is really good! I mean, super good. I haven't had such good sweet potatoes in a long time."

[onaroll]

Nod nod.

"I can understand why he wanted these ones now, oui."

As she continues to eat, the next dish arrives - because of course it's not going to be one at a time, the entire point is crushing them with more food than they can possibly eat.

It's a single huge ravioli, covered in marinara, and Amelie's eyes widen as it's placed on the table.

"Ah! This is the five-layer ravioli! There's four more ravioli inside, like those little nesting dolls."