Scents and Scent-ability

[sulahnan]

WHO: Athessa, Colin, Laura
WHAT: Making a game out of sniffing stuff
WHEN: Late Solace/Early August
WHERE: Hightown et al.
NOTES: Post-dating this so it doesn't conflict with Athessa being on a mission in Orlais most of the month.

Colin's apartment in Hightown is always awash with the smells of food being prepared, whether it's the warmth of baking bread or the earthy richness of a stew (Leave it to Colin to make the one Fereldan stew Athessa actually likes), which is why this has become the staging ground for Athessa and Laura's new game.

The premise is simple: Athessa or Colin pick a food for Laura to smell. Based on her olfactory senses alone, she must then identify the ingredients contained within that food. After guessing once, Laura is presented with the correct ingredients so she can smell the smell and have an association with the name of the ingredient. Finally, she's once again given the prepared food and can smell it with the added knowledge from the previous round.

Okay so it's more of a learning game than a game-game but Athessa thinks it's fun and Laura hasn't said she's not enjoying this, so it's fine.

Athessa is sitting at the table in Colin's kitchen, chin in hand and enjoying the smell of cooking food. She was watching the mage cook, but she's closed her eyes to bask. Because of that she only knows by listening where Laura is. Oh, she just thought of another sense-based game.

"Sometimes," she says, lifting her head so she isn't muffling herself. "I almost think you enhance your food with magic to make it taste so good."

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[justashotaway]

Laura sniffs at the tiny bowls, and then at her rice again. Squinting at the different bowls before her, she pushes away a few of them, then sniffs again, and pushes some more off.

What's left is a bowl with something reddish and powdery within it, another with some kind of leaves dried to a silvery green. There are a few others she's unsure of; these, she thinks must be in there.

[sulahnan]

"Laura have I told you lately that you're amazing?" Athessa doesn't have the correct answers to this one. Maybe this red spice, the pepper, salt just by guessing. But even without knowing, she'd be willing to bet that Laura sniffed out at least half on her first try.