After removing the bodies, it’s time to resume the actual competition.
Excitingly, this round is a judge challenge, so hopefully people will be thinking too hard to commit any additional murders. @RBHeadge PE decides on cocktail-themed cakes, because so far this competition has been everything, but a party and highly decorated boozy cakes have never disappointed. Mostly the choice has to do with
@RBHeadge PE wanting alcohol and currants, which is not that bad of an idea with what has been happening. They’re just a little less lackadaisical requesting it, as opposed to
@Audi driver, P.E. and
@ChebyshevII PE, who have been drinking steadily through the network-provided spirits.
The staging area had been thoroughly disinfected, yet the tangy scent of iron lingers, unable to be filtered-out by the industrial strength air movers. The bakers work in silence, the hum of mixers background noise to the jarring chop of knives on kitchen blocks. Every once in a while, one glances at the others, shifting their body to cover both their ingredients and their vital organs, but nobody moves…until
@tj_PE realizes then need more gin (not for their bake, they’re making a whiskey-based banana pudding, but because they just like gin).
As they step away from their station everyone tenses. Nobody moves as they walk into the storage area, which is off-stage and out of sight. There are a few minutes of choked quiet, the air thickening like gelatin in a cooling sauce pan. They wait. And wait. And wait.
Just when they expect a spray of blood to cover the fresh produce, @tj_PE comes wobbling back out from the room. An opened bottle of Beefeater is clasped in their hand as if it’s the only thing keeping them from floating away.
As they approach their station, a thump comes from @chart94’s station. Everyone turns, expecting the worse, but instead they find
@chart94 slumped against their table. A goofy grin stretches their face from side to side as they place their hands on the surface in an attempt to stand up. The sigh of relief at seeing one of the other contenders drunk is palatable, especially since they were making a rum-based cake.
As everyone turns back to their bakes, some beginning the soaking process to get even more booze into the crumb, another thud comes from @chart94’s direction.
[SIZE=10.5pt]A [/SIZE]crew member[SIZE=10.5pt] approaches the inebriated baker to take them off the staging area, corralling the slurring mass of uncoordinated limbs, only to have chunky vomit cover the bottom half of their legs.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]Dropping the baker in disgust, their own nausea rises when they realize that pieces of the vomit look too…fresh and fleshy to have come from breakfast.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=10.5pt]With rising horror, they watch as
@chart94 begins twitching on the ground, arms clamping at their sides and a snap as a single tooth breaks off due to their teeth clenching in pain.[/SIZE]
A few seconds later and it stops, their body going rigid with a sudden finality.
It’s funny how people don’t read the labels anymore, just going for what looks familiar and may impress the judges. It takes a forensic team that was begrudgingly allowed on set between rounds to identify the antifreeze and ricin mixture that had been carefully funneled into the rum bottle used by
@chart94. The storage inventory is donated to the poor before being repurchased for the remainder of the baking rounds.
No further testing was completed prior to the donation, but the people watching don’t need to know that.
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@chart94 [/SIZE][SIZE=10.5pt]was killed by the mafia last night.[/SIZE]
The remaining players are:
@tj_PEhttps://engineerboards.com/profile/32589-tj_pe/,
@leggo PE,
@blybrook PE,
@NikR,
@LyceeFruit,
@txjennah PE,
@Ranger1316,
@ChaosMuppetPE, and
@MadamPirate
