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1. Venture City in Peril! Dr. Devious’s army of Deviobots are ransacking the city! No, wait, Baron Von Tyrannosaur is back with another dinosaur army! No, wait, it's... really, ther's a lot of different ways a city can be imperiled. However, no matter the threat, it’s up to you, the Omegafriends, to save the day - but you’ll need to work together to repel the forces of evil.

2. A Hero is Born! What started as an ordinary day was thrown into chaos as your newfound superpowers began to suddenly awaken! What perilous problems and zany antics will this bring about? Stay tuned to find out!

3. The Adventure Mundane! It's not all over-the-top heroics here - sometimes, ordinary day-to-day life can be just as much trouble! On the trail of a story for the Daily Venture? Frantic last-minute studying for tomorrow's math test? Harassing people to sign petitions on street corners? Hitting the arcade to destroy simulated villains instead of real ones? The sky's the limit!

4. Welcome to the Omegabase! The super-secret underground Omegabase has it all - training centers, VR simulators, free snack machines, but most important is a whole lot of Supers! Take a minute to kick back and get to know your fellow heroes.

5. The Mighty Showdown! In the life of a Super, good and evil are always clashing in battle. Today, you’ve come face to face with one of the many supervillains threatening the future of Venture City! Who will rise and who will fall? Next issue: The shocking answer!

6. Wild Card! Got an idea for a thread or prompt that isn’t one of those? Make up your own! We won’t stop you.

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"Is your entire family cullinarily inclined? Or just yourself and the women?" Rozalin was admittedly just making coversation now, but she had to admit she was at least a little curious. Family was...well for her it had always been a tightrope walk of pleasing mother, or making sure that nobody was hurt, making sure that Zenon didn't kill herself or anyone else...but now she had failed at that somehow, and it made her heart ache.

"I suppose I might have a few. The duck on here, it's quite good on it's own, but it might be even better if it was given it's own show to star in. I imagine it's a more expensive ingredient for you to work with though. Difficult to source perhaps? Hmmm, maybe with goat cheese and caramelized onions if you must have some vegetation."

"I'm not much of a cook," he admitted, "I just have picked up a few things about taste and stuff from what Mom and Hanako talk about. That, and from my own tastes. Other than that, I just help make the pizzas at work."

With another bite, he listened to her reply, nodding while she talked.

"Difficult to get, and it's not really in high demand either. Duck's not exactly a popular topping on pizza to begin with. And I've never had goat cheese before, so I wouldn't really know what that tastes like or what it pairs with. But those onions we could probably do."

"You still know a bit more than me about all this. Not that I mind really." Rozalin had eaten fine food all her life-but knowing about cooking it was another story.

"Well it ought to be. I'm not entirely sure what is wrong with you people when you would rather put pepperoni on this than well prepared duck breast." They do that because it's cheaper Rozalin. But it would never occur to you that cost should enter into something-do it expensively, or not at all seems to be her motto.

"Your boss really could do more upmarket sales if he wanted you know. There is obviously some talent in this that is wasted on plain cheese and tomato sauce."

"Duck's expensive, is why. My family couldn't afford to have duck pizza pretty much... ever, really. And besides, some people just prefer the taste of pepperoni. I know I do."

Low class tastes, yes, but honestly it's more that he can appreciate just about anything without it having to be pricey.

"Thing is, most of our clients aren't upscale, either. The way he looks at is supply and demand; there's a lot more people who want the common toppings than the rare ones, so that's where he makes the bulk of his money. Clients like you are much fewer in number, and even if the items were more expensive, he wouldn't turn as much profit.

Still, that's pretty high praise, I think he'll be glad to hear that."

"I don't see why. Chicken or pork is dirt cheap, but duck is expensive? That seems like inane moon-logic." Didn't people have goose for Christmas here like her books (Dickens mostly) had said?

"Hmmm. I suppose you can make more pinching pennies off the lower classes, but it seems like there ought to be enough money to go around for higher tier items in this town. I mean, just look at all those completely useless phone booths on the street. Does anyone actually use them, aside from hipsters?"

Welp. Best not to admit what those are really for.

"Duck's not raised on farms on a mass scale, while chickens and pigs are. I think there's you're reason: getting it's harder."

Unfortunately for Rozalin, her reading on culture of the lower classes is a couple of centuries out of date.

"...I've seen a couple of people use them."

He didn't say as to why, of course. Definitely not for superhero use. Nope. They were definitely making phone calls and nothing else.

"I am very nearly certain that I have heard of large scale duck farming, haven't I?" Rozalin frowned and furrowed her brow in concentration. "Perhaps it is simple self-perpetuating prejudice against tasty waterfowl."

Yeah, she was out of date. But she was smart, and she did understand things like fashion and style in a general way.

"Must have been those hipsters. It couldn't be people who don't actually own phones. I don't think I've ever seen a phone booth so expensive." Rozalin, when was the last time you saw a phone booth?

"Besides, I hear that the government is practically giving away phones. So every year, they get more and more outdated."

"I don't think that has anything to do with it. Ducks are probably harder to take care of. And unlike chickens, they can fly pretty well, so they're harder to keep from taking off."

...This was stuff he never thought of before, so it was just his best guess, really. Though he was of lower class, thankfully Adell did have a brain on him when he chose to use it.

"Can't argue with that, though I think nostalgia has a big part in it."

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"Don't they keep them in barns?" That's what you do with most animals, isn't it? Unless they fly up into the hay...you have to have hay in a barn, don't you?"

He'd never thought of this before...but Rozalin's preconceptions were dreadfully old fashioned.

"Nostalgia is like a medical illness you know. They came up with the word to describe soldiers who wanted to go home." And while that was technically true, it was also centuries out of date.

Adell quirked an eyebrow to her comments. Just how much did she actually get out? Not much, probably.

"Not really. Most animals are let out to graze or move around. Ducks being let out would have them flying off. And even then, if someone opens the barn, they might just fly out anyway."

He then takes a bite out of his pizza.

"I don't know where you heard that one," he stated, after swallowing. "Nowadays we just call that homesickness. And I don't really think wanting to enjoy things from previous eras or your childhood is exactly a medical thing."

"I think I heard something different about keeping things in barns and cages." Rozalin sulked a bit, and if she'd had her wings, she would have let them sag.

"But it's true. Swiss mercenaries, thousands of miles from home, when they'd never left the mountains before-it's all very interesting." She gestured with the fork. "You can't think that way about it, you have to put your head in the mind of the people back then. How did they think about and understand the world?"

"It's probably not that different from anyone today who never leaves their own state," he answered. "Lot of strange and different things out there. Some people just don't adapt well to change, especially if they're stuck fighting a war all the while. But I'm still not sure that's a medical thing."

Of course, he doesn't understand that people back then thought very much differently on the art of medicine, either.

Test Drive Meme - July 2014

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