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[thegreatexperiment]

[The camera pans around the Inn's kitchen, where Sam's rickety, faithful vodka distillery appears to be up and running again!]

Look.

[Sam doesn't appear on camera because...well...she can't. But that's her grumpy, Midwestern accent. No doubt.]

I fell down on the job a little, okay? I could make up some fancy excuse for you about why there was no vodka for weeks, but the fact of the matter is that the Overlords won. I was just fucking depressed.

[And she still might be. But Sam would never admit something like that.]

Anyway, just letting you all know that this shitshow is officially off the wagon again. Feel free to booze out to your heart's content. Just don't be a dick and make sure to share because I can only make so much in a day, you know?

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UN: Almasy

[firacrux]

I didn't even know you made vodka.

If you need to punch things though I know a guy who can take a hit.

[thegreatexperiment]

[There's a bit of a wry smile in her voice.]

Are you kidding? Vodka is the second-best thing I make.

The best is "a mess."

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[firacrux]

[Talking is easier than typing on the world's smallest screen.]

Great, that's two things we have in common. Being disappointing and making messes.

[It's said with an amused tone.]

How's it work? The vodka making. Never seen it for myself.

[thegreatexperiment]

Just basic chemistry.

[She pans the camera over the set-up as she talks.]

You distill the mash, after it ferments. So you basically got alcohol gas that turns into alcohol liquid.

[firacrux]

Do I look like someone who knows anything about chemistry?

[It's a joke, and clearly so with his tone because they're audio. But it's also honest. He has no idea.]

What's a mash, or rather what's in a mash? There sure are a lot of pots.

[More than pots he just has no proper descriptors for it.]

[thegreatexperiment]

[She does laugh at his joke. A little. Sam's laugh is like a rusty hinge. Grating from a lack of use.]

Basically mashed potatoes. You can make vodka with other shit, but we have an excess of taters, as Mark would call them.

Potatoes, water, and yeast.

[firacrux]

[It's possible that might need to be remedied. Would a crocdog in an ugly sweater cheer her up?]

I'm torn. Because mashed potatoes are delicious, but with the way shit's gone here I'm pretty sure alcohol's a necessity. Guess we can have both if we've got plenty of potatoes.

What's the yeast do?

[thegreatexperiment]

Causes fermentation. Basically transitions it from potato water to alcohol.

Here, I'll show you.

[There's some rustling on Sam's end, as she grabs an old napkin and writes out a formula in charcoal:

C₆H₁₂O₆ → 2 C₂H₅OH + 2 CO]

See?

[Because it totally makes sense in her head...]

[firacrux]

[Causes fermentation he understands, vaguely, that formula? Completely over his head.]

...I wasn't really kiddn' when I said I didn't know any chemistry.

[He chuckles, a little more nervously.]

I have no idea what any of that says.

[thegreatexperiment]

Oh.

[This is why she can't have nice things.]

Well, it's just the chemical reaction. Bottom line is that it makes booze.

[firacrux]

Got it. Makes enough sense. Didn't realize the process was so involved.

[thegreatexperiment]

It's not. Chemists just like to make things look more complicated than they are.

Inferiority complex.

[firacrux]

Huh. Well I'll take your word for it. Probably makin' up for being picked on at school.

[It makes total sense to him.]

[duel_wielding]

Vodka? Wow. I mean, I knew there was work being made on beer, but vodka...

Would you consider it a waste if I used some to make a good vodka sauce?

[thegreatexperiment]

I'm not the vodka police, dude.

Use it however you want.

[duel_wielding]

Well I imagine there were other purpose. Such as drinking it.

[thegreatexperiment]

That's the more popular approach. But I don't really care that much.

Sometimes, the docs use it to disinfect shit too.

[duel_wielding]

That's reasonable. I suppose it would be hard, at the very best, to get the things boiled hot enough to disinfect. But alcohol can definitely be used for that too. Keep forgetting I need to think old-school.

[thegreatexperiment]

For cereal.

As they say.

[duel_wielding]

They say that? Is there something about cereal that I'm not getting?

[thegreatexperiment]

Guess it's a millennial thing.

[duel_wielding]

Which millennium? I've met people from a few at this point. I'm 26th century.

[thegreatexperiment]

Millennial. It's the name of my generation.

[duel_wielding]

Yes, and Millennial as a term would imply connection to a specific millennium. Unless there are only a thousand people in the generation.

[thegreatexperiment]

I think it comes from "turn of the millennium." We were born just before the 21st.