Well, the New England winter nights are long and lonely...
[Sometimes Nadine makes jokes.]
But a creamee is kind of like a soft serve ice cream cone, only it's made with maple syrup and brown sugar and cream. They're almost painfully sweet but I loved them when I was a kid.
[For some reason, she'd expected a sort of dessert food, and she looks curiously at the rolls Julie hands her. They smell good...and taste the way they smell. She nods appreciatively as she chews. It's almost like a hand pie, but with a way better filling and crust than any hand pie she's ever had.]
Oh these are really good. [She holds out the paper food tray for anyone else to help themselves.] And yes, a lot of carnival games involve throwing balls at things or into things or through things. But there's other ones, too. Like water races and rope ladder climbs and test your strength - that's where you take a mallet and swing it as hard as you can against a board and it sends a ball shooting up towards a bell at the top. If you ring the bell you win a prize. It's considered pretty hard to actually win these games, back home.
[Because most all of them are rigged. And while Nadine's aren't rigged, exactly, they aren't effortless to beat. It's not like it's costing any money, they can play as many times as they want. It's all for fun, and to share a little bit of home with Jaskier and Geralt.]
But it's kind of tradition to play them, and try and win a prize for whoever you're at the fair with. Or yourself.
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[Sometimes Nadine makes jokes.]
But a creamee is kind of like a soft serve ice cream cone, only it's made with maple syrup and brown sugar and cream. They're almost painfully sweet but I loved them when I was a kid.
[For some reason, she'd expected a sort of dessert food, and she looks curiously at the rolls Julie hands her. They smell good...and taste the way they smell. She nods appreciatively as she chews. It's almost like a hand pie, but with a way better filling and crust than any hand pie she's ever had.]
Oh these are really good. [She holds out the paper food tray for anyone else to help themselves.] And yes, a lot of carnival games involve throwing balls at things or into things or through things. But there's other ones, too. Like water races and rope ladder climbs and test your strength - that's where you take a mallet and swing it as hard as you can against a board and it sends a ball shooting up towards a bell at the top. If you ring the bell you win a prize. It's considered pretty hard to actually win these games, back home.
[Because most all of them are rigged. And while Nadine's aren't rigged, exactly, they aren't effortless to beat. It's not like it's costing any money, they can play as many times as they want. It's all for fun, and to share a little bit of home with Jaskier and Geralt.]
But it's kind of tradition to play them, and try and win a prize for whoever you're at the fair with. Or yourself.