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February 2023 Small Fandoms Drabblethon
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2023-02-01
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All Things Being Equal

Summary:

Myra would give absolutely anything for the tiniest bit of meat.

Notes:

I played through fully half of this game before I finally realized that nope, there were never going to be any more food options than just growing plants. No egg production, no hunting, no livestock of any kind. Not even an allusion to pets! Just people and plants and one lonely shark swimming in a lake. Who tf knows where the clothes come from. Nanomachines, maybe?

(To make matters worse for the colonists, there's almost nothing in the way of cooking. They only know how to grow a handful of plants, some of which can't be eaten in the first place, and they don't know how to cook anything except bread, oatmeal, and pasta. ...except they still know how to make corn syrup for candy and soda.)

The title is a reference to "Occam's Razor," aka Ockham's principle or the law of parsimony.

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Myra stares down at her plate sadly, her chin in her hand as she twirls long strands of pasta around her fork. There's no sauce, no seasoning. No eggs in the recipe. Just flour and water all mixed up into the blandest food she's ever had. She barely even remembers flavor. Maybe if they could use the potash for seasoning...

But really, Myra would give absolutely anything for the tiniest bit of meat. Even that big alien shark in the lake is starting to look good. She daydreams about it. Watches it from the window.

I bet it'd taste divine.