Quest from a dream I had

So I had a dream, and now I'm making that dream (partially) into reality.

The section of the dream that I will talk about is a section with a Cinfras quest. Three chefs (themed after the primary colors) get into an underground cooking contest (literally underground), possibly with a minecart track-switching parkour beforehand. The contest is not quite right, though. The chefs are awful (or at least their apprentices are), and the announcer is a psychopath, because when one of the chefs loses the first round (probably the red one), the announcer kills them. The other two abscond and buy tickets to the 'Western Union', which contains the Sky Islands as well as possibly other places. (I only asked about SI.) They intend to live there permanently. In the meantime, their assistants take over their places in the competition, and bake pizzas that are incredibly awful. Nonetheless, I eat most of one (I saw no flaws, very filling in dream) before waking up.

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So, here's how it could go.

In the Cinfras underground (a mess of sewers, tunnels, basements, and unauthorised digging), three chefs are planning to compete in a mysterious cooking show. The prize is significant, 4 LE for the winner, and none for the losers. However, one chef decides to take you along (he's the quest-starter), because he's suspicious of the show and fears that it might turn ugly... somehow. So he gets himself a human guard.

Even finding the show is difficult (it involves either a maze or an abstract maze to navigate there). Once you get there, you discover the show's in some sort of old, underground arena. The floor is sand, or dirt, or something. Some of the walls are crumbling and the roof looks prepared to collapse. There's a bunch of seating, but it's empty - there are no observers.

The announcer immediately sends everyone to the kitchen, including you. It's well-stocked, but dirty. He immediately orders everyone make the first dish, a stew. You help your chef search for ingredients, and cook. When you turn in your dishes, the announcer eats all three, fully. The first two are judged Adequate. But when he gets to your chef's, he goes into a screaming rant about how bad it is, and murders your chef. He then orders you to take your chef's place.

Between rounds, the announcer jovially does announcer things, whatever it is gameshow announcers do. He's talking to an empty arena; nobody is in the stands. You and the two remaining chefs collude to see if you can find a way out of the kitchen, but it's sealed, and you're unable to find a route until the announcer comes back.

He orders the second dish - a 'pizza'. Nobody knows what this is. He is very angry that nobody knows what a 'pizza' is but is able to explain the recipe. All three of you try to cook a 'pizza', but the announcer hates every product. (Despite eating them all, in their entirety, and these are full-sized pizzas, the kind you get in a box.) He judges one to be the worst of all of them (it doesn't have sauce and is overcooked), and murders the chef responsible. Now there are two left.

As he goes away to rant at the nonexistent audience, you and the final chef discuss any way to escape. There's a window the announcer comes to when he demands food, the same window you put the food through, and you might be able to clamber out through it. But when you peer out, you discover the hallway's caved in. In fact, the whole arena looks unstable.

The last chef brings up the note that there's a vent. You made a lot of smoke, and it all went out through the vent - a vent you might be able to crawl through. But before you can put this plan into action, the announcer comes for the third dish - a cake. A 'chocolate' cake, to be specific.

You do not know what 'chocolate' is, either.

The announcer angrily throws chocolate at you as the two of you try to make cakes. (The chocolate is in large chunks.) Your products are horrible cakes (because you had no idea how to cook the chunks and just broke them up and put them in the batter), and when the announcer eats them, he goes screaming mad about the quality, and kills the final chef.

He begins hyping up the final round to the nonexistent audience, which is when you escape through the vent. You manage to get into an area above the arena, a large vent system, and notice that the vents lead into some large cave systems. At a couple points, you use spells to weaken the ceiling, until eventually it begins to crack under you, and you have 60 seconds to escape through the caves into the open air.

As you escape the caves, the area where the arena was craters inward, a visible indent on the land above. You get the quest complete message, no reward of money. However, the next time you log into the class, and enter the Cinfras square, a courier will run to you and tell you that you've been mailed 4 LE.

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Thoughts?

 

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Pretty interesting dream and definitely a lot more clear than most other nights but...

this seems like the most random out-of-place quest ever that doesn't have any form of coherence whatsoever. Maybe if this was like an easter egg in shattered minds maybe but as a regular quest this ain't it imo.

 

figured
it's not the best but it might have a couple scraps of workable idea