ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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> DON'T PANIC

You start having a nervous breakdown. What were you thinking? You don't know how to cook! Even if there was a recipe here, you'd probably screw it up! Oh, and that guy may still be babbling, but he wants to kill you and rewrite the universe and arrgh you can't take any more of this aaagh!!!

You just run around the kitchen in a panic, randomly throwing things around. When you finally calm down, you realize that you've ended up with some sort of cake in the oven. But it's going to take a few hours to finish. Great, now what are you going to do? There doesn't seem to be much of anything to do here except listen to that guy keep blabbing...

"...of course, I needed to ensure the oil on that land remained untapped, otherwise it would have unpredictable effects on the Portland economy and might interfere with my plans to draw national attention to it. It would only take a few unusual news stories; the mayor robbing a police station, the subterranean residents of Underportland emerging because of the smell of a burning house right above their primary route to the surface, the protests caused by Powell's sudden decision to only serve dead customers..."

...and yeah, you're not going to listen to him blab. In fact, you hear a lot of snoring from the other room, sounds like everyone else has fallen asleep. Not that he's noticed, of course.

So how are you going to pass the time while you wait for this cake to finish?