Poke Bowl: Gotta Catch em All!

Enclave friends, I find myself in a real pickled onion My team was set to compete in the grand finals of the 23rd annual Poke Bowl Extravaganza, but suddenly they've gone missing, alongside all of my ingredients! Please help me to still win the competition, I need it in order to prove to my father I'm a real chef.

Sincerely, Chef Christian

Contest Rules:
-Must present dish at the Poke Bowl Stadium before sunrise
-Must use ingredients sourced from the local area
-Violence against judges is not permitted
-Violence against competitors is not permitted, unless you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have broken the contest rules

The agents arrived at the Kitchen of Chef Christian, finding it wholly ransacked, with most of the ingredients, appliances, and the two other members of his kitchen staff mysteriously disappeared. The Chef told the agents that earlier that afternoon, he had come back to find his kitchen in this state, only seeing a group of figures shrouded in black cloaks running towards the lakeside. He also mentions a shady woman in a black dress he saw earlier. One of the shrouded figures dropped a pin shaped like a black orchid that Christian gave to Baalphas. Clara investigated a nearby market stall and found it similarly raided, save for a couple onions. The group decided to split up and hunt for ingredients, with Belatrix and Clara heading after the cultists towards the lake while Baalphas and Sir George embarked for the forest to forage.

Clara sped off towards the lake and Belatrix used a thruster rocket to pursue her, slightly overshooting and veering into the lake. After Belatrix got back to shore, Clara sipped an energy drink, picked up Belatrix, and with her in tow jumped an entire goddamn quarter mile to an island with a small stone shack. They found robed cultists meeting before they embarked out for some fishing. Clara managed to grab a couple fishes but drew the aggro of the cultists along with their pet Loch Ness Monster, Orchessie. They managed to defeat almost all the cultists, and managed to take one of them prisoner after they were bitten by Clara's pet snake. He revealed that he was Weston, one of Chef Christian's cooks who had secretly been working for Madame Orchid. He almost revealed more information, but died from the poison. The massive loch ness monster attacked the pair with vicious geysers and giant flippers but a well placed rocket from Belatrix supercharged with some gunpowder did the job. In the hut nearby, they also found some ginger and seaweed. They leapt back to the shore of the kitchen.

Meanwhile, Baalphas and Sir George ventured into the forest, where they had little trouble locating the giant "rice tree," with sacks full of rice at the top. Tied to the tree was Tyler, the other missing cook. Unfortunately, it was surrounded by giant spiders who nearly attacked the agents, but Baalphas showed them the pin cultists had left behind, and the spiders assumed they worked for Madame Orchid. Feeling a bit lazy, they still made one of the non-spiders climb the tree-- Sir George bravely volunteered, with some magical assistance from Baalphas. He managed to climb, get the rice and get back down with some difficulty. The spiders urged them to bring the sack to the stadium for Madame Orchid. Sir George created a warding circle around the cook, gave the sack to Baalphas to deliver and unleashed the vengeful forest spirit Itlimoc from within him. In a savage fashion, he brought the wrath of the jungle upon the spiders who attacked him. Baalphas calmly strolled back to the kitchen.

Upon arriving back at the kitchen, the agents pooled their ingredients: all the components for a fine poke bowl except for Chef Christian's secret ingredient-- spaghetti! They found out that there is one Spaghetti plant left near the stadium, nearly two miles away through the forest. Clara ran to the stadium, dug up a "spaghetti bush" and brought it back to the kitchen in under two minutes. Belatrix pulled out her famous Everything Stove that comes with every single kitchen appliance one could possibly need! They prepared the ingredients and, by Baalphas's suggestion, they boiled the plant into spaghetti. They made a pretty good poke bowl. Baalphas puts a "delicious" sticker on it which turned it into one of the best poke bowls of all time. They received a call from the stadium to head there and present their dish.

The agents entered a crowded stadium with two tables. Chef Christian set down the poke bowl, as a mysterious woman in a flowing black dress and a cape with a black orchid appeared through the other door. She introduced herself as Madame Orchid before setting down the most revoltingly disgusting poke bowl in the known universe on the table. She then revealed that she had not only been behind the sabotage of Chef Christian's kitchen, but also had killed both the other team and the judges. She attempted to declare herself the judge and winner of the competition, but the agents pointed out that she had overtly broken the contest rules and was disqualified. She did not take kindly to this and attacked.

Belatrix launched a rocket at Madame orchid but she rose above it with a flower platform, so Belatix followed up by taking Orchid's revolting dish and smashing her upside the head with it. She retaliated with a spore attack at the party, but Baalphas returned it back to sender with catalog. (This gave Baalphas enough essence exhaustion that he was basically out of commission for the rest of the fight) Cultists swarmed in, attacking Chef Christian and the party but Clara deftly fended them off, sending many of them flying. Two came for Sir George, he was able to fend one off but the other landed a stab in his arm, prompting him to once again unleashed the wrath of Itlimoc! Together, Itlimoc, Clara, and Belatrix dogpiled Madame Orchid and Itlimoc dealt the final blow, sinking his ephemeral jaws into her throat.

That wasn't quite the end of things, as Itlimoc then turned against the party, but Clara managed to dash around him and create a circle of protection, subduing the malevolent spirit until it finally dissipated. As the fighting quelled, there was a moment of silence and then the crowd went wild! A descendant of one of the murdered judges came out from the audience, tasted the agents' poke bowl, and declared Chef Christian and his team of cooks "The winners of the 23rd annual Poke Bowl Extravaganza by every metric possible"

Badges Pinged.

• Clara Hetzingberger

• Baalphas, Sir George Cranleigh, Belatrix unregistered