3B - One flew over the cuckoo hut

Sam thinks that it is probably safe, at this point, to approach the cage and raise and move it without fear of being attacked by the ghoul. But, he figures at this point grinding the thing alive is even more cruel than shooting it three times while it is trapped in a cage. So, he takes careful aim and fires again.

Sam Dekker carried out 6 launched of one d6text :

6 , 4 , 2 , 1 , 6 , 5

The final, silenced shot goes into the prone ghoul's skull. As it's grey matter splatters out onto the floor, it immediately stops moving. It's infectious blood drips steadily all over the floor.

Sam raises the cage, moves it over the grinder, turns on the grinder, and opens the trap door of the cage doing his best to avoid getting blood on him ((The blood itself is infectious? How infectious?))

He checks the half hour glass. ((have I gotten ahead of Sun in terms of how long it's been since we split up?))

Holding Room

Sam only knows what he's seen on the matrix about ghouls. Since it's not a topic he's particularly studied, he's not sure how much of it is real or how much of it is hysteria, but according to The Media(tm) the infectiousness of ghouls ranges from "very infectious" to "extremely infectious". It is considered the most infectious disease known in the world. Some people say the virus is airborne like the Flu. Others say you need physical contact or some kind of exchange of bodily fluid.  There are only 2 things that everyone can agree upon. The first is that once its in your system, you are going to become a ghoul. The second is that there is no way to cure the affliction once it takes hold, at least until Ichigo can prove one way or another that the formula he has works.

It is a minor task to position the cage above the meat grinder and then drop the body into it. It is not an automatic machine, instead requiring hand cranking. Though the machine itself has been thoroughly cleaned, there are signs of blood stains on the wooden floor. Sam gets the feeling that this is going to be messy...

A quick check of the half-hourglass reveals that roughly a quarter of the time has passed. Sun and Ichigo are still nowhere to be seen. ((Sun has taken much more time than Sam so far as he has had to back track a bit to get Kinsley and popped around to a couple different rooms and getting the doors to open where you want them to open is kind of the main time killer here))

Sun rushes to the kitchen, and asks the resident French Maid if it's okay if he borrows a pot or jar that can handle high temperatures while not burning his hands if he holds it.

Does Sam recall passing through a room that maybe is in the process of being painted, or something?

Sam wants a tarp. Or something that he could reasonably us as or modify to be a tarp.

Holding Room
Sam can't think of a place where he's seen a tarp. The closest thing he can think of is an apron, which would be in the kitchen.

Kitchen
Sun makes it to the kitchen and asks the goblin for a pot or jar. The goblin says, "All the jars here will burn your hands if they're hot. Pots don't. That's why they have handles." The goblin seems particularly proud to share this knowledge with someone who apparently lacks it. You get the impression that he doesn't often get to seem like he is smart.

Sun grabs a pot and matching lid, and asks mr. Knowitall if he knows of any fire-retarding aprons or chef hats or such.

Kitchen
The goblin scratches his head and says, "Well Baba Yaga sometimes calls Snot retarded. But never fire retarded. That must be a special level of retarded. Snot not good enough for fire retarded yet. Snot have chef hat and apron though."

While Sun is unsure how much time has passed so far, he is pretty sure that all this running around from room to room is beginning to add up...

"Snot do you have anything here that's fire proof you know something that won't burn?"

Kitchen
Snot says, "The pot doesn't burn. Sometimes the food in it does if you keep it in there too long though. Um... Snot guess dishes don't burn either? Never really tried to burn them before though..."

Sun turns to Kinsley. "Can you play something that will calm the mare down up to the point that it's safe to open its door?"

Kitchen
Kinsley says, "I sure can try. But no guarantees it works. Baba has me do it from time to time, but it only seems to work about half the time."

They hurry to the stables and Sun asks Kinsley to do his thing while he readies mitts, shears, pot and lid.

Stable
Kinsley feels a big hurried as Sun and Ichigo rush back to the stables. He says, "So um... here's the thing. While I don't have to worry about it, anyone else who hears my pipes might not be able to move for as long as I keep playing. I think Baba usually brings ear plugs or something, but you guys don't happen to have any, do you? Cuz you might need them. Unless you're deaf, I suppose. You don't seem like the type to be deaf, but I don't wanna go about assuming things. You know what happens when you assume. Something about making an ass out of Ume, the foreign exchange student. Who knows? Maybe you're strong willed enough that it doesn't affect you. But Baba didn't take the chance and she's as willful as they get. She's got so much willpower she can get into a staring contest with a mirror and win!"

Gathering some leftover fur from the various empty cages, Sun makes several ear plugs with them. He plugs them in bis ears and gives Ichigo a pair as well. Thinking he's whispering, he tells Kinsley: "YEAH GO AHEAD IT'S ALL GOOD NOW!"

In the Stable

Kinsley looks at Sun and Ichigo dubiously and shrugs. "Whatever," he says, "Better than nothing, I guess."

He then takes up his panpipes and begins to play. Sun and Ichigo quickly become infatuated with Kinsley despite the makeshift  ear plugs and stare at him with doe eyes. Vaguely disturbed by said doe eyes, Kinsley immediately stops playing. "Yeah, no. I can't do this. You'll have to come up with something better for plugs or wrestle the thing down or something because I'm not into dudes staring at me like that."

Sam hurries to the dining room to grab the table cloth, unless he remembers having seen a beekeeper suit in the garden, in which case he goes to get that. If he happens to see the kitchen along the way, he stops in to grab the blood.

((Actually, I haven't asked previously... Is there some sort of container that the resultant meat will go into, and that is removable and portable? If not, Sam makes a point of stopping by the kitchen to pick up a pot and a large spoon to spoon the meat into the pot with))

Getting a bit worried about all the running back and forth, Sun rushes to the garden, ready to ask Baba Yaga about where to get wax or earplugs. When he arrives in the garden, he notices the huge beehive. He runs over there to collect a honeycomb, which he turns into beeswax, which in turn he uses to make earplugs for Ichigo and himself.

Sam
Sam runs back and forth to the kitchen, dining room and holding room, which are all luckily adjacent. He has no problem gathering a table cloth and the blood, though his hands are pretty full at this point. The meat grinder has a clean metal tray to collect any ground meat it may extrude, so that saves him an extra trip.

Sun
Sun rushes back to the garden where he sees Baba Yaga and giant Wujen arguing with one another as Little Dragon keeps urging him to shut the hell up. Baba Yaga does not look to be in a good mood at this point. Sun manages to reach in and grab some honeycomb, but the last thing you want to do when dealing with bees is rush at their hive. Particularly when lacking proper protection. Gunk gets the hell out of the way when he sees the dwarf coming. Soon a swarm of angry bees envelops the dwarf, stinging every bit of bare flesh they can get at. Sun has the honeycomb, but he also has a swarm of angry bees...

((3P damage to Sun and the bees are still swarming him))

WuJen, annoyed and In no mood for shenanigans centers a force 2 stunball on Sun to clear out the bees

In the garden
The stunball knocks the bees out and they all go tumbling down into the grass. Sun gets a minor headache from it and his ears pop, but he is otherwise fine. ((1S to Sun))

Sam attempts to construct a sot of tent with the tablecloth. (The dining room table was huge, right?)

He reasons that tablecloths generally have some sort of fluorine treatment or plastic lining so that spills don't soak onto the table underneath. So, hopefully this one has something like that. But, whether it does or not, if blood splashes from the grinder, he would prefer it if his protection were not touching him.

So, he will attempt to attach the tablecloth to the machine at a point located above the handle. Then he will attempt to get the broom to fly about a foot higher than Sam is tall, and about a foot behind him at the crank. And then he drapes the tablecloth over the broom to create a protective canopy.

Sam is also wearing a full trench, fwiw.

Sun turns the honeycomb into beeswax and makes the wax into two pairs of earplugs. He then rushes back to the door, friendly waving at WuJen and Baba Yaga, and pops in to the stables.