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"Well, let's just go for something simple," you say. "We'll bookend the whole thing with the letter A's. That's the furthest apart they can be and it gives... a bare minimum sense of symmetry."

"Okay then," Raven says.

You and Raven work together to pull the letter A's to the ends. She takes the one on the left and that's a bit easier than you taking the one on the right.

Af5}A

You and Raven lock it in, you push the cylinder back down, and the circle takes effect. The rice grains all shorten, but you reach out to test the important part.

"So?" Raven asks as you squish a grain. "Does it feel right?"

"Yes! This is, well, not perfect, but it feels about as close as we're going to get without just buying mochigome."

"So now we can make mochi?" Raven asks.

"Yes," you say. "But that in itself will be a bit tricky. There's an almost game like component where someone bashes the rice with a special mallet, and the other turns it over."

"Oh, interesting," she says. "But sounds a bit dangerous. What if the timing is off and someone gets hit by the mallet?"

"True," you say. "That is a risk of it. But maybe..."

You use Summon circles to make two white rabbits. You have them take the rice as it is inside the pot and they set up on the counter.

"Alright, you two," you say. "As rabbits, you are perfect for the ceremony of mochitsuki, because it's just like the legend of the rabbits making mochi on the moon."

The rabbits salute you back, and then you equip one with the mochi hammer. It has a skinny handle and uneven head so as to reach into the pot. The other is to be the rice flipper.

"Ready," you say. "Bash!"

The first rabbit hits the rice in the pot and it makes a little *tonk* sound.

"Flip!"

The second rabbit turns the rice 90 degrees.

"Bash!"

*tonk*

"Flip!"

There's a barely audible flopping sound as the rice turns over.

"Bash!"

*tonk*

"Flip!"

*flop*

*tonk*

*flop*

*tonk*

*flop*

*tonk*

*flop*

"Aww, so cute," your sisters say as they look into the kitchen.

"Faster, faster," you say to the rabbits.

*tonk*
*flop*
*tonk*
*flop*
*tonk*
*flop*
*tonk*
*flop*

Okay, that's looking good," you say. "Let's get some sugar in there to keep it going."

You shake sugar in before the flip, so it becomes tonk, salt, flip.

*tonk*
*shk*
*flop*
*tonk*
*shk*
*flop*
*tonk*
*shk*
*flop*

"Good, good," you say. "Now for a flavor..."

A) Strawberry
B) Peanut Butter
C) Chocolate