Roast Man ( Part I )
"So, Lawrence, I've heard you're good at guessing words, and at playing
'hangman' ? ", Vessy welcomed Jennifer and Lawrence at the doorstep of her house.
"Well, I'm not sure ... but maybe, if you say so ... " Lawrence answered timidly.
It was the first time his younger sister had successfully persuaded him to
come with her and visit her newest best friend Vessy at her house.
"Jennifer told me about it." Vessy enlightened him, as her visitors entered her antechamber.
Jennifer and Lawrence took off their shoes and changed into guest slippers.
Then Vessy pointed at the third door on the right side of her hallway: "Please, Lawrence, Jennifer, my living room is over there."
When Lawrence and Jennifer entered through that door Vessy had told them, Lawrence looked around and wondered: "Hmm, Vessy, are you sure that this here
is really your living room ? Because to me this room here looks like a very bizarre .... kitchen !?"
"Yeah, Lawrence, you're right, this here is indeed Vessy's kitchen !" Jennifer confirmed; then she pointed at a door on the other side of the room: "We've gotta
pass through Vessy's kitchen, and enter Vessy's living room through that door over there !"
Meanwhile, Vessy had entered her kitchen, too, and she smiled at Lawrence: "Hmm, Lawrence, feel free to look around in my kitchen ! If there's anything that
makes you wonder ..."
"Yeah, Vessy, there is indeed something strange over there !" Lawrence interrupted her and pointed at a massively oversized casserole, which he had noticed
on one of the sideboards of Vessy's bizarre kitchen.
Vessy got a more serious expression all of a sudden: "Oh no ! I forgot to stow away my big baking dish, which I use to cook my big meals !"
"Big ?" Lawrence giggled. "Big !? That's still an understatement, right, Vessy ? I mean, your so-called 'baking dish' over there is easily two meters long,
and one meter wide !? What on earth were you possibly hoping to cook inside it ?"
Vessy got more cheerful again, and laughed: "Ha ha ha, Lawrence, don't you worry ! Although I'd really love to , I'm not gonna use my big casserole to cook YOU !"
Jennifer cut in with laughter, too, and she pointed at Vessy's oven: "Ha ha, of course you couldn't possibly cook my bro with it. Lawrence, look at Vessy's oven,
over there !"
Lawrence nodded: "Yeah, Jennifer, of course ! Now that I see it, it seems like Vessy's oven is just as tiny and as normal-sized, as any other regular
oven in most other 'normal' households. So therefore I suppose that even IF Vessy somehow ever managed to prepare me for cooking in that
gigantic casserole, I still wouldn't fit into her tiny oven !"
Jennifer had walked up to that door which connected the kitchen with Vessy's living room, and waved Lawrence and Vessy, to follow her: "Now, are we gonna play
'Hangman' with Lawrence, or no, Vessy ?"
Vessy answered: "Hmm, Jennifer, of course I'd love to play a game similar to 'Hangman' with Lawrence, but well, how can I put it in words ..."
Lawrence, who had just spotted yet another bizarre object in Vessy's kitchen - exactly, on the ceiling, interrupted her: "Vessy ?? Why on earth is there such
a huge canvas mounted on the ceiling of your kitchen ? Don't tell me you enjoy watching movies on that canvas, while you're lying on your back, with your face
turned up !? "
Vessy grabbed Lawrence' forearm: "It's a good thing you ask, Lawrence, because actually that canvas up there ... you see, I had planned to use it for my very
own variation of the 'Hangman' game, which I'd love to play with YOU !"
"Your own version of 'Hangman' ?" Lawrence wondered, and he walked up to Vessy's sideboard, whereon her gigantic casserole was placed. "In what other way
did you hope to play 'Hangman' with me, Vessy ?"
"Hmm, Lawrence, my own version of 'Hangman'," Vessy hesistated, and she followed Lawrence, such that now both were standing right beside her casserole.
"Well, my own variation of the 'Hangman' game is actually called 'ROAST MAN' ... !"
"R-R-R-ROAST MAN ?" Lawrence began to stammer, and he wondered why that strange canvas on the ceiling was placed almost perfectly parallel
two meters above Vessy's oversized casserole.
"Yeah, Lawrence, I'd love to play 'ROAST MAN' with YOU ! " Vessy touched Lawrence shoulder, as he was speechless. "Don't worry, Lawrence, 'Roast Man' is only a
quiz-like game which I invented, and it is very similar to 'Hangman' . All you have to do in order to avoid losing, is to guess the correct letters, which make
up that 'unknown word' which I'm gonna ask you !"
"Ok, Vessy, I got it." Lawrence nodded. "When Jennifer and I played 'Hangman', we used a piece of paper. We drew gallows, and then
a hanged stickman, in order to represent that unlucky guesser who had failed to guess all the correct characters of the 'unknown word'.
So as for your 'Roast Man' game, am I right to assume that you're gonna draw a stickman on a piece of paper, which represents the loser inside of
a big baking dish ... ?"
"No, Lawrence ! I came up with a much more exciting idea !" Vessy smiled at him. "You see, I thought that merely drawing a stickman one a piece of paper,
which represents YOU, as you lose, would've been way too boring and unsatisfying ! That's why I wanna play this good old quiz game
in a much more realistic and physical way ..."
Now also Jennifer walked up to where Lawrence and Vessy were standing, and she shook her head: "No, Vessy !?
Don't tell me ..."
"Yeah, Jennifer !" Vessy nodded. "If we seriously wanna 'play' 'Roast Man' with Lawrence, he needs to get undressed first, then climb
into my casserole for big meals, and lie on his back, with his face turned up !"
Listening to how Vessy was seriously hoping to get a chance of playing 'Roast man' with him, caused Lawrence to feel slightly startled,
so he cut in: "Yeah, Vessy, ha, ha, good joke !? Are you serious ? So you expect me to undress and climb into your monstrous baking dish here voluntarily ..."
"Of course you mustn't climb into my casserole right away, Lawrence !" Vessy looked at him with an excited expression. "First off, you've gotta take a
thorough shower , so you're gonna be perfectly clean - before we can even begin to dream of preparing you for ..."
"WHAT THE -" Lawrence couldn't stop himself from shouting unbelievingly. "Preparing me for WHAT, Vessy !?"