"Ahh, hell!" Flinzi exclaimed proudly. "I might as well give it a try - after all, this is a momentous occasion! I'll give it just one bite, and that'll be it."
After deciding that she was gonna try out the C.H.A.S.M. for herself, Flinzi took a few moments to look over the meal in front of her - the dish was a single large mushroom, about half the size she was, stuffed with apple slices. It was also hickory-smoked to a delicate crisp, and topped off with shreds of cheesed melted on top as the final touch. The scent coming off the C.H.A.S.M. was like a mix of freshly baked apple pie and burning mushroom - surprisingly, the cheese didn't have any sort of smell whatsoever.
Flinzi grabbed the dish the C.H.A.S.M. was laying on and set it on her coffee table - the dish was just big enough to take up all the space on it. She sat down on the chair next to the table and whipped out a fork in one hand, and a knife in the other. "Allllright," she said, "time to give this sucker a shot!" Flinzi took a slice off the C.H.A.S.M., just big enough to get a little taste of all the key ingredients. She then proceeded to open her mouth wide and say, "Ahhhhhhhhh," before chomping down and taking a bite out of the slice off her fork. A few seconds passed as she was chewing on her slice, when she slowed down and eventually stopped - her eyes widened, and her eyebrows raised.
"T-This is..." Flinzi gasped, before shouting, "This. IS. DELICIOUS!" She immediately gulped down the slice she was chewing on, and rapidly cut off another to chow down. Each bite she took, the more the flavors popped - each time she chewed, the more the flavors danced. It was truly the tastiest thing Flinzi had tried in a long time. This is DEFINITELY a success! she thought to herself during her meal. I'm so glad I tried this, this is great!!
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A couple minutes passed, and after one last gulp, the C.H.A.S.M. was gone - Flinzi had cleaned up her plate. She slowly put the fork and knife back down on the dish, and followed it up with a belch. "Brrruuuuuaaaa..." After her burp, Flinzi placed her hands on her stomach and rubbed it slowly. "Man... that was some gooooood eating..."
As she was rubbing her hands on her belly, Flinzi noticed just how full she was - her belly was definitely distended somewhat, she could feel it, even if a glance down at her overalls didn't give it away. Whatever pot-belly she had just acquired was hidden by her clothes, for the most part. It made sense - after all, the C.H.A.S.M. was quite large. The mushroom used for the dish was a Spotted Red Forest Mushroom - they were large fungi that were most famous for their bright white caps covered in various red circles of different sizes. The locals called them Red Spot Shrooms, and while they were naturally poisonous, if prepared correctly, they made for a good source of protein - they were also large mushrooms, perhaps the biggest in the whole kingdom's ecosystem. At their smallest, they were the size of a grown man's whole hand, and at their largest... well, they were half Flinzi's size.
Depending on their size, the more you could stuff into the mushrooms - this was a common practice for bakers, to stuff the stem and the cap of the mushroom with other ingredients after they were stripped of their insides. Though, nobody but Flinzi thought to stuff them with fruit - like apples.
Flinzi sat up from her chair and walked out the front door of her stone tower, to assess the potential damage - it didn't occur to her until *after* her meal that the explosion may have caused some of her tower to fall. As for how the explosion had happened, that was part of Flinzi's heating process - but putting the C.H.A.S.M. into a stove for it to simmer. After the C.H.A.S.M. was finished, Flinzi closed the stove, but didn't turn it off, resulting in internal build-up within the stove, and thus causing an explosion.
Flinzi sighed and stated, "Awwwwh, man, that's the third stove this month! And now the room is gone! No wonder there was so much sunlight in there..."
Just then, Flinzi felt her ears perk up - she had heard someone coming towards the tower - she turned around to see who it may be. After a few silent seconds passed, she could see that it was:
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