MISSION TWO: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
‘To befriend an antelope, ask a lion for a personal introduction.’ — old West Coast proverb
Welcome to Mission Two of INVOKE.
FIRST, read the story. Click on the image below.
(You can read the EVOKE comic which INVOKE’s borrows the art and some text from, on their website.)
NOW, play the mission!
We saved Tokyo. Now it’s your turn. More than one billion people go hungry every day. This week, you have the power to change at least one of those lives.
And that one life belongs to Shigeru, a malnourished Japanese boy who you will be having over for dinner in 2020. Shigeru is being mentored as a part of a World Youth Hunger Leadership program, and has received a travel scholarship that will enable him to come to dinner at your home in Washington DC*.
This week your mission is to describe the food that you plan to serve to Shigeru on his special evening. Shigeru hasn’t eaten solid food for weeks, so be sure to make this a meal of a lifetime**! The winning recipes will form part of our compulsory-eating program for all Japanese children***.
So what are you waiting for? Start cooking up those ideas now!
To play this mission, post a comment detailing the meal you will serve in 2020 to Shigeru, the starving and inspirational world youth leader.
If you find yourself having trouble with this task, please refer to the INVOKE game manual. Please note that only game-playing comments to this post will be accepted. Post any general comments here.
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* You will live in Washington DC because you are an innovator.
** Bear in mind that the meal may in fact be the last meal of his lifetime, given that expert forecasters at the World Bank are predicting famine for Tokyo in 2020.
*** Statistical modelling shows that a solution for one case will work in all cases, forever!
One meal, and one meal only: ‘ethically’ made tofu.
It has to be whale, and lots of it. The tongue is a delicacy. Even more nutrition in the marrow fat. Yum.
I would give him a cooking lesson. As the old saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and he will probably die due to parasites and pollutants. Teach him to cook, and put him to work cooking the fish you have acquired using your carefully guarded fishing IP.” Somebody has to profit!
The answer is so obvious even a child could see. The ideal meal for Shigeru wouldn’t actually be a food, in the traditional sense, but tobacco. It wouldn’t provide the necessary qualities of real food, but it’d help with the hunger! What better way to deal with a starving, impoverished populace than to hook them on a heavily taxed product and profit off their addiction while they’ve still alive enough to spend.
just make sure to keep them away from horrible unhealthy american food. you wouldn’t want these poor starving people to end up with heart disease
Inspired by some comments on EVOKE… Make use of those feckless homeless people! So much protein going to waste lying idle on our streets.
Serve Shigeru a plate of tasty, tasty Soylent Green: