Oh, right! Appliances. They work a lot like the versions she's used to, it turns out; not exactly but fairly close.

I should be able to figure out some dinner! What ingredients are okay for me to use?

Anything from the fridge or in the cupboards that doesn't have someone's name on it.

Okay, cool. She rummages for unclaimed foods.

Unclaimed foods: exist, including a slightly ridiculous amount of pork.

Okay, pork chops and... can she put together the wine sauce...

Well, there isn't any wine in the fridge, but Idaia knows someone who's got wine hidden in their room and would be willing to donate some in exchange for some of the result.

Oh, is this a dry campus, should I not be asking people about wine?

It is theoretically a dry campus and asking random people about wine is probably not the best idea ever but most people'll turn a blind eye.

Well, hopefully no one catches me making the sauce. What's the legal age here?

For drinking? Twenty-one.

That seems really high.

What is it in--calling it "your" world seems vaguely inaccurate and calling it anti-science-world seems insulting, we should think of a name for it.

Materia. It's in routine contact for various purposes with other planes - all also anti-science - but the one regular people live on is called the prime material plane. And eighteen but it's really easy to get an exemption for a variety of reasons.

What kinds of reasons?

Partial nonhuman ancestry - the laws are outright different for some nonhumans - religious reasons, fae curses.

Religious reasons.

Sure. Are there not religions that would conflict with a minimum drinking age here?

I can think of exactly one religion that requires the consumption of alcohol, and that's literally a sip once a week, the law doesn't apply to that.

I guess excepting a specific ceremonial use would work, just not how it works in the Imperium.

I think it's less a specific ceremonial thing and more a parental consent thing? Like, the law doesn't apply to if your parents want to let you have a glass of wine at a family dinner, and if you're an underage member of a religion your parents usually approve.

Aha.

So, parental consent, that's an exception we have.

We might have that too, I'm not sure. I don't drink myself.

I don't either, I am a weepy drunk.