"Very. What have you been using the totems for? Built anything interesting?"

"I have not! I have spent most of my time poking around for food – excluding night-time – and other totems to mess with."

"Well, I was bored as fuck so experimented with building stuff."

"Anything in particular?"

"Oh, I built a literal castle, mostly for fun, but living in a castle by yourself is even less fun than it sounds. So I built myself some houses, got it really nice after some trial and error."

"Did you do bits of that as a recipe, or just… make all the houses from scratch?"

"Bits of that as a recipe. Like, there was a large section of wall with decorative mosaics and a window which I turned into a full recipe because I knew I would want it in future houses."

Nod.

"Want me to build you anything? Any food you are missing?"

He shrugs. "I'm not really sure what I need at this point."

"I think you can survive fine with just the tent and a supply of food totems, but for all I know this gets harder the longer we stay."

"I really hope it does not get harder." Sigh.

"Well, things had been pretty stable lately."

"I haven't been here long enough to… declare it stable or not, I think."

"I could explain... Do you mind if we do that somewhere that isn't a sunny beach?"

"Happy to."

Gabe follows.

Shortly thereafter, they arrive at Anthony's campsite location.

"I know this is your place, but would you like something to eat?"

"What do you have?"

Gabe offers him a food totem. It has an apron and a chef hat and a colorful color-scheme that alludes to various types of food.

"Just think of any foods you'd like. Anything up to about this volume," he gestures a size that's enough for a single person to eat well enough. "It will come with plates and silverware made of this gray stuff that dissolves once the food is gone or if you try to use the thing for non-food stuff."

Anthony takes the totem. "Any idea what the gray stuff is?"

"Not a fucking clue. It feels sort of plastic-y, but crumbles like sand."

Anthony frowns, but decides to try it anyway.

… Scrambled egg?

It appears in a poof of white smoke (this is not the usual way for totem-created stuff to appear) and there it is: scrambled eggs, maybe a bit more than he intended, complete with plate and silverware.