{"id":23430,"date":"2025-05-11T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=23430"},"modified":"2025-05-04T22:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:13:24","slug":"sylum-snippet-madmartigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-snippet-madmartigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Snippet: Madmartigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23431\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-snippet-madmartigan\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif\" data-orig-size=\"568,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0~mv2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23431 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif 568w, https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif 400w, https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif 150w, https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f9a487_310ad68203d049048821673655da69f0mv2.avif 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To go with the Sylum Inspiration&#8217;s this month &#8211; I&#8217;m adding a Sylum Snippet for each character.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oh and the inspiration comes from many conversations with Sparrow about the Food Network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Harry walked through the living room, towards the kitchen to get something to drink.\u00a0 \u00a0They had been working on a case for the past week, and last night he had staked out the suspects house waiting for well anything.\u00a0 The only interesting thing he had seen, was the mistress who left at six o&#8217;clock in the morning to head for her yoga class.\u00a0 \u00a0Nothing in relation to embezzlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He had slept most of the morning, and was looking for water and maybe a light snack, before crashing back into the bed.\u00a0 \u00a0It was disappointing waking up alone, but his Mate had already been up, when he crashed.\u00a0 \u00a0A yawn escaped, as he stretched and scratched his stomach, glancing into the living room to see Madmartigan watching some competition show.\u00a0 \u00a0This wasn&#8217;t normal.\u00a0 \u00a0Mads didn&#8217;t watch &#8216;reality&#8217; shows.\u00a0 He watched documentaries.\u00a0 Classics.\u00a0 And every once in a while a good rom-com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diverting from his bed to snuggle with his Mate, Harry flopped onto the couch after depositing his drink on the coffee table.\u00a0 &#8220;What are you watching?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Madmartigan leaned forward grabbed a coaster and put the drink on it.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s some cooking competition show.\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s brackets and cook offs.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Wait chef&#8217;s compete? How does that work?&#8221;\u00a0 He asked trying to figure what&#8217;s going on.\u00a0 \u00a0At the moment there were two chefs standing next to an MC of some sort who were awaiting the results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;They get random ingredients, style of food, and a wild card then cook up a meal in a certain set a time.\u00a0 \u00a0Some high end judges do a blind tasting, best score wins.\u00a0 Each chef moves through the brackets until one is the winner.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0He explained reaching for his popcorn.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s been interesting.\u00a0 \u00a0This is the sixth season, they just started season ten. 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