A man with a big spoon and a bigger heart, Seth is the owner of The Big Spill Kitchen, a soup-of-the-day joint on the outskirts of the A-District which is very popular among dockworkers and starfaring regulars. A kind and inviting person, Seth is the type to put the needs of others above his own- he understands the rigors of life in deep space, and if someone is hungry and they don't carry interplanetary Credits on them? Well, that's no reason to deny someone a hot meal. Seth's a kind man but he's no doormat, if he believes you've got the mettle for it he will put a challenge to you and hold you to a higher standard, giving you a push to bring out the best version of yourself. He's a man you don't meet every day.
The Big Spill Kitchen is a small restaurant designed with rustic Terran-style decor, built with stout wooden beams and solid oak tables, its lighting as warm and inviting as a candle-lit tavern. It's a pretty relaxed restaurant throughout the day, but when lunchtime hits the restaurant is always slammed with customers. The restaurant's gimmick is pretty simple: there is a perpetual soup bubbling at all hours, day and night, and every day Seth and his staff prepare one additional soup, the Soup of the Day, in a great big pot stirred with Seth's famous big spoon, carved from a large and magnificent stick he found on a remote Saturnian trail. You come into The Big Spill Kitchen and you can order the Soup of the Day or you can get the forever soup- you get the new thing or you taste the evolving standard. Both soups are served in a bread bowl to minimize space waste and the spoon you get is made from biodegradable material that is safe to throw into a ship's incinerator. There's no fuss, there's no waste, it's this soup or that; a hot meal you can eat at the restaurant or take back to your worksite that is both filling and healthy to boot!
Serving healthy and wholesome food is important to Seth, as he feels a good meal inspires great deeds. To help maintain his restaurant's standards, Seth embarks on regular trips out to other worlds- to Ganymede, to Callisto, to the hundred moons of Saturn and beyond- in order to forage for just the right ingredients for his soup cauldrons. The Big Spill Kitchen is open every day, but on weekends it's forever soup only, as Seth is off Titan hiking the untamed wilds of the Outer Belt preparing ingredients for the coming week's soups. His famous big spoon makes for an excellent walking stick, and he's fond of carrying ingredients in pouches around his belt, along with a special forcefield-integrated hardlight projection module he keeps on his hip that deploys into a large cooking pot! Place the device on a large rock in the middle of a fire, fill it with your ingredients and you can prepare a fine stew anywhere, making a nice surprise when he meets a fellow hiker out in the remote wilderness.
Often accompanying Seth on his forays into the wilds of the Sol system is fellow Terran and longtime friend, Big Henry. Big Henry's wilderness wisdom and survival instincts are a good match for Seth's wanderlust, ensuring the Big Spill cook makes it home in one piece. Big Henry has seen the Sol system stem to stern, and knows where not just where wild ingredients can be found, but on which moons isolated homesteaders run self-sustaining farms willing to sell or barter with a seasoned cook like Seth. Seth's willingness to go so far out of his way for fresh ingredients to make the best and healthiest soups he can, and his willingness to simply give that soup away to those in need, and to push those who come to know him to be the best versions of themselves they can, Big Henry sees a kind of strength in Seth's heart which he has come to respect and admire once he recognized the ways he himself has been pushed and grown in the man's company. It's a rare thing for the titanic Terran to find, but Seth has certainly earned the frontiersman's regular company.
If you're ever on Titan, come around to The Big Spill Kitchen, get yourself a bread bowl and enjoy the good vibes of one of the Garden's cozy little secrets. Try the soup of the day- never heard of it? You'll never know if you like it until you give it a try.
