option 1: Lias doesn't need to eat a specific meal before he goes and plays hockey, but like, how is he going to turn down some weird fascinating dude coming up to him like that? He's played enough video games to know a cool side quest when he sees one. So he makes up some food that he needs in order to play. He says it's meatballs, because that seems believable. The man does indeed produce a plate full of meatballs. Lias asks the man to help him eat the meatballs, because he's curious but he's not stupid, he's not going to just chow down on a bunch of food from a stranger. He and the man enjoy a meal of meatballs together, and while eating, they talk. At first they talk about nothing in particular, but then the discussion gets pretty deep; he talks about his hopes and dreams and his career coming to an end and the peace he needs to make with that, and by the end of it, he feels very centered and focused. The man vanishes, and Lias realizes that the true gift that was given to him was a chance for introspection. He goes out and plays a very good hockey game.