A Kitchen for Artists (Guide)

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Late-Game Content

A guide on making and selling meals at A Kitchen for Artists in Station VIII

Mechanics

Before you Start

The first step is naturally reaching and building Station VIII. Once there, you will have the option of building a canteen as part of The Business of Manufacture storyline. After you have built the canteen, the A Kitchen for Artists storylet becomes available. The canteen can be upgraded twice at the Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Station VIII Branch to unlock more bases for advanced cookery. Note that you need to make 5 meals before the second upgrade.

Creation

Basics

Creating a meal is a simple affair:

1. Create the base for the dish. This is the main option that depends on the upgrade level of your kitchen ( Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII), and sets the meal's initial value and Current Culinary Concoction, determining some end-uses for the dish.
2. Optionally Enhance the dish with additional ingredients. At the time of writing, only Fish Based dishes can be enhanced with Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch.
3. Develop the dish further, which adds value to the meal, and sets Current Culinary Concoction to a new value.
4. Develop the dish even further, adding a great deal of value. At the time of writing, there is only one option in this category, Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail.

A dish is ready to serve at any level, making enhancing and developing the dish optional. There are two main reasons to develop your dish further; first to add Culinary Ingredient Value, which affects the reward you receive for serving or selling a dish, and secondly to attain a specific Current Culinary Concoction, which can unlock particular meal sales.

Detailed Creation

Bases

The bases you can create are limited by your Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII level.

Bases List

Storylet	Value	Challenge	Cost
Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII 1
Brew a Spicy Fish Broth	850	Kataleptic Toxicology 1 Dangerous 150	5 x Hand-picked Peppercaps 2 x Withered Tentacle 5 x Fin Bones, Collected
Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII 2
Steep a Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur	710	A Scholar of the Correspondence 10 Kataleptic Toxicology 3	3 x Dark-Dewed Cherry 1 x Bottle of Broken Giant 1844
Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII 3
Prepare a Sharply-Flavoured Pickle	750	Shadowy 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 1	5 x Hand-picked Peppercaps 5 x Magisterial Lager
Compose an enticing Fungal Pâté	900	Persuasive 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 1	5 x Hand-picked Peppercaps 2 x Pot of Venison Marrow 1 x Preserved Surface Blooms
Concoct a Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Concentrate of Self	2750	Watchful 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 5	1 x Concentrate of Self 2 x Parabolan Orange-apple
Prepare a Hearty Taper-nut Cake	750	Watchful 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 5	1 x Concentrate of Self 1 x Beatrice's Taper-nut

Development

Development Table

Storylet	Added Value	Challenge	Cost	Level
Spicy Fish Broth
Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch	500	Dangerous 150 Monstrous Anatomy 1	5 x Deep-zee Catch	1
Turn this dish into a Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons	1750	Dangerous 175 Kataleptic Toxicology 3	1 x Remains of a Pinewood Shark 1 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits	2
Enhance into a Caducean Zzoup of Reactionary Tendencies	1750	Dangerous 175 Kataleptic Toxicology 3	5 x Perfumed Gunpowder 1 x Tin of Zzoup	2
Assemble a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines	1900	Kataleptic Toxicology 5 Glasswork 2	2 x Memory of Distant Shores 1 x Amber-Crusted Fin 6 x Withered Tentacle	2
Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur
Prepare a Solacefruit Champagne Royale	2250	Persuasive 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 3	1 x Fillip of Effervescence 1 x Crystallised Euphoria 5 x Solacefruit	2
Sharply-Flavoured Pickle
Develop into an Envenomed Pickle of Vinegar, Vengeance, and Hillchanger Scorpion	500	Monstrous Anatomy 3 Kataleptic Toxicology 3	3 x Jet Black Stinger 100 x Rat on a String	3
Suspend the pickle in a Venison Aspic – spiked with Mr Spices' new drug	350	Kataleptic Toxicology 7	3 x Pot of Venison Marrow 10 x Femur of a Surface Deer	3
Fungal Pâté
Prepare a Platter of Mixed Charcuterie	7750	Persuasive 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 1	1 x Sausage About Which No One Complains 1 x Tinned Ham	3
Drown it in absinthe. Prepare it for ignition.	600	Kataleptic Toxicology 5	6 x Hand-picked Peppercaps 1 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe	3
Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple
Sweeten into a Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar	500	Persuasive 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 5	100 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey	4
Sour into a Pickle of Parabolan Orange-apple with Jasmine Notes	500	Watchful 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 5	15 x Jasmine Leaves 2 x Magisterial Lager	4
Develop into an Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy	500	Dangerous 150 Kataleptic Toxicology 5	1 x Muscaria Brandy	3

Further Development

Storylet	Added Value	Challenge	Cost	Level
Sparkling Solacefruit Royale
Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail	36500	Kataleptic Toxicology 7	1 x Concentrate of Self 100 x Memory of Distant Shores	2
Freeze the Solacefruit Champagne Royale into a sorbet	2500	Persuasive 175 Kataleptic Toxicology 5	1 x Memory of Discordance 1 x Sudden Insight Moonlit 3	3

Quick Reference Sheet

Serving

There are several ways to use meals created in your kitchen:

Non-Specific Options

These options aren't limited to a single meal, and have scaling rewards dependent on Culinary Ingredient Value

The Classic

One option is always available regardless of what kind of meal you have made, and involves serving your masterpiece to the train passengers passing through Station VIII.

• Serve up the (dish) This is the probably the simplest use for a dish, and gives Hinterland Scrip equal to Value / 50, and a tip of Hinterland Scrip equal to your Train Luxuries, transforming value from the miscellany of items you use to create it into pure scrip.

Menace Reduction

This option can reduce your menaces based on Culinary Ingredient Value. The menace reduced is determined by the Current Culinary Concoction value of your meal, while the Culinary Ingredient Value determines the amount reduced.

• Dose yourself with (your dish) A Fish Broth based meal reduces Wounds
• Dose yourself with (your dish) 2 A Dark-Dewed Cherry based meal reduces Nightmares

Both reduce the appropriate menace by 4 CP + 1 CP per 125 Culinary Ingredient Value

So far, cooks have yet to invent a meal that can improve your standing in the eyes of others.

Exceptional Rose Companions

If you possess Canny Costermonger or Dr Schlomo companions from the Feast of the Exceptional Rose event, they each have an option for disposing of your dish, and giving you items in return.

• Trade (your dish) to the Canny Costermonger gives Culinary Ingredient Value / 100 Solacefruit and Culinary Ingredient Value / 140 Dark-Dewed Cherry
• Supply Dr Schlomo with (your dish) will only take Parabolan Orange-apple based dishes, and gives Culinary Ingredient Value / 250 An Identity Uncovered!, as well as a tip of 5 x Hinterland Scrip

The Worker's Meal

If you find your Tracklayers' Displeasure getting too high for comfort, and figure giving your workers a jolly good snack will calm them down, this option is for you.

• Lay an astonishing feast for the Tracklayers is limited to fungal pâté based meals, and will decrease Tracklayers' Displeasure by Culinary Ingredient Value / 100 CP.

Specific Options

These options require an exact Current Culinary Concoction value, meaning a specific meal.

Specific Meal Options

Storylet	Required Meal	Rewards
Serve up a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines (Helicon House)	Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines	3 x Fitting in at Helicon House 56 x Hinterland Scrip +4 CP Inspired...
Offer champagne for its Revels (Mr Wines)	Sparkling Solacefruit Royale	326 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 5 x Hinterland Scrip
Bid it to try the sorbet (Mr Wines)	Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet	66 x Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe 328 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 5 x Hinterland Scrip
Ply it with aspic dosed with its own drug (Mr Spices)	Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug	5 x Extraordinary Implication 5 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
Present it with the Curatorial Cocktail (Mr Wines)	Curatorial Cocktail	+3 CP Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 1 x Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise
Present Mr Fires with Flambéd Peppercap Pâté (Mr Fires)	A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé	1 x Bazaar Permit 5 x Hinterland Scrip

Transforming Yourself

Certain dishes, can cause significant changes to yourself, and importantly, your quirks (if they are between 5 and 12.) Parabolan Orange-apple based meals will also give you 1 x Mirror-Fed.

• Transform yourself with Self-Reflective Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple reduces each of your menaces by 1 CP. Not too useful.
• Transform yourself with Sour Pickle of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Vinegar gives Steadfast, Melancholy, and Austere
• Transform yourself with Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy gives Daring, Forceful, Ruthless, and Heartless
• Transform yourself with Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar gives Subtle, Magnanimous, and Hedonist

In addition, the highly expensive Curatorial Cocktail can result in...

• Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail -4 CP Nightmares. Not worth it at all, I guess it is true that only a curator can properly appreciate this dish. Such as...
• Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail Requires The Robe of Mr Cards. -28? CP Nightmares, -28? CP Wounds, Ruthless and Heartless gain, Magnanimous loss.

Rewards Table

This table lists the rewards from the various options for selling your meal

Meal Sales

Storylet	Rewards	Division Factors	Restrictions / Additional Rewards
Serve up the (dish)	Hinterland Scrip	50	+ ( Train Luxuries) x Hinterland Scrip
Trade (your dish) to the Canny Costermonger	Solacefruit Dark-Dewed Cherry	100 140
Supply Dr Schlomo with (your dish)	An Identity Uncovered!	250	Orange-Apple Based 5 x Hinterland Scrip
Dose yourself with (your dish)	Wounds Reduction	125	Fish Based -4 CP Wounds
Dose yourself with (your dish)	Nightmares Reduction	125	Cherry Based -4 CP Nightmares
Lay an astonishing feast for the Tracklayers	Tracklayers' Displeasure Reduction	100	Fungus Based

Scrip Reference

This table lists the resulting Hinterland Scrip from serving each meal with Serve up the (dish). Train Luxuries is assumed to be 0, but has an easy to calculate effect on the result. Fish Broth based meals can be given additional value with Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch, so you can get higher scrip using that option.

Meal Sales

Meal Name	Value	Scrip
Sharply Flavoured Pickle, As Yet Unpoisoned	750	15
Jet-Black Pickle Relish Dosed with Hillchanger Scorpion Venom	1250	25
Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug	1100	22
An Enticing Fungal Pâté	900	18
A Platter of Mixed Charcuterie	8650	173
A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé	1500	30
Vibrantly Peppery Fish Broth	850	17+
Caducean Zzoup, with Gunpowder and Sickly Rose	2600	52+
Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons	2600	52+
Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines	2750	55+
Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur	710	14
Sparkling Solacefruit Royale	2960	59
Self-Reflective Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple	2750	55
Sour Pickle of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Vinegar	3250	65
Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy	3250	65
Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar	3250	65
Curatorial Cocktail	39460	789
Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet	5460	109
Parabolan Taper-nut Cake	750	15