Serve up the (dish)
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From: A Kitchen for Artists
Description summary:
The description changes according to the level of Current Culinary Concoction
Concoction | Title | Description |
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1 | Sharply Flavoured Pickle, As Yet Unpoisoned | Sharply flavoured pickle of onion and other vegetables, suitable as a condiment in all sorts of applications. Its vinegary potency would hide almost any poison. |
5 | Jet-Black Pickle Relish Dosed with Hillchanger Scorpion Venom | Bread. Boiled egg. And a deep brown, heavily spiced pickle relish, blackly gleaming with the most discriminating of poisons. |
7 | Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug | Artistically-arranged segments of bone, each filled with quivering gelatin encasing a treasure of Neathy pickles. |
20 | An Enticing Fungal Pâté | Chopped mushroom in three kinds, mixed with venison marrow and pressed into a mould, then served with a garnish of boiled egg and something that looks a bit green. |
23 | A Platter of Mixed Charcuterie | Chunky slices of cured sausage. Wafers of ham, from which almost all the tinny after-taste has been successfully abstracted. Rich potted marrow. |
25 | A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé | An architectural folly sculpted out of fungal pâté, encrusted with sautéd mushrooms, covered in absinthe and set alight. Purple-blue flames jump up from the edible bonfire, and hopefully not onto a tablecloth. |
50 | Vibrantly Peppery Fish Broth | A deep-hued peppery fish broth studded with fresh (not canned!) peppercaps. A dish to warm the ribcage from the inside. |
53 | Caducean Zzoup, with Gunpowder and Sickly Rose | A furious Zzoup that resents the time the Devils wandered in Parabola, and resents Hell, and resents the Brass Embassy. Every bite explodes with concentrated fury. |
55 | Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons | Hot enough to scar, with a faint resinous aftertaste; garnished with teeth. |
57 | Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines | Salty and savoury, it tastes of things that were good for you when you were a far simpler creature. |
100 | Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur | A shade lighter than port, smelling of the Elder Continent, served in a thistle-shaped glass. |
103 | Sparkling Solacefruit Royale | Deep pinkish-red, swiftly bubbling. In a glass, it sounds like distant laughter. It dispels fear and anaesthetises before a change. |
105 | Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet | Deep pinkish-red, swiftly bubbling. In a glass, it sounds like distant laughter. It dispels fear and anaesthetises before a change. |
200 | Self-Reflective Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple | A chunky relish of chopped fruit and Concentrate of Self. It would pair well with meat or fungus; it will inevitably call you to mind. Unwise to serve to ex-lovers. |
203 | Sour Pickle of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Vinegar | Sour and spice-brown, but with segments of orange-apple still clearly distinct in the mixture. It is a very strong and self-assured flavour. |
206 | Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy | Almost black in colour, tasting like a flash of spice and then a numbing absence. You have trained yourself sufficiently to eat it without danger. Someone else would find the preparation fatal. |
209 | Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar | A perfumed composition that speaks of pale orange evenings and a palm fronds. Best served in cosmogone lamp-light. |
300 | Curatorial Cocktail | It is sweet and sour, with a spike of overwhelming bitterness that comes up about half a second through tasting, and does not linger. They will never truly appreciate this. |
400 | Parabolan Taper-nut Cake | A round yellow cake made for one, filled with candied taper-nut paste and decorated with hatched white icing. A treat, neither decadent nor dainty. |
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Game Instructions: The higher the luxury level of your trains, the more your clientele will tip for their dinner. This option is now paid entirely in Hinterland Scrip.
Unlocked with Current Culinary Concoction
Success
A Preparation Well-Received
Out in the dining room, [Languor Level] await their meal: [Passenger]; [Balmoral Visitor]; [Local Worker].
[Diners' Reaction]Description summary:
The diner varies with several Airs qualities. The beginning of the paragraph varies with a currently unknown quality, the first diner depends on Airs of Passengers, the second diner is a visitor from Balmoral, and the third diner is a local from Factory VIII. The second paragraph depends on Current Culinary Concoction.
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? | Languor Level |
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? | a few jaded passengers |
?? | a few travel-worn passengers |
Airs of Passengers | Passenger |
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0 | a person in a dove-grey suit |
1001 - 1029 | a lady in a blue gown |
1030 - 1049 | a gentleman in a grey silk waistcoat |
1050 - 1059 | a Rubbery man in fawn-coloured gloves |
1060 - 1064 | a Gondolier of upper rank with the uniform to prove it |
1065 - 1069 | an agent of the Bazaar |
1070 - 1079 | a judge from the Evenlode |
1080 - 1089 | a friend of the Veteran Privy Counsellor |
1090 - 1099 | a very bureaucratic-looking man |
1100 - 1109 | a woman dressed in Bohemian style but very expensive fabrics |
1110 - 1119 | a man with a briefcase covered with Correspondence sigils |
1120 - 1124 | a man in a very thick fur coat |
1125 - 1129 | a woman with a mink stole |
1130 | a determined Baroness with a hand-stamped letter of recommendation to the gates of Hell |
2001 - 2049 | a mushroom-farmer |
2050 - 2059 | a Rubbery man dressed for the factory |
2060 - 2069 | a down-at-heels ex-Gondolier |
2070 - 2074 | an escapee from the prisons of the Evenlode |
2075 - 2136 | a speechless woman with a lamp affixed to her hand |
3001 - 3009 | a scholar in Benthic robes |
3010 - 3024 | a palaeontologist (bag of tools uncouthly on the table) |
3025 - 3049 | a scholar in Summerset robes |
3050 - 3059 | a scholar of Rubbery linguistics |
3060 - 3064 | a professor interested in the sociology of the Gondoliers |
3065 - 3069 | an archaeologist investigating the Sere Palace |
3070 - 3130 | a legal scholar of the Evenlode |
4001 - 4009 | a determined-looking Tracklayer |
4010 - 4019 | a Tracklayer wearing the insignia of the Prehistoricists |
4020 - 4049 | a solicitor employed by the Tracklayers' Union |
4050 - 4059 | a Rubbery man in a Tracklayer's uniform |
4060 - 4069 | a Tracklayer recruited from the Gondoliers |
4070 - 4079 | a burly Tracklayer |
4080 - 4089 | a wiry Tracklayer |
4090 - 4099 | a scrawny Tracklayer |
4100 - 4109 | a Tracklayer with a book of psalms |
4110 - 4119 | a Tracklayer with thick protective boots |
4120 - 4129 | a Tracklayer who hasn't bothered removing her helmet |
4130 - 4137 | a Tracklayer in fire-proof gloves |
5001 - 5009 | a vicar |
5010 - 5024 | a deacon |
5025 - 5039 | a rector |
5040 - 5049 | a lay preacher |
5050 - 5059 | a lay theologist translating the Bible to Rubbery speech |
5060 - 5069 | the vicar-sailor of the floating Church of Saint Barbara |
5070 - 5079 | a prison chaplain |
5080 - 5089 | a dour-looking rector |
5090 - 5099 | a factory chaplain |
5100 - 5109 | a lay preacher of the Church in the Wild |
5110 - 5119 | a Church historian |
5120 - 5124 | a monk in black robes |
5125 - 5129 | a Follower of the Anchoress |
5130 - 5138 | a militant preacher against devils |
10001 - 10009 | a sardonic-looking Devil |
10010 - 10019 | a grim-looking Devil |
10020 - 10029 | a glum Deviless |
10030 - 10049 | a smug Deviless |
10050 - 10059 | an expert in Rubbery souls |
10060 - 10130 | one of the regulars of the Fiddler's Scarlet |
Airs of Balmoral | Balmoral Visitor |
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1-14 | a man in a kilt |
15-24 | a girl with a pistol tucked in her sash |
25-34 | a young Scotsman |
35-49 | a young Scotswoman |
50-74 | an ageing portrait-painter |
75-89 | a woman in a blue and grey tartan sash |
90-100 | a landscape painter |
Airs of VIII | Local Worker |
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1-4 | a former employee of Mr Pages |
5-14 | a former employee of Mr Fires |
15-19 | a former employee of Mr Apples |
21-24 | a former employee of Mr Veils |
25-29 | a former employee of Mr Cups |
30-34 | a former employee of Mr Mirrors |
35-36 | a former employee of Mr Spices |
38-39 | a former employee of Mr Stones |
40-44 | a former employee of Mr Mirrors |
45-49 | a former employee of Mr Iron |
51-59 | a laboratory worker with stained fingernails |
60-67 | the head porter for the factory |
70-79 | a lab worker who reminds you of an ex-student |
80-89 | a lab worker with a pet rat in her pocket |
91-96 | a balding lab worker |
98-100 | a hirsute lab worker |
Current Culinary Concoction | Diners' Reaction |
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5, 20, 23, 50, 53, 55, 57, 100, 200, 203, 206, 209 | The diners eat in silence, perhaps too awed by your concoction to make any remark. But they pay as richly as their purses will allow. |
1 - Sharply Flavoured Pickle, As Yet Unpoisoned | The diners eat in silence, teeth crunching, eyes streaming with tears. They require three times the usual quantity of water and wine to wash it away with. No one complains, but the pleasures of the meal leave them looking rather sapped. |
7 - Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug | They carefully slip their spoons into the bones, digging out quivering lumps of translucent aspic. Lips smack. Conversation slows. Someone is gently snoring, still holding a glass of lager. |
25 - A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé | The lights in the dining room are dimmed for effect; some clap merrily as the flames rise from the mountain of pâté. When they abate, the entire thing is coated in a burnished glaze of reduced absinthe; dreamy smiles follow. |
103 - Sparkling Solacefruit Royale | They watch you approach with the bubbling glasses; their eyes are wide, like very ill patients watching the nurse draw near with their dose.
Some of them do try to savour the drink, but every one of them looks sad when the glass is empty. |
105 - Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet | The diners eat, and wonder, and lick their spoons. Their eyes are full of dreams, the consolation of the other-world that might have been, where they achieved all their aims, and none of their counsels went wrong. |
300 - Curatorial Cocktail | They stare into the coupe glasses full of dark liquid, watching it sparkle. They sip, and smile. Conversation brightens in the dining room. They are altogether more self-assured, more themselves. Hungrier, but not for food. |
400 - Parabolan Taper-nut Cake | The diners eat eagerly. There's a murmur of surprise and recognition. "Isn't there a tea room that serves these?" "No; but there ought to be?" They try to order seconds, but you explain that the trick cannot be repeated on the same evening. |
- You've gained ( Value / 50) + Luxuries x Hinterland Scrip
- [Airs of Balmoral change…] (random) (hidden)
- [Airs of VIII change…] (random) (hidden)
- [Airs of Passengers change…] (random) (hidden)
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