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Cooking skill: Condimenting

Well, I hope the typo caught your eye, or at least I don't know if that is a correct word to use, but that is what this would be this new Cooking related skill: the marvelous art of adding extras to your food!

Some players tend to think of Cooking as a too-complicated way of gaining energy back, as nibbling pigs etc tend to do a nice work, but some players with bigger tanks may find this not enough. This new skill would help a bit to solve this problem.

Also, who hasn't done this in real life? I think we all can say we have poured salt on some already flavored enough dish, or more hot sauce in an already spicy dish, or put honey on top of some already sweet dessert... or am I crazy? Well, we all are crazy, and of course, this is Glitch! Of course, the requirement for accessing this art would be Saucery II. Because every good Glitch that would like to try to put Sauce or other things in their food would have to know this at least.

Now, onto how this works once you have this learned: When clicking into a dish, you would have not only the "Eat" option, you would have also a "Eat with..." one. If you select it, a menu like the "Feed" or "Donate to" ones would open, with the option to select upon:
- All types of spices, including Allspice.
- All sauces.
- Other items, such as: Honey and Hooch would be two possible candidates. Maybe Herbs could also be included?

Doing so would give some boosts and effects, such as possibly doubling food energy rate, adding "Hearty" properties to them (like in the Hot & Fizzy Sauce) or a random effect between other Sauces (like the Secret Sauce may be able to do). Other items like Hooch could maybe have a progressive Mood recovery effect, like "Smashed" but without the loss of energy or "Hungover".

The limitation to this would be one though, although I sort of mentioned it: You could only do this in dishes, and with this I mean something cooked. Maybe you would enjoy a raw steak of meat with some condiments, ok... but it is for the sake of balance and making Cooking better.

And another thing maybe could be adding a "flavor" to each food. This could be of use into this because some Sauces etc would have increased effects depending of the food, because maybe Cloudberry Jam wouldn't be very good on some Abbasid Ribs, but a Hot & Fizzy Sauce would work better, maybe...? The right combination may have unexpected results! And the wrong one... may have some fun effects, too!

Hope you like it! I would like it too! Of course, the idea was inspired by the own condiment system in Earthbound (a Super Nintendo RPG) if you wonder where the inspiration came from! :) But I do add things in my food!

Posted 7 months ago by Aumir Subscriber! | Permalink

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