Recipes from the Grove of Immortality
Professor Ji Yuan’s gastronomic work exploring ‘forbidden cuisines’ developed by the Green Sages.
I’m Reading…
Few of these recipes are practical to cook, let alone eat. Many ingredients are exclusively sourced from the Sages’ gardens, and more applicable to creating poultices, poisons, or both.
I’ve Read…
Obliquely described is the Vitulation, a ceremonial feast by which a Grail-long may ascend to Namehood. It requires the preparation of the Seven Graces, a bespoke set of spices, to induce sufficient hungers. Yuan notes that similar hungers may be induced in a coil-remnant with sufficient Nectar-aspect to ripen it into a ‘gnarled sweetness.’
Effect: Memory: Satisfaction
Mastery: Lesson: Spices & Savours
Aspects
- Mystery: Nectar 8
- Subject: Spices & Savours
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Noble Retreat
Recipes
’This old thing -’
talk.visitor.intercept.yuan.recipesfromthegroveofimmortality
Requirements: Prof. Ji Yuan, t.recipesfromthegroveofimmortality
Start Description: ‘Well, not old exactly, but not old. Honestly, the memories of my time there are rather hazy. Would you mind if I read through, make sure nothing important is missing up here?’ [Yuan will examine the book and return it to you. They won’t leave until their other business is concluded.]
Description: ‘The songs which filled the air. Not only those of the Singlefoots, but sung by the Green Sages too. Beautiful, tempting melodies - so tempting I used a little hushery to block them from my mind. They aren’t strong anymore, but they still have a little delight. Let me hum a little of what I recall…’
Effects: x.applebrighteuphonies, music.beguiling