Valik
Professor of Alchemy
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Upon hearing the legend of Lady Saro learning galactic basic by conducting a ritual involving eating the tongue of a storm trooper, Cord knew he had a fantastic marketing opportunity. Recreating the concept, Cord now packages and sells a stew mix, and instructions on how to supply a tongue for use. The user simply cuts up the tongue, cooks it with the stew mix, and eats the entire meal. It is reasonably nutritious, and not the worst tasting meal but far from fine cuisine. The consumer then gains fluency in the primary language of the tongue's owner. This can produce unpredictable results when consuming the tongue of say, experienced traders or language professors. This also does not provide the ability to make all sounds, e.g. a Wookiee would understand but not be able to speak Galactic Basic, as their species lacks the vocals necessary to do so. The stew only works three times in a sentient's life, and doesn't provide an understanding of the written word of any language (though speaking fleuncy typically makes one learn the written word faster). It also only works on "frag" kills, so eating a mummified tongue from Korriban won't make one learn ancient sith. Overall the Atoan Ritual Stew is a flavorful addition to any explorers arsenal of tricks, albeit a limited one
- Intent: To make an interesting role play tool
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: Based on the myth of Lady Saro
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Lady Saro, linked above
- Name: Atoan Ritual Stew
- Manufacturer: Cord's Snake Oil and Sundries
- Affiliation: Cord and Cord's Customers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Blood, Alchemical Materials, edgy stuff, etc.
- Classification: Stew
- Method of Consumption: Consumed
- Average Life: Once the stew is consumed the effects are permanent.
- Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: Roughly as nutritional as a regular bowl of stew
- Attain fluent understanding (and perhaps speech) of a language in an hour or less
- Allows the user to learn to understand a new language with consumption of the stew(and the tongue)
- Allows user to speak a new language if possible biologically
- Helps user learn written language much easier
- Requires "fresh" tongue
- Language learned unpredictable if tongue's previous owner knew multiple languages
- Third time's the charm: the stew can only be consumed three times before the user gains a resistance to the effects; only three languages can be learned
- Does not confer understanding of written language, only spoken language
Upon hearing the legend of Lady Saro learning galactic basic by conducting a ritual involving eating the tongue of a storm trooper, Cord knew he had a fantastic marketing opportunity. Recreating the concept, Cord now packages and sells a stew mix, and instructions on how to supply a tongue for use. The user simply cuts up the tongue, cooks it with the stew mix, and eats the entire meal. It is reasonably nutritious, and not the worst tasting meal but far from fine cuisine. The consumer then gains fluency in the primary language of the tongue's owner. This can produce unpredictable results when consuming the tongue of say, experienced traders or language professors. This also does not provide the ability to make all sounds, e.g. a Wookiee would understand but not be able to speak Galactic Basic, as their species lacks the vocals necessary to do so. The stew only works three times in a sentient's life, and doesn't provide an understanding of the written word of any language (though speaking fleuncy typically makes one learn the written word faster). It also only works on "frag" kills, so eating a mummified tongue from Korriban won't make one learn ancient sith. Overall the Atoan Ritual Stew is a flavorful addition to any explorers arsenal of tricks, albeit a limited one
