Mini-plot - Food poisoning

[scrapgege]

so, Xie Lian is canonically someone who cooks so badly their cooking literally knocked out cultivators for hours and mangled a god's ability to use punctuation for weeks on end.

Xie Lian himself is immune to his bad cooking because :
1) he has literally starved before, so he will quite simply eat anything
2) he also is quite literally cursed to not be able to die, so even if he does poison himself, he'll be fine in the end, so he might as well eat
3) it's only been on the floor a few minutes don't waste food

So of course, with travelling, and a bigger group, that means more opportunity for Mod-approved food poisoning!

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Comments

[aprescoup]

To honour this great culinary feat, please expect:

some of the living caravan members will try the wares. Mazyar may be found offering priceless mint for tea brewing at a handsome fee

Arha and his passed-on people will partake of the culinary wares, then... several ghosts will flicker out in disgust and/or agony

Both groups will be decidedly less keen on interacting with Xie Lian and more suspicious of the party. Some of the ghosts may or may not accidentally tamper with Xie Lian's tent for a few evenings.

But characters can help out the living with something that passes for a cure, and the dead with... a friendly shoulder to cry on.

This great tragedy unites one and all.

[scrapgege]

... He's sorry, he didn't mean to harm anyone, he doesn't see what's wrong with his stuff, he can eat it just fine!

[weifinder]

... Wei Wuxian's not allowed to offer curative food, he'll go appease the dead, that's so much easier, GOOD GOD WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!

[scrapgege]

He was just making dinner ??!??? Hua Cheng never had a problem with it????

[weifinder]

No one can trust your number one fan and also he's dead does he even need to taste things if he doesn't want to???

[scrapgege]

Wei-gongzi that's rude and also you used to munch on watermelon rinds as a kid to survive you know what it's like to go hungry, any food looks good after a while.

[weifinder]

Yeah there's survival then taking things that you could survive on and somehow rendering them into resource-devouring horrors??? When you throw up you lose all that... everything... and more fluids...

[scrapgege]

then down't throw up?

... or eat it again afterwards?

[weifinder]

................... returns to eating vegetable castoffs

when sadly ur raw ingredients were more edible than ur cooked ones, Dear God

[scrapgege]

He does his best.

[royal_venant]

Question: what price is Mazyar asking for the mint tea? Alcohol (hopefully)?

[groundrules]

Just bring him some interesting trinkets, he'll be good!

[silverneedles]

I respectfully offer up Wen Qing to help deal with finding a cure for the food poisoning, should anyone require it.

[groundrules]

All yours, boss!

In light of the... circumstances, Mazyar will concede a handful more herbs, because, after all. Who refuses a beautiful woman?

[descendency]

Mingyu is VOTING XIE LIAN OUT OF THE CARAVAN for IMMEDIATELY CAUSING A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT??? What the FUCK BRO

[scrapgege]

It's not like he meant to ???????? he ate it and he was fine?

[consignation]

ARE YOU AWARE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR CONSTITUTION AND THAT OF, SAY, THE VISIBLY 13 YEAR OLD CHILD IN OUR CARAVAN

[scrapgege]

well.... that might be part of the problem.

[bearshermark]

How quickly would Xie Lian's food poisoning take effect? Immediately or after a delay?

[scrapgege]

It's immediate. Canonly, it was KO on just the food getting into their mouths for cultivators

[bearshermark]

lmao god. good to know thanks xD

[scrapgege]

It really is that bad, like the only two people who eat it with no damage are ghosts and thus technically already dead, and even then, they're pretty powerful ghosts who wouldn't take too much of a hit from it.

Save yourself, El. Gods are not good at everything.

[bearshermark]

aha woops.

at least. he's likely to think it isn't wholly Xie Lian's fault. somehow he just missed that something had gone bad.

[scrapgege]

You're too good for the world el