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Battle Chef: A Cooking/Dungeon Exploring Adventure

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Prok said:
I'm looking at that hidden skill that we already have experience in and thinking about our background... it's a stretch, gun crime is pretty rare in Japan, but am I right in saying that the hidden skill is us knowing how to dome a bitch?


How would we progress with culinary knowledge in an achievement-based system? Right now, it's simple, we cook, we progress by percentages, but in an achievement style system, the points of progression become... a little murkier, I suppose.

Would it be things like 'create a full course meal using this culinary style,' 'Earn 1000 wingwongs using Italian dishes,' so on? Because something like that might work for general progression, each achievement adding a static bonus for the style in place of , then you could add in some more difficult or impressive achievements for better boons like new recipes and ingredients. Overall, I think an achievement system for culinary knowledge could work just as well as treating it like a skill- I certainly don't think it would detract from the quest.

It's up to you, but I don't think there's any inherent risk in changing over, so it's just a matter of what you're most comfortable with.

Also, purely out of curiosity, if we'd taken the drugs option for our free time, what kind of benefits would that have given, and how hard were you gonna go there? Are we talking the odd, ah, jazz cigarette, or something a bit harder?
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No it isn't firearms, it actually has to do with a roll I made someone make a few turns ago.

Culinary knowledge would go up from cooking dishes of a particular cuisine and recipe development. So if you don't know any Indian dishes but through experimentation and ingredient knowledge manage to develop a korma curry, you would gain some points in Indian culinary knowledge. I think I would eliminate it as a percentage and just switch it to a pool since I think perfection in a cuisine is probably not possible. You can dedicate decades and get close but pure perfection? I don't know about that.

Upon successful milestones then you get to use the points to upgrade your culinary skills, buy ingredients and do recipe roulette. I think I might have this replace one of the other culinary systems I was going to use to give you skill blocks and stuff. I think this might better represent achievements as a chef than strictly fame or fortune might have done.

I've been tossing a few ideas around to try and streamline the progression system for the cooking. I don't want things to get too complicated in terms of systems as that's hard for me to manage but I want it to be meaningful.
 
Prok said:
I'm looking at that hidden skill that we already have experience in and thinking about our background... it's a stretch, gun crime is pretty rare in Japan, but am I right in saying that the hidden skill is us knowing how to dome a bitch?


How would we progress with culinary knowledge in an achievement-based system? Right now, it's simple, we cook, we progress by percentages, but in an achievement style system, the points of progression become... a little murkier, I suppose.

Would it be things like 'create a full course meal using this culinary style,' 'Earn 1000 wingwongs using Italian dishes,' so on? Because something like that might work for general progression, each achievement adding a static bonus for the style in place of , then you could add in some more difficult or impressive achievements for better boons like new recipes and ingredients. Overall, I think an achievement system for culinary knowledge could work just as well as treating it like a skill- I certainly don't think it would detract from the quest.

It's up to you, but I don't think there's any inherent risk in changing over, so it's just a matter of what you're most comfortable with.

Also, purely out of curiosity, if we'd taken the drugs option for our free time, what kind of benefits would that have given, and how hard were you gonna go there? Are we talking the odd, ah, jazz cigarette, or something a bit harder?
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Forgot to answer the drug question. Harder stuff meth and exctasy primarily. You got over that and stayed clean and thus poison resistance would have been the result of that choice. It seems blah but when you want to eat dangerous monsters and plants being resistant to poison is great.
 
Does "innate command over water and ice" mean that the Leviathan has hydrokinesis? Ifor so, it would be able to swim around on land just by putting a little effort into holding together a coherent blob of water and swimming around in that. It'd probably look like a slime with a snake inside. Hell, it could even fly around that way, with a little effort.

But besides that, it being able to hunt fish for us later on is a huge boon, since it can just flash-freeze fish deep underwater, let them float to the water's surface, and have us collect. Not to mention improving our ability to utilize steam in cooking.

[X] Leviathan
 
Unilateral said:
Does "innate command over water and ice" mean that the Leviathan has hydrokinesis? Ifor so, it would be able to swim around on land just by putting a little effort into holding together a coherent blob of water and swimming around in that. It'd probably look like a slime with a snake inside. Hell, it could even fly around that way, with a little effort.

But besides that, it being able to hunt fish for us later on is a huge boon, since it can just flash-freeze fish deep underwater, let them float to the water's surface, and have us collect. Not to mention improving our ability to utilize steam in cooking.

[X] Leviathan
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More restricted than that, it just means it is great at using water and ice spells and learns them on its own with little training. But it has to get stronger before it starts summoning tsunamis and dropping ice blocks on people.
Adhoc vote count started by Emperor Toast on Jul 30, 2017 at 8:22 PM, finished with 231 posts and 23 votes.
  • [X] Golden Rukk - It is presently still a chick and unable to fly, but he belongs to a prestigious lineage of legendary birds. With feathers of gold that crackle with lightning, at the very least it is a conqueror of the skies.
    [x] Leviathan
    [X] Leviathan - Though currently small enough to wrap around her waist, fully grown this sea serpent will be hundred of meters long. With a innate command of water and ice, it is a deadly monster in both environments.
    [X] Scorching Wind Wolf - The cutest, fluffiest wolf puppy in history, it barks happily whenever it sees you. It has white fur with streaks of red and orange through it that glow like fire. A member of an ancient species of wolves, they are capable of extreme speed and a monstrous command of fire.
    [X] Leviathan - Though currently small enough to wrap around her waist, fully grown this sea serpent will be hundred of meters long. With a power command of water and ice, it is a deadly monster in water and ice environments.
    [X] Golden Rukk
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Adhoc vote count started by Emperor Toast on Aug 2, 2017 at 2:29 AM, finished with 231 posts and 23 votes.
  • [X] Golden Rukk - It is presently still a chick and unable to fly, but he belongs to a prestigious lineage of legendary birds. With feathers of gold that crackle with lightning, at the very least it is a conqueror of the skies.
    [x] Leviathan
    [X] Leviathan - Though currently small enough to wrap around her waist, fully grown this sea serpent will be hundred of meters long. With a innate command of water and ice, it is a deadly monster in both environments.
    [X] Scorching Wind Wolf - The cutest, fluffiest wolf puppy in history, it barks happily whenever it sees you. It has white fur with streaks of red and orange through it that glow like fire. A member of an ancient species of wolves, they are capable of extreme speed and a monstrous command of fire.
    [X] Leviathan - Though currently small enough to wrap around her waist, fully grown this sea serpent will be hundred of meters long. With a power command of water and ice, it is a deadly monster in water and ice environments.
    [X] Golden Rukk
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I am closing the vote here, leviathan beat out rukk by 11 votes to 9 with the others falling behind. Poor puppy and kitten. They look at all of you with eyes filled with betrayal.

I am still traveling so I have not yet had the chance to sit down and write. @ObservingShadow still has 2x5 blocks he can allocate for skills and Prok has chosen to boost one of the recipe creations.
 
Emperor Toast said:
I am closing the vote here, leviathan beat out rukk by 11 votes to 9 with the others falling behind. Poor puppy and kitten. They look at all of you with eyes filled with betrayal.

I am still traveling so I have not yet had the chance to sit down and write. @ObservingShadow still has 2x5 blocks he can allocate for skills and Prok has chosen to boost one of the recipe creations.
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I think it would be best to put them in Tactics: Trickery and Dodge, bringing both up to an even 50. Those are both invaluable skills at our current power level.
 
Ok I've finally added your name and I *think* the portrait went through correctly too thought it is absolutely butchering the formatting in the character sheet. Hopefully I can fix this when I get real compute access
 
Dark as Silver said:
Well that's a hell of a portrait.
Where did you find it?
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I settled on an image in my head then I wasted an absolutely absurd amount of time trying to find something that fits. This particular piece was a commissioned work I believe? For the legend of the five rings. Found it on deviantart. Believe the character in question is a crane clansmen named Doji Hotaru.
 
Emperor Toast said:
I settled on an image in my head then I wasted an absolutely absurd amount of time trying to find something that fits. This particular piece was a commissioned work I believe? For the legend of the five rings. Found it on deviantart. Believe the character in question is a crane clansmen named Doji Hotaru.
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L5R was my first guess but Hotaru?
*Quick google* Huh, Hotaru is a girls name. Who knew?
Anyway I applaud your dedication to finding us pretty pictures.
 
Dark as Silver said:
L5R was my first guess but Hotaru?
*Quick google* Huh, Hotaru is a girls name. Who knew?
Anyway I applaud your dedication to finding us pretty pictures.
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I Think in all instances I have heard it used it was a girl's name? My understanding is that it means firefly, but I think that's variable because kanji can often be pronounced different ways.

If you've seen any of my other quests I am realllllly dedicated to images. I spend many hours chasing after pictures to match my imagination. I think the ability to use other media formats is one of the great things about questing though at the same time it becomes a bit of a crutch for good writing.
 
Emperor Toast said:
I Think in all instances I have heard it used it was a girl's name? My understanding is that it means firefly, but I think that's variable because kanji can often be pronounced different ways.
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I couldn't think of anytimes I've heard it used, I just saw the name and thought that it was a male one.
Emperor Toast said:
If you've seen any of my other quests I am realllllly dedicated to images. I spend many hours chasing after pictures to match my imagination. I think the ability to use other media formats is one of the great things about questing though at the same time it becomes a bit of a crutch for good writing.
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Been around for some, missed ToShakeHeavenandEarth and ParadigmShift but I'll stick on my to read list. Was there for Madara Campione and Danmachi but then you swerved into a couple of Xovers I'm just not interested in.
I think its more that this is the first time that I've previously looked for images so this time I have a bench mark for just how many duplicate images you need to flick through.
 
This quest is awesome. The way you described the food last chapter was delicious. Literally. It made me very hungry. I'm can't wait for more.
 
Dark as Silver said:
I couldn't think of anytimes I've heard it used, I just saw the name and thought that it was a male one.

Been around for some, missed ToShakeHeavenandEarth and ParadigmShift but I'll stick on my to read list. Was there for Madara Campione and Danmachi but then you swerved into a couple of Xovers I'm just not interested in.
I think its more that this is the first time that I've previously looked for images so this time I have a bench mark for just how many duplicate images you need to flick through.
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It can be a real chore and one I have come to love and hate, but when you find the right one it feels worth it.

Crimson Soul said:
This quest is awesome. The way you described the food last chapter was delicious. Literally. It made me very hungry. I'm can't wait for more.
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Thank you very much for the compliment! I am glad you are enjoying it and I hope to bring you more delicious food soon!
 
*Raises hand* Emperor Toast, sir, I have a question!
Where are we from, i.e what is our heritage? Because the family name implies Japanese, yet the first name is Hebrew in origin. Despite black hair being the predominant colour among these two ethnicities, we are blonde?

... Unless we bleached our hair, like some delinquents supposedly do...
 
ObservingShadow said:
*Raises hand* Emperor Toast, sir, I have a question!
Where are we from, i.e what is our heritage? Because the family name implies Japanese, yet the first name is Hebrew in origin. Despite black hair being the predominant colour among these two ethnicities, we are blonde?

... Unless we bleached our hair, like some delinquents supposedly do...
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Emperor Toast said:
Born to a Japanese father and French mother, she was the subject of envy and ridicule alike.
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My sole regret on finding this quest, other than missing all the initial votes, is that Chinese wasn't an option. ;P
 
Spectrum said:
My sole regret on finding this quest, other than missing all the initial votes, is that Chinese wasn't an option. ;P
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Chinese food had too many variables for me to narrow it down into categories including the various regional cuisines and specialties and so on. Also a lot of the food novels I've read are based on Chinese cuisine so I wanted something different from a golden egg fried rice starter...
 
Emperor Toast said:
Chinese food had too many variables for me to narrow it down into categories including the various regional cuisines and specialties and so on. Also a lot of the food novels I've read are based on Chinese cuisine so I wanted something different from a golden egg fried rice starter...
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Look, if it's good enough for Iron Chef to have Chen Kenichi be Iron Chef Chinese and one of the original cuisines represented, it would have been totally fine to just pick a single regional cuisine or just totally ignore the distinctions and do pan-Chinese anyway. ;X
 
Spectrum said:
My sole regret on finding this quest, other than missing all the initial votes, is that Chinese wasn't an option. ;P
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Chinese food had too many variables for me to narrow it down into categories including the various regional cuisines and specialties and so on. Also a lot of the food novels I've read are based on Chinese cuisine so I wanted something different from a golden egg fried rice starter...
Spectrum said:
Look, if it's good enough for Iron Chef to have Chen Kenichi be Iron Chef Chinese and one of the original cuisines represented, it would have been totally fine to just pick a single regional cuisine or just totally ignore the distinctions and do pan-Chinese anyway. ;X
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Chen is really a strong Sichuan chef but that's probably one of my least favorite cuisines lol I have so many prejudices against it both unfair and not. I probably would have done Cantonese since I know that the best, but I already fit most of the general archetypes I wanted to use for battle chefs so that didn't quite happen. I could have probably swapped modern American for Chinese but I wanted that kind of brash egotism the former often comes with. I could have done americanised Chinese food... That could have been interesting.

I am working on revamping a few mechanics while I'm away, but it will be another week before I return. I am aiming for a solid update on the 10th or 11th. I think most of the miscalleneous stuff is covered but please let me know if there is something you believe I have left unaddressed.

zamin said:
Huh. Cool. I think I'll save it for now.
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I hope you continue to participate as you have! I'll pool it on the character sheet.
 
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