Midaychi Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Incase it doesn't already, I think it'd be pretty cool if cooking transferred the reagents in the ingredients over to the product, with some exceptions (like herb salad removing the toxins, etc). Protag uses: Botany can focus on high potency ingredients to make the food more nutritious, Xenobotany can design GMO seeds for botany to grow that contain all sorts of chemicals or do silly things like make cabbages that have banana juice. Crafty chemistry cooks can make tailored future food. Antag uses: Botany can give the chef cyanide apples instead of normal ones and encourage him to make apple-based dishes, xenobotany can design gmo seeds for botany to grow that contain all sorts of chemicals or do silly things like make carrots that contain the reagents from deathberries (though very difficult to hide because of xenobotany mechanics. Harvesting the plant kind of makes it obvious.), and crafty chemistry cooks can do all sorts of nefarious things they could already do anyways. Extrapolation on idea: Maybe certain reagent combinations cook to new reagents during the cooking process? Would be an interesting way to introduce new chemicals, though to make it more fun and limit abuse you might need to somehow read the seed data instead of the actual regents of the ingredients so people can't just use microwaves and a portable chem dispenser + syringe to make whatever. They'd have to actually grow/modify it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalseIncarnate Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 Transferring reagents from plants to prepared food is a cool idea. I remember one round when I ate a meat pie the chef had prepared and began getting the Space Drugs effect because the chef and botanist had used some ambrosia in the dish to give it some healing properties. However, I think this was more along the lines of they ground up the ambrosia and then injected the pie with the reagent mix from the grinder. I'm not sure how difficult the system would be to code in to effectively transfer the reagents over, but would definitely open up some new potential for non-antags and antags alike through planning. It would also be funny to watch the chef get arrested for poisoning people, when the botanist is the true traitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wintermote Posted December 25, 2014 Share Posted December 25, 2014 I think you'd find a lot of (if not most) drugs will be completely different after being cooked at the temperatures in an oven. Not saying the idea hasn't any merit; just that it could be an interesting thing to work with. Maybe certain ingredients, once baked together, combine differently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midaychi Posted December 25, 2014 Author Share Posted December 25, 2014 I think you'd find a lot of (if not most) drugs will be completely different after being cooked at the temperatures in an oven. Not saying the idea hasn't any merit; just that it could be an interesting thing to work with. Maybe certain ingredients, once baked together, combine differently? That summarizes what I was getting at in a completely roundabout and vague way, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox McCloud Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 I'm pretty sure this happens already, actually! I've made stew before and people suffered no effects of it one time---thennnn on another time they started twitching, puking, and giggling because I used a different type of mushroom. I could be wrong, but I am fairly sure this is the case--I distinctively remember making poison apple pies a couple of times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belarion Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I'm pretty sure this happens already, actually! It does, turn someone who was killed by a lethal injection into a meat pie and see what that pie does to people. I once murdered a dozen or so crew members that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I'm pretty sure this happens already, actually! It does, turn someone who was killed by a lethal injection into a meat pie and see what that pie does to people. I once murdered a dozen or so crew members that way. Thats bloody amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belarion Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 (edited) Thats bloody amazing. The best part is that you can then turn the new victims into more meat pies that are equally poisoned... Infinite death food! Edited December 29, 2014 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midaychi Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Mij said they tried it with making dough though and reagents didn't transfer over. Idk I haven't gotten a chance to test it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Hrmm, maybe it doesn't work with the changes bay made to cooking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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