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50 Tavern Specials [9] 14 Apples Surprise 50 Tavern Specials [9] 14 Apples surprise. Each 'apple' is really just a hollow edible apple-skin shell. Within each is a [1] Edible Metal. Easily chewed if warm, tastes different kind of fruit, meat, or even a cream filled metallic but not nearly as bad as you'd think. Gives one for desert. Extremely good, but expect the you +1 AC tomorrow, your piss is rust colored. chef to be angry with you if you don't finish it since it's a very difficult dish to make. [2] Purple speckled egg. 1 in 6 chance for Wizards and 3 in 6 chance for Rangers/Druids to recognize [10] Ogre Pies. The moment you try to cut into or what kind of creature's egg this is. Tastes delicious bite a pie, a single ogre-like fish of dough and but must be eaten raw. stuffing comes out and starts punching you and knocking your knives away. Treat it as a 1 HD If taken and incubated the egg will hatch into a combat encounter that deals nonlethal damage. Wumpher, which is like a tiny 1 HD basilisk that makes people fall over if they make eye contact [11] Shark buried in the backyard for decades and with it. Exception is the first person it sees after allowed to rot with a specific type of mold. It hatching, who it imprints upon as its mother. smells, looks, and tastes as bad as it sounds. [3] Bottled Dinner. Looks like a tiny vial of water, [12] Indescribable sheep organ stretched over a but you drink just a few drops at a time and you bowl filled with water and veggies. You're are totally full and satisfied. You save enough supposed to gently suck on the membrane to draw liquid for 10 rations, no carry weight. out the moisture and some of the veggies, and when you're done you finish by eating the organ. [4] Tiny animated animagolems. Look realistic, but flesh is like taffy and they react like animals [13] The barkeeper claims it's bottled dinner and do. Taste like the animals they represent; plate is many of the inn's residents pat their bellies filled with tiny pigs, chickens, cows, goats, and contently with it. It's actually just water and this is doves. Not for the faint of heart. a scam. [5] Wizard bread. It's like a typical loaf of bread [14] Pickled Spider eggs. You get a +2 saves vs cut into a bunch of slices, but each piece has a poison the next day. 1 in 20 chance a live spider 'unique' flavor. Every piece also has crazy colors comes out of your mouth and crawls away after and patterns. Player with the lowest charisma your meal, but nothing else comes of it. score will grab a piece of bread that tastes like baked scorpion anus. [15] Riceballs, nothing on it, just rice. Nobody in this tavern has ever even seen a grain of rice [6] Ectoplasm soup. Literally ghost ectoplasm, before, so the meal isn't totally bland. boiled so it cannot cause possession. Tonight you will dream a few scattered and strange memories, [16] Sustenance berry. Tiny tasty berry that counts 1 in 20 chance that one of them features your as a large meal. Dinner is over immediately. parents or elderly people you know. [17] Hot scones, sprinkled with sugar. [7] Extremely realistic and expertly sculpted meatloaf that is shaped like a sleeping puppy, [18] Roasted chicken with figs stuffing its belly so complete with a collar. Nobody but you seems full it looks pregnant. Wholesome meal. disturbed by picking it apart with knife and fork. The chef will barge in after the meal is over and [8] Pig trotters. These pigs walked along a holy claim that someone ate his wedding ring that was road, so it's actually really delicious. in the chicken but it's just a stupid prank he pulls to newcomers. [19] Marinated duck with sugar caramelized and [27] Pasta tied into an incredibly complicated flattened into the shape of long feathers for a knot. You're supposed to just cut it with your knife, candy desert. but if you manage to untangle it the tavern owner will give you the night's stay free. [20] Solid block of honey, with bees still inside of it. They're considered part of the meal. 1 in 6 chance to untangle. Add your Int modifier. [21] Extremely basic meal but you get a little imp [28] Grass, ivy, dandelions, briers and other named Bethex chained to the center of the table to useless weeds and inedible plants. The chef in the serve you and slap around with your spoon. back is actually a goat man and forgets that other people can't eat that stuff like he can. He's grumpy and angry and knows he is there as part of his contract just to entertain people. He [29] It's a watermelon as big as your head. does have a very sensitive ear though and will relay any juicy table gossip to demons abroad. [30] Alcohol soup. Barely fills you up, but gets you drunk. You humiliate yourself while drunk but [22] You're given a bucket with a live fish in it. heal 1 HP. That's the meal. The tavern master offers a gold piece to anyone who can get the fish out with both [31] Cyclops eyeball. The chef admits he had no hands tied behind their back and without knocking idea what to do with it and decided to make it a the bucket over. special. Actually not that bad. It's actually ears old but never spoiled or dried out. [23] An old sage comes to the table and starts describing the most incredible and delicious dinner [32] Very cheap shish kebab. You hear rumors you could imagine. He's a great storyteller and about it being made of rat meat, but the chef will changes it to suite each guest based on what they deny it unless you march into the kitchen and see would like. for yourself. 50% chance of it being true. At the end of the story it is revealed that the story [33] Tray of cookies set up with a checker board. was the dinner, and you are all sated as though you It's magically enchanted so you can't actually eat ate, but incredibly unsatisfied. any except the opponents pieces you capture. Can also be chess, Go, etc. [24] Regular tavern food but you're treated to a shitty talent show where all the village commoners [34] Extreme novelty farm set. You have a tiny try to impress you with shitty talents. plot of land set up on your table, where you thresh tiny crops, separate the tiny wheat from the tiny At least one of them will actually show some chaff, grind it in a tiny finger-pinching millstone talent and could become a useful first level and then bake your own bread with it. hireling of a class related to their act. Arm wrestling for fighter, juggler for thief, word games If you're friends with the tavern owner and on the and riddles for magic user, etc. run from a powerful force he'll offer to let you shrink down and hide in that mini farm which [25] After ordering the special every single would become regular sized for you. Expect giant member of the tavern has to let you take a few (regular) sized rat attacks. pieces, bites, and swigs of whatever they are eating and drinking. [35] Bowl of regular beans, seasoned and salted. Kind of boring meal, but one of the beans has a [26] Horse testicles. little paper fortune inside which hints at the party's next dungeon or hex-crawling adventure. [36] Seared flank of a famous and feared type of [47] Several fat leeches, who were fed on a rich monster. Served fresh. The chef has a couple of diet of different animal and human bloods before them locked in the basement, but sadly they aren't being friend and served to you. If you're a vampire worth any experience points. They've been this meal heals you 2 HP, if you aren't you just domesticated and all the fight in them is gone. think it's kind of gross. [37] Chocolate fountain. [48] Generic gray slop which a Wizard waves his wand over to change into something that looks and [38] It's a rock. Everyone is given a spoon with a smells appealing. Secretly, all the food they sell is magical stone to flesh enchantment, so you can that gray slop, they just prestidigitate it all. scrap against the rock and get a little dollop of meat. It's pretty bland and tasteless. [49] Giant spider legs. You break them open no different then a crab. [39] Root vegetable marinated in a rare ingredient soup for months on end. The root is bland and [50] Fish fillet of a golden magic talking fish, tasteless but the sauce is exquisite. which most people say grant wishes. The next time your character makes a wish out loud (as in “I [40] The meat of a creature people don't normally wish X”), he'll burp up a little paper drawing that eat, like a horse, donkey, lizard, gorilla, etc. You looks like that wish coming true with the words get a lot for the price, probably due to the “Then you shouldn't have eaten me, asshole!” unpopularity.
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