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Eating for Adventurers
By Stefan Jones
Most T&T adventures are not the sort of errandswhere characters need to be bothered with trivial details like eating, or keeping track of rations. However, on extended quests the challenge of staying fed can add to the fun rather than being an exercise in tedious bookkeeping. Below are a set of suggested rules for dealing with buying food, foraging, and staying fed.
Well Fed, Hungry, and Starving
To be in tip-top shape for adventuring, characters need at least two square meals a day. The quality doesn't matter; a meal could be a feast, a piece of hard tack and a bit of sausage, or a couple of handfuls of bugs, berries, and roots resulting from foraging. A character that eats two or more meals is well fed and suffers no penalties.
Characters that eat just one meal per day are hungry. Hungry characters take twice as long (twenty minutes) to regain a lost point of Strength (STR) or Wizardry (WIZ). They also heal damage to Constitution (CON) at half the normal rate (1/2 point a day).
Characters that go without a meal for more than a day are starving. Starving characters regain lost STR and WIZ at one-sixth the normal rate (one point every hour). They not only do not regain lost points of CON through normal healing, but they also lose one point of CON each day. This damage cannot be healed by magic or potions, but is "healed" immediately after eating two hearty meals and getting a good night's sleep. Eating just one meal returns a character to hungry status; the hunger damage then starts to heal at "normal" hungry rate of a half point a day.
Buying Food
Meals can be served up at an inn ready to eat, purchased in the form of raw materials for cooking, or bought in the dried or salted form for eating on the road or underground. Players should feel free to have their characters bargain for better prices!
Meals at an Inn
Virtually every inns and tavern serves meals to their guests. The quality varies with the type of inn and how much the guest is willing to pay. The quality of a meal doesn't affect a character's health unless the GM makes a special ruling; but meals could affect an adventure in other ways. A potential employer might look down her nose at adventurers who are seen eating boiled turnips, for example. On the other hand, a fancy meal might make a nice bribe for an official whose favor the adventurers are trying to curry (Mmmmm, curry!). Eating an especially rich and fancy meal could have consequences as well, ranging from being a bit slow or having gas.
Meals at an Inn
Miserable Meal 5 cp Ordinary Meal 12 cp Fancy Meal 3 gp Sumptuous Feast 10 gp
Miserable meals consist of poor peasant fare like
porridge, hard black bread, and thin fish soup.
Ordinary meals include dishes like stew, good bread and
butter, cheese, sausage, and greens.
Fancy meals include chops of fresh meat, roast fowl,
vegetables with sauces, and good wine.
Sumptuous feasts are rarely found outside of the homes
of nobles and inns that serve the high-born; they include fancy roasts, soups, sauces, and pastries. The basic price includes some kind of drink, ranging from cheap ale to a goblet of fine wine. Extra rounds might add 20% to the price of the meal.
Raw Ingredients
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Ouch! You lose 1 point of CON. It certainly seems that you are awake, however strange your surroundings. Perhaps you should follow the path? Read 6. Or would you prefer to settle back down to sleep, hoping that you will awaken in better circumstances? Read 13.
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You slay your doppelganger. As its corpse slumps to the floor, it blackens and crumbles to dust along with all of its possessions. With a mighty rumble the room beyond the mirror collapses, and the tree roots around you twist and writhe. You decide that you had better get out of here as quickly as you are able. Read 18.
5
You press on into the forest. Make a LUCK Saving Roll. If you fail, read 25. If you succeed, read 17.
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The path twists and turns through the woods, and you are soon completely befuddled about which direction you are heading. As doubts plague you, you are distracted by the noise of something approaching. You
have been disturbed by the occurrence of a Random Encounter.
Read 49. If you survive the encounter read 32. 7
The runes are of some lost language unfamiliar to you and broken in many places by the protruding tree roots. However, you find them strangely fascinating, and a sense of their meaning begins to grow in your mind. Make an INT Saving Roll.If you fail, read 21. If you succeed, read 43.
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Unless you are somehow immune to all forms of poison (in which case there is no effect, and you may continue, following your snack, to 35), that was a particularly bold (or foolish) decision! The glowing toadstool is indeed virulently toxic. Make a CON
Saving Roll. If you fail, read 13. If you succeed, read on.
You choke on the foul tasting fungus. You lose 5 points
of CON. If this is sufficient to kill you, read 13. If you
still live, then read on further still.
You drop to the floor in a convulsive spasm, and are afflicted by a striking auditory hallucination, in which it appears that the very woods around you speak: “Stranger, your lack of sense in the face of obvious dire danger does you credit! What is more, it indicates that you may be the one we seek. Our name is Fafahlfahal, and we are afflicted by Ghrl’khutt
Bhaeghoar, Eater of Souls! Fight him in our name, and naught he does may harm you!” Should you perchance find yourself in combat with an incarnation of Ghrl’khutt Bhaeghoar, Eater of Souls at any time in the near future, you may say “Fafahlfahal” and indeed suffer no damage from Ghrl’khutt Bhaeghoar, Eater of Souls’ attacks, whilst inflicting your full damage against him, until the demon is slain. At length, the vision passes, and you are recovered. As you come to your senses, though, you fear that something fearsome approaches you through the trees. Read 25.
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You are glad to leave the sobbing and the blackened oak behind you, but fear that you are hopelessly lost in these confounded woods. Make a LUCK Saving Roll. If you are successful, read 23. If you fail, read 25.
10
You take great delight in mocking your weeping reflection. This enrages your double – it jumps to its feet, takes a couple of steps back, and launches itself once more at the glass! This time… (read 14)
11
“You!” the horned rider declares in a voice as deep and strong as the very woods themselves. Will you flee as fast your little (or big, whichever) legs will carry you? Read 19. Or stand and fight? Read 22
12
The water is refreshing. Regain 5 points of lost CON. Drinking it also cleans your mind and suggests an idea – you could follow this stream, as surely it must eventually lead you out of this forest. If you wish to do this, read 33. Otherwise, strike back out in what you hope was the direction you were originally headed
(read 35).
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Alas, that was not one of your better ideas. There are terrible things that lurk in dark places, and it seems that one such has brought about your untimely demise. For you, the adventure ends here. For your shade, an eternity of torment lies ahead, haunting these cursed woods. The hours aren’t good, the pay is lousy, and the prospect of career progression non-existent – but all that said, at least it’s a job…
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The glass shatters into a thousand pieces. Your reflection is no longer weeping but smiling. It is not one of those friendly, light-hearted smiles that you like to think give you quite a winsome appearance, but a
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Your apprehensions are realized! Something terrible approaches! Consult the Encounter Table at 49. If you
survive the encounter, read 35.
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Congratulations! You have found the Lost Scythe of Yang-yi! It has 26 dice and 17 adds. Furthermore it allows you a free strike at the start of any combat, inflicting full damage against up to six opponents. Shouldering your newly found weapon, and laughing at your great good fortune, you proceed merrily on your way. Read 13
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You are in a small circular chamber beneath the forest. Roots protrude from the ceiling and walls. There is a stone staircase leading up, and a single corridor exiting the chamber. A mournful sobbing echoes down the corridor from somewhere ahead. The walls of the chamber are inscribed with ancient runes. Do you wish to head down the corridor? Read 36. Or would you prefer to first make a closer examination of the ancient runes? Read 7.
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You push your way into the room and stand before the mirror. You see your reflection looking back – well, almost your reflection, for the face in the mirror is twisted in grief, and crying out in wordless anguish! You stagger backwards in surprise – but your reflection lunges forward! It crashes against the glass – which shivers at the impact, but doesn’t shatter. How do you wish to respond? Try to speak to this thing beyond the mirror to find out how it/you came to be trapped there? Read 24. Use a weapon to smash the glass and free your reflection? Read 14. Jump up and down and pull moonish faces to mock the mirror being in its torment? Read 10.
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You attack the Ravening Fiend Head (MR70)! If you defeat this foe, you will be pleased to discover that it wore a pearl earring, which your inner pawnbroker whispers is worth a good 50 gp from any (semi-) respectable booty dealer. You may also wear it yourself if you wish, it is most fetching. If you do not defeat this foe or if you cannot remember which paragraph you were supposed to return to following your encounter, read 13.
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The ground rises to the north of the highway, and there you find a little hollow, shaded from the road by
a growth of stunted bushes. It seems to be a discreet spot to make camp. The evening is warm and you have hard cheese and stale bread, so decide not to risk a fire in case of drawing unwanted attention. Helping your sparse meal down with a few gulps of sour Brannish wine, you settle down on a bed of ferns, pulling your travel cloak over you, and soon drift into a troubled sleep.
You dream a most peculiar dream. In it, you are floating above the ground, looking down on your own sleeping form. Tendrils of mist are rolling out from the forest, and these reach your body like so many gaseous tentacles. The limbs of mist wrap themselves sinuously about you, lift you into the air, and draw you within the dark, forbidding woods.
You awaken with a start, reaching instinctively for your weapon and your pack, which you are relieved to find straight away. But although you have grabbed your belongings, you cannot see them, or anything, for you are in pitch blackness. What is more, you feel a pressing presence around you that you instinctively know to be the old forest. Was your dream true, or did you wander here, sleepwalking?
You are about to scrabble in your pack for the means to light your way, when you notice that you can see your hands before you, and the ground, and the trunks and branches of trees. Everything seems to be lit with an eerie luminescence that your eyes grow increasingly accustomed to. You seem to be in a small clearing of sorts (though branches still cover over head), with a single path winding out amongst the trees. Will you follow the path to see where it leads? Read 40. Or should you pinch yourself hard to see if you yet dream? Read 3.
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You turn and behold the thing behind you – and your heart almost freezes in shock at what you behold!
Make a CON save! If you fail, read 13! If, however, you
succeed, read on.
The thing is huge, quite filling the small chamber and blocking you from reaching the stairway. It is a great cylindrical mass of rubbery, luminescent flesh, from which dozens of jointed limbs extend and weave ominously. At the center of the mass is something of a face – three small deep red eyes regard you balefully; beneath them is a long vertical fissure lined with hundreds of irregular, razor sharp teeth. A thin purple tongue protrudes from the mouth, snaking slowly towards you. Do you turn and flee, screaming
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