The Table

Choice adventure number: 625

The Table

The kitchen table. The gathering place for families, the groaning board upon which nourishment is laid, the flat surface upon which the day's worries (and the mail) is laid. A powerful symbolic entity for the Pretentious Artist. It's also the place where he eats his breakfast.

See what you've made so far

You look at your kitchen table to survey what you have accomplished so far:

Initially:

You've haven't managed to make any breakfast foods at all! At this rate, it's going to take you all day just to make a single meal.

After making a dish:

Ingredient	Utensil	Result
Batter	Cutter	(biscuit)
Bread	Cutter	You've made some truly avant garde novelty toast.
Eggs	Cutter
Meat	Cutter	(sausage)
Potatos	Cutter	Despite your best efforts, one of the dishes you made isn't as arty or edible as you'd like.
Batter	Knife
Bread	Knife	You've made a subtly ironic piece of toast.
Eggs	Knife
Meat	Knife	You've decided regular bacon is too mainstream and made some Canadian bacon.
Potatos	Knife	(homestyle potatoes)
Batter	Spatula	You've upended traditional art theory to make a pancake.
Bread	Spatula
Eggs	Spatula	(fried egg)
Meat	Spatula	(bacon)
Potatos	Spatula	(inedible)
Batter	Torch	(truly messy)
Bread	Torch	(french toast)
Eggs	Torch	(hard boiled eggs)
Meat	Torch
Potatos	Torch	(baked potato)
Batter	Whisk	You've really pushed the boundaries of metaphor to make some waffles.
Bread	Whisk	You couldn't fully realize your artistic vision on a dish, and it's just a mess.
Eggs	Whisk	You've made a poignant plate of scrambled eggs.
Meat	Whisk	You tried to do something new and innovative, but the result was jejune and barely edible.
Potatos	Whisk	Despite your best efforts, one of the dishes you made isn't as arty or edible as you'd like.

And then, initially:

You sit down at the table, but something just doesn't seem right. The aesthetics of the meal are incomplete; you could no sooner eat this now than you could put a moustache on the Mona Lisa.

Or, after making five dishes:

Your opus is nearly complete. It need now only be subsumed (and consumed) by the Artist's soul (and mouth).

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Eat your breakfast

You don't yet have a full breakfast to eat. Breakfast is an art, and art takes time. Lots of time.

Or, once you've made 5 dishes:

You sit down to the troubled repast of an artist's soul. Like all great art, it nourishes your soul. Like all artists, you're just thankful you get to have something to eat today.

Gain some of the following depending on the meal you made - scales to your stats - needs spading:

You gain U Fortitude.

You gain W Enchantedness.

You gain X Cheek.

You gain Y hit points.

You gain Z Mana Points.

And if you make an especially delicious meal (eg. Bacon, Scrambled Eggs, Pancakes, Homestyle Potatoes with Toast):

You acquire an effect: My Breakfast With Andrea (duration: 40 Adventures)

And if you make an especially horrible meal (eg. Meat + Whisk, Batter + Torch, Potatoes + Cookie Cutter, Bread + Whisk, Eggs + Butterknife):

You acquire an effect: Breakfast Clubbed (duration: 25 Adventures)

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Contemplate Existence

You've eaten your daily repast, and the table contains nothing but the unwashed dishes of your lingering discontent.

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• Occurs in The Pretentious Artist's Obsession

Notes

• This encounter doesn't use any energy.
• The first two buttons show up before you've eaten, the last one only shows up afterwards.