Editing Wondrous Fare

<span style="color:#99cc00;">'''[Wondrous Fare]'''</span> is a Unique, Rare Cooking [[Skills|Skill]]. It allows the User to make Magical Food with different effects by following a theme. It was first learned/created by [[Erin Solstice]].

==Skill Origin==
This Skill came to be when its creator, Erin, arranged a banquet for the [[Frost Faeries]] by using specific ingredients like new cow’s milk, preparing the food in a childish and dreamlike manner, and arranging the dishes with "pure" or "death" themes. After the banquet, Erin would level up and learn the <span style="color:#99cc00;">[Wondrous Fare]</span> Skill.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/05/03/2-19/ Chapter 2.21]</ref>  

==Skill Effects==

===Proper Skill Use===
First the User starts by preparing a base for the Magical Food. As this Skill has effects that are compared to a high-level [Alchemist] Skills, it allows the User to bypassing and/or skipping some of the natural steps in the creation process, or the need for a particular reagent. 

This allows the User to skip on the need to mix up a proper base first, like dissolving ingredients and mixing them together. With this reagents that wouldn't react normally would start interacting when the User stirred them.<ref name="3.15" /> Even a [[Sage’s Grass]] base, which would take an [Alchemist] over Lv. 20<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/03/26/6-02/ Chapter 6.02]</ref> a week to dissolve, would dissolve instantly with this Skill.

After the base is done the User picks a theme, like Darkness, as well as emotions and intentions, and ingredients that fit them. Like if the theme is Darkness then the ingredients mast be all dark in color, and the User having dark emotions in them and intentions to prepare the dish in a dark environment.<ref name=":Food and Growth">[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/08/12/interlude-food-and-growth/ Interlude - Food and Growth]</ref>

Then the ingredients are combined thematically according to their intuition, to achieve an effect that fits the theme. In order for this to work the User must really want it, and by doing so they get to know what is needed for the theme recipe to work by instinct.

Also, while the right ingredients mattered for the food to work, a straight recipe didn’t matter, because so long the User achieved their goal—the food worked.

As the dish preparation progresses, the User starts to clearly imagining what the final dish would be like, and what effects it would have and the duration of said effects.

Should something happen that impends the process, like not having the right ingredients, the User can improvise other ingredients while ''seeing'' in their head the recipe struggling to adapt for a way to work. If that fails as well than the User can adapt and make a new different dish with the current ingredients. If that works, the image of the dish in their head changes into a new dish and how to make it. 

The User can also ''feel'' when something goes wrong during the preparation, and if it turns out to be a failure then the image of all possible dishes will be gone from their head.

It should be noted that even if the food turns out to be a failure, the result can still have some of the intended magical effects, albeit with somewhat different effects and duration.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/06/10/7-28/ Chapter 7.28]</ref> The effects of the food can be dispelled like magical enchantments.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/12/18/9-29/ Chapter 9.29]</ref>

===Improper Skill Use===
It is also possible to prepare Magical Food without following the proper steps, like not following a theme. This unfortunately results in the Magical Food being flawed as it has weaker effects, and most of the time tasting terrible. The User also has to constantly experiment to make something that works, with most failures in doing so resulting in the food being harmful or deadly to the consumers.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/09/23/3-15/ Chapter 3.15]</ref>

The flawed Magical Food also has a short expiry date that range from the best ones lasting about a week, to others going bad in a few hours. Still if they are kept under a Preservation Skill or Spell, they don't expire. Should they be consumed after their expiry date, it would cause the consumer to either to throw up (in one case in all different colors), to having strong diarrhea.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/01/30/4-07/ Chapter 4.07]</ref>

==Notable Known Users==

====[[Erin Solstice]]====

== Magical Food Creations==
List of Magical Food created with the <span style="color:#99cc00;">[Wondrous Fare]</span>.

===Food Created by Erin===
[[File:Wandering-Inn-Menu-4-by-Enuryn.png|thumb|300px|Magic Food<br />(by [[Fanworks/Enuryn|Enuryn]], commissioned by [[Pirateaba]])|center]]
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
! style="text-align: center;" width="20%" |<u>Names</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="10%" |<u>Types</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="10%" |<u>Theme</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="30%" | <u>Effects</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="30%" |<u>Additional Information</u>
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| style="text-align: center;" |Poison Bone Steak
| style="text-align: center;" |Steak
| style="text-align: center;" |Death
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*The food is actually tasteful for the [[undead]].
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*While it looks a little bit like a steak, it does not have any meat in it, only bones of dead animals.
*It is prepared by having the bones dried and ground up into dust, then having other bones soaked in pig’s blood and mixed with Mana potions.
*It is then baked together using marrow as glue. Finally it is dyed with more blood to give it color.
* As a final ingredient it has strong poison in it, the kind that can kill [[Shield Spiders]].<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/04/17/4-29/ Chapter 4.29]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" | Shadow Powderballs
| style="text-align: center;" |Dough Balls
| style="text-align: center;" |Darkness
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*True effect not shown but the consumer should be able to spit a cloud of darkness.
*The effect lasts for three hours.<ref name="7.28">[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/06/10/7-28/ Chapter 7.28]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" |Ash Bread
| style="text-align: center;" |Bread 
| style="text-align: center;" |Darkness
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*Effects currently unknown, but presumably something like the Shadow Powderballs, but with another effect related to dust.
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| style="text-align: center;" |Midnight Bread
| style="text-align: center;" |Bread
| style="text-align: center;" |Darkness
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*True effect not shown but presumably it should hide the consumer from their enemies, even in the brightest sun.<ref name=":Food and Growth" />
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| style="text-align: center;" |Shards of Relief
| style="text-align: center;" |Candy
| style="text-align: center;" | Gratitude, Red
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*Heals the consumer while they eat.
*Breaks curses that they are afflicted with. Effect is determined by how much magic is put in the shards.
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*It's made using Witchcraft, using a pot filled with contentment.
* Salvaged creation, made using the first attempt where the magically charged sugarglass of concentrated contentment exploded in the most magical part of the inn, the [[Garden of Sanctuary]]'s [[Sage’s Grass|Sage's Grass]] field, creating very sharp sugar daggers.
*A small amount of an already used healing potion, that was used to save someone, is injected inside the shards.
*Next a sweet blood sauce is made to be accompanied with them to be dipped in. The blood sauce is made from a boiled mixture of blood, sweetberries and raspberry paste, and purified water.
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| style="text-align: center;" |Mana Candies
| style="text-align: center;" |Candy
| style="text-align: center;" |Magic
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*Slowly replenishes mana as it's consumed. It is weaker than a mana potion, but does not cause mana burn.
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*Made using sugarglass, gelatin, [[Amentus]] Fruits, blueberries and honey. Water is substituted with a mana potion.
*The finished product is buried around Sage's Grass for a few days or a week to be more magically charged.
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| style="text-align: center;" |Bulkup Bisque
| style="text-align: center;" |Soup
| style="text-align: center;" |Muscles, Strength
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*Strengthens the consumer. It is comparable to a [Lesser Strength] skill. It lasts for four hours, then gradually fades over 30 minutes.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/07/17/9-07/ Chapter 9.07]</ref>
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*The ingredients include strong magical meats like [[Wyverns|Wyvern]] tendons and [[Corusdeer]] venison, bones, clotted cream, gumtree bark, Weaverspider silk, and beets.<ref name=":0" />
*It has a shelf life of a week unrefrigerated.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/10/05/interlude-relationships/ Interlude - Relationships]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" |Emberbread
| style="text-align: center;" |Bread
| style="text-align: center;" |Secrets, Defence, Strength
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* Strengthen the consumer while making their skin/fur as hard as iron.<ref name=":9.28">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/12/14/9-28/ Chapter 9.28]</ref>
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* It's made using Witchcraft.<ref name=":9.28" />
* Looks like a charcoal burnt bread as black as midnight. After taking the first few bites, an interior pink dough becomes visible and the black bread is set on fire, like glowing ember, but harmless to the consumer.<ref name=":9.28" />
* The ingredients include; Shadowcalf's dark grey butter and milk, Ashwheat flour, washed iron dust, Stonelizard scales, lemon juice, lots of mint, Wyvern tendons, Corusdeer venison, beets, and all other things that are appetizingly baked within the flour, all chopped up as fine as could be, with their taste mitigated by the dough. Included is a half bottle of rum that was burning with the Pink Flame of Glory.<ref name=":9.28" />
* Once eaten the consumer's eyes burn <span style="color: #ff99cc">Glory pink</span> for a moment.<ref name=":9.28" />
* Only the intended consumers may eat it and take in its effect. To anyone else it will tasty unappetizing and receiving non of its effects.<ref name=":9.28" />
* [Mages] are not able to detected anything magical in it.<ref name=":9.28" />
* It's Effects are like a combination of the '''Bulkup Bisque''' and '''Scaleguard Sandwich'''
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| style="text-align: center;" |Cackle Brew<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/03/19/interlude-brewing-sariants/ Interlude – Brewing Sariants]</ref>
| style="text-align: center;" |Brew
| style="text-align: center;" |Laughter
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*Laugh in a painful and uncontrollable sounding way. 
*The laugher is a combination of mental and physical effect, which can knocks out anyone below Level 30, while painfully hurting the ears and making thinking difficult of those over Lv. 30.
*While the laugher isn't eardrum bursting, the sound can still shatter glass and plates and crack reinforced glass near the one laughing.
*Effect/Laugher has a duration of about 5 minutes.
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*It's made using Witchcraft, by having the Concept of evil laugher distilled in it.
*Looks like an acid green mixed with a swirl of black and white, rotating together in a spiral like a vortex, which makes you feel vaguely uneasy looked at it. It also has grey smoke drifted from it despite the lack of heat.
*It taste terrible, and even blue juice can’t hide the taste nor barely mask the swirling brew. 
*This version of Cackle Brew is not at its full-power as Erin can still make it even stronger.
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===Flawed Food Created by Erin===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
! style="text-align: center;" width="30%" |<u>Names</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="10%" |<u>Types</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="20%" | <u>Effects</u>
! style="text-align: center;" width="40%" |<u>Additional Information</u>
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| style="text-align: center;" |[[Heat Soup]] / ''Corusdeer Soup''
| style="text-align: center;" |Soup
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* Warms up the consumer.
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*First magical dish prepared in Celum.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/07/25/2-40/ Chapter 2.47]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" | Mana Soup
| style="text-align: center;" |Soup
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*Restore Mana for the consumer.
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*Second magical dish prepared in Celum.
*Same effects of a Mana Potion, but slightly more edible and tastier than them.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/09/02/3-09/ Chapter 3.09]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" |Strength Stew
| style="text-align: center;" |Soup
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*Strengthens the consumer.
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*Third magical dish prepared in Celum.<ref name="3.15">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/09/23/3-15/ Chapter 3.15]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" |[[Thickskin Soup]] / ''Scale Soup'' + ''Scale Salad'' + Scaleguard Sandwich
| style="text-align: center;" | Soup + Salad + Sandwich
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*Makes the consumer's skin tougher.
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*It is weaker than a [Barkskin] Spell, even if it would cost less than a [Barkskin] Scroll.<ref name="7.28" /><br />
*Renamed from; '''Thickskin Soup''' to '''Scale Soup''', by [[Relc Grasstongue|Relc]].<ref name=":4.07">[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/01/30/4-07/ Chapter 4.07]</ref><br />
*While not tasty, the soup is sweet and has mushrooms in it.<ref name=":4.07" /> It also has crunchy bits in it.<ref name=":5.36">[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/11/10/5-36/ Chapter 5.36]</ref><br />
*Erin would figure out how to make it tastes palatable and turning it into a Salad, becoming now a '''Scale Salad'''. It still got crunchy bits in it tough.<ref name=":5.36" /><br />
*After learning how to use the Skill a bit more better, Erin would improve the dish into a giant artichoke leaf sandwich called; '''Scaleguard Sandwich'''. It is more appealing and maybe a bit more stronger.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/11/22/7-60/ Chapter 7.60]</ref> 
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| style="text-align: center;" |Acid-fly Jelly
| style="text-align: center;" | Jelly
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*Kills the consumer, but it can be served on a plate without damaging the plate.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/08/02/7-38/ Chapter 7.38]</ref>  
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| style="text-align: center;" |Shadow Loaf<br />Shadowbread Loaf
| style="text-align: center;" |Bread
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*A bread that literally <em>ate</em> light. It does the exact same thing a light bulb did—except with darkness. The shadows lengthened around it, making it practically <em>obfuscated</em> in a dark room, and even in the light, it would take in the brightness.
* The bread has no inherent properties upon consumption. It was just really cool. The inside of the consumer's mouth becomes very dark when they open it.<ref name=":Food and Growth" />
*Even if not eaten, it still has the effect of obscuring its surroundings to some extent from [[Dead Gods|certain beings]].<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/12/20/solstice-pt-2/ Solstice (Pt. 2)]</ref> 
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*While Erin had attempted to make a Midnight Bread and had everything from the ingredient to the emotions and intentions correctly, it was still a failure because she had prepared it during the day, instead of during the night, with like no moons in the sky, to be totally thematic.<ref name=":Food and Growth" />
*It’s not exactly tasty.
*It also doesn’t naturally grow stale.
* Animals and Insects don't attempt to eat it.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/10/11/7-51/ Chapter 7.51]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" |Blue Tea 
| style="text-align: center;" |Tea
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*An actual blue tea that makes the consumer's tongue super-blue for about a day.
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*A low-effort addition to Erin ‘magical foods’ menu, that turns ones tongue blue.
* Erin made it at first to prank [[Lasica Feltail|Lasica]].
*Other then being actually blue, it may be possibly poisonous as previous experiments had not gone well.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2020/09/02/7-43-g/ Chapter 7.43 G]</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;" |Unbreakable Scone
| style="text-align: center;" |Scone
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*The consumer developed [Stoneskin], which literally makes the skin as hard as a rock.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/03/08/9-39/ Chapter 9.39]</ref>
*A full ‘bite’ of half a scone gives a [Stoneskin] effect for 30 minutes.<ref name=":1" />
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* In ''theory,'' it is a ''dense'', highly calorific piece of bread.<ref name=":1" />
*The ingredients include; a huge amount of butter, [[Sage’s Grass]], a teeny bit of cement mix and other hard edibles in it.<ref name=":1" />
*Currently not really edible as they are to hard to eat and digest, unless one has a proper Class and Skills specialized for eating, like [[Snapjaw]].<ref name=":1" />
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==Trivia==

*Erin first used this Skill with alchemical ingredients to create magical dishes in Celum.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/07/22/2-39/ Chapter 2.46]</ref>
*Currently Erin does not know for sure if the [[Faerie Flower]] Drink she is able to make is due to this Skill or not.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/08/17/6-38/ Chapter 6.38]</ref> 
**If the Faerie Flower Drink is indeed made with this Skill than it was thought likely that the [[Minotaur’s Punch]] drink was partly made thanks to this Skill as well. This would prove to be false in [[Chapter 8.29]] when [[Ishkr]] made himself the drink.

==References==
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[[Category:The Wandering Inn]]
[[Category:Original Skills]]