Recipes for Tum

Some from the stones, some from his memory.

Nourishing Mix

Ingredients:
Mushroom powder
Pine nut powder
Dried berries
Ground yarrow

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to plants and mushrooms, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning.

Recipe: All ingredients are dried out, the mushrooms, pine nuts, and yarrow are ground up together, then tossed with the berries and kept in a pouch until needed

Effect: Triples the nourishment of any meal it is added to, meaning one can eat less and stay healthy

Difficulty: 8 (if pokopi berries or bison yarrow are used, difficulty is -3 per)

Nourishing Pemmican

Ingredients:
Bison or wild cow meat, dried
Tallow from the bison or wild cow (can be mixed or matched)
Dried berries
Honey (optional)

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the bison or cow, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants and bees; involvement of others in the community.

Recipe: Meat is sliced thin against the grain, then dried out and stretched until brittle; the berries are dried out; the tallow is rendered into liquid; the jerky is chopped finely, then ground up with the berries; allow rendered tallow to cool slightly then combine all ingredients together with honey; then cooled over night

Effect: For eating on the go, thrice nourishing, allows for eating less and still being healthy

Difficulty: 10 (if cuhtz white bison meat and/or tallow, blue ox meat and/or tallow, pokopi berries, or 12-queen bee honey are used, -3 to diff for each one used - if enough are used to drop the difficulty below 0, negative difficulty is not possible, it just stops at 0)

Hearty Stew

Ingredients:
Bison meat
Wild onion
Tule roots
Desert peony roots
Mushrooms
Parsley, sage, marjoram, and/or mezcal
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the bison, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants and mushrooms, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual cleansing of natural bowl.

Recipe: The meat is first roasted with herbs rubbed into it; it is then added to water along with the roots and mushrooms and simmered in a natural bowl over a medium flame for four hours

Effect: Adds +1 to +6 disease resistance (based on how well the ohapitu rolls) for 1 week per portion eaten in a sitting

Difficulty: 10 (if cuhtz meat, kuuka onions, mupitsuha pisahpi mushrooms, or esi tanapu sage is used, -3 to difficulty per ingredient)

Feverfeeder Stew

Ingredients:
Bear meat
Wild onion
Globeberry roots
Mushrooms
Beebalm, sage, and/or borage
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the bear, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants and mushrooms, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual cleansing of natural bowl.

Recipe: The meat is first roasted with herbs rubbed into it; it is then added to water along with the roots and mushrooms and simmered in a natural bowl over a medium flame for four hours

Effect: Helps the ill heal quicker, +1 to +6 disease resistance while sick (based on how well the ohapitu rolls) for every day's roll against the disease, only on portion eaten per day

Difficulty: 11 (if cinnamon or awasos bear meat, kuuka onions, mupitsuha pisahpi mushrooms is used, oresi tanapu sage -3 to difficulty)

Bonemending Broth

Ingredients:
Bone marrow of bison, wild cow, and/or apatosaurs
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; ritual cleaning of natural bowl; blessing of the afflicted if available.

Recipe: As much marrow as possible cooked in its own fat for 15 minutes, then added to water boiling in a natural bowl for four hours

Effect: Helps bones mend quicker if drunk while a bone is broken, once per day

Difficulty: 13 (if blue ox, apatosaur, or cuhtz marrow is used, -3 to difficulty per marrow type)

Woundmending Broth

Ingredients:
Bone marrow of bears, turkeys, and/or cottontail rabbits
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; ritual cleaning of natural bowl; blessing of the afflicted if available.

Recipe: As much marrow as possible cooked in its own fat for 15 minutes, then added to water boiling in a natural bowl for four hours

Effect: Helps wounds mend quicker if drunk while a bone is broken, once per day

Difficulty: 13 (if cinnamon or awasos bears, kuyunii turkeys, and/or meswew cottontail rabbits are used, -3 per marrow type used)

Amber Jerky

Ingredients:
Dried apatosaur meat
Hot pepper, dried

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the apatosaurs, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to peppers, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning.

Recipe: Slit the pepper into long strands, then dry it out, and grind it up. Cut the meat into thin strands, then dry the meat and rub the hot pepper into it regularly as it dries, then stretch it further into thinner strands, until it is nearly ropelike

Effect: Makes skin harden for +1 to +3 toughness (depending on success of preparation roll) for an hour

Difficulty: 15 (if giant amber peppers are used, -3 to difficulty)

Stuffed Apple

Ingredients:
Wild apples
Wild berries
Honey (if possible)
Vanilla (if possible)
Hibiscus, dried
Mint, dried

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; gesture of gratitude to the bees; quiet murmured chant over the apples as they cook, once every ten minutes.

Recipe: Core and hollow the apples. Dry the berries, hibiscus, vanilla, and mint, then ground them all together. Mix with honey and fresh berries. Stuff mixture into apples, then roast over a fire until the apples are slightly more tender but still firm enough to hold on a skewer.

Effect: Increases bodily growth rate slightly, allowing for greater and quicker increase in STR over time if eaten regularly

Difficulty: 14 (if amber apples, pokopi berries, 12-queen bee honey, vanilla, honeyed hibiscus, or sky mint are used, -3 to difficulty per ingredient, stops at 0 difficulty)

Muscle Jerky

Ingredients:
At least two of apatosaur, bear, wild cow, or bison meat, dried
Ground yarrow
Ground mesquite

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual exercises after each step of the recipe; share stories of strength while slicing or stretching.

Recipe: Dry plants and grind them to powder; slice meats extra thin and dry, rubbing powders into them every hour until they are brittle; stretch thinner, then feed a piece of each piece to a wild animal.

Effect: Temporary +1 to +6 STR, up to 30 minutes

Difficulty: 12 (-3 if apatosaur, cinnamon or awasos bear, blue ox, cuhtz meat, bison yarrow, or patso mesquite are used)

Preserving Rub

Ingredients:
Salt
Sage
Saffron
Any alium
Coriander
Rosemary

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to the plants, with a ritual offering of thanks via burning of unused parts; ritual murmured chanting over grinding and mixing every time it is done.

Recipe: Dry and grind up at least three of the plants one piece at a time, once per hour, over the course of as many days as it takes, then add the salt (if present).

Effect: If applied to any perishable food, it will last one to three months longer than usual.

Difficulty: 7 (-3 per if aetherial salt, esi tanapu sage, black saffron, or kuuka onions used, 0 lowest difficulty)

Hunter's Jerky

Ingredients:
Bear meat, dried
Ground yarrow
Ground sage
Ground hot pepper
Ground walnuts

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the bear, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; use of the bear's eyes, ears, nose, teeth, and claws in an ornament worn while preparing; special exercises between each step of the recipe; murmured chanting during slicing; ritual cleansing of hands, eyes, ears, nose, and feet before and after the preparation and before eating.

Recipe: dry plants and nuts, then grind up together; slice meat extremely thin, then dry; rub ground herbs and nuts into jerky; stretch the jerky into thin cords.

Effect: +1 sight, hearing, and/or smell; +1 ATH; +1 STR; and/or +1 STH for the duration of a single night.

Difficulty: 14, +2 diff per stat bonus added (i.e., if sight and hearing, it is 16 - max 24) (-3 if awasos or cinnamon bear meat, bison yarrow, giant amber pepper, or esi tanapu sage used)

Eyewater

Ingredients:
Hill swallow eyes
Salt or hot pepper seeds
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the swallows, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to the plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; wearing feathers of the hill swallows while preparing the rest of the food; ritual of purification over the concoction every week it sits

Recipe: dry and grind the hot pepper seeds and/or salt, mix with the swallow eyes, vigorously; place into water, seal it in a skin or jar; leave it to sit for at least six weeks.

Effect: +1 to +6 vision for 1 hour for every six weeks it is left to sit.

Difficulty: 15 (-3 if giant amber peppers or aetherial salt are used)

Muffle Sprouts

Ingredients:
Pecans
Yarrow flowers
Hill swallow eggs

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the swallows; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; marking oneself with pigments from the yarrow petals during preparation; ritual murmured chanting while opening the pecans.

Recipe: open at least 25 pecans; crush the nuts into a fine powder; crack open at least six eggs, mix yolks and albumen with ground pecans vigorously; wash the fresh flowers in the mixture; heat over a low fire for twenty minutes.

Effect: +1 to +6 hearing for 1 hour for every 25 pecans/six eggs.

Difficulty: 15 (-3 if bison yarrow used)

Bear Mush

Ingredients:
Bear brains
Bear fat
Hill swallow eggs
Salt (if available)
Hot pepper
Wild aliums of any kind

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the bear and swallows, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; wearing a fragrant flower of any kind while preparing the bear brains; murmured chanting while cracking eggs.

Recipe: crack open at least three eggs and mix the yolks and albumen together; add salt; cook the aliums, eggs, and peppers in bear fat; set aside; cook the bear brains in their own fat; when halfway done, mix with egg mixture, cook the rest of the way; mush them all together when done.

Effect: +1 to +6 smelling sense for 1 hour per bear brain and three eggs.

Difficulty: 15 (-3 if awasos or cinnamon bear, aetherial salt, giant amber pepper, kuuka onions, or ohahpuhiwi aliums are used)

Tongue Salad

Ingredients:
Buzzard tongue
Woodpecker tongue
Turkey tongue
Hill swallow tongue
Any ten non-infernal spices
Any three kinds of greens

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the birds, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; loud and complex chanting throughout the entire process.

Recipe: clean all the tongues; cook them until they are tender, adding all the spices; let them cool, then mix with greens.

Effect: +1 to +6 taste for 1 hour per serving.

Difficulty: 15 (-3 if tmakikan-based spices are used or if black honey buzzard, cinnamon woodpecker, kuyunii turkey tongues are used)

Spiny Lizard Steak

Ingredients:
Spiny lizard meat (from multiple lizards, pounded together)
Salt (if possible)
Wild onions

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the lizard, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; deep massaging of the meat for hours.

Recipe: salt the meat, slice it thin, roast it over a fire with onions.

Effect: +1 to +6 touch sense for 1 hour per hour of massage to the meat.

Difficulty: 15 (-3 if kuuka onions or aetherial salt used)

Poultice

Ingredients:
Moss
Yarrow
Calendula
Chamomile
Lavender
Turmeric

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; murmured chanting over the wound; all herbs must be pressed between hands and rubbed twice while chanting.

Recipe: not all herbs are necessary - at least three must be used - but the moss is an absolute must. Press herbs between hands, rub vigorously, then beat them together into a mash. Mix with moss thoroughly so they suffuse it.

Effect: cleans wounds and staunches bleeding. Will turn a mortal wound into a deep wound, a deep wound into a normal wound, a normal wound into a flesh wound, and a flesh wound will heal completely within ten minutes. It then must be held on the wound for an hour (usually with strips of leather or fur), then changed regularly every morning and every night. If the wound started as a mortal wound, it will heal completely after a month and a day. If it started as a deep wound, it will heal after ffiteen days. If it started as a normal wound, it will heal completely after a day.

Difficulty: 4 for flesh wound, 10 for normal wound, 16 for deep wound, 22 for moral wound (no bonuses for using tmakikan-rich foods)

Hunter's Return Feast

Ingredients:
Any game caught during hunt
Any vegetables, spices, herbs gathered while hunters were out
Water

Ritual: long, communal ritual of thanks, citing gratitude to the animals and plants being used, with dances, singing, chanting, and small offerings of crafts made from previous hunts.

Recipe: cuts of game and cleaned and cut vegetables, spices, herbs, cooked together, then added to boiling water, cooked until tender - but everyone in community participates, with ohapitu guiding

Effect: seen as a way to protect the whole group from bad things happening, but actually created a protection from infernal powers (including misfortune, which is involved in natural disasters). This feast gives +1 to +6 protection from infernal powers (to any stat targeted by an infernal attack) for a whole season.

Difficulty: 17 for each person participating - children get -6 to diff, parents of children too young to participate also transfer their score to the child (-3 for any tmakikan-rich food used in the ceremony, -1 for every hunter who performed a ritual before the hunt)

Toad Drink

Ingredients:
Cane toad
Yarrow
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the toad, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to the yarrow, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual of cleansing over the mixture for two months under each full moon.

Recipe: take at least one live cane toad, feed it yarrow for a week; humanely kill the cane toad without breaking its skin; place toad and more yarrow into boiling water, cook until the toad dissolves; place the mixture out under the moonlight every night for two months, keep it covered during the day.

Effect: protection from poison - +1 to +6 against any poison for a day

Difficulty: 12 (-3 if bison yarrow used)

Pepper Meal

Ingredients:
Hot peppers (variety)
Wild vegetables
Animal fat
Whole pepper

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animal who provides fat, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to the peppers and wild vegetables, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual of heat for the blazing hot fire.

Recipe: take a variety of hot peppers, chop them into small pieces. Dry them out, along with their seeds, and ground them up into a fine powder. Take fresh wild vegetables and cook them in animal fat until they are soft, mixing in the hot pepper powder. Stuff this into a whole pepper that has been cut open, then roast it over a blazing hot fire.

Effect: protection from heat - +1 to +6 against any heat damage for a day

Difficulty: 15 (-3 if tmakikan-rich animals or plants used)

Warm Belly Stew

Ingredients:
Bear meat and fat
Wild vegetables
Rosemary
Oregano
Thyme
Chives
Cilantro
Mint
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the bear, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; communal ritual with hands held around the fire including a special song.

Recipe: any three or more of the listed herbs may be used; bear must be a fat bear killed in warm times; bear meat must be cut in roughly equal chunks; herbs must be dried; cook the meat in its fat until it is tender; rub meat in herbs; place more herbs in boiling water, let water boil with just herbs for five minutes, then add meat and vegetables; roast water and meat for six hours.

Effect: protection from cold - +1 to +6 against cold for a week

Difficulty: 15 (-3 for every tmakikan-rich animal or plant used)

Spiced Salve

Ingredients:
Animal fat
Hot pepper
Any preferred spices
Sunflower

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual of exposure wherein ingredients are placed under the midday sun for ten days in a row

Recipe: slice peppers, keeping the seeds, dry them out and crush into a powder; dry and crush any spices to be included; bake sunflowers over a hot fire until lightly toasted, then crush them into a mash; mix mash with spices and pepper powder, then mix that with boiling animal fat. Let cool for ten days, keeping uncovered during day, placed in special pot during midday hour, then covered at night. Rub on body instead of eating.

Effect: protection from sunburn (and radiation), +1 to +6 for a day

Difficulty: 19 (-3 each for tmakikan-rich ingredients)

Sleeping Water

Ingredients:
Passionflower
Valerian
Chamomile
Water

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; place under sleeping skins under a new moon.

Recipe: take fresh or dried parts of at least two of the above listed herbs, steep in boiling water (effectively making a tea).

Effect: drink before bed and sleep through the night unperturbed by bad dreams.

Difficulty: 13 (no reductions for tmakikan-rich foods)

Ruddy Eyewater

Ingredients:
Nighthawk eyes
Raptor dinosaur eyes
Salt or hot pepper seeds
Water

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to the plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; wearing feathers of the animals while preparing the rest of the food; ritual of purification over the concoction every week it sits.

Recipe: dry and grind the hot pepper seeds and/or salt; may use nighthawk OR raptor dinosaur eyes (or both), mix salt or pepper powder with the eyes, vigorously; place into water, seal it in a skin or jar; leave it to sit for at least six weeks.

Effect: nightvision

Difficulty: 18 (-3 if giant amber peppers or aetherial salt are used)

Soothing Green Water

Ingredients:
Rosemary
Ginseng
Basil
Rose
Sage
Alyssum
Water

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to the plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual of counting while making the tea.

Recipe: use three or more of the above herbs, except alyssum, which is mandatory. Dry them, then make a tea with them. While picking and drying the herbs, count each and every single one. If even one is missed, the recipe will fail.

Effect: stave off senescence by a day for every day you drink it

Difficulty: 20 (no reductions due to tmakikan-rich foods)

Mooncleanse Water

Ingredients:
Pennyroyal
Water

Ritual: gesture of gratitude to the plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; offering to the moons.

Recipe: boil pennyroyal in water.

Effect: a pregnant person will abort their pregnancy.

Difficulty: 7 (no reductions due to tmakikan-rich foods)

Apples of Existence

Ingredients:
Apples
Bontebok meat
Fern fronds
Citrus zest
Salt and black pepper
Mint

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to the plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual of the body (special exercises to strengthen muscle, bone, blood, and organs).

Recipe: finely chop bontebok meat and fern fronds, rub with fresh mint, sprinkle on cirtrus zest, salt, and pepper, then wrap in large mint leaves; roast mixture, then chop finely into a pate; stuff pate into cored apples. Bake apples until tender.

Effect: strengthens the body's physical essence so that void cannot negate it - +1 to +6 against void

Difficulty: 25 (-3 each for tmakikan-rich ingredients)

Mushrooms of Reality

Ingredients:
Large mushrooms
Potato beetle
Gorilla meat
Hexaprotodon meat
Saffron
Vanilla
Cumin

Ritual: ritual of gratitude to the animals, making sure all other parts are marked for use; gesture of gratitude to the plants, offering of unused parts to spirits via burning; ritual of the body (special exercises to strengthen muscle, bone, blood, and organs).

Recipe: grind meat into a pate, grind beetles up with meat next, mix well. Mix in dried saffron, vanilla extract, and ground cumin. Lightly saute pate, then stuff into large mushrooms. Bake mushrooms until meat is well done.

Effect: strengthens the body's physical essence so that magic is less effective against it - +1 to +6 against any fey energy

Difficulty: 25 (-3 each for any tmakikan-rich foods used)

Heartbeat Broth

Ingredients:
Bear fat or bison tallow
carmelized onions
Amber cumin
Ground acorn meal
Honey
Water

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Ritual:
Before preparation, all participants sit in a circle around the fire in silence until breathing naturally slows together. The ohapitu begins a low, steady hum, and the others join one at a time until all voices settle into a single shared tone Each participant then pricks a finger, palm, or forearm with a thorn, obsidian flake, or bone needle and lets several drops of blood fall onto the earth beside the fire as an offering of shared life and shared rhythm. The blood is not consumed.

Unused onion skins, sage stems, mint leaves, and acorn husks are burned as offerings during preparation.

Throughout cooking, participants breathe together in a steady rhythm led by the lead singer. Stirring must match the rhythm of the communal humming. If the rhythm breaks badly enough that the humming falls apart, the recipe fails. Before eating, each participant places a hand against the chest, throat, or wrist of another participant to feel heartbeat and breath directly. The broth is consumed together in measured intervals between breaths.

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Recipe:
Cook onions slowly in bear fat or bison tallow until soft and fragrant. Add water and sage and bring to a low boil. Stir in ground acorn meal slowly until the broth thickens slightly. Remove from strongest heat and add crushed mint and honey. The broth must remain warm but never boil after the mint and honey are added. Serve warm from a shared bowl or pass hand-to-hand among participants.

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Effect:
Participants gradually synchronize heartbeat, breathing, posture, and vocal cadence.

While singing or chanting together:

• One person leads, each person joining offers a bonus to the lead singer.
• reduce fatigue from sustained singing, chanting, or humming
• maintain harmony, rhythm, and breath control more easily
• gain resistance against panic, shock, or disruption while participating in communal song

The effect lasts until the next three meals.