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Ascala Spotlight - Essence Beverages

 Hello. C J here. I’ve got a new free sample up today. It’s my first batch of final draft food cards and these real life recipes will be in the upcoming Quantum Expansion Five Million Strong, focusing on the culture and lives of the modern day setting region Ascala. Five Million Strong is a while away but I have the time to start working on it now, especially the food. Each Quantum Expansion will include food cards like these themed after the nation they depict.

I have some story to go along with these. These are essence beverages, the Ascala version of a virgin mixed drink. Mages and other supernatural being in the city love them. These are all things I’ve made in real life and I tried to line up their game effects with the health benefits of the vitamins in them. They are food cards, so you can permanently discard one of them per in-game day to gain large stat bonuses for the entire next in-game day. All of my recipes that aren’t in Cooking With a Wolf will be presented as cards like this.

These five drinks are zero-alcohol and all taste like fun cocktails. They’re also really good for you. Most of them have fruit juice in them for flavour. They’re also full of vitamins and I personally find them to be the perfect hot afternoon cool down beverage. They restore stamina and cool you down if you’ve been exercising that day. I have relied on them for that while shopping outdoors for the last few Summers here in Kingston and the Islands.

The recipes are in a Word document for now and are in the Downloads page OneDrive link, in the Quantum folder, in the new Five Million Strong folder. I will draw all of these in fountain pen eventually but for now here’s an image of one of them in real life. This one is made with carrot juice. I really do need to go buy some carrot juice soon. It’s getting more Summer like out. I have a Patreon if anyone wants to support development of more recipes like these. Enjoy!

C J Mcpherson


 

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