Rules/Goblin Fruit

Goblin Fruit Farming & Cooking System

This system details means of cultivating goblin fruits, as well as means of using goblin fruit in changeling cuisine and medicinally. Players are encouraged to use goblin fruits in their roleplay, and these methods of preparing the fruits likewise.

Goblin Fruit Preparation

Raw Goblin Fruit

Raw goblin fruits are precisely that. They're fruit, pulled from the vine, and kept fresh either by the Wyrd of a Changeling, or the protective properties of a Hollow. They can be transported, traded, or consumed for their various beneficial or deleterious properties. They require no preparation beyond picking them, and form the standard method of encountering hedge fruit.

Goblin Fruit Preserves

Goblin fruit preserves are jams, jellies, or concentrates of cooked down goblin fruits. This makes them easier to transport in quantity, and turns one dose of fruit from a single large fruit to a single spoon sized serving of preserves. This is often done to make long term storage easier and more viable, and as a means of augmenting changeling cuisine. The process by which raw goblin fruit is turned into goblin fruit preserves can vary fruit to fruit, but in general it typically involves heat, a large pot, possibly some sweeteners or spices, and lots of stirring. The cooking process tends to be inefficient. For every two doses of goblin preserves, three raw fruits must be used.

Changelings are still limited by their Wyrd as to what they can carry, but preserves are always considered to have been picked more recently than both goblin fruit tinctures and raw goblin fruit when it comes to deciding which fruits rot when a changeling exceeds their carrying capacity.

Method: Extended Wits+Crafts. Each successes produces a single dose. Each roll takes one hour.

Goblin Fruit Tinctures

Goblin fruit tinctures are created by juicing or pulping goblin fruits. A medicinal tincture can be cooked down and distilled into a concentrate for easier dosing, while someone more interested in the culinary applications of goblin fruit can use the juices for out of this world fae beverages, and pulped roots and nuts for accent ingredients in breads and meat dishes. Tinctures tend to waste a good deal of the fruit's meat, skin, shell, and so on. Accordingly, creating a goblin fruit tincture requires two raw goblin fruits for every dose of tincture created. Tinctures have the unique ability to be given to an unconscious or otherwise unresponsive patient without risk of choking. They can be applied directly to wounds, dripped under the tongue, or even poured into the ears if you want to get Shakespearian about it.

Changelings are still limited by their Wyrd as to what they can carry, but tinctures are always considered to have been picked more recently than raw goblin fruit when it comes to deciding which fruits rot when a changeling exceeds their carrying capacity.

Method: Extended Wits+Crafts. Each successes produces a single dose. Each roll takes one hour.

Goblin Fruit Cultivation

Goblin fruits are similar to their ironside namesakes primarily by appearance only. They look like regular fruit, they grow similar to roots, nuts, berries, and fruits we are familiar with in our own world. But that is where the similarity tends to end. Where real plants favor certain soil conditions and sunlight, goblin fruits tend to depend far more on concentrations of glamour and the prevailing emotions of the hedge in which they grow. A changeling can take the seed of a jalapeno, plant it, and get another jalapeno plant in the fullness of time. Planting the seed of an amaranthine in the hedge will produce nothing at all unless that plant be in a location thrumming with the despair upon which Amaranthine feeds.

In this respect, cultivating goblin fruits has much more to do with ensuring the plants are steeping in the proper emotions than making certain they have water and good sunlight. Water and sunlight may be of some benefit, but only if the plant's subsequent effects relate to those things. It's possible to grow Odinsroot out of naked stone and a drop of blood from the thorns, after all. Fertile soil has never been what this process is about.

Stable Trod Cultivation

Changelings who have invested in Stable Trod have access to a stable, consistent bit of hedge that they can control. This provides necessary area to cultivate goblin fruits, per the book. Once per chapter (once a month), a character may roll their dots in stable trod and collect a number of generic glamour bearing goblin fruits equal to the successes rolled. If the changeling is sharing the stable trod merit with other changelings, the changeling rolls the combined dots of stable trod up to a maximum of five. Each character sharing the merit may make this roll, too. Furthermore, if the character has access to a Workshop (C:tL, p120) that gives a bonus to Goblin Fruit cultivation, this bonus applies to the harvesting roll.

Because each fruit grows in its own specific circumstances, a character may only cultivate a single type of fruit in a given month. Some fruits are harder to cultivate, and require more successes to produce than others. A common goblin fruit costs 1 success. Uncommon fruits require 3 successes per fruit. Rare fruits require 5 successes per fruit. Consult the table here. In order to perform your monthly fruit cultivation, you should open a ticket to changeling staff.

Goblin Bounty Cultivation

The Goblin Bounty Merit provides a character with access to a steady and predictable supply of common goblin fruits and oddments. Common fruits are always considered to be glamour bearing and offering no further mechanical benefit. Such fruits require careful, routine management, and that means a stable trod. However, common fruits can have all sorts of other characteristics which are not mechanical. A fruit that takes the edge off the ravenous hunger of a Gristlegrinder, for example. Or a fruit that makes you remember with fondness your first kiss, or the sensation of your childhood puppy nibbling your fingers. It can enhance taste or offer a hint of emotion, but can impart no conditions or tilts, and offer no mechanical benefits beyond these flavor factors. Staff need not be involved in you tracking your own fruit allotments, though people caught abusing the merit will be punished.

Hedge Spinning Cultivation

It is possible, though dangerous, to use Hedgespinning Paradigm Shifts to produce a single goblin fruit. Doing so outside of a stable trod you control can risk the hedge reacting against you, nevermind the potential emotional blowback of the paradigm shifts themselves. Using this system is best done on an emergency basis, and would require a ticket to be opened to staff for each single fruit you produce.