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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Speaker" data-source="post: 458376" data-attributes="member: 6571">Perish the thought!Any evil DMs want to come up with something nasty for players attempting to eat dire flesh? The Cockatrice Dish Cooking DC:  25This tasty morsel is favored as a delicacy in the Drow underdark, and has become a sport among young matron mothers of the high houses.  Like several other games these evil denizens of the underground kingdom undertake, losing such a contest can result in disastrous and compromising situations.To begin with, the contestants are given a full serving of cockatrice meat, prepared by their most trusted chefs (a situation that lends itself to bribery and exploitation typical of dark elves) Cockatrice meat holds within itself the power to convert flesh to stone, much as the living beast itself can do with merely a gaze.  While a good cook can remove much of this potency, the meat is still less then safe.Each round the contestants eat, they must make a fortitude saving throw to avoid becoming a statue.  This save starts at a DC of 1, with a cumulative +1 each round the contest proceeds.  To avoid cheating (at such a basic level in any case--these ARE drow) the food is cut into careful, even slices before hand to maintain this constant increase in difficulty.The first contestant to bow out of the game loses face and prestige.  The first contestant to turn to stone loses more prestige for her family, and also loses her life (however temporarily with powerful clerics around to cast stone to flesh).A competent cook can lower the fort DC by 1 for each and every round by making a cooking check of 35+.  An incompetent (or traitorous) cook increases the DC by 1 for every point--for each and every round--he or she misses the basic cooking check DC.And yes, Cockatrice does taste like chicken.</blockquote>

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