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[Pan]

I use it to grind peppers that I grow

I'm sorry, this is really none of my business and you have every right to tell me so. But I'm always a little too curious for my own good, so: Do you grow them in your garden, or are you a farmer?

[Girlinhat]

Garden.  Last year it was in two medium-sized pots, around... 8 inches or so across, for three jalapeno plants.  This was VERY small, and none of the plants were very healthy.  This year I'm going to try and get larger pots for 1 plant, or put them in the ground.

There's nothing like the first time you pluck off the thick, ripe, red jalapenos, take a big bite of pepper, and immediately roll on the patio in pain as you just managed to get chemical burns on your fingers from the juices, not to mention the damage to your mouth.

[Dwarfoloid]

Tools like this are all over the place in adventure mode. For example, night creature lairs have caudrons, mortars and pestles amids various stacks of foodstuff (paste made out from vermins, prepared human brains, elf meat and other delicacies).

The cauldrons typically contain some kind stew, the game lists the objects seperately, but they typically contain some form of liguid (water or blood) with organs and meat from butchered sentinents.

[BigD145]

There's nothing like the first time you pluck off the thick, ripe, red jalapenos, take a big bite of pepper, and immediately roll on the patio in pain as you just managed to get chemical burns on your fingers from the juices, not to mention the damage to your mouth.

You should wash that off in magma.

[Girlinhat]

It would probably help.  When I fix chili, I have to wear gloves.  Putting my fingers on a sliced open pepper long enough to run a knife over it, gets enough juice on my finger to cause chemical burns.

[Pan]

...chemical burns...

Yikes...

[zchris13]

... That sounds serious.

[khearn]

Mortars are used to grind fine things, like medicine and herbs, which is why a lot of doctors have a mortar and pestle on their logo or somesuch.  I have one myself, I use it to grind peppers that I grow, and grind some flower petals to add to alcohol/vinegar and water to make some perfume or potpourri.

OK, I can see how you can weaponize ground peppers, but how do you do so with perfume or potpurri? You must be able to, you seem to find a way to weaponize everything else.

   Keith

[Frelock]

OK, I can see how you can weaponize ground peppers, but how do you do so with perfume or potpurri? You must be able to, you seem to find a way to weaponize everything else.

Well, if we're fighting goblins, liberal amounts of their smell should knock out an ordinary human, so clearly perfume should knock them out.  Now we just have to wait for a sense of smell to get implemented...

[slink]

I use my mortar and pestle to smash lumps out of baking soda, and to make sucanat into a reasonably fine, uniform, powder, for my baking.  Back when I was breeding tropical fish, I used it to triturate antibiotics with flake fish food in order to have a uniform dispersion for treating cichlid digestive disorders.

Try making hot pepper jelly sometime.  It's wonderful in yogurt, but nasty stuff to make.

[ZeroSumHappiness]

Perfumes are commonly alcohol based.  Easy enough to weaponize once you add !!FUN!!.

[Nyxalinth]

Here I got all excited thinking Toady had added new !!Fun!! in the form of explosives!