Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The Alcohol of Shulim



Rules
Alcohol has restorative properties. A swig of strong drink restores 1d3 HP. This may be done once per day plus an additional number of times equal to CON bonus.
Three drinks + CON bonus requires a Save vs intoxication or one becomes drunk.
Being Drunk grants +1d6 temporary HP , -1 to all rolls , and last 3d4 hours.


Jalool or Jal is the most common alcohol of Shulim. An amber rice lager it is consumed with almost every meal. Jal is made by commercially the Galmesh House in Sanctuary, several other farms and plantations around the city brew Jal for personal use and to be sold at market.

Jalesh or Jesh is a rice wine . Jalesh is “bottled” in 3 foot bamboo tubes with cork stoppers. Jesh is often fortified with spirits distilled from the kamkun, donga, and fig.

Rakka is fermented yaks milk, consumed from a goat or sheep bladder.

Mert is a distilled beverage made from fig. It is consumed from a shallow brass bowl heated over mertak a brazier designed for this purpose.

Kamurt is a distilled beverage made from Kamkun fruit which is similar to the mango. Kamurt is typically mixed with yak’s milk and is often consumed with yak cheese curd and fig for breakfast.

Dort is a distilled beverage made from the donga fruit which is similar to the pumpkin. Dort is often double refined to produce high alcohol content and mixed with sugar and a psychotropic herb mixture known as Oon’s Tounge, it is then drunk out of 7 stone beakers in quick succession.

Mert , Kamurt, and Dort are all produced in Sanctuary. The Houses of Galmesh, Tokenpol, and Salidani all run distilleries. Well to do estates and plantations will have their own distilleries and may sell excess to the market.

Red wines from Adia and Yarapolka can be found in Shulim. Adian wines are bottled in glass, Yarapolkan wines in wooden cask.
Samarajans do not export alcohol by law, and the Yebish favor opioids and psychoactive herbs not producing enough alcohol for it to be found outside Yeb villages.

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