11 June 2022

QHW, Day 11: Graves

Grave-touched peppers can be found where the soil has soaked through with death; on battlefields and in graveyards, around abattoirs and gallows. The plant is sickly greyish green, but the peppers themselves ripen into a bold blood-red colour. To grow properly spicy, the peppers must be watered with fresh blood.

  • Ghost-touched peppers grow through the Veil, being just as present in Reality as on the Other Side.
  • Eating a grave-touched pepper will let you physically affect ghosts - but not see them.
  • An oil prepared from the peppers is used to treat weapons and armour when expecting a spectral foe.
  • A ghost who eats a ghost-touched pepper can similarly affect the real world.
  • Some ghosts keep a garden of the peppers for this very reason. If you find an abandoned place full of well-tended ghost-touched peppers, a spectral gardener is likely watching you.
  • Ghost-touched chilli is ground from the peppers and used to keep hostile ghosts at bay. A handful thrown in the air will likely blind and stagger them.
  • Or it can be used to cook a delicious meal that brings about restful languor and thoughts about the ephemerality of life. Such a meal also helps ghosts to manifest in Reality.


Sex on the Pyre:

  • 2 thin slices of fresh ghost-touched pepper
  • 1 ounce of elfin sunshine
  • 1/2 ounce of freshly squeezed goodberry juice
  • 1/2 ounce of treant syrup
  • 1/2 ounce of unholy water, frozen
  • 1 spoonfull of black xarthan sugar
  • 1 lime wedge

 

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