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Mega-Pepper |
By: HsojRue@aol.com
"So, you kilt yerself a monster eh? and a mightee fine one it is... Now hold on boy don't go puffin' yerself up yet. I don't care how long yeh've been a scout, yer still green in my neck o' the woods. Yeh haven't even started preparing the body yet, yeh... WHAT DO YOU MEAN FOR WHAT?! Fer eatin' yeh idjut. Now get out yer vibro-knife and start cuttin' the meat into slabs... would ya shut up kid, I know our jaws ain't tough enough to gnaw through a magic critter like that over yonder. That's what this's fer, Cletus's Mega-Pepper Sauce. We's just gotta soak this meat in it fer a day or two it'll break down the structure of the meat, and it'll be tender as a possum... Now don't git sick on me boy, That's how us Wilderness Scouts git by in the Dinosaur Swamp... NO!! Don't cut the stomach out ya idjut, that's fer later..."
Since before the coming of the Rifts, people joked that a Cajun would eat anything. The Wilderness Scouts of the Dinosaur Swamp take this practice very serious. If they kill a supernatural monster, a mundane animal, or hell, even one of their companions who gets out of hand; it's a damn good bet they're going to eat them. For years more refined Wilderness Scouts laughed as these "backwoods" Scouts who claimed to regularly eat and enjoy MDC creatures. Of course they all thought it was the tall tales of a bunch of drunk Yokels. However the Wilderness Scouts in The Dinosaur Swamps have found an amazing natural product that breaks down the mega structure in MDC tissue. It comes from the seeds of a mutated pepper found only in the Dinosaur Swamps. In all respects it looks like a purple two foot long Jalepeno pepper. After about 48 hours of soaking in the sauce made from the Mega-Pepper, the MDC meat is changed into an SDC meat that tastes exactly the same, thus making it edible for swamp residents.
A Wilderness Scout raised in the Dinosaur Swamps is never found without a bottle of Mega-Pepper sauce, or at least a pouch full of it's seeds.
Mega-Pepper
A Mega-Pepper plant consists of 3D6 vines that are about 50 feet long. The vines wrap around trees, and grow in tangles along the ground. The actual peppers are 2 feet long on average and are evenly spaced across the vines; an average plant yields about 40 peppers. They have a unique effect on living/organic MDC matter, in which it slowly breaks down the structure of the matter until it becomes SDC, making it perfect for cooking! If SDC meat is soaked in the pepper sauce it will break it down as well until the meat is nothing but a gooey meaty jelly. The peppers will not harm an MDC or SDC creature if it touches them (the contact is not nearly long enough, and it's the seeds that carry most of the chemical). Also it will not harm them if they ingest the peppers; the digestive system breaks it down too quick to do any damage, however it will give MDC beings severe gas problems for about 24 hours and any poor bastard that is an SDC being will be confined to the nearest bathroom for 24 hours and will have severe gas for the next 24.
The sauce that is used by wilderness scouts is made up primarily of Mega-Peppers, and most scouts in the Dinosaur Swamp know how to make Mega-Pepper sauce, so there are hundreds of different varieties out there: they can be sour, sweet, extra spicy, or anywhere in-between, but in any case it will still have a nice spicy kick in it's aftertaste. Many MDC creatures enjoy eating the peppers by themselves, or pickled. They have became the latest food rage across Atlantis and a single pepper can go for as high as 100 credits.