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If it's basically only protein glop, I was wondering if it'd be possible to still have any little extras? Either inorganic extras found by mining, like salt or sodium bicarbonate, or organic extras, like sugar beets or yeast or mushrooms.
My initial plan was to have her mother raise her to know the feel and the methods of baking, even if the ingredients and the finished product was very different, so that her techniques could be passed down until the day humanity moved back onto the surface.
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This is such a cool (and cute) concept, we are definitely down. Some vegetables and plants are available thanks to artificial sunlight set up in the subterranean farms. Flowers pop up half as weeds and a couple being deliberately cultivated, and as far as edibles go there is fruit, squash, roots and tubers (such as carrots), and a few different types of grains.
The trick with making bread will be the lack of processed/refined ingredients like yeast and flour. We would propose that your baker (Nell?) and her family have hand-made these ingredients for some time and succeeded in starting a very small practice pre-game, lacking the resources to generate adequate supply for regular barter but certainly to be known as a bit of a treat. We propose that your character succeed in expanding the business into something viable once gameplay starts.
Let us know if you have questions or elaborations.
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Anne, Nell's mother, would have been extracted age 14 from a medieval Matrix, so she'd have been raised by her baker family to know how to refine and create food from raw ingredients with no machinery apart from the local watermill (Perhaps her particular section was targeted precisely because they needed people with pre-industrial skills to revive techniques that had mostly been forgotten with the advent of machinery?) Anyway, Anne would have taken up her family's trade to supplement what little she could get from her increasingly distant Operator husband, and by now would have been at it for over twenty years. Her new husband and her three children all help run the place, but if other players want to join in as extra hands, I'd love that.
My hook for Nell would be that Anne's planning her move to Antioch in four to six months after I enter game, so Nell's got to decide in that time whether she'll go with her mother to set up a new place, try to run the current business in Zion with her older brother or if she'll take a new path. Her interactions with other characters will influence her decision.
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It will probably make sense for Nell to get in touch with NPC (or PC, if we have them by then) businesses that create beer, as the residue has historically been essential to create leavened bread. Just a thing to add to your RP for texture, should you choose to app with us.
We're excited about the prospect of having your character contribute to the game's economy.
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I'd hoped to have a small business already going, mostly been run by a single mother and her two child labourers, but for it to be enough to support them through the years when Nell's father had been increasingly absent due to missions.
Nell's original backstory that I was adapting to the setting required her to have been raised with the baking, raised being taught it was a good career choice and that she shouldn't go off and do anything else, because it's a family tradition and one proven to lead to a comfortable life. She comes from a point a few months before she's forced to completely question what path she wants to take, whether it's the one laid before her, an adaptation of her skills to a new role or a complete abandonment of the uncomfortable niche she's been forced into.
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We are sorry to see you're gone, but here is a rather belated response to your question anyway. We rather hope it will entice you to come back.
Presently, the only bread available in-game is unleavened types, including naan and 'cracker'-textured options. Any established businesses should primarily generate these types. However, we'd love for a character like Nell to work out and bring to flourish leavened bread production over the course of the game, by cooperating with beer-makers to acquire yeast, etc. This kind of civilian achievement would really help us flesh out our setting.
All the best.
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