A Kitchen for Artists (Guide)

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A Kitchen for Artists Summary
Limited-Length Conversion Activity
Setup				Progress				End
1 A				0+ A				1 A
Progress Details			Cook with ingredients to make your .
Items Inputs/Outputs Start-up Inputs Boosting Outputs Reduction Reduction Reduction
Raw EPA			2.75			Raw SPA			5.5

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A guide on making and selling meals at A Kitchen for Artists in

Mechanics

Before you Start

The first step is naturally reaching and building Station VIII. Once there, you will have the option of building a canteen as part of The Business of Manufacture storyline. After you have built the canteen, the A Kitchen for Artists storylet becomes available. The canteen can be upgraded twice at the Offices of the Tracklayer's Union: Station VIII Branch to unlock more bases for advanced cookery. Note that you need to make 5 meals before the second upgrade.

Creation

Basics

Creating a meal is a simple affair. Except where noted, each action while creating your dish will add 250 Culinary Ingredient Value on top of the value ingredients themselves:

1. Create the base for the dish. This is the main option that depends on the upgrade level of your kitchen (), and sets the meal's initial value and , determining some end-uses for the dish.
2. Optionally Enhance the dish with additional ingredients. At the time of writing, only Fish Based dishes can be enhanced with Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch.
3. Develop the dish further, which adds value to the meal, and sets to a new value.
4. Develop the dish even further, adding a great deal of value. At the time of writing, there is only one option in this category, Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail.

A dish is ready to serve at any level, making enhancing and developing the dish optional. There are two main reasons to develop your dish further; first to add , which affects the reward you receive for serving or selling a dish, and secondly to attain a specific , which can unlock particular meal sales.

Detailed Creation

Bases

The bases you can create are limited by your level.

Bases List

Storylet	Value	Challenge	Cost
1
Brew a Spicy Fish Broth	850	1 150
2
Steep a Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur	710	10 3
3
Prepare a Sharply-Flavoured Pickle	750	150 1
Compose an enticing Fungal Pâté	900	150 1
Concoct a Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Concentrate of Self	2750	150 5
Prepare a Hearty Taper-nut Cake	750	150 5

Development

Development Table

Storylet	Added Value	Challenge	Cost	Level
Spicy Fish Broth
Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch	500	150 1		1
Turn this dish into a Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons	1750	175 3		2
Enhance into a Caducean Zzoup of Reactionary Tendencies	1750	175 3		2
Assemble a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines	1900	5 2		2
Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur
Prepare a Solacefruit Champagne Royale	2250	150 3		2
Sharply-Flavoured Pickle
Develop into an Envenomed Pickle of Vinegar, Vengeance, and Hillchanger Scorpion	500	3 3		3
Suspend the pickle in a Venison Aspic – spiked with Mr Spices' new drug	350	7		3
Fungal Pâté
Prepare a Platter of Mixed Charcuterie	7750	150 1		3
Drown it in absinthe. Prepare it for ignition.	600	5		3
Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple
Sweeten into a Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar	500	150 5		4
Sour into a Pickle of Parabolan Orange-apple with Jasmine Notes	500	150 5		4
Develop into an Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy	500	150 5		3

Further Development

Storylet	Added Value	Challenge	Cost	Level
Sparkling Solacefruit Royale
Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail	36500	7		2
Freeze the Solacefruit Champagne Royale into a sorbet	2500	175 5	3	3

Quick Reference Sheet

Serving

There are several ways to use meals created in your kitchen:

Non-Specific Options

These options aren't limited to a single meal, and have scaling rewards dependent on

The Classic

One option is always available regardless of what kind of meal you have made, and involves serving your masterpiece to the train passengers passing through Station VIII.

• Serve up the (dish) This is the probably the simplest use for a dish, and gives equal to Value / 50, and a tip of equal to your , transforming value from the miscellany of items you use to create it into pure scrip.

Menace Reduction

This option can reduce your menaces based on . The menace reduced is determined by the value of your meal, while the determines the amount reduced.

• Dose yourself with (your dish) 0 A Fish Broth based meal reduces
• Dose yourself with (your dish) 2 A Dark-Dewed Cherry based meal reduces

Both reduce the appropriate menace by 4 CP + 1 CP per 125

So far, cooks have yet to invent a meal that can improve your standing in the eyes of others.

Exceptional Rose Companions

If you possess or companions from the Feast of the Exceptional Rose event, they each have an option for disposing of your dish, and giving you items in return.

• Trade (your dish) to the Canny Costermonger gives / 100 and / 140
• Supply Dr Schlomo with (your dish) will only take based dishes, and gives / 250 , as well as a tip of

The Worker's Meal

If you find your getting too high for comfort, and figure giving your workers a jolly good snack will calm them down, this option is for you.

• Lay an astonishing feast for the Tracklayers is limited to fungal pâté based meals, and will decrease by / 100 CP.

Specific Options

These options require an exact value, meaning a specific meal.

Specific Meal Options

Storylet	Required Meal	Rewards
Serve up a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines (Helicon House)	Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines
Offer champagne for its Revels (Mr Wines)	Sparkling Solacefruit Royale
Bid it to try the sorbet (Mr Wines)	Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet
Ply it with aspic dosed with its own drug (Mr Spices)	Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug
Present it with the Curatorial Cocktail (Mr Wines)	Curatorial Cocktail
Present Mr Fires with Flambéd Peppercap Pâté (Mr Fires)	A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé

Transforming Yourself

Certain dishes, can cause significant changes to yourself, and importantly, your quirks (if they are between 5 and 12.) based meals will also give you .

• Transform yourself with Self-Reflective Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple reduces each of your menaces by 1 CP. Not too useful.
• Transform yourself with Sour Pickle of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Vinegar gives , , and
• Transform yourself with Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy gives , , , and
• Transform yourself with Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar gives , , and

In addition, the highly expensive Curatorial Cocktail can result in...

• Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail -4 CP . Not worth it at all, I guess it is true that only a curator can properly appreciate this dish. Such as...
• Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail Requires . -28? CP , -28? CP , and gain, loss.

Rewards Table

This table lists the rewards from the various options for selling your meal

Meal Sales

Storylet	Rewards	Division Factors	Restrictions / Additional Rewards
Serve up the (dish)		50
Trade (your dish) to the Canny Costermonger		100 140
Supply Dr Schlomo with (your dish)		250	Orange-Apple Based
Dose yourself with (your dish)	Reduction	125	Fish Based
Dose yourself with (your dish)	Reduction	125	Cherry Based
Lay an astonishing feast for the Tracklayers	Reduction	100	Fungus Based

Scrip Reference

This table lists the resulting from serving each meal with Serve up the (dish). is assumed to be 0, but has an easy to calculate effect on the result. Fish Broth based meals can be given additional value with Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch, so you can get higher scrip using that option.

Meal Sales

Meal Name	Value	Scrip
Sharply Flavoured Pickle, As Yet Unpoisoned	750	15
Jet-Black Pickle Relish Dosed with Hillchanger Scorpion Venom	1250	25
Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug	1100	22
An Enticing Fungal Pâté	900	18
A Platter of Mixed Charcuterie	8650	173
A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé	1500	30
Vibrantly Peppery Fish Broth	850	17+
Caducean Zzoup, with Gunpowder and Sickly Rose	2600	52+
Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons	2600	52+
Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines	2750	55+
Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur	710	14
Sparkling Solacefruit Royale	2960	59
Self-Reflective Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple	2750	55
Sour Pickle of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Vinegar	3250	65
Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy	3250	65
Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar	3250	65
Curatorial Cocktail	39460	789
Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet	5460	109
Parabolan Taper-nut Cake	750	15

Analysis

The maximum added value that a recipe can provide is 5.5 SPA assuming that your is level 6. This is done through preparing a first level recipe, getting the ingredient value + 250, and then selling the the customers at /50 + 6 (Train Luxuries). As many of these items can be sold for scrip directly, it is probably not a valuable use of actions for scrip grinding.

A special case exists where if you already have a , be it from parabolan warfare or your hellworm, this is the only way to cash it out. This takes a total of 39 actions to assemble the rest of the ingredients and cash out, which works out to 20.49 SPA, discounting the CoS itself, and discounting travel costs. It is not however, worth it to farm them through parabolan warfare, as you will get a better SPA through s and the Rat Market.

• 1 / action for fencing a cover identity.
• 1 to acquire from A Disillusioned Fungiculturalist, sell 5 and buy
• 2 to Prepare a Sharply-Flavoured Pickle and cash out with the
• 8 (on average) to acquire from a marked crate
• 3 actions to retrieve
• 20 actions for the assuming 5/action
• Finally 4 to Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail and then cash out by selling to the customers.