Editing A Kitchen for Artists (Guide)

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{{ActivitySummary
|Activity=A Kitchen for Artists
|Length=Limited
|Starting Actions=1
|Progress Actions=0
|Ending Actions=1
|Progress Details=Cook with ingredients to make your {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}}.
|Output Items=*{{IL|Hinterland Scrip}}
*{{IL|Solacefruit}}
*{{IL|Dark-Dewed Cherry}}
*{{IL|Wounds}} Reduction
*{{IL|Nightmares}} Reduction
*{{IL|Tracklayers' Displeasure}} Reduction
|Boost Items=*''{{IL|Concentrate of Self}}''
*''{{IL|Canny Costermonger}}
*''{{IL|Dr Schlomo}}
|Raw EPA = 2.75
|Raw SPA = 5.5
|Conversion=Yes
|Starting Items=*{{IL|Bone Fragments}}
*{{IL|Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax}}
|Input Items=*{{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps}}
*{{IL|Withered Tentacle}}
*{{IL|Fin Bones, Collected}}
*{{IL|Dark-Dewed Cherry}}
*{{IL|Bottle of Broken Giant 1844}}
*{{IL|Magisterial Lager}}
*{{IL|Pot of Venison Marrow}}
*{{IL|Preserved Surface Blooms}}
*{{IL|Parabolan Orange-apple}}
*{{IL|Beatrice's Taper-nut}}
*{{IL|Deep-zee Catch}}
*{{IL|Remains of a Pinewood Shark}}
*{{IL|Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits}}
*{{IL|Perfumed Gunpowder}}
*{{IL|Tin of Zzoup}}
*{{IL|Memory of Distant Shores}}
*{{IL|Amber-Crusted Fin}}
*{{IL|Fillip of Effervescence}}
*{{IL|Crystallised Euphoria}}
*{{IL|Solacefruit}}
*{{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}
*{{IL|Rat on a String}}
*{{IL|Pot of Venison Marrow}}
*{{IL|Femur of a Surface Deer}}
*{{IL|Sausage About Which No One Complains}}
*{{IL|Tinned Ham}}
*{{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps}}
*{{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe}}
*{{IL|Drop of Prisoner's Honey}}
*{{IL|Jasmine Leaves}}
*{{IL|Magisterial Lager}}
*{{IL|Muscaria Brandy}}
*{{IL|Concentrate of Self}}
*{{IL|Memory of Discordance}}
*{{IL|Sudden Insight}}
*{{IL|Moonlit}}
}}
{{GuideNeedsWork|Missing Info On Curator Cocktail for Mr Cards.}}
{{GuideFor|[[Uses::Current Culinary Concoction;Unlock]]|Storylet = A Kitchen for Artists|Cleanup = Tidy it all away|Pages = Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII}}

A guide on making and selling meals at [[A Kitchen for Artists]] in {{IL|Station VIII}}

==Mechanics==
[[File:Station VIII Recipes.png|right|420px|link=#Quick_Reference_Sheet]]
===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:
# Create the base for the dish. This is the main option that depends on the upgrade level of your kitchen ({{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII}}), and sets the meal's initial value and {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}}, determining some end-uses for the dish.
# 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]].
# Develop the dish further, which adds value to the meal, and sets {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}} to a new value.
# 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 {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}}, which affects the reward you receive for serving or selling a dish, and secondly to attain a specific {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}}, which can unlock particular meal sales.

====Detailed Creation====
=====Bases=====
The bases you can create are limited by your {{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII}} level.
{| class="article-table"
|+ Bases List
|-
! Storylet
! width="11%"|{{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value|Appearance=Value}} 
! width="25%"|Challenge 
! width="31%"|Cost
|-
!colspan="5" style="text-align: center;"| {{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII}} 1
|-
| [[Brew a Spicy Fish Broth]] || 850 || {{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 1<br>{{IL|Dangerous}} 150 || {{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps|5 x}}<br>{{IL|Withered Tentacle|2 x}}<br>{{IL|Fin Bones, Collected|5 x}}
|-
!colspan="5" style="text-align: center;"| {{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII}} 2
|-
| [[Steep a Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur]] || 710 ||{{IL|A Scholar of the Correspondence}} 10<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 3|| {{IL|Dark-Dewed Cherry|3 x}}<br>{{IL|Bottle of Broken Giant 1844|1 x}}
|-
!colspan="5" style="text-align: center;"| {{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII}} 3
|-
| [[Prepare a Sharply-Flavoured Pickle]] || 750 ||{{IL|Shadowy}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 1|| {{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps|5 x}}<br>{{IL|Magisterial Lager|5 x}}
|-
| [[Compose an enticing Fungal Pâté]] || 900 ||{{IL|Persuasive}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 1  || {{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps|5 x}}<ref>Materials valued at 6 {{E}} , providing 3.00 {{E}} for the action.</ref><br>{{IL|Pot of Venison Marrow|2 x}}<br>{{IL|Preserved Surface Blooms|1 x}}
|-
| [[Concoct a Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Concentrate of Self]] || 2750 || {{IL|Watchful}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Concentrate of Self|1 x}}<ref name="Consumed">This is not consumed.</ref><br>{{IL|Parabolan Orange-apple|2 x}}
|-
| [[Prepare a Hearty Taper-nut Cake]] || 750 || {{IL|Watchful}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Concentrate of Self|1 x}}<ref name="Consumed" /><br>{{IL|Beatrice's Taper-nut|1 x}}
|}
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=====Development=====
{| class="article-table"
|+ Development Table
|-
! width="26%"|Storylet 
! width="11%"|Added {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value|Appearance=Value}} 
! width="18%"|Challenge 
! Cost 
! width="7%"|{{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII|Appearance = }} Level
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align: center;"| Spicy Fish Broth
|-
| [[Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch]]<ref>Does not set {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}}</ref> || 500 || {{IL|Dangerous}} 150<br>{{IL|Monstrous Anatomy}} 1 || {{IL|Deep-zee Catch|5 x}} || 1
|-
| [[Turn this dish into a Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons]] || 1750 || {{IL|Dangerous}} 175<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 3 || {{IL|Remains of a Pinewood Shark|1 x}}<br>{{IL|Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits|1 x}} || 2
|-
| [[Enhance into a Caducean Zzoup of Reactionary Tendencies]] || 1750 || {{IL|Dangerous}} 175<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 3 || {{IL|Perfumed Gunpowder|5 x}}<br>{{IL|Tin of Zzoup|1 x}} || 2
|-
| [[Assemble a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines]] || 1900 || {{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5<br>{{IL|Glasswork}} 2 || {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|2 x}}<ref>Materials valued at 19.00 {{E}} , providing no value for the action</ref><br>{{IL|Amber-Crusted Fin|1 x}}<br>{{IL|Withered Tentacle|6 x}}|| 2
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align: center;"| Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur
|-
| [[Prepare a Solacefruit Champagne Royale]] || 2250 || {{IL|Persuasive}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 3 || {{IL|Fillip of Effervescence|1 x}}<br>{{IL|Crystallised Euphoria|1 x}}<br>{{IL|Solacefruit|5 x}} || 2
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align: center;"| Sharply-Flavoured Pickle
|-
| [[Develop into an Envenomed Pickle of Vinegar, Vengeance, and Hillchanger Scorpion]] || 500 || {{IL|Monstrous Anatomy}} 3<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 3 || {{IL|Jet Black Stinger|3 x}}<br>{{IL|Rat on a String|100 x}} || 3
|-
| [[Suspend the pickle in a Venison Aspic – spiked with Mr Spices' new drug]] || 350 || {{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 7 || {{IL|Pot of Venison Marrow|3 x}}<ref>Materials valued at 2.50{{E}} , meaning the action is only worth 1.00{{E}}.</ref><br>{{IL|Femur of a Surface Deer|10 x}} || 3
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align: center;"| Fungal Pâté
|-
| [[Prepare a Platter of Mixed Charcuterie]] || 7750 || {{IL|Persuasive}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 1 || {{IL|Sausage About Which No One Complains|1 x}}<br>{{IL|Tinned Ham|1 x}} || 3
|-
| [[Drown it in absinthe. Prepare it for ignition.]] || 600 || {{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps|6 x}}<br>{{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe|1 x}} || 3
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align: center;"| Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple
|-
| [[Sweeten into a Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar]] || 500 || {{IL|Persuasive}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Drop of Prisoner's Honey|100 x}}<ref>Materials valued at 2.00{{E}} providing 3.00{{E}} for the action.</ref> || 4
|-
| [[Sour into a Pickle of Parabolan Orange-apple with Jasmine Notes]] || 500 || {{IL|Watchful}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Jasmine Leaves|15 x}}<br>{{IL|Magisterial Lager|2 x}} || 4
|-
| [[Develop into an Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy]] || 500 || {{IL|Dangerous}} 150<br>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Muscaria Brandy|1 x}} || 3
|}
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{| class="article-table"
|+ Further Development
|-
! width="29%"|Storylet 
! width="11%"|Added {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value|Appearance=Value}} 
! width="18%"|Challenge 
! Cost 
! width="10%"|{{IL|Passenger Dining Room at Station VIII|Appearance = }} Level
|-
!colspan="6" style="text-align: center;"| Sparkling Solacefruit Royale
|-
| [[Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail]] || 36500 ||{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 7 || {{IL|Concentrate of Self|1 x}}<br/>{{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|100 x}} || 2
|-
| [[Freeze the Solacefruit Champagne Royale into a sorbet]] || 2500 ||{{IL|Persuasive}} 175<br/>{{IL|Kataleptic Toxicology}} 5 || {{IL|Memory of Discordance|1 x}}<br/>{{IL|Sudden Insight|1 x}}<br/>{{IL|Moonlit}} 3 || 3
|}

=====Quick Reference Sheet=====
[[Has icon::File:Station_VIII_Recipes.png]]

==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 {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}}
====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 {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}} equal to {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value|Appearance=Value}} / 50, and a tip of {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}} equal to your {{IL|Train Luxuries}}, 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 {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}}. The menace reduced is determined by the {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}} value of your meal, while the {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}} determines the amount reduced.
* [[Dose yourself with (your dish) 0]] A Fish Broth based meal reduces {{IL|Wounds}}
* [[Dose yourself with (your dish) 2]] A Dark-Dewed Cherry based meal reduces {{IL|Nightmares}}
Both reduce the appropriate menace by 4 CP + 1 CP per 125 {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}}

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 {{IL|Canny Costermonger}} or {{IL|Dr Schlomo}} 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 {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}} / 100 {{IL|Solacefruit}} and {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}} / 140 {{IL|Dark-Dewed Cherry}}
* [[Supply Dr Schlomo with (your dish)]] will only take {{IL|Parabolan Orange-apple}} based dishes, and gives {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}} / 250 {{IL|An Identity Uncovered!}}, as well as a tip of {{IL|Hinterland Scrip|5 x}}
====The Worker's Meal====
If you find your {{IL|Tracklayers' Displeasure}} 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 {{IL|Tracklayers' Displeasure}} by {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}} / 100 CP.
===Specific Options===
These options require an exact {{IL|Current Culinary Concoction}} value, meaning a specific meal.
{| class="article-table"
|+ Specific Meal Options
|-
! width="25%"|Storylet 
! Required Meal 
! width="46%"|Rewards
|-
| [[Serve up a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines]] (Helicon House) || Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines  || {{IL|Fitting in at Helicon House|3 x}}<br>{{IL|Hinterland Scrip|56 x}}<br>{{IL|Inspired...|+4 CP}}
|-
| [[Offer champagne for its Revels]] (Mr Wines) || Sparkling Solacefruit Royale || {{IL|Bottle of Morelways 1872|326 x}}<br>{{IL|Hinterland Scrip|5 x}}
|-
| [[Bid it to try the sorbet]] (Mr Wines) || Solacefruit Champagne Sorbet || {{IL|Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe|66 x}}<br>{{IL| Bottle of Morelways 1872|328 x}}<br>{{IL| Hinterland Scrip|5 x}}
|-
| [[Ply it with aspic dosed with its own drug]] (Mr Spices) || Envenomed Pickles Suspended in Venison Aspic, Dosed with Mr Spices' Private Drug || {{IL|Extraordinary Implication|5 x}}<br>{{IL|Scrap of Incendiary Gossip|5 x}}
|-
| [[Present it with the Curatorial Cocktail]] (Mr Wines) || Curatorial Cocktail || {{IL|Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar|+3 CP}}<br>{{IL|Bottle of Fourth City Airag: Year of the Tortoise|1 x}}
|-
| [[Present Mr Fires with Flambéd Peppercap Pâté]] (Mr Fires) || A Tower of Fungal Pâté Flambé || {{IL|Bazaar Permit|1 x}}<br>{{IL|Hinterland Scrip|5 x}}
|}

===Transforming Yourself===
Certain dishes, can cause significant changes to yourself, and importantly, your quirks (if they are between 5 and 12.)
{{IL|Parabolan Orange-apple}} based meals will also give you {{IL|Mirror-Fed|1 x}}.

*[[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 {{IL|Steadfast}}, {{IL|Melancholy}}, and {{IL|Austere}}
*[[Transform yourself with Orange-Apple Jam spiked with Muscaria Brandy]] gives {{IL|Daring}}, {{IL|Forceful}}, {{IL|Ruthless}}, and {{IL|Heartless}}
*[[Transform yourself with Marmalade of Parabolan Orange-Apple, Honey, and Roseate Attar]] gives {{IL|Subtle}}, {{IL|Magnanimous}}, and {{IL|Hedonist}}

In addition, the highly expensive Curatorial Cocktail can result in...
*[[Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail (No Robe)|Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail]] -4 CP {{IL|Nightmares}}. 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 (Robe)|Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail]] Requires {{IL|The Robe of Mr Cards}}. -28? CP {{IL|Nightmares}}, -28? CP {{IL|Wounds}}, {{IL|Ruthless}} and {{IL|Heartless}} gain, {{IL|Magnanimous}} loss.

===Rewards Table===
This table lists the rewards from the various options for selling your meal
{| class="article-table"
|+ Meal Sales
|-
! Storylet 
! width="28%"|Rewards 
! width="9%"|Division Factors 
! width="23%"|Restrictions / Additional Rewards
|- 
| [[Serve up the (dish)]] || {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}} || 50 || {{IL|Hinterland Scrip|+ ({{IL|Train Luxuries}}) x}}
|- 
| [[Trade (your dish) to the Canny Costermonger]] || {{IL|Solacefruit}}<br>{{IL|Dark-Dewed Cherry}} || 100<br>140 ||
|- 
| [[Supply Dr Schlomo with (your dish)]] || {{IL|An Identity Uncovered!}}|| 250 || [[Concoct a Tapenade of Parabolan Orange-Apple and Concentrate of Self|Orange-Apple Based]]<br>{{IL|Hinterland Scrip|5 x}}
|- 
| [[Dose yourself with (your dish) 0|Dose yourself with (your dish)]] || {{IL|Wounds}} Reduction || 125 || [[Brew a Spicy Fish Broth|Fish Based]]<br>{{IL|Wounds|-4 CP}}
|- 
| [[Dose yourself with (your dish) 2|Dose yourself with (your dish)]] || {{IL|Nightmares}} Reduction || 125 || [[Steep a Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur|Cherry Based]]<br>{{IL|Nightmares|-4 CP}}
|- 
| [[Lay an astonishing feast for the Tracklayers]] || {{IL|Tracklayers' Displeasure}} Reduction || 100 || [[Compose an enticing Fungal Pâté|Fungus Based]]
|}
===Scrip Reference===
This table lists the resulting {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}} from serving each meal with [[Serve up the (dish)]].
{{IL|Train Luxuries}} 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.
{| class="article-table sortable"
|+ Meal Sales
|-
! Meal Name 
!{{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value|Appearance=Value}} 
!{{IL|Hinterland Scrip|Appearance=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<ref name=fish>Ingredient Value can be increased without bound via [[Enhance your Fish Broth with chunks of Deep-zee Catch]].</ref>||17+
|-
|Caducean Zzoup, with Gunpowder and Sickly Rose||2600<ref name=fish></ref>||52+
|-
|Shark Bouillabaisse with Croutons||2600<ref name=fish></ref>||52+
|-
|Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines||2750<ref name=fish></ref>||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
|}
{{Reflist}}

==Analysis==
The maximum added value that a recipe can provide is 5.5 SPA assuming that your {{IL|Train Luxuries}} is level 6. This is done through preparing a first level recipe, getting the ingredient value + 250, and then selling the the customers at {{IL|Culinary Ingredient Value}} /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 {{IL|Concentrate of Self}}, 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 {{IL|Parabolan Parable}}s and the [[Rat Market]].

*1 {{IL|Bottle of Broken Giant 1844|1 x}} / action for fencing a cover identity.
*1 to acquire {{IL|Hand-picked Peppercaps|10 x}} from [[A Disillusioned Fungiculturalist]], sell 5 and buy {{IL|Magisterial Lager|5 x}}
*2 to [[Prepare a Sharply-Flavoured Pickle]] and cash out with the {{IL|Canny Costermonger}}
*8 (on average) to acquire {{IL|Fillip of Effervescence|1 x}} from a marked crate
*3 actions to retrieve {{IL|Crystallised Euphoria|1 x}}
*20 actions for the {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|100 x}} assuming 5/action
*Finally 4 to [[Prepare a Curatorial Cocktail]] and then cash out by selling to the customers.

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