Rift Universe Fruits
1. Chabba Fruit- Sun shaped sour fruit used for lemonade equivalents. The swirl on the front tastes like cinnamon and is used as a baking ingredient.
2. Disapear Fruit- A fruit that tastes like a cross between an apple and a pear. It disappears when it feels threatened.
3. Gem Fruit- A fruit with delicious flesh that can be eaten without peeling. Seeds are poisonous.
4. Pie-Pie Fruit- Poisonous and bitter tasting medicinal fruit. Once refined it can be used to ease indigestion.
5. Frostdrop Fruit- Fruit that can only be eaten when frozen, lest it melt and become a horrid gooey texture.
6. Grabba Fruit- Used in stews, a hearty ingredient. Hallow center, thick but sharp outer spines.
7. Cabso Fruit- A fishy smelling fruit with a sweet cherry flavored center. The flesh around the center is inedible.
8. Tabua Fruit- Fruit that tastes awful in its base state. The unpleasant inside is dried and refined into a dust which is used as a spice.
9. Soogar Fruit- Fruit just filled with a sweet syrup. Is refined into sugar.
10. Myo Fruit- A fruit that has the consistency and taste of raw mammal meat. Must be cooked to achieve peak flavor.
11. Angel Fruit- A juicy and minty fruit that grows where it snows. Can be eaten raw or put in a salad.
12. Foya Fruit- A fruit as juicy as an orange and as spicy as a chili pepper. Great ingredient in hotsauce.
13. Olda Dona Fruit- A Dona fruit that's far too ripe, do not eat this.
14. Bagbang Fruit- Non edible fruit. Seeds are crushed and used as gunpowder.
15. Purpur Fruit- Fruit filled with fresh, sweet water. Essential on planets with no source of fresh water.
16. Sako Fruit- Fruit shaped like a fish that actually tastes like Gushers.
17. Cinnakinna- Only perfect for eating when it begins to drip frosting-like syrup. Any other time it's mediocre.
18. Hottaddi Fruit- Fruit that, when boiled, can be opened and poured out to reveal a hot, sweet drink.
19. Nuba Dona Fruit- A perfect Dona fruit, tastes like a frosted donut.
20. Shybell Fruit- Translucent fruit with a milky juice within. Easy to digest and a common ingredient in teas.
Rift Universe Meats
1. Dragon Roast, tough, pressure cook it.
2. Trotters, Meatsaur. Meatsaur's are alien dinosaurs genetically altered to be ideal food.
3. Liver, Meatsaur liver
4. Bunbun Kidneys, a toxin/poison neutralizing organ. Soaked 72hrs before cooking renders it edible. But why would you eat in the first place, that's gross, they're people.
5. Angel wings, small, sold in pairs.
6. The leg and foot of an unnamed mining species. Not recognized as a planet with intelligent life, they're free game.
7. Angel leg, fine meats in the Inferno. Technically illegal but lol you gonna say no to a demon?
8. Demon leg, fine meats in the Inferno. Yeah them demons be fucky.
9. Entire Side, is fuckin big, animal has pretty patterns on their meat cause they skin is see through. They live on the cold,
dark portion of Planet Rift.
10. Drumstick, Demon again, but this is pretty big and is usually fried specifically.
11. American-Style Roast, made of the native species of planet Rift, Moomkeys. No one is safe.
12. Kallopian leg. They lil predatory horses, but intelligent. Everyone is food.
13. Tomahawk Steak, a fuckin frog thing, nothing special about them other than they hail from Kallop like the Kallopians.
14. Kabab chunks, angel.
15. Bunbun loin, falls apart when overcooked.
16. Ghost Filet, super hard to get so expensive. Like not even sold to financially underwhelming people. Tastes like fish.
17. T-Bone, unnamed slum animal. Common meat eaten by the people at the Base of Rift City's buildings. Tastes like 'gator.
18. Trotters, human hands. We are all meat.
19. Angel Wing, large, sold individually.
20. Meatsaur Tongue, eaten by higher class Rift residents.
21. Meatsaur strips, for your fussy lil baby who demands tendies.
22. Demon Bacon, tastes like sin.
23. Macro Ham, made from different cuts of Macros, giant insects, all glued together. Presented as cold cuts.
24. I may have mis-numbered the picture.
25. Bunbun Arms, chewy.
26. Dragon Neck, enjoyed by older Rift generations. Not very good really but it's TRADITION.
27. Ribs, unnamed giant bird found on rift. Kinda cruel to eat this considering the birds are peaceful.
28. Sard Tail, like eating a fucking fetus you monster. Sards reproduce by budding, dropping their tail end so it can reform into a new Sard. You're awful for eating this.
Rift Universe Plants
1. Sky Bush, a bush that floats through the air. Good luck to spot one.
2. Mercy Belles, flower named after an act performed in Rift's history. A pair of frighten sisters offered these flower to a Rift colonizer as they begged for their life. They were not spared. Bad luck to give one to someone you like.
3. Coro Tree, secretes a sap that eats away at the tree itself.
4. Peaktre Tree, small tree often trimmed into shapes. Sprouts flowers on the leafy portion a translucent reflective dangly flowers below.
5. Hoverleaf bush, remarkable due to the fact that the leaves float, but is otherwise poisonous.
6. Devil's Tail stalk, secretes a tasty yet often throat-closing sap.
7. Brealla, tall stalks of harmless plant that can be used a defense against Rift's acid rain.
8. Marsh Mall, mushroom that tastes like chocolate and gets you high as fuck. Dangerous in high doses.
P. Fliver, mobil plant native to Kallop.
10. Relp Cabbage, loved by herbivores of Rift.
11. Triproot, root-system that relies on its preytripping and falling into it's tendrils.
12. Speaksies, aka Screamers. Replays what it hears to excess when a living thing nears it. Fields of these flowers are
completely devoid of any life with a heartbeat.
13. Scarebros, also found in fields but uses a humanoid figure to deter other humanoids from nearing it's flower. Grows
better in well cared-for farms, humanoid figure can be harvested as farm-animal feed.
14. Orbit Berries, tastey! Picks up small objects and flings them at enemies.
15. Space Rose, the first flower found by human astronauts. Not really a flower, it's a demon below the planet they were on.
16. Garlands, leaves that grow from a mold found only on ceilings.
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-They're made out of meat.
Meat?
-Meat. They're made out of meat.
Meat?
-There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat.
That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?
-They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines.
So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact.
-They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.
That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat?
-I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat.
Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage.
-Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?
Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside.
-Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through.
No brain?
-Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!
So... what does the thinking?
-You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat.
Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!?
-Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?
OMG. You're serious then? They're made out of meat?
-Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years.
So what does the meat have in mind?
-First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual.
We're supposed to talk to meat?
-That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing.
They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?
-Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.
I thought you just told me they used radio.
-They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.
OMG. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?
-Officially or unofficially?
Both.
-Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.
I was hoping you would say that.
-It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?
I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?`Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?
-Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact.
So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe?
-That's it.
Cruel, but you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?
-They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them.
A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream.
-And we can mark this sector unoccupied.
Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?
-Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again.
They always come around.
-And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone.
—THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT, by Terry Bisson, 1991
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