[UA] Edible clay?

[Mario Magallanes]

Patrick O'Duffy escribió:
 
> 1 - What's the real deal with this sort of thing? Religious ritual, quack
> healing, wierd fetish or not? What real-world rituals and myths are based on
> eating clay and dirt?

Real life, no idea. The only thing that comes to mind is Kim Stanley
Robinson's RED MARS, where a colonist faction eat pieces of Martian soil
as sort of communion rite.

> 
> 2 - What use could you find for such a thing in a UA campaign?

Um, communion with Earth? Maybe there's some kind of neopagan cabal or
ecologist group doing this sort of thing...


Mario Magallanes
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