[UA] Gustomancy - a new school of magick

[Frank Cord Lohmann]

> Symbolic Tension: People over-glamourise and worship
> food. From the kingdoms of golden deep-fry fastfoods
> to the aesthetics of starvation meals with high
> cuisine priesthoods. It's just bunchs of chemicals
> glommed together.

I dunno, that doesn't really scream "central paradox" to me...

Thinking about wine-testers who never actually *drink* the wine they
sample, and just having seen something about some world championship
in coffee-making (where it's all about how the coffee *looks* and
*smells* and never actually is *drunk*) on the telly the other
night...

...how about: People over-glamourise and worship food, paying obcene
amounts of money for that special rare vintage, for that special rare
ingredient, for that one-of-a-lifetime taste. Just think of the giant
truffle that went for 40.000 Euro, and that subsequently was left by
the owner in a non-working fridge and went bad (now, there's a
Gustomancer who had a bad day) two years ago.
You create these experiences. You offer the perfect dish, the rarest
flavor, the ultimate gastronomic experience.
But you can not gain sustenence from that which you create, which you
obsess over, from food. Sure, you may taste it, you even *must* taste
it, but you may never swallow. You may never ingest. The minute you
use food for base nutrition, you break taboo.

Pretty much like an Oneiromancer in that respect - it takes rather
long to charge up, and once you slip for just a teeny-tiny moment, for
just a quick bite - *bam* and you're out of charges. You can probably
do with anoretics or even an IV drip, but sooner or later you *have*
to break taboo, or you'll starve.

What do you think?