What was needed to unlock the test for Egypt
Test of the Banquet
Requires Level 15 and a permanent perception of 7
Principles require:
You cannot currently do the principle until you have a permanent perception of 7, so this is not a good principle to pursue just for a level.
- Enjoy a meal in a kitchen
- Enjoy a masterpiece in a kitchen
- Smoke a simple bowl of 1 herb
- Smoke a complex bowl of 2 herbs
- Enjoy a glass of wine
- Enjoy a mug of beer
To actually pass this test, you must serve a banquet on a Banquet Table which meets the requirements of a menu that you can pick up from U Body. (See below for more info on menus and using the table.) Once you open the banquet, you will have 2 Teppy hours. In that time, 21 people must eat your banquet (you can be one of them). Once the 21st person eats, you get zapped! :)
Banquet Table
Cost
- A Banquet Table is built within a compound ( Click on the cp> projects> the human body> banquet table to build one) They cost:
- 30 Glossy black boards
- 30 Glossy blond boards
- 30 Glossy white boards
- 20 Linen
- 6 White Travertine
- 50 Nails
- 30 Paint: Cadet blue
- 30 Paint: Dark Red
- 30 Paint: Forest Green
- 8 cookpots [iron]
Menu requirements
A menu consists of seven courses, with each course consisting of a food, a wine, and a beer.
Each University of Body will give out a different menu. If you are not happy with your menu for whatever reason, it may not be a bad idea to visit a different university. The menus given out will change on a weekly basis, so if you're unhappy with every menu you can find, just wait a week. Once you find a menu you like, you can hold on to it for as long as you want until you're ready to hold your banquet.
There is no restriction on how many times you can pick up a given menu, so you can, if you wish, collect a menu from each region and then return to the UBody that you like best as long as the weekly shift hasn't happened yet.
Foods have a duration requirement and a base requirement. The base is a certain food that must make up at least 1/7th of the recipe. All required bases are general foods, not mushrooms or herbs. Menus used to contain food items that were impossible to do for a while such as peppers and eggplant, but that has recently been fixed. Banquets may still request some of the rarer general foods though, such as serpent fish or oyster meat. The duration is relatively low, typically maxing out at about 30 minutes. As such, it should not be difficult to make a suitable recipe. Recipes need to have 21 servings in order to feed everyone at the table. 21 servings = 147 debens of ingredients; 1/7 of that is 21 debens.
I recommend the following technique: pick 5 cheap ingredients plus your requirement (for a total 6 bases including your requirement), and use 24 debens of each. Then look up a suitable additive for each base at ReferenceChart and use 1 deben of that. (Make sure no additive is used as additive OR base by any other pair.) You may even be able to use the same recipe for more than one course! This does require Cooking 6; I'm not sure how low a cooking level you can get away with and still have long enough durations, but if you try it just use more debens of each base with less pairs. Useful filler pairs include camel with onion, cocoa with abdju, cabbage with burnt malt, grilled fish with pale dhamasa, grilled onion with cinnamon, and carp with meadowsweet. - Nefer-Bast
Wines have two required attributes. This tale, the wines do not seem to require flavors, just 2 statistics of either alcohol, age, tannin, or residual sugar. Three bottles of wine were required for each course.
Beers have a required flavor and two other required attributes from among all the other possible attributes from beers. Any beer will work for this as long as it fulfills the required attributes. Note that if potency is stated, the exact potency is required (which means a very potent beer will not work for a potent requirement). A single cask of beer will serve for a course. A "hint of" a flavor is fine.
Note that some beer (such as very potent nutmeg, spicy nutmeg, and many spicy dry flavors) are impossible to make. For a list of known flavors, see Beer.
The tale 2 page is not clear, do people eat once or once per course? Do they drink? Do they get wine/beer/masterpiece points if possible?
No, people simply select the eat option from the table, and that's all they do. They get no points to their gastronomy or beer tasting skills, nor is their wine notebook filled in. All the guests have to do is show up, get their +7 stat bonus, and grab a menu if they want.
Using the Banquet Table Interface
No one bothered to explain this before and I found it confusing when trying to use it, so here goes...
- The first thing you need to do is use the Utilities option on the Banquet Table to CLEAR the table and reset it. You will need to type CLEAR to confirm (it must be upper case). If it's been used before and you don't do that, you will end up losing whatever you do before that point. Mainly this seemed to involve me losing my first cooked dish because the table didn't know where to 'put' it since I hadn't cleared the previous user's stuff out. This occurred even though it showed my menu when I clicked on it. So start by clearing it.
- After you clear the table, when you click on it you will have a variety of options, including:
- Clean Out Cookpot Just like in a kitchen, this empties the pot.
- Cook (In Iron Pot) (This shows up once you have food in a pot.) When you click cook, it will ask you for a name for the dish, just like in a kitchen. Course 1, Course 2, etc are easy names to remember. (However he names of your dishes DO show up on your banquet menus...so you could abbreviate to C1 C2 etc and then give them fun names if you want.) You'll need to designate which course the food goes to AFTER you cook it. I did that immediately after I cooked each dish, but you might be able to cook all 7 and then do that. If you use Nefer-Bast's system above, you won't need to worry about the results in iron vs. copper cookpots.
- Show Recipe This shows what you've put in for the current dish you are working on so far.
- Guest List Contains 3 submenus to allow you to review, add, and delete people from your Guest list. For people to eat, their names MUST be on the guest list. You must have a minimum of 21 names on the guest list in order to open the banquet, but you can change names out as you go along. You can have more than 21 people on the guest list, but ONLY 21 people will be able to eat.
- Mix... This is where you add your ingredients to make your food. It only shows up if you have food in your hands.
- Menu Two options under this one...
- Review Dishes Served, Open the Banquet Once you have everything in, it will give you a pop-up saying that it is perfect and asking if you want to open the banquet now. If you want to wait, just click No. If you're ready to begin, click Yes. You have 2 Teppy hours from the time you open it to get 21 people there and fed.
- '''You may cook meals in advance, mine indicated they would be good for 15 days. - SpoonerandForker
- Review Menu This just shows you the current menu requirements you have, whatever you last picked up from a U Body.
- Set The Table This is where the real action occurs. It will give you 7 submenus, one for each course. They will be named with the course number and the food requirement. When you click on that course, it will then give you options to load your wine (3 bottles per course), beer (1 keg per course) and food (that you have already cooked and named). When you try to load in an item it will check to be sure it satisfies the requirements. Once you load an item in, you CANNOT get it back out, so be sure you don't make any mistakes. (If the item is not satisfactory it will remain in your inventory and not be used up. The problem comes if you accidentally load something for one course that you meant for another, and it just happens to satisfy the requirements for the mistaken course. Once that happens it's in, and you'll need another item to satisfy the course you intended it for.)
PLEASE NOTE: You will NOT get your barrels or wine bottles back after the banquet! The table eats them!
After you finish loading the table and you open the banquet, then click on the table again. Now it will give you a "Take" option...and what you can take from it is 22 banquet menus - one for each of your guests and one for yourself. The menu will show the names of your wines, beers, and dishes.
After you open the banquet, and the 21st person eats from the table (within the 2 Teppy Hour time period) you will get zapped! Congrats!
A few more points:
- CONFIRMED: Spoiled beers DO work for banquets.
- A tip for naming beers you plan to use for your banquet: Include the course number in the name. It makes it easier to load the stupid table. However, since the wine and beer names do show up on your banquet menus, it's nice to give them a 'fun' name too. "C1: Guiness" would be a name that would satisfy both criteria. ;)
- Your banquet table can be guilded and that's no problem. You do not have to personally own it for this test to work, so it's not like Towers.
- I do NOT know if you have to personally load everything in the table or not. I did, I made everything myself. So I can't help you there.
- You CAN be a guest at your own banquet if you wish. It counts you as one of the 21 people, it makes no difference that you are the one who made it.
- Every time someone eats your banquet, you will get a message in Main, however, it does not give you a count of how many have eaten. I used the menus to track how many had eaten - I handed one to each person who ate and I could tell by how many I had left how many people I still needed. (Note: If you eat the banquet yourself, you will end up with 2 menus left instead of just 1. Obvious, but something I forgot when I did it because I got distracted lol. And to think I used to do accounting ... :P)
- You do not HAVE to pass out your menus if you don't want to. But a lot of people like to collect them.
I hope these notes help other people avoid some of the puzzlement and frustration I had when I held my banquet. They're minor points once you've done it once, but can be rather confusing when you've never seen one of these things before. ~Shivani
See also
Wine traders
- If you want to buy wines for banquet, chat the following people:
Cooks
- If you need cooks for your banquet, you may want to try the following people:
Beer Brewers
- If you want to buy beer for banquet, chat these people:
Guilds
The Wayfarers - 568, 6957 - Located by the Lower Egypt UBody. All of Egypt welcome. The Wayfarers is intended to be a metaguild for those interested in the discipline of the Human Body.
The HAREM 1028, 6969 - at the Lower Egypt cs. Currently over 90 members strong and still expanding. ACROPARTYLINE is a regular offering for the Body Discipline participant. HAREM Pavillion nearby contains 1 Banquet table, 3 wine tables, 2 kitchens.
ACRO BOOTCAMP Just S of the UE cs
Other useful pages
From Tale 2: Test_Of_The_Banquet
Other Body Tests
Miscellaneous
When a person eats from the banquet, they will gain a temporary +7 bonus to all stats. This bonus lasts for 1 game day, or 24 game hours. In RL terms, this means you will have about 8 hours of stat increases. More, depending on Teppy-time.
Question - Is this stackable with other food, and possibly with incense and other attribute-changing things?
Last banquet I went to, it stacked with food I ate later on. This wasn't the case last tale though.
People who had already eaten came to my banquet, and it stacked with their food just fine :) I ate after the banquet, that stacked fine too. ~Shivani