#cocoa beans

[nickysfacts]

Cocoa butter is easily the best moisturizer, I mean who doesn’t want to have smooth chocolate scented skin!🍫

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[originalhaffigaza]

[afrotumble]

[banicraft]

Beans!

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Corleone: Hot Chocolate

Designer's Reflection: Hot Chocolate

Obtained: Casual Drinks workshop

Rarity: SR

Attribute: Blue/Cool

Awakened Suit: Dark Chocolate

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Hot Chocolate

Chapter 2 - Old Tales of Rosset

Chapter 3 - Between New and Old

Story - summarized

When Corleone returns from a mission, he finds a mug of hot chocolate on his desk. But he doesn't drink it normally. He asks his old friend Lianne if she left it for him, but she didn't. But she does remind Corleone of when they were younger, before they joined the Justiciars.

They fought in the Apple Independence War. At the time, Pigeon kept sending goods, like cocoa beans, to Apple even when the people couldn't afford the imports. Sick of the oppression, Corleone led an ambush at the Intercontinental Train Station and destroyed the freight of cocoa beans. He almost killed the Pigeon commander there - Zoey appeared and stopped him.

Back in the present, Yeeso barges into the room. He's having trouble finishing a weapons report, and he needs Corleone's help. In return, Yeeso had made a gourmet hot chocolate for him. To Corleone's surprise, the drink tastes great.

Together, they work until the report is complete. As they bring it to Zoey, they all prepare for a new mission to the Intercontinental Train Station.

Connections

-Yeeso and Corleone were in another drink Reflection together: Iced Coke. Yeeso stole a power-up from Corleone during a game tournament, and he had to face him in training afterward. Yeeso lost and gave Corleone the rest of his gourmet soda.

-Other soldiers that fought in the Apple Independence War were Loen (he recounts his days on the battlefield in Gleaming Vines) and his cousin (and Vermillion's sister) Snownight White (Loen shares her story in Snownight Hawk).

Fun Facts

-Cocoa beans grow best in warm, humid climates, close to the equator. So unless Pigeon's lands extend far enough to the tropics, they would've had to import cocoa beans themselves before shipping them to Apple, inflating the price of the cocoa.

-This is Corleone's only suit with a Reflection. His other suits are the benefit suit Misty Adversity, the Memory Collection suit Reclamation Project, and the Guild suits Black Hound Masquerade and Silver Fang Masquerade.

[kirbyfigure]

Chapter 80 page 18

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[timmurleyart]

85% dark chocolate.🍫🟫😋

[bean-bracket]

Round 1 poll 15: Cocoa beans vs the Chicago bean

[davidstanleytravel]

Cocoa beans are laid out to dry at the Diamond Chocolate Factory at Victoria on Grenada, Eastern Caribbean.

[notabigrock]

Sounds like perishable currency was just chosen for flavor, but it has significant economic implications.

First thing to note, cocoa beans aren’t just perishable, they are also consumable. Perishability could be in reference to it’s function as a consumable or as currency, but the prior isn’t really relevant as that’s not how is being used. From what I understand, the Mayan dried their beans so they ceased to be perishable or consumable, so they functioned as regular currency. All four combinations of perishable as a currency and consumable have their own implications though. We already have currency which is not consumable or perishable, so let’s consider the other combinations.

First off, if the currency is perishable but not consumable then it doesn’t really function as a currency. This is because no one wants currency that is going to lose its value soon, and by induction it will have no value ever - not unless there is a significant portion of foolish people, but it’s not something that sustain a currency. However, you could use it instead as a transferable unit of debt with an expiration date. The key difference is such debt needs to ultimately be cashed back to the person who issued it or it’s value will be lost.

If a currency is both perishable and consumable, then the problem is avoided by people consuming the currency before it expires. It’s not a great currency since it’s not a long-term store of value, but it does function as one before it’s expiration date approaches, where it will then function as a commodity instead because people won’t accept it unless they plan on consuming it themselves.

A currency that is consumable but not perishable is the most stable of the tree, but it still has the problem of the money supply decreasing as the currency is consumed. Generally the is balanced by the money supply growing through creation of the currency, but that makes it chaotic in both directions. One of the main reasons precious metals are a common currency is because the amount in circulation is fairly stable. They also have the advantage over cocoa beans as well as other stable assets like diamonds and other precious gems in that they are fungible. In a fantasy setting it’s easy to invent another material with the desired properties, but there is a reason gold dominates, and if using a less desirable currency it may be worth factoring the weaknesses into the plot.

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

[banicraft]

Prior Dyes

[inthekitchenwithmatt]

What Does Cacao Fruit Taste Like Before Becoming Chocolate

[royalagri]

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[ryukisgod]