I don't. I can believe someone could be that stupid. And we end up getting them.K wrote:I mean, I have too much faith in humanity.
Granted, it's possible he's on Death Row, and needs to give proof that he's legally retarded so they can't execute him.
Also on the alcohol thing: Europeans loved their wine. It looked pretty, so they went and developed glass, to look at the drink before drinking it (meanwhile the Chinese, who usually invented stuff hundreds of years before us, drank tea, and were fine with using china). This glass led to:
[*]Microscopes (I hear they're useful to some people)
[*]Telescopes (SPESS!)
[*]Windows, finally letting people see how fucking filthy their houses are and thus clean them, lowering disease and infection
[*]LASERS MOTHERFUCKER
[*]Glasses, thus adding about 10-20 years to the careers of scholars
All because the Europeans were piss-heads.
Now, on cooking and eating bees. I feel it should generally be a Survival check to catch them in the first place, with the DC varying on where you are:
The Elemental Plane of BEEEEEEEEEES: DC 0, 10d6*10 Bee Swarms
A giant bee hive:DC 5, 6d6 Bee Swarms or Giant Bees
A lower plane: DC 15, 1d4 Fiendish Giant Bees or 2d6 Bee Swarms
In the wild, you can see a hive right there: DC 0, 1 Swarm
A big field of flowers: DC 18, 10d6 Bees
An old book store: DC 18, 2d4 Bees (dead)
Out in the wild: DC 20, 2d6 Bees
A more suburban area or a beach: DC 25, 1d6 Bees
A regular city: DC 30, 1 Bee
An upper plane: DC 50, 1 Celestial Giant Bee
If you beat the DC by 10 or more, you also find 1d6+1 wasps (lower plane: 1 Hellwasp Swarm). Searching takes 1 minute, but you cannot search the same general area (100' square) for one day.
Bees can be bought in most bakeries or sweet stores for 1CP each, wasps for 2CP and Giant Bees for 5SP each.
Cooking and preparing the Bee:
Removing the stinger and poison sac requires a DC 1 Wisdom check. Or Intelligence check. I don't even care. Failure to do so will result, upon eating, in 1 point of Piercing damage and a DC 10 Fort save (Poison) against being unable to speak properly for the rest of the day. Unless it is a Giant Bee, in which case you suffer a critical hit from the stinger, and are poisoned as normal.
Cooking the bees will generally take 10 minutes, as they must be skewered, then heated over an open fire, slowly turned to even out the cooking process. A DC 13 Survival or Profession (Chef) or Knowledge (Nature) check will result in pleasantly cooked bees, a DC 20 check results in the perfect cooked bee. A +2 bonus is added to the check for each of the following added:
[*]Honey
[*]A sprinkling of salt
[*]A light dusting of cinnamon, pepper or similar
1 Giant Bee will feed 4 people for one meal. Otherwise, each person must eat 30 or more bees or half as many wasps to get a full meal.