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[tennohno]

Who: SS Windrose crew and visitors
Broadcast: Le nope
Action: SS Windrose
When: April

[For the usage to mingle on the best ship in the fleet. Get your mingle on ladies, gents, and others!]

Comments

[tennohno]

So which of the plants are edible and which are strictly medicinal? Wrath told me about the kelp on an earlier visit. [He's rather curious by all of this and fascinated that plants could be so useful on a ship.]

[unbearablynaive]

[His eyes light up a little at the question.]

I keep the medicinal ones on the shelves, as they often require processing before they're safe to use. Everything on the ground has at least one use in cooking, and I've compiled a short guide as to how to use them on the communicators. Misty should also be able to tell you, as she's quite fond of plants.

[tennohno]

So unless you prepare them properly, they're more likely to cause harm at first rather than healing? Interesting. The only sort of beneficial plants I worked with had to be carefully extracted and used as antitoxins but nothing above that. That's an ingenious way to not mix the two varieties though.

Maybe when I meet her, I'll ask about it.

[unbearablynaive]

Some of them, yes. Consider-- [He indicates a little shrubby bush with fragrant leaves.] This one is toxic if ingested, but produces a strong disinfectant and antimicrobial compound for topical use. The oil can also be distilled and used as an air freshener.

[tennohno]

Poisonous yet helpful. So long as someone doesn't decide to actually lick their wounds rather than keep it a simple saying, it should prove to be more so the latter. I don't know about freshening the air unless it was life support for survival incursions though.

[unbearablynaive]

Indeed. Though I wouldn't use it on our fox for precisely that reason.

It's a non-essential benefit, certainly, but some claim it makes things more pleasant.