>You all meet in the tavern of an isolated village. It's seven in the morning, and everyone is having their breakfast.>You see in the corner a young man in studded leather chatting animatedly with an older woman in heavy armor.>A young woman lets out a cheer as she beats a man of the same age in an arm wrestle. He wears a suit of gleaming gothic half-plate, while she wears a hauberk and gambeson. After the contest has ended, the pair enjoy a hearty meal of turkey and maize together.>An old man wearing a ragged cloak over equally ragged clothes nurses a cooling cup of coffee while watching their antics, stirring in a spoonful of sugar after an exploratory taste.>A woman sat on a stool by the bar takes in one last drag of her cigarette before she stubs it out in an ashtray. With that out of the way, she tucks into a pumpkin pie that is waiting for her.>A man with dark skin pays for his meal with several unfamiliar coins, before brushing past you on his way out the door. He wears a vest made of soft leather over a loose cotton shirt, and has a long sword in a sheath strapped to his back, ready to be drawn at any moment.>A young girl greets you animatedly and offers you menus. She asks if any of you were interested in buying some of the potato and rabbit stew that is currently cooking, or if you'd like rooms for the night. What does your latest tabletop character do in this situation?
I roll for initiative
>>97276113you are a faggot and the things you care about ae retarded and you care in a retarded wayfuck you
>>97276113He orders a breakfast burrito with extra hot sauce. If the server tries to warn him about the heat he tells them he's quarter orc on his mom' side.
I have adjacent communities in my setting where one is making high carbon steel and the other is still in the bronze age, you think I care about anachronisms like this?
>>97276113>>It's seven in the morning, and everyone is having their breakfast.everyone in the tavern is having breakfast, which isnt suprising given that travel is expensive and as travellers we arent about to be out working a field at 5am>>You see in the corner a young man in studded leather chatting animatedly with an older woman in heavy armor.neither of those are anachronisms>>A young woman lets out a cheer as she beats a manbased, 10th century mogs 16th century every time. plus he's rich enough to keep his cutting edge imported armour polished so he's probably a larping prince or something. not suprising he'd be beaten by an actual soldieras for the food a turkey is any exotic guinnie-fowl imported through the near east. there are half a dozen native north african maizes that where cultured through europe at various points>>An old man wearing a ragged cloak over equally ragged clothes nurses a cooling cup of coffee while watching their antics, stirring in a spoonful of sugar after an exploratory taste.sugar imported from the far east? he must be a rich wizard. same place as the guinnie-fowl actually>>A woman tucks into a pumpkin pie she cant afford a pipe for her hemp? a pompion is any kind of edible gourd, so it's most likely made of a melon>>A man with dark skin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreckwe where trading between the ivory coast and balkans in 1300BC, a black guy and unfamiliar coins isnt exactly surprising. beyond that there are indiginous asian, african and indian cottons, and carrying your sword on your back when you are in a tavern is much smarter than stumbling around hitting it on things>>A young girl greets you animatedly and offers you menuswe are clearly rich, but beyond that most pesants where partially literate and there would actually need to be a way to tell people what could be ordered because food is seasonal and the ales available would change weekly. Sweet potatoes are european and african.
>>97276188>>97276198equally based takespleas and or thank you for out contributing OP in the gene pool
>>97276113I go and kill the man with dark skin because I'm racist but keep it on the downlow at the table and gave my character a flimsy in-character rationale for this kind of thing.
>>97276113>An old man wearing a ragged cloak over equally ragged clothes nurses a cooling cup of coffee while watching their antics, stirring in a spoonful of sugar after an exploratory taste.This is maybe the most 'actually' egregious one since both sugar AND coffee have only recently stopped being an insane luxury due to more capitalist/mercantilist(?) kinds of attitudes about making money. The other ones could/can change due to different geography, ecology, customs, culture, but the availability of sugar and coffee is an actual fundamental economics/supply issue.Coffee & chocolate, in the past were grown on "temple plantations"; where they would supply a very small group of priests and noble people as an insane luxury. 'Modern' coffee & chocolate likewise still has to be grown in low-labor conditions that are typically exploitative. Sugar is in a similar, but different, boat in that in the past there's been exceptions: sugar cane was grown by Southern Chinese & Taiwanese peasants as a kind of personal-spending-cash-crop in small allotments, in almost a similar way to how Greek, Italian, and French, peasants all kept vineyards. Though, after 1888 the Germans/Russians domesticated the sugar beet which cuckolded a lot of the sugar industry. Sugar beet is very hardy, can grow in cold climates, poor soil, and doesn't tax the land like sugar cane cultivation can (Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba, both experienced insane levels of soil nutritional depletion caused by excessive heavy sugar cane cultivation. Haiti and Cuba for a small period were literally made sterile by sugar cane.)There's your effort post.
>>97276247Same, except while saying the n word irl
>>97276262silk roadmerchants were just smart enough to let nobility think they were in chargenow they arent and we hate them instead
>>97276113>A half-elf barbarian with a golden bee-shaped codpiece and a wicked scar across his chest goes to order an eel pie>He sits at a table and begins fiddling with the rabbit ears of a portable tv he won on Nickelodeon’s Legends of the Hidden Temple
