Chewing Gum Plant

[FantasticFwoosh]

Hey did you know the properties of chewing gum goes all the way back to greek times? People have chewed tree sap and whatever all across the world and got along, juuuuust fine.

Chewing gum is a generally low nutriment product made from processing a lump of tree sap extracted from a Mastic Tree in a processor, like the one in the kitchen.

• The sap is treated as a weaponised grown object, and can be eaten directly when dried on a drying rack but is not plantlike in nature and can't be composted
• It in itself even with high potency isn't much having severely less chews than a bubblegum product, but can be improved with plant genes for a intake of many different chem at once per limited chew.
• For the purposes of hydro you can seed the wet sap by conventional methods for more seeds.

• Gum has the property to keep on being chewed long after it has lost its nutritional value and goes flat as per chew, a certain amount of the content is consumed
• Gum can be flavoured (soaks up reagents) by dipping it inside a beaker or reagent container adding to the per-chew
• Certain recipies may flavour the gum in such a way that it changes appearance

Some examples of bubblegum flavours - Lemon and Lime (dip into a beaker of lemon & lime juice), Bluespace (via blue tomatoes/bananas singulo) and rare bubblegum flavor (requiring the alcoholic drink 'demons blood' from the bartender to dip into)

- Yes this can be weaponised easily enough, and nicotine gum will be available at vendors but since its already full of nicotine, it won't be able to be abused.

• Gum has a cap of the reagents it can use, and when that cap is reached it will stop allowing you to add reagents into the gum, stopping exploits of chewing away the gum's contents, then refreshing it infinitely for the remaining chewing by adding more or excessive reagent. You CAN add more reagent when you're finished, but only within the capacity of the gum

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The initial mutation for chewing gum plant is the rubber plant (Ficus elastica or that plant everyone buys a ironic synthetic copy of to put in their living room), which contains no actual raw nutriment unto itself but expels rubber sap, which can be dried and processed to create raw rubber, a component for crafting high friction tiles, gaolashes & insulated gloves amongst other things (balancing pending)

• It has about as much elasticity in its sap form as a full bar of bubblegum and as such is the perfect candidate to gene edit to get some nice plant chems per chew on a low release should you have a extremely addictive substance or want to combat the effects of earthsblood with space tea's synaptizine, consuming both reagents at once.

> Only dry rubber sap can be chewed, while wet ones can't be eaten but can be seeded.

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Feedback would be appreciated!

[kevinz000]

make bubblegum drop bubblegum that regenerates 1 unit of adminorazine every 30 seconds.
worth it.

[FantasticFwoosh]

make bubblegum drop bubblegum that regenerates 1 unit of adminorazine every 30 seconds.
worth it.

Sure, that's actually a good idea (or something along those lines, perhaps a new reagent all-together which can be extracted by grinding down the gum-bar). Hell's own brand choice with no brain damage side effects but expires eventually as to not be ~completely bullshit~

Remember it's a per-chew kind of thing, so sustained chewing before it completely leaves your metabolism would keep you going and the gum-bar would lose its reagents after a while. People would need to disarm you of your gum in a fight since you're required to chew it every so many seconds to keep up the effects, creating a mixture of balance.

• did i mention you can make exploding bubble-gum by mixing water and potassium separately into the gum for a jokish knockdown effect when you consume both at once?

> If anybody remembers the old cigarette code and reagents, when they used to be able to dip with cigarettes, (and interacted when lit alight sometimes activating the mixtures with heat) this is a ode to that code where its inspired from.

[John_Oxford]

Help intent + mouth targeted puts the gum in your mouth
Press Q to chew.

You can spam Q to chew, but the full one unit chew only regenerates every 3 or so seconds
Everytime you press Q it takes off the chemical bleed off from chewing it down a few decimals

1st chew - 1.0 units of chemical
2nd chew - 0.7 units of chemical
3rd chew - 0.4 units of chemical
4th chew - 0.2 units of chemical
5th chew - 0.1 units of chemical

Then all the chews after that just degrade the gum and give no more chemicals.

[FantasticFwoosh]

Help intent + mouth targeted puts the gum in your mouth
Press Q to chew.

You can spam Q to chew, but the full one unit chew only regenerates every 3 or so seconds
Everytime you press Q it takes off the chemical bleed off from chewing it down a few decimals

1st chew - 1.0 units of chemical
2nd chew - 0.7 units of chemical
3rd chew - 0.4 units of chemical
4th chew - 0.2 units of chemical
5th chew - 0.1 units of chemical

Then all the chews after that just degrade the gum and give no more chemicals.

Unnecessary, eat it as usual with the biting verb being (you chew the gum), which can be quickly done by hitting the action/hit self hotkey (z) or clicking yourself, and you consume a low dose every bite, but there's more masticating biting than the chems that are in it, so it'll eventually go flat and have no reagents in it at all unless its literally full to the cap. Its the same low dose of chems (about 0.5 between two shared chems being bitten at once divided from the 1.0 of 1 active chem)

I did sort of explain it in the OP but perhaps i should have been clearer. The dried sap (because dried products also put out as much reagent as what's in it) can also be chewed like gum (less bites) for the plant contents but undergoes to a transformation when processed into a blank state of gum. Proper chewing mechanics for another day maybe.

Press F to breathe, press H to release

Im poking a bit of fun but i do appreciate the input. Thanks.

• We can probably argue that if there's a tiny amount of sugar already present in the blank gum, that when the gum is actually expended, its turned into a trash object that can continued to be chewed and renewed with the space for reagents.

[Screemonster]

the first thing I thought of was ayys

[FantasticFwoosh]

the first thing I thought of was ayys

Polymorph gum? I guess already growth serum gum is already doable using fly amitatas.