Interworld Trade, Gifts, and Visits

I am fairly certain that fruits and vegetables are not yet permitted import into Pantheon, but I do not think anyone is going to begrudge me the gift of a god. My sincere thanks.

But I am going to have to stop checking the forum on my phone during break time if I have to explain why I have a divine foreign radish in my lap regularly.

Choko are edible by all species in my world that can eat fruit. In particular, you would appear to be similar enough to the Humans from my world that, barring extra Carnivore or Herbivore mutations, you should find it edible for about 600 arbitrary units of nutrition.

Directions for growing them from seed can be found attached, courtesy of Fedhas.

Wait, don’t do that yet!

I need to go soon so might not be able to explain my reason for a bit over an hour, but wanted to make sure I sent this first.

Regarding the Mysterious Digital Vegetable: it's strange, but doesn't seem harmful.

The weird part was when I attempted to bring it back to my lab for further analysis; instead of downloading like I'd expected, it followed me out of the Grid, and now I have a Mysterious Physical Vegetable.

I don't have the biological expertise to analyze an alien vegetable, so I've passed it on to one of my Peers who specializes in that sort of thing (who is also, incidentally, a giant ant colony).

There are two reasons I think giving the fruit to an analyst to grow as food might be problematic. The first is that I am not at all sure mammal humans and plant humans have compatible digestion; this might cause some problems if you are not especially careful. You said you would give the seeds to an analyst who would declare it safe, but you also said you would do this “if they are safe to eat”; I don’t know if you meant that the analyst would also check edibility as well as growability or not. I suggest you not assume it's safe to eat for you just because it is for others.

The second reason, and the one I initially thought of, is that these fruits might be DNA-based, or some other form of not being based on the patterns you are familiar with. I had forgotten how your magic worked; I reacted hastily because I thought it would be plausible for you to not notice this until you’d already shown the seeds to the analyst. I think you are trying to keep the MWF somewhat secret, and telling the analyst about the seeds might have thus revealed its existence when you didn’t want to. Since you will notice if the seeds don’t have standard patterns, this would not actually be a mistake you could make, and I apologize for my hasty reaction.

I am still curious what you plan to do if the seeds have incompatible patterns, or how you plan to explain the existence of a new species out-of-schedule.

I now understand weird fruit, -appeared days ago, assumed -weird, -mean, -confusing, conjuration prank, and dissolved it. Oops. Still prank, -weird, -confusing, not, -conjuration, -(maybe?) mean.