Screaming Cheese

At a glance

A new specialty of the Two Brothers Creamery that inspires intense demand and causes laughter, euphoria, and vivid visions despite showing no obvious magical aura.

Observed effects

  • Extremely dense and difficult to swallow.
  • Caused Rage to laugh uncontrollably.
  • Produced a vision of an elf before a waterfall and a sensation of floating in harmony with nature.
  • With heavier consumption, produced an underwater sensation and a waterfall flowing backward.
  • Creamery employees treated these effects as normal.

Production

  • Made with a living but apparently nonsentient blue mold.
  • The mold did not radiate obvious magic when Carver examined the area.
  • A gentle female visitor from far away donated the mold and cheese of her own.

Samples

  • Rage carries one serving supplied by Breena.
  • Carver concealed and retained a sample during the tour.

Open questions

  • How does a nonmagical cheese create such intense effects?
  • Is the public’s demand natural enthusiasm, chemical dependency, or something stranger?
  • Who donated the mold, and where did she come from?
  • Is the cheese connected to the cattle’s red boils?