{"id":14,"date":"2023-01-09T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2025-02-02T10:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T15:10:33","slug":"meihua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Meihua"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a tangent during character development for an old duet Shadowrun game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>ghost plum<\/em> is an Awakened variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prunus_mume\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Prunus mume<\/em><\/a> (Chinese plum) found mainly in China&#8217;s Yunnan region. The tree is similar to its unAwakened parent, but the fruit is an exceptionally pale lavender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If consumed raw by an unAwakened metahuman, the fruit has a chance to bestow temporary and unpredictable astral sight. This phenomenon is more common in areas with high background counts related to large-scale or traumatic deaths. Awakened characters are largely unaffected, though a few report difficulty casting health spells. Statistical evidence suggests that frequent consumption may make subjects more susceptible to HMHVV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghost plum is more commonly distilled into liquor. The resulting ghost plum wine provides a more predictable effect, less prone to &#8220;bad trips&#8221; &#8211; albeit with a greater statistical correlation to HMHVV infection rates. It is popular in death-fixated youth cultures around the Pacific Rim. It&#8217;s also a ritual component for practices related to several death-aligned totem spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a tangent during character development for an old duet Shadowrun game: The ghost plum is an Awakened variety of Prunus mume (Chinese plum) found mainly in China&#8217;s Yunnan region. The tree is similar to its unAwakened parent, but the fruit is an exceptionally pale lavender. If consumed raw by an unAwakened metahuman, the fruit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[3,70,4],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-setting","tag-cryptobiology","tag-herbalism","tag-shadowrun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}