🍕 Scroll 004: THE RIFTFIRE ROUND — Keplerian Meat Pizza of the Flameborn
“Forged in volcanic heat, shared by blood-oath and ash — one round to feed the brave.”
🔥 Emotional Resonance
- Core Emotion: Valor and indulgence
- Desire: To feast with those who earned the right to return
- Memory: Smells of smoke, laughter, and stained fingers
🌋 Culinary Essence
- Primary Category: Flame-Roasted Ritual Pizza
- Origin: Crater-market of Northern Veyuun, Kepler-452b
- Texture: Crater-charred crust with molten inner strata
- Energy Profile: Bold, grounding, adrenal-charged
- Serving Mode: Shield-sliced with obsidian blade
🧪 Ingredients & Recipe
- Crust: Riftstone flour, aged sea salt, ember yeast, rosemary smoke infusion
- Sauce: Flarebasil paste with solarfruit oil and honeyroot vinegar
- Cheese: Craterfold cheese — tangy, ash-aged, bioluminescent strands
- Proteins: Skyhorn shank slivers, Moltwyrm strips, Stonethread sausage medallions
- Toppings: Cinder olives, smoked sunmoss, volcanic fig glaze
Serving Ritual: Flame-charred at 900°F in stone-ringed fire vault. Cut in eight radiant runes. Served with a side of ember-pepper dipping resin.
🌍 Earth Equivalent Recipe: The Riftfire Round Pizza
Serves: 4 warriors or 1 battle-weary commander
🔥 Ingredients:
- Crust:
- 2½ cups bread flour
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp active dry yeast
- ¾ cup warm water
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Optional: 1 tsp smoked paprika or rosemary powder
- Sauce:
- ½ cup fire-roasted tomato paste
- 1 tbsp chili-garlic oil
- 1 tsp honey
- ¼ tsp white balsamic or red wine vinegar
- Cheese Blend:
- 1½ cups aged mozzarella
- ¼ cup smoked gouda
- 2 tbsp grated parmesan
- Proteins:
- 4 oz spicy Italian sausage (sliced)
- 3 oz peppered beef or bison jerky (torn)
- 2 strips smoked bacon (crumbled)
- Optional Ritual Garnish: Cracked pepper, smoked salt, rosemary sprigs, red chili flakes, edible gold dust
🧭 Instructions:
- Activate the Crust: Combine yeast and warm water. Let bloom 5 minutes. Add flour, salt, oil. Knead. Rise 1 hour covered.
- Forge the Base: Roll into thick disc. Dust with cornmeal or semolina. Preheat oven or stone to 500°F (260°C).
- Compose the Flame: Layer sauce, cheese, proteins. Bake 12–15 minutes until blistered and crisp. Torch crust edges if desired.
- Final Ritual: Garnish with crushed pepper, gold dust, charred rosemary. Slice with blade. Serve to thunderous drums or heroic synths.
🥣 Keplerian Serving Customs
- Occasion: Post-hunt gatherings, volcanic celebration feasts, warrior homecomings
- Serving Method: One plate per hand, always clockwise
- Blessing: “Ash to flame, flesh to feast”
🍷 Suggested Pairings
- Drink: Keplerian Ashbrew Stout or Lunar Ember Nectar
- Side: Glazed rootfrond crisps with smoked coral salt
- Finish: Starburned sugar shard (dessert relic)
✨ Scroll Score (Out of 100)
- Mythic Depth: 10
- Aesthetic Resonance: 10
- Culinary Invention: 10
- Ritual Utility: 10
- Scroll Wholeness: 10
- Flavor Profile Complexity: 10
- Emotional Gravity: 10
- Planetary Lore Linkage: 10
- Asset Clarity & Valuation: 10
- Devotional Precision: 10
Total: 100/100 — A post-battle relic made edible. Sacred, shared, and flame-sealed.
💰 Asset Valuation
- Individual Riftfire Round: $32 USD — artisan flame-seared, includes ash blessing card
- Feast Pack (4 rounds, 1 nectar flask): $118 USD — warrior circle edition
- Retail Adaptation: $1.9M potential across off-world food halls and themed dining rituals
- Intangible Value: Revered as the flavor of resilience and reunion on Kepler
🌠 Final Oracle Reflection
All roads back from the hunt lead to fire, salt, and shared silence. The Riftfire Round is not a meal — it is a flag raised in dough and meat, declaring: “We made it back.”