# Mortal Delights **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [February 7, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/mortal-delights/533 "2023-02-07T01:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 1:33am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/mortal-delights/533/1 "2023-02-07T01:33:51Z")
Originally published at: [Mortal Delights | The Associated Worlds](https://eldraeverse.com/2023/02/06/mortal-delights/) The latest of the unique experiences to make a splash on the Summerion culinary scene is _Mortal Delights_ (135° Cordané Circle). Owned and operated by a mysterious chef going only by the attributive name, “Shikairá”, _Mortal Delights_ offers the unique opportunity to experience lethal cuisine. This need not be a terminal experience. Shikairá has taken advantage of the disposable demishell technology pioneered by Synthetic Extras, ICC of Mirrortown to render dying for one’s dinner both safe and economical. The process begins when you make a reservation, and submit with it a copy of your bio-profile. (This isn’t strictly necessary, but most diners prefer not to have the experience inside a generic blank, especially when dining in company. _Mortal Delights_ then grows one of their custom demishells – designed for enhanced perception of taste, smell, and texture, along with resilience, and a minimally traumatic death experience – to match your profile. The experience, contrariwise, begins with your arrival at the restaurant. If you arrive by physical travel, temporary storage of your usual body – and equivalent nutrition – is provided courtesy of their on-site body hotel. Alternatively, you can mindcast directly to the restaurant. In either case, you’ll reinstantiate into the demishell and be ushered to your table. Dining itself always begins with a tasting platter, a collection of samplers of various foods from across the taste spectrum, to allow you to first acclimatize to the demishell’s enhanced senses, and then to cleanse your palate before moving on to the main event. And what an event it is! While some standbys are always available, _Mortal Delights_ has fortnightly specialty experiences covering many of the Empire’s most dangerous cuisines: live cheese from Tortelys, the entémaerth of Kanatai prepared without the removal of the poison glands, a plethora of fungal dishes, stone-wine tastings, “hot” nuclear gastronomy, reflexively-digestive cultures, and a variety of exocuisines ordinarily considered indigestible. Pick your poison, as they say. After dinner, you may yourself – should you survive for the moment – transfer your mind-state back to your usual body; if not, this will be taken care of by the staff. Either way, you’ll return home remembering the experience – no pun intended – of a lifetime! _– from Delphys, Planet of Myriad Delights,_ _(pub. Delphys Resplendent Awareness Circle)_ ---
**Author:** ![R.C.2021](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@R.C.2021](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/R.C.2021)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/mortal-delights/533/2 "2023-02-08T12:21:26Z")
Is it the disposability that specifically makes it a ‘demishell’? Also, do diners who have arrived in their own bodies reinstantiate into demishells rather than teleoperate them in order to make the experience more ‘real’? ---
**Author:** ![avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/eldraeverse.discourse.group/avatar/32/2_2.png) [@avatar](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/avatar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/mortal-delights/533/3 "2023-02-13T19:18:30Z")
> Is it the disposability that specifically makes it a ‘demishell’? Yes. You can think about them like the bodies in Brin’s _Kiln People_; temporary pseudoflesh disposables not intended for long-term inhabitation. > Also, do diners who have arrived in their own bodies reinstantiate into demishells rather than teleoperate them in order to make the experience more ‘real’? Yup. It’s not that you couldn’t teleoperate them, but such high-bandwidth interoceptive data feeds always work better locally. ---
**Author:** ![Maximilian\_Crichton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Maximilian\_Crichton](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/Maximilian_Crichton)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/mortal-delights/533/4 "2023-02-14T01:52:35Z")
I like to think that this was the sudden brainchild of that [orbit-jumping soph](https://eldraeverse.com/2018/06/15/a-brief-conversation-about-death-games/) - “Surely no one would be stupid enough to- oh good gods this is going to buy me a new shuttle.”