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Boy, that is weird. Searching for 'Grover Toot' gets me a listing of your sibs and your offspring... but it's showing 'Ancestor Unknown' for some reason, and your Eve should be long dead. Server glitch, maybe?j

EDIT TO ADD: Looks like you got another 5 generations (great-great-great-grandchildren) through your youngest daughter, Striker III. Not too shabby.

Something like pennyroyal, then. (It's a natural abortifacient/menstrual flow starter.) In RL, it can cause miscarriages (but seems to be too toxic to reliably induce abortion without damage to the mother). In OHOL, it could give you a guaranteed 5 minutes of birth cooldown, perhaps? In order to make it not simple (because simple birth control would make things too easy), let's say it needs to be picked... dried... crushed in a bowl... water added... boiled to make tea. A female who drinks it gets her birth cooldown activated (if it wasn't before), and the duration set to maximum. If this means you miss out on the child that could have saved your line, well, it was your choice.

Heh. I was Fields II. Our Eve was named Eve Dyl... but none of her descendants had last names. Wanna guess why?

Ultimate child of Eve Mom name: Octo

Test number 1: flat rock does not stack on top of stone
Test number 11: flat rock does not stack on top of berry bush
Test number 111: flat rock does not stack on top of rattlesnake, lab assistant dead

--- text of a stone tablet found in Mesopotamia

Hmm... maybe. Nothing's really come to mind yet for Three Sisters In A Row, but I just finished the lyrics for The Compost Cycle, so it may take a day or two for the muse to start bugging me.

Okay, okay. So I wrote the next one...

The Compost Cycle

Now if my brain will start coming up with ideas for Three Sisters In A Row, I'll be able to rest...

Server 3 was hosed, servers 2-7 were about to be. Problem fixed now per Jason. Try, try again.

I wasn't part of that lineage, but I like the story!

By wasting, do you mean because the large food value is inefficient at feeding people? Because a bowl of berries, a carrot and a rabbit (if cooked) is a grand total of 47 food pips, while a berry carrot rabbit pie is 80 food pips. (Admittedly, with the invisible +2, this one will always waste food; you can't get down to zero, and each piece gives 20 bars!) That's about a 70% increase in available food from making the pie; even if some is wasted, it's still a boost.

Berry pie is not so great, only a 33% increase (40/30). Carrot pie is very good: 300% increase in food value (28/7)!

Berry carrot = 60/37, 62% increase
Berry rabbit = 72/40, 80% increase
Carrot rabbit = 72/17, 324% increase
Rabbit pie = 56/10, 460% increase
Mutton pie = 60/12, 400% increase

Looking at these numbers, it appears that the best pies are, in order: Rabbit, mutton, carrot rabbit, and carrot. They all have very good food gains, and the values of the individual servings aren't so large as to be super-wasteful, if you're careful.

Those don't take into account the opportunity cost, of course. Some pies might be better avoided and the dough used to make bread, instead. That isn't calculated in these values, because every pie you make has to be weighed against that possibility. Of course, you need a knife for bread, so it won't always be a factor. But if you want, increase the denominator in each of the above by 16 (2 slices of bread) and recalculate. Obviously that makes berry pies totally not worth it (40/46 = -15%), but the rest are still viable.

It should also be noted that dried ears of corn can be used to make popcorn, which is great to have around for toddlers and the elderly. It also provides more total food value than just eating an ear of corn.

They say it's your birthday? Well happy birthday to you!