Cook

General Overview: The Cook

A useful skill for sure, some have a lot more talent for this than others, and some could even call this an Ability. Since not all uses of abilities are fighting or adventuring, cooking can be useful in the right places or contests of skill. Cooking has an odd effect when paired with other abilities. A mechanic, for example, may "cook" by building a chocolate fountain. This would be both a mechanic and cook skill. Each ability has a different effect on cooking. Here are some examples.

* An Alchemist uses Alchemy to combine ingredients without the need for cookware.
* A Mechanic creates some kind of cooking device or utensils.
* A Mage uses fire magic to cook some meat.
* A Summoner uses a group of monsters to help cook a lot of food.
* An Enchanter enchants food to be tastier.

* And others.

Powers:

* Cook: To make food from ingredients.
* Prepare: to prepare ingredients for cooking.
* Cook?: To make a weapon out of food. This can be done with dangerous ingredients or other abilities.
* Variations on "Cook": Special uses from other abilities, like making utensils.

**Recipes**: Cooks make food! Some people with multiple abilities can make other things too.

**Ability Levels**: Cooking ability varies from experience to natural ability. Sometimes people can be really good at one thing but not good at others.

Main Materials: Food, cooking tools or utensils

Other Materials: Metals or things that can be used to make tools. Things that can be used somehow, even if just for presentation.

Skill or Ability?: There is a simple test. to get a **Mimicopy** and have them try to copy an ability from the person in question. If they get a little bit better at cooking the person in question has the ability. To define what is happening, a person's ability influences innate skill, but a person can gain this ability from learning or training. With the ability a person will find it easier to learn how to cook and prepare food, without it they need to work harder to learn the skills. A person with a high enough cooking skill can unlock some cooking ability too. The difference between the ability and skill is a difficult thing to measure, however hard work does not go unrewarded. A person with no skill would only be able to make some basic dishes, so it is usually that a person who has both Ability and skill will become he king of the kitchen. Measuring the point at which someone becomes an ability user is difficult since it varies from person to person. Because of this, this ability is partially measured by how well a person can cook. This is one of the few abilities that are learned.

Cooking Skill Specializations: Since cooking is partly a learned skill, there are special cooking things that can be Special skills which can be learned. Some are easer learned by certain ability users; however, the cook ability makes learning them all easier:

* Potions cooking: Using potions to make sauces or other things. Creates potent food!
* Molecular Gastronomy: Science cooking! By using strange techniques one can make futuristic looking food.
* Magic Foods: Using tricks or illusions to make foods that appear magical.
* Team Tactics: The ability to cook well and quickly with others.
* Foraging: The ability to find ingredients in the wild.
* Cauldron Cooking: Cooking in a huge cauldron to make a large amount  of food.
* Ninja Foods: Foods that are high nutrition and high energy and highly portable
* Hibachi: A cooking performance! The art of cooking as entertainment.
* Makeshift foods: Foods using instant kits in ways they were not meant to, or foods that make use of other foods together.
* Cooking art: Foods that are made to be aesthetically pleasing. This can be used to make something that looks good or even something that looks like something else.
* Cooking analysis: The skill to recognize at a glance if something is done or not.

Ability Based Specializations:

* Alchemist: Instant mixing: The ability to instantly mix things using alchemy.
* Mechanic: Cooking Engineering: The ability to make machines and cooking utinsils.
* Mage: Cooking with Magic: The ability to use magic to aid in cooking.
* Summoner: Cooking help: The ability to use summons to help with cooking.
* Summoner: Dangerous Delights: The ability to summon monsters from food.
* Enchanter: Food enhancement. Using energy, an enchanter can slightly change the flavor or some other quality of food.
* Were-creature: Nose of the wild: The ability to tell if wild ingredients are at peak freshness from scent. They can also use smell to cook better.
* Cook: Cooking Mastery: the ability to learn all skill specializations more easily.
* Analyst: Food Analysis: The ability to instantly tell many things about foods with only sight, from how long they will need to cook to if certain ingredients are edible.
* Makeshifter: Haphazard cooking: The ability to know what to randomly slap together to make good food. Includes already cooked foods.
* Psychic: Craving Cognition: The ability to tell what a person wants to eat by what they are thinking or feeling.
* Programmer: Ingredients from nothing: The ability to make food from data. Data food is similar to normal food.
* Pirate: One with the sea: A pirate is better able to obtain and prepare seafood due to being at one with the sea.
* Elemental (High Level): Food Element Change: The ability to use Element Change on foods to change them in some way, An example would be a water elemental turning something into a sauce by liquifying it.
* Chemical Alchemist: Edible Crystallization: The ability to crystalize food or ingredients into edible crystals.
* Cook (Level 6): Legendary Cooking: An ability thought be only legend. The ability for a cook to use even some ability-based specializations.