# Kelp frond

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Name

kelp frond

Base price

6 zm

Nutrition

30

Turns to eat

1

Weight

1

Conduct

vegan

A kelp frond is a kind of comestible.

Contents

1 Generation
2 Effects
3 Strategy
4 Encyclopedia entry

Generation
It is only generated under water, in stacks of 1d2: 1/10 chance of being generated in each pool square and 1/30 chance of being generated in each moat square.

Effects
It is a vegetable, preserving both vegan and vegetarian conduct, and can be fed to herbivorous pets, though it counts only as food and not as a treat like apples.

Strategy
Perhaps the easiest way to harvest kelp fronds is to cast detect treasure or detect food, levitate over the water and apply a bullwhip down. Juiblex's and Medusa's lairs are good places to collect kelp, but watch out for the eels. By the time a player has access to lots of kelp, food is usually not an issue anymore.

Encyclopedia entry

I noticed that all the plants were attached to the soil by 
an almost imperceptible bond.  Devoid of roots, they seemed
not to require any nourishment from sand, soil, or pebble. 
All they required was a point of support -- nothing else.
These plants are self-propagated, and their existence depends 
entirely on the water that supports and nourishes them.
Most of them do not sprout leaves, but sprout blades of
various whimsical shapes, and their colors are limited to
pink, carmine, green, olive, fawn, and brown.  I had the 
opportunity to observe once more -- not the dried specimens
I had studied on the _Nautilus_ -- but the fresh, living
specimens in their native setting.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne ]

 

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