Main Story: The Banquet of Tormod
Hungry boy Tormod gets power from 3 evil guardians and climbs to the top using charm, spectacle, fake charity, controversy, and lies — each tied to a cursed dish. He ends bankrupt, arrested while eating ensaladang talong, because he never learned and the river always collects its debts.
Side Quest: The Calamansi Boy
Nico finds Tormod’s cursed cookbook and faces the same choice: repeat the banquet for power, or burn/rewrite it. He changes the final recipe, shares the meal with no cameras, and the guardians lose their seat at the table.
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Hungry boy Tormod gets power from 3 evil guardians and climbs to the top using charm, spectacle, fake charity, controversy, and lies — each tied to a cursed dish. He ends bankrupt, arrested while eating ensaladang talong, because he never learned and the river always collects its debts.
Side Quest: The Calamansi Boy
Nico finds Tormod’s cursed cookbook and faces the same choice: repeat the banquet for power, or burn/rewrite it. He changes the final recipe, shares the meal with no cameras, and the guardians lose their seat at the table.
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Attributions:
Title: Arguement (Loop)
Athor: SuperGamerSVK
Souurce: https://freesound.org/s/509925/
License: Creative Commons 0
Title: Pixel enjoyment
Author: BloodPixelHero
Source: https://freesound.org/s/584075/
License: Attribution 4.0
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00:33The Banquet of Tormod, an adventure tale in seven courses, with short recipes from the dungeon cookbook, prologue, the map
00:46of hunger, watching the flambe, in a flooded barangay in Isabella, the Kagean river breathed.
00:55It exhaled brown water through doorways, and inhaled shoes, chickens, prayers.
01:04Young Tormod, barefoot, watched from behind a calamansy tree.
01:09As the mayor's son feasted, the boss item appeared.
01:15Steak Diane, lit on fire tableside.
01:20The flame leaned toward the glass, like it saw him.
01:25He learned.
01:26Sizzle wins, even when the steak is a lie.
01:30The river sighed.
01:32A voice in his teeth said,
01:35You're meant to be above.
01:37Quest log updated.
01:39Never be on the outside again.
01:43Party members joined.
01:46Fim-fim-recipe card.
01:48Table-side flambe.
01:50Steak Diane.
01:52Used to dazzle a room, while the meat stays raw inside.
01:57Ingredients
01:592 beef tenderloin steaks
02:012 tablespoon butter
02:041 shallot
02:061 quarter cup brandy
02:081 quarter cup heavy cream
02:101 teaspoon Dijon
02:13Salt
02:14Pepper
02:15Method 1
02:17Sear steaks in butter
02:19Remove
02:212
02:22Sauté shallot
02:243
02:25Off-heat
02:27Add brandy
02:284
02:29Return to heat
02:31Tilt pan to ignite
02:33Let the fire perform
02:365
02:37Swirl and cream
02:39Plus Dijon
02:406
02:42Return steak to coat
02:44Warning
02:46The flame dies fast
02:48So does trust
02:50Chapter 1
02:51The Three Guardians
02:53The cursed companions
02:56No hero travels alone
02:59Tormade's party spawned in the marsh
03:02Francois
03:04Francois
03:04The knight of mirrors
03:05Haughty, cruel indifference
03:08Entitled
03:10Narcissistic elitism
03:12Ability
03:13Aura of contempt
03:15Curse
03:17Curse
03:17You stop seeing faces
03:18Only reflections
03:20Lay on the hollow squire
03:23Insecure
03:25Uninspiring
03:26Cold
03:27Selfish follower
03:28Ability
03:30Echo
03:31Curse
03:32Your shadow gains a second shadow
03:35It leads
03:37Mark
03:38The iron archivist
03:40Dependence
03:41Irresolution
03:43Rigidity
03:44Ability
03:45Stick to the script
03:47Curse
03:48Every ladder you climb loses a rung behind you
03:52Status effect acquired
03:54Charismatic
03:56and persuasive
03:57You can convince anyone of anything
04:01Except yourself
04:03Chapter 2
04:05The City of Gold Leaf
04:07The Dungeon of Applause
04:10Tormade conquered the city
04:13With theatrical
04:14And dramatic
04:15He married Lady Alina
04:18For land
04:19That didn't flood
04:20Cried at her father's funeral
04:24Francois
04:25Francois' trick
04:25Think of onions
04:27And looted the deed
04:29By morning
04:30His guild was full of Lay on types
04:34He fed them
04:35A deconstructed dessert
04:38Fog machines
04:40One shard of tuile
04:42One bite of foam
04:45That vanished
04:46Edible gold leaf
04:48That glued their teeth together
04:50They left hungry
04:52And applauded
04:54Alina heard
04:56Chewing in the walls
04:57The rats wore his company badge
05:00Recipe card
05:02Gold leaf covered art piece
05:05Vanilla foam
05:07And tuile
05:08Use when you need them
05:10To photograph the meal
05:11Not eat it ingredients
05:15One cup heavy cream
05:17One vanilla bean
05:19One sheet gelatin
05:21Two tablespoon sugar
05:24One tuile cookie
05:26Edible gold leaf
05:28Method one
05:30Bloom gelatin
05:32Two
05:33Heat cream plus vanilla
05:36Plus sugar
05:37Three
05:38Dissolve gelatin in
05:41Four
05:43Chill then whip to foam
05:45Five
05:47Quinell onto plate
05:49Six
05:50Snap tuile over it
05:53Seven
05:54Drape gold leaf
05:57Serve with monologue
05:59Warning
06:01Provides no sustenance
06:03Leaves metallic taste for days
06:06Chapter three
06:08The Temple of Bronze
06:09The charity
06:11Surcharge Raid
06:12Philanthropic focus
06:15Tormod
06:17Built the Tormod
06:18Center
06:18For river children
06:20Atop the old
06:22Evacuation center
06:23Raid entry
06:2525,000 pesos
06:28Per plate
06:29Tooltip
06:302,500 pesos
06:33Will be donated
06:34To flood relief
06:36Drones filmed him
06:38Handing a cardboard check
06:40To a child NPC
06:43The child couldn't cash it
06:46Alina opened his ledger
06:48The numbers had teeth marks
06:51She asked where the gold went
06:54He said
06:56The poor need
06:57Hope more than receipts
06:59The bronze tea
07:01On his building
07:02Reflected in flood water
07:05Like a cross
07:06The drowned
07:08Prayed to it
07:09By accident
07:10Recipe card
07:12Charity
07:14Tasting menu
07:15Surcharge
07:16Caviar
07:17On credit
07:18Used to convert
07:20Virtue
07:21Into venture capital
07:22Ingredients
07:24One blinny
07:26One teaspoon
07:27Creme fraiche
07:28Half teaspoon
07:30Cheapest caviar
07:31One camera crew
07:33One press release
07:35Method 1
07:37Place caviar
07:39On blinny
07:402
07:41Announce 10% will
07:44Benefit the cause
07:463
07:47Photograph
07:494
07:50Eat the other
07:5290% off camera
07:545
07:56Use photo
07:57To raise
07:58Next round of funding
08:00Warning
08:01The cause
08:03May send invoices
08:04Chapter 4
08:06The Bog of Rot
08:07Trait unlocked
08:09Controversial
08:11And challenging
08:12Tormod farmed
08:15Expe
08:15By making enemies
08:17Sued a journalist
08:19Then donated
08:21To press freedom
08:22And made the press
08:24Cover it
08:24Called farmers
08:26Co-ops
08:27Parasites
08:28While standing
08:30On a stage
08:31Built from their lumber
08:32He hosted
08:34A pea summit
08:35The course
08:36Was how
08:37Cardle
08:37Fermented shark
08:39That smelled
08:41Like a dungeon
08:42Latrine
08:42When diplomats
08:44Gagged
08:45He sneered
08:47If you don't
08:48Like it
08:48You don't
08:49Have a refined
08:50Palate
08:51The point
08:52Was the gag
08:53When the next
08:55Typhoon hit
08:56Dead sharks
08:58Washed into
08:59The rice fields
09:00No one
09:01Sent aid
09:02The map
09:03Grayed out
09:05Recipe card
09:06Fermented shark
09:08El Cardle
09:10Used to clear
09:11A room
09:12And blame
09:13The guests
09:14For leaving
09:15Ingredients
09:16One shark
09:18Time malice
09:19Method
09:20One
09:21Bury gutted shark
09:23In gravel
09:23For six to twelve
09:25Weeks
09:26To ferment
09:27Two
09:28Hang to dry
09:30Four to five months
09:31Three
09:33Cube
09:34Four
09:35Serve with a sneer
09:38And unsolicited
09:40Opinion
09:40On strength
09:41Warning
09:43Smells like
09:44Ammonia
09:45And regret
09:46Side effect
09:48Isolation
09:49Chapter five
09:51The forked path
09:53The vegan
09:54Foagra
09:55Betrayal
09:56Trait unlocked
09:58Contradictory
09:59He told his son
10:01Never lie
10:03Then lied
10:04About the mistress
10:05The offshore
10:07Account
10:07The reason
10:09Aelena
10:10Left
10:10His son's smile
10:12Stopped fitting
10:14His face
10:14Final raid
10:16Manila
10:17The menu
10:18Preached
10:19Sustainability
10:20And ethics
10:22Then came a lobe
10:24Of foagra
10:25Ironically
10:26And a forty
10:28Oz wagyu
10:29As a palate cleanser
10:31Bone marrow
10:33Served in the bone
10:34Suck it out
10:36Suck it out
10:36Suck it out
10:37Francois said
10:37That's how deals
10:39Are done
10:40The investors
10:41Left
10:42The judge
10:44Summoned him
10:44He opened the books
10:47Moths flew out
10:49The company
10:50Deflated
10:51Recipe card
10:53Vegan foagra
10:55With bone marrow side
10:58Hypocrisy
10:59A la mode
11:01Use when you need
11:02To be all things
11:03To all people
11:05Sincerely
11:06To none
11:08Ingredients
11:08One lentil foagra
11:11Terrine
11:12One actual
11:14Roasted bone marrow
11:15One mission statement
11:17Zero self-awareness
11:20Method one
11:22Plate terrine
11:24Under spotlight
11:25Recite mission statement
11:28Two
11:29Slide bone marrow
11:31Behind it
11:32Three
11:33When questioned
11:35Say it's about balance
11:38Four
11:39Eat marrow
11:41Let guests eat lentils
11:43Warning
11:45Causes narrative whiplash
11:48And loss of party members
11:50Chapter six
11:52The last inn
11:53Punishment served cold
11:56Back to Isabella
11:58No mansion
12:00A carinderia
12:02With a tarp roof
12:03And one bulb
12:05Buzzing like mark
12:06Flood water
12:08Lapped at the plastic chairs
12:10The guardians
12:12Were quiet
12:13Waiting for the cutscene
12:15Tormod was down
12:18To one HP
12:19He ordered
12:21And salad
12:22Laudang to long
12:22Eggplant salad
12:24Vinegar
12:26Onions
12:27Tomatoes
12:28No gold leaf
12:30No flame
12:31No lecture
12:33Just food
12:35The river hadn't taken
12:37He took one bite
12:39The vinegar
12:41Was clean
12:41For one frame
12:43He tasted something
12:46Uncorrupted
12:47The door
12:48The door opened
12:49No knock
12:50Water first
12:52Then the raid party
12:54The Kagean farmers
12:57He'd displaced
12:58The journalist
12:59He'd sued
13:00Alina's lawyer
13:02His son's new father
13:04No dialogue
13:06They dropped loot
13:08On the table
13:09Court order
13:10Asset seizure
13:12Criminal charges
13:15Photos of 300 families
13:18Houses circled in red
13:21Like critical hit markers
13:23The handcuffs
13:25Were cold iron
13:27They clicked
13:28The same frame
13:29He swallowed
13:30Deboef applied
13:32Justice
13:33Cannot be charmed
13:35Bribed
13:36Or spun
13:38Francois
13:39Last words
13:40Weren't
13:41In his teeth
13:42Anymore
13:42They were in the room
13:44You should have been
13:46Crueler
13:46But cruelty
13:48Needs an audience
13:49And the only one
13:51Watching
13:52Was a boy
13:53Behind a calamansi tree
13:55Water to his knees
13:58The arrest
13:59Was his first flambé
14:01Tormade
14:03Never learned
14:04But the river
14:06Always completes
14:07Its quests
14:08Recipe card
14:10And salad
14:11Ang to long
14:12The last meal
14:14Use
14:15When there's nothing
14:16Left to garnish
14:17Ingredients
14:19Two eggplants
14:21Two tomatoes
14:22One onion
14:23Three tablespoon vinegar
14:26Salt
14:27Pepper
14:27Method one
14:29Grill eggplants
14:31Until skin chars
14:33Two
14:35Peel mash
14:36Three
14:38Diced tomatoes
14:42Mix all with vinegar
14:45Salt
14:45Pepper
14:46Five
14:48Serve cold
14:49Six
14:51Wait
14:52Warning
14:54The vinegar is sharp
14:55So is the truth
14:57Best consumed
14:59With consequences
15:01Achievement unlocked
15:04The banquet
15:05The banquet is over
15:06New game plus
15:08The hunger
15:09Just changed tables
15:39The烏
15:45Side quest unlocked. The Calamancy boy's first dungeon. Difficulty creeping. Reward unknown.
15:57Failure condition becoming him. Quest giver the river. It speaks through the Calamancy tree now.
16:05Location. Same flooded barangay in Isabella. Ten years after Tormant's arrest. The water
16:16is higher. The Calamancy tree is taller. Its roots drink from the spot where the handcuffs clicked.
16:25Protagonist, you. Name, MJ. Age, 12. Inventory. One rusted Bali song. Three pesos. Tormant's cookbook.
16:40Salvaged from the Karandiria after the sheriffs left. Pages stick together. Some recipes are
16:49missing. Some are written in the margins. In handwriting. That isn't Tormant's. Soaked.
16:59Act 1. The loot. You watched the arrest. You were water to your knees. You thought the blue and
17:07red lights were a flambe. When they took Tormant, his ensaladang to long sat unfinished. The vinegar
17:17smell cut through the flood stink. You'd never tasted anything so clean. That night, you crept
17:26back. The Karandiria was abandoned. On the table, one bowl, one folder, one book. The folder was legal
17:37papers. You couldn't read them. But the photos inside showed houses with red circles. Like targets
17:47wounds. Like wounds. The book was the banquet of Tormant. A chef's memoir. Gold leaf title.
17:57Inside recipes. Steak Diane. Deconstructed dessert. El cardal. Vegan foie gras. All crossed out
18:10in red ink. At the back, one recipe was circled. In saladang to long. Under it in shaky pencil.
18:20This is where it ends. Or starts. Item acquired. Tormant's cookbook. Passive effect. Hunger
18:31for notice. Plus 5 charisma. Minus 10 trust. Voices whisper when you're alone. Cursed.
18:41Francois voice. Francois voice is in chapter 2. Lay-ons in the ingredient lists. Marks in the footnotes.
18:51They don't talk to you yet. They are waiting to see if you're worth talking to. Recipe card
18:59found. Calamancy smoke. Used to see what others miss. Side effect. You start missing what others
19:09see. Ingredients. 5. Calamancy. 1 handful dried rice husks. 1 match. Method 1. Have Calamancy.
19:22Squeeze into a bowl. 2. Light rice husks in a tin can. 3. Hold Calamancy. Rinds over smoke.
19:3410 seconds. 4. Inhale. 5. Look at the water. Note in margin. Francois is handwriting.
19:47Smoke shows you who's watching. Don't tell them you know. You try it. The smoke stings. For a second,
19:57the flood water goes clear. And you see things at the bottom. A bronze tee. A sheriff's badge. A child's
20:07shoe.
20:08Then it's brown again. Quest update. Cook the dishes. See what happens. Act 2. The three trials.
20:19Cooking the guardians. The book whispers. To level up. You must recreate torment.
20:27Tormod's banquet. But the ingredients are wrong. Trial of Francois. The flambe. You can't afford steak.
20:38You use tilapia from the flood. You light it with kerosene. The flame is blue. Then orange. Then it leans
20:48towards you. Event triggered. Event triggered. In the fire. You see Tormod's face. Younger. Begging the flame to
20:58notice him. Francois' voice. See. The fire doesn't care what it burns. Only that it's watched. Reward.
21:09Skill unlocked. Commanding presence. People listen when you speak. You're not sure if it's you or
21:18Francois. Curse. Your reflection in the water. Start smiling before you do. Trial of Leon. The gold leaf
21:29dessert. No cream. No twil. You whip evaporated milk into foam. You steal a candy wrapper for the gold leaf.
21:42You serve it to the other street kids on a broken plate. They cheer. They call you chef. Lay on
21:52giggles in the book.
21:53They'll thank you for scraps. Reward. Followers gained. Three. They call you boss MJ. They're hungry.
22:04They'd follow anyone with food. Curse. Your shadow has a second shadow now. It stands behind the other
22:14kids when they eat. Trial of Mark. The charity surcharge. You hold a feeding program.
22:23With the barren guy captain. You make lugao for 20 kids. You take a photo. You post it on the
22:33free
22:33Facebook at the Sarisari store. Caption. 10 pesos per bowl. Donated to flood victims. You spent 100 pesos.
22:45You collect 500 pesos. You collect 500 pesos. In sponsorships. From Manila. Mark hums in the footnotes.
22:55Stick to the script. The old way works. Reward. Item. Nokia phone load. 50 pesos. Reputation. Rising. Curse.
23:09The kids from the photo. Start appearing in your dreams. They're still hungry. They ask where the 400 pesos
23:19went. Act 3. The final course. You are what you eat. The last recipe in the book is in Saladang
23:29too long. But the page is torn. Half missing. Under it, Tormod wrote. Don't finish it. If you finish it,
23:40they come. Francois, Leon. And Mark are loud now. They argue in your head at night. Francois,
23:50you're better than this barren guy. Cook the foie gras. Make them see you. Lay on. Keep the kids close.
24:01They'll protect you. They'll blame themselves when it goes bad. Mark, don't change the recipe.
24:10Tormod failed because he went soft. Be crueler. Then you'll win. The river is at your door.
24:19The barren guy, captain. Wants you to run for SK chairman. You're a leader, he says. Like Tormod,
24:29but good. He doesn't know about the book. You grill the eggplant. The skin chars. The smell is clean.
24:40Like the day Tormod was arrested. You mash it. Vinegar, onions, tomatoes.
24:48You lift the spoon. Ending, you rewrite the recipe. You add calamansi juice to the ensalade
24:57to long. You add sugar to the vinegar. You add your name to the bottom of the page. You serve
25:06it to the
25:07three kids who call you boss. You eat with them. No cameras. No speeches. Francois Layon and Mark don't
25:19disappear. They sit at the far table. They don't order. They just watch, waiting to see if you're worth
25:30talking to. You are, but not by them. Quest complete. The calamansi boy's first dungeon.
25:40Reward you. Unedited. Unplated. Unflambayed.
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