CONTENTS

Introduction …………………………. 2
About the Authors …………….......... 2
Asparagus …………………………… 3
Asparafacts …………………………….. 3
Cultivation …………………………. 3
The Noble History …………………. 3
Culinary Art ………………………... 4
As Medicine ………………………... 4
Celebrations ……………………….. 4
Asparagus in Games ………………… 5
Playing an Asparagus …………… 5
Templates …………………………… 6
Infinite Asparagus …………………... 7
Asparagus-1 ……………………….. 7
Asparagus-6 ……………………….. 7
Asparagus Omicron ……………….. 8
Asparagus Magic ……………………. 9
Conclusion …………………………... 11

CONTENTS 1
INTRODUCTION
Dai Blackthorn knelt opened a direct line to
and examined the Infinity Patrol.
stalks in the ground. "There's nothing About the Authors:
They were too green here," he said Elegen/tg/entlemen
to be mushrooms, with dejectedly. "Just are a group of meme-
a slightly pungent asparagus." spouting, image-
whiff that reminded
him of late-night beer
pong tournaments
back at ISWAT HQ.
He had been in the
field for almost two
months, surviving on
his wits alone. He had
finally reached his
objective, slipping
through almost five
yards of solid rock to
macro-making,
find himself within the
occasionally-
vault of the Reich-5 At some point in ever
supposedly-GUPRS-
Central Bank. All the GURPS game, a
playing individuals,
money should be his question arises: can I
most of whom hate
and Infinity's, but it play as an asparagus?
one another.
wasn't there. Instead, Before now, the
Regardless of their
there were just a few answer was "Yes. Use
claims, none of them
stalks, sprouting from the Basic Set; it's not
have ever actually
the solid concrete of too difficult." With
played an RPG, let
the floor. Asparagus, the release of GURPS
alone GURPS,
he realised, the name Asparagus, however,
although their mastery
of the unusual plant a dedicated
of the system in a
returning to him. supplement now
white room is
Activating his exists with which to
undeniable.
parachronic guide yourself in all
communicator, he matter Asparagaceae

INTRODUCTION 2
ASPARAGUS
Asparafacts vegetable crop. character has to
make an
Asparagus or garden
asparagus, unmodified
scientific name Gardening
Asparagus roll once a
The Noble History
officinalis, is a year and for
spring Use of asparagus started in large
vegetable, a Ancient Egypt, 5000 years BC. unmodified
flowering From there it spread around the Farming roll
perennial plant Mediterranean Sea, and by the time
species in the once a
of Christ it was popular among
genus month.
both the Romans and the Greek. Its
Asparagus. It Failure
taste and medicinal properties were
was once means a loss
highly valued. It also had religious
classified in the of part of the
lily family, like significance and was used as
sacrifice. In late Middle Ages, use crop. GM
its Allium
of asparagus started to spread should
cousins, onions
and garlic, but around the Europe and eventually consider
the Liliaceae to the Orient and the New World. additional
have been split modifiers
and the onion- based on the
like plants are now in Cultivation soil, weather
the family conditions and
Asparagus grows
Amaryllidaceae and
easily in fitting equipment. For the
asparagus in the
Asparagaceae. conditions, final amount of
Asparagus officinalis especially in cool produce, see Low-
is native to most of periods and with Tech Companion 3
Europe, northern enough water. For - Daily Life and
Africa and western Economics page 8
small scale
Asia, and is widely "Agriculture".
cultivated as a
cultivation, a

ASPARAGUS 3
Culinary Art preservation. such properties
with a Medicine-1
Asparagus is easy
and fast to cook. As Medicine roll, in that
capacity, lending a
To cook asparagus,
In Greek, Roman +2 bonus to any
a character must
and medieval First Aid checks
make a Cooking+4
Islamic texts made to expunge a
or an unmodified
asparagus is poison.
Housekeeping roll.
claimed to have
This will take
about 5 minutes at
medicinal and
Celebrations
aphrodisiacal
TL 6 and below Many Germans
properties. GM can
and about 2 celebrate
decide what bonus,
minutes at TL 7 Spargelfest
if any, use of
and above. Failure annually, a glorious
asparagus gives to
means the day acknowledging
Esoteric Medicine,
asparagus is the most superior
Herbal Lore,
overcooked but of vegetables. If
Pharmacy and
edible, critical your campaign
Erotic Arts rolls. A
failure leads to loss takes place in
successful Cooking
of the asparagus. Germany (or even
roll could also give
Using an asparagus somewhere
bonus to Sex
cooker ($10, 1 lbs., analogous, such as
Appeal if the target
CR 4, available at a world conquered
ate the food made
TL 7) will give by Reich-5), make
from asparagus.
additional +2 to the sure to include
Asparagus is also a
roll. Asparagus can such a feast to
known diuretic and
also be pickled, improve
can thus be used, if
dried, salted or verisimilitude in
identified as having
frozen as your setting.

ASPARAGUS 4
ASPARAGUS IN
GAMES
Playing an asparagus, you can silent, sessile plant
still play such a is quite difficult to
Asparagus character using the master. However,
Secretly an Allium the Enlightened
Asparagus
lens. lens allows even
characters are
those least
suited to many
confident of
campaigns –
their abilities
almost every
to capture the
GURPS
alien nature
adventure to
of plants,
date benefits
granting
from an
psionic
asparagus
powers
party member,
enough to
whether it's a
rival even an
triple-agent
average
psychic asparagus Playing as an
human.
in The Lair of the Asparagaceae
Fat Man or simply character can be
a snack when quite challenging
desperate times hit and is
the Caravan to Ein recommended for
Arris. Even if your experienced
world is entirely roleplayers only, as
devoid of the art of playing a

ASPARAGUS IN GAMES 5
TEMPLATES
Asparagus Racial 10]; No Legs [-5].
Template [-596] (Sessile) [-50]; No
Manipulators [-50];
Attribute Enlightened [335]
Social Stigma
Modifiers: ST-10 [- (Plant) [-20]. Essential for new
100], IQ-10 [-200]; players and
DX-10 [-200]; HT- Quirks: Tastes
veterans alike, this
9 [-90]. good [-1].
equips your
Secondary Features: Plant [0]. asparagus with a
Characteristic deadly array of
Modifiers: SM -7; psychic powers.
HP+1 [5]. Lenses Add IQ+10 [200],
Advantages: Telesend
Secretly an Allium
Doesn’t Breathe (Telepathic -10%)
[6]
[20]; Doesn’t Eat [27], Telekinesis
or Drink [10]; Sometimes, what 10 (Psychokinetic -
Injury Tolerance you assumed to be 10%) [45], Para-
(Homogenous) an asparagus was Radar (ESP -10%)
[40]. actually the stalk of [36] and Mind
something else Reading
Disadvantages: entirely. These [Telepathic -10%)
Blindness [-50]; asparaguses were [27].
Cannot Learn [- actually the stalks
30]; Cannot Speak Fnord [23]
of onions all along!
(Mute) [-25]; Nothing to see
Deafness [-20]; Add HT+1 [10],
here, folks. Move
Dependency (Soil, Acquired Taste [1]
along. Add ██████
Constantly) [-25]; and Social Stigma ████████████████
Total Intolerance [- (Ewwww, onions) ████████████████
███████████████.

ASPARAGUS IN GAMES 6
INFINTE ASPARAGUS
Most normal correlated with the
worlds in the Asparagus-1 spread of human
Infinite Worlds™ settlement in year
setting have This world was 2010 Homeline.
asparagus. Some first thought to be After that the
unfortunately one of the many parallel was
don’t, but the parallels that failed declared off limits,
player characters in to sustain complex in case what ever
the Infinite Patrol life. Closer had happened
would try, quite observation would happen
naturally, to revealed that the again.
introduce it to as world wasn't in fact
many worlds as barren, but teeming Asparagus-6
they can. Centrum with life. The soil
After Asparagus-1
hates asparagus was rich, but the
was sealed and
because Centrum only complex
Asparagus-2, -3, -4
lost its asparagus to organism that
and -5 fell in the
biotoxins in the could be found was
path of Reich-5's
Last War and they asparagus. In fact,
Chronobahn, this
are jealous, Reich- the world was
curious parallel
5 tries to steal all covered by it. The
was discovered. To
the asparagus and researches were at
Homeline's initial
Cabal uses first keen on
horror, it followed
asparagus for weird finding out what
an inverse of the
magic rituals that was going on, but
population-
might endanger the were terrified about
mirroring exhibited
whole multiverse. the implications
on Asparagus-1.
when the spread of
More worryingly, it
asparagus heavily
was not Homeline

INFINITE ASPARAGUS 7
that it mirrored - Formerly a parallel shocking discovery
Asparagus-1 seems out of Centrum's soon brought those
to be a twisted reach, this parallel plans to a close: the
echo of Caliph, was classified as dominant species
suggesting that Zone Blue by the was none other
perhaps the day Interworld Service than the Asparagus
may be due to the presence Gigantus, a
approaching massive variant
when the most of the very
advanced plant that had
parallel been central to
discovers many of the
parachronics. deadly
ISWAT has biotoxins of
been Centrum's past.
investigating the With the
possibility of ubiquity of
manipulating panimmunity,
Caliph through One/B/2015.11.
of abnormally high
Asparagus-6, 9 (known
carbon dioxide
although Infinity as informally as
concentrations in
a whole has Asparagus-
the atmosphere
condemned the Omicron) has
resulting in a
plan as overly become an I.S.
variety of
risky. training site where
megaflora. Initial
operatives are sent
Asparagus reports suggested
to survive amongst
that the world
Omicron would be suitable
hordes of horse-
sized aphids.
for settling, but a

INFINITE ASPARAGUS 8
 MAGIC
Designed for family. Although it presence of all
compatibility with
GURPS Thaumatology:
seems, in many nearby plants
Ritual Path Magic. ways, subordinate within the same
to many other family, providing
Many people
paths, particularly the taxonomy of
utilise some form
Yesod and each, at the same
of secret path, most
Netzach, this Path time providing a
frequently the Path
is immensely detailed summary
of Nonexistence
powerful. Lesser of the wellbeing of
(Daath). However,
Asparagus effects the said plants. A
there exists another
allow localised, sufficient greater
Path, more secret
believable and effect could locate
even than that,
subtle effects, every asparagus in
dismissed by many
while Greater the world.
as "just part of
Asparagus effects
Netzach". Detailed Strengthen
can be blatant,
here, for the first Asparagus: Lesser
complete and
time, is the secret Strengthen
unnatural in nature.
Final Path. Asparagus can
Sense Asparagus: improve the
Path of Asparagus
Lesser Sense physical attributes
(Malkuth)
Asparagus can of an asparagus,
IQ/Very Hard
identify the precise especially the taste.
Prerequisite:
taxonomy of a seen It can also add
Thaumatology
specimen or direct unusual traits, such
This path governs the caster to the as a firm bark (DR
the mighty nearest asparagus 1-2 (Tough Skin, -
asparagus, as well plant. Greater 40%)) or purge the
as all related plant Sense Asparagus asparagus of any
life of the lily can reveal the poisons. Greater

ASPARAGUS MAGIC 9
Strengthen diseases that for your
Asparagus can normally last amusement.
surpass these limits indefinitely or even
Destroy
and create the end a coma when
Asparagus: Lesser
greatest tasting eaten.
Destroy Asparagus
asparagus ever to
Control Asparagus: can destroy an
grace the world.
Lesser Control asparagus. Greater
Restore Asparagus: Asparagus grants Destroy Asparagus
Lesser Restore you control over can destroy fields
Asparagus can one nearby of them. You
imbue an asparagus asparagus or allium monster.
such that eating it as though you were
Create Asparagus:
provides healing up controlling it with
Lesser Create
to thrice what First Telekinesis (B94),
Asparagus can
Aid could provide, with the exception
"stabilise" the
restore any amount that you do not
physical form of an
of FP or even need to take a
asparagus so that it
revive an Concentrate
grows up to be rich
unconscious manoeuvre to
in nutrients and
subject. It can also maintain this
tasty too. Greater
cure any blights control. Greater
Create Asparagus
affecting a small Control Asparagus
can be used to
asparagus corp. An can force any
generate an
asparagus imbued number of alliums
asparagus out of
by Greater Restore to perform any
thin air; it can be
Asparagus gains physical action (no
used in conjunction
the Enlightened matter how
with Create Mind
lens and heal any complex) or dance
(RPM12) to
amount of HP, cure

ASPARAGUS MAGIC 10
summon an
Enlightened
asparagus in this
way.

CONCLUSION
All the tools are in
place for you to SJG, please do not
GM an asparagus- sue us. The writer
focused game of of this conclusion
GURPS or to
participate in
such a game at
any level of
Enjoy the
experience.
Additional asparagus!
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further updates
may be added to
this this
supplement does not own
times passes, GURPS as an IP
depending on and makes no
whether anyone attempt to claim
cares. otherwise.

CONCLUSION 11