You prefer – maybe even need – to eat weird shit… quite possibly in a literal sense of that expression. Perhaps you’ve sworn a vow, suffered a curse, been treated (or created) with unhallowed rituals or arcane hyperscience, or initiated into an occult fellowship with… interesting admission demands. In any case, you must consume substances that may be degrading, unpleasant, expensive, or downright illegal.

The more inconvenient the substance, the more this Flaw is worth:

• (2 points) Easy to procure, though not as easy to devour (paper, fresh eggs, poop, etc.).

• (3 points) Unpleasant, hazardous, and perhaps illegal to consume (rotten meat, swamp water, raw cannabis, and so forth).

• (4 points) Specialized, foul, criminal, and /or expensive chow (human blood, custom-brewed potions or meals, and the like).

• (5 points) You really shouldn’t eat such things… but you must (live humans, toxic sludge, gold dust, highly specialized food-like concoctions, and other similar forms of sustenance).

For each dot in your Stamina Trait, you can go one day without satisfying your special dietary requirements. After that,

you lose one health level per day until you either consume your particular substance, or else die of hunger or thirst, suf­ fer the punishment of a vow unfulfilled, or otherwise endure whichever other consequences might result from denying your bizarre hunger.

For a related (and probably essential) companion Trait, see the physical Merit: Cast-Iron Stomach, p. 36. And for a potentially related focus-instrument, see the Chapter Three

Expanded Instruments entry for Cannibalism, pp. 206-207.