Voidflower meal is an uncooked preparation of raw meat and nanophage-infected sunflowers made in the meal room. Its recorded consumption is followed by a reported compulsion to enter an adjoining dark room and an inability to remember either events inside or the act of leaving.[1]
Ingredients and preparation
The preparation uses raw meat taken from the refrigerator in the meal room and nanophage-infected sunflowers selected for their black centers. The flowers are torn apart and mixed into the meat by hand in a metal bowl. The narrator identifies cohesion of the mixture as the point at which it is ready and explicitly states that no cooking is required.
The recording shows dark floral material distributed through the meat and vapor-like black wisps above the mixture. The meat’s species, the quantity of flowers and the nature of the wisps are not established.
Consumption and compulsion
An unnamed preparer is shown sitting on the floor and eating from the bowl. The narrator describes the preparation as a favorite recipe and reports that, after a few bites, an overwhelming urge to walk into the dark room takes over. The urge is described as recurring and so consuming that the narrator cannot think about anything else until entering.
This account establishes the reported sequence following consumption. It does not isolate whether the effect arises from the flowers, the meat, their combination or another condition in the facility.
Memory discontinuity
The narrator reports never remembering what happens inside the dark room and also not remembering coming out. The closing sequence shows the preparer entering the unlit doorway, followed by a view of the threshold with dark wisps near the floor.
No interior activity or return from the room is shown. The record gives no duration for the missing interval, no independent account of events within it and no demonstrated outcome for other consumers.
Source recording
References
- Voidflower meal — preparation and dark-room recording Primary recording
A 45.632-second recording of meal preparation, consumption and entry into a dark room. The narration describes an overwhelming urge to enter and an absence of memory for the interior and departure. The speaker, meat source, facility location and recording date are not identified.