Weird fruits

Ever since The Curtain fell, when one doesn't know or remember the place they visit, the spiritual world tries to fill the gaps with its own creations, often leading to weird, abstract landscapes. This is called The law of Familiarity. While in the cities and other settlements, the memories of the people that lived in those places might affect the concepts the spiritual world might conjure, stabilizing them, even if just a little. The wilderness doesn't get the same treatment. And one of the weird products of those changes to the world are the so-called Weird fruits, unusual plants with unknown properties. Most of them are dangerous to consume. But once in a while, one might find some with valuable properties.

Examples of Weird Fruits

Stone squash

"Hard as a rock"

From afar (and when checked only cursorily), just like its name suggests, stone squash is completely undistinguishable from a stone. Its shape, taste of its skin, hardness, texture, and even its smell are those of a stone. Only by looking carefully, one can notice a very slight discoloration similar to stripes of watermelon. Additionally, should one try to pick up the fruit, they'll discover a stem connecting it to the underground parts of the plant.

How to eat it

To eat a stone squash, one has to get through its skin. This proves difficult as unless someone knows how to do it, any tries of opening the fruit will prove ineffective. To open it, one needs to cut at the place the stem connected to the fruit, sliding the blade parallel to the skin. At that point, it's as easy as peeling an apple.
The other thing to know is that one should never eat the pulp of the stone squash. It is wet and has a texture of a fatty part of the meat. Consuming it often causes nausea and gagging reflexes.
Instead, when eating a stone squash, one must turn its peel on the "left" side. Eaten like that, the skin loses all of its hardness and becomes sweet and juicy, similar in taste to a watermelon.

Effects

When consumed, the stone squash will absorb the next few instances of physical trauma to one's body. This can entail such things as falling from high altitudes, being shot, cut, maimed, crushed, and pressure coming from explosions (but not the heat). Most of those fruits work only once or twice, with every "activation" sounding like a stone being hit, but a few fresh specimens of incredible quality were said to work even five times. Once the "charges" run out, one can hear the sound of a stone being split into pieces.

Camel fruit

"Through a needle's eye"

Camel fruits are small, elongated, straight, green fruits that grow in bunches on a stem. Their appearance is a little similar to bananas. One can recognize the plants they grow on thanks to weird, tube-like leaves that grow out of the top of them.

How to eat it

There is no trick to eating them, but they taste better when eaten with their skin still on. When bitten, they produce a sound that is disturbing to some as it is similar to the sound of broken bones.

Effects

For around an hour after eating a camel fruit, one's body can squeeze through narrow places as if it had no bones inside. One needs to watch out though as once the effect runs out they might discover that they are stuck or worse, they might get crushed while their own bones pierce through their own organs.

Moltenade

"Hot as lava"

The plants these fruits grow on can be seen from a distance as the air above them vibrates from the heat and the area around them tends to be burnt or molten depending on the season. The fruits have such a strong saturated orange-red color that they look almost as if they were glowing. There is a star-like pattern on the bottom of the fruit. They are very hot to the touch, so some protection is advised when dealing with them. If one doesn't want to activate them by accident, one should always cut them off with some stem intact.
The inside of moltenades consists of four layers. First, there is thin skin. Underneath it, there is a first layer of juice. This juice is extremely hot, often reaching thousands of degrees when spilled. Under that, there is a fragile shell that protects the second layer of juice. This juice, when mixed with the first one, creates an explosion similar to what occurs when mixing boiling oil with water.

How to eat it

If one decides to eat a moltenade, they first have to carefully drain the hot juice without cracking the shell around the second layer of juice. To do so, one needs to make a small cut around the star pattern on the bottom of the fruit. That is where the shell tends to be the toughest. When draining the hot juice, one needs to remember to not burn themselves or set fire to the area they are in. Once the fruit is drained, all the parts left are edible, with the shell having a nutty taste while the juice inside of it tastes like lychee.

Effects

Consuming a moltenade doesn't have any benefits other than the nutritional ones. Instead, those fruits are mostly used as easy-to-access (but dangerous to carry) grenades that set the targets on fire.

The fruit that cries wolf

"Calling the wolf out of the forest."

This fruit looks like a purple wasp hive with multiple holes going straight through it. When shaken a little, the air going through those holes produces a sound similar to a wolf howl.

How to eat it

Those fruits are completely inedible. Trying to eat them might at best end up causing stomach sickness, nausea, fever, and vomiting, and at worst, killing one who ate them.

Effects

Letting the air go through those fruits, either by shaking them, throwing them, or hanging them like wind chimes lures the aggressive nature spirits towards it. At first, the spirits will try to find the one who cased the fruit to make the sound. If they can't, they will attack anyone else in the area, including other spirits lured by the call.