Jala

[Eternalknight]

What, exactly, is jala? I know it is a drink, but what are the actual ingrediants?

[taylor]

Not sure why, but I always thought it was coffee, though I'm probably wrong.

[Eternalknight]

That was my thought too, but I don't know why either.

[columbob]

Because it sounds like java? I don't know, when does LW drink that? I can't remember that far back (will reread the game books soon, I hope).

[Nerethel]

It's mostly just mentioned in the novels, if I'm not mistaken. It's served hot, steaming, in a cup much like a coffee cup. Plus, as columbob pointed out, it's just one letter away from 'java'.

I actually used it in my Lone Wolf game. The Shadaki Bucaneer had no other reason to come into port for the first session, so I made him a hired hand on a cargo ship that imported jala beans into Holmgard. It got the party together fairly well.

Nerethel

[Eternalknight]

Just found this in The Kingdoms of Terror:

• As you ride west along a wide avenue of weathered red stone, you take in the early morning sights of this magnificent city. Window shutters slam open as the Varettians awake to a new day and smells of breakfast and freshly ground jala waft from shop doorways.

[Ordovician]

It's in Shadow on the Sand, too. I think it was described as hot. Between hot and freshly ground, I think it's safe to say it's coffee. That was always what I thought.

[August]

Interestingly enough, it is also in Babylon 5 as a Centauri drink.

-A