Chef Tulio is a minor character appearing in Rift Apart. She is the head Chef at the alternate dimension Blizar Prime mining site. She and the Sous Chef are responsible for creating and providing meals for the many crystal miners working in the Blizon Mines. The optional mission "Find the Missing Chef" has Rivet assist her in harvesting Sirangian Honey to make a smorgasbord for the site's hungry miners.
It is not known if she also exists in Rivet's dimension, but if she was on Blizar Prime when the planet shattered, she may have perished in its destruction.
History[]
Rift Apart[]
Whilst on the alternate Blizar Prime searching for Phase Quartz, Rivet passes by a group of miners loudly complaining that they have yet to receive any food yet. Rivet traveled past them, off the crossroads of the main mining hub down Honey Road and encountered the mining site's Sous Chef. The Sous Chef called out to her and asked if she was heading in that direction, to have a look around for Chef Tulio. Tulio had left alone to search for ingredients and was supposed to have returned an hour ago but had not come back yet. Rivet agrees to keep an eye out and while traveling further down the road, she soon enough receives a radio transmission from Chef Tulio. Tulio sees Rivet and asks her to make her way up to Crystal Ridge if she wishes to help the chef with creating what she calls the galaxy's next food dish of the century. She gives Rivet little chance to retort in the matter though and remarks her question was merely rhetorical.
Chef Tulio explaining her plan of harvesting the Sirangian Honey to Rivet.
Upon reaching Chef Tulio, she formally introduces herself to Rivet, describing herself as a great artiste that needs to suffer to create beauty. She tells Rivet that if she is to make her greatest dish yet, she needs to extract Sirganian Honey from the Fendersax wasp hive below them using her VAC-U-SUK machine. Doing this however requires her full attention and Rivet must protect the machine from the local wildlife; including Lava puffoids, Fendersax wasps and Toxic crabs. The aroma of the honey being brought to the surface will cause creatures in the area to try and break the VAC-U-SUK to get at it, as well as some of the Goons-4-Less. Tulio sets up fire traps on either side of the VAC-U-SUK for Rivet to use in defending the machine. She used this method of defense as she states she could not abide by the stench of pesticides and thought to go back to her culinary roots in barbecue.
The chefs serving the Chief Engineer and the Blizar miners their meals after the events of Rift Apart.
While Rivet defends the VAC-U-SUK, Chef Tulio finds inspiration for a number of new dishes, including; a sirangian honey-glazed puffoid for the main course, a zurpified magma mead to drink and an upside-down Snagglebeast honey mousse for dessert. After the honey has all been harvested, Tulio reflects on the suffering that had brought her new ideas to light, although Rivet questions what suffering as the chef had not done anything to warrant this, with the Lombax performing by far the brunt of the work. Tulio ignores this however and rewards Rivet with a Resistance Spybot, saying it may inspire her to make her own art one day. Later in the ending credits, Chef Tulio and the Sous Chef are seen on the unknown dimension's Blizar Prime, serving the Chief Engineer and the rest of the miners their Sirangian Honey smorgasbord.
Sous Chef[]
The Sous Chef is the person ranking next after Chef Tulio. When Tulio goes missing on one of her ingredient runs, she attempts to keep the protesting miners stalled long enough for her to get back and asks Rivet to have a look for her. She seems to have a dislike of Tulio and remarks that if she has perished while looking for ingredients, it could be her chance to finally use her own recipes for once.
After Rivet helps Chef Tulio harvest the Sirangian Honey for use in her cooking and returns to the mining hub, the Sous Chef will thank her for getting Tulio inspired again to make new dishes and remarks that she will definitely be asking for a raise now. She does not share Tulio's lofty ambitions for the culinary arts and prefers to use very uncomplicated cooking methods, by simply throwing ingredients together into a pot and cook them.