Alchemy Recipes

The following recipes are known to characters with the relevant skills. Recipe descriptions include the following details.

• Form: The form the finished product takes: powder, liquid, gel, ink, cream, metal ingot, etc. Blade venoms must be applied to a bladed weapon and inflicted with a successfull blow, and ingested liquids must be drunk to take effect. Note that a character doesn’t have to be conscious to drink a potion; healing potions especially are often poured into dying friends’ mouths.
• Onset: The time the potion needs to take effect, from the moment the poison is applied (drunk, eaten, smeared on etc.).
• Duration: The length of time that the potion’s effects last. Instantaneous potions deliver their effects all at once after the onset ends, and permanent potions remain in effect until cured.
• Call: Descriptions of combat poisons also include a damage or effect call, which must be given when the poison is delivered, to indicate to the target what effect they must take.
• Ingredients: The ingredients required to brew the potion. Ingredients must be handed over when the alchemist starts brewing.
• Cost: The cost in work units that the alchemist must pay to complete brewing the potion.

Combat Poisons Poisons with the label “Combat” are blade venoms, powders and bombs intended for use in battle. All combat poisons use a damage or effect call, which the target should be able to enact without referee intervention. Combat poison calls other than Bitter Kiss and Acid Kiss always begin with the call Poison, indicating that the attack must be resisted via the skill or spell Resist Poison or equivalent ability.

Potions

Alchemical preparations that have some beneficial effect on a living creature are known collectively as potions. Common potions include enhancing potions, which grant the drinker some temporary benefit, and healing potions, which heal injury or cure afflictions.

Enhancing

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
Berserkergang	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 cumin seeds, 1 moonflower seeds, 3 oil	4
Blessed Release	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 agrimony, 1 master wort, 3 oil	4
Copper Skin	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 black horehound, 1 colewort, 1 lucerne, 3 oil	6
Philtre of Visions	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 chokeweed, 1 lotus leaves, 3 oil	6
Potion of Constitution	Ingested Liquid	Alchemist	1 acorn, 1 muira puama, 3 oil	4
Potion of Fortitude	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 hawthorn, 1 mistletoe, 3 oil	5
Potion of Glibness	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 gelesemium, 1 scarlet radish, 3 fluid	5

Healing

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
Emesia	Ingested Liquid	Alchemist	1 lucerne, 1 nux vomica, 3 oil	3
Healing Balm	Cream	Alchemist	1 acacia, 1 lycopodium, 3 cream	3
Healing Draught	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 agaric, 1 rosemary, 3 oil	6
Nomad's Potion of Healing	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 essence of agaric, 1 essence of amaranth, 1 essence of fireweed, 3 oil	30
Potion of Recall	Ingested Liquid	Apothecary	1 fenugreek, 1 moonflower seeds, 3 fluid	6

Imbuements

Formulas brewed to have some material affect, rather than working directly on a living creature, are known collectively as imbuements. Imbuements range from armour-hardening resins, to oils that bestow magical potency on weapons, and liquids that disguise poisons. Two special types of imbuement – magical inks and amalgams – are of particular use in Invocation.

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
All That Glitters	Powder	Imbuer	1 gentian, 1 hemlock, 3 powder	4
Burning Oil	Liquid	Alchemist	1 cayenne, 1 white bryony, 3 oil	6
Perfect Oil	Liquid	Imbuer	1 benne, 1 jambul seeds, 3 oil	8
Rosalie's Reinforcing Resin	Gel	Imbuer	1 colewort, 1 black horehound, 1 stag horn, 1 cream, 1 oil, 1 powder	12
Sweet Elixir	Liquid	Poisoner	1 gelesemium, 1 nux vomica, 3 fluid	9
Tanglebomb	Gel	Imbuer	1 amaranth, 1 oidium sano, 1 cream, 1 oil, 1 powder	5
Thief's Friend	Liquid	Imbuer	1 black horehound, 1 white bryony, 3 fluid	4
Verdant Lotion	Cream	Imbuer	1 acorn, 1 lycopodium, 3 cream	6

Inks

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
Magical Ink	Ink	Alchemist	1 essence of cayenne, 1 essence of lotus leaves, 1 essence of yellow fungus, 3 fluid	9
Corporeal Ink	Ink	Imbuer	1 essence of yellow fungus, 1 box leaves, 3 fluid	6
Elemental Ink	Ink	Imbuer	1 essence of cayenne, 1 amaranth, 3 fluid	6
Spiritual Ink	Ink	Imbuer	1 essence of lotus leaves, 1 master wort, 3 fluid	6

Amalgams

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
Amalgam	Metal Ingot	Amalgams	1 jewellery metal (O) (copper), 1 jewellery metal (H) (silver), 1 jewellery metal (H) (gold), 1 agate, 1 jet, 1 moonstone, 3 charcoal	18
Corporeal Amalgam	Metal Ingot	Amalgams	1 jewellery metal (O) (copper), 1 beryl, 1 jet, 2 charcoal	9
Elemental Amalgam	Metal Ingot	Amalgams	1 jewellery metal (H) (gold), 1 agate, 1 topaz, 2 charcoal	9
Spiritual Amalgam	Metal Ingot	Amalgams	1 jewellery metal (H) (silver), 1 amethyst, 1 moonstone, 2 charcoal	9

Poisons

All formulas intended to harm or weaken living creatures are know as poisons. Some are destructive, causing death or physical harm, while some are non-lethal, causing inconvenience or discomfort without lasting injury.

Destructive

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
Beggars Poison	Ingested Liquid	Poisoner	1 abscess root, 1 spider venom, 3 fluid	6
Bitter Kiss	Blade Venom	Alchemist	2 viper venom, 3 oil	5
False Balm	Cream	Poisoner	1 abscess root, 1 skullcap, 3 cream	4
Ghoulsbane	Powder	Alchemist	1 black mushroom powder, 1 hyssop, 3 powder	2

Non-Lethal

Items	Form	Skill	Costs	Work units
Blinding Powder	Powder	Poisoner	1 chokeweed, 1 spider venom, 3 powder	5
Fool's Draught	Ingested Liquid	Poisoner	1 chokeweed, 1 spikenard, 3 fluid	6
Itching Powder	Powder	Poisoner	1 beth root, 1 black mushroom powder, 3 powder	5
The Shakes	Ingested Liquid	Poisoner	1 hemlock, 1 jambul seeds, 3 fluid	4
Sleeping Draught	Ingested Liquid	Alchemist	1 agrimony, 1 black mushroom powder, 3 fluid	5
Tongue-Tying Tincture	Ingested Liquid	Poisoner	1 belladonna, 1 yellow fungus, 3 fluid	3
Truth Potion	Ingested Liquid	Poisoner	1 fenugreek, 1 nux vomica, 3 fluid	4