[✗] [Alchemy] Against the Bane of Knowledge

[Zonty 457]

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In lands afar of common ilk,

in chambers locked beneath the earth,

a scholar sought to alleviate

the greatest malediction of knowledge;

its loss. 

 

The scrolls as elderly as time were eaten

by voracious flame; entombed as ashes.

Books with bygone lore were lost beneath

the undulating waters;

where riverbeds became their never-yielding graves.

It is unfair, to have the expertise,

although recorded,

lost throughout the ages on nature's whim.

 

“To soothe friend’s sorrow. . .” 

 

 

 

-+--+--+-

 

Thusly so, trudging through

innumerable failures and downfalls,

the scholar held perseverance in strife

against the cruel fate of history.

And upon a fateful midnight,

in a laboratory,

where candles had long been

crushed by their own fires,

in a farthest nook that

prevailed lit,

success beset the faithful scholar.

 

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Elixir of Preservation [Open]

 

Recipe:

Base: Ochre

 

- Silence (x4)

- Purity (4x)

- Strength (2x)

- Separation (3x)

- Endurance (6x)

 

Appearance:

 

A cloudy, gray-ish liquid.

 

Effects:

 

Should paper, book, scroll or

any material of an alike ilk

be submerged in the water

for a duration of at least an

OOC hour, the brew will

bestow great resilience

unto the subject, which

comes in two different types.

 

Fire resistance:

 

Being an element most volatile,

the defense against it is hardest to acquire;

 

Spitting embers, sparks and other alike

minute occurrences of flame will be

incapable of incurring any damage to

the parchment.

A direct clash with open flame, however

(i. e. a book thrown into a hearth),

will outmatch the potency of the concoction.

It will persist unharmed for around the duration

of a single emote. Even if the book will be

retrieved to safety therein, the effects

of the concoction will have vanished,

although reapplication of the elixir would be still possible.

 

Water resistance:

 

The concoction acts as a far more prominent shield

against liquid compared to flame, repelling it from

parchment without too much trouble.

Thereby, however, difficulty is poised in actually

writing something on the parchment, as any ink,

unless the text had been written down prior to

the elixir’s application, would be warded off. 

 

Every ink except a specially devised one;

 

Redlines:

 

- The elixir grants paper minute resistance

to water and flame, but does not have

any defense against force applications thereof.

(I. e. a water-blast powerful enough

could still shred a scroll, etc.)

 

- Requires Alchemy T2

 

- Does not require ST signature

 

- Each potion is enough for only 3 books or similarly sized objects at most

 

- Only works on paper and material alike

 

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Piercing Ink [Open]

 

Recipe:

 

- Dye, or other kind of substance that can be utilized for writing

- Instability (2x)

- Connection (2x)

 

Appearance:

 

Identical to the original guise

of whatever dye was utilized 

in the process.

 

Effects:

 

The only notable power

is the ability to puncture

the shield that

Elixir of Preservation yields.

 

Redlines:

 

- .. It’s just ink

- Does not require ST signature

[Werew0lf 12022]

what the hell happened to the formatting 

[Shiredom 1549]

this is written like a poem

[Wizry 358]

this is written like c plus plus code
 

[UnBaed 8951]

ai art...

[Zonty 457]

6 hours ago, Werew0lf said:

what the hell happened to the formatting 

Okay. Go on. Fix it big guy.

 

2 hours ago, UnBaed said:

ai art...

I had only 20 minutes to come up w/ concept, mechanics and find any image. Blame society, not me.

[StingyParrot 132]

This is cool!

 

[Shiredom 1549]

7 hours ago, Zonty said:

Elixir of Preservation [Open]

 

Recipe:

 

- Silence (x4)

- Purity (4x)

- Strength (2x)

- Separation (3x)

- Endurance (6x)

 

 

Actual criticism, why so expensive? For all it does is adding a tiny weak bit of fire and water resistance to paper-like materials this seems excessive. A Blasting Potion is actually cheaper than this. Also gives no actual instructions on how to make it, or a base. Is there no base? Do you just throw all of the signs together and pour it on paper? What happens here? 

[Zonty 457]

12 hours ago, Shiredom said:

 

 

Actual criticism, why so expensive? For all it does is adding a tiny weak bit of fire and water resistance to paper-like materials this seems excessive. A Blasting Potion is actually cheaper than this. Also gives no actual instructions on how to make it, or a base. Is there no base? Do you just throw all of the signs together and pour it on paper? What happens here? 

The cost is piped up to avoid abundance of the brew's application; whilst writing, I pictured the potion as an apparatus of  very much devout scholars to mitigate harm to their treasured scrolls, etcetera.

It also comes as a detriment to the fact that the effects of the potion last for virtually an endless amount of time, should they manage to avoid the pinnacle of extreme conditions

 

Thanks for noting the base though. It got lost during the paste somehow, and is now fixed

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