[✗] [Amendment] Witchtallow Modernization and Rebalance

[Venomous_Pup 2978]

 

 

Current:

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Brief Description:

A firm mass of dark beige wax.
 
Recipe: 

Lard (base)
Rakir x1
Blood x¼ of a descendant’s
 

Creation (Optional, only if it requires a specific process):

Begin the process of rendering the lard by heating it at a low temperature until liquid.

Add blood and mix thoroughly. 
Add rakir and stir until the mix is near black.
Wait until all liquid has boiled away and only a solid mass remains and remove heat.
Leave to cool for five minutes whilst assuming a dark beige colour.

 

Effects:
Witchtallow is a waxy substance unique in its ability to preserve the genus from fresh blood, proving instrumental in the drawing of the Transmutation Pentacle amongst other ritualistic diagrams tied with the infernal and the rites of blood magic.

 

Witchtallow can also be dried and powdered for mixing with water to create faux blood, unlocking its genus potential for use in blood magic.

 

Redlines:

-Genus will decay and be lost to blood after one narrative day or three OOC hours (whichever comes first) following its host’s death or removal from said host’s body (again, whichever comes first), meaning blood older than this cannot be used in making witchtallow.
-Witchtallow will only preserve an equal amount of genus to ¼ of what a descendant produces (a ‘moderate’ living sacrifice in pale blood magic). Extracting this blood will also deprive that person of all bodily genus, taking a full OOC day to recover.
-A full count of witchtallow will be destroyed if used to create faux blood.
-One count of witchtallow will offer five ‘uses’, either acting as a reagent in recipes or used to draw a Transmutation Pentacle.
-Witchtallow possesses no magical qualities beyond its genus preservation and the creation of the Transmutation Pentacle. Further uses must be outlined in separate lore. 

 

Updated:

Spoiler

Brief Description:
A firm mass of dark beige wax.
 
Recipe: 
Lard (base)
Rakir x3
Blood from a Descendant totalling [4] units of Genus
 

Creation (Optional, only if it requires a specific process):
Begin the process of rendering the lard by heating it at a low temperature until liquid.

Add blood and mix thoroughly. 
Add rakir and stir until the mix is near black.
Wait until all liquid has boiled away and only a solid mass remains and remove heat.
Leave to cool for five minutes whilst assuming a dark beige colour.

 

Effects:
Witchtallow is a waxy substance unique in its ability to preserve half the Genus of fresh blood for a total of [2] units, proving instrumental in the drawing of the Transmutation Pentacle, amongst other ritualistic diagrams tied with the infernal and the rites of blood magic.

 

Witchtallow can also be dried and powdered for mixing with water to create faux blood, unlocking its genus potential for use in blood magic.

 

Redlines:
-Requires ST signature.
-Genus will decay and be lost to blood after one narrative day or three OOC hours (whichever comes first) following its host’s death or removal from said host’s body (again, whichever comes first), meaning blood older than this cannot be used in making witchtallow. Screenshots of the harvesting must be included in an sreq.
-Witchtallow will only preserve [2] Units of Genus per item.

-Extracting this blood will also deprive that person of the taken bodily genus, with the individual regaining their Genus based on their regeneration. 
-A full count of witchtallow will be destroyed if used to create faux blood, with this blood only being useful in rituals.
-One count of witchtallow will offer five ‘uses’, either acting as a reagent in recipes or used to draw a Transmutation Pentacle.
-Witchtallow possesses no magical qualities beyond its genus preservation and the creation of the Transmutation Pentacle. Further uses must be outlined in separate lore. 

Purpose:
Currently, Witchtallow leverages lore references to Pale Blood Magic, which can likely cause some confusion between what a 'moderate' living sacrifice is in the modern-day usage of Genus, so it has been updated to reflect the new changes to modern Blood Magic. Secondly, given how somewhat easy it would be to spam make Witchtallow if it remained at 2 genus cost, I decided to double it, so hopefully it requires cooperation or attempting to get sacrifices to make the item, allowing it to be useful for people to be able to stock up for big rituals, but at the cost of losing the potential 2 Genus by converting it into Witchtallow.

Feedback welcome.

-Small Change Log, after talking in DMs with Prima, it felt appropriate that Witchtallow in the modern era requires an ST signature and increasing the Rakir count, edited the extraction redline to future-proof the lore in case anything might alter a player's Genus regeneration, so they can't loop hole around it.

Edited February 21 by Venomous_Pup
Updated to include new feedback.

[PrimnyaQuorum 4003]

To prevent overlap and half-redlining genus regeneration, I would make the genus collection a part of the creation process and make the rakir cost higher, since rakir is stupid easy to get. 

[Pallodium 3776]

This lore has been denied.

 

At this moment, LT is not interested in permitting ways to indefinitely store genus; even though this piece is outdated, genus storing is not something we want to see within alchemy.