Worldbuilding: Potions
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skylarkrogersContent note: Discusses drugs.
Capitalization convention: If something's a family specialty that isn't widely produced (usually one of Lucía's inventions), it gets caps. If it's something multiple different mob families make and sell or is just a natural product, it gets lowercase.
Sleepless Dream: Drink, requires alcohol to activate. Creates a hallucination that pulls from the subject's dreams. Dreamers can touch other dreamers to join a shared hallucination. Those who are aware of the potion and have sufficient force of will can force certain things to happen in the dream.
grace: Injection. An intense booster for life magic that can ward off possessions, enhance healing, and harm the undead and infernal. Continued use both builds a tolerance and causes a long-term weakening of the subject's natural life magic, requiring continued and increasing doses. Also has psychological effects--a high and a feeling of intense self-righteousness. Addictive. Deadly in larger doses.
deathwish: Injection or drink. Vampire venom. It temporarily reduces clotting until countered by vampire astringent (which is a styptic). It induces a mild high in the subject and causes the subject to experience pain as pleasurable and life magic as painful. Potential for addiction, but addiction is rare. Addiction causes light sensitivity and nocturnal sleep patterns. The light sensitivity is also a "hangover" symptom.
Holy Hangover: Drink. A concoction made from vampire repellents that relieves the effects of a deathwish hangover.
Wing Rot: Induces a rapid sloughing-off of cuticle, which faerie wings are made of.
Broca Burn: Drink or injection. Artificially induces Broca's aphasia.
Loose Tulips: Undefined. Likely used to disinhibit speech, probably not completely effective at its intended purpose of interrogation.
glowcloud: Inhalant. Party drug that emits a glowing cloud that causes a high. Intense and dangerous.
slowsand: Topical. Slows the effects of potions on the body.
thiefsgild: A powder that can be mixed with spellsage when forming wards. It makes the hands of anyone who breaches the ward phosphoresce.
Topsy-Turvy: Causes vertigo.
nosebay: Topical. An oil that cloaks the scent changes a person undergoes when experiencing different emotions, etc.
Capitalization convention: If something's a family specialty that isn't widely produced (usually one of Lucía's inventions), it gets caps. If it's something multiple different mob families make and sell or is just a natural product, it gets lowercase.
Sleepless Dream: Drink, requires alcohol to activate. Creates a hallucination that pulls from the subject's dreams. Dreamers can touch other dreamers to join a shared hallucination. Those who are aware of the potion and have sufficient force of will can force certain things to happen in the dream.
grace: Injection. An intense booster for life magic that can ward off possessions, enhance healing, and harm the undead and infernal. Continued use both builds a tolerance and causes a long-term weakening of the subject's natural life magic, requiring continued and increasing doses. Also has psychological effects--a high and a feeling of intense self-righteousness. Addictive. Deadly in larger doses.
deathwish: Injection or drink. Vampire venom. It temporarily reduces clotting until countered by vampire astringent (which is a styptic). It induces a mild high in the subject and causes the subject to experience pain as pleasurable and life magic as painful. Potential for addiction, but addiction is rare. Addiction causes light sensitivity and nocturnal sleep patterns. The light sensitivity is also a "hangover" symptom.
Holy Hangover: Drink. A concoction made from vampire repellents that relieves the effects of a deathwish hangover.
Wing Rot: Induces a rapid sloughing-off of cuticle, which faerie wings are made of.
Broca Burn: Drink or injection. Artificially induces Broca's aphasia.
Loose Tulips: Undefined. Likely used to disinhibit speech, probably not completely effective at its intended purpose of interrogation.
glowcloud: Inhalant. Party drug that emits a glowing cloud that causes a high. Intense and dangerous.
slowsand: Topical. Slows the effects of potions on the body.
thiefsgild: A powder that can be mixed with spellsage when forming wards. It makes the hands of anyone who breaches the ward phosphoresce.
Topsy-Turvy: Causes vertigo.
nosebay: Topical. An oil that cloaks the scent changes a person undergoes when experiencing different emotions, etc.
