Alchemy: Forgotten Elixirs

Alchemy: Forgotten Elixirs

I have looked through the books and found a few elixirs I haven't yet converted to my Metatronic Alchemy system. Ointment of Preservation of the Dead is based on the elixir from GURPS Banestorm - Abydos. Potion of Pain-Ease is based on the Pain-Ease elixir from Pyramid #3-115, and is unreasonable expensive. Potion of Partial Resurrection is based on the elixir from Pyramid #3-92. Flutter Antivenin, Potion of Pseudo-Invisibility, and Potion of Improved Stealth are based on elixirs from GURPS Creatures of the Night - Vol. 4.

  

Flutter Antivenin

When administered to someone under the effects of the flutter devil’s venom, the subject does not take the damage later when the creatures start hibernating.

Duration: Permanent, until the poison goes away.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $510 (singular); $185 (5-batched).

Recipe: $51; 2 days; defaults to Alchemy-2.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Flutter Antivenin, +10%; Extended Duration, Permanent, +90%; Magical, -10%; Potion, -25%) [17]. Notes: «Flutter Antivenin» is Immunity to Flutter Devil’s Venom (Magical, -10%) [1]. Extended Duration costs only 90%, because the Potion meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.

Ointment of Preservation of the Dead

This colorless ointment makes the subject corpse immune to rot and decay.

Duration: Permanent.

Form: Ointment.

Cost: $450 (singular); $165 (5-batched).

Recipe: $45; 2 days; defaults to Alchemy-2.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on corpses, -40%; Advantage, Ointment of Preservation of the Dead, +50%; Extended Duration, Permanent, +90%; Magical, -10%; Ointment, -45%) [15]. Notes: «Ointment of Preservation of the Dead» is Immunity to Decay (Magical, -10%) [5]. Extended Duration costs only 90%, because the Ointment meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.

 

Potion of Improved Stealth

This dark blue potion grants the imbiber Silence 4 (p. B85) and increases his Move while climbing by 2.

Duration: 1 hour.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $930 (singular); $335 (5-batched).

Recipe: $93; 5 days; defaults to Alchemy-4.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Potion of Improved Stealth, +240%; Magical, -10%; Potion, -25%) [31]. Notes: «Potion of Improved Stealth» is Silence 4 (Magical, -10%) [18] + Super Climbing 2 (Magical, -10%) [6].

  

Potion of Pain-Ease

A single dose of this elixir imposes the euphoria condition (p. B428) for 1 hour. For the rest of the day, the concoction acts as a total Mitigator vs. Chronic Pain, Chronic Depression, and the depressed stage of the Manic-Depressive disadvantage. It is physically safe (at least as far as one’s health goes) but psychologically addictive.

Duration: 1 day.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $4,860 (singular); $1,750 (5-batched).

Recipe: $486; 132 days; defaults to Alchemy-17.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Euphoria, +30%; Extended Duration on Euphoria, 30x, +60%; Extended Duration, 1,000x, +60%; Magical, -10%; Negated Disadvantage, Chronic Depression, Chronic Pain, depressed stage of Manic-Depressive, +1,400%; Potion, -25%) [162]. Notes: Extended Duration costs only 60%, because the Potion meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.

Potion of Partial Resurrection

This potion reanimates a dead body as a zombie and attempts to reunite the owner’s soul with it. If the subject agrees to return from the dead, the result is a free-willed undead version of that individual – not a mindless servant. Only one try per corpse is allowed. As with true Resurrection, the body must not have reached -10xHP. Anyone killed while raised by this spell is truly dead. Future attempts at resurrection by any means fail automatically.

Duration: Truly Permanent.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $1,500 (singular); $540 (5-batched).

Recipe: $150; 13 days; defaults to Alchemy (Dark)-5.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Potion of Partial Resurrection, +140%; Cosmic, Works on the dead, +50%; Extended Duration, Truly Permanent, +240%; Magical, -10%; Potion, -25%) [50]. Notes: “Potion of Partial Resurrection” is Alternate Form (Zombie; Magical, -10%) [14]. This version of Cosmic means it only works on the dead – not injured living creatures – and gives one try, ever. Extended Duration costs only 240%, because the Potion meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.

Potion of Pseudo-Invisibility

This white potion makes the subject pseudo-invisible. The subject and anything he is carrying (up to the Medium encumbrance) become difficult to notice via sight or hearing, all attempts take a -10 penalty.

This effect ends if the subject attacks any creature. For purposes of this effect, an attack includes any spell targeting a foe or whose area or effect includes a foe. Exactly who is a foe depends on the invisible character's perceptions. Actions directed at unattended objects do not break the spell. Causing harm indirectly is not an attack. Thus, a pseudo-invisible being can open doors, talk, eat, climb stairs, summon monsters and have them attack, cut the ropes holding a rope bridge while enemies are on the bridge, remotely trigger traps, open a portcullis to release attack dogs, and so forth. If the subject attacks directly, however, it immediately becomes visible along with all his gear.

When the effect wears off naturally, the penalty drops by -1 per minute until expired, giving him time to get to safety.

Duration: 9 minutes.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $2,190 (singular); $790 (5-batched).

Recipe: $219; 27 days; defaults to Alchemy-8.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Potion of Pseudo-Invisibility, +680%; Extended Duration, 3x, -40%; Magical, -10%; Potion, -25%; Wears off gradually, +25%) [73]. Notes: «Potion of Pseudo-Invisibility» is Chameleon 5 (Can Carry Objects, Medium, +50%; Dispels after an attack, -20%; Dynamic, +40%; Magical, -10%) [40] + Silence 5 (Dispels after an attack, -20%; Dynamic, +40%; Magical, -10%) [28]. Extended Duration costs -40% because the Potion meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.