Alchemy: Dark Alchemy III

Alchemy: Dark Alchemy III

And here we have the last three unconverted elixirs. Everything else is done, unless a supplement with additional alchemical elixirs will be released before this post goes up.

  

Ointment of Rapid Decay

This elixir magically accelerates natural post-mortem decay 60 times faster. This means that within a mere two minutes, pallor sets in. In 12 minutes, rigor mortis begins. Within 18 minutes, the corpse cools to room temperature. Within half an hour, rigor mortis ends and the body bloats and starts to rot (becoming attractive to scavengers, insects, etc.), or it mummifies if kept cool and dry, the process completing itself within a few hours. If the ointment is applied to a zombie, it transforms the creature into a skeleton over a period of 1d hours, gradually enough so as not to inflict extra damage aside from the loss of HP due to the difference between the zombie and skeleton templates.

Duration: Permanent.

Form: Ointment.

Cost: $330 (singular); $120 (5-batched).

Recipe: $33; 1 day; defaults to Alchemy (Dark)-2.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Accessibility, Only on corpses, -40%; Disadvantage, Self-Destruct, Variant, +10%; Extended Duration, Permanent, +90%; Magical, -10%; Ointment, -45%) [11]. Notes: Extended Duration costs only 90%, because the Ointment meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.

Potion of Nightmare Extraction

This elixir may be taken by anyone who suffers from the Nightmares disadvantage. It suppresses the disadvantage for a week, but each night, the sleeper’s nightmare takes physical form, with terrible people, monsters, or things from his dreams manifesting as demonic nightmare avatars (Pyramid #3-91, page 20) who exist within the real world and prey upon people other than the originating dreamer. The avatar may be the same entity or different entities depending on whether the nightmares are varied or recurring. Regardless, the point cost of the avatar cannot be higher than 150% of the dreamer’s point cost. The avatar will appear within 100 yards of the dreamer. Nightmare avatars are uniquely vulnerable to their dreamer, who is the entity that created them – however, as the original person must face their innermost fears, a confrontation should always involve overcoming a Fright Check!

Duration: 1 week.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $840 (singular); $305 (5-batched).

Recipe: $84; 4 days; defaults to Alchemy (Dark)-3.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Disadvantage, Enemy (Nightmare Avatar; 150% point cost; Unknown; Hunter, Variant, x1), +25%; Extended Duration, 3,000x, +80%; Magical, -10%; Negated Disadvantage, Nightmares, Any Self-Control, +125%; Potion, -25%) [28]. Notes: Extended Duration costs only 80%, because the Potion meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.

Potion of Zombification

Someone who takes this elixir up to an hour prior to their death will reanimate as a zombie 1d seconds after they are killed, much as if they had been raised by a Zombie spell (GURPS Magic, p. 151). Alternatively, the potion can be poured over a corpse, or into the earth of an open grave, and an hour later, the corpse reanimates and rises up (or claws itself free of the grave) as a zombie. In either case, the corpse must meet the usual criteria for a zombie; the person’s body can’t be totally destroyed.

The zombie created by this potion is under the control of the potion’s maker, if he has spare points to buy the appropriate Ally advantage.

Duration: 1 hour. Zombies are Truly Permanent.

Form: Potion.

Cost: $1,620 (singular); $585 (5-batched).

Recipe: $162; 15 days; defaults to Alchemy (Dark)-6.

Statistics: Affliction 1 (HT; Advantage, Potion of Zombification, +140%; Cosmic, Works on the dead, +100%; Extended Duration, Truly Permanent, +240%; Magical, -10%; Nuisance Effect, Requires death in 1 hour, -10%; Potion, -25%) [54]. Notes: “Potion of Zombification” is Alternate Form (Zombie; Magical, -10%) [14]. Extended Duration costs only 240%, because the Potion meta-enhancement already includes Extended Duration, 30x, +60%.