Throwing Better Things - Part 1  

 

Throwing Better Things-
Part 1
by Jorlan Hegeway

My work on throwing unpleasant objects at my enemies has come along nicely. Hiloan has developed new containers for my concoctions. These new bottles are easy to throw and break more oten when they strike. You might want to talk to him or someone that can learn from him and stock up on those round ones with the finger grips on them.

These new bottles are just too brittle to use to mix the brew up, so you'll need to make the stuff in a standard vial and transfer it to a bottle. If you know how to pur a jug of wine you should be able to pour the concoctions into the new bottles without any trouble.

I told you before about how to use Flamewort, Acaana and Yellow Rheum as a baste for a nasty mixture that burns pretty fiercely. I figgured you'd find the other bases yerselves. I hope you've done the research to discover that Cicino, Belan, Berterine and Dinfuin will cause the mixture to work with different degrees of effectiveness. I'm going to refer to these sorts of items as activators because they are the active ingredient in the mixture.

Let's call the Flamewort, Acaana and Yellow Rheum base Flamebase for the sake of my poor writing hand. I'm going to call that set of activators Thermal Activators. Those activators will also work with Suranie, Seathorn and Yellow Rheum base (Coldbase). This base causes heat to be pulled from the area, making your target very cold

A lot of people have been bringing me stuff to try to mix with those bases. Most of them are crazy (old Dwarven socks will NOT make a good additive for a stink bomb - just throw the socks themselves!), but some have worked. They are finding things near my beloved Halas that I'd love to see myself, but I'm just too busy.

I guess it's obvious once you hear it, but adding the saliva from a drake will boost the Flamebase and Thermal Activators to give it an extra kick. Try the weaker saliva with Cicino and the more powerful stuff with Belan.

You can do the same thing with the Coldbase. Get some saliva from a basilisk and mix the base and Cincion and you'll find it gets a lot colder. And if you can find some saliva from a mature basilisk, mix it with the Belan and Coldbase and you'll like the results.

You might already know about the Angurth, Bitterwood, Yellow Rheum base (Slowbase, I suppose). It can be activated with Kaktu, Vinuth or Fangorth. Well, a Halfling brought me some of the silkworms thinking that I'd be interested in trying to make some sort of new silk. I wasn't. It turns out that if you mix them with the Slowbase and their activators it makes them more potent. I've found that you have to match the worm to the activator. The younger worms can't handle the stronger activators.

The Stunning Concoction, with the Arroweed, Angurth and Yellow Rheum base, needs the same activators as the Slowbase. I've also discovered that you can add poison from some weird looking drakes to the weakest of these to get a better reaction. For the Vinuth mixture, try adding some wood ash. For the Fangorth activated mixture, use some quicklime.