A Journey and A Discovery – Rodyn Potion and Answers

A letter to Guildmaster Stark outlines the ingredients and process of the newly discovered Rodyn potion for magic items. In the following message, GM Viduus replies with some answers:

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Category: Towns
Topic: Icemule Trace

Date: 04/24/2018 08:42 PM CDT

From: OUTZENB1

Subj: A journey, and a discovery – the rodyn potion (IC and OOC)

Respected Guildmaster Stark,

It will please you to know that a number of citizens, at the insistence of the self-declared Queen Daukhera Darkflorr, have managed to exhume secrets from the long-lost alchemical past. An initial portion of this investigation took a number of them to Illistim to discover old fragments of information – and then a trip to River’s Rest to procure half of a recipe for an alchemical mixture. Last evening I was present in Zul Logoth whereupon the persons by the name of Enestine, Sabotage, Joskin, and Paugen managed to procure the other half from a local. A skilled alchemist by the name of Fleurs was also present to perform the actual preparation of the mixture; without his aid this discovery (or rather, re-discovery) would not be possible. I consider myself fortunate to have been present to assist in documenting the event.

Herein is the formula for the rodyn potion, as presented to me:

Add water
Add 2 doses of ground ayana leaf
Add 2 doses of essence of water
Chant Charge Item
Add faintly shimmering dust
Infuse mana
Add a faintly glowing core
Boil

(Ed. note: there may be a sealing step needed at the end of this; I will see what I can do to confirm.)

By now this discovery has already been disseminated to the other local alchemy-practicing guilds, although it is possible that the talents of a skilled Wizard may specifically be required; further experimentation may be necessary to confirm this. May the guild prosper with this knowledge!

Respectfully,

S.Y.

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OOC:

The potion will convert any magic item into mage rechargeable items for a small window of time (60 seconds). During this time a wizard may use an orb prepared with Charge Item to charge the item using the same rules that merchants use for charging items – meaning no chance of failure.

Also, a couple good questions Fleurs had:
1 – “The faintly glowing core doesn’t currently alchemy examine as being an alchemy reagent. Now that they’re actually used in recipes, if they could be updated, that would allow the alchemy/gem jars to recognize them for jarring and easier storage which would be great.”
2 – “Also, I’m curious if this temporary mage recharging status causes the item to degrade its maximum charge capacity, as the original announcement about merchant recharged items said. I wonder only because it says this potion functions under merchant recharging guidelines, so was just curious since it’s not a permanent mage rechargeable.”