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===The Curing Potion=== | |||
In this step, players had to help Sophie create the antidote to Mr. Krawley's potion. Unlike creating the summoning potion, Sophie had to start from scratch. | |||
Players had to produce five different potions by creating increasingly complicated composites. Composites were made from raw ingredients that had been prepared by burning, crushing, soaking, and/or desiccating. Composites had four magical properties - Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, and Power. The four different preparations increased or decreased these properties, in different ways for different ingredients. An ingredient could be burnt for up to 30 seconds per gram, crushed for up to 60 seconds per gram, soaked for up to 90 seconds per gram, or desiccated for up to 120 seconds per gram. Any more than this wouldn't be able to change the magical property levels any further. | |||
When the player produced a composite, it changed colour depending on which was its highest property. If it had two properties within ten points of each other, it showed a combination of those colours. The player could also see the exact numbers for each property each composite they made had. | |||
For each potion, players were tasked with producing a composite with a specific property value, random for each player. | |||
====First potion==== | |||
For the first potion, the player needed to produce 5 grams of a composite with one of the basic properties (chosen at random) between +50 and +70 (chosen at random), with a margin of 5 points. They had the first three ingredients to work with, Bumroot, Leafy Slorgblossom, and Bagguss Pulp. This could be achieved by using one of the ingredients, but the player would have to use more than one operation on it. | |||
Without Bruno to test the potion on, Sophie tested it on her [[Petpet]] [[Meowclops]] instead, | |||
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Sophie noted, "The smell of burning Meowclops hair is to be avoided at all costs." | |||
====Second potion==== | |||
For the second potion, the player needed to produce two composites with two different values. The first composite had to be between 15 and 20 grams, with a magical property (chosen at random) between +40 and +45 5 points. The second composite had to have a value of between +80 and +90, 5 points. The player needed exactly 25 grams of the second composite, but couldn't use more than 10 grams of any one ingredient in it - due to a bug, this requirement wasn't actually checked. | |||
The player had a fourth ingredient to work with, Sharpgrass. | |||
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Sophie admonished her Meowclops for fighting with its [[Bearog]] head. | |||
====Third potion==== | |||
For the third potion, players had two more ingredients to work with, Bloodfern Loam and Crushed Jurpleberries. They had to produce two composites, one of which had to have two properties (chosen at random) somewhere between 78 and 83 3. They needed 12 grams of this composite, containing no more than 3 grams of any one ingredient. | |||
The other composite the player needed was a special composite called Spectral Essence. Sophie eventually remembered that it was made from Bloodfern Loam and Leafy Slorgblossom, but couldn't remember which property it needed. In fact, any composite that combined at least one gram each of Bloodfern Loam and Leafy Slorgblossom, with a Power property of at least +350 would become Spectral Essence. | |||
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'Dr. Meowsloth' complained, "You fool! You'll pay for this treachery! I, Dr. Sloth, will bring your ruin down upon you!" | |||
====Fourth potion==== | |||
For this potion, the player could also work with Babaa Wool and Bronze Sansam. They had to create 12 grams of a composite with one property (chosen at random) between +65 and +75 2 and another property between +100 and +105 2. This composite couldn't contain more than 3 grams of any one ingredient. | |||
The other two composites they had to produce were special composites. They had to produce another 10 grams of Spectral Essence, but had to prepare it so that it also had a Conjuration property of +275 1. The third composite was 10 grams of Anti-Gravitic Goo, and was made from Bagguss Pulp, Crushed Jurpleberries, and Babaa Wool. It required Conjuration and Diviniation properties of +200 or more, and no one ingredient could constitute more than 40% of the Goo by mass. | |||
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This [[wikipedia:cubist|cubist]] Meowclops couldn't even mew correctly - it said "Emw" instead. | |||
====Fifth potion==== | |||
For the final potion, the player had access to Madvine Root and Nova Essence. | |||
For this potion, the player needed to produce three composites again. They needed to produce 5 grams of a composite with two properties at +300 1, containing no more than 1 gram of each ingredient. They also had to produce another 10 grams of Anti-Gravitic Goo, with Enchantment at -406 1 and Power at +151 1. The final composite they had to produce was 10 grams of either Platinum Mist, Ice Plasma, or Psionic Singularity. Which one they needed was chosen at random. | |||
Platinum Mist was made from twice as much Bronze Sansam as Sharpgrass, along with Madvine Root. All four magical properties needed to be +300 or more. Ice Plasma needed exactly one gram of Nova Essence mixed with Bumroot and Sharpgrass. Two of its properties had to have negative values, and the other two positive or 0 values. Psionic Singularity was made from four times as much Madvine Root as Nova Essence. To make it, any action had to be performed on either one (but not the other) of the ingredients for one second per gram. Sophie gave hints to help the player figure out what to combine for this composite. | |||
This was Sophie's last try at making the cure. "If this one's not safe, then I don't know what I'll do..." | |||
==Prizes== | ==Prizes== | ||