I need a potion name

[Oni]

A grime covered old mason jar, that kind that your grandma probably used for canning, with labeling yellowed with age across which is written in faded handscrawled text....Devil's Revenge.

 

[Sialia]

Mmm . . . I'm looking for something a little more beguiling, odd, unexpected. As I said, the old mayo jar is acceptable, but dull.

Let's really break the idea of the potion bottle. All it has to be is a reasonably nonporous container of a reasonable size. There's lots of things in the world that fit that description.

For example--the following example isn't really suited to my scalding steam breath potion, but it's a sample of a non-potion bottle container, running free with the phrase "I'm a Little Teapot":


"There's a little teapot back here--one of those tiny oriental iron ones. With the matching lacquered tray, and some cups. And a tin with some, uh, I guess it's tea in it. Smells kind of funny, though."

"Bring it out here."

"Hmm. Ok. Hey look, there's ornate writing laquered into the tray."

"What does it say?

"I'm not sure. I think it's Chinese. Something about herbs? and youth, much youth . . . it's a vitality potion? No, I'm sorry, that's "young," not youth. Much young . . . a virility potion? "

"Let me see that. Yup--you must be right. 'Tea With A Thousand Young.' Maybe it's some kind of herbal Viagra."

"Right."

"So, what next?"

"I guess we boil some water."

 

[Gideon]

names and containers

Dr. Benson's overflowing camphoraceous extract of subliming.


You could present it in one of those classic coke bottles...the small 8 oz. ones with the tinted glass.

or

Because subliming is when a chemical goes straight from the solid phase to the gasous phase you could present it as a food or pill

so it could simply be a tablet

or mixed into a bowl of salsa

or in a form like a stick of gum or one of those listerene pocket packs

or could be wrapped like a a small piece of candy (you could mix the important components with cherry flavor and filling and make it a cough drop)

If you don't like food or drink, maybe an injection or inhaler

I'll try to come up with some more

 

[snarfoogle]

Green jello with grapes. It's so ****ing horrible. Stomach cramping... bile bubbling...

 

[Oni]

A plate of cookies with a little note that says eat me?

 

[Ryan Koppenhaver]

I'd serve it in a Klein Bottle, preferably the Top Mouth Erlenmeyer Flask version.

I'd label it with a manilla paper tag on a string, written in faded blue ink: "Dr. So-and-So's Effective Elixer of Expedited Effervescent Enhancement. (Patent Pending)" Added in pencil, below: "Batch #9b".

-Ryan

 

[Sialia]

ahh . . . now we're getting in to the ballpark.

keep it comin'

What I don't use for this one, I'll find another use for.

I could make up a whole batch of things . . .

maybe this isn't just a potion idea . . . maybe I'm working out a character concept . . . or a module . . . or an article . . or a supplement . . .

hmmmm.

send me more.

 

[Sialia]

The stick of gum thing is so very appealing, but it won't work for this particular time around--it will have to wait for it's very own project.


Assume the substance in this case is a thick liquid or semi-liquid, or a liquid with chunks in it (like salsa), and there is about a pint of it.

Ooh . . ooh . . how about one of those bubble teas with the big straws . . .?

 

[Oni]

One of those fancy booze bottles that people keep bourbon in and the like. Nothing says drink me like booze. No note or anything, but next to it is a used class with just the tiniest bit of the substance left in the bottom, implying that someone else drank it too. Of course you might want to make it obviously not booze, either by say colour or smell, don't want to be too tricksey. Maybe there could be some evidence around of damage from hot steam, like warping and bubbling of furniture, or a damaged painting over the container.

 

[BryonD]

A cigarette lighter with a little straw sticking out of the top