Potions FAQ

The Potions FAQ is a resource to detail exactly what effects certain potions have over time. Information regarding what potions can do will be placed here so we can build up a repository of information.

This page is open to community moderation and editing, but please do not post a potion effect until you have spoken to the potions team. Additionally, sometimes potion descriptions may need to be changed. These should be taken from the potion list.

If entering a new potion, include the admin you got the information from underneath the potion.

**Formatting Example**

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== Potion Name ==

'''Official Description'''

Description

'''Rules'''
* Information 1
* Information 2
* Information 3 ('''Source:''' Person B)

'''Source:''' Person A

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The bullet points beneath the official description describe certain effects, usage rules, and what you might expect from a potion.

In order to find potions on this page, you can use the table of contents (below) or use control-F to pull up the Find bar, then type in the name of the potion you're looking for, or words that might be found in the description.

## Antidote to Common Poisons

Potions and substances cured by the **Antidote to Common Poisons** include:

* Muggle poisons (arsenic, lead and other toxins)
* The poisons of common magical creatures
* Common poisonous magical ingredients
* Confusing Concoction
* Blinding Poison
* Overdoses on Herbicide Potion

## Antidote to Uncommon Poisons

**Potions and substances cured by the Antidote to Uncommon Poisons include:**

* The poisons of more exotic magical creatures
* Unusual and rare poisonous magical ingredients
* Angel's Trumpet Draught
* Moonseed Poison
* Dogbane Poison
* Bloodroot Poison
* Baneberry Poison

## Colo Tongue Potion

**Colo Tongue Potion Colour Guide**

* **Black:** Nothing, Fear, Angst, Serious, Stressed, Depressed or Intense
* **Yellow:** Anxious, Cool, Cautious, Distracted, Mellow, So-So
* **Orange:** Stressed, Nervous, Mixed, Confused, Upset, Challenged, Indignant
* **Green-Peridot:** Mixed Emotions, Restless, Irritated, Distressed, Worried, Hopeful
* **Green-Light Green:** Normal, Alert, No Great Stress, Sensitive, Jealous, Envious, Guarded
* **Blue-Green:** Upbeat, Pleased, Somewhat Relaxed, Motivated, Flirtatious
* **Blue:** Normal, Optimistic, Accepting, Calm, Peaceful, Pleasant
* **Indigo-Darker Blue:** Deeply Relaxed, Happy, Lovestruck, Bliss, Giving, Burning Desire to Pet a Cat
* **Violet-Burgundy:** Love, Romance, Amorous, Heat, Mischievous, Moody, Dreamer, Sensual
* **Pink:** Very Happy, Warm, Affectionate, Loving, Infatuated, Curious

## Forgetfulness Potion

**Forgetfulness Potion Instructions**

To determine whether or not you forget a piece of information or event while under the effects of the Forgetfulness Potion, add together your Wisdom stat and year dice size, and divide it by two. This is your target number.

Then, use `s!roll wisdom`. You may use the A or L modifiers on this roll if they are available.

If the result of your wisdom roll is **equal to or greater than** the target, you remember the information or event. If it is **less** than the target, you have forgotten it.

## Gender Affirmation Potion

**Gender Affirmation Potion Information**

* One brew equals 7 doses, each dose of which lasts 4 IC days (1 OOC day).
* Upon consumption, the potion changes the drinker’s primary sexual characteristics for the duration, and reproduction is possible if the ritual is completed, making the desired changes permanent.
* Secondary sexual characteristics can be altered as desired for each dose by adding certain ingredients corresponding to each characteristic: hair growth on the face, body fat distribution, voice pitch, etc. No other changes are permitted.
* Once a dose is consumed, one’s primary and secondary sexual characteristics cannot be changed unless another dose is taken, or if acted upon by a different shapeshifting spell or potion, such as Falsum Faciem or Polyjuice Potion.
* For more information on the permanency ritual, please use the `p!genderritual` command.

## Gender Affirmation Potion Permanent Ritual

**Gender Affirmation Potion Permanent Ritual**

The ritual to permanently change one’s primary and secondary sexual characteristics has been recorded as follows. The Gender Affirmation Potion must be taken once daily for the year preceding the ritual in order to take effect.

* Draw a circle in unworked earth, using naught but your own hands, in the darke of the new moon. It should be 2 cubits across, and even as can be.
* Next, using your hands as trowels, dig out the earth within the circle, to a depth of your littlest finger.
* Take the dirt and a vessel made of woode or stone, marked by no metal, and mix it withe water drawn from the spring melte.
* Mix the two, and paint thy skin with the paste. Only your eyes should showe.
* Walk the circle once, twice, thrice, each time stating who you are, and what you are. Repeat this five times, and on each third let a single drop of blood drop into the circle, welled by no tool of manufacture or malice.
* On the next dark moon, do the same again, water drawn from the same origin, but repeat your statements another set of fifteen times.
* On the moon after that, repeat the statements another set.
* Do this for eleven dark moons, each time increasing the count of the statement.
* On the twelfth dark moon, make your circle, and your paint. Once you are covered, step into the circle, sit, and ponder who you are.
* Once you are certain of who you are, walk to the river that your water is from, and bathe thyself.
* You shall find the body that you already knew you should have.

## Invisibility Potion

**Invisibility Potion Information**

An Invisibility Potion only begins working once it enter your bloodstream. It functions by projecting a field around the user's body and limbs, extending far enough that as long as their clothes are not very long or wide, they will also be hidden within the field. You do not need to get naked for an Invisibility Potion to work. (Unless you want to.)

## Love Potions

**Love Potion Rules**

Love potions are deeply controversial both IC and OOC. The following rules exist to make them possible on the model and **must be followed at all times**. Breaking them will lead to serious OOC consequences.

1. All participants in a scene or plot involving love potions must give their OOC permission. Most crucially, the drinker of the love potion and the imprinted target must both give OOC consent and must not be forced or pressured into doing so.
2. If anyone involved in the scene or plot becomes uncomfortable with the scene or the effects at any time, they may end and retcon the scene, regardless of any permission they had previously given.
3. Acts of physical intimacy, such as kissing, while under the influence of a love potion are considered sexual violence under the IC Server Ratings due to their non-consensual nature, and are hence **strictly forbidden**. This includes implying these acts occurred (e.g. using a "fade to black"), posting about it in #offscreen-scenes or #monologues, or stating as such in OOC discussion channels.

These rules also apply to other forms of mind-altering magic that can be used to induce false romantic attraction or activity. This includes, but is not limited to, the Infatuation Curse, the Imperius Curse, and the Confundus Charm.

**Love Potion Information**

There are four kinds of love potions: Infatuation Potion, Minor Love Potion, Love Potion and Amortentia.

Infatuation Potion, Minor Love Potion, and Love Potion may be resisted by `s!willpower` rolls equal or greater than the DC of the potion. Willpower rolls **will not work** against Amortentia. However, at their discretion, the drinker may roll `s!willpower` while under the influence of the potion to resist a command, suggestion or request by the imprinted target that would harm the drinker or go against everything they stand for. This works for all love potions including Amortentia.

Love Potion Antidote will cure all love potions, but requires a brew roll of 25 or higher to cure Amortentia.

**How to Imprint a Love Potion**

After creating the potion, or opening it if it was store-bought, you dip the tip of your (or someone else's) wand briefly in the concoction. This will cause the potion to imprint on the wand's owner, making them the target of affections for whoever drinks it.

## Polyjuice Potion

**Polyjuice Potion Information**

* Polyjuice takes two (2) OOC Weeks to brew.
* You may only have two (2) dosages of Polyjuice at any one time, so you **must** use any current dosages you have before you can finish brewing the potion.
* You can use hair, skin flakes, dandruff, nail clippings or eyelashes in Polyjuice to activate it.

**Rules**

1. Polyjuice lasts one (1) in model hour, which will be considered roughly half a day for this purpose.
	* Because of how RP scenes can be, you are allowed to stretch out a scene for longer than half a day, but keep in mind how much time your actions would take IC.
	* Staff may step in if they feel you are abusing the lengths of Polyjuice.
2. You **must** have OOC permission to impersonate someone with Polyjuice.
	* You can arrange with that person OOCly on how the material was acquired and whether or not you should roll for it.
	* You are to inform the person **exactly** what it is you plan on doing. Failure to do so could result in retconning of the scene.
	* The person has every right to stop someone from continuing, if they feel they stepped outside of the original agreement.
3. You are encouraged to change your icon and display name to match that of whose hair you took.
	* If you need to change your house colors, you may ping a Staff member and request the change, but let them know you are using Polyjuice to do it.
4. You may enter the person's common room while under the effects of Polyjuice.
5. You may Polyjuice a Professor, but the same OOC rules apply. **If** you impersonate a Professor, you will not gain access to the Restricted Section unless you pay for a visit.