07-27-2016, 08:05 AM
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 Potions Final: Fifth - Seventh Years
It was 1:15, and Art was preparing for the last group to sit their final. Clearing up the desks, putting new ingredients and cards down etc. He opened the door and left it wide open, for the students who were about to take their final.
On each desk area is a Potions Card, which is flipped upside down. So no peeking! Up the front is an assortment of different ingredients. Even ingredients that aren’t even IN the potion you will be brewing. So… unfortunately, if you’ve not been studying your textbooks, you might pick up the wrong ingredient.
Art has expected you to bring your potion equipment, but if you haven’t, or if you’ve melted your cauldron during your study, there are some spares in the equipment cupboard. There’s no need to have your textbook, but there is a spare piece of parchment in front of each desk if you need to jot down notes to help.
As you walk into the classroom, Art is nodding and saying good morning to you all.
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As the clock ticked 1:30, Art closed the door and turned to all of the senior students. "Alright everyone, you may turn over your Potion Cards and get started. You have 90 minutes." And with that, Art clicked the timer on his desk which would alert the students to how much time they had to complete their potion, and sat behind his desk. SPOILER!!: Potion Card Elixir to Induce Euphoria Use/Effect
To induce happiness and excitement to the Drinker Ingredients- 2 cups water
- 12 drops fluxweed oil
- 1 vervain root, minced finely
- Inner membrane and fluid from 3 bloodroot stems
- 3 drams calendula pollen
- 1 dried asphodel root, crushed to a fine powder
- 1 Hyacinth flower, whole
- 1 lovage leaf (small)
- 1 bouncing bulb, shredded
- sprig of peppermint
- 2 tablespoons of slime from the belly of a live frog
- 1 dried billywig sting
- 1 alihotsy leaf
- 1 drop glumbumble fluid
- 3 drops infusion of wahoo bark
Procedure- Clean equipment
- Add water to cauldron and light a low flame
- Preparing an infusion of wahoo bark; shred one stem of bark and soak in one cup of cold water.
- Add 6 drops fluxweed oil to water
- Split the bloodroot stems lengthwise with your knives and scrape out all fluid and fibrous material from inside the stems.
- Crush with mortar and pestle into a fine paste and add to the cauldron.
- Stir slowly until a light steam rises from the cauldron, alternating clockwise and counterclockwise stirring
- Slowly introduce the calendula pollen into the potion, stirring clockwise.
- Crush the vervain root and add asphodel powder, adding the remaining 6 drops of fluxweed oil to form a thick paste. Add to the potion - you should see the color shift pink briefly.
- Add the Hyacinth and stop stirring, waiting until the mixture begins to boil.
- Drop in the lovage leaf; your potion will begin rapidly changing color.
- Leaving the potion to continue boiling, shred the bouncing bulb.
- Add the shredded bouncing bulb bits, stirring until dissolved.
- Your potion should still be shifting color and bubbling, and should occasionally have droplets bouncing up and down now.
- Add the peppermint, then cover your cauldron and turn off your flame. At this time, allow your potion to steep while you harvest the slime off the belly of the frog.
- Add 1 tablespoon of the frog slime, then stir three times clockwise. Add the billywig sting and the remainder of the slime.
- Add one whole alihotsy leaf and follow IMMEDIATELY with a drop of glumbumble fluid.
- Bring back up to a boil for 60 seconds
- Turn your flame back off and add three drops from the wahoo bark infusion to the potion as it cools.
- Your potion should be an iridescent concoction that shifts from one vibrant color to another and seems to be slowly bubbling even when cool.
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