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They're not gonna heal you of all your injuries, remove
poisons or increase your well-being, but I've got some recipies
for fake Ragnarok Online potions.
This hit me on the head while I was waiting
for SP to heal back in Closed Beta-2. I designed these to
simulate what a potion from RO would probably look like
in real life, so taste was a second priority - they're not
horrid in my opinion, though. Funky and potionlike, but
not horrid.
Anyway, I made a blue potion to test (then made other colors/flavors),
and I think I've got a believable formula, as well as some
ideas for variations.
Aragan's
Blue Potion Simulator
Ingredients:
Pepsi Code Blue soda
1 tblsp Half-and-half cream
1~2 tblsps Honey
15-20 drops of blue food coloring
(This is for a regular glass-sized
drink.)
You should probably pour the Pepsi Blue
into the glass first. If you pour the cream in and then
the Pepsi Blue, it'll make a hard foam that doesn't look
too potiony (in my opinion). Add the cream and honey after
that, and mix well - then add the blue food coloring, roughly
15 drops or so.
Why
use those ingredients?:
Code Blue Soda:
Well, it's blue, but it's not potiony enough to me. However,
it's fizzly, something that reminds me of potions... and
it has an odd taste.
Cream: This helps thicken the
potion some, and makes it less opaque (kind of like the
potions in the item description pic).
Honey: Same reasoning as the
cream, and also because RO honey restores both HP and SP.
Food coloring: This helps make
the concoction much more believable to me. With the amount
of drops I used, my potion mix was a pretty deep blue!
Other
Potions!
To make simulations of other potions, here's
what you should replace the Code Blue and food coloring
with:
Red Potion:
15-20 drops of red food coloring, Code Red soda
Orange Potion: 7~8 drops of
red and yellow food coloring each, your favorite orange
soda
Yellow Potion: 15-20 drops
of yellow food coloring, Mountain Dew
White Potion: No food coloring,
Sprite or 7-up
Green Potion: 10 drops of blue
and yellow food coloring each, Sprite or 7-up
Or, if you can find a good green-colored soda, use that
and 7~8 drops of blue and yellow food coloring each.
Alterations:
Lo-cal Potion:
I do realize that with the honey, cream and soda, these
potions are probably high in calories. For those watching
that kind of intake, consider replacing the soda with club
soda, and increasing the amount of food coloring you use.
It'll definitely have a different taste, but it'll have
much less calories. You can probably come up with alternate
ideas, too.
Crushed herbs:
I don't know how this would taste, but if you wanna try
it, consider mixing in crushed basil leaves to further emphasize
the idea that the potions are made from
herbs.
Enjoy your faked potions!
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