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Every comic's gotta offer more stuff than just the comic nowadays. Well, that's just fine and dandy! I tend to make up crazy stuff anyways. So without further adoooooooooooo...

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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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