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Double, double, toil and trouble...

Deciding to go with the weight loss potion, you turn to the entry. After gathering the ingredients listed, you look through the recipe itself. It turns out most of the ingredients need to be prepared in certain ways before being used, and added to the cauldron in specific order. You check through the instructions twice, then start making the potion.

Most of the instructions are easy to follow, as you find out; heat the cauldron to 77 degrees, add sulfur, stir twice. Pretty simple. Some of the steps are a little harder to follow, though. Step 12 tells you to "Crush the Blackroot with the blade of a silver knife, then add the juices to the potion, while stirring constantly." After several attempts, you discover that Blackroot is quite a stubborn plant; no matter how hard you whack it, it just won't break open. You decide to just crush it with a heavy object, which does the job wonderfully. Sure, it wasn't silver, but that probably doesn't matter anyway...

A short time later, you add the final ingredient and the potion erupts into a puff off smoke. You approach the smouldering cauldron and look inside, and find a mouthful of potion at the bottom. Well, the recipe did say one portion. You collect the dismal potion in a glass bottle, and...


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