Alyssandra<br/><br/>Alyssandra swore softly in the still night.  Of course this would happen.  ‘This is why you always keep your stocks filled,’ she berated herself loudly, tramping through the small house she owned, looking for some hidden stash of herbs she may have forgotten about.  “Bloody ignorant peasants, waking me in the middle of the night for some plebian potion.  Potions!  What do they think I am?  I am a Philosopher, servant of Wise Athena, not some Heccabean hedge-witch!”  Muttering all the time, Alyssandra shifted through stack after stack of the unidentifiable junk that tended to accumulate in her house.<br/><br/>OOC: Roll against Scrounging at 15 At 2009-02-28 18:29:09, missbehaved (uid: 5242) rolls: 3d6 Result: 9 (http://elliquiy.com/diceserv/index.php?r=8548)  Success.<br/><br/>Pushing aside jumbles of maps and stacks of papyrus scroll full of arcane scribbling, Alyssandra uncovers a wicker basket of herbs she’d purchased last week.  Inside there was a large packet of Red Clover – one could never really have too much of this stuff – as well as smaller portions of the other two missing ingredients.<br/>She measured out the correct portions of the clover and nardus flowers and set them aside with the honeysuckle; these delicate ingredients would need to be added last.  The other ingredients would need to be prepared in some way first to bring out their full potential.<br/>Into a large iron pot of went the cherry and cinnamon barks and the tough roots, elecampane and lovage both.  The essences trapped within the bark would be released by Fire, and through Water infused within the soft-earth medium of the roots.  These softened and infused roots, after a night of boiling, would be mashed up and mixed with the ground cardamom seeds, wrapped in lemon leaves, and allowed to rise for half a day in the warm sun.  The packets of risen mash would then be transferred to a copper pot where it would be combined with the flowers and the strained bark water to boil for a full day.  The actual potion would then be strained, though a sheet of silk, from the thick mass that remained at the end of the boiling and mixed with fresh sheep’s milk for consistency.<br/>It was a long and complicated process, but it always brought in good money.  Alyssandra set the iron pot of bark and roots to heating and trudged heavily back to her bed.<br/><br/>OOC: Roll against Chemistry at 15 At 2009-02-28 19:10:46, missbehaved (uid: 5242) rolls: 3d6 DC: -15 Result: 9 (http://elliquiy.com/diceserv/index.php?r=8555)  Success.