Fulsome Distillation

Obsolete: This article refers to an aspect of the game which has been removed. It is retained for historical reference only.

Fulsome Distillation
Level	1
School1	Transmutation
School2	Necromancy
Source(s)	Book of Chemistry Book of Stalking
Casting noise	1
Spell noise	0

This spell extracts the vile and poisonous essences from a corpse. You probably don't want to drink the results. The type of the potion produced corresponds roughly to the effects of eating said corpse.

Fulsome Distillation extracts essences from a corpse into a potion. The potions produced are mostly used as ammunition for Evaporate. The potions produced will be identified if necessary.

Corpse	Potion
Yellow wasp	Slowing
Red wasp	Paralysis
Clean	Water
Contaminated	Confusion
Poisonous	Poison
Mutagenic	Mutation
Rot-Inducing	Decay

Additionally, monsters with sufficiently strong poison attacks (such as water moccasins or scorpions) will give potions of strong poison, while contaminated corpses which weigh 90.0 aum or greater (includes large monsters like ogres, giants, sharks, etc.) will give potions of degeneration. Corpses which are both contaminated and poisonous will give potions of poison regardless of size.

The spell will fail if you are levitating over a corpse without controlled flight ("You can't reach the corpse!").

Warning! Casting this spell on an orc corpse is considered desecration, which may cause problems if you are a Beoghite!

Tips and Tricks

• You will rapidly accumulate far more potions than you can carry. Stash most of them, carrying 3-5 of each type you want. Note that almost nothing will pick up these "bad" potions, so you can usually just leave them around the level. (Jellies notwithstanding!)
• Note that swamp drakes and swamp dragons just give ordinary poison. So do green rats or kobolds, and those come in swarms.
• Necrophages and vampire mosquitos both give the powerful potion of decay.
• Spriggans might consider distilling potions of water for nutrition.
• If you like mutation roulette, sky beasts, ugly things, and shapeshifters can give you all the potions of mutation you want.
• The corpses that yield confusion potions are common early, but thin out rapidly later. One response is to learn Mephitic Cloud as well. Despite the apparent redundancy, this will relieve you of carrying a big stack of potions for your most popular cloud.

Warning

Think thrice before worshipping Fedhas: Bottling up a corpse will place you under penance...

History

This spell was removed in 0.12. In earlier versions, potions produced also depended on spell power and whether or not the corpse was rotten: rotten corpses produced 'better' potions (e.g. decay instead of confusion), while all potions had a chance to be downgraded at low spell power.