Potion of decay
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| Type | Potion |
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| Name | Potion of decay |
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| A vile and putrid cursed liquid which causes your flesh to decay before your very eyes. |
Quaffing a potion of decay will make living characters rot, losing 1d10+9 max HP over time unless you quaff a potion of curing or potion of heal wounds, which stops further loss but doesn't heal the damage already taken. Drinking further heal potions while fully healed will gradually restore the lost max HP. Undead characters are unaffected.
The only use for potions of decay is to cast Evaporate on them. Doing so creates a powerful cloud of miasma, rotting, slowing and poisoning the targets. These potions are rarely generated naturally, but can be made in the following ways:
- Casting Fulsome Distillation on any rot-inducing corpse or some contaminated corpses (ogres and other large monsters)
- A high-powered Curse card may convert your potions into potions of decay.
Normal: "You feel your flesh start to rot away!"
While Rotting: "You feel your flesh rotting away!"
Undead: "You feel terrible."
History
The following methods for generating potions of decay have been removed in recent versions:
- Mummy death curses could convert other potions
- Casting Sublimation of Blood on a potion of blood created one
