herblore.txt

                                   HERBLORES

### Important! You CAN NOT mix herblore if you have not obtained special book/
### etc writing from the certain mob, even if you already know all components
### needed for lore. If you try it, you will always produce "unknown mishmash"
### instead of lore. But even if you have lore in your list (use "herblores"
### command while having herbal kit in equipment), you can fail attempt to make
### lore if you have low WIS. It is why for warrior/thief it's better to give
### lores/components to a friend caster to mix the lore.



                                   Antidote
  Description:
Poison is often deadly, and requires immediate action.Nature has provided us
with certain herbs to defend ourselves from this vicious danger, if we know how
to use them. Unfortunately, any remedy we hope to make will be very complex. The
simplest, and most effective, is outlined below.

First, a base is made with two handfuls of blackberries, because of their
healthy juice. Water lily petals, to purify the blood, and figwort, to purge the
stomach, make that a thick paste. Finally the healing properties of the
kingsfoil make it really efficient.

This mixture will not only cure most of the poisons that can be find in plants
and water, but as well purge your body from the somewhat annoying effects of any
potions.

  How to obtain:
You must kill the Chief of the Hillmen Village to obtain thin parchment. Sometimes
loads on assassin in tangle near Wight Captain.

  Effects:
Cures amibia, poison, venom, alathen, aganar, minuial, firndal, psylonia,
and arachnia.

  Ingredients:
2 x blackberries, water-lily petals, figwort and athelas.

  Product:
Brown bottle - lasts 6 mume days (2 hours 24 minutes rl) if created by player, 
like 3 mume days (1 hour 12 minutes rl) otherwise - if gotten from epriest, 
hillmen chief or from BM chest.



                                    Leaf-Cake
  Description:
It is about a herb that you call coneflower. The Entwives first cultivated it for
its beautiful bright purple-red colour but later on, men told us that in combination
with what you call honey, thyme, and sage it can cure the most common illness of Men 
and such illprompt races.

  How to obtain:
Fangorn leaf-cake quest (see Quests)

  Effects:
Cures flu.

  Ingredients:
coneflower, thyme, sage, honeycomb

  Product:
Leaf-cake.


                                    Baker
  Description:
To make bannocks light and brown all is needed is one pound of flour, three
eggs, and the sweet golden treasure of a freshly crushed honeycomb. Mix the
flour and the eggs in a large dish. When this has been transformed into a
homogenous mixture, crush the honeycomb and add it in the paste. Mix it
carefully. If the paste is too thick, you may have to add a small quantity of
water or milk. Make then small round dough and use all your talents to cook it
in a pan. This will give you enough bannocks for a week. Serve them with a cup
of tea, beautiful cramsome bread and rich free butter.

  How to obtain:
Solve lonely giant's quest (see Quests).

  Effects:
Fills your stomach.

  Ingredients:
sack of flour, 3 x egg, honeycomb (must be crushed).

  Product:
Delicious bannock - lighter than lembas wafers, last forever.



                                 Clear-thoughts
  Description:
To create this wizard's brew, you must obtain juniper berries for promotion of
higher thought. Mix these with the mystical mauve petals, to boost creativity,
and sage to clear the mind. Finally, some thyme is needed to aid the memory.
This brew will give the mage more energy, and replenish his energy at a faster
rate. However, when the beneficial effects expire, he will be mentally exhausted.

  How to obtain:
The Evil Bloodwight have sometimes a bound sheaf of papers on which this lore is
written down. The papers are very rare.

  Effects:
Mana +15 and mana regeneration +15 for 2 hours.
After that, mana +7 and mana regeneration +7 for 4 hours.
After that, mana -5 and mana regeneration -3 for 6 hours.

  Ingredients:
juniper berries, mauve petals, sage leaves and thyme leaves.

  Product:
Pungent brew - lasts 12 ticks.



                                 Orkish draught
  Description:
Any snaga who wants to raid the western plains and rid them of pansy elves
will need some extra stamina from time to time. The draught described below
is really what you need in these cases.
Begin by getting some blood. Elf blood gives the mixture a better flavour,
but if that's not available the blood of any creature will do. Just make sure
someone mixes in it some preserving herb, or your brew will quickly spoil.
Dissolve in it the preserved blood the tail of a salamander and some bat
fur, to give strength to your paces, and some tarragon leaves - they are
narrow and smell of licorice. Shake well and gulp it down when needed.

  How to obtain:
Bring some nice jewel to Gruksh the Butcher in NOC. Opal, ruby and emerald works.

  Effects:
Transfers 10 hps to 30 mps. When non-orc/non-troll quaffs it he can get poison
too.

  Ingredients:
tarragon leaves, salamander tail, bat fur, vial of preserved blood.

  Product:
Flask of orkish draught.



                                     Seeing
  Description:
In the wild strange plants with strange properties can be found. One of the
strangest is the phosphorescent moss which covers the walls of a few humid
caves. It is believed that this light is emitted by a fungus which lives in
symbiosis with the moss. What matters is the possibility to use it to prepare a
draught which gives a limited vision in the night. The base of this concoction
is the brown powder of a cinnamon stalk. In it add a handfull of rosemary leaves,
to make mind more attentive. In this dry mixture put shreds of humidified
phosphorescent moss, and mix carefully the whole, until you get a phosphorescent
liquid. When quaffing it, you will feel more able to perceive your environment,
specially during in the darkness, thanks to the moss. A side effect of its
activity, as it draws its energy from your body, is to weaken you for a while.
The whole lasts for several days.

  How to obtain:
The seeing herblore can be learned from a book carried by the witch south-east from Fornost.

  Effects:
Night vision.
Perception +3 and constitution -1 for 10 hours.
After that, perception +2 and constitution -1 for 15 hours.
After that, perception +1 for 40 hours.

  Ingredients:
bag of cinnamon, rosemary leaves and phosphorescent moss.

  Product:
Phosphorescent bottle - lasts like 1 rl day.



                                    Shadows
  Description:
In parallel to our world is the world of the Shadows,where undead and lost souls
walk. Potent magic can create gates to this world, and Sauron the Necromancer has
servants who live on the edge of the two worlds. Other undeadcreatures, such as
the skeletons animated by foul magic, live also on this edge and theirbones an
be used as key for the Shadows world. To concentrate the potency of these bones,
you need to make a base with the powderof a cinnamon stalk, mixed with a few
rosemary leaves which make the mind more receptive. Take then the dried rib bone
of a formerly undead corpse, break it in small pieces, and add it in the
crucible. Crush carefully the three ingredients with a mortar of whitemarble,
until an homogenous powder is obtained. Once slipped in a bottle of water, you
will have a potion which will give you access to the shadow world for four nights.

  How to obtain:
The secret of the Shadow lore is written in a book held by a spirit in "The
Small Library" in the spirit castle on the Road to Fornost. The book loads rarely.

  Effects:
Shroud.
Perception -3 and willpower -1 for 10 hours.
After that, defensive bonus +2 and perception -2 for 60 hours.
After that, defensive bonus +1 and perception -1 for 30 hours.

  Ingredients:
bag of cinnamon, rosemary leaves and rib-bone.

  Product:
Sombre bottle - lasts like 1 rl day.



                             Skillful-oil
  Description:
This oil, when made, will make the drinker limber and energetic, in combat he or
she will be more able than normal. The base for this recipe is a tincture of oil.
Add paprika for stimulation of the muscles, and rose petals to warm them. A
vanilla bean will cause the blood to circulate more quickly, and two parts of
rosemary will quicken the mind and speed up reactions. The user must be warned;
after the exertion, his muscles will be tired and stiff for several hours.

  How to obtain:
Erestor will teach this lore to anyone who brings him a evil artifact weapon
(HBM, ElfHewer, Morgul Blade, HFS, Black Many-tailed Whip)

  Effects:
Offensive bonus +5 and defensive bonus +5 for 8 hours.
After that, offensive bonus -5 and defensive bonus -10 for 4 hours.

  Ingredients:
tincture of oil, paprika, rose petals, vanilla bean, 2 x rosemary leaves.

  Product:
Vial of scented oil.



                               Soothing-draught
  Description:
In the art of making a soothing draught, one must first make a base of honey.
Often honey comes in the form of honey-combs, which must first be broken up into
a thick pulp. Into that you must mix sage, for healing of the wound, and thyme
to prevent the infection and partially numb the pain. Next, add a handful of
blackcurrant so that the reagants can act together, and finally add the petals
of a water lily, so that the blood may be purified and the wound may close. When
this draught is swallowed, for a while the recipient will experience a healing
effect, and his wounds will heal up. The fight against the infection will induce
a spiritual weakness for a short duration.

  How to obtain:
Complete the quest given by Nordri in BlueMountains. To get quest first ask
Nordri about "herblore", then after he will say "blah blah price." say "price?"
and then nod Nordri when he will ask if you agree.

  Effects:
Hit point regeneration +15 and constitution +2 for 4 hours.
After that, hit point regeneration +5 and dexterity -2 for 5 hours.

  Ingredients:
honeycomb, sage leaves, thyme leaves, blackcurrant berries and water-lily petals.

  Product:
Herbal draught - lasts 2 MUME weeks (5 hours 36 minutes rl time).



                                  Travelling
  Description:
One who chooses to travel is greatly aided by this brew. It adds endurance to
the muscles, and speed to the legs. For all of the walkable daylight, the
imbiber will be able to travel farther and gain more benefit from rest. This
simple concoction is made by mixing in tarragon leaves, to give spring to the
step, ginseng root, to give energy to the muscles, and clover, to aid the blood
in its travels.

  How to obtain:
Solve Dunadan Ranger's quest (see Quests).

  Effects:
Movement point regeneration +10 and movement points +10 for 120 hours.
After that, movement point regeneration +7 and movement points +7 for 24 hours.
After that, movement point regeneration +3 and movement points +3 for 24 hours.

  Ingredients:
tarragon leaves, ginseng root and clover.

  Product:
Mug of brew.



                                    Walking
  Description:
One who chooses to walk between the towns of Eriador is greatly aided by this
draught. It adds endurance to the muscles and speeds the legs, for the small
cost of some loss in concentration and adress. To prepare this brew mix a
handfull of tonifiant juniper berries with some clover as a base. Add a few
crushed leaves of marjoram and freshly bought cloves, to clean the blood of its
toxines and stop cramps.

  How to obtain:
Complete the quest given by Aldereon the ancient Noldo northwest of Greenholm.

  Effects:
Movement point regeneration +10 and willpower -3 for 24 hours.
After that, movement point regeneration +5 and willpower -1 for 120 hours.
After that, movement point regeneration +3 and willpower -1 for 24 hours.

  Ingredients:
clover, juniper berries, marjoram leaves and cloves.

  Product:
Bowl of brew - lasts 12 ticks.




                                    POISONS

  All poisons decay in like 1 hour rl, also the more time passed since you
create it, the less powerful it is.


                                   Arachnia
  Description:
Among the beasts of our lands, the spiders are the most feared, mostly because
they sting their victim and inject a poison which slows their moves and their
brain. Thanks to a careful study of the grey spider anatomia, we have been able
to use the venom sack of this beast to produce a terribly dangerous poison. In a
bowl, crush the tail of a young salamander into a shapeless pulp. Add the fur of
a bat to stabilize the components, and, most important, the fluid sack of a grey
spider. The sack must have been butchered recently from the monster, and kept in
a wet sack during its transport. Mix the three ingredients until a brownish
liquid is obtained.

  How to obtain:
Loads as a crumpled scroll on the dwarf at Top of Moria walls for instance. It
loads rarely.

  Effects:
It contains oil, poisoned with level 22 arachnia that would last for 1 hour.

  Ingredients:
salamander tail, bat fur and grey fluid-sack (from a Grey spider).

  Product:
Dirty reddish vial.



                                  Belladonna
  Description:
The plants of the wilderness have a large spectrum of applications. Those who
know the use of three natural ingredients can produce a mild poison. Crush
carefully the tongue of a frog in a vial, as base for your concoction. Get a
freshly recolted Belladonna, the plant known for its dangerous properties. Use
the fruits or the leaves of the plant, for it is where its essence is mostly
concentrated. Add then a red mushroom, the sort which gives headache and
dizziness when eaten. Mix the reagents and seal the liquid in a vial. That
draught will weaken your opponent, who will lose an important part of his
skills. It can of course be used to poison your arrows or your blade.

  How to obtain:
The assassin mentioned before, who have sometimes venom lore have almost always
a dirty note, that carries the lore of a belladonna poison. Also one brigand
have sometimes such dirty note as well, who is located all east and then south
(hills, altar, coffin, crack) from Greenholm junction.

  Effects:
It contains oil, poisoned with level 6 poison that would last for 4 hours. 
(Decreases some hp/mana/move regen.)

  Ingredients:
tongue of a frog, belladonna berries and a red mushroom.

  Product:
Dark violet vial.



                                 Drake-slumber
  Description:
This is the recipe of a brew which should be able to debilitate even a very
powerful beast - one which would not succumb to ordinary magic or weaker potions
and poisons.

  The sticky pulp of a fresh milkweed plant will make a ready base for the
draught. All parts of thisplant cause weakness and staggering, then prostration,
laboured breathing and a profound sleep. This should serve to slow and weaken
the creature, despite its strength and size. To the base add some valerian root
and the flowers of the mountain poppy - these herbs act to tranquilise and to
alter the workings of the mind. They also inhibit aggression, which will be most
important in controlling the beast.

  Leaves, flowers and fruit of the hemlock plant will weaken the animal, slowing
its heart and suppressing its breathing. A single fly agaric mushroom is also
needed - the flesh of this bright red fungus is said to bring on dizziness and a
lack of coordination, followed by a deep sleep.

  To complete the brew one white fruit of the baneberry plant is needed. This
strong poison will weaken the creature, and should further assist in bringing
about dizziness and poor flow of the blood.

  How to obtain:
Below the temple of the evil priest behind the magically blocked door in a large
chamber stand two stone guardians. One of them have an alchemical journal, that
contains the secret of this mixture. No idea about how often it does load...

  Effects:
This poison is exception of all poisons: it is not supposed to be used vs
player, but very important for doing scaly beast under LB fortress/epriest.
When thrown towards beast, it devours it and gets weakened -> will not use his
attack that starts delayed-dt mudlle in the room (Beast slaps tail ..., then
leaves, then with delay tunnel colapses).

  Ingredients:
milkweed mass, valerian root, poppy, hemlock plant, red mushroom, baneberries.

  Product:
Glass flask - lasts not less than 20 mins.



                                    Hemlock
  Description:
The plants of the wilderness have a large spectrum of applications. Those who
know the use of the herbs can produce a whole set of curing concoctions, and of
deadly mixtures also. This is the formula for one of the worst. Carefully crush
the tongue of an old frog as base of your preparation. Take the leaves, the
stem and the fruits of a hemlock and add them. Add then a handful of inkberries
from Hollin. Mix carefully and seal it in a vial. That draught will weaken all
the abilities of the person drinking it, and can successfully be poured over
your blade to poison your opponents.

  How to obtain:
Loot dirty formula from Wuda the Dunlending Chief, formula is rare though.

  Effects:
Gives -1 str, -1 dex, -1 con, also eats some hps/mana/moves on tick.

  Ingredients:
tongue of a frog, hemlock plant and inkberries.

  Product:
Green stinking vial.



                                   Psylonia
  Description:
Anyone who ate the wrong mushroom knows that the effects of mushroom intoxication
can be really surprising. Headache, dizziness, hallucinations are some of the
possible symptoms. Some people, like the inhabitants of the remote land known as
Yuka Taan, south of Harad, use mushrooms as a drug. Others have found a more
warlike usage. The orcs of the east know many preparations based on mushrooms.
One of the most efficient, a poison which does not kill the victims, but drains
them and stop their concentration, is described here.

  The base is made by a handful of inkberries from Hollin. A red mushroom is
crushed with the berries, to thicken the paste. The third ingredient is the most
important: the rare, sickly green, mushroom. It must be added before the
concoction is mixed. Few people have ever found this mushroom: it is rumoured to
grow in humid caves or in the darkest forests of the land.

  How to obtain:
The lore of Psylonia written on a crumpled paper can be found at the goblin
shaman in the Goblins Caves in the northern Misty Mountains. These papers are
VERY rare. In the secret in same caves loads mushroom that needed for this lore.

  Effects:
When smeared on your weapon or to your arrows with the envenom skill you have
the potential to affect your victims with the dreaded Psylonia poison. This
poison does not kill the victims, but stops their manaregen and greately eats
their mana.

  Ingredients:
inkberries, red mushroom and sickly green mushroom.

  Product:
Mildew covered vial.



                                     Venom
  Description:
Extremly lethal poisons can be prepared with natural ingredients found in the
wilderness. The following recipe uses the venom sack of the feared rattlesnake.
Make a base with the tail of an adult salamander. Add a freshly butchered bat
fur, to thicken the paste, and the small venom sack of a rattlesnake. The
resulting liquid will kill a cow in a few minutes, and even the strongest
fighter will risk death in a few hours.

  How to obtain:
North from windswept grounds and before Mormaeg's lair lurks a suspicious
Assassin that carries the knowledge of the Venom lore inscribed on a small
plaque made of clay. This plaque is very rare (he have often too dirty note that
carries belladonna poisons lore). Master Assassin loads it sometimes too.

  Effects:
It contains oil, poisoned with level 20 venom that would last for 3 hours.

  Ingredients:
salamander tail, bat fur and small fluid-sack (from a rattlesnake).

  Product:
Fetid green vial.