3 Spring AV510 Morning
Zaital Consulting
Terminus had been thinking about what to do since Avi was gone to the Spires and Leo and Sondra seemed to be off doing that which they did best when times were slow. He had thought of practicing his Reimancy since his Earth skills still needed brushing up, but there was the risk of taking down the building. He couldn't firedance for the same reason and practicing hunting and tracking were best done outside with Avi,besides he loved riding the winds with her while following some game animal. Swordplay was something best done outdoors too, he knew he could work on his herb garden, but the thing he wanted most to do was Philter. He had access to a full lab, but he wasn't in need of one yet, what he needed was a kettle and alcohol and a fire as well as the ingredients he needed and a few other items to distill the elixir with.
The kettle was easy enough, they kept a large iron kettle right by the hearth that they did not cook in so he could make things in it you might not want next to your food. The fire was easy as he could start simple fires with a thought or a flint and steel depending on how much work he wanted to go to. He also assembled his distillery so that he could concentrate and and purify the elixir. Then it was off to gather the herbs and ingredients.
He thought to make a dose of his fire coloring philter since he was getting low. The coloration Philter required a full day of boiling and watching to produce the vial he needed he could produce two vials of the substance if he worked hard but his skills were lacking enough that tat number was pushing it for amounts.
The first thing he would need was the alcohol, they kept some of the pure stuff not fit for drinking in his workroom. he checked to see that he had the required amount and then it was off to the garden to get the living components. Then he would have to see if the inorganic components were still in stock.
He walked out into his well tended garden, it had only a fraction of the plants he would require and most of them required harvesting by special methods. Fortunately today he needed only a few. He walked among the rows trying to find something ordinary and the right color he needed. He found some indigo plants that he was growing that were just about the right stage of ripeness, the large leaves spreading to catch Syna's light. He took his scythe from his belt and chopped the plants at the base, it would take several plants to distill enough blue coloration for the philter to be effective. He filled a small basket with two or three plants and went on through the plant rows searching for his prize. It was a small black bush with purple berries, when these berries were juiced and added a specially prepared extract, it increased the flammability of the extract by four times. He added some fresh jasmine for odor since the philter had an obnoxious odor otherwise and headed back into the house.
The inorganic ingredients were the alcohol which he had already assembled, that would allow him to extract the juices of the plants by soaking and macerating the plants in it while heating. He would need a stabilizing agent to slow the reaction down and something to reduce the evaporation rate so that the elixir would not evaporate in the vial quickly.
The stabilizing agent was a white powder he picked up at the local apothecary, it was made of substances that slowed potentially volatile reactions down. The other agent was a liquid when added to the philter would keep it from evaporating. He really needed to get a recipe for both.