@LadyRenee (wasn't sure whether to ping you or not)
Username: HuskyLove
Category: Test #2: Vile Bolt
Potion here:
Instructions and notes:
1. Obtain a contuse battle stone and place it in an empty cauldron. It is extremely difficult to create raw power alchemically, so we will be using the contuse as a base for the rest of our procedures.
2. Carefully place some greater leeches into the cauldron. (Note: You may ask, "Gee, why can't we use normal leeches?" Well, for a very simple reason. Greater leeches are greater.)
3. Pour in a single vial of minor health potion. This will allow the leeches to leech the power out of the contuse.
4. The now powerless contuse should resemble a rock. Using long handled prongs, remove this rock. Now, for the messy part. Put on some protective eyewear. (The pink is my personal favorite.) Grab your kamaitachi blades and begin to slowly slit open the leeches. (It is perfectly acceptable to have your less squeamish cauldron partner perform this procedure.) The power should slowly ooze out of them and you should have a cauldron with gleaming silvery liquid at the bottom. (Ignore the decapitated leeches floating in this substance: they will not affect the outcome of your potion.)
5. Add one red ooze, one green ooze, and one grey slime. These can easily be substituted for sludges and goos of the same color, and other slimes or silver muck. (However, the ooze and slime will create the best sparkly effect trailing out of the back of the bolt.) In fact, you can skip this step if you do not have the materials required. (But then you wouldn't have sparkly stuff! GLITTER!) Throw in five haunted stone orbs, shattering them against the cauldron. (If you do not add these orbs, you will get a singing dancing skeleton. This is not good.)
6. Dump in one cup of each of the following: squirrel skulls, chimera fangs, bone fragments, sparrow skulls, fragile antlers, and hardy antlers. This will create the bone structure for the bolt.
7. Brew on medium heat for five hours. It should bubble slightly. If it begins to bubble over, grind up a handful of mirage puffer spines. Add pinches of this powder to the cauldron, and it should shrink back. (I speak from personal experience, WEAR GLOVES WHEN HANDLING THIS STUFF.)
8. After about four and a half hours, watch the pot closely. It should be emitting a shimmering red smoke, and a single eye will appear on the surface when it is ready. Add another vial of minor health potion and your bolt should rise from the surface of the cauldron. (If two eyes appear, throw in the rest of the mirage puffer spines and run immediately. Your bolt is not happy. However, make sure that the two eyes are not your reflection, or else Professor Severus will be EXTREMELY displeased.)
Username: HuskyLove
Category: Test #2: Vile Bolt
Potion here:
Instructions and notes:
1. Obtain a contuse battle stone and place it in an empty cauldron. It is extremely difficult to create raw power alchemically, so we will be using the contuse as a base for the rest of our procedures.
2. Carefully place some greater leeches into the cauldron. (Note: You may ask, "Gee, why can't we use normal leeches?" Well, for a very simple reason. Greater leeches are greater.)
3. Pour in a single vial of minor health potion. This will allow the leeches to leech the power out of the contuse.
4. The now powerless contuse should resemble a rock. Using long handled prongs, remove this rock. Now, for the messy part. Put on some protective eyewear. (The pink is my personal favorite.) Grab your kamaitachi blades and begin to slowly slit open the leeches. (It is perfectly acceptable to have your less squeamish cauldron partner perform this procedure.) The power should slowly ooze out of them and you should have a cauldron with gleaming silvery liquid at the bottom. (Ignore the decapitated leeches floating in this substance: they will not affect the outcome of your potion.)
5. Add one red ooze, one green ooze, and one grey slime. These can easily be substituted for sludges and goos of the same color, and other slimes or silver muck. (However, the ooze and slime will create the best sparkly effect trailing out of the back of the bolt.) In fact, you can skip this step if you do not have the materials required. (But then you wouldn't have sparkly stuff! GLITTER!) Throw in five haunted stone orbs, shattering them against the cauldron. (If you do not add these orbs, you will get a singing dancing skeleton. This is not good.)
6. Dump in one cup of each of the following: squirrel skulls, chimera fangs, bone fragments, sparrow skulls, fragile antlers, and hardy antlers. This will create the bone structure for the bolt.
7. Brew on medium heat for five hours. It should bubble slightly. If it begins to bubble over, grind up a handful of mirage puffer spines. Add pinches of this powder to the cauldron, and it should shrink back. (I speak from personal experience, WEAR GLOVES WHEN HANDLING THIS STUFF.)
8. After about four and a half hours, watch the pot closely. It should be emitting a shimmering red smoke, and a single eye will appear on the surface when it is ready. Add another vial of minor health potion and your bolt should rise from the surface of the cauldron. (If two eyes appear, throw in the rest of the mirage puffer spines and run immediately. Your bolt is not happy. However, make sure that the two eyes are not your reflection, or else Professor Severus will be EXTREMELY displeased.)