Chemical formulations: Sir Tristan Kilvert’s Wondrous Universal Antidote..

Chemical formulations:

Sir Tristan kilvert’s Wondrous

 universal antidote..

A Rare and Very Expensive Chemical Formulation, this small black pill has the ability to neutralise all poisonous substances!

Slowly distilled from a confection of magickal and chemical constituents, these Amazing Pills are the culmination of a lifetime’s work by this renown Natural Historian and Folklorist. With over two hundred, often almost indescribably rare ingredients, they are an absolute necessity for all those souls who feel that their occupation puts them in harm’s way by means of ingesting or imbibing toxic materials.

A very limited number of the pills are currently available but it is thought that production will increase shortly.

STOP PRESS:  There are indications that Sir Tristan Kilvert has disappeared from his Herefordshire home.His current whereabouts are unknown.

Cost: 15 weeks at,6,000 Florins (500c) per dose.

Effects: Neutralise all poisons

Duration: Instant

Host’s Notes:

When a Dramatic Character is suffering from possibly fatal poisoning by some liquid, food or gaseous vapour,  a dose of the Antidote may be administered. It must be done BEFORE the mortal death card has been drawn. If the card drawn is a Spade, the Antidote allows a second draw. If it is not a Spade, the Antidote has saved the person’s life, but if the second draw is also a Spade, the Antidote has failed and the Dramatic Character has perished regardless.

Chemical Formulations: Solid Liquids

Chemical formulations.

‘Solid liquids’.

Mr. Reginald Lockwood, a budding British Inventor, has created an item that will be of Great Utility to All Travellers from mere walkers to Exploratory Expeditions.

The first ‘Solid Liquid’ to be produced commercially will be Solid or Condensed Beer.  In Lockwood’s process, the best of beers has its alcohol content removed by gentle distillation in a vacuum column. The remaining liquid is then concentrated into a solid using a vacuum pan. At this point, the alcoholic portion is returned to the beer and acts as a preservative. The finished product is then packaged in hermetically sealed jars, much like those used for potted meats. To reconstitute the solid liquid, you just add the listed quantity of water. If effervescence is required, carbonated water can be added instead to provide a foaming tankard of beer.

Mr. Lockwood plans to manufacture a range of such drinks including beer, coffee, hot chocolate, lemonade, wine and even champagne!  We are sure that these lightweight essentials will add to tinned Australian mutton and bottled peas to give a Fine Repast to any Far-flung Traveller!

Host’s Notes:                                                                                                                                  This item was inspired by a short article in the 1875 edition of Cassell’s Magazine. This is, more or less, the way that instant coffee and soups are made today by vacuum freeze-drying.

‘Chemical Formulations’. Veritasin - a truthfully, useful drug.

‘chemical formulations’.

Veritasin - a truthfully, useful drug.

This drug was invented by the great Austrian scientist, Herr Professor Johann Gerhardt. His intention was to develop a means by which the Forces of Law and Order could obtain Truthful Confessions from those they were interrogating without resort to violence.

It can be administered orally or by hypodermic injection. This Mind-Altering Formulation is still Very Rare and Extremely Expensive!

Cost: 3 weeks at 3,600 Florins (300c) per dose.

Effects: Will Altering (Tell the Truth)

Duration: Two Minutes.

Host Notes:

In game terms it requires an EXC Courage or Health score to resist the drug. If the recipient fails then he or she must answer any question put to them truthfully for the two minute duration of the drug's effects. There are still possible side effects to Veritasin, The Host should secretly draw a card from the pack:- If it is the Ace of Spades, the recipient is allergic to the formulation and is now mortally wounded and if the card is a Joker, then perhaps the recipient can lie regardless of the drug or the Host can decide that another more dramatically suitable effect occurs.