Concept: Magus Tears

[Kaed]

I had an idea today that I'd like to run by everyone for feedback and potential interest.

Right now there is a very niche type of berry in the game called Merlin's Tears, only produced by certain wizard classes. The berry is notable in that it contains about 10u of basically every medicine in the game, making it nearly a panacea.

What I am thinking of doing is replacing it with a new, nearly identical but possibly resprited plant called Magus Tears (name a WIP) that instead contains 10u of a special chemical of the same name that actually does act as a panacea, curing every type of injury (but not instantly, like the adminbus drug), stabilizing dying people, curing traumas, basically doing it all except curing death.

The downside is that the chemical has a very low OD threshhold (possibly just 10u, and maybe only affecting non-wizards?) and the overdose effects will probably be... unusual. Magical, one might say...

[Scheveningen]

Sounds interesting.

Will it turn them into newts? And will they get better?

[Kaed]

Sounds interesting.

Will it turn them into newts? And will they get better?

 

That is certainly something to consider. I had been thinking randomly cast baleful polymorph spells applied to the victim is one of the potential effects. Along with other certain spell effects, short range uncontrolled teleportation, organ ejection, spontaneous combustion, among other things.

Most of these will be sort of randomized, with worse effects being gated behind low RNG chances and higher overdoses. Eating two berries in one sitting will make things weird for a bit, but it'll take something like 5 in a row before you are actually in danger. The high overdoses can also have some beneficial/non-negative effects that are rare, like gaining x-ray vision, acquiring the bluespace prophet trauma, or becoming magically attuned. By magically attuned I mean you become a wizard as far as the game is concerned, but don't get any equipment or spells packaged with it. There is a variable the game checks that's something along the lines of iswizard, and it would basically just be giving them a message to tell them it has been toggled.

To be clear, you will probably burst into flame and vomit out all your organs if you chug magus tear juice. It's bad to overdose. But if you want to TRY, you can potentially get some benefits out of it if you are lucky.