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Make Your Own RO Potions!

They're not gonna heal you of all your injuries, remove
poisons or increase your well-being, but I've got some recipes
for fake Ragnarok Online potions.
This hit me on the head while I was waiting
for SP to heal back in Closed Beta-2. I designed these to
simulate what a potion from RO would probably look like
in real life, so taste was a second priority—they're not
horrid in my opinion, though.
Funky and potionlike, but not horrid.
Anyway, I made a blue potion to test (then made other colors/flavors),
and I think I've got a believable formula, as well as some
ideas for variations.
Aragan's Blue Potion Simulator
This is the original potion recipe! Well, my original potion recipe. Being an
Acolyte, I naturally tried to make a facsimile of a blue potion first!
Ingredients:
Blue-colored soda
1 tablespoon of Half-and-half cream
1~2 tablespoon(s) of Honey
15-20 drops of liquid blue food coloring
(This is for a regular glass-sized drink.)
You should probably pour the soda
into the glass first. If you pour the cream in and then
the soda, it'll make a hard foam that doesn't look
too potiony (in my opinion). Add the cream and honey after
that, and mix well—then add the blue food coloring, roughly
15 drops or so.
Why use those ingredients?:
It';s an odd list, so I might as well provide explanation:
Blue-colored Soda:
Well, it's blue, but it's a tad too translucent to me. However,
it's fizzly, something that reminds me of potions... and
it has an odd taste.
Cream: This helps thicken the
potion some, and makes it less opaque (kind of like the
potions in the item description pic).
Honey: Same reasoning as the
cream, and also because RO honey restores both HP and SP.
Food coloring: This helps make
the concoction much more believable to me. With the amount
of drops I used, my potion mix was a pretty deep blue!
Other Potions!
To make simulations of other potions, here's
what you should replace the blue-colored soda
and food coloring with:
Red Potion:
15-20 drops of red food coloring, red-colored soda
Orange Potion: 7~8 drops of
red and yellow food coloring each, your favorite orange
soda
Yellow Potion: 15-20 drops
of yellow food coloring, yellow-colored soda or ginger ale
White Potion: No food coloring,
clear-colored soda or ginger ale
Green Potion: 10 drops of blue
and yellow food coloring each, clear-colored soda
Or, if you can find a good green-colored soda, use that
and 7~8 drops of blue and yellow food coloring each.
Lo-cal Potions::
I do realize that with the honey, cream and soda, these
potions are probably high in calories. Here's a few ways you
could make the potions healthier:
No Soda, Just Coloring:
This is also something you can try if you can't find a
good colored soda that tastes pleasant (since soft drink companies
are always introducing and retiring soda flavors).
Try replacing the soda with club soda (which has no calories),
or, better yet, flavored sparkling water (your choice of flavor,
though I'd recommend a flavor of fruit that's a color similar to
the kind of potion you're making). Whichever kind you pick,
increase the amount of food coloring you use—start
with half-again the usual amount and see how it works.
It'll definitely have a different taste, but it'll have
much less calories.
(Soy) Milk Instead of Cream:
Half and half cream fat, even if it's only a tablespoon.
If you'd rather avoid having too much fat, try skim milk or soy milk.
It'll be more watery than usual, of course.
More Alterations:
Of course, you don't have to stop there! There's other things you can
do with the recipe.
Crushed herbs:
Try mixing in crushed or powdered herbs to further emphasize
the idea that the potions are made from herbs.
It probably wouldn't be very pleasant to drink unless you used
powdered herbs, though it would definitely add to the effect.
Basil leaves would probably resemble RO herbs the most, but for
flavor, I'd use powdered cloves. They have a really
strong flavor that does well in a lot of applications, and
it just might make up for a loss of flavor if you opt to use
club soda rather than a colored soda for your potions.
Enjoy your faked potions!
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