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Hera · 03-16-2016, 08:03 AM

SPOILER!!: Prof

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jessiqua

“Okay, now that we have added the belladonna and fluxweed to the water, we need to continue.”

“With these tiny little syringes here,” they really were quite cute! “We need to add half a millilitre of wormwood essence to the potion.” He scooped up half a millilitre from the small container of wormwood essence, and syringed it into the cauldron. “Now, you can either pass those back at the end of the class, or clean them and keep them for your own potion tool kit. Th-then with another, fresh syringe, we need 0.1 of a millilitre of our Boomslang venom. Tiny amount, but very concentrated. Just measure it and put it to the side for the moment.” He measured the minute dose of the venom, and put it aside. “Now, we need to clean our mortar and pestle,” he said, demonstrating the cleaning of his, “and add one unicorn horn to the mortar and crush it to a fine powder. Once you’ve done that, add the boomslang venom TO the unicorn horn powder and give it a little mix. It’s not enough liquid to create a paste, but we just want to mix it together before we add it to the cauldron,” he explained, crushing his unicorn horn and tilting his mortar to show the class how fine the powder was. Almost like sand. He added the tiny amount of the boomslang venom to the mortar, and mixed it with his wooden stirrer. “Now just tip this onto a clean dish and put to the side for at least three minutes, just to let the ingredients work together. What we want is for the boomslang venom’s SLOW characteristic to give the potion a long lasting duration. But as it is venom, we need to counteract this with the purifying characteristics of the unicorn horn. It takes away the venom but… but for some reason it leaves the slow acting characteristic.” He loved that. Putting it aside, he cleaned his mortar and pestle again.

“Now, with your clean mortar and pestle, add your two tablespoons of lacewing flies, and then one teaspoon each of water and honey.” He measured out his ingredients, and commenced mashing it all together. “We want to mash it to make a nice, smooth paste, and then we just add that to the cauldron.” He carefully added the paste to his cauldron, preventing splashback, and checked the timer. Three minutes had passed, and he added the mixture of boomslang venom and powdered unicorn horn to the cauldron.

OOC: Again, 5 posts for this next bit. Shout out if you want us! I'm happy for you to keep going with previous steps and get to this bit later if you need to <3

Personally he thought the following instruction was a little unclear. If somebody didn't pay close attention to the listed ingredient then they would likely have stuffed up their work by adding 1ml of Wormwood essence instead of 0.5mls... like.. that was just dumb.

At least he knew what he was doing, consider it a side effect to having an Ace Potioneer as a father. He was set.

Using the tiny syringe, Zeke pulled back the plunger to extract the Wormwood essence and was careful to drip only the 0.5mls into his cauldron.

03-16-2016, 08:03 AM	#151 (permalink)
Hera DMC Abraxan Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Perth, AU (GMT +8) Posts: 25,070 Hogwarts RPG Name: Jasper Hart First Year x10 x10	Part 2 - Post 1 ½ EagleBrain ♥ Creeperdoodle ♥ Raven Dor ♥ Berry ♥ ½ Team House Elf SPOILER!!: Prof Quote: Originally Posted by Jessiqua “Okay, now that we have added the belladonna and fluxweed to the water, we need to continue.” “With these tiny little syringes here,” they really were quite cute! “We need to add half a millilitre of wormwood essence to the potion.” He scooped up half a millilitre from the small container of wormwood essence, and syringed it into the cauldron. “Now, you can either pass those back at the end of the class, or clean them and keep them for your own potion tool kit. Th-then with another, fresh syringe, we need 0.1 of a millilitre of our Boomslang venom. Tiny amount, but very concentrated. Just measure it and put it to the side for the moment.” He measured the minute dose of the venom, and put it aside. “Now, we need to clean our mortar and pestle,” he said, demonstrating the cleaning of his, “and add one unicorn horn to the mortar and crush it to a fine powder. Once you’ve done that, add the boomslang venom TO the unicorn horn powder and give it a little mix. It’s not enough liquid to create a paste, but we just want to mix it together before we add it to the cauldron,” he explained, crushing his unicorn horn and tilting his mortar to show the class how fine the powder was. Almost like sand. He added the tiny amount of the boomslang venom to the mortar, and mixed it with his wooden stirrer. “Now just tip this onto a clean dish and put to the side for at least three minutes, just to let the ingredients work together. What we want is for the boomslang venom’s SLOW characteristic to give the potion a long lasting duration. But as it is venom, we need to counteract this with the purifying characteristics of the unicorn horn. It takes away the venom but… but for some reason it leaves the slow acting characteristic.” He loved that. Putting it aside, he cleaned his mortar and pestle again. “Now, with your clean mortar and pestle, add your two tablespoons of lacewing flies, and then one teaspoon each of water and honey.” He measured out his ingredients, and commenced mashing it all together. “We want to mash it to make a nice, smooth paste, and then we just add that to the cauldron.” He carefully added the paste to his cauldron, preventing splashback, and checked the timer. Three minutes had passed, and he added the mixture of boomslang venom and powdered unicorn horn to the cauldron. OOC: Again, 5 posts for this next bit. Shout out if you want us! I'm happy for you to keep going with previous steps and get to this bit later if you need to <3 Personally he thought the following instruction was a little unclear. If somebody didn't pay close attention to the listed ingredient then they would likely have stuffed up their work by adding 1ml of Wormwood essence instead of 0.5mls... like.. that was just dumb. At least he knew what he was doing, consider it a side effect to having an Ace Potioneer as a father. He was set. Using the tiny syringe, Zeke pulled back the plunger to extract the Wormwood essence and was careful to drip only the 0.5mls into his cauldron. __________________