Thank you Stefan

The door to the Potions classroom is wide open, but Professor Newton isn't there.

The class is set out like it usually is, with the wall of pink and white lab coats, although there appears to be less pink ones and more white ones. The room is the perfect temperature, the dungeon chill removed.

Come in, get your stations organised and your lab coats on. Feel free to chat amongst yourselves. Lesson will start in approximately 20-24 hours.

Class Progression
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Post Two

SPOILER!!: Concentration Concoction

Concentration Concoction

Ingredients

• 1 liter of water
• Five Ginkgo Biloba leaves
• Two Ginkgo Biloba seeds (soaked), ground to a paste
• Two Tablespoons of boiling water
• 1 tea light candle
• 20 Hyssop leaves
• 18 Peppermint leaves
• 16 Basil leaves
• 14 Rosemary leaves
• 12 Citrus leaves
• 10 Lavender leaves
• 8 Lavender buds
• Two squares of cheesecloth

Method:

• Add water to cauldron, bring to a boil
• Add two Ginkgo Biloba seeds to a small bowl, add two tablespoons of boiling water from the cauldron and leave for ten minutes to soften.
• Slice the GB leaves into thin strips (approximately 2mm wide) with your knife and sprinkle into cauldron.
• Grind in mortar and pestle until you create a paste, and add this to the cauldron.
• Prepare the leaves/flowers
• Add in the leaves and flowers one by one. Some might sink, others will remain floating. Leave for fifteen minutes.
• In the meantime, light a tealight candle and put to eye height (to avoid straining neck and back), an arms width from the body (prop on books if needed)
• Gaze at the candle flame until your eyes feel like they need to blink, then close your eyes. Concentrate on the image of the candle in your mind (the after image). Repeat for fifteen minutes.
• Pour the wax from the candle into the cauldron.
• Cast the incantation Mentis Apertus (men-tees ah-peh-rr-tus), whilst circling the want over the cauldron, perform three times.
• Remove all leaves and flowers from the cauldron, adding them to the mortar and pestle. Grind them until they form a herby paste, and add it back to the cauldron.
• Stir the potion 20 times, slowly, clockwise, with a wooden stirrer.
• Remove it from the heat.
• Layer two pieces of cheesecloth material over your strainer, to catch more of the solid ingredients. Strain the potion into your vials.
• By the end, your potion should yield 500 milliliters. Divide this into 50-milliliter vials. Hand one up for marking and you may take the others.

Use: Increase the drinkers concentration, up to optimal. Best for times of exams.
Characteristics: Clear, some green sediment may remain
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Information: Dose is 50ml, less than would have limited effect, overdose may cause the opposite effect.
The effect is mostly dependent on the concentration during the candle gazing.
This concoction will last one year.