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"Oh, would you look at that!" the professor said, chuckling in between his words. "It appears that we've managed to make it to the end of the term without anyone dying... wait! Plenty of people did die! Isn't the tournament wonderful? I love seeing all of those horrified faces." A smirk spread across his lips as he regarded the students with a glint of darkness in his lone red eye.

"But that's not what these courses are about, huh? Oh, well, maybe trolling, and some of you are finally getting toward the death potions, but... eh, there's still a lot of fun to be had without killing anyone." He shrugged and waved a hand. "In any event, let's get down to business and see which lives we can wreck during this final month of the term! That sounds like fun, doesn't it?"

He rubbed his hands together. "Because potions aren't successful unless they're ruining lives!"



PTS 101: Introduction to Potions



Helmy says:

"For the last assignment, I'm going to ask you to make a simple potion from a number of choices... all of them would be useful to you, and I'd just give you the potion outright, but that wouldn't be fun. And I'm not that nice."

He handed out a couple of papers - one potion for temporary happiness, one for relaxation, and a basic healing potion. "If you do get around to making it, it'll benefit you. And you can remember your favorite professor fondly."

Assignment - Select a potion and follow the instructions on the sheet. ]

Elijah cluelooser 
Vicktor firewyrm2018 
Selena Lady-Paragon 
Zaya Musicallychalanged 



PTS 102: Introduction to Potions Herbs



Helmy says:

The professor tapped his finger against his cheek in thought as he looked over his students. "It seems as if the majority of you had useless bags of scabs for partners in the previous assignment, and that's hardly conducive to learning. Instead, what I'm going to do is assess your potion herbs skills by putting each of you in the Bad Greenhouse (that's the one that probably won't kill you, dumbasses)."

"How am I going to assess your skills? Good question! By my very nature, I am a smokeshifter and I can steal shit from you with little effort on my part, and that's what I have done. I have taken something valuable and loved from each of you and buried it under a certain plant. You will be given a particular "use" when you are placed in the potions greenhouse, and your job is to go to the plant that is associated with that use and dig up your valuable object. I will be watching so no lazy fuckheads decide to dig up the whole greenhouse like a bunch of fucking moles."

"That should see if you learned anything, hmm?"


[ Assignment: Pick a plant, and look up one of its uses. That will be the plant that Helmy hid your special item with. Write or draw about your character being given the use and figuring out what plant to look for.]

Brunhilde Yekrutslover 
Finnick EpicMickeyX - 4

Nix InsanityCreator 
Iram Inx9119 

Elijah cluelooser 
Feril Bro-Hime 
Rowan bellsu 




PTS 103: Potions and Ethics



Helmy says:


"All right! So our last potion, hmm... what shall we do... I suppose we should actually discuss the ethics of using potions. Well, there aren't any! That's how I feel. Go forth and use potions anywhere you want."

"So, we used body switching potions last month, and this month... we're going to be using species switching potions! For instance, if I switched with this kid"--he gestured toward Clement, a student in a higher course--"he'd turn green, get gray hair, learn to smokeshift, and be some weird amphibian reptile mix. And I'd look like a constipated ass clown."

"It's not a body switch - it's a species switch, so you change species, but you're still yourself. You still have your special scars and traits and body structure and so forth, you just get the features of the other species."

Assignment - Use a species switching potion]


Brunhilde Yekrutslover 
Cathrine MoeMoe-Momo 
Meli Elo-Muffe 
Deimos TheShinji 
Nia PeeButtGay 



PTS 201: Healing Potions



Helmy says:


"The last thing I'd like you to do is make a little reference material for yourself, as you'll find it useful as you continue along the potionmaking track. Keeping plants defined is important, you see?"

He held up the book of laminated plants that he'd made in his first year of potionmaking. "What you're going to be doing is something like this. I want you to research no less than ten plants that are said to be involved in healing, and not ones that I've already told you about, because that's boring. No, you need to research new ones, ones I haven't mentioned, and then describe what they could be used in, potion-wise."

"Having a reference is really useful. You should consider categorizing the plants by their purpose -- such as healing the mind, healing the body, or healing the soul -- but you don't have to if you don't want to. It's extra work, but it may be useful down the road."

Assignment - Make a book of medicinal plants ]


Clement TheLostArts 



PTS 202: Basic Mind-Altering Potions



Helmy says:

"I'm sure you're intelligent enough to look in your coursebook and figure out what's coming next. It's listed in there, after all: the last type of mind-altering we're going to be focusing on is influencing amnesia. This has its many uses, depending on what your intentions are. Maybe you do something bad to someone and want them to forget?"

"Amnesiac potions are also a very mild form of memory obliterating potions. See, with amnesia, you're just... out of touch with the memories, but they're still there. You can still retrieve them with the right counter-potions. Some might say that making reversible stuff is weak, but you have to start somewhere, right? And who knows, maybe you'll make a mistake?"

"Anyway! Ma huang is the most well known herb that can cause memory loss, so if you include it in your potion, you're bound to give people amnesia. Have you heard of ephedra? That's the same thing, because the plant is in the genus ephedra."

"Naturally, the more of the plant and its essence you put into the potion, the longer the the memory loss. I also should mention that ma huang has a tendency to make people very sick, too. Try giving someone a potion with that in it, and see what happens."

Clement TheLostArts 
Helena SnowyFox-Roxy - 5
KID olivetoart 



PTS 203: Advanced Potions Herbs



Helmy says:


The students had already gone to the desert and the mountains, which left just one biome remaining: the forest. Unfortunately, the forest was almost always frozen, which inhibited plants from growing there. But he did know of some treasures within the frozen green.

"I'm going to give you an option here regarding what kind of plants you'll fetch from the forest," he said. "You can either harvest some sap from the trees and boil it, producing a useful ingredient for an energy potion, or you can dig up their roots and chop them up, soak them in salt, and produce an ingredient useful for curing head fuzziness. You know what I'm talking about, right? When you've not slept enough, or overslept, or you're just hung over, you have head fuzziness."

"You should thank me, the trees growing on the edge of the forest are appropriate for this task, so you don't even have to walk far."


Cal AnimeNeko123 
Chrono BlueBlueFox - 5



PTS 301: Basic Transformation Potions



Helmy says:

"Look at this wonderful, beautiful thing! It smells like a horse's ass (or Razik's ass?) and you're going to spend a lot of time with it during this last assignment. What is it, you ask? Oh, it's the Oozeleaf, and it's an important part of transformation potions. Do you remember that bullshit where you could put together a potion and put some piece of hair in it, and suddenly you could turn into that person? Yes, by use of DNA? This is the flower that is a main component of that kind of potion."

"What you're going to do is take these seeds and bury them in grave soil. Get some of it from the necromancy building and put it in some terracotta pots or some shit. It will grow in about fifteen days. When it grows, mix a transformation potion with it, and then add the hair of the person you want to impersonate. Then, go wreck their friendships, or something like that... something fun, basically. Something suitable to our trollish department. Haha!"

Sitka/Norrie MichiYaslana 



PTS 304: Rare Potion Ingredients



Helmy says:

"All right, so... we've talked about gemstones and we've talked about artifacts, which leaves the last section -- organic rare materials. By this I'm talking about the sort of potions ingredients that you'd get only when slaying some difficult to find and kill monster. Basilisk venom? Dragon's scales? Well, then again, I guess you could go beat up the shadowmancy teacher for dragon scales, but... you know what I mean."

"Magical creatures, by definition, have a lot of magic in their bodies, which is why poaching of magical creatures is so common. You'll see anything from incubus tails to harpy feathers on the market, and they all have their uses according to the type of animal they came from, and the animal's specialty or what kind of magic is contained in it."

"Most of the documented animal parts come from famous species. Let's say you were to chop Kaine's tail off when he's in that weird dragon form, for instance. I'm sure he wouldn't appreciate it, but let's say you did it. You can use a dragon tail in a transformation potion for natural armor, like a living exoskeleton to protect your soft, warm innards. You could also use it to make a potion to enhance fire abilities, though caveat - like I said, it depends on what kind of element the critter aligns with."

"Your job, though... find a student, one that hails from a famous species, and take part of their body. Look up what kind of potion you could make with it, though bear in mind there will probably be a good number of options, so you're free to list them all."

Sitka/Norrie MichiYaslana 



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