This collection of five plain-looking bronze cups has no handles or ornament other than a single band of differing material around the circumference, 1” in width. These coloured bands each sport a different icon as described below. Accompanying these is a grinder made of dark wood with complex cog apparatus, spinning handle and a removable lid. Alongside this is a copper jug with plunger lid to strain and pour liquids.
Grinding the reagent pictured on any one of the bands, then brewing the resultant powder using the copper flask and 1/5 of a waterskin of boiling water will produce the following one dose of brews when poured into the corresponding cup.
Grinding anything other than depicted reagents in the grinder causes a horrible clanking sound (and see Other below).
The colour of the steaming brew produced is the opposite colour to the colour of the band of the cup’s reagent (refer to a colour wheel). Unless a duration is specified, treat as potions that must be drunk immediately while hot, or they revert to clear water.
Ivory / White / A Tooth / makes a black brew
Gives the ability to breathe one cloud of black vapour that will dissolve 10’ of stone, but then inflicts extreme dizziness for 1d6 turns. It has no other effect on flesh or wood.
Azurite / Blue /
An Insect / makes a neon orange brew
Produces
an intense itching inside the brain pan of the drinker that persists
for a turn if they Save Vs Poison, or a day if not. Depending on
circumstances this is deleterious to concentration in combat, and if
the drinker’s HP fall to ¼ or less, acts as a failed save against
a Confusion spell.
Amber / Yellow-ish Orange / An Eyeball / makes a blue brew
Allows the drinker
to blast bolts of blue energy from their eyes as a ranged weapon
(50’) causing 2d6 damage per hit. The effect lasts for 1 turn.
Jade / Deep Green / A Fresh Fingertip / makes a red brew
In melee, successful
strikes from the drinker cause a rattling blow straight to the
skeletal structure of their opponents (including chitinous plates and
the like). Roll 1d3 once when drunk – this is the amount of extra
damage caused by strikes from the opponent for the duration. No effect on non-skeletal frames.
Peridot / Lime Green / A Frog / makes a violet brew
Allows the drinker jumping abilities as Boots of Travelling and Leaping. Provided the drinker is unarmoured, they can also breathe underwater.
Other
If a brew produced by anything other than the reagent pictured is poured into a cup, a noxious smelling black foam pours out of the cup, destroying it and attacking any nearby as a Grey Ooze for 1d6 rounds and consuming 5 charges.
The coffee set has d100 charges when found, and correctly preparing any one brew consumes a single charge. Once all charges are used, the set appears ancient, sadly dented and forgettable. The complete set, intact with all bands undamaged, is worth 2500gp on the open market, but Magic-Users of Alchemists will be aware that the actual value is nearer to 8000gp if charges remain.
Ghantr-Ooon was a hag known throughout the Southern Crustlands for her cruelty and abduction of children. Her downfall came about when she was ambushed and hanged by a rope of hair made from unicorn pelt by the hero The Nauseous Chanter.