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[maderr]

Clairvoyance potion. Now there's an idea *ponderponder* I wonder how hard it would be to make. How hard to drink. Years of training for the former, and probably the same for the latter, and I wonder if oft the two are found together, or have nothing to do with each other. Expensive, probably. On both ends, unless you make it a slavery thing, which would not make sense 'cause someone ill-treated would not be healthy enough to make/drink somethign so complicated and clairvoyance shouldn't be something that comes easy to hand so I would say perhaps 3-5 people in the world are of the proper caliber to make it....which means those who can drink it might actually be a little more common, since obtaining said potion is so difficult.

But a willing drinker or a reluctant one? What would be the side effects of something like that? Could it be focused? Perhaps the potions can be personalized, so to speak, which would very likely entail a three-way bond of maker, drinker, and focus of clairvoyance.

Duration of potion? Power of? Ingredients? Cost? Length of time required to make it?

Ah, now that would be interesting. I wonder if it's important to keep the drinker and the focus apart, for to avoid clouding vision with personal feelings or whatnot.

I wonder if a society could be built where such a thing would have to come with a license, or perhaps is only to be used in extremem situations, or perhaps there are levels of potency to the potion that would require various grades of license and only certan persons can obtain certain grades.

So the question is who wants to know what and how does he go about obtaining???

Comments

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

O_o

You forgot, "Accidentally drinks potion. Hilarity ensues, along with migraines."

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, I hadn't thought of drinks by accident. Now that's an entirely different cup of tea (oh, gods, now I'm making your lame jokes).

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

I am like a disease that everyone wants to get.

I am so sad that slapstick comedy was not your first thought.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Like a fraternity?

Heh. I think it's obvious I prefer my character whine and bemoan their angsty fates for several pages, sprinkled with snark and ending with a Disney flair. Slapstick is ever so much more your thing, oh wobbly one.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

No, gross! No one wants to catch a fraternity. Icky.

Aw, but I love that fictional formula! It's like one of those mathematical equations that you can always count on: 2+2=4 and angst+snark=happy ending. Or something like that, my brain is sleepy and ill today.

I dunno, on occasion I find it a struggle to keep Greg punny and out of uber-angsty territory. But right now, he is drinking a Bloody Sally, so things are okay.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I prefer setting frats on fire, myself.

^^; I'm glad it works, cause I suspect I'm over fond. ah, well.

Greg would be fun to read all angsty, but I guess it wouldn't quite fit the tone of the story by this point. He's such a w00bie. I luffs him.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Hehe, that's one of the many reasons I play Kingdom of Loathing. I get to start a war between the Frat Boys and the Hippies, and beat the crap out of the Frat Boys with their own homoerotic paddles.

Clearly, you are not the only one over fond, if your legions of adorers are anything by which to judge. ;)

Well, he's being angsty right now because he overheard a phone conversation and Jumped To Conclusions. But there is a section later in the story where he really has room to spread his angsty wings and fly into the bleak, depressing sky of self-misery. Oh ho ho.

That reminds me: I am going to post a Greg the Vampire soundtrack at some point. >3

[mailechan.livejournal.com]

YES. KOL is the solution to all trouble. Especially with the stuff from Crimbo.

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

I see also a potential in this for the "gypsie"-type scammers and cons. "oh sure, we have the potion/a potion-maker" except, no, not really. It's just fruit punch that's gone slightly rancid.

^_^

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good angle ^___^

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

ooh, and hey, if these kinds of potions are a controlled substance, you could totally have like... an ATF (alcohol tobacco firearms) kinda group tailing all these "gypsy" groups to ascertain a) if the potion is real, and b) if it's 'safe' (or y'know, isn't moonshine--aka properly taxed and accounted for)

Or something.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

You come up with cool shit.

I shall have to come back to this, at some point. Maybe somewhere in there I can insert a victim who runs off still wearing Ye Olde Hospitale Gowne

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

um... not really. I blame work for warping me brain and--oh shit! I totally left my notebook up there. Shit shit shit.

... O_O
OMG, that has notes for Kenny and Darren in it. Shit... *facepalm* I hope my co-workers have the decency not to read through it. Fuck.

[pineapplechild.livejournal.com]

How are you terming "hard to drink"? Physically, or to come to terms with the fact that you'd be clairvoyant? Because I could see a lot of people "Ooo! Oo! I'll drink the potion of clairvoyancy, that sounds nifty!" and only a couple going "Wait. Clairvoyancy. Do I really want to do that?"

Also, if you were going to make grades of potion, or only available to certain grades of people, somewhere along the way you're making a moral call about the person being graded. (Maybe moral is not the word I'm looking for, but you get the idea) That leaves a lot of room for abuse. Now, the maker may be qualified to make some sort of judgment call, theoretically understanding the potion/consequences of more throughly, but Joe Rubberstamp wouldn't, really.

Unwilling drinker would probably end up with some sort of trauma, even if it was a concentrated to a focus. There would probably be some sort of preparation to drink it, or at least squaring yourself with the idea.

And how could you not have personal feelings about the focus?

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

Something like a potion always makes me think green, bubbly, and gross. Nose wrinkling gross... Like the bog of eternal stench gross.

The power is kind of a turn on, but drinking the potion itself seems like a Dr. Jekyll/My. Hyde sort of thing - painful transformation and tons of gagging and clawing on the floor, with afterwards feeling like exhaustion.

[mailechan.livejournal.com]

Whoops, sorry about that, I hit the wrong reply button!

[mailechan.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to be a devil's advocate here. I think clairvoyance would be horrible, myself, and totally not worth it. Everyone has things that they do not want to have known about themselves. Things that they don't even know themselves.

I think that it should be nigh-well impossible to make, because the only ones who have figured out how to make it realize that it would be horrible if the world got its hands on it. And anyone who wants to make one should have to go through a trial to get the ingredients--a trial that makes them think about just how worth it it would be to get one. And the effects should have a time limit to give the person ingesting it hope that the power may one day fade.

Have you ever seen the anime, Kino's Journey?

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

You... have the best ideas. Ever. *can't wait to see what this little bunny will produce* ^__________^

[kiyoshi-chan.livejournal.com]

Actually I think I liked mizwatson's idea of the whole "drinks it by accident". XD Nice punchline too.

[zeffy-amethyst.livejournal.com]

I was thinking if a society built itself around such a thing then surely they'd use it for spy purpose. So the voices in my mind is saying that the government is the only one that produces such things and they distribute it among the populace in small doses of varying strengths. The strongest doses are reserved for someone who's trained to take the potion and survive the effects of it. At a certain age this person's pretty much locked away, only to be taken out at such a time that the government wants oh-pretty-information. And he'd be revered as a priest or something and no one would really know that he doesn't do this because he wants to, he does it because since birth he's been told it's his destiny.

And for the extra angst angle potential users are brought up as a group and the unsuccessful ones are killed off in a formal ceremony.

Or the poor guy's locked away, chained down and the potion's pumped through him continuously and he's forced to just watch whatever his controllers want him to.

...............It'd be nice if my muses would help me come up with plot for my own fics instead of dabbling in someone else's worlds.

[joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com]

How would they be sure the clairvoyant wasn't lying, or wouldn't go out and purposely do the one thing that would set the future on a different path than the one they told? (An unwilling clairvoyant, especially, seems likely to do these.)

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Sounds fun. I like the drinks by accident. Lol. Also secret government conspirousy!