Alchemical Reagent Bundle
Alchemical Reagent Bundle
Raw Ingredients from the Iron-Root Apothecary
Alchemical Consumable Custom
An Alchemical Reagent Bundle is a compact assortment of preserved herbs, minerals, oils, powders, containers, and other common substances used by working alchemists. Morwenna Iron-Root prepares these bundles for travelers, healers, and craftspeople who need useful reagents without carrying a full apothecary.
1 gp of Common Reagents
The bundle provides 1 gp of raw materials that can be expended toward Crafting common alchemical items. Individual ingredients normally have negligible resale value once the bundle has been opened and divided for use.
| Ingredient | Typical Use |
|---|---|
| Powdered Ironroot | Stabilizing agent for medicinal elixirs, antidotes, and restorative mixtures. |
| Distilled Pine Resin | Combustible binder used in bombs, incendiaries, and waterproof compounds. |
| Alchemical Salts | Regulate acidity, preserve mixtures, and trigger controlled reactions. |
| Charcoal Powder | Used in filtration, smoke mixtures, pigments, and combustible preparations. |
| Quicklime | Caustic mineral used in corrosive compounds, drying agents, and water-reactive mixtures. |
| Fungal Culture | Base ingredient for antiplagues, medicinal compounds, and biological reagents. |
| Bitterleaf Extract | Used in antitoxins, stimulants, and remedies for poison or nausea. |
| Rendered Tallow | Carrier for salves, pastes, oils, and slow-burning compounds. |
| Glass Vials and Wax Stoppers | Containers for mixing, storing, and transporting finished preparations. |
| Assorted Trace Reagents | Sulfur, chalk, copper filings, dried moss, powdered bark, and similar minor ingredients. |
Blight Stabilization
Morwenna has selected several reagents in the bundle specifically because they are useful for cleaning and stabilizing creatures exposed to the strange oily sap found in blighted Palakar timber.
The blight can enter the body through prolonged skin contact, contaminated cuts or wounds, contact with the eyes or mouth, or through ingestion.
Prepare Stabilizing Treatment
Requirements You have an Alchemical Reagent Bundle and access to clean water or another suitable washing medium.
Effect You expend the entire bundle to prepare a cleansing wash, absorbent powder, and bitter medicinal draught for one exposed creature. The treatment takes approximately 10 minutes to administer.
- Fresh Exposure: Thorough treatment removes remaining oily residue and greatly reduces the danger of the exposure progressing into an established infection.
- Developing Blight: If the creature has already begun showing symptoms, the treatment stabilizes the infection for 24 hours.
- Existing Symptoms: Stabilization prevents further progression during this period but does not remove symptoms that have already developed.
- Not a Cure: An established blight infection cannot be removed with ordinary reagents. A specialized treatment or antidote is required.
This item serves two purposes. The party can treat it as 1 gp of common alchemical Crafting materials, or expend the entire bundle to stabilize a creature exposed to the Palakar blight. Once used for either purpose, the bundle is consumed.
The bundle is deliberately not a cure. Its purpose is to give the party a practical field response to contamination while preserving the importance of bringing samples and evidence back to Morwenna Iron-Root for further study.