Tonics

Tonics have no condition tiers.

Coffee

Roasted beans, brewed black and bitter. Night watchmen and scholars swear by it.

Coffee is administered through ingestion. After one round, a creature that drinks it shakes off some of its exhaustion and grows sharp-eyed, but jittery. When it wears off, the exhaustion comes back worse, unless another cup puts it off.

Strength	Effect	Side effect	Price
Single strength	Reduce Exhausted by up to 1 tier for the duration. Dominance on Perception trials, including Startle	Impotence on Agility trials	1 ss

Type	None
Workspace	Field kit
Delivery	Ingested
Use	Exploration, Travel
Duration	Long
Crash	When the dose ends, you become 1 tier more Exhausted than you were before drinking it, for as long as the dose lasted. Exhausted T1 becomes T2 for that time, then returns to T1*
Properties	Delayed
Modifications	None
Rarity	Imported
Notes	None

* Drinking another cup before the dose ends postpones the crash.

To make (days for one dose, and the recipe's Social Class):

Makes	No modifications
Coffee	1 day, Peasant

Valerian

A rank-smelling root, the herbalist's remedy for sleeplessness and nerves.

Valerian is administered through ingestion. After one round, a creature that takes it grows calm and steady, and taken before resting, it sleeps better. It slows the body, though, and its smell carries: beasts and predators come looking.

Strength	Effect	Side effect	Price
Single strength	+1 on Startle and Demoralized trials. Taken before resting, +1 health and +1 magan from that rest	Slow phase. Its smell draws beasts*	1 sp

* The smell raises the GM's encounter risk, as tallow candles do.

Type	None
Workspace	Field kit
Delivery	Ingested
Use	Exploration, Travel
Duration	Short
Crash	When the dose ends, make an Endurance trial against the dose's DC. On a failure, you are Impaired T1 for as long as the dose lasted
Properties	Delayed
Modifications	None
Rarity	Common
Notes	None

To make (days for one dose, and the recipe's Social Class):

Makes	No modifications
Valerian	3 days, Peasant

Vinegar Sponge (pomander)

A sponge soaked in vinegar and herbs, carried in a pierced ball by physicians and the fastidious.

A vinegar sponge is held under the nose. It rouses someone from a stupor faster than shaking them does.

Strength	Effect	Side effect	Price
Single strength	Rousing someone from a stupor takes 1 AP instead of 2	None	1 sp

Type	None
Workspace	Field kit
Delivery	Inhaled
Use	Any time
Duration	Instantaneous
Crash	None
Properties	None
Modifications	None
Rarity	Common
Notes	One sponge serves several times

To make (days for one dose, and the recipe's Social Class):

Makes	No modifications
Vinegar sponge	1 day, Peasant