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**Ngreth Thergn** · 11-10-2005, 09:34 AM

I am always up for ideas. I cannot promise to put anything in, but ideas are nice.

**Parvusimmedias** · 11-16-2005, 06:46 AM

I wouldn't mind seeing some Alcoholic Drinks that, when consumed, gave the drinker a fairly short term buff, be it HP regen, Mana Regen, or +10 sta or something to that effect. The benefits of the influx of HP or Stats or Mana would be offset by the intoxification (loss of INT/WIS, agi, etc). Something that could compete with the potion market maybe?

**Redi** · 11-16-2005, 10:19 AM

My gnome used to keep one of Brodder's Diaries on him for downtime reading... this was back when there was still a spellbook for medding, I think

The effects of alcoholic drinks have become stronger and more defined - Intoxification V, anyone? And of course, there is the apex of our craft - the Interplanar Brain Blaster.

Statwise, the fruity teas and such haven't really kept pace with the foods. It's something I'd love to see more of - especially if it could be intermixed with something questish.

**YurienStonebow** · 11-21-2005, 10:58 AM

i'd liek some new ones but the ingredients for the last coule expansions ahve become too hard to get for anything over 200 if u don't forage

**Quichon** · 11-22-2005, 11:34 AM

Bah, stat drinks have their use. Keeping you up on a Rathe Council crawl, for instance. But for recreational drinking, you need a drink with some kick to it! Who cares about stat or effects, I just want to get plastered.

I had some ideas for some mixed drinks made from stuff around Cabillis (Legion Lager + Cabillis Dark Ale + something else, I think). An idea for putting fruit in a brew barrel to let it ferment. I think the recipie was fruit + flask of water + yeast, which was then used to do other stuff. There was also a veggies + flask of water + yeast, as I recall. Anyways, take the result of that and combine eight with a cask and a malt. Now THERE is some good stuff to drink...

**Brodder FoamyMugs** · 12-03-2005, 02:42 PM

--RAW outline of the next Brodder's Diaries--

(Smudged pages- require gnomish cleaning paste + clarifier* from gnomes to reveal notes-pages then will randomly clean up into one of a dozen new stories and recipes)

Page 1 "I never did like watching Catbik play with that Darkmatter stuff, or even being around it. IF he got enough of that stuff together to experiment with (He always stored it near my drinking rock in a lil shed I made so he wouldn't forget where he left it and cause a major accident). Well he eventually filled that shed up with the stuff and things started going funny around it.
I'd go to pour an ale into my fine "replica" mug I commisioned to replace the one that Bristlebane stole from me after our own Dwarven God rewarded me with his own Battle Mug after I defeated the Gypsy Smugglers who were trying to corner the market on Dwarven Ale. After a dozen trips I escorted all the Great Kegs back to Kaladim and restored the memories of the brewers there so that they could remember the recipe for our Holiest Ales.
The dwarf who was behind this was appropriately punished and locked in a pit with nothing but Elven wine and gnomish salt crackers to eat for a month.
At my suggestion too.
Anyway- there I was pouring my ale into my mug when it went sideways and flowed towards the shed. I just managed to run around the Rock and catch the ale in my mouth before it got wasted.
Then I noticed I was standing on the side of the shed and the world had gone sideways too.
With great effort I managed to get off the shed and away from the influence of the Dark Matter- it was clear to me that that Gnome Catbik had been experimenting again when I found him passed out and shrunk to the size of a brownie. Oh did he weigh a bit too!

I questioned him over several days and finally we managed to get him back to normal size again.
He'd left an automaton inside the she to sort the darkmatter along with a shrinking device and some sorta amazing compactor, both which were broken.
The automaton sorted the darkmatter in short order and with nothing else to do saw the two broken devices and rebuilt them together.
Well the device apparently told the automaton "Read for Input: Feed Me" and so it did, with the darkmatter.
What resulted was a several small super concentrated marbles of Darkmatter.
This is what Catbik had stumbled upon and just being near them had shrunk him.
He's so very excited about the possibilities of such a device.
"Imagine shooting rays of this gravishrinkflux at an enemy! You'd be able to stomp on him and then unshrink him by applying a negative polarity to the one you used to emit the ray in the first place!. No more waiting in line behind a stinky ogre staring at his butt anymore!"
He immediately started making notes for his Grand Gravishrinkfluxor Ray Cannon. -sigh- Gnomes never think small- hope he doesn't think to shrink the cannon into crossbow size or something. I'm not sure I want to see the effect of twice shrunk concentrated darmatter power cells on the immediate area or the folks who weren't smart enought to leave the area. I told him he should let the Dark Elves do that experimentation, would serve them right!
Dang gnome said he didn't want to share the glory of a good death and his rightful place in the Great Big Book of "Oops!"

I looked past the technical stuff and how I could exploit this for my brewing.
I had him build me a GravishrinkCompactor and instead of using dry good made it capeable of handling liquids. THat took me several weeks of fishing for sharks again. Why can't Tinkers think of any other source of tubing other than Shark tubing? I made sure it was properly cured this time. I didn't want it to rot on me mid experiments. Some of my brews are very volatile.

The result was a circular device with three seperate stages and at a press of a button it'd collapse itself into a pocket sized device. It used a class 1 compacted darkmatter powercell. Though it did weigh a bit, it was no real effort. If you've carried a willing gnomish lass to yer ... nevermind. Just say anyone should be able to carry one of these and a couple powercells. Just remember that they weigh a lot more than they appear to weigh.

I commisioned a goblin glass blower to experiment and produce bottles that had darkmatter powder mixed in. I suspected I would need something to keep the concentrated beverages I was going to make from fluxing out at the wrong time and expanding.
The goblin proved to be too weak to blow this glass so we hired an out of Work Ogre Politician. Plenty of Hot air there. I bought him four boxes of Votes I assured him he could use the very next election his people had. Didn't even take a forger, just a few wood stamps with an Axe, skull, sword, ale, or an "X" on them and a jar of ink and a stack of papers.
I gave them the powdered darkmatter, two dozen old bottles they could remelt and the stuffed ballot boxes and came back in a few days to get my 12 heavy darkmatter laced bottles.

Now I was set to start experimenting.

-end pages 1 and 2-

page 3

I tried my favorite ales first, especially Double brewed Double Stout Dwarven ale- Big mistake.
Compressing foamy beverages is bad!! By the Second pass the blowout panels on the device started squirting concentrated foam everywhere. Might be a firefighting device someday- but not with any of my ALE!!
I wanted the flavor of my DBDSA though, so I distilled it into a whisky and aged it in the barrels I used to age the DBDSA in the first place.
8 Jugs(bottles) DBDSA + Cask = Cask of DBDSA
Cask DBDSA + Smoker + Aging Dust = Aged Cask of DBDSA
Distill 2 Casks into bottles. You get 4 Bottles of Dwarven Whisky on average a good brewer can get 8. I got 12 of course.
Save one of the aged casks, you can reuse them as much as you need to make more Dwarven Whiskey. You can just skip to aging your ale right away then distilling it. (Combine aged cask + 8 bottles of DBDSA in a still.)

Take one Cask of Aged Dwarven whiskey and place inside the "GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger" along with one of the strong darkmatter bottles. Press the button and wait.
It's slow and agonizing to watch it drip, drop by drop, into the bottle, but knowing that you're getting concentrated goodness makes it worth the wait.

I got 1 full bottle out of 2 aged casks of dwarven whiskey. One sip kept me happy for several hours. Your body can manage the refluxing of the concentrated beverage with ease. Just don't jump or get banged around a lot. Oddly enough concentrated whisky isn't flameable, but watch where you water afterwards.
Duncan Felwater sells a nice soothing burn cream if you didn't.

--end page 3--

--page 4--

I reviewed my old list of specialty wines and decided to distill those too.
8 bottles of any one type of my specialty wines into a cask (aged cask can be used here for a special Fortified concentrate!) and then put into the "GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger" and bottle as normal.
You get a concentrated version of my Specialty wines if used so. If the aged keg was used it's more a more Fortified version of my Specialty wines.

I thought about using Aged wine casks, but I figured if wine drinkers wanted to, they could follow my own notes and figure it out for themselves. Distilling aged wine and aging it again in the casks might result in a very nice tipple with a more favorable kick than just a fortified wine would.

**** Catbik! Caught him feeding fruit juices into my GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger! He didn't need to use my special darkmatter bottles thankfully. (Those are a pain to get made! At least they are reuseable. ) he was feeding in fruit juices into the hopper and then bottling the concentrates!!
That was a drink that lasted forever!!

Snuck a few samples of his concentrated beverages (Where he got enough oranges and mangoes to make Island Cocktail Concentrate I don't know, but I made good use of it!) I took one coconut a bottle each of mango and orange juice concentrates and added plain ole Gnomish spirits to it. This went into a fancy bottle via the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger. I only let the liquid pass through once though. (GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger has 3 slots. Hopper with 8 slots, pass 1 pass 2 and final pass-bottling slot! Pass 1 is used to mix concentrates, pass 2 for bottling juices and non-alcoholic concentrates, pass three for the really concentrated alcoholic beverages I've discovered!)

-- end page 4--

--page five--

Dang gnomes again- Caught Catbik showing a council gnome the device and before I could stop them they put powdered darkmatter into the hopper along with some gnomish spirits they had and some concentrated berry juice. (1 concentrated berry juice 1 gnomish spirits 1 pouch powdered darkmatter)
It came out the second pass tap luckily and looked absolutely volatile!!
If the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger had been set to do three passes I think we'd have another chaos gate on our hands. Luckily the device's safeties prevented them from doing this. I'm a stubborn dwarf and my hammer has marvelous powers of persuasion when my safety and and the possibility of my beard being singed are concerned.

No one wanted to test this beverage so I rounded up Cornflunk and convinced him (Hammer again hehe) to try it out. Poor ogre turned purple and red and got very very drunk immediately and then he shrunk to the size of a dwarf!
Druids swarmed in from all over to see this cute lil reddish purple ogre who was very angry and smelled so nice. Think he got adopted by one of the particularily cute Druids. Wonder if she'll miss her family when Cornflunk unshrinks.
Note- Ogres react to darkmatter quickly. Probably due to their ancient magical origins. More research is needed here. Catbik said he'd get back to me on it.

After the druids left They went at it again this time they put in an invisibility potions, elven wine (x2), concentrated fruit juice, some faerie dust and one puch of darkmatter and processed it. I stood well back. They bottled a pink gold liquid that made me sneeze just being near it. I hate fairies almost as much as I hate Elves. Well elven men, anyways. Their women have their uses and very skilled hands.
We gave the sweet smelling liquid to a halfling druid that was hanging around thinking there was some sort of Event or festival going on. The two gnomes didn't help when they kept setting off fireworks between drinks of Island Cocktails and dancing. (Note to self, three drink limit when gnomes are tinkering, pack burn salve and hair growth formula...scratch that the gnomes found the formula 5000!!)
The halfling drank the bottle and turned into a small fat fairy that zipped around everywhere randomly. He had no control, he weaved as if drunk and kept popping in and out of sight every few seconds.
I had to stop playing swat the flying halfling fairy when the Dwarven Patrols came around to see what the commotion was. The druids dispersed shouting "QUAD! MINE!!"
Boy were the Druids suprised to find out that all the Dwarven Guards now had repeating Crossbows! (Catbik invention- Repeating Crossbow, box quiver, dwarven spring(Made from dwarven wire and with wooden dowel in forge), gnomish bolts (x3) and two small sprockets and one cam. Crossbows can hold 12 bolts before needing to be reloaded and cocked again!).
Rangers disdain the crossbows, but the dwarven guard reward anyone who can bring them one. Druids have found hunting Butcherblock a bit tougher these days and are more sparse due to this. Might be the explosive bolts that the gnomes made too by shrinking a fireworks in their fabulous compactors and then fitting them as a bolt for the crossbows- I'm no tinker or fletcher but it seems simple enough. I hear there's a gnome near the chessboard who does nothing but shrink fireworks for a fee now. He wants to build a lab up in the hills back there someday away from akanon so he can try out some bigger firework experiments.

-- end page 5--

Concentrated Formula 5000, gnomish spirits, and powdered darkmatter combined in the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger should not be used lightly. It causes hair to grow immediately until one appears to be nothing more than a shambling pile of barber sweepings. Good thing is that folks hitting you can't do much damage, but you can't move too fast either.

For halflings it makes their feet hair almost take root in the ground.
Dwarves have super long beards and gnomes get bushier eyebrows.
COuldn't convince any elves to take a sip, and cornflunk had been kidnapped by that cute wood elf druidess.

Hair growth is instantaneous, but only lasts a short time, then it falls out and you're left with your original hair, but with such a sheen and so much more luxurious and full than before. (After furballing and snared- 1 minute later you get a + 10 charisma boost for Good Hair that lasts about 1 game day)

Meal in a Bottle! Eureka! Well it wasn't intentional and I was very drunk.
My packs were full of beverages from that week's experimentation and I was getting slighly nippish.
All my food was stacked nearby and I'm not one to waste supplies and the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger still had plenty of power. I also had several lengths of Shark tubing laying around and some dwarven wire. I made a wooden plunger and cut off the bottom of a regular bottle.
I lined the bottle with the reinforced tubing and put the plunger in the bottom. I had my food injector or dispensor, but now to get the food into the bottle!
I made reinforced tubes and hooked them up to the second output again.
I fed in 8 packs of mushroom and meat stew (4 large underfoot (or other) mushrooms, veggies, meat, water + Herbs + spices + pot) into the hopper and set it for #2 slot.
Machine churned and slowly move the stew through the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger and eventually filled up the bottle!
Here I had 8 meals in a bottle! What a savings for space! This meant I could carry so much more.
I sent over a smaller version of the device to a Halfling lass I know that loves to cook and sew. It only had 2 settings and was much easier to make than the full sized GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger.
I asked her to come up with meal combinations or recipes to bottle up this way.
I sent her a case of the concentrated berry juices and two bottles of the IslandConcentrated Cocktails. I'm sure I remembered to include warning labels. Well pretty sure anyways.

Just got back from a wedding celebration in Kelethin, don't drink too much when you're that high up, and if yer on the ground, bring an umbrella. Trust me. They wanted me to make a beverage for the event that no one else had yet tasted.

I took two berry concentrates, some fairy dust (I didn't sneeze I had my nose guard on), and 8 bottles of Brut champagne and a crystal bowl I found in one of my various adventures.
I put the berry concentrate into an icecream churner and froze it.
I put the frozen concentrate into the bowl and sprinkled the powdered fairy dust over it and then poured the champagne over it.
It served about 24 folks. I was able to make batches of this stuff.
It was going fine until someone spiked the punch even further with the Fairy Berry Zipp Juice Potion- I suspect a bored and very drunk gnomish companion of mine, but it was interesting to watch tiny wood elves flitting about and their clothing going invisible.
Very glad no one use the Hairy Drink in the punch. Hair in the wedding cake would have ruined the party. I'm not much for Cake, but the wood elves do make a good cake. They even use Rum in it! Must see the Baker about that rum caramel filling he uses in his cakes, I could eat a bucket of that alone!

Rum Punch! How could I forget this?
I took 4 Rums and concentrated it through setting 3 on the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger, and then immediately put it back in with fruit/berry juices. I was out of mangoes and oranges, but I'm sure that'd have been even better!
This didn't need the darkmatter bottles either and was fairly simple, if you didn't mind running down to the frozen wastes to visit my dwarven cousins and loading up on rum there.

All the Dwarven spirits in Kaladim and in Iceclad concentrate well enough.
Be careful on selecting the right bottles to use with the right settings on the GravishrinkCompactorCentrifuger though.

When I sober up I'll start on other beverages.

-- end snips---

Okay folks that's the first draft of my next diaries and adventures with Catbik the gnomish magician and tinker.

It has cooking, tinkering, fun brewing, tedious brewing, questing, and a need for large amounts of darkmatter initially.

I'm sure the recipes can be broken down and fit in somewhere.
But I suggest that all Concentrated versions of current brews be done at a higher level of brewing skill (and associated tinkering too, but cooking, sewing, crafting skills be very low skill as a drunk brewer cleric could do them easily - a pattern or low level combine should make the parts easily enough).

I repeat do not think that putting Minotaur ale into the device straight up would be a good idea. You'll be cleaning up foam for days!! And probably take a faction hit if doing it in town.

Now distilling ales, beers and foamy stuff might have other uses.
The druids, halflings, gnomes, wood elves and Ogre named in these stories aren't indicative of the only people that can be affected by these drinks and potions either. Just handy for the story.

I shiver at the thoughts of concentrated Boot Beer Whiskey and Concentrated Skunk Breath Ale Whiskeys...I'm sure the trolls and ogres will be happy though.

**Ngreth Thergn** · 12-04-2005, 10:33 AM

Thank you

I like this.

We may have to wait until Maddoc's Plans for food/drink go in (and I do not have details of these plans) but I will definitely consider these

(Of course after you have your chance to polish...)

**Zilditen** · 12-04-2005, 11:24 AM

"The Great Big Boook of Oops! LOL Thats one of the funniest things I have heard in ages!

**Brodder FoamyMugs** · 12-05-2005, 12:52 AM

Originally posted by Zilditen

"The Great Big Boook of Oops! LOL Thats one of the funniest things I have heard in ages!

Thanks, I try. (bows)

I figure when a Tinker says "OOPS!" You dive immediately for the nearest sandbagged foxhole or stone bunker available. Ask questions later when you rez the poor fool. If you can find all the parts that is.

I also think that dying for the Art is the grand aspiration of any gnomish tinker. It makes them instantly famous and proves they were on the right track of something grand and important!

Anyways- I need feedback on the recipes, devices and hinted items in these diaries.

I might also write the "Great Big Book of Oops!" sometime and of course it will be dedicated to my friend Catbik Tinkerton. It'd tickle his funnybone to no end. Though that might be a bad thing, he tends to hold oversized wrenches or volatiles in his arms. Dropping either could be painful.

I have no idea how hard making a fabulous compactor or gnomish minimizer are- I may just change it to be one device that takes many steps to make.

This would open some brewing from 200-300, but have plenty of easy brewing from 1-200 too. It's just a matter of flagging old brews to be condensable and giving them a result, a failure, a return, etc.

I'm dead set on having the goblin and ogre part though. They'd be on neutral faction and in lavastorm in a corner near a pool of lava for free heat to melt the glass.

Probably give a few other subquests to get him to agree to make the bottles (like getting him sand from the desert zones, or beaches) Basically run out there, use sand collection kit. Wait to get enough sand. (He probably would have specific spots in mind)- watch agro if it's not grey. Take filled box back and get some exps and faction with him.
Repeat until he agrees to look at the new bottle recipe for you.
Give him bottles, and powdered darkmatter.
Wait.
Come back. (actual timer?)
Find out he's not strong enough to blow the new bottles.
Suggests you find him an ogre who can blow a lot of hot air.
Find the Ogre politician.
Do the Stuffed Ballot Box quest for Ogre.
Get flagged.
Go back to Goblin.
Click him and if you're flagged. Ogre appears.
He gives you 4-8 Darkmatter laced bottles. (reusable).
Once flagged for Ogre and Goblin subquests you can have him make bottles anytime you have the materials needed.
Bottles are Tradeable and stackable.
Bottles would weigh 1 lb each.
Filled bottles of concentrated food, beverage, juices etc would weigh a bit too. (2-5 lbs? 20lbs for the 10lb pie concentrates?).

THat's the break down on the subquests I'm thinking about.
Of course it'd be up to EQ, Maddoc and House Ogre how they implemented them, but I'm looking at quests from the DAOC point of view, most time sinks are running around vs waiting for and competing for spawns.

IT should be a minor timesink, not a major one. Quests should be fun, not a big task.

Getting the darkmatter will be tough enough.
If it proves too hard, I'll change the idea- or supply them with an alternate similar to this-
Quest- HeavyGravitonCondensator- Supply a Gnomish Tinker with enough powercells to run his experiments and bring him his lunch (he always forgets it- his wife will ask you to take it to him in one of teh steps where you fetch something from his house- a tool he needs or a calibration device.)

Help him get the device running and bring him powercells and he'll supply you with the needed heavy particles.

That's the type of replacement quest I'd do if darkmatter idea falls flat.

Find out he can't blow the darkmatter mix

**YurienStonebow** · 12-05-2005, 10:36 PM

you got LOTS of time on your hands huh?

**Tyfold** · 01-02-2006, 08:19 PM

This is utterly spectacular!

Is there somewhere I can read the original diaries?

**Brodder FoamyMugs** · 01-04-2006, 07:09 PM

Original diaries are in game- buy em in butcherblock.

IF House Ogre gets okay I'll work on these and develop them further.

If timed right is might fit in with next release.

I'd really love to freelance write again for SOE- but that policy changed back when I was really rocking on EQ related stuff.

This would be a nostalgia gift to the players and a taste of brodder again and his faithful (Mostly not burned and always drunk- mage friend Catbik Tinkerton- who was a real player not a figment)

I know how to balance recipes, game play, fun, entertainment and humor.
Hopefully I'll be able to do this if some of yall are willing to give feedback and what not.

I've asked the tinkers for feedback so I can figure out which recipes to include or which I should create to be feasible to allow brewers and cooks to use the new tools too.

Nothing worse than having new recipes that just can't be done until another race/class/specialist discovers a mising recipe.

This is why I'd have many recipes linked to this that have no Cultural (this time) limitations, nor would they all require to use this tinkered item.

I'm thinking of making Catbik's "The Great Big Book of Oops" too.

It'd include his own brewing recipes that border on comparison with rocket fuel, paint thinner, napalm, nuclear waste or concetrated acid- or maybe all in one. **** gnomes think if a drink sounds like it should knock your boots off, it should actually do that

- regardless of the actual effects on yer person and those nearby you

- should I describe the Bean Concentrate Instant Beer Mix Ooops

that probably precluded the trolls moving from the swamp to Neriak?
Most folks blame the frogs- Brodder knows better- or at least suspects it was Catbik using a tinkered troll bartender disguise to test his concotions- I hesitate to call them beverages, even if they had known brewing items in them.

**YurienStonebow** · 01-04-2006, 10:00 PM

maybe they left cause the drinks gave really bad gas

**Zaltak** · 01-05-2006, 08:05 AM

Heard there is a merchant in Dreadspire that sells Dwarf milk?!? Maybe for next expansion there will be a recipie for it?:-)

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