>>5298055“The potion you had me analyze,” the Novice says, “is, quite humorously, almost the opposite of the last which you brought me. It is a Potion of Diminution.”
You tilt your head. “A potion to make me weak, rather than stronger?”
“A potion to make you SMALLER,” the Novice corrects. “Some weakness may result, but you would remain disproportionately, freakishly strong—appropriate, for such a creature as yourself—in your smaller size.”
“Will there be any side-effects?” you ask.
The Novice frowns. “Well… Perhaps avoid spellcasting in that form. Its age is indeterminate, but the Devourer was an old thing. Who knows when it ate this potion’s original owner? You may experience similar side-effects to last time.”
You nod, and tuck the potion into a side-pocket of your pack.
Do you do anything else while you wait for the final phase of the potion-brewing to complete?
>Explore the nearby caverns a little more with Glowie, chastely and without handholding, and see if you can chart the new realm you are likely to assign her>Seek out the barbed devil or his cohort again, in an effort to capture or kill one so as to put the fear of the Dark Gods into them>Try meditating on dragonness again with the Bastard>As the Elf-Specialist about elven legends related to the moon>Find somewhere private and attempt to commune with a different Dark God [which one?]>Write-in 