Apothecaries spend their days split between the gardens, the forest, and the Apothecary shop. They are scientists and naturalists always seeking new cures. The Apothecary shop is cluttered with bottles, scales, and experimental remedies. Apothecaries are essential to the work of all Rafa, as they create the medications other Rafa prescribe. Patients also come to them directly for cures for common ailments. Apothecaries spend so much time in the forest that they often know more about the local flora and fauna than any other Rafa.
Specialty Boon #
Once per game session, players of this specialty can freely take advantage of the Apothecary’s Specialty Boon:
The Land’s Tender #
There are perhaps no Rafa better suited than Apothecaries to understand how all living things are related through the Land. Luck into finding any common, living ingredients needed for an Herbal Remedy recipe, exactly when you need them.
Describe a small cache of defiant life that you find growing in the world around you, and how your careful attention is drawn to it.
Rafa Bag Supplies #
- Small wooden mortar and pestle
- Travel tea kettle
- Small scale
- Funnel
- 3 empty bottles
- Bandages
- 2 completed herbal remedies of choice
- 9 ingredients of choice
- 1 hand pie of choice
- 5 Silver Dollars
Remedy Recipes #
An apothecary may choose two prepared remedies to pack in their bag at no cost. Using Make Herbal Remedies, you may create any of the following recipes at the cost of the ingredients and three life energy.
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Tea for Focus
Recipe
Infuse water with lemon balm, ginger, and green tea for concentration.
Instructions
Drink in the morning. Taking after sundown will ruin one’s sleep schedule.
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Tea for Sleep
Recipe
Make a tea of marjoram leaves and lemon balm.
Instructions
Take before bed for a calming sleep.
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Oil for High Blood Pressure
Recipe
Warm marjoram leaves and garlic in oil. Strain.
Instructions
Eat with meals.
+1 to life energy.
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Tea for Diabetes
Recipe
Make a tea of goat’s rue and cinnamon to decrease blood sugar levels.
Instructions
Drink before meals.
Increases life energy by +1, +3 if the user has diabetes.
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Tea for Pain
Recipe
Make a tea of white willow bark and ginger to treat pain including headaches, back pain, and menstrual cramps.
Instructions
Brew tea.
Mind is freed from minor to moderate pains only.
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Pain Salve
Recipe
Heat myrrh resin, oil, and beeswax. Allow to cool.
Expensive.
Instructions
Apply to inflamed joints, mouth sores, or lacerations.
+2 to life energy.
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Digestive Oil
Recipe
Make an oil of lemon balm, orange peel, ginger, and honey.
Instructions
Serve in warm water after meals.
+1 to life energy if taken after food.
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Cough Syrup
Recipe
Make a syrup by heating marshmallow root, honey, thyme, orange peel, and water.
Instructions
Serve in warm water.
Soothes the throat and greatly reduces coughs and hacking. May help clear breathing.
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Wound Dressing
Recipe
Make a tincture of pomegranate and alcohol. Mix with myrrh resin.
Instructions
Apply to wound. Counteracts 1 side effect.
+1 to life energy.
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Anxiety Tincture
Recipe
Make a tincture of lemon balm and alcohol.
Instructions
Serve in warm water.
Eases mind, allowing rest or clear decision making. +1 to life energy.
Apothecary Skills #
Recommended Starter Skills #
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Ease Pain
A wise Rafa once said that pain leaves marks on the body and the mind. A deeply unserious Rafa once said that pain is weakness leaving the body, and they were made to retake their ethics courses twice.
This skill lowers a patient’s pain. Tell the Rafa how the pain makes itself known as it departs the patient.
Side Effects
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Energy Boost
While boosting the energy of a patient, some Rafa emit a gentle light, while others bring a crisp sea breeze with them. Rafa Yohanan, blessed be her memory, shortly after Freka fell to the ocean, was rumored to cause her patients to twinkle in the darkness of the night.
This skill revives and boosts a patient’s energy. Tell the Rafa about their patient’s energy and how it hums.
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Growth Spurt
Plants have remarkable control over their own capacity for growth, and sometimes they just need a little encouragement to bloom.
This skill causes plants to grow at a supernaturally rapid pace.Tell the Rafa how the plant expresses its pleasure or displeasure.
Side Effects
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Heal Flora
Most Apothecaries learn to Heal Flora for the sake of their recipes. However, if Rafa solely care about harvesting, plants heal less from lack of empathy. Wise Rafa apply this observation back to vital empathy is to human patients.
This skill allows the Rafa to restore life to flora which has been damaged. Tell the Rafa what empathetic feeling they receive from their target.
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Make Herbal Remedy
A good Rafa Apothecary should be able to describe not only a remedy’s instructions, but the sights and smells which occur during its successful creation. This usually involves extensive taste testing.
This skill allows one to make an herbal remedy that they have prepared. The Rafa can describe the look, smell, and taste of their remedies.
Side Effects
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Speak with Plants
Seeds grow up towards the sun, their entire being seeking the Light. Plants constantly send signals out, although most are not attuned to hear them. As such, adult Avodai will often respond to children carelessly ripping their leaves or petals by saying “Aghh!”
This skill allows the Rafa to converse with plants. Tell the Rafa what the plants want to tell them first.
Side Effects
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Staunch Bleeding
Scholar Asher, blessed be his memory, wrote that, “as the blood of life flows within us, so does the Light flow through all the spaces in this world. Even the most full, and especially the most empty.”
This skill stops a patent’s bleeding. Tell the Rafa about the qualities of their patient’s light.
Side Effects
Advanced Skills #
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Breathe
Breath is life. All Rafa learn different types of controlled breathing to activate different conscious states, and in turn they become conscious of how emotions and breath dance with each other.
This skill helps a patient breathe. Tell the Rafa what is carried on the wind, like breath, that rises up around them?
Side Effects
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Find Lost People
Often a matter of life and death, Rafa know the importance of connecting with their community. When truly enmeshed with their community, a Rafa can feel people in need of help like the ache of a phantom limb.
This skill lets the Rafa find anyone they know. Tell the Rafa about the environment the lost person is in, as well as their location.
Side Effects
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Heal Flora
Most Apothecaries learn to Heal Flora for the sake of their recipes. However, if Rafa solely care about harvesting, plants heal less from lack of empathy. Wise Rafa apply this observation back to vital empathy is to human patients.
This skill allows the Rafa to restore life to flora which has been damaged. Tell the Rafa what empathetic feeling they receive from their target.
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Plant Puppets
An esoteric art: Plant Puppets evolved from teaching plants to respond to human manipulations of light. Rafa Ruthim learned to stimulate vines into growing in particular directions and gyrating in an unmistakably rhythmic way.
This skill uses energy bending to move plants.Tell the Rafa what rhythm blossoms within their own body.
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Shadow Puppet
Light and shadow end precisely where the other begins. Deaf and non-speaking Avodai developed a language of magical shadow puppets and symbology called Shadow Tongue. Unlike other energy bending restricted to Rafa, Shadow Puppet is learnable by anyone.
The Rafa describes the shapes they are using, and their meaning. This skill costs nothing for deaf or non-speaking characters.
Side Effects
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Temperature Control
Outside Houses of Healing, it’s not well known just how few degrees stand between life and death. Rafa Physician Nuri believes in erring on the side of warmth for destroying infection, though they are not known for their bedside manner.
This skill raises or lowers the temperature of a patient’s body. Tell the Rafa how the heat or cold leaving their patient appears.
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X-Ray Vision
Ghosts emit a green aura, and Rafa Vilhelm was fascinated by its ability to penetrate human tissue, casting shadows of dense bone against walls. His experiments yielded special reactive paper to capture the results for record keeping.
This skill lets the Rafa see through looser, opaque objects. Tell the Rafa if they notice anything odd for the next few minutes.
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