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Mama Blackwing's Potent Preserver

Preserves a food item by drying it.

This spell forces moisture out of certain food items, thereby drying and preserving them.

This is a MISCELLANEOUS spell that is learned at 25 levels of ma.sp.misc.

This spell consumes 20 units of spell storage space.
The nickname of this spell is drying.
The necessary items for this spell is a speckled frog and a lit candle.
75 GP is needed to cast this spell.

Focus Tea Bonus Guideline S1: fire S2: chanting S3: channeling S4: water
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You would very probably fail. ????????????
You would likely fail. ????????????
You are a little more likely to fail than to succeed. 170???220166
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You are a little more likely to succeed than to fail. 183 - 185???229174 - 179
You might succeed if you put some effort into it. 186-193164 - 175???181
You have a good chance of succeeding. ???176 - 191254???
You would almost certainly succeed. ???200 - 228??????
You would definitely succeed. ???229+??????

I appreciate any extra information reguarding focus tea results. If you'd like to contribute to this please make a copy of your magic skills and your focus tea results and mail them to me witches "Discworld Focus Tea" in the subject line. However, due to focus tea restraints a magic.spells.special bonus of 150 or higher is required.

A very handy method to dry and store food that you're bat will evantually consume.

Some other things to watch for include:

Candles tend to burn down quickly. Remember to extinguish your candle after use or be prepared to constantly fetching candles.

The spell works by comparing the fruit and the frog. Casting the spell successfully will drench your frog in watery goodness. However, repetitive miscasts will dry out your frog, and as any smart frog would do, they'll evantually hop away.

This spell is used in addition to remove one type of liquid from another type of liquid. This is particularly useful for brewing tea and gazing. Th syntax is "cast Mama Blackwing's Potent Preserver on LIQUID in CONTAINER". However, this method won't drench your frog and you risk losing it from dehydration.

Pickling does tend to be more effective, but you will be missing out on some lovely TMs that way.