A redwood basin

Bittersweet Elixir

Tags: magical, beautiful

A wide, shallow bowl carved with flowers and thorny vines, twining through skulls of deer and other beasts. The pattern shifts when you aren't looking; it's never exactly the same twice.

To unlock it, you must:

• befriend the spirit of life and vitality that dwells within;
• learn from a Fae how to pour years of your life into the basin;
• fill the basin with a few years of your life.

When you mark the last requirement and unlock this arcanum, mark your current age on the other side. Then trigger the Bittersweet Elixir move.

Bittersweet Elixir

youthful · mature · elderly

When you fill the basin with a few years of your life, it becomes a draught of honey and regret. Either mark the next age above (and update your look) as the lost years catch up with you, or mark one of the following (your choice):

• Your mood shifts, dramatically (how?)
• You see the Last Door (what's it like?)
• Lose access to one of your traits' benefit, until you Level Up (say which trait, and how it fails you)
• You have less than a year to live

When someone drinks down all of the bittersweet elixir, straight from the basin, they pick 1:

• Regain all HP, clear all debilities, and heal any active problematic wounds
• Purge themselves of all poison/disease
• Fully recover from a permanent injury by next season's end, or sooner