Draft:Ambrosias' Potions et cie

Omega 0.90.4

Ambrosias' Potions et cie. is the alchemist's shop in Rampart. It buys certain monster remains or, for a fee, transforms them into specific magic items. Despite the shop's name, there is no ordinary potion catalogue to buy from: the useful ingredient is the corpse or monster part you bring.

Location	City travel name	Opening hours
Random shop site	alchemist	07:00-20:59

Selling and transforming remains

Read the shop sign to discover its city-travel destination. Choose a to offer monster components for sale, or b to pay for transformation, then select the remains. Both services accept the same species: a part Ambrosias refuses to buy also has no transformation here.

A sale pays one third of the remains' base value, rounded down, and consumes one item. Transformation costs twice that base value, with a minimum of 10 Au. It replaces the selected remains with the product in the table below. The transformation menu concerns the remains, not the player's body or attributes.

Ordinary products are blessed, and equipment whose base enchantment is zero receives an enchantment equal to the source species' monster level. Wands, rods, staves and other charged sticks receive 20 charges. Products with an existing enchantment keep it: the vorpal sword is +5 and firestar is +7. Demonblade is the exception to the blessing rule: it keeps its severe curse. Transformation does not include a full identification service.

Bring a single ingredient per selected stack when preserving duplicates matters: transformation replaces the selected stack with one product, rather than transforming each member separately. An ordinary monster's death does not guarantee that it leaves remains, so obtaining the ingredient can take more than one kill.

Transformations

Prices are in Au. All products below are blessed except Demonblade; enchantments are shown for equipment. The four different elemental essences have different products.

Remains	Product	Transformation cost	Sale payment
Dead tse-tse fly	Potion of alertness	10	1
Fnord's antennae	Scroll of summoning	100	16
Blipper organ	Scroll of teleportation	50	8
Phantasticon's eyes	Scroll of true sight	20	3
Dead floating eye	Potion of levitation	40	6
Dead transparent nasty	Potion of invisibility	60	10
Murk cloud particles	Scroll of light	20	3
Salamander scales	+3 ring of fire resistance	100	16
Catoblepas' eyes	+3 ring of gaze immunity	100	16
Lesser frost demon's heart	Snowball stick	100	16
Manticore spikes	Staff of missiles	40	6
Dead tasmanian devil	Potion of speed	20	3
Denebian slime	Potion of curing	40	6
A valium gland (torpor beast)	Potion of alertness	100	16
Dragon steak (dragonette)	+5 ring of fire resistance	100	16
Tesla monster whip	Wand of ball lightning	400	66
Wyvern's sting	+5 ring of poison resistance	300	50
Frost demon's heart	Rod of summoning	400	66
Spectre's veil	+5 cloak of negimmunity	400	66
Shadowstuff (shadow spirit)	Scroll of light	20	3
Essence of fire elemental	Wand of fireballs	400	66
Essence of air elemental	+6 cloak of invisibility	400	66
Essence of water elemental	Staff of healing	400	66
Essence of earth elemental	+6 cloak of protection	400	66
Behemoth's gonads	+7 ring of strength	100	16
Unicorn's horn	+7 ring of poison resistance	1,000	333
Dragon scales	+8 dragonscale armor	2,000	333
Jabberwock's head	+5 vorpal sword	2,000	333
Frost demon lord's sigil	Cursed +8 Demonblade	1,000	166
Shadow matrix (shadow slayer)	+8 ring of truesight	150	25
Dead slayer (invisible slayer)	+9 cloak of invisibility	400	66
King wyvern's sting	+9 ring of poison resistance	100	16
Deathstar's eye	+7 Firestar	1,000	166
Vampire dust (vampire lord)	+9 cloak of negimmunity	400	66
The Heart of the Eater of Magic	Staff of dispelling	500	83
The Dragon Lord's Hide	+10 dragonscale armor	4,000	666

Strategy

The three weapon recipes above preserve their fixed enchantments: vorpal sword +5, Demonblade +8 and Firestar +7. Demonblade also preserves its -8 curse, while the other two receive blessing +1. Those individual weapon pages explain the attack effects and risks before equipping the product.

Check a useful ingredient's transformation before selling it for a small sum. Manticore spikes, for example, sell here for only 6 Au but become a 20-charge staff of missiles for 40 Au. Salamander scales provide a predictable fire-resistance ring, while later remains can supply highly enchanted armor, rings and cloaks.

The shop connects naturally to Arena progression: salamanders, manticores, spectres and jabberwocks appear in its fixed opponent sequence. The named arena challengers leave remains on a normal kill, providing potential extra rewards beyond the prize money; collect them before leaving. Ordinary unnamed versions only have a chance to leave a corpse. This does not make the fights themselves safe.

Do not transform quest evidence you still need. The Heart of the Eater of Magic is required for the Collegium Magii's Archmage promotion; turning it into a staff or selling it consumes the heart.

For cash alone, compare Knight's Pawn Shop, whose ordinary offer for fully known remains is half their value, or the Thieves' Guild's member fencing service at two thirds, rather than the alchemist's one third. Ambrosias' distinctive benefit is the predictable transformation, not the highest price for an unprocessed trophy.

Trivia

Ambrosias performs the transformation with a tap of the Philosopher's Stone. The name comes from the legendary alchemical substance associated with turning base metals into gold or silver; Omega applies it to the decidedly less elegant business of converting monster parts into adventuring equipment. Science History Institute: the philosophers' stone