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Brown

Goblin liquor • Bru's signature drink

Overview​

Brown is Bru's drink of choice. It is thick, strong-smelling, highly alcoholic stuff that he pours into everything, offers to everyone, and considers the only proper kind of alcohol. Hardly anyone else can stand it. As of Session 63 Bru has a supply that appears to be endless: the slushie machine the Stalker gave the party in Session 53, which is always full of ice-cold brown. He still carries it and hands out cups of brown slush to pay people and win them over. Brown is not the same as Marvin's brew, the Lotus Casino's blackout liquor.

Properties​

  • Texture. Thick and chunky. Bru maintains that all brown is "chewy" (Interlude 7), and the Session 24 recap calls it his "favorite chunky alcoholic stew".
  • Smell. Awful to everyone but Bru. It left a bucket of his gear reeking (Session 39), and the smell of the slushie machine's contents "stings the nostrils" (Session 53).
  • Strength. About 60 percent alcohol, according to Bru (Session 53).
  • Flammable. Heated in an oven, it ignited (Session 39). Bru told a factory foreman that it is flammable enough to replace a furnace (Session 63), and he has suggested the endless supply could serve as fuel for combustion engines (Session 53).
  • Acidic. Bru worried it would eat through a Ziploc bag (Session 57).
  • Contents unknown. In Session 60 Bru admitted that "no one truly knows what's inside Brown".
  • Served hot or frozen. Bru says it is better warm (Session 39). The slushie machine serves it ice-cold, and it gives a ferocious brain freeze.
  • A goblin taste. On Tortuga, Bru's home island, the 7-Eleven sells it both as a slushie and hot (Interlude 16). A Greyport restaurant keeps it on hand because goblin dignitaries have asked for it (Session 48).

History​

Bru's devotion goes back to his childhood on Tortuga. In the flashback of Interlude 16, his Uncle Belch taught him that brown should be his sole source of food, and the firework designed that session carries the Bru family crest, which includes a mug of brown. When the party drank Roscoe's Everclear (Session 11), Bru demanded that the liquor be brown and, when refused, poured dirt into his mouth mid-sip: "It was brown in my mouth." At the Lotus he added brown even to top-shelf shots (Interlude 7). After Elspeth won the mountain race, she celebrated by pouring brown all over him (Session 24).

His supply has been a hazard to others. Iro spent a week cleaning brown out of the machinery of Fluke's Workshop after an earlier visit by Bru and is still not over it. Scarlet told Bru that she had "mostly poured it out", meaning the brown he kept in the van, the Zoomfall, which made him furious. When attackers came for the workshop, Bru and Scarlet rigged a can of brown above the front door (Session 44).

In Session 53 Bru gave Scarlet a crumpled paper bag of brown for her birthday: "Pour it in a drink. Makes the drink brown." That night the Stalker, whom Elspeth nicknamed Gregor, left a Margaritaville-style slushie machine as a parting gift. It turned out to be full of icy brown, and Bru's 64-ounce cup made no dent in the level. It has been Bru's supply ever since. He set it out at lunch in Session 57 and paid the guide Straenona with containers of brown slush. In Session 63 he used a cup of it to coax the foreman of the spaceport factory outside. The foreman's verdict was "My god, this is awful."

Session History​

  • Session 11 — Bru demands that Roscoe's Everclear be brown and secretly adds dirt mid-sip: "It was brown in my mouth."
  • Interlude 7 — At the Lotus Casino, Bru adds brown even to premium shots and insists all brown is "chewy".
  • Session 24 — Elspeth celebrates her mountain race win by pouring brown all over Bru.
  • Interlude 16 — In the Tortuga flashback, the 7-Eleven sells brown hot and as a slushie, and a mug of brown appears on the Bru family crest.
  • Session 39 — Bru's surrendered magic items leave a checkpoint bucket reeking of brown. He drinks from it, and the brown ignites when the bucket is heated.
  • Session 44 — Scarlet has poured out Bru's brown, Iro recalls cleaning it out of his machinery, and Bru and Scarlet rig a can of it above the workshop door as a trap.
  • Session 53 — Bru gives Scarlet a bag of brown for her birthday. The Stalker's parting gift turns out to be a slushie machine with an unending supply of it.
  • Session 57 — Bru serves brown slush at lunch and pays Straenona with containers of it.
  • Session 63 — Bru wins over the factory foreman with a cup of brown, claiming it is flammable enough to replace the furnace.