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Marvin's brew

Blackout liquor • made by Marvin Jr. Jr. Jr. of the Lotus Casino

Overview​

Marvin's brew is a liquor made by Marvin Jr. Jr. Jr., owner of the Lotus Casino. It sends whoever drinks it into a night of blackout drunkenness that they cannot remember afterwards. The party first drank it by accident in Interlude 7. In Session 55 Silas bought a bottle from Marvin through the pocket village's door to the Lotus, and the party used it to wreck the rival crews before Lord Bradicus's mercenary audition. How much of that bottle is left is not recorded. It is not the same thing as Bru's brown.

Properties​

  • Blackout, not a knockout. Drinkers stay awake and active. The party was up all night on it and remembered none of it. The Session 55 recap says it does not drop a target at once but leaves them blackout-drunk and loopy for hours. At the table in Session 56, the players insisted this was not roofying: victims can still move, and they "just teleport to blackout drunk".
  • Its intended purpose. According to the Interlude 7 recap, Marvin meant it as an experimental potion to help the party "fully recuperate". Olivia's player recalled it as a health tonic (Session 54). Marvin says it helps him get to sleep (Session 55).
  • No lasting harm. Beyond the lost night, no lasting effect is recorded.
  • Price. Marvin sold Silas the bottle for 75 silver (Session 55).

History​

Toonlock treated the party to a stay at the Lotus, and on the first night Marvin joined them for celebratory shots of a top-shelf blue liquor. Elspeth suspected she was being roofied. Everyone except Olivia drank, and the party blacked out. The next morning they pieced together a night they could not remember. Marvin admitted his failed potion was to blame, since incompetence at potion-making runs in his family, and comped them another night (Interlude 7). Silas later called it "the best slash least remembered night of our lives."

The unaudited Session 23 recap says that before the mountain race, Silas drugged the racer Thelvolt and another rival with "a substance from their previous adventure with Marvin". The Session 24 recap tells the same story. No transcript exists to confirm what the drug was.

In the Eldoran Empire the party wanted to put rival mercenaries out of action without killing anyone. In Session 54 they settled on giving the cat crew "a really bad hangover" with Marvin's tonic, and Silas volunteered to fetch it. In Session 55, the night before the audition, he went through the pocket village to the Lotus. He asked to borrow "that liquor you shared with us on the first night", reminding Marvin that Naomi had scolded him for sharing it. Marvin made him buy the whole bottle. Silas also left a necklace and a note on Naomi's desk.

The morning of the audition, Leliana turned Silas invisible, and he dosed the continental breakfast table by table. The targets were Paul and Jesse of the card crew, the cats' saucers of milk, all five rich fops, and a scattering of random rivals to hide the pattern. Only the biker gang escaped. The field fell apart while the party stayed sober (Session 55).

Session History​

  • Interlude 7 — Marvin's celebratory shots black out everyone but Olivia. He admits it was a failed recuperation potion and comps the party another night.
  • Session 23 — According to the recap, Silas drugs the racer Thelvolt and another rival before the mountain race with "a substance from their previous adventure with Marvin".
  • Session 54 — The party plans to give a rival crew "a really bad hangover" with Marvin's tonic, and Silas volunteers to fetch it from the Lotus.
  • Session 55 — Silas buys a bottle from Marvin for 75 silver and, while invisible, spikes the rival crews' continental breakfast. The targets are left blackout-drunk for hours.