13.7.1 HEALING YOURSELF
Healing in Lusternia may be accomplished in a number of ways, dependent upon
your resources and what it is you wish to heal.
Sleeping and Meditating
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Healing of health and endurance may be accomplished by sleeping, while mana
and willpower may be healed via meditation. SLEEP will put you to sleep,
WAKE will wake you up, MEDITATE will cause you to meditate and any command
will cause you to cease meditating. These are the most basic methods of
healing, but they are not really sufficient for an experienced adventurer,
as they are slow and require that you do not do anything else while
performing them.
The other ways of healing are legion. They include abilities in various
skills, salves, potions, purgatives, plants, and smoking. Nothing need be
said here about the abilities, as suitable help may be found on those within
the skills. However, the other methods need some explanation.
Potions, Purgatives and Salves
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Potions are liquids that may heal health, mana, cure afflictions, or set up
various defenses. Salves are also fluids, though they are thicker and are
able to be spread on your body. Purgatives are similar to potions, and
they cure some of the same ailments as herbs.
Potions, purgatives and salves come in the various types of vials found
throughout the land, and when full, can be used many times before running out.
You may refer to potions, purgatives and salves by the vial they are in. For
example, if you were holding an onyx vial, you would type DRINK ONYX VIAL or
DRINK <vial#>, etc. Often, you may wish to drink a certain type of fluid
contained in one of your vials. You may DRINK <fluid type> and have
Lusternia search for the first vial in your inventory containing that type
of fluid (also works with APPLY described below). You may also want to
learn discernment until you have the "potionlist" ability, which will allow
you to list the contents of all the vials you are holding.
EXCEPTION: The healing potion, which can be drunk to heal normal physical
damage or applied directly to a body part to heal deep wounds. See
HELP DEEP WOUNDS.
One drinks a potion, but one applies a salve. One may apply a salve to
either head, arms, chest, gut or legs. For instance, a vial of mending would
cure a broken arm if applied to your arm, and a broken leg if applied to your
legs. The syntax would be APPLY <vial#> TO ARMS or APPLY ONYX VIAL TO ARMS.
You may also simply do: APPLY ONYX VIAL, for instance, and the game will heal
the first thing it finds that whatever is in your onyx vial can heal and that
you are afflicted with.
You may purchase potions and salves from the marketplaces around Lusternia,
or you may ask on MARKET channel to buy them from Alchemy users.
Plants
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Plants, in this context, are things that you eat. (Some may be smoked. See
the next section.) Eating plants generally cure afflictions, or set up
defences for you. You may find both of these for sale in marketplaces around
Lusternia, or you may contact an Herbs user to buy them.
Smoking
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Some defences, such as an anti-weapon field (created by smoking the
faeleaf plant), and some cures are effected by smoking plants. To do this,
you simply find yourself a nice pipe, PUT <whatever> IN PIPE, LIGHT PIPE
(you must have a source of fire, such as a tinderbox in your inventory),
and then SMOKE PIPE. A lit pipe will eventually go out if you don't smoke
it now and then, but you can simply relight it.
You will find a list of some of the potions, salves, and useful plants in
HELP HEALINGLIST.
