What does it do?

Maybe you're missing the line - it's "A soft light momentarily surrounds you as the holy water protects you from harm."

It should never strip without showing you that line.

You say to Iytha, "Staff me."
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Iytha points her staff at you and it swells, rapidly discharging a torrent of poisonous fumes and sharp rocks into your body, engulfing flesh and smashing bone.
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You take a drink from a bottle.
You sigh contentedly as the amber brew takes away your pain.
Warm, amber ale passes smoothly down your gullet, leaving a bitter, malty flavour as it sakes your thirst.
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You say, "Again."
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Iytha points her staff at you and it swells, rapidly discharging a torrent of poisonous fumes and sharp rocks into your body, engulfing flesh and smashing bone.
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Brewmeisters create specialty malts (pale, amber and dark) and specialty dry teas (black, green, white and oolong). Cooking cartels can make designs using these preliminary items (malts and dry leaves). Both Brewmeisters and Cooks can brew both beers and teas (using the malts/dry tea in a cooking design). Brewmeisters cannot join a cartel so only cooks can brew special cartel beers and teas.

Hope that's not too confusing!

Out of curiousity, what do the teas do?

BTW, for those testing beers, the effects increase, the more inebriated you are!

If I'm understanding right, what you're saying is that brewmeisters do not require these items from cooks at all, but rather herbalists give items to brewmeisters who can in turn sell to cooks, and the extra pattern types are entirely irrelevant?

EDIT: Wait, I'm starting to follow. Cooks and brewmeisters draw from the same public designs, so the item type matters. I suppose the real question then is how do whitetea and darkmalt and similar commodities come into the world?

Correct. Brewmeisters don't need cooks but cooks need Brewmeisters to make malts and teas. Extra patterns types are never irrelevant! Many will pay up for exclusive and unique designs!

We made the choice to allow Brewmeisters to share creating alcohol with cooks as it simply didn't seem logical that Brewmeisters wouldn't be able to brew!

Brewmeisters create whitetea from raw tea (herb) and darkmalt from grains and/or sugar.

By the way, the real life Roark if a brewmeister. I have 5 gallons of India pale ale in the bottles waiting to become fully cabronated. I shall consume them in two weeks!

Clearly if Dwarves can specialize with Brewmastery, that means you're also going to release Gnome as a new change, right?

Yeah, Roark was instrumental in pointing me to sites that inspired the AB files for the beer brews!

This tea just increased my health.

The only issue I have with Brewmeister at the moment is that I can't buy a cartel and design my own brews. I can see why, I suppose, but it just means I'll have to bug cooks all the time to submit for me.

Also, if we still need the ABs in a few hours, I will post them (and an .mp3 of my singing ) after I finish up this WoW tournament and my friends stop hounding me. >_<

Samples, or it didn't happen.

Edit: Here's what I want to know. Does Asthma stop horn blowing? Does Deafness stop musicboxes?

So cooks need to buy ingredients from Brewmeisters that only the Brewmeisters can make, in order to make unique teas and beers?

or wait...

That was just one sip of ale. Oh lord I can't imagine the damage a dwarf really drunk on amberale will be. Obscenely low, I imagine.

Okay, this is how it works - there's three beers and four teas. To make any of them, you need pale/amber/darkmalts for the beers, and green/white/black/oolong tea pouches for the teas. Those are the ingredients. Only brewmeisters can make those ingredients. They can, in turn, sell them to cooks, who can then brew up the drinks. Or brew them up themselves. And I'm certain there's no way at current that you can access private cartel designs, even if you're in a privately owned cartel. I tested it mahself.

I don't know offhand what the rate is, but I do hope you tried it multiple times. It's pretty likely when doing damage testing that you'll encounter some regeneration unless you're spamming enter so other prompts catch it.

This better not be a long ass April Fools joke.