Wood Alcohol (remedy)

Also known as wood spirit, an anti-freeze and solvent that will attack molds & jellies as an acid. Wood alcohol has a high toxicity - an amount as little as a third of a fluid ounce (10 ml), if ingested, can cause permanent damage to the optic nerve, blinding the drinker. A fluid ounce is enough to be lethal and 3.4 fl. oz. is enough to have a 50% chance of killing. It must be imbibed, however; median amounts of wood alcohol will not cause damage to exposed flesh (though pouring it in an open wound will enable its toxicity).

Wood alcohol has a very wide variety of practical uses in many different industries. It serves to clean stone and metal, as a mix with perfume, as a preservative for dead flesh (for spell components) and as an additive that keeps water from freezing (with toxicity reduced by permitting a very low saturation). Wood alcohol is usually sold in gill bottles (6.3 fl. oz.).

When hurled as a grenade weapon at a jelly or mold, wood alcohol will cause 1-8 damage on a hit (if a gill of liquid is employed). It may be doused outward from an open bottle or the bottle smashed near the creature (though if the creature is hit this will probably result in the bottle striking a 'soft surface' and not breaking).

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