Use of Salves

By Shusen

This tutorial will describe how and when to use salves.

Firstly, note that all salves share balance. This means that after you apply a salve you have to wait for the message 'you may apply another salve' before another salve will have any effect.

If you're fighting a monk, eventually they will 'greatly damage' one of your limbs. This is usually called breaking. Once this happens, for example to an arm, you need to 'apply restoration to arms' then wait for salve balance, then 'apply mending to arms'. Alternatively, you can simultaneously 'apply restoration to arms' and 'touch tree'. In this case, the tree tattoo replaces the mending salve and this is the fastest way to cure a broken limb.

If your limb is greatly damaged, and you apply mending before restoration salve, the salve will fizzle away.

If your limb is beaten to uselessness, then you have to apply restoration twice before mending salve. This happens if you didn't heal the original break and then received further damage to the same limb. Note this is not the same as withering or shrivelling to useless.

If a monk wrenches your limbs, a knight, occultist or serpent withers your limb, a priest snaps it, or monk kaicripples, this is fixed by just mending salve. Mending can be used like 'apply mending' or 'apply mending to arms' depending on whether you want to fix a specific part. If you don't specify, it will try to fix damaged legs first.

If you burst into flame, 'apply mending to torso'.

If you can't eat because food repulses you, cure yourself with 'apply epidermal'. This also cures being deaf or blind. Keep this in mind if you're blind and try to cure anorexia. Epidermal also cures the itch from a jester and being unable to talk (from hypnotic attack).

Caloric cures intense shivers and cold-attacks like those from necromantic knights or the occie blue lash. It can also be used as defence from cold, if applied before a spar.

I mentioned that for anorexia you 'apply epidermal'. This works, but is not the best way to do it. The -best- way is to 'apply epidermal to body'. This method does not cure deaf or blind, it just cures the anorexia. Very nice!

Lastly, mass. This very handy salve makes you heavy, which stops all kinds of attacks such as axe-pull and hoist from Sentinel, wormhole-pull from serpents, the priest's rite that moves you around, the warlock's suck-you-into-the-room vibes, and so on. The salve lasts for a certain time, then needs to be re-applied. I believe you can kill yourself if you move very fast for too long while massed up, so be careful.