Brain brine

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brain brine
When on/in other objects/liquids:
nervous liquid
nervous object
brain-brine-stained object
Vaporizes at

2000°, into confusion gas

Base temperature

25°

Value per dram

1233

Weight per dram

0.25#

Evaporativity

1

Fluidity

10

Cleaning factor

30

Prompt to wade through?

no

Prompt to drink?

no

ID

BrainBrinePool

Liquid ID

brainbrine

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Reason: Mention what can and cannot be rerolled with Precognition (e.g. general type of result and the specific mutation cannot, but rumors can).

brain brine is a rare liquid usually found inside random reliquaries located within the Tomb of the Eaters. If it is a part of a mixed liquid, or an item is stained with brain brine, they become nervous. A phial of the liquid can also be found on the alchemist.

Sources of Brain Brine

Drinking Brain Brine

When a creature drinks brain brine, they become confused for 20–30 turns.[1]

For the player only (including bodies temporarily dominated by the player), once the confusion ends (by any means), there are further effects.[2] They will receive the message "You shake the water from your addled brain, but someone else's thoughts have already taken root", lose one point of Ego, and receive an occurrence drawn randomly from the following table:

Weight Chance Result
20 14.8% Get 2-3 random skills
20 14.8% Gain 400-500 Skill Points
10 7.4% Gain 2-3 Intelligence
10 7.4% Gain 2-3 Willpower
30 22.2% Learn 6-8 random secrets
30 22.2% Gain one positive mental mutation
15 11.1% Gain one random mental defect

If the affected creature is a Chimera and the result would otherwise give them a mental mutation or a defect, they receive the message "Your mind begins to morph but the physiology of your brain restricts it." instead.

Strategies

Brain brine uses a per-creature random seed that isn't used by anything else. This means that simply using Precognition and RNG manipulation alone (such as through neutron flux) will not alter its outcome for a given creature, nor will use of Domination or a ganglionic teleprojector. However, clones have their own random seeds, so it is possible to force a desired result using those methods plus a source of cloning.

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.202.104.
  1. XRL.World.Parts.LiquidBrainBrine, method Drink
  2. XRL.World.Effects.BrainBrineCurse