When someone takes a sip, does an equal amount of elixir drain from each? Is this a finite resource?
No, each bottle is an independent entity
I know I would become one of those juices
“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the- World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH, the paint would’t even have time to dry.”
- Terry Pratchett
I gotta fuckin’ know…
“My God… The juice is loose!”
Ha! Kid and Play for someone of my intelligence! All you have to do is drink an Odd just a sip and the rest of the Juice is yours!
juice that makes your bones hurt
What happens if you pour a bit of 3 different bottles into a cup, mix it up and then drink it. Which bottle do you turn into?
Yes
Is the new bottle identical to the bottle after the sip was taken? That would mean each copy has less juice than the one before it. So although the total amount of juice increases when a copy is made (at least until the sip is larger than the remaining juice), it would still run out eventually.
Once all of the fuller bottles are depleted, we’re gonna see some exponential growth in the bottle population.
Now these are the real questions
Bottle prime would still have the same amount though, and infinite copies of that (minus 1 drop) could be made of if
It would have less every time someone drinks from it.
oh… doy. I thought I had this figured out
You could also refill the first bottle after each clone, then all cloned bottles would be full -2 sips.
But only if you could resist sipping it yourself before refilling.
And even faster if you pour it into a glass like a decent human versus drinking straight from the bottle like my mom would say, “a goddam animal like your father”.
Good question. The same goes for the label. If I rip it away and burn it before drinking, would I then turn into a bottle that also doesn’t have a label, making it even more dangerous to other people.
Me trying to socialize in Caves of Qud
ok but how does this works? if i pour it on the ground and lick it, do i turn into a puddle? or it stops working because technically it’s no longer a “bottle of juice”?
It just turns you into the same bottle. The juice is what transforms you; the bottle is just a convenient inbuilt warning.
what if you pour it into the ocean? eventually it will become the drinking water for everyone. what if people turn only a little bit into a bottle because of the small dosis? how do you turn into a bottle just a little bit?
They’d get a hell of a lot less than a sip. I assume that nothing happens until you have a complete sip, since it seems to be instantaneous (the bottle in the foreground has cartoon “pop” lines).
I’m a little bit of a bottle, short and stout,
Here is my handle, here is my AHHHHH OH GOD IT HURTS! KILL ME NOW AND END MY SUFFERING, DEAR MERCIFUL GOD!
It says “even a sip”, so I suppose it’s a question of what is the minimal amount of juice that counts as a sip. If it’s diluted enough it might only half transform you into a bottle of juice.
Makes sense. I feel there should be law mandating the juice be sold in the original bottle so that consumers can be well informed what they are transforming into.
This reminds me of the Light Grenade from Mom and Dad Save the World.
inanimate_tf
A wise man say: If we drink the juice, are we not ourselves changed?
But im so thristy
But what does it taste like?
the sweetest nectar that you’ve ever tasted
It’s impossible to ever know
It tastes like the other bottles. They’re identical.
But what do the other bottles taste like?
The first bottle, IIRC.
