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Consumable · Introduced in Book 8
Protective environmental secretions
The bat vendors’ foul-tasting secretion gives broad protection from environmental hazards when swallowed. It counts as a food buff and uses a separate cooldown from ordinary potions.[1]
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Protection and limits
Prepotente gets about thirty minutes of protection from roughly half a potion bottle. Carl later gets an hour from a large gulp. It has to be drunk manually.
It does not stop suffocation inside Scolopendra. Penelope still needs help breathing, and the normal potion cooldown prevents her from taking anti-asphyxiation potions as often as she needs.[2]
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History
Book 8
A Parade of Horribles
Louis gets a bucket for the group, and Carl drinks from it during the later journey. Traveling inside Scolopendra reveals the breathing problem despite the secretion’s other protections.[2]
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Sources
References are to Matt Dinniman’s novels. Book links open our recap guides.
- A Parade of Horribles, Chapter 47.
- A Parade of Horribles, Chapters 47, 77, 94–95.