Oblivion:Roleplaying/Alchemist

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Sinderion is a Master Alchemist in Skingrad. He researches the rare plant Nirnroot. Here he is pictured concocting an Elixir of Exploration, a potion which can only be made with this rare plant

Want to become a brilliant alchemist or just make a living? Want to run an apothecary for the elderly and infirm? Follow this guide!

• Experiment! Make a potion with a poor beneficial effect (something like restore 1 health for 1 second) and with a couple of bad effects and drink it. Make sure it's not strong enough to kill you, and attempt to make it better.

• Your schedule could include selling your current potions and/or poisons (depending on your clients) for profit and using the money for realistic reasons. Remember those gold-trimmed shoes in Divine Elegance that you wanted so bad? Now you can afford it! Or, if you're saving up for better apparel or something like that, place your savings into a "safe" in your house. Spend the rest of the day getting prepared, with the right weapons, armor, etc. Then the next day, leave your hometown on horseback (if you have one) and travel the country side for rare and exotic new ingredients for your latest experiment. Go to the nearest settlement at night, major city or otherwise, and rent a room. In your quarters, place as much apparatus as you can on a table (if one is available) and continue in your studies. Spend the next day traveling back home or stay another day.

• Sell alcohol! Pretend that you are the creator of a new wine, and make wines by adding grapes then another ingredient. Give your wine a name! You should even make a name for yourself! Find a wine cellar and stack your creations in them. Be a rival of Tamika!

• Buy a house, if you can afford it. For the "up and coming" alchemist, purchase something cheap, such as the Bravil or Leyawiin house, or (if you truly want to be poor) the Imperial City shack. If you want to be a rich alchemist, the Benirus Manor is perfect. As it has a secret lair dedicated to your alchemical studies in the basement, the Benirus Manor is ideal (just pick up all the bones and throw them in the ocean, then wait for the corpse to rot away in 3 days). Alternatively, you could live at the West Weald Inn in Skingrad and do "research" with Sinderion in his cellar.

• Buy alchemy and alchemical history books, or "borrow" them from the Mages Guild, and make your library composed of numerous copies.

• When visiting neighboring cities, use desks as your lab. This works especially well in the Bruma Mages Guild, as one room in the basement is intended as an alchemy lab.

• Take pride in your work! Only use potions that you create yourself. If you find normal potions sell them. Or to keep people from thinking you would ever create such filth, throw them away.

• Definitely take part in the Nirnroot quest (Seeking Your Roots) and use the potions to your advantage (i.e. using them when looking for ingredients or selling them).

• Become a frequent customer to alchemical shops, such as "The Main Ingredient" in the Imperial City. Raise the proprietor's disposition as high as you can.

• Befriend every Mages Guild member dedicated to Alchemy.

• If you have access to the Arcane University make sure to use the garden there to your advantage. Use the Lustratorium as your own study hall when you are in that serious study mode. Make sure if you spend a good deal of time turning all of your ingredients into potions/poisons, wait at least one hour and pretend to have spent a lot of time there. Don't spend 3 real life hours putting every alchemical ingredient in the game into some type of a potion in one place at one time, then get up and walk out of the Arcane University as if no time has passed. Remember, this is a roleplay.

• Use a few potions for yourself and sell the rest to your friends in the alchemy shops.

• Set up a contract with Tamika/Surilie brothers in Skingrad to harvest their grapes from the vineyards west of the town. Remember to slip them a few gold through the console or bribing to actually obtain the grapes. You should manage to harvest quite a few grapes you can make potions through grapes and normal food you can buy from local taverns, such as bread loaf, ham, an apple and so on.

This buying and selling of plants from farms can be carried out with other farms and settlements, if people live there, pay them and harvest their plants.

• Maybe you start making drugs that damage health but enhance attributes so you can make people addicted and keep buying your drugs.