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Attempting to Make Potions, Episode 14: Quern

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Episode 13 ended in the Gardens with a recipe for bringing the dried herbs back to life and Basket heading off to collect what it needs. This video is about mixing that recipe, and it never gets mixed. The ingredients are in hand, but nothing in the Gardens will take them, and the video ends with Basket going back to an older area to look for whatever is missing.

Gathering ingredients

The video opens at a row of tall glass jars with handwritten labels. The commentary reads off the recipe, "two" of one ingredient, "which we happen to have some of. Awesome. Let's get some of that." A spoon scoops up orange powder from a table of colored dusts. Then the trouble starts: the liquid will not pour into the nearest pot, and the one place that takes it looks like it is "just if I want to get rid of stuff."

Four tall glass jars with handwritten paper labels above a row of brass taps, holding cyan, purple and green liquid, with the third jar clear and empty

A pipe for the plants

Out among the dead plants, a pipe with a grate and a red valve wheel makes sense of the job. The commentary works it out: "I'd pour whatever it is into here and then turn this on and that would distribute it." Later the dust and the liquid both get tried in the grate, and neither goes in. "So no, I have to pre-combine it, I guess."

A rusty metal pipe with a glowing orange lamp and a square grate set into it, a red valve wheel at the upper right, next to a wooden post

A key and a pair of tongs

A list on a table names a second potion, and one of its ingredients is missing: one of the tall jars stands empty. A key from the inventory opens a wooden door with a barred window, and the path behind it leads somewhere familiar. "Oh, hey, I've been here before." In the inventory sits a pair of tongs with mesh cups. "Maybe I use that for picking up the herbs or something later."

A pair of brass tongs with mesh cups at the tips on a dark inventory background, with the edge of a brass scroll case at the left

The grinder

Back on the bench under the plant drawings, the brass grinder fits into the plan: "here's where you can grind up the spices." The commentary lays out the chain as it sees it: "make a potion to grow ingredients to grind up those ingredients to then make a potion." The first step still has nowhere to happen.

A brass grinder with a white crank handle on a wooden bench, with a mug, a dish of dark seeds and a striped canister, under a pinned drawing of two flowers

Where it ends

A viewer's hint read out on the stream suggests the pot might be the right thing, "but you need something else to use it." Basket goes through the inventory and every table again. "I feel like I clicked on all of the things." The commentary decides "it's also possible that I've unlocked something, let's go back to the original area," and the video ends on the way out of the Gardens with no potion made.