Flask of Abominable Salts

ID: 476

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Economy: Academic (Notable Sources)
0.01	Foxfire Candle Stub
▾▾▾	100:10 or 1000:105 0.20 | Rare: 2.50
0.10	Flask of Abominable Salts
▾▾▾	50:10 or 500:105 0.40 | Rare: 12.45
2	Sample of Roof-Drip
0.50	Memory of Distant Shores
▾▾▾	50:10 ( 50:10 if ) 1.00 | Rare: 25.00
0.50	Incisive Observation
10	Starved Expression
2.50	Unprovenanced Artefact
2.50	Volume of Collated Research
12.50	Mirthless Compendium
12.50	Breakthrough in Currency Design
50.00	Endowment of a University Fellowship
62.50	Judgements' Egg
25	Secret College
(12.50)	Memory of Discordance
(12.50)	Lost Research Assistant
-	The Formula for Empyrean Redolence
-	Formula for Perfumed Gunpowder
-	Formula for Railway Steel
-	Recipe for Scintillack Snuff
For items with two conversion options, the success given refers only to the first option. Bulk options do not have additional benefits.

WARNING: consumption may cause vomiting, paralysis, and ennui.

Create this by using other Academic items in your inventory.

Flask of Abominable Salts is an Academic item.

See here for a list of how to obtain this item, or click here to show them.

Approach the citadel, an Action from In the Citadel's Shadow, a Storylet in Cline.

Christen Jack for a Stuttering Fence, an Action from Opportunism in Spite, a Storylet in Spite.

Crack open the Sounder and capture its operating principle, an Action from Your Corresponding Sounder, an Item in your inventory.

Ferret out the Guild of Apothecaries, an Action from The Banners of the Guilds, a Card in Risen Burgundy.

Follow the Youthful Naturalist's pilgrimage (St Stalactite of the Halocline), an Action from St Stalactite of the Halocline, a Storylet in The Shattered Citadel.

Let's see..., an Action from Open a Surprise Package, an Item in your inventory.

Make a substantial donation to F.F. Gebrandt's church, an Action from Burn your Candles, an Item in your inventory.

Merrigans Exchange, a shop in The Echo Bazaar!.

Perform the oblation of salt, an Action from St Stalactite of the Halocline, a Storylet in The Shattered Citadel.

Slip out of these troublesome manacles, an Action from In the Citadel's Courtyard, a Card in A Manifold Future.

Something funereal, an Action from What's in the bundle?, a Storylet in Fallen London.

Stay up all night talking science with F.F. Gebrandt, an Action from Burn your Candles, an Item in your inventory.

Study the smouldering fleet, an Action from The Burning Unterzee, a Storylet in Zailing the Unterzee.

Taste the air, an Action from Close to Station VIII, a Card in The City of the Tracklayers.

The Campaigner's reward, an Action from A Professional Reward, a Storylet in Fallen London.

(WHITSUN) Break open your unaugmented pelagic egg, an Action from several places.

(RETIRED) Watch the crowds, an Action from An Exceptional Story: Stripes of Wrath, a Storylet in Fallen London.

(RETIRED) Protest Virginia's tenure, an Action from The Lord Mayor of London (Virginia), a Card in Fallen London.

(RETIRED) Steal their stuff, an Action from An Exceptional Story: Shades of Yesterday, a Storylet in Fallen London.

(RETIRED) Push him into the river, an Action from An Exceptional Story: Stolen Stanzas, a Storylet in Fallen London.

(RETIRED) Find a watchmaker without too many scruples, an Action from Christen Jack for a Stuttering Fence, an Action from Opportunism in Spite, a Storylet in Spite.

It can be purchased from Merrigans Exchange in the Bazaar and sold to the Bazaar:

Buying	0.20	(no message)
Selling	0.10	(no message)

See here for a list of pages unlocked or locked by this item, or click here to show them.

Aid F.F. Gebrandt in Refining her Formulas (Unlock), an Action from Rely on F.F. Gebrandt, a Card in University Laboratory (Place).

Analyse its composition (Unlock), an Action from The Osteology Lab, a Storylet in The Museum of Prelapsarian History.

Break fast with Saint Stalactite (Unlock), an Action from Saint Stalactite, a Storylet in The Shattered Citadel.

Build a Locomotive for Mr Spices 2 (Unlock), an Action from Begin a Scientific Investigation, a Storylet in University Laboratory (Place).

Build a Locomotive for Mr Spices (Unlock), an Action from Begin a Scientific Investigation, a Storylet in University Laboratory (Place).

Dig up the graves (Unlock), an Action from The Old Churchyard, a Storylet in Burrow-Infra-Mump.

Direct a small grant to Benthic College (Unlock), an Action from Further endow your University Fellowship, an Item in your inventory.

Direct a small grant to Summerset College (Unlock), an Action from Further endow your University Fellowship, an Item in your inventory.

Face the thing in the crypt (Unlock), an Action from Making Your Name: a Conspiracy of Spiders, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

Hire a busker to help you attract a Theologian of the Old School (Unlock), an Action from Seeking Buyers, a Storylet in The Bone Market.

Lay poisoned bait (Unlock), an Action from Hunting across London, a Storylet in Fallen London.

Prepare an antidote (Unlock), an Action from A poison-gallery, a Card in The Stacks.

( Ambition: Light Fingers!) Provide the ingredients for a convincing corpse (Unlock), an Action from Light Fingers: A Rendezvous with Dr Vaughan 2, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

Sell your poison to zailors bound for the Elder Continent (Unlock), an Action from Use your Poison for something other than Murder, an Item in your inventory.

Speak to the Dean of Neocartography (Unlock), an Action from Use your Poison for something other than Murder, an Item in your inventory.

( Ambition: Light Fingers!) Steal a Prison Zeppelin from Wolfstack Dock (Unlock), an Action from Light Fingers: Steal a Prison Zeppelin, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

Stock a few simple compounds (Unlock), an Action from Improve Your Equipment, a Storylet in University Laboratory (Place).

You need to know!! (Unlock), an Action from The Thing in the Crypt, a Storylet in Wolfstack Docks.

(RETIRED) Poison your acquaintance's dinner (Unlock), an Action from Preparing Dinner, a Storylet in Fallen London.

(RETIRED) The application of certain salts (Unlock), an Action from Confound Dr. Orthos!, a Storylet in Fallen London.

See Academic Grinding (Guide) for information on grinding this item.

Use your Poison for something other than Murder

Something wholesome and virtuous. Well, something a little bit wholesome and virtuous.

Options:

Speak to the Dean of Neocartography

•  Spoiler ID: 9410
  

  Unlocked with 50 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  

   

  Challenge information

  A matter of luck: It could go either way (success chance: 60%)

  Success

  NORTH

  •  You've lost 50 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  •  You've gained 10 x Memory of Distant Shores
  •  You've gained 20 x Cryptic Clue

  Rare Success

  A lack of worship?

  Wiki note: Rare success chance is 5%.

  •  You've lost 50 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  •  You've gained 10 x Memory of Distant Shores
  •  You've gained 83 x Relic of the Second City

  Failure

  Fruits of the east

  •  You've lost 50 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  •  You've gained 10 x Memory of Distant Shores

  ^

Sell your poison to zailors bound for the Elder Continent

•  Spoiler ID: 9619
  

  Unlocked with 500 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  

   

  Success

  Oh, how... original

  •  You've lost 500 x Flask of Abominable Salts
  •  You've gained 105 x Memory of Distant Shores

  ^