Blessed Honey

Invented by Ranger Bruthazmus in collaboration with Padre Cirino De Mario, the pastor of Jasper Chapel in services to Rhea Lightgiver!

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Manufacturing process

1. Preheat the stove.
2. Set the outer pan of the double boiler in place, add water, and bring up to a low simmer.
3. Insert inner pot. Wait 5 minutes for it to come up to temperature.
4. Slowly pour in honey while reciting the Blessing of Dawn four times.
5. Stir in ground incense one scoopful at a time. Stir entire mixture twenty-four times between each scoop.
6. Add holy water by the half-liter, stirring slowly but constantly.
7. When scum rises, scrape off with cheesecloth.
8. Every quarter hour: Channel Angelfire while performing the Redemption of the Hours litany.
9. When no more scum forms, clean and dry a ladle. Slowly scoop from deepest part of pot up to surface to make sure all impurities have been extracted and incense is fully mixed in. Usually five rounds of scooping will be sufficient, but size of pot and size of ladle's bowl are important factors.
10. Remove inner pan from heat and cover loosely.
11. Arrange clean, dry containers in a cool spot away from the stove.
12. Carefully pour Blessed Honey into containers. Cap loosely until walls of container are no longer hot to the touch, then seal tightly.

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Common Uses

Ammunition:

• Soak fine, lightweight mesh cloth such as cheesecloth or gauze in 1 tsp of Blessed Honey.
• Fletcher should carefully wrap soaked cloth around arrow or bolt just behind arrowhead.
• Reduce range by 5ft due to weight and loss of aerodynamic form.
• Add +3 divine damage to targets susceptible to harm from holy power.
• Honey sticks: Target takes 1d4 pts additional holy burn damage for every round they do not spend removing the Blessed Honey from direct contact.

Warding:

• Dribble thin, continuous line along threshold board for doors and windows.
• Use clean paintbrush or non-absorbent cloth to smear additional Blessed Honey continuously over frame of all doors and windows.
• Draw continuous, unbroken line around interior perimeter of building/room, at point where floor joins wall and if possible also where ceiling/roof joins wall.
• Optional: Smear thin layer across window panes to disrupt line of sight.

Hopefully this prevents Hell Bovines, Hell Woolies, Briarseed Children, abchanitos, and any other horrible creation of The Troubles from attempting to breach the warded building!

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Warning:

Keep away from casual contact with fey, outsiders, devotees of unallied faiths, and undead.

Will cause persistent burns on contact.

Do not ingest.

Do not mix into skin lotion for pre-adolescents or laypeople.

Safe for use in gardens.

Table of Contents:

Item type

Religious / Ritualistic

Raw materials & Components

• honey from the bees that live on holy ground dedicated to Rhea Lightgiver
• incense, ground to powder, amount equaling approximately one-sixth starting volume of honey
• holy water, amount equaling half starting volume of honey

Tools

• stove with fuel, stocked to maintain steady low heat for one hour per (up to) 10 lbs of honey
• double boiler with tempered glass interior for inner pan
• heat-resistant pads or oven mitts
• sufficient water for outer pan of double boiler
• non-metal measuring and stirring implements, usually wooden or glass, including a ladle for final stages
• glass jars with lids or well-glazed clay jugs with corks
• non-metal funnel