Smoke Seed (material)

Smoke Seed (material)
Type	Utility Organic Item
Fields	Shadow, Seed
Cost	3 rupees

A Smoke Seed appears as a small fruit, with a gray color. This single seed is pure and potent, and as such can be useful as a material to be used by a Botanist. By contrast, a Smoke Seed Supply is a collection of less pure seeds which retain the same practical use, but cannot be grown and cultivated by a Botanist. Using just four of these potent seeds, a skilled Botanist can cultivate a Smoke Seed Supply.

When a Smoke Seed is struck against a hard surface, it bursts open to rapidly fill roughly 9 square feet (or 2 square meters) of dark smoke in just a few seconds. This smoke is largely harmless, but is extremely effective at blocking vision. Several of them can be used simultaneously to fill larger areas with smoke. This smoke is mundane, and thus will be easily affected by wind or other environmental effects which affect gases. Smoke Seeds work effectively as as slingshot ammunition, but can also be thrown by hand.

When used by a Botanist, these seeds are useful for creating an effect related to the Shadow field.

Seed Effects

By using three Smoke Seeds, along with at least three other seeds, a Botanist is able to create a Seed Supply with one of the following effects. These effects will combine with the effects of other seed types used as materials.

Effect Name	Description of Effect
Smoke	The normal effect of a Smoke Seed occurs.
Cloak	When the seed impacts a surface or is eaten, the affected object or individual reflects far less light than usual. This has the effect of the object appearing nearly black, making it nearly impossible to see in darkness.
Vile Veil	As long as one seed is held in the user's palm, they will suffer far less damage from Light attacks than usual. This effectively negates any weakness to light the user may have, as is the case with undead creatures.
Truth	After the seed is eaten, the user will be able to see through illusions, as if using a Lens of Truth or a Cross. This effect lasts for a couple minutes.
Shadow Punch	After one seed is eaten, the next physical contact the eater makes will cause a agonizing impact which inflicts Shadow damage, and emanates a shadowy aura. Indirect hits, such as from a sword or projectile, are unaffected.
Fog	So long as the seed is held, or shortly after the seed is eaten, the user appears to be surrounded in a black smoke or a white mist, depending on the user's discretion. This is an Illusion effect, which tends to make the user seem more supernaturally powerful, divinely benevolent, or atrociously evil, than he or she actually is.

Elixir Effects

Smoke Seeds can also be combined with specific quantities of other seeds to create a PerQuest Elixir with one of the following effects. As usual, the Botanist is able to produce multiple elixirs if her Botanist level is high enough.

Elixir Name	Seeds	Resulting Effect
Fog Paint	1 Smoke + 1 Acid	This paint is enough to cover one wall, or douse one creature. The affected object will appear pitch-black, and billow a black smoke indefinitely, until it is washed off with water or a similar fluid. As a strange side effect, if this paint is drunk like a potion, the drinker will die, but will appear for all intents and purposes to have died from asphyxiation, rather than poisoning.
Image Oil	1 Smoke + 1 Deku	This oil is designed to be dumped over a creature or physical object. After the target moves from its current position, left in its place will be an illusory image of that object. The illusion is extremely life-like, and will perfectly mimic the sights and sounds of the affected target, as that target would be in its idle state. A Hylian will appear to be breathing and blinking, for instance. However, physical objects will pass through it as easily as they could pass through air. This illusion persists for up to 24 hours.
Bottled Darkness	2 Smoke + 2 Compact	By uncorking or breaking this bottle, a blanket of superficial darkness floods the area. This is enough to fill almost any enclosed room, and can cover an entire city block if used outside. This supernatural darkness extinguishes any light within its borders, but does not prevent abilities such as Sense or Nightvision, and can be seen through clearly using a Lens of Truth. After a couple minutes, the darkness will pass.
Vile Breath	4 Smoke + 4 Breath	For a brief period after drinking this potion, the user can exhale a cloud of poisonous gas, which covers an area with a diameter of about nine feet (or 3 meters). When this gas touched or breathed in, a person will immediately begin to experience nausea, dizziness, and stomach pains that persist for several minutes. Continued exposure may cause incapacitation, and loss of consciousness. Any creature who is directly fed the gas, as if it is blown directly in their face, will almost surely be out for at least a day. The cloud does not harm the one who exhaled it. This cloud can only be produced once per potion.
Spectral Potion	4 Smoke + 4 Gale	After drinking this potion, the drinker's body (and everything carried on it) becomes almost entirely transparent, nothing but a faint afterimage of their normal appearance. While in this state, the drinker is able to pass through physical objects, even solid walls. The drinker also becomes capable of gently floating in any direction he chooses, albeit at a very slow speed. However, the user is also unable to interact with other physical objects during this time, and is unable to affect the world around them except through sound and sight. This effect will subside after a couple minutes--and it is highly recommended for the drinker's safety that he is not overlapping with physical objects when he reappears.
Allies of Shadow	4 Smoke + 4 Magic	Dumping this bottle onto the ground creates two Floormasters, two Wallmasters, or one Floormaster and one Wallmaster. Flinging the contents of this bottle into the air spawns four to seven Curse Keese or Blue Bubbles, either of which is able to produce Jinx effect on contact with the enemy. Regardless of the creature created, it is inclined to follow the others of whoever created it. In less than a few minutes, the creatures will abruptly vanish into smoke.

Trivia

• The Smoke Seed (material) treasure is an original creation by one of Hyrule Castle's members.
• Floormasters, Wallmasters, Curse Keese, and Blue Bubbles are canonical creatures, which also can be found on Zelda Wiki.
• Most other Seed Effects and Elixir Effects are original creations of Hyrule Castle's members.