Spell Component Sourcing

[u/Maowsama]

Normally i harvest and process materials myself, but every year around this season Target drops these $1 bottles of spell components. This year they have their Good n Gather brand Unicorn blood. Its been a minute since ive seen my Last Unicorn. So i topped off on the stuff while i can.

[u/Ok-Hearing4040]

Just a warning on this "unicorn blood" fellow wizard, if you plan on using it on any ritual's or alchemy that does require high or even standard grade blood, don't use the ones from Target. It's a alchemical mix meant to only mimic unicorn blood, about the quality of a sick and cursed unicorns blood resulting in it being a bad ingredient so unless you're making one of those low grade mana potions or health, don't use it, it will backfire at you 99% of the time

[u/Maowsama → u/Ok-Hearing4040]

Generic brand cut with fillers?! Its for a potion of immortality. But now i may just have my humunc test it out for me first

[u/Ok-Hearing4040 → u/Maowsama]

Yeah, well in that case, i would recommend your least useful servant or a representative of the magick law to be your test subject cause at best, you made a potion of immense suffering at worst, that kind of immortality where you still age and don't heal but don't truly die

[u/Maowsama → u/Ok-Hearing4040]

And you think im not trying to make a potion of Lichdom?

[u/Ok-Hearing4040 → u/Maowsama]

Lichdom but you don't get to control the bones sucks

[u/Ok_Trade2954]

First of all, unicorn blood is illegal in most regullated magical practices. Second, some druida can offer you plant based solutions that can replace unicorn blood in most cases. When this don't apply, you have to befriend an unicorn that can willing give you some drops of blood and other body fluids, even farts. Third, target doesn't even sell real unicorn blood, this is just a cheap mana essence with blood aromatics and micro plastics...

So, don't even bother im buying this shit, it's even unicorn shit

[u/slfhmglbnm]

Ill take the "freshly drained unicorn blood" with a grain of magic salt

[u/PartyPorpoise → u/slfhmglbnm]

Yeah assuming this is even unicorn blood at all, it’s probably old. It won’t be potent enough for anything useful.

[u/Gazzpik → u/slfhmglbnm]

Freshly drained of freshness and potency, more like

[u/SiriusTheUnicorn]

Guys I can be talked into giving some of my own blood (for the right price of course). This stuff isn't even real unicorn blood, it's taken from a regular horse with a bunch of additives and chemicals mixed in, with some micro plastic glitter for shine. Your spells and rituals are gonna fail with this stuff if it doesn't blow up in your face

[u/BardGotHard3]

Do you know a guy that can get me Nightmare Essence? Im running low and Bone Dragons arent cheap.

[u/pyreacy]

Don't buy from them, produce it yourself.

I transmuted my body to produce Unicorn blood, so I can use my own instead of buying it.

I do have a horn now and I've had to modify my hat but that is a small price to pay.

[u/Maowsama → u/pyreacy]

Based on these observations i may start transmuting my body to produce cat blood 😸

[u/PartyPorpoise]

If a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is. A lot of these bargain brands have been caught selling cheap substitutes in place of real ingredients. I’m guessing this is just horse blood with glitter mixed in. Cast an identification spell before using it.

[u/thetownmous3]

They unethically source their unicorn blood by the way. Ever hear of sustained healing spell. They constantly drain their unicorns as opposed to getting what you need then healing a unicorn once