Help: Use Herb
Herbs and poisons can be found all across Mystavaria, with
some specialist skills allowing them to be picked, prepared,
and put to use in a variety of ways. Generally speaking, herbs
have various beneficial effects while poisons are harmful, and
it would be widely regarded as unwise to engage in combat without
a basic collection of herbs in hand.
Herbs have different methods of application. Some are prepared for
ingestion (EAT <herb>) or imbibing (DRINK <herb>), others are
applied directly to the skin as a soothing balm (APPLY <herb>),
and a handful only grant their healing properties when smoked from a
pipe (SMOKE <pipe>).
As it is often impractical to keep all of these methods straight in
the heat of an intense battle, you may instead issue one simple command,
USE HERB. This will attempt to cure the first ailment you are
afflicted by that can be cured using herbs. The above commands,
EAT, DRINK, APPLY, and SMOKE will be used automatically.
Note, use of this command is subject to the standard curing order, and
will not succeed if you do not have the correct herbs or objects (pipes,
water container, etc.) required to use the herb. Additionally, this
command will not succeed if you do not have any afflictions that can
be cured by herbs.
Despite the practicality of the USE HERB command, manual curing is
much faster and it is encouraged to learn basic knowledge and use of
the common herbs.
Syntax:
USE HERB