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Dolores Doesnt Splat

Dolores Doesn't Splat · the falling potion

A brutal fall-survival potion that turns a lethal drop into five meteor-like ground-slams — 100% health, zero dignity.

Story so far

Dolores Doesn't Splat is the fall-survival potion Mordecai brews for the Wasteland gambit, warning Carl he won't like it. Devised long ago by a crocodilian alchemist during an infamous ten-minute fall (an early-crawl event that prompted potion-brewing rule changes), it combines a rock-buffalo-breeding potion with one mimicking Katia Grim's Crowd Blast, and only activates if you're falling faster than 200 km/h when you drink it. When Carl, Katia, and Princess Donut leap from the doomed Vahana and drink it, it *speeds up* their fall, then softens the ground on impact so they penetrate and slam it five times in rapid succession — a quirk borrowed from rock-buffalo mating — leaving them battered but at 100% health.

Carl slams through the necropolis roof and lands atop the quadrant barrier, unable to fall further, as all the loose sand pours past him into the dark tomb below.

Appearance

A brewed potion; its effect is an escalating five-slam meteor-impact that vaporizes the ground beneath the drinker.

Role

Mordecai's grim fall-survival potion — total survival at the cost of a punishing five-impact landing.

Relationships

Mordecai — The alchemist who brews it and defends it as 'genius' despite the abuse it inflicts.
Carl — Who drinks it leaping from the balloon and survives the fall at full health.
Katia Grim — Whose Crowd Blast ability the potion partly mimics.
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Chapter 12
  • A brutal fall-survival potion that turns a lethal drop into five meteor-like ground-slams — 100% health, zero dignity.
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