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RECIPE FOR DISASTER
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RECIPE FOR DISASTER

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by: gooey

This puzzle was designed for the week 10 of Zachtronics / Coincidence Discord server's 2025 Opus Magnum Weeklies.
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REAGENTS
Distilled Water

PRODUCT
Laxative



It’s a curious thing, the death of a House. Much as the carcass of a great whale can sustain countless sea creatures, the wreck of a once proud lineage offers much to those who do not scruple to pick the bones clean. How many generations’ lifesblood did it take, to kindle the hearth fire of House Van Tassen? All that, and it was forever extinguished with no more effort than a candle flame.

After the remaining Houses and other corpse feeders had eaten their fill, there was one relic of old Armand’s legacy which remained: a dusty crate containing five hundred unopened bottles of “Tassentonik”. This curious drink had been a vain attempt to develop a fashionable new beverage; the idea was that, in becoming a household name among City gentry, the Van Tassens might thereby increase their power, influence... and wealth.

It is not clear what flaw in the alchemical process led to the Tassentonik’s unique properties, nor is it apparent how they remained undiscovered until after the first batches were sold. But what was immediately obvious were the side-effects themselves: needless to say that it was a busy week for the plumbers and doctors of the City.

The Tassentonik was a disaster, and for some time afterwards the name Van Tassen was little more than a joke—and a crude one, at that. Perhaps it was this event which first heralded the House’s inevitable decline: a slow downward spiral which ended, decades later, in green flame and bloodshed...