Hellsbreath

Pungent yellow gas in a little bottle with an indecent picture of a knight wrestling a devil on the label. Despite claims to the contrary, this is an alchemically synthesized gas and not the literal fumes of Hell: in antiquity, a gas similar to hellsbreath was used to inspire “courage” in pit fighters and gladiators. In lower concentrations, hellsbreath is referred to as musk and used as an aphrodisiac. Inhaling one dose of hellsbreath increases the user’s Brawn characteristic by 1 until the end of the encounter; if the user’s Brawn characteristic is already 5, they gain j j to all subsequent Brawn-based checks until the end of the encounter. At the end of the encounter, the user suffers strain equal to half their Strain Threshold, rounded up.