h - a potionPOTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to bepotable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage,although even they find it palatable only when sufferingfrom the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which itis a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligentingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in allcountries, except the most uncivilized, as upon theinvention of substitutes for water. To hold that thisgeneral aversion to that liquid has no basis in thepreservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific --and without science we are as the snakes and toads. [ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development TeamCopyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn WayersNetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. of oil (unpaid, 1000 zorkmids)# # ---|------ |@.......| |(!%@(%()| |%/?!)%[]| ----------