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also ive probably thought about this a little too long but i enjoy rotatoing these sorts of thoughts in my brain. so.

fire resistance: spicy rooibos tea. leaves a heated feel in your mouth and clears out your sinuses probably. thicker than water and has a bit of a texture to it, think like... a fruitie. makes you feel kind of feverish, like you're running a bit of a temperature but it's not quite bad enough for you to feel sick, necessarily

water breathing: doesn't really have a taste to it, aside from being somewhat salty, but it feels cold and slick and coats your mouth like some sort of medicine and leaves it feeling kinda tingly. it's an unpleasant feeling but passes pretty quick, and after that all that remains is a coolness in your mouth (it can be easy to miss the effect starting to wear out, so. be careful)

swiftness: tastes like a frozen grape. kind of sweet, kind of sour, feels like there's slush in it. there's a buzz to it, almost like it's electric - you know how air feels before a thunderstorm? kind of like that. makes a shiver run through your whole body as it takes effect and then the buzz settles in all your limbs and all your movements happen before you can even finish thinking of them

leaping: has a strong flavour to it, but one that's hard to describe. like an echo of a flavour you know, warped and strengthened into a bizarre version of itself - think pears vs a strong artificial pear flavour. feels like an excited tenseness, like you're a spring being pressed down. your first instinct will be to jump when you need to go anywhere and it feels weird if you're not used to it

strength: looks like it'd taste like wine, but weirdly, it tastes like concentrated meat stew. dark, game-y, savoury. it feels very subtle as it settles in, until you swing your weapon and feel a surge, like adrenaline, in every cell of your body.

healing: i know you make it from melons but i am Certain it tastes like sparkling rhubarb juice. a tart undertaste that's softened by this light sweetness, with a slight fizz. feels like relief washing over your entire body, but you might find out you feel kind of numb afterwards (rapid healing would be painful if the potion didn't do something for that, too. sometimes that effect lingers a bit)

regeneration: almost too sweet, with an indistinct, vaguely berry-like taste. way more notable than the taste, though, is the feeling - your body's working on overdrive, and all your senses are responding to that, and it is uncomfortable, not because it hurts (similar to healing, it also has anesthetic properties) but because you are so aware of yourself suddenly. regen in the middle of battle can be more distracting than helpful if you're not used to it. (a regen effect on a beacon is way more subtle, but still similar and still there. leaving the range of a regen beacon after being in it a while tends to also be a weird feeling when suddenly your awareness of your body is Less)

night vision: tastes Blue. everyone says that, and before you've had a night vision potion it might be hard to grasp, and then you drink one and oh yeah huh that Tastes Blue alright. it feels cool, and reminiscent of taking a sip of cold water at 3am, and it feels deep, like floating in the ocean over the deep blue - and then the feeling is gone and colours are more vibrant and shadows almost just do not exist and looking at light hurts

slow falling: almost dusty in its taste. like a faded memory in an old house at sunset, but a flavour. also it tastes like it Should be sweet but isn't. there's a foamy texture to it, and as you drink it there's a brief moment of that feeling that sometimes hits you as you're about to fall asleep - that is to say, a feeling of literal falling for a moment. when the feeling of falling fades, you're left feeling kind of floaty, and all movements feel a little like you're underwater, like the air is resisting more than usual

invisibility: pretty much just tastes like springwater, fresh and clear, at first. the sourness comes as an aftertaste, and it's so much stronger than you expected. it fades quickly, though, and after it disappears you taste absolutely nothing in your mouth - not like, the usual neutral you'd describe as nothing, but nothing nothing. aside from that, you do feel pretty normal, but not seeing your body at all can be pretty disorienting and hard to navigate. (regeneration makes for a good pair for an invis potion, for that heightened body awareness. makes ya less likely to stumble on your invisible feet)

slowness: tastes like the smell of a roadwork site where they're laying down asphalt, makes you feel lethargic. i think all of us know the feeling of dragging yourself somewhere even though you feel like you would just like to curl up and fall asleep right there - it's just that

poison: does anyone ever drink a poison potion? usually people get splatted with it. but if you did drink it, it'd taste very bitter, burn your mouth and throat as it went down, and leave your stomach in so much pain. (it's debatable whether that, or the fumes of a splashed poison burning your eyes and nose and lungs and making you feel like you want to cough but are unable to do so is worse. both feel very bad. try to not get poisoned)

harming: another one that no one probably just drinks, but in case you do, it tastes pungent and dark and sharp, and like iron- wait, no, that part's just blood in your mouth. it causes you instant harm why would you ever put it inside you voluntarily. you probably won't manage to get it all the way to your stomach, it absorbs quickly and just leaves pain and damaged tissue in its wake.

weakness: sour, and spoiled, and vaguely vile. leaves a residue in your mouth, sticking to your palate and cheeks and tongue. it's dizzying and disorienting, not enough to knock you out or even slow you down a ton, but it leaves you more uncoordinated and kind of shaky, like your sword suddenly got twice as heavy as it just was. leaves you more open to attacks, and your own attacks don't have nearly as much power in them.

potion of the turtle master: tastes like the mud "potions" you made as a kid but if the flavour of dirt and leaves and earth was actually surprisingly good. (i know it doesn't give you any new status effect but i had to include it. it's so useless and it's so funny to me)