I'm writing an Alice in Wonderland retelling/twisted/fractured fairy tale thing. In my Wonderland, tea has magical powers (essentially, they're magic potions). However, the type of tea and how often you consume it has an effect on your mental state. The Mad Hatter is mad because he took too many potions/drank too much tea. I have three categories- First, basic, where the tea is safe, the only effect is it gets less potent over time. Some of my teas in this category are sleeping, energy, shrinking (bc of the 'drink me' stuff in the original AiW), clarity of mind, and energy. Second, advanced. These potions should be used sparingly and with caution. Using these opens the door for madness, and excess will drive one mad. I have healing, strength, happiness, speed, agility, and a few others in this category. Third, expert. These are ones that have drastic effects- only one, maybe two, should be consumed over a lifetime. These are love potions, potions to revive the dead, skill, prophecy (the most dangerous of all). I would like more ideas for potions, and also, if you have a better naming system for the categories, please, by all means! I also have some tea party type foods with magical properties, like the "eat me" cookies that make Alice grow, and mushroom stew from the mushrooms that have similar effects (again, original AiW). So, any ideas to make my mad tea party extra magical? Please and thank you!
That sounds like you have a pretty good grasp of your world already! I honestly have nothing to add.
@TurtleOfFreedom yeah, I think I have a good grasp, but I'm looking for ideas of more types of potions/teas
I really like this idea! Maybe there should be some potion for inflicting harm like poison
Also, what exactly is the tea made up? Magic or herbs or artificial flavors?
I'm thinking that bc it's Wonderland, the herbs/plants are inherently magical, so each plant-based tea has a specific quality. Like, chamomile tea is supposed to help you sleep, so in Wonderland with Wonderland chamomile it's actually a sleeping draught.
Also, I'm thinking sugar, if you add too much, lessens potency. Like, I don't drink tea, but putting sugar cubes in tea is a thing right? So more than two sugar cubes reduces potency.
And for the tarts/cookies/biscuits/tea party food, the finished product is more magical than the raw ingredients. For example, fruit is benign, it has no effects. But my fruit tarts make people tell the truth
Wow! You've really thought this through, maybe you should like make your own wonderlanian plants and give them their own flavors?
Ooh thank you that's a good idea. I'll prob check out the plant forum (we have one of those, right?)
Does the water in Wonderland have special magical proporities?
… I don't know……. what an interesting idea…… what kind of properties do you think it would have? Like, obviously, Alice isn't from Wonderland. It's prob not a Greek Underworld thing like if you drink the water you're stuck there…
Maybe theres like a river that flows through wonderland…proporities can be anything…maybe magical powers?
OH OH MAYBE IT CURES MADNESS??
OH YES THAT'S REALLY GOOD! AND IF YOU BREW TEA WITH IT IT TEMPERS THE EFFECTS OF THE TEA AND IS MORE PREVENTATIVE THAN REACTIONARY
YES, THAT WAS WHAT I WAS THINKING!
BUT AT SOME POINT IT SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO CURE MADNESS ANYMORE! THAT'S WHY THE HATTER IS STUCK AS THE MAD HATTER
LIKE ALL THINGS IT HAS A LIMIT. Like how caffeine becomes less effective if you consume it all the time
YOU ARE A GENIUS THANK YOU
But what if food and baking items also gave you magical things or do you already have that?
WHAT SHOULD THE RIVER BE CALLED? In latin sanity is just sanitas, so that's kinda lame and rules out the basic "just use latin" rule but I really like having symbolism in names
YOU'RE WELCOME, I REALLY WANT TO READ THIS STORY, WILL YOU LET ME READ IT WHEN YOU'RE DONE!?
I do have that, but not all food is magical. The tea party food is, but I figure not all food can be magical or Wonderland would be crazier than it already is. People just need to eat sometimes lol
YES I WILL
It's my NaNoWriMo project, or it will be, but I came up with the idea like a few months ago, so I'm working on developing it so I'm v prepared for NaNoWriMo
i'm sorry what? lol
That looks v v cool but I have no idea how to say that
