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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
Sorry - got a bit busy, catching up now though!
>So, you treat the basilisk in that way and perhaps grind it down and collect (part of) the product.<
DGI +1. The key missing item there can be answered by 'what is it to "treat?" it'
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
Note to self: dgi was was Rod.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
It would be a little like powder but not a powder, no.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
Geggs,
The enemy of the basilisk could be someone pet.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
Shagbark,
The recipe does not call for the scales of the Basilisk, no.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
>>why would anybody go to all the trouble of brewing this stuff up?<<
Why indeed?
Perhaps I would hope to end up with the "Philosopher's Stone"
Oh dearie me, no. 
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
Not a love potion 
Something... more practical (if you are an alchemist - and a metallurgist as our Roger was..)
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
Looks like I have one klaxon- shall we make it two?
He got gold.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
No that's right. DGI +1
But a special kind of gold....
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
Considering the timeframe prehaps it was gold leaf used in illuminating manuscripts?
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
Or alternately gold leaf for decorating wine bottles.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 7, 2011
Not gold leaf. (from a basilisk??)
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
So what kind of gold would a Basilisk have- cock-a-doodle-hiss 
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
On a more tangential note:
The title says "here there be dragons."
and Dragons were notorius for hoarding gold.
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
in light of post 87
male chickens emerge just as if born of hens and after seven days serpents tales grow upon them... I would doubt if they would lay eggs 
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bobstafford Posted May 7, 2011
I have to ask this. The cockerel's egg, has this a connection with London specifically with the Cockney the name of the Londoner.
I ask as the term Cockney is alleged to be from cockerel's egg, myth has it the cockerel's egg is of no use to man nor beast and so allegedly was the original true Cockney.
Also is this why travellers took a live cockerel with them to protect them from the possibility of attacks from basilisk’s as in some myths a cock crow was said to kill a basilisk .
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shagbark Posted May 7, 2011
thinking back to a bumper sticker from fifty years ago
AuH20.
This was in Reference to Barry Goldwater who was running for President of the United States.
His opponents said "In your heart you know he is right-extremely so!!!"
the label of right wing extremist stuck and he lost the Republican Nomination.
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