Editing Campaign:Oceans Exalted (section)

==Lore==
For when I write things for the game.

'''Grog'''<br/>
"one or more of the following: kerosene, propylene glycol, artificial sweeteners, sulphuric acid, rum, acetone, red dye no. 2, scumm, axle grease, battery acid, and/or pepperoni."
<br/>-One of the hundreds of recipes for Grog throughout the West<br/>
'''2B, 2M, (Stamina+Resistance), Resources -'''

Grog is the most common drink in the whole of the West, a vaguely foul-tasting and syrupy brew with a slight green hue, Grog is not the most appetizing of brews, in fact, most who drink it will insist it's quite awful while they do. However, Grog is cheap, so cheap that even beggars can afford it, and for some reason it is quite addictive as well. Any being that ingests a mug of Grog must succeed on a difficulty 1 temperance roll or immediately begin drinking another mug, not via a compulsion or need so much as an unconscious action.

This addictive nature is not all that makes Grog an anomaly. In large enough amounts Grog has been known to be very acidic to a comedic degree, eating through metal, stone, even floorboards if spilled. The very mugs that carry Grog can end up melted if the brew is not consumed fast enough. Flesh, however, seems to be one of the few materials it does not eat through, leaving it safe to drink.

The truth of Grog is that there is no real recipe for it, and it is in fact not a proper brew, alcoholic, or even a drink at all, or a classified liquid for that matter. Grog is an anomaly, much like yellow jade, that is created much of the time by accident. To put it simply, in the West, whenever one fails to brew an alcoholic beverage properly, whether the fermentation fails or the ingredients burn or something else happens, the brew turns to Grog. The reason behind this dates back to the later part of the Usurpation, when a mad Twilight sorcerer found himself cornered in the West and as a last-ditch effort to save himself triggered an experimental self-destruct sequence within his manse. It was supposed to sink the northern half of Okeanos in a great burst of essence, instead, it vaporized the manse and its mad creator, sending several fissures through Okeanos but little else. However, the strange misplaced sorcery sent shockwaves through Creation's fundamental laws, warping and even snapping a few insignificant ones here and there within the West. This damage to the laws of Creation have resulted in the birth of what the West knows today as Grog.