Editing Cask (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Lawrence is a tinker who can produce chemical batches to increase strength, flexibility, resistance to toxins, resistance to the elements, resistance to harm, reflexes, or focus. He can also produce chemical batches to restore damaged tissues and prompt rapid cellular growth. One dose is a minimum of 1.33 liters, administered orally, limiting the speed of consumption, emergency application and the number of successive doses that can be given.

Cask treats his own chronic physical ailment with regular consumption of a durability-increasing admixture and can be considered to be a low-level Brute class cape at any given time as a consequence.<ref name="PRT Quest">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.w1yhlgme27x0 PRT Quest document 10]</ref> It should be noted that he still suffers from the ailment, and if at any time he should stop drinking his own mixtures he will begin suffering from it again.<ref name="PRT56c1">To clarify, Cask didn't cure himself. He's taking regular doses to work around it. - [[PRT: Department Sixty-Four|Department Sixty Four]], [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13484983 comment by Wildbow on thread i p56]</ref>

Cask created his own shorthand language for notation purposes when working on his formula.<ref name="PRT48">He scribbles something down in a strange, alien language, then adjusts some dials, turning down temperature, and then looks around, as if double checking everything.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>He taps one case, seems momentarily distracted, and then walks over to the board to add another note in the same arcane language.<br/><br/>“What language is that?”<br/><br/>“Cask language. Couldn’t find another language that worked for what I needed to write down. Get as much meaning in as few characters as I could, you know? So I made one up.” - [[PRT: Department Sixty-Four|Department Sixty Four]], [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13335126/ comment by Wildbow on thread i p48]</ref>


With the proper readings and research beforehand Cask can brew a draft that when imbibed temporarily nullifies parahuman abilities; these drafts only affect the specific parahuman for whom they were designed.<ref name="PRT94">[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15029097 PRT Quest thread ii p94]</ref> It is unknown how a draft would affect a parahuman with a related power to the intended recipient.