Jong as a year ‘When the catalyst soaks into the skin, the subject immediately gains the benefits of the herbal concoction embedded in the tattoo, The tattoo is considered used and must be reapplied ifts effects are to be used again, However, there are risks associated with releasing this ‘much of the herbal concoction ditecily into the body, When an herbal tattoo is released, the character ‘must immediately make a Fortitude save (DC 20). IF his Fortitude save is successful, the target suffers no ill effects (other than any negative effects contained in the herbal concoction itself) and gains the benefits of the concoction immediately. These benefits persist for 2410 hours for a tattoo based on an infused oil, 1d8 hours for ‘vtattoo based on a gnaw root, and 146 hours fora tatoo based on a salve. Ifthe save fails, however, the subject immediate- ly suffers an adverse reaction to the potent concoction, This causes 1 point of temporary Constitution damage immediately. One minute later the target must make another Fortitude save (DC 20) or suffer another 1 point ‘of temporary Constitution damage. Limits of Herbal Cattoos Characters may never have more herbal tattoos than 1 plus their natural Constitution modifier. The stress on the body is simply too great and any attempis to imbed further tattoos in the flesh of the character result in 1d8 points of damage and the rejection of the tattoo, No rep- llable herbalist will ever attempt to imbed more tattoos than is safe for a recipient. Its possible for an herbalist, to tell how many tattoos would be safe for a target with a successful Healing skill check (DC 10), In addition, a character may never gain the be fits of a given ingredient more than once per day as a result of releasing a tattoo. If a character released one tattoo containing the kopai root ingredient, he eould not zzain the benefits of another tattoo using the kopai ingre- dient during the same day. If tattoo is released with the same ingredient as another tattoo released earlier in the day, the second and subsequent tattoos provide no ben: cfit for the character, even if they contained additional ingredients not found in the first released tatto.