Functional Beverages, Ltd.

Functional Beverages, Ltd was just barely managing to stay in business until just a decade ago when they introduced an innovative new concept in liquid refreshment technology. Called "Potion Deux," this drink stood in stark contrast to their previous beverages mainly in that it didn't taste entirely like swill.

Potion Deux originated when [J. Thaddeus Goodwell], the current owner of Functional Beverages, Ltd., came across the company's sales records by mistake. Noting with horror that her company had moved less than fifty cases of product in the last three and a half years, she decided that a new sales strategy was required. Goodwell ordered all the old, slow-selling beverages mixed together into a vat, where various artificial colors and flavors, not to mention addictive herbs, were added. She then had the whole mess carbonated and bottled. Soon, her new drink was complete.

Within a month, Potion Deux was an intrinsic part of the cultural landscape, and Functional Beverages, Ltd., was no longer in danger of bankruptcy. Within a year, it had vialing plants all over the place, and advertisements in a variety of insidious locations. Independent vendors can now be found within most towns of note, hawking the strange potion for a single geepee per vial.