So, today it's off to bomb building
class with the Fa'Diel Academy of Magic.
Like I was saying last issue, this
particular quest seems to be one where we apparently don't need to
have Larc the Dragoon with us to pull it off. Of course, just to be
safe, I made a backup save just in case I'm wrong about that.
Anyway, our mission this go around is
to help some students from the magic school work on their alchemy.
There's one student who's in charge of mixing groups of three
reagents until he gets one that turns into an explosive or coffee or
something. I almost think there was something that got messed up in
the translation here because once we get it right, he says it's a
bomb, but that our charge Bud drank some of it once, ran like a
monkey on crack for a day, and lived to tell about it.
A confession here, sadly. I wasn't
paying attention as closely as I should have when I was actually
getting the three ingredients that actually worked. I know two are
faerie scales and star dust, but for the life of me, I can't remember
what the third one is, and I just got done doing it. At any rate,
the student who's in charge of mixing this stuff gives us hints as to
what we need, but doesn't tell us which ones work when we get close.
It could be because his methods remind me of something Edgar
Montrose from the Red Green Show might do, or it could be just
game design to make it more challenging. Either way, the job's done
now, so it's time to go back home and tell the Little Cactus about
it. Guess this kind of thing makes him nervous.
While we wait for him to write all that
down, we may as well go check out the various orchards and gardens
and such for any new fruits and veggies. In this case, the only one
I think I haven't mentioned yet is something called the Spiny Carrot.
Now, I'm pretty sure this thing's a lot like the carrots I've got
growing in the planter by my front door, but given the other places
my mind tends to go during this arc, I think George
Takei sums up my thoughts about this one.
But anyway, I think I'll wrap this up
here, since I'm not feeling so great right now and should probably be
sleeping. Next Mana outing, we'll go get Larc and at least get
started going after the second dragon. Given that this is a bone
dungeon, I'm guessing this one will be an Earth elemental, but I
could just be misremembering that. So, we'll see.
Until then, as always, stay safe, have
fun, keep gaming, and DFTBA.
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