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[concoctive]

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Week 3: Monday

[killies]

[ let's be having a horrible nightmare adventure in the giant spider forest. ]

... Did you hear that?

[concoctive]

[ looks at both their canons and laughs sweatily at creepy noises ]

... yeah, bet it's nothin' good. Never is. [ he reaches back behind himself and unsnaps his axe from the loop on his belt, giving it a deft spin. ] How's your leg doin'?

[killies]

[ an appropriate reaction from alfyn but she's still like. hmm. oh no. ]

Good enough to run if we have to.

[concoctive]

[ hmmm. very oh no. ]

Alright. [ good ] So, we can either start headin' back, or keep lookin' around? I'm down for either but I know those kinda sounds from travelin' back home. Definitely somethin' out here.

[killies]

I want to know what it is, but I get the feeling by the time we see it it'll be too late to run away easily...

[ she's still like... creeping forward though instead of turning around. ]

[concoctive]

[ nodding, staying on alert as he glances around. when he sees a plant he thinks might be medicinal, he swoops down to grab it carefully without directly looking down. ]

Better to know what we're up against, if we're gonna be spendin' any time in this place. If anythin' winds up happenin'... we just stay on guard.

[killies]

[ huh. she doesn't know anything about medicinal plants. ]

What's that for?

[concoctive]

This's orangeroot - s'good for fightin' off infections in injuries.

I know we've got the swamp and all, and the uh. The big dogwood with the person in it? The liquid from the spigot is a healin' tonic, but just a small one - and I don't wanna use too much of it, 'cause Pesti told me the two of 'em just want to be left in peace. But not a lot of people are gonna want to drink that, or go for a dunk in the swamp if they don't have to.

[killies]

That's smart to grab, then. I get why people are too creeped out by the tree blood or the swamp. [ even though she thinks they should do it anyway

but she'll step a little closer to get a better look at the orangeroot. maybe this information will help her someday. who knows. ]

[concoctive]

I do, too, and I don't really want to abuse either of 'em considerin'. [ the side effects. the weirdness of the blood. the fact that they might not be around forever. ]

In the alchemical stuff at the academy, I found a few more mortars and pestles. I figure if anybody wants to learn how to make these things... I'd be glad to help out. But this is best ground down into a salve. So if you dry the leaves and flowers, you can rehydrate 'em and then grind 'em up.

[ still keeping an ear out for spiders, but... explaining. ]

[killies]

Oh. They work even if you dry and rehydrate them? [ wild. she would not have guessed this.

also she is now like... moving... closer to the sound? curiosity is getting the best of her. ]

[concoctive]

S'not as strong as it would be, y'know, fresh, but it's better than havin' nothin' at all. Helps that you can kinda mix things together if you have somethin' specific you need.

[ he'll grab a few more little bundles, before following like. hm. might as well find out. ]

[killies]

We don't deal with a lot of... wildlife, back home.

[ sometimes you're a survivalist in such a deeply specific way that you don't actually learn anything useful about the world. ]

... I heard it again. This way.

[concoctive]

Wildlife is about all we know, in Orsterra, unless you're in a big city. Even then, critters and monsters are slippin' through all the time.

[ he puts the herbs away in his satchel, to be taken better care of later, and gives his axe a small spin to get a better grip on it. ]

Easy does it...

[killies]

Sounds hard to deal with... Do there just need to be guards or walls to keep monsters out? It's not as big a deal if wild animals get in a city, but monsters—

[ she cuts herself off, attention snapping to one direction. hey guess what: spiders!!!! ]

...

[concoctive]

[

he opens his mouth, but all that comes out is a short laugh in a "gods, why" way when his attention follows hers and he sees. spiders. ]

Good news is, these are smaller than the giant spiders I've dealt with back home.

[killies]

You're used to ones bigger than this?!

[ help. if a spider gets close to her she will simply punt it away. which isn't all that effective. ]

[concoctive]

Yeeee~p. [ popping the P, unhappily, as he swings his axe down onto the boldest spider. ] Monster ones get real big...

[ brandishes his axe at them to see if it'll scare them off. gets hissed at like this is eight legged freaks. ]

Go, shoo, you don't want to dance with me..!

[killies]

I guess monsters do get huge...

[ okay well this was a fun experiment. her curiosity is sated!!!! she runs up and kicks the nearest spider as hard as she can and then just. turns away. ]

Let's run.