1.5: Water + Arcane = SPICY
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"So, how do you use Ley? I mean, you've told me what it does, but you haven't told me how to make it do the things," you say.
Cherry smiles and grabs a vial from a shelf by a Water Ley pipe. "There are two main ways to use Ley," she says as she opens the tap on the pipe. "One is to pour it into specially made channels in clothing and weapons, the other is to just down a bottle of it. Well, in combat at least, regular stuff like heating and cooling just uses pipes." The Water Ley fills up the vial.
"There are... channels in clothing, then?" you ask. "How does that work?"
"I have no clue," she admits. "The family's mostly centered around the actual gaining and selling of Ley, not the technical stuff that makes it useful in a fight. By the way, a common hobby of mine is seeing what off-the-wall combos I can come up with for Ley. You have any suggestions?"
"Hmmm, have you tried Water and Arcane yet?" you reply. "For that matter, how does combining Ley work?"
Cherry starts filling up another vial at the one Arcane pipe. "Well, unless you're drinking one after the other, it can't be done with just the pure Ley. We have a distillery in the next room if you'd like to see it while I explain."
"Yes, of course!" you agree. Cherry then opens a door you hadn't paid much attention to before, and walks inside a room.
You follow her into the room and see a much smaller and more orderly room than the one with the Ley pipes. It's got a desk with shelves of bottles and complex-looking devices you assume are meant to help with Ley combining.
As Cherry goes to work pouring small portions of the vials into different devices that you assume help distill the Ley, you look at an old notebook and start flipping through it. There's a lot of doodles at first, then around the halfway point it turns into notes of Ley combinations.
[Worldbuilding Post: Cherry's Notes on Ley Combos gained]
After a while, Cherry says: "Okay, it looks like it's edible!" and you look at the final product:
Two indigo-liquid-filled jars sit before you. Cherry goes and unscrews the lids on the jars while you notice Lightning Ley being channel through a series of pipes in the background.
"You ready to try?" she offers you a jar.
You nod your head and take the jar, which you then drink as she does.
That's... wow, that's really spicy. Really, really spicy.
You think you may need some type of dairy product.
Cherry clearly thinks so too, as she spits out the Ley mixture she had drunk and pours what was in the jar onto the floor, where it sizzles.
"Okay, 'really spicy' is going in the notebook," she says as she places the jar back on the table. "I'm going to go grab some milk, want me to bring you some?"
You nod your head and gingerly place your jar back by the other one as Cherry teleports away.
A few seconds pass before she comes back, two glasses of milk in hand. You're given one and you down it.
"Thanks," you say after drinking it. "...Does this happen often?"
She nods. "Well, not as often around this time of year, when the rest of the family's off at Torch and I'm the one in charge here."
Oh?
"Torch?" you ask. "Is that another one of the Havens, like this city?"
She nods. "Yeah, it's far south from here, so it takes a month to get there and another month to get back. They leave me in charge when they're gone for the trade deals there."
[] "Trade deals?"
[] "So your family's gone a lot?"
[] "That explains some of you getting away with blowing up the place sometimes."
[] Write-in
Cherry smiles and grabs a vial from a shelf by a Water Ley pipe. "There are two main ways to use Ley," she says as she opens the tap on the pipe. "One is to pour it into specially made channels in clothing and weapons, the other is to just down a bottle of it. Well, in combat at least, regular stuff like heating and cooling just uses pipes." The Water Ley fills up the vial.
"There are... channels in clothing, then?" you ask. "How does that work?"
"I have no clue," she admits. "The family's mostly centered around the actual gaining and selling of Ley, not the technical stuff that makes it useful in a fight. By the way, a common hobby of mine is seeing what off-the-wall combos I can come up with for Ley. You have any suggestions?"
"Hmmm, have you tried Water and Arcane yet?" you reply. "For that matter, how does combining Ley work?"
Cherry starts filling up another vial at the one Arcane pipe. "Well, unless you're drinking one after the other, it can't be done with just the pure Ley. We have a distillery in the next room if you'd like to see it while I explain."
"Yes, of course!" you agree. Cherry then opens a door you hadn't paid much attention to before, and walks inside a room.
You follow her into the room and see a much smaller and more orderly room than the one with the Ley pipes. It's got a desk with shelves of bottles and complex-looking devices you assume are meant to help with Ley combining.
As Cherry goes to work pouring small portions of the vials into different devices that you assume help distill the Ley, you look at an old notebook and start flipping through it. There's a lot of doodles at first, then around the halfway point it turns into notes of Ley combinations.
[Worldbuilding Post: Cherry's Notes on Ley Combos gained]
After a while, Cherry says: "Okay, it looks like it's edible!" and you look at the final product:
Two indigo-liquid-filled jars sit before you. Cherry goes and unscrews the lids on the jars while you notice Lightning Ley being channel through a series of pipes in the background.
"You ready to try?" she offers you a jar.
You nod your head and take the jar, which you then drink as she does.
That's... wow, that's really spicy. Really, really spicy.
You think you may need some type of dairy product.
Cherry clearly thinks so too, as she spits out the Ley mixture she had drunk and pours what was in the jar onto the floor, where it sizzles.
"Okay, 'really spicy' is going in the notebook," she says as she places the jar back on the table. "I'm going to go grab some milk, want me to bring you some?"
You nod your head and gingerly place your jar back by the other one as Cherry teleports away.
A few seconds pass before she comes back, two glasses of milk in hand. You're given one and you down it.
"Thanks," you say after drinking it. "...Does this happen often?"
She nods. "Well, not as often around this time of year, when the rest of the family's off at Torch and I'm the one in charge here."
Oh?
"Torch?" you ask. "Is that another one of the Havens, like this city?"
She nods. "Yeah, it's far south from here, so it takes a month to get there and another month to get back. They leave me in charge when they're gone for the trade deals there."
[] "Trade deals?"
[] "So your family's gone a lot?"
[] "That explains some of you getting away with blowing up the place sometimes."
[] Write-in
) So asking after her solo living arrangements it is. This has nothing to do with us needing a place to stay, honest.
