Turn 18: Poker Face
Iktaka Modri[Examine trees, inside and out: Moderate=7] Two trees of each variety, reactive and unreactive, were cut down and opened up. Modri and Farrek each looked independently at them before conferring, and they agreed that it looked like there was a difference in the vascular structures, specifically the section which lay immediately behind the bark and cork. The reactive trees had large greater organization in this region, with large braided tubes being spaced fairly regularly between disordered, normal vascular tissue.
Modri updated her notes to reflect this observation.
Abbreviations: Crystal Embedded Tree (CET), Unresponsive Crystal Embedded Tree (UCET)
Test 1, Tree Survivability:CET will move canopy to allow light to reach it, CET will react to perceived threats and push them away, trunk grows around crystal to rapidly enclose it, crystals should be kept safely away from the area where the trees can push, or at least be in a closed container
Test 2, Now With Less Danger, Hopefully!: Dead wood is unreactive to crystal insertion
Test 3, Let’s Appear Like We’re Doing Something Important: CET will draw water uphill to their roots, CET react slowly to thrown object, CET react to noise, some trees do not show any reaction to crystal embedding (UCET)
Test 4, The Fruits of our Labors: CET fruit appear to be larger
Test 5, Deprivation: Removal of crystals from CET returns tree to inert state, dense vascular growth occurs around crystal
Test 6, Preliminary Infection Test: CET can repel insects, no apparent effect on disease or mechanical damage
Test 7, Apple Examination: No apparent crystal formation in fruit of CET, no observed crystal sickness in pigs from eating CET fruit
Test 8, Escalation:Addition of crystals to UCET does not appear to generate response. It is the advice of this researcher that two crystals be applied in most cases, and no more.
Test 9, Location: Branches are particularly difficult to work with, focal point of magic dissociates from inserted crystal, horizontal slits for insertion appear easier on tree and researcher.
Test 10, Reintroduction: UCET remain unreactive under the removal and reintroduction of crystals, there is no obvious external signs of difference between UCET and CET
Test 11, Deadwood: Crystals will not repel termites if inserted into deadwood
Test 12, unnamed project: There appears to be macroscopic structure of vascular tissue in reactive versus unreactive trees, this observation made after embedding of crystals, no data collected before crystal embedding on potentially reactive or unreactive trees
Farrek
20 iron shillings
Vast supply of scrapwood
18 live trees
4 CET
1 UCET
1 Deprived Tree
Small Crate of Shards (276)
3 Apple Trees
2 CET (Apple)
2 Pigs
Apples
Crystal Tree Apples
1 Embedded Insect Infested Tree
George was having
an adventure!Force crystal
200 iron shillings
[Jaws?: Luck=2] The weather was not all that was calm, there was no sign of any megafauna hoping for a snack either. But a fisherman had patience. In the meantime Bane and the others played dice poker with some scrimshaw dice the young fishermen had brought along, with one individual always watching the sea. [Dice Poker: Luck=9] Bane won more than he lost today.
+ 3 shillings3 Sea Silver Harpoons
50 iron shillings
Podri
Hidden Boulder
[Shape (Simple): Pipe=8, 7 Reservoir=4, Corkscrew (Moderate)= 6, Hone (Moderate): Pipe=4, 7] Herman’s first batch produced two pipe molds, but nothing else.
[Shape (Simple): Reservoir=5, Corkscrew (Moderate)= 12, Hone (Moderate): Reservoir=7, Corkscrew (Difficult)=7] He focused hard on the corkscrew again and the mold turned out perfect. The reservoir was iffy, but he’d cast it and see what happened
[Pour (Moderate): Pipe=9 + 1, 5 + 2, Reservoir=11 + 1, Corkscrew= 6 + 3] His corkscrew and reservoir both turned out better than they had before. The reservoir actually looked really great. Pipes weren’t bad either, all in all, and at least now he had the right number. ((Sorry, wasn’t at my usual computer for the last turn, didn’t have most of my little notes, and I didn’t read through your list carefully.
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- Fair Reservoir, - Fair Corkscrew, + Well-Made Pipe, + Great Pipe, + Perfect Reservoir, + Great CorkscrewAccess to bronze, iron, and sea silver
Wax for casting
185 iron shillings
Sketch of Hand-Crank Hammer
- Hammer
- Two Mechanisms
- Metal Frame
- Spring
- Crank
Intricate Sketch of Powered Hammer
- Columnar Hammer (Must be Iron)(Check: Great)
- Large Anvil (Must be Iron)
- Metal Frame (Check: Great)
- Four Mechanisms (Check: 2 Perfect, 2 Great)
Intricate Sketch of Magical Water Power Source
- 3 Rust-Proof Pipe
- Rust-Proof Reservoir
- Rust-Proof Corkscrew Rod (Difficult)
- Mechanism (Check: Great)
- 4 inch diameter Crystal Plate
Great Hand-Crank Hammer
Casting Basin
2 Well-Made Pipe
Great Pipe
Perfect Reservoir
Great Corkscrew
[You OK?: Moderate= 9] The toxicologist asked all his usual questions and did all of his usual poking and prodding. No apparent health issues, heart normal, slight nausea after that volume of any herb is reasonable, breathing is regular, slight dizziness is known to be a symptom of red vine poisoning, should fade. No reason to be alarmed for the poor fellow.
[Concentrate!: Moderate= 6] He would need to distill a solution of the herbs in water to try and purify the toxins. He didn’t have a means to do that on hand.
Access to gardens and swamp
Workbench with mortar and pestle
30 Guild credits
33 iron shillings
Cowbane
Red Vine
Sage
White Crown
9 Dead Rat
Untrained Recovered Rat (Cowbane/White Crown)
Untrained Recovered Rat (Red Vine/White Crown)
Trained Recovered Rat (Red Vine/White Crown)
2 Unpoisoned Trained Rats
Toxicologist
Recovered Trained Pig
Pig
Dog
Human Volunteer
Author
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