Re: Torvallis!'s Alchemy Training

[Torvallis!]

"I see. I see.

I'll just wander off and try to rend a few potions and then check back in with you, I guess"

[Malva]

"Okay."

[Malva]

Once Torvallis! wanders off to do go practice, Malva starts puttering away at her recipe book: a sketch here, an encryption there... until she hears the loud "BAMF!" of Torvallis!'s practice. "Perhaps I should devise a test for them..." she mutters to herself before flipping over to a new page in her blank notebook and starting to jot things down.

[Torvallis!]

(edit: eh, whoops.)

[Malva]

(OOG: Am confuse. This is once you've left the room.)

[Torvallis!]

(oog: I am early-morning confused. I clicked on 'show latest reply' and it only showed me page one, ending with 'actually, that's all I had in mind", so I forgot where we were in this post)

[Torvallis!]

Torvallis! wanders back into the inn, grabs some bandages from someone's surgery kit, and begins resignedly patching up their hands.

[Malva]

"Torvallis!, do you think you've had enough practice? If so I have a test for you." She says, picking a piece of paper up off the bunk and extending it to Torvallis!:

[Torvallis!]

Torvallis! takes the paper and reads it for about a minute.

"Hm . . . well, it is obvious that Flora C is the only possible flora. Then taking you by your word that it is a solvable puzzle, I am left with 5 unmentioned ingredients, so I should start on whatever path crosses out the most possibilities. With that in mind, N is both an animal component and a fizzer. S crosses out all of the ores. And then throwing in the remaining dirts fills out the potion.

But that's not a satisfactory way of solving things.

Ah, I see. Of course, if it only has one flora, it must have three dirts, and Dirt Q and Dirt P are both acidic.

That leaves us with Dirts R, S, and T.

We then have no ores, and require an animal component, a flora, a slimer, and something that fizzes. Gather N is both an animal component and causes fizz.

As for Flora, we have a choice between the slimers Flora C and Flora D, but Flora D would dye the concoction red.

So our components are indeed C, N, R,S and T, whether I'm figuring from meta-puzzle knowledge or from alchemical knowledge!"

[Malva]

"Correct! I am satisfied with what you have taken from my lessons. Good job."

(Signing off on Alchemy 4 for Torvallis!)

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