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>Okay, so. We are rested up, we cleared out our baskets, and we dealt with our quests. We should be ready to go on our trip.

>The only other thing we could do is make a healing paste or supplements, but I feel we don't need to right now. Maybe we just make 1 supplement right now then in the morning get ready to rock and roll to the Forest.

> She's like the prepromote of Fire Emblem games, but she's also too expensive to use. Hm. Perhaps if we find a boss, and we can get there within one day, we should hire her for that sort of thing. Otherwise, I'm sure we'll live.

> We should be fine - do as IC says and make the supplement.

> When we go to the forest, let's go with 'head deeper' as our command. Best to see all there is to see before we start looking for specific stuff.

> Sarah and Dave: wonder about other locations nearby. Surely you haven't just lived in Sygyzy your whole life, right? Are there nearby towns or ruined castles that we may be interested to visit in the near future?

You decide to spend the rest of the day making another supplement out of tap water. It turns out just fine; maybe you're getting the hang of making these at least.

The next morning, you go check with Dave and, after confirming he can come with, both set out for the forest right away. Once there, you try to see if you can explore any deeper in, maybe find an area with more or different ingredients. Along the way you find a few more samples of magic grass.

It looks like there's a way to get somewhere deeper, but there's a small party of monsters in the way, consisting of two wolves and a puni. You'll have to get rid of them to see what's past here, but you always have the option of doing something else and coming back to them later now that you know where they are.

(Note: Fighting this group of monsters will not consume extra time beyond that spent locating the entrance they are guarding.)

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Date: 1/7
Time: About three quarters

Status & Inventory:

1626 Cole

Location: Nearby Forest - Forest Entrance

Character Status:

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Sarah Kennigan: Uninjured, Just Fine
Weapon: Basic Staff
Armor: Normal Clothes
Accessory: None
Skills:

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Ether Light: A self-defense technique from Master. Non-elemental magic attack, any 1 square.

Dave Barrett: Uninjured, Energetic
Weapon: Hatchets
Armor: Normal Clothes
Accessory: None
Skills:

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Hatchet Throw: Throw a hatchet in any of 8 directions. Does physical damage to whatever it hits first.

Fee: 0 Cole

Miranda (???): Uninjured, Fine
Weapon: Knight's Sword
Armor: Knight's Armor
Accessory: None
Skills:

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• Zero Motivation (passive): Eh. Miranda has less energy states than normal (Exhausted, Okay, Fine). It costs energy to perform regular move and attack actions in battle. Active skills require a large percentage of her maximum energy.
  
• Chill (passive): Whatever, it's fine. Miranda regains a small amount of energy anytime she isn't doing anything, regardless of if it's out of town or even in the middle of a battle.
  
• Spin Slash: Gotta respect the classics. Slashes everything in the 8 tiles surrounding Miranda for physical damage.
  
• Lazy Combo: Way too much effort. Performs six normal attacks in a row (which can have distinct targets), and then lacks the motivation to do anything at all for the next two turns (Chill is disabled during these turns).
  
• Slack Off (3/3): Miranda's favorite activity. Doesn't accomplish anything immediate, but restores a moderate amount of energy instead of spending it. Has a 2-turn cooldown and only works 3 times per battle.

Fee: 500 Cole

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A/N:

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It may be worth noting that parties of 2+ monsters are pretty normal; the 1-monster parties in the first expedition were sort of for tutorial purposes.