Counter-Productive

> If you can't fit all your supplies in the back room, prepare some for the storefront shelves. Anything you can finish crafting by the day's end, you might as well, right?

> Oh, and don't forget about the safe! Get the combo from the lockbox and take stock of what sweet loot your gram-gram left you.

Call your friends, tell them to check out your sweet new shop!

Get the safe combo from the lockbox



Oh right! You almost forgot.

You grab your keys again and open the lockbox. Inside is 50 Jewels, a coral ring, and a scrap of paper with the safe combination written on it.


Take stock of what sweet loot your gram-gram left you



You unlock the safe. Inside is...

Oh.

Oh no.


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It's a Luck Pastry.


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Luck Points, or LP, is a powerful stat. Most people only have two or three LP, but at high levels you can use your LP to make actual miracles happen. Luck Pastries are the quickest way to level up LP.

It's said that the Luckiest being in existence is the King of your beloved land. Unfortunately for everyone living in it, he's a tyrant. He's outlawed anything that could be a threat to his rule, including traveling through the passes without a permit, all forms of electronic communication, and of course, Luck Pastries.

Having pretty much anything to do with a Luck Pastry is illegal. Owning one will land you in jail. Selling one will get you executed. And you're not sure what happens to the people who eat one, but you don't want to find out.

Why the hell does Grandma have something like this?!

> Practice your secret weapon techniques.

Practice your secret weapon techniques



Thinking about it is starting to give you a headache so you lock the pastry back in the safe.

If you're going to keep contraband in the store, you'd better be ready to protect it. You head up to the balcony and equip your Grandma's ring. Coral is a mid-level material for rings that channels magic well. It looks like this one has already been crafted into a Magic Projectile ring, which is exactly what it sounds like.

You place the cracked bottle on the lip of the planter box.


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Nailed it.

Alright. What can you do with those runes? How about those coupons?

What can you do with the runes and coupons?



You scoop the glass shards up into your inventory so you don't step on them later.

The Point Allocation Coupons are like the Luck Pastry; they raise the level of one of your stats. However, they can be used on any of your stats rather than just LP. The only reason they're not illegal is because they only level them one point at a time. They're also very rare.

Selling these would make you a small fortune. However, Grandma did say you could use them for yourself...

The runes, on the other hand, are made specifically for crafting. Each type of rune has a different effect. A "Reverse" rune, for instance, reverses the properties of any item you combine it with. If you were to combine a Reverse rune with an HP potion, you'd get a potion that damages you when you drink it.

Craft fancier seeds by using a seed packet and rune as ingredients, then plant your rad magic beans in the planter upstairs

Craft fancier seeds by using a seed packet and rune as ingredients, then plant your rad magic beans in the planter upstairs



Now just hold your horses! You may have an unusually high MP stat, but it's not infinite. You'd better stop and think about what you're crafting before you go spending MP willy-nilly.

Combining a seed with a rune would be easy enough, but you've got to consider the effects that would have on the plant it grows into. Take the pumpkin seeds, for example. If you were to craft them with a Reverse rune, instead of a tasty, nutritious pumpkin, you'd likely get a poisonous one. If you crafted them with a Break rune, you'd just break the seeds and render them useless. And if you crafted them with a Grow rune, the pumpkin might grow so big it damages the planter box.

All three of these would cost 3 MP, and then you'd need to spend another 3 MP to craft the result with a Clear rune in order to fix it. You've only got 30 MP.

You're not opposed to doing some crafting, though. Crafted goods sell for more than standard scrolls and daggers, after all.


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