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> Search for items, that would be a good thing to do.

> Head into the deepest part of the forest you feel comfortable with to do so. We need rare stuff to make better items!

{Exploring Forest - Into the Thick of It}

You search the Wolf Territory for more ingredients. You stumble upon a big patch of magic grass and take a bunch of it, leaving enough that it'll hopefully grow back even more (+6 Magic Grass). You also find a few more stray bits of wood and cocoa beans (+2 Wood Chips, +2 Cocoa Beans). Overall it's been a pretty productive morning since the ambush, and you seem to have avoided catching the attention of any more wolf monsters since then--or it could be that they know you killed three of them, and don't feel like challenging someone capable of that. Puni seem a lot less common around here, which makes sense considering the abundance of wolves. Your basket's a little more than half full now.

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Date: 1/8
Time: About one half

Status & Inventory:

1626 Cole

Location: Nearby Forest - Wolf Territory

Character Status:

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Sarah Kennigan: Barely Scratched, Just Okay
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: Slightly Injured, Just Okay
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.
  
• Slice & Dice: Chop-chop-chop-chop! Attempts 5-10 normal attacks, all on the same target, at reduced accuracy.

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

Dual Techs:

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Sarah & Dave:
Ether Hatchet (Hatchet Throw + Ether Light): Do the thing! Targets any enemy on a straight line from Dave which he could hit with Hatchet Throw. Deals physical damage to the target and then magical damage to anything in the 3x3 square centered on the target.

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