You have 16 Days Until Your Place of Business is Shut Down

Okay, so. We have 17 days to turn in our primary quest. We're pretty set on Magic Grass (and, honestly, probably on fuel as well), so let's focus on trying to get those Puniballs for Miriam's request. After that, I suggest buckling down and brewing as much as we can.

Do you think Miriam should tag along with us though? 0: It's nice to see another reader though, hello!

Hello!
And we want to get the remaining four puniballs as quickly as possible, to give us time to start prepping healing salves. So yeah, this is probably a good time to bring Miriam. We get to see what she can do AND increase our kills-to-time ratio.

You ask Miriam to join you as well. She has to get a few things ready and says she'll meet you at the gate.

After waiting a couple of minutes with Dave, she walks up. "Hi there," says Dave, waving.
"Greetings. Miriam Kovich, at your service," she nods.
"Uh, Dave. Nice to meet ya, I guess."
She grins, adjusting her glasses. "Indeed. I've always wanted a chance to study beastfolk more closely. For humans and mana, the sense of balance appears to lie in the inner ear, but beastfolk ears are so different in nature to bring into doubt that their balance is the same. Besides which, there is the role of the tail to consider in acting as a counterbalance, which among other races the arms are usually sufficient for..."
Dave gives you a helpless, slightly worried look. You just shrug; as far as you can tell this is just how she talks to people. After trailing off into silence, she stares at him for long periods of time on the walk out to the forest. He tries his best to ignore it.

Eventually, you reach the forest. The usual choice awaits you: Look for materials; look for monsters; or explore in search of a new area. At the moment you have discovered two areas in which to do this: The Forest Entrance, which has less monsters and seemingly more punis than wolves, and Wolf Territory, which as the name would suggest is mostly full of wolves; it's also where you saw that alpha wolf. What will you do, and where?

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Date: 1/13
Time: About half

Status & Inventory:

3716 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.
  
• Slice & Dice: Chop-chop-chop-chop! Attempts 5-10 normal attacks, all on the same target, at reduced accuracy.
  
• Quick Feet (passive): Go go go! Instead of the usual 1 move, 1 attack/skill, Dave can choose any 3 actions to perform on each of his turns, each of which can be either kind.

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

Miriam Kovich: Uninjured, 10/10 Bombs
Weapon: Crossbow
Armor: Lab Coat

Skills:

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• SCIENCE! (passive): Nothing can be allowed to deter the march of progress! Miriam's determination to discover the unknown gives her seemingly boundless energy. Instead her skills use up her limited supply of bombs, which can only be replenished back at town or by Sarah giving her items of the category [Bomb Supply] out of the basket and a night to turn them into more bombs. The quality and type of item affects how many bombs it can produce.
  
• Keen Eye (passive): A scientist must always be paying attention! To everything. Miriam's presence in the party increases the probability of finding more items, and of finding a wider variety of items. Some items can only be initially discovered with Miriam in the party.
  
• Observation: Let's see what makes you tick... Miriam can spend an entire turn (both the move and act portions) on observing an enemy and provide tactical data about that enemy type's behaviors, weaknesses, strengths, etc. This data remains available indefinitely after being obtained once.
  
• CrossBomb (1): The obvious combination. Miriam attaches a small bomb to a crossbow bolt. Hits any enemy in normal attack range for normal attack damage, then causes explosive fire damage to the 3x3 square centered on the target. This can also be aimed at empty squares for tactical effect.

Fee: FREE TRAIL x 1 (100 Cole after)

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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A/N:

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Welcome, Dragoon! Wonderful to have two readers again :D