Counter-Productive

Heads up guys, updates may be spotty for the next couple months. I'll try to keep updates consistent, but I've got a lot going on right now so I can't make any promises.

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Brass Ring --> HP Steal
Anyone who is using a HP stealing fighting tactic is in that battle for endurance and attrition. They will want max performance out of their attrition and repair engine.

Iron Ring --> Shock lance
Standard high offense.

Copper --> 1 Parasitic Plant, to see what happens, 1 blind, as a debuff secondary option, 1 magic projectile because that spell is perfect in ring form.

Of the remaining Poison scroll and HP steal scroll - can you combine scrolls directly? They'd be good candidates to try.

Combine Parasitic Plant and HP-Steal. If that's not impressive enough a result by itself, further combine it with Magic Projectile to make a really scary ring! Put it on the Brass Ring.

Shock Lance and Blind sounds like it might make some nice flashbang lightning bolt kind of result, no? Iron Ring.

Fireball on one of the copper, Ice Spike on another, and, uhhhhh.... What do we have left after that? Magic Projectile?

> Clearly combine the outlier expensive scroll with the Brass Ring.

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You grab up the rest of the scrolls in the back room. Any you don't use, you can just sell normally.



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You combine the HP STEAL SCROLL and the PARASITIC PLANT SCROLL to create the LEECHVINE SCROLL. On their own, these scrolls steal HP from an enemy and put them into your own HP bar, and summon strong but easily destructible roots from the ground to prevent the enemy from moving. The LEECHVINE SCROLL summons a vine which wraps around the target to hinder its movement, while also slowly draining its HP. Not only that, but the vine is harder to destroy than the roots, and as it drains more HP it gets even harder to destroy. You may have just created something horrifying.

You also combine the SHOCK LANCE SCROLL and the BLIND SCROLL to create the BLINDING BOLT SCROLL. While SHOCK LANCE and BLIND create a damaging bolt of electricity and blind the target, respectively, BLINDING BOLT creates an electric blast that does less damage but leaves the target blinded and CONFUSED. You're not an expert on MOOD EFFECTS, but you're pretty sure there's a way to use that to your advantage.



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The HP STEAL scroll is the most expensive base scroll, so you combine the LEECHVINE scroll with the brass ring.

You combine the BLINDING BOLT scroll with the iron ring.

Finally, you combine the FIREBALL, ICE SPIKE, and MAGIC PROJECTILE rings with the copper rings.

And that's all the MP you have. You should probably rest for a bit before doing any more crafting today.



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You head into the shop to put your wares on display, only to find that a customer has come in while you were distracted!



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"Er, hi there!"
"Oh? So there is someone working here. I thought that cultist guy just walked in here and took stuff."
"No no, sorry. I was just working on something in the back."
"Mmkay. I was hoping you could help me with something.
"Of course! What do you need?"



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"Well, I'm headed west, and I'll need one of these levitation potions to get home. But I don't want to be attacked while I'm floating around, so I need some kind of weapon to deal with flying monsters. What do you recommend?"



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