I'm the one who was inquiring about additional plants for your orchard for the purposes of alchemy. I am sending you some notes and illustrations that will hopefully convey what these plants are supposed to look like.
[And if some of the specifics are wrong, well... alchemical mishaps are a thing he's prepared for.
Attached is plants.jpg, which includes several scientific-style figures for fanged ivy, glassweed, frostlace, bloodwort, paw plants, and coiler. Each illustration has a cutaway detailing the inside textures and colors of the leaves, bark, roots, and even the fruits a few of them bear, as well as the approximate taste of most of them. There's even a few uses listed for each one. Did you know the leaves of frostlace can be used to chill a drink? Carlisle knew. Probably helps that he was quite the accomplished gardener back home.
But not alchemist, unfortunately.]
I hope that is sufficient. It has been some time since I've been home, but I kept quite a busy garden.
Here is my price: destroy something precious and I will give you two saplings of each plant. I don't care how you do it or what is destroyed, but its loss must be felt.
[It's a few days before he responds again. He's been deciding what to destroy, and if it's really worth it for a few saplings that might not even live. He is a competent gardener, but what if this Sorrow fellow isn't a competent conjurer?
But he finally does decide to go along with it. When Carlisle finally does answer, he sends back two pictures. The first is of an elaborate ink pen, one made of silver and bone. Etched into the body is intricate filigree, and the initials K. L. are inscribed in a silver band on the cap.
The second picture is that same pen, so dented and broken that it's nearly unrecognizable. The bone inlaid in it is shattered, the body fragmented, the silver band completely missing. That picture comes along with a text:]
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I'm the one who was inquiring about additional plants for your orchard for the purposes of alchemy. I am sending you some notes and illustrations that will hopefully convey what these plants are supposed to look like.
[And if some of the specifics are wrong, well... alchemical mishaps are a thing he's prepared for.
Attached is plants.jpg, which includes several scientific-style figures for fanged ivy, glassweed, frostlace, bloodwort, paw plants, and coiler. Each illustration has a cutaway detailing the inside textures and colors of the leaves, bark, roots, and even the fruits a few of them bear, as well as the approximate taste of most of them. There's even a few uses listed for each one. Did you know the leaves of frostlace can be used to chill a drink? Carlisle knew. Probably helps that he was quite the accomplished gardener back home.
But not alchemist, unfortunately.]
I hope that is sufficient. It has been some time since I've been home, but I kept quite a busy garden.
- Carlisle Longinmouth
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Here is my price: destroy something precious and I will give you two saplings of each plant. I don't care how you do it or what is destroyed, but its loss must be felt.
Is that agreeable?
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If you made a mistake then I'll ask for a smaller form of payment to alter what I've already created.
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But he finally does decide to go along with it. When Carlisle finally does answer, he sends back two pictures. The first is of an elaborate ink pen, one made of silver and bone. Etched into the body is intricate filigree, and the initials K. L. are inscribed in a silver band on the cap.
The second picture is that same pen, so dented and broken that it's nearly unrecognizable. The bone inlaid in it is shattered, the body fragmented, the silver band completely missing. That picture comes along with a text:]
It's done. That better be enough.
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Your plants are potted in my temple. You may transplant them where you like.
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[And he's going to take those plants and keep them where he can watch them, because like hell is he letting anyone mess up his plants.]