[SP-F1-6] Herb Identification journey of the Ages

[Raidou 1]

Raidou collects his things, and exits his shop. Walking through floor 3, following the path he uses a warp gate to travel to floor 1 with a shout-out "Floor 1!", as he is curious what exactly boars will drop now that hes an Alchemist. Landing on floor 1, his surroundings are familiar, reminiscent of the time he had fought a huge boar on this level. Shaking off the nostalgia, with a turn of his head Raidou's train of thought returns. Walking out into the floor, into the field layered with boars Raidou draws his weapon to lay into the creatures, eager to discover the secrets they hold.

Raidou's sword begins to glow, as he sets his aim at the closest low level animal. Walking in behind the monster, Raidou sweeps his sword horizontally to test its durability. The boar walks a bit forward, unintentionally dodging Raidou's strike. Raidou walks again close to the boar a bit confused by its dodge from before, as his sword glows again.

Raidou: 19/19

Boar: 2/2

[Raidou 1]

Walking in behind the creature again, Raidou's weapon glows. With another quick sweep of his sword, windmilling it horizontally at the boar, it steps forward again. Raidou just looks at the creature in awe, completely flabbergasted by the beasts unintentional dodging. Again Raidou steps into the creature, and his sword glows red. moving his sword up, pulling it up to shoulder height, Raidou is done taking the creature lightly.

Raidou: 19/19

Boar: 2/2

[Raidou 1]

With his sword raised up in his signature positioning, Raidou lets the weapons weight carry it downward while glowing. As the weapons point comes close to the ground, he windmills the weapon over his head, creating a circle with the weapon drawn over his head. Letting the weapon come full circle, it moves for the boar. With a slam and a pop, the boar dissipates leaving nothing behind. Looking down where the beast had fallen, Raidou was a bit disappointed that it didn't leave anything for him

Raidou: 19/19

Boar: 0/2

[Raidou 1]

Walking to the next boar, Raidou drags his weapon along the ground. Leaving a small line in the ground, the weapon begins to glow. Raidou pulls the weapon up at the second boar, letting the weapon do the work. Scratching his head with his left hand, Raidou thinks to himself, "where they always this agile?". The boars just seem to be toying with him, Raidou thought as he took another step to get in range with the boar again. His weapon glows as he prepares to swing again.

[Raidou 1]

Not about to lose faith, Raidou's weapon glows as he intends another swing. Lifting the heavy weapon up, he decides to let the edge drop through the boar this time. The edge slams through the creatures back and it pops into data. materializing on the ground is a self heal herb, Raidou pulls out his material list, and jots down the new place to obtain self-heal herbs. With a quick kneel down, Raidou lifts the herb and places it into his dry bag, and moves on to another boar to see exactly what a rare material drop for an alchemist would yield.

Loot Dice Modified: +2 Robe

Raidou: 19/19

Boar 2: 0/2

Raidou Obtained:

» 1*Self-Heal

[Raidou 1]

Continuing his conquest of small weak animals, Raidou walks to the next creature available. This boar was a little bigger, but that's not saying much. Lifting his weapon, he just drops the weight of it at the boar. Slamming clean through it and leaving a small crease in the ground before reforming, the boar dissipates leaving nothing behind. A bit irritated by the lack of items Raidou walks on to the next unsuspecting creature.

Raidou: 21/21

Boar: 0/3

[Raidou 1]

A quick leap at the creature, Raidou swings down. The blade screams through the air, with furvor. Pushing the creature off its feet, with a red gash in its right side, it rolls and leaves nothing but another herb behind. Raidou bends down and grabs it, picking it up and placing it in his dry bag.

Raidou: 21/21

Boar: 0/2

Raidou Obtained:

» 1*Self-Heal

[Raidou 1]

Lazily walking to the next boar, Raidou is getting tired from all this swinging around. Raidou pulls his weapon up to his next target and pokes it in the behind as it pops into nothing. Leaving a chest behind Raidou leans down and pops the chest open, revealing a green herb and a blue mushroom.

Raidou: 21/21

Boar: 0/3

Raidou Obtained:

» 1*Self-Heal

» 1*Blue Mushroom

[Raidou 1]

Raidou having seen the creatures drop pattern, he treks up to floor 2. Walking up to the floor, Raidou spots a Moss-swine. Instead of killing it, Raidou decides to follow it around and grab herbs that it finds. The pig just leads him around in circles for a while before eating the only herb it finds. Raidou is a bit irritated but waits for the creature to continue to move on from the useless herb, sitting on a stump leaning on his hand.

[Raidou 1]

Letting the creature move on Raidou strolls behind it, hoping it leads him to something good. Following close behind the creature it stops and begins to sniff around, in a collection of trees. Moving quickly before the creature eats the herb, Raidou grabs the yellow herb before its devoured by the fat creature.

Raidou obtained:

» 1*Day-break

[Raidou 1]

Taking note of the find in his Alchemist book, Raidou follows close behind to record any more finds. Watching the creature fumble around, seeming new to the use of its own feet Raidou feels like hes hardly moving at all. Coming to a small clearing next to a stream the creature sniffs along the edge of the water. Pushing the creature aside, it squeals a bit in objection but doesn't get the herbs as Raidou grabs the blue and orange herbs up quickly and adds them to his dry bag.

Raidou obtains:

» 1*Tangerine-Dream

» 1*Liberating-Water

[Raidou 1]

Satisfied Raidou jots down the new found species of herbs on this floor, Raidou moves up to floor 3. Walking out into the floor the sunlight beats down on the environment, where the Moss-swine originate from. Raidou decides to walk to the next floor, as he spends quite amount of time here already. Climbing the stairs to floor 4, the floor is in a blizzard Raidou pulls up the hood of his Emissary's Garb blending into the snow and walks around looking at trees looking along the frozen lake digging in the snow for herbs. Ripping through the snow Raidou finds a white herb and a gold herb picking them up and swatting the snow off them before adding them into the dry bag.

Raidou obtains:

1*Golden-thread

1*Cold-Ivory

[Raidou 1]

Jotting down these new species in his book, while sheltering it from the descending snow Raidou snaps it closed. Raidou proceeds to continue around the lake, trying to find anything else in the snow. Not finding a lick of anything, along the edge of the lake he looks out onto the ice reminiscent of his last time on the ice shivering in response. Standing up Raidou followed the allotted path, looking on the Crystal cove in disdain and continues on. Coming to the end of the floor Raidou ascends up to floor 5 to continue is investigative travel.

[Raidou 1]

The sweltering heat pours into the floor, excessively hot it proves the sand current state. Raidou looks out at the desolate sands, blinded by the sun so close to the ground. The ground is cracked and frayed with the dry environment and sand is kicked up from the dunes from times, giving the illusion of a cool breeze but its more like a heat wave. Raidou removes his hood and goes to the nearest village, circling the wall looking for a water source to follow. Coming to concave groove in the sand floor, Raidou proceeds along it to find his source of water, albeit small its enough for the surrounding vegetation. Finding nothing of worth Raidou proceeds to follow the waters edge keeping a close eye for any peculiar plant life.

[Raidou 1]

Moving along the water source, Raidou keeps his eyes open for unique signs of vegetation. Seeing a small bit of red plant reaching into the water Raidou begins to dig at it. Raidou produces a red herb and is impressed at its ability to grow in such a harsh environment, Inspecting it for a moment before adding it to his Dry bag after dusting it off.

Modified LD Emissary Garb: +2 LD= 11

Raidou Obtained:

» 1*Blood-booster

[Raidou 1]

Continuing his trek around the circumference of the water source, Raidou is curious of any other types of herbs he may find growing in this place. Raidou stops and sees another batch of red herb, digging it up. Astonishingly thats not all Raidou finds, as in the center of the red herb batch is a very interesting herb, black in color and seeming to kill off alot of the available red herbs nearby. Raidou carefully and quickly picks the black herb, as it burns him for a moment before the roots are broke dealing 1 damage placing it into his bag with the red herb, Raidou jots down the herbs into his book before deciding to move on.

Modified Loot Dice: Emissary's Garb +2= 20!

Raidou Obtained:

» 1*Blood-booster

» 1*Draining-Tar

[Raidou 1]

Continuing upward to floor 6, the dense jungle imposes back on Raidou. The trees loom over head, much larger then the ones on other floors. Raidou begins to head out moving close to the amazon village, not seeing any water around anywhere. The amazons see Raidou poking around near their village, and come out to investigate. Pointing a spear at him, Raidou pulls out a green herb and points to it. The girls respond with a grin and wave inward in a "follow" motion before walking into the forest. Having no luck here, Raidou follows the brutish female into the forest.

[Raidou 1]

Following his escort close behind, Raidou fears he must stay close to her lest the forest swallow him whole. Coming to a clearing, the girl leans down quickly ripping up a patch of bush. Confused Raidou looks on, watching her method. After the small purple flowered bush is removed, she scoops a knife into the ground. Removing a bit of dirt in a scooping motion, a purple herb like bulb is unearthed and she hands it to Raidou. Dumbstruck by both her generosity and what he just witnessed Raidou takes the object before adding it to his dry bag. She travels on with Raidou following close behind, writing down both the method of retrieval and a description of the herb he just witnessed.

Raidou obtained:

» 1*Heart-bulb

[Raidou 1]

The shifting of grass, Raidou shambles behind the Amazon. Coming to another clearing the Amazon begins to dig around again, pulling up another purple bulb before grunting. Walking off in anger she leaves it on the ground near the retrieval point, watching in awe Raidou quickly grabs it adding it to his bag and keeps up with her.

Raidou Obtained:

» 1*Heart-bulb

[Raidou 1]

Walking deeper in, the Zon begins to dig around. She gives up, looks at Raidou shrugging and walking back toward the amazon village feeling that Raidou was sufficiently taught their methods enough. Walking off with a silent nod, Raidou continues forward to test this for himself.