THE WIZARD TOWER

> APPRENTICE: Greet Chimera :D

> APPRENTICE: Greet Chimera

The APPRENTICE greets the CHIMERA and she does the same in return.

The APPRENTICE has met the CHIMERA before, but hasn't shared many words with her. Seems a bit friendly at the least!

She's a construct that the MASTER put together in the LABS, supposedly after many a night of studying alchemy and summoning blood and things like that. Probably. He was vague about it.

She possesses a lion's mane, a bear's paws, a dragon's tail, a gator's snout, and... something's horns.

> APPRENTICE: hug chimera

She doesn't really know the APPRENTICE that well, so she wouldn't call herself the most comfortable with this breach of social etiquette.

She is very wide, so much so that the apprentice can't get their arms around her very well, but she is also very soft.

> Apprentice: grab green orb from sconce and eat it like a jawbreaker

Aha, nice try. The APPRENTICE knows that these "orbs" are Whisps. Grabbing one would burn the their hand and cause more damage!

We don't want that, do we?

They have a limited amount of health!

Stop that.

> APPRENTICE: tell the chimera one of your deepest secrets

> APPRENTICE: tell the chimera one of your deepest secrets

The APPRENTICE tells the CHIMERA one of their deepest, darkest, most embarrassing secrets:

They thought they signed up to be a MAGICIAN, but ended up in a pact to become a WIZARD and has too much pride to go back on their mistake.

They believe they can do it so good anyway.

...This is a bit much for the CHIMERA. Interesting, she supposes, but she probably didn't need to know that.

> APPRENTICE: Realize CHIMERA is naked and promptly file a WIZARD RESTRAINING ORDER against her.

The rules are a bit different for those who aren't human, especially those with fur.

She's also got no bits.

There's also no WIZARD'S ADJUDICATING BUNYIP around to file with.

The APPRENTICE continues to upset her.

> APPRENTICE: check the master's teleporter

It would appear that the MASTER's TELEPORTATION PAD is not on its POWER FONT (circle on the floor), as the sigil in their alcove is not lit up.

The APPRENTICE has never seen the MASTER's room. They assume it is full of cool things and is very nice to look at and observe.

Or it could be bare and empty. Wouldn't that be funny?

Or it could be somewhere in between.

Now the APPRENTICE doesn't know what to expect.

> APPRENTICE: remove "Master" sign from above the teleporter alcove and affix it to your head to swiftly achieve the rank of master

Unfortunately "MASTER" is not one of the official wizarding ranks.

They're not going to keep wearing that.

> APPRENTICE: Go inside that place next to the MASTER teleporter.

> APPRENTICE: Go inside that place next to the MASTER teleporter.

ohhhhh it's dark down there...

The APPRENTICE can't see shit.

> APPRENTICE: Search for the kitchen, we have potions to brew in preparation.

There's probably a kitchen somewhere in the tower, but the APPRENTICE has a cauldron in their room exactly for this purpose! Well, for basic potions at least.

They teleport back up to stare reverently at their shitty little cauldron.

There's probably some ingredients and materials in their room somewhere...

> patch of grass

Yeah that is a patch of grass. It has no thoughts, as it has neither a mind nor a brain.

It could be used as an ingredient in a potion, potentially.

As mentioned before, its main purpose is for planting and growing things, but sure.

patch of grass.

The APPRENTICE picks it up and puts it in their ALCHEMAGE'S POCKET.

APPRENTICE: look in cabinet the cauldron is in front of

> APPRENTICE: push cauldron aside and crawl into shelf cubby

Well, the APPRENTICE not going to fit in there, but there does appear to be a bunch of ALCHEMICAL TOOLS and INGREDIENTS in here!

The ALCHEMICAL TOOLS include a mortar and pestle, ALCHEMICAL MANUAL, and sticks of white chalk, a big mixing stick, and various flasks and containers.

The INGREDIENTS include a few small tubes of powders, chunks of stones and metal, lengths of wood, and herbs and spices.

The ALCHEMICAL MANUAL has a bookmark wedged in it from the APPRENTICE's first attempt at brewing.

Mortar and Pestle

Chalk

Flasks

ALCHEMICAL MANUAL

Malachite

Sunstone

Small Log

Quicksilver

Salt

Brimstone

Powdered Astral Light

Sticks

Bismuth

Containers

Mistletoe

Catbrier Vine

Lingonberries

Bilberries

Juniper Berries

Mugwort

Majoram

Lime Basil

Mixing Stick

The APPRENTICE puts the TOOLS in their ALCHEMAGE'S POCKET and what INGREDIENTS they can in their POUCH.

Because of the limited room, they have to put things on top of each other... They'll have to take things out or reorganise them from the top to get the stuff at the bottom.

> APPRENTICE: Make glowsticks for a sweet rave after-party.

Of course! After the APPRENTICE is WINNING at the WIZARD DUEL, they'll need something to celebrate with!

They reorganise their ALCHEMAGE'S POCKET to grab the ALCHEMICAL MANUAL and rifle through to find glowsticks.

Well, the closest thing we've got here would be the GLEAMING CORDIAL. Looks like its mostly used as a reagent for other concoctions, but it glows on its own!

PAGE TEXT:

GLEAMING CORDIAL

Useful for Advanced Concoctions

RECIPE:

WATER

CHALK POWDER

BRIMSTONE

ESSENCE OF WHISP

COLOUR REAGENT

MIX ALL IN CAULDRON IN ORDER

AMOUNTS TO TASTE

> APPRENTICE: Take stock

On hand, the APPRENTICE has sticks of chalk (which can be powdered with the mortar and pestle later), and a vial of BRIMSTONE. If they want to make green glow sticks, grass might work for the COLOUR REAGENT.

It's raining outside, so they could get water that way, albeit it'd be slow to fill the cauldron that way.

Thankfully, the APPRENTICE knows where Whisps are: the "lights" in the foyer. The difficulty will be extracting the ESSENCE of them, somehow.

Unrelated to the potion brewing, let's take a look at the APPRENTICE's stats.

Their stats right now are:

GIZMO'S GAMBIT: 2+1

ONOMATOPOEIA OBSCURATION: 5

AXIOMATIC ARCANOSITY: 6+2

EXARCHIC EQUANIMITY: 0

HARANGUING HERMETICS: 6

Equipped, they have:

Basic Shirt

Basic Pants

Basic Shoes

STICKLY WAND

CLOAK OF GALAXICATION

There's also a panel for known SPELLS & SKILLS, if we want to look at that.

> APPRENTICE: Wizards are lame. Dedicate your life from this point on to becoming a knight.

A couple issues with this thought.

The APPRENTICE has the wrong kind of stats for being a KNIGHT. They'd need things like LETHAL LACERATION or LOUT'S LIMIT or CHIVALROUS CHARISMA.

This thought makes the APPRENTICE sad.

Also, the APPRENTICE is in a pact to become a WIZARD! They can't become anything else at the moment!

They signed a fancy magical pact under the supervision of a WIZARD'S ADJUDICATING BUNYIP. Can't break that shit under the threat of bodily destruction of their MASTER's choosing.

For example, having all of their blood removed from their body. Or having all of their bones removed from their body. Or being turned into some small Creature. Or being turned into a massive slide puzzle that an adventurer may have to solve before they can become Normal again. Or having themselves erased from existence from the past, present, and future.

All worrying possibilities.

APPRENTICE: Boost your spirits by giving yourself a name worthy of a high-ranked wizard

> APPRENTICE: Check out your spells and skills!
> APPRENTICE: Your dome is looking awfully barren. Make a wizard's hat!
> APPRENTICE: Mark a summoning circle on the ground with chalk.

> APPRENTICE: Boost your spirits by giving yourself a name worthy of a high-ranked wizard

If only they could! As a part of their pact with their MASTER, they are currently nameless. What they had before had been stripped from them in a process some call "WIZARDIZATION."

The APPRENTICE can't even remember what their name was before...

That being said... one of the prizes of the WIZARD DUEL is said to be a spell that names oneself! How lucky is that?

> APPRENTICE: Your dome is looking awfully barren. Make a wizard's hat!

Hell yeah.

After popping their ALCHEMICAL MANUAL back in their ALCHEMAGE'S POCKET, they grab a scroll from their bin of WIZARDLY SCROLLS, tear the paper off of its roller, and fold (and scrunch) it to be vaguely in the shape of a WIZARD'S HAT, creating the APPRENTICE'S HAT OF HANDICRAFT.

It appears to grant +2 to GIZMO'S GAMBIT and -2 to ONOMATOPOEIA OBSCURATION.

They equip it.

> APPRENTICE: Mark a summoning circle on the ground with chalk.

The APPRENTICE draws a circle with a stick of chalk, but doesn't fill it with anything... because they don't know what to put in there!

They've summoned a desk before, but that was basic magic with a normal ass wand. They might need a bit more instruction and/or studying to summon something fancier with a summoning circle.

> APPRENTICE: collecting water from the rain is going to be far too slow. if only you had access to some sort of TIME MAGIC that could let you speed the rain up in a small area to collect it faster. Failing that, is conjuring up water too much for you, apprentice?

...we gotta work on making some of these thoughts shorter.

They... they almost stuck their head out the window with their new PAPER hat...

It would be convenient if they had TIME MAGIC, wouldn't it? Just in general, really. Unfortunately, of course, that is a much higher level of magic than the apprentice has access to learn, and they wouldn't have the stats to cast any of it yet. And it's restricted to a very small section of wizards due to its nature.

Water magic, though...

> APPRENTICE: Check out your spells and skills!

Finally............ spells.

And a distinct lack of skills.

The APPRENTICE knows a few spells, and thankfully for them, "BABBLER'S BROOK" is one of them!

At the low, low cost of one mana per cast, and as long as the caster has 2 AXIOMATIC ARCANOSITY, this spell will create a steady (albeit small) stream of water from the caster's focus point!

It's a bit of a low level spell, but you gotta start somewhere.

The other spells the APPRENTICE knows are SUMMON DESK, SUMMON GAMING CHAIR, FLAVOUR BLAST, and ALCHEMAGE'S POCKET.