PBA 031c

[5:17:42 PM] Kali: Lina sweeps Kalor into a greenhouse! It's very pretty, albeit quiet warm. Fortunately, she at least is wearing a fairly cool-looking dress--it's white and sleeveless. But quite respectable--something one might wear to a nice cocktail party.

[5:19:06 PM] Kalor: It is very nice, definitely one of the most stylish greenhouses I have seen.

[5:20:09 PM] Kali: Lina: I like it here, too, although I have to be awfully careful; the sun burns my skin so easily. I bring an umbrella everywhere.

[5:21:21 PM] Kalor: I know exactly what you mean, I had the same problem for months after coming to the surface the first time.

[5:24:29 PM] Kali: Lina: The surface?

[5:24:58 PM] Kalor: Yes, of the ocean I mean.

[5:25:37 PM] Kali: Lina: You came from the ocean? *You* must be a tourist, then.

[5:26:37 PM] Kalor: Now a resident citizen, I have not been back down under in quite a while.

[5:27:13 PM] Kali: Lina: What is it like under there? Is it terribly exciting?

[5:28:22 PM] Kalor: It's darker and wetter for one thing. Aside from that there really is not that much of a difference. Except that swimming takes you everywhere I guess.

[5:29:51 PM] Kali: Lina: Darker does sound nice.

[5:31:40 PM] Kalor: It does have its own lights of course, but on the whole everything is dimmer.

[5:33:31 PM] Kali: Lina: Is it very cold? The ocean always seems cold to me.

[5:33:47 PM] Kali: She ambles along the path in the greenhouse, looking at the flowers between talking to Kalor and speaking herself.

[5:34:36 PM] Kalor: It is colder than the surface air in most places, but there are hot zones as well, where warm water wells up from the seafloor.

[5:35:07 PM] Kalor: Kalor follows and tries to identify the flowers as well

[5:36:23 PM] Kali: Quite a few of them are ornamental but there are also some useful ones for alchemy and herbalism and the like.

[5:39:46 PM] Kalor: This greenhouse seems to hold plants of many uses

[5:40:30 PM] Kali: Lina: Oh yes. I'm studying herbs that can be used for healing.

[5:43:35 PM] Kalor: Healing herbs are rare underwater, most of the ingredients for potions and the like instead come from coral and fungi.

[5:44:14 PM] Kali: Lina: Coral, really? Is it hard to collect? I love the greenhouse, it saves so much time and sunburn.

[5:45:35 PM] Kalor: Well, most houses are grown out of coral where I come from, gardens can be maintained indoors in the same way, although fresh water needs to filter through them at all times.

[5:46:05 PM] Kali: Lina: Why fresh water?

[5:46:57 PM] Kalor: Because the coral and fungi survive by filtering tiny plants and animals out of the water for food. If the water is not flowing they starve.

[5:48:02 PM] Kalor: Most species of sea fungus and mollusks eat in the same way.

[5:48:35 PM] Kali: Lina: Oh, fresh *salt* water. I misunderstood. ... but you just eat with your mouth, like other people, right?

[5:48:54 PM] Kalor: That is why plants have always filled me with wonder, they need no food but sunlight and soil.

[5:49:05 PM] Kalor: And yes.

[5:49:25 PM] Kali: Lina: And you can always augment the soil.

[5:50:15 PM] Kalor: Yes, another wonder of the natural world.

[5:51:09 PM] Kali: Lina: If it weren't for the sunlight I'd be here all the time, I think.

[5:51:12 PM] Kali: She smiles.

[5:57:06 PM] Kalor: I would like to cast a spell, if you do not mind.

[5:57:30 PM] Kali: Lina: What kind of spell?

[5:58:06 PM] Kalor: It is a divination spell

[5:59:05 PM] Kali: Lina raises her eyebrows. "All right."

[6:03:37 PM] Kalor: Kalor starts chanting in a droning voice while making hypnotic gestures

[6:03:59 PM] Kalor: (( 7 hd in total ))

[6:04:29 PM] Kalor: (( -2 to will save because she's alone and not in combat, at DC 17))

[6:05:01 PM] Kali: Lina blinks and is thoroughly hypnotized.

[6:05:35 PM] Kalor: Tell me who you *really* are.

[6:06:05 PM] Kalor: *Waits for the spell to wear off*

[6:07:43 PM] Kali: Lina: I'm Yalina Eliaiaili Hrulae the third, fourth granddaughter of Lady Tiglath. I am an herbalist.

[6:09:21 PM] Kalor: Thank you, you have been most helpful and I will tell the proprietess I'm most pleased. Good day.

[6:09:24 PM | Edited 6:09:37 PM] Kalor: /me bows and walks back to the main room to wait for the others.

[6:09:42 PM] Kali: Lina blinks. "... what..."