Oh, sorry! – I woke from a stupor and screamed loudly. – You’re right, you’re right, sir! Yup, I am sent, I’m sent! I’m sent by everybody everywhere! And you can send me! Oh damn! I mean – yes, I’m a messenger!
- Well, good news! – the old man got delighted. – I saw you out from the window why not to know if you’re a messenger or not, I thought, you really look like… Wait… are you really a messenger? Ain’t you just making a fool of a miserable old man?
- You can ask the leather-dresser to prove. I’ve just handed him an order sheet from the honorable Chris. And before that I’ve delivered two more letters. Don’t worry, sir… sorry, I don’t know your name, sir.
- My name is Polunie – answered the old man, he seemed to calm down and then was estimating my look by glaring at me. – Well, you don’t look like a hedge-born tramp. Your clothes are clean, you look neat and tidy… but why ain’t you wearing any shoes? Messengers don’t walk barefoot…
- Shall I deliver your letter to a far-away destination? – I lost my enthusiasm. He could send me to another city or some village but I couldn’t leave the Cradle. In that case it would be nice if the time of his quest was unlimited. The letter could travel with me in my rucksack until I got to the required destination.
- Nope, it’s not far away. Just two streets from here – Polunie calmed me down and then got strict at once – That’s why I can give you five coppers maximum. Don’t ask for more! It’s not a sack of potatoes, just an itty-bitty packet. Do you agree?
- Yes, I agree, dear Polunie! – I answered without thinking and took a small stringed textile packet and five clinking coins from the old man. An info about the acquired quest popped up, I knew from it that to take that task it was required to complete minimum three similar delivery quests before. Ok. That’s why the old man called me. As for shoes he was right – I had to buy some.
On my way to the herbalist curiosity overwhelmed me. I couldn’t resist it and opened the packet, thanks god, it was easy to untie the string as it wasn’t sealed. There was a shabby book named ‘Elementary Herbology and Potion-making’. And it determined my decision. If the book had been a mere love story or a fairy-tale book – there were lots of them in Valdira and you could read any of them if you wished – I would have delivered the packet to the destination pronto. But the book had a practical value. That’s why I decided to get delayed to read it from cover to cover. Thanks god it consisted of about thirty pages – it was called elementary for a reason. Such a book could be found in any book-shop and it wasn’t very expensive – it cost about two silver coins.
I chose a nice place to get comfortable under a shade tree and immerged into reading. Half an hour passed when I finished the book. As an award I got two skills, intelligence increase and a summary of some medical herbs that I could recognize among other herbs and collect them.
Your intelligence has increased by 1 point.
You’ve acquired a skill ‘To brew some small recovery potion’
You’ve acquired a skill ‘To brew some small mana potion’
Now you know what a plant ‘Plantain’ is like.
Now you know what a plant ‘Camomile’ is like.
Now you know what a plant ‘Peppermint’ is like.
Now you know what a plant ‘Hypericum’ is like.
Small potions can recover twenty life or mana points each that’s enough on basic levels. But there is not much use of these skills, even if I find the necessary herbs, I’ll need special tools and consumables to brew elixirs. It’s hard, expensive and monotonous as well to become an alchemist. So I read the book just because it was free for me. Besides, it’s always nice to get an additional intelligence point.
And a humble
- Well, good news! – the old man got delighted. – I saw you out from the window why not to know if you’re a messenger or not, I thought, you really look like… Wait… are you really a messenger? Ain’t you just making a fool of a miserable old man?
- You can ask the leather-dresser to prove. I’ve just handed him an order sheet from the honorable Chris. And before that I’ve delivered two more letters. Don’t worry, sir… sorry, I don’t know your name, sir.
- My name is Polunie – answered the old man, he seemed to calm down and then was estimating my look by glaring at me. – Well, you don’t look like a hedge-born tramp. Your clothes are clean, you look neat and tidy… but why ain’t you wearing any shoes? Messengers don’t walk barefoot…
- Shall I deliver your letter to a far-away destination? – I lost my enthusiasm. He could send me to another city or some village but I couldn’t leave the Cradle. In that case it would be nice if the time of his quest was unlimited. The letter could travel with me in my rucksack until I got to the required destination.
- Nope, it’s not far away. Just two streets from here – Polunie calmed me down and then got strict at once – That’s why I can give you five coppers maximum. Don’t ask for more! It’s not a sack of potatoes, just an itty-bitty packet. Do you agree?
- Yes, I agree, dear Polunie! – I answered without thinking and took a small stringed textile packet and five clinking coins from the old man. An info about the acquired quest popped up, I knew from it that to take that task it was required to complete minimum three similar delivery quests before. Ok. That’s why the old man called me. As for shoes he was right – I had to buy some.
On my way to the herbalist curiosity overwhelmed me. I couldn’t resist it and opened the packet, thanks god, it was easy to untie the string as it wasn’t sealed. There was a shabby book named ‘Elementary Herbology and Potion-making’. And it determined my decision. If the book had been a mere love story or a fairy-tale book – there were lots of them in Valdira and you could read any of them if you wished – I would have delivered the packet to the destination pronto. But the book had a practical value. That’s why I decided to get delayed to read it from cover to cover. Thanks god it consisted of about thirty pages – it was called elementary for a reason. Such a book could be found in any book-shop and it wasn’t very expensive – it cost about two silver coins.
I chose a nice place to get comfortable under a shade tree and immerged into reading. Half an hour passed when I finished the book. As an award I got two skills, intelligence increase and a summary of some medical herbs that I could recognize among other herbs and collect them.
Your intelligence has increased by 1 point.
You’ve acquired a skill ‘To brew some small recovery potion’
You’ve acquired a skill ‘To brew some small mana potion’
Now you know what a plant ‘Plantain’ is like.
Now you know what a plant ‘Camomile’ is like.
Now you know what a plant ‘Peppermint’ is like.
Now you know what a plant ‘Hypericum’ is like.
Small potions can recover twenty life or mana points each that’s enough on basic levels. But there is not much use of these skills, even if I find the necessary herbs, I’ll need special tools and consumables to brew elixirs. It’s hard, expensive and monotonous as well to become an alchemist. So I read the book just because it was free for me. Besides, it’s always nice to get an additional intelligence point.
And a humble
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