The Renegades_The Bard from Barliona by Vasily Mahanenko & Eugenia Dmitrieva

Author:Vasily Mahanenko & Eugenia Dmitrieva [Mahanenko, Vasily & Dmitrieva, Eugenia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788088295242
Publisher: Magic Dome Books
Published: 2018-05-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Upon returning to Barliona, I ran past the instructors for the various trades. The mining instructor looked at me with immense doubt but taught me the basics and at the same time sold me a basic pickaxe, forcing a smile from me. The guys in the band would have a nice laugh seeing me with a pickaxe in my hand. It’s too bad that my reputation was too low to take a screenshot. But no big deal. I’ll get a chance at my selfie later.

The herbalist doubled as the lumberjack instructor. At first the combination surprised me but the explanation wasn’t long in coming. It turned out that the biota only had one way of gathering these resources. To pursue herbalism, a player of another race had to first study the rules of harvesting the given type of plant. Daisies, for instance, had to be cut right under the bulb, whereas blue bottles had to be cut at the lower third of the stalk. If you erred with the location of the cut, then instead of an alchemical ingredient, you’d end up with a snack for some cow. As a result, players who occupied themselves with harvesting grasses and herbs, measured the plants with rulers repeatedly, made mental calculations, measured again and only then dared to snip the stalk with one quick pass of the knife. Just like carpenters in meatspace. Due to this mechanic, it was practically impossible to harvest an unfamiliar herb. The chance of harvesting it properly was close to zero. For biota, all of this was rather simpler. Being related to the vegetable world, we could simply see the right place to cut if we spent enough time looking. As the instructor explained, the higher the skill, the faster you’d see it. Accordingly, if you were trying to harvest high-level plants, the chance of finding this sweet spot was tiny, while the length of time it took to find the right plant was great. The upside was that I could harvest familiar herbs as I traveled without even pausing.

Besides this, during the gathering of herbs and the felling of lumber, biota could identify strawberries, onions, brood buds, shoots and other vegetative wisdoms. All of these things lent themselves to cultivation and growing. It’s not that I was dreaming of starting a vegetable patch, but who knows, maybe, some greenthumbs would buy what I found from me. While I was at it, I got a quest for gathering local plant seeds—which was nice too.

Another nice bonus was that I unlocked the passive ‘Nature Literate’ trait, which helped me identify certain plants by looking at them, as well as see which factors affected their growth (both the negative and the positive) and determine the status and needs of my green cousins. In addition, this trait allowed me to determine soil conditions and other properties. I could level up my Nature Literacy by gathering grasses and seeds, growing plants, as well as, to a lesser degree, traveling around the natural world.

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