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The Lakeside Elixir

Brew the wash from ingredients no living brewer has gathered.

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Walkthrough

  1. Find the brewer's notes at Sandscale Bank
    The banker hauls up a crate from the back. 'These came in with her apprentice when he came home alone. The reduction recipe's in the second jar from the top.'
  2. Cut war root from the wilds
    War root grows in the shade band where the wilds meet the lake. You pull six clean stems and cut the taproots flush. The crowns go back in the dirt so they grow again.
  3. Wade the shallows for tranquil bloom
    Tranquil bloom only opens after dawn and only in still water. You wade out to the reed bed and clip thirty flowers before the wind picks up. The water is cold to the knee.
  4. Cut down the bloom-guard
    The plant uncoiled out of the silt when you reached the deep patch. Three feet of barbed vine and a maw of teeth. You took its head and walked the bloom out.
  5. Reduce the lake plants at the cauldron
    The reduction goes from green to gold in forty minutes. You bottle it warm. Lastlight's cauldron is rated for the final temper, but Sandscale's isn't.
  6. Pack the reduction for Lastlight
    The banker wraps the bottles in straw and ties the crate. 'Lastlight's cauldron runs hot. Don't let it boil twice. The apprentice's last note said it cracked the first jar.'
  7. Check in at Lastlight Bank
    The Lastlight banker reads the archivist's letter and waves you through. 'Cauldron's free. Brewer on duty's expecting you. He's read the same pages.'
  8. Meet the brewer at the cauldron
    The brewer lays out the ratios in chalk on the bench. 'Three to one. Two passes. Skim after the first, or we'll lose half to the foam.'
  9. Temper the wash at the arc
    The arc holds the wash at a steady heat the cauldron alone can't. You watch the colour through two passes. It goes from gold to copper. The brewer nods. 'That's the one.'
  10. Bottle the finished wash
    Eight bottles, sealed warm. The brewer keeps one for the Lastlight stores and packs the rest for Tidefield. 'Tell her to brush it on, not pour. One coat to a tree, two if the bark's split.'
  11. Deliver the wash to the orchard keeper
    The keeper takes a bottle and walks down the windward row. She paints two trees and watches them an hour. The black rind dulls and lifts. 'It works. Get me twenty more crates by autumn and we save the orchard.'

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Reroll Credits: 140