I did end up talking to the Botanist, when he came to talk to me first. Apparently he had heard about my ability to change the qualities of plants and wanted me to do something for him. From there it wasn’t too difficult to get a sample of each of the plants he has. As for what he wanted me to do, it was really simple, i just had to make one of his plants, the one that he puts into his pipe, much more potent.

A short while later I had roughly five new types of plants available to me, and only two of them had any kind of magical effects. One of them is a mind-altering substance when smoked, or if cooked right apparently, not that I really care, the other is a vine that glows slightly. The rest are mundane plants, with one of them maybe being useful as a spice.

I quickly discovered that I can change the brightness and the color that the vine glows. Using that I can make an interesting light show if I wanted, overall a little underwhelming.

The other plant, referred to as Drowsy Clover, is a bit more interesting. Its base, mildly mind-altering effects aren’t that interesting to me, why would i want to cause someone to experience hallucinations? Or experience them myself? But what i could do with that baseline was much more interesting, making potent painkillers for one. Honestly painkillers aren’t that valuable when you can just heal pretty much any injury, but you never know. Maybe i could sell them to get money for more exotic plants?

After a bit of experimentation, with the help of some all too happy goblins, I found a couple things it could do. The most notable being the following, cause pain, kill pain, cause an adrenaline rush, calm you down, make you sleepy, wake you up, and cause you to hallucinate. Dead tulip pollen could already cause you to become tired, or wake you up if I changed it right, but this new plant is able to do it though a completely different mechanism, though i’m not sure exactly what those mechanisms are.

After a bit of experimentation, which took most the day, I talked to Mest about the possibility of getting some more exotic plants from a merchant and the like. I didn’t talk to the Botanist because he was completely zoned out all day, and also he smells like he hasn’t bathed in weeks. Anyway, Mest said that he has some contacts that might be able to facilitate something like that if I had the money for it.

As I do not have the money I decided to see if I could get Par to have his minions sell some things in the city for me. I made a bunch of every type of plant I had available that I thought might be worth something, except Dead Tulip because it doesn’t produce pollen this time of year. It ended up being every single Drowsy Clover variation, several Astrie variations, and many mana berries, everything else seemed pretty useless without my ability to manipulate plants, or at least in the small quantities I was able to make. I could see how the noise deadening singing grass could be useful in large quantities.

I should know in a couple days what sells the best and I can focus on making that.

Honestly, I never would have come up with this on my own, either the buying exotic plants part or how I could go about raising money for them. I have Talus to thank for that, she outright said that I should think of trying to buy exotic plants, and reminded me of something the others said a while back about selling my plants.

I wonder what plants I could get, I guess I’ll find out sooner or latter.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.