Today I worked on modifying Drowsy Clover to help Thes out, and it was much easier than I expected. With the help of a specialized Astrie armor and some goblins I managed to isolate three patterns that would do what Thes needs them to; if I want more I am going to need a new plant.

Since it took significantly less time than I thought it would I decided to see what else I could do with Drowsy Clover, after giving Thes his supply of course. I might not care for the effects of the plant but it is my ticket to getting new plants, might as well make as much use of it as I can.

The first thing I managed to do is locate something that seems to have no purpose other than harm, which isn’t too bad in the base form because it isn’t potent enough to do lasting damage. However, I always amplify the effects somehow which makes it worse. That was easy enough to get rid of. After that, I decided to take a fine-toothed comb to the structure of the plant to isolate every similar pattern. There were surprisingly few parts that had no apparent positive use, but I made sure to mark all of them down to strain out of everything I make in the future.

I then spent the rest of the day refining everything I’m having Par’s people sell so there isn’t anything other than the intended effect going on, with limited degrees of success. Yes, I did make progress, but this is so much more complicated than what I was doing earlier for some reason, it seems like creating a mind-altering substance is more difficult than removing a bit of gunk or finding something I already know how to look for. It is actually basically what I’m doing to myself using Astrie, only much more direct and efficient, though it would still take months of work to complete it. Two or three days, however, should be enough to get the easiest stuff out of the way.

I hope Thes doesn’t become immune to this new stuff to fast, we still haven’t figured out a good way for him to let his rage out with minimal damage.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.