Again I focused most of my efforts today on refining Astrie. Progress is as steady as ever.

Par brought me something interesting today, it was a plant. He said it was found in the home of an alchemist that was killed during the siege. The only thing he has noticed it do so far is spontaneously combust, though the explosions rarely harm the plant. They do, however, harm everything else around it, as I found out the hard way when it almost blew my hand off, no that isn’t an exaggeration, if I had bones all of them in my hand would have been shattered. Why an alchemist had this I have no idea, but the first thing I did with it is put it in a place where it can’t harm anything too badly.

The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

In the end I had to make a fence out of Astrie and singing grass surrounding the three specimens I had of the plant, which is apparently named Blastbark, apparently the texture of the plant resembles bark? I don’t see it. The fence is designed to repair itself and to be slightly more durable than normal in addition to silencing the explosions.

I get that Par wanted to give me a gift, but this one is super annoying to deal with right now. It took way too long to figure out how to contain it safely, not to mention how painful it was. I had it explode on me nearly a dozen times before it was contained, of course, I can heal all the damage and so there were no lasting consequences but still, ouch.

I am excited to see what I can make with it, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.