Today I spent a couple hours testing out different ways to combine blastbark with my other plants before spending the rest of the day Refining Astrie.

The first this I did was combine Blastbark with Astrie, that was a mistake. I have no idea what I was thinking, obviously if I combine a plant that creates explosions with one that amplifies magic what i’m going to get is a big explosion. It really didn’t help that I was holding it. My entire arm was shredded.

Anyway, after fixing my arm I managed to figure out how to safely combine Astrie with Blastbark. All I really managed to do with that was improve the control I had over when it explodes, basically, I can pour a bunch of mana into the plant to make it explode sooner.

The next thing I had success with was combining Astrie, Whitefoot, and Blastbark. Just Whitefoot and Blastbark didn’t have nearly enough control so I had to add Astrie. What I ended up making was a plant that would periodically send waves of mana designed to heal, I could control how potent the healing is and I could control the range, but not much else. I wasn’t able to make it differentiate between creatures so it would be useless in combat, but to heal up afterward it would be great.

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The biggest limiter to it was the scope. It can’t heal anything that the creature would be unable to heal themselves. For most creatures that means it can reattach an arm, but not regrow one. And injuries that are too serious or injuries that affect many internal organs won’t be healed.

Other than that I wasn’t able to make anything interesting with the plant, or at least not anything that I couldn’t do without it.

Other than that I hung out with Caire and Lulem. They told me about the Ents that they’re teaching, there was one that wants to dedicate his life to helping less intelligent creatures obtain sentience and another that is absolutely fascinated with magic. So far every one of them has had some level of memories of a previous life, though almost all of them have very few.

They asked me for some materials that they can’t supply themselves, just some things they need to help teach the newborn Ents and some more specialized materials.

Ultimately it was a fun day. I’m a little disappointed by the Blastbark, but after realizing how simple it is I wasn’t expecting much.

Anyway, Good Night diary.