>>5295815“How are you?” the Novice asks, after a time, not directly meeting your eyes.
“I’m fine,” you say.
“It was the potion,” the Novice confirms. “And you attempt to channel mana before it had left your system. There was… Something off about it. An impurity, or just age. It caused a reaction.”
What do you say?
>Thank the Novice for treating you, and for her concern>Admonish the Novice for not picking that impurity up in her alchemical analysis>Give her your new potion to examine and identify>Tease her about what you overheard her saying as she was treating you>Write-inWhat will you do about your injured forces?
>Press on with all of them, albeit slowly, towards the kobolds of Bloodrise>Travel with them back towards the Drow encampment, though it will cost you another four days there and back, and leave the injured there>Remain here until such time as the injured parties can drink some Novice-made potions, then send the injured parties back towards the Drow, while you and your uninjured males press onward towards the kobolds>Write-in 