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"We'll finish our food and head back out." You whisper. Irene and Ryuji turn to face you, horror on their faces.
"Back into the storm? We came here to avoid it!" Irene replies. "Now you want to go back?!"
"We barely made it here as well, man. Going back out there is gonna cost us. Maybe if we had a healer, we could burn a mana potion or two and stay topped off." Ryuji agrees. You nod.
"We do have a healer." You say, nodding towards Irene. "Astro has the helios skill and draw's cooldown means Irene can use it every other card cooldown. It's not alot but we can probably make it to the dungeon in ok...ish shape. If our meals give us at least the basic food buff then we'll have an extra bit of HP to soak the damage." You explain before quickly adding, "I think I remember that being a strategy when I used to play...right?"
"I can't spam it all the time. I got about five uses before I'm empty." Irene protests.
"How many mana potions do you have?" You ask. Irene opens her inventory and starts to scroll through it.
"I have like 5 doses of minor mana potions. So that's 50% back there." She says before swapping to a different tab. "And if we add Lucid Dreaming, then that's another 20%."
"So we can at least get you back to near full." You conclude. Irene shakes her head.
"Yeah but then we're bone dry in the dungeon. We'd have to camp out every so often for it to regenerate naturally and that risks more mobs to attack us." She counters.
"Guys, we're going to burn resources either way. Those guys are probably going to chase us down and we're going to have to fight. Even if we win, we're going to have to heal up. Might as well go do the thing we wanted to do instead of being dragged into their game, right?" You ask. Ryuji shrugs.
"I guess he's got a point." He says and Irene sighs.
"I get the feeling this is going to be a pattern isn't it?" She mutters just as the waitress returns with a small cart carrying your meals.
"Here you go sir, your rabokki and drink." She says placing a bowl and jug before you. Even before you can see it's contents, you can smell the spice emanating from it. It tickles your noses and threatens to make you sneeze but at the same time you can't help but want to inhale more. Steam rises from it and makes your face feel slightly damp. A pair of chopsticks lays next to a boiled egg that was sliced in half and sprinkled with what looks like a spicy powder. Your stomach churns, slightly worried at the incoming spiciness but your mouth betrays you as it begins to water.
