16th Day of Winter in the Year 517 AV
Ialari awoke with a plan for the day. She would eventually be delivering the narnvayt oil she’d extracted from the plants she harvested the day before to the Panacea while dropping off a couple of intact plants to Uta. Before doing that however she wanted to experiment a bit with a way to help combat the horrific smell of the oil. The oil itself was meant to be consumed by someone who had ingested some form of poison. The oil would cause them to vomit thus expelling much of the poison from the body. The problem was that the oil smelled so much of fresh animal dung that it was difficult to swallow even when one’s life was on the line. After waking up, taking a quick dip in the ocean that her ranchero was perched on, Ialari indulged in a bit of fruit and some jerky before getting to work.
A quick trip to the Mercantile and a handful of gold mizas later, Ialari had picked up a small amount of beeswax, a couple of glass bowls and a small collection of pots and pans. The wax would serve as one of the main ingredients in her experiment. It wasn’t as much of an experiment as it was simply making a bit of balm. The next acquisition was actually quite easy. As she returned home, she stumbled upon a mature, brown coconut lodged between some driftwood on the beach near the ranchero. Back in the ranchero, Ialari sat the wax and coconut on her work table and began making notes in her journal. Ok, so I have the wax, no if I remember right, a bit of coconut oil and something for fragrance should just about do it. Hopefully I’m not confusing the types of coconut. I think it was brown and not green… Back at the Silver Tower, years ago, she’d been required to take part in classes on philtering as a part of her poison studies. One of the most basic products of philtering were balms. She’d toyed around with making them back at the Retreat in Syliras but that had been awhile and she’d lacked the beeswax.
Out loud to herself, “I’m going to need to make the coconut oil first since I’ll need it to mix with the wax. So, let me see…” She proceeded to sort through her philtering gear; thankful that she’d picked up a brand new one at the mercantile the day before. Moving over to the hearth, she used a bit of flint and steel to spark up a fire to heat up the pot of fresh water than hung there.
While the water was heating, Ialari took notes on what she was doing for future reference. She also flipped through the early pages of the book to see what she’d written back when she was taking the classes in philtering. Those notes were a bit simplistic as they were meant more for quick reference than detailed instruction. Between the notes and memory, Ialari recalled needing to break open the coconut to reach the meat within. “This should be easy enough,” she muttered as she laid the coconut on the edge of the stone hearth. Making her metallic hand into a wedge, she brought it down hard on the coconut, splitting it into two rough halves.