Me | What are you doing here? | |
Me | Are you looking for something? | |
Miguel | Plants - I'm looking for plants. | |
Miguel | Usually, I look for plants. | |
Miguel | Most of the stuff that grows here can be used for something. | |
Miguel | Many plants have healing properties and you can smoke swampweed reefers. | |
Miguel | Before my time behind the Barrier I worked as an alchemist. | |
Me | Why did they put you behind the Barrier? | |
Miguel | I worked with mind-altering potions a lot. | |
Miguel | One evening, my master Ignaz drank my 'experiment' instead of his wine. | |
Miguel | That rendered him temporarily... eh... unpredictable, and since then he's been somewhat confused. | |
Miguel | (snidely) The mages had me thrown behind the Barrier for that. 'Research into forbidden knowledge' they called it. | |
Me | What can you tell me about the camp? | |
Miguel | Not much. I have never been in there myself. | |
Miguel | Only Raven's people were there from the beginning. All the others who came later, like me, have to wait until they need new people. | |
Me | Where did you come from? | |
Miguel | Well, the same way as you I suppose. With the pirates. Over the sea. | |
Miguel | The valley here is completely cut off. There's no connection over land. | |
Me | (thoughtfully) Right. | |
Me | When do they need new people? | |
Miguel | Well, when they're missing some in there. | |
Miguel | If a digger gets himself eaten by a minecrawler, they let one of us replace him. | |
Miguel | Sometimes they also kill each other. But they've been better about that lately. | |
Miguel | Raven has controlled the access to the mine somehow, so that not everyone can get in at the same time. | |
Miguel | But I don't know exactly how that works. I've never been inside. | |
Me | Fortuno is pretty confused and could use a potion to restore his memory. | |
Miguel | Fortuno? That's Raven's servant, no? | |
Me | He was. Now he's just a wreck. And it's Raven's fault. | |
Miguel | Raven? Until now, I thought a lot of him. Hm, all right. But here in the swamp, I can't brew any potions. | |
Me | I could brew the potion. There's an alchemist's bench in the camp. I just need the recipe. | |
Miguel | Be careful with this recipe. Brewing this potion is dangerous. | |
Miguel | If something goes wrong in the brewing or one of the ingredients isn't right, the potion will be deadly. | |
Me | I'll be careful. | |
Me | Can you teach me something? | |
Miguel | No time. I am here to get gold. And as long as I can't get into the camp, I make a living by selling my herbs. | |
Miguel | But if you need a few potions, I still have some. | |