Day 12

~~~ Day 12 ~~~

~~~ Recorder 0300 ~~~

Xzander wakes up with a dry cough in his room with Mareeh and the summoner looming over him.

Mareeh>> Oh thank the gods. Ruby, he’s coming to.
Ruby>> Welcome back. I’m terribly sorry about that.

Xzander clenches his head and sits up.

Xzander>> Ugh… What happened?

Mareeh handed X a tankard filled with water, which he drank heartedly. Ruby introduced herself.

Ruby>> I’m Ruby. I am so sorry about that potion! I usually don’t mess up like that. I could have sworn that concoction was perfect! Maybe there was something I missed in my equations, or there was something there that I didn’t expect.
Xzander>> Wait wait… you were EXPERIMENTING ON ME!?!?
Ruby>> Of course not! Well… maybe just a little bit.

Her face went red and squeezed up to show an expression of pure sincere guilt.

Ruby>> I thought I could make something specific just for your needs, but the mixture of the energies just collided and probably just overloaded your body to the point of shutting down darn near instintanioulsy. Again I am SO SORRY! I’m well known as an alchemist, and blunders like this are almost unheard of. Please forgive me.

Xzander>> … … why am I craving a potion? Do you have one?
Ruby>> uhh… yeah I think so!

She digs in her pouch and pulls out a bottle of blue thin ooze. She popped the cork off and handed the bottle to X. He sipped it then downed the rest.

Xzander>> Oh yeah, that hit the spot.

He falls back down onto the bed. Out cold.

Ruby>> Mareeh, let’s leave him be and get some rest ourselves, it’s late and I’m sure that he will be alright.

~~~ Recording 1100 ~~~

Xzander woke up with a jump and a gasp. His energy was overwhelming and radiating from his eyes with a strange glow. He looked around and found himself still in his room. Next to him was a letter and a money pouch. He opened up the letter and read it to himself. He smiled as he closed it up and set it back down on the night stand.

There was a knock on the door.

His gaze snapped to the door and his eyes glowed even stronger. Getting up to answer it, he first put on a shirt and picked up the harness that the recorder was pinned onto. As he reached for the door, a flash of energy burst in front of him. The startle almost made him fall backwards. In its wake, a small white creature was hovering there. It had little purple wings and a red fuzzy ball hanging from his head.

White creature>> Kupo! How long do I have to wait for you!
Xzander>> Huh? Who… What are you? What do you want?

The little guy just stared back at him for a minute.

White creature>> Don’t tell me you’ve never seen a Moogle before? Ku?

Xzander gave him a blank stare and shrugged.

Moogle>> Never mind, Kupo! I have mail for you!

The moogle drops a package into Xzanders hands and warps out. Xzander is still in a state of shock and answers the door anyway to find no one outside. He scoffs and closes the door. Sitting down on the edge of his bed, he opens the package to find a bundle of money from the auction house. He adds this to the 20,000 gil in the money pouch that Ruby left him with the apology letter.

~~~ Journal entry 1500 ~~~

I guess Ruby must have felt really bad, she left me a nice chunk of gil in an outrageous attempt to apologize even more than earlier. Also all my fish and findings sold at auction. This puts me probably somewhere near the 50,000 gil mark. Do I really want to spend it on that new recorder? I’ll think about it. I ran into Ruby and Mar shortly after leaving the inn. We had a nice chat and tried to put it all behind us. She said something about possible side effects that she would have to run some experiments to find out exactly what happened. Mar pointed out that my eyes had changed colors. When we went into the Guild, she was shocked to find out that they were also glowing. I actually got a bit worried. Ruby was as giddy as a little girl. Naturally… my bad feelings went away and were replaced with a slight annoyance.

Ruby disappeared off into the back of the guild and came back with some notebook that was filled with various plants and specimens that were heavily detailed and drawn out. She handed it to me and explained to me that I HAVE to help her unlock the mystery behind this strange phenomenon. Mareeh even backed her up, she has never seen Ruby mess up a potion until now. They both say that it’s me.

I don’t know if I want to help… yet I probably don’t really have much of a choice. She offered me compensation for finding her ingredients in the wild and urged me to take the notebook for the sake of references.

I can do that. Easy money, right?

~~~ Journal Entry 2000 ~~~

Down at another restaurant that I’ve found roaming around town, I’m just drinking spirits because it’s all that’s good here. Honestly, the food was a waste of money. I dunno, it’s just not something I enjoy eating. I don’t mind seafood, but those squids were just… bleh.

Anyway, I got to run around for a few hours out in the desert again. Now I’m thinking about going through that notebook and see what I can at least try to find outside of town.