<strong>Location:</strong>Nurse's Office<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Luke<br/><br/>Doctor Lin Cheng soaked everything in with a simple nod.  "I figured you probably were the son that the dragon was looking for," she admitted.  "I wanted to be wrong, but Fate is funny that way."  That was the thing she'd been concealing from him, and not without a decent reason.  "Mom sent me a letter - we keep in touch to some degree, but not much."<br/><br/>She started to root through a cabinet.  "I know it doesn't particularly seem like it, but we consider this island secure.  Fate sometimes has cruel plans, but earlier attempts were to banish the fighting types altogether and hope for the best.  Needless to say that it didn't work out well.  Better to accept that if a battle does arise on campus, it'll be because the warriors are here and ready for it, rather than by tempting fate and seeing if it'll show mercy."<br/><br/>Although she was having a little trouble finding what she wanted, she looked back to give him a smile of reassurance.  "What I expect is that your path will draw you regularly off the island, and there, your real adventures will begin.  Being a talented warrior is like a lightning rod, but people forget that metallic objects are drawn by electricity just as they draw in the lightning."<br/><br/>Soon enough, she found a scroll which she pulled out.  "This was given to me by a Scion of Nezha when I was just starting out; please pass it forward in the same way when you've memorized its contents in the coming years."<br/><br/>Carefully she opened it up.  "It's a scroll for explaining the alchemical process for making temporary somersault clouds.  The basic concept is: first you get yourself an object that contains the elemental essence of water."  With a slightly condescending smile, she added, "A lot of people expect it to be the elemental essence of air, but the Chinese elements are earth, fire, metal, water, and wood.  Clouds are made of water vapor, after all.  The process destroys the object in question, so you don't want to do it with anything huge and important, but if you should fight Pangxie Daolong once more, you should be able to claim one of his scales, which would do the job nicely."<br/><br/>Next she pointed to the alchemical aspects.  "Basically, you'll want to use a chemistry distillation kit to run the object through purified water.  Much of it won't get you much of anything, and you'll want to use an eyedropper to extract and discard it.  The occasional droplet, however, will come out as a cloudy substance, and you carefully get that with a separate eyedropper and fill a vial.  Of that, the first vial will be contaminated by the surface area and won't be of use, but every vial you fill after that will be a properly distilled cloud, provided it's filled with more cloudstuff and none of the water runoff."<br/><br/>Getting more serious, she explained, "The process is excruciatingly taxing.  Expect it to take several hours.  I recommend you get that girl Clio to assist; she'll be able to get Hermes to send his blessing for the alchemical process rather than using the proper Chinese understanding that you and I possess.  You definitely want someone taking turns when your eyes start blurring and you just can't tell if a particular droplet is cloudy or not."<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>OOC:</strong>So, if you can get yourself something of the right elemental aspect, like a scale or a blessing from a water spirit, or the like, you'll be able to use Downtime to craft up a bunch of these vials, each of which will contain a one-use somersault cloud that'll last for a scene.  The effect will be the same as the Flight Boon as we've already discussed, except that you won't have to use Legend.<br/><br/>The number of vials you get will be based on a Resolve+Medicine roll.  Clio will also be able to roll the same roll if she calls upon Hermes, and however many successes the two of you get, that'll be how many vials you get.  Because it's difficulty 2, the first vial is just useless the same way the first success is necessary to get difficulty 2.<br/><br/>As a scroll, the process will be repeatable, but you need something with the essence of water each time that'll get dissolved as part of making the vials.  And then, naturally, when the vials are all used up, that's it.<br/><br/>Theoretically, it'll also be possible to use Downtime to make something with the elemental essence of water via just collecting seashells and all such, but then you're similarly looking at several hours of work and likewise a session of Downtime just for that, so you'd need two total if you don't have a water dragon scale or something equivalent.<br/><br/>It's like how Clio didn't have to make the lava rock; she got it as part of the fight with Gilbert.<br/><br/>I don't know if you're supposed to get as many vials as you can get with successes because the book never gives an amount, so I like the number I came up with.  Likewise, I'm making teamwork a lot more powerful than perhaps it should be with Clio, but I'm okay with this.