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[tinkerheart]

This is Fëanor. I'd like to have a word with anyone who has a garden here. If you have any redundant plant material I'd like to examine it.

It has come to my attention recently that paper is scarce here. Apparently, the locals do not feel the need to write things down I suppose. I find it outrageous and plan to fix it, but I need material to work with.

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[ancientflower]

You could inquire at the botanical gardens?

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[tinkerheart]

Do you think they'd be willing to share? I had the impression they're more likely to keep everything for research purposes.

[He can be dead wrong and doesn't even realize it. It happens when you have a habit of taking your personal opinions for established facts.]

[ancientflower]

Hm. Well I'm not entirely certain, but it can't hurt to ask? There's only so much you can learn from a plant before the rest becomes waste. And if it's the waste plant-life you need, then I don't see why it would be a problem?

Unless they're being funny. But they've always seemed so helpful to me!

[tinkerheart]

Then you have more luck speaking with them than I do, but I'll try and see where it gets me.

[ancientflower]

I'd be happy to help? A united front couldn't hurt.

[tinkerheart]

That's very kind of you. It might really help.

[ancientflower]

Then any time! Just let me know and I'll put my game face on!

[tinkerheart]

Then I will call for your assistance next time I intend to go parley with them.

[kingkingcxiii]

Greetings!

I hope your day is going well. You know my garden is still a work in progress, but I do have some flowers and trees that are already established. Do you have a specific kind of material you are seeking?

[tinkerheart]

Greeting!

Anything that's hardy or fibrous, like flax, hemp, cotton or bamboo. If you have fallen branches to spare, I could use them for paper.

[kingkingcxiii]

I don't think the fire flowers or sylleblossoms will be of much use to you then. They are both rather delicate blooms. I have no shortage of branches I can send your way, though. Both the orange and silver apple trees have shed a good number over the winter.

[tinkerheart]

Thank you for your kind offer.

I'm afraid the flowers might not. I'm sure they have many merits on their own, just not for what I'm trying to recreate here. The branches though, I can definitely put them to good use, and to more ends than just producing paper.

[runs_on_batteries]

You just now figured that out?

[Ignore him as he dies laughing over here.]

[tinkerheart]

[He kind of assumed things he expects to be available will be available.]

Even the stupid train provided basic necessities like that.

[runs_on_batteries]

[That was his first mistake. No wait, being friends with Tony was the first mistake, the assumption was the second one.]

Yeah this place has some very strange things it doesn't have. Medicine in particular. Eventually I plain on working with someone to create a real pharmacy but the lack of burgers and beer was more pressing.

[It wasn't like Feanor knew very well the medication Tony was talking about and the rest of that was a distraction, right?]

[tinkerheart]

I find it less surprising for them to lack pharmaceuticals meant to repair bodies they no longer have.

[He does. That's the funny thing with elves. They tend to remember things very well. So the next text is a bit delayed as Fëanor isn't really in the mood of sharing the stream of expletives he just directed at the Powers of this world with Tony. Or anyone else for that matter.
For all that is good and holy! If they really need to drag people here, at least they should make sure those very people don't die or end being utterly miserable from preventable causes!
He might be very wrong but he's also quick to anger.]

Beer and burgers? Why am I not surprised those were your top priorities.

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[sweetlies]

In fairness, they do offer a synthetic paper material for those who want to write things down. It's a bit more costly but if you're keeping up with earning dora, it shouldn't be an issue.

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[tinkerheart]

I know they do. It's just awful. I'd rather make my own than use this junk.

[He has standards, and all those synthetic materials do not meet them. It's that simple.]

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[sweetlies]

I use it for art and while it isn't the same as what I'm accustomed to, I'd hardly call it junk.

And, unless you have some method of speeding up the growth rate of plants, I don't see how you'll produce anything for several months.

[tinkerheart]

Then your art must be more forgiving than mine.

[Fëanor's a snob, let's face it more discerning where it comes to material he's supposed to work with. It's not that it would be impossible to do anything with an inferior one. It's just that he really doesn't like to.]

Quality requires time. I doubt a few months would make much difference.