Potions and things (Afina)

[Anastasia]

"YES!" Baleruk roars, rearing back, "Seek RENBUU! He will paint you and grant you more colors!"

[Ebiris]

"You think he would?" Afina asks, the tails of her hat whipping behind her from the force of that roar even as she remains stationary and unphased. "He did show his approval after we helped you become prismatic, but I thought that was a one time thing."

[Anastasia]

"He is...difficult to predict, but one must try until approves," Baleruk says, rather solemnly. "Art is never a smooth road."

[Ebiris]

"True, true," Afina agrees, rubbing her chin. "When I have some free time next a trip to Limbo might be in order."

[Anastasia]

"Hi, sorry to interrupt," Elena appears, "Queen Ilsenine would like to see you at court, Afina. Informally, court's not in session right this moment."

[Ebiris]

"There's always something. Thanks for being a good model, even if the work didn't end up the way you imagined," she says to Bubbles, leaning in to give her a quick but appreciative kiss. "I'll see you both later," she bids farewell to nymph and dragon before flying off to attend her sovereign.

[Anastasia]

Easy enough. Ilsenine is sitting on her throne, Moore nearby. Before her are several chests filled with coins. "Afina," Queen Ilsenine greets, a bit disheveled but otherwise intact. "Moore and I found ourselves pressed into a particular slaad's dungeon entertainment. I have come from this considerably richer."

[Ebiris]

"Congratulations, your Majesty," Afina says, bowing before the throne. A Queen shouldn't be poor, after all.

[Nephrite]

For his part, Moore stays quiet. No need to add extra unsavory details!

[Anastasia]

"Take it," Queen Ilsenine commands, "Aurora needs more golems, does it not? It's a little over 80,000 gold coins."

[Ebiris]

That's a nice unexpected windfall! "I could make one or perhaps two powerful constructs with that amount, or a larger amount of weaker ones to bulk out our forces. Have you any preference on how I use this, your Majesty?" she asks for Ilsenine's input since she's the one bankrolling it.

[Nephrite]

Oh!

Moore reaches into his bags at that. "I completely forgot about it, but on one of my trips to Celestia I came back with some bars of metals. I have 15 bars each of iron, gold, silver, platinum and aurorum. I'm not really sure how useful the gold and silver would be in your creations, but if you'd like to use any of them you're welcome to do so. Or we could just sell them and use the money to fund something."

[Ebiris]

"I've heard aurorum's useful for making weapons that rebuild themselves after damage, though I've never actually worked with it or had anyone request anything made of it," Afina admits. "Liquidating it for funds might be for the best."

[Nephrite]

Moore nods. "Easily enough done. You'd probably need a lot more aurorum to make a construct out of it anyway."

[Anastasia]

"Use them wisely," Ilsenine agrees, "How much are the bars worth, should it come to that?"