Sage the Sage

**Sage the Sage** is the proprietor of Sage's Bloom Shop. Sage also provides information to players about how to gather Dew from Spirit Blooms found throughout Nuublandia.

During the quest Where Food is Born, he can supply the player with Incense.

## Dialogue

* **Player**: *Hello. What makes you say I'm a hero?*
* **Player**: *We are all heroes of a kind, wouldn't you say? Heroic potential lies in each of us.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *If that's not too CLicHe to say.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *So what can I do for you, hero?*

 *(1. Questions)*
* **Player**: *I have questions.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *And may we always! What would you like to know?*

**MAIN** *1. (About You)*
 *1. Who are you?*
* **Player**: *Tell me about yourself.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *My name is Sage, although some call me Sage for other reasons.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *I have lived many years and in many places. Tragically, old age has taken most of these memories from me.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *I cannot tell you where I am from or even precisely where I've been, since I do not know!*
* **Sage the Sage**: *But I have been here for some time. That much I can say.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *And I have not forgotten what to do with Dew.*

 *2. What's that beside you?*
* **Player**: *What's that floating thing with the green hair?*
* **Sage the Sage**: *That, dear hero, is an Ardent Bloom. A nature spirit in possession of an extraordinary substance.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *This one here is a friend of mine. It has no Dew to share, but it often comes here to keep my company, for which I am grateful.*
* **Narrator**: *Sage's eyes alight.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *Hero, what do you know of Bloom Dew?*
* + *1. I know a little.*
	+ **Player**: *I might have come across it. What's it for?*
	+ *2. Never heard of it.*
	+ **Player**: *I don't know what that is. It is good for something?*

Both questions above then continue with the info below.
* + **Sage the Sage**: *Dew is a substance and a resource, I admit, that we know precious little about.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Some say Dew from over the mountains, some say from another dimension.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Perhaps the mountains* of *another dimension!*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *I sense that I used to study Dew-years ago perhaps, or in another lifetime. But it is only a vague sense, and I am too old now to continue with such things.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *In any case, with some refinement it can have all kinds of uses.*
* + - *1. Uses?*
		- **Player**: *What uses?*
		- **Narrator**: *Sage smiles impishly.*
		- **Player[sic]**: *Things that cannot be found elsewhere, with effects that cannot be produced by other means.*
		- **Player[sic]**: *The sort of thing that would make your time adventuring a little more... pleasant.*
* + - *2. Refined?*
		- **Player**: *How does it get refined?*
		- **Sage the Sage**: *I have my method.*
		- **Sage the Sage**: *To my knowledge, I am the only one alive who can transmute Dew. Sadly, the process has proven impossible to describe.*
		- **Sage the Sage**: *I have lost the ability to impart it to others, if ever I possessed it.*
		- **Sage the Sage**: *But I am happy to do it for free.*

After you ask about Refining, talking to Sage the Sage again will open up the below option:
 *(Transmute Dew).*
* **Player**: *I want to transmute Dew, please.*
* **Narrator**: *Sage holds out his hands, now glowing with ethereal power.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *Then what shall we Dew with it?*

((what happens next?))
 *3. What's that smell?*
* **Player**: *If you don't mind me asking, what's that perfumy smell?*
* **Narrator**: *The man cocks his head to the side.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *The smell?*
* **Sage the Sage**: *Hero, I am a sage names Sage. I wonder if you can guess.*

**MAIN** *2. (About Blooms)*
 *1. What are Blooms?*
* **Player**: *What can you tell me about these Bloom things?*
* **Sage the Sage**: *Blooms are nature spirits that hide all over the world. Puckish little things, but it's always a blessing to meet one.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *They come in Ardent, Vie, Wonder, and Fervent varieties.*
* **Sage the Sage**: *A Bloom will share Dew with them fortunate adventurer who finds it.*
* **Narrator**: *What are...*
* + **1. Ardent Blooms**
	+ **Player**: *What's an Ardent Bloom?*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Ardent Blooms are the greenish ones like my friend here. You'll find they are the most approachable.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Like good medicine, Ardent Blooms appear routinely as the morning dew. I believe that clever device of yours provides an easy way to find them.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *But as nature does, the Ardents prefer to give no more than we each require. You'll find they stop sharing when they deem you've have your fill.*
* + **2. Vie Blooms**
	+ **Player**: *"Vie Blooms". What are we vying for, exactly?*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Ah the fiendish Vie Blooms! They do like a scuffle.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *They are the rarest Blooms in the bunch.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Unlike other Blooms, Vies' supply of Dew is limited to whomever finds them first.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *If two adventurers should both eye one of these red Blooms in the wild... consider the race begun!*
* + **3. Wonder Blooms**
	+ **Player**: *Why are they called Wonder Blooms?*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Wonder Blooms are a curious sort. You might think of them as an embodiment of awe.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *These Blooms are the ones with golden hair.*
	+ '*Sage the Sage*: *You'll find they have a preference for the more treacherous corners of the world, and like the Vie Blooms they will not appear on your map. Each can only be found once.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Wonders are the least forthcoming with Dew, but they can be reliably sought out of you're willing to search fat and wide. I have never heard of a Wonder Bloom sighting that didn't bring reward.*
	+ **Player**: *How can I know when I've found them all?*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *If you bring me the Dew to make it, I can craft you a tool that can help.*
* + **4. Fervent Blooms**
	+ **Player**: *"Fervent" seems similar to Ardent. I'm guessing they're related somehow?*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *They are indeed! Quite literally in fact.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Fervent Blooms are a sort of elder, Ardent Bloom. They won't appear to a person until that person has found their allotment of Ardents...*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *Until that person has "done their time':, you might say.*
	+ **Sage the Sage**: *But older as they are, their memory is also longer. The Ardents may soon forget how much Dew they've given you, but a Fervent often remembers.*

**MAIN** *(Exit)*
 *\*(Conversation Ends\*)*