Angie, the friendly face of the Montréal enclave, is keeping an eye out for interesting looking people to invite on a supply run.
Safe, easily transportable, valuable compounds. Orichalcum powder - Orichalcum rods, she could draw those out into wire - citrionelle oil, eucalyptus oil, alum, lubanja, mineral oil, vitriol, moongold, platinum, coral, zafranum, ginger oil, mustard seed -
Tomonori would like quite a few alchemical supplies!
Jasmine attar, daemonorops resin, caraway seeds, sandalwood powder...cassiterite, although that's a long shot.
Down down down they go, Zed muttering the spell and concentrating very hard. All the different types of mana very strange. They're used to Alex and Angie's. But the spell works and -
"Next door on the left."
"Thank you Zed and Sir Spell the Marvelous!" She waits for the mal check before diving into the cabinet in search of coconut oil and pine sap and rock salt.
A huge five kilo tub of coconut oil! And the other two as well, but mostly the coconut oil takes up the whole cabinet.
"Oh, Sir Spell, this is a little much," she muses, peering at the coconut oil. She regards it and then pulls one of her jars. "Has anyone a spoon?"
"Thank you, Zed, and Sir Spell the Marvelous!"
Spells probably aren't like items in that they need you to appreciate them to behave the way you want them to, but it seems only fair to be nice to Zed and his spell. Tomonori is glad Nia started the thankfulness train- he probably wouldn't have thought of it on his own.
He can't help with her coconut oil dilemma, so hopefully the ladle will do. Attar, resin, seeds, powder...ore, if he's lucky, although maybe the school thinks that's only for artificing. He can imagine it getting confused.
Nia ladles coconut oil into her jar, humming merrily, and puts the rock salt chunks and little vial of pine sap each in her pants pockets, previously turned out for safety reasons but now shovable back into her pants, since her backpack is now very full and she has a second binder to carry too.
"That is a lot of coconut oil." She glances around for any unclaimed containers that might be lurking in the alchemy cabinet; it seems ungrateful not to take any coconut oil when there's so much more than the people who actively want it can carry.
Non-alchemists will still have to take intro to lab. Two of the Montréalites go through the shelves for valuable trade goods - there's not a lot that one would really call very rare but there's plenty of common and somewhat uncommon ingredients for the taking, as well as equipment. Alex takes enough equipment to set up a lab in his room, actually.
Angie, though, stays by Zed and keeps an eye on the room. And also takes their hand discreetly and smiles up at them, appreciative.
Lily keeps watching the door, though the clink of glassware behind her makes her want to turn around.
"Do we have enough glassware for me to take a set?", she asks.
In the corner of her eye Lily spots a section of a very high shelf full up with small jars of different kinds of seeds and oil.
Tomonori is investigating these shelves in the back of the room. He finds...powder, although he can't tell if it's sandalwood, and he doesn't have an enchantment for identifying powders on his glasses. Maybe the school will give him one. He can worry about that later. For now he has alchemy supplies! Exciting. He collects the powder and jasmine attar and caraway seeds.
"I found some metals here, if anyone wants to look."
Not the ore he wanted, but that's okay. Tomonori puts some of it away that he doesn't recognize. He won't be able to carry much else anyway.
Alex comes to take a look, "Looks like... silver, copper," he takes a bit of each, after a careful look out for any signs of mimics, "And uh, something silvery but not silver? Tin?"
"Might be," he grabs some of it, brings it back to Angie to look over, and then moves to relieve Lily on guard duty.