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Lucien can mostly make a living off of doing divining for certain niche medical studies, but he can't do specific enough conditionals to get his grander ideas off the ground yet. Still, when portals start showing up he's well positioned to suggest to a few people that diviners like him could be useful for quickly figuring out what conditions on the other worlds are actually like.
Still, they're taking a chance on Lucien by approving his application to join the expedition, so he definitely really shouldn't be late for his first day of work. He also probably shouldn't be running along a poorly maintained trail in Bolivia, but between that and the possibility of being late he knows which he prefers.
Well, which he prefers right up until he's tripped on a branch and sent tumbling towards the portal.
Lucien attempts to embroider because Belmarniss mentioned it. He pokes himself with the needle once or twice. Not on purpose but he doesn't exactly mind it.
The halflings are hard at work carrying water in and cleaning mushrooms and a handful of other ingredients and processing them into various mushroom products. They look at him and titter between themselves but don't really talk to him.
Eventually he will probably stop liking mushrooms but he'll enjoy them while his convenient preference lasts.
Belmarniss is home in time for dinner (it's mushrooms). She lights up a rock and tosses it to Lucien and beckons him back to her room.
He was beckoned!
...wow, doing nothing all day is really setting his bar for enjoying interactions very low.
"Oh good." She deposits some coins in the trunk. A halfling comes in with stewbowls for both of them.
"It's going to be at least a few days before I can hope to get the rest of the money out of my grandma."
"I have more questions about your world, if you are interested in answer more questions now. Or I can answer questions about mine, if you have any."
"Ask away. I don't have enough information about yours to even know where to start, really, if you do wind up coming back with an escort sufficient to fight your way upstairs maybe I'll come along then."
"Mostly they aren't. I don't actually know a lot about the process for the rare wizard who can finesse it. I know a little about how you get a spell to stabilize at a lower circle but still not very much."