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It has never done anything wrong. In fact, none of the air in the patch has, even when it has been in other patches. It's so innocent.
greatestgift
Sable has set up a weird thing next to her little table. She has produced an extra vial of Reflective Dye from somewhere.
She takes the scale and the vial and sits and stares at the gently blooping tubes.
She takes the scale and the vial and sits and stares at the gently blooping tubes.
greatestgift
And... now instead of a vial of shiny mirrored liquid and a shiny black scale, Sable has a vial of shiny black liquid.
She grins and holds it up to show Rithka, and then dyes a batch of beads with it.
She grins and holds it up to show Rithka, and then dyes a batch of beads with it.
"Perfect!" exclaims Rithka. "You could get more scales and make more colors! You don't have all the dragon colors."
greatestgift
"I don't have all the dragon colours, it's true. But I also don't have a lot of extra Reflective Dyes... it's one of the easiest things to get more of if I can go back to Terraria at all, though."
"Daddy has a lot of dragon scales. He bought tons of them a while ago and now nobody else can get more than a few at a time so he can sell all the dragon scale jewelry."
greatestgift
"That sounds like it's probably working out very well for him. How many dragon colours are there?"
greatestgift
"That's more than I could make with just what I have. But maybe I can go back to Terraria, and if I do I'll pick up more dyes to make dragonscale dyes with."
greatestgift
"I think even those might turn out a little bit different. The Reflective Metal Dye doesn't match your hair just so, but the Jet Dragonscale Dye - that's what it called itself - turned out exactly like the scale. I think if I made a Gold Dragonscale Dye it would look more like a gold dragon and less like a shiny gold-coloured mirror."
greatestgift
"I don't think so, if it wasn't going to already. Dyeing things doesn't change what they are, in general, just what they look like."
greatestgift
"I don't know what a rusty scale dye would turn out like. It might just make whatever dye it was going to make without the rust. Or it could turn out rusted. I'll bring lots extra, anyway, if I get to go collect more dyes."
"Yeah! And you can make them of all kinds of things! Like - like - pretty birds. And gemstones that don't have dragon kinds. And stuff."
"Yeah! And if you get lots of extras you could sell Daddy bottles of dye and he could dye anything."
greatestgift
"I'm not sure if the bottles work for people who aren't - properly Terrarian," muses Sable. "Do you want to try dyeing some beads, to find out?"
greatestgift
"Okay, here."
She gives Rithka the Reflective Metal Dye vial (because why not) and pours out some plain beads into one of the remaining empty bowls.
She gives Rithka the Reflective Metal Dye vial (because why not) and pours out some plain beads into one of the remaining empty bowls.
greatestgift
"It should sort of - say," she says. "If it doesn't, then I don't think you can use it. When I pick up a bottle of dye it kind of 'tells' me what the name of its colour is and what things it can dye and how to do it."
greatestgift
"It's okay, I can still dye stuff for you," says Sable. She starts putting bottles neatly back into her dye box. The thwarted bowl gets one of the split colours, and at first it looks like they were all dyed plain brown, but she stirs her hand through the beads and it turns out that each one was dyed so that exactly its top half became brown and exactly its bottom half became silver, whichever orientation it happened to be in at the time.