Welcome to my nerdspace, I guess.

I want to be finally stable with antidepressants, doing what I need to do every day, or at the very least just fairly consistently take care of my basic needs.

"Mhm. Now, why were you looking for wine in the forest?"

DT: to study it, hopefully, maybe I can use its contents to improve on my drinks

"Well. It's a kind of fermented grape juice, effectively. It's also typically not found in the forest. Kinda takes effort to make. And the forest is busy keeping dumbasses from cutting it down."

DT: hmmm, impressive

DT: *he walks up to him and take the wine, studying it*

"Say, how is studying a bottle of wine gonna teach ya to make it? Food and drink made from magic don't typically taste as good, and that's something critics can notice. Unless you plan to somehow reverse-engineer the whole process from one bottle?"

DT: i run a bar spellcaster, drinks like these are sorta my job

"I understand that much, but studying a bottle of wine won't really teach you how to make it unless you plan to magick it up. And like I said, doesn't tend to taste quite as good as the 'normal' stuff without unreasonable amounts of magic for something you'd be selling for normal prices."

DT: you highly underestimate how good I can make a drink without magic, I can show you someday if you're interested

"Sure, but that doesn't really explain actually getting the wine. It isn't just a blend of the right ingredients, it's a long process of distilling and aging. All an analysis like yours can really get you is the contents. Maybe just the right spells and observations could tell you what happened to them, but not really how. To learn how you'd effectively need to look into the bottle's past, and at that point just go to a distillery and study it directly."

That's. Yeah, terrifying. I hope you're alright dude, I couldn't begin to imagine that.

Nah, it's fine, trust

Nah, it's fine, trust

Nah, it's fine, trust

Nah, it's fine, trust