I created a sort of mini comic for chapter five the most recent book.
Drawing of Poison Table and Mushroom Patch:
“Is the table back here for all your purple plants?”
“They are not all purple, but segue,” Galois gestures to the table. “The mushroom patch and this table especially, not safe. This is where all our poisonous plants are grown.” He waves his hand. “I mean, roughly. We have tomatoes and potatoes too which are part of the nightshade family and their stems and leaves are poisonous, but we don’t use them as poison. And most of the fungi is perfectly safe, but it can be very difficult to tell sometimes. I would rather you didn’t risk it.”
“These are all poison?” Raphael moves closer to the poison table. “Man, this flower is so pretty.”
“That is the adenium obesum, otherwise known as the desert rose. It’s native to Sahelian Africa and hunters would use them to poison their arrowheads.”
Raphael snatches his hand back.
“It’s actually quite lucky that we have that, most Yokai who hail from the African continent come from the miombo woodlands and the Barotse floodplain, which…I believe are both in Zambia now, so it’s thrilling to have specimens from farther north. Anyway, oleander is another one of my favorites, incredibly beautiful and will cause you to shit blood. Oh, those berries that look absolutely delicious? Belladonna. Don’t even touch any of these without myself or my father present, some of these plants are toxic even to touch.”
“...Why does Draxum have so many poisons?”
“My father is a botanist. And many of these plants have positive effects as well, if you know how to use them.”
“You know what my father does, Raphael. Poisons are a necessity.”
Raphael is entirely silent for far too long. Galois clears his throat.
“Now!” He turns on his heel and marches forward. “On the other side here are all the other non-tree fruits and vegetables. Which is all incredibly exciting, I know, but if you bear with me we will get to the experimentals!”
lmao I love how you wrote POISON like the Pokémon type. Gale probably would label shit like that, just to annoy his dad.
I never did finish Draxum's house in the Sims 4 but I did build the greenery. Let me see if I can find my pics...
Did I seriously not take pics of the remodel? Ugh. So this was the first work-through. In the second I expanded both the greenery and Draxum's lab, and adjusted things to fit the in-story descriptions. The flowers at the back of the second pic should be up on a table. I don't have the Sims installed on this computer, but I have the save file and mod folder so when I get around to reinstalling it should be pretty easy to pop them back in and load up the house. One of these days I'll get around to doing that. It's only been like a year.
Oh! And the flowers Gale mentions:
and Belladonna! Not bad on your renditions!
Beautiful, aren't they? Women used to pour belladonna juice into their eyes to make their pupils look bigger. Which also rendered them blind, but that's historic makeup for you.
Anyway. I love Gale's skeptical eyebrow waggles. He doesn't have time for this personal crisis shit. He's got places to be.