"And the element of surprise always works. Or at least buys time." And then time takes care of the rest. Waver grins at the mental image of armies fleeing from badly scented bears as he moves on to the spindleweed box.

That too goes quickly enough, timed just as Korrin decides against hand washing. Waver gives the combination an honest consideration, then nods in agreement.

"Would it make more sense to leave the rashvine out for an initial round of experimentation? It seems to me that it'd be worth going two-thirds deep mushroom and one-third blood lotus, then reversing the proportions to see if one is better than the other before adding in other material. Establishing a baseline of awful, if you will."