1. What happens if you swallow a glyph?
True story: So I was sitting around near the smithing table in close proximity to Harnquist. Someone who thought of themself as mysterious walked over and muttered something unintelligible to me. I say thought of herself as mysterious because she was clothed in a dark cloak. To me it was more standoffish in a gothic-I-Listen-exclusively-to-the-Cure sort of way. But anyways I ask her to repeat what she just said.
"Pssst, care to buy a glyph?", she lifts her cloak to reveal a bright, piercingly white glyph.
Looked like an energy glyph of which I already had so I told her, "Sorry mysterious merchant wannabe, I have one and do not care for a second."
"Psst, its not your mother's energy glyph. This will make you feel so good... maaaan."
"What do you mean?"
She looks around nervously, "come with me."
I follow her to the temple of Laanx, motivated only by curiosity and guided by her strange body odour. Clearly she could not afford a bath nor invest in feminine hygiene products. If business is that slow, by the power of Talad, I will help her smell nicer.
Finally we settle to the second floor and she continues, "This energy glyph you swallow and it works its magic from the INSIDE."
"What swallow it? You be crazy merchant woman that smells foul. Alright, how much?"
"200 trias."
"Sold."
After the exchange, I found a dark corner on the first floor and sat down. The so called energy glyph in one hand and a bottle of red potion in the other. I popped the glyph and followed it with the red potion and well.. I waited. I waited for an hour and to my disgust, nothing! That is till I started to get up and wow did it hit me hard. An acute sense of euphoria overcame me and I was "feeling good, maaaaaan."
What transpired afterwards was more or less a blur but I do remember staring at the purple lights and petting someone's groeffel for a very long time and of course dancing whilst profusely sweating. I drank alot of red potions to maintain my energy but eventually i must have worn out. Tired but wide awake I went outside the temple looking for the merchant woman to procure some more, but alas she was gone.
I asked others around harnquist if they had energy glyphs like the one I had and they looked at me in horror. "Begone wretch, we don't need your kind here in the city."
"Up yours", I thought to myself. "Its my life and I can do what I want."
Unfortunately I couldn't do what I wanted without the glyph, so i rented a comfortable bed at the nearby inn and slept for 2 and half days.
Lesson being, one should try everything once. If it becomes a bad habit, it will surely haunt you. As you can see, I'm still an upstanding citizen and do not abuse glyphs for purposes other than magic. Unless of course your bowel movements are a little too regular after getting sick, I highly recommend an energy glyph to slow things down. but i'm sure one can find more natural supplements to deal with that.
