families anyone?

[Dpatty]

You can guard up when you have them in the water, if you're good enough they can't break through and drown.

[Lucky]

I'm working on a mission where I have to determine which ingredients will cure a poison, then concoct a broth with those ingredients. I've figured out the ingredients, but which skill is used to concoct the broth? cr.med.tr.poi? cr.cook.cu? something else?

[isolde]

So far I'm really enjoying these missions. My skills are incredibly lousy but I try anyway. In most cases I can at least figure out what skills I need to improve, but before I blow a bunch of exp I wanted to pick some brains.

I managed to concoct the broth but evidently my research beforehand turned up completely incorrect ingredients. I'm guessing this would be cr.med.tr.poi? Anyone know or have a better guess?

You look muscle pain up in a children's book on the effects of poison, and are fairly sure it can be treated with nightingales nest. But can you trust your source?

A servant comes in and takes the potion from you. After examining the potion critically for a while, he says "For Sek's sake, Isolde-san, next time do your research properly - this potion wouldn't help an arthritic wasp." The servant stomps out through the door.
Your mission is a failure. You toss your chit into the bin.

[isolde]

Hmm. Now that I've reread what I posted it does seem very likely cr.med.tr.poi, so I'll work on beefing that up a bit.

[isolde]

Yay! I just got another one of these and I trained up my cr.me.tre.poi first. I could only afford getting it to bonus 134 but that seemed sufficient.

Now if only I could get my stealth high enough so I can sneak into the other family mansions.

[morinehtar]

I got a chit that asked me to alter the plans of the Hong family in the war strategy room as they relate to the Sung family. When I try to do this I get "How do you expect to be able to alter plans when you can't read them?"
According to Kefka's website, 60 lvls of spoken and written is usually enough. I have 64 in written and 61 spoken.
Someone told me that it might be fi.sp.tactics and ad.direction so I got both of these up to a bonus of 169 and 165 respectively.

Anyone have any ideas? I've had the mission for two days now and it doesn't seem like it's going to expire but I would like to focus my energies in the right direction.

Thanks!