Alchemy Beginner

In the hold in the Abysmal Sea with the other Alchemy vendors is one called Lita Hegeway.
She has one quest and a set of chores. Ask about her chores. There are 4 of them, each must
be done in successive order and getting the next one is determined by the first one. Tell her,
"I will help out". First she will give you a stack of squid ink and a stack of wayfarer resin.
These combine to make wayfarer black dye and trivials at 31. Keep telling her "I will help out"
and getting more stacks. It took me about 6 or 7 stacks of each one. Once you have turned in around
100* of these combines you will get the next one. It is wayfarer green dye which is green plant
extract and wayfarer resin. This trivials at 38. Again, turning in around 100* of these will trigger
the next one, which is the wayfarer blue dye. This consists of simple berry extract and wayfarer resin.
This trivials at 46. Once around 100* of these are turned in, you will get the final chore of creating
the wayfarer red dye. Composed of rare cactus beatle and wayfarer resin this will trivial at 54 and is
the last of the free skillups in alchemy. It's well worth doing and the price is right.

*NOTE: I say around 100 turn ins because it is not quite right and I don't know the exact number.
I did turn ins of 102, 98, and 101. I stopped with the red dye when my skill had reached 54, because
I knew that was the limit. You will not get anymore of the same task or the next task as long as you
have any of the dyes or the components in your inventory. So you can't stock up and do all the combines
then all the turn ins. You must either combine and hand in or just destroy what ever is left over. You
cannot sell it. I know the number of hand ins is between 85 and 98, since 85 got me the previous quest
and 98 got me the next. My guess would be either 90 or 95. And the recipe for each dye wasn't in my medicine
bag to begin with. I had to experiment until my first success.