"I guess we just wait here for him to get back, huh," Karel says as she leans against the wall next to Sylvie.
"I guess," Sylvie mumbles.

Though Karel can't exactly say that she's been through anything similar to how Sylvie's current situation, she's still not about to just ignore someone who's clearly depressed. And a month of dealing with the moody Emilio has taught her anything, it's that the best way to handle stuff like this is to take the depressed person's mind off what's getting them down. Even if thy usually go right back to being depressed after the conversation ends.

Still though, it's better than nothing.

As long as she doesn't say the wrong thing and get punched.

"So..." Karel begins. "What do you usually do around here?"
"Hm?" Sylvie turns to Karel. "What do you mean?"
"Like in your free time, I mean. I'm trying to figure out what there is for m to do after I get dismissed for the night, that kind of thing."
"Oh. I used to just hang out with Nicolette and Reinhold after they got done with their work for the day, eating together and giving Reinhold magic lessons," she sighs. "but I guess that might be changing since Nicolette and Melanie are an official couple now and even Reinhold's..."

As Sylvie's expression darkens more and more with each word she says, Karel quickly realizes that her question only served to make things even worse.

>[1/?]

>>31771319

"S- sorry, I didn't mean to depress you or anything!" Karel stammers.
"No, it's fine," Sylvie shakes her head. "I'm just going to have to et used to it..."
"Anyways, you said something about magic lessons?"
"Yeah, I taught Reinhold the basics," she says nodding.
"Umm... how hard was it for him to figure that stuff out?"
"It only took him a couple of days to cast his first spell," she replies. "why did you want to know?"
"Eh, I was thinking about getting Emilio to teach me and I was wondering how long it would take for me to be able to understand the basics," she says with a nervous laugh. "Just something to pass the time, you know?"
"Oh. So you just wanted to learn as a hobby or something?"
"More like a backup, I guess," she shrugs. "The past few fights I've been in have made me realize that I'm completely useless in a fight if I get disarmed... it's not like I can fall back on punching guys like you can."

>[2/?]

>>31771363
>not even Karel can go pure fighter
damnit archelon

>>31771319
>As Sylvie's expression darkens more and more with each word she says, Karel quickly realizes that her question only served to make things even worse.

Ok, whoops, time to take her mind off of that thing...

>>31771363
>it's not like I can fall back on punching guys like you can.
Aaaaand bring up another thing she was freaking out about.

Karel's definitely got a talent for accidentally bringing up traumatic things without realizing it, I'll say that much.

>>31771394
Oh, she could.
But she's beyong useless in a fight without a sword in her hands. At Reinhold has his knifery skills to fall back onto, Karel doesn't even have that.

>>31771363

"So I was thinking that maybe I could take Emilio's mind off things and make myself a bit more useful at the same time, you know?" Karel says. "And getting him to help me with something that he knows about but I don't might boost his confidence too."
"Oh," Sylvie nods. "I understand what you mean..."
"That depends entirely on if he'll even want to, though," she shrugs. "For all I know, he might think that it's a massive pain in the ass and refuse."
"I don't think he will," Sylvie replies with a weak smile. "No matter how tired I might be, I'm always happy to help Reinhold with new spells and stuff..."

And then that weak smile turns into a frown.

"...or at least I used to be," Sylvie sighs.
"C'mon," Karel sighs. "I'm sure that he'd still be happy to get magic lessons from you."
"But Luciana-"
"She'll be staying at her uncle's place after today. Out of sight, out of mind and all that, you know?"
"I guess..."
"And hey, you can always teach me magic if Emilio decides not to!"

Karel punctuates that last remark with her best reassuring smile... but it only serves to make Sylvie think that Karel's trying to hit on her.

>[3/?]

>>31771485

Not even improvised weapon she could hold like a sword?

>>31771485
>"Reinhold, are you sure this is the right technique?"
>"Technique? I didn't say I'd be teaching you how to fight with a knife, I said I'd be showing you how to shank a motherfucker."

>>31771578
Oh, this will end well.

>>31771319
>Even if thy
>for m to do
>>31771363
>to et used

and in the first posts

also everyone, a challenge. whenever arch does his
>writing
post, get up from where ever you are and do 25 sit ups and 10 push ups

>>31771589
Well presumably that would work, but an improvised roughly-sword-sized beating instrument is hardly a replacement for an actual weapon. Though seeing Karel beat someone to death with a chair leg might be amusing.

>>31771673
why
why do you do this to me

>>31771578
Dammit Karel is really bad at this

>>31771673
challenge accepted

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>>31771578
>>31771485
>>31771363
>Meanwhile, Reinhold is currently reenacting Spinelle happy fun-time with a certain ginger

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I might just have overdone it this time.

I'm ashamed of that Thierri. It's hard to represent a grown man with a generator made to create teenage girls.

Eye colors based on speculation.

>>31771905
Jesus christ son

You should put titles over everyone

>>31771905

Yo damn, that's awesome.

>>31771905
>Racquel
Yep. Seems about right.

>>31771578

A wave of annoyance washes over you as you look at the state of your things. ...actually, you don't generally want to punch people when you're only annoyed, this is definitely something worse.

The suitcase with your clothes in it is upside-down, clearly having fallen off of your desk (what kind of idiot would even think that was a good idea to begin with?). And as a result, both the doodle-covered papers and the BRAND-NEW SKETCH BOOK that were previously lying on top of your desk are now all torn up. As for the bag with the things that you personally carried onto the carriage with you (that also contained the fragments of your sword), it's lying on your bed with its contents strewn about.

You reeeeeeally want to punch whoever they had bring your things up to your room.

After taking a few minutes to put everything back in place, you walk over to your bed and carefully pick up your bag, allowing the remaining contents to slide onto the comforter. Fortunately, all your books are still intact, as is the one that Marianne lent you.

You don't even want to think about how she'd react if her book was ruined.

>[4/?]

>>31771989
[shadowruns intensify]

>>31771989
something's missing/added/spy_enchanted now

>>31771578

Karel is even worse/better at being infuriatingly nice than we are.

>>31771989
>>31772024

Okay, what now?

>>31771989
>it was just Marianne taking that sketch we did of her

>>31772094
completely believable. but it's no great loss. since we can't give that to aquaman now we'll just have to commission a more expertly done (and life sized) one from our new brother in law for thierri's birthday

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>>31771989
Fuck the what?

Check to see if our underwear is all still there.

The castle staff aren't this sloppy, someone had to have gone through our things for some reason.

>>31772163
>someone had to have gone through our things for some reason

Pauline?

>>31772144
If it really is that then I think we have a right to be mad for once.
I get she's royalty but Jesus woman learn some manners.

>>31771989
ELEEEEENNNNNAAAAAAAAAA

>>31771989
>[5/5]

Thankfully, the bundle containing what's left of your sword is unharmed. With a sigh of relief, you do a quick inventory of your things to make sure that nothing's missing, you carefully pick the bundle up and make your way out of your room. While you'd definitely like to continue picking things up in here, you -are- kind of on a timelimit here, not to mention that you have two people waiting for you.

Fortunately, they don't seem to be too annoyed with you.

"So what took you so long?" Karel asks.

>how do you respond?

>>31772218
"I am going to break all of Elena's toys."

>>31772218
"Luggage disaster..."

>>31772218
"Messy room."

No need to bring them in on it: it's time for Reinlock holmes to take the case himself.

>>31772218

"My stuff had been thrown all over the place. Thankfully, nothing seems to be missing."

>>31772218

Either the staff is getting sloppy or someone was in my room going through my stuff... Nothing's missing as far as I could tell, I'll deal with it later.

>>31772218
"Well, I return to my room to find that either someone poorly handled all of my stuff, or a tornado was somehow conjured up in there and tore my things a new one."

>>31772218
"Sorry. I don't know why but my luggage got tossed and shuffled. Also, I had to make sure some borrowed items were not damaged. Anyway, I found the fragments, lets go!"

"Silvie, lessons still on?"

>>31772218
"someone messed with my stuff, i'll take care of it later"

>>31772218
"My luggage apparently exploded all over my room. Nothing obviously missing, but it's still really weird, the castle staff would never let something like that slide."

>>31772218

>>31772272
>>31772323
These both handle it well enough.

Maybe add that the delay was because we were tidying up a bit, though, since the delay wasn't entirely to do with inventorying to make sure things weren't missing.

>>31772218
"I believe a localized wind storm hit my room recently, I had to tidy back up. No matter, shall we head down to the dungeon for science time?"

...the map? Or did we dispose of that?

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>>31772272
This.

>all these people blaming the staff

Spot the people with no little sisters or equivalent.

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>>31772388
We burned that right?

R-right?

>>31772388
had niklaus light it on fire

>>31772218
don't blame staff yet, we don't know it was them for sure. just that the room and our stuff looked like a mess

>>31772420
Not blaming the staff, we know the staff would never leave our room a mess, which is why this is so strange. The number of people with access to our room, besides ourselves and the staff, is very limited even counting people with the ability to sneak in undetected.

Wait.

Aren't the rooms supposed to magically prevent intrusions? Does the staff get an automatic pass or something? And could someone like Elena snuff through it?

>>31772489
Im not sure Elena is to blame though, destroying stuff isnt her MO.

>>31772475
What if it's spooky ghosts

>>31771319
New pairing unlocked

>>31772531

Don't accuse Gerhard like that, Anon.

>>31772550
I don't think either of them are particularly gay hoss

>>31772550
sylvie isn't into girls at all. which is going to make karel's discovery all the more interesting when both sylvie and emilio wind up disappointed

>>31772568
They are depressed though

They need comforting, and they only have each other now.

>>31772489
I'm assuming they have keys, but yes, the rooms do have magic to prevent someone forcing the door or picking the lock. Presumably they can also be extra-locked from the inside to prevent someone just swiping a servant key, but that's not really relevant since we weren't inside the room at the time.

As far as we know there is nothing preventing a sufficiently sneaky person from either sneaking in when someone is entering/exiting the room, or stealing a servant key and entering an unattended room at their leisure.

>>31772489
Could it be a Sylvie Imouto? or a Nico Ototou?
Melanie perhaps?
or all of them?

Hey Archelon, did Rein freak out over Racquel's insinuations just because 10 years old girl, because of the graphic image she suggested, or because he has a problem with BL?

Because you would think he'd be a bit jaded concerning faggotry, especially with how casually he received Nico's confessions.

>>31772707
I know it's hard to use your brain sometimes Anon, but this is one of those times where you're really close to the answer. Just rub those two braincells together for a little longer.

>>31772707
i think it was more of "10 year old girl" mixed in with some "totally not expecting that from royalty" and just a little bit of denial over the mention of falling for someone with mari's eyes

>>31772218
Hey Archelon! after seeing how Sylvie's younger sisters went completely lewd, how susceptible are the rest of the girls to the lewd?

>>31772866
most have already been exposed to morning melon, so i'd say not very

>>31772707
>>31772811
A little from column A, a little from column B...

>>31772866
Not very.

>writing

>>31772921
work out time everyone

>>31772921
On a scale of 1-Kodomo no Jikan, how easy would Raquel route have been?

>>31773004
Kodomo no Jikan being very hard, because nothing happens, or very easy, because something totally could have happened?

>>31772866

Lewdness Powerlevel:
>Morning Meido
>Spinelle
>Racquel
>Alicia
>
>
>Ariane
>Citrine
>Luciana
>Angelique
>Marianne
>Nico
>Afternoon Meido (good name for a pop band)
>Valerie
>Karel (spends week alone with a boy without thinking about the implications)
>
>
>Chiara
>Elena

Transcending the axis and being all over the place:
>Sylvie

>>31773004

pedo* plz go

*or whatever term you use these days

>>31773015
Very easy because the loli practically throws herself at em.Also, something does happen eventually.

>>31773015
>nothing happens
not according to the ending of the manga

>>31773015
>nothing happens
Oh, anon...

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>>31773046
>practically
pretty sure she does literally throw herself at him at one point

>>31773004
Kodomo no Jikan-level in winning her over.

Nightmare difficulty in keeping her from jumping your bones so as to avoid being brutally murdered by Vincent, Sylvie and Angelique.

>>31772928
That was more tiring than i thought it would be

>>31773130
I wish to play "Oh god I picked the lewd loli why did I do that" survival horror route when PGQ becomes a VN.

>>31773130
stretch goal route confirmed

>>31773130
How much dosh to make the possibility an actuality?

>>31773171
>stretch

That's an unfortunate choice of words.

Can we please tone it down with the pedo talk?

>>31773171
"Stretch" goal is right given Raquel's age.

>>31773130
>"A-a-a-are you sure you want to do this n-n-ow Reinhold? I've been preparing my body for this, naturally, but this is so sudden!"

>Authors note: Why did you make me write this. Why did I make it a stretch goal. Where did you fuckers even get two million dollars from? Anyway, good luck getting that Good End, assholes. There are 4,327 choices in this route, and only one leads to the right ending.

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>>31773171
>stretch

>>31773203
get thee back, Satan
dammit now I want to write it

>>31773241
and honestly, i want to play it!
loli guard quest! make your loli happy and try to keep your head on your shoulders

>>31773215
no

>>31773215
>>31773217
>>31773240
i swear that wasn't on purpose

>>31773241
yay

>>31773241
And I want to read it.

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>>31773171

>>31773241
DO IT! you must write it! it can be an optional DLC packet if that makes it easier to handle

>>31773241
Don't do it Arch! Think of the children!

>>31773325
or a mod released by an "anonymous fan" that doesn't get taken off the fan fourm

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>>31773355
oh i'm sure he's thinking of the children

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oh yeah, two things arch mentioned at the end of the last thread iirc
>assassin girl we let live route
who? is this the one that we cut the arm off of and got intel out of, because if not i don't remember this one
>forever alone route
am i the only one that actually wants to play that? don't get me wrong i like all the girls, luci included, but up until the make out session i kept seeing the way rein was played as not getting with anyone

>>31773138
and that was just the first one. you have to do it every time

>>31773410
Devil child girl that threw fire around. iirc, we punched her in the face or something and then had her dragged off by other people to be interrogated.

>>31773410
>who? is this the one that we cut the arm off of and got intel out of, because if not i don't remember this one

The one we were fighting and stunned with her own fire

>>31773236
I want this to be a thing, so badly.

>>31773410
>who?
Fire user we tagged Monique to switch targets to.

Giancarlo made a big show of carrying her off as spoils of war.

>>31773410
If I remember right we kicked her in the face instead of offing her and then Giancarlo took her away to his bachelor pad

>>31773484
"Interrogation" dungeon.

>>31773533
S&M chamber maybe?

>>31773568
Loaned by Luciana.

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>>31773410
>Secret route

I want to know about her now.
Does she like chins?

"Sorry I'm late," you say as you adjust the bundle in your hands to keep from getting stabbed with jagged pieces of broken metal. "Apparently, my luggage exploded all over my room so it took a little bit of time to tidy up some and make sure that nothing was missing."
"...exploded?" Sylvie adjusts her glasses.
"I came in to find my stuff thrown all over the place," you sigh. "Some of my art supplies are ruined, too."
"Did someone break into your room or something?" Karel asks.
"I dunno, nobody should even be able to go into my room aside from the servants who clean it. And Melanie's the one who's in charge of my room to begin with, so I don't even know-"
"But she's off until tomorrow," Sylvie interjects.

>[1/?]

>>31773798
[shadowrun grows bigger]
is it panic time guys?

>>31773831
>Implying it isn't inaba or something

>>31773831
Probably not but that won't stop us.

>>31773831
It's [X intensifies], not [X grows bigger], you fucking pleb

>>31773798
>[2/2]

Suddenly you're a LOT more appreciative of the things that Melanie does.

"I guess whoever's been doing her job while she's out is really sloppy then," you say, rolling your eyes.
"Or something," Karel crosses her arms.
"We can deal with that later though, let's hurry up and get this thing fixed."

Yeah, you have better things to be doing right now. Like finally getting your sword fixed.

>talk about a thing along the way?

Rolled 4

>>31774056

Make awkward small talk with Sylvie and Karel about swords

>>31774056
line up classes with Sylvie for the next couple of days maybe?

>>31774056
Magic lessons, we still want those

>>31774056

Ask Sylvie about more magic lessons, see if she has any spells we should learn. Mention that we're probably gonna be training with Arnaud more to help with our combat casting.

>>31774175
we never did get around to that fragment blader lesson

>writing

I have a feeling it's too early to ask about dem magic lessons, but the combination of not having anything else to talk about and the glacial pace makes it so we may as well just risk it...

>>31774268
more work out
>>31774309
i think it's more of just trying not to have an awkward silence and a desperate attempt to show her that we were serious about still being friends

I just realized something.

Luciana is probably going to eat fancy Princess dinners with Marianne most days. But we don't attend fancy Princess dinners, on account of not being a Princess and much preferring to gorge ourselves in the staff cafeteria where we don't need to worry about silly things like "manners" or "eating at a normal human pace".

As such, Sylvie's worries that our dinnertime ritual will suffer significant disruption are unfounded.

As the three of you head back downstairs to Niklaus's study, you hear the girls talking behind you.

"So, umm..." Karel begins, "...that huge guy I saw you with back at the gate is your father?"
"Yeah," Sylvie nods. "You didn't know that I'm Sir Vincent's daughter?"
"Uh- no, it's not that," she shakes her head. "It's just that umm, I wouldn't have made the connection if I didn't already know. Aside from the hair color, you don't exactly resemble the guy," she says with a nervous chuckle.
"Trust me, that's far from the only thing I get from him..." she replies
"Oh yeah, the super punching thing. How long did that take you to learn, anyways?"
"A few months," Sylvie replies. "My father actually rewrote his attack spells just so that I could use them, but he's not all that good at making them understandable."
"That's still pretty awesome, though!" Karel pats her on the shoulder. "And your old man must love you a whole lot if he went through that much trouble just so that you can fight with him."
"Yeah..." Sylvie smiles. "...he's pretty great."

>[1/?]

>>31774515
Reinhold, you should have a cold shiver going down your back right about now....

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>>31774776
Uh, what?
Sylvie is Vincent's daughter, not Gregory's. That's Nicolette.
pretty sure I didn't mess that up...

>>31774796

Gregory is to Vincent as Hyde is to Jekyll, only he likes Reinhold and thus is less dangerous to be around.

>>31774515

All this talk about Sir Vincent has you kind of worried about his reaction to you turning his daughter down. Hopefully, he'll be understanding.

You REALLY hope that he'll be understanding.

"Speaking of spells," you say in an attempt to shake the worrying from your mind, "are we still good for magic lessons?"
"...you still wanted me to teach you?" Sylvie asks.
"Well yeah, I mean-"
"Ha, didn't I tell you?" Karel teases.
"I guess you were right after all," Sylvie mumbles. "Yeah, we can still do magic lessons if you want, Reinhold."
"Great," you reply.
"It'll have to wait until later though, I kind of want to head back home after this dinner to make sure that my sisters didn't go through all my stuff," she sighs. "Last time I was gone, Racquel decided to use my room as a secret hiding place for her 'collected works' and my mother thought that -I- was the one writing that garbage..."

:[2/?]

>>31774906
>"Last time I was gone, Racquel decided to use my room as a secret hiding place for her 'collected works' and my mother thought that -I- was the one writing that garbage..."

Did Sylvie rattle?

>>31774906
"well at least now i know why you instantly thought i meant something lewd whenever i asked for a sketching model."

>>31774906
>"Last time I was gone, Racquel decided to use my room as a secret hiding place for her 'collected works' and my mother thought that -I- was the one writing that garbage..."
She really is the best girl.

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>>31774906

"'Collected works?'" Karel asks.
"Yeah, she writes stories," Sylvie replies. "About her hobbies. Mostly they involve boys doing things to other boys and I don't want to say any more because it creeps me out just thinking about it."
"And she was keeping them in your room?" you ask.
"Yeah, she insists on keeping everything she writes," she sighs. "Something about 'seeing the progression of her craft,' but my mother's just taken to burning whatever she writes in."
"Uh, does your father know about that stuff?" Karel asks with a slightly worried expression.
"No, and we intend to keep it that way," Sylvie says, shaking her head. "He knows that she's a pervert, but he doesn't know -how much- of a pervert she actually is and we all think it's best that he stays in the dark about that."
"At least now I know why you always thought that I meant something lewd whenever I asked for a sketching model," you say.
"Uh... yeah," she mumbles, looking at the floor. "That's why."


>[3/4]

>>31775199
>"Uh... yeah," she mumbles, looking at the floor. "That's why."
call her out on this, it's to suspicious of an answer

>>31775199
I guess that's not why at all.

>>31775199

Go full Shirou.

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>>31775229
Nah, no need to belabor the point, we're aware that she was secretly fantasizing about us sketching her in the nude then pushing her down and having our way with her, but we don't need to bring it up.

She's clearly sensitive about her disorder.

>>31775199
>Sylvie was already in love with Reinhold by the time of drawing misunderstandings
>she actually has foresight powers and fell in love with him years ago
>the visions were telling her they were destined to be together
>visions are dick

>>31775229
>>31775254
>>31775286
>>31775330


Eh, why not.

>tease her
>leave her alone

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>>31775330
oh rein will have his way with her. pic mildly related

>>31775368
>>leave her alone

>>31775368
>leave her alone

I'm all for teasing but in this case it's just cruel.

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>>31775368

>tease her

I'm all about those bad decisions.

>>31775368
>leave her alone

>>31775368
>leave her alone

I was just musing. I'm really tempted though.

>>31775368
i didn't mean to tease her, more of a "wait, what?" kind of thing

>>31775368
>leave her alone

Maybe too soon. We'll laugh about it some day though, but not today.

>>31775368
>>tease her
But thou must, /tg/ protag.

>>31775368
Store this for later. Just give her a look.
This knowledge is too good to use now. We need a greater audience or we could be alone and get sexy results

>>31775425
>some day

Yeah, when Sylvie will have grown up Thierri's children.

>>31775368
>tease her
We must!
FOR SCIENCE!

>>31775368
>leave her alone

>>31775368
>leave her alone

>>31775368
>tease her
Very, very lightly. No words now, just a knowing grin.

>>31775368
>leave her alone

>>31775481
This

>>31775368
>leave her alone
Pls Arch no bad end yet...

Haha, you're learning.

>writing

God, every interaction with Sylvie will be awkward for the rest of PGQ.

I want a distant epilogue where tables have turned and an adult Sylvie is always teasing the Reinhold all the time.

>>31775556
After we get off of work and over the dinner she made for us, promising release later I want that, too :(

>>31774056
>crosses her arms
That's defensive posturing.
Why do I feel that Karel was somehow ordered to stay with Rein to ensure he was away from his room for a while so Emilio or Luci could search it?

>>31775756

Why would they search Reinhold's room? He has next to nothing that could interest them.

>>31775804
Because they want to know about us, and a person's belongings speak a lot about their character.

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Deciding to simply leave it at that before you spoil Sylvie's visibly improved mood, you keep quiet for the rest of the walk to Niklaus's study while listening to Karel ask Sylvie questions about her father.

"And here we are back at this place," Karel sighs as she opens the door for you. "One of you can lead the way, I don't feel like having that weirdo drop from the ceiling in front of me."
"Oh, so he already..." Sylvie closes her eyes ans shakes her head. "Yeah, he does that a lot. I have no idea why."

As the only one out of the three of you who isn't overly bothered by Niklaus's eccentricities, Sylvie leads the way into his study. And much to your relief, Niklaus doesn't try to surprise you with one of his dynamic entries, instead greeting you by the table where his severed arm bones are displayed in a jar.

"Welcome back, Reinwald! Karel!" Niklaus says cheerfully. "...oh, and Miss Sylvie is here as well!"
"Hi, Mr. Niklaus," Sylvie says with a weak smile. "I see that you went and injured yourself while I was gone," she points to the remains of his arm.
"Yes, well..." he shrugs. "Things happen, as you well know. But anyways!" he claps his hands, startling both Sylvie and Karel quite a bit. "you certainly did take your time in getting back here, I suppose your delay was because you were looking for Miss Sylvie here?"


>how do you respond?

>>31775821

Thanks god we don''t own anything but a fat stack of gold.

>>31775804
Neither of them would know that off hand. Besides, they could be trying to see what he keeps with him.

>>31775804
Not to mention they'd be more careful not to break his stuff. RIP art supplies.

>>31775836
"No, the delay was due more to room service trashing my room."

>>31775836

"That and my room was a mess, I had to make sure everything was still there. They broke some of my things..."

Rolled 1, 3, 2 = 6

>>31775836

Actually it kinda my fault, someone decided to go through my things in my room and I had to give everything a once over

>>31775893
>Second

>>31775869
Maybe it was just expert luggage delivery by Thierri or Vincent? Followed by literally throwing our bags.

>>31775934
Vincent doesn't seem like the type to do something like that, if he's got a problem with someone I think he just yells loudly and punches until he feels better.

Though I suppose, hypothetically, if either of them ended up carrying bags for some strange reason and got over-enthusiastic about something as they were setting them down their ultrastrength could result in what happened, but I'm just not seeing a sequence of events that leads to that.

>writing

>>31775987
Which just means he's the last person he'd expect for us to suspect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9O9JIDUN7g&feature=kp

Rolled 8, 3, 1 = 12

>>31775869

They aren't stupid though, they wouldn't put the suitcase on the desk. Why wouldn't they just toss it on the ground next to the door? Seems like someone wanted to look through the suitcase and set it on the desk for ease of use, and they're not that subtle.

>>31775836
>"Welcome back, Reinwald! Karel!" Niklaus says cheerfully. "...oh, and Miss Sylvie is here as well!"
I had meant to bring this up before, but Niklaus is totally going to give away the game if he keeps calling Karel by her actual name even in spite of just having met her. I mean, we're still assorted Reinsomethings, but he's proven pretty good at remembering to call ladies by their actual name.

It's minor, but also suspicious to the degree that I wouldn't be surprised if Sylvie suspected something was up even as soon as the end of this meeting just by virtue of being familiar with Niklaus' eccentricities.

>>31775934
>expert luggage delivery by [...] Vincent
This actually strikes me as surprisingly plausible; he's the sort of guy who probably isn't too concerned with delicacy in general, and I can't imagine he'd make an extra effort to go out of his way to try and remedy that on our behalf given recent events. If so, it probably wasn't done on purpose; petty, vindictive little things don't really strike me as Vincent's modus operandi.

But just not really having our best wishes in the forefront of his mind and thus not thinking about it too hard and going "WELL, LUGGAGE DELIVERED. COOL. TIME TO GO DO SOMETHING ELSE." could be.

>>31775836
"Well, it was her idea"

>>31776050
>>31776027
>>31775756
[SHADOWRUNS INTENSIFY]

>>31776050

Niklaus can't remember Melanie's name, and he's in love with her. I doubt anybody who knows him is looking for logic in that particular habit.

Also, from the point of view of virtually everyone it'd be highly improbable to come to the specific conclusion that Karel is actually a girl.

'night

>>31776283
Sweet nightmares~

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"Partially that, partially because my room was a mess," you say. "I had to make sure everything that was there, and some of my things were ruined..."
"Oh?" Niklaus replies. "Must be the custodial staff slacking off again," he says, adjusting his glasses. "I heard one of the guard captains complaining about that just the other day."
"Huh?" Karel says. "You guys have problems with the maids here? But isn't Melanie one, too?"
"Yes, and she is the loveliest and hardest-working of them all," Niklaus says with a long sigh. "But with old Gill too busy taking on the King's workload in his absence to handle his own butlery duties and Meruru not around to keep them on their toes, they tend to get... lazy."

That's certainly one way to put it.

>[1/?]

>>31776318
The wolves are at old gills door again.

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>>31776318
>Meruru

Stap arch.

Dont stop.

>>31776318
>Meruru
Nickels is adorable

>>31776318

Stop it with the Niknames.

>>31776318
I think that Niklaus only messes up the names of people he takes a liking to.
which slightly distances them from him, which in turn makes him focus more on his work

>>31776363
but
but it's so much fun to do

also there is a definite pattern to the names that Niklaus gets right

>>31776391
He gets Sylvie right, though.

>>31776397

They're all offsprings of royalty. He's securing his position by being a bootlicker.

>>31776397
>also there is a definite pattern to the names that Niklaus gets right
What? He gets Karel and Sylvie right and those two have nothing in common except gender, and we know it is not about gender since he can mess up names from every gender.

>>31776402
Maybe he just appreciates Sylvie as a colleague, and doesn't particularly like her as a person

>>31776397
How the fuck Karel fits into that pattern? They just met.

>>31776410
>those two have nothing in common except gender

Not true. Celestino's offsprings have or will fuck them over.

>>31776318


That's certainly one way to put it.

"But that's enough about lazy fools," Niklaus says. "for we have work to do!"

He then slaps his hand on the table.

"I assume that the lump of cloth you're holding contains the pieces of your sword that shall be the base of today's experiment?"
"Yeah," you reply as you gently place the bundle on the table and unwrap it, revealing the broken sword pieces underneath. It's the first time that you've actually looked at them since the day of the duel, and it makes you feel kind of queasy for some reason.
"So this is it, eh?" Niklaus says as he pokes at them. "I suppose I should grab a pair of gloves so as to avoid slicing open my brand new hand and getting blood everywhere..." he mumbles.

Yes, that would be kind of bad.

>[2/?]

>>31776410
Maybe he gets Sylvie right because she punched his shit that one time. I can't remember if he got it right before then, or if we ever heard him directly say her name at all prior to that.

I know.

Those two took a life, didn't know what they'll give, and now they don't like what it is.

Result: He knows their naaaaaaames!

>>31776410
>those two have nothing in common except gender
they're both royalty. remember when nik first met karel, looked at her eyes, and started saying something before arch cock blocked us?
and remember how LEWD said that karel's eyes are just like mari's?
and remember how aquaman's brother is out adventuring, possibly using an alias?

>>31776480
oooooh shit. I think he's on to something.
Nik can smell the peasantry on us.

>>31776480
>remember when nik first met karel, looked at her eyes, and started saying something before arch cock blocked us?
He recognized her as her father's daughter.

>>31776480
We confirmed Adrien was Karel's dad, she is not royalty

>>31776480

Everyone has pretty much jumped on the "Adrien is Raoul" theory.

I mean, look at Aquaman and Adrien in >>31771905 and tell me if it could be more on the nose about it.

>>31776512
Not yet anyway.

>>31776538
>but tops

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>>31776538

If this sword doesn't go all Frankenstein's monster and grow an arm with which to strangle someone immediately upon being created, I'll be a touch sad.

>>31776427

Niklaus then spins around and makes for the back room, but stops dead in his tracks and floats back towards you.

"Before we begin, your bracelet?" Niklaus extends his hand out towards you.
"Oh yeah..." you mumble as you roll up your sleeve. "Well, here we go."

Extending your wrist out over Niklaus's hands, you will your bracelet to melt off of your arm and onto his palms. While it's not much of a final sendoff, you felt the need to at least do -something- showoffy as your final act with it.

Your final act with it in the form on a bracelet, anyways.

"Be right back, ladies and gentlemen..." Niklaus says, examining the bracelet for a bit before flying into the back room far faster than could possibly be safe.

Though he's definitely proven by now that he cares very little for his own safety.


>[3/4]

>>31776538

It still took us three threads to get there. We're incorrigible.

I regret nothing.

>>31776554

At least if it abuses us we know that it's a girl and that she's in love with us.

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>>31776554
It instantly ends up something like this.

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>>31776554
It wont grow an arm, it'll just attach itself to Rein's arm.

>>31776566
And then Reinhold's birth father turnw out to be a GALACTIC CRIMINAL

holy shit that episode was awesome

>>31776573
Shame about Prismo though, I really liked him.

>>31776573
My bet is that he wasn't Finn's real dad, but that the sleeping guy was actually Finn's Dad.

>>31776594
Yeah, that entire scene was depressing.

>>31776597
THAT WOULD ONLY MAKE IT EVEN WORSE.

>>31776609
I know right!

>>31776562
>[4/4]

"So he really is always like this, huh," Karel says, glancing in the direction that Niklaus disappeared in.
"For the most part," Sylvie replies. "He doesn't mean any harm by it, he's just kind of eccentric."
"Yeah, that's what Reinhold said," she says as she taps on the glass container that Niklaus's former arm currently resides in. "I've gotta say, there's nobody like him back home..."


>ask the lovely bespectacled lab assistant a question while you wait
>sit still like good little ginuea pigs and wait for the master to return

>>31776619
>sit still like good little ginuea pigs and wait for the master to return

>>31776619
[x]Touch magic science things

>>31776619
"Well, I think Giancarlo and Alberto have some kind of experiments where they have Giancarlo turn into a Power Rangers villain."

>>31776619
"you know, seeing niklaus trying to fuse his severed arm with crystals reminded me of that stone body spell you told me about before. that one that would make me metal because of my affinity. you think that you could teach me that when you teach me fragment blader?"

and on a completely unrelated matter
FUCK ESCORT MISSIONS

>>31776619
>ask the lovely bespectacled lab assistant a question while you wait

Alberto and Giancarlo do have that strange armor thing going on, which is pretty cool.
Sylvie is there a metal version of flight magic?

>>31776630
This, obviously. We must become science.

>>31776619
>sit still like good little ginuea pigs and wait for the master to return

>>31776645

And then Reinhold get himself a flying space surf.

>>31776397
>also there is a definite pattern to the names that Niklaus gets right
Did a quick look through.

Names Niklaus has gotten right:
Karel
Sylvie
Vincent (though he's also called him "Sir Meathead", so this probably means it's not just out of respect for having beaten him in a duel. Niklaus also got his name right after just having been beaten up by him, so this might enter into it as well.)

Names Niklaus has gotten wrong:
Reinhold
Gregory
Gerhard
Guillaume (Nicolette's brother)
Bernard

Names Niklaus has gotten both right AND wrong:
Guillaume (Arnaud) (Called him by his proper last name after his duel with Sylvie, but has also called him "Gill". Maybe last names are exempt or something? I dunno.)
Melanie (Usually gets it wrong, but got it right once during the Bernard/Guillaume interlude. Probably a mistake rather than an exception.)

>>31776619
>>31776633
>>31776645
This is definitely worth mentioning. Even if we don't know the full details, it's definitely in the same ballpark as some of Niklaus' experiments at a glance.

>>31776660
power cosmic pls go

>>31776619
So i've been thinking, other then fragment blader, do you have any more utility spells? Something similar to the wind spell, but less, you know, barely controllable?

>>31776619
>ask the lovely bespectacled lab assistant a question while you wait
>>31776639
>>31776645
These i guess

>writing

>>31776667
I think "Gill" might be an intentional nickname rather than an unintentional Nikname, since it's basically just a shortening. I notice he tends to have roughly the same number of syllables in his mixups as the name he's trying to say.

Maybe Niklaus only get your name wrong when he's attracted to you.

fuck, how many mysteries in this quest? I still remember Arch promising us a flashback explaining how Monique got Waifuranka.

>>31776670
Fragment Bladder is a popular spell for old mages like Celestino.

>>31776760
Still waiting on that FULL SUFFERING Citrine flashback too.

Though I have a feeling that might have had plot integrated into it so it's being saved for an appropriate time.

>>31776763
I don't get it. That sounds incredibly painful.

>>31776670
We also need to learn a fire spell.

Like, any fire spell at all. It doesn't even matter.

Because FUCK ICE. Seriously, ice, fuck it, fire good, ice bad.

>>31776776

FOR YOU.

Old people have bladder control problems.

>>31776784
Goddammit Grandpa, Pyromancy was great in the '50s. But times change, and magic evolves, and I want to commander some spooky scary skellingtons.
[spoilers]LEGALIZE NECROMANCY NOW[/spoiler]

>>31776712
He called Nicolette's brother Guillaume "Gills", so I was assuming it was the same sort of deal.

>>31776667
An addendum to this list: he also managed to get Reinhold's name right once during the Guillaume/Bernard interlude, and when it was brought up, we were told
>Did he just say our name right?
>Only when the person in question isn't around...

So it's less a matter of figuring out who he calls by their actual name, and more a matter of figuring out who he calls by their actual name to their face.

Which, thusfar, has only been Sylvie and Karel.

As you wait for Niklaus to come back, your thoughts drift towards magic-related oddities that you never got a chance to ask about and other things in that area. And one thing in particular that comes to mind is that odd armor that Giancarlo was wearing.

"The other day..." you begin, "Giancarlo had that weird armor on. You think that maybe that has something to do with these crystal parasite things?"
"Hm?" Sylvie turns to you. "I doubt it, those things don't react with the human body like that."
"Oh," you shrug.
"Armor..." Karel mumbles. "...oh, you mean that combination thing that him and Prince Alberto do?"
"I guess?"
"I asked Emilio about that last night," she nods. "That's like a game that those two have or something, Giancarlo acts as the 'body' while Prince Alberto is the caster, I think that's how he put it. It needs two people to work in any event, and Prince Alberto created the base spell through some grinoire that the King had lying around."

>[1/?]

>>31776831
>grinoire
Sounds like a wine.

>>31776869
It's like a grimoire but happy instead of grim.

I finally finished the archives and get to be in my first live PGQ thread. PRAISE BE TO JAYZUZ

>>31776909
Welcome to the fold.

>>31776909
One of us, one of us!

>>31776909
Alright nerd, lets see how well you were really paying attention.

Who is archelon's waifu, who is his favorite in-quest girl, and who is his favorite puchi? You must correctly answer 2/3 within five minutes to be worthy of joining our ranks.

>>31776976
Shit, man, the only answer I know to that is Nicolette to the second.

>>31776976
>who is his favorite in-quest girl

Better phrasing would be who he would have gone for.

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>>31776909
Fresh blood! You know what to do boys.

>>31776988
The test was a trick, you got the important question correct.

>>31777002
>not knowing that archelon has shit tastes in waifus

>>31776831

"So much for learning that one, I guess," you say with a shrug. "though now I'm wondering if there's like a metal-element flight spell or something."
"There is," Sylvie replies. "I think it's called 'silver drift' or something... it's kind of slow though, so I never learned it. I like Stardust Wing the best, though Starlight Wing is prettier."

There are way too many flight spells out there...

Before you're able to ask anything else, Niklaus comes back while holding a large metal tray in his newly gloved hands. As be plaes it on the table, you see the not-quite-bracelet that you handed to Niklaus before... along with another pair of gloves and two more bracelets.

You assume that those are the new ones that he said that he'd have for you and Karel.

"And here we are, almost ready to go!" Niklaus says with a muffled clap. "Here you go, miss Sylvie..." he tosses her the extra pair of gloves.
"Umm, what are these for?" Sylvie asks.
"As the only other one here who understands the principles behind what I'll be doing here, surely you don't expect to just act as a spectator?"
"But my father said that I'm not allowed to help out with your crystal research, remember? And I don't think you want him to beat you up again..."

>[2/?]

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>>31777014
Meh I like Miki better, but for the quest Nico is pretty high level.
Pic related. Kinda.

>>31777031

"Ah yeah, he does that to people who treat you badly..."

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>>31777040
god damn it illya

>>31777031
Its not crystal science, it's SWORD SCIENCE!

>>31777031
pffft, he doesn't need to know.

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>>31777051
It least we'll always have Prisma Illya, her own magical girl spinoff is almost as good right?

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>>31776831

>it needs two people to work with

Sounds like something we might try with Luciana.

Don't mention that now though.

>>31777040
I didn't like her.
But I didn't even finish F/SN

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>>31777073
I'm not angry anon.
Just disappointed.

>>31777082
"People die when they are killed."

>>31777073

Eh, most TYPE-MOON stuff is horribly overrated. There's a couple of good ideas in there but the execution is always terrible.

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>>31777087
Fun fact: That statement actually makes sense in nip-speak, it just translates awkwardly so it sounds hilarious.

>>31777082

I'm on it. Does it get better?

>>31777094
Better relative to what?

The first route is boring to a lot of people because it takes so much time establishing the setting and characters rather than cutting to the chase, so if you stopped before hitting UBW route then yes it gets better.

>>31777088
Opinions opinions.

Then again anyone who contests that is a weeaboo faggot.

>>31777031

"Yes, you do have a point there..." Niklaus says, scratching his chin. "Well you can at least help me place the pieces of Reinhund's sword back in the right places before we begin, yes?"
"I guess that won't hurt..." Sylvie says as she puts the gloves on.

As the two start on piecing your sword back into its original shape (or as much as it can be), Karel turns to you.

"Uh... he got beat up by Sylvie's father? Sir Vincent?"
"Yeah, that's what I heard at least," you reply.
"And he's still alive?"
"Looks pretty alive to me," you shrug. "He looked pretty horrible after that one time that Sir Vincent punched him in the face for accepting a duel with Sylvie, and I remember that someone told me that Niklaus and Sir Vincent had a duel that made a lake or something?"

Karel simply stares at you in horror as you assault her ears with secondhand tales of madness.

>[3/?]

>>31777092
Bloody ching chongs and their moon speak

>>31777092
What's it meant to mean? Does 'kill' mean something else in japanland?

>>31777107

Actually, that's mainly things that Nasu works on.

Fate/Zero is Infinitely better than Stay Night.

>>31777112

Yeah. It's like getting brutalized real hard, only you don't necessarily ded afterwards.

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>>31777094
The animu and movie are shit. Fate is worst VN route. UBW is best overall and Heaven's Feel had best finale buildup.

But wormslut a shit and worst girl.

>>31777112
As it was explained to me, which makes sense given my limited barely-functional knowledge of the language, is that the verb for "getting fucken rekt" translates to "killed" even though it doesn't literally mean "to die".

So in a literal translation, you can get "killed" without dying.

>>31777128
So really the line is "People die when they get rekt"

>>31777131
Basically, yes. So be careful not to get rekt or else you might die.

>>31777128
At last, I truly see

>>31777109

It takes maybe ten minutes for the two of them to finish placing the pieces where they need to go, resulting in something akin to what your sword would look through as reflected through a broken mirror.

And all of the pieces are indeed there, nothing is missing!

"Alright, Niklaus sighs, "now it's time for the hard part," he says as he picks up the two bracelets and tosses one to both you and Karel.
"Go play with those while I take care of this," Niklaus says as he shoos the two of you away into a corner. "You too, since you'll only get in the way a this point," he says to Sylvie.

Remembering what Niklaus said about your sword "eating" your new bracelet, you make it a point to slip it over your right wrist, as it's your non-sword arm. Looking over at Karel, she seems a lot more into this than you are, probably because you're already used to this.

>[4/?]

>>31777180
this is the first piece of jewelry that Karel has ever recieved in her entire life

>>31777180
Give her some pointers on how to use it

>>31777200
DUN DUN DUNNNN

>>31777180
Rein's left handed?
How the fuck didn't i notice that till now

>>31777200

Aww... Same thing for Reinhold with Tina, right?

>>31777220
I've mentioned it maybe three times in this entire thing, so don't feel bad.

>>31777200
Niklaus better be careful, thats a proposal in some cultures

>>31777224
Spinelle gave us some great jewellery I'm sure

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>>31777200
Reinhold just keeps on hitting all the flags even after route lock.

>>31777180
>Remembering what Niklaus said about your sword "eating" your new bracelet, you make it a point to slip it over your right wrist, as it's your non-sword arm.
Just a thought but, would moving the new bracelet more to the elbow side of the forearm be an alright extra bit of failsafe? Or is this just me being paranoid?

>>31777248
You can't manipulate its shape just yet, and the thing would just slide right back on down if you were to do that anyways.

>>31777258
I'm gonna take that as DM speak for "It works, stop asking"
Though I'm still gonna worry

>>31777180

The next few minutes are spent with you and Sylvie watching from the other side of the room while Niklaus chants what sounds more like random strings of words than actual spells and Karel plays with her new toy.

"It's not doing anything..." Karel mumbles as she pokes the bracelet with her finger.
"Oh yeah," you say. "It'll take like a day before you can really do much of anything with it. That's how it was with my first one, anywsys."
"Yeah, the aggregate needs time to infest the bracelet beforehand," Sylvie says.
"...oh," Karel says, pouting slightly. "So much for showing this thing off to Emilio today..."

The rest of... whatever it is that Niklaus is doing doesn't take much longer, and he calls the three of you back on over before you start getting too antsy. And then, you see it. Your sword. Back in one piece.

"It's like it never broke," you say as tears start to well up in your eyes.
"I'm glad that you appreciate my handiwork," Niklaus replies. "Your sword is good to go, though I'd suggest that you hold off on swinging it at all for the next day or two, it's still in a fragile state at the moment."
"Fair enough," you say as you pick it up, a big smile on your face. "It's back in one piece now and that's what matters."

>[5/?]

>>31777234
The ones you put on your dick do not count.

>>31777301

Has Rein ever cried before?

>>31777301
>anywsys
Reinsnake?

>>31777313
Yes.

>>31777301
Noice.
This makes me happy.

>>31777313
>grew up in a brothel with an obsessive shotacon
What do you think?

>>31777313
When Marianne iced him and for pretty much all his backstory.

>>31777313
We cried even during the quest, dont you remember?
It was even a player choice.

>>31777336

Ah, dancing lessons. Reinhold's most embarassing, but at the same time finest moment.