>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>HALT CRIMINAL SCUM: THE QUEST

>>33145768
>[X] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>>33145768
[X] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)

Come on, privileged bitch route.

>>33145768
>[x] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)
Let's go!

>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

>All this city guard
I don't really care which gets chosen...which is why I'm wondering what caused the hivemind to go full force here. Does /tg/ secretly dream of being related to a guardsman or solidly lower-middle-class or something?

>>33145879
Everyone dreams to beat up snobby rich bitches.

>>33145879
The other two both involve loosing sociability, /tg/ cannot diplomance if you take away their sociability.

>>33145899
B-but that just makes it more challenging! It turns diplomancing into a full-on game rather than being a simple 'do you want friend yes/no? >yes'-

Got a minute and then we wrap it up, ladies.

>>33145921
I'm not sure you need a minute, given the current vote totals.

>>33145768
>[] The sole daughter of a city guard and his wife. They were so proud when I was chosen! (+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)

So is this the point where Hex breaks and goes full anime?

>>33145899
Do not try to understand the anonymous and its whims.

>>33145899
Not only that but this also comes with weapon knowledge so /tg/ can beat the shit out of things they can't diplomance. It really is the perfect choice.

>>33145967
Priestess though...
Ah well.

>>33145768
>[] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)

>>33145879
/tg/'s gamist soul will not allow it to take orphan, since it is clearly inferior, and priestess doesn't seem to be full ojou-sama enough to be worth it.

>>33145949
We'll see.

>>33145944
Maybe not the vote, but your QM is a tea-based individual and had to prepare a big glass of iced home-made green tea to accompany us on this journey.

> Closing and writing, City Guard route is a go

>>33146019
I just figure priestess might give us some unique interactions and situations compared to most quests. After all, most religiously related MCs are paladins, and being an ex-priestess is even more unusual.

>>33145768
>[] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)
ODDDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN

>>33146061
CHOO RATE FOH DAT

>>33145768
>[] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)
So are these Aztec gods or...?

>>33145768
[] An orphan living with a moderately well-off aunt that didn't much like me. She's probably happy I'm gone... (+1 Refinement, -2 Sociability -2 Streetwise)

>>33146061
>>33146071
>>33146075
All these late votes.
We Guard Brat NAO!

>>33145768
[] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)

>[] A priestess-in-training. Let's just say getting chosen one of the Old Gods was... they were not happy. (+2 Refinement, +1 Literacy -2 Sociability)

Is 4chan glitched or something? What with these late votes?

>>33146123
People cannot read.

>>33146123
people cant into auto-update.
Also I do hope we know the law and what's the punishment for each crime just cause it would be awesome

>>33146123
Personally I didn't refresh the page so I didn't realize he closed it until after I posted it

>>33146123
>>33146146
More like just found this quest.

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[X] Guard's daughter.
(+2 Streetwise, +1 Weapon lore -2 Refinement)
Knowledge: Armed Combat Basics, Law Basics, Underworld Basics,
Body structure: Trained I

You could say my life was a happy one. Our family was poor but reputable, my father often telling us that it was him, his peers and, perhaps, eventually myself that made sure order would prevail and society could live on.

I wasn't always happy with his lectures, but I made sure to pay attention when he taught me in the handling of the sabre, the baton, the gun and the Law Signs.

My thoughts drift back to the day I was chosen, a shiver running through me even now.

It's a strange thing to hear the Goddess call to us, in my case especially because I'd never been taught what her voice sounded like. "Youth knows many things yet understands very few". Seems like I understand what my mother used to say now.

When the call came I was

[] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)
[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)
[] The age of beginning completion (+2 spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity +2 Empathy)

>>33146214
That image doesn't look very 'guard's daughter'!
>[x] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146223
Unchosen options become NPCs.

>>33146214
>[x] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)
Younger is better!

>>33146214
>[] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

>>33146214
[X] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

Unless you're trapping the option this seems to be the loli vote.

>>33146214
>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
[X] The age of beginning completion (+2 spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity +2 Empathy)

Come on, can't we play a mature girl for once?

>>33146214
>[X] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

>>33146214
[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
>[x] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

>>33146214
>[X] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
>>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
>[X] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

I want to be the little girl

>>33146214
[] The age of beginning completion (+2 spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity +2 Empathy)

>>33146214
>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
>[x] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)
If this is ages, I wonder why the youngest has negative empathy modifier. I'd expect the middle one to be worse, and the oldest to give discipline bonus.

>>33146214
>[] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

>>33146214
>[x] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

Even obvious bonuses will not dissuade /tg/ from being the little girl.

>>33146313
>youngest has negative empathy modifier
Little kids are nasty blighters.

>>33146214
[x] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

why so many who want debuff's

>>33146214
>[x] The age of beginning completion (+2 spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity +2 Empathy)

How old do you think Age of Ignorant Understanding is

>>33146326
You mean obvious benefits. All those years that the others weren't training? Ours.

>>33146214
>[X] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

>Implying there can be a witch quest where /tg/ does not decide to play a loli

>>33146214
>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146329
Not as much as younger teens. And how are they 'disciplined' in any way?

>>33146346
Mid-teens would be my guess.

>>33146348
This guy has it.

>>33146348
uhh wut, that training gives us the better stats, so you are removing stats to play a little girl...

>>33146214
>[X] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146346
In my mind
> First bloom: 11 - 12
> Ignorant understanding: 13 - 15
> Beginning completion: 15 - 17

>>33146214
>[X] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

>>33146340
being the little girl > getting stat bonuses

>>33146214
>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146374
But this way we can direct that training as we see fit.

>>33146346
I would hazard that first bloom is 11-13, ignorant understanding is 14-16 and beginning completion is 17-18.

So basically the stages of puberty.

>>33146404
Oops. Pardon the trip.
Also
>[X] The age of beginning completion (+2 spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity +2 Empathy)

>>33146214
[x] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146214
>[x] In the age of first bloom (-2 Spellcraft, +2 Totem affinity, -1 Empathy)

> 40 votes
> mfw no fw

Closing, counting, writing.

>>33146214
>[] In the age of ignorant understanding (+1 spellcraft, -1 Totem affinity, +1 Discipline)

>>33146448
New quests with popular subject matter do that. Also probably samefagging.

>>33146448
What's the tech level like? We are on a train but there is polytheism and witches and city guards.

>>33146471
'Probably' nothing. Samefagging is pretty much assured.

>>33146471
More like Hexer is much more popular than he thought he was. Especially now since he's updating at 40 minute intervals instead of letting his threads 404.

>>33146496
Maaaagic

>>33146496
Late 1920's Europe, except the world is such that there are mostly small nations and even a couple city states. We will learn more of that later. Guns are a couple tiers below the tech level of that time though.

Also, I think Beginning Understanding won by a small margin, anyone care to help me check?

>>33146541
Considering beginning understanding wasn't an option...

>>33146560
> OP
> not a faggot
> not mixing up their own options

>>33146566
I pick one and two!
Definitely not three though.

>>33146541
I counted
>13 ignorant understanding
>11 first bloom
>4 beginning completion

>>33146223
>>33146263
>>33146280
>>33146287
>>33146294
>>33146295
>>33146312
>>33146324
>>33146339
>>33146360
>>33146375
>>33146396
>>33146426
Ignorant

>>33146434
>>33146377
>>33146359
>>33146316
>>33146313
>>33146300
>>33146293
>>33146278
>>33146257
>>33146249
>>33146242
Bloom

>>33146276
>>33146304
>>33146345
>>33146416
Completion

>>33146581
You're missing
>>33146315
>>33146307

>>33146581
>>33146579
Thanks gentlefolks. I need to trust my own eyes more.

[writing intensifies]]

>>33146599
They probably missed them because they were deleted.

>>33146599
Those are deleted.

This is for the best. Unpicked options are NPCs, and an uncouth loli is no loli of mine.

>>33146599
> counting deleted posts
It was probably people changing their vote.

SPEAKING OF WHICH: Don't do that without explicitly saying you're changing it. It's hella confusing. /whine

>>33146601
you can also ctrl+f
ctrl+f "In the age of first bloom" = 13
ctrl+f "In the age of ignorant understanding" = 15
ctrl+f "The age of beginning completion" = 5

>>33146617
We can waifu the loli

>>33146541
>Guns are a couple tiers below the tech level of that time though.
So, break actions, bolt actions and revolvers?

>>33146599
But I deleted mine because I didn't want it to count.

>>33146620
Hush and or your own counting. It's not hard.

>>33146624
I'll have to wait and see, but sight unseen I'd rather befriend her.

Teaching a refined kid how to be streetsmart would be great.

>>33146617
>an uncouth loli is no loli of mine
When they're lolis, its called precocious and is a charm point.

>>33146635
>and or your own
or do your own

>>33146643
We should at least imouto her.

>>33146643
I prefer a street-rat and an oujo-sama starting out as friends of convenience and eventually becoming BFFs through a series of trials and tribulations that range from back-alleys to ballrooms.

So how long until this becomes lewd?

>>33146713
Already prepping depth charges against /u/-boats

>>33146713
When we meet the loli.

>>33146726
But why?

>>33146762
It's a quest that will presumably have multiple girls and a girl protagonist.

That's all the reason they need.

>>33146713
Probably never. Now, LEWD, I could see. Copious hand-holding and head-patting in our future.

>>33146768
This is a blue board, we can't have such lewdness here.

>>33146768
That's disgusting. What's wrong with you?

What about this is experimental in any way?

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>>33146713
It was always too late.

More seriously, i'm with >>33146768

>>33146809
I was hit in the head with a metal bar when I was nine and ever since, scenes of chaste affection between girls have held their iron grip on my heart!

>>33146826
Oh man, that's one tragic tale. I'm so sorry!

So which one do you guys prefer:
1) priestess loli/ rich orphan lady
or
2) rich orphan loli/ priestess lady
I prefer 1) myself

>>33146826
Y-you should be jailed for that, you know!

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>>33146816
>experimental
>girls going to magical boarding school

>>33146830
It was my birthday too!
It's also true besides the lack of proof that correlation = causation.

>>33146837
The younger the priestess is ripped away from God, the less angsty she should be about it.

>>33146837
Hmmm...
Gotta admit 2 would be nice, but also typical. 1 sounds more like a twist on the formula.

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> /u/-boats
You maniacs! You could have prevented this! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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The call came at a time when it comes for many, though personally I had barely dared hope for it. The kind of things Witches do. The kind of people Witches are...
It can be scary.

Many of the older girls dream of the status it brings and the younger ones of adventure and marvels unforeseen, but when the dreams started coming, I had other things in mind. At first, it begins quite innocently. You begin to hear voices that aren't there, you think thoughts that don't seem to be your own.

Then, the night begins to change. No longer are your dreams but pale fancies barely remembered, but indeed they start to touch upon the night time thoughts of others... Repeatedly, an image impresses itself on your thoughts till you see it, even when waking.
---
A particularly strong RATATACK! jostles me back to wakefulness for a few moments and I look around, the young Adept beside me apparently unperturbed as she keeps on snoring softly.

I sigh, and before I know it am back to my dreams, back to the past.

----
It's the night that changed everything. The night the call came to me stronger than ever, no longer allowing to be ignored. I'm kneeling in the snow clad in nothing but a white robe, my mother speaking the prayers of before burning my bedsheets in a ritual older than the stones my knees are scraping against.

The cold and the excitement are making me shiver, my teeth clenched tightly so I don't make a sound.

Soon after, I hug my father for the last time and leave, knowing that until my return I, by all rights, will have ceased to exist in this town.

The breaks screech as the train halts, and just like that, the dream ends.

[] Push your way out of the train. Best not to think too much about the past.
[] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.
[] Motivate your cabin mates to make haste alongside you.
[] Hang back and chat.

>>33146972
>[x] Hang back and chat.

>>33146972
>[] Motivate your cabin mates to make haste alongside you.

>>33146972
>[] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.

>>33146972
>[] Push your way out of the train. Best not to think too much about the past.

>>33146972
>>[x] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.
Haste makes waste

>>33146893
We're a proper girl. Proper girls don't go for other girls.

Unless that goddess is one of lesbomancy

>>33146972
>[] Hang back and chat.
As far as we, the players, have been told, we're not on a strict schedule on where we're to report.
So better to hang back and let the throng thin out before we go.

>>33146972
>[x] Hang back and chat.

This is a terrible time for socializing.

>>33146972
>[x] Push your way out of the train. Best not to think too much about the past.

>>33146972
>[X] Motivate your cabin mates to make haste alongside you.

>>33146972
>[x] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.

>>33146972
>[] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.

>>33147017
And our destination is Lily Academy on the island of Lesbos.

>>33146972
>[x] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.
>[x] Hang back and chat.

I assume it's okay to combine choices? If not, the first one.

>>33147057
More like Pink Petal Academy. Eh? EH?

>>33147018
Yes but if CCQ is anything to go by the choices give traits or bonuses each time. Do we want to get some kind of malus on discipline or punctuality?

>>33146972
>[] Push your way out of the train. Best not to think too much about the past.

>>33146972
>[] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.

>>33147112
Absolutely. Daddy always made sure we were punctual and he's not around anymore!

>>33147057
>>33146893
>>33147017
inb4 shutdown by QM.

>>33146972
[] Hang back, wait for the throng to clear.

> closing and counting

>>33146630
Indeed.

Gonna combine staying and chatting, that okay?

>>33147336
Don't we need to stay to chat anyway?

>>33147365
It's between just keeping to yourself and talking to them.

Nuffin?

Sociability it is.

>>33147483
Sure!

>>33146972
We're gonna become Mami Tomoe.

Be extremely nice, amazing performance, and anyone who doesn't like us will...lose credit.

>>33147689
And our disapproving gaze.

>>33147689
That doesn't seem to fit our background all that well. Also Mami a boring.

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>>33147689
We're unrefined though.

>>33146214
>Law Basics
Fuck yea.

>>33147689
Not even close anon.

>>33147844
> image
> Erza Scarlet
> this is the only image of her in this style
Waaah. ;_;

>>33147873
> in katakana: eruza sukaaretto
Seems you are right

looks like he failed that dare...

>>33148128
There was never a chance for success, anon. This is Hex, after all.

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Hesitantly I turn to the others, fumbling for words, at first intimidated by the aura of cool composure the girl in front of me seems to wear like a second skin.

"...I hate it"

"What?" I lean forward, wondering what she wants to say. Heavens, I can't have offended her already, right? Nobles are prickly, I hope she's not prickly, but whatifsheisandwh-- I take a breath and steady yourself. We're all the same here. Pa said those on top can't survive without those below holding them up. We're all the same here.

The girl waves and cuts off my thoughts abruptly, her voice sounding like the frozen northwind moving the glass chimes in front of our little shrine at home

"I hate when people don't speak up when they should. I hate when simple appearances tie everyone's tongues in knots, and I hate it especially when it comes from those who look like they have something of value to say".

I blink. Is she insulting me? Praising me? Calling me names? Well, she told me to speak. Maybe she meant something else, but if she does, too bad for her. Resultion wells up in me, the sort of will that once made a gang of rascal youths turn and run when I caught them defacing the baker's walls.

"Only wanted to ask what your name is, really".

"Ariadne. No title I suppose, not after last night".

"Helena!", the Adept sitting beside you says excitededly without being prompted, the following torrent of words at odds with her previous silence, her mouth never tiring as she begins to recount her entire history from where she was born to the moment she sat down beside you and weren't you scared and do you think the Goddess is nicer than the shining lady Athar and-- you let the words wash over you, Ariadne seemingly just as taken aback, the diminutive girl still talking all the way to the admission counter.

You all three give the lady -- a curvy woman that somehow seems both motherly and severe at once -- your names and proceed to the examination area.

1/2

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When your name is called, you step through into a white-painted room.

"Take off your dress, child, and let me look at you".

You take off your
[] Boyish tunic
[] Simple dress
[] Other

The purple-clad priestess bids you turn around. The image on your shoulder is one you know well now, it's a stylized depiction of

[] A bat (Secrets)
[] A cat (Fate)
[] A rabbit (Charm)
[] A Raven (Protection)
[] A Snake (Mind)

>>33148292
[x] Simple dress
[x] A Raven (Protection)

>>33148292
>>33148272
> switching to 2nd person halfway through the update

I FAILED YOU, MASTER. I FAILED. ;___;

>>33148292
So, older orphan and younger priestess then?
>[x] Simple dress
>[x] A bat (Secrets)

>>33148292
>[] Simple dress
>[] A Snake (Mind)

>>33148292
>[x] Boyish tunic
>[x] A cat (Fate)

>>33148292
[x] Simple dress
[x] A Raven (Protection)

>>33148128
Baby steps.

This is Hexer we're talking about. Be happy that we're getting more than a single post every other day.

>>33148292
[x] Simple dress
[x] A rabbit (Charm)

>>33148292
>[x] Other
Skirt and cardigan!
>[x] A rabbit (Charm)

>>33148320
oh I am

>>33148292
>[] Boyish tunic
>[] A Raven (Protection)

>>33148292
[X] Simple dress
We're a girl. Even if we know how to fight.
[X] A bat (Secrets)
This is the Chtulhu option, isn't it?

I like ojou-sama better.

>>33148292
>[x] Simple dress
>[x] A Snake (Mind)
Snakes are cool.

>>33148292
>[X] Simple dress
>[X] A Snake (Mind)

>>33148292
>[x] Simple dress
>[x] A Raven (Protection)
Maximum guard

I like this type of character selection. It actually integrates into the story.

>>33148272
We don't have a name yet?

>>33148292
>>[x] Simple dress
>>[x] A cat (Fate)
necessary tyu

>>33148379
seconding

>>33148292
>[X] Boyish tunic
>[X] A rabbit (Charm)

>>33148310
First person made for a nice change, but second person generally seems to flow better in quests.
Just make sure you stick to one.

>>33148292
>[x] Simple dress
>[x] A Raven (Protection)

>"Take off your dress, child, and let me look at you".
That sound a bit rude, she should at least call us by our name

>>33148429
She's a witch and a doctor. Those types are usually a bit patronizing.

Two minutes and close.

>>33148320
Oh anon....

>>33148292
>[X] Boyish tunic
>[x] A Raven (Protection)

Rolled 2

Bat and Raven are tied it seems. Rolling.

> 1: Bat
> 2: Raven

>>33148617
Woop

Rolled 1

>>33148613
>>33148617
Oh boy, dice agreed with ya.

> writing

By the way, one of the less-nice customs around becoming a witch consists of everyone at home pretending you don't exist anymore.

>>33148650
>By the way, one of the less-nice customs around becoming a witch consists of everyone at home pretending you don't exist anymore.
Why's that?

>>33148520
Don't become Angelic 2.0, Hexer. Don't do it. I believe in you.

>>33148662
Since our parents were happy to see us go, it must be for our protection. Or theirs.

Rolled 1

>>33148662
A third respect, a third custom, a third religious intolerance. Or maybe the custom and the intolerance blend together. You know... just because certain gods exist with highly tangible proof doesn't mean people don't covert to other (real or not) gods. The All-mother is goddess of a fairly ill-regarded cult despite being one of the oldest around and providing fairly important services of the plane. In part that might be exactly due to that. Few like this much power being beyond the reach of most authorities, and some of the practices they do are seen as opposed to civilization (such as squatting on land because of its holiness).

On the other hand, it's seen as a sign of respect and "letting the chosen go". Just because you don't like a deity doesn't mean you want to piss 'em off, and since your parents were traditionalists they happily did those rites.

Does that make sense?
>>33148706
Thanks.

>>33148762
That's hilarious. I don't know why.

It's happening again

>>33149064
If you think this is slow, you've obviously never followed the Gate quest. Having hours between updates is nothing uncommon, though the QM might update several times an hour now and then.

My neat linen dress folded neatly -- I hate chaos -- I turn, squeaking a little while jumping away as the woman begins to poke and prod at the dark silhouette. The sensation is somewhat painful, the echo of her touch burning through my body like the shiver of a sudden plunge into a nearly frozen lake.

"All in order, child. It seems there should be no problem with your power. "Now", she gestures me to stand still as I move, taking a few more mundane and magical tests that leave me chilled and happy to get dressed once she's finished. I decide that I dislike her.

"Tell me your name, child".

[] Artemis
[] Elaine
[] Maria

After writing it down, she glances at you again.

"The name of your family is purged, you know that, yes? We will decide which one should be in its place later today. Now, step outside and proceed to the hall.

> had to rewrite

>>33149265
The tat is like a weak spot?

> [x] Artemis

>>33149265
>[x] Elaine

>>33149265
[] Maria

>>33149265
>[x] Maria
Elaine just makes me think Seinfeld, sorry.

>>33149265
>[x] Artemis
We are a hunter.

>>33149265
>[X] Maria

Though if there's a draw between the other two, please count my vote as switching to >[x]Artemis
Anything but Elaine.

>>33149265
>[x] Maria

>>33149265
>>[x] Maria

>>33149265
>>[] Artemis

>>33149265
>[] Artemis

>>33149265

I'm reading these choices as:
> Delicious brown greek
> Tall Pale nord
> Stout feisty Not!European
[] Elaine

>>33149292
She touched our special place.

>>33149265
>[] Elaine

>>33149265
>[] Maria

>>33149265
>[X] Artemis

>>33149265
[] Elaine

>>33149265
>[x] Maria

>>33149265
>[x] Elaine

>>33149265
>[X] Elaine
Cause reasons

>>33149265
>[] Elaine

>>33149265
[X] Elaine

Not the fastest but you are learning.
>>33149265
[X] Maria

>>33149265
>[x] Elaine

>>33149265
Clearly, we have to choose the best name.
>[] Maria

>>33149265
>[x] Maria

>>33149265
>[] Artemis

>>33149265
>[X] Artemis

>>33149265
>[x] Artemis

> closing and counting.
> sorry, got called away

> looks like Elaine wins
>>33149349
> not quite what I was going for, but I think I've got an idea

>>33149349
>Elaine
>Nord
What the fuck? As a Scandinavian I can assure you this name is both 100% non-northern, and 1000% lame. While Maria is a REALLY common name up here (and everywhere, but still).

>Maria
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>Elaine
>>33149349
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>Artemis
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>>33149899
It did? I'm counting 9 votes for it and 10 for Maria.

>>33149899
>Elaine
Please re-count, fuck. I don't want to hear the chick from Seinfeld in my mind every update.

>>33149935
Oops. I missed >>33149293
For elaine.

That's 10 for Maria, 9 for Elaine, and 8 for Artemis (with some blatant samefaggotry for Artemis. Less blatant for the others.

>>33149942
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>>33149935
> hurr durr
> my bad
> OP in charge of running sober

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> I am MARIA the NAMELESS, heir to no title, lady of nothing, beholden to no house

She scribbles on her pad but I'm already out the door, proceding to the next station. On the way there I'm so deep in thought that I can't react before the pristess from before tackles me and repeatedly stabs with her finger at the spot of my contract sign, though to little effect.

I sigh, trying to glare and probaly failing miserably.

"Save it. From a servant of the gods you would expect a little more m-m-ma-" Heavens, what was the word again? "acting like an adult", you finish.

She fumes, her feelings hurt, I turn my head just quickly enough to not get suckered in what no doubt must be the most hurt puppy eyes in the whole wide world.

"Come, they won't like any more waiting". That's it, take charge. Pa would be so proud.

You reach the hall just in time before the large wodden gates are shoved closed, the round stage in the middle the only notable thing in an otherwise completely boring room.

The lights dim (weird, you always expected a witch academy to use something other than gas lamps), and in the middle of the stage a black-clad figure begins to speak in a voice like ancient mountain waterfalls.

1/2

>>33150453
Priestess girl is pretty cool.

>>33150453

"Welcome, children. As you are now, you come to us like ore, rough and impure. When you leave, you shall be refined, pure and full of power. That much, I can promise you. How you get there, whether you climb on your own or we have to pull that, alone, is for you to decide. All of you will be ladies of the various houses, your former names and titles irrelevant among us, your new family. I ask all of you to never forget that, for the Goddess does not care for whatever standing you had. One last thing: Understand yourself as friends, as sisters, even, but never stop pushing each other to aim for higher grounds. Welcome to Mooncrest Academy, and my your efforts be blessed".

With that, she simply turns and leaves.

I guess that is a thing. Turning I find Helena and Ariadne wade through the mass towards me, already getting somewhat used to seeing them.

"We're aaaall gonna be in the same house, right?!"

I shrug, just letting them tag along for now.

"There are a limited number of spaces in each house", the woman at the counter tells you, showing you different symbols and explaining their meaning.


[] House Antioch, the Seekers
[] House Nefesh, the Warriors
[] House Alumandra, the Hidden ones

>>33150453
>"Come, they won't like any more waiting". That's it, take charge. Pa would be so proud.
Not sure if daddy issues or just cute. Is this how insecure little girls feel?

>>33150492
>[x] House Antioch, the Seekers
Alumandra feels to speshul for me.

>>33150492
>[x] House Antioch, the Seekers

>>33150492
>[] House Antioch, the Seekers

>>33150514
I don't see how that says daddy issues really. Just that daddy's work-ethic and experiences in the guard trickled over to his style of parenting, and thus our personality.

>>33150492
>[x] House Nefesh, the Warriors
I'm stuck between liking the dad analogue and feeling constrained by it.

>>33150545
inb4 we indadvertely take over the school

>>33150492
>[] House Antioch, the Seekers
We corvids.

>>33150522
Would stack well with Bat.

>>33150492
>[x] House Antioch, the Seekers
Sounds like the coolest one. And maybe most free once we're through training.

>>33150607
We're ravens though. All of them can surely excel in any house, regardless.

>>33150492
>[x] House Antioch, the Seekers
Seeker is just another word for Adventurer and I've always enjoyed PVE more

>>33150492
>[x] House Antioch, the Seekers

>>33150626
It could be seekers of knowledge. Also good!

These almost-blind choices are a little annoying.

>>33150492
Warriors is self-explanitory.
Hidden ones probably has to do espionage.

But what the fuck do Seekers do?

>>33150492
>[] House Nefesh, the Warriors
Let's do some fighting.

>>33150661
They're what Sages are in Fantasy Craft. Lots of different things, no heavy leanings, strong focus on searching out things rather than mull over them behind closed doors, this kind of thing.

>>33150686
Fuck yeah. Choice vindicated.

>>33150686
>Fantasy Craft
> being this hipster

Is the number of people Called dependent on how many free slots there are? It would be pretty embarassing for the goddess to call too many people and have no space for them.

>>33150686
Then I have absolutely no complaints about this turn of events.

>>33150719
There is sometimes a little surplus that gets sent to hedge witches in the country side, but the practice has decreased since the school got a new wing. All in all yes, the numbers end up making sense because, well, she IS a goddess.

Hedge witches and their apprentices are weird, creepy people though more often then not.

>>33150492
>[] House Antioch, the Seekers

>>33150829
Aw man, why can't we be a hedge witch?

>>33150975
/tg/ would just have tried to fuck our mentor out of boredom.

>>33150999
Like there isn't loads of adventure to be found in the countryside. We'd go play in some ruins or something.

[X] House Antioch, the Seekers

Quickly circling the mark of House Antioch with the quil pen I take a deep breath. No turning back now. From behind you Helena approaches, snatches up a form and circles the same before handing it back.

"You too", she tells Eriadne, just as the latter is about to circle Nefesh. It seems impossible to shush her, so I instead pretend to be somewhere else and not near this emberassing little ball of words. Really, I wonder when they will teach us to fly...

"Hey". The cold voice startles me, my skin feeling prickly just form being near it somehow.

"We will share a room, for my peace of mind". She glares at Helena, but it has no bite.

Great, somehow I'm not sure her presence will be good for mine, but of course I don't say that. It's not her fault, surely not. We'll all just have to get used to each other.

As we make our way through the dimly-lit hallways of the school a figure in red and gold approaches one of the older witches, both of them entering heated debate of some sort.

Now, there are all kind of strange people walking around here, but this one is something out of the ordinary: A boy.

"Don't look at me", Eriadne says. I look at her and she sighs.

"They're just visiting. The Dragon Heart School's sometimes sends people here to work with us. Don't worry about them, they are almost all noble-blooded, and unlike us they don't give away their titles".

Hmm. Interesting. I know nobles had a "thing" with magic, but beyond that I never gave it much thought.

"It's easy. The blood of the Five dragons manifests randomly in men descending from one of their bloodlines".

I nod, dodging a sandstone pillar carved into the likeness of a vine-covered tree by just a hair.

"All these bloodlines are nobles, which means", she ends with a smile that barely touches her lips," any of these are far out of our league".

I shrug. Somehow I did not expect to find love here.

> Ask anything?

>>33151278
Also
[] Get settled in,meet the others, then scout around
[] Just drop off everything and go for a grand tour
[] FOOD! FOOD! FOOOOOOOOD!!!

>>33151278
>[x] Just drop off everything and go for a grand tour

>>33151290
>[X] Just drop off everything and go for a grand tour

>>33151290
>[] Get settled in,meet the others, then scout around

>>33151290
>[] FOOD! FOOD! FOOOOOOOOD!!!
We weren't used to good food growing up.

> un-attainable dragon princes
I'm onto you OP.

>>33151278
Not sure what we could ask. The noble thing is probably a hot-button for Eriadne.

>>33151363
And they shall remain unattainable.

>>33151363
More like
>no romance
We better get some handholding eventually.

>>33151278
Eriadne, are you sure about your House? This isn't something you should pick because of someone you just met.

Must suck to have your girlfriend be called without having noble blood.

>>33151609
You're supposed to pretend she doesn't exist either way, I think.

>>33151487
She's scared as fuck.

>>33151640
Why?

>>33151637
Excuse the fedora but that sounds just hurtful and idiotic enough for a real religion.

>>33151663
>>33151663
Stripped of everything and cast out.

What is the goddess the goddess off.

>>33151794
Witches. Duh.

>>33151794
Lilies.

>>33151771
Assuming she's the orphan with the aunt that hates her option, it might not be that bad for her.

>>33151794
OP took Wicca and made it not faggoty.

>>33151609
Hopefully we didn't leave an SO.

>>33151879
We're a young teen, it's not like boy/girlfriends really matter at that age anyway. Not like we left a spouse.

>>33151874
Actually, maybe we should ask them in-character.

Or maybe not. Wounds are still fresh.

>>33151874
No, Helena is the fast taking priestess our goddess NTRd from her former deity.

>>33151879
With Hexer's detail autism it would have come up.

>>33151933
With the age we picked, there's a good chance we didn't have one. Thank the goddess.

>>33151980
> not wanting a tearful reunion after we're done

>>33152077
>Caring about past life
>Wanting a touching reunion with some nobody boy/girl we've never seen before

>>33152077
We'd definitely be unfaithful with some hot guy or chick long before finishing.

>>33152131
Whynotboth.jpg

Ok, I'm a bit confused now,

Eriadne is the loli noble who acts all icy (kuudere maybe)?
And Helena is the hyperactive near-adult who was described as being a priestess?

Is that right?

>>33152189
Eriadne is near-adult icy noble, Helena is loli priestess.

>>33152208
Ah, ok, thank you.

>>33152261
Ded thread?

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> "Are you sure about your house, Eriadne?

"Even when sure of nothing one should do something. Hesistation lose more wars than bad decisions do". That tone again, its icy correctness setting me on edge. On the other hand, I'm proud of myself. I recognize that quote that a famous general is said to have uttered on her deathbed.

"Francine Mollineux, right?" I smile, hopefully not too arrogantly, but the effect is quite impressive as she stop and, for the first time, seems to show a genuine smile.

"It seems I misjudged you… let's get along". She offers her hand, the smile gone like summer dew in the sun, only its memory lingering, and I take it briefly in mine.

[X] Just drop off everything and go for a grand tour

The moment lasts but an instant as Helena's short legs catch up with us, her wild descriptions of the journey down the mountain temple growing wilder by the second. I let it all wash over me, forgetting the words and simply focusing on her emotions that never once seem to leave room for doubt or regret.

With a boom that should by all rights have shook the door off its hinges the blonde bursts into the room we've been assigend to, throwing her small haversack into one corner and montioning us to do the same.

I quickly glance about. Wodden bunk beds. Simple matrasses. Candles instead of gas, not to think about electrowire or glowbulbs.

After some back and forth I convince Eriadne to let me handle the keys, and she relents with an exasperated shrugs as if she never cared in the first place and simply argued out of principle. Somehow I'm more amused than angry and the three of us begin our exploration.

"I hope there's a library somewhere here" Eriadne says, which earns her an incredulous stare from you both. Talk about strange priorities.

[] Work from the top down.
[] Consult the card for where we should/could/shouldn't go
[] Find a library firt
[] Other

>>33152934
>[x] Find a library flirt

>>33152829
>>33152934
Every time.

>>33152934
>[] Find a library firt

>>33152934
>[x] Consult the card for where we should/could/shouldn't go

>>33152934
>her wild descriptions of the journey down the mountain temple growing wilder by the second.
Needs more show and less tell.

>>33152934
>[X] Consult the card for where we should/could/shouldn't go
>[X] Work from the top down.
Best not to get in trouble on day 1. We should at least wait until 12:01 AM of day 2.

>>33153034
Seems intentional. He showed how she speaks before. I think IC we just don't care enough to listen to her.

>>33152934
>[x] Consult the card for where we should/could/shouldn't go
>[x] Find a library first

We don't want to hit up a forbidden library.

>>33153060
Fuck our character for not paying attention to cool stories.

>>33153083
> loli nun
> cool stories

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[X] Find a library first
[X] Consult a card.

That won't do. Sisters or not, witches or not, I'll not allow myself to fall behind the moment I'm out of home. With what I hope is strong resolution I make the other two sit down on a marble step -- Eriadne of course making extra sure to wipe the spot clean first -- and take out the map.

It seems the school has five dedicated to different subjects. We decide on the nearest one.

"And as I said, the whole room is full of flame, but Adept Selyn juuuust walked right through them while on fire. We had to heal her for a week but she said it was worth it, have you ever seen a fire I heard the old dragons are still awake beneath some castle and I hope I don't set myself on fire when we learn Fire evokation an--" her unending sentence is squashed by a little choked squeak as a monster made entirely of flaming rock turns around the corner and heads towards us.
And that is where I'm afraid I must stop tonight, I'm already getting 2slow and it's getting late.

I hope at least some here could enjoy this.
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>>33153522
Thanks for running!

>>33153522
Thanks for running!

>>33153716
>>33153731
My pleasure.

>>33153522
Thanks for the thread.

CCQ when :(