>>34952703
Yes! I was waiting for this

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>>34952703
It has been a nice few weeks since Lyann joined our family. As the end of the school year approaches, we have to start thinking about our next year of classes.

We met and began talking with Okaba, 4th prince of the southern kingdom of Hêven, and Aura, his janissary bodyguard. After showing him our brand new invention, which we fondly call "chess", the prince was motivated enough to help us start our very own chess club, albeit he says we still need 2 more people and a teacher to vouch for us.

Aura, is of the opinion that the knights should have wings to account for their ability to jump over other pieces, but her opinion may be colored by the fact that as a winged humanoid, that's how she would do it.

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>>34952703
>We are 8yrs old. She is 12, it really is literally just cuddling up to sleep!

It don't help that our mind is 20 year old in 8 year old body...

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>>34952813
>our mind is 20 year old in 8 year old body...
We're basically Baby Herman.

>>34952808
Actually, winged mounted knights sound like a fine idea.

Anyway, maybe we can find someone in the Alchemy Club that will take an interest in Chess.

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>>34952778
Howdy

***

As lunch time ends and we go back to classes, we agree to meet with Okaba and Aura after classes to go look around for some more club members. and so, we meet in the halls as the sun begins its slow descent towards the horizon.

"So, where would you like to go?" -asks the prince

* Check the library
* Check the gardens
* Try to fish people from other clubs
* Other

>>34952888
* Check the library

>>34952888
Library

>>34952888
>* Check the garden

people play chess in the park. quiet place to pass the time instead of interrupting people who probally take research and study pretty seriously.

>>34952888
>Check the library
People who like this kind of intellectual game are likely to be in the library.

>>34952975
people in the library are likely to already be doing something else.

as opposed to people in the garden, who are probally just passing time.

>>34952888
>Check the gardens

>>34952813
You know, I said this before, but we were already out of college when we died. We were 29. If you wanna be accurate, I think we should add our new life to the old one to say we are mentally 37

Also, what do you think of the new pic?
>>34952888
I think it really shows that Grummir, the dwarf, was drawn first, then young Eldric, and Aura and Okaba are the latest, right?

I have a more "sensual and grown up" pic for Lyann, but I think that one is good for a 11 yrs old dancer.

****
"Let's check the library first. It's probably the best place to find someone else." -you suggest casually
"Alright, but it is a nice evening. We may get some people interested if we had a game in the garden." ~Okaba takes Aura's hand and walks with you~ "How old are you, by the way?"
"Almost nine."
"Is that near maturity for a human? you seem somewhat smaller than most. We meant no offense, by the way."
"None taken. I think you are just too tall."
"Actually, Eldric still has to go through his growth spurts." ~Lyann adds helpfully
"Interesting."

The library is not very full right now, but you can see plenty of people reading here and there on the tables alone or in pairs.

*Approach couple of Bunny-tribe beastmen. (Both female)
* Approach Human couple
* Approach the out-of-uniform guy reading some scroll while wearing well-polished leather armor
* Approach three dwarves (2 males and one female... you think) who are sitting together near the back
* Approach a lone student

>>34953114
>* Approach the out-of-uniform guy reading some scroll while wearing well-polished leather armor
Soldiers need games to pass the time, right?

>>34953114
*Approach couple of Bunny-tribe beastmen. (Both female)
I do not know what to do.

>>34953140
Sound good to me, lets say what the others say.

Also, updated the mamluk, the courtesan, the thief and the janissary on the pdf. If anyone can, please make balance/mechanics suggestions.

>>34953114
Supporting this >>34953140

Also, I'm looking forward to more character pictures

Bunny girls x1
Soldier x2

The young man looks up, somewhat curious to see a small group crowding up to him.

"Can I help you?" ~he sounds polite

* "Play a game with me?" we are 8yrs old, may as well use it
* Polite introduction and ask about what he's doing there, then explain what you are up to
* Other

>>34953308
>* Polite introduction and ask about what he's doing there, then explain what you are up to

>>34953308
>Polite introduction and ask about what he's doing there, then explain what you are up to

He's probably and off-duty guard. Let's make sure he has time to play with us right now, we don't want to appear as a bother.

>>34953114
>* Approach the out-of-uniform guy reading some scroll while wearing well-polished leather armor


A soldier should be interested in a strategy game if we present it as such

>>34953308
* Polite introduction and ask about what he's doing there, then explain what you are up to

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>>34953244
>looking forward to more character pictures

Waiting for time to go on before using these

Did you like the Elli one?
***

You introduce yourself politely and explain to him that you have a new, strategy based game depicting a battle between matched forces, all the while placing the board and the pieces in front of him.

"It seems interesting, but I do not know if I could join your club. Right now I am already part of the Dungeon Delving club, and that's quite exciting already. Oh, my name is Tazar, by the way. It is a pleasure to meet you."

Tazar is a third year student. He is part of a club interested in exploring the dungeon under the college. It sounds like he is checking old records of previous expeditions since he is already in a deeper floor than any of his party members have reached before.

***
As it turns out, he's not a soldier, but a fellow student.

* Try and use your charisma to convince him to join as a phantom member (signed in, but not present)
* Try and use your charisma to leave the Dungeoneering club for your club
* Inquire about his club
* Other

>>34953467
>* Try and use your charisma to convince him to join as a phantom member (signed in, but not present)
And as exciting as dungeoneering is, it can't hurt to have a game to play with your party during down-time, right?

>>34953467
>* Other look at different peoples

>>34953467
>* Try and use your charisma to convince him to join as a phantom member (signed in, but not present)
>* Inquire about his club
Why not talk about both?

>>34953187
it seems odd to me that a noble would have a starting class of 'thief'. As an authority of the land that makes the rules, they wouldn't be trained as outright criminals. perhaps rename it 'treasure hunter',or 'rogue'.

I also see the difference in lvl needed between hybrid and 2nd tier pure classes. for regular adventurers there's not much difference since they can only have 1 job at a time. are they meant to be equivalent in stat gains and abilities?

For the main character, it's easier to train multiple jobs so we reach the hybrid classes sooner.

instead of having multiple tiers of pure classes, i'd rather have just one class. So a lvl20 wizard would gain an 'arcanist' class ability while still being a wizard. a lvl 40 wizard would gain an 'archmage' class ability. because if they've put in the time to get to high levels, then of course they'll be really good at what they do. It would also cut down on some of the class bloat you have.

Under the current system you could have a lvl90 wiz/ lvl50arcanist/lvl 1 archmage and a lvl 20wiz/lvl 20 arcanist/ lvl 5 archmage. It doesn't have that same sense of progression as lvl21wizard(arcanist) and lvl56wizard(archmage).

>>34953467
>* Inquire about his club
The chess sets are just a money making scheme like the soap and we already have lyann.

So it's no great loss if we don't form a club and just have private games with the 4th prince every so often.

>>34953467
>Did you like the Elli one?

Noice, how long till we reach puberty?

Also,
>Try and use your charisma to convince him to join as a phantom member (signed in, but not present)
>Inquire about his club

>>34953467
When we get home i'd like to talk to elizabeth and mom about how they'd like to improve.

Both to see how they react and to spend those bonus points.

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>>34953580
well, this will happen by default in a few mnutes anyway.
>>34953652
Well, we already have the knight to represent the typical feudal lord type of noble. The healer and the wizard are obvious. The singer is more of a luxury job and thats why it is a nobles only job, much like only the nomads and the slaves have dancers.

As for thief... well, we need evil abusive nobles squeezing the peasants dry too, right? but year Ill think about something.

not sure what you meant about the equivalent bit. Pure classes need 20 levels, the hybrids require 10 and 10 so it comes out about the same.

I like your idea. So absorb the pure classes into the base class and just add abilities that are unlocked with levels? I think some jobs dont have a "pure" route, tho

However, the base classes gain a LOT more attributes per level than 2n and 3rd jobs. I wanted to have the players deciding between gaining 15 attribute points per level with basic abilities, or just 10 with powerful abilities.

>>34953741
>Noice, how long till we reach puberty?

I wonder? I mean, you have a grownup's mind pushing the body, so I imagine a bit earlier than usual? or perhaps you cant rush chemistry

I also made some less-clothed versions of Lyann (because I can), mostly to mess around with adding whatever clothes I wanted. The nude one is the base. I can easily add whatever to it

No comments about tje janissary, gladiator, champion and/or seducer? was hoping for feedback. And maybe a better formula to calculate Steal chance of success

(0) .: [1d100] => [25] = (25)

You speak with Tazar for a while, and he agrees to be a phantom member to help you get your club started.

1/2

>>34953910
>No comments about tje janissary, gladiator, champion and/or seducer?
Maybe later.

>>34953910

"Are you selling these, by the way? I think I saw one of the teachers carrying one. Oh, and you should probably write the rules down and include them with each set." Tazar says helpfully

"Thanks. I will try to do so. Uhmm... beyond the obvious, what does the Dungeon club does?"

"Well, we help the 2nd years when they go into the dungeon for the first time. We also double up as guides when outsiders want to try their luck in the dungeon."

"Could we go in?"

"Normally, you'd have to wait until you are a 2nd year, but if it is with a guide, yes, you could."

"Thanks for telling me. Maybe I will try it soon." ~you say much to Lyann's delight

Now that you have Tazar's signature, you just need another student. Out of the remaining ones...

* Bunny-tribe beastmen girls (beastgirls?)
* Dwarves

>>34954007
>Dwarves
Maybe we can later make a Thud set?
Dwarves might like it.

>>34954007
>* Bunny-tribe beastmen girls (beastgirls?)

>>34954023
>Make an enchanted set that obeys commands using weak golemcrafting

>>34954007
Dwarves
We can make obsidian sets for mad dosh

>>34954007
>* Bunny-tribe beastmen girls (beastgirls?)

>>34954007
Dwarves, we already got one involved, it will help to make it more popolar with the dwarven community

As for balancing issues, I guess we are going to see them in action before deciding

>>34954069
>Dwarves claim credit for our fucking game
>Dwarven chess sets become one of the fastest growing commodities ever
>We reap in all that hush money

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>>34954023
>Thud
What? you mean squats?

Also made a few Okabas and Auras before picking one

>>34954043
Battlechess?

Dwarves x3
Bunny girls x2

How many people do we have, btw? I thought we were 3. Is someone voting twice?

<== I wanted to originally go with mace and heavy shield but friends whined that you should use a stabbing weapon with that shield so I made two variants
***
You approach and introduce yourselves to the dwarves. They are Duran, Dilan and Honoria. On a closer look, Honoria has a very pretty face, she just has her hair braided and pulled in front of her so it looks similar to a beard from afar.

You speak with them for a while, and they seem immediately interested. Honoria wants to know about your future plans to make stone sets, while the boys(?) want to know if they would get a free set if they join.

It looks like they werent hard to convince at all. In fact, they are also first years, albeit not on your class. As for their personal histories, Honoria is a princess frrom the Stonewall clans. Duran and Dilan come from other clans, but naturally banded together when they spotted eachother on the campus

* Sure
* No, but Ill give you a discount
* Other

>>34954126
That's when we release...the CCG.
With silver and gold foil cards, rares with small gemstones embedded in the thick cardstock, irresistible to the Dwarves.
They'll have to clamp down on it like a narcotic, it will bleed their treasuries so dry as they buy booster packs in the vain hope of finding a Black Lotus.

And then our revenge will be complete.

>>34954210
I only vote to avoid stupid stuff happening like bunnygirls

>>34954210
I showed up just now.

>>34954210
>* No, but Ill give you a discount
Don't want to give stuff for free ever if we can avoid it.

>>34954210
>No, but Ill give you a discount
50% off

>>34954210
>* No, but Ill give you a discount, and they'll have access to the club's chess set

>Thud
It's the Dwarves vs Trolls board game from the Discworld novels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_of_the_Discworld#Thud

>>34954215
>slapping dwarves with MTG
You...you sick fuck.
I like it

>>34954210
>Discount

>>34954210
>* No, but Ill give you a discount
Do we still make money at a discount?

>>34954267
20% off

>>34954215
>silver and gold foil
Im not sure how literal you are being, considering the setting... gemstones... ah nevermind. How thick are you figuring the cards would be?

I guess it could work if they were round and you used them like ... tazos. Sorry dont know the english word for them but thats what we called them

Which tattoo color do you prefer, blue feels very pictish, but silver has that high fantasy setting, dont you think?

And what's wrong with cute girls with cute bunny ears!? just imagine all the expression that must give them, just by folding them down when scared or stand them up when they're interested. And full ear-blush!

>>34954291
It costs us about 184silvers to make one. A gold coin is 1000 silvers. We sell the sets for 2 gold, so yea, we can give them a pretty good discount.
***

A 50% discount sounds like an amazing deal to your new dwarven friends, and thus you get 8 people instead of the 6 you needed.

Now you just need a teacher.

*Go get mom
* Go check the teacher's lounge, see who may be playing right now
* Why stop? check for more members. If not the bunny girls, you could go to the gardens. Noone says we have to start the club right this moment or even today or this week.
* Other

>>34954360
>Why stop? check for more members
May as well check the bunny-girls. And if nothing else, we should be socializing where we can.

As for a teacher, I think we should get a different teacher than our mom; wouldn't want it to look like too much nepotism.

>>34954360
Im pissed that have to go to work when I just finished catching up but I will leave with one idea Mother fuckin magic Beyblades

>>34954360
Now that we've sold it to them, tell them that we're actually selling it for a 75%+ profit margin, so it's no big deal.

>Go get mom

>>34954419
>tell them that we're actually selling it for a 75%+ profit margin
Fuck no, why would we tell them that?
"Oh hey, I rip people off on these and I only made you guys pay a 25% markup" is not conducive to friendships.

>>34954360
Supporting blue tattoo and
>>34954405

>>34954419
No do not tell them anything!

>>34954407
dear god and we can actually enchant them to have the monsters

>>34954360
*Go get mom

>>34954515
Alright so far we have
Bunny girls x1
Mom x2
Other teacher x1
Check more members x1

Well, looks like we are going to talk to mom about this. Typing

>>34954573

You agree to meet tomorrow evening in the gardens with Aura, Duran, Dilan, Honoria, Okaba and Tazer, and go look for mom in the teacher's lounge.

The teachers already know you so they aren't bothered when you go in looking for your mom. After all, to the, you are a 8yrs old child.
You find her talking with one of the teachers, but you dont know him.

He doesn't teach any of the classes you go to, after all.

He better not be hitting on your beautiful mom.

Clinging to her legs, you greet your mom and stare a little at the man.

Tall, with a goatee. If this was a Disney movie, you are quite sure this guy would be a bad guy.

Your mom excuses herself with her colleague, and leaves home for the day with Lyann and you.

"Mom, I want to start a chess club, could you be our supervisor teacher?" ~ you ask her while holding her right hand, and Lyann's left hand as the three of you walk home from the university.

"I suppose, but you will need to come up with a way to explain its purpose in terms of personal development, not just "because it's fun", you know? It needs to be an student activity, not a play club."

"I see... well, we are using magic to make the sets... maybe we could try enchanting the sets?" or just learn about how different materials react to being shaped?"

"I'm happy that you made friends and want to start a club with them, but it cant just be a playroom, Eldric. You need to seriously start a proper club."

Your mom is a lot more strict with you than a random teacher would have been.

* Assure her that you DO feel the club will help your magical studies (how?)
* Give it up and join one of the pre existing clubs while keeping chess as a hobby together with your new acquaintances
* Other

>>34954741
>"It's a tricky game. And (I don't know how to kiddify this) adversity inspires creativity. Playing against eachother in a game like this can keep our wits sharp and help us learn more easily."

>>34954741
>* Assure her that you DO feel the club will help your magical studies (how?)
We will be animating the sets at some point, maybe creating larger sets with more intricacy?

>>34954783
Seconding this

>>34954741
>Assure her that you DO feel the club will help your magical studies (how?)
"It helps develop ordered and disciplined thought, to plan several moves in advance.
"Also, by creating self-playing and self-moving pieces and sets, we can practice our enchanting."

>players chose mom because they thought she'd coddle us
You guys obviously don't know mom at all. She's always pushed us to be constantly learning and studying.

>>34954838
this is a good reason, also I was pretty sure this could happen but if we can convince mom we can convince anyone

>>34954741
>Using enchanting magic we create pieces which move on their own, just by a simple command
>Then, with the help of some divination, we make them move depending on our opponent's strategy
>We are going to create Chessmaster 9000

Trying to dupe mom is honestly a bad idea, so you go for the qualities that you know are true about chess in your sales speech, as well as assuring her that you will try and mix magic into the making of the new sets.

You convince her, but she says she will want monthly club reports both on your activities and magical progress.

"And you can't let your grades go down, understood?"

You nod, and soon arrive home.

Elli greets your group at the door, and takes your mom's coat as she comes in.

"Dinner is ready, ma'am. Young master" ~she seems to hesitate for a moment... "Miss" ~she adds at the end, referring to Lyann

"Thankyou Elli. Can you give the boys a bath after dinner? I brought some books from school I want to go over with them later, so I¿ll be preparing in the living room."

"Yes ma'am"

All four of you eat together, then Elli takes you and Lyann to the bath. She pours hot water into the tub.

Apparently, storing hot water into her item box lets her recover hot water hours later. That is quite the convenient thing.

"Elli, I can bath myself" ~says Lyann, but Elli doesn't really care and just continues taking her clothes off before ushering her into the hot tub with you.

She rubs you both clean with care and love as she asks you about your day.

1/2

>>34955038

"Young master, you don't need to go into the dungeons anymore, right? I feel bad lying to your mother."

"You aren't lying. You just don't tell her about it."

"But..."

"Besides, next year we will be able to go into the dungeon under the schoo, so by then it won't matter at all."

"Oh... I suppose you are right. There you go..." ~she pours warm water on your and washes the soap off, then picks you up and sings her pretty face against your neck~ "Ah, the young master smells so pretty." ~she says perfectly innocently, then picks you up from the tub and dries you off.

After dressing you up, she repeats the process with Lyann, the redhead blushing a little as Elli dries and dresses her up in front of you before sending the both of you to the living room.

Your mother has you both sit with her on the couch. She has two big books resting on the small center table.

One you are properly cuddled up against her, she starts your evening classes.

The following day, you meet with Grummir and Miiyau in the guild, as usual. They have upgraded their gear thanks to your insight, and Grummir has a new armor for you, a suit of very light steel plates with a Zenite Card and a Kobold card on it.
********
+24 armor, then 20% damage substracted from whatever gets through your armor.

You have 50g 301s 80c coins
**********

"You look verrry dashing, nya!"

"Umph! he looks properly dwarven, alright!"

You are now a refrigerator with legs

****
Want to go into the dungeon's 12th floor with them or fast forward to the next day and continue talking with your new friends at school?

>>34955169
Dungeon, time to test some more melee, maybe?

>>34955169
Go into the dungeon.
We should keep Wizard, Healer, Noble, Scion, and Knight turned on. Ranger turned off.

Oh by the way, I just thought of something. Elli, Honoria, Dulin and your mom are blondes. Lyann is a redhead, Okaba has clear white hair, Aura has purple hair (and blue skin so she sort of doesnt count). Tazar has red hair, Dilan is the only one with black hair amongst the people you know. So maybe black hair is the rarest in this world? with blonde being the most common, followed by red. I dunno, just thought it would be nice as a background thing to make the setting more unique

>>34955169
>Dungeon time

>>34953910
>I like your idea. So absorb the pure classes into the base class and just add abilities that are unlocked with levels? I think some jobs dont have a "pure" route, tho
>However, the base classes gain a LOT more attributes per level than 2n and 3rd jobs. I wanted to have the players deciding between gaining 15 attribute points per level with basic abilities, or just 10 with powerful abilities.


putting however many years of training into a class justifies getting a more powerful ability once you reach a milestone.

But you could easily decrease the gains by saying once you reach a certain point improvements become more difficult.

And hybrid classes still keep an appeal because they allow a wider skillset than regular adventurers ever have access to. For the 'scion' it doesn't make a difference, but for npcs they'd be choosing between sticking with a narrow set of skills with the promise of powerful abilities later or the ability to have more skills than they would usually have with only 1 job slot.

Scion class was always meant to be an exceptional person, right? with it's meta ability, you won't be able to balance it with the npcs who only have 1 job.

>>34955169
explore the dungeon.

I also wanted to talk to mom and maid about distributing their bonus points.

can we do that after the dungeon crawl? I want to see their reaction and also their opinion on how they'd like to change themselves.

when we get up to healer lvl 10, we should switch to paladin. retaining access to the armor and mount of a knight, the divine magic of a healer, and gaining that damage resistance.

We should keep going pure wizard though. The benefit of thaumaturge is the divine magic and we have that throught healer, and later on, paladin.

So wiz/pal/noble/scion. This has us only splitting our xp 3 ways while keeping most of our abilities.

>>34955268
Right. Can you add me to messenger? I'd like your help later

>>34955337
Sorry I forgot, lets do that when you come back from the dungeon

***
Grummir uses the Keystone to open a portal into the entrance of the 12th floor. This is the last floor your group has the map to. After this one, it's all unknown territory.

"Which myansters roam this floor, nya?"

"Fire Seeders. So don't group up" Grummir says as he takes point, as usual

"What's a Fire Seeder?" ~you ask Miiyau while tugging gently from her robe.

**Must resist impulse to tug on fluffy tail**

"It's a plant that roams around and sets its roots on corpses, nya! It myakes them itself, of course. It spits exploding seeds, too, nya!"

"Ah, you have many zombie attacks happening around? could be useful for those."

"What's that, nya?"

You don't have the time to explain what a zombie is, since you reach a room with three "Lvl 12 Fire Seeder" monsters roaming inside.

It looks pretty much like you imagined it to, with a large red flower on top shaped like a cannon. Its roots make it advance like an octopus on land.

As soon as Grummir charges the closest one, they spit at him!

(0) .: [1d100] => [44] = (44) hit. 14 damage
(0) .: [1d100] => [41] = (41) hit. 14 damage
(0) .: [1d100] => [46] = (46) hit. 14 damage

The plants spit bright, large red seed pods that explode against your dwarven friend's shield and cover him in flaming oil. Thankfully, the oil burns itself off quickly, but now it smells like burning dwarf

(0) .: [1d100] => [57] = (57) Grummir rams one of the Fire Seeds and pushes it away from the others.

* Fireball x2 10MP/50 damage to 2 monsters
* Flame Arrow x2 4MP/22 damage to each target
* Stone Arrow x2 4MP/22 damage to each target
* Other

>>34955607

I realized I wasnt using the spell formula I wrote myself to calculate the proper damage for the fireballs. That is why their damage dropped so drastically today.

AoE spells are meant to do less damage, but hit more targets for more overall damage, while single target spells are meant to hit much harder

That being said, the Fireball option is meant to do 90 damage, not 50

>>34955607
Stone arrow

>>34955666
waiting for more votes, but if none come within the minute, we'll go with that

Theme for this floor's boss fight
http://youtu.be/3Er_RfuRSDU

>>34955607
>* Flame Arrow
>fluffy tail

>>34955607
>Stone Arrow x2 4MP/22 damage to each target
Target the one that Grummir is fighting and another one.

>>34955755
Sorry, I'm not good with the combat choices so I usually abstain from them

>>34955848
Yeah me too.

(0) .: [1d100] => [75] = (75) Grummir misses
(0) .: [1d100] => [58] = (58) Pkant misses
(0) .: [1d100] => [28] = (28) Miiyau summons a bear and it slams against the one Grummir is gighting
(0) .: [1d100] => [12] = (12) Plant spits fireseed at Grummir. He passes his endurance roll and takes 14 damage
(0) .: [1d100] => [82] = (82) You shoot a Stone arrow and the target misses its endurance roll, it takes 29 earth damage
(0) .: [1d100] => [88] = (88) You shoot a Stone arrow and the target misses its endurance roll, it takes 29 earth damage

You form two stone arrows and launch them at the plants while Miiyau's bear charges between them to help Grummir.

Your fwarf friend is being pelleted by explosive seeds, but he's keeping the monsters interested. It doesn't looks like the plants are too smart.

Your attacks land on the targets with no problems.

* Stone Arrow 4mp/29 damage
* Fire Arrow 4mp/2 damage
* Water arrow (costs double since you¿ve never used it before)
* Other

>>34955925
>* Stone Arrow 4mp/29 damage
hope they like pain

>>34955925
Let's keep using stone arrows, using fire may blow them up, since there seems to be some kind of oil involved in their attack.

>>34955925
>* Fire Arrow 4mp/2 damage

Ug... I cant decided if I typoed or made a slipt since yes, of course the fire spitting monsters are resistant to fire.

That was meant to say 29 damage but really its not like anyone here would fall for it, right?

>>34955925
>Water arrow (costs double since you¿ve never used it before)
Use it!
Target the plant fighting Grummir and the other one we hit with a Stone Arrow.

>>34955925
>* Water arrow
So what 8 mp?

(0) .: [1d100] => [67] = (67)
(0) .: [1d100] => [77] = (77)
(0) .: [1d100] => [75] = (75)
(0) .: [1d100] => [48] = (48)
(0) .: [1d100] => [36] = (36)
(0) .: [1d100] => [95] = (95)
(0) .: [1d100] => [37] = (37)

...should I keep ´posting these and explain each line's meaning, or just type out what happens as a small story block? I think that would be more interesting, really

>>34956006
yes, To be honest, the staff mom got us cuts mana costs by 1/2. Its a beginners staff meant to let us spam spells like mad in order to increase our mp reserves, so paying double would just make us pay "normal cost"

***
The plants spit fire seeds at the dwarf, causing him to smoke sligthly as he fails ro resist their pseudo spells. (90 damage total)

Miiyau's bear growls and swipes at the plant Grummir is fighting, stunning it!

The plants fail to resist your stone arrows, taking full damage from each!

Miiyau's slingshot fails to do any harm

As the batlecontinues, it looks clear that Grummir is taking a LOT of damage really quickly. You need a way to curb the plants explosions or shield Grummir

*Stone Arrow 4MP/29 dmg
*Water... blast? cannon? what do you want to call it? 8/29
*Other

>>34956110
Water arrow to the less injured pair

>>34956110
>* Water arrow

>>34956110
>*Other
Heal the dwarf.

Aren't we a healer?

>>34956110
water tidal-wave in front of the dwarf

>>34956110
*Water... blast? cannon? what do you want to call it? 8/29

>>34955607
>Right. Can you add me to messenger? I'd like your help later
I mostly lurk, so I don't actually have one set up.

>>34956175
What do they think we are?

>>34956215
Someone who can't stop them from burning to death?

But is that the person that we think we are?

>>34956110
>Other
Stonewall to trap two of the plants.

>>34956175
We do have heals, yes. So tar Grummir has taken 146 damage out of his 710 hp

>>34956190
You mean a water wall? Its doable but it would be 24 mp. I'll start offering it as an option from the next round onwards

>>34956215
A boomstick

***
You blast two of the plants again, this time with water arrows.
It is hard to force the water to remain in any one shape for any lenght of time, but you manage to "braid" together some water currents to trick it into it!
One of the fire seeds falls dead. The other is badly injured.
Grummir takes a exploding seed to the face, and hits the plant in front of it together with the bears.
The two remaining plants look badly injured.
Miiyau throws a stone and hits one of the plants. It looks almost dead

As it looks like the fight is entering its final moments, what do you want to do?

* Stone Arrows
* Water Arrows
* Water Wall
* Stone Wall

>>34956190
Friendly fire with magic is a thing in this setting, anon, and we don't have the finesse to not hit our party members with AoE spells (that's an upper level ability we haven't unlocked yet).

>>34956285
>* Water Arrows
Most effective, and we need to learn to use them on this floor quick.

>>34956285
Sword to recover MP, so we can heal Grummir later

>>34956285
>* Water Arrows
>and than fluffy tail

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By the way, im posting this now instead of calling the costs all the time

Fireball / 20 mana, 40 damage aoE
Flame Arrow / 8 mana, 24 fire damage
flame Wall / 20 mana, clear wall that deals 60 damage to anything crossing through it
Stone Arrow / 8 mana, 24 earth damage
Stone Warr / 20 mana, 180 HP opaque wall
Water Arrow / 8 mana, 25 water damage
Water Wall / 20 mana, 180 HP clear wall

>>34956285
* Water Arrows Split targets.

>>34956285
when we are done with the dungeon and we talk with our family like a previous anon said can we send a letter to our grandfather asking him for information about our dad asking if he his ok and knows were we are

>>34956285
>* Water Arrows x2

>>34956341
Just remember Miiyau and Grummir arent used to humans and they think we are some small race adult, so we cant play the cute card if she gets mad at us for touching the fluffy tail

You take down the remaining two Fire Seeders.
This time, instead of random loot, a treasure chest appears.

"That's such a shame, nya!" -she says while healing Grummir

"What, why?" you ask her, gently tugging on her fluffy tail

"Nya! d-don't touch a lady's fluffy tail without warning, nya!"

"Ah, treasure chests mean that a previous party got killed in the room. The dungeon absorbs the bodies but can't do the same with the equipment so it spits it out like that."

"Oh"

"Let's give them a prayer of thanks, nya!"

Once that is done, you loot the chest, of course

As it turns out, looking through the ring to the items in the chest, there is...

* Earrings of Celerity. These earrings let you do +1 physical attack per turn
* Steel Gladiator Gloves and boots (1 slot): +10 Armor to the arms and +5 to the legs. This doubles as a piece of armor and as a shield that cannot be disarmed. You cant use this with any other armor. It counts as light armor
* Steel Gladius (3 slots). A fine short sword meant for stabbing. It does 25 base damage + str bonus
7gold coins


"Uhmm... you guys want to call dibs on any of this or should we place it on the auction?"

* Ask for the gloves and boots
* Ask for the earrings
* Ask for the sword
* Ask for the money

>>34956489
How rare are those earrings? They could be pretty useful to the dwarf. Also, what are we going to do with Lyann? Will she need weapons for when we bring here in the dugeon with us, as promised?

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>>34956489
how do I turn on embedding of videos with 4chanx, btw??

>>34956489
>auction
Right ask next time.

>>34956489
>Pretty earrings!

>>34956489
Maybe we should snag the Gladiator stuff or Gladius for Lyann.

Or... the Earrings?

>>34956489
The earrings!

>>34956489
>* Earrings of Celerity. These earrings let you do +1 physical attack per turn
Great things for Lyann or Elli to wear.

>>34956489
>>34956595 This is me - Vote seems to be shifting Earrings so I'll do that as well for consensus.

>>34956628
Elli make me happy.

>>34956489
take the earrings split the cash

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>>34956628
>>34956626
>>34956595
>>34956585
You dont have a use for any of that right now, tho,

>>34956584
I think everyone wants to grab the earrings
***

"I'll take the earrings."
"I don't really think I could use anya of this, nya!"
"Alright, let's just auction the rest. You guys want to continue looking for the boss room or go back? I'd say these should be worth enough to call it a day. Yeah, let's call it a day, shall we?"
"You just don't like the fire, nya!"
"Well, that is true... Eldric?"

* Call it a day
* Push on to the boss room
* Other

>>34956735
It's not for us it's for Lyann. We're helping to kit her out.

* Call it a day

If the tank doesn't feel like tanking it's best to GTFO

>>34956735
>Push on to the boss room
Let's do it.

>>34956735
call it a day
go home talk to family about stat upgrading and write a latter to grandfather about our father and if he is alive and knows were we are

>>34956735
We will return after having mastered water magic

>>34956735
>* Call it a day

>>34956735
>* Push on to the boss room
we much get all the xp.

also, that is a very nice picture.

>>34956735
>* Call it a day
lets get some family times in here

is that picture what Lyann is going to look when shes older

>>34956735
we should remember to fill those armor with cards and then sell them in order to inflate the price.

Since other people can't enchant equipment reliably.

>>34956735
>>* Call it a day

>>34956735
>* Call it a day

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>>34956871
I liked the idea for the nomad dancers.

Also, could someone check the barbarian -> Thane -> Weaponthane jobs? I think they may have ended up too strong

Oh and I changed the way the mount level is calculated for the paladin, knight, justicar, lord and marshall.

>>34956933
which one? because I was thinking
>>34954210
is what she'll look like, to be honest.
Minus the tattoos and chains.
Probably
Sorry my eyes dont let me make better/larger pics anymore

***

You decide to call it a day and dedicate yourself to learning to control water magic better before returning in two days.

Grummir supports that idea, and uses the keystone to pull everyone out.

"We'll put these in auction at the guild, nya!

"See you in two days, Eldric"

You say your farewells and agree to see them the day after tomorrow, then head home somewhat earlier than usual.

Elli is right in the middle of cleaning when you come back. She's wearing a long white summer dress with a pretty pink apron on top.

"Young master? it's early, are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm fine now, thank you Elli." it is such a nice sight, a busty elf maid in an apron.

You can feel the fatigue leaving your body.

"Do you want a bath, or do you want to eat? can I help you with something else?"

* Pet the elfie ears
* Thank her but no thanks. Go look for Lyann and practice magic together, or watch her practice her dances
* Other

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>>34957092
When cards come up for auction, Grummir will get them and inform us, assuming they're not trash like "Small chance for extra attack speed on critical"

>>34957200
>Thank her but no thanks. Go look for Lyann and practice magic together, or watch her practice her dances

>>34957200
>* Pet the elfie ears
>* Thank her but no thanks. Go look for Lyann and practice magic together, or watch her practice her dances
Ahh such is the life of young master

>>34957200
>* Pet the elfie ears
>Ask for another of her stories

>>34957200
*Pet the elfie ears

>>34957200
>* Pet the elfie ears
The only choice!

>>34957200
ask mom about the noble blood in our vains then practice magic

>>34957281
learning something about our lineage sounds good considering Lyann knows more about that than we do

>>34957304
Is mom tell her?

>>34957200
>* Other
Thank her and compliment her dress

then

>Go for lyann, give her earrings and practice water magic.

then

>ask mom and eli at dinner how they'd improve themselves if they had the chance. explain stats and bonus points if they don't remember our previous explanation.

>>34957304
exactly then we can find out about our father i dont trust goatee wizard who was talking with our mom

>>34957200
>* Pet the elfie ears
>* Thank her but no thanks. Go look for Lyann and practice magic together, or watch her practice her dances
I rather like the chains.

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>>34957266
>>34957258
>>34957242
>>34957232

Anyone has the "wiggling intensifies" image?

"Elli."
"Yes young master?"
"Don't move."
"Alright...?"

You go grab a chair and come back so you can stand on it to pet the elfie ears.

"Young master, you are so silly!" ~ she laughs softly. You could have asked me to sit"
"No, no, this is alright. I feel much better now" -

You gently caress her delicate pointy ears for a bit, then hop down and take the chair back to the kitchen while Elli watches you and sighs

You find Lyann in your room. She's laying down on the bed as she reads a book, swinging her feet over her as she lays barefoot on the bed.

"Eldric, did something happen?" -your redhead slavegirl asks you while looking back at you over her shoulder
"Nothing bad."

* Kneel down for a bit, I want to try putting these on you
* Let's go play outside
* Other

>>34957393
>* Kneel down for a bit, I want to try putting these on you

>>34957393
>Kneel down for a bit, I want to try putting these on you

>>34957393

* Kneel down for a bit, I want to try putting these on you

>>34957393
>practice magic
She is a wizard she don't need earrings +1 physical attack

>>34957393
>practice magic

>>34957470
I thought we were going to multi-class her

>>34957393
Practice magic outside

you know we do have to find out about our father we haven't heard from him in over a few months and we gotta learn about our noble linage so we can be prepared about our grand father trying to marry us off for political resons

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>>34957389
Well, obviously.I like them too, I drew them. Heck, I'm a kinky fatguy, of course I like them, but I cant think of a IC reason for her to get them unless they have some really awesome bonus, and Im not going to shove them down everyone's throat like that

I did think at some point to make a rebel fighter slave that fights using his/her chains, tho

Uhm... I get the feeling that we start getting more people as the day goes on. Is it because you guys start coming back from work/school or did you find the thread interesting and just picked it up?


>>34957435
>>34957434
>>34957415

"Lyann, would you mind kneeling for a little bit? I got you a gift."
"What is it? is it a necklace."
"Maybe...."

Of course, there's no way she won't guess its earrings as soon as you start fiddling with her ears, but... sadly she doesn't has them pierced.

"Don't move! I'll be right back! don't move!"
"Alright" -she smiles looking at you as you gesture from the door and then run off

Asking her from Elli, she says she can pierce Lyann's ears. Her tribe had a tradition involving jewelry after victories or childbirths, so she is quite good at it.

With Elli in tow, you come back to Lyann, who is not sitting crosslegged on the carpet.

"A proper lady shouldn't sit that way, miss!"
"Sorry" she sits over her heels, knees together
"Now hold on while I get my sewing kit, I need a neddle and some candles... I assume you can cast a small healing spell afterwards? just to be sure."
"Of course."

1/2

>>34957552
god that would be fucking hilarious trying to marry us off, could you imagine it, just "Grandson this is your fiancee", whatever gramps don't got time for marriage got wizard shit to do

>>34957591
my other thread finished a little while ago and saw this thread
im up to date on the entire quest its a good quest

>>34957591
Greenwich time makes your threads easy to find for us UK and other euros in the same time zone, still always make a point to read them and have been keeping up since the start

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>>34957591

A few minutes later, Lyann is wearing a brand new set of earrings. The tiny red gems match her hair nicely.

"How are you going to explain them to the mistress, by the way?"
"I make money, I can afford giving my sister a gift if I want to."
"Uhmm"

Mirrors are quite expensive, so Lyann has to settle for your words that the earrings look nice on her.

Your baby sister starts crying, so Elli hurries down to feed her.

Afterwards, you cast a small healing spell on her, and go out to practice your magic while she dances.

The day goes by nicely. The earrings dangle from a thin little chain, bouncing and sparkling as your sister/slavegirl dances for you.

Later that day, your mom compliments Lyann's earrings when she arrives.

During dinner, you bring up the theme of their points...

"Honestly, I think I would like to think about it a little more. My first impulse would be to place them all into intelligence, but I really want to study this in more detail." -your mom says with a thoughtful look

"It's not as if anyone is expendable. We can't just experiment with them to see what happens." -she adds after a few moments.

* Ask her to tell you about dad's family
* Insist on her spending her points now
* Other

>>34957616
ya but we have lyann and elli we dont need no prissy little noble girl telling us that they elli and lyann are beneth us

>>34957769
>* Ask her to tell you about dad's family
Also what should we get for mom, lil' sis and Elli?

>>34957769
ask her about dads family

>>34957769
>Ask her to tell you about dad's family

>>34957769
Ask her to tell you about dad's family

>>34957769
>* Ask her to tell you about dad's family
also did we ever come clean about bumping up dads points before he left,

>>34957769
Ask her to tell you about dad's family

>>34957834
That was Recon or whatever that is called.

ohh just a reminder we have a grass flute that lets us walk on water, and breath under water

>>34957781
I suspect that will be Lyann's job, about herself at least.

***

"Alright. That will be tonight's bedtime story then." ~ says mom while holding Athena in her arms. Your baby sister is having fun feeling your mom's face with little baby slaps

That night, mom tucks you and Lyann neatly under a cuddly warm blanket, and pulls a chair over.

She tells you about how you are very, very old nobility. So old, in fact, that most historians agree that their keep was there long before the city came to be around it, Far, far longer than that, having already survived a long-lost kingdom.

"But the spires and walls look new and glow white every day of the year, wether it is rain or sun out."

As she explains it, at one point or another, your family funded all three major knightly orders in the north. It is traditional to have young knights contribute to the walls with a white stone upon joining any of the orders.

Even the orders who came later follow this tradition, albeit most say it is just a way to claim legitimacy.

"..and thus the walls and towers have kept growing and growing. Every year, a hundred new knights add a hundred new stones to it, and this has been so for longer than anyone can remember."

She pauses for a bit, as if remembering something

"Your dad said he would travel and add one for you on the day you turned 15, come thing about it."

"Dad liked it there, then?"

"Oh, yes, he was very proud of the keep's history and symbolism. Not so proud of what it has become nowadays.however."

1/2

>>34958109
oh boy this doesn't sound good

>>34958109
"Why?"

"Well, the city is built in rings around the keep. The families that live in the inner rings claim seniority and call themselves noble. They use as a status symbol, as if they were better by proximity."

"That is not the building's fault. That's just people being dummies"

"Well, your grandfather decided to open the keep to the public, you know? emptied the first two floors and moved the family to the third and higher, so the people could walk through the gardens and the hallways."

"That's nice."

"Eldric, do you have an idea of the kind of wealth a family with over a hundre generation of adventurers and lords, has? It only made things worse. In tthe end, your grandfather moved the family to the outskirts and just rents the keep to the government. It is not the seat of city hall, tribunals and ... prison."

"I see"

"Well, your grandfather was happy to wash his hands off from it."

"So we just have a house on the outskirts?"

"Yes, does it bother you?"

"No. Where is grandpa?"

"Well son, if tradition holds, during times of war, the head of your family is appointed as "grand marshall" and leads the city's armies, so, I suposse he must be on the frontlines somewhere... don't worry. He's a very stubborn old man."

"Mom, why didin't you and dad stay with grandpa?"

"He couldn't take the "nobles" looking down on us... me. A peasant girl and her boy. It really pissed off your grandfather, too"

"Is he nice?"

"Yes, he's very nice. Just a little old, and really, really stubborn. Last time I saw him, he was arguing with your dad about "running from the nobles"."

"That's when we moved to the countryside? ..wait, you and dad moved because of me, didin't you?"

"We moved because we wanted to raise a wonderful child. I think we did the right thing. I love you, son. Good night."

"Good night, mom."

>>34958361
Thanks for today, OP, our family seems pretty nice.
I'm going to sleep tho, since it's almost 1 AM here. I'll check the archives, good luck!

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To lord Baldric Lightbriner.
Commonwealth's Southern campsite

Lord Baldric, up until this morning, I had never heard your name before. My name is Eldric, the son of Cedric and Linda Lightbringer.

How are you? my mother described you as a strong-willed but good man, and said you would probably be at the battlefront in the south.

As such, I do not know if this letter will reach you. There is always a chance it will be intercepted, and so I will not wait for an answer,

Ellizabeth, our maid, has told me that the nomad tribes are the most reliable way to send a letter, and she will ask them to pass this one around as many times as needed until it reaches your hands.

I write to you now hoping that you can inform my father that mother and I have moved to the city of Albion, where she has taken a job at the local university as a lecturer.

Could you please tell him to direct his letters there?

Thankyou
Eldric Lightbringer

>>34958361
hmm maybe one day we can get our grandfathers approval

>>34958550
Cool if we do if not fu*k him.

"You do know this will take a long while to get there if it ever does, right?" ~Elli asks you gently
"I know"
"And any answer may take even longer."
"I know"
"Alright" ~Elli goes out to send your letter, and leaves you in charge of Athena and the house.

This evening
* Train magic (specific ideas?)
* Go shop for a gift for mom and Elli
* Other

>>34958361
how to fix the nobility in that city purge the inner sections no killing but removing them from the city then have the city guards watch for true nobility; all people even the ousted nobles those who show such quality will be given noble rank and a home in the inner city
BAM problem fix but angry former nobles

>>34958634
play with Athena

>>34958634
>Train magic
See if we can make a solid, flat thing of ice.

If we can enchant a mirror to be cold, then poor water in it, with flat, polished metal backing, we can make cheap-as-fuck mirrors by not including glass.

>>34958634
* Train magic (specific ideas?)
Read up on enchanting and making golems.

>>34958634
>play with Athena
>* Go shop for a gift for mom and Elli

>>34958634
* Train magic (specific ideas?)

Combining Fire and earth

>>34958634
Go shop for a gift for mom and Elli I get the feeling that we should stop ignoring those sad eyes elle has been giving us

>>34958690
this ties in nice with our chess sets we plan to animate, shows we were serious

>>34958634
>>>34958634
>>34958634
>Go shop for a gift for mom and Elli

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>>34958711
Just so you know, technically you can start manipulating metal once you get comfortable with earth and fire.
The pic on
>>34956344
its related

Alright, it sounds like most people want to get a gift for mom and Elli, and someone mentioned playing with Athena. Want to go shopping with Athena and Lyann, then? There is a baby chariot in your mom's room

As for enchanting, you can probably find a book about it at the university. Want to go check on the way back?

>>34958863
Alright, it sounds like most people want to get a gift for mom and Elli, and someone mentioned playing with Athena. Want to go shopping with Athena and Lyann, then? There is a baby chariot in your mom's room

As for enchanting, you can probably find a book about it at the university. Want to go check on the way back?

this looks good

>>34958863
that works just leave most of the money at home only need a decent amount like 9g 500s 300c

Want to go shopping with Athena and Lyann, then? Yes.
The university. Want to go check on the way back? No.

>>34958863
Shopping and library: Yes.

>>34958863
Shopping and library: Yes.

>>34957616
What's hilarious is that you'd turn it down out of hand.

When we've been friendly to every person we could get to listen to us talk.

Not like this hypothetical girl might be a worthwhile person or that a noble family couldn't offer signifigant support on a quest or that we might gramps might have our welfare in mind instead of being a politicking bastard.

>>34959167
What quest? To make more money. Right?

>>34959167
not the anon you want but most of the time nobles in a city like our mother described will not be of grate character

Lyann insists on being in charge of Athena's chariot. You are really smart and all, but you are still on the short side, and she wants to save you the disgrace of having trouble steering it.

Plus, she feels a little more like a maid than a sister.

You have little problems while you are in the residential area, but three young children akine in the shopping district are a target, and you can sense that you are being watched.

Confident that you can handle whatever street rat thinks you an easy target, you go into a jewelry and get a pretty set of rings for Elli.

After thinking it for a moment, it is better to not insert anything hard into the soft pointy ears.

Let's keep them soft and caresseable. Yes, that is better.

You think about getting a mirror for mom, but you plan on making them yourself with metal after a bit, so it feels like a waste.

In the end,you get mom a bejeweled page marker for her books.

On the way back, you decide to get some flower seeds for the garden, so you stop at a flower shop

Nothing wrong with the garden as it is. But it's just grass right now

On your way back, you spot two guys following you

* Warn Lyann and try to lose them
* Turn around into a corner, send Lyann and Athena ahead to the university while you take care of them
* Other

>>34959235
We're still a kid, the "Save the World from Evil" quest is still a long ways away. This IS an rpg afterall.

>>34959258
* Turn around into a corner, send Lyann and Athena ahead to the university while you take care of them
Time to kill (directly) our first humans.

>>34959258
* Other

I'm worried about sending them off. Can we have them back down the ally and defend them while they're still in visual range.

If they race off to the academy and are picked off by a second group we could have some real issues.

>>34959308
Yeah this is true.

>>34959258
[x]Turn around into a corner, send Lyann and Athena ahead to the university while you take care of them

>>34959258
This:
>>34959334

>>34959235
all the quests. From connections to swanky army to hired guards, depending on their influence and how much they like you.

Turning someone down out of hand would be stupid. It would also be ooc since we've gone out of way to talk to people and be friendly.

Especially when lyann is our sister and elizabeth is our caretaker. There's no reason for anyone to think we're spoken for or that we'd react badly to an arrangement.

>>34959241
I just think we shouldn't react badly out of hand. Especially when we don't have any declared intentions as for romantic interests. The two hypothetical future interests are hung up on dad or playing as our sister.

>>34959258
secure the money and wait for them to make a move they might just want to talk

>>34959345
It just ocurred to me. Why not have them follow you into an alley and then trap them etween two sudden walls of stone?

>>34959258

>>34959345
Well, shit meant to quote >>34959308

>>34959258
>go on like nothing happened

>>34959258
>other
>have them back down the ally and defend them while they're still in visual range.

Just a reminder to never split the party.

>>34959258
>>34959308
This

>>34959438
it's not a horror movie, anon

>>34959258
>back down an alley and firewall the entrance

>Change Elizabeths class back to ranger for the duration of the fight

>>34959455
No, more like a superhero origin

>>34959455
dosent matter shit go's wrong fast when people groups split

>>34959472
Elli's not there.

>>34959355
im not saying to just out right insult her but she says any thing bad about elli or lyann and we throw her out on her ass

Alright, most people want to go into an alley and the second biggest group wants to face these guys. I think
>>34959472
Elli went to send our letter to grandpa, shes not with us at the... you know what I just remembered that Lyann is a dancer and one of the effects she can apply is that all enemies lose the ability to move charge or run. You could just leave them in the dust by walking a little faster
***

You guide Lyann into an alley, and protect her and Athena behind walls of stone as you wait for the men.

As they walk in, they notice that you are alone and that theres a very solid wall behind you.

"Hey, kid, you bought some pretty pricey things, uh?"
"Next you will say, hand them over like a stereotypical villain."
"Hand them o-what?"
"I always wanted to do that. One of these days, I'll pose"
"What are you talking about, kid, are you messing with me? hand over anything of value!"
"Oh God, if this was a book, I'd throw it out the window for having such clichéd dialogue. Look, I already sent my friend away with everything that was worth anything, and even if I hadn't, there's no wayt you two would be enough to rob us."

As you prepare to summon a fireball, you notice Okaba and Aura walk past the alley entrance, taking a walk through the shopping district-

* Call for help
* Just toast these guys
* Other

>>34959621
>* Just toast these guys

>>34959621
>* Just toast these guys

>>34959621
just toast these guys.
If okabe and Aura don't notice the fireball, than we don't want their help anyway.

>>34959621
* Just toast these guys
We're known as the child prodigy of a professor of the college. Just burninate these fuckers.

>>34959621
* Just toast these guys
no need to bring trouble to our friends

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>>34959621
lets not kill them lets just send a message
but toast them

>>34959540
I would correct her first before throwing her out.

and I doubt she would insult someone we've spent years around unless they were competition.

but yeah, that's not something we should let her think is acceptable.

>>34959621
* Just toast these guys

You cast afireball at each of them.
Being so close, they cant help but be caught in eachother's blasts.
Fortunately? noone died

They run out with their hair in flames and jump into an open sewer.
You lower the stone walls and let Lyann and Athena out.

"Eldric, are you alright?!"
"Yes, yes. I'm alright."

You come out of the alley and resume your way to the university.
As you hoped, you have no problem finding a book on enchantment,,, writen by an Okaba Kubwa.

You stare at the book
It feels as if the book was staring back at you

With a sigh, you ask for permission to take the book home with you. It is three gold coins that you will get back when you return the book, undamaged.
You are free to peruse the book inside the library, but it costs gold to borrow it.

You make yuor way back home, and find that Elli was frantic, not knowing where you, Lyann or Athena were.

Elli gives you a long speech about leaving notes or telling in advance if you are going out.

She looks rather cute when she's angry, but you better not tell her that right now
You also shouldnt tell her about someone trying to mug you

That night, you give Elli and mom their gifts, then read for a little before taking your bath.

1/2

>>34959868
>She looks rather cute when she's angry, but you better not tell her that right now
>angry elf?
>touch pointy ears

>>34959868

As it turns out, Okaba has spent decades researching enchanting in the ways traditional to his people.

Thanks to donating a copy of his research notes to the university, he was easily accepted as a special student, which gives him permission to use the laboratories.

He is in Albion to study the magical traditions of the "Far North".

About the research he's mentioned in the book.

It seems fairly obvious after a while that he's been researching on [Cursed Items] and ways to manipulate the cheap and potent energies of cursed objects.

As his notes explain, cursed objects are much, much cheaper to make than normal magical items.

Placing a flaw in an item allows the item maker to make such items for almost nothing.

This is how enchanted slave collars are "relatively cheap". They tend to possess traits that are obiously negative for the wearer, but at the same time, it is easy to give them positive traits.

for example, you can enchant a slave collar to stop the wearer's aging, which would make any item into a major and very, very expensive item otherwise.

Preventing sickness.

Immunity to poison.

There are many ways in which a slave collar can be enhanced.

However, the basic fact that it is a [Cursed Item] will not change.

Normally, a slave with such a collar will die if the master dies.

He does mention that, as long as a craftsman is willing to assign another flaw into the collar, the "basic curse" of dying with the slave's master, can be played around with quite a bit.

For the time being, you place the book away in your book bag, and go have your bath.

* Ask Okaba about it tomottow
* Keep reading his lab journal and figure things out yourself
* Other

>>34960069
>* Keep reading his lab journal and figure things out yourself

>>34960069
>* Keep reading his lab journal and figure things out yourself
We've a big boa!

>>34960069
* Keep reading his lab journal and figure things out yourself

we should atleast try to finish reading the book and figure some things out ourself before talking to him

Thanks for running, is 0315 so I'm heading to bed.

>>34960069
>* Keep reading his lab journal and figure things out yourself

>>34960069
* Keep reading his lab journal and figure things out yourself

>>34960069
>* Other
ask mom if it makes anymore sense to her.

How do you guy feel about looking into buying a better staff?
We could liekly buy something pretty bad ass for 1-2gold.

>>34960369
Spending gold will attract unwanted attention from mom, just because we have money now doesn't mean we should go overboard

>>34960132
>>34960127
>>34960107

You play with Elli's pointy ears during bath timr until she forgives you.

She may have just given up.

It's hard for her to stay mad with you.

Later, you sit to read in bed while Lyann hugs your waist and sleeps pressing her pretty face against it.

It is obvious now that Okaba has messed around quite a bit with Aura's collar.

He managed to change the [Basic Curse] of the collar into a number of minor ones.

Aura cannot lie to him
She cannot go against a direct order if her master specifies that she can't.
She cannot bear children

In exchange
She does not age. This also stopped her menstrual cycle
She is immune to most sickness and poisons

From his personal footnotes, you can roughly rebuild their history together.

She was given to him at an early age as a reward for valour in combat. It is "traditional" for the nobility on his country to own a succubi slave. And they are used in the traditional way.

But Okaba raised Aura from a tender age, and instead made her into his bodyguard. It's hard to understand how he feels about her from his footnotes, but that's fine.

It is personal

Yes, it is definitively a personal matter. You do not need to know

Still, his notes are quite complete. You are certain that you could manipulate a [Basic Curse] by following the instructions on the journal.

It is not that different from a computer progra,.

Except that the "program" is written as a magic circle which is then absorbed by the item in question.

* Try and enchant a minor item, like a candle, so it glows at all times
* Try an enchant something larger, like the water jug on the night table, so it keeps refilling itself
* Other

>>34960398
Mom knows that we sold the soap no?
She knows we have money, other wise why wouldn't she have " unwanted attention" from the jewelry we got for her.

>>34960398
She knows we have money, we made if from the chess sets and the soap.
We just can't spend too much or she'll start to get suspicious. For example, we're already spending our money on gifts for our family on a somewhat regular basis.

>>34960442
* Try an enchant something larger, like the water jug on the night table, so it keeps refilling itself

>>34960442
>Enchant the candle. Let's start small, if we make that work we'll move onto something bigger.

>>34960442
* Try and enchant a minor item, like a candle, so it glows at all times
Start small

>>34960442
* Try an enchant something larger, like the water jug on the night table, so it keeps refilling itself

you we can probably use this to make magic cards. For example a curse that a card will dissapear after using it or something.

>>34960442
* Try and enchant a minor item, like a candle, so it glows at all times

>>34960442
* Try and enchant a minor item, like a candle, so it glows at all times

>>34960485
>We just can't spend too much or she'll start to get suspicious
suspicious of what..We have money, that we made. It's not her money, and she shouldn't have an issue with it.
We should reinvest some cash into the soaps again.
And I highly recommend we start gearing up.

To those voting for the candle. I'd like to point out that if things go wrong we could end up burning our house down.

>>34960569
She knows we have money. However, if we drop 50 gold or more on an item, she might find that a bit odd and crunch the numbers of our soap business or something. Finding that we should not have that much gold lying around, she will probably investigate/interrogate Ellie. When she figures out we've been dundgeonering, she will be very pissed.

So, as long as we aren't stupid about it, we'll be fine. A new staff won't be a problem at all, as long as it isn't made of dragon bone or something.

>>34960611
we could flood the house with the pitcher

>>34960611
The candle enchantment is to make it glow, not to make it burn necessarily. Also, the pitcher could flood the house, or you know, just explode in our face and blind us with pieces of porcelain. Nothing to worry about their right?

>>34960513
Water jug +1+1
Candle +1+1+1+1

You decide to give it a try, and look through Okaba's notes again.

A few bits here and there are hard to read. The prince has good handwriting, but the paper quality in this world is pretty low, and it soaks up ink unevenly at parts

You think about giving it a curse, but can't think of anything you could twist to your convenience about a candle

You simply draw a magic circle to tell the candle it should glow, over and over.

You follow the instructions, and carefully draw the magic circle on the floor, using your school materials.

You place the candle on the middle of the circle, and pour mana into it.

***
Alright this bit is too important to just writefag it. Someone roll 1d100, you are aiming under 30. Lets go with the best of the first 2 rolls

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>34960742
MAGICK!

>>34960757
muh nigga

>>34960465
>>34960485
Right I forgot about the soap, I meant our dungeon delving

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>34960742
roll just in case a nat 1 for crit

>>34960757
Good show!

>>34960757
Victory!

>>34960789
.... You almost doomed us all.

>>34960757
ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE!

>>34960789
in another quest you are a hero just not this one

>>34960757
We enchanted the fuck out of that candle.

>>34960789
I'm so sorry everyone

>>34960631
who said 50 gold...
we just don't have it. We can reinvest some gold and craft some more luxury bars. And then buy some gear.
>>34960783
mhm

>>34960845
what don't judge me like that, its late over here, besides I wonder what it would take to create our own magic items like staffs, and if our abilities would have any effect on the process

>>34960757
Well, you... that... Aghayskk?

The ink on the floor is "sucked" into the candle and climbs up over its lenght, then disapears.

It was really fast, it felt and looked as if the ink had been sucked in. Like a sheet that had been pulled in through a hole in the middle of a table.

The candle is glowing. It isin't hot. It's just glowing.

A fair bit brighter than most candles.

***
You spent 40 mana making a candle into a perpetually glowing item
***
You feel quite tired, but it really worked, uh?

"Mshter Eldric, what are you doing?" ~Lyann is more than half asleep as she calls over to you from the bed~ "Chmm bak tu bed."

"Ah, right, hold on!"

You make a cone with paper and try covering the candle.

It doesn't burn.

It's good, it works.

The glow still comes through, but it is much softer now.

***
I can stay up much later today than on fridays, but I dont know if we can keep going. How long until the thread hits page 10 and dissapears? do you guys want to continue?

you know if we knew for a fact that we weren't going to leave this city at some point i would suggest we buy a store or something but we will leave one day for our grand father also we did make a promise to the shrine near our old home town to move it back to it original place

>>34960845
Um... we totally have more than 50 gold. In this thread it was specifically stated that we have over 50 gold due to our dungeon raiding.

>>34960933
Did we just a magical light bulb?

>>34960933
your call king if you want to stop you can

>>34960933
We haven't even hit the bump limit yet. We're on page one for 34 more posts.
So for as long as you feel like you can keep going is fine. Not need to push yourself, it's been a great thread.

>>34960933
yeah continue. plenty of time left.

>>34960933
It's up to you GM its early morning here so i can keep going.

>>34960933
Yeah, go for it.
I just got here.

>>34960933
I can keep going but it up to you. It only 5:51 PST here.

I read up all the archives, and I really enjoy this quest.
Im going to assume int and elemental magic increase our attack. Why haven't we spent all our our points into elemental attack?
We can cast two fireballs so two super strong fireballs would be boss.
Int, I wouldn't want to increase just because we've alot of classes to increase and our base stats will go up if we level them up.

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>>34960933
We magic Thomas Edison now. I foresee great opportunities for profits! Time to get some capitalism up in here.

>>34961147
You I like you capitalism ho!

>>34961125
we also looking into a combined class for our knight and wizard so we are saving our points to when we can

>>34960980
Im saying I can keep going. im asking if you guys can

Alright. I guess we can keep going and if anyone has to drop you can read the archive tomorrow before the thread starts.

>>34961125
Elemental right now increases our repertoire of spell tricks.
Intelligence influences magical damage (and yes, healing too)
Wisdom is both your MP recovery speed per day, and your magical armor
Im still writing the system, tho, so this is subjected to change.
****

In the morning, you show off the candle to Lyann, mom and Elli

They are all quite impressed, but your mom ends up chastising you when you tell her you did it in your room.

"I'll have some stone plates placed on the garden so you can use it as a enchanting base. don't try to do it again until then, undersood?"
"Yes mom"
"Alright."
"Now have breakfast and we'll go to school together, alright?" she says with a smile and then smooches your head
"Okay"

After school, theres a bit of time before you go to meet Miiyau and Grummir.

* Meet the guys from the chess club
* Return the book, try to see if theres more on the subject
* Buy a [Cursed Item] from the market to diddle around with it in the house
* Other

>>34961248
* Return the book, try to see if theres more on the subject

>>34961248
* Meet the guys from the chess club

>>34961248
>* Meet the guys from the chess club
No messing wiith cursed items for now.

>>34961205
I don't know why we're so focused on Knight. Noble would be pretty badass I think.
Considering it's also a warrior class along with a social status.

>>34960933
Would you mind linking/putting up info on what are the things we get for each class for every 10?
Like
Wizard - 20% xx +1 target
Knight - +10 xx +10 samege to slashing power ect.

I am sorry if im causing a delay, I just want to know what kind of stuff is available. If one of you guys know where i can find the stuff let me know. and save OP time.

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>>34961147
CAPITALISM FUCK YEAH

>>34961248
* Meet the guys from the chess club

>>34961248
>* Return the book, try to see if theres more on the subject

>>34961248
Return book

>>34961248
>* Buy a [Cursed Item] from the market to diddle around with it in the house

>>34961248
>* Return the book, try to see if theres more on the subject

Guys.. enchanting > cards. if we can enough information on it.

>>34961248
>* Return the book, try to see if theres more on the subject

we are the reincarnation of an elegan/tg/entlemen. We must uphold our pride as an DnD nerd and minmax our way to immortality.

yes...the eternal hero. lvl 100 in everything. people will forget our origin but we'll still be with our buddies kicking ass.

>>34961331
>I don't know why we're so focused on Knight.
They want to unlock paladin

>>34961331
>Would you mind linking/putting up info on what are the things we get for each class for every 10?
There's a PDF on the 2nd post of the thread. It has that info as "Spell Tricks"

Only a few classes are fully fleshed out, tho. Its a work in progress

Warrior classes can get "weapon tricks". Unlike the spell tricks, theres a general pool of tricks all warriors can draw from, I havent actually put them on the pdf but I will tomorrow, hopefully

Return book ++++
Chess +++
Cursed item +

You take the book to the library and get your deposit back. There's very few books on the theme, but you manage to find one on enchanting staves.

You pay 2 gold to take the book home with you.

After school, you meet with Grummir and Miiyau to go into the dungeon again. Grummir gives you 17 gold, your share from the previous day's loot.

"Eldric, how are you feeling, nya?"
"I'm ready. Grummir?"
"Got myself a fireproof shield. Should help a lot."
"So, arrre we going to the boss room or farmyan the plants?"

* Boss
* More farming

>>34961674
* Boss

>>34961674
* Boss

>>34961674
>* Boss

>>34961674
>* Boss

>>34961674
>* Boss

>>34961674
Boss.
I hate electable themed levels.

"Alright, let's go around this way, then... and now this way... uh... we need to go through this room but there's some of those damn plants in there."

Indeed, peeking in, you see 2 Fireseed plants lurking in the room before the boss itself.

"Eldric, can you wall them up? they're prrretty close to that corner. Then we just walk through, nya?"

* trap them with a wall and walk into the boss room
* Fight them
* Other?

>>34961937
* trap them with a wall and walk into the boss room

>>34961937
* trap them with a wall and walk into the boss room

>>34961937
>trap them with a wall and walk into the boss room

>>34961937
>* Fight them
waterwall, then shoot them with arrows until they die.

>>34961937
I didn't find the noble's chart.
I found the Slaves and the nomads. ;-;