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>"So what brings you here at the buttcrack of dawn?" Karel asks. "And it's okay to look now, I'm fully dressed now."

With a sigh of relief, you turn to face your friend who is thankfully now wearing more than just her underwear. For a second, you wonder how Luciana would react if she found out tat you were hanging out with another girl while she gets changed in front of you... and then you flash back to that horrible incident with her failed spell the other day and a feeling of sheer terror washes over you.

...but it's not like you're doing anything wrong here, so it's all good! And Luciana doesn't even know that Karel's a girl to begin with!

"I just thought I'd stop by and see how my favorite bodyguard is doing," you say to Karel.
"Suuuure I am," Karel simply rolls her eyes, completely unimpressed by your flattery. "Nighttime's the only time when you usually come barging in with nothing better to do, so I know you've gotta have SOMETHING that you wanted to bug me about."

Even first thing in the morning, she's as sharp as ever.


>[1/2]

>>35660844
>Made a PGQ quest
WOO!

CapTcha: rollyna archy

Umm ok?

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>>35660884
>[2/2]

"Eh, I guess I ought to just say it," you sigh.
"Yeah, you should," Karel replies. "It's too early in the morning for you to be playing around."
"Alright then," you take a deep breath and steel your resolve. "What exactly are your plans for the future, Karel?" you ask. "You -know- you'll be discovered as a girl at some point, right?"

In an instant, Karel shifts from being utterly relaxed to ready to fight.

"...you better not have told anyone," Karel snarls, pointing at you while the bracelet on her wrist manifests some painful-looking spikes. "Because if you did, I swear to God..."
"H- hey!" you throw up your hands. "I didn't tell anyone, I swear!"
"Then why the hell are you bringing this up now!?" she shouts.
"It's just been bugging me for a while now, that's all," you reply.
"I've managed to live my entire life without being caught so far, I think I'll be fine as long as I stay careful."
"Yeah, but -I- found out," you reply. "And so did Gerhard and Niklaus."
"Y- yeah, but those two aren't normal..." she mumbles.


>keep pushing it
>leave her alone for now

holy shit this quest is still going?

it's been months since I last dropped in, have I missed much?

>>35660899
>keep pushing it
What could go wrong?

>>35660895
This your first?

>>35660899
>keep pushing it
The higher you go the more "not normal" people you'll meet. If I can find you out by fluke, what about those who are actually GOOD at deduction or magic? Anyways just think on it.

>>35660941
yup

>>35660899
>>keep pushing it

>>35660899
>keep pushing it

Gotta make a plan Karel.

>>35660899
>leave her alone for now
We won't get through to her. We will only make her angry and perhaps even push her to actively defy us because she is stubborn.
We should instead bring it up later, multiple times over time either subtly or when it feels appropriate to get her to agree with our points.

>>35660914
Did you drop it before the routelock?
Threads became far, far, far more tolerable once the waifu wars were put to bed... so to speak.

>In which Reinhold decides to get an early start on his daily "pissing his friends off" quota.

Oh boy.

>>35660899
>keep pushing it

This >>35660949

>>35660949
How much higher up is she going to go? She's fooled Celestino, who else is there, Ariane?

>>35660978
shortly after

>>35660990
She's high up yeah, but she does anything of note she'll have much more attention on her, thus less privacy, and it only takes once to ruin it. Somehow, I doubt she fooled Celestino either.

>>35660899
>keep pushing it
We walk in abnormal circles.
Whenever or however it happens, as long as you don't kill someone who doesn't deserve it in a panicked attempt to keep cover, I have your back.
Because you are a sibling to me, and that bond is as real as any I have, because the only family I've known are the ones I've chosen or have chosen me.

>>35660899
>keep pushing it

>"Y- yeah, but those two aren't normal..." she mumbles.
And Celestino's normal? And Gregory's normal? And Thierri's normal? And so on and so forth.

Look, we're around a whole lot of not-normal people, and if that's your criteria for who's going to find out, the list is pretty huge. We're not saying she needs to have a huge meeting about it, but a controlled release of information is going to be way easier on everyone involved than the alternative.

And besides, wouldn't it be great to be able to just open the door first thing in the morning if someone knocks without having to jump through all sorts of hoops?

>>35660990
Ariane is beyond such petty concepts as gender.
She would rule this pathetic plain as a God if she cared for anything more than getting her brioche just glossy enough or embarrassing Nico.

>>35660990
Celestino himself isn't particularly perceptive, but he has a lot of visitors with freaky powers.

>>35660981
Forgot to add "Do you really want -Celestino- to be the one to find out first?"

>>35661014
arch said Alicia, Gerhard and Niklaus are the only ones who know besides us, with Giancarlo having suspicions.

>>35660899

Neither is anyone else in this place

>>35661048
Ok, fair enough. How much you want to bet if she holds his attention for more than a few minutes he'll figure it out. Man is savvy, paranoid, intelligent and ancient. If it wasn't for what was happening now he'd likely figure it out by now.

>>35660899
>keep pushing it

We could also remind her than Celestino is kind of paranoid about his children's bodyguards.

>>35661002
Well, get catching up, son.

>>35661104
I'm quite positive she's already well aware of that fact, hence her own paranoia.

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>>35660899
Keep pushing her, she needs to come up with some kind of plan for these things especially if the throne can be passed down to legitimized bastards because then she'd be in a whole load of trouble.

>>35661104
>Celestino is kind of paranoid about his children's bodyguards

Andreas likes Luci
Karel likes Emilio

Seems that he was right to be paranoid.

>>35661163
Don't forget what happened with Marianne's previous bodyguard.

>>35661158
Don't be meta now. And I really don't think the King of either country would be obligated to recognize a bastard of dubious origin if they don't want to.

>>35661178
he don't know bout that

>>35661191
I know, I'm just saying that while Andreas and Emilio both seem to have good intentions, not everyone that justifies his paranoia does.

>>35660899
>keep pushing it

"You spend a lot of time around non-normal people. Arnaud, Gregory, Ariane, Thierri. I wouldn't be too surprised if at least one of them already knows. How do you want Celestino to eventually learn. Just think about it, okay?

I've got your back no matter how this goes, I'd be a terrible brother if I didn't."

>>35661183
Wouldn't Gregory be able to vouch for the fact that Adrien is Raoul?

>>35661163
>obstructing the true love between 20/20 swordbro and lava snake princess
Why is Rein such terrible people?

>>35661224
Reinhold isn't supposed to know that so we can't use the argument.

>>35661183
Is it meta? I thought we knew that she was the daughter of the rightful king, or at least had a very strong inkling of that. Plus you know what kind of extremely nice people run this country, if they found out she'd be legitimized straight away.

>>35661240
Reinhold was there for Gregory's "oh, you mean ADRIEN", he's taken note of Karel's shocking similarity to Marianne, he know her affinity is water. He also knows what Adrien looks like, which is presumably very similar to Aquaman. He might not know it as a fact, but he can speculate.

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>>35661240
This

I would instead make the argument that Ariane (I think that's Greg's wife's name, I forgot) is a talented female adventurer. One of the best in the nation, even. And SHE would understand COMPLETELY the struggle that Karel is going through

Therefore. The person she needs to talk about it with isn't a bunch of skeevy old men, but instead the battle-hardened Valkyrie who could put Celestino to shame if she wanted to.

>>35661281
It's still a big gamble.

>>35661288
This is a pretty reasonable first step to suggest, yeah.

>>35661288
That's actually a pretty solid plan honestly.

>>35661312
We could go up to Gregory and ask him to tell us about how Adrien is Raoul. He probably wouldn't lie to us about it, and if he did his reaction might be a tell, considering his reaction to us mentioning Adrien earlier on.

>>35661288
>skeevy old men
Hey now. I get your point but there ain't nothing skeevy about the dudes we're talking about, Cel aside.
Ideally, we'd be talking to Gran-Gran Eschenwald about this because she can both influence the old man, is a girl swordie herself and has a link to the Adrien situation through Volker but, alas, closed borders and all that.

>writing

>>35661346
We might be able to ask Marianne, its her uncle after all. And Thierri almost certainly told her plenty of their adventure stories.

I wouldn't be surprised if she knew Raoul went by Adrien.

The solution is so simple you don't even see it.
We need to kill Celestino.

>>35661593
No, it's easier to kill Karel and have Marianne impersonate her so no one has suspicions.

>>35661593
Yep. The guy in town was right, he's a power mongering despot. He must be tramped.

>>35661692
Or kill Marianne and have Karel take her place as Princess.
Karel's sudden disappearance is more easily explained than Mari's.

>>35661751
>>35661692
>>35661593
No no, the answer is so simple!

We need to ask Niklaus if cloning is possible and make two Karels and three Mariannes.

>>35661781
Dammit, Anon!
Arch already said no harem ending!

>>35661781
Then we can finally have that PPQ crossover.

>>35661781
>>35661798
If he can make clones we need him to make a bunch of clones of Reinhold for all the girls, that way we can get all the routes done in one go.

>>35661781
Also ask him to fuse Luciana and Emilio together.

>>35661822
Genius, let's get to naming them.

>>35661751
What if we switch have Marianne switch with Karel while Karel is asleep. Marianne can learn some fighting stuff and get to know Emilio better, and Karel can embrace the side of her that is royalty. We can strongarm her into playing along as long as we can convince Marianne to take her place.
We just have to be persuasive.

>>35661841
Just use all the name variants our third favorite wizard uses.

>>35661841
I suggest "No Holds Barred" for the inevitable, slightly deformed, crazy clone.

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>>35661822
I like that idea anon.

>>35661841
Niklaus already calls us by a different name every time we meet him, perhaps he's already created the clones and is just trying out different names on us to perfect his technique.

>>35661861
That's a solid plan but you've forgotten one crucial component. You forgot to state who he must kill.

>>35661865
>>35661869

But what do we do with Reinhardt, the one who is really bitter about getting all the recessive magic?

>>35661895
Is killing someone a requirement for plans here?

>>35661911
>but it might be a good ides
Beware the Ides of Arch.

>>35661911
>"I'm not trying to say that you should just run out and declare it to the world, but it might be a good ides to tell someone who might be able to help you out just in case," you say. "I mean, -I'll- always have your back," you pat your chest, "but I dunno how much help I'll be if Celestino finds out and takes it poorly, you know?"

Wow, this is much better said than what we came up with.

>>35661932
top kek

"And King Celestino -is- 'normal?'" you ask. "Or Sir Gregory, or Arnaud... or pretty much anyone else around here?"
"Th..." Karel looks down at the floor. "...that's not what I meant," she mumbles.
"I'm not trying to say that you should just run out and declare it to the world, but it might be a good idea to tell someone who might be able to help you out just in case," you say. "I mean, -I'll- always have your back," you pat your chest, "but I dunno how much help I'll be if Celestino finds out and takes it poorly, you know?"

You're technically on probation with him as it is, after all.


>[1/?]

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>>35661916
We'll give him to the resident lewd mage.

>>35661941
>this is much better said than what we came up with
Is that really so surprising?

>>35661941
We give Arch some threads and the Turtle spins gold, or at least damn high quality silver.

>>35661922
Wel-... Bu-... I...
Why would you even come up with a plan that doesn't involve MURDER?

>>35661941
It's rather similar to >>35661223 I think.

>>35662008
When you put it that way, yeah, I guess it seems like a waste to come up with a plan and not murder somebody. It seems rather inefficient.

We should murder SPINELLE!
That way we can make any plan we want and still have all the requisite pieces of a good plan in there.

>>35662064
Didn't Spinelle already die of a broken heart after her Reinhold ran out on her?

>>35661946
>[2/2]

"Yeah, and how can you be so sure that whoever you're suggesting to tell first won't take it poorly themself?" Karel asks. "I don't think Niklaus cares either way, Gerhard's just a secretive guy to begin with and you're... YOU," she rolls her eyes, "but there's no guarantee that what you're suggesting won't just serve to fuck my entire life up anyways."


>got anyone in mind?

>>35662087
Did she?
Wow, that's freaking inconsiderate of Rein. What a dick.

>>35662091
I wanna say Emilio because hehehe but seriously;

Greg AND Ariane.

>>35662091
"Either the King or Sir Gregory. They both have Celestino's ear and they would never allow him to harm you for something like that. Gregory especially, since he knew your father."

"If you're too intimidated by him, we could go through his wife first."

>>35662095
I don't think you're taking into account how inconsiderate it is of her to ruin all of our plans by dying. Honestly I'd say it's even worse; how are we going to plan anything now?

>>35662091
Going to re-agree with >>35661288 to start out.

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>>35662091
The obvious answer.

Time for more ara ara!

>>35662091
I would have prefered Agnes, but since that isn't an option I think her best bet would Ariane and/or Greg. They could actually stand up for Karel in the face Celestino's paranoid.

>>35662091
The only people I can think of are Gregory and Ariane, maybe Grandma.

>>35662091
Gregory and defiantly Ariane needs to know. King Aquaman should also know.

>>35662146
Dammit, she planned this all along.
I wonder who she murdered in order to see this treachery through.

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>>35662091
Ariane

Suggest the battle-hardened magic user who has probably experienced more than a little sexism in her time.

>>35662159
First we should tell him that Adrien is her father, in case he doesn't know that, since it would probably be a big deal for him to know he has a nephew. Then we let her tell him that she's actually his niece.

>>35662198
That's not the image I meant to post!

I'm glad it was worksafe.

>>35662191
Herself! Don't you see, it was the ultimate revenge!

>>35662152
Truly, she is the best girl.

Nico route never

>>35662091
Ariane but Gregory and Aquaman should both be told soon as well

>>35662244

have faith in the vn, child

>>35662091
Ariane.

She might try to get you to wear a dress, but she's trustworthy and understands some of your troubles.

>>35662244
You wanted to the Nico route simply to get closer to her Mother?

On an unrelated note, a trip to the Migault household will give us an opportunity to see if the sushi book has been put to good use yet.

>>35662253
2017-2018 is a long way away.

>writing

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>>35662323
Good things to those who wait including a maid route.

>>35662091
Gregory. He knows Volker and Adrien too after all and said he would have adopted us in if he knew we'd been left. She's in a similar situation. (mention this)

>>35662357
Nico and Meido's kids are going to be adorable, aren't they?

>>35662369
>implying they'll have any

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>>35662369
>Nico and Meido's kids

>>35662379
Why wouldn't they? Meido's definitely wants to knock Nico up some day.

>>35662369
They could adopt some adorable kids, I guess.

>>35662391
Yeah, just watch. Once we find out crystals can grow sentience, they'll get a necklace or something that they'll wear together every night and they can both feed energy into it to make it their cystral child.

>>35662400

Surely there is a spell for it.

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>>35662379
>>35662391
Magic, I ain't gotta explain shit.

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>>35662369
Silly anon, girls can't have babies with other girls.

>>35662391
Magic. It's a thing.

Hell, we have a resident Mad Wizard who'd probably love to take up that kind of challenge as a project.

>>35662407
From Reinhold and Citrine's orphanage.

>>35662417
arch said there isn't.

Which raises some questions when you think about it.

>>35662443
Does it?
I think having a spell like that which does exist raises more questions.

Interestingly, modern tech can do this already. Only daughters, though.

>>35662502
It's more the fact that the setting has advanced magic, especially healing stuff.

So someone ought to have tried it at some point, but it seems to be a complete impossibility.

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>>35662513
Well we've known that technology > magic for a while, anyway.

>>35662535
Yeah, but then Arch can just blow it away with "The World is a homophobe."
Opening up the subject of pregnancy manipulation magic on /tg/ paves the way for inumberable variations on "what else can we get pregnant?"

>>35662575
If we can't have mutant llama babies, then this isn't a world I want to be a part of.

>>35662535
Advanced healing magic doesn't mean that much effort has gone into fertility. There's probably a charm to increase it and one to prevent it and nothing more has been considered important.

>>35662592
Too bad, it was nice playing with you.

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"Why not talk about it with Ariane?" you say.
"...huh?" Karel stares at you. "You mean Gregory's wife?"
"Yeah," you nod. "She was some kind of super strong adventurer before she got married, so I'm sure that she'd understand at least some of what you're going through."

Karel doesn't seem all that convinced.

>[1/?]

>>35662631
I want my Llamaman!

>>35662592
A noble cause but alas, an impossible dream.

Guys, you do know you can take all these questions about healing, daughters and all to arch's Ask.fm page and get an answer from him there.

>>35662633
No no, Reindense, It's not just about being a strong adventurer. It's about the fact that she's one of the most well-respected adventurers in the land.

>>35662658
We've already got our answers though.

>>35662666
Arch has answered nearly 3k of them so far.

>>35662633
Okay, this makes me wonder

Is there a person we should be suggesting that she ask and we're just missing a key clue to it all?

Maybe Marianne?

>>35662664
That still isn't a whole lot like pretending to be a boy when you're a girl because your Mom projected all her dashed hopes and dreams onto you.
At the most, Ariane could sympathize with the aspects of being somewhat forced down the same route as your parent because she didn't have much choice about being an adventurer being born on the road with Nicolas and Karel didn't have a choice with Alicia, but that isn't even the issue here because both Karel and Ariane both (luckily) enjoy swording/adventuring.

>>35662702
So who is the correct person to ask?

>>35662658
True, but my mobile fails at ask.fm (not really, but it's annoying) and I'd rather pass the time chatting with you guys than wait in radio silence while OP works his magic. And to be clear, I'm not complaining about the time between posts, it takes time to get things right and I'm glad Arch takes that time.

"You rush a Miracle Man, you get rotten miracles."

>>35662633
>[2/2]

"C'mon, she's like you best bet in having someone on your side who also has some influence of their own," you say. "She's pretty respected on her own AND she's Sir Gregory's wife AND she's King Celestino's sister-in-law..."
"I swear to God, you're just so..." Karel places a hand to her forehead and takes a deep breath. "You know, this REALLY isn't the kind of shit that I wanted to worry about first thing in the morning."


>hey, we can even go visit them later today!
>maybe you need some time to think about it?

>>35662744
>"I know, but this is the kind of shit you need to think about and start dealing with Karel."

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?
>but hey, we can even go visit them later today if you feel like it!

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?
Getting your secrets exposed even by accident sucks, just think about it.

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?
Just give her something to consider for now. Early morning isn't the best time to make life-altering choices.

As an older brother we can only suggest and nudge, but she has to make the choice on her own.

>>35662712
I dunno. Agnes ideally?
Ariane's not a bad shout because of her instinctive caring personality but I'd wager Greg should probably be there as well, given his what he knows about Adrien and that he's more likely to get things done than his wife.
Ariane can be there as the support for Karel and not make her feel quite so upset about the whole thing because I doubt Greg would have too much tact for the initial outing, though he might ultimately be of more use further down the line.

>>35662744
>Visit today. Karel needs to be pushed instead of keeping up this crap.

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?

Add the little details about Gregory.

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?
We (clearly) don't have all the answers, letting somebody wiser than us in to help might make the issue seem smaller than it appears. Better than leaving it to chance.

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

Lets end this crap here and now. I noticed that Karel needs a push to get her off the fence on this issue.

>>35662744
>>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?

We've pushed far enough for today. Give her some brotherly headpats, and joke about her being a difficult little sister.

>>35662744
>maybe you need some time to think about it?

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>about to call it a night
>new PGQ

Guess I better make something to eat since I'll be up all night

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

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I hope you people that are voting "Take some time and think about it!" realize that we've given her "time" each and every time we've brought it up with her and she NEVER does anything about it.

Constantly putting it off

Again and again

And you guys are to blame for it because she's never going to do it without us pushing her into it. Ever.

How many times do we have to "give her time" until you realize that she's not going to do it on her own? Ten times? Twenty times? It's been at least five times now that we've gone "No no take your time!" and she puts it off.

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662947
Good point

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662947
Alright, changing my vote >>35662826 to >hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662947
You make a sound point. We really need to get her to finish this. This issue is causing her a lot of unneeded stress.

>>35662947
This is true

We should keep pushing her
I feel like if we don't she'll be accidentally discovered and it'll end horribly

>>35662744
>hey, we can even go visit them later today!

>>35662744
>>35662947
Fuck it. Changing my vote to doing it now. You make a good point.

>>35662947
How many times have we actually told her to take action over it. We've discussed the situation but this is the first time we've really brought a plan to her, as far as I remember.

Ariane seems like the most random choice, I mean she'd probably be pretty understanding but she doesn't have much to do with Karel in the first place

>>35662947
This. Karel is just going to dither around and if/when she gets called back it's going to be too late. Her largest potential support network is in Granache, given generally more understanding nature and also that she is likely king's niece. Honestly I would be all for telling Gregory the whole story regardless of what she thinks. He is likely to screw it up a lot less than Reinhold and Karel.

>>35662947
On the one hand it could turn out something like this if we push: http://youtu.be/Ri40igkqD-w?t=1m8s

I smell samefagging

>writing

>>35663020
Exactly why she is a good choice, with someone she doesn't know it might be easier for her to talk things out.

>>35663020
She has nothing to do with Karel herself, but has the closest connection with a few key people:

Gregory
Emilio
Celestino

See, we can't outright tell her to go visit Gregory because Densehold can't make the connection between Adrien and Raoul. So there's no reason to visit him because really, why would you go to that guy of all people with your gender identity issues in the first place.

At the same time, he's the only one who seems to have the closest link with Adrien and Volkier that we know of without knowing that Adrien is the King's brother (if it's true, could be a curveball).

Yes, this may be metagaming, but Ariane was also the one who wanted us to bring her *any* of our problems. And this seems like the biggest problem of them all, so who else do we turn to?

>>35663020
It's not like she's really closer to anyone else here who has enough clout with Celestino. Other than Ariane I can think of Gregory, Thierri, and Arnaud as the most likely choices.

She's not particularly close to any of them. And it'd probably be alright no matter which one she told.

>>35663128
>why would you go to that guy of all people with your gender identity issues in the first place
Oh fuck, it's so obvious now.
We should have asked Niklaus, he wants to be the little girl.

>>35663150
Oh

Well shit, you're right.

>>35663142
Arnaud would probably hide the Raoul-Adrien connexion just to fuck with usbecause he wouldn't think we'd need to know.

>>35663150
I don't think Nicky could give any advice that would come off as sane.

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>>35663150
Him wanting to be the little girl is a fairly recent thing coming from him finding out his favorite maid was into girls.

Being a powerful mage really must be suffering.

>>35663167
>implying he even knows
He didn't know about us and and Volker, Arnaud's just an old hack who everybody only believes is a master of secrets because they've been told he is since they were wee tots. He just writes down jibberish and attaches the notes to stray pigeons in order to keep up the impression of conspiracy but he really doesn't know what he's doing.

>>35663208
>He didn't know about us and and Volker

He did, he just thought it was on us to reveal it to our employers.

Though we only learned that when we came back from Marconetti.

>>35663224
Nah, I don't think he did.

If he had known that we were related to him, he would have at least told Gregory.

You do feel kind of guilty about springing this on her without any kind of warning... but this is for her own good. Probably. And in any event, putting it off forever isn't going to help anything.

"Tell you what," you say.
"...what now?" Karel asks, glaring at you.
"We can go over there today after I see Marianne off for the night. How about it?"
"...wha!?" she stares at you.

You guess she wasn't expecting you to suggest such a thing right away.


>[1/?]

>>35663224
There is literally no way he would have known. Get off Arnaud's dick, he's not that good.

>>35663317
pls no bully the butler

>>35663310
Well, she hasn't hit us yet.

>>35663317
I do remember him mentioning that he didn't know those details back in the early threads, same with our relationship with Citrine. Not surprising since we only saw him a few times and never for more than a week or so.

>>35663306
>>35663317
https://archive.moe/tg/thread/31945983/#31946025

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>>35663343
Alternatively, he's very good at covering his own ass.

>>35663334
That is good news at least.

>>35663343
Nah that's just him trying to bullshit us to save face.

Again, if he really knew, he would have at least mentioned to Gregory, "Oh hey, btw, this kid who might be your childhood friend's son/protege just won the tournament with his fighting style despite him never taking on a student. Oh you want to know where he was from? According to this he was dumped off in a whorehouse after he died. Welp! Them's the breaks!"

Instead, knowing all that info and saying "Well I guess Gregory will find out on his own, it'll be k" is even worse. Your post proves that Gregory felt the same exact way, too.

>>35663370
>>35663389
Cool headcanons.

>>35663402
headcanon would be assuming that Arnaud could tell our entire backstory just from watching us fight in a tournament.

Or thinking to himself "Hey! That whoreson fights like Volkier, so he's probably the student that I don't remember Volker ever having or talking about!"

>>35663343
Arnaud is full of shit. If he was really that good why did he fail to get a seal king?

>>35663419
>>35663402
Or not mentioning to the king that we have some relation to Volkier when the king wanted a complete background check on us.

>>35663402
Hey, I'm just kidding around.

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>>35663402
Cool headcanons indeed.

>>35663310


"I could mention it to Luciana later today, I'm sure she'd be happy to clear it with them," you shrug. "She'd probably like to spend some time with her brother, too."
"Dammit, Reinhold..." Karel growls. "You're not going to shut up about this, are you."
"...probably not," you reply. "At least not until you agree to it."

Slowly, Karel raises a clenched fist like she's about to punch you... but lowers it and simply glares at you instead.


>[2/?]

>>35663432
to be fair, the entirety of our relationship with Volker, from the outside at least, looks like "Oh, Volker decided to give a kid some swordsmanship lessons at one point during his adventuring career."
I recall Thierri kicking himself over not noticing the similarities between Volker's style and Reinhold's style back at the ball on Namek. It genuinely is possible that Arnuad expected the others to see it.

>>35663513
or it did, before Namek and Agnes.

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>>35663512
>I could mention it to Luciana later today
Luck... being... pushed!

>>35663512
She better kiss our ass the day she officially become a Princess.

>>35663544
Eww... she's our sister.

>>35663554
even better

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>>35663576

>>35663554
On the cheek of course. Get your mind out of the gutter.

>>35663512
>[3/3]

Without saying a word, Karel stomps towards you and pushes you towards the door.

"Out," she growls. "Go bother Marianne already, I'm stick of dealing with you right now."
"H- hey," you say, stumbling along as Karel pushes you. "You didn't give me an answer yet..."

But you don't get one. Instead, she opens her bedroom door and pushes you out, then shuts it so you can't get back in.


>knock on the door
>head downstairs and wait for marianne

>>35663657
>head downstairs and wait for marianne
EVERYTHING WORKED OUT ALL PERFECT LIKE!

>>35663657
>head downstairs and wait for marianne

>>35663657
>head downstairs and wait for marianne

>>35663657
That's our cue to exit.

>>35663657
>knock on the door

Don`t back down. This is exactly what >>35662947 warned us about

>>35663657
Say through it:
"Just think about it, ok?"
>head downstairs and wait for marianne

>>35663704
I like this, she needs that final push.

I don't know if the door is soundproof, though.

>>35663657
Such is the role of the brother.

>>35663657\
>head downstairs and wait for marianne

I'm pretty sure we've gotten out message across. Now it's time to make a tactical retreat before we get punched in the face.

>>35663657
>knock on the door

>>35663657
>>35663704
This

>>35663704
This is good.

>>35663657
>Just...think about it.
>Head down to meet Mari
Causing a scene by knocking won't help.

>>35663704
Why not.

She probably need a stronger incentive but it'd just piss her off right now.

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>>35663704
>inb4 we fail to check the hallways and someone hears us

>writing

>>35663704
This sounds like a good compromise.

>>35663780
>inb4 Adrien was in the room all along

Wouldn't be the first time this shit happen.

>>35663780
And we can play it off as Reinhold wanting a duel, or made a comment about Karel improving his combat stance, or something along those lines. "Just think about it" doesn't mean much.

>>35663805
I just realized that the timeskip mean Reinhold went more than a month without getting a duel out of Karel.

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>>35663822

Mmmmm, can't wait for the GREET THE princess prompt.

I've got a fun one.

>>35663866
Wet willy?

>>35663866
>GREET THE
Capitalization whyy?

>>35663896
I know my phone keeps doing that.

It Also Does This.

Damn annoying.

>>35663955
Are you Jaden?

>>35663962
I really want Jaden to follow PGQ now. He'd have the most enlightening suggestions.

>>35664007
Who would his waifu be?

>>35664007
How Can Reinhold's 'Sisters' Be Real If His Parents Aren't Real?

>>35663962
No. Sorry?

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>>35663962
>>35664007
What does Jaden have to do with this?

>>35664033
Chiara.

If She Could Speak She Would Be The Most Intelligent Being On Planet PGQ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-sBROXalU4#t=38

This is how we should greet Marianne.

>>35664102
She sighs and says "You're trying too hard."

>>35664109
Still worth it.

"At least think about it, okay?" you call out.

The only answer you get is a dull thud from something hitting the door.

Realizing that you've probably pressed your luck with Karel more than enough for now, you temporarily retire from the battle to help her with her issues and head downstairs to the dining hall so you can wait for Marianne.

Upon making it to the entrance to the dining hall, tou take your usual position beside the door and wait...

...and wait...

...and wait.

Just as you're about to go up to her room yourself and see if she's alright, you hear the familiar footsteps and chatter of the Princess's usual entourage of maids as they approach the dining hall.

"Oh..." Marianne says before coughing into a handkerchief. "Sorry for being later than usual, but I seem to be coming down with something."

While Marianne looks more or less healthy as far as you can tell by looking, she is coughing quite a bit and her expression betrays how miserable she feels.

>greet the Princess!

>>35664144

She looks like she could use some cheering up.

>Kneel down
>"It seems I have failed in my duties in protecting you from vicious miasma"
>"I hereby offer my resignation"

>>35664144
Fuck, I know how she feels.
I'm full of a flu and this is my day off...

>>35664144
>While Marianne looks more or less healthy as far as you can tell by looking, she is coughing quite a bit and her expression betrays how miserable she feels.

Okay, she's trying to get out of something. Let's press her and try to find out what's happening today that she wants no part of!

>>35664144
"If you are not feeling well I can escort you back to your room and make arrangements for breakfast being brought up to you."

>>35664187
Yeah I think this is probably the best thing to do.

Say it deadpan and then joke afterwards that your sense of humor came down with something, too.

>>35664173
This

>>35664187
Sounds nice, I mean, I'm sure Melanie's probably already made the same offer but it's worth making sure.

>>35664144

>>35664187
This

>>35664173
Not this

>>35664187
Best suggestion so far.

>>35664187
This is a good plan. She's going to say no, of course, but it's worth offering anyway.

I'm not sure what the weather's like, but maybe take it upon ourselves to ask Arnaud if it'd be worth relocating teatime indoors today.

>>35664173
We also made this same exact joke about baby-violence, and I'd rather not retread old bad-joke ground if it can be helped.

>>35664187

This, but we need some sort of bad joke to throw in there. I'm to tired to come up with one though

>>35664270
I think the lack of a joke makes Reinholds worry come across clearer.

>>35664270
>>35664284
So long as it's not another outdated Setsuranka pun about her catching a COLD, I'm cool.

>writing

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>>35664297
>I'm cool
... Fuck.

>>35664302

Chill bro. I think it was pretty slick.

>>35664302
Chill, man. It's okay.

>>35664302
chill, dude, it's fine.

>>35664302
Man you need to cool down and chill.

>>35664308
>>35664313
>>35664331
>>35664347
Bros, stop it. The whole pun thing went cold a long time ago.

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>>35664360
Especially when all four of them made the same joke.

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"If you're not feeling well, I can always escort you back to your room and arrange to have your breakfast brought up to your room for you," you say.
"Thank you for the concern, but I'll be fine," Marianne replies. "I always get sick at this time of year, it's something to do with the weather changing," she sighs.
"Even so, all you have to do is say the word."

Marianne turns to you with a faint smile before breaking into a coughing fit.

"E- excuse me," the Princess says as she tries to regain her composure.

>[1/?]

>>35664396
Niklaus'll have something for the common cold, surely.

>>35664415
common cold, maybe. but they have cure disease scrolls (right? or was I misinterpreting the magical healing shenanigans?). If this is a yearly occurrence, this sounds more like allergies.

>>35664415

Yeah, excise the entire respiratory system and replace it with system of crystalline nanotubes

>>35664440
If it works, it works.

>>35664444
nah, he would have to test it on himself first, and he would have to find a way for the procedure to not involve terminal swirling-the-drain syndrome, and by the time he figures something out to that effect she'll be better, and won't want the procedure.

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>>35664396

"I really do appreciate that you're worried about my health, but I'd end up feeling even worse if I was to spend all day lying down in my room," Marianne says. "I've found that the best way to deal with this is to face it head-on."
"Umm, if you say so," you shrug.

Somehow, you can see her father saying the exact same thing.

After the two of you are seated, Marianne leans back in her hair and lets her arms fall limp to her sides.

"I swear..." she mumbles, "there's a cure for something as complicated as wurmscale but not a stupid cold..."

Wurmscale's a rather horrific illness where the affected's skin starts to peel off like the scales of a shedding Lindwurm, hence the name. It's not usually fatal but there were plenty of people back in Cateno who contracted it and ended up with some nasty scarring all over their bodies for the rest of their lives. You'd heard that the upper classes didn't have to worry about such illnesses, but this is the first time that it's actually been confirmed.

>[2/?]

>>35664469
>[3/3]

"...and now I can't drink orange juice without it stinging my throat..." Marianne sighs.

So that's her biggest concern?

"Sore throat?" you turn to her.
"Very," Marianne says, coughing into her handkerchief.


>talk to the princess about a thing
>leave her alone while you two wait for your food

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>>35664469
>Wurmscale's a rather horrific illness where the affected's skin starts to peel off like the scales of a shedding Lindwurm
Of course it is.

>>35664491
>leave her alone while you two wait for your food

Any other day and I'd be all for it, but talking with a sore throat isn't fun.

>>35664491
>>leave her alone while you two wait for your food
Let's not stress her throat.

>>35664491
>leave her alone while you two wait for your food
Let her catch a break where she can.

>"I swear..." she mumbles, "there's a cure for something as complicated as wurmscale but not a stupid cold..."
"If my tenure as your bodyguard has taught you nothing else, I thought it would be that sometimes the simpler something is the harder it is to get it to stop bothering you."

>>35664505
I feel like we should take the lead in the conversation then.
Like, I dunno, tell her a funny story about something that happened when we went to Greg and Ariane's for dinner during the timeskip or something.

>>35664539
This would be reasonable as well, actually. Keeps her engaged, opens up an opportunity for some timeskip exposition, doesn't require a whole lot of back-and-forth.

>>35664539
That also works.

>>35664539
I like this

>>35664539
Alright, but be upfront about our reasons then.

Leave her the choice to simply have us shut up.

>writing

>>35664564
>>35664553
>>35664549
My only reluctance is putting Arch on the spot to come up with something that he may not have necessarily planned for during the timeskip. "Tell a funny story" is a vague suggestion when unprompted.

>>35664577
Childhood stories are his favorite parts to write, apparently.

>>35664577
Yeah but it's hard to think of things to say.

>>35664587
And I feel iffy about just inventing new things for Reinhold's past.

>>35664583
But Rein's childhood story's are all horribly upsetting.

>>35664594
Rein's past likely goes deeper than we'll ever know from this quest, it's just a case of sifting through all the rape to find something not rape.

"I guess it probably hurts to talk, then..." you say.
"A little," Marianne replies.
"In that case, umm..." you look around. "...want to hear about something funny that happened the last time I had dinner at Sir Gregory's house?" you ask.
"Suit yourself," Marianne replies. "I'm just going to rest my head on the table while you talk."

She seems to be sicker than she lets on.


>[1/?]

>>35664594
>one time a client was especially insistent about purchasing my services so the boss had me hidden in the changing room under a pile of clothes - I fell asleep and everyone forgot I was there
>oh, and did I ever tell you about how my first kill went down? you see, I had to find a way to murder a man with a knife and it wasn't easy with my then tiny arms...

>>35664606
...someone else's childhood?

>>35664620
I seem to recall that Reinhold's first kill was a back-alley shanking of some dude who was bugging Citrine, but maybe I'm wrong.

>>35664644
'twas the back-alley shanking of some dude who beat the hell out of Citrine.

You were close.

>>35664644
Replace "was bugging" with "beat up" and I think this is correct.

"I guess it probably hurts to talk, then..." you say.
"A little," Marianne replies.
"In that case, umm..." you look around. "...want to hear about something funny that happened the last time I had dinner at Sir Gregory's house?" you ask.
"Suit yourself," Marianne replies. "I'm just going to rest my head on the table while you talk."

She seems to be sicker than she lets on.

"So, umm..." you trail off.
"I'm listening," Marianne replies.
"Oh, okay," you laugh nervously. "so the last time I was over there, we were all hanging out in the living room while Luciana finished cooking. Elena and Reya were playing with the rabbit while Rana was teasing Bernard about something... I didn't really hear about what, but Sir Gregory started to join in after a while."


>[1/?]

>>35664648
I sorta what to know what happened and then again I sorta don't.

>>35664648
>>35664649

Man, Reinhold was a messed up kid.

>>35664687
He has yet to lose his friends in an eclipse, though.

>>35664669
Oh boy, Rein's setting up a real doozy here.

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>>35664693
And now I just pictured this scene played out with Reinhold, Monique and Luciana.
Not just the clip, the full thing.

>>35664669
>Rana was teasing Bernard about something
He's only like 11 or something, of course it's not fully developed yet!

>>35664669

"So just as it looked like Bernard was about to run off, Ariane burst into the room holding a huge tray of cinnamon buns," you say.
"She does tend to have good timing when it comes to that..." Marianne remarks.
"She only made enough for each of us to get one," you continue, "and Sir Gregory started grumbling about that since I guess he really likes cinnamon buns..."

That was kind of surprising to see, actually.

"But Ariane said that we'd all have to make do with what she made since she didn't want us all to fill up on pastries before Luciana finished cooking," you say.

>[2/?]

>>35664686
>>35664687
Reminder that it's been ten months and we still haven't gotten around to the Citrine-had-a-hard-life flashback side-story.

http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/28953736/#28960045
http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/28953736/#28960158

>Very well, I'll have something suitably REJOICE-worthy soonish then
>soonish
>™

>>35664739
Quiet, you.
it's coming

>>35664739
Arch said he knows exactly where he wants the story to go into the quest.
The epilogue

>>35664739
Gotta admit that is something I really am not looking forward too.

>>35664751
IT IS A HEALING-TYPE WRITING, ANON

>>35664751
It's okay! It's all over now! How bad could it be?

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>>35664732


"I was the first one she handed one to," you say, and I ended up finishing mine before anyone else even got theirs," you laugh. "Bernard was the last one to get his cinnamon bun, and RIGHT before he was about to bite down into it, Elena's rabbit came out of nowhere and snatched it out of his hands before he could."

You see Marianne's back trembling with laughter... which then becomes another round of coughing.

>[3/?]

>>35664762
That's what I'm afraid of.

>>35664764
I don't know I got a pretty fucked up imagination.

>>35664774
IMMEDIATE SOOTHIGN BACKRUBS

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>>35664764

ask marianne if she has a runny nose as well. if she does, sleeping on her front as opposed to on her back should alleviate the sore throat in the mornings.

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>>35664774
>[4/4]

Once Marianne stops coughing, you continue your story.

"Bernard ended up chasing that rabbit all over the mansion while Elena ran after them yelling at him to not hurt her," you say, "and she ended up making a full loop around the place before stopping at Sir Gregory's feet and looking up at him with the cinnamon bun still in her mouth."
"...was it trying to give him the cinnamon bun?" Marianne asks.
"That's what Ariane said... and then she started laughing until she saw Bernard about to cry and went back into the kitchen to make some more cinnamon buns to make up for the one that Bernard didn't get to eat."

>>35664829
dawwwwwwwww

>>35664829
Being Bernard is truly suffering.

It might be fun to know more about her.

Thread opening will start out as if it were Rein's flashback only to have it be Citrine all along.

Won't it be interesting to know how badly rein was used to the point that his very speach pattern and thinking process is affected by Citrine on a subconscious basis.

>>35664829
Sir Greg: Massacres whole armies, is adored by small children and fuzzy animals

And that's it for tonight's thread. Hooray for pissing off your friends and telling stories about rabbit bullies.

The next thread will be Tuesday night.

And now I take questions if you had any.

>>35664881

Thanks for the thread OP!

>>35664881
>pissing off your friends
Karel needs someone to push her about these things. She might be mad about it now, but in the end she'll be better off.
At least I hope so

>>35664897
That's what big brothers are for!

No questions? Oh well, now I sleep.

Thanks for playing!
For further questioning:
http://ask.fm/Maou_Zenigame/

>>35664918
Thanks for running

>>35664881
Thanks for running Arch.
Just wanna say that I really appreciate these threads. It might just be some little story tucked away in a dark corner of the internet, but PGQ has become a tale as dear to me as any book, movie, game, tv show, whatever.

>>35664918
Thanks arch

>>35664924
I know what you mean it's kinda weird how much I like it but in a good way.

>>35664918
Cheers.

The in-universe day will feel long waiting for Karel's decision.

>>35664981
What's our cover story for showing up at Greg and Ariane's with Karel in tow and then talking to them in private, should Nico or Luci catch wind of us showing up at the house they goddamn live in?

>>35665001
The plan looks to be bringing Emilio to visit (which naturally brings Karel along), since Luciana and Elena are staying with them.

Getting the chance for them to talk privately shouldn't be too hard if everyone has other people with whom to stay occupied.

>>35665001
1. Let Ariane know that Karel have to talk to her.
2. Wait for her to conveniently ask for our help at helping her do some chores.

Or we could choose Gregory and just have him order us to join him upstairs for some boring discussion about security stuff.

>>35665064
>The plan looks to be bringing Emilio to visit
That works

>>35665076
>boring discussion about security stuff
Isn't that technically Nico's job though?