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At this point, it would feel unfair for all of the plot development of either side of the ongoing plot to be neglected, with our protagonist and the story's protagonist being a full nation away from one another. Instead, until they inevitably reunite, I have decided that our POV will switch every thread until the status quo is restored.

You'll get to both of them eventually, but who shall we drop in on first?

>A. Follow Ellen in Aum Dungeon
>B. Follow Prince Garrus' party back in the desert

(also, it's not supposed to be for scale, or. good in general really, but I made a quick map just for reference of where things are in relation to other things. Size, shape, and anything that isn't a name subject to change)

>>41833157
>>A. Follow Ellen in Aum Dungeon

We bustin out of that place like Brock with a combat knife firmly gripped between his teeth. It's go time, babeh!

>>41833089
This seems to be an important vote. How about extending this vote to be a little bit longer since I think people haven't quite noticed that this quest is up yet.

>>41833312
I guess I can make it a 20-minute vote instead of a vague 10-15 minutes, just to be safe.

It's really not all that important in the grand scheme of things, since both routes will be covered anyway, but it will determine how threads go for the next while.

>>41833157
>A. Follow Ellen in Aum Dungeon

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>>41833201
>>41833467
You continue to be Ellen.

Aum dungeon is about as scenic as it was earlier, especially from this lone cell, the only sights to see being the bespectacled shaman and long-haired nomad of the cell opposite yours and the blue-grey haired broken duchess in your own cell, set to the sweet ambiance of Vaga occasionally shouting out just to confirm that people are still there. You've already admired all of these more than enough for a time, and now you're just... more bored than anything.

Quidel is looking at the ring on his finger and describing his physical and mental feelings to Yancy in real-time. Notably lacking in his play-by-play, but clear in your gut is "that overwhelming nausea and fatigue of Bolse approaching."

You hear two pairs of footsteps, one much heavier than the other.

>A. Stand up, try to be aggressive
>B. There's not much you can do but lay there
>C. Ignore this
>D. Say something to someone (write-in)

>>41833639
>A. Stand up, try to be aggressive

>>41833715
Expecting the worst out of this, you pull yourself up and stare aggressively in the sound's direction, trying to hold yourself together. Quidel still seems... completely fine as they draw into sight, which Yancy curiously notes.

Bolse takes a look at Quidel, nodding, before looking at you and frowning, darting his eyes around a bit.

>A. Ask what's going on
>B. Remain silent
>C. Write-in?

>>41833920
>Raise middle finger, The hand the dracozombie bit our fingers off.

>>41833920
>>C. Write-in?
"As pointless as saying this may be, but why the long face? I figured you would be happy now that you're reunited with your sister."

>>41833992
Why are you trying to be nice to the person who imprisioned us and has been trying to kill us and our friends?

>>41834021
Why are you trying to be a dick to some literally-tortured kid who's clearly being coerced?

>>41834021
I was trying to be passive aggressive here. She's probably being tortured as we speak or perhaps even being kept as another method to blackmail the necro-kid. Who knows, man.

>>41834057
Because he probably isn't being coerced.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>41833958
>>41833992
Let's see just how overtly hostile Ellen is to necromancers.

>>41834192
Very apparently.

>>41833958
You summon the strength of perhaps the mightiest longsword, that digit which hath lost two of her sisters to things summoned by this wretched cur!

He frowns, starting to say something before being able to muster up the necessary indoor voice volume to make himself understandable. Instead, he resorts to his hands. Standing perpendicular to Bolse, Bovis says, "my master doesn't like how his aura affects certain people."

"His... aura. You mean the thing that gets us all sick around him?" Quidel asks obliviously to his own current status.

>A. Say something (write-in)
>B. Stay silent
>C. Just a test... Could they mean the ring?

>>41834292
Since the wording wasn't clear, option C was saying "try on the indigo ring" in an admittedly-esoteric way

>>41834292
>And how can i even trust that you didn't put any other affects on it after you've tried several times to kill me and my friends?

>>41834346
Sounds like a very fair thing to ask.

>>41834363
So that mean you're seconding it?
Also thanks for saying it is.

>>41834383
Yeah. I'm seconding it.

>>41834346
>>41834363
"And how can I trust you not to have put some other affect in, after all those times your zombies have almost killed us? After you showed up in the desert at all!"

More of Bovis acting as a stoic relay, the deafened necromancer signing back to him, and the Deadlord saying in a slightly-muffled, slightly-hollow voice, "master Bolse admits to believing you have no reason to trust him, that all you have is the word of someone you distrust. He wishes to know if he can do anything to gain your trusts in his word."

Quidel is observing carefully, also still whispering to Yancy every moment or so (presumably to tell him that he's still okay).

>A. Write-in.
>B. Cold shoulder.
>C. Nothing.

>>41834570
>Give me my stuff back.

>>41834570
>>A. Write-in.
"Well, it would help if you explained on why certain people get ill from merely being around you. And this is just for starters too."

>>41834570
>How about letting us go?

>>41834638
This is me, I vote for this>>41834673
As well.

>>41834673
>>41834701
"How about letting us go?"

Again, Bovis conveys this. Bolse doesn't respond for awhile, clearing his throat and saying just audibly (to you. Not to him, obviously), "I... need time."

"Y-you've had an entire year's worth of time for me! What on earth could-"

Victoria is shut up by the sound of a door loudly opening and closing, followed by a stern, mean-sounding "I don't know why you're down here, but I know that puppet of yours can hear me! He'd best convey that I don't want to see you when I get down there."

Bovis quickly "says" something to Bolse, whose eyes widen. Speaking again, he says, "the warden is back... hide your rings..."

Taking this advice, Quidel quickly removes the finger accessory as Bolse is carried off by his masked undead bodyguard. Even then, the effect of his proximity suddenly shows through on the nomad's face and posture.

The footsteps get closer.

>A. Ask Victoria if she knows about this. She's been here the longest
>B. Keep quiet. It sounds like the woman you heard is bad news
>C. Write-in?

>>41834879
>A. Ask Victoria if she knows about this. She's been here the longest

>>41834879
>>A. Ask Victoria if she knows about this. She's been here the longest

Poor Victoria. Being caged up for a year...

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>>41834923
>>41834970
You hushedly ask Victoria, "who's this warden?"

Victoria says, "sh-she was supposed to still be away... keeping up appearances of being in solitary..."

An aged but still finely-kept sword, one with a very unique blade, is at this warden's waist. You see now that she is a tall (though not as much as yourself) woman of similar complexion to your own with short, crew-cut hair, statuesque and fully-armored. As she stops in front of your cells, she folds her arms, leaning and cocking her head towards Victoria.

"Talking about me behind my back again, Vicky?" She asks with an obvious level of malicious faux-casualness. "Go on, then, keep saying whatever you were. You know I'm not the best at giving introductions."

"Th-this is..." Victoria pauses for a moment.

"Get on with it! I want to meet your friends!"

"This is... C-captain Willow, former... Former member of the E-Emperor's Flight, current warden of Aum dungeon."

"No way!" Quidel says in shock, "y-you're supposed to be in prison..."

"And that's what my lovely son thinks, too! I would hate to disappoint him when he or the rest of the family wanted to make a visit, you understand?"

Yancy is reading in a corner, making himself unnoticeable as possible.

>A. Say something (write-in)
>B. Stay silent
>C. Wait, who were you again? (Ellen remembers Gorman's story perfectly well)

>>41835227
Not that fucking long anon.
>>41835269
C. Wait, who were you again?
No regrets i have!

>>41835227
That's just a year in this particular dungeon. Still longer than all other people who came in alive combined, but she did mention that she was somewhere else at first after being apprehended (remember that Biff and Byron said the mercenaries happened a few years back), and was expecting to be executed within days of suddenly being moved here.

>>41835269
>>C. Wait, who were you again? (Ellen remembers Gorman's story perfectly well)

>>41835287
>>41835348
"Wait, who were you again? Just... remind me."

"Are you deaf too, newcomer?! Vicky, say it again!"

"I wasn't talking to Victoria."

Victoria shoots you a look of fear and concern, one practically screaming "you are making a mistake," and Quidel's matches.

"And I told you that I don't DO self-introductions! I think I need to thoroughly educate you on what I'm talking about." She stares you down before unlocking and opening your door. Victoria is too hesitant to make anything of this situation, and her moves are too sudden (that, or fate simply conspires for the following events...) for you to avoid being yanked out and restrained.

Yancy just looks up, adjusts his glasses, and mouths something to you. You think it's... "Good luck?"

He must think you're actually up to something. Anyway, Willow gestures her head to a nearby guard (human, by what you can see of him). who nods and locks the door back up behind her.

>A. Say something else (specify)
>B. Stay silent
>C. Try to backpedal
>D. Write-in?

>>41835675
>Not even giving us a chance to react
Wow seriously? Fuck you Octo.

>>41835742
This has been a rail-roading type of quest from the very beginning, man. Don't get ticked off now.

>>41835793
Well he just fucked us over for no reason at all, So he can go fuck himself about all the "Oh i won't do it for a good reason!" bullshit he spouts.

>>41835675
>>A. Say something else (specify)
"I don't see the need why you need this much help for an introduction. Just feels pathetic if you ask me."

>>41835823
He fucked us when he knocked us out unconscious (for the 4th time) in our last battle. I'm getting sick of it, but I'm way to invested in this quest to bail out now.

>>41835894
Oh and don't forget that he doesn't even fucking respond to us about all this bullshit he does, Probably because he can't give us a good reason on why he does it other than to fuck us over.

>>41835934
Actually, I'm working on making the post.

>>41835996
Still not comenting on all the bullcrap you pull on us though, Now are you? And to top it all off you did it a-fucking-gain!

>>41835865
You figured that taking any action besides letting her show where she was going with this would get you killed significantly faster. You're bold, but not stupid, and an ultimately-futile act of resistance when the timing was wrong would simply make things more difficult. If she's still the volatile, easily-evaded-by-children woman that Gorman spoke of, seeing where she's bringing you could be best.

"I don't see why you need this much help with an introduction," you say anyway, "just feels pathetic if you ask me."

"I am no such thing!" She quite literally throws you into the wall. It hurts like hell, but she also can't help but notice a metallic clanging. Your ring fell out of clothes, and she eyes it rolling and pittering onto the ground. Stopping it with her foot, she picks it up. "So that little brat DID give you something. Oh, boy, when I'm through with you..."

The other guard is saying something taunting to Victoria, waving his sword around and possibly making pirate noises. You... probably don't want to ask Victoria whatever that was about.

>A. Write-in
>B. Sit there. Your head hurts...

>>41836043
>>41835894
>>41835793
It was literally the one thing Ellen could have done that wouldn't kill her. I put control back when it wouldn't result in instant death/completely useless for her to say/do anything but be dragged round.

>>41836131
>Or maybe you're guards are just incompetent about searching someone? Or was it you, I could definitely believe you to be incompetent at quite a few things!

>>41836131
>>A. Write-in

"Like I would put something that gaudy looking thing on my finger. Perhaps it would better suited for you."

>>41836239
You didn't give us a chance to disarm her, You didn't give us a chance to pull anything, You just saying "Oh anything you did would have resulted in instant death LOL!" is fucking bad QMing.

>>41836131
>A. Surprise the fucking guard

>>41836281
You're out of your cell now. That was the entire point of being dragged out of your cell.

>>41836297
DOUBLE DOWN

>>41836380
And fucking restrained in shit, We can't fucking do anything now, And we've lost the element of surprise.

>>41836297
>>41836385
Captain Willow isn't looking, but more importantly, neither is her weaker-looking lackey. In the moments she's looking away, you tackle the other guard and pull away his sword. His cry alerts Willow to your position, but she just... stands there a moment, stares in dumbfoundedness.

"That is some gall..." she says with genuine admiration before drawing her Wyrmslayer.

You have a sword and a set of keys, but you're also completely unarmored, and if Bovis' words are true your things are in some hidden compartment of a library you don't know the location of. You also don't know how many guards there are.

>A. Attack Willow head-on
>B. Let everyone else be for now; try to run past her towards the entrance/exit she came through
>C. Unlock Victoria's cell
>D. Unlock Quidel and Yancy's cell
>E. Unlock Vaga's cell
>F. Kill the guard with his own sword
>G. Write-in

>>41836493
Your only restraint was Captain Willow's own arms. As has been established, she's... not very bright, for all her brutal "thoroughness."

>>41836566
>F. Kill the guard with his own sword
>E. Unlock Vaga's cell
>>41836592
Well you didn't post that now did you? You only posted we were restrained.

>>41836641
I admit that my wording wasn't clear in that particular case. I would've said what with if it was anything that wasn't already indicated to exist (i.e. hands), but you are right.

> all this assmad
kek

>>41836566
>>F. Kill the guard with his own sword
>D. Unlock Quidel and Yancy's cell

>>41836566
>E. Unlock Vaga's cell
>F. Kill the guard with his own sword
not the biggest fan of that second one but call me peer-pressured

>>41836710
Also all the bullshit about us getting knocked unconscious basically EVERY fight we have, It's really bullcrap and annoying.

>>41836865
Consider: we're a first tier class (even if we have Trainee levels) that basically kills like 20 enemies per fight. There's also been ESPECIALLY powerful enemies, like the dracoliches or deadlords, plus our tendency to dive into hordes of monsters with little regard to our own safety.

Perhaps you should read the threads and look at our choices, and perhaps then you'll figure out why we seem to get KO'd so frequently.

>>41836641
>>41836826
You don't even hesitate to plunge the guard's own weapon through his neck while he's down, and Yancy is the only one who reacts with particular surprise. Victoria doesn't seem to care and Quidel knows you. You turn and run in the direction of the voices heard from sources unseen since last night (was it night? No wonder Victoria couldn't keep days straight), not being disappointed to find the familiar canid jackass, wasting no time in unlocking his cell.

"Not afraid I'll abandon you if you let me loose again?" Vaga says as he stands up.

>A. Retort (write-in dialogue)
>B. You both know that would end badly
>C. Actually, I was counting on it
>D. Write-in dialogue

And as you reply, you...

>E. Keep running
>F. Try to spot more guards
>G. Stand and await your approaching opponent
>H. Get back to the others' cells, despite the clear (and deadly) human obstacle in doing so right away
>I. Write-in

>>41837012
>>B. You both know that would end badly
>F. Try to spot more guards

Situational awareness is key if we don't want to end up dead.

>>41837012
>B. You both know that would end badly
>F. Try to spot more guards

>>41837012
>>A. Retort (write-in dialogue)
"We'll be even if you don't."

>I. Write-in
Here. Hand him the keys. Get the others out while I'll distract the crazy bitch.

>>41836865
I said it before. We'll invest in a helmet next time.

>>41837058
>>41837089
"You and I both know that would end badly," you say, also asking him how many more guards he knows about being stationed in this room.

"Typically three from what my ears and nose tell me, and the one that just bled all over you was not one of them."

You both keep on your toes, Vaga staying close by you and warning you as another guard approaches. This one has what looks like a basic Iron Bow. More importantly, she's aiming it at you and Vaga.

>A. Leap to the side
>B. Try to roll under where she's firing
>C. Come at her swinging
>D. Double back
>E. Use Vaga as a human shield (this will probably do nothing but get more of your fingers bitten off)
>F. Write-in

>>41837225
>>F. Write-in

Try to make it so that the shot hits Willow.

>>41837251
Second

>>41837251
Would be nice!

>>41837251
>>41837280
>>41837356
Vaga questions your logic as you shift just slightly, paying mind to how this changes the archer guard's aim, staying that way until you can pretty much feel Willow's breath at the bottom of your neck... Only for you to leap out of the way just instants after Vaga does the same, both of you barely missing a very fateful date with an arrow.

What was once your upper neck is now Willow's eye, and she barely catches the arrow just as it pierces nothing but the right-sided sight reticle, screaming and breaking it in two with her fist. The part still within her is, well... Still within her as most of the arrow hits the ground uselessly. Even the other two guards, one behind her and one to the side you jumped to, can only watch in fearful curiosity as the poor archer girl is backed into a corner.

"Mina," Willow says, seething.

"C-captain Willow..."

"Is THIS yours?" She shouts, lifting the guard up by her neck and pointing at her own eye with the Wyrmslayer.

"Y-yes..." the guard gulps audibly.

"Tell me, Mina... HOW AM I GOING TO EXPLAIN THIS ONE AWAY?!"

She's clearly seconds away from making an example of the guard, and the other two can only look on in fear.

>A. Watch
>B. Go and help your friends!
>C. Help the guard!
>D. Try to drive your sword into Willow as she does the same to her subordinate

>>41837661
>>D. Try to drive your sword into Willow as she does the same to her subordinate

FUCK HER UP

>>41837661
>>41837678
Add onto this: before you do (if there's enough time), slip Vaga the keys so he can let out the rest of our group.

>>41837661
>>B. Go and help your friends!
Fuck this shit.

>>41837661
>>41837678
>>41837703
Second, Man Ellen breaks out of prison in style huh?

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>>41837744
Yup!

>>41837678
>>41837703
>>41837744
As this goes on, you quietly hand off the keys to Vaga. The guard, Mina was apparently her name, spends her last moments begging her captain not to-

"Not to what?" Willow asks, cutting her off by running her blade through the poor girl's eye and head, "speak in full sentences, please."

Willow realizes her fatal mistake-turning her back on you-just as it becomes, well, fatal. "Hrng..." She coughs up blood onto her freshly-murdered subordinate, "I like you, kid... Didn't think there was someone... th-thorough as me out there..." When you pull your sword out from the good captain, she falls backwards, eyes staring up at you and grinning.

This is the final expression frozen on her face. You hear the sounds of cells unlocking, turning around to be face-to-face with two terrified, still armed guards.

>A. Take the Wyrmslayer from Willow
>B. Take the steel bow/arrows from Mina
>C. Be thorough (kill the guards before they get their shit together)
>D. Stand there
>E. Run off
>F. Say something
>G. Write-in

>>41837983
>>A. Take the Wyrmslayer from Willow
>>B. Take the steel bow/arrows from Mina
>F. Say something.
"So, considering what you just witnessed, I think it'd be best for you two to shut up and stay put, unless you want to end up like... Mina, was it? And the good captain, there."

Give Quidel the bow and let's keep the wyrmslayer for ourselves.

>>41837983
>A. Take the Wyrmslayer from Willow
>F. Say something
"Unless you want her coming back as a deadlord I suggest you help me chop her up, Or do you two want to be next?

>>41838016
>>41838025
They're both good, mang.

>>41838016
>>41838025
>>41837983
Honestly as long as we take the Wyrmslayer and the bow I don't give a shit what's said.

>>41838016
You pick up Willow's Wyrmslayer and wipe it-and the other sword you nicked-off on your prison rags, telling them, "so, considering what you just saw... Maybe you should just stay put, otherwise you might end up like..." You reach for the girl's bow, "Mina, was it? Oh, and... the warden."

The men's faces replace fear with rage, pointing their weapons towards you. They wield a lance and an axe, and the axe-wielding one shouts out, "y-you bitch! You let her die on purpose, d-didn't you?!"

The lance-wielder says, "she was our friend, and you just... She was more than live bait for some criminal scum to get out of the way!" Upon the word "bait," he throws his lance-a javelin, more accurately-towards you.

>A. Attempt to dodge and kill him in one strike
>B. Just get out of this corner
>C. Dodge and kill the axe-wielder first
>D. (if you kill one) Say something to the other instead of immediately attacking
>E. Write-in

(as an aside, sorry for not including the Deadlord line. It just felt out of place with the first choice)

>>41838227
>>D. (if you kill one) Say something to the other instead of immediately attacking
"Hey now, we're not some criminal scum."


Then dodge and attempt to persuade them to not attack you/possibly attempt to recruit them.

>>41838269
>>41838227
Unfortunately, I must depart for about an hour.

Don't do anything retarded without me, anons.

>>41838269
Second, Ask them if they even know about the situation? Especially since Willow WAS a criminal.

>>41838305
We've been doing retarded shit since forever, man.

>>41838312
Honestly, I don't even think we know the whole situation either. But persuading them isn't going to stop them from attacking.

>>41838269
Ellen sort of slammed the door in your shot at getting them to help with... Pretty much everything she just said.

>>41838227
>>E. Write-in

"I didn't shoot Willow right in the eye, and I wasn't going to take the bullet either. You should blame Willow for being a bitch, and you should be thanking me that I killed a tyrant!"

>>41838362
Well then changing my vote here>>41838312
To
>C. Dodge and kill the axe-wielder first
>D. (if you kill one) Say something to the other instead of immediately attacking
"Know was that really a smart thing to do? You're friend had to pay for your mistake, Now how about i give you one LAST chance? Drop your weapon now and I'll let you live."

>>41838451
>Know
Fuck i meant now.

>>41838448
>>41838451
"I'm not the one who shot her! You should be thanking me for-"

"But you're the one who condemned her, who robbed her warm corpse!" The axe wielder takes a swing at you. This ends with HIS end, and you kick the javelin away as his friend tries to reach for it, putting your foot down and pointing your sword at him.

"Your friend just paid dearly for the same mistake you just made. Now, I don't WANT to kill you, whatever your name is..."

"Simon."

"Simon. You have one more chance to forget all about some sort of misplaced revenge and leave me and my friends alone. Got that?"

Looking about ready to cry, Simon nods and scrambles away, even being so kind as to leave the door he went through unlocked in the process.

Your friends are simply staring, with looks that are... hard to read.

>A. Say something (specify)
>B. Remain silent

>>41838640
>>A. Say something (specify)

"What? I haven't had a good meal in a long time. I'm so testy right now that I'll literally bite someone's head off if I have to."

>>41838640
>What? Got something to say then say it, It was either them or us.
>See if you can't look some keys.

>>41838711
Where the fuck did Vega go? He did again, didn't he?

>>41838740
He's probably counted as one of the friends you know....

>>41838711
Eh second.

>>41838701
>>41838711
>>41838985
"Look, it was them or us, and they jumped to a lot of conclusions and decided we couldn't work this out. I've barely eaten in a day, and I want to get OUT of here. See if they have any keys, or identification, or something."

You retrieve your ring from Willow's remains as Quidel and Vaga do so.

"She... has a point."

"Stuff it, fleabag."

Since none were on her, it's likely that that first guard had all of Captain Willow's keys. Quidel refuses to accept Mina's bow, but Victoria approaches you.

"Er," she starts, "I was... quite the sniper, back in the day. It's been a few years now, but... I'm sick of being defenseless, and if that fellow is refusing to take it..."

You nod and hand Victoria the bow. She looks a lot more at ease already as she wears the quiver and holds onto the weapon.

Yancy calmly suggests you put the ring back on. "It's... clear that Captain Willow didn't want you to have it, which seems like reason enough to me."

>A. Refuse
>B. Do so
>C. Write-in

>>41839105
>A. Refuse
Not trusting it just yet.

>>41839105
>>B. Do so

Is it safe to take it? Guys?

>>41839214
Well, if we do feel sick and the others don't, would it be a good time to use it then?

>>41839105
>B. Do so

>>41839302
What the fuck are you talking about dude? Quidel refused to use the bow only.

>>41839302
>>41839283
>>41839222
You agree at the Dark Mage's behest. If it was something hurting you or outright useless, you feel as though Captain Willow wouldn't have paid it much mind.

Next, you turn towards the imminent fight between Quidel and Vaga. "Quidel, I thought you were improving on that. Besides, these people are responsible for... You saw what his mother is now! His own sister was in on that, and he wants to make sure this doesn't turn into a full-on race war! Please refrain from calling him a fleabag!"

Quidel sighs. "I... suppose you're right. We shouldn't be fighting each other when we're not armed."

You can probably get through any of these doors with Willow's keys, but... you just killed everyone who knows where you are.

Oh, well. People are still looking at you to lead them.

>A. Go through the door Simon took
>B. Go through the opposite doors
>C. Take the path that leads further downwards
>D. Take the path opposite the downward stairs

>>41839493
>>C. Take the path that leads further downwards
Let's get our shit. Remember what Mr. Dreadlord told us? Plus, Katarina. Where the fuck is she?

>>41839568
>>D. Take the path opposite the downward stairs
I meant this. Go up. Up!

>>41839493
>D. Take the path opposite the downward stairs

>>41839610
>>41839687
Following someone you just made a terrible enemy out of into unfamiliar territory doesn't seem like the best of ideas, so instead you take the one path that leads directly upstairs, which also appears to be the way Bolse and Bovis left. If anyone knows where Katina is... Plus, unless you're misremembering, the library was specifically described as "Bolse's,"

Appropriately enough, this leads you face-to-face with a much more intricate-looking door with no lock. Victoria is the first one through, with the last four of you following shortly after.

The library feels... massive. Elegant bookshelves lined with books of all qualities, arranged into various genres like... well, a library.

Sitting on a chair and reading something is Bolse, Bovis standing between you and him, but by no means in you way to anything else. He turns and looks at you, and Bolse is too engrossed in his book to notice. You... don't feel at all ill, and gaze at the indigo ring.

>A. Attack/Try to capture Bolse
>B. Talk to Bolse and Bovis
>C. Ignore them for now. Bookshelf on the second floor, right?
>D. Write-in

>>41839818
>Put our finger to our mouth make a shuush motion towards Bovis.
>C. Ignore them for now. Bookshelf on the second floor, right?

>>41839859
>C. Ignore them for now. Bookshelf on the second floor, right?
Pretty much this. I get the feeling that Bolse knows what happened down bellow due to the dead bodies.

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>>41839859
>>41839928
You put your finger up to your lips, signalling to the swordsman that he ought to be quiet.

"Isn't that kid deaf?" Quidel whispers.

"It's not like everyone else is!" Vaga whispers back. Yancy slowly shuts the door and Victoria leads the party up onto the second floor of the massive library.

"Look for anything that seems... Out of place along the walls. Discolored shelves, unmoving books, things sticking out of walls..."

"Think I found it!" Vaga whisper-exclaims, sliding open a bookshelf...

A woman inside sweetly tells him. "Sorry, but you're still banned from all Anna family businesses, not to mention lacking a member's card! Next shelf over before I alert the authorities!"

Vaga just sort of... Backs out, shutting the bookshelf up again, and does the same to the next one.

>A. Go in first
>B. Go in after Vaga
>C. Stay and watch, tell others what you should have in there

>>41840285
>B. Go in after Vaga

Even though they're completely different in race and personality I keep imagining Vaga as Yarne.

>>41840285
>...."What just...Nevermind..."
>A. Go in first

>>41840285
>D. Wait. No one is going to even question on what just happened here? Seriously?

>>41840285
>>A. Go in first
After that we should go into the Secret Shop also and talk to Anna.

>>41840375
>>41840399
"What was... is anyone going to-"

"It was a secret shop," Victoria says matter-of-factly, "it's a pretty reasonable location for one. How did you manage to get banned from there?"

Vaga answers "tried to rob the one in Rakche with my sister. The, uh, sweet one, not the literal man-eater."

"You're lucky your future children weren't banned right alongside you," Yancy adds.

Never mind. You just head into the room... All sorts of things are lying around this place. Clothes, armor, swords, a few personal effects... Some you recognize, a few you don't, and some you feel like you SHOULDN'T recognize. Pictures of yourself, familiar guard armor and axes from places events still fresh in your head this much later, residue of healing herbs left in some bag...

>A. Just find your things
>B. Look through other people's things
>C. Let someone else do it

>>41840710
We don't even have a card and she threaten to tell the authority about us.

>>41840731
>A. Just find your things

>>41840731
>>A. Just find your things

Do we have someone acting as a look out? And why is a picture of us stored in here too?

>>41840731
>>A. Just find your things
>>B. Look through other people's things
>>41840737
That was just Vaga, because he attempted to steal from the shop in Neir's capital.

We probably have one, considering we've already bought shit from an Anna anyways, not to mention we actively helped the one in Neir's capital from getting completely destroyed.

>>41840731
>A. Just find your things
Then
>B. Look through other people's things

>>41840822
Mitchell received a member's card for secret shops after the robbery. The Anna that sold you the devil sword wasn't running a secret shop.

>>41840944
I wish we had a card since we could had tried to barter our way out of here.

>>41840822
>>41840825
Victoria is looking out from the edge of the confiscated items room, bow ready, as you, Vaga, Quidel, and Yancy find your things.

After you've found your own belongings (you abandon the dulled Iron Sword for the Steel you pilfered from that first guard, but your Devil Sword, gold, and armor return to your side), you continue going through the... more odd personal effects. The small picture of yourself, it looks somewhat like a portrait that was in Koblenz's (Lambert's dad, captain of the guard) house back in the day. But that one also showed-

You notice that it's accidentally been torn on some blade, and some other scrap of paper on the floor... It appears to be a picture of Lambert. Held together, they look exactly like the portrait the proud father had, only smaller. An open, broken, locket is on the ground nearby.

Also in the room is a wooden practice sword, the name "Vale" etched into its handle.

Yancy simply slips his robe over his rags, grabs a dark tome and some sort of glasses-cleaning sheet, and tells Victoria to come in while he takes her place on watch.

Doing so, she quickly finds herself looking at a particularly regal-looking lance, of all things...

>A. Ignore her
>B. Ask what's up
>C. Offer to take Yancy's place
>D. Write-in?

>>41841191
>B. Ask what's up

>>41841191
>>B. Ask what's up
I'm guessing you're seeing some personal items that shouldn't even be here too, huh?

>>41841191
>B. Ask what's up

>>41841191
>>B. Ask what's up

>>41841230
>>41841236
>>41841258
>>41841355
You ask Victoria, "uh, hey, what's up?"

Victoria, "that lance, it's... I swear it's the lance of House Phile, the... Its name has slipped me, it's been so long."

"Denavd?!" Quidel asks slightly louder than he probably should.

"Er, yes, something like that... It's been so long I've forgotten its exact name, but you are supposedly a historian."

"No way," Quidel says, eyes lighting up, "that lance was said to be lost after Duke Philemon's son, Lord Phineas... Was..." He frowns. "Oh. Oh dear."

>A. Say something about what you've found (perhaps specify names?)
>B. Say nothing
>C. Say something else (write-in)
>D. Write-in action

>>41841441
>Lambert....No...NO!
>Grab our sword and rush down at Bolse

>>41841441
>B. Say nothing

>>41841441
>>A. Say something about what you've found (perhaps specify names?)
I hear you. I'm seeing some of Lambert's person stuff here. Is anyone here familiar with the name Vale?

So, I'm guessing this is where all the dreadlords put their persona momentos in?

>>41841499
>Is anyone here familiar with the name Vale?
Gorman fucking told us the story you idiot.

>>41841499
Vale was Tabat's daughter iirc. We learned all about Tabat from Gorman's stories.

>>41841441
>B. Say nothing

>>41841530
It's moreso that things are confiscated from all prisoners and stored here for safekeeping. It just happens that most prisoners changed when they got out.

>>41841476
>>Lambert....No...NO!
do you not remember Natalie staying up all night trying to make sure Lambert didn't die

there's no way he's a deadlord.

his dad probably is though

>>41841596
>there's no way he's a deadlord.
Deadlords can be made deadlords if they're dead, You do know that right?

>>41841441
>A. Say something about what you've found (perhaps specify names?)
So if Vale's stuff is here and we know what happened to her, then did the rest of the prisoners share her fate...?

>>41841725
Pretty much looks that way.

>>41841565
>>41841596
>>41841725
"I... think I get what you mean. And by the build of some of the Deadlords I've seen, and these items brought in by prisoners, and what we know about how they're made... I think Lambert's dad might be one of them, and this sword makes me all too certain that that Vale girl turned into... These other people must've shared this awful fate, or at least a few of them."

Vaga finds himself looking at a pair of beast stones, one looking significantly more vibrant the other, looking... embroidered with the colors of a transformed Managarm's fur.

Victoria looks nostalgically at a set of noble-looking clothes (dashing longcoat and all) and an impressive-looking bow, dusting them off. "It's... it's been years... Ronan... I need to get changed into these. I've been stuck in prisoner garb for years, and these were transferred! You lot, let me be private a moment!"

>A. Excuse yourself as well
>B. Take the opportunity to get yourself suited up
>C. Write-in?

>>41841828
>B. Take the opportunity to get yourself suited up

>>41841828
>B. Take the opportunity to get yourself suited up

>>41841828
>>B. Take the opportunity to get yourself suited up.

We really don't have the time.

>>41841828
>>B. Take the opportunity to get yourself suited up

>>41841868
>>41841873
>>41841887
>>41841911
Victoria doesn't object to you in particular taking a moment to do the same, the men of your party excusing themselves.

Victoria, you observe moreso than you could before in this moment, looks... malnourished, bony in various, with a remainder of what was once a muscular, healthy form. She also looks... generally unclean, though how much of that amounts to poor living conditions and how much to rarely bothering with self-care is left to your imagination. Her normally-covered flesh is also noticeably scarred, some old and from battles, some... you're not entirely certain of. You almost feel bad about being so muscley yourself in that moment, wondering if it makes her at all envious, longing for a time where she seemed less weakened.

Instead, when she finally gets her clothes back on, she chuckles in a paradoxically melancholic fashion, saying "these used to be a tighter fit." She adjusts a silver headband matching the most prominent color, finally keeping her hair out of her eyes. She slides some light armor on beneath the coat, which she explains was designed to stylishly conceal armor such as her own. "I'm going to get back into shape after we're out of here, though, mark my words. I've felt... as though there was a future for me for the first time since... gods, since before the revolution went under."

You've just finished re-equipping your own armor, feeling significantly more at ease as your ring-wearing left hand rests upon the Devil Sword.

>A. Say something (specify)
>B. Say nothing

>>41842151

>>41842151
>So, After we're out of this mess you got a plan or do you want to tag along?

>>41842151
>>41842242
This, only don't give her an alternative to joining us.

Also, Ellen, take your hand off that filthy sword. Put it on the new one.

>>41842151
>A. Say something (specify)
"I've heard all about this revolution of yours, and... I have to say, you're pretty brave. Misguided, maybe, but you strike me as someone true to her word. I think you'll be back in top form in no time."

Also this >>41842242

>>41842286
I like this better then what I was thinking of writing up, but my message was similar.

>>41842286
>>41842242
"I've... heard about this rebellion, revolution, whatever you call it, and... I don't really know the details, but you strike me as a brave, honest person from how briefly I've known you. I, I really think you'll be back in top form in no time."

"I haven't even escaped yet and already an admirer... Maybe someday I'll even be a Duchess again, but in the meantime..." She takes your hand, continuing, "I owe you so much already, so for as long as you'll have me, I'll travel by your side, Ellen."

Even though you're the only ones seeing this, it's... a bit embarrassing, flustering even, but anyway, the two of you head out with your things. For personal reasons, you decide to bring along the locket, and the lance Daedvn. Victoria figures it's better off anywhere but this dungeon.

As you two head out, Quidel and Vaga head in, with Yancy offering them a token "don't kill each other."

A few moments later, you hear someone's voice, made metallic and slightly muffled as though speaking through heavy armor, in the library, downstairs even.

"Look, I am asking you both this, since we all know I need to know about this before my grandfather, or every one of us might have hell to pay. Answer honestly, Bolse: I know you were afraid of her, but..." There's a pause. He's presumably exclusively signing something for a few moments. "Alright, then. Bovis, I'm aware of your... quirk, and I've kept it a secret for his sake, but... Did somebody ELSE ask you to kill Willow, Mina, Walter, and... Well, I assume Simon is dead, but we haven't found him."

"I received no orders from anyone to assault any of those people, Prince Lars," Bolse replies.

"Right, then, another question... Did the prisoners know where confiscated supplies are kept?"

"I did tell them, Prince Lars."

"Ah, yes, thank you for letting me know."

>To be continued
That's it for tonight, next time Garrus
Thanks for playing. Update twitter @qmgrandflocto, ask.fm is http://ask.fm/qmgrandflocto

>>41842697
Also, there wasn't enough room on the post to bring it up, but... I'll be around to just talk about shit for awhile. Gonna take some melatonin, but until that kicks in I'm all ears and mouths.

>>41842697
>That's it for tonight, next time Garrus
You won't skip the next stuff Ellen has to do will you? Also to be frank i think it's a bad idea to switch to Garrus, Ellen is the MC and we won't be able to play Garrus as well as her.

>>41842775
Well, it won't necessarily be Garrus, but someone in his party. I'll probably do a poll early in the thread.

And don't worry, the intent of this dual-action is so that plot developments that were planned to occur while Ellen was somewhere she no longer is/can be can still happen without being wholly offscreen.

>>41842775
Well, I am curious on how everyone else is faring. Also, I am on the Ellen x Victoria train.

>>41842830
No /u/, Fuck off Yurifag.

>>41842830
ellen x reece a best

biff and byron can go and stay go

>>41842830
Everyone else is alive until/unless someone screws things up in particular yet-undetermined situations, except in the case of the one "this was going to happen before any of you even knew what this quest is" death out of the party members. Don't feel like giving detailed synopses is necessary when we'll see them next time anyway.

That one, it's just a matter of time.

>>41842874
Oi we should be nice to Biff since he's dating our best friend.

>>41842905
IS Natalie still our best friend?

>>41842940
Of course!

>>41842888
LET'S SEE...

It's either Garrus, Stefyn, the King, possibly Yvette, I don't think you'd throw away Zoe like that, or . . .

Assuming it's yet to come, it couldn't have been Lambert, unless it was.

Out of all of them, I'd say Yvette or Garrus is most likely.

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>>41842957
Should we be a dick to Dama because Stefyn clearly (and reciprocatedly) wants to fuck that?

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>>41842981
Nah, I'd go for more pic related tbh.
>>41842987
Fuck no, Only be a dick to Stefyn.

>>41842940
Yeah... maybe... don't know. Oh. Would indirectly killing someone's friend and killing another friend might make us reflect about someone killing our friend? I feel bad about Mina and Walter. Poor Simon.

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>>41843007
Or this pic, Don't really know how old Ellen is, Also of course the pic's don't have tanned skin but eh just use your imagination.

>>41843031
Eh it was a kill or be killed situation, Plus i don't really think Ellen would be one to care about that, Shit happens, as long as it isn't someone she cares about i feel she doesn't have a need to care.

>>41842888
Had we saved Mina, would it have been possible to recruit the three of them?

Or did you only create the three of them for dramatic effect and more kek?

>>41843060
We already have a huge cast anon, I doubt he would try to make it to much bigger.

>>41843055
We didn't kill her. It was Willow. I don't think we could had saved her honestly.

>>41842981
I'd always pictured her hair as somewhat shorter, but this actually looks pretty good.
>>41843007
>>41843032
That reference just looks a tad too knightly. Like, not to a HUGE extent, but her armor seems to be lighter.
>>41843031
If it influences your stance on it at all, I was genuinely surprised with literally every aspect of the Willow battle and options chosen (I'd expected her to be at least a twice-recurring antagonist), especially with letting Mina die/saying that to her friends. I'd started to outline some basic roles the trio (or even the duo!) could play during this arc, maybe see if any of them stood out as characters on their own. [[spoiler:And all of that consideration only existed starting with Willow's eye getting shot.]]

>>41843091
>>41843118
You could have saved Mina AND killed Willow, and depending on how things went from there/how interesting the characters seemed, they would either have died along the way anyway, been written out and maybe gotten a callback later, or any number of them could've stuck around depending on how cool allies they were.

Of course, I didn't forget about Yancy's and Vaga's expected saviors, either.

>>41843178
>Yancy's and Vaga's expected saviors
Who?

>>41843224
Remember, Yancy thinks that Miles guy and his friends were coming, and Vaga thinks his harem of still-loyal fangirls is coming.

>>41843252
Ooooh right.

>>41843264
I have some ideas in mind for Miles (and more interestingly, for a couple of his pals), but... Honestly, the wolves are probably going to be cannon fodder that can make a dent anyway.

>>41843307
All that is going to have to wait now.

>>41843307
>Honestly, the wolves are probably going to be cannon fodder that can make a dent anyway.
Going going to be honest, Never expected them to show up at all.

>>41843357
Same.

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>>41843307
What about pic related?

>>41843334
Yep, but instead you get the interesting ideas I had for meeting with Simia! Notice the conspicuous absence of a few bosses you last saw kidnapping you in the desert? They're not about to give up on exactly what Mimon suggested they were doing.
>>41843357
Consider them in a state of "maybe." A preordered and ready Deus Ex Machina for if you guys are really fucked.

>>41843399
At the very least, the outfit is exactly what it's labeled. "Suits" Ellen, no pun intended.

>>41843399
Well, uh... Hello, Ellen.

>>41843453
Eh i personally like it, It fit's quite well with what Ellen has been described as if you ask me, Down to a T.

>>41843511
>>41843487
Yeah, it's already growing on me I admit.
My only problem with the portrait from >>41842981 is, again, that I honestly doubt Ellen would have long hair. As someone who's had to contend with long-ass hair while being a dude who doesn't do much of anything in the past, whatever authority that gives me over the hairstyle of a fictional quest protagonist.

>>41843545
Well>>41843399 This has short hair, And honestly>>41842981 looks kinda bad in my opinion and doesn't really fit Ellen's persona if you ask me, I honestly do suggest sticking with>>41843399 though.

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>>41843585
Part of the problem there is that all of the Advance-era girl portraits are kind of cutesy, with the exception of pic related, whose sprite... really doesn't do her official art justice.

>>41843626
How is>>41843399 This "cutesy'!? It REALLY isn't, And let's be honest there probably won't be anything as close to Ellen as that picture.

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>>41843545
>>41843585
>>41843626

I can make her with short hair next time. Although I can't make her tougher looking without using Vaida's sprite like what Octo said. I guess she can be just angry looking though.

>>41843651
I'm not saying that. I was saying that that was an issue with nearly all girls' GBA FE Sprites.
>>41843657
Ugh, this is giving me flashbacks of the one time I tried to make a portrait with parts of Vaida's mug. Still, though, thank you for your efforts and such.

>>41843701
So can we just settle on this>>41843399 being what Ellen looks like then please? I can try and get it colored in a drawthread also if you want.

>>41843719
Yeah, that's what I'm kinda-sorta trying to say (sorry if I seem a bit hard to read. Blame sleeping pill)
That'd be really cool of you though. Who drew the original?

>>41843752
Finally found it again, Here
http://eduardogaray.deviantart.com/art/Mercenary-464437715

>>41843831
Wonderful. Even updated the "chapter/part list" pastebin to replace that older one.

>>41843895
Cool, Anyways I'll see if i can get it colored tomorrow on the drawthread, but just to be clear this is what we're going for for what Ellen looks like right?

>>41843913
Guess so. At this point it's hard to think of much that would be any more fitting.

>>41843937
Awesome, See you next time then, Adios!