>>310373
>>309530

Tell her in private? And risk the death of you and your friends? No. You break free from your captor's web thanks to your sword. In fact, it seems your surge of strength had occurred to the rest of your party as well, as only Anna was still hopelessly trapped in the webbing. “My, what strength! You would prove most delectable indeed!” They are charging. You can see four in total including her. You are all generally feeling a little bogged down by the webbing still lingering on you but you’ll have to fight.

>Fight offensively
>Fight defensively
>Come up with the battle plan to deal with these Arachne, refer to Pastebin for needed information

Well, you're up early, OP.
Fight offensively.

>>310378
Overall
Stay a little more defensive. Not dying good.

MC
Cut Anna free. After Anna is free, focus on one target with Anna.

Anna
Try to get free. When free, focus on one target with MC

Yuki
Defend Anna and MC while MC is cutting Anna free. After Anna is free fight a target with Victoria.

Victoria
Throw Spear through a Arachne. After that assist Yuki in fighting a target.

Akitani
Petrify the Final target that doesn't have a spear through them or isn't currently being engaged.

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Rolled 2, 19, 11, 3, 10 = 45 (5d20)

>>310405
>I said 1pm pst and I try to be on time if anything else

>>310440

Fighting defensively would only result in getting trapped like earlier. Time to go on the offensive. But first, we need to free Anna. You sprint over to get her free as fast as possible, fighting off her assailant. Yuki joins in the best she can to help get Anna up. Another one of the Arachne try to team up and attack you two and Anna but Victoria throws her spear to intercept. Akitani singles out one of them and tries to petrify them as quickly as possible.

Rolling and adding in the corresponding order
MC +4
Anna -3
Yuki +2
Victoria +8
Akitani +8
>Adjusted numbers for web situation.

>>310457

You try to get Anna free and fight at the same time, but it proves too much and when helping Anna you take a hit on your stomach. Thankfully though it seems Anna has managed to free herself. Yuki managed to hit an Arachne with a small attack with the glaive and Victoria managed to hit the same one with a spear. Although this time it didn’t go through them. Regardless there is still a spear in them and they are freaking out accordingly. Akitani manages to single one out with her gaze and if he manages to keep her eyes on them for a bit longer they should be neutralized. The final one and leader you suppose were heading over to you, and try to take advantage your misstep.

>¾ Arachne combat worth. 1 has a spear in her and is currently freaking out

>>310479
Updated Plan

MC
Break left and forward and move to attack the leader with Anna.

Anna
Break right and forward and move to attack the leader with the MC.

Yuki
Move to defend Akitani. And keep the targets at a distance. If you can throw a knife.

Victoria
Focus on the one that is still fighting and is not the leader and go full offensive. Victoria can hit and should be able to bring one down.

Akitani
Keep petrifying.

Rolled 8, 12, 6, 13, 16 = 55 (5d20)

>>310518
>>310518

Rolling
MC +4
Anna +3
Yuki +2
Victoria +8
Akitani +8

>>310539

You and Anna go for the leader. You miss but Anna manages to land a good hit. The leader takes a swipe at you, though. Getting you in the face and sending you to the ground. Yuki tries to defend people as best she can from a distance, but her shaky hands don’t let her throw her knives effectively. Victoria pounces on the one next to you and anna that isn’t the leader now that the one with the spear in them is panicking. A nice belt to the stomach knocks the wind out of her but she responds with a slash and her torso. Akitani manages to petrify the one she was focusing on to the point they won’t be a problem. While on the ground the leader jumps on top of you. “Time to go to sleep now!” She bites you in the neck and you feel a fluid flowing into you. “Ahh.” Anna now with the opportune opening strikes at the leader and delivers a severe blow to their back. The leader falls on top of you. Unsure if she is dead or not, but regardless you can’t move and feel a tingling within you.

Seeing their leader fall the remaining scamper off . Not willing to risk anything you have Akitani petrify the leader, she still seems to be breathing.

>Half petrify her to keep her alive (then do what?)
>Petrify her completely and kill her (then do what?)

sorry for the slow response, family came over unexpectedly

>>310631
Half-Petrify. Get someone to suck out the poison in your neck. Probably Akitani, she is a basilisk she might have some poison resistance. Other than that patch everyone's wounds close and retrieve thrown weapons.

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>>310657

“Leave her half petrified and make it slowly wear off. Also, can someone do anything about the poison in my neck.” “I will!” Akitani enthusiastically volunteers, then she regains composure. “Well as a Basilisk I have some natural resistances to poisons and the like, also I wish to make up for… yesterday.” Okay then. She moves to suck out the poison but is taking a bit to long to do it. Almost on purpose as she is now kissing the spot more than sucking out the poison. At this point, you can already move again but she doesn’t stop. “Ahem, however ” you get her attention. “Oh sorry, I just wanted to be thorough” Sure she did. Everyone picks up their weapons and takes care of the minor wounds they received. The bite on your neck heals in about an hour. The new hickey there, however, will remain for some time.

>Continue to village
>Try to talk to now petrified leader. (about what?)

>>310693
Try and talk to now petrified leader.
Who are you? Where were you planning on taking us? Tell us everything you know about the old village?

>>310723
"Pfft, like I care about your dumb questions. My name is Fey, not that it matters. I was just gonna take you back to my place higher in the trees for an intimate dining experience. The old village? nothing other than its a ruin and a distant memory of a time when the eating was really good around here."

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>>310797

You probably aren’t going to get much more out of her, certainly nothing useful. “Well, we’ll leave you here, the petrification should reverse over an hour or so. Leave us alone if you happen to see us again.” “Whatever kid, have fun in your shitty ruin.”

Sure glad that is over. Thankfully you were already pretty far through the forest and are able to make your way out of the forest and right outside the old village. Ruins they were indeed. Looking well over hundreds of years old. Demolished buildings overgrown landmarks. One thing that does strike your mind is why hasn’t anyone done something or tried to take over this area, but instead just leave it here for hundreds of years?

>Inspect further
>leave and go (where?)

>>310832
Investigate further but be on gaurd.

>>310858

There has to be something here, but if this day has taught you anything it’s to be on guard as much as physically possible. You brandished your weapons and walk through the ruins. You notice that there are some runes etched into the broken pillars and walls that remained. As you near them, they glow. “?” You reach out and touch it, to which you see a small message appear about it. “Human recognized.” “Wha-” the wall that the rune was etched into slid open. It was a flat wall with nothing on the other side, but down this passage were stairs to… somewhere.

>Go down the stairs
>Don’t this is too suspicious

>>310901
Go down the stairs

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>>310914

It’s too intriguing. You make your way down the stairs. It was a dark hallway and you could feel Yuki clutching onto you as you all walked down. Anna was looking back ever now and they to see if the door closed itself behind you. It did. Shit. After walking down to what felt like an endless staircase you came to a room with another rune on the door. You touched it again. “Human species confirmed. One moment.” The doors then opened to what you could imagine was a small lab/shop underground. But you couldn’t see anyone. You searched around the room for any signs of people but nothing. Then came a bright flash. Then in the room came the flash again. You shield your eyes but afterwards, you see an old man where the flash was emanating from but he hasn’t noticed you.

“My my, why does it happen every time I go there. To think, I might never get this right. It’s okay, though if there is anything I have it is time.” He is talking to himself. “What? No that couldn’t possibly be the answer. I know we just have to add a bit more mana to the spell. Yes, I know last time that sent us to there on accident, but it is the only thing we got. Now where did I put my pen? Ahh, here it is. The pen floats to his hands. Now to rebuild the circle and prepare for the journey one more time”

>Um hello?
>Back away slowly

>>310945
Hello

>>310969
"Um, hello" "Hello! Now back to what I was talking-. wait a minute." He turns around "OH HELLO. how did they get in here? are they wearing convincing disguises to be humans and wait? IS THAT A SNAKE?! calm down, calm down you were prepared for this" He tries to regain composure. "Now young ladies and... snake lady, you have entered my home assumedly to attack my person for no humans exist on this plane besides I, for now." "No we are humans, brought here from the mortal plane, and we are currently traveling around this place. We apologize for intruding but we wanted to investigate this ancient site." "Hmm, method scholars are you, thought it would be best to disguise yourselves and act as humans in order to study them. I must say it is an old practice" he takes a step back "if not unsettling"

"No, you don't understand we are really human." "can you prove it?" "HOW DO WE PROVE THAT!" "Simple," he reaches over to you and pokes you with something with amazing speed might you add. "Hmm now we just gotta wait a couple weeks." you see a bright flash. "Okay done, yep you are human." "Wait what just happened?" "I proved that you are human and now we can talk like civilized humans do." He looks at Akitani and takes another step back. What the hell is with this guy?

>Write in

>>311040
Who are you? What are you doing here? What did you poke me with? and Was that magic a minute ago?

>>311080

“Oh me? My names is Auriel and this is my home/lab/summer vista. Here I study and travel. And yes it was magic small girl, does it surprise you that humans can learn magic. Let me tell you it takes time, but is it worth it. Oh, what I poked you with? That was a small needle to draw blood and test for human-ness it is hard to tell these things and I wanted to make sure.”

“Who the fuck is this guy?” Victoria is clearly done with this crazy infested old man who is just ranting away. “No don’t be like that, you came to this village to investigate, but what did you hope to find? Me perhaps? I have been here an awful long while but this is the first time I have ever gotten visitors. Would you like some tea? wait . do I still have tea? One second.” Flash. “Yep still got tea.” Seriously what the hell.

>Write in

>>311160
He has clearly not talked to people in a while. Accept the tea. Ask about what he is studying and more about magic. Like how would someone go about learning magic. Also ask about what happened to this village.

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>>311239

Tea it is. “You’ll have to excuse the mess it has been quite a while since I have had company. Come in, come in,” You were already in. He clearly hasn’t talked to people in quite a long time. Once situated with tea to ask. “So what are you studying and what happened to this village.” “Funnily enough, what happened to the village is mainly what I study. But it is hard though you have to go places that really should not be gone to or interfered with. He takes a long stare into his tea. “What I have found is that like Siegfried writes this village was devoured by the monsters both in the forest and the great river. However, there is a disturbance here. An old and evil one, and I feel that the time in which the village vanished is key. All the stories, including Seigfried’s, says that the extinction of the village occurred gradually, but I think it was rapid. I just… can’t figure it out.”

“Auriel... is there a way to learn magic and how about could we do such a thing.” “So you wish to do you? I’m afraid it is quite complicated. Humans have to be born with the capability or else they can never learn it. Do you wish me to check for the capability? Don’t worry this time it is much easier than a one-week blood test” You are hesitant but this is a golden opportunity. “Alright all you have to do is let me touch your head for a second.” This seems familiar, when did this happen before you wonder. He places his thumb to your forehead and you feel a slight humming in your head. “It would seem, young lady, that you have quite the aptitude. Staunchly more than any human I have come across. You ask the old wizard to do the same to all your friends. “Hmm after checking it seems that three of you have the aptitude. He points to you, Anna and Yuki. "Studying would take time, however. Time is something I have, but if I am to teach you I need assistance in my research. Help me discover all those years ago what may have happened."

>Accept
>Decline

>>311457
>Accept

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>>311485

Learning magic at this point could only help you, plus you were just as interested in this village than he was so helping him learn about it while studying yourselves could only be beneficial. “Sure we will help you.” “Excellent! We don’t have time to waste we must collect the materials post haste!” He said it with a sense of urgency, but he had all of the materials in a matter of about 10 minutes.

Now what we are going to do will technically be your girl's first lesson and step to uncovering the past. Magic in this plane is like an air current flowing constantly around you, but it can only be tapped into by some. The strength of will is key for a proper channeling.” He draws 5 runes on the ground in his lab. “Now place your hands over these and imagine yourself conjuring, channel the power through your hands to these runes.” He then demonstrates, and the rune lights up. Seems simple enough, you move to your rune and it takes you about 5 seconds for the run to light up. Yuki, on the other hand, takes about 5 minutes with Auriel's coaching.” “Phooey, why is this so hard!” Anna puffs, “speak for yourself I got it down easy” and then proceeds to take equally as long as Yuki did. “Hehe” “QUIET YOU!” At least they are as lively as ever. Meanwhile, Victoria and Akitani are sitting and waiting.

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>>311693

“Excellent, something like this takes most young ones a day to fully grasp but it seems you all have quite the strength of will. Our next lesson will be in the field I am afraid.” He draws a circle combining all 5 runes lighting up one extra whilst doing so. now everyone stand in the circle I drew. Oh, I am sorry but before we go I need to do something to your Basilisk friend. I promise it won’t be anything dangerous. He hasn’t lied to you yet. “Wonderful, now miss snake please drink this.” You nod at her your approval. She begrudgingly drinks and after a few seconds, she seems to shrink to about your size. Not only that she now has human arms legs and eyes. “Cute,” you couldn’t help but think as Akitani now matched your party perfectly much to her dismay. “What? WHY?” “Sorry miss, but it is because the place we are going is far less hospitable to monsters of your like.” “Okay…” she says defeated. She walks over and leans against you for safety in what is about to happen.

The room fills with light.“Now ladies what will happen now will be jarring, but don’t worry for if I calculated things right, this time, this should work.” “Wait, what-.” Suddenly you are surrounded by bright light and after a minute or so you come out to what looks like the outskirts of a small town. Bustling with people. Specifically human people. Aureil, speaks from behind you. “I never told you what type of magic I specialize in… it’s time.”

That will be the last consistent post of today, I may post casually throughout the night but I won’t be dedicated until tomorrow around 7pm PST like usual.

I just read through the quest, and I'm finding it interesting so far.

As far as critique goes, the scorpion fight felt a little meh. Like, everything was going horribly, we were injured, and then boom, we won.

I get wanting to move the story forward and all, but don't be afraid of making these encounters dangerous and taxing for our heroes!

Either way, I had fun reading through it. Keep up the good work OP.

>>314782
>I was concerned about the scorpion fight as well, but they rolled a nat 20 on a will save and I felt that the fight itself was going quite long.

>Thanks for the criticism, though, I gladly welcome it. Truth be told this is my first quest so people should feel free to tear me apart.

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>>311706

So we are in the past? When in the past?” I’m not sure.” “YOU’RE NOT SURE?!” “Hopefully, this is finally the right time. Each time I have seem to manage to get hear either too early or too late.” “Well it's easy to find out, we just have to ask someone.” “That we cannot do, all we can do is observe, for if we change one thing in the past it might have terrible repercussions on the future. That being said I shall now make us invisible and senseless to all. This would allow us to observe in peace and at least eavesdrop and find out what year it is.” Makes sense, you saw The Butterfly Effect, unfortunately. “Now children observation is key, but this may take some time, and in which case I will prepare a small zone for us to train in peace during seemingly minute days. Though one of use should be in the field at all times ideally. With that said let us begin!”

After a few short hours, you were able to gather that it was approximately a few months before most records record the initial abandonment of the village. If the old wizards theory is correct that means that the rapid abandonment event should occur around then. The villagers also seem to be fearful of most monsters. The river monsters next to them are a necessary evil as are the Felwood monsters due to the fact that they need to resources and don’t seem to have the tools necessary to deal with them properly. Your groups studies progress. It seems Anna has taken a liking to alteration based magic, while Yuki seems to be adept at healing and aiding magic. Although this was only the start, it is difficult to know where things progress. You, however, seem to possess aptitudes for multiple schools, but for now, you should pick on to focus in.

>Holy magic (Healing and divine spells)
>Arcane magic (Magic missile and the like)
>Fire Magic (Fireball!)
>Death Magic (Necrotic, Necromancy)

>>315440
>Death Magic (Necrotic, Necromancy)
Full Edgelord

>>315547
support

>>315440
Holy Magic

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>>315547
>>315590

There is something awfully alluring about what people consider the dark arts. Plus rotting away your opponents and raising the dead could prove effective. If not slightly immoral. You practice the basics of what the Auriel can teach you, but if you wanted to learn death magic likely you would have to talk to mother. Speaking of which “Mother are you there?” “... … … “ Hmm, I guess the time magic is interfering with your connecting in some way. At least she is out of your head for the moment. But for you, it is back to the grind of observation.

You were out on your usual patrol through town making sure to stay out of anyone's way or even touch anything that looks mildly important. You don’t believe every minute little change would drastically affect the future but it is better to be safe. Auriel explained that If we do mess things up we might have to go back in time again to stop our own selves. Just thinking about it hurts. Nothing of note seems to be happening, however, you do notice that a young guy? No girl? It is hard to tell, but they have messy semi black hair that covered most their face and is wearing a concealing hat, baggy pants, and an equally baggy shirt. Much like you. It seems some of the local boys have taken her doll and are running around with it and playing keep away. “No! Give it back! My mommy gave me this!” Her pleas were of no avail as the boys simply laughed and continued to pass it around between them out of her reach.

>Help the girl (how)
>Don’t help the girl
>Write in

>MC gains Death Magic, Yuki gain's Holy Magic, and Anna gains Alteration Magic.

>>315663
>>Help the girl
Get the gang all up in here

>>315663
Help the Girl. You are invisible. Grab the boy holding the doll and shake him around a bit. Act like a scary ghost to the boys. When he drops the doll, give the doll to the girl. Guardian Angel style.

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>>315682
>>315700

This is a little mean, and you don’t just want to let these boys torment the poor girl. Using your invisibility to your advantage you sneak up behind the boy and give him a good shake and a scare. “AHHH GHOST!” they yell, they drop the doll and run off. The girl runs over to her doll and brushes it off frantically and then holds it close to her chest. She then raises her head “Um, thanks, Mr. Ghost.” You can’t really communicate back easily as it would completely blow your cover and probably terrify everyone. Instead, you kneel down and slowly write in the dirt, no problem I couldn’t let that continue.” Instead of scaring the kid she actually grew quite happy “Haha, so there really is a ghost, but you don’t seem mean like mommy used to say, are you a nice ghost? An angel?” You scribble, “I like it more than ghost.” “Hehe, well thanks, Mr. Angel!” She then grew a bit sad. “If it isn’t too much of a problem could you look after me a bit more, the kids bully me a lot of for my looks.” You feel a kinship with her, but at the same time, this might be a little too much interference.

>Agree to be her Guardian Angel
>Decline
>Write in

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>>315783
Agree to be her Guardian Angel

>>315791

Time passes and not much happens to the village. There was a small scuffle between the townspeople and the neighboring monsters who were trying to steal away men, but that seemed like an ordinary occurrence enough to not warrant any further investigation. The only thing mildly interesting was a robed young wizard came to town for a quick visit. The only reason that was noteworthy was the village didn’t practice magic at all.

All the while you make sure that little kid kids life was as pleasant as you could make it within reason. She tells you that her name is Malena. You kept her away from bullies, you help her find some of her missing things the boys hid from her earlier. She carried her doll with her everywhere and every now and then she whispers something to the doll after you help her.” One day after school Malena asks you, “Hey Mr. Angel, is it okay if you come home with me tonight?”

>Accept
>Decline

>>315867
Accept

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>>315875

You write in the ground “Of course.” She lights up and then leads you to her house. When arriving she seems to be moving as silently as possible. Hmm? You mirror her just in case. She opens the door as quietly as possible and makes her way to her room. On the way you see what looks like her dad in the living area passed out with a bottle in his hand. She probably doesn’t want to wake him. When you and her get into her room she locks the door.

“Do you want to play a game? Mr. Angel? I don’t have much. That is an understatement. Her room is a complete mess and disheveled. Maybe one of the reasons she gets bullied is due to her poverty. “We can do this!” She grabs a piece of chalk and draws a tic tac toe board. “I’ll start as Xs you can be Os” You play tic tac toe for a while, It gets late and Malena says she needs to change for bed and tells you not to look. Not like she can stop you but you do her the courtesy anyways. In her new clothes, you can finally see her arms and legs. They are covered in bruises and scars.

“Alright, Mr. Angel next we can-” Then you hear a grumble coming from the living room. Malena gets very tense and moves to her door, making sure it is locked she quickly retreats to the opposite corner of the room with the doll in her hands. “No, no, no, please not again, mommy… mommy.” You hear from the other side of the door “Pfft that kid, what does she think she is doing mooching off my good will.” He sounds inebriated. “HEY OPEN THIS DOOR YOU LITTLE SHIT!” A quite voice, “no… no.. mommy please… not again.” You understand now why she wanted you here tonight. “Mr. Angel, please… help.”

>Open the door slightly and punch him in the face
>Attempt to keep the door locked
>Write in

>>315933
Attempt to keep the door locked and try to reassure her that everything will be ok. If that doesn't work bum rush the dad and try to knock him out.

>>315977
Also tell her that you are going to take her away from this place later. Bring her to nicer, safer place.

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>>315977
>>315990

Better double make sure that door is locked. It is. You try to reassure Malena that everything will be alright, you write on the ground in chalk “Don’t worry I’ll make sure that nothing bad will happen to you and after this, we will find a safe place for you.” “She is still shaking but she manages to nod her head.

“HEY, I SAID OPEN UP! IS THIS HOW YOU REPAY YOUR CARETAKER?” “mommy.. mommy... please.” she starts violently shaking. You hear a banging. He is busting down the door. “!” You don’t waste your chance. You run over the door, wait for it to open and plow him straight in the jaw. “WHA-. what was that!” You don’t stop. You beat his face in until you are certain he is unconscious. You walk over to Malena who is still cowering and write. “Don’t worry I can take you away from here, just give me your hand.” she slowly raises it. You grab her and make tracks back to your little safe haven that night. On the way, Malena asks “how did you do that, Mr. Angel? How did you hit daddy?” You wanted to provide her with a little advice instead of just explaining you punched him “You have to be strong Malena, Strength of will let you do almost anything.” She passes out on your back shortly after.

Auriel made sure she would stay asleep via a spell before she might see anything. And then. “YOU DID WHAT!?” he begins yelling. “I told you did I not? Messing with the past can drastically alter the future.” You just wanted to save the kid. “However noble your intentions it may still cause phenomena back in the present. *sigh* but I suppose we will have to make do. There is no telling what this may cause.”

Chaos so it seems. The town began to uproar. It seems Malena’s father began to tell the townspeople that his daughter was a witch and tried to murder him with dark magic. There were nightly search parties in both the forest and near the river. The monsters started to take advantage and take the opportunity to take more men. Frustration in the village reached a boiling point. “First a cursed child, now more frequent monster attacks?! Our families need to get out of here.” Are we causing the abandonment of the village?! Malena was allowed to stay under your care but you were still invisible and played Mr. Angel hiding her in a small invisible shack Auriel was kind enough to create. “Mr. Angel, I don’t have mommy… where's mommy?” She must mean the doll. She likely dropped it during the confusion a few nights ago. You’ll have to go back at some point and grab it for her, but the town is too dangerous at the moment. In fact, you are almost certain a mass riot at this point may be imminent.

>Write in

>>316061
Tell her we will try and find her mommy. After that head into town. If things get too bad though get out of town fast.

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>>316110

You reassure her, “We’ll try and find her don’t worry.” She nods. Time to head into town to see if we can’t grab the doll in the confusion.Unfortunately, town leadership is collapsing around you. Neighbors are blaming neighbors and people are fleeing from the village as you walk in. But then the real worst of it happened. “Hmm that guy told us that this place would be easy picking but I never imagined it would be this easy, they are practically running out in the open for us.” You look up and you’ve seen the sight before. Vampires. The town people start to panic even worse as then they already were as vampires now sweep into the streets looking for anyone they could get their hands on. Most were being killed immediately some were left, however. In a few minutes the town was practically and part of it literally on fire. Shit you need to get out of here. However you hear in the distance “MOMMY!” Malena must have seen the commotion and ran back herself to rescue her doll. If only she didn’t. You watched over her and helped her reach her house. Her dad was being held by his neck and sucked dry in the living area but an elegant male vampire. “Why hello there young one. Come to rescue your father, I am afraid it is a bit too late for that.”

>Write in

>>316147
Attack the vampire with your sword, go for the heart and neck. Though if he addresses you personally, mention that you know his master, Mother.

Rolled 20 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>316157

You charge the vampire with your sword. You weren't letting this happen again, not to a poor girl like Malena. You aim for the heart. You have the surprise factor on your side in this, if you can’t kill him perhaps you can at least incapacitate him so you and Malena could grab the doll and run. You run in and…

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>316171

You did it right through the heart. The vampire then slinks over. Dead. You did it. Phew now you can escape with Malena. You grab her and the doll and head outside. Then you hear behind you, “My lord are you okay? Who did this to you.” “It doesn’t seem like the wound was with a wooden weapon but metal, he will be fine.Thankfully he has a fresh body here for recovery. But the one who did this must be outside. Find them!

Rolling stealth

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>316184
You somehow manage to make it half way through town, but now they are swarming faster, fervent on finding the one to did this to their master.

Mod is -5

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>>316188

You couldn’t keep it up forever, you might be invisible but Malena isn’t. Four vampires surround you. Heh, a little kid, I doubt someone like her could do something like this to him. Orders are orders though we need to bring her back to him to make sure. Either way, we get to eat her.” “Mr. Angel… mommy… what do I do? You write next to her. “Be strong.” You wanted to include, “We’ll get out of this” but she was already being dragged away. “She was only a kid, she couldn’t hope to fight off 4 vampires. They didn’t know you were there so you were able to keep watch over Malena but that was all you could do.

“Is this the kid my lord.” “Indeed it is…” The vampire before could barely stand was limping over to Malena. He leans down and looks her in the eyes. “Tell me child did you do this to me.” Malena was terrified. “I… have to be strong.” “?” “Being strong means…” Malena then punches the master vampire in the face.

It wasn’t much of a punch considering their difference in stature but the lord was still shocked, but only for a minute. He then turned to Malena and started to laugh. “Hahahahaha, defiant even in the face of all this. That man was right this place did have something I would find interesting. Besides a good meal. There is no doubt about it, you show great promise young one.” Tell me young one, do you truly wish to be strong?!” “Y-Y-Yes…” “And what is your name?” “Malena…” “Excellent, the man then bites Malena in the throat. NO. but he pulls away almost instantly. “Malena, My name is Aleister Ravani and from this day forth you will be known as Malena Ravani heir to the Household Ravani leadership.” He smiles at her reassuringly. “But just between the two of us, you can call me, Father.” Malena passes out in his arms. “There, there child. I want everyone to scour the perimeter I sense that there is magic about, but I cannot quite discern its origin or make in my current state” “Yes Lord Ravani!” And a squadron of Vampires flies off. Leaving only the lord vampire and Malena in front of you.

>We need to get out of here fast
>Write in

This will be the final update for today. Tomorrow I start a new full-time job so I will only be able to post reliably between 7pm and 10pm PST on weekdays. Weekends I will be freer and will update schedule in the final post of the day as I have been.

>>316252
Try to grab mommy. See if you can write out a message for Aleister to see. Message should be something to tell Malena, something about seeing her in the future. Then Book it back to Auriel.

>>316252
Leave a message for Malena (something like "See you in the future" or something), and try to grab mommy on your way back.

Did we ever gain exp from these fights?

>>317207
Yes you leveled after scorpion fight and I have been keeping mental notes since. Just forgot to mention it in post. I'll do that from now on and add it to the pastebin.

Currently the party is at 1600/2500.

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>>316277
>>316364

Wait. Did you just cause, what you think you caused. No. there is no way. Why would you ever do or think something like that? However…. There is only one way to make sure. Aleister in his state likely cannot stop you so you begin writing out in the dirt to his side. “Tell Malena I will see her again. And that I am sorry for what happened to Mommy.” “Hmm, it seems the little one had someone or something looking out for her." He gazes to Malena. "Don’t worry spirit or whatever you may be, as her new guardian I will respect the wishes of the old one.” Aleister seemed to have a strong sense of honor about him. He reminds you a lot of Mother, except he actually tells you what he is thinking instead of acting like they’re 14. With that assured, you grab mommy and make your way back to Auriel and the gang as quickly as possible.

You tell Auriel “We must go home now, vampires are swarming and looking for magical anomalies, such as this one. Can we go back as soon as possible.” Auriel huffs. I hear you girl but I did not plan on leaving this early into the event. It will take me some time to make proper preparations. The materials are simple enough and in nearby resources, but I must collect them. Meanwhile, you all need to secure this area. This safe haven is invisible but it will only be a matter of time until the vampires snuff it out. I hope to collect all the materials before they find it, but if it comes to it you must defend yourselves.” “Won’t you be in danger out there?” “Don’t worry ladies I have seen my fair share of tussles.” He then takes a staff taps it on the ground and a white flash occurs and Auriel is gone. “Peh, so he left us here to fend for ourselves. Not that I am complaining, I personally hope they find us. It has been a while since I got into a real fight.” Victoria was clearly referring for action. Anna and Yuki looked prepared enough to deal with it, but Akitani was still in her little human girl form. She can’t use her gaze or fight as she normally would, making her largely unable to assist. Hmm, this might be tough.

What are we going to do to prepare?
>Write in

>>318570
>>319109
Updated Pastebin, refer to it if need be for decision making.

>>319109
Start to form barricades and block off entrances to the safe haven with stuff you have around. If their are bodies nearby raise a few zombies/skeleton to fight. Also try to buff everyone up, preference defensive. If you can't do everyone just do Akitani. Also make a few wooden stakes. For heart stabbing. After that stay alert, looking out for bats/mist/vampires.

>>319109
We have no quaral with the vampires, stay out of the past's affairs.
Time (ha) we stuck to the temporal prime directive.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>319206
>>319252

First thing is first we need a defensive position, plus a perhaps a distraction. They said they were looking for magical anomalies so could your own magic work. You raise about 3 skeletons to make enough ruckus distract the vampires while Anna reinforces the barrier you all made.

If you were going to fight vampires you needed to be prepared, in that respect Yuki was a valuable asset with her Holy magic meanwhile you and Victoria care out some wooden stakes and spears. She seems quite pleased. While doing this however, you think, "would killing these vampires affect the future timeline?"

You didn’t have time to think though as they seemed to be upon you all, but as of yet, they haven’t noticed your location thanks to its invisibility but they might be able to sense it. For now, you hold your breath.

Rolling Vampire spot check, Modifier is -5

>If you do fight the vampires would you fight with the intent to kill or not?

>>319305
Holy shit they got a -3.

>>319305
Let's not kill anyone. Not like we're gonna see them with that roll

>>319305
No killing. Just heavily wounding.

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>>319305
>>319308
>>319326
>That -3 though

You don’t think you’ll have to worry about the vampires as they seem to be completely unaware of your position, and also completely convinced that the three skeletons you mustered are the anomaly Aleister told them about. You stay on guard though, but after dealing with the skeletons they simply leave. Sweet. Victoria looks disappointed. All the others look relieved.

Auriel returns a few minutes later. “Did things go well girls” “Extremely” “Perfect now we must do this quickly. Thankfully as beings from the future we have a natural anchor to our “present” time. Meaning there won’t be the issue of showing up too late or too early.” Thank god. After a few minutes of prep everyone safely leaves the past.

Once back you have a million and one things you want to ask but first, Auriel debriefs you. You explain to him what happened and how you saw the village violently implode. Which was partially your fault by the way. “Your actions definitely hastened the implosion but was it the true cause of its abandonment? Hmm, based on what you told me I do think that the vampire attack is the decisive factor in the village's destruction, but was it preventable?” He ponders to himself. “You mentioned that this Aleister mentioned a man who told him about this village, did he say anything besides it was a man,” “Nothing.” “Blast!” What could this man Aleister mentioned mean in all this? Aleister said that the man told him of the village, which would have been the only reason they would come due to vampires reclusive natures. It that was true the man would have to clearly intended on destroying the village, but why? You went to the past to find answers and now only had more questions.

“Ladies, it seems that we have completed our goal, although not as originally intended. As such I will honor my word and continue to teach you three. I am also interested in this man and will aid your search as well. But I must do so from here. This is where I can prove most effective researcher.” He takes a peak outside using some sort of clairvoyance. “It appears to be evening and I assume all of you must be tired, especially you. Please, get some rest, we will discuss more in the morning.” Looks like it is time to unwind and sort out everything that happened.

What to do in notCamp tonight?
>Social links, Social links, Social links (Choose 2 people)
>Sleep, you earned it.

>>319404
Talk to Mother. Call her by her first name, talk about mommy, you being the guardian angel, and a whole host of things. Also talk to Yuki. She is your longtime friend and we haven't talked to her in a while.

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>>319428

There is something you have to check on first. “Mother are you there?” You hear in a monotone voice, “We are sorry the person you are trying to reach is unable to answer your call please leave a message after the tone. *beep*” “Weird I didn’t know this thing had voicemail.” You hear snickering from the other side. Guess they don’t. “Mother could you please stop I have something serious I need to talk to you about.” “I’m sorry darling but you haven’t answered my calls in some time, so I couldn't help but tease you. Wait… please don’t hate me!” She is as enthusiastic as ever. But you called on a serious note.

Mother, no... Malena, there is something I have to ask you.” Silence on the other side for a while, but then. “Ah, a reminiscent name, I remember that girl when she first came to the castle as Aleister’s heir. Must have been some time ago. Unfortunately, Malena died a long time ago. She couldn’t handle the pressers of moving into power and was tossed aside. I took her place, though, lucky for you.” What, but everything you saw pointed to the conclusion that Malena was Mother. “Well, what about mommy? Didn’t she use to have a doll she called mommy? Yes, I remember her crying about that incessantly once Aleister took her in. that and some “Mr. Guardian Angel.” She cried, night after night, asking for someone to help her, but none of them ever came. Aleister told her that her guardian angel wrote that they would see her again, but it never happened. Some guardian angel, leaving a poor girl alone in such an environment.” You hear a sigh, “Truly that girl was a naive idiotic child. House Ravani is better off without her.”

“What if I told you who her guardian angel was?” “Ohh? And how would you know this information, not like it matters.” “It was me.” another long silence that is preceded by a laugh. “Hahaha, that is rich child! I had no idea you were this good a comedian. Next, you are going to tell me that you have the child's old mommy doll.” “I do.” “HAHAHAHA” She is either not taking you seriously or blowing you off at this point. After more pointless chatter you decide to end your call. “Mother I just want to confirm, Malena was taken in by Aleister and then died.” “Yes, that child… died a long time ago.” Well so much for that.

working on Yuki's now

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>>319572

Next we should talk to Yuki it has been an awful while. You sit down next to her. “HEY!” she familiarly latches onto you. It’s been such a while since we had our own, girl to girl talk. I noticed you have been filling our more recently. Maybe now this will force you to dress like a girl haha.” “Maybe… hey Yuki.” “Yeah?” “How are you?” “I’m fine silly, you’re the one I am most worried about, taking on all these responsibilities can’t beat easy, and I mean you fought a giant scorpion naked for crying out loud!” You say again in a more serious tone. “Yuki” you leer at her. She looks down solum. “Honestly… I’m scared. We still have no idea why we are here. We have been attacked numerous times, and we learned magic. Too much has happened and even though now I can heal others, I can’t seem to heal away my anxiety about all this.” You place your hand on her shoulder. “I promised you didn’t I, that we will get out of here. Although we can’t see the light ad the end of the tunnel yet, the fact that we are progressing through that tunnel is what is important.” “Hmm, you always know just what to say don’t you.” She smiles. "I suppose it is a wonderful ability to have in this place, being about to talk your way out of or into any situation.Speaking of which, I wanted to ask. You and Akitani…” This had to happen at some point. “She clearly has feelings for you, but what about yourself. Do you like her?"

>I like like Akitani
>I don’t like like Akitani
>Write in

>>319630
I like both of you (Go for harem ending)

>>319630
Panic and stick foot in mouth. But actually we like like Akitani.

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>>319670
>>319671
DECISIONS

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>>319671

“What?! What do you mean, we’re both girls that would be kind weird right” You do actually have feelings for Akitani, but you don’t want your friends to find out. Mainly because you are still a little confused about relationships due to your age. You definitely feel something toward her but it's hard to describe. Love is hard, so it seems. “But I saw you two a while back at camp practically attack each other. Wait, you mean she was attacking you again! Well, we need to have a word with that chronic molester.” Oh, no. “No Yuki don’t worry it was just her instinct taking over or something.” You need to change the subject. “A-Anyways Yuki you never did answer my question back in camp that one time, Is there anyone you happen to like like.” She sighs resigning her chances to press you further. “Yes but they seem to be completely clueless about my own feelings.” “Wow that must be hard, have you tried talking with them?” “A bit, but it's hard to even think about now that we are in all this. But I do know that that person will always be in my mind, maybe once this is all over I’ll be able to tell them how I feel.” “I think that would be lovely Yuki.” She blushes. “Anyways we should head to bed. We need to get up in the morning and plan our next steps.”

Indeed you do.
>Train more in magic with Auriel here (quickest magic acquisition, but it will take time)
>Learn on the go (slower magic question but you continue your journey)
>Write in what to do

>>319784
This is the last post of today, be back again at 7pm PST tomorrow
Actually having a job is the worst

>>319784
Learn on the go. As much fun as it would be to stick around with the crazy old mage, exploring the lands is good. I suggest the Eversong Forest. it has a fancy name.

>>319784
>>Learn on the go (slower magic question but you continue your journey)

>>319784
>Train more in magic with Auriel here (quickest magic acquisition, but it will take time)

>>319784
>>Train more in magic with Auriel here (quickest magic acquisition, but it will take time)

>>319784
>>Learn on the go (slower magic question but you continue your journey)

>>319784
Train more with Auriel

>>319784
Learn on the go

Not fully back yet, but I just wanted to say that Learn on the go wins. So where is the party going now?

Currently 1 vote for Eversong woods.

Refer to shitty map if need be >>296546

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>>319794
>>319807
>>320320
>>320949

As much as you would like to study under Auriel some more you need to get back to your journey. You wake in the morning, say your goodbyes, and Akitani turns back into her normal self. You are a little sad because of how cute she was. Perhaps you can ask Auriel sometime to teach you how to do that. “Hehe,” you dream in your head a little imagining the fun you could have.

You decide to head off for the Eversong forest opposite of where you were. Before heading out Auriel gives you a small communicator device. It is a simple item that connects people when channeling mana into it. Sort of like a cell phone that ran off magic. Auriel wishes you all well and sees you off on your adventure. But first, you have to either make you way once again through the Felwood or walk around using the plains. The plains route would take about twice as long, but the last time you went through the woods you were attacked twice.

>Go through Felwood
>Walk around in the plains

>>323247
Go through felwood

>>323247
Walk around in the plains. Haven't been there yet.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>323313
>>323324
Roling for tie
1= Forest, 2=Plains

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>>323439

The plains might take longer, but you don’t want to experience either the Arachne nor the Dark elves and head around the plains. “Aww, cmon this is gonna be boring! I haven’t seen proper action for quite some time you know.” Victoria pouted. “With that attitude, we likely will run into something” “As long as it is not spiders again” Anna added. Regardless you set out on the road.

Rolling for a something

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>>323476

You do run into something although Victoria isn’t happy about it. It's a small herd of cows grazing in the plain below you. “Well, this is a rather serene site considering the amount of crazy things that have happened.” You saw that but some of these cows look distinctly like human females, with only minor differences. They had cow ears and tails. “This place sure is something.” you stop for a second just to take it all in. “Moo?” “?” “Moo, moo?” It seems one of the young calves have wandered off into your direction. “Moo?” she seems inquisitive of you and your group. “Moo, moo?” She begins to sniff you everywhere. “Moo!” she seems happy. You honestly have no idea what is going on but at least she is enjoying herself.

>Pet her and relax with the cows a bit longer
>No time to dawdle we should get to the Eversong

>>323552
>Pet her and relax with the cows a bit longer

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>>323625

You give the girl a pet on the head and she responds happily. “Moo!” You’re not in any particular rush in your journey, better take opportunities to relax like this to their full advantage. It was a pleasant day to spend in an open field. The cows continue to graze as they had been and the young calf does the same but next to you.

You start to hear something, however. Rustling from the small patch of trees nearby. “Moo?” Then a pack of wolfs burst out from the trees and begin hunting down the grazing cows. The cows try to escape but the wolves are much faster than the cows and they have already claimed a third of the herd for themselves. “Moo! Moo!” the young one next to you is in a panic. This is nature running its course and all, but you can’t stand to see this sight. You have already seen twice now, people getting raided, eaten and stolen and you had enough. “Everyone, we are dealing with these wolves!” “FINALLY!” Victoria doesn’t wait for any orders and barrels through. She does a running toss of her spear. Right through one of the wolves. Enthusiasm never hurts it seems.”

The rest of you prepare for battle, but how should deal with this situation
>There are 15 remaining wolves
>12 cows remaining, including the one at your side

>>323714
I should clarify,
>Write in

Form a line between the wolves and cows.
Victoria let her do her
Anna and Yuki run support
Aki petrify some wolves while you cover her

>>323714
Let Victoria do her thing
Yuki and Anna should start to herd the Cows away while forming a defensive line.
Akitani should join the defensive line and start to petrify wolves, with you covering her.

Rolled 4 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>323752
>>323897

These are just wolves, nothing like the scorpions or Arachne you have faced thus far, All you have to do is fight. That’s what Victoria is doing anyways “COME AT ME!” She punches two of them and kicks another. Wow, she is really into this right now. Yuki and Anna should run support and defend the remaining cows. Yuki can even heal them which is a bonus. Akitani joins the fray with Victoria and begins to petrify some of the wolves after smacking around some others. You cover her while fighting some of your own.

Rolling for a thing

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>>323951

This went simply, Yuki and Anna herded the cows together and fought off the attackers. At this point, Victoria was throwing wolves at other wolves. Akitani managed to freeze two of them and with your cover you took out a few yourself. The remaining wolves scamper off. Easy.

“Boy did I need that.” Victoria stretches. “I’m glad you did, I would have hated if that boiled over onto one of us.” “Hehe don’t worry kid I for sure won’t hit you. She refers then to Anna, “Her, on the other hand, I have no promises.” “And what does that mean!” “It means that you're a-” This routine again. Well, at least they aren’t actually hitting each other. Yuki seems to be making sure the herd is alright and sends them off. She does the same for the young one as well. “Moo!”she seems to be relieved and thankful for your assistance .

You continue down the road to Eversong when you can hear something behind you. You turn around it is the calf. She must have been following you since you skirmish.

Regardless you all come up to a small town that seems to rest between the forests as it is nearing evening. The town sign reads “Welcome to Ooyama.” An odd name for sure, but a lot of things you would consider odd are in this strange place. This looks like a nice place to rest for the night. “A real bed and food!” Yuki seems excited at the prospect, as are you. There aren’t many people on the town streets, but that just might be how late it is. Still, you don’t know if this might be fishy or not. You don’t want to judge all towns by their covers but you can never be too careful in this place.

>Stay for the night
>Travel some more and camp
>Write in

Also concerning the calf
>Let her come with you
>Tell her she needs to go back

>Party gains 200exp now at 1800/2500

>>324011
Stay for the night, but still keep someone on guard duty. Let the calf come with you.

>>324011
Let the calf go back

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>>324032
>>324039

That warm bed and hot meal can’t elude you forever! You enter the town intent on finding a place to stay and good food to eat. From what population you could see they largely seemed to be harpies, goatmen, canine and feline people. The in you found only served to hammer away at this point as it was filled with them. Guess you found out where everyone in town was. You sit down for dinner much to everyone's jubilation “Finally, we get to eat something that Victoria hasn’t killed.” “Are you saying my hunting is bad pipsqueak, no just eating overcooked game gets tiring.” “Hmph.” Victoria couldn’t argue there, as she too was enjoying her food.

Akitani leans into you, “Would you mind feeding me?” “What?! This has never been an issue before.” “Well I can use my heat senses to detect many things, but in our current environment with men about I can’t risk taking off my mask to see what I am eating.” Couldn’t she just user her heat senses for the hot food in from of her? She’s blushing and waiting for your reply. “Okay… but just this once.” She lights up. “Yes, of course, she opens her mouth expectantly. You assist her in her consumption and as this goes on she is giggling to herself and drooling a little. Once you are done, she hugs you “Thank you so much, you really saved me some trouble there.” She seemed to be earnest about the whole event so you just smiled back and said: “Of course Akitani.” You felt stares from across the table. “So are you two going to need your own room tonight or.. “ “NO!” you and Akitani say together.

This town seems quite nice to you, the Inn was a little rowdy but that is to be expected in a place like this. The beds were well made and comfortable even by your standards from back home. You all choose to sleep in the same room and take turns on guard. This town may seem nice, but you can’t let your guard down for an instant here. Thankfully the night goes off without a hitch. You get up the next morning and head downstairs ready to head off when you hear a ruckus downstairs.

“Who here am I supposed to talk to about those damn things in that forest!” “But sir they have a right to live there peacefully as they always have. “So is that why people are content with those Sirens stealing my child away from me!” Seems the innkeeper and a patron who looks inebriated have gotten into an argument. “Sir I am sorry for your loss, but we don’t have any kind of jurisdiction elsewhere. You can talk to the mayor but he will only tell you the same.” “The mayor ehh, Lets hope that this mayor is a man of action not tolerance like the rest of this shit hole.” He wobbles his way out the inn.

What was that about?

>Talk to drunk
>Explore town
>Set off to the Eversong
>Write in

I am leaving calf decision open for now, to see if we get more input
>Let her stay
>Tell her to go home

>>324221
This is the last post for the night, I’ll be back tomorrow at the same time as usual

>>324221
Talk to the Drunk. Also let the calf stay.

>>324221
Explore town and tell the calf to go home

>>324221
Talk to the durnk
Tell calf to go home

>>324221
Explore town
Let her stay

>>324221
>Explore town
>Tell her to go home

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>>324244
>>324344
>>324643
>>325143
>>326134

You gave it some thought, but it would be best if the calf did not stay with your group. You couldn’t properly take care of or look after her. Plus in combat situations, she would be constantly in danger as she did not have the capacity to protect herself. “I’m sorry little one but we can’t take care of you. You need to go back to your herd.” “Moo?” “I know I'm sorry, but you would honestly be safer with your herd than with us if you thought those wolves were scary we have run into far worse, like scorpion folk, elves, Arachne and the like.” “Moo?!” She seems to get the picture. And turns around sadly to walk home. “Perhaps we will see each other again little one. Until then take care.” “Moo!” with that she runs off.

Now back to dealing with what is going on in town. You were taken back by the innkeepers argument with the drunk, but it was likely a drunken influenced event. Instead of worrying about it, you explore the small town finding that in the center lays the town hall and mayoral building. Next to it a church, along with what you could assume was an infirmary. To the west side of town, there is a bustling marketplace along with guard towers. You were also able to find out that there is apparently something called a “brothel” in town as well. But you aren’t quite sure what that is. Also, you manage to pick up by ear that there is “The Guy” in an alleyway you can sell you “the stuff” but you have no idea what that even means.

>Explore more in town (where)
>Head to Eversong
>Write in

>>327273
Explore the Church

>>327306

You wonder what kind of religious systems they have here. Turns out that the religion at least in this town seems to be similar to Protestant Christianity. The roles seemed the same in the tales but the names were different. There was The Divine One and the traitorous Black Handed. They do seem to believe that there is a spirit present at all times in your life. They aptly call it The Everpresent. This spirit is said to be your watcher. Not so much guardian angel as they don’t seem capable of direct action, but can influence through other means. It seems kind vague to you but if they believe it, they believe it.

What you think is a head priest type figure speaks to the audience about the recent unrest within the woods that have been occurring. “The dark elves of the Felwood have claimed many lives of people who have wandered and their control of the forest increases steadily. Meanwhile, the Sirens and their friends in the Eversong have employed magic to worm their way into the systems of adjacent towns and villages within the forest.” You didn’t know how much of this was propaganda to believe more in their religion or not.

“Augh that was like Sunday school all over again,” Yuki complained as you were leaving the church. “At least we are learning more. The more we learn the more we can get closer to whatever it is we are trying to achieve here.” “Well, hopefully next time it won’t be an arduous learning process.”

>Explore more (where)
>Head to Eversong
>Write in

>>327455
Look around the Marketplace, see if you can hear any rumors. No need to buy anything, we are broke.

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>>327481

Maybe you can hear something good at the marketplace. You head there and the chatter surrounding you is almost drowning. You can’t really make out anyone's conversation unless they are standing right next to you. Guess you’ll have to bob and weave your way through. While doing so you hear some people talking about trade relations. “Yeah, the centaurs in the plains are getting more and more territorial and have set up more and more regulations for our travelers. Yeah? Ever since that strange new chief of theirs came into power things have gotten a little tighter.” Hmm. “Hey did you hear about the group that went into the accursed lands?” “No.” “It was just recent but apparently, they were on some quest to do, something or whatever and they needed to track down someone in the accursed lands.” “Someone there?” “Right? No one sane lives there. That place is only darkness and fire.” “Trade with the goblins in the grey mountains has been good recently after their striking of gold the number of imports to their lands have skyrocketed.” This and other chit chatter consume the streets.

While making your way through you lost track of where you were going and ran into someone. You should have bobbed when you weaved. “Sorry.” “That is quite alright a young pup.” The Woman you bumped into seems to be a seasoned adventurer wearing an eye patch carrying a sword and sporting over the top black adventurers swords. “Fear not you young lost lamb for these lands are dangerous for a small once such as yourself. Please allow me to take you away from this desolate place to which we can find a finer venue or accommodations.” What is she even saying?

>Continue with Mysterious stranger
>Resist her perpetual overzealousness
>Write in

>>327554
Stranger Danger. Resist her Perpetual oversealousness

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>>327584

“No, let go of me.” “You wished to be abandoned in this harsh place of Synyster snickering, do you? My conscious would not dare to let me. I am sorry child but we must get you someplace else." Then she ran into someone. She weaved when she should have bobbed. “Let. Her. Go.” said Akitani. “Haha! An evil doer I see, try to kidnap this small child.” “No, she is actually trying to-” “FEAR NOT! Young one for I shall save you from this heinous villain.” “She isn’-” The stranger then pulls out her sword almost as flashily as possible and swings at Akitani. Akitani grabs the sword out of mid-air in her claws. You can’t see her eyes but you can feel the rage she was exhibiting toward this woman. Shen then snaps the woman's sword in half.

“Noooooo! I worked so hard for that!” the woman screamed. Akitani was now drawing nearer to her. The woman breaks. “Please no, I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to take her, please don’t hit me.” You now have the chance to examine the sword that Akitani broke in half with her bear hands. It was made of plastic.

“Please, please, please, please, please, please, please,” She was starting to make a scene. “Stop Akitani, she clearly is not dangerous to either of us now, nor I think she ever was.” She calms and allows for you to continue talking to the woman. “I want to know why you did this.” “Because it was the cool thing to do right? Rescuing a lost child from evil is a classic. I’m trying to work my way up the ladder.” she corrects herself and puffs out her chest. “Not like a seasoned adventurer like me would need to in the first place, haha!” Right…

>Oh so you're an adventure, would you guide us through the Eversong woods then
>Let's get away from this ball of crazy
>Write in

>>327675
Give the her a pep-talk. Tell her to calm down and take it slow. It takes a while to climb up the ladder of an adventurer. Try Killing rats or delivering sweet rolls.

>>327758

You feel kind of bad for her. “Listen you need to start small when climbing the ladder to adventurer. One thing you should know is that you should help those that ask for it. Although being able to read a situation and acting decisively is effective if you in the process make false assumptions you fail. Kind of like now. Start of small, do good deeds and gain combat experience before going on a real adventure.” “That sounds like a good place to start, but I have to ask… how old are you.” “12 close to 13 I think.” ‘AAAAAAHHHHHHH” She seems to be in complete shock that a girl 10 years younger than her is giving her effective life advice.

Akitani gets next to you after the woman leaves in tears. “I won’t let anything like that happen again.” “It’s okay Akitani, you don’t have to be so cautious although I appreciate the sentiment.” You continue down the street. Then thinking it is already midday we won’t make it to the Eversong in a day anymore we have to camp on the way there. You could also stay in town another night, but you don’t know if you are lingering too long here.

>Leave immediately
>Stay awhile and listen

>>327828
Stay a while and listen.

>>327848

Not so fast Deckard

Might as well stay in town for a bit. No harm in staying an extra night in the cozy place and relaxing.

Where did you wish to spend the rest of your day
>Brothel
>Town hall
>Alleyway
>Inn (In which case social links and state who)

>>327880
Inn. Talk to Anna and Victoria. Haven't talked to them yet. Also Akitani if we can.

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>>327892

Better head back to the inn and rest up for the trek to the woods. You spend a pleasant evening at the inn as you did last night. Tonight though you wanted to talk to Anna and Victoria. “Victoria why are you and Anna always-?” “You are an idiot who thinks she is stronger than others when she isn’t” “And you are a barbarian who has no refinement like my own skills.” You sigh, “Fighting…” They continue “Listen, kid, just because you can do magic tricks doesn’t mean shit out here. What we fight, we kill, simple as that.” “Again how brutish of you, you dunce.” “Oh my miss high and mighty, I’m sorry no one can live up to your example. Tell me when you watched your parents die did you do so as exquisitely as possible. Perhaps with a nice relaxing evening drink to go with their screams!” “... … … … .” Anna hung her head low. You jump in, “Victoria that is too much think about your own parents that night.” “My own parents? Mom was off on a business trip overseas and my dad was dying pathetically in the room next to mine.” Anna interjected, “How can you say that about your own family.” “That man… that fucker deserved to die!” Victoria punches a hole through a table. After a second she gets up. “I’m going to bed.”

After Victoria left it was just you and Anna. “Anna I know she was just getting heated in the wake of events, she didn’t mean those things.” “Yeah, I know, we have been doing this for weeks now, but reminding me of that night,” she grabs her shoulders. You place your hand on hers. “Don’t worry Anna. Like I told Yuki, there has to be a point to all this for everyone and we will get out of this together.” “I sure hope so. Oddly enough I’m more worried about Victoria now.”

It was too late to try and talk to her again, plus she did say she was going to bed and she made good on the promise. Maybe in the morning before heading out.

You awaken in the middle of the night to screams outside. “The vixens are coming.” Vixens? You look outside and you see a swarm of Harpy like creatures and a strange melody slowly playing in your head. This isn’t good. Throughout town you see doors open and boys or men walking out of theme but wide eyed and slowly slinking across the ground. Thankfully due to your gender you seemed immune to these effects but you could still somewhat feel an urge to follow along. Regardless you need to wake up and prepare for a fight against these creatures attempting to steal people.

No full battle plan is required
>Fight offensively
>Fight Defensively
And
>Might over magic
>Magic over might

>>328015
Offensively. Might as well strike fast. And might over magic. Our magic is not great yet so we should focus on hitting.

Rolled 6 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>328038

Better take the initiative here. You call for you friends to help you out offensively all of them agree except Victoria just runs off at the enemy. The enemy are flying sirens from the Eversong you have heard about trying to snatch away men it seems. We’ll stop that. You run for any one of them that is foolish enough to descend your way and slice them down. Anna and Yuki follow your lead. Akitani is off fending off a couple on her own and Victoria is going ballistic. Like actually crazy. At first, she threw her spear at one, but instead of aiming she just threw. She had no rhyme or reason in her attack patterns and caused harm anyway she could. She even tried to tear the wings off one of them that she got ahold of. “I really needed this, come on I’ll take all you assholes on!” They seemed to agree with her as no less than 10 of them swarm her. You were caught up in your offensive to really help Victoria, but you tried to make your way over to her as you were fighting.

The enemy caught on, though. The must have realized that Victoria and Akitani were the largest factors in this and tried to isolate you from them. Being able to fly gave them a distinct advantage. “You fucks.” you hear from Victoria’s pile. Every now and then you see one of the sirens fly out of the pile only to be replaced by another. Akitani had the ability to petrify her pile into place and form an impromptu shield of out them. Victoria wasn’t so lucky as at least 20 total of them all ganged on her. Even she couldn’t last forever, but she never quit. On the edge of her defeat, you hear a soft melody, as if being played but a harp above you. You see a beautiful siren singing the tune. A tune that makes you very tired.

Rolling will save

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>>328120

You felt sleep call you, as did Victoria, Anna, and Yuki. Akitani seemed immune to its effect though and using her now inanimate shield she makes her way over to you so she can help. She couldn’t reach Victoria as she was still being swarmed despite the drowsy melody. “That’s enough everyone, we should take what we have and leave.” The beautiful siren called. “We will also take this woman here since she may prove a menace in the future. Also bringing her…” She looks in your general direction, “might bring even better results.” With that, the Sirens fly away with their prize.

“Victoria!” You and Anna called. Anna turned to you, “Were going after her right?!” Yuki actually jumps in. “Of course, we are silly, why would you even think we wouldn’t.” You agree. Akitani of course goes wherever you do.

You don’t know what they will do to Victoria, time may be of the essence. But going in blind could prove fatal. How do we handle this situation?

>Head to Eversong immediately
>Study in town and prepare before leaving
>Write in

Last post for the night, Be on at the same time tomorrow 7pm PST

>>328145
Head to ever song immediately. Intel is nice but time is of the essence.

Forgot to mention the party gain 300 EXP for that so they are now at 2100/2500

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>>328180

“We need to go after her now! Quickly grab our things and let's go.” “On it.” Yuki and Anna sprint into the hotel while you make sure you are heading in the right direction. Akitani stays by you and does what she can to help others in your vicinity. It took only a few minutes until Anna and Yuki came back with your essentials, weapons, armor and food. It was still a day’s journey to the Eversong from here and there was no way you were catching up to the sirens without the ability to fly so you made due with what you could. “We’ll just have to make do.”

Your journey to the Eversong is as peaceful as it could be. Anna was on edge it seemed, Yuki tried her best to keep you all cheery, and Akitani looked somewhat blase about the experience. You just had to keep moving forward. Since you left in the middle of the night you party is a little interested, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping them. After a while though, Yuki starts to minorly complain but Anna refuses to acknowledge any complaints she or the others may have.

It took you all day and night but you were just outside the forest now. The party was exhausted from nonstop marching on half the sleep they could have gotten and all but Anna looked like they wanted to rest if only for a while.

>Camp and rest outside the forest
>We need to get to Victoria now!

>>330834
Camp and rest. Victoria is in danger. But we can't save her if we don't get sleep.

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>>330855

“Everyone we need to rest,” “Whew” Yuki sighs with relief. Anna however ignored you and is still walking toward the forest. “Anna we need to rest.” Still ignoring you. “Anna!” you run and grab her. She tries to shake you off. She mutters, “I need to fix this. Now!” “Fix?” “Our argument last night is what set her off. I need to get her back to make up for it.” “You think this is your fault?” “You saw her during the fight, crazed and frantic, what I said back then no doubt set her off, If I hadn’t argued with her over trivial things so much it never would have escalated and none of this would have ever happened.” She is clearly upset at what happened the other day. “Anna you can’t blame yourself what something the Siren’s did. And worse, if you rush in now to try and rescue her as you are now, you wouldn’t stand a chance.” Her legs were wobbling a bit from the endless marching.” “Don’t worry, I am perfectly fine.” She reaches down and casts a spell on her legs. There hardened and ready for a whole days more worth of travel. “Anna you can’t just magic away mental exhaustion. Even if you fix your body your tired mind won’t be of any help.” “But… there has to be something we can do right now.” “And that’s rest!” Yuki jumps into the conversation, and literally onto Anna. “Ouff, Hey get off me!” “No way! Not until you go to sleep!” “But… no buts!” Seems Yuki is now in the position to make demands. “Fine, whatever.” You reassure Anna, “We will be a lot more help to her rested and prepared than we are now Anna, and don’t worry tomorrow we will save her.” “Hmpph”

Camp the rest of the evening was uneventful only you going over plans for tomorrow with Akitani and Yuki. Yuki by the way actually didn’t get off of Anna until she was asleep. That’s some dedication. The next morning you head off into the woods in search of the flying songstresses, but you don’t exactly where to look. Maybe if you talk to some local populace you might get an answer. There are some villages and towns in here, but what would be the most effective way to find the Sirens?

>Try to talk to townspeople
>Try to talk to the wild life
>Write in

>All options require you roll a flat d20

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>331012
Try and talk to the wildlife. They know the forest better.

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>>331040

We should talk to the wildlife, they likely know the land and most importantly the sirens better. You stumble through the woods until you find what appears to be a dryad. “What manner of beasts thee be, who comes before this elder tree? “Um, we are looking for some singing bird folk called sirens.” “Ahh the lyrical maidens that lie deep within this wood, and just what might you do if thou could?” You are sensing a pattern here. “They took our friend and we are trying to get her back." “Ahhh, a tale this old tree has heard many times, it seems the maidens fly out to snatch whenever the wind bell chimes. If you wish to find these maidens, you will have to search for the largest tree where their homes lay in. “So the biggest tree got it.” “The tree lies east past the swamps, do be careful not to clomp.” You head off away from this oddly helpful tree, to where those sirens ought to be.

You make your way through the woods and the swamps and along the way you hear a tune. This tune seems to be a soft melody one likely played during a relaxing evening. As you get closer though you can hear screams. It seems the sirens are playing the song to hush the annoying groans and howls. The sounds grew intenser as you near. And you are almost upon the siren lair now. You hear something breaking and a woman scream. You move closer to investigate but you can hear the sirens flying around above you.

>Move in closer (Roll a stealth check with -2)
>Rush in
>Write in

Rolled 10 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>331281
Move in closer, draw weapons.

>>331306
That was meant to be a minus 2 so the roll is an 8

>>331306

You draw out your weapons and move in. You see what seems to be a bustling center of a town filled siren and men alike. The only thing is that the non-sirens wore collars attached to chains. You see the source of the screams now, in the center of town, there is a huge ring or an amphitheatre of some sorts. They pitted the slaves against one another for their own amusement it seems. In the center of all this was Victoria. In the ring with about 5 men, all armed against her. You can’t quite make out what exactly is going on but you think you see the leader from before overseeing the brawl. You think you caught just enough to start your surprise attack, but it's the 8 of your eyes versus hundreds of theirs. Your group is spotted and immediately surrounded.

>Fight your way out
>Surrender
>Write in

>>331391
Well we fought good the first time might as well fight this time. Summon some undead to help, and or break out some slaves.

>>331460
Or wait. Try to talk to them. Ask them why they are taking people and about what they are doing. If that doesn't work, or if they act hostile. Then move to weapons, undead, slave revolt.

>>331468

We can talk our way of this for sure. “Whoa there everyone we were just drawn here by your wonderful melodies and wanted to get nearer and look upon the songstress ourselves. We only armed ourselves once hearing the screams concerned with our own safety you see.” The sirens stare at you for a second.

Roll a d20+4

Rolled 14 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>331554
Come on dice gods.

>>331561

“Hmm, that is understandable.” Some of them whisper to each other. Then they smile. “Hmm, you are all most welcome here, you especially.” The siren falls onto you. My what a slender man we have here, don’t worry we can be gentle for your type, or ruff whichever you prefer.” You start to hear a melody playing in your head. Regardless with what they think is going to happen to you, you seem to have the okay to head into the village.

>Go in with your escort
>Write in

>>331601
Go in with your escort. Though try to push the melody out of your head. Try focusing on something different or get a different melody in your head.

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>>331639

Well, it is better than fending for yourself or potentially fighting off all the sirens. “Sure, we’ll go.” Your friends look quite concerned but you give them a nod. You follow your guides through the village. Getting closer you notice the man slaves are performing menial tasks. Fan waving, feeding, and cleaning. All the things that people think are too hard for them to do on their own. Your guides glance back and giggle at you while walking from time to time. As long as it helps you in your situation you’ll let their illusion last.

The melody in your head is growing louder. Anna and Yuki are also concerned. Although Anna is spending most of her time looking for Victoria. You tell them just to think of something else at all times or sing another song in your head to try and counter it. This may be magic but if it requires the subjects undivided mental attention you could beat this. You actually have a handy helper when it comes to this. “Mother, I need your help.” “Yes, darling?” “Sirens are trying to impair me with some sort of mental melody, and I need you help to counter it.” “Oh, so you want me to sing you a song to focus on instead?” “Yeah that would be great” “leave it to Mother!” there was a pause. “We’re no strangers to love, you know the rules and so do I.” Oh god, not again. Mother lets you know once again that she will never give you up. In this situation you are both extremely upset and glad she does.

Your guides bring you around town. You got a good look at the ring once again. Victoria was fighting off the 5 men with her bare hands but was covered in cuts, scrapes and the like. She may be one for battle, but she couldn’t go absolutely non-stop. You want to run over there as quickly as you could, but it would only worsen your group's current situation. The leader siren as you came to call her is not only overseeing but organizing the fights taking place. She is surrounded by 4 man slaves fanning her and bringing her food and refreshments. “My, my what a sight” she calls out “To think that a young girl such as yourself could last this long.”

You hold Anna’s arm to deter her from running in. The guides turn to you all. “Is there anything you wanted to do in this village? You are welcome to stay the night if you so wish. We have a small house here prepared for such occasion as visitors.” One of the guides makes suggestive motions toward you. You hear the siren melody grow louder.

What do we say in this situation?
>Write in

>>331745
Ask to talk to the leader. If you can, ask her about why she is stealing men, and forcing them to fight. If you can't talk to the leader, ask to be shown around town and about the new female fighter. Also start to note down the location of escape routes and guards.

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>>331771

“Yeah actually can I talk to your leader?” “My my, why would you want to do that?” “I just wanted to ask her some questions, if there is anyone that knows what's what her it would be her I assume. The system she has built here is simply fascinating and would love to hear more about its ingenuity from her.” “We will see what she says.” One flies off.

While waiting around you take the opportunity to discuss the female fighter with the other guards. “Oh her? She just got here yesterday, but she has proven to be quite a favorite in the ring. She hasn’t lost yet, though she has been fighting now for almost 10 hours. It’s only a matter of time.” Anna speaks up “They don’t get breaks.” “They do when the leader tells them they can have one. We don’t make the rules about that here.” Now to check for escape routes. This place is built within and on a tree, escape routes are a plenty, if not all fully accessible.

The one that flew off returned. “She said she would be willing to meet with you.” “Alright, where?” The siren picks you up. Oh. You all were then brought to the leader's quite accommodating platform. The leader starts “My, it seems I have gotten better at fishing. The bait is a little bruised but it let me catch something far more interesting.“ The melody in your head grows fiercely intense. “What do you mean.” “I mean you sweety. She stands and walks over to you. “You are quite delectable, so much potential within you.” ‘Leave her alone!” your friends were upset. “Hmph, why you surround yourself with this rabble is beyond me. Though I suppose your ability as a leader naturally draws the weak to your side.” She jabs at you friends. “They aren’t weak.” “By most standards no they aren’t. But, by exceptional individuals such as yourself, they are meagre. Watch” She waves her hand and Yuki, Akitani, and Anna’s heads fall limb.” “What did you-” “Fear not they are only asleep. Twas merely a demonstration of my point. “This.. is nothing. For me” Anna fights to raise her head. “My, one strong-willed, how intriguing.” She licks her lips.

>>331932

“Why do you steal men like this.” “Reproduction, and also this,” she motions to everything going on around her. “They are really quite handy and being strong gives you the privilege of commanding the weak. They can also be quite entertaining like your friend down there. She is impressive for your kind. She should have collapsed 3 hours ago but here she is.” “You have an ability to draw those worthy of interest to yourself, which only serves to make you more longed for.” So what do you say, want to come with me?

Roll a will save no mod

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>331960
Dice don't fail me now.

>>331966
And you failed me

>>331966

The gods hath spoken!

Mother tries her best to drown out the song in your head, but you can’t resist. You find yourself walking toward the leader who then takes you into her embrace. “Now now, come into my arms, you will be well looked after” “but what about…” about the others? They won’t be disposed of don’t worry, hehe. For now, we can go back to my place for a private chit-chat.” She rubs against you. Now sleep, you will awaken in a garden of bliss.” Your eyes were slowly closing, and your consciousness was fading, however before completely blacking out you manage to hear “Stop… I… Anything!” “Anything?” With that darkness takes you.

Last post of the night, the next couple days will be hectic with the 4th of July holiday. don't expect anything until Tuesday, And by then I may have to make a new thread. I'll try to post a bit tomorrow, but absolutely no promises