>>572850
>A link to the previous thread

http://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/557061/cast-out-quest#top

Currently you are in Rea, a coastal city and the lasgest settlement of the southern provinces of Almace. You've been quite busy of late, though currently you're considering whether to pursue training in the ways of magic.

>What do you do?

>>572874
>Train with her for a month.
Push ourselves to the limit and thereby surpass it.

>>572899
And by her I mean the goblin fortune teller.

>>572899
>>572874
After this let's look for a Orc warrior to train us

>>572874
>Train hard in magic
also does magic in this world have elemental divisions? ie the sapling would have been earth/nature and the dew orb would be water

>>572909
So you never really settled on what form of combat you're interested in. Are you just going to stick with standard sword and armor training?

>>572899
>>572904
Against her recommendation otherwise, you ask the goblin fortune teller, ___? to teach you in the ways of magic. The question is, how much do you want to push yourself under her teaching, and what are you trying to accomplish, what's your goal?

>>572919
Magic does, though the world doesn't. In any case though because of the source of your magic power, you're not confined by any such crude, puerile limitations to your potential.

>>572936
Push ourselves as hard as we can.
Maybe beyond.

We need power.
We have to reach pinnacle to achieve our goals get wealth and protect us and our friends.

>>572936
Shield and normal sword if that's a thing, if possible Greatshield instead of a normal one.

>>572952
You'll need to roll then if you're actually trying to exert yourself. Unless by push, you just mean to really focus and concentrate on her teaching.

>>572936
push ourselves harder than we thought possible become the battle mage we fantasized about as a child

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>572960
Rolling.
>>572962
We must roll for it anon.
May dice god guide us.

>>572959
Shields have largely fallen out of style since guns have been around for awhile, and you know you wouldn't even be able to lift a greatshield. Though if you really want, you can try to find a teacher for that sort of thing.

>>572962
As a child you fantasized about finding a good man and giving him a nice big family and living happily ever after. But you can still try anyway!

>>572936
>Keep the armor, looking like a normal merchant will just get gold diggers after us.
>Do Spear training, as a woman a sword would not be a good idea.
>Acept the fortune teller as a teacher, helping her a bit is acceptable but mention we make way more money with silk trade and that she could dump her job and work for us instead.
>Remember to master the basics and most of all, control when it comes to magic.

>>572967
>>572960
So did we push ourselves or what?
(I know we did.)
I'd like to thank dice god for making this possible.
>>572972
No settling down.
We can't run.
Not from our heritage. Our friends or our power.
We will face it and realize our potential.

>>572973
This works. We really can pay her more than she earns as a fortune teller.

>>572972
>>572973
Lets do a Spear and shield combo, the shield should be made of wood with a thick iron layer on the front to take bullets.

>>572992
Why don't we stop the warrior crap and get a gun?

Sword gun combo anyone?
That'll help make up for our strength deficiency.

Just a headss up by the way that I'm posting from a different device, which doesn't have active spell check. So errors are bound to happen.

>>572967
Well you exert yourself, but not enough to dangerously push any boundaries. You do however worry ___? who says she's not really prepared to be able to teach you when you can so easily exceed her in power. She's not giving up, but she clearly is worried your reach could exceed your grasp.

>>572973
You decide it's probably better you let sword training go by the wayside, and focus more on spear training, though it's certainly harder to go around carrying a spear when you're not permitted exposed weapons in the city.

For the fortune teller when you bring up money, she says if that is more appealing to you, go off and make money. She doesn't act as a fortune teller to make money though, and if you want to be taught by her then that means working for and helping her. One such stipulation is living with her and maintaining a workday as her assistant. Rafe, the young goblin fellow who's been traveling with you doesn't mind this though, since the fortune seller is situated in a goblin encampment outside of town.

>>572974
You can actually literally settle down, there's nothing forcing you to be so active. And for as promising as things have been for you, part of you still wants to and maybe always will, settle down and have a nice normal life.

>>573010
guns are for pussies ranged magic's where it's at

>>572992
A spear is pushing it for you, having a shield (with metal on it no less) as well won't really be feasible for you as a human woman. Even if you work to become physically fit, it'll be hard for you to use well.

>>573020
Actually one of the main reasons there's much less magical creatures around anymore is because of guns, when a hunter with a musket can fell a gryphon for example.

>>573019
I'm going to call the goblin entra.

>Keep hanging out with Astra.
>Keep training our magic. Learn to cast higher level spells but do it level by level at a not idiotic pace. And learn more offensive and defensive spells damnit. And maybe buffs if they exist.
>Keep up melee training
>Skip a month.

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>573038
Rolling for how much of a prodigy we are when learning magic.
(I'm probably going to roll low but whatever.)

>>573035
short blade and 2 pistols are what i want not sure about you guys tho

>>573035
OP with our potential how long is it gonna be before we learn everything we can from entra?

>>573038
When you're able you spend time with Astrea, though it's becoming harder. She seems more distant, but not intentionally so. Her attendants say she spends less time out now, sleeping or at least keeping to her chambers more often.

Still, you keep training with magic under Entra's teaching, though you don't have to worry so much about going too far too fast since she seems to have thought of this, and is limiting your exposure to more advanced forms of magic. As well, despite your desires, she doesn't teach you offensive of defensive magic, strictly utility. It's useful, but not what you had in mind.

For better or worse though a month passes, and you've generally become quite apt with basic beginner-tier magic, such that you are remembering certain spells from memory rather than needing a book handy. Your combat training is also progressing at a standard pace, though it's a little disappointing personally, when compared to your magical advances.

>>573118
That really depends how surely you want to learn what she has to teach. She says she can teach you the extent of the spells she knows in a few months, but it will take much longer to learn the things she says are important like true understanding and control, a real feel and knowledge for magic.

>What do you do now, with a month having gone by?

>>573142
Let's head back to Avor.
With our convoy.

More business and all that.
Tell entra we have things to do.
Both business and familial.

>>573142
And check up on astrea on last time.
Give her a hug.
Tell her we have family and business to attend to.
And tell her if she has anything she needs she can ask us.

>>573177
You don't really have a convoy, you just rented a wagon and some guards to Rea. On the way back to ___? where Avor is, you and Rafe will be on foot unless you make some other arrangement.

You ask for the time off from Entra who says not to forget the things she taught you while you're away, and that it would be unwise to push boundaries without her help.

Lastly you see Astrea before you go, however as usual she doesn't bear much emotion or expression and merely wishes you well with tiredness clear to tell upon her. Strange, given how lively she normally is.

At any rate you plan to head out.

>Anything you want to do to change your travel arrangements?

>>573211
Not really.
Keep the guards and stuff the same.
Make sure the guards are on shifts at night so no one steals anything.
Otherwise we're good.

Also how much money we have in the wagon from that silk deal?

>>573211
I bet something happened to her when we quit our job with her.

>>573221
This

>>573221
Well it wouldn't be the same since the ones you originally hired long since left. But yes, you can get the same arrangement with some different guys. As for the amount of money, you've spent a good deal of it, but you've got a decent amount left. Enough to make a lower middling purchase like a few horses, a small boat, or a fancy wardrobe.

---

Either way you make it back to ___? where Avor and Arachne are, without much trouble on the road. You imagine the local lord will be happy to hear of your dealings in Rea, but that can wait if you have anything more pressing to take care of.

>What do you want to do, now that you're back at the village?

>>573243
Tell the Lord that the deal went of well and they seemed pleased.
Also that we mentioned him.

Have avor try to buy out the local bars and taverns.
But try to keep the former staff.

Also buy out anywhere here that sells clothing or fabrics.

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>>573243
Ask Avor if he still wants dat human P

>>573283
Anon. Lewd.
>>573243
Ask avor if he likes us.
Because we feel like he's been acting like it I guess.

>>573260
The lord is quite relieved with the news you bring him, and hopes you can keep it up. Beyond that all he cares to know about is his daughter and how she's getting on. You don't want to lie to him, but don't feel he needs to know that Astrea is probably going through a bout of sickness, so you let him know she's still adjusting.

As for buying up places, you can afford to buy one place outright between your money and that which Avor and Arachne have earned. For local clothing options, this is a village so Avor's is the only real "store" for that kind of thing. There are some local workshops that produce basic clothing within local price ranges (since no one here can afford silk) but you don't think you could make a profit off them and it would likely anger the locals. Your choice though.

>>573283
>>573288
While you're not about to go for a roll in the hay with the little guy, you feel bad to mess with his feelings if any. Sitting aside with him you try to have a normal conversation and then work your way into the matter of his feelings towards you.

When he understands where you're going with this though, he visibly tenses up and starts to shake, choking out from clenched teeth that he is your loyal servant to the last.

>What do you do?

>>573310
We're not going anywhere with a village.
We should aim for cities.
So expand later.


>Try to come to terms with the fact that he considers us his master.
We are a half dragon.
We in theory can't call ourselves a normal girl anymore.
We should at least try to live up to his respect for us.

>Tell avor to prepare regular shipments for the Marquis.One every couple months and guarded of course.

>Buy a horse and prepare to head for our parents home.

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>>573310
Give him a "hand"

Can we establish some kind of silk trade route to Rea with the help of the local lord so we can get more money?

>>573334
>Give him a hand.
Anon. That's lewd!
(Also it's a confirmed fact Maggie has a will of her own somewhat. She won't do that.)

>>573340
I know, i just want to be lewd.

>>573310
OP how does avor feel about Arachne?

>>573333
Well for what it's worth, Arachne has never had a problem with going to the city and indeed has shown interest. At the very least it would shorten the logistics of getting the silk to where it needs to be. For now though you try to get Avor to create a supply chain of silk to Rea, though it will require going through the local lord since Avor on his own wouldn't be able to make those sorts of deals with people.

As for your nature, unless you pursue it, you're no less a regular human woman than the pottery maker's wife next door, or the butcher's assistant girl walking past the window.

You do feel though seeing your parents might be for the best, though how do you want to get to them? You can't ride a horse well, and even then it will take up to a week of just riding.

>>573334
>>573340
While it's true that Maggy to an extent is her own person, it's not such a stretch for her to do Avor a "favor" like that, the little guy has always been there for her. It would be weird for her, but not neccessarily mutually sexual since Avor is like an animal to her. At least she still feels that way, she's still getting used to thinking of goblins as more than monsters, and Avor is certainly more monstrous than them.

Your choice in this case, if Maggy throws him a bone so to speak. Think of it as a reward for his loyalty perhaps? Nothing that would need more than washing your hands after, you figure.

>>573355
Arachne is hard for even you to feel close with or towards. Avor is past the point of being afraid of her, and he doesn't dislike her, but the closest equivalent to his feelings about her are like a distant roommate.

>>573365
Then we're going to check on the nation with a dragon later then.
They should accept us.

>Ride a horse.

I swear if our horse gets stolen again.

>>573365
Yus, this is what I've been wanting to do, he's done so much for us so we need to properly thank him for everything.

As for the trip to our parents, is there a caravan or something like that that can take us there?

>>573376
Op said our horse wasn't stolen last thread, it probably just wandered off

>>573385
That will be awkward as hell for avor won't it?
He can't even see us as his equal.

Also then let's ride out again.
To visit our parents and all that..

>>573376
Almace also has a dragon for what it's worth.

>>573385
Not really a caravan but if you wait a few days, there'll be a passenger wagon going to a big town in the middenlands of Almace, ___?

Your family isn't far from there.

>>573392
>>573385
If you're in opposition you'll need to come to a consensus or at least agreement about Avor. You could roll for it, but I'd rather a player agreement than opposition by rolling.

Whatever the case it'll be done, or not, before you leave here. Whether by horse you purchase, or passenger wagon.

>So what do you do?

>>573405
I say we wait for the wagon, maybe we can get a new friend on our way to
>Alri

>>573392

Lets give him a "hand" Uc/ my lewd side needs it

>>573405
I'm fine with dice rolling.
I'll always trust dice god to guide me.

Also take the passenger wagon and time skip to when we arrive at our parents village.
>>573415
Give him the offer.
If he says no accept it.
We won't force ourselves on him

>>573415
This

>>573415
>>573421
Well you offer to reward Avor for all his help and loyalty but he doesn't understand what you mean, and since you don't really have an idea of how his body works you not even sure how to say it outright.

Just to test the waters though you get touchy with him, putting one arm around him and running your other hand along his small scaly body. It feels strange to you, but you're not really sure what to make of his reaction as his little form goes stiff in your arms. You ask him how it feels, and he chokes out that he's never felt a touch so soft.

After awhile it starts to go to your head and you get embarassed about the whole thing, no idea what you're doing, or even how to arouse him if that was the goal. Considering your own experience with even human men is lacking, that shouldn't come as a surprise.

Swallowing your embarassment, you end with a hug and ask him how it felt at least, but hesitantly and shamefully like a kid caught taking from the cookie jar, he admits he liked it.

That'll have to do for now, but maybe next time you can ask him for guidance to his own body. Or maybe you could pick up a book on kobold anatomy? The main thing now though is the wagon to Alri. A few days later and you board with some other people of varying types, all traveling for their own reasons. The trip itself takes a little over a week, but you come to get to know some of your fellow travellers. Particularly a young fellow carrying an important message beyond Alri, and a woman with her cousin and young son, making the move to join her husband.

Thankfully the trip is uneventful in the way of danger, but eventually you arrive in Alri, a decently large town of the Almese midlands.

>What do you do now?

>>573451
Start heading directly for where are parents live.

We are in such a hurry to see them.
>>573415
And your lewd side remains unfulfilled.

>>573451
Find your parents so you can find out about your dragon nature

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>>573462
>>573451

It's good enough for me Anon, we need to read up on Kobold anatomy before we go full lewd tho

Find a bookstore to buy an anatomy book on humanoid species and then set out to see our parents

>>573462
>remains unfulfilled

Baby steps. Maggy is still a good girl, but if Avor had something for her to grab onto, well she'd have worked with it so to speak.

>>573468
From Alri you head out to your parents, a little hamlet about a day's walk from Alri. Setting out the morning after arriving, you reach your home "town" by early evening.

It's quite emotional for you to be back, and there's definitely a part of you that misses it. You cross paths with some familiar faces for warm greetings and congrats over having done well for yourself.

>What do you want to do now? Your family farm is on the outskirts, if you want to go there and see them, how do you do it?

Also now's as good a time as any, but was it figured out which of your parents is real? I know some people said mom, some dad, but either is possible. I think mom would work better realistically, but dad could be interesting just the same.

>>573451
>Do whatever is needed to.improve our silk trade without revealing the source of our silk
>Keep the slow pace with magic. Get a book about water magic since fire would be dangerous due to our dragon parent.
>Don't slack on the spear training and fighting. But also buy and learn to use a pair of knifes.

>>573497
This works also.
>Go visit our sick female friend and insist in staying a few days with her. And that we can get anything she wants within reason.
>Tell her our story without mentioning eeal names and the slave brand, and the fact one of our parents is a dragon.

>>573496
Im voting dad.
Dice god said to.

Hurry there.
Be angry.
Be impatient.
The answers sit right in front of us.
>>573497
More people scared of overdoing the magic.
We already have a motor helping us.
>>573504
Slave brand is already gone.
In the last thread.

>>573497
>>573504
These are both possible though currently you're a ways away from Rea. You can make a mental note of it though for sure, for later.

>>573519
>Motor
Mentor
I hate autocorrect.

>>573496
If mom works better then mom got SCALE'd

Just walk to our house knock on the door and spend time with them, we'll mention the whole dragon thing when it's dinner

>>573545
Well I think it might work better with the story, and afford Maggy some legitimate daddy issues. But it wouldn't make it any less interesting if her dad is the human one, would just take things in a different direction.

I'll wait for one other input on the matter.

>>573555
I'm fine with having our mother get SCALE'd.
Daddy issues are coming I guess.

>>573545
I agree with this

>>573560
Really it depends if you go off chasing the deadbeat parent. If you never do then it doesn't much matter. In the end I would imagine one to be partial to you, and the other to be indifferent, depending on the dragon's gender. So if you ever do pursue them, it's your choice of what kind of parent you want to find in them.

So,
>>573519
>>573545
You approach your home, feeling like you've got a stone in your stomach and a lump in your throat. Several times you consider just turning back altogether, until your younger brother happens upon on his way back to the house, surprising you when he runs up from behind and throws his arms around your waist.

Almost immediately all those feelings of guilt and worry melt away when you see his big eyes and wide smile looking up at you and begging to know everything about what's going on with you. After that it's unavoidable, that you get dragged inside by the rest of your family. Even when you see your parents, for as mixed as your feelings are towards them you can't help but crying. It's been years since you've seen any of them, more powerful emotions than anger and sadness win out.

All the while you can tell your parents are uneasy, but still just as happy to see you, and how you're doing. Maybe a bit disappointed that you're not with a man, but you're doing well for yourself which is nearly as good.

>So how do you want to approach the elephant in the room? At dinner much of your family is gathered there, only missing is the eldest of your younger sisters, having gone off to have a family of her own while you were away.

>>573609
Just say it right now.
Ask.
>I know I'm half dragon.
And explain how we found out.

Also ask whether it was mother or father that did the deed.

>>573609
>Tell the whole story avoiding real names and the mention we once had a slave brand. Also don't mention the fact we know one of our parents is a dragon, that ine should be a private conversation for later.
>Remenber to visit our sick friend later.

>>573609
Have dinner and keep catching up with our family then we'll wait until our siblings are sleeping after that we'll address the issue

>>573623
>Avoid real names
Why?
>>573630
I'll support this anon instead.

>>573623
This works. No need to let everyone know.

And yes we should visit our sick friend as soon as we can. Also the knifes training.

You decide to keep it close with your siblings (or, half-siblings, right?) around, and over dinner catch up with everyone, as well as some time after until mom can chase the youngsters to bed and the older ones wander off at their own pace.

What follows is an uncomfortable silence as your parents try to think of how to approach the matter, until you break it for them and say you know you're half a dragon. In your letter you hadn't let on that you know that much, so this is obviously distressing for them, that they may have built up the defense around you only knowing your illegitimacy. Knowing the full truth though, they were entirely unprepared for, and your mom quickly loses her composure and continues to apologize profusely. You swore to yourself that you wouldn't break down in this situation no matter what, but it's when you see your dad eye's watering that you lose it. You end up going off on them about it, and about how they kept the truth, but soon feel deeply ashamed at having spoken to them in such a tone. You're honestly surprised your father didn't take his hand to you over that, which goes to show how hard this is for all of you.

Knowing the walls have ears, your father decides to take things outside so your siblings don't get the truth. Sitting down together beneath the tree near the front path, your mother takes your hands and cries into them for forgiveness, while your father holds her and tries to console her.

>You sit with your parents in relative privacy, with the truth on the table between you. What do you want to do? Ask? Know?

>>573666
Ask mother
>When
>Why
>And where is he.
Try to express that we're aren't mad just confused.

>>573666
What happened to my real dad? Why did he leave? Why did you keep the whole SCALE'd thing hidden from me?

>>573666
>Ask for the full story. Tell them that you love them anyway and you understand why they keep it a secret.

>>573679
>>573666
And this, we're not mad at them, we're just confused

>>573679
I'd like a little player creativity for this specific, if you guys don't mind. I've been telling the story so far but I'd like you guys to take the turn with this.

I'll answer questions about it being kept secret, and questions for the present/future such as interest in finding the dragon.

But you guys tell me, how and why it happened that your mom crossed paths with a dragon and you came to be, and why he's nowhere to be found.

>>573703
Mom crossed paths with a dragon because it was a deal. The dragon wanted a child but female dragons are rare, so are dragons in general. Her family had a big debt so she agreed in exchange of money.

When you were born the dragon said that unless you showed mutations and started to become dragon like your mother could keep you.

>>573714
This.

Mother obviously studied herbalism but that doesn't make enough money.

That's how she found the dragon.
She was legitimately just foraging.

>>573714
Though this raises the possibility he did this with other women.
Siblings are now a possibility.

>>573726
Yeah. Then again dragons live long, he could just do this once in a human ggeneration.

>>573714
>>573719
But what about our fake dad, when and how did they meet?

>>573734
Well plenty of money and a child.
Obviously she wanted to settle down.
And as a herbalist medicine and dealing with the sick sometimes is a thing.

Florence Nightingale effect.

She fell for him and he fell for her.

>>573714
I'm cool with that as long as we can make our dragon blood more dominant.

>>573745
This works.

>>573754
We can realize our dragon traits by chasing our heritage.

The easiest way to do that is to find or dad or go to another dragon I think.

>>573754
Dragons are servants to no one. So voting for those option is not very dragon like.

Ah but, it's a great sin to have a child out of wedlock! Much more just for the purpose of settling a debt. And incomparably more, with an animal, an evil one that at that.

Was your mother the sort to fall to that kind of sin, or was her debt truly so great?

>Just a consideration. In this situation one can guess what went through the dragon's mind, but Maggy want's to know what was going through her mother's mind.

>>573774
Ooooooh boi, a little of both, mom had a thing for SCALES and the debt was pretty big, a win win situation

>>573768
I meant doing some voodoo magic or some crap to bring on dragon mutations

>>573774
Her debt was huge to the point they could have sold her to slavery, besides losing everything. Besides after our former boss almost got us turned into a slave, we would be understanding on our mother.

>>573774
She fell to the sin.
She fell hard.

Also one other small requiremnt, logistically for it to work, but Maggy's dragon father would have to have been relatively young. That's not to say he couldn't already have been wealthy or in a position of power, but it's not feasible for something the size of a house to mate with a human woman.

Again, this doesn't invalidate anything suggested so far, just alters it a little. So he was a young dragon, perhaps the equivalent to a studly bachleor? Rather than an ancient beast the size of a mountain.

>>573781
Mayhaps there was deception, trickery, or charm involved on behalf of the dragon? Or mayhaps it was even worse, that dare say it... love was involved, for however short a time? God forbid!

>>573792
There was love.
Gods have mercy on her soul was there love.

And yes he was a young studly scaly bachelor.

>>573792
Unless it was magic pregnancy or a race of not so bug dragons. Not every dragon species is huge. Fairy dragons, the small ones with insect like wings, never get bigger than a housecat.

>>573799
Anon pls, im the lewd one here also supporting this

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>>573786
That's pretty sensible, yeah. Well it's not justifiable to go the lengths she did, but in a way you can relate.

Unless of course...

>>573790
No, surely not that... it couldn't be! Truly there could be no recovery from a fall to sin so great!

>>573810
The fall was as great as one from the heavens themselves.
I daresay she still wonders what if he stayed!

>>573810
We don't care. Those same rules allowed that bitch to almost sell us to slavery. And our best friends are non humans save for the sick girl.

>>573823
Well we care a little but not as much as we would before the whole slave brand thing.

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>>573807
The previous thread they chose standard dragon, so it's the big sort.

>>573819
Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. How can she live with herself?

You try to rationalize it from her position, lord knows it's not easy being a woman in this day and age, and you know the feeling of desperation, and debt.

What's perhaps the most disgusting though, is your human "dad" and how he could accept it, how he could take your mother after that. He made the choice of raising literally his wife's child.

>So I think the rough idea of what happened in the past is falling into place. Will go back to answer the questions that fall upon me to do so.

>>573836
>No, you should be grateful that your dad picked your mother anyway.

>>573836
>>573745

Both of them surely were so in love with each other that they didn't care, they were happy together

>>573842
This. We have changed since our maid days. And we also have done questionable things, like almost having sex with a kobold, let's not be a hypocrite.

>>573847
Right?

>>573847
Obviously.
That sweet sweet scale lovin'

>>573847
Also this. Plus ya know, being more accepting due to us almost having sex with a non human.

>>573679
>When
It would have been around your age, so roughly 20 years ago.
>Where is he
She doesn't know, she never saw him again after.

>>573682
Your true parentage was kept secret for various reasons, including your own safety, as well as the obvious strain it would put on your family. Also because of the sin of being a bastard, possibly averted if you never knew.

>>573842
>>573849
The problem you're faced with here is not so much hypocrisy, but that you're torn between your family and love and forgiveness, and your faith and revulsion and condemnation.

You know better than anyone that you're not a shining pillar of virtue, and even recently you considered fooling around with a kobold. But your mother's sins, and together with your "father" of violating such sacred beliefs as that of marriage, are orders of magnitude beyond your own transgressions.

You love them, but your faith is a love just as strong. It's not a question of how you overcome it, but how Maggy overcomes it.

>>573868
Faith.
Where did faith come to save us from spider venom?
Faith has done jack shit for us.
Our parents
Avor
Arachne
Astrea
And ourselves most of all are the ones that pulled through.
Faith shouldn't even hold a candle to our parents.
Or how we feel about what we are.
Maggy needs to come to terms with that.

>>573868
We are an abomination for our faith and the same faith allows nobles and rich people to slave their servants if they want to, so we are confused and cry, but we think we might need a new faith that accepts us.

>>573877
Basically we need faith in ourselves and our loved ones.

>>573877
Holy Shit, This

>>573877
>>573882
These two. We are not giving up on religion just our current one.

>>573877
All good points, but it's hard to argue with something you've lived and experienced your whole life. Maybe this situation with your parents will cause you to reconsider things because of how close it hits, but you're not going to be able to just turn your back on a lifetime of belief in one instance.

>>573882
Actually not totally true. In this case being a bastard would be the sin, rather than being half a dragon, there's nothing inherently wrong with that, as the sin lies with your mother there.

As for all that talk about nobles and peasants, excuse me but that's some dangerously enlightened speak of you there, definintely more than a few centuries too early for that.

A new faith that accepts you though, hopefully that doesn't lead to a god complex and creation of your own faith...

>>573903
>God complex
Hmmmmm......

But yeah.
Maggie you can't just turn away from your mother.
Just give her a chance and start thinking.
Is your current faith REALLY worth more than your family and your friends?

>>573907
You're going to deep anon

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>>573909
Like really Maggy it seems at some point you might have to choose between yourself or your faith.

I know you find your faith important.
But it's not healthy if it's more important than you.

Your faith is to help guide you not control you.

>>573903
Nah, just a faith that doesn’t aĺlow slavery and doesn't blame you for the sins of your parents.

Well this is all so much to deal with, so much to take in, it's hard to focus. You feel the strong hand of your father on your shoulder though, and you feel the strength from it, as he tells you that none of this, none of any of it is your fault, and he doesn't love you any less for it, neither of them do.

You want to come to grips with this, you want to deal with it, as a family not just on your own. But more than anything else you just want to be alone right now for some time, to sleep on it. You worry though you might not get another chance to ask them anything else you want to know. It's certain this will all be talked about again, but not in the way it is now.

>What do you do?

>>573920
This..Surely such religion must exist somewere.

>>573920
Slavery isn't allowed by the faith. If it was found out what your former mistress did to you, she would be in a huge amount of trouble for it, including with the church.

>>573920
Maybe a faith that's more welcoming of non humans would be good too.

>>573923
>Go visit our sick friend and buy those knifes.

>>573923
Tell them we plan to visit a dragon.
We must learn about the other half of our blood.

>>573934
Let's go visit her.

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>>573923
Before heading out ask mom if she knows any scaly tricks for your Kobold Bf back at the business

>>573945
No I'm definitely against that.
We aren't asking our mom for sex tips.

>>573934
You're leaving home so suddenly? You did only arrive hours prior.

>>573937
Both your parents say that is your choice to make, though they have strong feelings against seeking out a dragon on princicple, but you have every right.

They both stress though, your mother especially, that you don't have to do it. That's your choice as well. You don't have to involve yourself in that kind of life, the life of a monster. Not to make the same mistake she did, when it could cost you worse than it cost her; your life. You know what you have now, you don't know what you'll have if you go chasing after your father, other than hate that people bear for dragonkind.

>>573948
Ditto.

>>573953
We must do it!
I am not a dragon.
Or a human.
I am Magdalena!

Now let's go sleep.
Damn this was exhausting P.

>>573953
Well OP, this was a very fun evening but i gotta go sleep, cya bby.

And hug both of our parents before leaving

>>573953
Yes. We.need time to think and well she is sick and we want to help her.

>>573953
Yes. Let visit our sick friend. The dragon can wait.

>>573953
Night OP.
Sleep beckons.

>>573961
You turn in for the night, and have a fitful sleep plagued with strange dreams. Come the morning you're awoken by your youngster siblings, though you share a terse breakfast with the rest of the family. Although the others don't know the truth or what happened, they know something went down for you or mom&dad to not be talking. After spending some time alone to yourself just going about the farm where you grew up, and retracing steps you took and places you spent time, you decide it's time to get back to your usual life and to take all the problems you brought back with you. Your parents say you don't have to leave, and are worried you're leaving in anger or distress, but you let them know there's others waiting for you, and that you won't be gone forever.

As a last thing before you leave, and in private, your mother gives to you a necklace which she says was given to her by your real father, supposedly to give to you. Since it had all been kept a secret she'd kept it hidden away and never thought she'd need to pass it on to you. But it didn't matter in the end, and she gives it to you now.

---

After that it's a trip back to Alri to wait for another passenger wagon in the direction fo Rea, and during this time you obtain a pair of knives. You do land one eventually and similarly undergo travel for about another week.

One the fourth day though, during the day the wagon is assaulted by some bandits, who don't use much violence at all and are actually rather police/nice if they weren't robbing you.

>What do you do?

The bandit leader in particular focuses you out. A charming and handsome fellow admittedly with a streak of theatrical flair, he says if you like he forgoe normal practice and steal you away instead of your money.

You get the idea if there were other women among the passengers, he would probably be saying the same thing to whichever was the prettiest.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>574004
>Focus on growing the grass ir whatever plant is under him to scare him away. Also he is saying that to a woman wearing armor?

Rolling for magic.

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>574007
This

Rolling for magic

>>574007
Well "armor" for you is a chest plate and some bracers, that's about the extent, and by his remarks he finds it curious and intriguing, saying he'd love to put it to the test and see you in action.

At any rate you you use your magic to cause the grass to spring up beneath him. Most of the people there are frightened by it and move away from you, but the leader (after cutting his way out of the grass) is even more intrigued and says you must really be something special. Special enough for ransom even, as he approaches and grabs your arm, intent on pulling you with him.

>What do you do?

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>574014
>Stab him with a knife and say the next time you will burn him alive.

Rolling for bluff, as is very hard to miss a knife stab so close.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>574016
This.

Rolling for bluff

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>574016
>Contested roll!

>>574017
>>574018
70 beats 57, he believes us.

We should buy that book on water magic as soon as we can find it

>>574021
Rat bastards and your combined rolls!

You stab and threaten him, which works in having him withdraw in worry, but it just causes him to stop playing nice. He sets his guys on you, which doesn't end well since any one of them is stronger than you, and there's multiple. And not playing nice in this case means, not treating you politely like a lady, as you suffer a beating and have your armaments taken before being taken yourself. Or at least, held onto while the passenger wagon is made to move on after everyone else was robbed. The driver calls back he'll get help at the next town, but that's little consolation. Standing aside and elevated off the road as he patches his hand up from being stabbed, he ponders aloud if they won't get to know you better with a laugh.

>That'll be it for me tonight, will resume tomorrow, probably earlier than usual. Until then, make your plans!

>>574028
GM is best of three remenber? Do I have to quote the post when you said you were going to do best of three from now on?

>>574028
>>574035

Yes is best of three, you said so the past thread

>>574035
I thought that was players only, since I'll rarely be rolling.

>>574040
And the players got a 70 vs your 57.

>>569208

">>569140
>>569139
Sure I'll try doing best of three then from now on."

>>574040

You never said you would keep doing averages for anything else. You said best of three from now on.

>>574048
That's what I'm saying, your guys' combined rolls are probably always going to beat mine since you get 3, I get 1.

>>574052
I'm not doing any average, I'm using combined in the sense of like, combined effort. The highest, the 70, beat my roll.

>>574055
That was just two rolls and you had said "best of three" without saying there would be exemptions to that rule.

Hence the thieves should have believed our bluff about burning them alive and leave.

>>574059
No it didn't! The boss didn't believe the lie about us telling him that the next time we used magic we would butn him alive!

>>574063
What exemption? You guys beat me by the second roll.

The competition in this case wasn't to intimidate the bandits to letting you go, it was just to stop the leader from doing what he was doing, and you won that.

Intimidating all of them to backing off and letting you go though? That wasn't going to happen just with words or stabbing a guy, just by the reputation of the leader at stake and the sexism still present to the time period, they're not going to be intimidated to that extent by a woman.

If you blasted the guy with a fireball or had a gun ready that would be different, but you're not capable of either of those things currently.

>>574059
And if you took the 70 for the stab only then the 70 should have been enough to kill him since you did not mention him wearing armor.

>>574067
He totally did, that's why he had his guys go after you instead of him! Also they're generally uneducated enough about magic to think by restraining you, you wouldn't be able to perform it.

Which of course isn't true, if you care to cast a spell that would actually scare them into letting you go, or actually does force them to let you go because of the effect.

>>574081
70 isn't enough to kill a guy with a single knife stab, even unarmored.

You'd do a much better chance of that with your spear.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>574083

Angry magic

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>574088

Angry magic

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>574088
>>574089

Well let's see how this goes.

>>574088
>>574089
A little description of what sort of spell you want to have happen, and if you're trying to push yourself beyound your standard level of magic.

But yeah, going to bed for real, will pick it up where this leaves off.

>>574093
Burn the leader of the damn bastards!

>>574108
Yeah that works.

>>572972
>>>>>>Guns in a setting with magic and fantasy creatures...

Yeah I am out of here.

>>574119
He never said it was a glock or something modern. He probably means something g like a musket blunderbuss or something of the like.

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>574094
Fire magic.
No incantation
Focus it on the bandit leader.
Screw limitations.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>574028
Well shit, what i dont want happening happens when i leave, we should've Avor'd him but instead of knocking him out we just stabbed him multiple times
>>574083

Also rolling

>>574119
>1 post by this ID
>I am out of here

I'm sure you'll be missed.

>>574119
The time period of the setting is roughly equivalent to the 1500s, so basic guns are around. Not very common, mostly just for militaries, but for a pretty penny anyone could get one. They'd just have to keep it hidden somewhere since a gun is like the new sword/badge of nobility.

>>574334
>>574297
You don't really know any sorts of fire spells with what you have in mind, and certainly not any offensive spells, they're not in your beginner's repertoire. Still, you're angry and scared enough that you just try to approximate the effect, and lash out at the leader with some sort of harmful magic.

With much difficulty under all the stress of the situation, you focus on the bandit leader as you try to project a spell of damage his way. There doesn't seem to be any effect at first, until a distinct hissing sound is heard, and then in a bright flash of smoke and powder he ignites, as well as the two guys closest to him catching some of the effect as well and ending up with their clothes on fire.

There's screaming in the air and panic follows as the other bandits try to attend their comrades, and put out a fire. You're just as scared as they are of what happened, and you feel a little ill, in a weird way you're not used to. It's definitely sickening to watch the fiery display on the bandits, but that's not where the feeling is coming from. It's more like the sudden symptoms of some actual disease, as you feel tired, queasy and light headed. Falling to panic like the others, you half-run half-crawl away, little effort done by the bandits to stop to, probably out of fear.

Stumbling off the road, you wander a ways into the woods till you're free of the commotion, and lie down amid some bushes. Curled up on the ground and shaking as you hold onto yourself, you try to make sense of things as your mind rushes and your body reels.

---

Maybe an hour or two later you awake, feeling better but still mentally distressed. You certainly didn't wish the bandits well, but it's quite another thing to have your anger, you fear answered by your power, and watch them burst into flames.

>What do you do now?

>>574482
Did they take anything? Or did they just beat us up?

>>574495
They took your armor off and disarmed you, but otherwise didn't get farther than that. Like you still have your money for example, since you didn't hand it over when they were robbing everyone.

In all the commotion they might have just dropped your stuff and fled though, you're not sure.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>574511
Lets sneak around and check if they dropped our stuff
Rolling if necessary

>>574517
Hope I didn't need to roll for that

(fK4 where are you bby)

>>574517
>3

Well you don't even sneak well, let alone turning anything up. Fortunately though it looks like the bandits didn't stick around. You can see traces of where they were and maybe went, but no sign of your stuff.

While looking around though, you are interrupted by a young man riding a mule. Stopping by he asks if you need any help or are lost, and warns you that there are known to be highwaymen in the area.

>What do you do?

>>574534
Tell him what happened and ask him if he can take us to the Town Avors at

>>574495
Can we recover anything since they left in a hurry?

Also old hanguns were shit with accuracy and only had one bullet, not to mention getting them slighty wet was enough for them to malfunction. Muskets were way more accurate but reloading them was a pain. So if we got a gun, we would just get one shot before reload? Not enough to scare bandits if they faced hand guns before.

Also we should probably avoid doing magic for a while. And I can't believe a light a cigar or a light a fire spell wasn't in the basics we learned. Light up a camp fire with a bit of magic seems like something of a basic spell. Way more useful than a grow a seed spell.

>>574534
>>574542
>>574546

Okay first of all. Just how advanced guns are here? Are hand guns shit like duel pistols used to be, meaning crap accuracy and only one shot, or they are better?

Because if is only one shot, unless we had killer the leader, the bandits would have won anyway.

Second, ask to follow the guy to the nearest town but keep a but if distance, mules have a weight limit so it can't carry both of us anyway.

Third, stay off magic for a while and get a gun. Then get someone to teach you how to use it.

>>574542
You talk with the young man and ask for his help in reaching ___? where Avor is. He says he wasn't going that far but if you need help he won't just leave you in the woods.

>>574546
If you want to try to roll again to look for anything you can.

As for the guns, you're pretty on the mark. Though if you brandished the gun when they tried to rob the carriage, they would definitely think twice about proceeding with it, rather than risk getting shot. Toting around a musket might not be practical, like carrying around a spear, but having a pistol or two on your person is totally possible. If you're worried about the range, most of the time you have to remember that you're in a town or city (so far at least) so range shouldn't be an issue. As said though, the main benefit rather than actually shooting, is the threat it poses if you point it at them.

As for the magic, there are some basic beginner spells for things like ingiting kindling close to you. But that's quite different from making a person explode into fire at a good distance away. What you did to the bandit leader wasn't too complex, but much more advanced than what a beginner would be capable of.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>574565
We should probably buy some guns for these kinds of situations.

Rolling

>>574570
Why have dice gods forsaken me, i was doing well last thread.

>>574564
Whatever is appropriate to the mid-1500s, so as you said, probably single shot and not great accuracy over distance. As said though, the benefit here wouldn't have been using the gun to shoot the bandit leader, but to hold it at them and be ready to shoot if they continue or try anything. It's like your threat of setting them on fire, except very clear to see, very real and something they can understand rather than magic.

At any rate, the guy offers to let you ride the mule instead and he can walk. Another few days of traveling and camping together, during which he's always polite and sharing of his supplies (and even acts to protect you one evening when wolf comes prowling), and you reach the village of ___? where Avor is. The young man makes sure you're alright where you need to be and asks if you need any other help, before he plans to head out.

>What do you do?

As for a gun you can probably get one without much difficulty, though not in the village here. Rea is your best bet.

Rolled 67 (1d100)

>>574565

Rolling for lot, best of three.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>574570
>>574583

Roll for loot!

>>574586
Nice, does it count?

And just in case

>Make sure to have armor and spear, even if you have to buy them. Same for the two knifes.

>Hire a small scort of two guarda to go to Rea, this is getting ridiculous. In fact have the fortune teller or another magic user check you for curses.

>>574586
Well that's really good! You do manage to find your sword and chest plate, as well as the sword of the bandit leader and and his bag with some money, goods, and a map.

>>574594
>Sell the swords we are shit with them. Unless one of them is a short sword we can actually use.

So spear, short sword and two knifes, and get a gun. Not to mention armor, anything else?

>>574608
That works for me. And yeah stay out out magic for a week

Do our silk business and visit our sick friend, don't forget to hire the guards and to check for curses.

>>574593
>>574617

Yeah hire the guards.

Curses? Maybe, check for them with the fortune teller just in case.

Personally I want us to kearn earth magic, not only earth is everywhere but trowing big rock at our enemies would be fun. But yeah let's take that week break firsf.

>>574593
Almace is just a dangerous place on the roads! Being real though there's no curse, I just want to give you guys something to do in transit, rather than every time just "You travel for a week, nothing happens." if you don't like it though I can stop it.

As for the arms and equipment, if you're going down that path is armor really neccessary? How often, and what kind of combat are you expecting to get into?

>>574617
Whatever the case you stop by Avor's to get another supply shipment from Arachne, and hire another wagon and guards for the trip to Rea. All goes well this time around for the trip, except on the fifth night when an undead stumbles onto you camping. Unless you wanted to do anything in particular, the guards would be able to dispatch it without a problem.

Otherwise, you return to Rea with the wagon of silken goods.

>What do you do?

>>574645
Are undead brain dead like a normal zombie? Or are they still semi conscious of who they were?

If brain dead kill it if not just leave it alone

>>574645
>Let the guards take care of it.

And no it won't be bad if it wasn't by the fact we suck so much in fights.

>Keep the armor that fit us and offers protection. Plus we are finally getting used to it.

>Visit our sick friend.

>>574645
>>574659
>>574673

>We hired guards for a reason, let them kill it.

>Keep the armor, visit our sick friend. Avoid magic training for a week. Ttain with the short sword, if we suck at it, then spear instead.

>Have a regular training in fighting routine.

>>574659
Depends on the type of undead but in this case it's just a zombified woman. This is the first time you've personally encountered an undead, and you're not sure if you could call her braindead. She doesn't seem to be sentient, but at the same time doesn't just show up and start attacking. As it happens, she sort of wanders over to you and the guards in the dark, maybe attracted by the fire as she takes a seat at it and kind of just lingers there occasionally looking around and groaning. The guards are obviously alarmed and horrified, but also find it strangely curious. They try talking to her and shoving her, but she reponds only with some strained vocal imitation of speech and recoils from the perceived harm, respectively.

They say it's your call what is done to her.

>>574682
>Kill it, undead is bad mmokay? Or at least scare it away with torches.

>>574682
Lets take her to the wizard guy from Rea to see if we can do something about her

I gotta go Op, don't do anything crazy while im gone

>>574682
>>574689

Lets scare it away with torches and kill it if it won't leave. Undead are always bad, even if the person is good, is still a curse that breaks the natural order.

>>574690
Let's not. Entering the city
with undead is a very bad idea.

>>574699

*Falls out laughing.

>>574690
There's pretty much no way you're going to be able to get her into Rea, or anywhere close to it really, without people freaking out and attacking on sight.

>>574681
You decide your longsword training is just not that feasible, not with the weight and strength required. A short sword though, you take much better to, even with armor on. It'll take some time to go through learning its use all over again, but you'd probably do better with it than a longsword for sure. The orc lady you found to train you though recommends still something different to suit your small frame and less hardy body, something like a fencing or dueling sword. Though at the same time she admits she wouldn't be able to train you with that, but it's her belief as to what would work best for you, if you're so dead-set on combat training.

Whatever the case, you go to see Astrea who seems to be doing worse, and goes through spells of being bedridden. She's happy to see you again though and wants to hear all about your travels. She also asks if you wouldn't care to stay for a time with her, she misses having someone she can be close and share gossip and secrets with.

>What do you do?

>>574700
So yeah, the guards were able to scare her away with torches. She's actually there again the morning after, imitating sleep among you, but once again she's scared off and when your wagon departs she follows for a little while but is too slow, and seems to just lose interest anyway and wanders off again.

>>574717
>Stay with her, make her be checked by the royal mage and the fortune teller for curses or a magic illness.
>Stay with the short sword, a fencing or dueling sword is shit on a real fight unless is magical. Also do knife training when you can, get an anatomy book so you learn were in the neck you can kill someone with just a knife cut. As the heart is usually protected by armor while the neck isn't.

>>574731

This works.

>Remember to tell your friend we like her, we just left to have our own business and take care of personal stuff. Plus we really suck at fighting so we made a sorry excuse for a bodyguard anyway.

>>574731
Entra won't be allowed anywhere near Astrea unfortunately, since she's a goblin. You ask the royal mage to see to her as well though, but you can tell he doesn't really take it seriously, and ends up just parroting what the physician said, that she's just going through a bout of sickness and needs rest.

If you want knife training though you're going to need a different teacher. You might be able to find some street urchin or cutthroat who works with knives, if you want to risk looking.

>>574742
You try to explain your situation Astrea but she says you don't have to explain anything to her, you're her dearest friend and she supports whatever you choose to do. She does lament you leaving the position of guard, though it wasn't your protection she valued, but your friendship.

>What do you do now? Do you care to take time aside to stay with her for awhile?

>>574773
>Look for a professional magic healer, name drop her father and the important people you know.
>Focus on your short sword and spear training. Still try to get that anatomy book.
>Be afectionate with your friend but just hugs and kisses and be sure to don't get caught.

>>574717
Buty why tho, ask her if she did anything suspicious, we shoud've stayed god fucking damnit

>>574773
>>574784

Yeah, she can pay it, so money for a professional healer is not a problem.

And yes, this works. She is our friend so we can stay for a while.

>>574793
Also this. She might be pregnant.

>>574773
God fucking damnit, she is in the process of dying im guessing or maybe shes severely depressed?
>>574784
This

>>574784
There aren't any magic healers in the city, but you try to find a more practiced doctor to take a look at her, and end up settling for a midwife just in case. She says Astrea isn't pregnant, but is suffring from a bout of anemia, that could be because of her diet or perhaps a change to a more sedentary lifestyle after coming to Rea. She recommends that she eat more fruit and try to get out more, get some fresh air and activity.

In the meantime you agree to stay with her for a time, and would have slept on a lounge chair or something, but she won't have it and has you share her bed. Neither of you ever were close in that way, but sleeping together and being close and friendly after such a time apart, some hugging and light kissing results. Of course light affection like this isn't uncommon among ladies of the day, or even men (minus the kissing probably) but you've never had a friend as close as her to experience it so it's embarassing for you initially.

In living with her again and sharing such close proximity though, you come to meet a noble guest of the Marquis who often comes to visit Astrea in her poor health and seems to care about her. A handsome older gentleman from an eastern country you're not familiar with, you can't tell if he's just trying to be polite in visiting but Astrea always acts rather exuberant and lively when he's around, so she clearly has strong emotions towards him. One other thing you notice is how cold it gets at nights, certainly by the morning. The largest windows to her room keep hinging open, and you find yourself often having to get up to shut them. It's annoying because the lock is busted, which is probably why they don't stay shut.

>>574793
She tries to remember but says she hasn't knowingly done anything suspicious or out of the ordinary. The food and climate here is different from her home town, which is what she believes is the cause of her condition.

>What do you do?

A note about the knife knowledge, anatomy isn't the best in this day and age, but if you're really intent on learning how best to kill someone by stabbing or slashing their neck, you can just ask someone who knows how, to show you how.

>>574870
>Get a new lock, maybe have her change to sleep another room with no window.
>Be suspicious and ask for guards to be posted outside the window and outside her door.
>Ask the fortune teller for any supernatural creature that could be after your friend and is related to cold.
>Make sure your friend eats the right food.
> Buy a book on protection magic, like how to guard a room against supernatural creatures with hostile intentions.
>Mention you have seen undead not that far away from the city and warm the city mayor that they could have a necromancer living nit so far away. Then say you don't think a single undead is reason to worry but you thought he should know just in case.

>>574896
This

Also

>Make your friend wear a holy simbol around her neck at night Anemia and open window sounds like the stories you have heard about supernatural blood suckers.
>Really ask into changing her into a room with no windows but say is because the cold is bad for her health. Don’t mention the posible vampire but look into how to defeat them just in case.

>>574917

Yes, do this. Why didn't I think vampire? I am an idiot.

>>574896
>>574917
Well Maggy doesn't know what a vampire is, but in talking to Entra she comes to learn some. Entra does actually have a book on vampires since her people hail from the east, but it's written in goblin so isn't much use to you.

At any rate you go through the proper precautions against it, most prominently getting Astrea a new room, and encouraging her to be more healthy like eating right and going out with her more often.

All in all it works quite well and Astrea's health noticeably improves over a week, and you think maybe you were being too careful and she just needed a change to her lifestyle. Eventually though she starts to relapse despite your actions and care, and you can't make sense of it since you're going through all the precautions and defenses against a vampire. Everything short of magic that is, but you didn't want to have to resort to that for obvious reasons.

>What do you do?

>>574963
>Do the magic protections. Ask your fortune teller for help. Get that book about how to ward a room.
>If it doesn't work, maybe having her go back to her hometown would help?
>Get her protection amulets and holy symbols to wear.

>>574963
Keep an eye on her troughout the whole day, dont leave her side

>>575014
>Also ask what other creature could be, mention the cold and the older gentleman. Could he be a monster or fae kind? You are kind of running out of ideas.
>Try to remove all mirrors and find out how to ward against fae.

>>575024
Also this. Learn protection magic that might help.

>>575040
And this.

Could we disguise the fortune teller as just a short abd ugly human witch wuth the right clothes, make up and maybe illusion magic? That way she could examine our friend and the rooms and figure it out. Did anything, even decorations change in the new room before our friend started to get sick again?

>>574963
Time to be paranoid. Remove all jewerly or objects that she is wearing that you didn't get her yourself like holy symbols or protection amullets. Get her new clothes and make her wear only those.Never leave her alone, not even when she has to use the toilet. Remove all objects in the room that could be cursed and get them examined by the fortune teller.

Ask her if she got any gift or present since you left. Examine all her personal belongings for magic.

Don't trust that old gentleman cause you really have no clue what's going on, but you suspect fae.

>>575065
All of his, also we need to bring her to the fortune teller

>>575052
You could certainly try with a roll. Maybe disguise her as an ugly child and carry her in. As for anything that change, nothing about the room, but the staff attending it did. Different maids.

>>575014
>>575040
Magic protections are going to take some time, at least for you since they're beyond your beginner understanding, actually moving into novice magic. I assume though on the front end, you want to do things in order, in which case the soonest thing you could do is spend all your time with her to see if anything happens. Considering you already do spend pretty much all your time with her though and not noticed anything, you decide to sit up the coming night.

---

Things go as you might expect, terribly boring and you start to doze off, until you startle awake by one of the maids entering into the room and moving to Astrea.

>What do you do?

I gotta go again OP, plz dont kill her

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>575074
>Tackle the maid, wearing our armor makes us heavier than her. Then treaten her with our short sword or knife, whatever works best.

"Who are you? Why are you tryng to kill our friend?"

Roll to look scary, best of three.

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>575089

Roll to scare her, best of three.

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>575089
>>575095

Rolling for being scary

>>575110
Good. If it's a fae does it have a weakness to iron or steel like our armor and sword or knife?

>>575089
>72

You're actually not in your armor in this case since moving and keeping quiet was the idea, but you still tackle her regardless. You make your demands of her and want to know what's going on, trying to be as scary as you can, which would probably be a lot since you scared her half to death by tackling her in the dark.

She responds and says she wasn't trying to kill Astrea, just take her jewelry off. The way she responds though, how frightened and confused she is, she doesn't seem to know what's going on and is answering as if repeating something she was told, rather than understanding it herself.

She apologizes profusely and says she doesn't know what's going on, and soon starts crying as a result. You're not sure what to make of it, but are interrupted by a set of set of hands on your shoulders, and a strong but not violent grip. You hear some sort of whispering and the maid looks up to whomever is behind you, and quickly stops sobbing and wraps her arms and legs around you.

Having difficulty moving like that, you feel yourself forcibly pushed over by the person behind you so that you're turned, and now the maid is the one on top trying to hold you down instead. You can see though now, an elegantly dressed figure with a fine mask, probably one of the nobles if you had to guess. A man's voice you hear, as he says he didn't expect you to be awake this time, after sleeping through his other visits.

>What do you do?

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>575148
He needs to be on fire, right now.

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>575148
"SHE IS MINE! THOSE WHO TAKE WHAT'S MINE WILL DIE!"

Also GM, we did vote to wear armor sll the time unless is safe. Since we believed it was a vampire, why aren't we wearing the armor?

BURN!

>>575148
Considering the only jewerly she has is eighter a holy symbol or a protective amullet due to how paranoid we became, he is not here to help.

Not to mention he aparently cannot remove it himself.

>>575170

Yeah burn, don't mess with the dragonborn bitch!

>>575170
>>575181

Well, seems we will get some toasty fae for breakfast or whatever he is.

>>575170
Damn, son. Calm down, anon. If we freak out we can't blame the fire on terrorists and get away scott fucking free.

>>575170
You can be wearing armor I just figured if you're trying to sit up all night in secret and watch and wait, it wouldn't be good to wear armor.

>>575170
>93

What follows is a whole string of complex. You threaten the fellow and despite being restrained, try to ignite him as you did with the highwayman. Your ranged ignite spell this time is powerful enough that it begins with an actual explosion, however it doesn't target the man standing in front of you. Instead the explosion happens for whatever reason, by the doorway in a completely different direction instead, and is met with a blood-curdling shriek. The man in front of you promptly vanishes in a whirl of shadows as you realize it was an illusion.

The only sense you can make of it, is that your magic was so powerful that in trying to target the man, you hit him where he actually was rather than where you believed he was. Almost like your spell channeled through the illusion to strike the one casting it themself, where they actually were, in concealment.

The man by the door, it's hard to make out through all the smoke and fire, but he runs out and down the corridor to the nearest window he can find before jumping out through the glass. Perhaps as a result, the maid stops struggling and lets go of you, looking around scared and confused. Astrea too, is awakened by all that is going on, though you have more pressing matters it would seem, being that the entrance to the room is all on fire.

>What do you do?

>>575207
>Carry your friend to safety and tell the Maid to run for help. She is a maid, she should know what to do in case of house fire.

Also I am curious, what jewerly was our friend wearing the monster could not touch? A holy symbol or a protection amulet?

>>575207
>>575218

We of course will blame the fire on the atacker.

And yeah let's get our friend to safety.

>>575218
seconding anon over here.

>>575218
Actually, from your magical attack, it's you needs carrying out. You'd intended to get Astrea and get out of there, but trying to make it to your feet, you don't make it more than a few paces before you have to lean on the bed for support, and soon collapse to convulsions, having a seizure. In the end, the maid has to try and clear a path before she and Astrea can carry you out together.

---

You awaken an unknown amount of time later in Astrea's former room, with her by your side and some others there talking. She's just concerned for your wellbeing, but it seems some people want some answers for what happened and why the estate could have burned down.

>What do you do?

>>575282
>Say that you found a masked stranger in your friend room. It aparently used magic to use the maid to try remove your friend jewerly for some reason. When you stopped it it caused the fire as a distraction and ran away.

>>575282
There was an intruder.
We had a scuffle.
Magical explosions were involved
He escaped.

>>575294
This works.

>>575299
Also add that since it could control people with magic, no one is safe from him.

>>575294
You don't want to let on that you can or used magic, so describe what happened while attributing anything supernatural to the intruder. There's a lot of skepticism around though, and they're very short with you. You get the feeling that were it not for Astrea taking your side, you'd be getting treated quite harshly.

After a lot of arguing, Astrea asks them not to do that in here while you're not feeling well. Given the room, she asks to know if you can remember anything else, that she might be able to tell them. Otherwise she wants you to get some rest, and thanks you for protecting her with a kiss to your head.

>What do you do?

>>575337
OP how much can we trust astrea.

>>575347
That's your call to make, do you think she's trustworthy?

>>575353
No need to tell her we can do magic yet.

Try to rest up and heal.
We need to check up with entra and tell her we did offensive magic.

>>575363
Yes. Also like last time, not doing magic for a week.

>>575403
Why?

If we don't do magic we can't train with our mentor.

>>575403
That works.

>Ask your friend what to do about the intruder. And tell her that you think he was the one responsible for her getting sick. You suspect Fae or vampire, then explain what a vampire is. Also tell her it might be an enemy from her family.

>>575412
To rest after over doing it.

>>575427
I don't think it works like that anon.

Our magic isn't like a muscle.
We only risk overdoing it if we use too much power in one spell.
Ad even then the risk is non existent as we've been exerting ourselves alot and are relatively ok.

Also we have been resting.

It was in my actions.

>>575363
You tell her anything else you can remember, though still don't let on that you can perform magic. Beyond that, you rest up and try to get better, though you've never had a problem with something like convulsions before so you're not sure what it would take to rest something like that away.

When next you do get the chance you go to see Entra and tell her about what happened, when she finds out that you performed offensive magic she's both concerned and confused as to why and how you did such a thing. She says you wouldn't know any spells that advanced or of that kind, though you tell her that you sort of made it up and caused what you wanted to happen. She goes dead silent at that and completely serious, as she rummages around her wagon for something, the lens she used to evaluate you in the first place of your magic nature. During this time she asks of anything bad that happened which you didn't intend for, or that you're not used to or is strange. You bring up the fatigue and the convulsions, whereupon she finds and hurridly looks you over with the lens while holding your wrist, gasping and recoiling when she reaches your chest and goes as far as dropping said lens in alarm. You ask her what's up and that you don't like the way she's acting.

She says your aura, the pulse of it now matches your heartbeat, which is indicative of awakening.

You frankly have no clue what this means, but she wants you out, wants you gone. She apologizes for failing you as a teacher, but she doesn't want you here, not after going to the lengths you did. She can't physically force you out of the carriage, but she pushes and slaps with her little green hands till you get the message and get outside.

>What do you do now?

>>575435
Still not risking it. No magic for a week.

>>575444
>Awakening

Fuck anons we're mutating!
OP remember the place you mentioned with a dragon?
Head there now!
>>575450
Too late anon!
We shouldn't have casted the explosion magic!

>>575444
>Promise her that we won't hurt her but also tell her to explain what the heck she is talking about.

>>575466
This.

Also tell her we will only leave if she explains after that we won't ever see her agsin if that's what she wants.

>>575456
There's more than one place with a dragon. Only one in Almace though.

>>575466
From within the closed carriage she says it's hard to trust you when you went against her teaching and did what she told you not to do. Now she's worried you're going to turn power hungry, throw away your humanity, and bring death which if she somehow miraculously survives, will be blamed on her. Goblins have it hard enough as it is, she says, without you making it worse.

You threaten to not leave until she gives you answers, but she says eventually you're going to have to leave if you care about your friend. That intruder is going to return, and with a vengeance.

>What do you do?

>>575505
We only did that cause bandits we're trying to kill us and we had no offensive magic and middling melee skills.

>>575505
So OP we are mutating because we made up a spell on the fly.
The only reason we didn't is because we were learning like humans did and studying spells first.
That explains a lot.

>>575511
She asks you what you think is worse, a human getting accosted by bandits, or a monster razing a town?

>>575536
We're not a monster!
And what do you mean by awakening.?
What's happening to me?
How am I a monster?
All I did was make up a dumb spell!

>>575505
>Say her that the only reason you did that was because you wanted to protect your friend. And before that it was because you were going to be raped and probably killed by bandits.
>"My father is a dragon, my magic is so strong I accidentally overpowered weak spells all the time. Unless I stopped using magic or acted in a way completely contrary to the nature of a dragon, this was going to happen. I understand why you are scared. But if you abandon me things will just get worse. I have no clue what to do or what the hell is the enemy who wants to kill my friend. And humans will always look for excuses to threat others like shit. I am or was human and I got almost sold to slavery. Dragons can be honorable and keep their world, they are not tricksters like Fae and they are also a dying race so they have little reason to want humans to exterminate them. Is not my word not enough for you? Look. After this enemy is deal with I will just leave. But without help my only option would be to acelerate my mutacion to kill whatever that masked guy in. By abandoning me you are just creating the monster you pretend to run away from."

>>575557
This.

We really have no clue who or what that masked guy was.

If she dumps us, fine, she will just create the monster she is so afraid of.

>>575557
>"By abandoning me you are just creating the monster you pretend to run away from."

There's a long pause, before finally she opens the door, saying that's a nasty trick you pulled, and says you can come in if promise not to burn the carriage down.

>>575548
Cramped inside with your knees to your chin, she stands face to face with you, and tells you to ask what you will though she can't promise she can answer everything.

>awakening?
She means that your non-human side is playing out, rather than remaining dormant. Despite having a dragon parent, you were no different from any other human before, but now that's becoming less true.
>what's happening?
She says that people cannot normally perform magic, and only those with the natural talent can do it safely. Magic-blooded like you are able to perform magic but it's the ancestor portion within them which is doing it. She says that by surpassing what is the safe limit for you, you're basically killing yourself, by destroying your body with magic. The ancestor portion though (dragon in your case) isn't harmed by magic that way, so when you harm your normal self, it's the dragon part of you that is replacing the damage done. Imagine it like punching many small holes in your body, or cracks starting to form, by performing magic the way you are. The holes or the cracks, what have you, are being filled with the part of you that can withstand the damage.
>monster?
Maybe not now but she doesn't think you're careful enough to not continue down the path you're going. Moreover, she doesn't have personal experience in the matter, but she has no idea to what extent your dragon half could influence you. Given the difference between the two species of your parents, even just a small amount of the dragon portion could overwhelm you and change your personality, judgement, behavior, who knows what else?
>dumb spell
The problem is that it's beyond your limit. If you want to be completely safe then you'd never go beyond basic spells, that's the maximum for what is safe for a human, your body. Anything higher that the basic level, is harmful to a normal person, and the higher you go the more harmful it is.

It might seem like a dumb spell to you, but it still exceeds the safe level of magic for you, which is admittedly disappointingly low but still better than nothing, like the vast majority of the entire populace.

>>575690
So basically we tried to do something too hard too fast?

>>575690
Also OP we did that spell twice.
Ask her how much that'll affect us.

>>575505
"I also didn't give my word to not use my magic to save myself or others. Let's say I would have been obedient and not try to save myself. At best I would be those bandits fuck toy and at worst they would have killed me. And with the masked man, I have no clue what he is and what he can do, he was slowly killing my friend and had shown the power to control others. Should I just have done nothing? Let him get to my friend so she gets killed? Risk becoming his toy so he used me to help to kill my friend? Is easy to act high and mighty when you aren't the one risking your life and those of your loved ones."

>>575690
"So, do you have any clue what the masked man and how to defear him? I am almost sure he is fae or half fae due to his use of illusions, mind control and draining my friend. But he could also be a vampire that can do magic... I really can't do this without help. Any way I can defeat him without magic?"

>>575709
More like you tried to do something that would never be considered safe for a magic user of your type. If you think of magic being organized in terms of complexity from beginner to master, a magic user of your type can only ever safely perform on the level of beginner spells. You of course can take to them very well and learn and perform them in a fraction of the time that would take someone like the royal mage years to decades. However you have the low safety limit that they don't have. With extra care you can exceed that limit in moderation, but then you have to undergo magical "repair" to the damage you caused yourself.

The problem in this case, is that for something naturally as powerful as a dragon, not only is it super easy to exceed the low tier maximum (as if it wants to be let out, to break free), but it is also naturally stronger than all but very advanced magical "repair" so will resist being undone.

>>575557
As for the intruder problem, she believes it's a vampire. She explained to you the ways of dealing with one (mostly the standard ways that you as a player would know), none of which involve exploding it so it can leave, bide it's time and return prepared. Unless you get into a magical duel with the vampire and somehow win, magic is probably not going to help you that much, and certainly won't be the way to solve the problem for good.

>tl;dr a good old fashioned stake to the heart, among other known methods

>>575759
>Stuck with basic magic.
No. This is painful to hear
>Low safety limit
Then we'll just accept being half dragon and ask the normal dragons how they resist the constant urge to burn everything.
>Stake him
Then the vampire is getting some good stake.

Ask her if we are going to start looking draconic?

>>575759
>Then get some amulets to see past ilusions, get a silver knife and stakes. Wear holy symbols (one of a religion that likes dragons for us, our friend keep using the one she had) and let's get ready for vamp hunting.
"Anything you have or can get that can help with the ilusions?"