>>2187201
"Wow" You say out loud.

That looks badass. 6 glowing blue tails have appeared behind you. They sway gently with no regards to the wind. A couple people look over at you with interest before they move on.

After about 20 seconds, the tails disappear again, so you try punching yourself.
You lose several hundred HP, but they show up again. Whats more, you definitely felt that.

You can't feel pain if you are dreaming, right?
You aren't actually sure. If you can't, you sure are taking this well. Or maybe you are totally losing it and trying to analyze things is just your coping mechanism? Maybe its an Asperger's thing.

As you walk, suddenly you hear a voice in your head.

"Hello? Can anyone hear me?"

You recognize that voice! Its Hiroshima! Is the party chat still connected?
You say "Hello?"
No answer.
You thin-
"Oh yeah, almost forgot! Just try thinking whatever you want to say while thinking of the party."
"Oh" You hear whisperer's voice exclaim.
"Neat." And GoDoG's.
"Wow." "Wow" You and 4Dank2Tank0 respond within a few second of eachother.
"This sure is convenient." Whisperer says.
"Yeh, one of my guildies called and told me." Hiroshima explains, "Apparently the voice chat still works, but now you have to think about it instead of say it. You can call your friends too if you press their name in your list."
You should probably try that at some point, you aren't sure who else ended up here, but it looks like there are a lot of people in Portage... If your brother ended up here, he is probably way worst off than you.
"On the topic of Guilds, do any of you guys want to join mine?" You recall that it is named <Kool Kids Klub> "If we are stuck here, we should at least try and find some friendly folks around us."
"Sure. I'm in. No way am I staying guild-less if we are stuck here." Without a second of hesitation, Dank Tank agrees.
"Cool, how about you guys?"
GoDoG turns down the offer politely "No thanks. I'm gonna join up with the Guild my main is in."

You aren't sure if you want to join…
This guy can probably help you out, he is definitely a smurf, clearly rich, a foxtail like you with some literally insane DPS, and his game knowledge is probably miles ahead of yours, but his guild is a worrying.

<Kool Kids Klub> is the /pol/ guild.

You never really bothered interacting with /pol/ or their guild before, but you know what the board is like.
"I'll think about it." You give a noncommittal answer
You aren't sure if you even want to join a guild… At least not yet. There are more important things to worry about, and you doubt the invitation is going to expire. You add Hiroshima and the rest of the party to your friends list since it is nowhere near full anyways.

Which server is this?
Please do (not) be the BR server.

>>2187210
No, we're American.

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>>2187204
Thinking about your options as far as guilds go, you could definitely get into <Touch Fluffy Tail>, they have invited you several times before and they are FULL of Fox girls! And other fox guys... They are known for re-rolling Fox Tail characters until they manage to get a good combo, so like 90% of them are probably smurfs. On the other hand, maybe you should try to join the <Mourning Star>s, they are the strongest Player-Killer-Killer guild on the server and have tons of guys in every city, half of them are maxed, and nobody ever messes with them either since they always bring a goon squad. There is also the production guilds like <ProductionHo!>, <Grand Junction> and the <49erS>, who would probably be the best bet for economic safety… And when you think about it, even the <Kool Kids Klub> might be a good option since it is full of other channers, and besides not having to worry too much about fitting in, you KNOW that half of those fucks have probably been waiting for something like this to happen. In the end, your list of guilds is nowhere near exhaustive either, there are tons of smaller ones and you might even want to make your own eventually.
You are broken out of your contemplation when Whisperer apologetically says "I'm already in <Medica Magica>, Sorry."
The conversation goes on and you start walking on towards the city center again.
"All good. Do you know if any of them are in town?"
"No, why?"
"Apparently the Transport gates are down."
Wait, what!?
"Shit, really?" GoDoG asks with a hint of dread.
"I haven't checked Portage's yet, but apparently Big apple, Chasta, and Boulder are all down. Odds don't look good."

"Fuck!" you yell loudly. Several people turn to look at you for your outburst.
You start running.
You DO NOT want to be stuck in Alaska! Why did you have to be here dammit? Any other city is within relatively easy distance of the others, but the closest city to Portage is fucking Cascadia, all the way on the border between Oregon and Canada IRL. Even if the world of Elder Tale is only supposed to be half the size of Earth, and who knows if that is even true anymore, it would take days to make that trip in a car! That isn't counting the fact that there are 4 raids between here and there. Sailing is almost definitely a no go, the raids in the ocean around here are ALL over level 85, and to make matters worse, you aren't a sailor, don't know anyone with a boat, and have never done them before.

As you panic, you reach the town center. Right in front of the guild hall, a massive circular frame stands on a pedestal. It is surrounded by a huge crowd of people.
You push your way through them until you can get a look at it…

You are fucked.
[ ] Observe the crowd. Try to remain calm.
[ ] Call your little brother to make sure he is OK. Your friends list says he is all the way in boulder…
[ ] Panic more.
[ ] Seal away your fears. Sign the unholy contract. Embrace the Asperger's…

>>2187210
>>2187210
Aren't Kitsunes limited to the japanese serves?

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>>2187210
Wen, aka NA, we are in Portage.

>>2187225
No, they are a playable race for every server. You are probably thinking of the Kannagi class which is Japan only.

>>2187236
Oh yeah! I forget that only the classes were exclusive between servers

>>2187224
[x ] Call your little brother to make sure he is OK. Your friends list says he is all the way in boulder…

>>2187224
>Call your little brother to make sure he is OK. Your friends list says he is all the way in boulder…

>Log Horizon Quest
Nice.

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>>2187224
>[ ] Call your little brother to make sure he is OK. Your friends list says he is all the way in boulder…
Be a good big bro.

>Log Horizon Quest
Hell Yeah Motherfucker in every field!
What Class are we?

>>2187224
[ ] Call your little brother to make sure he is OK. Your friends list says he is all the way in boulder…
Holy shit, a Log Horizon quest! Just wondering QM, but do you have a class and subclass preselected for us? If you do, can we at least choose a subclass?

>>2187270
Well with our punchy persona i guess we are at least mained as a monk?

>>2187270
>>2187269
Woops, im an idiot, I forgot to link the prologue thread.

>>2180320

We are a Lv 73 Fox tail Monk named Will2Fight. Players haven't chosen a subclass yet, that will probably be soon.

Also, general question for anons, do you guys prefer longish posts or slightly shorter ones that come more often?

>>2187286
A mix of both is fine by me. Unimportant things can be shorter, while things such as combat or certain scenes that require more detail can be longer. Do try to find a healthy balance of both.

>>2187238
>>2187258
>>2187269
>>2187270

Woops, forgot to say Writing.

[+1 family conversation]
[-1 concern]

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>>2187348
As fucked as you are, at least this is something you can probably deal with. Maybe. Or maybe you are just trying to escape from reality a bit. Either way, you open up your friends list and search for your little brother's name, Omegaton. There it is, you select it and hit the call button. A short ringing sounds in your head.
He picks up before the second ring finishes.
"You Ok Dan?"
No response. Oh wait, you should probably tell him he has to think it…

"Think it, don't say it."

"Oh, that’s pretty cool." He sounds surprisingly calm. "You are here too then, right?" He asks.

"Yeh." You answer, you had the feeling he would be panicking more, but you are glad that he seems alright so far.
"This really isn't a dream, huh?"

"What the hell else could it be?"

"A nightmare." He says. You realize that his voice is shaking. Maybe you just didn’t notice it before and he really is freaking out...

"Dan, its all gonna be-"

"Haha, kidding. This is fucking sick."
Never-mind. You aren't sure why you were worried in the first place. Your brother is a lazy idiot who only plays games all day and never goes outside.
You like games, love them even, but at least you have a moderately decent life outside of them. Dan just stays home all day streaming games from his apartment ever since he dropped out of College.
You suppose it is a dream come true for him to end up in one.

>>2187418
"So, will you be coming to meet me or am I coming to you?" he asks nonchalantly.

"I don't think the answer is either of those man. Transport gates are down."

"What really? Jesus, and you are all the way in Portage? Shit dude that sucks."

"Yeh. I'm Boned."

"100%"

This isn't helping you feel any better, but at least he is doing alright.

"I'm gonna go try out some stuff, talk to you later. Try not to freeze to death"
Click.
He hung up on you. Cheeky bastard…

Welp. At least he is alright.
You focus back in on your situation. You are standing in the middle of one of the most remote towns in the game. Its cold as shit, and the mob of adventurers around the portal seems to have gotten more rowdy.

At least you aren't panicking as much anymore. Even if you and him are stuck here, Dan is still the same idiot you know he was. Such a common thing calms you down immensely.

There is a group of people up on the pedestal. Wait, you recognize that one, it’s the NPC from the main storyline in this town, whatshisname the sage who channels the Midnight Sun!

Looks like he is talking to some adventurers, since when do NPCs do that? Are NPCs different now too?
[ ] Go see what is going on.
[ ] Ignore it, you have better things to do, like figuring out how to fight.
[ ] Ignore it, you have better things to do, like finding something to eat.
[ ] Other (Write in)

By the way, if you have any general questions about the game or its lore, feel free to ask and I will tell you as much as your character knows about them.

>>2187427
Are NPCs different now too or is this some kind of event*?

>>2187427
Go see what is going on.

>>2187427
[ ] Ignore it, you have better things to do, like figuring out how to fight.

All the knowledge in the world wont help us if we can fight worth a damn. Lets learn before people start getting nasty.

>>2187427
>Go see what is going on.

>>2187430
Pffthaha, as long as you keep discussion flowing

>>2187427
>Ignore it, you have better things to do, like figuring out how to fight.
Im not actually sure if anchor howl is viable. Use it and attack so fast they cant actually target you before you trigger the super damage?

>>2187449
You do not have Anchor Howl, that is a guardian skill. Your taunts are Laughing Taunt and Taunting Shout. You also have stances that can be used for Hate control by effecting how much hate you generate.

>>2187469
You will probably need a character sheet.

>>2187469
I was talking about the rando skill from fox tail, if it ever comes to that.

>>2187469
Yeah a pastebin link with a char sheet may be a wise idea Neo.

>>2187418
> Ignore it, you have better things to do, like figuring out how to fight.

>our little bro is a streamer

Well at least we don't need to worry about him.

>>2187427
>[ ] Go see what is going on.
Any events happening in the moment might not happen again, unlike back in the proper MMO. We can figure out how to fight later. With any luck, we're safe while we're in town.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Investigate
>>2187440
>>2187444
>>2187540

Fight
>>2187441
>>2187525
>>2187449


>>2187490
>>2187504
I actually have one, and will post it with the next post in a google doc, I just need to set it up.

Rolling for tiebreaker
1= Investigate
2= Fight

>>2187552
[+1 Knowledge: Landers]
[+1 Knowledge: Portage]
[+ 3 Characters]
[-1 knowledge: Combat]

>>2187552
Investigate, we might be able to figure out how to interact with NPCs in this. Having read a bunch of osekais, we should realize that we need to treat them like people.

>>2187599
We should learn how to defend ourselfs in case of Pk'ers and if the NPC decide to not threat US as a person. Knowing how to defend yourself is the most important.

>>2187630
We shall just do that after we hear what the NPC has to say.

>>2187637
Well one thing is certain, if we want to get out of this place we need to level up so we can fight the lvl 85 mobs

>>2187568
This means he is writing the response. So it seems he got his answer.

>>2187651
yeh, the roll of 1 means we are investigating, and someone posted that they want to investigate right afterwards anyways.

>>2187646
Luckily we can easily do quests in the area, itll just take some time grinding.

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>>2187568
Whatever it is, it is probably something important. You squeeze through the crowd and get closer to the portal pedestal. Up on the pedestal, there are four people. You look at their status bars:
<Dorf Fort> Greysmith, Level 12 Guardian, Level 90 Engineer, a dwarf.
<Citadel> Allbright, Level 87 Cleric Level 83 Engineer, an elf.
Paradigm, Level 67 Enchanter Level 31 Engineer. A loli-style female dwarf.
And Last but not least, the NPC Half-Alv, Terril, Sage of the Unsetting Sun, Enchanter Level 71.

Back when the expansion that made this area came out, he used to be higher than the max level, but now the majority of the gathered adventurers have levels that dwarf his.
The three seem to be discussing something to do with the portal, so you listen in.

"What are you talking about?! Why would a Lever cause the portals to start working again?!" The Half-Alv protests loudly.

You notice a lever attached to the portal's frame that definitely was not there in the game.

"Hey, Calm down." Paradigm says. She sounds like an asian girl you knew back in high school. "If It works it works, if it doesn’t, it doesn't."

"Of course it isn't going to work!" shouts the sage. "The arcane devices behind these portals are far more complicated than a simple lever! What in the Wen's name gave you the idea that this was a wise idea?!"

"Hey buddy, we don't know if it's wise or not, but if you are telling us that you dunno how to fix it, at least it is an idea!" the dwarf says exasperatedly. You guess he was the one who put that lever there.
Allbright seems a bit apprehensive to take a side.

You ask another onlooker what is going on, and they tell you that apparently someone called MercuryHat called Greysmith and told him to put a lever on the portal. Apparently someone down is South Angel came up with the Idea of putting levers on all the portals and pulling them at once to restart the network.

You honestly have no idea how that could accomplish anything until you hear the dwarf continue.
"Listen, don't feckin touch it and we are all good. S'not like we can actually pull the damned thing anyways." Apparently he doesn't know either.

[ ] Step in and side with the Dwarves
[ ] Step in and Side with the Sage
[ ] Keep watching, this is interesting.
[ ] Levers definitely couldn’t be placed on the portals in the game, maybe your subclass can do something else?
[ ] Go do something else, you aren't an Engineer anyways so you doubt your input would help much.

>>2187859
Links
Combat system
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dIj2-2WLiYxT1iD0bEPN_H0R5Ad-1prdANQYe2v9qj4/edit?usp=sharing

Char Sheet
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CDOVy4RWnhXXhy55_ZjEQQmq1vwp1MO3eWevUZOT7og/edit?usp=sharing

Comments are welcome, as I said, this will probably be a clusterfuck.

>>2187859
>Levers definitely couldn’t be placed on the portals in the game, maybe your subclass can do something else?

Time to find out what our subclass is.

>>2187859
Keep watching.

>>2187869
Also Twitter now
https://twitter.com/LogHorizonNeo

>>2187859
>[ ] Levers definitely couldn’t be placed on the portals in the game, maybe your subclass can do something else?

>>2187859
>[ ] Levers definitely couldn’t be placed on the portals in the game, maybe your subclass can do something else?

Well if we get to pick a class i say we go brewer. Drunken fist fox boy !

>>2187905
>>2187893
>>2187876
[+1 List of choices]
[+1 subclass vote]
[-1 plot interest]

>>2187869
Pretty big and complex system. Can you handle it? Will players remember it during a fight?

>>2187960
>Will players remember it during a fight?
Unlikely

>>2187859
Wait a minute...

TinyShephard?

>>2188027
no, just a huge fan of his.

>>2187960
I doubt it, but lets try.

>>2187959
Seeing the spectacle taking place here, you realize that apparently things work different than they used to in the game.
When you think about it, it was fairly obvious considering that you could do damage to yourself with your own punch earlier.
On that note, you wonder what your skills can do and if they changed in any way…

Your Subclass is…
Combat:
[ ] Acrobat - gives a bonus to dodge, a common monk subclass.
[ ] Berserker- Gain a Frenzy skill and lifesteal.
[ ] Duelist - Better 1v1s
[ ] Rune Knight- imbue runes on equipment for more various effects
[ ] Survivor- Resistance and dodge up at low hp
[ ] Tracker- Sneak and Move Silent, can hunt certain hunter creatures. Tracks targets you damage for a while.
[ ] War Priest- Gain some Melee attacks that heal allies.


Production:
[ ] Alchemist - Make potions
[ ] Blacksmith - Make metal objects
[ ] Brewer- Make Beer
[ ] Engineer- Make devices and machines
[ ] Spelltheif - Scribe that does not require INT, but has its power determined by the number of magic users you have killed

Roleplaying:
[ ] Gambler - Better luck in some quests and occasional lucky hits in combat
[ ] Nomad- Several low tier gathering skills, bonus to mounted speed.
[ ] Sailor- Captain a ship

descriptions indicate what you know they did inb game with a few exceptions

>>2187976
>>2187960
If we have to simplify things, i might just include AA damage in the skill itself and lower the number of skills. The point of monk is to make cool combos, so i tried to fluff a skill-set that could let players do it.

Most classes tend to be alot more straight forward and are generally easier to manage.

>>2188072
>Brewer- Make Beer

Drunken fist fox go! Beside kitsune serving drinks are a trade mark. And everyone likes beer

>>2188072
>[ ] Brewer- Make Beer
Shaolin Drunken Monk is go.

Besides, who gets mad at the guy who's offering you booze?

>>2188080
I thought we weren't a sailor so that sub-class (in my opinion) should be locked away.

>>2188072
[ ] Spelltheif - Scribe that does not require INT, but has its power determined by the number of magic users you have killed

>>2188091
good point, disregard that.

>>2188086
And if we are in the Alaska part of the game it must be really cold. Nothing better then beer to keep the cold at bay.

And of course we should always carry a keg with us

>>2188084
>>2188086
[+1 Drunken Fist]
[+1 Disappointment]

>>2188134
>[+1 Disappointment]

Only if/when we get sober

>>2188072
>Runeknight
>Brewer
>Gambler

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>>2188134
Your subclass is Brewer, and you could really use a beer right now. In fact, you could really use something quite a bit stronger than a beer right now.

You head to the public workshop area where there are several tables that people can use to train their subclasses. Inside, it is more or less empty. Apparently most people aren't really thinking about this kind of stuff at the moment.
Its probably the Asperger's.

You go over to the brewing stand. It looks exactly like it did in the game. You open your menu and select brew. The items disappear from your inventory like normal and some steam comes out of the top of the stand. It will take a minute or two to finish.

While you wait, you notice someone else walk into the workshop. Its Paradigm, the dwarf girl.

"That pompous asshole! Just like in the dam quests! I knew we shouldn't have let him mess with it!" she complains loudly to herself.

"Whats all the fuss about?" You ask the distressed girl.

"The sage destroyed the lever we put on the portal." She huffs.

"Whats wrong, its just a lever, right?"

"Well yeh, but now I have to go make a new one while they go on arguing without me! "

"Do you actually want to argue with them?"

She stares at you for a second. "Good point."

"You should probably thank him when you get back."

"Nah, fuck that guy, fuck his quest line, and fuck Portage."

"Agreed." She has a point. As powerful as the sage was supposed to be, he was a huge dick. He never told you anything helpful at all and just kept insulting you and yelling at you the whole time. You basically had to find out everything about the story line here through side quests and dungeons while he used you like a lackey.

While you talk, she has already finished making her lever, it is a quick to complete recipe.
"The fuck is this?" She yells

"What?"

"Its different! This one has a gear on the back! The one I had left from before was completely flat!"

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>>2188297
Hmm. That’s interesting.

"Does that make a difference?" you ask.

"No clue." is her answer.

"Want a Drink before you go? You look like you need one…"

"Do I even look old enough to drink?" she asks.

"Good point. Nevermind."

"That was a joke. I'm 22 Stupid tiny ass body. Why did I have to choose a dwarf, I look like a kid." she sulks.

Oh. That makes sense you guess, its kinda hard to get used to. You have a fluffy tail, she is a loli, and you have seen several cat people who are more cat than people. You feel like you got the good end of the bargain on this one.

"In that case, cheers." You say handing her one of the steins of beer you produced and then clinking your own against it.

She takes a sip "Haha, real funny."

"What?"

"I told you, I'm 22! You didn’t have to give me water!"

"No, that’s definitely beer. I literally just brewed it. You cant even get water out of a brewing stand."

"Alright, wanna switch then?"

"Sure, why not." Is this some kind of elaborate joke she is playing on you?

You take a sip. Yep, that’s water. You drink some more just to make sure. Still water. Well, that’s depressing.

"This one is water too! What the hell?!" she shouts after taking a gulp of the drink.

You look at the two beer glasses. They definitely look like beer, they are even frothy with carbonation.

You take another sip of yours and she does the same. This is a fucking mystery. Its still just water. Completely normal water. Not even a hint of carbonation.

"Try a different drink?" she suggests

Might as well.

You two wait a couple more minutes as the brewing machine steams, and when it finishes, you take two cups of vodka out of it.

You hand her one. "Count of three?"
"You got it."
"1, 2, 3!"
You both take a shot. It is water.
"God dammit!" you yell and throw your glass onto the ground.

She does the same with a disappointed sigh.

[ ] Try another drink with Paradigm
[ ] Remind Paradigm that she was going to deliver her lever to the argue-y people
[ ] Suggest that you two try to buy alcohol in an NPC store

>>2188314
>[ ] Remind Paradigm that she was going to deliver her lever to the argue-y people
But she's free to come back and help us work out what the fuck once she's done. We'll probably be here a while, painfully sober.

>>2188314
>Remind Paradigm that she was going to deliver her lever to the argue-y people

Man, once people figure out how to actually cook and craft shit, we'll be raking in money from the alcohol we'll be producing.

>>2188342
Maybe we are just to low level or the machine is broken

>>2188348
You are producing beverages that you have the level for.
Beer and Vodka are actually fairly low level drinks, with beer actually being level 1. They are use to train the skill and can be sold to NPC stores to recoup some of the material costs. They are also used as ingredients for some higher level drinks and the occasional potion, such as the dodge potion.

>>2188357
Oh I just realized I didnt mention this either, you are a level 61 Brewer.

>>2188134
You can always make the brewer an alchemists. E.g rune wine increases wisdom by two for x hours.

>>2188359
>level 61 Brewer.

Holy shit...that's pretty high for a roleplaying subclass

>>2188370
Some of the beverages you can make do that kind of stuff, some sell for relatively good values, some are quest items, and some gave special emotes. There are a few other various things you could do with the class, like make some extra money while offline by signing up at a bar as a bartender or brew explosive kegs that can be used by sailors.
The level 90 Item, Stein of the Gods is a Phantasmal class offhand "weapon" that is popular with mages because of the massive mana regen it gives. It also makes you walk with a funny animation.

>>2188342
>>2188345
[+1 Reminder]
[+1 Angry sage]
[+1 Disappointed Dorf]
[+1 ???????? ???? ????????????]

>>2188080
Why not less skills and they can all combo into each other. But you need a higher dc for each extra chain, like 10+. Needs some balancing of course.

>>2188314
>[ ] Try another drink with Paradigm
>[ ] Remind Paradigm that she was going to deliver her lever to the argue-y people

I am sad now, because while I like this character, if we go for her it's First Girl Syndrome.

>>2188571
Whisperer was technically first girl.

>>2188584
Unfortunantly dwarf gorl has a kids body.

>>2188571
>implying we aren't holding out for a Pirate girl

>>2188449
As frustrated as you are, you manage to remember what the girl was here for in the first place. She was getting a lever for the people arguing at the portal.

"Hey, didn't you need to bring them that at the portal?"

"Oh yeah, right, thanks. If you find something worth dinking, call me, alright?"
She adds you to her friends list and a window appears in front of you, which you accept.

"Actually, I'm kinda curious about this whole lever deal anyways."

"Wanna come?"

"Sure, why not." you reply. "So what started the whole thing anyways, from what I heard some dwarf in South Angel told some dwarf here that levers can restart the portals, anything else?"

"Nah, that’s pretty much it. They asked if anyone in the crowd had a lever on them, and I was grinding them right before we got stuck here so I gave it to them." she explains. "As soon as he put the lever on the portal, the sage came storming out and started yelling at us about magic circuitry or something."

Hmm. "Weird."

"Yeh, that’s all I got out of it. I can't tell if its actually a clever Idea or just retarded." she says shaking her head.

The two of you walk back to the town square, when you get there, there are several differences. First off, the crowd has almost completely dispersed, save for a few people to dejected to care or to interested to leave. Second, the portal and the pedestal have been roped off. Third, there are several <Morning Star>s trying to contain the situation.

One of them, a Wolf Fang level 90 Monk, 90 Tracker named Wherewolf is holding Greysmith off the ground with one hand, the dwarf does not look pleased at all, but despite his maxed subclass, he is only level 12 and cannot even compare to the Wolf Fang in terms of strength. A human Level 90 Pirate, 90 Sailor named CaptainCrunch is restraining the sage on the opposite side of the plaza. Between the two groups, a half-alv level 90 Enchanter 90 Strategist named OrbitalBlur is taking a statement from Allbright while a familiar looking elf, level 71 Assassin 69 Spelltheif is taking notes.

>>2188662
You walk over to Emendis. "Yo dude, whats going on?"
OrbitalBlur gives you a bit of a nasty look when you intrude, but goes back to listening to Allbright.

"Cant talk, I'm busy right now." OrbitalBlur glares at him when he answers you and Emendis makes a shooing motion with his hand.

Meanwhile, Paradigm seems to have been caught by two other <Morning Star>s as she was going to put the new lever on the portal.
"Please stay away from the portal." one of them, a druid tells her.

"Why the hell should I?" the dwarf girl asks him.

"OrbitalBlur's Orders."

"Who the hell put him in charge?" She yells at the druid.

"Brimstone."

"Ok, Ok, then in that case, Who the hell put him in charge?!" she yells louder.

"It was a vote."

"By who?"

"The whole guild."

"Oh, Ok, I see. THEN WHO THE HELL PUT YOUR DAM GUILD IN CHARGE!?"

The druid doesn’t seem to have an answer for that, so the other Morning Star who is holding onto her arms from behind interjects. "Listen, I don't know what your problem is, but we are just trying to stop these two from killing each-other. The Guardians already got summoned once in the north of the city today, everyone is stressed, just let us deal with this, please." He lets go of her arm.

"Ugh!" She throws her hands in the air in frustration and leaves.

<Morning Star> is definitely overstepping some boundaries here, but you can tell there is fuck all you or her can do about it.
[ ] "Want to go see if we can find some actual drinks from the NPCS?"
[ ] "Want to go kill some stuff? I bet that will be therapeutic."
[ ] "So what else can you build?"
[ ] Other?

>>2188664
>[ ] "Want to go kill some stuff? I bet that will be therapeutic."

>>2188664
>[X] "Want to go kill some stuff? I bet that will be therapeutic."
Time for a bit of the old ultraviolence.

>>2188664
>[ ] "Want to go see if we can find some actual drinks from the NPCS?"

>>2188670
>>2188682
[+1 Violence]
[-1 Stress]

>>2188739
"Want to go kill some stuff? I bet that will be therapeutic." you ask her.

"Sure. Sounds like a wonderful time."
The two of you start to walk towards the outskirts of the city.

"Hey, quick question, why is everyone in this city such an ass hat?"

"To be fair, a lot has happened today."

"True." she says. "Alright, if that’s your reason, than why are you still acting like a decent person?"

"I don't think I have the social grace to act like a dick that effectively."

"Pfft. Does anyone who plays this game?"
She has you there. You try to think up another reason. "Uhh… Maybe it’s the wisdom score?"

"Hmm, that is just dumb enough to be reasonable. If levers are different and beer tastes like water, maybe all the game stats are actually effecting our personalities?" You don't really feel any wiser than normal though, just oddly calm about the whole thing.
"Then again, that doesn't really make sense under scrutiny either." You say. "The sage and that Morning Star enchanter definitely have higher wisdom scores than me.

"True."
You reach the city gates and head outside onto the windswept fields that surround it. Its quite a bit colder out here than it was in the city proper. That gives you another idea.
"Maybe they don't like the cold?"

"But the Sage has lived here for like 15 years if you go by in game time…"

"Yeh, but he always just sits in front of the fire, right?"

"Good point. I wonder if the NPCs just remember standing in the same place for year after year or what?"
"Maybe that's why the sage is so grumpy? I would be grumpy too if I was forced to stand in one spot for more than half of my life."

There are plenty of mobs around here, but the closest ones to the city are really low level at only around 60.
A level 60 Bully Moose moos at you from nearby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PyKhohVcY

Well, looks like you found your first victim.
[ ] Attack it yourself. (post combat round)
[ ] Taunt it and let Paradigm attack it.

>>2188872
>Taunt it and let Paradigm attack it.

>>2188872
>[x] Taunt it and let Paradigm attack it.

Tiger echo fist.
Backhand, do we need to get hit first for this? Otherwise Soul infusion

>>2188897
Backhand is reaction only and can be used when you are attacked.

>>2188938
Well it seems the other option has won.
Not as hard as first thought. Have the two sheets open and pick. Having a lot of options slows things down, looking at the skill descriptions. Be a pain in the ass for phoneposters.

>>2188882
>>2188887
[+1 Taunting]
[+1 Spamming Dwarf]

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>>2188964
You walk up to the moose. It seems wary of you. You scroll though your menu and select Taunting Shout.

You yell loudly at the moose and a wave of red energy flows out of you. The moose snorts and charges at you, all fear and hesitation gone. You deftly catch its antlers in your hand and hold it in place. Bully moose may be level 60, but it is still just a resource mob. Its strength pales in comparison to yours, it doesnt manage to move you even an inch, and you barely take any damage. 304 HP falls off your health bar despite the fact that you caught it. You guess that means that technically counts as getting hit…

The Dwarf girl raises her staff and selects something on her menu, a small ball of whitish blue light shoots out of the tip of her staff and splashes into the moose. Around 1500 health falls off its health bar, leaving it at roughly 3/4 remaining.
Paradigm quickly scrolls through her menu and presses another button, a circle of light surrounds her for a second. She scrolls back through her menu again and unleashes another light bullet. 990 damage falls off the bar, leaving it a bit over half.
You know this build, she is a sprinkler style enchanter. They are supposed to shoot Pulse Bullets super fast by spamming it and Cast on Beat. But it isn't working. From what you heard, she should be able to fire roughly one every other second. It took her roughly 10 seconds to fire two. You are pretty sure that the cooldown on Pulse bullet is lower than that without even using Cast on Beat.

[ ] Next round

>>2188897
This. Replace backhand with soul infusion.

>>2189063
just realized i wasnt clear about something, minor actions and major actions can be used in either order, but i had them one after the other in the turn explanation.
That wouldn't make much sense since many minors are buffs. Im guessing you want soul infusion first, right?

>>2189040
>[ ] Next round
>[Movement] Swap to Amber Elephant Stance.
>[Major action] Shadowless Kick
>[Minor action] Indomitable

This is more for Paradigm to work off stress than for us to. We ought to keep our damage-dealing to a minimum. Conversely, we have a bunch of damage mitigation skills.


Player chat works by thinking at people instead of speaking or typing into chat interface. Perhaps we could shortcut the combat menu with a similar method, and visualizing the skill we want to use?

>>2189074
If it wins yes.

>>2189040
>>2189075
I can agree with this, though I wonder if having to constantly go through those menus would spoil the stress-relief a bit.

>>2189040
Supporting
>>2189075

>>2189115
>>2189040
Also, we need to consider the repeatable quests.
I also love Log Horizon, and have read the entire series out so far, so please let me know if I get too metagamey. The MC knows isekai, but I don't want to cheese everything.

Indomitable is more of a damage dealing skill since you can get your hate high while tanking with amber elephant for a few rounds, then switch to Tiger Stance and make lots of auto attacks that proc Indomitable damage without taking the extra hate damage.

Enemies who hate you more do extra damage based on how much they hate you. Indomitable turns off that extra damage they do and makes you do extra damage based on it.

Anyways, writing.
[+1 Probably my fault you misunderstood that]
[+ 2 sprinkler bullets per 6 seconds]
[- 1 Shadow]

>>2189124
I will. The MC watches plenty of Isekai, so some metagamyness is within reason. If it gets out of hand I will say something.

>>2189130
woops, forgot to say,
Can I get 3 1d100s please?

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>2189134
Tanking away!

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>2189134
Let the bad rolls end.

>>2189125
I kind of got that, but I didn't see any other minors that would give us damage mitigation.

On a side note, what's the cooldown on Silence Palm?

>>2189155
ohh, good catch, there were a few meant to be minor actions that i forgot to label, thanks. This is why I wanted to stay open to comments.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2189134

>>2189182
>>2189140
>>2189135
83, success

You scroll through your skills to find Amber Elephant stance so you can make sure she doesn't take hate.
With a press, your body shifts into a more forward leaning pose. Is that really it? These menus are so fucking clunky! Can't you just do that without clicking a button!?
An Idea hits you.

You try it by thinking of your indomitable skill, and it seems like you know how to use it instinctively. Power wells up in your muscles and you are surrounded by golden light. Looks like it worked.
You use your Shadowless Kick, driving your foot into the moose's stomach. It deals pretty low damage, but that’s fine since you are just trying to help Paradigm let off some steam anyways. The moose is in the yellow, just above half HP.

She seems to have realized what you did since you just used two skills without pressing anything.
She fires off a shot. "AHA! Sweet!" She glows briefly, fires a second one, glows again, and fires off another. The moose dies as it is pelted by light.

"That is so much better."
"Yeh, you're telling me."
"If we had to keep dealing with those fucking menus, this would probably be just as stressful as being bossed around by <Morning Star>" she says thankfully.

You keep hunting a few more of the monsters around this area, then split the pelts, antlers, and meat you got. You wonder if you can do anything new with them too.

"Ah, I'm Starving, wanna go get something to eat?" she asks after a while.

[ ] "Lets try cooking some of the Moose Flank we got."
[ ] "Sure, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast before we got stuck here."
[ ] "Lets go to a bar so we can drink while we eat. Maybe the NPC's beer actually works.

>>2189197
[ ] "Sure, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast before we got stuck here."
Let's go for the sure thing. And also not risk getting drunk when there's shit to be done.

Wonder if we can think ourselves into a global chat channel to inform as many players as we can about how to bypass menuing? Would end up having everyone a lot of trouble, and possibly a few deaths too. Might end up making a few friends while we're at it.

>>2189203
Its actually starting to get fairly late at night, which is one of the reasons you stopped. Your menu's clock says its 9pm, but the entire city and everything on this side of the mountains is stuck in an eternal twilight thanks to the Midnight Sun.

>>2189197
>[ ] "Sure, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast before we got stuck here."
We are a brewery monk, so let's get a small barrel for the aesthetic.

>>2189197
>[ ] "Sure, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast before we got stuck here."
How long until we get sick of automated food tasting bland and can reasonably figure out using the menu is shit and we have to cook manually like we did with combat?

>>2189197
>[ ] "Sure, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast before we got stuck here."

>And also not risk getting drunk when there's shit to be done.

But we are a drunken fist monk. We NEED to be drunk to do things the right way. Also, good using the menu while drunk must be hilarious

>>2189232
Well we must first find out a bartender job woth one of the npc's i guess going to a bar would allow us to do so. Since a bartender is basicaly a brewer thatcreates new drinks by mixing diferent ones. Maybe we can make the NPC's drink taste better by mixing then up

>>2189218
>>2189203
>>2189234
[+ 1 Dinner]
[+1 Sadness]
[+ 0 Booze]

>>2189232
Your character probably has an inkling of this by now. You will have to try, the first option would have done so.
and completely thrown him off the trail since he isnt a chef

>>2189255
That's the reason I didn't pick it.

>>2189255
Clearly we have to hand brew our own beer. Make some moonshine.
Also how are you gonna handle handcrafting beer? I have no idea how that works in real life.

>>2189197
Sure, I haven't eaten anything since breakfast before we got stuck here."

"Same here. Lets go grab something from the Auction House. That will probably be way cheaper than the NPC shops" That’s actually pretty good idea.

The two of you make your way back to the main plaza. Looks like <Morning Star> has packed up and except for one guy watching the portal while eating a sandwich and crying.
You feel kinda sorry for him, guess <Morning Star> are dicks to their guild mates too…

You head into the Auction house and get in a line for a booth. That’s inconvenient, when it was a game people could just stand on the same square… You feel like you will be seeing a lot of lines in the near future.

Eventually it is your turn. Only took 30 minutes of waiting. Maybe you should have gone to an NPC shop… At least its cheaper here. You buy your choice of meal, a Bully Burger and a glass of Moose Milk, and hand over 2 gold to the counter lady. She smiles and thanks you.
Paradigm got sushi and some kind of soda, looks like you were right with the guess that she was asian. Either that or she just likes sushi.
The two of you head out to a bench.

"So, what do you think about all this?" You ask looking to make conversation.

"What?"

"You know" you gesture around at random, "being in Elder Tale."

"Honestly, apart from the cold, its pretty fun." she says smiling.

"Yeh, I was basically thinking the same thing. I mean, its not like you can shoot magic or I can smack a moose around in real life."

>>2189304
"Right?! Its awesome!"

"Honestly, if we really are stuck here, I don't even know if I will miss home."

"Eh, I wouldn't go that far…" she says hesitantly, "what about your family?"

"My brother is here."

"And your parents?"

"Maybe after a while." That is a lie. You remember how they kicked you out of the house when you failed out of college. You don't ever want anything to do with them again. Especially after you managed to get back on your feet and start going again. "You?"

She probably sensed that was a touchy subject, because she cant help but frown a bit. "I'm an overseas student, so I haven't seen them in a few years anyways." is all she answers.

"Hey, no point in worrying about things we can't do anything about, right?" You try to lighten the mood again. "Lets just enjoy it while we can."

"Yeh. No point in worrying. Lets eat."

You take a bite out of your burger. The flavor gushes into your mouth.

The flavor of soggy cardboard…
[End Session]

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>>2189308
Forgot image.


Next session tomorrow at 4 pm.

>>2189297
Use a brew station created by a engenier. Also if we use our instict like we did with the battle skills most likely we will know how to brew beer. The item description also has the recepie for it.

So about brewing it's 'basicaly' a five step process:

>Malted barley is soaked in hot water to release the malt sugars.

>The malt sugar solution is boiled with Hops for seasoning.

>The solution is cooled and yeast is added to begin fermentation.

>The yeast ferments the sugars, releasing CO2 and ethyl alcohol.

>When the main fermentation is complete, the beer is bottled with a little bit of added sugar to provide the carbonation.

Of course this is overly simplefied since there is tecniques to avoid spoilling and the instruments required for the process.But hopefully we can do the same thing using the npc's already existing brewing facilities.

>>2189323
It is a videogame, so some things can be " automated. "
>>2189310. That 4chan time?

>>2189334
I believe so. Eastern US time.

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>>2189308
Thread 1 Session 2
Something is very wrong with this world.

In fact, when you think about it, there are many things wrong; the cold, the monsters, the weird levers, the broken menus, the atmosphere of misery that pervades the city, and of course the fact that this is literally the world from a video game.
None of those things are what you care about right now though.
Your problem is far more sinister in nature.

As if the awkward comments about your family weren't bad enough to ruin the previously jovial mood, after taking a single bite of your burger, you almost feel like you are going to throw up. Despite its perfect appearance, this burger tastes more like the box that burgers usually come in at a fast food restaurant than an edible object, much less a burger.
You immediately spit it out.
Paradigm is watching you. Clever girl… She hasn't even taken a bite yet! She was waiting! Watching you! Letting you step on the landmine! You feel sick. Mostly physically so, but still!

"How does it taste?" She looks quite smug.

"Delicious." you say throwing the burger on the ground and stomping on it.

"Somehow I got the feeling it wouldn't taste like normal, but that reaction makes me think its way worse than the beer, huh?"

"Yeh. Its like eating soggy cardboard."

"Eww, that does sound awful…" she says picking up a piece of fish with the chopsticks that came with the plate.

She looks at it. You look at it. It looks delicious to you. Whoever or whatever caused this Is a cruel bastard and/or force of nature.
She delicately bites off a piece of it and immediately spits it out as well.

"Jesus, I think I would rather eat the chopsticks!"

"Same."

"Now what? I'm still starving and there is no way I want to eat this shit!" She whines miserably…
[ ] Buy some fruit from an NPC stand nearby, maybe only adventurer made food is tasteless?
[ ] Drink water beer until you feel full? You have a ton of it in your bank, and at least water it is better than cardboard.
[ ] Try cooking something like you would IRL. Maybe it tastes like cardboard because it was made with the menu?
[ ] Go out and try to bite a moose. Maybe they still taste like meat, even if you get sick, clerics are a thing, right?
[ ] Eat snow? Its too warm (barely) in the town for it, but there is plenty outside the city gates. It will be like welfare icecream.
[ ] Go to sleep hungry and pray this is all a bad dream.

>>2189881
Try cooking like you would in the real world.

>>2189881
>̶[̶ ̶]̶ ̶T̶r̶y̶ ̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶o̶p̶s̶t̶i̶c̶k̶s̶.

>[ ] Try cooking something like you would IRL. Maybe it tastes like cardboard because it was made with the menu?

>>2189881
[ ] Buy some fruit from an NPC stand nearby, maybe only adventurer made food is tasteless?

>>2189881
[ ] Buy some fruit from an NPC stand nearby, maybe only adventurer made food is tasteless?

If the fruits have taste let's hope

>>2189881
>[ ] Go out and try to bite a moose. Maybe they still taste like meat, even if you get sick, clerics are a thing, right?
Screw it, we'll do it live.

>>2189907
Don't just do it because it will be funny Toruc.

Wonder if we can make juice using the fruits and our beer water

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>2189884
>>2189885
Cook

>>2189891
>>2189897
fruit

>>2189907
bite a moose

1= cook
2 = fruit
dice gods, do your thing!

>>2189926
[+2 apples]
[+1 confusion]

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>>2189931
"Maybe the NPC food still has taste?" you say. So far you have only eaten food produced by adventurers, and it hasn't been any good.

"Makes sense," she says "I mean, they had to eat before we came here, right?"

"Might as well try it." you say walking over to a nearby stand.

The stands are lined with fruits, you look through them and pick out a couple of shiny white apples.

In the game, the sage gave a quest to go to Johnny Appleseed all the way in the frontier near brotherhood and ask him for an apple that can grow in the snow since the people stuck in Portage had no fruit to eat. These winter apples are the result. You can use them in several level 60+ recipes like White Cider and Winter pie. If you didn't know that it would just end up tasting like water, you would really have liked to try making some winter cider…

You sigh and pay the shopkeeper 80 gold. Paradigm holds out her hand and you put the apple in it she puts 40 gold in yours. You wonder if the trade window still works if you can just trade like this.

"Alright, you first this time."
"Fair." she says and takes a bite.
She chews it…
And takes another bite.
"Yeh. That’s definitely apple flavor! It worked!"
"Woo!" you yell excitedly as you take a bite of yours.

After you eat them, you suggest going to an NPC food shop for a real meal and she agrees.

You both go to the inn and get some more bully burgers. They are about 100 times as expensive as at the Auction House, but if they are edible that is a price you are willing to pay. They look delicious, but you remember last time. You bite into the burger and start crying.
It still tastes like cardboard, so you do the only reasonable thing…

>>2189983
The fruit stand lander lady thanks you while bowing as you buy every fruit in her stand.
"Are you sure that isn't a little overboard?" Paradigm asks.

"What if these are the only things that have taste?" you ask her

She contemplates that. "I'll probably kill myself."

"That got dark real fast."

"It was a joke. A bad one, I know, but I don't think we even can kill ourselves… At least not permanently." she says looking in the direction of the cathedral.
You hadn't thought about that. What happens if you die here anyways? You didn’t plan on dying or anything, at least not yet, but the world is definitely full of monsters that can easily kill you.

Judging by all the isekai you have watched, there are three options: You revive like in a game, die permanently, or end up back in the real world. You will wait for someone else to try it first though, that second option is two dangerous.

"Anyways…" you say "If these are the only things with actual taste and we are stuck here for a long time, I would rather eat apples every day than a cardboard sandwich."

"True. You better share dude. I expect my share of the loot."

"Fine with me. Don't tell anyone else around here yet though."

"Who else am I supposed to tell? None of my friends are even in this city." Well that sucks. To be fair though, you are in basically the same situation, the only one you have is Hiroshima, and you just met him.

"Well at least we each have one here now."

"Yeh, I guess." she says quietly.

Speaking of friends, there are also those guys you were raiding with the other day. They all seemed like decent people, you should probably look around for them considering they are just as stuck here as you are. Plus there are all sorts of guilds you could join.
You open your menu to call Hiroshima again for an invite back to the party, but seeing the clock, you realize it is actually really late now. For all you know he is asleep already. Its hard to notice since the city is always in twilight, but the menu's clock says its 11:21 pm.
[ ] You should just go sleep. Get an inn room for yourself. You can easily afford it, at least if they have any rooms left.
[ ] You will probably be stuck in the city for a while, you should probably go buy a Player Housing Unit before they are all bought up. In the game, they didn't run out, but you aren't sure if that will still be the case anymore. (opens another vote)
[ ] Sleep is for the weak. You have more important things to do. (write in)

>>2189985
[ ] You will probably be stuck in the city for a while, you should probably go buy a Player Housing Unit before they are all bought up. In the game, they didn't run out, but you aren't sure if that will still be the case anymore. (opens another vote)

Better to have a safe place than not.
Even if its just a room with a couple of beds its better than a public inn if things turn nasty.

>>2189985
Get an inn room.

>>2189985
>[ ] You will probably be stuck in the city for a while, you should probably go buy a Player Housing Unit before they are all bought up. In the game, they didn't run out, but you aren't sure if that will still be the case anymore. (opens another vote)

>>2189985
>[ ] You will probably be stuck in the city for a while, you should probably go buy a Player Housing Unit before they are all bought up. In the game, they didn't run out, but you aren't sure if that will still be the case anymore. (opens another vote)

>[ ] Sleep is for the weak. You have more important things to do. (write in) The apples are the inly tastefull thing because they are natural of the world. Maybe instead of doing things automaticaly it would be better to do things manualy try to brew the white cider manualy

>>2189985
>[ ] You will probably be stuck in the city for a while, you should probably go buy a Player Housing Unit before they are all bought up. In the game, they didn't run out, but you aren't sure if that will still be the case anymore. (opens another vote)
Owning a place to stay is pretty important.

>>2190033
>>2190028
>>2190022
>>2190000 (checked)
Player Housing

>>2190018
Inn

[+3 Housing Choices]

Hey guys should we buy the players/guilds storage building. Do we even have enough money? Let's buy lots of houses and make a real state war for the solo players! Muwahahahahaha!

We should also go to the apple stand lady and make sure to keep a steady supply of white apples.

>>2190052
You have nowhere near enough money for that. A single large PHU is stretching your budget to the very limits

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>>2190042
The conversation goes on a bit longer. Eventually you find yourself yawning.
"Am I boring you?" Paradigm says with a smirk

"No, its just late."

"Its only around midnight though." She says after checking her clock.

"Yeh, midnight. Anchorage time. Im from Massachusetts."

"Oh, I didn't even think about that…" she says "So its really like what, 3 am for you?"
"4 am." you correct her.

"I'm from California, so its basically the same time for me." she says. She must get up real early to start playing before 8 am, you are pretty sure everyone got stuck here at around 11 eastern time.

"So, do you think the inn has enough rooms for everyone? How would that even work?"

"No clue." you respond "I was actually thinking about getting a P H U in case they run out."

"That’s actually a pretty good idea. Want to go halfsies on a big one? It is probably cheaper that way and they have several rooms. Hell, if we get a really big one we can charge people rent if they run out of them."

That brings up a valid point. Remembering the prices, you can probably afford a large house yourself, but that would put a massive dent in your finances, and you aren't sure how much gold you will actually need in the near future, nor are you sure you want to go raiding for more…

[ ]Go halfsies with Paradigm, you have had to share an apartment with strangers before after your parents kicked you out, so its no big deal.
[ ] Don’t go halfsies, you literally just met her and know nothing about her really.
---------------------------------
[ ] Small PHU (cheap, but still more than half the price of a medium one, 1 room that is about 15x15 feet)
[ ]Medium PHU (moderate price, well within your budget, 3 personal rooms and a shared room, often bought by groups of friends in the game)
[ ] Large PHU (Very large house with a very large price. You could purchase one alone if you spent nearly every gold you had. 12 personal rooms, 3 common rooms, workshop room)

>>2190082
>[ ]Go halfsies with Paradigm, you have had to share an apartment with strangers before after your parents kicked you out, so its no big deal.

>[ ] Large PHU (Very large house with a very large price. You could purchase one alone if you spent nearly every gold you had. 12 personal rooms, 3 common rooms, workshop room)

Doing it more for the workshop room. Maybe we can use it to create our own brew station

>>2190082
Important note* all PHU personal rooms come with 1 bed and 1 storage chest that links to your local bank.

>>2190082
>[ ] Don’t go halfsies, you literally just met her and know nothing about her really.

>[ ]Medium PHU (moderate price, well within your budget, 3 personal rooms and a shared room, often bought by groups of friends in the game)

Getting one with her basically commits us to staying here and not selling it if we want to move elsewhere. This is basically our just-in-case option, that we can liquidate later on. Explain this to her, hopefully she'll understand.

>>2190082
Halfsies, medium-sized house.

>>2190104
PHUs can be bought and sold from the guild hall. They buy them back at 80% the price you buy them for.

If they are actually limited though, you could probably sell it to players when they run out. Alaska may suck, but if you are stuck in this world for a long time, you figure people will eventually have to come here to level.

>>2190114
How would selling a PHU back to the guild hall work if we co-own it with someone who wants to keep using it?

>>2190082
>[ ]Go halfsies with Paradigm, you have had to share an apartment with strangers before after your parents kicked you out, so its no big deal.
>[ ]Medium PHU (moderate price, well within your budget, 3 personal rooms and a shared room, often bought by groups of friends in the game)

Seriously, we don't have infinite gold

>>2190124
She has not expressed any desire to stay here, in fact, quite the opposite. But that is a fair point, you do not know how she will feel about this city in the future.

>>2190128
You have roughly 1.3 million gold.
a small house is 150k, a medium is 250k, and a large 1 is 1mil.

>>2190136
Extending the vote a bit in case anyone wants to change because of my last few posts. You know all this IC so it is reasonable that you know when choosing.

>>2190082
>[ ]Go halfsies with Paradigm, you have had to share an apartment with strangers before after your parents kicked you out, so its no big deal.
>[ ]Medium PHU (moderate price, well within your budget, 3 personal rooms and a shared room, often bought by groups of friends in the game)

A shame about not having a workshop, but I'm sure we can find a public place to craft if necessary.

Halfsies on a medium house seems to be the majority.

[+ 1 roommate]
[+ 1 medium house]

>>2190159
A public craft place? Are you crazy? You wabt people to learn how to make tasty drinks? We should keep this to ourselfs so we can protect ourselfs from the pk'ers. If they want to drink good stuff they will need us in our full level

>>2189985
>>[ ] You will probably be stuck in the city for a while, you should probably go buy a Player Housing Unit before they are all bought up. In the game, they didn't run out, but you aren't sure if that will still be the case anymore. (opens another vote)
>>[ ] Sleep is for the weak. You have more important things to do. (write in) The apples are the inly tastefull thing because they are natural of the world. Maybe instead of doing things automaticaly it would be better to do things manualy try to brew the white cider manualy

>>2190209
Kinda late Turoc buddy.

>>2190216
Updates weren't on auto.

>>2190253
Eh just pulling your leg. I'm stuck at a NYE dinner.

>>2190173
"Sounds good to me, Half in on a medium house will be 125k each, lets go buy it."

The two of you walk to the guild house. Even at midnight, it is still busy. The line takes about 20 more minutes to go through, and you are getting very tired.

Eventually it is your turn. "Hello, we want to buy a house."

The guild lady looks at you with a troubled expression…
"Valued adventurer, on behalf of the guild, we must apologize, all our small housing units are sold out at this point…"
"That’s fine, I'm buying a medium one with her." Paradigm waves at the guild lady from behind you

"Oh!" The guild lady looks at you with a happier expression. "Are you two a couple?"

Before you can answer, Paradigm grabs your arm and says "Yes, I am so excited to move in with my boyfriend!"

The guild lady "squees" a bit in excitement. "Such a cute pair! I am sure you will love your new house together!"

You look at Paradigm, she has a shit eating grin on her face. She is doing this to tease you. This girl is bold…

How can you retaliate?

You think quickly while you take out the gold from your inventory bag… You put it on the counter and the guild lady hands you a few keys and a map. "Our portal has been broken since this morning, but if you follow this map, you will get there in just a minute or two." says the excited guild lady. You quickly look at the map and figure out where the house is.
Aha!
You know what you can do.
No, you know what you must do.
This is gonna be great.

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>>2190289
"Come on Honey, lets go home!" You say as you pick her up into a princess carry.
She is practically as light as a feather. Dwarves are really small… That and your monk body is crazy strong.
You walk past the line of adventurers while still holding her. She is blushing like crazy from the embarrassment. Perfect.
You carry the girl all the way to the house and put her down on the doorstep.

"Ok that was way overdoing it buddy." she says pouting.

"Don't start what you cant finish." you say sticking your tongue out playfully.

You unlock the door and give her a copy of the key. She quickly goes inside, chooses a room, and shuts her door.
Maybe you overdid it.

You look around the house, it is pretty sparse, but you expected that. On the right side wall of the living room there is a large fireplace with a few chairs near it. Opposite the fireplace, there is a small kitchenette area with a bar and a small table near it. On the opposite wall from the door is a small hallway that leads to four doors, there are only three personal rooms, so you check the out of place door out. Its a bathroom. That wasn't there in the game. Neat. Overall, this seems like the sort of house a family would buy.
Maybe that’s why the guild lady went there…

You go and look at the other two rooms that Paradigm didn’t take. One of them is much larger than the other, so you assume that it is probably the master bedroom. You take it happily and go to lay down on the big bed in the middle of the room. After a few minutes, you clock out for the night.

>>2190293
You wake up to a ringing noise.
You groggily reach for your night stand to turn off your phone, but your hand only hits empty air. You open your eyes. It takes you a second to process it, but you are definitely still in the world of Elder Tale. Looks like it wasn't a dream.
The ringing noise continues.
You think to make it stop.
It does.

And then it comes back again. Your brother is calling you.

"Ugh" you groan and accept the call.
"Wakey wakey" he says loudly. Or perhaps the right word here would be he thinks loudly?

"What are you calling me so early for dammit Daniel."

"Just thought you might want to know that you are all clear to go and die."

"Are you telling me to kill myself? At 8 Am?"

"No, but I am telling you that you can if you want. Adventurers revive just like in the game."

"Oh." That’s actually some useful information. You expected him to just be calling to annoy you after the first line. His personality is a bit abrasive, probably because of all the League of Legends he plays, well, played, you correct yourself, but he is a good kid.

"Yeh. The cathedral in town lit up out of nowhere like 10 minutes ago and a guy just walks out perfectly fine. Since then I don't know if the atmosphere has actually gotten cheerier or more depressing, but I felt like I should probably tell you."

"Thanks. Anything els-" CLICK

Why does he always do that?

Well, you are up, and apparently immortal. What do you want to do today?

[ ] Go find Hiroshima
[ ] Go apologize to Paradigm
[ ] Go experiment with something (specify)
[ ] Go do something else (write in)

>>2190299
>[ ] Go apologize to Paradigm
>[ ] Go experiment with something (specify)
We need alcohol, experiment with your different recipes. Something about the apples is different from everything else, start with that.

>>2190299
Write in.
> go to the market, to buy and sell.

Gonna wait a bit since I know we got a bunch of people here and only have 2 votes so far.

>>2190299

This: >>2190310
We have a bar in here let's see what we have inside it.

>>2190328
Sorry i'm stuck at a dinner so i might take sometime to come and place my vote

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>>2190337
its like a kitchenette bar sorta like this, its not a storage space, just a flat surface for eating or cooking on

>>2190339
that's fine, its new years, no worries

>>2190350
A true barman only needs some ingredients and a flat surface to make a good drink.

>>2190299
>[ ] Go apologize to Paradigm
>[ ] Go experiment with something (specify)
Try to figure out how cooking and brewing works. If we manage it before anyone else does, we'll make bank.

>>2190328
No one is actually here, OP. You've been replying to yourself this entire time.

>>2190371
We will create a monopoly of FOOD AND DRINKING!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[+1 Lab assistant]
[+ 2 Experiments]
[+ 1 ???????]

>>2190383
>[+ 1 ???????]
profit?

>>2190383
First things first, you should probably apologize to Paradigm. Just thinking about what you did makes your cheeks hot with embarrassment. You can only imagine how she feels…

You get out of bed and equip your armor through the menu's equip interface. It equips with a clinking sound, which is weird since it is mostly made of leather and fur. Something that you noticed when you took it off last night was a lack of actual underwear. Until then, you had been too distracted to realize it, but thinking about this, it must really suck for tanks and girls. Speaking of girls, it must really suck for players stuck as the wrong gender… Who knows, maybe they are enjoying it. Your new body still has all the right parts down there, and there are definitely some weirdos out there.

On second thought, you would rather not think about how that works honestly. Instead of worrying about it, you check Paradigm's location in your friend's list. Looks like she is still in her room, so you go over and knock on the door.

No response, looks like she is still asleep. Maybe she was up later than you, you recall she mentioned having a friend who plays, so maybe she was using the telepathy chat?
Well, whatever, you can tell her when she wakes up.

In the mean time, you have some experiments to do. Those apples the other day had flavor and you are going to figure out more about this mystery. You go over to the kitchenette and take one out of your inventory. You bite into it to make sure it still has taste.
Its crunchy and delicious. Why is it crunchy and delicious, but a beautiful looking burger with crisp lettuce and juicy looking meat soggy and flavorless?
At least this eliminates one variable: your inventory. Putting tasteful food into your game inventory does not change it.

Time to try something else. You take some snowberries you got as a drop yesterday out of your inventory and try one. It’s a bit sour, but its not an unpleasant flavor. That’s not the important part though, these have taste as well!

You pull out a beer from your inventory. It comes out just as beautiful as it was when you got it fresh out of the brewing stand. You taste it and nothing has changed, its still just water. You chug the rest of it so you have an empty glass to work with.

Next, you decide to try making apple juice. If the apple has flavor, maybe the juice will too. You crush the apple in your hand and its juice and bits of its flesh fall into the empty beer glass. You scoop them out to the best of your ability and do it again. After a couple of apples, you have a decent amount of apple juice. You take a sip and it tastes very much like apples! "Success!" you exclaim before slapping a hand over your mouth having remembered you aren't living solo anymore. You walk back to your room and get a bunch of different ingredients from your personal magic chest.

>>2190536
You drink half of another beer and squeeze some more apples into the beer-water. You taste a bit and it tastes like apple juice. Needs some sugar though. You pull out a small bag of it from your inventory and taste it. Interestingly enough, it does tastes like sugar.

Maybe ingredients are ok?

You pour a bit of it into the glass of apple-beer-water and it settles to the bottom, so you stir it a little with a dagger. You taste it. Pretty good, looks like combining stuff like normal is ok?

"What are you doing?" Comes Paradigm's voice from behind you, looks like she got up when she heard you celebrating.

"Science."

"Sounds interesting, can I get in on this?"

"Only on one condition."

"Care to elaborate?"

"Accept my appology?" You hand her the glass with the rest of the slightly lumpy apple juice.

She takes a tentative sip.

"Alright, apology accepted. So what did you do?"

"I made it like I would in real life."

"We probably should have thought of that before, huh?"

"Yeh. It seems like a kinda obvious thing to do now."

"What do you want to try making next?"

"As much as I would like to say beer, I have no idea how you actually do that… How about pancakes?"

"Sure, got any flour?" You take a bag out of your inventory in response. "Looks like you are well prepared."

"Good thing I tended to packrat stuff in the game. My bank is full of all kinds of crap like this." you say while sticking your finger in the flour. You taste it, "It tastes like flour." You aren't sure how else to describe it. You pour some into a bowl, crack some eggs over it and mix it up with some milk.

"Got a light?" you ask putting a log in the range.

"I don't know, but lets find out. Science, right?" She casts her Electrical Fuzz and a spark of lightning jumps from her hand and into the stove. The tiny ball of lightning eventually makes one of the logs catch fire and the stove begins to heat up. While you wait, you go put some logs in the fireplace and have her light them as well.

By the time you are done, the pan you put on the range top is quite hot.

"Want to do the honors?" you ask.

"Why the hell not." she says. She delicately pours some of the batter onto the stove top and after a few seconds, the smell hits you.

"Jesus Christ that’s awful!"
"Oh god it smells like a dead animal!"

How the hell do you even get that smell out of those ingredients?! You take it off the stove as quickly as possible and dump it outside. A purplish black goopy substance runs out of your pan and into the snow. You bury it for good measure. Maybe cooking just doesn't work in this world?

Now what?
[ ] Make some more apple juice and fill up on that and the other fruits you got.
[ ] Try making another drink by hand.
[ ] Try making a drink at the brewing stand in town with the apples.
[ ] Write in.

>>2190549
>[X] Try making another drink by hand.

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>>2190536
Time to make a apologies breakfast

>>2190549
>[ ] Try making a drink at the brewing stand in town with the apples.
Is the brewing stand completely manual or is it operated by a menu? Either way, gotta exhaust all available options to come to a meaningful conclusion.

>>2190563
It is operated through menus in your experience. All the required objects are there to use it manually though.

By the way, you have a ton of brewing ingredients left over since you had to grind a bunch to level your subclass, you also have some random non brewing ingredients, but nowhere near the amount of brewing ones.

>>2190572
>All the required objects are there to use it manually though.
Then yeah, my vote is to do it manually. I don't even care about keeping the secret of making good food, I doubt we have a devious personality to make an amazing profit and then sell to all the guilds that the secret is to do it manually. Like damn I don't know how Shiroe avoided getting shanked for that bullshit.

>>2190549
>[ ] Try making another drink by hand.

>>2190575
He had conracts and made so people wouldn't behave like assholes. He was also high level and had a party of another high levels with him.

>>2190575
Also we don't know about making good food just good drinks.

>>2190575
If someone attacks you in a town, the town guards will appear and kick their ass. Apparently they are still working since the <Morning Star>s said they already showed up in town once yesterday.

>>2190586
>>2190591
I know all that, I'm just surprised that nobody on-screen seemed to give a shit beyond 'damn this guy got us good, as expected as the master tactician of the game'. It was essentially a con job.

>>2190575
Se here:>>2190591
So stop being afraid and take some risks. Besides, only a brewer can make good drinks. Chefs are the ones that make food, so we are just creating our personal brewing and as it was show we can try recreate some of the drinks in our recepie menu, that was in part the reason why i wanted to get the big house with a workshop. And we will need other money source that isn't involved in monsters drops.

>>2190598
If the low levels wanted to survive they would need to use Shiro anyway. The cormece guilds were out numbered in people and level the only way to force the lower guilds to get some respect from the battle focused guilds was by taking such advantages.

They just realized that with that now they could only hear him out if they wanted to survive have some kind of power base in this new world. In other words, unlike most anons theu were thinking in the long game plan.

>>2190605
I'm not saying to not make drinks, I was just saying I wouldn't mind if other people see us figuring out how to give a drink flavor if the public brewery option wins. Having a monopoly on a beverage with actual flavor flies a little too close to canon for my tastes.

>>2190618
Then this town will be condened because the pkers will try to force the smaller commerce guilds from making business. We can share the knowledge but we need to do it with the people that would benefit from it.

Also we need to make marketing of our knowledge or people will just say we found a drop. And to spread said news will cost money. If you remember each apple cost 80 golds. There was also the fact that Shiro didn't trusted guilds and he wasn't sure he could be straigth with then and there was also the fact he had managed to make a bad name for himself.

Quick IC knowledge: Brewer isn't the most popular subclass out there, its mostly used by roleplayers. You got it since you usually play intermittently due to your very busy college schedule, so the Bar-tending feature gave you some convenient and easy money. There may be around ten to twenty others out of the maybe 500 people here in the city, but you doubt there are any more than that.

>>2190636
Why do you assume events are gonna happen exactly like they did in canon? Not only is that boring, but the gaming culture would be completely different. And William doesn't seem to be as deep a thinker as Shiroe is, so at that point I view that as metagaming to retread canon.

>>2190644
And nothing beats the cold weather then a good cider. We really need to invest into our brewing

>>2190644
Gotta open a bar with the dwarf loli. She makes the equipment for heavy brewing, we make the alcohol, it's a perfect combo. This is the start of our glorious economic takeover of the brewery industry.

>>2190646
If you haven't readed the morning starts are the top dogs because they are all max level. The way they behaved in the plaza is the biggest proof of it.

Remember the level 90 engenier thay was being lifted bu the much higher level one? They did that because they have the bigger stick and think nobody can beat then in a fight.

Well when the lower levels are the ones making your food and you can't bully then because the security npc's will beat your ass then you make everyone in the game be on equal terms.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>2190652
The <Morning Star>s did say they were only preventing a fight. When things were a game, they were a player killer killer guild.

Anyways, calling it here, we got 2 for each unless I am missing a post

1= drink by hand
2= make drink at the brewery station

>>2190655
ah...well i guess i got caught up in my ideas then. Still didn't liked the asshole giving us the stinky eye because we went to talk with a guy. The top brench seem like a bunch of stuck up assholes.

>>2190655
[+ 1 Trying this at home]
[+ 1 Discovery]

>>2190711
"Alright, if food doesn't work, maybe its just drinks?" you think out loud.

"Maybe its your subclass?" she says

Shit. You didn't think of that. Brewers can make everything from tea to some sort of undefined explosive.

Maybe the drinks are only working because you made them?

"You try." you say "That’s the only way to find out."
Squeeze this for me? I don't have very high strength." she says as she grabs another apple and gives it to you to squeeze. The juice pours into a cup.

"Science!" she shouts as she combines it with a water-beer and some sugar.

Nothing seems to happen, at least for a few seconds. As the ingredients mix together, it begins turning into that same kind of black goop and starts stinking up the house again.

She runs outside and dumps it in the snow.

"Woo!" It Didn't work!"

"You say that like it’s a good thing."

"Knowing how this shit works is a good thing!" Good point. You are pretty sure this girl is smarter than you, or maybe just a bit quicker at picking up on things.

Either way, you have something that only you can do. Well, you and however many other brewers are in the city. Knowing the subclass, it might as well just be you.

"Do you think that means the same thing happens with engineering?" you ask her.

"Lets find out!" she says running to her room presumably to get materials from her chest.

She comes back and puts some gears, levers, and other assorted pieces of equipment on the counter.

"So how do you even build engineer stuff anyways?"

"Dunno." she says "The recipe for a lever is just a gear and some wood, so maybe I can make one."

"Give it a shot."

She puzzles over the objects for a bit…

"I don't have the right tools, I think?"

"How do you know?"

"I… Wait, how do I know? Maybe it’s the subclass? Maybe its like the skills and my body just knows?"
That really makes you think.
[ ] Want to go to the workshop? I have some stuff I want to try too.
[ ] What kind of tools do you need? We can probably buy them at the auction house and bring them back here.
[ ] Other (write in)

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>>2190714

>>2190714
>[ ] What kind of tools do you need? We can probably buy them at the auction house and bring them back here.
Keep this shit semi-secret, until we figure it out.

>>2190714
>[ ] What kind of tools do you need? We can probably buy them at the auction house and bring them back here.

>>2190714
>[ ] What kind of tools do you need? We can probably buy them at the auction house and bring them back here.
>She probably doesn't need you there to buy tools with her, though. Maybe you could drop by the brewing stand in town to try out a few ideas?
And then auction off actual non-water beer for exorbitant prices.

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>>2190745
Is this a vote agreeing to go to the brewer stand while she buys them?

>>2190756
More agreeind in selling non-water beer part. If we go with her for the tools we might find some tools required for our brewing

>>2190767
Is that yes to go try or just yes to selling them? how should I count the vote? it will determine the action unless we get another post.

>>2190722
>>2190725
>>2190733
[+ 1 AH trip]
[+1 QM confusion]

>>2190816
Oh,. also
[+1 Idea]
[+ 40000 gold worth of random ingredients]
[+ ? mechanic tools]

>>2190796
Nah i guess just go with the normal vote QM. Also finaly got home.

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>>2190824
"What kind of tools do you need? We can probably buy them at the auction house and bring them back here."

"Lets see… I need…" She starts listing out tools, it will probably cost a fair amount, but its not like either of you are poor considering the fact that she offered to go halfsies on a large house. "That should do it for tools, on top of that I just need the right ingredients. I have stuff for levers, but I can't think of anything useful to make with only those."

"Alright, sounds good. I want to see if apples from the AH are still edible too."

The two of you set off for the AH. It’s about a two minute walk from your new house.
The line is much shorter than last time, there are only a few people in front of you.

Its your turn relatively quick, and you buy a single white apple for 3 gold.

You leave the line and take a bite of it. It tastes like an apple. Interesting. You can definitely take advantage of this. All you would have to do is buy all the apples in the area and tell people they have taste… At 3 gold a piece for the majority of them, you just might be able to do it.

You get back into line and buy 40k worth of ingredients that you might need anyways, then pull up the apples on the market. There are just under 300 thousand of them for sale, with most of your remaining gold, you could buy all of them that are there for under 60 gold and turn a huge profit.

[ ] That plan is just stupid enough to work. Do it.
[ ] This plan might work, but you aren't gonna go all in on it. Plus you don't know if there will even be enough demand for that many apples. Buy all the apples until the price goes up to 35.
[ ] That plan is just stupid enough to fail. What if someone figures out how to make actual food before you can sell them all?

>>2190869
also wew 2 minutes from midnight, so I'm extending voting time for celebrating anons.

>>2190869
>That plan is just stupid enough to fail. What if someone figures out how to make actual food before you can sell them all?
Too risky might need that gold

>>2190869
>[ ] That plan is just stupid enough to fail. What if someone figures out how to make actual food before you can sell them all?
This sounds like a terrible idea. How much would we need to spend to push the price up to 35 anyway?

>>2190869
>[ ] That plan is just stupid enough to fail. What if someone figures out how to make actual food before you can sell them all?
I'd rather just make our money selling the stuff we brew successfully. Any idiot can sell apples, but an actual drink that doesn't taste like water? We know we're one of the very few if not only brewer in the city, capitalize on that shit.

>>2190869
This might work, but you aren't gonna go all in.

>>2190883
to push the price up to 35 would be about 980k. after you get that many apples though, its mostly just really old offers and joke prices. Past 35 is about .5%, barely even enough for everyone in the city to buy one if they bought them all including the ones joke priced at millions of gold.

I sort of just realized that we're in an isolated snowy city like Democracy was in canon. Are things eventually gonna turn lawless? This quest is gonna turn into Will's and Paradigm's adventures in owning a rowdy bar where the customers always get into fights, isn't it? That'd actually be kinda fun.

>>2190869
[ ] This plan might work, but you aren't gonna go all in on it. Plus you don't know if there will even be enough demand for that many apples. Buy all the apples until the price goes up to 35.
Set aside enough for us to make back our investment plus profit, and use the rest as cider and wine ingredients.

>>2190869
>[ ] That plan is just stupid enough to fail. What if someone figures out how to make actual food before you can sell them all?

i'm sundely thinking of all the bullshit that happens in WoW, AH.

>>2190946
I've pulled this of in runescape before. Grot wings I think.

>>2190880
>>2190883
>>2190886
>>2190946
Nope

>>2190938
>>2190887
Halfsies

[+ 0 price manipulation]
[- 0 gold]

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>>2190964
No. That’s just stupid enough to waste all your money and fail horribly…
If you figured out how to make drinks with taste this easily, there is no way nobody will figure it out before you sell them all.

Just in case though, you think you will keep this a secret…

Paradigm is already on her way back to the house according to your friends list, so you head back as well.

When you get there, it looks like she is in the extra bedroom, you go and knock on the door.

"Don't come in! I'm naked!" she yells. Yeh, you aren't gonna fall for that. You feel like you have a good grasp of this girl's personality. You are just gonna wait out here because you don't want to steal any trade secrets. Yeh.

"What, did you actually believe me?" she says opening the door. "Give me a hand with moving this shit, its too big for me dammit!"

There is a big bench behind her in the middle of the room, it takes up about half the remaining space that the bed isn't already taking up. That looks like the engineer's workbench from the workshop, and you know that you definitely couldn't put the player owned benches in a medium house. This world is such a confusing mishmash of reality and game that its getting on your nerves.

You easily lift the work bench to move it over to the wall, but as you do, a few stray tools fall off it. You catch them almost instantly with one hand while balancing the table on the other. Being a monk is pretty fucking cool…

"Quit showing off, you're making me jealous." the tiny girl says as she goes over and sits back on the bed.

"Be jealous, I'm a beast." you say flexing your free arm.

"Oh Will, you are sooooo strong and manly~~~" she says with an over the top voice that you would expect form the heroine of some cheesy romance movie while rolling her eyes.

>>2191053
"Pfft." you cant help but laugh. You put down the workbench on the wall opposite from the bench.

"Maybe we should get rid of the bed too?"

"But what if I want to nap while I'm working?" she says in a voice mimicking a spoiled kid

"Go next door to your room. It's literally 5 feet away."

"True, but that’s not as convenient~" she pouts as she gets off the bed again.

"Well, we can leave it here from now, but don't blame me If I walk in on you while you're sleeping."

"Perv."

"Fair is fair, I might want to get some brewing equipment since you can put them in the house, and I'll need somewhere to put it."

"Ughh, fine. I'll make sure to wear a nice sexy robe for you, you lewd beast." she teases.

You ruffle her hair. "In that body?"

"Shit. I forgot." she says dejectedly as the smug look leaves her face…

"Speaking of which, I wonder if all that kinda stuff even works." you say thinking out loud again.

Woops, that was awkward. Asperger's is a hell of a drug.

She looks at you like you are an idiot. She has that right so you say "Sorry. Asperger's is a hell of a drug." hoping that will explain it.

She shrugs. "Not like I'm not curious anyways, I'm just not gonna go around talking about it with people who barely come up to my waist."

"I don't think there are any of those." you quip. She kicks you in the shin. It doesn't hurt. "Ow , your shins are hard as fuck." Correction, it doesn't hurt YOU.

"Anyways. Everything else aside, lets give it a shot."

"Perv."

"Not that! The work bench!"

"Still a perv." she says teasingly as she pulls a chair out of nowhere.
She sets it in front of the bench and starts making a lever. You watch her actions intently. Seems simple enough.
"Alright, you try." she says getting out of the chair.

You pick up the tools and start trying to fit the materials together. They repel eachother like they were magnets. You put more strength into it, you aren't gonna lose to some shitty wood and brass in this body.
You feel something give. A big crack runs through the gear that you were trying to cram into place and the wood has exploded into sawdust.

"Well that didn't work."

"I noticed. Looks like you made the same kind of broken gear that you get when you fail a recipe in game though.

Weird.
It would seem you have figured out the mystery of subclasses. It is around one two the afternoon now.

[ ] Call your brother and tell him. He told you about cathedrals earlier, so you feel like that is fair.
[ ] Suggest something for Paradigm to try to make (specify)
[ ] Talk about life before getting stuck here with Paradigm. You really need to come up with a word for that event…
[ ] Go to town and make some actual alcohol for the two of you.
[ ] Other (write in)

>>2191054
>[ ] Go to town and make some actual alcohol for the two of you.
Do you literally mean go to town, or do you mean go crazy and regret everything once the hangover hits? Either way I'll choose this, eventually we'll own the best bar in town.

>>2191054
>[ ] Call your brother and tell him. He told you about cathedrals earlier, so you feel like that is fair.
>[ ] Go to town and make some actual alcohol for the two of you.
We can do the first while we're walking can't we? We don't even need to speak, so there's no chance of us spilling our secrets to people around us.

>>2191059
Sure. You can do that while walking. If you guys want/don't want to do so please say so. otherwise i will just do that too.

>>2191054
>] Call your brother and tell him. He told you about cathedrals earlier, so you feel like that is fair.
He sounds like someone who WOULD metagame the shit out of this, but not our problem.

>go ask NPCs about those cosmic fires and barrier or whatever that people are definitely not doing. Rally some people to do it and promise there will be beer when they get back.

>>2191063
>>2191054
I will delete muly vote and support this:>>2191059

>>2191054
>>2191059
Shit I want to change my vote to this:
>>2191065
Now this is the first step to owning a bar. I also support letting our brother know the details. If paradigm making a brewing station is more of a medium/long-term project rather than something she can knock out in a day or 2, then I guess going out to town to make alcohol is fine.

>>2191059
>>2191067
>>2191069

[+ 1 walking]
[+ 1 talking]
[+ 2 beers]

>>2191084
>no +1 family link with otouto


I sure hope our bro doesn't become a asshole

>>2191096
He dropped out of college to stream for a living and constantly drops calls without a proper good-bye. It's too late to save him. So I double-checked the thread, and I noticed we failed out of college but LHNeo says later on that we have a busy college schedule as an IC reason for picking Brewer as our subclass.

>>2191103
Maybe we played Elder tale since the time we were at college?

>>2191103
He failed his first year and got kicked out.

The reason his schedule is so busy recently is because he worked his ass off to go back and doesn't want to waste his time and hard earned money on the second try. Its kind of a moot point now, but it was a defining moment in his life that definitely set him on a different path.

>>2191111
BY Hhe you mean our character? The MC?

>>2191118
yes. post soon, its a bit long

>>2191120
That's what...you know what? It's a new uear i won't start it with that kind of joke.

>>2191084
"Alright. Looks like we figured out how subclasses work, do you know what that means?"

"We can build a plane and fly out of Alaska?"

"Well maybe that too, but I was talking short term."

"Uhh, we can build something crappy and useless since im only level 31?"

"No, no, no, remember why we started doing this in the first place?"

"Oh yeh, shit! Lets go get smashed!" she shouts.

"Now that’s the spirit!" The two of you leave the house in high spirits.

"Mind if I call my brother and tell him what we figured out?"

"Will he blab?"

"I doubt it, he may act like a lazy idiot, but he isn't as dumb as he lets on. Plus he told me about the cathedral this morning."

"Well I'm not sure if that’s reassuring, but if you feel like you should, go for it. What did he tell you about the cathedral? Oh shit, does it not work!?"

"No, still works. He said some guy got revived earlier and was just fine."

"Phew. I thought this was about to turn into some kind of Shit Art Online ripoff."

"Fuck that garbage ass show, its an insult to the genre." She has good taste, thank god.

"Anyways, I'm gonna call him."
You think about calling Dan… Ring… Ring… Ring.
"Hello, this is Daniel Pierce speaking. Haha, no, I'm fucking with you, this is just my answering machine. Please leave a message after the Beep." A loud beep sounds into your head.

"Hey Dan, call me ba-"

"Are you retarded dude, we don't even have answering machines here!" He says while laughing

>>2191136
God dammit, you fell for it out of habit. It sounded exactly like his actual answering machine message. How did he even make a beep like that? This kid is having way too much fun given the situation of the world.

"Alright alright, you got me. Anyways, I got some important news for you."

"Ohh, I'm all ears, lay it on me."

"So, you know how food has no flavor, right?"

"Yeh."

"Ingredients still have it. Apples, sugar, flour, all that kinda shit tastes exactly like it would IRL."

"Hooo? Good to know."

"Not only that, but we figured out how subclasses work."

"And how is that?"

"Well, you can't produce things that your subclass doesn’t do."

"Whats that supposed to mean?"

Hmm, it’s a bit tricky to explain…
"For example, I'm a brewer. I can make apple juice that has taste, but only if I do it by hand from ingredients."

"Workshops don't work?"

"I dunno. We know that the menus don't work, if you use them you just get tasteless crap. On the other hand, my friend who is an engineer can produce items that work just fine from the workbench menu…"

"That’s confusing."

"Yeh, but anyways, when she tried to make a drink like I did by hand, it turned into purple goop, and when I tried to make a lever like she did, the wood exploded and the gear cracked."

"Interesting…"

"Anyways, its probably not a good idea to let this get out quite yet. It feels like we are sitting on a gold mine."
"Yeh, that’s what I got out of what you just told me… Anyways, I can't make food, so it doesn't really help me that much. Or maybe it does, who knows. Later bro."

"Later."
Click.

He didn't just randomly hang up this time, so you guess he appreciated the information, even if his tone of voice never changed. You guess that counts as progress.

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>>2191137
By the time you are done, you are already at the workshop. Its completely empty.
You head over to the brewing station, take out the ingredients you needed for a White Cider in the game, and try to figure out how the hell this thing works.

Its surprisingly easy it turns out. Your body seems to know all the steps, so you on letting it make the drinks as it goes about it on its own. Its kinda like how your monk skills worked. Once you decided on one, it just goes.
After filling receptacles with ingredients, turning nobs, and pulling a lever, the workstation begins to steam. Its not the same as last time though. You can smell it. It smells a bit like apples, so hopefully that means its working!

After a couple minutes, you get several empty glasses that you bought and fill them with the cider. Its actually white, neat. You always thought that the cup in the game was just opaque and colored white. It bubbles and foams at the top, and smells excellent.

You hand one over to Paradigm. "To science!" you shout.

"I can drink to that!" She says taking the glass and clinking it against yours.

You both finish them quickly, relishing the taste as you do. You didn't drink hard cider much, but this is pretty good.
"Ahhhh~
"Puahh~"

"That was good. Lets drink more."

"Sounds good to me!"

"Alright, what next?"

[ ] "Everything." You got enough ingredients to make several batches of every type of alcohol that your level allows. Might as well put it to use!
[ ] "Something hard, lets get shitfaced."
[ ] "Something classy. Such a momentous occasion calls for Whiskey."
[ ] "Just beer for now, we still don't know how these bodies handle alcohol." take it slow.
[ ] "Let me try something…" Make a barrel bomb.
[ ] Other (write in)