>>39670870
Places I say things (like imminent threads): https://twitter.com/Predhack

The story to now: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Re:%20Lizard%20EX%20Quest

Character sheet: http://pastebin.com/dLa1ayJX

>>39670870
>>Float, it's like basking in the water
Basking makes everything better.

>>39670870
>>Float, it's like basking in the water
>>Contemplate the meaning of life the universe and everything.
>>Wonder if you can set the water on fire now.

Reptiles tend to have a whole range of temperatures they can tolerate, with warmer being more comfortable for them... I think we've managed to slip off the top of the scale and are now entering the whole protein/enzyme degradation zone of body heat.

Also we are not eating nearly enough for this kind of body heat to be metabolic in origin, so its definitely magical shit and this is definitely problematic as that means we probably are releasing and/or storing more energy than our body can actually handle. Also 99% of our methods of draining energy involve destroying something important.

>>39670870
>Float, it's like basking in the water

>>39670870
>>Float, it's like basking in the water
>Wonder if your magic is turning you into a lizard or pure fire, like the sun.

>>39671114
I just realized, we could totally use our magic to pretend to breathe fire, all we need is a set of fake wings and we could impersonate a dragon perfectly! Imagine all the shenanigans we could have!

>>39670870
>Float, it's like basking in the water
regain your strength little one, the birds won't murder themselves.

>>39670870
A bit of quiet reflection
>writing

There's a moment where you consider doing something but frankly there's no way you could do much more than flounder right now. Which might mean you're able to swim, but you don't wanna. Basking sounds infinitely more appealing.

You wonder if basking in something cold and wet, instead of the warm dry of the sun is blasphemous or not. You don't really have many options, you're already really hot, though the cold water is helping. Not doing much for the feeling that you're so much uncoordinated muscle though. You'll just bask in the water. Basking is meant to make you feel good and you can ask a priest later about the exact religious significance of basking in non-sun objects. You're pretty sure you're fine though.

Worst case scenario you say a few "Hail Moth Goddesses" and that'll be that.

Life has been pretty good for the last couple weeks. You won't say you have enjoyed the constant attempts by things to murder you but since you've found new joy in bird murder you can't really hold that against them. It's much more interesting than your iguana life though. You bask in new and interesting places almost every day! And you've got a family thing which is apparently pretty awesome. This fancy new brain is all kinds of fun too. Introspection! You know big words and can use them too!

The being sick thing is pretty crappy though.

You continue thinking in circles for a while. The water around you remains cool and your headache eases a bit and the world settles enough that you could probably walk around if absolutely necessary.

A trapdoor in the earth opens up nearby and you see an elf shaped figure climb out. It's a girl of some kind with a bucket. You don't understand a word she's muttering to herself but you can tell complaining when you hear it. She's a bit short for an elf too but very thick and strong. Her ears are the traditional pointy, your brain tells you, so definitely an elf. She starts dipping the bucket in your pond.

What do?
>Write in

>>39671662
"Hey"

>>39671662
Hey!

>>39671662
>Hey.
Standard response.

>>39671662
>"hey"

>>39671662
hey

>>39671662
k
>writing

>>39671771
did you really expect any other answer?

God we are fantastic at conversations, real social lizard here.

>>39671912
We are a less than a month old lizardling... Who, despite being reincarnated, was reincarnated off of an iguana, an animal that doesn't even vocalize naturally.

>>39671662
"Hey," you burble.

The elf starts and falls over, apparently not having noticed the lizard floating in the pond. That's understandable, you reason. She seemed very bust cursing about something in a language you don't speak.

Staring at you the elf says a few things that may or may not be rude epithets. You don't respond and just stare at her.

"You. Talk?" she asks in fairly poor swampspeech.

"I'm not sure one word counts as talking," you reply.

She repeats what you said to her slowly, breaking it down into chunks as she translates, then she glares at you.

"Why. In. Water?" she asks.

"The witch said to stay in the pond," you explain. Then when she looks confused you try again. "Witch say stay water." The elf follows that. She holds up the bucket she dropped when you startled her and says something that sounds questiony in her normal language. You shrug back at her.

"My name is Aldera," she says, pointing to herself as she dips her bucket.

That was the most complete sentence she's said yet. It sounded practiced even. "I'm Sunniva," you tell her. "I glow."

She picks up her bucket and looks at you confused. "What 'glow'?" The emphasis on the word suggests to you she doesn't know it.

>Alright, give this up as a bad job. Clearly you need to learn a new language
>Alright, clearly SHE needs to learn a proper language. Educate her.
>Splash her. It'll be funny.
>Keep up the broken conversation. <questions? subjects?>
>Other?

>>39671944
Oh I know, we all know this is going to be a staple of our lives though. We are going to be a blunt for all our lives, and it'll be great.

>>39671964
>>Alright, give this up as a bad job. Clearly you need to learn a new language
>>Alright, clearly SHE needs to learn a proper language. Educate her.

Lessons for lessons

>>39671964
>>Alright, clearly SHE needs to learn a proper language. Educate her.
>>Other?
glow for her

>>39671964
>Keep up the broken conversation. <questions? subjects?>
Who is she, who we are, general discussion stuff, all hilariously mangled...

>>39671964
>>Alright, give this up as a bad job. Clearly you need to learn a new language

>>39671987
Now accepting these two options as the "teach other words" option

>teach each other words

>>39671964
Alright. So there's enough to at least give telling her things a shot.

Glow for her?
If yes, roll 3d100
If no, roll 2d100
Whichever one gets to three first wins.

Rolled 75, 21, 16 = 112 (3d100)

>>39672207

Rolled 55, 72, 29 = 156 (3d100)

>>39672207

Rolled 94, 83, 63 = 240 (3d100)

>>39672207
>yes

JUST AS PLANNED!

>>39672236
Wait what? Did invoking tzeentch actually work here? huh...

>>39672236
decent

>>39672236
Seems Sunniva is a bit of a natural linguist

>>39672207
98 83 63

>writing

>>39672282
Clearly we are the best teacher.

You reach inside to try and turn on the glow and find the effort leaves you dizzy and sick. You push at it again and then decide to give up on the idea. Instead you spend ten minutes trying to explain glowing to the elf. This requires a lot of pointing at the sun and at yourself and making explodey motions with your hands and she takes a while to figure out what you're talking about.

Eventually you manage to convey that you're a magic lizard, two words she knows, and that makes you like the sun. That's good enough. You change tacks and ask her what she's doing here, and if the witch knows she lives under the witch's house. The following conversation takes hours as you both take turns trying to explain words to each other. You seem better at it. You've known a lot of different animals in your time as an iguana and you managed to puzzle out elf speak in your last life long after you heard it. Language is a thing you are good at guessing with.

You find out that Aldera works for the witch, Gretchen, and that her dad is dead and she helps him sometimes. Then after you teach her how to give your condolences and she explains what necromancy is to you she realizes her mistake and coreects it. Her dad works and lives underground. He's not dead.

She says she's not an elf but a something elf something else. Apparently her mom is an elf and her dad is a thing you don't know the swampspeech word for. You do learn that he's a short sturdy creature fond of drink and industry, but you're not sure why that would explain anything.

You give her the short version of your life and she appears skeptical everytime you tell her you were glowing until you get to the rooster and she realizes she already knew the word for "exploding" and it wasn't "glow." She thought you were claiming to explode a lot. Which strictly speaking isn'y untrue. You've never met another creature that's exploded more than a single time.

>Further questions for the elf?<specify>
>Moving on
>other?

>>39672609
>Moving on

>>39672609
>>Moving on
>

>>39672609
Half elf half dwarf? Is that even biologically possible? Am I still trying to justify interspecies reproduction in biological logic despite the fact that this is a high magic fantasy world where nothing makes sense biologically?

>>39672609
>>Further questions for the elf?<specify>
ask if she knows why you feel sick

>>39672681
Psssst, she's maybe adopted and no one has told her yet.

>>39672700
I think we broke our magical something or another.

>>39672700
Too much magic, too little lizard.

>>39672609
Moving on
>writing

>>39672681
Sure, were do you think dark elves come from?

>>39672808
<Insert extremely racist theory accusing dark elves of being lesser evolved elves here>

>>39672785
You're about to get into how to order a ham sandwich with no cheese in a pizzeria when a rock thrusts its way out of the ground scaring the crap out of both of you. Your new friend looks confused for a moment before suddenly remembering the bucket she turned over to sit on. She quickly fills it a third time and excuses herself before pulling another hidden trapdoor in the yard up and disappearing down it. You have no idea what that was about. There's some writing etched into the rock but you have no idea how to read what it says. Reading was not covered in the language lesson.

After a swift return to basking you manage to while away another chunk of time before Gretchen and Kuru comes back. The witch spreads a blanket sits herself down next to the pond, Kuru sitting across from her. After straightening her witch clothes, which appear to have lost like half the material on the front at some point, she turns to face you.

"Alright, I've heard more or less the story from Kuru," the witch says in a pleasant voice. "So why don't you tell me the bits you think I need to here. And throw in what you know about magic while you're at it." She produces an apple from somewhere on her person and looks at you expectantly as she starts in on it.

What say?
>write in

>>39673051
We're warm at night, We glow at night.

If we fudge around a bit in the pool inside us we can EXPLODE, but then we set ourselves on fire. We'd like to not be on fire.

>>39673051
Tell her about every time we've used our power. What it feels like and how we reach into ourselves.

Then echo what dad and aunty and kuru have said about magic.

>>39673051
>"I need to not burn myself? I think magic is like a warm sun inside of you, that would be perfect for basking if it was outside.And then it gives me fire to burn things with, or something."

>>39673051
What >>39673107 said, add on that it only got really bad after we set a few chickens on fire and flash banged mom.

>>39673051
What happened to your clothes? Nevermind msut be a witch thing. Anyways I was glowing since Auntie Sarissa took me out to hunt and I found the fire stone. I've been glowing ever since. The first time I tired to use magic was when Mom stuck me to the wall after I tried to sneak out to hunt. I set myself on fire. Being on fire sucks. Today I put some mushrooms in a soup and when mom chased e I shined really bright, then started feeling sick after. As for amgic it's weird, avoid it if you have too. My dad's amgic is different from mine. He talks about grasping mana I just sort of take it from a pool inside me.Also I cooked a lot of chickens in a fight one time.

>>39673147
Altering my vote slightly, supporting >>39673107 still with the addition of asking where her cloths went and asking if its a witch thing.

>>39673051
Mention Lizard god Dream

>>39673051
Righto
>distilling

Are the witch and Kuru lovers?

>>39673339
More like Mom roughed her up cause when moms wants/needs something fixed the first thing she uses is brute force. Which is why she evolved into a kaiju.

>>39673339
I always thought Kuru was auntie's lover, due to the fact she was living with our family for some reason and I couldn't think of many more reasons. Then I shrugged and went back to being a silly lizard.

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>>39673314
"What happened to your clothes?" you ask

Gretchen looks shocked then after looking at her outfit runs back inside her house.

"She hads a plant problem in her garden," Kuru explains, "I helped as much as I could but it was feisty."

"What kind of plant is feisty?"

"The kind that eats things," Kuru shrugs.

The witch comes back a few minutes later, her clothes no longer disheveled and ripped, though covering the same amount. You think she missed your point. You return to her question.

You think for a long minute before giving your answer as it occurs to you. "I glow in the dark. I'm really bad at doing on purpose though. It mostly happens at night and that's been going on since forever. I'm also really warm all the time. I'm hot right now. Really hot. The water feels nice." You roll in the water a bit to cool your back."

"Then I figured out there's a pool where magic comes from inside. Dad says you have to lift some out but I haven't been able to figure that out. I just push on it and the stuff in it goes out. Then I usually explode and catch on fire," you say sheepishly. You recover quickly and continue, "Oh, but then I exploded on purpose once a couple times and I burned a bunch of chickens, including this one big red rooster with red eyes that refused to die. But then I fell asleep after that. Stupid bird. Then today Mom was chasing me today and I flashed her-" Kuru blushes while the witch giggles for some reason, "then I felt sick. I still feel sick. And I don't want to be on fire when I use magic anymore."

"So you use magic by... pushing the pool out of you?" the witch clarifies.

"Kinda, yeah," you say with a bob.

"Anything else?"

You think seriously for a bit. "I once dreamed that Mom fought with god. Then he made me glow."

"Was that before you started glowing?"

"After."

"Okay," she sits back and appears to gather her thoughts, "I think I have a good idea what's wrong. You're dying."

>What.
>Why?
>Can I not die? I don't want to.
>Other?

>>39674022
>Can I not die? I don't want to.

>>39674022
>>Can I not die? I don't want to.

>>39674022

>can i not die? I died once and it was horrible

>>39674022
>Can I not die? I don't want to.
Already done that, don't want to again.

>>39674022
>Can I not die? I don't want to.
already did that once, wasnt to fond of it

>>39674108
This, oh what will poor Kuru think

>>39674022
>Can I not die? I don't want to.
Dying sucks.

>>39674022
>Can I not die? I don't want to.
Awww! Not again!

I mean, last Time I died I turned from a dumb lizard into a smart lizard, but it was still not a fun experience. Can I not?

You know, unlike RE: Monster quest there really isn't the same moral dilemma here, seeing as our entire past life consisted of us basking, eating leafy greens, and getting pecked to death by a chicken...

>>39674279

And oh, what a glorious fucking life it was..

>>39674022
>writing

>>39674290
We had everything we ever wanted, then BIRDS ruined it all.

But we are living out our second chance and we have the chance for revenge.

>>39674290
Yes, it was basically lizard Asgard. Of course, the vague mention of seeing a bunch of large fingery ones occasionally being annoying with lights and boxes and such would probably interest everyone as we provide pitifully little information regarding another fucking dimension.

>>39674300
"I'd rather not."

"Sorry?"

"I'd rather not die again," you expand.

"Um..." Gretchen looks at Kuru who shrugs helplessly, "You said you weren't feeling well, you head is fuzzy."

You nod, wondering how this is related.

"Right. Well there's not a lot I can do about you dying," she says, "It's very much something being wrong with you. Two somethings"

"What's wrong, you aren't fire proof seems to be the big one, and you also keep using magic wrong and that isn't helping you at all either. Which do you want to hear about first?"

>The fireproof problem
>The magic wrong problem
>Other?

>>39674459
>The magic wrong problem
If I can use magic right, I don't gotta be fireproof.

>>39674459
>>The magic wrong problem

>>39674459
>The magic wrong problem
We're not using magic wrong! I mean if we were using it wrong it wouldn't work at all like dad when he messes up. We clearly are doing something right! And then catching fire horribly because magic sucks.

>>39674459
>The magic wrong problem

Is this where kuru begins to suspect there is more to our rampant hatred of birds than just random childhood angst or does she just shrug it off as us being mildly delusional, as we have been on several other occasions where we made no sense. Most notably including our now fear of setting fires in a forest, of open flames in forests, and of bears.

>>39674459
Magic first.
>writing

If we get burned enough it will eventually stop burning us right? It works with poison so it should work with fire too.

>>39674712
Hey lamb, did we just fuck anything major up by mentioning the again part on not wishing to die?

>>39674805

>"your head is fuzzy"

They just think we're out of it because we're sick.

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"I do magic fine," you tell her petulantly, "It's magic's fault for being stupid and setting me on fire afterward, or during... or instead of working. How does magic work?" you ask.

She laughs and folds one arm under her disfigurement, gesturing with the other hand as she explains.

"It's simple. You can break magic into four parts. Intake and storage of the right amount of mana, refinement of mana, conceptualization of a spell, and execution."

You blink at her. "I've done the last two."

"You've forced mana out of you and it reacted wildly as it wanted. You may done it in a certain shape that resulted in something spell-like but it doesn't count."

You pout.

"Anyway the reason it's killing you is each section has a certain amount of mental strain associated with it. If you pass your limits you hurt yourself," she explains, "And this is related to your other problem, you keep sucking in mana and holding it."

"I-"

"You're probably not doing it on purpose but that's what the signs point to," she interrupts. "It'd be really interesting since this happens rarely if at all, and I've never heard about it."

"So why isn't it interesting?" Kuru asks.

"Because I'm not a magic researching wizard?" the witch answers confused, "I'm a witch. Anyway, since you're constantly holding mana, which is usually the easiest part, you haven't had much strain to deal with. The relief from sleep meant you kept the strain at roughly the same level. Your broken version of refinement and conceptualizing hurt you. You filled up on strain until you passed out then, since you don't relieve strain at all due to the mana problem, it stuck around. Then you pushed it straight past the "I should have gone unconscious" point and reached the "I'm going to die" point, which is hard for a magic user to get to. Well done!

"But even if you hadn't messed around with it, you'd have died soon anyway from the other thing," the witch adds.

>Oh. Well crap.
>Question! <specify>
>And the fire thing?
>Other?

>>39675228
>oh. well crap
>and the fire thing?

>>39675228
>>Oh. Well crap.
>Question! So is there any way to not die?

>>39675228
> Oh. Well crap.
> Can I fix this.

>>39675228
>>Oh. Well crap.
Can you teach me fire spells? Maybe that can lessen my mana load.
>And the fire thing?

>>39675228
>"How do I not die?"

>>39674022
>>39675228
These images are cute

>>39675228
Pls to say how not to die
>writing

>>39675228
cant i just get rid of the mana?

>>39675470
Were not old enough to do that yet.
It might involve being as disfigured as the witch

>>39675640
I'm pretty sure thats from the witch setting herself on fire a few times like we did.

>>39675640
>>39675725

With the pictures he posted I kept imaging the disfigurement being how we saw boobs as

>>39675761
Exactly my point, guess who else just stores magic

>>39675820
I really should get around to playing the goddamn game

>>39675761
She just has very large mana holders on her chest

>>39675761
Shit you appear to actually be right.

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"Can you teach me a spell so I can lower my mana and rest?" you ask.

"Then you can die of strain trying to be rid of mana that may be coming back as fast as you use it," she says cheerfully, "Great!

"Besides, from what you've told me you can't sense mana beyond your own. That may be because you've had too much stored up your entire life. If we fix the drainage issue you may be fine or you may be permanently mana blind, who knows. But at any rate I can't teach you a spell if you can sense mana outside you.

"On top of that, I'm pretty sure I don't know any spells with your affinity."

"You don't know fire spells," Kuru says, surprised?

"What? No! I know lots of fire spells," Gretchen says defensively, "You want to see fire spells? I'll show you fire spells!"

She stands up and you feel a light breeze as she starts to cast. Then Kuru interrupts her. "I meant, if you know fire spells why can't you teach Sunniva any?"

"Because I'm ninety nine percent sure she doesn't have a fire affinity," Gretchen explains, "That's why I think I know a way to prevent this way of dying."

"Oh," Kuru says, sitting back down with the witch, "so what do we do."

"We stick her in a dark hole at the bottom of the earth and let her sleep it off for a week."

"But I glow in the dark."

"That's the idea. You glow at night. I can guess some reasons for that. Chief among them is that your affinity is to the sun. Which makes it a bitch to deal with but gives us an out in this case."

"Can't I just... release the mana?" you ask. A week in a hole doesn't sound fun.

"Have you figured out how to do that? That would be ideal," she says pleasantly. "But if you're just going to keep sucking up mana and storing it while waiting for it to naturally empty like mana tends to do when you don't hold it in place, it won't work."

You do not know how to do that. "But a hole sounds boring," you tell her.

"You'd have to sleep through most of it anyway," she tells you.

"What?"

"Problem 2" she shouts.

[1/?]

>>39675954
So are you saying this IS our fault from excessive basking?

>>39675954
>Our basking skills was the reason we where dying. The sun is our affinity and we kept absorbing magic from it.

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>>39675954
You wait patiently for her to continue.

"You're not just constantly filling up, you're constantly filling up past what you limits should be," she says, "A proper magic user grabs roughly the amount they want, and then stops and uses that. There's plenty of magic in the world and you can grab more pretty quick. It's refinement and conceptualization that take forever.

"But you're actively draining mana around you even after you should be completely full of what you can safely handle. If you've been filling up everyday your entire life your capacity is probably huge by now, but it's also stretched to the breaking point. Good thing the breaking point is more of a really decent bag."

"You with me so far?" she asks.

>questions so far?
>carry on

>>39676076
>>questions so far?
>No.... It can't be! IT CAN'T BE TRUE!?!
>Was I basking too much?

>>39676076
>So... what you're saying is our excessive basking in the sun caused this?

>If we survive this can we still bask or no?

>>39676076
So basically if I don't stop filling my baggy self out i'll rip from overload. So iget put in the dark hole to empty my mana out which will also cause loss of my energy and make me tired. Also I need to stop basking.

>>39676076
So, what shes saying is we feel like a plastic bag drifting in the wind wanting to start again?

>>39676076
So your saying we are solar powered? And I'm basking to much? How can this be!?

My Sun!

We don't have a fire affinity.... we have the entire fucking goddamn Sun as one.

>>39676076
>writing

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But But, LAMB, ARE YOU TAKING AWAY BASKING FROM US?

>>39676305
LAMB STOP FUCKING RAILROADING US AWAY FROM BASKING! BASKING WAIFU BEST WAIFU!

>>39676305
>>39676337
Stop making me laugh I'm trying to write over here.

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>>39676354
"Is... is it because I basked too much? Now I have too much sun?" you ask fearfully, "I'm going to explode because of the sun?"

"What? No. If anything that helped. If you have a sun affinity taking in mana that's already flush with sun natured stuff would only ease the burden on your body. Y'see, naturally mana is composed of basically all the kinds of mana and you need to adjust them to a certain type in order to be usable for a spell. If you're in the right place some mana is in higher concentration. Like there's a spot in the swamp where there's so much earth mana you could choke on it. The sun doesn't have many spots like that, but during the day the level of sun natured mana is at a high.

"An affinity means that a particular type of thing is more suited to you, and in the case of elements, likes you more. So it'l settle down and fit better in your system, making it easy to work with. Since you reached capacity your body has probably been naturally converting what you take in to maximize the amount of space in your 'bag.'

"If you fill up with mana and shape it right then you won't see nearly as many detrimental effects from holding it and it makes it easier to hold."

[3/?]

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>>39676410
"Unfortunately," she says cocking her head, "You don't just fill. Whatever is wrong with you, it keeps sucking in more mana even if you don't have room. That means that mana gets displaced to the path of least resistance. Normally, that'd be outside you but since you're sucking in, that means it has to go to path two. Your body."

"So everytime you fill up bits of that nice sun mana gets dispersed into your system. This is bad since raw mana of any type isn't meant to just mix with the body. So you get secondary effects."

"Like glowing," you say.

"Yes and no," she shakes her head, "The secondary effects you show from mana poisoning line up with both fire and sun affinities, you get hot, and you have a higher fire resistance. Unfortunately the first one will grow faster than the latter. If you were fire affinity, we'd be able to solve most of the issues we're having by grounding you in high water mana content."

You look at the pond. "That's why I'm in the pond?"

"It's also keeping you cool, though since you're probably sun affinity it's just a stopgap. The sun doesn't care about water. It evaporates water for fun. All the water is doing is keeping you from boiling in your skin."

"Oh."

"You glow, because sun mana is naturally opposed to mana that naturally occurs at night. So you can ground out a bit by just being around at night. The result is that you glow as the sun mana tries to make a sun to block out the night. Your problems exacerbate at night but also lower your level of mana a bit."

[4/?]

i love the pictures.

at this Point I want to link the Credits song of Guild wars 2.
We'll become the first light of dawn by being a sun of our own.

We're truly gloriously incandescent.
I'm loving this.

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"I senses a but," Kuru says.

"It's nice isn't it," the witch says looking over her shoulder at the ground behind her, then realizing something and clearing her throat to continue like she hadn't said that. "I mean... BUT the night time reduction isn't enough to fully clear out the sun mana in your body. Add to that that the mana will accrue faster as you go on eventually you'll reach a critical mass of the stuff where your body is so saturated with the sun mana it just burns up or falls apart."

"So hows do we fix it?" you ask

"That... I don't know. You'd need to find some way to ground out. Even if we manage to get you empty and stay empty the mana in your body won't dissipate back the other direction, it'll stay in you until it wears out. Then you'll just fill up and the mana problem will come back. You need a place that'll ground out the mana in your body faster than just it being night time will. And then you'll probably need to go there a lot unless you get your mana problem under control so you don't overfill."

"Or else," you finish.

"Yeah," she frowns, "I really don't have a permanent solution for your mana problem either. We need a way to make it so your body mana doesn't go any higher until we clear it."

"How bad am I now?"

She looks off to the side and looks uncomfortable. "From what Kuru told me about how hot you're getting ? Let's just say we want to solve the increasing body mana problem faster than slower. The hole should get us more time there too. The hole will be dominated by earth mana among others that the sun in you shouldn't like. If it grounds you out a bit and you glow it'll get us more time."

"So the sun is going to kill me."

"Yes."

"But you said it wouldn't."

"Huh? No, I said basking didn't hurt. The dying would happen with any element. If you had earth you'd turn to stone or something. Water would probably make you a puddle. It's not the sun killing you."

>Further questions?
>Any ideas of your own?
>What do you want to do now?

>>39676957
So what if I grow like Mom and Kuru would that help?

Cause I think it might help. Any birds nearby ?

>>39676957
If I am big will the mana space get bigger?

Would a cave work like nighttime?

>>39676957
Could you use me like a mana battery?

>>39676957
Anyway for me to "breathe" out the mana?

What if I grew so I had more room to glow on? More glowroom == more mana drain == Me alive?

Captcha: Scine
yes captcha, thats the problem.

>>39676957
Would putting me on the moon help?

We astronaut lizard now

Alternatively we can turn to the dark side because we need to live.

>>39676957
Q&A
>writing

>>39676957
Also WOOT! DM isn't railroading us away from basking, only basking in the sun! We can still totally bask in the shade! We must find new and creative ways to bask in all of the elements, we've already mastered basking in sunlight and in water.

Well, at least a problem like this explains some dragons in stories who have these totally awesome energy wings to keep them aloft; They would need to expell all their incredible energy or perish.

>>39677389
Actually... can we do that? Can we take advantage of our stupid mana capacity to just friviously waste mana? I mean we could just substitute everything we do with magical actions, we could float everywhere, summon illusory wings (sun affinity should give us light fuckery) and we can in general just be a general nuisance as we flash and laser innocent animals and guilty birds.

You think for a minute. "If I grow will I be safe?"

Kuru seems surprised by this line of thought but Gretchen picks up quickly. "Maybe? Your mana storage capacity would increase, very likely, and your body being larger would set back the level of mana in it. But I can't see that you'd be any less prone to cooking in your own skin."

"Maybe you can take the mana?" you say hopefully.

She shakes her head. "If you wanted to give it to me there's a pretty simple trick for funneling your mana to another willing user, but that requires-"

"control," you finish for her.

She shrugs. "Maybe once we confirm you can learn that control we can do something.

"So same as expelling it," you grumble. "Maybe if I go to the moon."

"How are you going to get there," Kuru and Gretchen laugh.

You shrug.

"Well that'd definitely work. Moon, stars, generally very dark places the sun never touched, they're all pretty antagonistic to the sun. And the moon would definitely be dominated by moon mana."

>More question about thing, or item, or trait, or something
>More doing <what?>
>More magic fuckery, turn off the vacuum? <extra write in may help>
>More magic fuckery, empty out the pool? <extra write in may help>
>More magic fuckery, other?
>Time for hole...
>other?

>>39677520
>Time for hole...
Do we know how to read? If not this will be a very boring week or so...

>Well, looks like were getting grounded anyway.

>>39677520
>>More magic fuckery, empty out the pool? <extra write in may help>
Maybe If I used the a pouch that makes me really loud as a mana funnel to expel my mana by breathing/roaring?

>>39677520
>>More magic fuckery, turn off the vacuum? <extra write in may help>
Image it like hold our breath but for sunlight(mana) We know our fucking sun we should be able to do this

>>39677520
>Get in the hole and focus on being big.
>More magic fuckery, turn off the vacuum?
Try to think about unbasking

>>39677520
>other?
She said she doesnt know stuff because she's not a Wizard.
Maybe that Human Wizard someone told us about would help?

>>39677654
Ah, this Plus:
>More magic fuckery, turn off the vacuum? <extra write in may help>
Picture us as the sun, and imagine an eclipse

>>39677520
>More magic fuckery, empty out the pool? <extra write in may help>
Well, We're full of Sun mana right? Maybe kuru and her Plant mana could absorb some of it?

>>39677520
>>More magic fuckery, empty out the pool? <extra write in may help>
Trying to make Glowing permanent and the sun floats in the sky doesn't it, so why wouldn't we?

Just a quick question. I'm loving this entire story twist, but was this always in the cards, or only because we kept insisting on MAGIC and THE SUN and BASKING?

>>39677520
Alright. Looks like vacuum and pool?

I need a 2d100. DON'T LIZARD THIS UP

>>39677520
Sunniva used solar beam!
It's super effectivex

Rolled 55, 82 = 137 (2d100)

>>39677792

Rolled 91, 86 = 177 (2d100)

>>39677792
Praise the sun! UHM! I MEAN FUCK THE SUN WE DARK SIDE NOW!

Rolled 90, 21 = 111 (2d100)

>>39677792

Rolled 16, 14 = 30 (2d100)

>>39677812
PRAISE THE SUN!>>39677792

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>>39677812
PRAISE THE SUN!

>>39677812
everything goes better then expected

>>39677785
The mana issue was set. Element was picked at random

91 86
Good job

Rolled 27, 55 = 82 (2d100)

>>39677792
>>39677812
PRAISE THE VOID

>>39677887
Oh wow, we got lucky then

>>39678315
I'm convinced its all a matter of saying the right thing or praying to the right deity during your roll.

>>39677887

You go silent as you reach into the pool of power you feel in you. The information the witch gave you, which came with the mental image of some helpful diagrams gives you a better idea of what you're trying to do here. The dam becomes a bag in your mind. You can see where the bag swells against the material inside it, and the way the stuff inside seeps into the material of the bag itself and becomes lodged there. You sense the mouth of the bag. It feels like a more animal mouth, closed onto some massive creature it can never hope to eat but still trying relentlessly.

You focus on the bag's mouth. You can almost see the way the bag was supposed to be. The bag is too thick, and it's contents can't get out anyway but the mouth, but the mouth won't let anything out that direction. The material of the bag is too thick but around the mouth it's too thin. LIke there was meant to be something that made it harder for the mouth to open. The material of the bag is too thick and it looks like it was supposed to be thin, and made to condense and make itself tight to its contents. Instead it's tight constantly and the mouth has no check on it.

You try to force the mouth shut but find it unbending to your will. Instead you feel the bag material flex tighter. You try to shift the extra material in the bag onto the mouth but find it's difficult and slow to move. It would take ages to make any progress with evening out this material. Then when you release it, it eases back, almost to where it started. Maybe exactly where it started. You didn't really make much progress. Still you feel like you have a better understanding of the problem. So you try something else.

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>>39678394
[2/2]
You bask. You impose the utter relaxation of basking on the bag and just let it relax. You feel the clinching material around the bag loosen slightly and give, then you feel tiny holes appear, not the size they're meant to be, but something, and the stuff inside starts to flow out. Murky gunky stuff flowing out first. But it leaks out agonizingly slowly. You pick a hole and try to widen it. Absently you pick someplace you can align to your body to aid the mental image of relaxing the material and expelling what's inside. The hole widens slightly and everything inside pours out faster. First the murky stuff, then suddenly the pure material inside flows out and-

ON FIRE. YOUR MOUTH IS ON FIRE! YOUR EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE BUT ESPECIALLY YOUR MOUTH.

Thankfully you're already in water, which doesn't do much to stop the fire but does immediately douse and wet you to prevent you from burning yourself. Your mouth though. You nearly drown yourself trying to keep the sensitive nerves in your mouth happy as they seem to take the brunt of the burning punishment.

Then it's over. And you feel... remarkably empty. Though you're filling again. Quickly. You've lost the mental state needed to empty out though so it'll have to come.

Kuru and the witch are staring at you, and apparently Aldera showed up at some point. The all watch as you flounder out of the water.

"What was that?" Kuru asked.

"Gots empty," you say, "Fillings again though."

Gretchen looks surprised. "That's very good. You'll have to do it again once we stick you in the hole. It may help impeded further body level raising if you're full of antagonistic mana from the hole."

"I thought you wanted us to stick her in the deep cave, not a hole."

"Eh, a hole is a hole," the deformed witch shrugs.

"IT IS NOT," Alaera says with vigor.

"Dwarves," Gretchen whispers to Kuru.

"ARGH are you ready to go?" Aldera asks you.

>Let's go, into the hole.
>One more thing <specify>

>>39678474
>Let's go, into the hole.
After this can we deal with the fireproofing issue?

>>39678474
>Let's go, into the hole.

>>39678474
>Let's go, into the hole.
>Make sure we can get out if we get Big during the week.

>>39678474
Can you puta spell of not burning on me?

>>39678474
Dragonsbreath. We have an honest to sun Dragonsbreath. Now we just need to evolve heat immunity and we're set.

We might even gets a Mouthlaser.

>Let's go, into the hole.

Btw, How far are we to evolution?

>>39678474
>Let's go, into the hole

>>39678474
People in the hole on good behavior get visitors.
Who would you like to have visit you? <pick 2>
>Gretchen
>Kuru
>Aldera
>Aldera's Dad
>Auntie

>>39678575
>Gretchen
>Smokey The Bear

>>39678575
>Gretchen
>Auntie

>>39678575
>Auntie
>Aldera
Tell me more about the Elf-Dorfs

>>39678590
If you vote for that blackout option you deserve what you get.

>>39678575

>Gretchen
>Aldera's Dad

>>39678575
>Gretchen
>Kuru
>Smokey to warn us of our fire breath

>>39678618

>Gretchen
>Aldera's Dad

If the hole was transparant we could hav ehad flashbacks of our previous life.

>>39678618
Are you just mad because smokey mauled you last quest thread?

>>39678575
Time up. Gonna finish this bowl of food and count. Unless some kind anon wants to do it for me.

>>39678812
>gretchen x5
>1 smokey
>2 alderas dad
>1 aldera
>1 auntie
>1 Kuru

>>39678860
wait no, 2 aunties.

>>39678860
2 smokeys

>>39678812
Tie for second. Gretchen, Auntie, and Aldera's Dad win.

I need 3d100

Rolled 73, 89, 41 = 203 (3d100)

>>39679089

>>39679089
Gretchen? You mean smokey right?

Rolled 46, 77, 34 = 157 (3d100)

>>39679089

Rolled 4, 9, 54 = 67 (3d100)

>>39679089
Holey cow

>>39679089
Dice3d100

I dont roll much. How dis work again?

73 89 54
>writing

>>39679202
dice+3d100 in the options field.

>>39679211
This is the most boring period of time in your life. The hole is boring. Luckily you spend most of it asleep. And when you're awake the witch is usually visits to check on you or walk you through some magic exercises. She found up a sun spell for you to use. It makes a tiny sun the size of a pebble. It's just as bright and warm as a real sun though so it lights up the cavern whenever you manage to keep just enough sun mana to cast it. Which is once. You spent a lot of time on fire practicing that spell. You're infinitely grateful for the fire resistant goo the witch gave you.

You're less grateful for her coming down to see you purely so she can throw a gas bulb at you that knocks you out. You have to be sort of grateful though since the strain keeps you from falling asleep naturally. Gretchen of course promised that as soon as you slept on your own your time in the hole would be done.

You had two other visitors, surprisingly, in the form of your auntie and a short burly man with a beard you assume is her father. Auntie wouldn't say how she managed to get in the hole or find you, but you imagine it was hard since it would require getting past the witch. You were glad for Auntie's company though as she told you stories about sneaking around getting into trouble. You like the one where she put a wig on an octopus. Some of them might have gotten fuzzed out by the knockout gas.

Aldera's dad is... nice. But his plainspeech is as bad as yours, in almost the opposite direction. ANd you utterly fail to learn much from each other. You do learn that he likes digging. And he also cares about his daughter. Whenever he got tired and she was busy he'd come and visit you and pretend you understood each other. You've learned something of digging. And some dwarven swear words.

[1/2]

>>39679577
>You've learned something of digging. And some dwarven swear words.

WOOT! Lets show off to our siblings and mother when we return! She'll love it!

>>39679577
[2/2]
Sadly Aldera had to fill in for Gretchen a lot of the time since the witch was spending time with you. Between that and her normal responsibilites to the witch and her father you only saw her once.

Once though, once after Gretchen hit you with the knockout gas you woke up in the hole. And you didn't feel alone. This wasn't like the times that Aldera's dad suddenly appeared from the ground in yet another tunnel. This was different. You curled into a ball along one wall and waited. Finally, just as your nerves were ratcheted to their highest setting one of the tunnel walls crumbled down like a hidden door. HE walked in. In all his fuzzy majesty he sat across from you and stared for what felt like hours. Then he finally nodded to you in a friendly way, and left.

On the fourth day, you slept naturally and under your own power.

>Thanks for coming guys, that's all I've got time for tonight. Got a shift to get ready for.
>Next thread will hopefully be Saturday but I work a ridiculous shift the night before so it'll be late if anything.
>I'll be around to see questions comments or criticism. If you liked the art thing then I'm sorry to tell you I had to produce the assets for that well in advance. Since I knew this was coming I was able to make a bunch of that stuff and put it together in the right shapes as needed. I did like it though. Just took a while

One more thing.
______________________________________________________________

YOU HAVE EXCEEDED THE MINIMUM REQUIRED LEVEL

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS CLEARED

RANK UP TO -GREATER REPTILUS LIZARD: SUBTYPE- NOW POSSIBLE
_______________________________________________________________

>>39679644
YOU FUCKER!!!

A CLIFFHANGER

DAMN YOU!!!

>>39679644
So we'll have evolved next thread? What'll that entail? Will we be able to into magic now?

>>39679644
>>39679644
Criticisms: YOU MADE THE SUN OUR ENEMY YOU SICK CRUEL BASTARD HOW WILL WE BASK NOW!?

>>39679755
In the sun like always. The sun isn't your enemy young one. It does less damage to absorb sun than otherwise. It's not faster or anything. And not absorbing sun directly from the sun doesn't keep you from dying from the sun.

>>39679698
>>39679680
I'll start with it

>>39679817
ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US?

THE SUSPENSION
THE WAITING

YOU SICK BASTARD
YOUR GOING TO ENJOY OUR PAIN

>>39679817
So anyway lamb, if we took the smeagol route and spent the rest of our days living in the bowels of a deep dark lake in the middle of a mountain, would we be okay?

>>39679817
So. Will we get more sun spells? or will we be able to do sun magic naturally like Kuru does plants?

>>39679817
STOP RUNNING TO REQM SENPAI!

>>39679851
You make me happy.

>>39679871
Nope. You still die incandescently you'd just avoid nearly anyone who could point you at a solution.

>>39679916
If you can find them, and if you get a sun related blessing, probably.

>>39679937
You don't know me very well if you think I run anywhere.

>>39679960
STOP MEANDERING IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF REQM SENPAI

>>39679960
How would we get a sun related blessing? Would such a blessing allow us to vent mana?

>>39679960
MY SPLEEN
YOU BASTARD
WHAT DID MY SPLEEN DO TO YOU
FUCK I FEEL MY LIVER IS NEXT

>>39679978
Why?

>>39679985
Do things that would make the sun happy. No probably not. You can already release mana. It just takes you a while to do.

>>39679993
Quit blaming me for doing things to organs i don't even know where are. Okay the liver I know where is but I can't even remember what a spleen is.

>>39680014
After we cool off would we be able to go to the wizard if the witch can't help?


How quickly do we fill up mana wise?

>>39680172
Sure could. Might want to polish your plainspeech first though.

Hard to measure.

>>39680245
Can we get witch, aldriss, aldriss's dad, aunti, kuru or mom to help with plainspeech?

>>39680447
Yes, no (you haven't met her), sure but you already know he's as bad as you at it, yes but you might get her verbal tic, yes but you might get her verbal tic, and yes but you might get her verbal tic

Aldera can also help

>>39680502
So get lessons from Aldera and Gretchen gotcha.

What does our family think about us and our situation?

>>39680548
Gotta finish getting ready for work so I'll just cover the one I know you're all curious about.

Dad: Oh shit why are there only five of them. Where's the sixth one? Which one is missing? Shit shit shit

>>39680604
Kek thanks for running! So endgame for sunny Solar dragon or Nuclear lizard aka Godzilla?

>>39680721
Not my call. But I know which one I like better

Thanks for coming everybody

>>39680781
Are we evolving into JJ from Homeless Mutant Quest?

>>39680781
Which one do you like better?

>>39680806
Fuck I hope not. It was an interesting quest but the power choices made by the anons were highly questionable to my eye and forced me to take a long break from reading the quest archives after what I think was the end of act one. Which is really sad since I was rather interested in some of those characters

>>39680825
That would be telling and might break that poor anon who desperately wants fire breathing lizards' heart. Or it could make him very happy. It could go either way and one of those things I don't want to do right now.

>>39680981
I can see both of them breathing fire. So I have no issue.

I REALLY WANT TO TALK TO THE WIZARD ABOUT HOW WE WERE DIE.

>>39680981
Questionable power choices? Like, what, the fire breath thing? He gets rid of it eventually. I think the only bad choice since was aa, and thats not even that bad. You should probably check back in, brah. As of the very last thread shit has gotten real interesting