>>46909713
>See if Ilica is alright

I mean it was already dead.

>>46909713
>See if Ilica is alright
then
>Hella

>>46909713
>See if Ilica is alright
It's ok she has a skeleton inside her
>Ask Hella if she's okay now

I'm going to guess that she won't eat a fish, if she's that disturbed by bones.

>>46909713
>See if Ilica is alright
>Ask Hella if she's okay now

>>46909939
Yuu can probably bone fish with his mage blade/cutter. It'd be fun practice.

Who knows maybe her parents went the way of Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen.

>>46909939
Or maybe that's not just a skeleton.

Honestly, that's a strange response from someone like Ilica, there should be something fishy there.

>writing

>>46910105
I'm doubling down on the Aunt Beru/Uncle Owen theory.

>>46910192
please don't be another catgirl genocide. That shit literally killed Papa-N's quest for me.

>>46910207
Puge kawaii cat filth.

>>46910223
no.

You walk up to where Ilica, Hella, and Emi are. "Are you alright?" You ask Ilica.
"Y-yeah... I'll be fine" She says. "Just a little spooked"

"It was just a skeleton" Ariadne says.
"It was a human skeleton" Ilica says.

"So? Everyone's got one" Ariadne says. "'Cept for me, I got a spider skeleton"

"I just... I didn't like it, okay?" Ilica says.

>(Pick one)

>That's fine

>Why?

>>46910257
>>That's fine
I want to believe that while we are dumb and naive, we aren't that dumb and naive.
It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to know why someone doesn't like human remains.

>>46910257
>That's fine
If your found dead people enjoyable instead i would be worried.

>>46910257
>Why?

>>46910257
>That's fine

Should we tell her she's cute? Will that fix it?

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>>46910257
>that's fine
>why?
IT BEGINS

>>46910313
Yuu's actually doing a lot better. He's more along the lines of simple, rather than stupid.

>>46910257
Why?

>writing

>>46910365
>(Pick one)

"That's fine" You say, putting a hand on her head between her ears. "Frankly I'd be more worried if you were excited by dead people"

"Th-... thanks?" Ilica says.
"You're welcome" You reply.

You give her head a few scratches, and hear a bit of a rumbling coming from her throat. She smiles ever so slightly, and then shakes it off and swats your hand away.

"Stop that!" She says.
"Sorry" You say. "I couldn't help it"

Ilica crosses her arms with a 'humph', and turns away from you. But she seems to be feeling better at least, which is good to see.

With Ilica in better spirits, you turn to Hella. "Are you alright now too?" You ask.
"M-me? Yeah... I was just a little off from all the action" Hella says, giving her head a playful punch and sticking her tongue out. "Head's all caught up now, so I'll be fine"

"Sorry we dragged you into this" You say.
Hella waves you off. "It's miles better than being dragged off by the inquisition" She says. "I'm fine. I just have to get a letter off to the hunters... they must be worried about me"

>Ask Derrick about the rest of the trip to Locke

>Talk to Emi about your language

>Ask Tian to show you the practice blades

>Other

>>46910783
>>Ask Derrick about the rest of the trip to Locke

>>46910783
>Talk to Emi about your language

>>46910783
>Ask Derrick about the rest of the trip to Locke
Then
>Blades

>>46910783
>>Ask Tian to show you the practice blades

>writing

You leave the ladies to head over to where Derrick and Tian are standing.

"Have the guards passed back yet?" You ask.
"A little while back, thankfully before the screaming" Tian says. "We'd be clear if we wanted to leave now, but-..."

"But we'd never make it to Locke before nightfall" Derrick says. "We're safer here than we would be on the road"
"And come morning, they'd be out looking for us again" Tian says. "We leave now, we can get to Locke without ever having to watch behind us for the Inquisition"

"But we'd have to be watching every shadow" Derrick says. "I don't like the idea of something else getting the jump on us in the dark...

You get the feeling they've been arguing like this for a while... they could probably use a tiebreaker.

>We should leave now

>We should camp out here until morning

>Other

>>46911240
>>We should camp out here until morning

>>46911240

>Other

Flip a coin.
Besides, we hardly have to watch every shadow, so long as our rabbitgirl freind stays awake we have pretty much the perfect anti-ambush system.

>>46911240
>We should leave now

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>Coin flip it is

>1 to stay
>2 to go

>writing

"I think Tian is right" You say. "If we leave in the morning, we might have to deal with the Inquisition again. If we leave now... when will we reach Locke?"

"Around midnight" Tian says.
You nod. "And then we don't have to worry" You say.
"What about the dark? The Inquisition isn't the only thing out there" Derrick says.

"We have 2 people with us that have amazing hearing" You say, before adding in a whisper. "Right Ilica?"

"Very funny" Ilica calls back.

You turn to Derrick. "It'll be fine" You say.
Derrick sighs. "Alright..." He says. "Yeah, we should go. The sooner we're in Locke, the better"

"I'll go make sure the others are ready, and get Ari to pull her web down" Tian says.
"We can't pull it down ourselves?" You ask.
"I've tried" Tian says. "Easier just to get her to do it"

"What if we burned it?" You ask.
"The smoke might give us away" Derrick says. "Best to leave this place without a trace... I get the feeling we might have to come back at some point"

You look back down the cave, to where the pit is. He's probably right...

>Cont.

While Ariadne pulls begrudgingly pulls her web down, you stand out on the road to make sure no one is coming. In the distance you can see the guards reaching Bell's Run on their horses, but the road seems pretty empty otherwise.

"Travelling isn't a popular option these days" Derrick says when you ask him why. "Not when the hunter's guild has to watch its back, and the Inquisition is ready to come up behind yours"

You nod. Hopefully this Altea lady can do something about that...

"Looks like we're packed up" Emi says. "You guys ready to go?"
"Yeah" Derrick says. "How does it look in there?"

"It'll be a bit crowded... some of us will have to ride on top" Emi says.
"Any takers?" Derrick asks.
"Tian says she'll go up there, but between me and Ariadne there won't be much space in the passenger's compartment..." Emi says.

>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)

>Stay below with Emi (For language stuff)

>Other

>>46912045
>>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)

>>46912045
>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)

>>46912045
>>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)
GITGUD SCRUB

>>46912045
>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training

We'll be ready to mageblade it up x 2, if we get chased.

>>46912045
>>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)

>>46912045
>>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)
Our eyes would probably help up top as well.

>>46912045
>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training
We can be smart later

>>46912045
>>Offer to go up top with Tian (For mageblade training)

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>>46912091

>writing

"I'll ride up on top with Tian" You say. "I wanna see what the practice blades she brought with her are"
"Alright, I guess that leaves Ariadne, Hella and I with the inside" Emi says.

"Ummm..." Hella says. "I'd also like to be on top..."
"You would?" Emi asks.
""If you guys want me to be keeping my ears out... wouldn't that be the best place to do it?" She asks.

"It'll be more dangerous up there" Derrick says.
"But Yuu and Tian are there, so I'll be fine" She says.
"Yeah, relax. I'd never let something bad happen to a cute rabbit" You say.

"C-cute?" Hella asks, as she puts her hands on her cheeks to cover her blush.
You smile, and head back into the cave.

Ilica is sitting in the passenger's seat when you reach the cart. "You really shouldn't tease like that" She says as you hop onto the cart.
"Who's teasing?" You ask. "Stella said to be honest when I think things are cute, so that's what I do"

Ilica chuckles. "You might be too oblivious for your own good" She says.
"Why's that?" You ask, leaning over the front to see her.
Ilica looks up at you, and smiles. "Nevermind. You do you, Yuu" She says, as she turns her attention back to the crossbow in her hands.

You sit back down on the roof, confused. You wonder what she meant by that...

>cont

>>46912575
Have we even called ilica cute yet?

>>46912607
Nope.

>>46912657
Poor ilica, she never even had a shot in the yuubowl

>>46912674
She still has, we didn't lift any flag on her route yet.

>>46912674
I blame her doing what cats do, being a cat.

>>46912674
>we've petted her several times
>this is intimate shit to ilica
>it means literally nothing to yuu
A-Are we chad?

>>46912706
What can I say? Bunny flags are soft, and ludicrously cuddly.

>>46912799
Don't forget: she was high as a kite, when that happened.

>>46912855
>we drugged and molested a girl
>we didnt even call her cute after
We're a monster, we should have stayed in mortifas

>>46912876
Why call her cute? The inquisition clearly knows Cats should be locked up.

Bunnies are far superior. It's why they roam free.

Once everyone is on board, Derrick backs the cart out of the cave and back onto the road, and then you're moving agan.

"Here's hoping the frontlights on this thing work..." Derrick says.
"We probably should've tried those before we left" Ilica replies.

...

"So what are training blades?" You ask Tian, once you're bored of listening to Derrick and Ilica talk about lights.

...

Which only took about 2 seconds. Is that bad? You think that might be bad.

Tian pops open the suitcase she brought, revealing a set of mageblade handles of varying shapes.

"These" Tian says, as she pulls one with a half-sphere where the emitter would be. "Each one is designed to make a certain aspect of using a mageblade ludicrously difficult. This one makes tightening the blade almost impossible. But if you can make a tight blade using this, then making a tight blade with a normal blade will be a cakewalk"

"Oh! Like what that horse lady was saying" You say. "About how swordsmen train with heavy things... or something"
"Something like that" Tian says.

She then goes over the different types. There's one to make tightness nearly impossible, there's one that scatters the edges to make sharpening difficult, there's one that limits energy output to make lengthening difficult, and one that forces it to be straight to make bending hard...

You give each of them a try, and the results are... not good. You don't think you'll see any progress at all unless you focus on one for at least this entire trip. So you pick-

>Tightness

>Sharpness

>Shaping (Length)

>Shaping (Bending)

>>46912905
You know who else was locked up? Us. We should have stayed and got prison married to the cat

>>46912919
>>Tightness

>>46912919
>Tightness
there's a joke in there somewhere

>>46912919
Tightness

>>46912919
>>Tightness

>>46912919
>>Tightness

>>46912919
>Tightness

>>46912919
>Tightness

>>46912919
>Tightness

>>46912928
Yuu is free now he doesn't have to be prison gay. He can choose bunnies, as is the right of all free men.

>>46913001
Have fun when she cucks yuu as we all know bunnies are giant whores

>>46913013
Cat's go into heat and fuck any and everything that moves.

Snakes fuck in giant breeding pits.

None of our animal companions are magnanimous creatures.

If we see a Wolf girl, Bald Eagle girl, or Skink girl we're solid.

>>46913112
Well we just need to find a wolfu then

>writing

>>46913112
So..
>Illica and yuu in a relationship
>He steps out for a bit while she's in heat
>Finds her fucking someone else in the street

>Stella/Hella and Yuu
>Finds out they regularly fuck higher ups in the guild, after all dominant males have the right

>Yuu finds Emi in a massive orgy of snakes

>>46913308
If Derrick had fluffy ears and a fluffy tail and was effeminate I wouldn't say no.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

You pick up the one with the half sphere emitter again. You took some time to switch the crystals to channel chaos instead of mana before you tried these, so that you could use them. You figure that if you can get the blade to be tighter and more dense, it might make focusing on the other aspects easier.

Y'know, getting the basics before going for the more advanced stuff.

After getting a few tips from Tian, you try using it again.

Aaaand just about nothing happens. You can kind of see some red energy rippling across the surface of the half sphere, but you can't get it to do anything.

Tian must see your frustration, because she pats your back. "It takes patience" She says.
"Y-yeah! Don't give up yet" Hella says.

"I'm not giving up... it's just difficult" You say.
"Remember to focus" Tian says. "Don't worry about us, just put your head into your blade"

Right... it's only as sharp, or as flexible, or as strong as you are...

You breathe in, and out, and focus.

>Roll 1d100 with focus, focus being the more important part of this roll

>>46913112
Way too skeptical.
Calm down cuck master.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>46913369

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>46913369
woo

>>46913369

>>46913262
Funny thing: Stella's a bit of an oddball, because she's not into "big, burly hunters", like the rest of her family.

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>46913369

>>46913415
You son of a bitch

>>46913415
does that count a a fail though?

>>46913415
Holy shit, the one time we wanted a one.

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>46913369

>>46913415
Well fuck you.

>>46913415
fucken hell, does this still count as getting the focus roll

>>46913415
Is this good or bad?

>>46913415
kek

Smiley hasn't done crit fail since ItA.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>46913415
we must counter.

>>46913459
Yes

>writing

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>>46913536

I don't see why it would be bad, the focus range was in the critfail region anyways, so all we did was meet it handily

Or maybe we just fail in such a fashion that it crosses the line twice and does something awesome...

You you close your eyes and let the outside world slip away from you.

You see the blade in your hand in your mind's eye, and in your head you work to focus it into one point.

Breathing in, you put more energy into it.

Breathing out, you gather the energy towards the center.

As you try to push it inward, it seems to evade you. Like trying to move water with your hands, it simply goes around. But there are remedies for that...

Rather than trying to force it in bit by bit, you focus it inward from all sides at once.

...

It moves... a little. It takes a lot out of you mentally to apply this kind of force. You quickly start to notice that you're sweating, your breathing speeds up...

And then you lose focus, but you don't open your eyes. You fall asleep.

Which is fine too, you suppose...

>Cont.

Upgrade achieved, new stats:

>Shaping-0

>Sharpness-1

>Density-3

You know, tian isn't a very good teacher so far. She hasn't really given us any in depth instruction.

>>46913881
She was probably going to, but then the 1

>>46913881
Shes clearly jelly of our natural ability and giving us shit tier teaching

>>46913881
What do you expect? It a woman teaching a man. Men can't learn through anything but pain and or by being beaten upside the head with the answer constantly, and a woman can't stand the thought of someone learning to better then her.

>>46913999
Robert Jordan? Is that you? I thought you had died?!

You open your eyes again a while later.

"You're awake!" Ilica says.
"Welcome back" Tian says.

Ilica, Tian, and Hella are all looking down at you. It's dark out now, so you must've been out for a quite some time

"Are you feeling alright?" Ilica asks. "You didn't like... pop a blood vessel or something, did you?"
"I think I'm fine" You say, as you try to sit up. "I just put a little too much into that..."

Ilica puts a paw on your chest to stop you. "Lay still and rest for a bit, Yuu" Ilica says. "You're just about covered in sweat..."

You reach up and wipe your forehead. "Weird... You'd think this would've dried..." You say.

You take a breath, and settle in. Your head is on something fairly comfy, so this position isn't bad.

...

Just what is this anyway? The way Ilica is looking down at you, it must be her lap...

You take another breath, and find that it's a little difficult. It feels like it did back when you first went into Sherton...

>Why is my head in your lap?

>I think I may have used up too much soul

>How long was I out?

>Other

>>46914095
"Your lap is very comfortable, Ilica."

>>46914095
>How long was I out?
>I think I may have used up too much soul


That head in lap question is a good way to have our head hit the floor.

>>46914095
>lap pillow
Best girl

>>46914115
seconding

>>46914095
>>I think I may have used up too much soul
>
>>How long was I out?

>>46914095
>I think I may have used up too much soul
>How long was I out?

>>46914095
>>How long was I out?

>>46914135 here, seconding >>46914115

>>46914095
>>I think I may have used up too much soul

>>How long was I out?

>>46914095
>>I think I may have used up too much soul
>>46914115
Seconding

>>46914115
This

>>46914095
Fuck it. >>46914117

Adding

>"Your lap is very comfortable, Ilica."

>writing

"I've never seen someone focus so hard they passed out" Tian says. "You sure you're okay?"
"I don't think it was that..." You say. "I think I used up too much soul"

Emi's head pops up from the front of the cart. "That's not good" She says.
"It doesn't feel good..." You say, holding your hand up. "I feel kinda... weak"

Emi comes up and checks your forehead. "You should be fine... you just need some rest" She says. "Want us to give you one of the benches below?"

"Nah, here is good" You say. "Ilica has a comfortable lap"

"Don't get used to it" Ilica says. "You scared the hell out of me, you know?"
"Sorry" You say. "I wasn't expecting that to happen..."

Ilica places her hands at the sides of your head, and rubs you behind the ears. "Just don't make a habit out of it, okay?"
"Kay" You say.

The way Ilica rubs you feels kinda good. Makes you feel relaxed... or you could still just be tired...

>Ask why you might've run out of soul so quickly

>Ask Ilica why she's rubbing your head

>Sleep

>Other

>>46914040
I'll admit, that made me giggle.

>>46914462
>Ask why you might've run out of soul so quickly

>>46914462
Ask illica how she can make that noise whenever she gets pet. We can't seem to do it.

>>46914462
>Compliment her on her soft hands, and tell her that feels nice.
>Point out you need some way to replenish soul.

>>46914462
>Ask why you might've run out of soul so quickly
Do we need to try to purr?
>I am enjoying this but I cannot purr.

>>46914462
>Ask why you might've run out of soul so quickly


>>46914471
>folds arms under breasts
>tugs braid

>>46914462
>Ask why you ran out of soul so quickly

Scary thought, what if we don't naturally generate soul like they do mana and have basically been running on the giant soul blast all this time? How would we get more?

>>46914498
Should ask how demons purr

>>46914494
seconded

>>46914462
>Sleep
Gotta stay with the cat.

>writing

"Still... why would I have run out so quickly?" You ask. "What if my body doesn't generate soul like yours does with mana, and I've just been running with what I got from the prison all this time?"

"Our bodies don't generate mana" Emi says. "Mana is all around us, we just absorb it from the air"
"Oh... well why can't I do the same thing with soul?" You ask.

"Uhh... Derrick, do you know the mana:chaos ratio?" Emi asks.
"Maybe... I think it's like... 4 or 5 to 1?" Derrick says.

"That's why" Emi says. "There is just more mana in the air than there is soul... but still, there should be enough considering that you're the only one using it..."

"Not the only one" Ilica says. "Not with the Chaos engine in Mortifas sucking it all up"
"Oh... right" Emi says. "So it's probably a much bigger difference than that"

"So what do I do?" You ask.
Ilica rests a paw on your chest. "You get some rest" She says, as she brings that hand back up to your face. "You can worry about all this when you're feeling better"

"Okay... I guess" You say, settling yourself in and getting comfortable. "Say, how do you make that noise?"
"What noise?" Ilica asks.
"The noise. That 'rrrrrrrrrrrrr' sound in your throat that you make when you like something" You say.
"Purring?" She asks
"Yeah" You say.
"That's... more of a cat thing" She says. "Why?"
"Because I like this" You say. "I was wondering if I could make that noise too"

Ilica chuckles.

"Where'd you learn to do this, anyway?" You ask.
"My mom used to lay me down like this when I was sad, or angry, or scared..." Ilica says. She's smiling, but it doesn't look like a happy smile....

Before she can continue, Derrick speaks up. "Alright everyone" He says. "We're here"

That's all for tonight!

Next thread will probably be on like, Wednesday... or something. I'll let you guys know once I know.

As always I'll be sticking around for question/suggestion time

>>46914832
Great thread, Smiley!

Reminder all girls are best girls but smiley is a candyass

>>46914866
yeah,
yeah

>>46914832
Thanks for running.

Reminder that best cat is best girl