>Last 'twas left off

Magdalena (you!) had been accepted to the lone magical school of Almace in the country's capitol, the Royal Academy of Magic. You were somewhat on the fence on the matter though, torn between the appeal of magical studies, and the imposed debt to the crown which would be supporting your study at the school.

All the while you were dealing with matters of becoming more established in the capitol of the country, having paid for the lease of a store, which your hired alchemist Aea would be operating for profit. On more personal matters, you'd also located a potential errand boy and knife combat teacher in the city, as well as a second hand gun seller.

>You still have a few days till the news of you being accepted to the Royal program of study comes, if there was anything you wanted to do?

>>604685
Op why u no quote this thread the previous one

Practice our reading and writing, we're a farm girl after all

>>604977
I didn't think people would check that, but I can back post sure.

>>604977
>Get a tutor to improve our reading, writing and math.
>Practice with the short sword and the knifes

>>604991
>Bluejay
Cast combustion on the bluejay.
But in all seriousness.

Call in the urchin bro.
Tell him we have an offer for him.

>>604656
Also OP you didn't add the links for the tg archive it seems
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/557061

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/572850

>>605029
We could kind of adopt him, we got money. We hire a tutor and use it to teach us reading and writing abd math, the same for the kid.

I miss Safe Heaven Quest

>>605063
I personally am hiring him as a representative.

Teach him some math and sciences and focus heavily on economics.

OP said the kid was well rounded and had some charisma skills.
I think it's good idea.

>>604977
>>605021
In preparation for the basic education requirements of the school, you practice the reading and writing you know (learned during your time as a maid) though may consider a teacher for that sort of thing? You only have a few days left though, so it's not like you can make a lot of progress.

>>605029
You find the urchin boy again, ___? and tell him you're interested in hiring him. He says he'll accept working for you, but up front he wants you to pay for and get him into a really upscale cat house. The cost isn't too high, but he can't get in on his own. He quite frankly says if he's going to be working for a woman, he wants to at least be a man.

>>605053
I thought I put them in the pastebin?

>>605063
You probably could legally adopt him, though he doesn't seem too interested in that. He never got by with parents before, so he doesn't need a mother now.

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>605072
Too young for that. We will have to both train him and wait until he becomes an adult legally.

I mean we are basically in the middle ages so he would have to be what? Sixteen or seventeen?

>>605079

And yes let's get a tutor.

Rolling for tutor best of three.

>>605101
Damn, could someone do another roll?

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>605101
Supporting and rolling

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>605079
You did?

Didn't notice.
Whatever it'll be nice for them to be here as well I guess.
Sorry.

Tell the urchin kid the conditions.
>We will pay him a good wage.
>We will pay for him to get into an upscale house.
>He will be tutored heavily. Especially on economics and trading and such.
>He will not spill our secrets. Any we release are up to us.

Then pay him.(1 mark a week is fair right?)
>>605101
He's a couple years younger than us.
And people worked younger in the middle ages.
He is 17 at least.

Rolling for tutors.

>>605120
Better could someone else do the third roll?

Also yes, let's buy him the house. But let's not pay all of it right away just in case he wants to scam us. Let's give an advance for it now and pay the rest later.

>>605079
Convince the urchin

>I know you've managed to get to where you are now by yourself but you need someone to rely on if things go bad for you

Rolled 38, 5, 64 = 107 (3d100)

>>605146

Rolling to convince him, best of three, 3d100 cause I don't wanna wait.

>>605160
I hope a 64 is good enough to convince him.

>>605120
>55

You find a tutor who will take you, in the form of a press operator, though he is often very busy so his teaching availability is limited.

>>605072
If you want a representative you should look elsewhere, this kid isn't really that sort. The most he's willing to learn is reading and writing, beyond that doesn't interest him at all.

>>605101
He says he's 15 but you think he's 14.

>>605129
He agrees with that deal, though not to expect for him to bow down and kiss the ground you walk on.

>>605160
I'll let it go but you really shouldn't roll thrice.

>64

You sort of convince him that he might need a parental figure, or at least a mentor, but he has a hard time imagining or respecting you as that person. He says if you're really that set on it though, why bother making it official? No one really goes through the trouble of actually adopting kids these days, unless they're royalty or something. If you want him to call you mom and pretend to be your son, you don't need paperwork for that.

>>605139
He doesn't want you to buy him a house, he wants you to accompany him so that you can get him into a cat house, a brothel. He's too young on his own, and doesn't have the money. Basically his up front payment he's telling you, is to get to have his first time with a lady.

>>605196
>Reading and writing.

I see a potential trusted courier.
And someone to write down all the shit we need kept track of.

>Kiss the ground we walk on.
Who the fuck does he think we are? Why would we want that?

>Get him into a brothel.
We can do that.
Sure.
It'll be somewhat embarrassing though so get a cloak to hide our face.

>>605196
U fookin wot son?

Hes fourteen and he wants to get his dik wet?

Not on my watch, no, well convince him some other way

>>605196
>Let have our hired guy acompany him instead of us.

>>605224
You don't get to talk lewd anon.
>>605232
Ask Aea to do it.
Julien left I think.
Give herthe money for it.
>>605196
Also
>Pretend to be our son
Please don't unless we need a cover story.

>>605221
>I see a potential trusted courier.

Literally Julien. If you want a personal scribe and bookkeeper you should find someone else, this kid's lowtime street criminal scum with some generalized skills.

>>605232
The hired guy isn't around unfortunately.

>>605224
You're going to need to present a strong case to him not to, since the other players are fine with it.

>>605246
Aea can certainly do it, yeah.

And if he's not posing as your son then he doesn't know why you want to adopt him.

>>605246

>Pretend to be our son

But that's what Maggie secretly wants right? A Husband and kids, this is as close as we're going to get

>>605253
Well shit

>>605246
No need to pretend to be our son and yes let's have the alchemist do it. We can't ruin our reputation as student.

Once we are a student we could look for a better tutor since being a student in the royal magical school will open doors.

Did we find a tutor to learn how to use guns?

>>605274
Guns are a mark of nobility.
We need a permit to own one.
Sounds risky.
>>605253
Didn't we send Julien off though?

Also can he pick locks?
Pick pockets?
And is he decent at tailing and eavesdropping?

If so I'll still hire him.

>>605253
So he has family and education. Also insist that he needs to learn math or he will be cheated out if money very easily.

>>605274
Once you're in the school they can teach you to read and write better for sure, that's they're main purpose. This was just in case you wanted something extra on the side.

As for the gun teacher, I left the choice in the air if you guys want to use the 64 rolled for finding guns for sale, for the teacher, or if you want to roll separate for it.

>>605283
The gun seller you found can sell you them without a permit since they're second hand, and also he's not exactly selling them legal. As long as you don't go around carrying a musket or brandishing a pistol, you shouldn't get in trouble. And in the case of self-defense use, they won't care at that point.

That's right that Julien was sent off, on courier duty. Unless you mean a courier specific to the city?

The kid can't pick locks, since locks aren't common, but he's great at picking pockets and mugging, as well as general theft and burglary. Tailing and eavesdropping, it's not something he's practiced in, but he has the skills for it.

>>605285
He'll age up to adult in a couple of years though, if you're really adamant on adopting him you can but he thinks it's a waste of time and money. When you bring up being cheated though, he changes his mind on learning math.

>>605285
This. If he can't even count he will be cheated very easily. Even Pinochio mentions math along as reading and writing as a basic skill to success.

>>605303
Good.

And getting extra teaching while outside classes to improve faster is posible yes? Like getting a student in a upper class to tutor us for money?

>>605303
Ok then we can hire him as a kind of thief/information gatherer.

Send Aea to help with the kid with his brothel thing.

So it looks like the consensus is to hire the boy and meet his demands. You don't want to take him to a cat house yourself though, so ask Aea to do it for you and give her the money. She asks if you'll pay for her as well, and you're not sure if she's joking.

At rate though, she takes the kid to get taken care of, and the next day he's got a bounce in his step and carrying himself differently, ready to work for you, whatever you need him to do.

>Anything else? You've only about a day left till you're approved.

>>605366
Rest and take a bath, find better clothes to wear.

>>605366
OP did we send that letter to the Marquis asking for all the stuff I put?

Also write a letter to our parents about how we're at the capital attending a school on magic. And that we met a dragon.

>>605397
Currently you have to go and find someplace to bathe which isn't easy, but if need be you could ask Aea to get a tub for her store. It also occurs to you that the academy has got to have facilities for that.

What sort of clothes did you have in mind? You're not as swimming in money as you were, before you paid for Aea's shop.

>>605402
Yeah you wrote the letter and sent it off with Julien along with all the other stuff he was supposed to take care of.

I think it's fair to say you can retroactively have written to your parents as well. I'm not sure what sort of tone you're trying to carry with that though, it sounds hostile or at least bitter.

>>605397
This works.

And a dress that will make us not look out of place in the Academy. And yes get that tub.

>>605420
Not bitter or hostile.

Basically we're telling them we are doing interesting things.
>Attending magic school
>Met a dragon
>Started another business
>How you guys doing?
Basically.
Tell them if they need help they can ask us.

>>605420
Let's not be hostile abd bitter, we aren't the bitch of our former master.

Let's get that tub and a single change of clothes that let's us fit in better should be enough for now.

>>605430
As far as you know, the school actually has uniforms, barring certain circumstances.

You ask Aea to get a tub though, which she's fine with and has room for in the back of her shop.

>>605432
The problem is that they don't want you doing any of these things. You might not be hostile about it, but it's just going to upset them. Saying they can come to you for help is just worse.

>>605463
>They don't want you doing Amy of these things.
Well they're so supportive.
Well screw the letter then they don't need to hear shit.

>>605463
Let's not mention magic school then.

And looking clean and smelling good in our first day is a must.

>>605474
>Amy
Any damnit.
>>605463
Why are they so unsupportive though?

How would they react if we became a noble?

>>605482
They don't want you don't anything relating to dragon stuff, or your dragon background. Telling them you saw a dragon is even worse.

They might disapprove of you getting schooling or becoming a merchant, thinking you'd be better off settling down, but it wouldn't distress them. Magic academy and dragon visits would.

Becoming a noble they'd probably be quite proud of though. Like if you married a young lord to take care of you, that would make them the happiest parents in the world.

>>605479
That makes sense, want to look professional. Any ways you can, to not give them a reason to treat you like a peasant, which admittedly you are.

>>605482
Unless is it by marriage we can't become a noble yet. We might be able to buy a minir tittle once we get enough cash and land. Maybe an island?

[spoiler[ Dragon countess of Montecristo

>>605492
Yeah let's take a bath, be clean and wear our better dress. Do we have perfume?

>>605512
Our alchemist could make one quite easily I think. Or we could just buy it.

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>>605492
>Implying we will marry a young noble.
I swear I can feel the implications flying past me.

How will they feel if we buy one?

>>605512
You don't have perfume yourself, but Aea has more perfume than you've ever smelled, some of it magical.

She says she's got from the sort that can completely eliminate any scent, good for avoiding tracking dogs, to the sort that can drive men into wild lust craze. You don't trust her not to mess with you, so decide to just keep it simple and go for something mundane.

>>605546
Buy what, a title of nobility? Or a noble husband?

If you start getting into large amounts of money, it starts to go beyond their level of understanding as peasants, so they'd not really know much what to say other than something like, good job and don't get into trouble!

>So, your first day of magic academy tomorrow. Anything you have in mind, or way you want to make yourself known? Or not?

>>605546
Hence why I want us to move to that country that respects strong matriachs as soon as possible.

Let's remember is not our family fault, they were raised that way and didn't have to face all we did to question those beliefs.

>>605584
Anon I'm not dumb.
I know it's not their fault.
I'm asking for their opinions.
And also I already was for planning to move to another kingdom.

I plan to have us head down south. Plan a trip to the Orient. Subjugate some natives and become a countess in the process.

>>605581
Let's just try to focus on learning.
Right now we ignore the nobles and drama and focus on learning.

>>605581
When we get that much money, let's buy an island and a minor nobility tittle.

And no marriage unless we find someone we fall in love with and accepts the fact we will end becoming a dragon.

How is our best human friend doing?

>>605598
That and making money.

>>605602
Obviously.
If we haven't made money while doing it we've done it wrong.

I've been plotting for power and wealth throughout these entire threads.

>>605592
>Subjugate some natives and become a countess in the process.

If you do that in the New World you might wake up and find yourself a Duchess. It's the two separate countries though, one is making headway in the New World, the other is in the Orient. Your choice really, which foreign land, and which parent country you prefer.

>>605599
>and accepts the fact we will end becoming a dragon.

You haven't accepted the fact that you will end up becoming a dragon. Surely, being a normal mostly human is just fine! You don't need more than you deserve!

As for Astrea, you have no idea since the letters probably haven't reached Rea yet, let alone return letters.

>>605598
Sounds like a good plan.

>>605616
Maggie I'm not going to tell you to accept it now.

Just think about it.
That dragon lady was nice wasn't she.
A pleasant dragon.

>>605609
My plans are.

>Buy an island
>Buy a minor nobility tittle.
>Move to a country more accepting of powerful females, the strong matriachs one.
> Build our power there and learn the local language.
> Once we win the heart of the people and win over the nobles interestes with money and business, get the best nobility tittle influence and money can buy.
> Go full dragon
> ?

>>605616
Also
>Duchess
Yesssss.....

(At this point I can probably call myself Maggie's voice of ambition in her head.)
>>605636
>?
Put take magic to it's pinnacle and become legendary.

>>605636
This works.

Not sure things will go well if we go full dragon even with the best nobility tittle we could get, but whatever.

>>605636
My word, this is simply too grand for naught but a humble peasant girl!

>...though you suppose you wouldn't mind the love of a people

That wasn't out loud!

>>605647
So so so! First day!

You make your way over from Aea's shop to the academy, accompanied by that merchant's son whom you're having act as your guardian. He is quite taken aback when he sees you, saying you look lovely, and smell just as well. Once you reach the academy you are welcomed in and similarly complimented.

The first order of business naturally is the various administrative needs. You're present for the basics, like them explaining the nature of the royal program you were accepted into, and your responsibilities to the crown. After that though you're asked to wait outside, while they and the merchant's son go over the actual paperwork behind everything to do with your acceptance, enrollment, and relevant personal information like for example, who's responsible for you.

Eventually when everything is settled, you and the merchant's son are given a basic tour so you know what you're getting into. When the time comes for you to part ways, he bows and wishes you luck, whereafter you're taken by the headmistress of the women's portion of the school to appropriately enough, the women's dorms.

>Any questions or actions during or leading up till then?

>>605702
>Be polite and nice, we can always ask questions nice. Is the first day and humans care way too much about first impressions.

>>605702
>Though you wouldn't mind the love of the people.
And your ambition,draconic nobility,and desire to do good come forth.

>Questions
Anyone I should look out for or be wary of?
So what's it like in the dorms?

>>605702
>Be polite and nice, no need to annoy them on the first day.
>Remember to NOT make up spells on the fly, we are here to learn after all.

>>605702
Try to make some friends

>>605717
*later

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>>605717
>>605726
The whole while you try to remain as polite as possible, your maid experience coming in mighty useful for that.

You also try to keep in mind not to magic weave if you can help it.

>>605718
>Anyone I should look out for or be wary of?

She says she's not at liberty to say specifically on that matter, and reminds you what she did before, that if you know your place you'll do fine. One thing she does remember to bring up though, but says it probably won't be an issue, but one of the male students is descended from a tarasque and is sort of the resident "big deal" for those of the staff and students having magical ancestors. Though you of course exceed him now, which could cause a little tension.

>>605738
You're not exactly there yet!

---

She continues on and leads you to the women's domicile, a separate building on the grounds. While it doesn't match the same official building make or style of the main building of the academy itself (stone and medieval), it does have it's own special charm. From what you can tell, it's an actual house that was built on the grounds, probably recently, and separate of any other buildings. The more modern style is appealing, and it looks well-kept and nicely decorated. Lots of garden plots around and small scenic areas.

Once led inside, you're taken up a flight of stairs, though you can make out some rooms and even some people here and there. From what little you know of the city and city living, the interior matches what you'd expect of a large, 3-story family house. Going up the first flight of stairs, you're taken along to a small bedroom with three beds, shown which one is yours though of course if the other occupants of the room agree you can switch.

It's a pleasant space, maybe a bit cramped for three but enough room for a personal space to put your things, and there's even a bedside table just large enough to sit at and do work if you need to. The high ceilings give a bigger impression of course, and the windows look out over the grounds within the walls.

The headmistress says welcome to your new home while as a student here, and to take your time getting settled in, she'll be downstairs checking schedules when you're ready to continue.

>What do you do?

Pic semi-related. It wouldn't literally be this, but this is the sort of style in which you can imagine the house to be like.

>>605807
Looks cozy.

Take a quick look around the room
If we have any belongings with us put them in their suitable locations and then continue with the lady.

>>605807
>Be friendly and meet your roommates.
>Remember to wear the uniform once you get it.
>Don't mention that you have a dragon parent until you feel you can trust your roomates.

>>605830
>>605837

These two

>>605807
Also a tarasque?
>TFW the child of a shitty knock off of your dad's race brags to you.
That dragon lady's sides would not survive watching it.

>>605865
>Remember to visit the dragon at least once a month while we stay in the city.

"I decided to gather all power and influence I can before going full dragon. I want to see their faces when they realize that noble lady they been doing business for years turned into a dragon."

>>605891
Tell her about how some descendent(not son mind you) of a tarasque is pretty famous around campus.
Due to all the power we have we are unimpressed.

>>605830
You look around to see the other two living spaces are definitely occupied, not currently but they have various belongings about. One in particular is very strange to you, with trinkets and hung cloths of a type you've never seen before. You decide to similarly lay out your belongings in your own space, before heading down to rejoin the mistress.

>>605837
While you are laying out your things though, you detect with your senses someone trying to slowly enter the room. Looking around you see a quite young girl, maybe 10, startled that you noticed her. Hiding in the doorway, she asks in a small voice if you're the new sister with magic blood. She speaks to you in an overtly polite and respectful manner, calling you Madam for example (or the time-period equivalent) and bowing before speaking.

>What do you do?

>>605903
>Be friendly and give her a hug

>>605908
This.

>>605899
Well a tarasque is no laughing matter, and could well kill a dragon in a fight under the right circumstances. The main issue of course is that dragons are much more magically powerful, and since this is a magic school rather than a fighting pit, you have the potential to greatly magically exceed him, which could cause upset.

>>605903
>Yes, yes I am.
>I'm Magdalena. Who are you?
I wonder if she'll tell us what her magical heritage is?

It might be a sort of common thing for magic blood students(kind of like talking about your parents or family)

>>605908
>>605910
She's such a sweet little thing that you can't help but want to pick her up and hug her. As you approach her though, she squeaks and runs away.

You try to say it's ok as you move for the door, but looking down the hallway she's already run off, and you can hear little footsteps pattering up the stairs to the top floor.

>What do you do?

>>605914
If the headmasters were to be believed, you're actually in a small minority of students and staff, who have magical ancestry.

>>605935
>Let her go, she is scared.

>>605935
Oh my god she's adorable.

I love how we can't be snuck up on.
These senses are great right Maggie?


Anyways let's continue that tour.
We can talk to our roommate after she calms down.

>>605935
>> Let her go, poor dear.

>>605943
You decide not to follow her, let her deal with things at her own pace.

>>605946
Returning downstairs, you see the headmistress speaking with an older girl about something to do with enough space at the dining table. When she sees you though she settles things with the girl and returns to you, asking if you got settled in and wondering how you feel about the accommodations?

She shows you a basic plan of the ground floor of the house, the sitting room, the kitchen, the dining room, the oldest girls' bedroom and separately her own bedroom, as well as a closet and a small odd room you're not used to with a commode. Apparently it empties to a small causeway that flushes out when it rains (or water is dumped in), though honestly you'd think to use a chamber pot like a civilized person.

After that she leads you back across the grounds and shows you through the main building of the school more properly. It's a grand old place, as you guessed probably a noble house in past centuries but now converted. You see some teaching rooms in session, though you are also introduced to some teachers who don't at that time have class. It seems word about your spread at least among the staff as they're all very interested and excited to meet you. As always you just try to remain as polite as possible.

After giving you the proper tour of the academy facilities, she goes over your class schedule, a schedule for the school for the rest of the week, and then takes the time to go over the rules. It seems like there's a section at least, dedicated to keeping the male and female students separate, except under circumstances which permit the presence of the whole academy. The separation rules notably don't apply to the outside grounds though.

Finally she leads you back to the ladies domicile, reminding you that you don't have classes today as your first day, so you may do as you please, though tomorrow classes start bright and early, and that at weeks end there will be an assembly where you're formerly introduced to the school as a whole.

>What do you do?

>>606021
Get to our room and wait for our roommates

>>606021
Things to do.

>Let's go talk to dragon lady again.
Bring thief bro as our required escort.
And besides that. We don't have much to do so get comfy in our room and wait for that shy little girl to come back.

>>606051
As you head out and try to leave the grounds, you are halted from doing so by the gate guard, who says that he's not permitted to let the ladies out of the walls without permission. You hadn't heard anything of the sort, and go to seek the headmistress again. When you find her, she's a little surprised you're trying to leave, but says they can't let you or the other female students go walking out without a male to accompany you. If you have need of one though, they have guards on staff for specifically that purpose.

So shortly after you're accompanied by one of the guards whose job it is to escort you wherever you need to go, and keep you out of harms way from ruffians and perverts. This does make you reconsider though if you want to go visit the dragon again?

Otherwise you might just head over to Aea's to let her and the thief boy know the situation with the school.

>What do you do?

>>606068
Yes we go visit her.

>>606068
>head over to Aea's to let her and the thief boy know the situation with the school.

Honestly I can't wait to move to that other country. The headmistress did not even care to mention that rule?

>>606080
>head over to Aea's to let her and the thief boy know the situation with the school.

Let's keep our dragon parent from goin public a bit longer.

>>606076
You head to Aea's shop to let her know of the situation and she bursts out laughing, while the thief boy says you should just find some way of sneaking in and out.

>>606080
She might have mentioned it but you thought it was for like, the young students. You could probably try and work out some kind of deal, since the gate guard did mention a "permission" but this is just what you were faced with on the first day, after being enrolled in the standard procedure.

>>606087
You decide against making it more obvious of your parentage, by not visiting the dragon. Though as you understand, the teachers at least all seem to be aware.

>What do you do?

>>606095
>Read the books you were given

>>606104
This

At least give them a quick look

>>606095
Let's head back to our room.
And give our books a quick look.

You decide to call it a day and return to the academy, at least you can look over your books. Eventually when you get back it's late afternoon and you see more people amid the grounds than before, mostly students. Still not that many, but more than before.

When you get back to your room as well, another girl is there, one of your roommates you'd guess as she's sitting by her own table writing something. When you enter she jumps up rather excitedly and runs over to you, greeting you warmly and welcoming you to the middle-girls room. She has a lot of questions for you, though more about you than about anything to do with magic or your experiences with it. While doing so she invites you to sit on her bed while she takes her chair, and reaching down pulls up a floorboard, where she draws out from among other things, a bottle.

She pours the both of you a glass of wine to talk over, introducing herself as ___?, 18 and a fellow Almese like you. She's not a noble but from quite a rich background, and is naturally magically gifted, though as said she doesn't seem to care all that much about magic.

>What do you do?

>>606128
>Name
Bea
For Beatrice.

>What do you like doing?
>So why'd you come here?
Let's just make some small talk and get to know each other.

>>606128
>Politely refuse the wine, it could be a magic potion.
>Chat with her, but don't mention the slave brand and the kobolds. Don't tell her around the dragon parent.

>>606131
>>606134

These two.

Is a really bad idea to drink with a stranger that can do magic.

>>606128
OP can we smell when things are drugged and or have magic in them?

>>606138
Not always.

Is not a good idea to think it will always save us when we already saw the alchemist said that she knows how to hide smells.

A magical student could do the same with a potion in the wine.

Do remember our other roomate was scared.

>>606136
Also question.
Why would she drug us?

I like reasons founded in evidence for my suspicions.
>>606143
We hugged a shy 10yr old without introducing ourselves first.

>>606148
Because we are new, also because if she really was nice our other roomate would not acf so scared.

Also, are we as students even allowed to drink wine?

>>606148
No we didn't. As soon as we moved close she ran away.

>>606153
>>605935
Said wot m8?

>>606153
>>606155
What I mean is.
Don't approach children without introducing yourself.

(Also I'm getting tired night OP)
Don't be too paranoid anons.

>>606138
Definitely, if you know what to smell for. Unless it's magically tainted, but then in drinking it you'd just react badly and know without suffering the effects since you resist magic.

Though right now you're barely dragonic so it's hard to say. Your smell is still more developed than a person's though.

>>606134
To your smell it doesn't seem laced with anything, and to be fair she's drinking it herself. You don't feel polite to refuse her but you also don't actually drink any for now. At the very least, you don't smell any deceit or ill intent on her.

>>606131
>Beatrice!

You talk for awhile and though you're understandably shy at first, she's a really cheery and friendly sort and you soon surprise yourself with how open you're being with her. It's not one sided though, she's up front with everything and seems honest, and just really friendly. Enough to disarm you at least.

>What do you like doing?

She really loves sailing, even if she's not allowed to actually work a boat. Her father owns some ships and she's accompanied him before. Here in the city at least though, every so often she tries to pay for a boat to just trip up and down the river for a few hours, and she invites you next time she plans to do it. Her other interests though surprise you and are a good mix between upper class type activities and more "common" things (though still above low class) that you're familiar with at least from your maid days. You get the feeling that while she has the wealth of lower nobility at least, she still enjoys commoner ways.

>So why'd you come here?

She says after she displayed a magic talent, her father thought it a grand idea to send her to such a prestigious institute given the chance, and it would turn her into a fine lady. She on the other hand came here to make connections and understand the run of things in the capitol.

>>606134
In talking about yourself you leave out some obvious details like being branded and disgraced, being imprisoned by kobolds, stuff like that. You also intend to leave out your dragon parent, but she rather forwardly asks (though quickly apologizes with a laugh, and asks if it's ok) what your magical heritage is. It seems like the little girl from earlier, word spread at least this far that you have magical heritage, though it didn't make it past the teachers what the creature was or how close it was to you.

>>606156
Is the middle ages, children are way more trusting of strangers.

Also we are also a girl and a student, the fact she ran away scared means she could have faced abuse from other sudents.

>>606152
>Also, are we as students even allowed to drink wine?

Given how she was hiding it, you'd guess not.

>>606156
That's fine, I'm headed off pretty soon myself.

>>606162
>Tell her you don't want to say yet.
>Ask her about the little girl that ran away

>>606163
Also why aren't we just using our ability smell intent and emotions?
>>606166
Nice.

>>606162
She could have drank the antidote beforehand or be inmune. >>606168
This works.

Remenber the Princess Bride

>>606171
Because is far from perfect. And smell can be deceived.

>>606173
Not really that imperfect.
So far only another dragon has been able to beat it.
It's even specific to the point of detecting "cautious optimism"
Also I don't think science is advanced enough to know that humans emit pheromones that we can pick up on.
So why would someone prepare for it.

>>606168
When asked about your heritage, you say you're not comfortable talking about it. She tries to persuade you, saying it's alright you can tell her, stuff like that, and it nearly works. She's able to get you to indirectly admit that the magical entity was a parent of yours, though not what it was or which parent. That's enough for her though and she's visibly impressed, saying the next closest non-human parent of someone here is grandparent, the few others are even more distant than that.

You do happen to ask her about the young girl, even without knowing her name, Beatrice knows who you're talking about. That would be ___?, 12 though from a very poor background so she hasn't grown properly. She's Almese as well though, and is here on the royal sponsorship program, like you. You ask if she's normally so finicky and scared, Beatrice is confused at first but when you explain what happened she understands well, and gestures for you to keep your voice down about that. She says she doesn't want to get too much into it, but the little girl rooms upstairs with ___? who is a real pain, and genuinely horrible and cruel to her regularly. When she first came here a couple years ago, she was already reserved, but it's only gotten worse since then because of the other girl. Beatrice figures the only hope is that the other girl ages up to middle-girl status, like you guys, but then that would still leave the little girl alone upstairs for years still.

>What do you do? Do you want to know anything else of Beatrice, or have anything you think she should/would want to know?

>>606181
Because there are other students with inhuman ancestry? Smell is quite a basic sence if we got improved while still looking 100% human.

>>606191
>Who is my other roomate then? I thought it was the little girl.

>>606198
This

And

>Anything I could do to help?

>>606195
Also it was mentioned that she would drug us because we're new.

Why.
Just why.
No normal human with basic intelligence drugs someone because they're new.
Especially not at a magic school.
>>606195
But anon. They still don't know humans even know humans emit pheromones. How would they properly mask the scent? It'd be suspicious if they started smelling like magic potion.

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>>606200
>Why.
>Just why.
>No normal human with basic intelligence drugs someone because they're new.
>Especially not at a magic school.

MAGICAL SORORITY HAZING

>>606202
I would imagine that would cause many accidents.

Especially when some students have innate magic powers.

It would basically be begging to suddenly explode.

>>606200
It has happened in real life, it happens in real life and will happen in real life? Why? Why not?

Also they know about smell, smelling fear is quite an old saying.

>>606206
Begging. To. Explode.

Why would you harass a magic student.
There are so many inherent risks.
For no benefit.
At least with hazing in real life the victim can't cause you to combust spontaneously.

It's an accident waiting to happen.

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>>606203
>It would basically be begging to suddenly explode.

Oh let me tell you, something is begging to suddenly explode.

>>606198
You ask about the other roommate, she doesn't get at first who you mean, till you point to the other bed and realization hits her like a brick. Your other roommate is ___?, 20 and from the Selden Empire. She's foreign nobility and quite interesting, also the only other female student who has a magical ancestor. As if to answer your curiosity, Beatrice barely contains her hype in a half-shouted whisper attempt.

>"Fire elemental!"

If she is foreign then that would explain the very different look of her personal things. You wonder if she dresses the same way? The little girl, Beatrice informs you, lives upstairs for the youngest girls. The house is roughly broken down that way, top floor is the youngest girls, second floor is middle-girls (you guys), bottom floor is eldest girls and the headmistress.

>>606199
She assumes you mean about the little girl when asking about help, but visibly sadly informs you that no, the other girl is nobility while the little girl is not. She's also quite good about hiding her cruelty from the headmistress.

>>606211
And bulling still exists despite school shootings becoming more and more common.

Humans are not logical and rational beings, specially at school.

>>606214
When can we not assume every person we meet for the first time has it out for us.

Cause we've been doing that every thread.

>>606220
Sometimes we were right. Plus since the middle ages has no therapy. Maggie is undertandably traumatised.

>>606229
>Maggie is undertandably traumatised.

That is is the understatement of the whole quest.

>>606229
>Sometimes
Who?
I don't remember being drugged and kidnapped by anyone.

>>606237
Kobolds tricked us. Our former master wanted to sell us as a slave.

Ok so I'm headed off for now, will continue tomorrow though it might be a bit later than usual.

If at any time till then someone wants to take the reigns (as before) and either control some other character for the players to play, or fanfic it up, feel free to do so. As usual if it's good, there will be a reward for it.

>>606261
Well, not enough time has passed to write about the shadow creature and Maggie not girlfriend again. Maybe after the time skip.

>>604656
Dammit
You really should get a twitter

>>606253
>Former master
She hated us why are you surprised? But random people hate us less so.

>Kobolds
That isn't surprising. They're kobolds.

>>606744
We already been warned of two bitches in school, the one that tortures the young girl and the Tabasco or whatever is called guy.

>>606261
Time to post what's going on with our lewd mistress

>>607141
do it faget

>>606703
Sorry, I've never used twitter so I wouldn't know how to do it for just a quest or something like that?

>>607014
>Tarasque
He doesn't seem to have a bad rep outside being boastful.

I desire to make him into our magic rival.

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>>607949
Or maybe, our future bf/husband

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>>607993
No.

>>608010
Or our new BFF

>>606212


You feel a sudden urge to turn tricks and freebase the product of south american shrubbery.

If dubs the baby is black.

>>608165
Being completely honest, if you wanted to cause the most damage to the setting, you'd just have as many kids as possible all over the place. More potential dragons out there, to cause potential havoc.

---

Anyway, I'm back if anyone cares to continue. Different device though.

>>608219
Let's try to talk to fire elemental noble lady.

I'll call her Maeyal.

>>608238
Well she's not there right now, but you imagine at some point she'll be if she's living with you. You could go looking for her or just wait.

>>606212
So continuing from here, what's your plan?

>>608268
Well let's continue talking o Bea.
Ask why she's so hyped about magic blood students.
Ask why she wants to know ours so bad.

>>608268
You got that list of un named places and people op?

>>608278
Well for now you keep it up with her since there's little else to do, and she's fun to talk to. You ask her why she's so interested in those with magic ancestry and why she wants to know yours. She responds that you should get used to it here, and if you think she's "hyped" then you should wait till you meet other students. For her personally at least though, she figures there's always at least an interesting story about someone with a non-human ancestor. Plus, people like you are so rare that it's hard to not be curious at least.

Awhile passes where you continue getting to know one another better, when eventually you sense someone approaching, followed by a knock at the doorway. You see an older girl in quite fancy looking clothes, looking to speak with Beatrice but happy to meet you and introducing herself as ___? and speaking very formally. It's hard not to be impressed with her presentation, and you'd feel safe in assuming she was nobility. Almese at that, unless she learned the language perfectly.

You figure to give Beatrice some space to talk to the other girl, maybe get back to organizing your space now that you're settled in.

>What do you do?

>>608338
It's suposed to be the pastebin, I'll try to update it with the more prominent people and places which need naming,

>>608374
Start getting our stuff together.
Wait until they're done chatting.
Introduce ourselves to (Eliza)
Tell Beatrice she can know our ancestry but she must keep it secret. And play for it.

20 questions in the 1500s

>>608384
Well while they're talking, you notice Maeyal to come into the room, confirmed when Beatrice and Eliza acknowledge her. She lives up to the reputation she was given though, dark skin and darker hair, and a very different style of clothing accompanying what you can see of her uniform underneath. She notices you to your side, but assumes your busy you suppose, since she goes to her own space laying out some books beside the various adornments on her table.

Want to do anything different, or keep to the plan of >>608384

>>608437
Yes.
Invite them all to play.
Then we can girl talk and bond after we finish playing.

>>608437
Question OP
If we go full dragon and have children with a human will they be half or quarter dragon.

Am I right in thinking half?

>>608446
Taking the chance with several of them there, it takes a little courage but you speak up, aiming at Beatrice but intending for the other two to hear. You say you'll let her know your heritage if she can figure it out with a guessing game. She very flatly responds that she already knows, but Eliza is quite taken with the idea and Maeyal is clearly interested so Beatrice suggests for them to play, she'll get a kick out of it.

In a sort of rough similarity to 20 questions or so, they make it to about 15 before they figure it out. They are both amazed and clearly want to know more, but Beatrice butts in and wants to use the remaining 5 questions to ask about your conception and the details of it. Eliza is clearly embarassed and tells Beatrice to stop, but only half-heartedly and clearly interested as well while trying to remain polite. Maeyal meanwhile just has a knowing smile, and given her ancestry, she's more than familiar with strange relationships.

>What do you do?

If nothing else, you're now the center of attention and the other girls have gathered around you, either in chairs or on the beds. It's tough to be sure, you're quite shy yourself, but it brings back old feelings of having friends. Back when you were a maid, and all was well.

>>608475
If you fully become a dragon, then any children you have would be half-dragon, since by becoming a full dragon you would have basically destroyed the 50% of your human genome for it to be replaced with dragonic.

Though *any* children would be half-dragon, you're not limited to just humans. It's not like that's something Maggy would consider, but the caged dragon wasn't lying when she said she had a half-horse child.

>>608481
We will answer say one thing about our conception.

>My father was the dragon. Now enough about me
. I want to know more about all of you as well.

>>608547
Beatrice is obviously disappointed when you don't go into any detail, the others less obviously, but you turn the attention to them. Beatrice already talked about herself before, so prompts Maeyal to go first. It's difficult to understand her at first because of her accent, but after awhile you get used to it and have an easier time. From far to the southeast, she was able to come here after the alliance between Almace and the Selden Empire was formed for the war, her father thought it well for her to bridge the new friendly culture, and not such a bad idea that at least one of his daughters pursued the family heritage and took up magic. You ask out of curiosity for your own similarities, she says her grandmother is a fire elemental, and the fire burns bright in her family, though she herself displayed a knack for magic so stood out in that regard.

Eliza follows after, a noble girl from the northwest coast of Almace, Beatrice lets on that her family is old and respected, though not necessarily by fellow Almese. Eliza's interests are quite refined and much too high for the likes of you, but all very proper for a noble lady. Originally her family was against her education in such matters as magic, but after learning of the academy's original convent-style roots, organization and education, her father was more agreeable to the matter. Maeyal is a relatively newer attendee here, but Eliza and Beatrice have been students for a good few years now, though Eliza is among the older girls.

It's all well and good, but they want to know about your background now, more about you personally. Some of what you'd gone into with Beatrice before they arrived, they're curious about such things as your family, how you came to be here and in the royal sponsorship program, and of course your social life with a distinct interest in any possible men in your life thus far.

>What do you do?

>>608628
>My family
Peasantry actually.
>How I came to be here.
I own a couple of businesses. One being in silk. Due to previous circumstances I already knew I was half dragon and after hearing that a dragon was in the capital I had to go talk to her.
Social life.
No men. I've been so wrapped up in business and other affairs. Besides I have ambitious plans so I don't have time right now.

Also Maeyal has an affinity towards fire?
>My blood gives me a skill tool. I can make up spells by thinking what I want to happen.

>>608628
Tell them EVERYTHING, excluding Avor and Arachne but keep the silk business in and mention our pretend Bf

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>>608652
Anon I've been thinking.

Fuck guns.

Go with arrows of light.
>Pic related

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>>608665
But anon, can we do that? Without the risk of, you know, passing out/convulsing mid battle?

>>608652
>>608651
You tell your story and situation to them, which as nobles they find quaint and facinating. Particularly Maeyal who has lots of questions, you assume peasantry fares differently where she's from. You do leave out some details like Avor and Arachne, but they can't get over how strange and amazing it is for a young woman to have her own business. Maeyal is impressed by the novelty of that, Eliza is impressed by the silk. When you talk about the merchant's son you're using as a male guardian, that just further impresses them, and they think you to be quite the renegade with working around the system and breaking through traditions.

You also bring up your magic weaving ability in relation to Maeyal and her heritage, and their interests turns academic. They want to see an example of you performing this kind of feat, since no one else in the academy can do such a thing.

>What do you do?

>>608679
That's why we prepare the spell before hand.

Who would fight one with Arrows of light and utter magical devastation. Besides dragons and the bravest warriors.

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>608690
Can we do this>>608665
Make a bow of gold that shoots arrows of light when we summon it? And then disappears after?


If so rolling.

>>608679
You roll too.


This'll be glorious.

>>608711
If you want to try to spell weave that, sure. Though you personally don't have any experience with using a bow, so you can create it and arrows but won't be able to use it.

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>608711
Rolling

>>608718
Yes.
We can train with it.

>>608711
Roll once more Anon, we have one more chance

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>608729
Ok.
>>608718
I'm too eager with rolls.

>>608711
>>608732
Would you look at that

>>608734
I think we succeeded.

I hope the bow shines bright.
And the arrows brighter.

>>608729
No double rolling!

>43

Taking a deep breath you clear your mind and concentrate. What to do, what to make? You recall the time your father took you and a brother hunting, and how the old bow broke at the crucial moment. If only he had something better...

You hear the other girls gasping, as you open your eyes and see in your hand the faint makings of a glowing bow, whisked from the aether. Your other hand similarly, holds an arrow to match. The girls marvel at it, Eliza in particular claps while Maeyal asks what you're going to do with it now?

>What do you do?

Note that because you spell weaved, you ran the risk of mutating, however the result of 43 was under 50, which is the threshold for mutating, so you're safe. The downside of course is the spell is decent, but not as good as it could be.

>>608734
We should say something after we succeed.

>With this power it isn't about skill. It's just you and the magic. And you telling it what you want it to do. And the magic obeying.

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>608752
Unmake the bow.

>I can do better.

Put more power into it.
Make it better.
This is the light. Do it justice.
Use our power to weave it better.
>>608734
Max power anon bring the good rolls.

>>608756
ULTIMATE MOVE CREATED.
DIVINE BOW ACHIEVED.

We have our special move.

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>>608756
Bruh

Dats bad right?

>>608762
It's bad and good.

But who cares we've made a legendary spell.

Now we have a Uber bow at our Beck and call.

>>608762
This proves one thing though.
Dice God has a sense of timing
.

>>608753
You tell them this, how you believe the magic weaving works, or at least how it's seemed to have worked for you. They're sufficiently impressed and Maeyal tries to touch it even, but you tell them this is nothing.

>>608756
>99

Opening your hands and letting the bow and arrow dissipate to nothing, you begin the process anew, and on top of just imagining the process you actually attempt to channel your magic into the spell.

It stats out the same at first, as you feel the aether take shape in your hands, take form. You start to feel something you didn't before though, heat and weight. You think it to be a good sign at first, as the bow and arrow expand and take on a more solid form, the other girls amazed and cheering you on. The heat and weight starts to increase though without your will for it to do so, as it starts to burn and grow beyond a useable size. It's becoming difficult to control you realize, and start to smell worry among the other girls as you attempt to bring the expansion to a halt. Finally when they start moving back out of necessity and asking if you're alright out of fear, you attempt to cancel the spell altogether. The result is catastrophic and comes without warning as the bow and arrow expands to a massive size and a blinding light fills the room, accompanied by a faint but definite sound of beautiful harmony. You feel yourself burned away against the splendor of the weapon as everything turns to gold, and the last thing you remember hearing are screams.

>...

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>>608795
Oops.

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>>608795
We went too hard too fast

Shiiieeet

>>608795
>>608808
I hope we didn't go full dragon.

But then again I didn't roll a 100.

>>608795
You awaken an uknown amount of time later to a ringing in your ears, the sounds of talking, of furniture moving, of utensils and dishware clinking, chewing? eating?, laughter and whispers. Scraping above, above the ceiling, but below the floor? A rat? Something else.

You yelp in terror when Maeyal shouts loudly in your ear, and you jolt up looking around. She's sitting with you but she wasn't nearly close enough to speak anywhere near your ears. She places her hands on you and tries to calm you down, and her tone and words sound soothing but the volume is painfully loud as you draw your hands to your ears wincing from it.

Through all the barrage of noise, you might be shouting yourself as you ask her not to talk so loudly. She doesn't seem to understand, but when next she speaks it sounds like loud talking, at least not painful so that you can lower your hands. From her tone though and the way she's speaking, you think she's whispering to you, asking you if you're alright and that you should stay in bed but she brought you food. Everyone else is downstairs having dinner, while the headmistress had been waiting for you to wake up but currently has ducked out for a moment.

To follow up, she tries to get you to lay down, and picks up a bowl on the table besides, in an attempt to feed you as she keeps "whispering" and saying it's alright and for you to relax.

>What do you do?

>>608831
>What just happened?
>How long have I been out?
>Check ourselves for any new mutations.

Also Holy fucking shit we're alive!
And everyone else is too!

>>608831
Well shit, this new mutation is inconvenient

Can we try tu suppress it in any way?

>>608843
Oh wait we have super hearing?

>Try to dull it. Block it out.

Also OP what happened to our spell?
And can we summon it again without losing consciousness or mutating?

We do know the spell already.

>>608849
>Try to dull it.

How?

As for the spell, do you try and perform it again? That's how you would know.

>>608838
You ask Maeyal what happened, she tells you after you conjured up the bow and arrow it grew too big for you till it exploded like a sunrise in the room. There wasn't any physical damage and she and the other girls weren't hurt (apart from having trouble seeing for a little while after) but you collapsed in a severe seizure before losing conciousness. Since then you've been asleep for about six hours, where it's now dinnertime for everyone.

As for any new mutations, you're pretty sure you know what the new mutation is, without needing to ask her. You ask for a little help, for her to try talking progressively louder, but not much more than a whisper and it's past the level of comfort. She apologizes and sets the bowl down on the table, the sound of which is so loud it makes you jump, and you return your hands to your ears.

>What do you do?

>>608893
Do what they do in the movies.
>Close your eyes
>Focus on the sounds
>Imagine them getting quieter and quieter
(I'll roll for this if I need to)
Then
>Eat food


We need to go visit the dragon lady.

>>608906
Supporting

>>608906
This ain't the movies son! You try that, but it doesn't get any better. In fact, trying to focus on the sounds just makes them worse, not better. For now, you settle with keeping your hands close to your ears in case you need to cover them, and let Maeyal go ahead and feed you. She tries to hold a quiet, easy conversation while doing so, to which you don't need to respond but it's her way to help you relax and keep the mood easy. Awhile into this though and the headmistress returns, entering the room in a hurry and causing a painful situation for you where Maeyal has to explain to her the problem with your hearing.

Eventually she comes to understand, and finally sitting beside you and allowing Maeyal to go (she says goodbye and wishes for your good health), she wants to know what happened, and if you'd care to let her check you over.

>What do you do?

>>608928
>I thought about having a bow and thought about it a bit too hard so the talent for my dragon blood turned on and just over did it. I seem to have a knack for making powerful spells at will.

>Also my hearing is acting up real ba because of the blood. There's a dragon lady in the capital that I think can help. Can I go visit her?

>>608928
>>608938

This and ask if there's any kind of spell that can help us with our hearing

>>608943
So anon how stronk do you think divine bow is?
I'm betting the boom would be really nice.

>>608957
Hard to say Anon, we need test it when we get a chance

I'd say pretty fookin powerful since it's made of Magick

>>608960
Though really a 99 on making our own personal magic weapon.

Dice God has chosen our weapon specialty.
We've literally made a weapon that no other mortal can match.

Only gods beat this out.
We need to head to that church and try to talk to them.

>>608938
To talk to her about what happened, all the while she's empathetic and understanding. Eventually though when she starts to piece together the event, she says you shouldn't have done what you did, you especially. She understands if you're still getting used to your magic, but for people with magical heritage it can be unpredictable and dangerous. That's one of the reasons you came here, to train and understand your magic, not show it off and cause risks.

Fortunately no one was hurt and there wasn't any damage, and she covered for you with the overseers, so you don't have to worry about repercussions. She does stress though that you not try to perform magic in the house again till you've been through the basic evaluation courses, and even after then, as a personal favor she asks that you keep it outside.

When you mention the problem with your hearing, she says she can probably get that taken care of, and will do so once you no longer need her here. You also bring up the dragon and wanting to visit her. She pauses to think for awhile, and says it's unorthodox, but given the circumstances and your health mishap, it would be permissible to miss your day of classes tomorrow if you think it would help going elsewhere.

>What do you do?

>>608965
It was a 99 when you're barely a dragon at all. It's powerful no doubt, but it's not some godly powerful force of destruction. You also don't know how to use the thing.

>>608966
Lets go right now if we can, we cant start classes by not going the first day

>>608972
It's fully night time now, you're going to have to make a very strong case to even be let out, let alone the fact that the menagerie where the dragon is, is closed this late.

>>608976
Fine then let's go to sleep.

But first ask if we visit the dragon does that mean we can't attend class for the whole day. Since we missed some of it.

>>608976
Lets sleep then

>>608993
I'm imagining what the bow looks like now.

Bright as fuck.
Solid gold look.
Looks like it kinda on fire with white flames.

I'm fine with it not being overpowered.
But it'll be nice if it looks cool.

>>608988
You didn't miss anything yet. If you want though you can go through class, and see the dragon once you let out. Whatever you please, based on how urgent this is to you.

Whatever the case, you stay to finish your food, and eventually Beatrice and Maeyal come back to check on you, with some of the other girls (including ones you haven't met yet) looking in from time to time. Maeyal herself makes a special tea for you from her home country that's supposed to make you feel better, and Beatrice offers you can sleep with her tonight if you're still under the weather.

Eventually not long before it's lights out for your floor, the headmistress returns bearing a woolen cap which she says has been prepared to eliminate noise. You'll have to alternate using it though if you want to hear anything since it outright silences any external sounds. It shouldn't be too hard though, since it's large enough that normally it covers your ears, and you can roll up the sides if you need to hear something.

>What do you do?

>>609007
>Put on the cap and get some sleep.
Big day tomorrow.
Attend magic classes and then visit her again.

>>609007
Make two very small holes on the sides so we can hear a lil bit

>>609029
No.
This is magic shit.
It might break the entire thing.

>>609010
With help of the cap, you try to get some sleep. You have a hard time of it though, with strange, vivid dreams.

---

The next morning you're awoken by Maeyal who brings you breakfast in bed, and says she'll be accompanying you through your classes for the day. You question her own case in the matter, but she says the headmistress gave her the permission to take a makeup day of classes on the weekend.

Besides eating and getting dressed, is there anything else you want to see to? Maeyal has already eaten but is waiting for you to dress so that she will too. She does inform you the headmistress is downstairs with the other girls who haven't yet left for class, and she's waiting for you to help you along with your schedule at first, whereafter Maeyal will help the rest of the day.

>What do you do?

>>609040
>Tell Maeyal we are heading out somewhere later and ask if she wants to come with

>Then get ready and meet up with headmistress.

>>609029
Shortly after waking up you try to do this, but it doesn't work, just poking holes in it is the same as not having it cover your ears. So you have to shift the cap around in order to get the proper cover again.

>>609042
She says she's fine with that, since she's got the day off. You can tell she's curious what you have in mind, but doesn't pry. She just lets you know she has a personal bodyguard staying in the city as a male guardian.

Otherwise you get dressed together, she offers you some perfume which she uses herself, after which you go downstairs together. The headmistress is busy speaking with a maid when you get down there, though she's glad to see you and thanks Maeyal for her volunteered help, and she asks you how the cap worked?

She goes over your schedule for the day, explaining it along to Maeyal as well so she knows where to take you. As she escorts the two of you across the grounds, this is your chance to ask any other questions?

>>609077
No we've asked the all the questions we've needed.

Let the classes begin.

>>609079
Very well, she escorts you two into and through the main building, to relatively small room with enough chairs and small tables for about twenty, with a main podium and a board. The teacher is already there and speaks with the headmistress where things are cleared up with Maeyal before she leaves the two of you. The teacher, ___? welcomes you both to his class and the academy. He's the reading and writing instructor for the lower grades though he supposes he may not be your teacher for long depending on how well your skills are on the matter.

After being shown your seat and desk, within the next ten minutes or so, the little girl from yesterday hurries into the room, only to nearly fall over herself in fear when the teacher greets her and asks how she's doing. Not long after that and an older girl but still a few years younger than you (you'd guess) enters, looking like she owns the place. The teacher very humbly greets her and similarly asks how she's doing, and follows after her and keeps his attention to her till she takes her seat. One thing you notice though, when she enters, the little girl becomes anxious and you can sense the fear on her that she tries to keep hidden. Otherwise though the teacher asks everyone to be seated for class to begin, before asking if you wouldn't mind introducing yourself and giving a recital of your language skills, anything you can think of or know.

>What do you do?

>>609096
>Introduce ourselves. Be polite.

>Tell them our language skills
Basically we can read and write.
Though it's not advanced.

>>609099
You can do that but the teacher wants a recital, as in for you to recite something you know from memory. He's hoping for some sort of literary passage or poem, but it could be anything you want, your choice.

>>609108
Start reciting passages from the basic magic books we read.

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>>609114
Your most recent thorough reading, your magic books spring to memory. You are able to recite them quite well, and the teacher thanks you after a few passages, but he says he would have preferred something less academic and more artistic, since this isn't a magic studies class but a basic reading and writing class.

At any rate though you follow along through the class decently well. You've never been formally taught in such a way before, but the teacher tries to make it easy for you to take to. A few times though you notice the older of the two young girls audibly express disdain for having to be held up, which the teacher apologizes for.

Over and hour of this and the class concludes, whereafter you're given some personal time, like say if you have to use the restroom, and during which time the teacher takes his leave to be replaced after some ten-odd minutes by the next teacher. Maeyal informs you that's the basic teaching method, you have a group you're assigned to based on your competency, and your group has a room through which the teachers cycle. Only later will you have to cycle to a new room with the other girls, for actual magic teaching.

The next course is math and numbers study, the new teacher acknowledging you but not taking the time aside to otherwise get to know you or determine your competency.

>What do you want to do?

You've got another two classes after this before the mid day break, after which actual magic classes begin. Unless you have anything particular in mind, you can progress through your morning classes without issue. It's only your first day, after all.

>>609137
Then progress through them.
Let's get our basic studies done.

>>609139
You continue through your standard education classes fairly well, by the the end of the second class you're getting used to the student learning format, always with help from Maeyal if you need it. Your last teacher, for histories studies, informs you that you'll probably be going through a week of this while he and the other teachers figure out your personal competency, after which you be administered an exam, which will all determine if you are properly placed (currently with the lowest grade of the girls). Some of the material is hard, some of it easy, so you're not sure how you feel about your competency overall.

The midday break arrives, as the other two girls leave one after the other (the youngest one running out the first chance she gets), and Maeyal asking how you feel about things so far, and if there's anything in particular you want to do for the break. Otherwise she can just lead the way and go about her usual, till classes resume.

>What do you do?

>>609149
Let's tail the poor little girl and just keep an eye on her till break ends.

>>609155
This and try to get her to trust us

>>609155
Only question, do you take Maeyal with you during this effort?

>>609159
Yes.
Back up us good

It takes you a little while, mainly because you would have thought her somewhere inside the main building, but eventually you track the little girl with your smell to a little area behind the groundskeeper's house, between it and the outer wall of the academy. In trying to sneak up on her you can't get a good sense of what she's up to, but you can hear her talking to herself in different voices as if she's different people, and by a quick glance she looks to be kneeling on the ground. Overall it's a small space though, probably where a wheelbarrow might be shoved normally, but no one would ever come back here otherwise.

>What do you do?

Maeyal waits for your lead since you were the one that lead all the way over here.

>>609171
Try to dragon sense what's she's doing

>>609171
>Have Maeyal move to help us block off her escape.

>Say greet the child.

>>609173
What you know of her *was* using your dragon sense, Maeyal has no idea otherwise and you had to tell her what you found out.

>>609176
You have her move with you to prevent any escape, and together sneak around to the path leading down the side between the house and the outer wall. When you announce yourself and say hi, the girl jumps in place and gives a short cry of panic, completely caught off guard and obviously scared. Her eyes dart around looking for a way out, till finally she clamors into the crawl space under the groundskeeper's house. Thinking you lost her you rush over to look down, but see it there isn't enough room really for her to go anywhere. You see and smell her scared though, crouched up and shaking, tears in her eyes clear to see as she's clutching a pair of crude, handmade dolls. You figure that's who she was talking to herself as at least.

Maeyal joins you in lowering down to see the girl, and makes sense of the situation as you do, trying to ease her fear speaing softly and reaching slowly for her to come out but the girl withdraws more and tries to hide dolls behind her.

>What do you do?

>>609187
>Hi my name is Magdalena.
>What's your name?
>I'm sorry if I frightened you but are you okay?

>>609187
>i had a few dolls like those when i was younger, don't be afraid (forgot her name) we're not here to hurt you

I gotta go OP, cya

>>609195
I'm going to call her Lisbeth.

>>609195
She never got a name actually, if I'm not mistaken.

>>609193
You introduce yourself to her, and Maeyal is familiar with her, and she eventually responds by shakily telling you her name, Lisbeth. When you ask if she's alright though she says she's fine and pleads for you not to tell anyone about her or her friends and their hiding space here. You don't detect that she's lying, but she's in distress and obviously wants to flee if she could.

Maeyal says this isn't right, and one of you should fetch the headmistress, but she overhears and starts crying, begging you not to do so.

>What do you do?

>>609205
>Let's not Maeyal. Unless we can deal with this decisively we could make it worse.

>Don't worry Lisbeth I won't tell
>Those are your friends? Can I be your friend too?

I think I'll sleep after I resolve this shit with Lisbeth.

>>609205
>da fuck Medal? There's no need for that.

Hang around with her until our break is up

>>609210
>Medal

Maeyal*

Speedruning DaS3 while participating in a quest while needing sleep does things to a man

>>609210
You can't fault her too much, she's nobility so probably isn't used to seeing human trauma like this. As a peasant you're more used to this sort of thing and know better how to deal with and comfort the child.

>>609209
You decide that it would be best for you to try and deal with this situation yourself, in case the girl's worries actually are grounded.

You let her know that you're not going to tell anyone, and Maeyal apologizes to her for bringing it up and also promises not to tell anyone. You also offer Lisbeth to be her friend, and you detect a moment of hope, before giving way to doubt as she says she has a friend, her roommate. She stops trying to get away from you, but still remains suspicious you can tell. It might take some special convincing to get her to come out, or you could just try going in after her.

>What do you do?

>>609217
>Ah yes...friend...
>Be honest to me Lisbeth because I can tell when people lie.
>You don't like her do you?
>I'm not a noble either. And I've had really bad experiences with them too so I know how you feel.
>We can talk about it alone later if you'd like.

>>609224
You tell her you know when people are lying, which you detect a hint of fear on her from hearing this. Maeyal obviously doesn't believe it and just thinks you're trying to talk out of the hole. Lisbeth hesitates for awhile though before answering, having taken the time to prepare and convince herself of her answer, when she says that her friend, the other girl, is her best friend and she likes her the most in the world. It stands out when she says it though because it's said with utter conviction unlike her shaky crying so far, and also it sounds to you like it was rehearsed, or drilled into her to repeat.

She does noticeably ease up though when you tell her you're not a noble, probably confirming her beliefs. Maeyal nudges you half jokingly, half indignant when you bring up noble mistreatment though, but doesn't say anything about it. Lisbeth though says she could talk about it with you if it was secret, in a secret place and you promised to God you wouldn't tell anyone, not even him. While saying this you notice she inches a little closer to you, or at least inches farther out of the crawl space.

>What do you do?

>>609230
>I promise. It's just between you and me. No one.

>>609230
>No one
I meant
>No one else.
Add in a.
>If you ever need my help you can ask. I'll do my utmost.
This girl has been somewhat damaged.

I'll be heading off not much longer after this, but as usual will continue tomorrow.

>>609238
Well at that point it's your choice if you want to tell her when you have time to do so. You could do it now but you'd have to tell Maeyal to piss off more or less.

>>609240
>Sorry Maeyal she doesn't want to speak around nobility. Can we have a second?

Ok OP I'll be sleeping in a bit anyways.

>>609245
You talk with Maeyal who understands, but takes a little offense to it. She says don't go telling her to leave so you can replace her with Lisbeth, said with a chuckle. Before leaving, she lets you know she'll be over by the flower beds nearby.

Once she leaves, with some more talking you finally convince Lisbeth to crawl out from the under the cottage, and sit beside you on the ground. She's noticeably eased up, but still doesn't seem comfortable with you, never making eye contact which was the case before but now is more noticeable since you're trying to have a conversation. A quiet one, she holds the dolls close and scratches at the ground with a stick for awhile, before asking like the first time you met, if you have magic blood.

>What do you do?

>>609249
>Yes
>It seems one of my parents might have been a dragon.

>>609251
You let her know the truth which scares her and she asks if you're a dragon then? She also asks if you're feeling better, and wonders if that's what happened yesterday, when they said you got sick from doing magic, maybe because you're a dragon? She visited you while you were asleep yesterday to leave something under your pillow, and said some prayers by your side and kissed you in the hope that you would get better for it. If you're not feeling better though she offers you one of her dolls and says he always makes her feel better, abruptly cutting herself off before she can say what the doll makes her feel better from.

>What do you do?

If you want you can ask questions of her as well, unfortunately if you let her go at her own pace, the midday break will probably end without much getting said.

>>609256
>If we're a dragon.
We're not a dragon. We can become one. But we aren't one yet.
>Got sick from doing magic
That means I become slightly more draconic. That's why I can tell when you lie. It's the senses of a dragon.
>Ask her about her troubles and if she has any problems with some of the people here.


I'm going to sleep now.
G'night.
>Ask her about her troubles.

>>609261
This and focus on her troubles

>>609399
>STOP MAKING UP SPELLS FOR STUPID REASONS!

Really how many times I have to vote for this? Impresing a brunch of brats is NOT A LIFE OR DEAD SITUATION!

>>609475
Wut?

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>609475
Yes

>Really think that if you atart to mutate before you get enough power, influence and a nobility tittle, your life will be ruined.
>You came to the magic school to LEARN MAGIC, If you are going to act like an idiot and keep making up spells, why are you in the magic school?

>>609475
>>609479

>If we are going to mutate on purpose, let's at the very least get a minor nobility tittle first. Otherwise don't use magic weaving unless is a life or death situation. We honestly don't want to end in a cage, do we?

>>609476

We formely agreeged to only use magic weaving in death or life situations. Of course using it to just impress a bunch of brats was gonna get anons salty.

And we really should get enough power and influence first.

Buy a minor nobility tittle at the very least if you are so gun ho about mutations.

>>609261
You tell her you aren't a dragon in disguise, though that one day you could become one if you wanted to. She says she hopes you don't because you're very pretty and dragons aren't pretty. You're not sure about being pretty, but you do agree that dragons definitely aren't. When you tell her it had to do with you getting sick, being part a dragon but that's why you can tell when people lie, she apologizes for lying and hopes that neither you nor God are angry at her for it.

Trying to talk to her better now that she's more open with you, she's hesitant to say fully but she says she's back here because some of the boys picked on her and threw dirt at her which got her uniform dirty and in trouble with the headmistress. Another more recent problem is that a gate guard yelled at her for trying to take care of a cat that got in over the wall, before he picked it up and threw it out. She knows the cat comes back but she's too scared to try to take care of it again in case someone hurts it. She also hesitantly brings up her roommate being mean to her but only if they're together, so she acts as if it's not a problem by her keeping away from her roommate as much as possible.

Trying to change the subject, she asks if you have any problems and wants to know how you deal with them.

>What do you do?

>>609475
It's too late Bokan. It was always too late.

Perhaps they'll be singing a different tune when Maggy sprouts horns.

>>609773
Tell her about our Mistress and how we've made it out of that situation

>>609773
Offer to take care of the cat.

>>609773
Do this stuff.>>610122
>>610202

>>610122
You tell how you know her feelings and that you suffered similarly under someone like her roommate. She doesn't seem to believe you at first, but undoing your uniform a bit you show her your back and all the scars, which scares her but also makes her believe you fully now, and trust you. She says though that you were able to run away when things got bad for you, here she can't run away. She also rolls up her sleeves to show you some scars of her own, and says she can't show you the rest without taking her clothes off.

>>610202
This makes her happy, and though she doesn't know where the cat is now, she tells you what it looks like and how to get it to come to you, as well as if she sees if she'll tell you.

>What do you want to do?

It's been awhile, and you hear Maeyal calling, saying the'll be ringing the bell for the end of the break in some ten-odd minutes. Lisbeth hears this and worries about the state of her dress, having dirtied it while crawling under the house.

>>610557
OP we have any basic utility spells for removing dirt?

That seems like something a wizard would make in their free time.

>>610564
Yeah that's not a problem at all, basic utility spells are among the first spells you learned well, and by now have mastered.

>>610578
Ok then
>Ok then we have class to attend to but I'm heading out after classes if you want to come along.

>But firstly let's clean you up.
>Cast DirtBGone™

>>610564
>>610578

I should say though that because of your magic, you still need to roll for it. As long as you don't get a 1 or 100 you're fine.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>610589
Rolling for dirt extermination.

>Inb4 Nat 1

>>610583
She says she would like to go along with you but the youngest grade girls aren't allowed to leave the walls without their personal male guardian, and she doesn't have one. She is happy with the dirt removal which you perform quite well, and she hugs and thanks you before hiding her dolls back under the house, probably to come back later when she has the chance.

For now you have to return to classes, which turns out to work well for the both of you since for now you're both in the same grade of magic learning. Maeyal when you rejoin her wants to know what happened with Lisbeth, but otherwise shows you along to the next class.

>Anything you want to do before or till then?

>>610640
>Oh me and Lisbeth just had a nice talk. Anyways let's get to class.

Time to continue classes!

>>610656
You wave it off innocently enough.

The room Maeyal leads you to is different from your usual studies one, and is quite a bit bigger and furnished differently. It still has chairs and desks but they're facing the two longest opposing walls, so that there's a lot of open space in the middle of the classroom. You also notice here and there, signs of magic that was performed (or accidents) and weren't able to be properly cleaned away, like the sooty look of some sort of blast on the ceiling, and some of the wall molding elsewhere broken away.

You don't have the chance to really look around at your leisure though since the place is quite populated with adults, teachers Maeyal informs you. When you enter, a silence takes over and all eyes quickly turn to you, as you try not to look too self-concious. Out of the lot, an older woman approaches and greets you warmly, letting you know she's your teacher for the class and that you're free to take a space wherever you want, they'll be beginning shortly when the other girls arrive.

>What do you do?

Depending on where you go, the onlookers will part to make room for you.