>A link to the previous thread as well;

>>635583

>>667406
Whoops, didn't take out the previous edition text. Oh well. Anyway

>Last 'twas left off

Magdalena (you!) had taken some time off from school to travel back to Rea, a coastal town in the south of the country. This time around you hired a carriage for that purpose, and brought along two friends.

Unfortunately along the way, your carriage was stopped and you all were accosted by a highwayman, who shot you when you made a fast move. Luckily the shot wasn't lethal, though your arm was broken by it, a nasty injury for sure.

>Currently you've stopped in a town for a day and a night to have your arm seen to, and plan to continue the journey tomorrow. Anything you want to take care of till then?

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>>667415
Can't wait for more tales of a commoner dragon.

>>667423
>Commoner Dragon

Hey that's a pretty good new name, I like that if we don't decide on anything else.

>>667425
Why don't we scout around town for a violin.

We must learn to play.

>>667433
Violins don't really exist at this time. Only in a very rudimentary form, and for the most privileged. There are other more common instruments though.

More importantly how do you plan on playing any instrument with a broken arm?

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>667433000
Do we have to roll for this?

>>667439
We don't have to play it yet.
We can wait.

What about a lute?

>>667441
>>667433
Fucked up my quote

>>667444
A lute is very possible. Another and current most popular instrument around is the hurdy gurdy.

There's other instruments too, some exotic ones have been coming from the east now with the alliance to the Selden Empire. Your choice though, but you might not find more exotic instruments in this town. Rea would be the place for that.

You can still roll to look though, and specify what you're after.

>>667457
Get the lute.You can't go wrong with a classic.

>>667464
A lute you can find, but roll if you like to determine the quality of it.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>667490
Rolling for lute quality.

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>667490

>>667527
>55

Well you find a decent enough instrument, a little used but it won't break or anything and you think it sounds good.

So what's next on your list? It's about evening time in town, and you plan to leave tomorrow morning.

>>667532
Lets find a place to rest at, if Tora isn't allowed into the town let's camp with her

>>667532
Buy a cloak.
A full body one.
So we can hide ourselves if we ever start having visible mutations.

>>667546
You can get a pretty simple traveler's cloak for now. The highwayman's outfit had sort of a half cloak though, mantle sort of thing that gave a good impression. With a hood and dress, unless your size changed a lot, you could hide in plain sight pretty well.

>>667541
You can camp with Tora if you want, though you'll want some proper bedding with you for your arm, otherwise it'll be in a worse condition.

If you want to camp with her, any interest in interacting with her?

>>667557
Ask her more about wild magic.

>>667564
While the sun sets you sit with her, it's a little gross since she's actually eating the dead highwayman, currently crunching on a cooked leg. You cover your nose but it doesn't help much with your advanced smell.

While talking to her you ask her about the magic she knows, she says there's not all that much to say really. It's basic tribal belief in its simplest form, tied in part to old, forgotten gods. It's more based on faith and practice than actual magic skill or power, so as long as you follow the right steps and perform it in the right way, pretty much anyone can do it.

For her at least, she doesn't take it that seriously and simply uses it as a means to make money. Some people are superstitious, and other with money (like you saw) find it curious and interesting, so she goes around getting work where she can, and getting paid to dance around under a full moon here, commune with a tree spirit there. She's heard tell of folks in the deep forests of the world still living by the old ways, maybe hoping to contact their old gods and wielding some real power, but for her it's just a trick she can do, and a money maker.

She is a little curious about you though, and what you hope she can do for you. She won't argue with the pay, but if you want someone to beat people to death with, there's certainly folks better suited than her. Even a male minotaur would do better for that.

>>667588
>Well inevitably I'm not going to be able to hire human guards that will be comfortable around me and I don't know any male minotaurs.

>>667602
She doesn't know what you mean or why you'd have trouble with people being around you, but if you want stronger folks than her, try going outside the cities sometime. Alternatively she could find other minotaurs, male ones at least, though then you'd run the risk of inciting a herd.

Otherwise she offers if you want some of the highwayman to eat. Beyond that, unless you had anything else for her or to ask, you can turn in for the night.

>>667633
>Inciting a herd.
So we can just assemble a legion of minotaurs?
Cool.
Anyways let's turn down the highwayman and turn in for the night.

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>>667633
>Inciting a Herd

>>667639
Sort of. She could probably attract a few males, then other females would follow, and so on and so on. Before long other sorts would gather for mutual benefit, and not just beastlings either. However any of that is strictly outlawed in Almace, and other places too.

Anyway though you can turn in for the night sure. You do have a fitful sleep though because of your arm.

---

Morning next, you continue on with the trip via carriage, and try to rest as best you can, Aea helping out as she does. Along the way though you encounter another carriage which had been run off the road and is all smashed up. The nobleman there and his wife say the driving attachments for the horses snapped at a bit of rough road, the driver was flung and the horses bolted. If you can give them a ride though they'd be most appreciative. Tora worries them, but otherwise they're in kind of a pickle.

>What do you want to do?

>>667664
>Let them on.
Having a noble owe you a favor is always good.

>>667668
I was thinking of asking for payment but this works

>>667668
You let them on, you've got room in the cab. They thank you dearly and say they'll make it up to you if you happen to be going to Rea.

>And with a 94 (from the previous thread, I think it was) you are!

Anything you care to ask them? You'll be reaching the next settlement before long anyway, a small city.

>>667687
Get to know them, try to befriend them talk about how they got here and so on

>>667687
>Ask them for their names and where they're from. And why they might be heading to Rea.

>>667694
They live in Rea, Lord and Lady ___?

They'd been visiting family in the Almese midlands for awhile but were headed home.

>>667693
They're friendly enough, and meeting in this way they don't mind the class difference. Aea in particular they find quite entertaining. From what you learn, they have a landed estate some distance outside Rea, and the Lord owns a fairly profitable business of storage houses at the port, giving traders and the like places to store goods, and the authorities an easy way to make sure everything follows the laws. Some recent difficulty with the feitoria set up, but how can you compete with that?

The Lady asks you of your business to Rea, and the situation with the large beast on the roof? Surely if you're intending on going all the way with her, her husband can grant the beast permission to the city.

Aside of that you soon reach the city, a smaller one by comparison but decently populated and supplied. You'll be here for a few days, as the halfway point on the trip, so if there's anything you want to take care of or see about, you've got time.

Also because of the Lord, he's able to get the authorities to look past Tora's presence.

>>667715
>Business in Rea.
Business affairs and visiting a friend.
>The situation with the large beast on the roof.
We're acquaintances and I hired her. She is trustworthy so it's worth it.


Also how healed are we?
Let's try resting a bit to see if we heal up better.

>>667715
Find an inn to get some proper rest

>Business in Rea?
We're visiting Lady Astrea who happens to be our friend
>Beast on the roof
She's our Security(?)

>>667724
It'll probably take a couple weeks still, with Aea's help. She expects though in that time you'll be right as rain, rather than months after of the 16th century equivalent of physical therapy.

When you talk about Tora, they find it most curious, though they suppose you can't be too careful in this day and age, what with highwaymen about.

>>667725
You're able to find a decent inn, even if the Lord and Lady opt to stay with local nobility. Before they left though they were delighted to hear you're familiar with Lady Astrea, a dear young woman and such a lively addition to the court in Rea. Hopefully she will find a good man and share their happiness with all.

You can get a pair of rooms between you, Aea and the driver, though Tora won't fit inside well. She's fine sleeping in the stable though.

>So you've got three nights, two days if you had anything in mind. Otherwise you can just rest the full time and depart as you will.

>>667741
Damn.
Two weeks.

Things to do.

We should have Aea start teaching us about alchemy.
Or at least how it works.
We aren't doing anything right now.

>>667748
She's not a very good teacher since she wasn't traditionally trained herself. She figures you can try and learn by watching though.

She does point out though that alchemy is a dying art, nowadays the new study of chemistry is becoming the dominator of the field. Since your magic and your background won't help you be any better at either (besides having ingredients from yourself), and it'll be just like learning any other subject, just as time intensive, she says it's your choice to consider.

>>667779
Well let's grab our journal if we have it or buy a big one if we don't and start learning.

>>667781
You've always got your journal, just in case you mutate. You can start learning from her though sure, most obviously bone healing droughts which she makes for you. She says better to learn that though without any ingredients from you since they wouldn't work on you if that were the case. Do you want to keep to that for the time here?

>>667785
Yes.
Let's learn a bit of alchemy.

>>667788
Well it's a complicated process and for sure, Aea isn't a good teacher. But you sort of get the concept behind it at least, and it reminds you of the work your mother did. There doesn't seem to be nearly as much rhyme or reason, though Aea does tell you she works from experience and memory, and if she had a book or something like that it would make more sense for a novice.

---

Anyway, the few days pass and you resume the journey with Lord and Lady ___? to Rea. Things go by quite smoothly, until during the trip, you similarly encounter a roaming sheriff. WIth the presence of the Lord however, things go smoothly and after a simple search you're on your way.

After that there's one more town, one more day and night, but you eventually reach Rea, stopping off to drop the Lord and Lady at their estate to their immense thanks. They let you know you're welcome anytime, and if you need anything while in town just let them know,

Otherwise, back in Rea! The familiar sights and smells and sounds are an immense welcome to you, and while it was never your home, it came to feel like one to you after enough time and memories here.

>What do you want to do?

>>667801
Let's find our silken goods shop.
Maybe we can use our senses and word of mouth from others to find it.

>>667805
You try to locate your way around town for what you're looking for, not needing to worry about Tora thanks to the Lord (though she does garner attention), but no sign of hide nor hair of any such establishment as that which you seek.

You could try rolling to look for it, but it strikes you as strange that for the goods you're responsible for, it shouldn't be this hard to find.

>>667809
Check out the Marquis place.
Maybe they are there.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>667809
>Scared

>>667812
You make your way to the Marquis' palace (technically the crown's) though neither Tora nor Aea are allowed in. You're permitted entry though because they still sort of remember you as Astrea's servant.

A cursory walk around and asking the guards, and anyone you bump into, but no mention or knowledge of something like a silk store.

>>667814
>46

A couple of the guards do vaguely remember some talk about the Marquis having dealings with a kobold which was out of the ordinary, though it was of course through an intermediary. They never heard anything past that though.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>667820
Rolling to search Rea for our shop.

>>667822
Rea is a fairly big city, how do you intend on searching for it?

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>>667820
Plz no
Im scared

Lets find Astrea and ask her

>>667820
We should go talk to the Marquis.

>>667831
It'll take a day or two before you can see him, though you can wait if you like.

>>667835
Lets keep searching for our business while we wait

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>667835
Let's try talking to some more people and see if they know anything.

>>667824
Right Astrea, well she's easy enough to find, and positively ecstatic to see you. You told yourself it was going to be a normal meeting again, but her tears bring you to tears, and there's hugging and laughing by both. When she sees your arm though she won't have anything but to look after you herself, you'll get the best attention that can be afforded. In the meantime, she'll be looking after you herself.

She wants to know all about you and everything that's gone on since, as well as to tell her part, but you manage to ask her about the silk shop and she says she doesn't know anything of the sort. She does remember you talking about it, and in your letters, but she's unsure beyond that.

>>667841
>Been attending a magic school. Oh and we should probably have a serious talk. Can you keep a secret. From everyone? Your father included?

>>667840
Thank you for the good roll based dice god
>>667841
Tell her about the school, the Rea Girl situation and Lisbeth but leave Charles out

>>667843
She says that's incredible and knows you'll do wonderfully, expecting you to reach the highest magic position in Almace in no time!

When you ask about a serious talk though and secrets, she asks when has that ever been a concern between you two?

>>667844
She's glad to hear about Rea girl, some people were worried about her, but now that she's back Astrea will try to get her her job back. As for Lisbeth, she laments that terrible situation, and says if you need it, she'd help out however she could. You choose to leave Charles out though.

>>667849
>Here's some trivia. There are two types of magic users. Those born with talent out of sheer luck. And those that have it because they are related to a magical creature. I'm the latter. My father is a magical creature to be precise. A dragon to be even more precise.
Let the bombs drop.

>>667853
There's more types than that for sure.

You tell her though and she is quite taken aback, stifling a gasp. She asks you to forgive her for saying, and how hard it must be on your family for she assumes you all know, but she says it must be terribly exciting to know such a thing about oneself and that would explain the magical abilities, just like something out of the stories and fairy tales she (and you she correctly assumes) knows. She's afraid though she doesn't entirely understand what that means about you, you don't seem at all a dragon, apart from how amazing you are of course, but then she's always thought that about you.

>>667861
>How being dragon works
You can think about it like this.
Originally I start out completely human.
But if I exert myself or purposefully try to destroy my human body with magic for whatever reason. it leaves a metaphorical hole in my body. the dragon parts fill in the gaps. It's already happened a few times with my senses. So I have the option of looking more like a dragon if I so please.


Also shush I'm giving a layman's explanation.

>>667869
She says that's very interesting, and if you would choose to become entirely a dragon by that path of choosing? Certainly she couldn't fault something like that, and imagines herself in the same position, terrorizing the countryside, kidnapping a princess, and battling a knight. Then she'd probably fake being killed and death so he could rescue her and they'd fall in love and live happily ever after, and then she'd do it all over again with some other princess.

How exciting that would be! Oh but that's all nonsense, your choices and your life are yours. She hopes it doesn't hurt as you change, and wonders if the change can happen both ways. If you did unleash the dragon, could it be caged again? Being a human isn't all bad after all.

>>667881
Lean our head on her shoulder
>What would you do if i were to go full dragon Astrea?

We need to know for the sake of dat sweet sweet Yuri

>>667881
>Can it be caged.
Maybe through magic but it would nigh on impossible as dragons have massive magic resistance. It seems that dragons can absorb aether and store it in them. Also it seems likely that as I become more draconic my talent and raw magical power will increase. So that'll be interesting.

Anyways thanks her for taking this so well.
We're pretty sure most people would be disgusted/want us dead for various reasons if they knew.


(Anyways OP I'm off to sleep see you tomorrow.)

>>667891
You thank her for taking it well, she says anything for you, even if she didn't owe you her life. She knows of anyone, you'd be the best able to deal with it, and act responsibly.

Nitey nite, I'll be heading off myself here soon, as usual someone can take over if they like, NPC or fanfic or whatever.

>>667884
She takes your hand in hers and says if that were to happen and you kidnapped princesses, she would make sure you were pardoned. Unless of course you were to kidnap her, then she'd have to punish you herself.

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Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>667903
>She'd have to punish you herself

Stay with her for a while and then let's keep searching for dear Avor and Arachne

Im heading off to sleep too op, cya

>>667907
Welp

>>667907
Well with such terrible rolls, you're never going to find them.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>667922
Let's continue the search.
I already rolled for it.
But if that's invalid have another roll.>>667840

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>668095
Dice god doesn't want us to find them

>>668095
Well with that 89, you're able to learn about a kobold who at one point had a business in town, but has since been kicked out.

You go outside of town to where the sorts what aren't let in go to stay and live. Once in that area, you can find the kobold by fellow dragonic scent. Some looking around and you see Avor sitting by a keg with a proper lizardman and some goblins, drowning his sorrows in booze.

>What do you want to do?

>>668320
Fuck


Yell
>Hey Avor!

And wait for him to come running to us

>>668365
You get his attention, but when he sees you he staggers over, drops down and begs you to take his life for his failure, as that's all he's good for now.

You try to figure out what's wrong and what's gone on, he says without Arachne, the business couldn't function and he couldn't keep it going. He could have gone back to Alder, but has been trying and failing to come up with some other way to make up for the lost business.

All of this he wrote in a recent letter to you, and wonders if that's why you came so quick?

>>668394
>Wait what, slow the fuck down, what happened to Arachne?
>And what's this about a letter? I never received it

>>668411
He don't want to say and refuses to speak on it, eventually though between trying to coax it out of him and then eventually losing patience and demanding it, he says Arachne's gone. Typical, you figured she might be trouble, eventually move on to the next highest bidder.

He corrects you though and says she's gone gone. Dead. They poisoned her to kill the competition, when she refused to quit working for you and work for them instead. He wasn't able to bury her in town and still feels bad about that, and he didn't think it was right to sell off something she'd specified not to, a silk dress made for you.

As for the letter, it makes sense if you wouldn't have gotten it, given how long it can take for letters and such to be delivered. If he wrote it recently and sent it off, it might not have arrived yet, or may be waiting for you back in the capitol already.

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>>668430
>Cry and hug him

God fucking dammit, i didnt like the idea of moving to Rea but i didnt say anything

Fucking shit

Lets go to Astrea and bring Avor, we'll ask her for help with tracking down those motherfuckers who killed Arachne

Jesus Fucking Christ Im angry

>>668469
That hurt. You were never *that* close with Arachne and she creeped you out, but she was still a friend and she got you where you are today. The tears are real and you drop to your knees to better suit Avor's height as he hugs you and pleads you not to cry, it hurts him to see you like that. Aea never knew Arachne but she says she's sorry, and Tora asks if you want her to kill someone for you.

Trying to follow up with it, you're not going to be able to get Avor into the Marquis' place but Astrea is willing to meet outside. It may not be neccessary though because Avor knows who killed her, it was the foreigners over at their place, they spoke a different language. Your business was competition, they approached him and Arachne to shut it down peaceably or being bought out, when they refused them it got ugly.

>>668529
Meet with Astrea, tell her what Avor said and have her throw them in jail for killing our friend and shutting down our bussines, and cry when we're telling her this

And if they actually get arrested ask her where can we find them, i want revenge

Other Anon if you see this kill them plz

I gtg OP , I haven't felt sad and angry at the same time in a while

Jesus Fucking Christ

And ask Avor if he still has that dress

>>668551
You go to meet with Astrea, telling her tearfully about what happened. She resolves to help you however she can, and takes you to see the Marquis directly. You explain the situaiton to him and find out he already knows, and is mad about it too, since he was helping to support your business as well and it was bringing valuable product.

However, the foreigners have a contract directly with the crown both for the feitoria they work out of, and for silk. It annoys him to say, but he can't directly or officially take action against them without proper cause, and in your case it wasn't. He apologizes for the position to be in, for the both of you, but he's willing to help out if he can in other ways.

>What do you want to do?

>>668608
>Would you help me get...Revenge? She was my friend and i NEED to do something about this.

And when we're done here lets send a letter to Astrea's Father to let them know what happenes

>>668801
He can answer any questions about them, tell you where they are, and give you funds if you need them, but he can't imagine a way he can directly assist you.

You can write a litter after to Astrea's father though sure, she could do it herself if that was better.

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>Comes back
>Learns Arachne is dead
Only flames can purge these scum.

>>668900
OP remember 84 I got last thread that you said I could save?

Can we use that to make a spell to consistently and easily transmute things?

The silk shall flow.
And they shall burn.

>>669484
Nah, transmuting is quite advanced. You could make a spell which would transmute one thing with that roll, though it would cause you to mutate with that high roll, and it would only work with that thing.

>>669496
So we could consistently make silk?

>>669496
That is to say, you could create a spell with that roll, and then after that you could always use it. But yeah just for one thing.

I wasn't sure if it was clear, that the roll could create a spell, rather than just perform one once.

>>669506
We could turn dirt into silk?

A pound of dirt to a pound of silk?

>>669504
You would be able to make a spell which would turn something similar into silk. Though that seems kind of like a waste, if you're going to go that far why not make a spell to like, transmute lead to gold?

I'm sure you could find a better/more creative use than just replacing Arachne with magic.

>>669508
It would be able to turn some textile into silk, so any sort of textile you could get, like cotton, wool, flax, linen, etc... into silk.

>>669511
I know I'm just sad that Arachne was gone.
I liked her.
Brb planning the demise of merchants.

>>669517
Could we make a fast healing spell and sell it?

>>669539
I mean distill and sell then sell it.

>>669539
You don't know any fast healing magic, that's not the kind of magic you do, at least not at your level. In theory though you could do it.

>>669565
Since we cast combustion magic without needing to chant or anything how suspicious would it be if we just started incinerating every other store that sold silken goods?

>>669577
You don't have to say anything but you do have to gesture, or if you can't gesture (assume you were paralyzed) then you'd need to say something.

There aren't any other silk stores in town though, the foreigners import silks from the orient to the feitoria, then sell to nobles and other buyers directly.

>>669592
And what about the money Avor made?
Does he still have that?

>>669598
He still has some, but between getting beaten up and mugged, and having to live on it, there's not a lot left, and a lot less than you expected.

>>669645
Let's head to avor and see if he has a magic aura.
We're teaching him magic now.

>>669649
Anything with dragon blood has an aura. His is very small though, very faint. Unless he studies very long and very hard, the best he'd ever be able to do is beginner spells.

>>669653
>Beginner spells
Growth is a beginner spell right?
Can we distill growth and sell it as a sort of growth enhancer for plants?

>>669661
Yeah that's something you could probably do. It won't make you a ton of money though, by any measure.

>>669700
After hearing Arachne is dead I just want to get magic school out of the way so we can go back to traveling with avor.

Let's go visit the Marquis mage.

>>669736
Well it'll be a few years before you're done with magic school. But yeah you can see the Marquis' mage, that's easy enough to manage today.

What do you want to see him about, or talk about?

>>669767
Ask him what he's doing.

Maybe we can help.
God knows we need something to take our minds off of what's happened.

>>669767
>>669773
We need dat kobold D and Avor needs that human hand/vagoo

And let's ask Astrea whats her situation with men, cause we've heard some things about this and let's spend time with her, we need to take our mind off Arachne

>>669976
>We need dat kobold D and Avor needs that human hand/vagoo
I'm gonna have to disagree with that.

>>669773
You find him, and he's busy with usual work he does, performing simple spells or analyses of items or possible omens. He supposes you could help out with a backlog of simple magic duties he has, like encouraging plants to grow around the estate, and doing pest control.

>>669976
>We need dat kobold D and Avor needs that human hand/vagoo

AYY

Unless that original anon who said there was a hostile shadow following Astrea around is still here, then she isn't actually having any guy problems and just hasn't settled on Mr. Right yet. At any rate though you spend time with her for the rest of the day and evening, and she even offers you to stay with her while you're here in Rea if you care to. If it matters, Aea, Avor and Tora can find accommodations for themselves.

>>670037
Consensus needed!

Probably not the worst idea though, wouldn't want to risk getting pregnant with some half-breed monstrosities.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>670235
Then let's go around casting growth!

>>670235
B-b-but that's one of my kinks OP

>>670273
Yea but I'm not living with the aftermath.
I'm pretty sure Maggie doesn't either.

>>670273
Never said it can't happen, just needs a consensus.

>>670256
That's pretty crap, but then it's not like you're trying to impress anyone.

>>670282
She doesn't mind doing favors for Avor, but to go all the way? She'd either have to be a lot less human, or horrendously drunk.

>>670331
So we've grown plants?
How we kill the vermin?

>>670478
Well not so much grown them, as done the equivalent of watering them.

As for the vermin, you just up some basic magical traps, which is an added layer of defense, for when poison and cats don't always work.

>What do you want to do after? It's still your first day in Rea, but approaching evening.

>>670561
Let's visit mage again and ask if he has any common level magic books.

Can't get behind on our studies.

>>670576
You visit him, but unfortunately he doesn't have any available. If you're looking for that sort of thing you'll probably need to hit up a magic store in town.

>>670595
Let's check it out then.
And see if we can find magic books another level up.

Extracurricular studies ahoy.

>>670605
You look around but the only "store" in the technical sense that you can find, is the one run by the mage who works for the bank. He's got some common level books, and a couple higher tier, but the common ones are surprisingly expensive, and the higher tier prohibitively so. As is you could afford one common book, but you'd be hurting for funds after that. The higher tier are well out of your price range.

>What do you want to do?

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>670623
If the Marquis place has some training yard with training dummy's let's practice using our common offensive magic on them.

I'll roll for it.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>670629
Support roll

>>670629
In the evening?

>>670638
Is it odd?

>>670647
It might be if you're just out there at night casting magic while people are having dinner and formalizing and the guards are on patrol.

>>670636
Hey you wanna mutate?

I think we should mutate.

>>670700
Yeh, i want dem scales

>>670662
Grab our travelers cloak.

We are going to put on a show for Astrea.

Basically show her how mutations work.

>>670727
Oookay... how?

>>670734
Well first of all we're going to tell her not to let anyone else see us.
Then sit on her bed and spell weave.


Then use the body buff spell you said it would basically be a spell to kill off as much of our human side as possible(Something about 5-10% of our genotype would be changed)

>>670662
Wait you want to try to force it?

>>670763
>Force mutations
Basically.
If we try to use magic to enhance our body we will mutate.

I remember that.

>>670763
Wrong quote >>670751

>>670769
It's definitely something you can do, but I'd want a consensus since it's a big deal.

>>670706
OG you want to cleanse ourselves of some filthy humanity and get closer to perfection?

>>670785
Yeeeehh boi

>>670826
>>670785
Ok, roll for it.

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>670830
>Inb4 Nat 1
If the rolls are shit I'm calling in our saved roll.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>670830

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>>670871
Monster girl hype.
Let the chaos commence.

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>>670917
Dragon Girl best Girl

>>670871
With all the stress of everything going on, you decide to throw caution to the wind and magic weave. This time though you're not trying to create a spell. You simply concentrate on Mags the human and everything that is her, and channeling your energy imagine her as a target and unleash a blast of magic power at her. A painful surge courses through your body as it feels like your very soul is ripping at the edges. While coughing you start to notice blood coming from your eyes and mouth as Astrea screams and tries to get help. The pain is so much, that along with the expected seizure, you quickly lose consciousness.

---

You come to an unknown amount of time later, feeling very sore but also very comfy. You look around to find yourself all wrapped up and comfy in Astrea's bed, with your friend herself sitting in a chair and leaning on the bed beside you asleep.

What an uncomfortable sensation though. You can see things disturbingly closer now if you try to, and everything you physically feel, you get a second impression of it on another level. You can't explain it and don't understand it, but you you can feel almost as if it (the blankets in this case and the clothes you're in) have almost a spiritual presence, and the clothes in particular you can feel what is unmistakably Astrea's spirit on them. It's overwhelming to say the least, but as your heart starts to race, everything gets even more distinct or intense to *all* of your senses. It's almost too much and you're starting to panic, as the stress fuels your senses and your senses fuel the stress, and it starts to get more and more overwhelming.

>What do you want to do?

>>670961
Close our eyes.
Take some deep breaths through our mouth.
Our senses have intensified again.
We have to acclimate.

>>670983
This

>>670983
You close your eyes and try to breathe through your mouth. Even more alarming though, as you taste the air, you can get almost an impression of what's gone on in the room recently, and you get the sense of Astrea having been around the room before sitting beside you and falling asleep, with the faint hints of another person or two.

This is completely unexpected and unlike anything you're used to, and now you're starting to hyperventilate, and as a result glean more information from what went on in the room recently.

>Panic is setting in, what do you do?

>>671022
>Can taste the air.


Fucking hell.

Take one deep breath through your mouth and hold it in!
Focus on a thought and ignore the sensory input.
Remember the ball at the capital!

>>671032
Attempting to hold your breath, you can feel your heart hammering in your chest, but try to withdraw into your thoughts and focus on your thoughts anyway. The ball, that's right, you remember it well. The time, the experience, the emotions.

That helps some, and you're able to calm yourself a little, and switch to breathing through your nose instead. The smell is intense, down to what Astrea ate for... breakfast? but it's not a sensation you're completely unfamiliar with?

Any other memories? Before long you calm down one way or the other, though still try to avoid using more than one of your new advanced senses at once.

>What do you want to do?

>>671059
>Any other memories.
That time we talked Lisbeth out o her hiding hole.
The drinking competition with Aea.


Wake up Astrea.
And examine self for anything like scales or such.

>>671069
Yes, those memories. Eventually you slowly try to rouse Astrea, but when she notices you awake she practically jumps on you, embracing you deeply and kissing your face and crying, and thanking god you're alright. She says you were out for over a week, and though she stayed with you and took care of you the whole time, with help from that foreign woman you're friends with, people didn't think you'd wake up at all. She's angry that you did such a thing to yourself just to try and show her your magic, but more than anything she's relieved you're alright.

Looking over yourself while she gets up to fetch a metal mirror, you don't notice any scales but do come to realize your nails are different. A little darker (from increased thickness), more deeply rooted in the fingers themselves, and ending in a slight point. A quick test indicates they're quite hard, much more so than your nails before, and you notice the same is true of your toenails. When Astrea returns and gives you the mirror as well, you quite quickly notice your eyes are different, no circular pupil anymore but a vertical slit. In the dim light of the curtains-drawn windows, you also notice your eyes are glowing, in an illuminated fashion. It's unmistakable and not a reflection from the bedside candlelight, as you find bringing the light closer and better illuminating yourself causes the glow of your eyes to fade (or rather, become less noticeable in the presence of light), and while ducking under the covers to darkness, your eyes glow brightly. A side detail you notice, that you have no trouble seeing anything under the covers in the dark.

Lastly when you emerge again, Astrea while hugging onto you again, remarks you must have taken to physical activity while away, something she noticed while having to dress you and wash you in your comatose state. She also mentions how you grew, and that she had to find a lose dressing gown to fit you, since you outgrew your old clothes while asleep for all that time.

>What do you want to do?

>>671148
Well we have glowing eyes now.
We need to get to Aea.
And back to school.

OP we can still wear our shoes?

>>671171
>>671148

>Glowing eyes

Holy Shit

I got stuff to do op but I'll try to participate

>>671171
Sure. The claws are currently not much larger than your nails, and you can still trim them.

As for Aea, Astrea says you're in no state to be getting up and going to her, but she can go get her. After leaving you with some food, which while eating you get an impression of who made it and the room it was made in, she returns with Aea, who asks how you're doing and saying Avor is worried sick about you.

One thing you notice about her is her clothes have a sort of faint glow, shimmer effect to them that you never saw before.

>What do you want to do?

>>671217
>Get close enough and let her see the new eyes.

>By the way Aea your clothes are shimmering. You said that you treated them with alchemy didn't you?

>>671241
In the time you've been out of it, she knows about your changes. She does comment though that yes, she treats her clothes.

>>671279
Well I'm perfectly fine.
I think.
I'm still getting used to the new senses.
And the air has unfamiliar tastes in it.

Astrea did anyone else besides you come in her recently. I can sense that others where here but I'm not sure how long ago it was.

>>671306
She says that indeed others were here, two maids whom helped with keeping the room and bedding clean, bringing food, stuff like that. She said that would have been before she fell asleep though, so a few hours ago roughly.

Why do you want to know that, she's curious?

>>671337
>Why do we want to know.
Like I said. I could sort of taste the fact two different people where here. My sense of smell and sense of taste have been severely heightened. All my senses seem...better.

>>671352
Well that's very interesting she says, and hopes it isn't too strange or hard to deal with. She asks what you want to do now, hopefully not more magic. She recommends staying in bed for another day or so, but the choice is yours.

One thing you do pick up on, is a sense of dread on Aea. Not about you, she's as comfortable as she's ever been around you, but it seems like she's putting on a face and avoiding something while interacting with you. Holding back something, if you had to guess.

>>671364
>So Aea what are you hiding from me? I can sense the dread coming off of you.

>>671383
She simply responds that now isn't the time, not in your state.

Also it occurs to me but was the previous thread archived?

>>671389
>One question. How bad?

I'm worrying externally.
>>671402
Yes.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/635583

>>671406
She says it's pretty bad, and that you will react very negatively.

>>671441
>Well since you said that you might as well get it over with. I'm gonna stew on it anyways. And I'd rather start getting over it now.

I'm gonna go sleep so I can wake up to read the painful news tomorrow.

>>671460
She apologizes, but refuses. Not until you're ambulatory she says. She thinks if she tells you now, you'll spring to action, which in your state would be bad.

The good news is though your broken arm is healed by now.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>671460
>>671544
Of course you could always try to persuade her, or otherwise get her to talk. Rolling would suffice.

>Her resistance, in case.

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>671548
Persuasion roll

>>671636
>73

After running the gamut from asking politely, to flatly demanding, to actually pleading, you finally convince Aea to tell you under the promise that you don't do anything rash.

She says while you were out for the week and a bit, Avor believed you did what you did because of your upset over Arachne. So to avenge her, and you for being driven to that point, he took it upon himself to take it up against the ones responsible for her death, and your magic-induced coma. Unfortunately he was savagely beaten and humiliated, and is still in a critical condition, possibly permanently maimed. She's doing all she can to help him, though as said he was left for dead and as well she's not too familiar with kobold physiology. She says the best thing you can do is recover fully yourself, before you do anything, even coming to see him. Fortunately Tora has been keeping a watch over him, and already has stopped the foreigners from coming to make things worse or finish the job when they learned Avor survived, allowing Aea to treat him without being interrupted.

>What do you want to do?

>>671695
>SILENTLY RAGE
>Put hands on head and firmly grasp our hair
>Bring knees to face
>Fetal position

Um... A-astrea, can your d-dad help me deal with those f-fucking foreigners

Ask everyone to leave the room

>Cry ourselves to sleep

God fucking dammit

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>>670785
We shouldn't have mutated

I deeply regret it now

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>671695
>[explodes internally]
>blank stare
>roll for san loss

>>671784
now now anon don't be sad
HAHA NO SCALY D FOR YOU

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>>671695
>Deep breaths
>Lots of deep breaths


And I wake up to bad news.

>>671991
>91

Your sanity suffers!

>>671727
You ask Astrea for any possible help on the matter, but she's not sure what she could do, or her father could do for that matter.

At any rate you curl and cry yourself to sleep.

---

Whew, you must have still been pretty bad, it looks like you managed to sleep another day away. Well, getting up to use the restroom or eat, but otherwise mostly sleep.

It's morning time though, and Astrea asks if you're feeling better today and has food with. At the very least, indeed you are feeling better, and are ambulatory now. You noticed at some point or other you're also a little taller, bigger perhaps even though that's more difficult to tell than height difference.

>What do you want to do?

>>672424
Stay with Astrea for today and hang out, we need that moral support since our sanity took a hit

>>672424
We should start getting used to our heightened senses.

Continue sensory training time.

>>672442
You spend an easy day with Astrea about the grounds, pretty simple and straightforward, and great for organizing your thoughts and getting your head in the right place. You're still sad and stressed out, but at least you're functional.

>>672459
You manage this at the same time, and she's ever helpful when you need it. It'll probably take a few days to a week at least to adjust, but it's a process you're pretty used to by now.

>>672464
We need to busy ourselves.
Work away the pain.

Ask mage dude if he has more stuff we can do.

>>672467
Yeah he's got more basic chores you can help with. Feel free to roll to see how you get along.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>672470
At least he's nice enough to not question us about our eyes.

>>672470
Another thing.
Can we get our current genotype percentage.

Also I feel Maggie has had enough experiences to make her much more misanthropic.

>>672474
>37

You can get by with the magic chores, and actually end up performing them much better than the mage ever did.

As for your eyes, unless you sit down to have a personal conversation with one, or someone stops you up close to look in your eyes, they're not immediately obvious. Under a decent amount of light you can't even tell that they glow.

>>672479
With the 81 from the mutate roll above, that's +8, so on top of your 6 before, that's a total of 14%.

For Mags' total genotype, that would make it 43% human, 57% dragon.

As for her feelings on the matter, well it really depends. She's definitely less empathetic towards criminals and bandits and the like, after enough bad experiences.

>>672489
Well it's time.
Let's go check up on avor.

>>672494
Im not looking forward to this

>>672517
You think I am?

Hopefully those assholes that are trying to murder Avor aren't there.

Don't need to kill anyone so soon after waking up.

>>672494
Finding Aea again you ask to be taken to Avor. She's got him in the room they're letting while here, and it's pretty bad. He's unable to move well and has trouble breathing, some pretty severe but healing injuries all over. Aea's doing her best, and without her he'd surely have died. When he sees you though he's very happy, even if he has trouble expressing it, unable to vocalize more than a wheeze. You can sense his happiness though, painful that it may be since he can't properly express it. The worst thing Aea lets you know, is they cut off his tail.

>What do you want to do?

>>672572
>Feel rage wash over you.
This is unacceptable.

And Avor shouldn't have done this.
What would we have done if he had died.

>>672572
Kneel be next him and hug him without hurting him
>Cry
>Rage
>Tell him it wasn't his fault what happened to us

>>672606
>>672611
It's a hard sight to deal with, more than you can handle, as you lower beside the bed and try to hug him and let him know you're sorry for what happened to him and how he's not to blame for what you did. He can't respond, but you get the feeling he hears you, but only feels a deep shame over the situation.

In his condition it's too difficult to try to keep hugging him, so you settle for holding his scaly little hand while sitting beside him. You're both sad and angry at him, for what happened and what he did, but for now you don't think he needs to be burdened any more.

>What do you want to do?

>>672621
Let's ask Tora about the ones who tried to finish Avor off.
Maybe we can draw them out.
And finish them.
They have pissed us off.

>>672623
YES

>>672623
Wishing Avor well and saying goodbye, you head outside to Tora and talk to her about what happened. She can't say much about the guys themselves though since they only really showed up in force once. She stopped them from going in and when things came to blows she broke one guy's ribs and after that they left, and didn't return. She is willing to help you out if you've got something in mind, but she doesn't expect them to come back again, they probably figure Avor isn't worth the trouble.

>What do you want to do?

Also a heads up, I'll be heading out for awhile, so same as usual if someone wants to take over in the meantime they can.

>>673125
OP what are our odds of getting to the treasure rafe mentioned?

>>673304
Off the top of your head you wouldn't know. You never expressed that much interest in it at the time, so he never went into much detail.

>>673353
Well then we should head back to rafe and get down to business.

We have guns so our odds have gone up.

>>673364
Who would you want to go with then, and how are you equipping yourself(ves)?

Of interesting note, the next day Julien shows up and locates you out, saying how he'd only just made his rounds from here to the capitol and must have missed you. If you're here now though, he's willing to help out if you need it, seeing that things are pretty bad. As for your changes, he's a little taken aback at first, but says he likes your eyes.

>>673421
>He like our eyes.
See Julien has good taste.

Ideally I'm bringing Tora and Aea.
And rafe of course.

>Tora:Metal plating with a great shield and a good sword.
>Us: Aetherial garments and magic.
>Aea with pistols or a hunting rifle ideally.

What do you think of this load out
I believe morning glory is strong enough to pierce dragon scale and I think Tora with a good blade could also pierce it.
Plus Aea with a rifle and we can do some damage.

We just need a way to restrict the dragons movement or slow them down and it'll be perfect.

>>673460
Metal armor is kind of archaic so will be difficult to get some, made for Tora specifically. Also Aea's not familiar with gun use, though none of you are really.

Also what's this concern about a dragon? The only possible dragon in the picture is the one the kobold camp was working for, but the understanding was that the dragon was in some other place, probably far off, and they'd come to the area where the treasure supposedly was to find and take it back.

>>673487
>Dragon not there.
Wew this is gonna be a slaughter.

Also let's get Aea to start practicing her gun-slinging.

And I guess we can get leather for Tora.

>>673487
Can we use enchantment to make the gun super quiet?

That'd help greatly.

>>673487
oh boy. I have a gut feeling that we should not participate.

>>673936
You think it'll be a TPK?

>>673954
at this point I would be surprised if something goes wrong and no one dies, barring the instance we burn ourselves for more power once again.
*if* something goes wrong, mind you.

>>674386
That's why we must alpha strike the shit out of them.
Plus I'm averse to burning our human body again for more power.
We just recovered.
Save it for later.

>>674386
>>674563
Wait wut, what are we doing?
Are raiding those sand diggers?

>>674649
I'm planning to raid that kobold settlement that was searching for treasure.

>>674660
Mmmmkay, im down

>>674563
hense the reason I said 'barring'
it would be a last chance scenario where 'if we don't do this we die' type of deal if we came to that decision.

>>673487
So OP how mutated do we have to be to stop fainting everytime we mutate?

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>>675179
After 25% every minor mutation won't cause you to pass out, they'll just take effect once you sleep. Though at 25% itself, and each 25% after that you can expect a serious change, like an actual metamorphosis where you'll similarly be out for a week or so again.

>>675186
>We enter a metamorphosis state at 25%.
Why do you tempt me so?
Now I want to mutate to 25%.


Anyways we should most definitely practice consistent power input.
Being able to actually control how powerful our spells are would be nice.

>>673501
Leather for Tora? Like, cow leather? As for armor you might not be able to get her a full suit but armored plates over leather is possible.

>>673526
You can do that on wadding but not the gun. The gun would have to be specifically magically made that way.

---

AYO so what's the plan then? Sounds like you want to go attack the kobolds, but what about Avor? You want to leave him behind?

>>675219
How long will it take Avor to be in travelling condition?

>>675229
Probably about a week for him to be able to travel, another week for him to be in good condition.

>>675253
Then we have a week to burn.
Let's get assemble the team and tell them the plan.
Get Tora some leather + metal plate and a weapon(maybe a mace and shield)
Have Aea treat Tora's armor if she can.

Give Aea a gun. Ask if her to train that accuracy.

And let's practice firing Morning Glory since I assume the training yard has training dummy's.

>>675272
You spend the week preparing. Tora doesn't have a lot of skill fighting with weapons, preferring to kick and hit and headbutt, but something as basic as a big club she can manage. Aea though doesn't like using the gun, and would much prefer just concocting some offensive potions. She at least learns how to shoot and reload though.

As for practicing yourself, the training yard is available, but it'd probably just be smarter to practice in the woods or something, so any destruction goes unnoticed. Do you go for any other training or preparation? Keeping up with fitness?

>>675299
Yes keep up our fit regimen.
Yes bow in the woods.
And we need repulsion spells and area denial spells.

Do we have any such things?
Like spells for making magic walls and pushing people away?

>>675331
What you're describing are basic force spells or advanced barrier spells, both above what you know. You could always try to make up the spell for it though.

>>675331
>Morning Glory in the woods
U sure about that?

>>675345
Can we make a spell to allow telepathic communication?

Does one already exist?

>>675352
Apparently Solid Aether is less burn more disintegrate.

It won't start a fire.
It'll just tear apart what ever is in it's way if it can.

>>675354
There's an actual spell for that already, though you don't know it. It's also only one way, unless the other person also knows the spell.

>>675379
Then can we make a two way version?
And allow for multiple connections to an extent.
Like a conference call or something?

>>675383
Nah because that relies upon the other person having magic, and you can't force magic upon another person, short of blood magic or something else.

You could create a spell though, which as long as they had some magic aptitude you could make it a two-way sort of thing. Basically forcing them to know the spell.

>>675420
That raises the question.

What happens when you force Aether into a human body?

>>675425
What kind of force do you mean? Summoning a brick of it and throwing it at someone is technically forcing it into their body.

If you mean summoning it inside them, you have no way of knowing, but you can't imagine it going well without the proper precautions, and the right kind of connection with that person.

>>675436
I mean summoning it and putting aether energy in their body.

I imagine they melt.

Can we make a lightning sword?
And get consistent power output with a 80+ roll?

>>675448
If you do it properly they wouldn't melt.

As for a lightning sword, you mean a sword made of lightning?

>>675467
>Sword made of lightning.
I guess basically.
If not make an aether sword imbued with a lightning attribute.

>>675480
Whichever one, roll!

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>675492
Rolling for a sword made of legit lightning.

And have Tora come along(but stay far away)
So we aren't unconscious alone in the forest.

>>675500
I'd like to use my saved roll.
This one is shit.

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>675500
Support roll if needed, if not just ignore

>>675505
You keep dat roll anon, i gotchu

>>675506
At this rate I'll never use my saved roll.

Nice roll anon.

>>675516
Yeah nice rolls.
Guess the saved roll can go back on the shelf.

>>675505
No saved rolls, it's been too long for that. Was it even in this thread?

>>675506
>81

You create a sword made out of electricity. It crackles in its existence, and when it hits things it sounds like thunder.

You do have a seizure though, and Tora has to carry you back. You awaken later however, to no noticeable changes.

>>675529
I think it was the end of the last thread.
A few posts from the end.

Anyways let's add in some lightning blade practice to our regimen and jump a week.

>>675545
Sounds good. After about a week of getting everything together, Avor is ready for travel, though still not totally healed.

>What do you want to do?

>>675584
Where is rafe again?
Near Alri right?
Let's hire a carriage and head off to visit my rafe.

>>675593
No, he's near the estate you used to be a maid at, or a couple days travel from a small town which was never named.

But yes, a carriage you can hire. Roooool!

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>>675605
>Near her estate

Hopefully we don't see her or any of her maids.
Rolling.

Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>675619
>>675605
Oops I dropped my dice.
Rolling for real this time.

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>675605
I hope we see her
Rolling

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>>675627
LEWD EVENT YESSSSSSS

>>675627
>69

A few days travel en route, the carriage nearly runs over a few zombies wandering around in the road.

Care to stop?

>>675644
Wow zombies are retarded.

Try to communicate.
Use pantomime to help.

>>675644
Look for any that look like they still have some humanity in them

>>675655
Some of them are freshly dead (or risen in this case) and are sort of responsive, but not in any way that could be considered communication.

>>675654
You try communicating with them, some notice you or even mimic you, but there's little to work with. You could lead them out of the road though if you don't care about them, at least.

>>675688
Yes let's just lead them off the road.

No need to kill non hostiles.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>675688
Can we dragon sense if there's any necromancers around?
Rolling if yes

>>675697
You sort of manage to corral them together and get them to pay attention, then lead them off the road. Once they're out of the way though, you try to get back to the carriage and they stop you. For a brief moment you get that instinctual fear of the undead any normal person has, and you fear for your brains, but it seems a few of them are just holding onto you and want you to stay with them, like they want you leading them.

>>675699
Nah not really, what sense would you even use. You can't even use magic sense in this way since it's necromancy.

>>675707
>Wants us to lead them.
Wait we can use this.

Can we bring the undead with us then hide them so we can unleash them upon the kobolds?

>>675715
But that's bad Anon, we could be accused of being a necromancer or something and we wouldn't be allowed into towns with a bunch of undead following us

>>675715
Well you could bring them with, but you wouldn't have any idea how to incite violence in them, or otherwise get them to attack.

>>675725
Well there aren't any settlements left between you and the goblin's homestead, for what it's worth.

>>675725
Then we can smuggle them through the forests.

>>675730
We'll take them then, we can use them as cannon fodder during the fight

>>675738
The others feel uncomfortable by their presence, but you decide to bring the zeds along. After reaching the part on the road where you have to go into the wild, it's about a days walk till you reach the goblin homestead.

It takes you some searching around since it's been so long, but eventually you find it again, seeing the little hut with smoke rising. The improvements to the homestead are clear to see, that they benefited from your knowledge imparted to them.

>What do you want to do?

>>675754
Tell Tora and Aea to stay back and try to keep the zeds away too, carry Avor over to the house and call out to them
When we see them
>Cry
>Hug Them

>>675767
This.

>>675767
You take Avor with you and go to see the gobs again. You can only approach so far though before you step on something which snaps, and causes a spike trap to spring on your foot. It hurts a lot and you yell from it, but you don't go unnoticed and Rafe quickly emerges from the hut expecting intruders. When he sees who it is though, he helps you out of the trap. Before he can lead you back to the hut or otherwise get away, you pick him up and hug him deeply, which annoys him and he tries to struggle. Before you can let go though, you soon feel his sister hugging your legs. What a gobbo abundance, that your eyes start to well up, how good it is to see your oldest friends again.

Greda invites you inside and wants to know all about everything that's happened with you since you were away, and introduces you to another gob, her husband Drob. He's understandably a little suspicious though, seeing a kobold and a strange-looking human. You don't face any problems though, and are welcomed to stay, they made the house bigger to accommodate guests.

>What do you want to do?

>>675805
Wait how bad is the spike trap injury?

Also ask rafe if he's still interested in that treasure.

>>675813
It's not that bad, like if you got jabbed by some pins. It hurt a lot and made you scream which was probably the main reason, and Greda orders Rafe to wrap your foot up if you care for it.

You ask him about the treasure though, he says of course he is, but he doubts it's still there anymore.

>>675821
>Wanna go and try to find it? I have some new tricks that can help us

>>675821
Well then let's check to see if they're still mining.

>>675841
>>675849
He says tomorrow if you want to go for it you can. The kobolds though aren't mining it anymore, some gypsies found out what they were doing and came in and beat the shit out of them and drove them off.

How do you want to spend the night? What about Aea and the others?

>>675852
>Some gypsies
Gypsies are cool.

Have Aea and the others set up a camp.
Let's go scout out where the mine was.

Stealthily.

>>675858
This

>>675858
That night? Or to wait?

>>675868
Yes that night.
If they're the same gypsies we met before we will talk to them.

>>675870
You meet with Aea again and get a camp set up near the gobbos place, then go to check out the gypsy camp, though Rafe doesn't accompany you since he's not interested in going for the treasure that way, if you were to.

It takes you a couple hours to find your way to the mine by memory assisted by senses, but you eventually locate it. From what you can tell though it's not the same gypsies as the ones you met before. This is a bigger band, a small settlement almost.

>What do you want to do?

>>675888
Ask them if they know where did the kobolds went to

>>675902
Well it's in the middle of the night, so you approach to try to talk to someone and there's an initial panic before you're grabbed by some guys and dragged into the camp. Shoved in a tent for awhile, you're eventually met by an older woman who wants to know why you were wandering about in the woods at night and what you want?

You ask her about the kobolds, she's confused how you know about them, but she says they moved in and kicked them out, working with a dwarf and some laborers to get them to the mine. After that, she says if you have any preference to sleeping accommodations, since they'll be feeding you and having you spend the night.

>>675907
>U wot m8
>are you asking or affirming?

>>675922
She's asking what your preferences are, but you're not getting a choice about whether you stay or leave.

>>675936
>Um....with the Girls? Alone if possible?

>>675940
She says alone's not possible in case you try to run off or get violent or something like that, but they can work something out.

You've given a pretty good dinner and taken to a different tent where two women about your age are already staying, and are surprisingly friendly and welcoming, though you feel like a prisoner a little. At least the sleep is comfortable, best since Astrea's bed at least.

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The next morning you're awoken by one of the girls having brought food for the group of you, including a few children who join in to eat. Afterward the other girl says if you want you can join them to wash, you can get your clothes cleaned and they'll have something to replace them in the meantime.

You naturally ask about leaving but she apologizes and says that's not up to her to say.

>What do you want to do?

>>675952
Join them then let's go to the old lady and ask about leaving

>>675959
She's not an old lady, just older. At any rate though you join the girls and the children bathing in a river nearby. A little weird at first getting washed and cleaned with strangers like that, but they're still endlessly accommodating, offering to wash your hair and have some oils and such which make you smell nice and sound to be good for your skin. Afterward you're given some clothes in their style, light and loose but comfortable and colorful. Returning to the camp giving one of the children a piggyback ride, you find the older woman and ask again about leaving. She says you just wandering in out of the wild, they can't in good faith let you go wandering off again. More importantly though you bear the mark of the dragon, and she says they can't let someone as special as you just go.

>>675966
>I have friends waiting for me, i came here to get payback on the kobolds that used to live here but now that they're gone i kinda need to go back to them, you can tag along if you want

>>675973
If you want she can have your friends fetched for, but you have to understand from their perspective, with you among them, their clan not only can call priority over others, but they might even have a shot at the position for the next king. If you had a chance like that, would you let yourself go?