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1002288 No. 1002288 ID: afe7de

A quest about reincarnation and the world you end up in.

Does not require having read CATALYST, but the protagonist is someone from that setting.

If you want to read more of my stuff, check out my wiki page: https://questden.org/wiki/EDMANGO

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Authors Note: This quest will contain 18+ content including violence, death, and cartoon gore. This is a bit of an experimental one, and will update with less frequency than CATALYST. Sexual content might be present but wont be the focus. Reader discretion is advised.
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No. 1002289 ID: afe7de
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Your name is SABA HADLEE. You’re used to [UNDERSTANDING] things with your innate skill of the same name. You could look at something and get more information about it. The longer you looked, the more info you got. The more you understood about it fundamentally, and the different approaches you took could lead to other information. It’s similar to an appraisal skill, but instead of giving you the basics, it gave you the finer details. This of course meant you had to study, experiment, and gain more intelligence to fully utilize it. So you did. You can now, after years of practice, use it to appraise most things, or get a general idea of strange and esoteric things, but this thing. You’ve got no idea about it. It’s a shame that you just died.

The last moment of your life plays back for you on repeat. You were sitting in a corner, taking a small break, your body not being what it used to be. It was a celebration for your grandson, you were grumbling and hesitant about it, but MAXAMILLIAN HADLEE was really pushy about joining the HEROES LEAGUE. And you couldn’t really say no to him, he was as prepared as he was going to get, and you doubt they’d send assassins after him too.
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But you were wrong, very wrong. A crash through the ceiling and a figure appeared. You couldn’t quite make out their form, they were gaseous looking, vaguely humanoid, transparent like a fog, with lights like eyes scattered throughout. You pulled out your Mana Cannon from your interspatial ring, but before you could do anything, a blast came from the figures single massive eye. You dropped your weapon, and things shifted to third person. You saw your body moving on its own, your family members terrified but pulling out their weapons, but a moment later they all dropped, all except Maxamillian. Your body was syphoning the souls out of them and pouring them into this glowing figure. Little Isabella, wreathed in flames, crashes through the wall and detonates at this moment. You tried to [UNDERSTAND] what was going on, what was controlling your physical body, what the figure was, but it looked at you in your spirit form and with a flick you were gone.

There was only one thing you understood. It’s expression. You were an ant in it’s eyes. Even with your improved SOUL, it was no match for that thing. Why was this thing on Faunus, why did it come after you and your family, these questions plagued you as this repeated over a hundred times and you just watched. Eventually the repeats faded and you were shown a deep deep void.

There was nothing but darkness. You could feel a deep pain and longing, but eventually those feelings started to fade too. You were losing yourself, losing memories, losing moments. On the cusp of losing yourself you felt something, like a poke to the brain, it jarred you awake and you [UNDERSTOOD] that you needed to keep control, to think of something. So you thought of your deceased lovers. Marth and Willamina I. And you even thought you heard their voices.

Willamina: -oming to.
Marth: -lmost -ost him.
Willamina: -EY GET YOURSELF TOGETHER.

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No. 1002291 ID: afe7de
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A moment later your vision widens. You can see in 360 degrees now. Everything in your immediate area is visible to you. You look in the distance, what appears to be colorful and shattered pieces lie in the horizon, you cant [UNDERSTAND] what they are from this distance but there’s immense energy radiating from them. You can tell that there’s a structure somewhere in there too, some sort of congregating point. It’s not through your [UNDERSTANDING] but from something more fundamental. There’s a procession of orb-like things which you [UNDERSTAND] to be SOULS leading towards that location. And eventually your vision focuses to your immediate area. You yourself must be an orb-like SOUL, right? Not quite. You’ve got limbs. And you can feel your hair, or an approximation of it. You’ve got a wispy torso. You must be some form of SPIRIT now, like a higher tier soul, but how?

Your focus leads to the two individuals in front of you, both SPIRITS, weaker than your own, a little less stable, but definitely stronger than an average soul, and they look awfully familiar. Your body wants to cry, but tears do not come out. They dried out long ago. Instead the two embrace you. They feel soft and warm, almost like silicone or jello. You return the hug and hold them tight.

You: So, there’s an afterlife after all?
Willamina: More like a limbo-like state. Reincarnations a thing, but there’s not much we can do here.
Marth: Goddess we fucking missed you.
Marth: We waited 17 years for you you know.
You: But… Why?
Willamina: Why else rosebud? So we could reincarnate together!
Marth: Once we figured out we could wait it was a no brainer that we would.
Marth: And before you ask, no, we can’t go back. Even if we reincarnate the odds we would appear on this Faunus are so astronomically low it’s ridiculous.
Willamina: Come on, let’s float and talk, there’s something we want you to meet first.


The two start floating towards the large structure you saw before. Normally these two would give you a moment to think in these situations, so the person you must be going to meet should be very important, quite possibly a valuable source of intel about your current situation. Your mind is a little fuzzy and you can only remember vague details about the past right now. You think you lost some memories when you were fading in the void, at least you can still [UNDERSTAND] things. You assume that innate skills must be something tied to the SOUL. What do you talk about to Marth and Willamina on your journey?
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No. 1002293 ID: 0fae41

Talk about cheese wheels and their significance as a model of the circle of life.
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No. 1002295 ID: e7c7d3

Please tells that the angels and demons don't run things here
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No. 1002297 ID: 8483cf

So let's say, hypothetically, I need to skip the whole "reincarnation" thing because there's something really important I need to do back in the mortal coil.

Is there a way to conjure up a new body that looks just like my old one and lets me keep my memories?
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No. 1002299 ID: 094652

"Hm. We should look for something to indent our Metahumanity, like a City of the Dead."
>That's not possible
"Ah brok'n them dang rules fer fer scoar and a lil whal ago! Also, I think I remember one thing from my past lives now that I'm here: you can SAVE your soul's data. It's not eternal but it's doable, especially if you hire a bunch of necromancers, some deposed gods, and a giant dumbass skull. The only downside is that the copies will no longer have free will, they'll be stuck in the same personality doing the same things and making the same mistakes for centuries until they finally fade away. But it's the best way we can say goodbye."

It's interesting to see how one split-second courageous decision can still ruin your whole life. Isabella knows she had to stop the entity before it could eat the souls of the Haydee clan, manifest physically, and move on to obliterate the town, even if it meant killing an entire family that loved and trusted her. But she can't get therapy, because anything remotely related to the truth will get her executed for mass homicide.
So now she's stuck in a miserable, toxic mindset where she knows she's
a hero, but her 'anti' tag is so deep that it has alienated and corrupted her to the point of insanity. At some point she might even convince herself that everyone else is a villain because her one heroic act of goodness is culturally viewed as pure evil.
Surprisingly, I feel sorry for her. Few people can stay perfectly sane when they're tormented their whole lives for doing the right thing. Example: Szeth, Words of Radiance
I wonder if she'd torment herself if she just stood there and watched instead.

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No. 1002301 ID: 96c896

>>1002291
Ask them what their innate skills are. You can still use yours, they should be able to use theirs.
Also you may as well tell them how you died. What was that thing, an Angel?
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No. 1002314 ID: e51896

So... it is possible to reincarnate together in the same world? and if so, what are the chances we'll all meet each other again in our next lives?

Whatever the case, lets hope we don't reincarnate in another world selected for a demon war
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No. 1002316 ID: 30b9f6

Tell them it's good to see them again.

Tell them a little of what happened since their deaths, a mix of the good and the bad. Not too much at once if they don't know anything. Those are worldly concerns and you guess you're done with those. For now.

It's up to the next generation, besides, so unless you can send a message from beyond the grave to watch out for mind-controlling beasts who make themselves more powerful by using the power of people with powers to subsume souls - fucking hell - there's not much you can do.

Also, thank them for sticking around. You're touched by their friendship lasting through into death for all of seventeen years... wait, how does one measure time in death?
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No. 1002345 ID: b6d8ec

I have a feeling that the person who orchestrated that attack knew about Saba's powers of transferring souls...

Question, does Saba remember who was with him when he was recording those inheritence videos? Because he did mention his powers to his granddaughter Willamina, and the person who was with him during that time overheard it making them a possible suspect (the other person's voice was heard a little during the video)
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No. 1002355 ID: 50af53

>>1002345
It's not a bad theory and is certainly the most solid thing to snoop on, but with how Saba talks about the angels, they could easily get the resources to spy on someone specific like him.
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No. 1002356 ID: 50af53

>>1002345
It's not a bad theory and is certainly the most solid thing to snoop on, but with how Saba talks about the angels, they could easily get the resources to spy on someone specific like him.
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No. 1002381 ID: afe7de
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> Soul Quality
You take a moment to think, why are your souls different from the rest, and then a vague memory resurfaces. The peach tree of the immortals. It was something you found in a dungeon you conquered. It had 3 fruits, so the three of you each ate one. That must be why you’re spirits. That and you’ve absorbed the souls of a few assassins. You think you left it in your dungeon, but you can’t remember much about it. Might explain why you have arms and they have little balls for hands.

> Who was with you when you recorded the inheritance videos.
You try to remember a few things. You can only vaguely recall some things, but you remember about a year before you died recording videos with SHANK HADLEE. He was your first son and tinker. You can’t remember much more than that though.

> Do they have innate skills?
Their innate skills never woke up. You barely met 10 people in your lifetime with Innate Skills, at least that would admit it. Though it warrants asking them if they got one while they were in this “Limbo”

> Skip reincarnation and go back
You’re going to be honest here, you don’t really want to go back to that world. You saw your family get decimated and had given up long ago. If anything, you want to figure out how to reincarnate with Marth and Willamina instead, you don’t want to leave them behind, and they waited for you. Plus you didn’t get any good artifacts that would let you make a body when you were alive. Maybe if you kept dungeon-crawling instead of giving up 17 years ago things could be different. But it’s in the past now.

You: So did either of you ever awaken your innate skills?
Marth: No dice unfortunately. We spent a lot of time meditating, but couldn’t make any progress on that.
Willamina: You could probably ask the entity we’re going to see about it though.

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No. 1002382 ID: afe7de
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> Angels and Demons?
You: So do angels and demons run this place?
Willamina: No. We’re not sure what these entities that do are exactly, but they’re not angels or demons.
Marth: If I had to take a guess, maybe dimensional guardians? Gods? The energy here is VERY different from FAUNUS or a DUNGEON.
Willamina: The SOUL is given basically just enough energy to sustain itself here and a little more.
Willamina: We can’t really absorb much else here.
Marth: Always thought that Angels would run some sort of HELL, then send souls here to reincarnate after repenting, but none of us went there, so maybe that’s not a thing


The thought gives you pause, you normally would [UNDERSTAND] something from making this connection, but are drawing a blank, you need more information. You turn to other topics, trying to gather information as you travel. The structure is getting closer. You look at the souls near you and they appear to be mindless, simply following the procession, their SOULS must be too weak to resist.

> City of the Dead?
You: So is there a place where other SPIRITS gather? Looks like the SOULS here are kind of mindless.
Marth: Yeah, you could like grab one and drag it around with you, but if you stop concentrating it just goes back to the line.
Willamina: Don’t try to absorb one by the way, the guardians get mad about that kind of thing.
Willamina: And as for a gathering place. Well, our SOULS aren’t strong enough to breach the area.
Marth: Even though your SOUL is pretty fortified, much more than ours, there’s like this membrane out there. And like CHAOTIC energy.
Marth: Passing through the membrane without a proper understanding of whatever forces are out there would tear your soul asunder.
Willamina: We’ve witnessed a few spirits die that way, so we gave up.
Marth: the last spirit we met was around uhhhh let’s say 2 Faunus years ago. But she just reincarnated right away, was in a BIG rush.
Willamina: Her soul was MASSIVE too. Our theory was that she was some sort of cultivator, but we couldn’t get a word in.


> Retell the last 17 years and your death
Your memories are a bit foggy, so you give just a general overview of the past years. Of note you mentioned that you gave up on the Heroes League, Angels were their killers, and that you came back to Lyst to help raise your grandkids. Those are the main points you can remember anyway, there was something about a dungeon, but you can’t remember specifics. You can, however, remember your death, it’s like it’s been seared into your memory, and what’s strange about is that you’ve come to terms with it and have moved on, it bothers you, but not as much as you’d have thought.
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No. 1002383 ID: afe7de
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Marth: That’s a side effect of dying. The longer you spend in the void without maintaining consciousness, the harder it is to retain memories.
Willamina: Though something every soul has to do is come to terms with their death to reincarnate.
Willamina: At least that’s what it seems like from the Spirits we’ve talked to.
You: Oh right, and there was this… THING. It was gaseous and had sparkling lights like eyes in it, it shunted my soul out, what was that even.


Your two companions shrug, mentioning it kind of sounds like a guardian, except for the eye-like lights part. You can take a look at them since you’re almost near. You thank the two for sticking around. You’re genuinely touched that their friendship lasted beyond death for this long, but then you asked how they measured time in death.

Willamina: Oh, that. Well time works differently here, at first we didn’t know how to keep track of time.
Willamina: But then we spoke with one of the Guardians and they gave us some information.
Marth: Time here is measured in “Cycles” It’s a period around 8 Faunian years long.
Marth: They let us ask some questions every cycle, so we asked 2, but then requested to bank our future questions for when you arrived.
Willamina: You were always the brain, and us the muscle and charm.
You: Wow uh, haha, you two are such sweethearts hahaha.


You feel happy to just be near the two again. You vaguely remember being so frustrated and sad all the time. It’s refreshing. Willamina continues.

Willamina: And for something to chew over, we asked the following Questions:
Willamina: First. How can we observe what is happening in our Faunus while we wait?
Willamina: They showed us a technique, but we could only use it once every Faunian year without risking damaging our SOULS.
Marth: We basically checked in every year, alternating between checking you and checking the rest of the world.
Marth: Couldn’t check in on Sabarth, the League, or any Dungeon though.
Willamina: Second. How do we reincarnate in the same world?
Willamina: We have to link our spirits using the excess energy we’ve collected.
Willamina: Then the strings of fate that bind us in our new world will attempt to have us meet.
Marth: There’s nothing really left to see on Faunus to be honest, it was nice to see our grandchildren grow up slowly over time.
Marth: But frankly seeing them anymore will just hurt since we know we’re going to leave soon.
You: I’m not really interested in looking back down there anyway.

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No. 1002384 ID: afe7de
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You’re glad to know that you can reincarnate with your companions, and that there’s even a likelihood that you’ll meet in your new lives, what luck! You take a moment to reflect on the information you’ve just gained and see if you can gain any insights through your [UNDERSTANDING]. Left unmentioned is the CALL It’s a desire you can feel deep inside of you to reincarnate. The two of them have been fighting it for years, and to you it just feels like a slight tickle in the back of the mind. It probably grows in intensity the longer you stay here.

Next is that observation technique, you have little to no interest in using it because it only lets you see and hear from someone’s third person perspective for around 5 minutes. You can’t interact with them or leave a message, so you disregard the thought of using it. Plus you’re just GENUINELY AFRAID that that entity will detect your soul and will do something to whoever you appear near, best to play it safe. You also take a moment to ponder the SOUL LINKING technique. You [UNDERSTAND] that it can also be used to exchange energy. You’ll just call the energy SOUL POINTS for now. You can feel innately that you have around 10-12 SOUL POINTS. And that your companions have between 4 and 6 SOUL POINTS.

You look in the distance, and now that you focus you can kind of see the membrane they were talking about. Behind it appears to be a void, but your [UNDERSTANDING] tells you something different, that there’s energy out there. You look harder and it becomes slightly transparent, you can make out what appears to be space? Maybe a nebula? But it’s CHAOTIC and PASSIONATE. You could almost call it LUSTFUL, but disregard the last thought because it sounds inane. There are bolts of energy traveling at speeds you can’t grasp. It’s all… Wavy?

You shake your head, a headache forming. Or maybe a Soulache? It passes in a moment. The membrane becomes opaque again, harder to see through, looks like you have to focus to make anything out. And you’re in front what you thought was a structure, you realize it's not a structure, but a fracture in the void, multitudes of shards that each showcase a different world, it's incredibly pretty and you catch glimpses of strange worlds, technologies and powers that even your [UNDERSTANDING] has trouble comprehending.
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No. 1002385 ID: afe7de
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Eventually you reach the end of the line and see a rather large shard, it extends upwards and vaguely forms the shape of a sword. A spherical and undulating shard stands in front of it, linked somehow, it’s bright white and kind of like static. You see spirits floating into it, as the background changes every second, making it hard to keep track of where it's going. You attempt to [UNDERSTAND] the device and only get the vague idea that it's a portal that leads your spirit to a new world to reincarnate in. To it's side lie two figures. One is a bright yellow humanoid, the other a deep purple squid-like entity. They both look like bright nebulae. The bright yellow entity floats towards you. You [UNDERSTAND] it to be a GUARDIAN, it’s power is immeasurable, and although it looks similar to the thing that killed you, you can tell that this entity is far superior, and for some reason you can feel… compassion coming from it? This is despite it’s posture being less then friendly. You’re not sure how, but it starts speaking to you, maybe it’s telepathic? Either way, the voice is soft and clear, like teenage choir boy.

YELLOW GUARDIAN: Ah, the KARMALINGS have arrived with their companion in tow. You may call us the YELLOW GUARDIAN. That one is the PURPLE GUARDIAN.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: We can see that you have bolstered your soul, good. That will help you in your next life and beyond.


Marth and Willamina both express their intent to forfeit their questions to you, and the guardian nods.

YELLOW GUARDIAN: Things are calm and there hasn’t been any troublemakers in several cycles, so we permit this one to ask THREE questions.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: However, per our arrangement, now that your companion has arrived, you will reincarnate this cycle.


Unlike the previous dialog segment, these choices will be picked one update at a time to give you a chance to formulate future questions. The majority question will be selected, in the case of a tie I will pick the question that will award you the most useful information, or pick one at random. This is your chance to get hints or secrets about reincarnation, so use it wisely!
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No. 1002389 ID: f8fa51

Is there a way to retain some information when we reincarnate?
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No. 1002393 ID: 094652

"Why do angels and demons exist?"
"What is the purpose of refining souls?"
"How much control do we have over our future selves?"
"Why is throwing ourselves into one last fight with the unending chaos bad?"
"Are you doing this forever, or..."
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No. 1002394 ID: 8483cf

How can I help break the cycle?
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No. 1002395 ID: 96c896

Yes, asking questions is mostly pointless if we can't retain any information. Knowing how to do that is the first priority.
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No. 1002403 ID: ba475e

>>1002395
Then, change "is there a way" to "how".
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No. 1002465 ID: 50af53

>>1002389
Likely has to do with the bolstering of our souls it mentioned.

Why is any of this? It all feels set in place for a purpose. Of they don't know the answer, elaborate on what they might know it have theorized themselves.
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No. 1002474 ID: afe7de
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You take a moment to think over what questions you want to ask. There are lots of options, one might say too many options. Asking about Angels and Demons could be important, but wouldn’t lead to useful information RIGHT NOW. Knowing the purpose behind refining souls would be interesting, but wouldn't help your [UNDERSTANDING] of whats happening now. Breaking the cycle of reincarnation would be interesting to know, but you dont FEEL like you’ve lived enough lives to warrant either heaven or ceasing to exist. Though if you wanted to stop existing you could go out into the CHAOTIC energy. That’d probably do it.

You really want to know more about this place, maybe the future questions you ask will help give you a glimpse into it. All you can tell about it is that it’s to reincarnate souls, some sort of processing line. Both your [UNDERSTANDING] and a more fundamental thought in your mind lends itself to that. You think about the possibility of living another life and come to a question, it’s simple, but might lead to more enlightenment.

> How to retain information between reincarnations
You: How can I retain some information when I reincarnate?
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Ah, an excellent question. There are several ways.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Once one enters the POOL, linked or otherwise, one with enough KARMA may spend it in a variety of ways.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: One may opt to not spend Karma on retaining memories, and there is a fixed .001% chance of regaining memories.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Most Karmalings do this, however, the ones that fall in that small percentage sometimes feel they have “Past Lives”
YELLOW GUARDIAN: We will show you a way to do it more efficiently.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Should you chose to opt out, this information will still be helpful in that your spirits will have an increased likelihood of remembering.

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No. 1002475 ID: afe7de
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The guardian explains some high level concepts to you that through your [UNDERSTANDING] you are able to comprehend a fraction of. You give the watered down explanation to your companions and they nod.

You have gained a new INSIGHT into reincarnation.
The cost for keeping a portion your collective memories intact in some form has been reduced.
The fixed odds of remembering your memories collectively without input have been improved to 10%.


The Yellow guardian points to each of you in order and says a number. Willamina’s number is 7, Marth’s number is 5, and your number is 13.

YELLOW GUARDIAN: That is how much excess KARMA your soul contains.

You take a moment to reflect, so that energy you called SOUL POINTS earlier was actually called KARMA? Looks like your calculations were off too. Your [UNDERSTANDING] speaks to you again, it’s nice to finally get something to flex your mental muscles on for a change. You now know that there is some form of “SHOP” for reincarnation. It probably won’t appear as such a construct, and will more be about where you split your focus. It seems that some things will require more focus than others. Willamina and Marth have no comment, they trust you completely.

You then think about your tinker, engineering, and science skills, you still have memories related to that. You ask Willamina if she still remembers Runecrafting, the skill associated with creating magical artifacts, she nods, but reminds you of the difficulties and practicality of it, just like your old world. Marth doesen’t have a specific skill, though he was a fledgling scientist in his youth, after all, you met when he came to one of your lectures.

Armed with the knowledge you plan your next question.
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No. 1002482 ID: 96c896

>>1002475
Well if you're abandoning your old world then you're essentially following the path of Karma farming as there really is no other point to reincarnation. Like that "cultivator". May as well play the long game and save big questions for your next reincarnation, when you have the karma to make bigger moves.
Considering your friends have no innate skill and have less than 10 Karma while you have more, my guess is that once you've earned 10 Karma in your mortal life, you gain your innate skill.

Ask how to effectively build Karma.

Well, either that or there's other things you can do during reincarnations... you could ask what long term goals Karmalings have, but I suspect it's just various ways of building Karma and spending it, which might waste the question.
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No. 1002490 ID: 094652

You've made mistakes that had vast-reaching consequences. You've lived a rich life and your last will and testament was a jumbled mess of prophecies and heartbreak.
So the question is, what's the metric for KARMA? What is the one thing on the list you've ever truly wanted to be without the universe breathing down your neck?
Perhaps that is the one thing you need to retain.
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No. 1002516 ID: f2320a

>>1002475
We should ask about how to most effectively earn this so called karma
And probably save our questions for later when we have more of it
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No. 1002522 ID: 50fc6a

Best way to earn karma.
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No. 1002554 ID: 9a2966

How about WHAT is Karma?

Should give you some clue on how to earn it, too, and better aid your [UNDERSTANDING].
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No. 1002557 ID: afe7de
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> What is the Most Effective way to earn KARMA?
You want to know how to best earn karma, you’re sure that if you have this knowledge, maybe you can find effective ways to USE it. At least, that’s what your [UNDERSTANDING] tells you.

You: What’s the most effective way to earn KARMA?
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Hmm, To tell you that, We’ll need to tell you a little about KARMA, that should be fine.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: KARMA, is essentially energy brought about by ACTIONS, LIFE, DEATH, and CHANGE.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Think of a planet like a ball of energy, it builds up over the course of the planet’s history and will be chock full of KARMA.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: It has to do nothing, and it lives a long life, generating KARMA through the natural lifespans of the KARMALINGS that inhabit it.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: The KARMALINGS that live in it however, have relatively short lifespans.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Barely long enough to build a few points of KARMA, barring exceptional individuals.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Some mortals think that being morally “good” or “bad” will increase or decrease it, that’s not the case.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: To effectively build KARMA without techniques or external intervention one must impact the world in some way.


You’re being given a lot of information at once. It’s a lot to take in, but it seems the guardian has more to say too. You try to listen as intently as possible, absorbing any and all information they give you.

YELLOW GUARDIAN: Unfortunately techniques and external intervention varies from dimension to dimension.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: And we’re not allowed to give out Cultivation techniques.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: We can, however give you three small hints.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: First. Meditation, practice from a young age and focus one’s mind.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: It’s a way to UNDERSTAND your soul, the karma within it, and the like.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Should one eventually receive enlightenment through meditation, one might be able to break through their body’s constraints.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: And in doing so, enact CHANGE, granting you KARMA, the ability to absorb your planet’s KARMA, or the ability to manipulate it in some way.

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The purple guardian looks in your direction and shouts, their voice is loud, arrogant, and seductive, like a professional businesswoman.

PURPLE GUARDIAN: OR YOU COULD JUST KILL LOTS OF SHIT.
PURPLE GUARDIAN: YOU GET VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF KARMA FROM THAT, BUT KILL ENOUGH AND IT BUILDS UP!
PURPLE GUARDIAN: STRONGER TARGETS REWARD MORE KARMA.
PURPLE GUARDIAN: THOUGH SOME CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS MULTIPLY THE AMOUNT GAINED.


The yellow guardian shrugs as the purple guardian continues to get the procession moving.

YELLOW GUARDIAN: Yes, or that.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: And for our third hint.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Here are the dimensional coordinates for a specific dimension.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: We cannot disclose the contents of said dimension, but it will be of help.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Unfortunately, your souls are too weak to pay the cost AND spend KARMA on anything else.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Maybe on your next life.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: If one wishes to go there, we would recommend being lucky, or it will be a short life.


You have gained several new INSIGHTS into reincarnation.
You’ve acquired the dimensional coordinates for Dimension 88-H, a high ranking dimension. DIFFICULTY LEVEL HELL
You’ve learned how to generate KARMA whilst in a mortal body. Passive Karma gain has increased by 10%.
You’ve learned about Meditation’s effect on the mind.
-Meditation will now increase the Perserverence stat.
-Meditation now has a higher likelihood of leading to breakthroughs.
-Your first meditation based breakthrough will be 50% less difficult.
-Future meditation based breakthroughs will be 10% less difficult.

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You roll the information around in your head and [UNDERSTAND] a few new things. The first is that just by doing things in mortality, you generate KARMA. You can approximate that most mortals generate about 1-2 karma per life, as evidenced by the masses of souls near you. You also [UNDERSTAND] that the immortal peach gave each of you at least 2, maybe 3 KARMA. You also know that absorbing your foes spirits gave you some amount of KARMA. Your [UNDERSTANDING] also tells you that you don’t absorb ALL of their spirit, leaving around 1 KARMA behind so that they can reincarnate. Maybe it’s a restriction on your power?

And then there’s KARMA itself, it’s a strange nebulous thing, given the information you’re getting. Maybe it’s like a fundamental energy of the universe. Err. The dimensions? It’s hard to tell. Your [UNDERSTANDING] is failing you here. It confuses you too because you can sense CHAOS and PASSION out there in the void, maybe all three are important, maybe they combine to eachother. Your mind aches so you give up the train of thought for now.

You also think you understand a bit about the body’s constraints bit. Your world had something called a “GROWTH” that you would attain after killing enough creatures or training enough. Maybe it’s something similar? But Marth went through at least 5 growths, and his spirit isn’t any stronger. Your [UNDERSTANDING] takes a guess for you, and your assumption is that your universe had a SYSTEM in place that converted KARMA into growth of the BODY. So instead of emboldening your spirit, it emboldened your mortal flesh, which was probably necessary given the environment.

This also leads you to another assumption, that Willamina’s soul might be stronger because she’s a magician. She had to meditate a lot and grow her power that way. The other assumption you have is that because she birthed so many children with you and Marth, she gave LIFE and CHANGE to the world, which gave her KARMA. Your soul is starting to ache again from all the complex calculations you’re doing, so you take a deep breath and calm down.

You ask if you can keep your next question, making sure to express this isn’t one of the three questions to the YELLOW GUARDIAN, for your next reincarnation. The entity shakes their head and lets you know that it’s now or never, as there is a chance you will end up in a completely different reincarnation pocket. You mull this over. There’s a lot of options left that you could ask and each question has given you certain insights into how things work. A spark of ingenuity hits you. The guardian said that it couldn’t give you a cultivation technique, but didn’t say it couldn't provide external intervention. What if you just asked the entity for KARMA?

You look to Willamina and Marth, both chattering away about the revelations they’ve been handed. You get no new information from them, but they seem interested in your idea of just asking for KARMA. Ultimately they leave the decision up to you, there might be another, more important question for you to ask, so you take a bit to think about it.
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No. 1002588 ID: df2fd6

Hmmm... if we do decide to request for Karma, we can mention how back in our world, there was an elf that had very valuable answers to questions, and would sometimes let you trade them for a lotta bux. If we are allowed to, you'd like to trade your last question for some KARMA please. All requested without it being in a form of a question so if he says no, you can still ask one more question

But if we go to the question route, I'd probably ask if Guardians can enter people's worlds, because you came across something gaseous that may have looked like a guardian which took your soul out of your body.

That, or if there are any laws that you need to follow as karmalings throughout your reincarnation journey, laws that cant be broken. He did mention there has been troublemakers before.

One of those three options. I cant decide. I'll let other suggestors pick
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No. 1002594 ID: 031458

I would ask for insight on how utilizing Karma efficiently here to enhance the soul.
We got dimensions to go to, lives to remember, and at least one passive (lucky) to get.
It's effect would be similar to asking for karma directly, but would perhaps be more likely to succeed.
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No. 1002595 ID: 96c896

>>1002559
>different reincarnation pocket
Ah, that means there are other Guardians. There remains a small possibility that the thing that killed you was a Guardian. Far more likely it was an extremely powerful Angel though.

>chaos, passion, karma
Well, chaos is an extreme form of change. Passion is often necessary for change, and can be incited by change as well. It would make sense for them to be interlinked.

If you can gain Karma by enacting change... the biggest change you could trigger is a successful defense against the demon-angel war. Just knowing that it exists is enough, though, isn't it? Hmm...
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No. 1002600 ID: ba475e

I'm against requesting karma directly. Our strength is in knowledge, let's max it up.
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No. 1002632 ID: afe7de
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> How to use Karma to enhance the soul
You: You mentioned we could SPEND KARMA when we reincarnate. What’s the most efficient way to do that.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Hmm. The KARMA adaptation system is already extremely efficient with only a pure loss of about .01% of ones KARMA when reincarnating.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: But that’s essentially a reincarnation tax, we get so many souls it’s just used to keep the system running.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: But your question was specifically on efficient ways to SPEND it on oneself. Hmm.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Well, most KARMA “purchases” you can make mostly effect your mortal body.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: And whilst linked one can make “purchases” on behalf of the group.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: There are very few things you can do to increase your soul’s strength other than by gaining more Karma.


The four of you end up getting into a philosophical debate about what constitutes itself as essential for a fledgling soul to grow and enhance itself. Eventually after hearing your various points of view the guardian presents their opinions.

YELLOW GUARDIAN: Hmm, well the most direct way to improve your soul’s strength would be to condense it.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: It makes the KARMA purer, but unfortunately that wouldn’t do you any good unless you found a way to utilize the energy.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: And for that you require LUCK, ENLIGHTENMENT, or something similar.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: So instead I present two suggestions.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: First, to invest in ones MENTAL STRENGTH. That will provide Tenacity, Willpower, and Mental Clarity.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Second would be to invest in one’s body. Some individuals have naturally athletic and healthy bodies.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: If one does not have to focus on their body, one will have time for other activities like meditation or seeking out hidden pieces.

You: Hidden pieces?
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Unfortunately you have used up all of your questions. Try to understand through implication, rather than direct answers.
YELLOW GUARDIAN: Creative and inquisitive minds tend to have an easier time finding their way.

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No. 1002633 ID: afe7de
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The yellow guardian waves you away, informing you that the next time you visit you will need to reincarnate per their agreement with Willamina and Marth. The two guardians wave at you as you head off to an area beside the structure. You look back and get a closer look at the giant sword in the sky. It’s fractured like the other shards but it gives off a strange alluring energy. You can’t [UNDERSTAND] it very much, but your understanding tells you that it’s definitely a SWORD, not a CROSS. You look back to your companions, it’s quiet so you take a moment to reflect whilst Marth and Willamina converse.

You have gained several new INSIGHTS into reincarnation
The cost to for a HEALTHY physique has been reduced to 0 and you will be guaranteed a healthy body throughout your next life
The cost to gain an ATHLETIC physique has been reduced
The cost to gain a POWERFUL physique has been reduced
The cost to increase your MENTAL STRENGTH has been reduced
You have learned how to condense the KARMA in your body
-This halves your total KARMA (rounded up & must be purchased first)
-It’s side effects are unknown
You have unlocked extra options from the Reincarnation shop
You can purchase group options for your party


You take a moment to reflect on what you just learned and everything else. Your total karma is 15, Marth’s is 5, and Willamina’s is 7. You assume that you must spend ALL of your Karma or it will be applied randomly to your next body. You don’t have an exact list of things that you can purchase or apply, but have a general idea of things to expect.

Something to increase luck
Something to change your bodies natural physique
Something to increase your mental strength
Something to change where you go. But it’s expensive.
Something to retain information
Something about breakthroughs


There might be more options that appear when you actually reincarnate, but these are probably going to be the ones you see the most options for. You imagine there will also be options for Innate Skills, Supernatural Powers, and your natural wealth as well, but without direct confirmation it’s just a guess. One thing you definitely [UNDERSTAND] though is that while linked if you chose a destination, all three of you will go there, so you don’t need to pay the cost thrice. You suddenly feel a tendril extend from Willamina to you, and feel 2 KARMA enter your body. You’re very confused and bring yourself back to reality.

You: You. Why?
Willamina: You heard the spirit, you can make purchases on our behalf.
Willamina: We’re both going to stick with our 5 points and see where that gets us, but you’re smarter than us. By a long shot.
Willamina: You’ll definitely know how to spend these points on our behalf way more wisely than us.

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You’re once again touched by the generosity and love your partners are showing you. Part of you thinks you don’t deserve them. Then another part of you busts into the room, shoots that other part of you and says something to the effect of “No, you do, you worked hard, don’t think that again” and walks out. You begin to wonder about your past lives, did you reach the peak of souls at one point and then get shunted back to the beginning? Or are you a fresh soul, a brand new start. You wonder about how souls are even made but then stop that train of thought and get back to your companions.

You: So let’s talk strategy. We’re going to get reincarnated into the same place, lets use the information we have now and see about what we can actually get.
Willamina: Well if its possible I’d like to invest in getting an Innate Skill.
Willamina: There’s no confirmation for if we can, but going by how useful yours is, I want one.
Marth: I’m interested in getting as powerful a natural physique as possible.
Marth: Having monstrous strength for little effort will definitely come in handy.
You: Then there’s keeping memories. We could all chip in on that or I could pay the cost.
Willamina: I’m down with splitting the cost.
Marth: Yeah, since we both have 5 now, let’s assume that covers both of our Karma loads.


Time flies as you chatter about ideas on what to actually spend karma on with the group when the sound of a large bell tolls.

Willamina: The next Cycle is coming soon. We must’ve been talking for longer then we thought. Last thoughts anyone?

Willamina plans to focus on getting an INNATE SKILL, PARTIAL MEMORY RETENTION, and SOMETHING RANDOM
Marth plans to focus on their PHISIQUE, PARTIAL MEMORY RETENTION, and SOMETHING RANDOM
This is your chase to change their focus, ask them any lingering questions, or have a conversation that might lead to another INSIGHT.

After this you’ll jump right into reincarnation purchases and character creation will begin!
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No. 1002637 ID: 094652

Definitely get partial memory retention.
Spread the remaining points evenly, don't try to excel until you're asked to.
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No. 1002639 ID: 031458

A location: so we stay together.
Full memory retention -or- Full knowledge retention: We've spent our whole life gaining knowledge. It is our power.

If both of those can be gotten for 9 Karma or less, Condense karma First.

If there is anything left over, INCREASE MENTAL STRENGTH of yourself or the group. If there is somehow more left over, get INNATE SENSORY POWERS or IMPROVED PHYSIQUE for yourself or the group.
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No. 1002648 ID: 858699

They said they checked up on their family. You know all your family members are most likely gone now, but ask Willamina how they were the last she checked on them and you, and her thoughts, if only to reminiscent a little for closure on that story of your life.

Ask Marth how his family's been. Is Oriel still running around naked everywhere?
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No. 1002652 ID: e51896

Oh! I realize something.
If we reincarnate together, we're probably not going to meet again for a while until you're all much older years later after birth... unless you all become triplets.

We're also probably not going to have our same namr, or look the same as we did in our past live either, like we might become a different species other than human or beast-kin.

With that in mind, you all need a code word so that when you eventually meet again in the next life, you will know for sure they are Willamina and Marth, and they'll know who you are.

Code word: Ankh's locked door

Ankh is the key of life, so by saying that, they will open the figurative locked door between your life and their life.

Also, suggest during their infant years to MEDITATE as much as they can, because, well, thats all they can really do at that stage in life, so may as well get a head start
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> Location, so you stick together
You remember being told that as long as you are SOUL LINKED, that you’ll end up in the same dimension, so there’s no need to enter a random destination as your destination is already random. Well, unless you pick that specific dimension to go to.

> Ask about their families
You ask Marth about his half of the family and he replies with a sad expression.
Marth: No idea. I couldn’t see them. Whenever I tried it was like looking through a deep fog.
Marth: I could only see what Sabarth was doing once before I stopped being able to see him.
Marth: So I assumed they were dead or worse.
Willamina: And you were with the remnants of our families.
Willamina: Did you ever figure out who my actual parents were?
You: Only that they were West Fluxtopans but uh, that continent doesn't exist anymore.


You explain World War 3 to them and the destruction of that continent. They’re both in shock. But suddenly Marth just laughs.

Marth: HAHAHA, I cant believe those racists blew themselves up in the end.
Willamina: Don’t you have West Fluxtopan ancestry?
Marth: Yeah, but they’ve been problematic for a long time. Sucks that good people died, but the world’s probably better off at this point to be honest.
You: I agree. Their eugenics and anti polygamist attitudes were counterproductive to world progress in the end.

> Code Phrase
You: What if we had a cool code phrase for when we see each-other again!
Marth: Ooooh I like that idea. We should pick something super corny!
Willamina: Something about an Ankh Maybe. That’s weird and specific and literally never comes up in conversation.
You: What about I say something like “Have you heard about the Locked Ankh door?”
Marth: Ooh, then I say something like “It’s supposed to open the door between our lives?”
Willamina: I like it. Let’s do that!
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No. 1002702 ID: afe7de
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There’s nothing else to really discuss, you suggest if they have any points left over to increase their mental strength or something and head off to the two guardians. They nod at you and move aside the procession of souls. You get one last look at the souls, focusing on the one in front. It’s strange seeing one up close like this, not being sucked into you or another being, this one has two red eyes, you have the faintest feeling of something strange, but you disregard that feeling. You link with your partners, a whitish blue line wisping between the three of you. It’s a warm sensation. Comfortable, safe. You all take deep breaths and walk through the pool. It feels like you’re walking through water, and as you go through you feel yourself being sucked in. The speed at which you are moving is increasing rapidly until you aren’t able to tell if you’re moving or not. The surroundings are white. Almost like you are in a featureless room.

Things continue like this for a moment before the lines between you and your partners feels strained. You maintain your hold and they do as well, when your soul feels like its being compressed, you and your companions return to an orb-like form, being squeezed for your KARMA. Your [UNDERSTANDING] tells you that now is the time to spend your KARMA, but how? You try splitting your focus on things that you want when a small, humanoid creature with… glasses? That you can’t identify appears in front of you.
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No. 1002703 ID: afe7de
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[WELCOME TO THE KARMA SHOP, YOUR TOTAL KARMA IS 15, PLEASE SELECT YOUR PURCHASES]

A screen appears in front of you, it’s not too hard to focus and looks like it’s operated by your mind. Weird that the guardians didn’t tell you that it would appear as a literal shop construct, or entity, but your [UNDERSTANDING] lets you know that the form it appears is unique to each individual, this is just the most easy to parse way for you apparently. You look through the list quickly and notice there’s things you were expecting, and sections you weren’t expecting. There’s no larger menu, but you [UNDERSTAND] something new. That if you ask more questions the next time you reincarnate, or learn more about KARMA, that more options will open up to you. Everything in “[]s” is something that your [UNDERSTANDING] has let you know.


PHISIQUE
0 - You and your companions will gain and maintain a HEALTHY physique throughout your adolescence
1 - You will gain an ATHLETIC physique and high metabolism
2 - You and your companions will gain ATHLETIC Physique and high metabolism
2 - You will gain a POWERFUL physique and ABNORMALLY HIGH metabolism
4 - You and your companions will gain a POWERFUL physique and ABNORMALLY HIGH metabolism
2 - Become a Combat Genius [You naturally know how to fight and can pick up different fighting styles with ease]
5 - You and your companions are all Combat Geniuses

MENTAL
2 - You and your companions will keep fragments of your MEMORIES [You’ll remember history, locations, people, and events from your past]
2 - You and your companions will keep fragments of your KNOWLEDGE [You’ll remember skills, techniques, and general academia]
5 - Mental Transfer [You and your companions will remember your all of memories and knowledge, becoming the dominant consciousness in the body by your adolescence]
1 - Keep your PERSERVERENCE [Making it easier for you to STUDY, WORK, and FOCUS with less breaks]
3 - Spreads your PERSERVERENCE to your companions as well
1 - Increases your natural APTITUDE [Making it easier to learn new skills and master at least one skill]
3 - Increases you and your companions natural APTITUDE
3 - Gain a GENIUS level APTITUDE
7 - You and your companions all gain GENIUS level APTITUDES
1 - Increase your MENTAL STRENGTH [Makes your mind clearer, increases resistance to charm, coersion, pain and other mental debuffs]
3 - Increase you and your companions MENTAL STRENGTH
1 - You and your companions will gain bonuses from MEDITATION
3 - You and your companions meditate at 3x the speed of normal MEDITATION
2 - Early development [Your brain develops faster than normal, allowing you to start interacting with the world at an earlier age]
4 - You and your companion’s brains go through Early development

SUPERNATURAL
3 - You and your companions will gain an INNATE SKILL suited to your personality in your youths
2 - Keep your INNATE SKILL [This will reawaken in your adolescence]
1 - Gain a different INNATE SKILL [This will reawaken in your adolescence]
3 - Gain supernatural powers in your youth, The chances of your companions gaining supernatural powers increases to 66%
6 - You and your companions gain complimentary supernatural powers in your youth
2 - You gain the ability to live without sleep, instead requiring 2 hours of meditation a day
5 - You and your lovers gain the ability to live without sleep, requiring 2 hours of meditation a day
1 - Become MODERATELY LUCKY
2 - You and your companions become a LITTLE LUCKY
4 - Become EXTREMELY LUCKY
6 - You and your companions become MODERATELY LUCKY
9 - You and your companions become EXTREMELY LUCKY

REALITY
+1 - Gain a KARMA, you and your companions will be born with LITTLE TO NO wealth
1 - You and your companions will be born with MODEST wealth
2 - You and your companions will be born with VAST wealth
+2 - Gain 2 KARMA, You and your companions will be born in a war-torn country
0 - You and your companions will be born in a small, relatively unknown country
1 - You and your companions will be born in a relatively normal country
2 - You and your companions will be born in the country of a world superpower
+3 - Gain 3 KARMA, You and your companions will be born as slaves [or whatever equivalent there is]
3 - You and your companions will be born into Royalty [Or whatever equivalent there is]
30 - Gurantees you and your companions will live a normal, happy life, blessed with luck, until your collective deaths

BONDS
1 - Forming bonds with others becomes easier
1 - Have a CHILDHOOD BOND with your companions [Making it easier to find and stay with them]
1 - Have an ADOLESCENT BOND with your companions [Making it easier to find camaraderie with them and mutual interest in fields of study]
1 - Have an ADULTHOOD BOND with your companions [Making it easier for you to end up in the same workplace, forming a bond there]
3 - You and your companions have an easier time forming bonds with others
3 - Popularity is easily gained, making it easy to become a leader or public figure
7 - Popularity for you and your companions is easily gained, making it easy for all of you to become public figures

KARMA
X - Halves your total Karma, condensing it. [Effect unknown, Leaves you with 8 remaining Karma]
10 - Passive Karma gain for you and your companions increases by 20% [to 30%]
15 - Increase the likelihood of you or your companions finding a KARMA cultivation technique to 5% at some point in your lives
128 - Increase likelihood of you or your companions finding a KARMA cultivation technique to 88% at some point in your lives

DESTINATIONS
15 - Go to any specific dimension, Current options:
- Go to dimension 88-H [WARNING, YOU MAY NOT SURVIVE]
25 - Get the dimensional coordinates of a dimension you have memories from

DIMENSIONAL PURCHASES [Most persist between reincarnations and cannot be taken away, and can be purchased multiple times]
1 - Gain a dimensional pocket that can hold ONE object up to .5 Meter Cubed [Acts as an inter-spatial ring, available at some point in your youth, time is frozen inside]
2 - 1x The Mystery box [??? Maybe gives you something ??? One time use]
3 - 1x Mysterious Encounter [???]
5 - Gain a dimensional pocket that is .25x.25 Meters cubed
12 - Gain a personal artificial Karma Spirit [???]
15 - Gain a dimensional pocket that is 1 Meter cubed
20 - 1x Memory fragment [Allows you to view a random past life that you do not remember from a third person perspective, automatically used in your youth, one time use]
100 - Dimensional logbook [Allows you to view your dimensional travel history, gaining the coordinates of the places you’ve been]
500 - Low tier Karma cultivation technique

ODDS
Odds of finding a Karma technique in one life - .00001%
Odds of remembering collective memories - 10%
Odds of encountering a linked companion - 50%
Odds of You Awakening an Innate Skill - 88%
Odds of Marth Awakening an Innate Skill - 44%
Odds of Willamina Awakening an innate skill - 55%
Odds of being born in the same country - 100%
Odds of being born in the same town or city - 12%

You can feel the pressure squeezing on you. It’s bearable for now, but you get the feeling once you select your options that your KARMA will be squeezed out of you and you’ll be reborn. You can feel that Willamina and Marth have both made their choices and are waiting on you, unfortunately you can’t communicate or tell what they’ve picked, you [UNDERSTAND] it to be a feature of this room. Maybe if your soul was stronger you could talk to the entity, but who knows what good that would do at this stage. There’s one last thing you notice, that entity in front of you feels strange, motherly almost. You imagine if someone came back with knowledge from here they might even call them a goddess. Could this be your world’s goddess? You shake the thought away and get back to business. What do you chose?

So there’s a lot here. Basically, I’m going to pick the most suggested things, then go down from there, if there’s a tie on the final selections I’ll pick the most beneficial ones for you. And any leftover points will be assigned randomly. If you pick an option that your companions have already chosen you will be refunded and the next most suggested thing will be picked. For example, if Marth picked a POWERFUL Physique for himself and you give everyone a powerful Physique, it will only cost 2 Karma to upgrade it, and you’ll have a floating 2 Karma that will automatically get spent.

Once this is done, we’ll be on to your new life, which is basically extended character creation, look forward to it!

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No. 1002704 ID: e7c7d3

3 - Increases you and your companions natural APTITUDE
3 - You and your companions will gain an INNATE SKILL suited to your personality in your youths
2 - You and your companions become a LITTLE LUCKY
1 - You and your companions will be born with MODEST wealth
1 - You and your companions will be born in a relatively normal country
1 - Have an ADOLESCENT BOND with your companions [Making it easier to find camaraderie with them and mutual interest in fields of study]
3 - Popularity is easily gained, making it easy to become a leader or public figure
1 - Gain a dimensional pocket that can hold ONE object up to .5 Meter Cubed
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No. 1002711 ID: e51896

>>1002702
Oh, Hi SET. Guess she didn't make it.

>>1002703
Lets see...

5 - Mental Transfer [You and your companions will remember your all of memories and knowledge, becoming the dominant consciousness in the body by your adolescence]
(so we can remember each other, and our past life)

3 - You and your companions meditate at 3x the speed of normal MEDITATION
(we were told meditation was a really good way to gain karma)

2 - Keep your INNATE SKILL [This will reawaken in your adolescence]
(understanding is important)

1 - Have a CHILDHOOD BOND with your companions [Making it easier to find and stay with them]
(best to stay together early on)

keep the 4 karma we have left for the next life.
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No. 1002714 ID: 0fae41

0: Companions base physique
2: Powerful physique (self)
2: Memory fragments.
2: Keep UNDERSTANDING.
1: Gain a new innate skill.
+2: War torn country. If this is only the beginning of a struggle spanning lifetimes, it's time to get forged in battle.
1: Adulthood bond. Let childhood and adolescence broaden our experience bases.
X: Condense karma.
1: small hammerspace
9 total condensed karma spent.
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No. 1002715 ID: 094652

Physique
-2 Party Athletic
Mental
-5 Mental Transfer
-3 Spread Perseverance
Supernatural
-2 Keep Innate Skill
Reality
+0 Small, Relatively Unknown Country
Bonds
-3 Party Bonds
Supernatural
-1 Keep Innate Skill

Have your party physically and mentally well-balanced at the beginning so they have no general weaknesses, and no envy for you hoarding any kind of advantage over them. You would give them your Understanding if they could.
Start in obscurity, any physical mental trauma you pick up from war or enslavement will really hurt your development.
Don't worry about meeting each other immediately. You got this far as Saba Haydee by making friends. Besides, it seems Set is going to follow along, so bring Bonds to recruit her permanently.
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No. 1002727 ID: ce39da

If nothing else, >>> Mental Transfer (5) <<<. Maintaining a continuous conscience is vital for your collective spiritual journey not to crumble the moment you complete a circuit and pass "Go."

As for what else, it's only fair that we spend 5 on ourselves (just like the others), leaving 5 more for the group.

0 - HEALTHY bodies for all
It's free. A'doy. I think it's safe to assume that it'll get overwritten if the others pick anything better.

3 - MENTAL STRENGTH (Collective)
Neither of your fellows stated themselves to be focusing on this, and it's pretty important for extra-life development.

1 - You and your companions will gain bonuses from MEDITATION
A no-brainer bonus if we want to improve our spiritual lot post-birth.

1 - ADOLESCENT BOND
Whether or not we get reunited in the next world is not something we leave up to chance. (Not even gonna chance us drifting apart before our past lives catch up to us.)

0 - Small, relatively unknown country.
I don't see much downside to this.

Personal stuff time!

2 - Keep your INNATE SKILL
UNDERSTANDING is busted in the spiritual long game, bro.

1 - Retain PERSERVERENCE
We want to maintain the smarts to make good use of our UNDERSTANDING, of course.

1 - Increase your natural APTITUDE
Our brain is our greatest strength, and our UNDERSTANDING will likely help us make that "true mastery" count go way above "at least one."

1 - Become MODERATELY LUCKY
This is also an important factor in KARMA gain. (Plus, it's a good fall-back if everything else fails.)

In terms of our general game-plan, we obviously can't rest on our laurels - we have to at least approach what we managed to accomplish if we even want to tread water with our memories intact. It's a game of constantly trying to match or outdo our past lives - the better we do in one life, the farther we'll be able to go in the next. So once we become aware, that's when we know the clock's started ticking, and it's time to hit the ground running.
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No. 1002728 ID: 96c896

>>1002702
Demon? Or angel? Hmm.

>>1002703
PHISIQUE
2 - You and your companions will gain ATHLETIC Physique and high metabolism

MENTAL
2 - You and your companions will keep fragments of your MEMORIES
2 - You and your companions will keep fragments of your KNOWLEDGE
(mental transfer is actually a bad idea, since it adds a lot of emotional baggage, and useless memories can get mixed up with useful ones, resulting in confusion. However, sticking together will require some memory inheritance, and inheriting knowledge is a huge advantage well worth 2 points)
1 - Keep your PERSERVERENCE
(if we always pick the "keep PERSERVERENCE" choice, we can keep raising it through reincarnations, as far up as it can go. hopefully our companions will take this one too. Right now it's not strong enough to merit picking the sharing perk though)
1 - You and your companions will gain bonuses from MEDITATION
1 - Increase your MENTAL STRENGTH

SUPERNATURAL
1 - Gain a different INNATE SKILL
2 - Keep your INNATE SKILL
(not sure if we'll be able to keep both innate skills next reincarnation, but having two is definitely strong)

REALITY
no

BONDS
1 - Forming bonds with others becomes easier
(Charisma is an important stat)
1 - Have an ADOLESCENT BOND with your companions
(childhood/adolescent/adult doesn't seem to matter but I prefer adolescent as it allows for more spread out families, which is better for having varied backgrounds and influences, without delaying the meetup too much)

KARMA
no

DESTINATIONS
no

DIMENSIONAL PURCHASES
1 - Gain a dimensional pocket that can hold ONE object up to .5 Meter Cubed
(the obvious object to choose would be a storage ring or something, so we can transfer multiple items between dimensions)
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No. 1002730 ID: afa6f6

>>1002703
2-You and your companions will gain ATHLETIC Physique and high metabolism
2-You and your companions will keep fragments of your MEMORIES
2-You and your companions will keep fragments of your KNOWLEDGE
3 - Spreads your PERSERVERENCE to your companions as well
1-You and your companions will gain bonuses from MEDITATION
2-Keep your INNATE SKILL
2-You and your companions become a LITTLE LUCKY
0-You and your companions will be born in a small, relatively unknown country
1-Have a CHILDHOOD BOND with your companions
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No. 1002731 ID: afa6f6

>>1002730
I think I'll switch Childhood Bond for Adolescent Bond after reading through other suggestions
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No. 1002732 ID: 031458

Let's go full Isekai Protagonists shall we?

This load out only invests 3 points strictly into ourselves and directs the rest to powerful group benefits. We will end up better than we were in this life, but our companions will be amazing.
There is some redundancy built into this with what we know they will be choosing, so we'll end up getting more than just this if these are selected.

5 - MENTAL TRANSFER - This is obscenely powerful. Having the wisdom of an adult and the ability to create clear life goals as a child is by itself incredible.
The fact that we know more than a few universal secrets makes this invaluable.

4 - EARLY DEVELOPMENT (GROUP) - Combined with Mental Transfer, this is basically a cheaper version of GENIOUS APTITUDE. You'll all basically get a 10+ year head start on your peers ON TOP OF the wisdom and knowledge you already have.

1 - KEEP PERSERVERENCE - It is necessary to lead.

2 - KEEP UNDERSTANDING - Your ability grants deep knowledge, but more importantly, truth. This cannot be replaced.

1 - CHILDHOOD BOND - With Transfer + Early Development, the sooner you meet, the more success you will have.

2 - A LITTLE LUCK (GROUP) - Luck is often VITAL for success. With all of our other benefits we shouldn't need much, but we still need a little.

0 - HEALTH FREE HEALTH FREE MONEY
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No. 1002734 ID: 96c896

Okay some people have misunderstandings.

>>1002711
>keep the 4 karma we have left for the next life.
We can't do that. Unspent karma is applied randomly.

>>1002714
Condensing karma gives us 8 points to spend, not 9.

>>1002715
The 0-point Reality perk you chose only affects the country's importance, not if it's war torn or not, and has no affect on our slavery status.
Set is going to a random destination since she's not soul linked or a Karmaling, so the chances of us meeting her are approximately 0... unless Demons have some easy way of tracking reincarnated souls and she has enough of a personal interest to follow Saba's. That's still a very low chance if you ask me.

>>1002727
Picking Mental Transfer does *not* give a continuous consciousness. Transferred memories will be given during adolescence, not at birth.
Our followers *did* agree to focus on mental strength.
The 0-point Reality perk does have a downside, it means we have no chance to wind up in a bigger country. The big country perks have costs so it can be assumed bigger is better. Also everyone already has a 100% chance to be in the same country so we don't need to spend points for that.

>>1002732
Mental Transfer happens during adolescence so we don't get an advantage as a child.
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No. 1002741 ID: 0fae41

>>1002734
Not when you add a karma booster for an extra 1 (2) point(s).
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No. 1002742 ID: 96c896

>>1002741
Oh, I see. You picked the +2 karma option and condensed afterwards, resulting in 9 to spend.
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No. 1002749 ID: 031458

>>1002734
>Mental Transfer happens during adolescence so we don't get an advantage as a child.
That is probably incorrect.
>becoming the dominant consciousness in the body by your adolescence

The process will likely be gradual, the memories emerging early if murkily as we develop, only becoming totally clear and dominant within our psyche by adolescence. Unless that "by" is meant to tell us that it can happen suddenly, at random, at any time, with adolescence being the latest. The latter sounds silly to me but is deffo possible.
Either way, Early Development would get us seen as geniuses by our peers early, and Transfer would get us treated as geniuses late. We will benefit from our new society more than if we did not pick them. Synergistic benefits exist there in either case.
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No. 1002764 ID: 96c896

>>1002749
Hmm, yeah that is very likely.
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No. 1002765 ID: 1df721

Mental Transfer is a must.
Party Athletic physique was recommended by the guardian.
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No. 1002771 ID: afe7de
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1002771

The entity notices you trying to read your parties purchases, waves their hand and lightens up the pressure on you just enough so that you can tell, you can’t communicate more beyond this, but it helps.

Willamina gave everyone a random Innate skill and has spent 2 points on Mental Transference.
Marth got a Powerful Physique for himself, and a supernatural power.

Looks like you’ll only have to spend 3 more points on Mental Transference. You were already planning on giving everyone Athletic Phisiques. When you do that, a point from Marth’s Powerful Physique becomes a floating Karma that he immediately puts into Mental Transference. Now you only have to invest 2 points in it. Time to go over your list of purchases.

-2 Group Athletic Physique
-2 Keep [UNDERSTANDING]
-5 Group Mental Transfer (2 from you, 2 from Willamina, 1 from Marth)
-3 Group PERSERVERENCE
-1 Group MEDITATION Bonus
-2 Group A little LUCK
-1 Group Adolescent BOND
-1 Forming BONDS with others becomes easier
-1 Single Item Dimensional Pocket


You put a lot of thought into your choices and ended up with this list. You spent about 4 points on yourself while the rest went into group upgrades. You’re a little tired of not being that charismatic, so you got the trait that makes forming BONDS with others easier. You also feel like [UNDERSTANDING] is almost cheat-like, and if you were to keep it, it might evolve in the future. Lastly your other choice, a Dimensional Pocket, sounds like it could be an infinitely useful tool.

The rest is pretty straightforward. You want everyone to be more than just healthy, able to take advantage of your perseverance, and lucky. You would nod if you could move your form at all, but instead you just accept the changes. The entity smiles at you with sharp, sharp teeth.

[THANK YOU FOR USING THE KARMA SHOP]
[RANDOMIZING DESTINATION]
[RANDOMIZING STARTING VALUES]
[RANDOMIZING SEED]
[DESTINATION SET - DIMENSION 18-Q]
[CONNECTION ESTABLISHED]
[MAY YOUR PASSION INCITE CHANGE]

You’ve gained the dimensional coordinates for dimension 18-Q!

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No. 1002772 ID: afe7de
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1002772

The entity in front of you starts to fade away along with the prompt as you feel your spirits being squeezed of their karma. It’s hard to focus but in the distance you see something, it’s sharp and approaching you at insane speeds. You think its… An eye, but no, you finally realize that it’s a giant maw. You panic and try to move, but you can’t. Your companions are in a similar predicament, and then, within a single motion, the mouth consumes you. You feel your soul being torn asunder, the Karma being forcefully extracted. It’s an incredibly painful and unpleasant experience. Your mind is slowly fading, but you keep your companions close. You want to be with them in the end. Until eventually, everything turns black. Your memory begins to fade, your experiences start to melt from your mind, and soon you are just left with the expanse. The void. There is no body, there is no mind. There is only silence.

Time passes, you’re not sure how much, you’re not even sure what time is. You’re not even sure what thoughts are. One thing eventually does come to you. It’s warmth. Comfort. You can’t hear anything, but it’s nice. You rest, your nearly nonexistent consciousness at ease. And you feel nothing.

Time passes, sensations start to come to you. You can feel these strange things on yourself. Once you were blobular, now you have these strange tubes connected to each-other. It’s… an uncomfortable sensation, so you try to move your tubes. You rub up against something with this lower appendage of yours and you hear noise for the first time. There’s another blob in here, and some sort of… wall? But you can’t see, and you’re not sure where the noise is from. So you go back to sleep. Maybe it’ll stop if you just sleep.

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No. 1002773 ID: afe7de
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1002773

Time passes, you’re moving around a bit more, experimenting, it’s comfortable. This is your home now. The other thing in here with you is facing away, so you aren’t feeling any discomfort. Suddenly you start to feel a pressure coiling down on you from your lower appendages to your head. At least, that’s what you’re calling them for now. Could be known as a Pleuroma and Affidavit for all you know. The pressure hurts, you feel yourself and the second being moving. It’s terrifying. You try to let out a noise, but no sound can be heard. Eventually your head becomes cold. Various sensations start to settle on you. Is this death? You don’t know what that is, you feel like you should, that you should be terrified, so you try to move, away from the cold. But more of your body gets covered in it. Eventually your “Head” is completely cold. You can hear things, everything is loud. There’s noises, and brightness and everything hurts. You cry out, terrified.

You just want to go back to the warm place, but something inside you tells you that’s not possible. You hear a snip, and various noises that are incomprehensible to you. There’s what appears to be screaming going on. It sounds extremely similar to yours, but different at the same time. You’re put in more warm liquid, so you stop crying, but then something rough touches you and covers you, but at that point you’ve calmed down and you focus on the other noises. There’s another snip, liquid, and a similar cessation of crying. You feel you are moved around and you reach out your hands. One touches the familliar entity, the one that was with you, the other touches a large, course thing. You hear a rough, gravelly voice say something. And a soft, compassionate voice say something else. You no longer feel terrified. It’s bright, but you take a chance. You open your eyes and get a look at the world for the first time. Things are blurry and it’s hard to focus.

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No. 1002774 ID: afe7de
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1002774

Gasps can be heard as you look at the two, no, three faces in front of you. They’re still very blurry, but they point to the other creature and say two words. Then they look at you and say another two words. Something tells you this must be your NAME.

What is your Name?
Feel free to also name your sibling.

What is your Race?
You may chose between a Human-like or Kin race. Unfortunately you did not have enough MAX KARMA to be born as anything else.
Humans can be any pigmentation, or fantasy subspecies that is vaguely humanoid (think dwarves, elves, orks, goblins, etc).
Kin can be any Animal race.

What is your Sex?
Male or Female?

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No. 1002775 ID: 094652

>Name
[None] -> Saba
You were not given a name at birth, so you decided to name yourself.
>Sex
Random
>Species
Rezan-Goblin Pros: Lengthened Lifespan, (extremely limited) cross-species fertility. Cons: Arrogant, Resentful, hated by mildly+ racist countries.
Long story short, dimension hijinks cause a small Rezan army to be plane-shifted here, they try to take over, get their asses kicked so hard they've fallen into obscurity and only two of the Goblin tribes accept them as kin. For now.

Alternatively: Gulpa.
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No. 1002776 ID: 0fae41

Bug-kin(Bee), female
Sabee Hadla
Hanna Hadla
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No. 1002777 ID: e51896

I'll think of a name and gender later

for kin, you are a Capybara
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No. 1002778 ID: 7f1230

raptor-kin, male
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No. 1002779 ID: e51896

To add on to my previous post >>1002777

female

your name is Cassidy Kardos

you have a brother name Atticus (if we can choose a species, he is an opossum)
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No. 1002782 ID: ce39da

Sibling: PON SABA

You: CHI SABA

You are a female raven-kin; your sibling is male.
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No. 1002785 ID: 8233ee

Ohh Saba, or instead Sava, both sound like good names. For your sibling, Reshi.

Raptor kin and Raven kin are both cool. Either work, or maybe a combo?

Sex I'll leave to a roll of the dice.
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No. 1002786 ID: e51896

Okay, I'm changing my vote to RAVEN

Female Raven

but our brother is a male white DOVE
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No. 1002796 ID: 9ba25d

>>1002775
Doubling down on half-Rezan something.
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No. 1002798 ID: afe7de
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1002798

> RAVEN and DOVE
A record scratch plays as time slowly reverses a bit. The shuffling of papers and incomprehensible screams can be heard by you the suggestors. The suggestors hear a “Fuck she was a bird? Don’t skip ahead next time...” We’re back to the moment before birth. Time begins to move forward again and you notice nothing. You’re still in the warmth. Still with that other body. You do feel compressed, but it’s less so. There’s muffled noises. Things are a little brighter, but it’s not time yet.

Time passes. You begin to feel something. So does your companion. It’s primal, it’s deep, it’s… Ravenous? You both decide to call this feeling… HUNGER. You touch your head and notice there’s a harder part. It opens and closes slightly at your whim. You hadn’t noticed, but you were consuming something. This… Jelly you’ve been entombed with. You can hear the noises of your companion doing the same. Soon the fluid is gone, you both take an experimental peck towards eachother, but scream at the same time. No. Not them. PAIN. But if not them, then what? You experimentally poke and prod at the membrane surrounding you. Something gives, and now the cold hits you. You nibble the membrane bit, it tastes good, you motion with your beak to the other one to do the same. Your eyes are closed, but you can hear it pecking. It’s cold, but THE HUNGER needs to be sated.

Eventually you break your head out. It’s bright, you keep your eyes shut. You’re not sure how you know they’re called eyes, but you do just the same. You hear cooing and cackling. All the noises are incomprehensible to you and it’s causing your head to ache. You let out a cry and keep eating the tasty membrane. You hear your companion break out and do the same. Another round of cooing and cackling with even more excitement occurs. There’s even a few gasps. Your eyes are glued shut, you won’t be ready for a little while to open them, but you hear four words spoken, One is directed towards you, the other towards your companion. You don’t know it yet. But those are your names. Crying can be heard.
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No. 1002799 ID: afe7de
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1002799

[YEAR 1]
A year has passed and you’ve opened your eyes. You’ve even started picking up bits and pieces of this thing called LANGUAGE. It’s a shame that you can’t fully understand everything yet, you tried saying these things called WORDS a few months ago but it came out as nonsense. You can’t even move like you want to. Your body is unresponsive most of the time. But YOU CAN WALK, albeit a bit goofily. It was cold for a while, but these things called FEATHERS grew in. They’re nice. Keep you comfortable. Safe. Soft, but aren’t developed fully. You look to your side and see your companion, your egg-mate, your brother and smile as best as a creature like you can. You playfully butt heads and preen eachother. There are small objects scattered about that you both like to mess around with.

The flapping of wings can be heard as someone comes in, landing on a nearby perch. They step down and claw steps can be heard. You want to do that thing they just did, that FLYING thing one day. You hear the voices of the large ones come by, two beings similar to the two of you come into vision, you look their way and they pick you up, saying two words to each of you. You’ve learned by now that these two words are your NAMES.

> CHI and PON
Your name is CHI SAVA, and you are a black RAVEN, you’re also a GIRL. You’ve picked up the word WING-KIN used before to describe you, but don’t know what it means yet. Your companion, in the arms of the other large one is PON SAVA, they are a white DOVE, he’s also a BOY, and he’s smaller than you. The third large one appears holding some objects but sets them down on a nearby elevated surface. He comes up to the two of you and ruffles your head feathers. You love this feeling. Pon does not. Now that you think of it, now might be a good time to take a look at THE LARGE ONES again. You know they’re your parents but its funny to think of them that way because they’re just so big! You’re feeling extra inquisitive today.

The one touching you has one eye, the other has been scarred somehow. You know them to be your FATHER. His name is DRACO SAVA and he is a bluish black raven with a shining coat. There is something dangling from his head in a Black, White, and Blue pattern. He turns around and grabs the objects, placing them in a nearby enclosure. It’s one of the places you’re allowed to wander around in without hearing loud words from your parents. You’re okay with that for now.

You turn to look at the one holding you. They’re beautiful, kind, and have been caring for you along with the one holding Pon for as long as you can remember. You know them to be your MOTHER. Her name is RIICHI SAVA and she is a white dove, the tips of her wings and beak are both red. You don’t know the significance of this. She sets you down in the enclosure and waits. Pointing at the objects behind you. But you patiently wait for Pon first, he gets a little finicky if you start having fun without him.

You turn to the one setting Pon down, she’s a beastly looking woman, with fierce eyes that honestly scare you a little bit. But her voice is the softest of your parents. Her feathers are a little ruffled. You think she’s a little stressed from taking care of the two of you, so you’ve been trying not to cause her trouble. You know her to be your MOTHER as well, this does not seem strange to you at all. Her name is FAAN SAVA, she is a black raven, the tips of her beak and facial feathers are also red..
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No. 1002800 ID: afe7de
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1002800

One thing you’ve noticed on your parents is that they all seem to be wearing the same thing on their right ankles. Some sort of band that’s red in color. Sometimes you see your family members touching it fondly. You turn your attention to Pon and notice he’s in a separated part of the enclosure. He’s confused and looking around. So are you. In front of you lies a mat with several objects. You get curious and waddle towards them, falling over twice before giving up and just crawling to take a closer look. You’ll get a handle on this “Walking” thing eventually.

In front of you lies 8 Objects. You look back and your parents are pointing to the objects, you think you need to grab one. You look to your side and see that the same objects are in front of your brother. You take a closer look at the objects in front of you, you haven’t seen any of them before in your toys. What do you grab?

A. A toy bow and arrow
B. A bundle of scrolls
C. A Thread
D. A Brush
E. A Medallion with a string running through it
F. A Red ball
G. A wrapped wooden jar
H. A Dull looking stone of some kind

For extra fun, what do you do when you grab something?
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No. 1002801 ID: 094652

Why does that medallion look familiar? You should wear it.
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No. 1002802 ID: e2f5cc

Grab the medallion and play with it a little, then take it with you while you go over to the bow, which you decide to bonk your brother over the head with.
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No. 1002803 ID: 96c896

>>1002800
Looks like we're choosing a profession? Hunter, scholar, tailor, artist, something mystical, sports or entertainment, alchemy or herbalism, construction or mining.
UNDERSTANDING works well with most of these in the long run...

E. This isn't really a choice.
>what do you do with it
Babies ALWAYS put new things in their mouths.
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No. 1002804 ID: e51896

Put the medallion around your ankle, just like your parents and their red bands.
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No. 1002806 ID: ce39da

Actually, I’d think the image on the medallion would give us a chill down our spine, even if we can’t put our talons on why (and the feeling is understated since the eye doesn’t quite match). I say we go with (B) the scrolls. We rip off a seal and put it in our mouth, but quickly get distracted by W O R D S.
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No. 1002807 ID: d6f167

A brush. You want red feathers too.
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No. 1002808 ID: fa3fbc

>>1002800
Jar is where it at.
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No. 1002810 ID: e7c7d3

You already know that jars are the epitome of objects
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No. 1002825 ID: 031458

Whatever it is ITS GOING IN YOUR MOUTH
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No. 1002830 ID: 1df721

D. Take the brush.
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No. 1002835 ID: 0fae41

Catch the worm thread!
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No. 1002836 ID: ce39da

>>1002806
Eh, I know when I'm in the minority. Changing this vote of mine to D: the brush.
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No. 1002839 ID: afe7de
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> The Medallion
You look towards the round disk in front of you. There is an eye emblazoned on it. For some reason it puts a chill down your spine. You’re not sure why. You hesitate, moving your feathered hand towards the brush instead but right before you touch it, something in your mind tells you to reach for the medallion, to face this weird fear. So you grab it with both hands and sit up. Your right talon slips through the band running through the disk. You put the disk in your mouth, it’s hard. You can’t bite through it like most foods. But your tongue slides along it. It has a metallic taste which you’re not familiar with. You look to your side.

Your brother has picked the ball, and is bouncing it around. He’s having a joyful time, but he trips and falls over the toy bow. Getting agitated he picks it up and chucks it to your side of the pen with a CAW. You can hear cooing and celebration coming from your parents. They seem happy by both of your developments. You turn around and trip, the string on your leg making it hard to move properly. Your parents are looking at you like you’re the most adorable thing ever. It feels good.

You have gained the COURAGE stat.
Your LUCK has increased a little.

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No. 1002840 ID: afe7de
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1002840

That night you have a dream, it’s probably the first one you’ve ever had. There are these weird rectangles made of scrolls lying around everywhere. And you pick one up, wearing it as a hat. A voice can be heard, it’s stern. The scratching of something on a desk can be heard. There’s only a single light on the desk, and you look up to see some sort of fleshy LARGE ONE with a long beak. It looks at you, smiles, and you feel a sense of fear. You wake up in a cold sweat, crying. Riichi comes to comfort you and you feel a lot better.
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No. 1002841 ID: afe7de
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1002841

[YEAR 3]
Two years pass. The dreams come randomly and you’re no longer scared of them, in fact it’s kind of cool! Like you’re watching a puppet show, it makes you a little sad sometimes though, whoever this SABA person was, they had a sad childhood, only one parent, and they didn’t get any toys, just these things called BOOKS, no friends either. You finally got a handle on that WALKING Thing and even learned how to RUN. Apparently most Wing-Kin (thats what you are!) learn how to fly when they’re 4 or 5, but some have been able to do it when they’re 3. You can finally UNDERSTAND what these large ones have been saying this whole time. This LANGUAGE thing is easy. You’re even learning how to read and write. The strange thing though is that you’re also learning this other language that SABA knows. You think it’s called ENGLISH? Maybe it’ll have some use as a secret code for you later on. Your brother Pon really likes to play games and run around, so you’ve spent most of your time doing that with him. Your parents say you’re LUCKY because you’ve won 3/4 of the games. But that only emboldens Pon to work harder, seeing you as a RIVAL, and making him get really excited when he wins.

You learned a bit about your family too, that Draco is a hunter of some kind, he sometimes leaves for a week or so before coming back, usually with tasty food, he likes it when you call him Papa! But doesn't talk about where he actually goes. Faan is a teacher, so she’s been cracking down hard on you and Pon so you can learn to read and write, she likes it when you call her Mother. Pon struggles a little bit sometimes, but you help him when he’s stuck, for you it’s very easy to learn. Riichi on the other hand says shes a… Gambgler? She wins toys for You and Pon, pon seems very interested in that. She likes it when you call her Momma. Sometimes they put this powder on your facial feathers. And say something about it keeping you safe. You love your family, they’re great!
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No. 1002842 ID: afe7de
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Your Mothers sometimes take you outside to play with the other kids too. You, Pon, and Faan are headed to a nearby Pork today, it’s close to this thing called a SKEWL! Faan has brought some books that she reads to pass the time and some stories you could try reading if you’re feeling tired. You reach the park and there’s three other kids there, along with their father sitting on a bench. She sits down and the two begin chatting a bit. Pon rushes off to the kids and they start to play a game of TAG. You look to the park and notice that there’s a big structure there, it almost looks like a big bug that you can go inside, like a tunnel!

It’s at this moment that you really really get a good look at where you are and notice there’s something special about it. But you’re not sure what?

What do you do?

A. Join in on the game
B. Practice Flying
C. Read a story
D. Do multiple things [Rewards are reduced]
E. Other

And what special thing do you notice?
This is your chance to add things to the world that you want! You’ll get a few more opportunities to add things in this fashion in the future.
Feel free to go wild here. The only limits are the following:

Your world can’t just be full of KARMA cultivators
FTL travel can’t exist
If there’s magic, no one in your town can use it to cross through dimensions or warp time

Other than that, go wild! Wanna be on a spaceship or a floating island, or something else? Go ahead!

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No. 1002843 ID: 094652

Practice Flying

You point at the strange giant tube at the edge of the world, and your Mother tells you it goes to another worldplate. In fact, there are millions of worldplates and it took thousands of years to connect them all together. Occasionally, some silly will fall off the edge of a worldplate and need to be rescued, that's what the tracking devices are for.

You ask what's at the bottom of all the worldplates and she tells you there is no bottom because it's also the top. It all loops together. For some reason, that makes you both excited and sad.
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No. 1002845 ID: ce39da

For some reason, you feel like it’s... important, somehow, that you join the game.

When your potential new friends need to go home - (Friends? Is that really all they are...?) - go ahead and practice flying.

>>1002843
I actually like this idea, but instead of tubes... perhaps, while blown away by seeing the literal edge of our world, we see a sailing(?) ship flying(!) in the distance. (Boats that fly... This certainly is different.) Maybe mom tells us about how brave the first skyfarers to brave the empty expanse were.
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No. 1002850 ID: e7c7d3

B) Fly, you fool
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No. 1002852 ID: 031458

Practice Flying!

When you look up toward the horizon, you see the world bend up around you. It gets smaller and smaller as it curvs back into itself, finally getting bigger and bigger until it comes back down the the other way, forming a giant ring!
You wonder if you could fly to the other side. Papa says you can't, but you'll show him!
Mother says someone who everyone forgot built the world a really long time ago.
Mama sometimes tells you scary bedtime stories about the secret metal world underground that's filled with all sorts of monsters and metal beasts!
You like the scary stories. They're exciting!
Pon says they don't scare him, but they do. He's secretly a scardy bird.
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No. 1002853 ID: 1e2817

>>1002842
I like the world plate idea

C. I'd say read a story... some kind of religious book.

secondary B practice flying!

But not both C and B
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No. 1002862 ID: 0fae41

Explore the big bug.
Blink and you'd miss it, but you saw a pair of eyes unlike any others you've seen watching from a window suspended in midair. This world has mysterious observers studying it for an unknown purpose!
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No. 1002871 ID: e51896

To add on to the worldplate idea, before travel was possible to other worldplates, each worldplate used to be exclusive to different certain sentient species (not counting wild animals for them to hunt) for example, one worldplate was exclusively full of fox beast-kins, one had only humans, one had rat beast-kins. It is because travel to these different worldplates a few thousand years ago is why you see different kins and other species living where you live today, they immigrated from their worldplates to live here. (the worldplate you live is is heavily populated with wing-kin since it is originally your species home, but there are other kins that live here too now.)
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No. 1002879 ID: 2aa5f0

B. Practice Flying

probably should practice meditating at some point but learning to fly is to good to pass up.
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> Practice flying!
You head to the top of the big bug thing and try flapping your wings around a bit. Hopping off and gliding down. It’s not really flying though, but you keep at it for a few minutes before you hear some KAWs come from behind you. You turn around and see a slightly older crow beckoning you. You walk over and he speaks up, his voice is high pitched and kind of annoying, you know his name to be ROOK SEIVE.

Rook: KEKEKEKE Heya CHI! Trying to fly again?
You: Ohhhhh I’ll get it this tiiiime!!!!!!
Rook: You should try flying from up here! Gives you more time before you hit the ground to practice.
Rook: And if you aim for the sand over there it doesen’t hurt that much if you mess up!


Rook proceeds to demonstrate, crashing into the sand pit sputtering out as sand fills his beak. He brushes it off and climbs back up whilst talking.

Rook: You should try it. But it takes a little COURAGE, unless yer a CHICKEN!
You: *grumble* *grumble* I eat chickens for breakfast!
You: I’M NO SCAREDY BIRD!


You climb the jungle gym and perch yourself on the highest point, facing the sand pit. With a little bit of COURAGE you get a running start and jump. The wind on your feathers excites you. You close your eyes and feel at one with the world, in a way that only a bird can. You flap once, twice, your INTUITION speaks to you, you pack your legs tightly against your waist, aim down, and twist your wings. And with a sharp movement you tilt up.

Your LUCK strikes as you’ve yet to hit the ground. You open your eyes and the skies are open to you. You flap your wings twice and spin around. You can hear a cacophony of noise underneath you and can see Mother flying towards you, her expression is ecstatic! Everyone below you is cheering and you can see that Pon has awe in his eyes. It feels good. Mother flies near you and helps guide you around.
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Faan: OH GODDESS, MY SWEEET CHILD HAS LEARNED TO FLY!!!!
Faan: AAAAAAAH THIS IS SO GREAT AAAAAAAAAH
Faan: Come on my little yolk. We should land before you get tuckered out!
You: Yes Mother!


The two of you start flying down to the ground, and as you do, you notice some things that you’ve never seen before. Your circular route around the Pork has revealed to you that you’re on some sort of floating land mass. You can’t tell how big it is, but you notice some floating rocks and other masses in the distance. There’s a rather big structure, you think it’s called a castle? There’s lots of trees, some water, clouds, and a really big tube-like thing. You point it out with your beak and ask Faan what it is.

Faan: Oh, that? That connects us to another WORLDPLATE. It used to be just us WING-KIN here for a long time.
Faan: Then these kin called HUMANS made that tunnel to our worldplate.
Faan: They wanted to trade and explore our plate, but none of them could FLY, so they’ve mostly left us alone.
Faan: And that’s how other kin came to our plate, and why not everyone you’ll meet is a WING-KIN.
You: I wanna see it!
Faan: See what?
You: The other WORLDPLATES!
Faan: Haha, maybe when you’re older my little yolk.
Faan: Try sticking out your talons and flapping against the wind when you land, or you’ll just crash!

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You heed your mother’s advice and the two of you land and everyone surrounding you, talking about how cool you are. You feel PRIDE in yourself. Pon’s asking you to show him how you did that too! Suddenly you are hit with extreme fatigue and stumble to the ground. Mother supports you and cradles you in her arms, it’s comfortable, so you fall into a deep sleep.

That night another dream came to you. This time of an older Saba. He went to this thing called School, but had his own place to live, and didn’t see his dad anymore. He cried a lot. But he worked hard, almost too hard, and every time he failed, he tried harder. He was persistent to a fault and you feel proud of him for doing that. You feel a sense of Kinship with Saba, like there’s something connecting the two of you. You wonder if he’s having the same dreams as you, right now, out there somewhere. And he’s a HUMAN. You’d like to meet him some day. Maybe be his friend! One thing’s for sure, you want to be Persistant like him, FLYING was the first real challenge for you, and you want to do more things that challenge you, you liked how people looked at you and the feeling you got from doing something hard!

You’ve achieved an important milestone in your life early, extra rewards are gained!
Your COURAGE stat has increased.
You’ve gained the INTUITION stat.
You’ve gained the PRIDE stat.
You’ve gained the CURIOSITY stat.
You’ve regained the PERSERVERENCE stat.
You’ve learned the FLIGHT skill.

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[YEAR 5]
Two years pass. The memories start coming with more frequency and you’re seeing snippets of Saba’s teenage years. You’re a little sad, it looks like humans grow faster than you thought. And you won’t be able to leave this World Plate for a while. You still hope that you can see him one day. But you see this girl now too, her name’s Willamina, and he’s finally made a friend! She’s a little aggressive though, and a bit of a bully. You hope he doesen’t get hurt or anything by her.

With your and Papa’s help Pon learned to fly a few months after you did. And within a year after that both of you could fly and take off without needing a running start. The rest of the time leading today was Riichi training your wings so they would be stronger and so you’d get less tired. Now the both of you can fly for a day without getting exhausted! Apparently Papa can go for a week without stopping if he packs food! Mother’s been teaching you and Pon the basics of MATHS and SCIENCE so you can understand how the world works a little bit better before you start this School thing. You pick them up with ease and a lot of the information overlaps with what you’ve learned by watching Saba.

Today’s a special day, it’s your and Pon’s 5th Birthday! Papa’s said that our wing training was specially done for this day! That we’re traveling around 75 kilometers away to go to the CAPITAL. It’s a full days flight, but it’s worth it! He said something about saving up SHINIES for you to do some sort of TEST, and to get you some sort of PRESENT. Tests are easy! You haven’t had any difficulties with them yet. Pon’s a little nervous because he’s not as smart as you, but he’s getting STRONGER. You’re body is ATHLETIC, but his is POWERFUL. You think he’s been working twice as hard as you since he can’t catch up in SMARTS with you. But he’s certainly PERSISTANT.

You pass by various villages and other large settlements as you fly over, but you don’t make any stops. During the flight you have casual conversation with your family.

Riichi: I hope the gambling hall is open. I’m gonna win big this time!
Draco: You say this every time Riichi…
Riichi: Hey! I’ve won the last two times! Ever since our two little eggs came around my LUCK’s been good!
Draco: Which is an exception to the norm.


Riichi floats over and gives both you and Pon a kiss on your heads to which both of you give a “MOOOOOOM” The group laughs.

Faan: I’m excited for our little nestlings, this is an important point in their life.
Draco: We’ll see what happens, either way, things will get a little busier for you two starting next year.
Faan: Yeah, you’ll have to pick a focus and eventually learn a trade.
Faan: Don’t worry, it’ll be fun!
Pon: I dunno, some of the other kids say it’s boring.
You: I hope it’s harder then what we’re learning now, I want the challenge!!!
Pon: I don’t…


You all laugh while Pon looks a little nervous. You give him a pat on the back and he seems calmer. What kind of test are you going to take? And what’s the name of the capital city?

Feel free to get creative! This will become an important part of middle to high class Wing-Kin society in this world plate. No Karma test though, sorry!
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No. 1002919 ID: 094652

Short Answer: The test is to become a Huntress. You are taking an Overseer Exam.

Long Answer: You're taking a Ranger initiation test. The balance between people and beasts varies between worldplates; some worldplates' ecosystems are on the brink of collapse, others are untamed chaos that claim the lives of dozens of innocent people every year. As a Huntress (female ranger), you will be tasked with maintaining the balance of nature, protecting the creatures of the wilderness when they are in peril from cruel poachers, and delivering justice to the beasts of the wyld when they lash out at innocent civilians. Since you chose the medallion in your youth, your parents suspect you have the potential to become an Overseer - a huntress who tracks targets and commands their fellow rangers using strange and rare communication crystals.
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No. 1002921 ID: 8483cf

Capital city's name is Wyrd!

The test is an affinity test. You're given different tasks over several days, each apparently routine and minor, with some extremely challenging. It's a gauge of how persistent you are, how you respond to menial tasks vs. complicated tasks, how much instruction you need before you're motivated, and your degree of autonomy.

Then you're given a string to tie around your talon based on where you're strongest, and then you get offers for schooling!
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No. 1002922 ID: e51896

It's some kind of weird religious test based off of that symbol on your medallion that tests just how in tune you are with the Goddess and other religious figures of the past. Some kin from other worldplates think your religion your family and other Wing-kin follows is controversial for whatever reason, which is strange because they're not hurting anyone... must be culture shock. (Maybe meditation is involved? we were told to meditate at a young age. we should get started on that)
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No. 1002925 ID: f8fa51

An aptitude test. You're going to be entering into school soon, and they want to know what sort of learner you'll be so they can put you in the right classes.
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No. 1002943 ID: 2aa5f0

it's basically a physical and IQ test where they test you twice. First they give you a medical checkup to see if there are any faults with your health both obvious and for something that might have been missed by smaller communities outside of the capital. The capital being... well the capital has access to some of the best items and professions on the worldplate so when children come to the capital for their coming of age test they check their health with some of the best equipment they can get their hands on. Granted the medical test are mostly done by medical apprentices to gain some real experiences but an experienced professional is always near by to double check their work.

Then for the actual test they have a physical test and a written test that are given to the children by a stern instructor constantly pushing them to work harder. Kinda like a drill instructor but not nearly as intense. Then the children are brought to a sort of play area where other instructors disguised as parents or guardians for other children taking the test will then will try and trick the children into doing more test but disguise them as some sort of game. These test are designed to see how the child works while under pressure and while in a more relaxed environment while also letting the instructors gauge the children's personalities.

Once the information has been gathered the instructors will review all the test results and determine where every child might excel in and where they might struggle and hand out the information to workers looking for apprentices or guilds looking for new members and then see who would be interested in which child. They will then contact the child and their families and show them all options that are available to them and let them choose their focus. usually the better the child preformed the more focuses they'll get to choose from but it isn't unheard of for some focuses to be pushed more then others if their is a need for a certain type of skill or career to help aid the kingdom.
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No. 1002945 ID: fed3dc

You’re taking your pilot’s exam in Lactiap. It’s tough navigating with all those people flying about!
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No. 1002948 ID: ce39da

Welp, I think we've found Marth already. That's gonna be a little awkward, I think.

> The Test
You're to choose items like you did four years ago, but the purpose is different this time. Supposedly, if you choose the same items as one of the Seers of old, you're declared to be their reincarnation and put into training as a Seer yourself. (That's what the eye emblem represents, by the way.) Personally, you think their talk of reincarnations is a bit hokey... or at least that you're missing something big about how it actually works. But hey, you're fairly LUCKY, there are several valid combinations, and even if you don't pick the right stuff, you can still choose to try and become a Seer anyway. Though it's much harder to become the 'first in your line,' you've heard.

> The Capital
Qara Tengu
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No. 1002978 ID: dfbac0

You're heading towards Qara Tengu, where your parents have admitted you into the esteemed Tengu academy, as they believe you have the smarts to compete in such an environment. Tengu academy has you take several mandatory tests and has several optional ones. These are to decide what branch of the academy you will be accepted into. Generally people fill out tests and they are picked for what they are best in however some get multiple offers where they can choose which branch of the academy they will go to. You're hoping to be a sort of field scientist, as you feel you're quite smart and have an edge over others in the field of science but you don't want to be stuck in some dusty old room studying your whole life. You want to explore alien ruins in order to make great advancements.
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No. 1002994 ID: afe7de
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You arrive at the capital city of QARA TENGU, there’s Wing-Kin everywhere. Some are perched on ledges, others are flying around the big central tower that rises high above the ground. You and your family head to the ground level and land, walking through the city. The streets are mostly empty as you walk through, you see some Wing-Kin exit doors and take to the skies. Around 1/3 of the buildings are made of stone here, and the castle looks like it’s also made of the same material. It must be very fancy, almost all of the houses in your home town are made of wood. Eventually you reach a cylindrical building, the highest building in the city barring the tower, and notice a woman in front of it wielding a spear. after Papa hands some shinies over to a woman you’re led through the building to a separate area on the second floor. You look through a window and see a large stadium-like field behind the building. There are various hoops and equipment scattered about. Some Wing-Kin are flying around it at a pretty amazing pace. You fail to notice and you bump into another Wing-kin. She’s a bat.

Bat: HEY. PEASANT. WATCH IT.
You: Oh, uh, sure. I was distracted.


The bat looks like they’re ready to yell at you when someone intervenes, dragging the bat away. She grumbles and gives you the evil-eye, but you’re not really scared of her. She goes off to a corner and sits on a bookshelf. Eventually a few other Wing-Kin walk in and they’re motioned to take seats on the mats on the floor. You all do so obediently, but the Bat-girl refuses.

Instructor: HOOK! I swear to the goddess... HOOK DE WELLINGTON RONDALPHUS, GET. OVER. HERE. NOW.

The girl finally heads over with a smirk. You think she likes being a brat. You overhear some of the other kids chattering about her being Princess or something, someone else says something about her being a royal brat. You don’t really gossip, but you take in the information anyway. Pon’s staring at her pretty hard and mumbles something about her being so cool. You really hope he doesn’t pick up a bad habit from her. The instructor claps a few times and tries to get everyone’s attention and explains that you’ll be taking an Affinity test over the course of three days. Each day will test something different and you’ll be in groups with one person being selected to be the “Leader” and to pick the other team-mates. The ones who do the best today will be eligible to take a free examination at Age 10 to get into Tengu Academy instead of the normal paid one.

The crowd gets in some loud murmurs, you havent heard of this, and your parents look excited. This must be a good thing. You think you heard the Tengu academy is a pretty good school, but don’t know much of the fields of study there. You’ll ask Mother later.
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The Instructor points at four random students, you were not selected, but Pon was! You can hear the griding of someone’s teeth from across the room, looks like that girl Hook is mad she wasn't picked first. Your brother gets to pick first and as he points to you, the instructor speaks up.

Instructor: Oh, and you can’t pick someone you’re related to, so no siblings can help you.

Pon is deflated but you give him a wings up and he’s back to normal, he picks Hook and you facepalm. Eventually you’re picked last and end up in a group with 2 others. One of your group mates is a rather silent, bespectacled Secretary bird he was picked as the “Leader”. He gives you a nod as you come closer. The other is a male Parrot, he’s got colorful plumage and it kind of makes you jealous, but you ignore that feeling and introduce yourself.

You: Hi! I’m Chi!
Parrot: [In your voice] I’m BLITZ! I talk a lot. Everyone hates it! I won’t take it personally if you tell me to shut up!


You’re shocked, he sounded just like you, you’re silent for a moment before the other one speaks up.

Secretary Bird: Drift. It’s a Pleasure.
Blitz: [In Drift’s voice] I can tell we’re all going to get along GREAT!


You guess that’s just his thing? Talking like other people? Whatever, the instructor explains the health checkup and you all get examined by these kin that call themselves apprentices. They used a lot of weird equipment and poked and prodded everyone all over. In the end only one kid in the room was told anything and it was Drift. He was told that he had a weak constitution, and that he would need to exercise more, you worry a bit because that means you might have it harder in the tests going forward.
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No. 1002997 ID: afe7de
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[TEST 1]
They lead you out to the field and have all of you perform some exercises, testing your max speed, reflexes, and other stuff. It was basically like a big obstacle course. You and Blitz both exceeded expectations whilst Drift barely passed, he’s covered in sweat and exhausted. Then, without a moment to lose you were made to play a game. You had to get the ball into this hoop in the air whilst defending from the other team doing the same to your hoop, but Drift is exhausted. Drift as the leader comes up with a rather lazy strategy, for you and Blitz should cover the air and he should cover the ground. You agree, not seeing a problem with that. Unfortunately, your LUCK was not with you and you were put against your brother’s team with Hook and a third girl, a Scale-kin, a Snake at that! That’s great news! It means she can’t fly and you should be able handle them.

Unfortunately things don’t go according to plan. Pon picked up the Scale-Kin and used them mid-air to put you and Blitz at a stand-still. Her tail was just able to block off any advances and grab the ball any time you took it. Pon even threw that snake girl, whose name you found out to be Noodle, while Hook easily went past the exhausted Drift below you. The score was 1-5, a resounding defeat. Probably the most miserable defeat you’ve ever faced. At that point it was night-time, you got to say a few words to your parents but were then moved off to rooms with your partners where you stayed the night. You’re tired, and so is everyone else, so the three of you fall asleep rather quickly.

That night you dream of Saba, age 10, playing on this screen. He’s controlling units and moving them around making complex decisions and plans to try to defeat his enemies. You curse your luck in how this would have been more useful to know earlier today. Maybe you could have come up with a GOOD PLAN and won. Either way, it’s interesting, the technology you’ve seen in his world is very different from where you live. You wonder if the Human world plate is like that too.

You’ve gained the STRATEGY stat.
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[TEST 2]
The next day saw you playing lots of different games and solving puzzles with your group. Drift and Blitz both really shined in this field and you were all able to solve every puzzle they threw at you. So they threw harder puzzles at you. Then Math Problems, then they gave you some strange, esoteric scribbles to decipher, and that’s where you got stuck. It’s in a language you’ve never seen before, well, considering you’ve only seen two languages that’s not surprising. But your INTUITION speaks to you and after collaborating with the group you report your findings before the end of the period. That this is some language you don’t understand, but that the pattern of the symbols is so random that It’s actually just gibberish and not anything important, that this was a fake test meant to throw you off.

The Instructor’s pencil they were holding snapped and he had a completely incredulous expression on his face. It took a little luck, and a little PRIDE to be able to admit that, even if it was just your INTUITION talking, but the instructor gave you a slow clap and congratulated the three of you for being the first students to get the final puzzle right in the last few years he has a genuine smile on now. He lets you know that you’ll be receiving an award at the end of the tests for your creativity and ingenuity. The end of the day comes, you hug your family, and night falls. Your group is exhausted again and you fall asleep quickly.

Tonight’s dream is more of the same, but it looks like Saba got his first kiss from this Willamina girl. You thought you’d feel that it was icky, but something tells you that you should be happy for him with how sad his life has been going. Now that you think about it, personality wise you’re starting to resemble him. If he’s also having the same dreams as you, but in reverse, he could also be resembling you. Huh, strange. An idle thought comes to you, that you are actually the same person, but you shrug away the thought and continue to dream for now.

Your INTUITION stat has increased
You’ve gained the LOGIC stat

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[TEST 3]
The final test is a written one, it’s a rather complex exam all things considered, but given Saba’s studying, and your learning here with Faan, It’s easy. Most of the questions give you the information and you just have to interpret and understand the contents to answer it. Just as you get up to submit your paper you stop, your INTUITION telling you that you missed something, and you scribble something out and fix it. Now you’re done. Everyone else looks at you in shock, even the instructors are surprised it only took you about half the time of everyone else to finish. You can hear the tell tale teeth gnashing of Hook over there as she takes another 10 minutes to complete it. The instructors then hand you and Hook another exam, this one is on the biology of different creatures and these things called MONSTERS. You’ve only got rudimentary knowledge on the subject, so you trust your INTUITION, use your LOGIC, and apply what Saba’s learned of animals in their plate to do your best.

Some of the illustrations are really scary. But you’ve got COURAGE, so you power through it. Pon, Blitz, and Drift all finish around the same time, with around 1/3 of the time remaining. They get handed the extra exam too, but Pon just looks so confused when he gets it. You’re feeling way less confident on this subject, but you submit it as the last few kin are finishing up. Pon rushes up and submits his too, while the instructor walks up and extracts the remaining exams from Hook, Drift, and Blitz. You think Pon just wrote down stuff at random so he wouldn’t fall behind you, but you never know, he has had an interest in monsters lately.

Your last group examination is an oral presentation. You’re given some time and you have to make up a presentation on the spot about anything. It could be about what you learned here, it could be about a dream you had, they give you free reign to discuss any topic as long as it isn’t insulting to anyone there. The three of you have a discussion but eventually decide that they want you to pick the presentation. You’ve shown sound judgment and they trust you. You feel a BOND forming with your partners.

What does your group present?
What is your reward from solving the puzzles?

You’ll be given your aptitudes and your birthday presents after this and then It’s on to year 6 where you’ll get to pick your focus!
For a bonus, how do you feel about the examinations and your partners overall?

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No. 1003000 ID: 0fae41

Presentation subject: Eyes: Their varieties, and what each kind is good at - your eagle vision, your night vision, different spectrums...
Reward: A pendant that can record a scene for a couple minutes at a time, with about four or so scenes able to be stored at once for playback. Intended as a study aid, most users dedicate at least one slot to a keepsake locket, and yet another to a to-do list.
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No. 1003001 ID: dfbac0

>Presentation
We have to ensure we are not only good, but outstanding. But not too outstanding... Perhaps a presentation that reaches a little past the limits of what we should know at this age, but incorporating something from your dreams, maybe using them to expand upon a subject you already know. Perhaps presenting about more advanced equations that can be used to get faster and easier results to math problems you should know. I can't think of specifics but I feel like expanding on stuff we should know would let it seem like we have creative mind that can think out of the box while also proving our smarts.
>Reward
A book which you very much do not understand as of now. It's a book on theoretical and fringe physics and how it relates to magic. A book that's a mix of physics and magical theory. Although it's not useful with our limited knowledge now it acts more as a token of faith, that they believe we'll be able to fully understand this book at the rate we're going. We can also study it in our free-time to try and learn it despite our limited knowledge. Who knows, maybe what little we can learn now can effect and help our learning currently, like looking ahead on a test to help figure out earlier problems with new context.
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No. 1003003 ID: dfbac0

>>1003000
One thing I should state that we should keep in mind is that the reward will probably be for our group, so it's something the whole group could benefit from, so something like a small trinket might not work as well as it could only be used by one person.
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No. 1003004 ID: dfbac0

Footnote: Ask Pon if he has weird dreams, he is your brother so maybe he is having a similar experience.
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No. 1003006 ID: 094652

Presentation: A documentary about Humans! They're your favorite exotic subject, and even if you've never seen another human in person you've done research on their worldplate and their culture.
Reward: A field trip to the Human worldplate. (Where you pick up souvenirs that nobody knows the actual value of.)

Partners: You feel neutral about your partners. For some reason, being told that one of them has 'a weak constitution' rings a bell that they won't be an intimate best friend.
Then you realize that doesn't matter. They will be your colleagues throughout your life, and you should treat them with respect, even if you don't particularly like them.
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No. 1003007 ID: 49ce3c

Presentation on dreams and language! You assume everyone has a second language from their dreams. Reveal your ENGLISH!

(It probably didnt go good, but you find out someone else in the room knows english, surprising everyone (maybe Hook knows it?)
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No. 1003008 ID: 49ce3c

Reward: book on meditation and the effects for a smarter mind
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No. 1003021 ID: f8fa51

Presentation on dreams, but not language.

You feel good about working with these people. They're clever like you, but more importantly it seems you work well together, hoop game notwithstanding.

I like the reward of a particularly challenging book or puzzle of some kind.
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No. 1003045 ID: c93e10

Don’t give a presentation, give a motivational speech. Tell everyone in the room how they are the future, how it will be by their own deeds that the worldplate will be shaped for all future kids to come, how it is all our deeds that the future will be changed for better or worse and how it is our right, our burden, our gift, and our curse to decide how we want to change it. Let them know that these last few days we have all seen what we’re good at, what we need to work on, and how it is up to choose if we’re satisfied with the results. If you are then be proud that you are where you want to be and if you’re not then work to become someone you can be proud of for you only ever are truly lost when you give up.

Just ham it up and have fun with it, see what your partners want to add and what they want to say. This part of the test doesn’t seem to be graded like the last few so have some fun with it and enjoy your time with your new friends.
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No. 1003122 ID: 031458

Your group is really smart! That's cool!
Drift needs to be toughened up though! That's ok, You and Blitz will just have to push him a little.
You three could have what it takes to be the very best!
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No. 1003123 ID: afe7de
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> Make a presentation on dreams!
You decide the presentation should be about dreams! You’ve had lots of those and talk to the two in front of you about it. Strangely enough when you mention the topic Blitz mentions that he’s never had a dream before. It’s always just inky blackness and feelings. So he’s willing to let you take the lead and provide occasional quips and assistance. Drift on the other hand has vivid dreams about another life. The boy in his dreams is a Beast “Cultivator” But he’s very ill, so his father keeps hunting down treasures but none of them can help the boy. It’s very sad. You and Blitz are interested and you share that you’ve been having dreams about another life too, but about a young boy who dreams of being an “Inventor” with only one person around to support him. You decide to have Blitz open on the topic of dreams, talking about it a little and then letting the two of you take center stage.

First up is Pon’s group. Noodle and Pon just kind of sit back while Hook goes on a big rant about how being royalty makes her better than everyone else in the room, that one day she’ll be the ruler of the world-plate and you all should respect her. Pon’s got this look of fascination on him, but Noodle looks very disinterested. Hook gives you a dirty look at the end and heads off to their corner of the room. You feel your PRIDE telling you to have as much self confidence as that girl does but you bite it down and give it a dirty look. You don’t want to be like that girl.

The other two groups then go up one after the other. The second group talks about shiny things and how cool they are! You agree, shiny things are fun! You’ve got a tiny collection of shiny rocks at home that you’ve found after all. The third group is an absolute mess, their original topic was about eyes, but they somehow ended up talking about food, and then went on for too long and had to get escorted off the stage.

Your group starts next with Blitz at the head. He gives a brief and in depth description of dreams, the unknowns, and how some kin can fortell events or see other lives. It’s a good job and the other kin are rapt with attention. Drift is up next, he goes into a brief story from one of his dreams about a boy in a world full of monsters who is very ill, but is tenacious, refusing to succumb to his illness and training his body. He then wraps it up as a lesson in tenacity and not giving up.

Your turn comes around and you mention the young boy Saba that you see, how even those born with no one around them, being forced into solitude can find PERSEVERANCE and HOPE. You close with the note that Maybe these dreams are real people, or maybe they’re figments of your imagination, but no matter the case, they can provide insights and motivations and are pretty interesting.
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No. 1003129 ID: afe7de
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You get applause from the audience and even Hook seems surprised. The Instructors seem really pleased with your presentation and teamwork. The instructors tell you that the tests are done and to relax amongst yourselves while they go over the information. The instructors head to a nearby room and for the most part everyone remains in their groups, but Pon and Noodle head over to your group.

Pon: Wow sis that was great! I didn’t know you had cool dreams like that!
You: Do you have any dreams like that Pon?
Pon: No, I wish I did. They seem helpful! Is that why you’re so smart?
Noodle: Ehh, c’mon Pon, let her have SOME secrets, it’d be no fun if you knew everything.
Pon: I guess you’re right. OH! This is Noodle. She’s great!
Blitz: [in Pon’s voice] Yeah! She kicked our tails! I’m surprised you can even do that without wings.
Noodle: Ehh, practice makes perfect. When you live among the birds you gotta figure out how to fly right?
Pon: Oh and this is Hook, she-


He turns around and notices that she’s not there, as a matter of fact she’s not in the room anymore at all. You shrug and look back to Pon.

Pon: I coulda sworn… Anyway, she’s so cool don’t you think!!!
Pon: Real royalty, a real princess!
You: You should be careful, she doesen’t seem like that good of a person.
Drift: I agree, it’s not good to talk about yourself like she did, at least thats what my Pop always says.
Drift: It makes you get an Ego and forget about things other than yourself.
Noodle: Ehh, I’ve been trying to tell them that this whole time, he won’t listen, probably has a crush on her or something.
You: Ughhhhh no Pon, pleeeease.


Pon continues to ramble on about her, you’ll have to talk to your parents about this so he doesn’t become obsessed. Your INTUITION is telling you that this can only end up being a bad thing. An instructor comes out and starts calling the kin one by one. She starts with Hook, and noticing she isn't there, crosses something off of her list, calling you up next.
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No. 1003130 ID: afe7de
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You enter the room and are led to a seat in front of the main instructor. She’s a falcon with green and yellow beads in her plumage. The falcon then lets you know that your primary Affinity appears to be in the sciences and orthogonal thinking. They would not be surprised to see you become an archaeological explorer in the future. They explore various world-plates for ruins and study them and find uses for the treasures they’ve left behind. Though it comes with risks and you might want to train your body and learn a bit of combat. You could also become a researcher or inventor, a rare breed in the Wing-Kin society, as most prefer to be free in the skies instead of locked up in rooms all the time.

Your secondary affinity is a weak one, but they say you could become a Hunter, potentially even an overseer. Hunters go to different world-plates and deal with Monster and wildlife threats, as wing-kin you will be handling the most dangerous of flying monsters. Overseers are masters of LEADERSHIP and STRATEGY. You are still young and are weak in both categories but seemed to have learned the basics of Leadership in the last presentation. If you want to take this job you’ll need to train in combat.

The falcon hand you a paper and a very thin booklet, stating that the paper is a voucher for your free examination, and that the booklet is a set of 5 puzzles, where each puzzle is a prerequisite for the last, telling you how to open the next page. If you can solve all of the puzzles there’s a reward at the end. But she warns you that it’s much harder than any other puzzle you’ve done before. Only 1 out of every 1000 kin on this world plate can get halfway through it. This is including adults.

You’re flabbergasted, a puzzle that even adults have trouble with, the reward must be great! You store the two items in your vest and thank the instructor as you head out. The rest of the kids get called up and eventually Pon returns, saying his affinity was with the Hunters, that he might end up even being an Overseer. You congratulate him with a hug. Noodle’s affinity was also with the Hunters. Blitz’s surprised no one with a focus on performance and teaching. And Drift’s was in Analysis and Science. It also turns out that the 5 of you were given vouchers, Noodle wouldn’t have gotten one, but Hook left and so hers was forfeit. Drift and Blitz also got a similar booklet to you, only BLITZ’s was YELLOW whilst yours and Drifts were BLUE. You wonder what it could mean, but dismiss it for now.
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No. 1003131 ID: afe7de
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You feel good about the friends you’ve made today, you worked well together and you even found someone to talk about your dreams with. They’re both pretty smart and that’s cool! Though you think you need to push Drift to toughen up more, you feel like he probably can’t fly as long as you can without breaks.

Your examinations are over
You’ve gained the CHARISMA stat
You’ve gained the LEADERSHIP stat
You’ve formed a BOND with Drift and Blitz
- You can now visit them or have them visit you


You all chat away until your parents come to pick you up, they take you around the capital to various shops and stop by a shop. They hand over quite a few SHINIES and in return are given a bag of these little balls. They give you and Pon each on and tell you to suck on it. You both do so and your eyes go wide. The blood rushes throughout your body and you feel incredibly happy. So happy it should probably be criminal. The taste, it’s so SWEET. It melts on your tongue. There’s a little bit of SOUR there too. You ask Father what it is and he says it’s CANDY. Your parents also have a piece and they look similarly happy. They say its a rare treat from the Human kingdom. They found a way to refine this thing called SUGAR into these little balls. But you’re only allowed to have these on special occasions because they cost a lot. You head home the next day and notice on your flight back that BLITZ, NOODLE, and DRIFT all live in villages kind of close to you. You might see some of them at your SCHOOL.
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No. 1003132 ID: afe7de
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[YEAR 6]
A year has passed and you’re having dreams every night of Saba. You’re starting to think there’s something strange about it. You’re gaining skills and knowledge faster and faster now, if this was a normal dream you wouldn’t be absorbing it, and it wouldn’t be this vivid. The thought comes to you, this was you. This was your previous life. But how? Why? You get the feeling you’re nowhere near the end of his life yet in your dreams, he’s only 14 now. Something extraordinary must have happened in his life. You guess you just have to wait and find out. You get the feeling that you’re going to learn a lot of LOGIC and KNOWLEDGE from Saba through his life.

And it’s time to start SCHOOL. You spent the last year on and off with the puzzle book but made no real progress, Pon even tried to help out but you didn’t crack a dent in it. You even tried asking your parents but they were similarly lost. Looks like this is something you’re going to have to devote TIME to. You even visited Drift and Blitz a few times, they’re having similar troubles on their books. In your class there’s a Tiger Shrike named PAWN, NOODLE is also in it. They assigned seats and you got the far back spot near the window. Pon ended up in a class with BLITZ and DRIFT, Faan teaches that class.

KNOWLEDGE and LOGIC will now slowly improve on their own without your input until all of your old memories are absorbed.
- Careful though! The knowledge you get will be mostly of Saba’s World, so if you solely rely on this, you might get strange results!
You’ve gained the CREATIVITY stat


When you arrive at school you’re presented with a lot of information, they start telling you history, and basic science and maths, along with survival skills, basic athleticism, and self defense. It’s honestly quite easy.

One thing you learn is that your World plate is called an ENDPLATE meaning it’s at the end of the known world plates and there’s only one way in or out. Your world plate is called TENGU. QARA TENGU is your capital, and the county that holds your nameless towns is called HADLA. You live in a relatively unknown country in a rural part of all the world plates that is comprised of three world plates: TENGU, DOPUS, and CANUS.

The world plate you are connected to is called CANUS. It’s mostly filled with Beast-kin of the Canine and Canite variety. Canites are a special species of beast-kin with hands for feet. The special thing about this plate is that its about 2x larger than your plate and it’s population is 1/4 human! You want to go to this plate some day and meet the humans there with their strange technology. Your teacher called it Magi-Tech.

That world plate has two exits, one leads to another ENDPLATE called DOPUS, it’s a deep, deep ocean with a single small island on the tunnel entrance. Apparently there’s a race of Aqua-Kin on that world plate but they’re very elusive. Unfortunately your history books don’t tell you where the other tunnel leads to. You assume it must lead to the human kingdom’s main world plate.

You also learn another interesting thing about world-plates, all of them are floating land masses, if you fall off of them long enough, you’ll be teleported randomly to the top of the world, if someone’s following you’ they’ll also get teleported to the same place. But if you try to fly past the top of the world the air starts getting thinner and thinner until you can’t breathe. Neat!
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No. 1003133 ID: afe7de
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Chose a Focus and a Flaw from the following. Your education will be automated based off of these for the next few years. The Focus stat will receive a bonus and grow faster, the Flawed stat will grow at a slower pace than the rest. And the others will randomly grow! Some might not grow at all in a year. You’ll get to adjust these again with more choices in the future.

A. [LOGIC] Maths, problem solving
B. [KNOWLEDGE] History, Science
C. [ATHLETICISM] Excercise, Basic self defense
D. [INTUITION] Survival, Hunches, guesswork
E. [CHARISMA] Socializing, forming bonds with others
F. [CREATIVITY] Art, invention, and the puzzle book


And now that your brain is developed enough you’ve earned the use of [TIME POINTS] This is a representation of your free time that you can devote to any one thing. Your PERSEVERANCE is high enough that you can’t take on any STRESS at this stage in your life, so you don’t need to devote [TIME POINTS] to relaxing yet. You have [1] Time point that you can devote yourself to doing. In the future you will get more time points, can reduce your total pool by getting a job, etc. Feel free to suggest anything that your character would know they can do, here are some examples:

1. Chose an available STAT you have to be another focus (Can be one you selected as a focus already, but not one you selected as a flaw)
- AVAILABLE STATS:
[COURAGE]
[STRATEGY]
[CURIOSITY]
[LEADERSHIP]
[LOGIC]
[KNOWLEDGE]
[ATHLETICISM]
[INTUITION]
[CHARISMA]
[CREATIVITY]
- LOCKED STATS:
[LUCK]
[PRIDE]
[PERSERVERENCE

2. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
3. Spend time with someone you have a BOND with or forge a NEW BOND
4. Try to learn about something you know nothing about
5. Convincing Pon that liking Hook is bad
6. Get into a fight
7. Other (you decide!)

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No. 1003134 ID: 0fae41

+Creativity, -Knowledge. Your past life keeps interfering with your recollection of how this one works.
Train your Logic as another focus in the meantime.
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No. 1003135 ID: 894419

>>1003133
I feel an inexplicable affinity for the "Pawn" you should go try to get to know him by FORMING A NEW BOND. Also you should focus on developing your LEADERSHIP!
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No. 1003136 ID: e51896

Focus: C ATHLETICISM
If we want to aim to be an archaeological explorer, lets go with focus on ATHLETICISM, we were told we needed to raise that up a bit

for flaw
F Creativity for now.
Puzzle book I feel should be something that will take most our life to complete :P

Time Point:

Pon got into something really dangerous, but you saved his life!
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No. 1003137 ID: 031458

Hmm. Logic, intuition, charisma, and creativity all seem like they will be important, and knowledge is dangerous to flaw...

Though we could rely on saba for logic...

I'll say creativity as focus, logic as flaw.

I suggest devoting some time for mindfulness.
That we get to see so much of Saba's life is surely a gift, but there's so much of it.
He's part of us, but it seems like there may be more Saba than there is Chi. What if one day you lose what makes you... You, in a sea of old memories? That would be so sad...
Find some time for quiet moments, where you can meditate on your life thus far and your dreams to come. What makes you you? What parts of you come from your experiences in this life and what parts come from Saba's life? Find all the pieces. Label, separate, and organize them. This way no matter what happens you will never forget, and the two lives within you can forever work in harmony.
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No. 1003139 ID: 094652

Strength: Inutition
Weakness: Knowledge
Ohter: You collect some tools from the other worldplates and practice using them!
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No. 1003140 ID: dfbac0

>>1003134
I think we should take that warning to heart and not rely upon Saba's knowledge.
>Focus
Most certainly creativity, as that is very useful no matter what we decide to do, and it can help with the puzzle book.
>Flaw
I say Logic, Saba's life can teach us that well enough and it isn't directly involved with the dimension you're in.
>FreeTime
I really think we should up our Curiosity this early in life, as it will help us when learning a lot, so it's best to up that stat early on. So my vote's on the secondary focus of Curiosity. Though if I had to choose something else it would be the puzzle book.

As for our brother... We should definitely not focus on his relationship. He needs to learn she's bad on his own or else it will not be as striking of a lesson to him. We could also ruin our relationship with our brother that way, we may be charismatic but I'd rather not push our luck.
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No. 1003141 ID: 96c896

>>1003133
Focus: Creativity
Flaw: Logic

Use Time talking to Drift, learn some basic Cultivation techniques. Unless he says you need to wait until you're older to start Cultivating, in which case learn to Meditate instead.
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No. 1003142 ID: 3f3ebd

Come on guys, if theres one stat we can afford to dump and rely on Saba's memory for, it is elementary school math. Math is famous for being the universal language, worst case scenario this world uses a different shorthand for writing out long division. Dump Logic.

Focus creativity
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No. 1003144 ID: f8fa51

+Creativity, -Athleticism
+Intuition

Work on forging a bond with NOODLE
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No. 1003161 ID: ce39da

FLAW: Yeah, Saba does offer an excellent alternate perspective, which helps you wrap your head around worldly subjects better. However, it's also becoming clear that his world is completely different from yours, so your [KNOWLEDGE] is suffering because you have to unlearn a good chunk of the more world-specific knowledge you gain from him.

FOCUS: And yet, not all of the unintuitive insights you gain from him are useless. The alternate perspective grants insight and helps inform your [CREATIVITY] to help you really start thinking out of the box.

FREE TIME [1/1]: We should convince Pon that liking Hook is bad. Nip this problem in the bud before the complications start arising.

We did seem to strike a chord with Hook on our talk of past-life dreams... Maybe our intuition isn't telling us she's bad news, but rather that our brother becoming obsessed with her would color our future interactions with her for the worse - that Pon will become a problem (or at least a complication) if we don't stop this? It would suck to have him as an opponent in romance, for sure.
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No. 1003180 ID: 7f1230

+creativity, -logic
bond with Noodle
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No. 1003193 ID: e2f5cc

+Athleticism, -Logic.
Bond with Noodle
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No. 1003207 ID: afe7de
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Authors Note: Bonds have been reworked, the first stage of a bond allows you to not only visit them or have them visit you, but also adds a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event featuring them.

> CREATIVITY FOCUS
You spend your spare time in class doodling in your notebook. At the beginning your drawings were objectively terrible, but you don’t care or know about that. You’re just having fun doodling, putting down your weird ideas, drawing Saba and Willamina, your family members, other stuff like that. You show your parents a drawing one day and they put it on the pantry. It makes you feel nice. Pon thinks your drawing is cool and asks you to make one for him, so you do. You see Saba’s world in your dreams and wonder how they made all those cool things he has. You formulate a few ideas in your head and eventually ask your parents for a journal to keep your thoughts in. Faan has a few extra ones from her job and gives you one.

In study hall you decide to take another crack at the puzzle and learn something SPECIAL about it. The first page isn’t the first page at all, it’s either the last stage of the puzzle or some kind of KEY. You flip the book over to the backside and realize there are some designs and some sort of extremely subtle pattern that you can only see if you bend it in the right kind of light. You notice that they have similarities to the first page But you’re interrupted before you can investigate further. You’ll PROBABLY have to invest TIME into this if you want to make any significant progress.

Your CREATIVITY stat has increased twice!
You’ve figured out a secret of the Puzzle
- Completing the first and last puzzle will now be easier


> LOGIC FLAW
You don’t devote yourself much in your LOGIC classes. Math is the same even in Saba’s world and it’s incredibly easy for you. So you spend your free time in that class being creative in your journal. At first your teacher scolded you, but you then perfectly solved every problem she put in front of you and she begrudgingly left you alone. Upset that a “Prodigy” like yourself isn’t that interested. But you shrug it off. Your PRIDE refuses to let you feel guilt from your teacher when you so obviously know the subject matter. You continue to have dreams of Saba studying mathematics and Logic puzzles, he’s flexing his brain a lot these days.

Despite neglecting it, your LOGIC stat increased
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> OTHER CLASSES
You devote yourself a normal amount in your other classes, not too much, not too little. You occasionally talk to your classmates but mostly hang out with BLITZ and DRIFT during study hall. The three of you are pretty good at academia, and are ahead of your courses in terms of base intellect. Pon’s also doing pretty well in his classes, he’s really shining in his Athleticism and Survival classes, but is very hesitant when it comes to learning basic self defense, a requirement to becoming a hunter.

One day you arrive in class and are presented with a pop quiz for your SURVIVAL class. You wrack your brain and decide to go with your gut for the answer, it’s material you haven’t covered yet. Unfortunately you failed, but that’s okay because the rest of the class failed too, the teacher said it was a lesson in failing forward, that sometimes you have to fail to succeed. You learned a little about being comfortable with failure and using your intuition in different ways that day.

Your INTUITION stat has increased

> FREE TIME - Befriend Noodle
You decide to spend some time with Noodle after classes every week or so. The two of you go playing around in the park and Noodle shares her favorite game with you. HIDE AND SEEK. She’s really good at it. There are times when she goes into the forest and you can’t find head nor tails for her even with your FLIGHT. It’s a challenge and you find yourself actually enjoying the time you spend with her.

She says that she’s an orphan, but has a really nice foster mom, so she’s not sad about it. In fact she’s happy she can spend time with cool kids like you and your brother. Her full name is NOODLE SNOOT, you think it fits her. You occasionally play games with Blitz, Drift, Pon and Noodle and she joins your little friend group.

You’ve formed a BOND with Noodle
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring Noodle


> BONUS - A brief aside with Drift
You talk to DRIFT about his cultivation dreams and learn that he can’t actually use the techniques because the boy he mentioned was actually a MONSTER. You learn that those Monsters have these cores or stones inside them called BEAST CORES and when they eat other creatures cores, their body naturally cultivates the energy and they evolve. He calls the monster a HORNED MIST PUMA. He says he might be able to do something if he gets that monster’s beast core. They’re usually kept in the brain stem, but he hasn’t seen or heard of one of them before here on your world plate.
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Time passes, It’s fall of the next year but not quite your birthday yet. Its your recess hour and the kids are all out playing. You decide to go for a little flight. You circle around the school and see a group of four kin at the park. One is hunched over on the ground trembling in the fetal position. The other three are standing around him, cornering him on a tree. You see them throwing rocks and being loud. You fly in for a closer look, confused as to whats happening and then you see it. One of the three is PAWN, you remember him from your class. He’s in the back, watching. Then there’s a rather large Vulture in the center, he’s being loud and throwing things. Then there’s the final member, a sparrow, also throwing things and laughing. But then you spot it. The figure on the ground, they’re hurting Pon, bullying him. You feel something you’ve never felt before. Like a small ember in your chest it begins. Your chest feels hot, your mind feels foggy, you feel… Angry. And then you begin to think rapidly of what to do.

Authors Note: Your PERSONALITY is starting to develop and your body is going through changes. Going forward, your stats will occasionally speak up to you, it’s just a representation of your thoughts giving you some advice, not any like weird supernatural or metaphysical thing. The more you use a stat this way, the more often they will speak up and the more likely they’ll be to improve.

[CREATIVITY] - Shout for your brother to stand up for himself while you feint coming in for a tackle.
[COURAGE] - Get in between them and protect your brother.
[LOGIC] - Find a teacher, you’re in the air, there must be one around here.
[INTUITION] - Tackle the big one to the ground. They’ll flee after.
[ANGER] - Hurt Them. Punish them. No one is allowed to hurt your brother.

What do you do?
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No. 1003212 ID: 96c896

>>1003209
Tackle the big one and let out a loud screech!
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No. 1003214 ID: e6a906

[CREATIVITY] - Shout for your brother to stand up for himself while you feint coming in for a tackle.


Pon needs to learn to defend himself if he wants to be a hunter, we were told he needs to improve his self defense.
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No. 1003217 ID: 094652

Courage - You will need this for adventuring. Freezing up during exploration can be fatal.
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No. 1003220 ID: f8fa51

CREATIVITY - Your brother needs the self-esteem boost. He's behind you in most ways, and relies heavily on your assistance. He needs a win.
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No. 1003221 ID: 2aa5f0

[INTUITION] - Tackle the big one to the ground. They’ll flee after.
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No. 1003223 ID: 10211b

Creativity
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No. 1003224 ID: 1df721

>>1003220
This. Go with Creativity.
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No. 1003232 ID: e2f5cc

[Anger] - Rip and tear until it is done. Well maybe don't go that far, violence needs to be done responsibly for it to be an effective solution.
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No. 1003237 ID: 0fae41

Tackle the big one.
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No. 1003268 ID: afe7de
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> Shout out for your brother to stand up for himself
> Feint a tackle
You swallow that ember, rejecting it. It fizzles out. You focus instead on the thoughts your Creativity is giving you and you give a loud KAW as you dive towards the larger kin. They turn around and duck as you fly past them and back into the sky. You shout to your brother.

You: GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF PON!
You: DON’T YOU WANT TO BE A HUNTER?
You: YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND YOURSELF!
Pon: But I’m scared…
Vulture: This doesn’t concern you girl!
You: C’MON PON, YOU CAN DO IT!


Pon stops shaking, one of the bullies throws a rock at you. You can see Pawn fleeing the scene. He’s stuttering and looks scared. One of the other bullies yells for him to come back when Pon gets up and tackles the larger vulture. You see the sparrow try to pull him off but you dive down and knock him off, pinning him to the ground. You give the sparrow a cold, hard, stare. You can hear the sound of scuffling behind you and a BAP as Pon gets off the Vulture, feathers ruffled but otherwise unharmed. He’s crying. You let go of the sparrow and move to comfort him. The sparrow runs off, terrified. You hear him mumbling that he’s sorry, and calm him down. He thanks you, and promises to defend himself from now on. You nod. Pon is starting to look at you differently, different from a rival, and with respect.

You’ve formed a non familial BOND with Pon
- Your bond with pon will start at rank 3
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring Pon
- Pon will occasionally suggest an activity for you to do with him
- Pon will occasionally help you on tasks that you are having difficulties with

Your CREATIVITY is proud of you
Your ANGER wishes you got more violent


That night you dream of Saba getting into a fight with Willamina, it’s one sided and he doesn’t stand up for himself no matter how much you scream at him. It seems the topic is on how he refuses to stand up for himself too. You feel sad for him, wishing he had someone like you in his life at the time, at least Willamina is trying to help him change, though you disagree with her methods.
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[YEAR 7]
A year passes and the bullies have left Pon alone and things go back to normal. Your classmates shuffle around a little bit. You’re with a different teacher this time, Blitz is in your class and so is Noodle. You’re on track to learn the basics of everything you need so you can learn a trade in a few years. You’re getting older and because of that are now getting a little more FREE TIME as you learn how to properly spend your time not doing things your parents or school wants you to do. As such some new options are opening up to you.

Faan suggests that if you want to do extra well on your exams you could STUDY in your spare time. She’s willing to teach you how and thinks it could really help. Right now you’re ABOVE AVERAGE in class. You excel above the other students in ART, SURVIVAL, and LOGIC. But are only average in KNOWLEDGE, ATHLETICS, and SOCIALIZING. Interestingly enough, Pon has the inverse problem. She’s willing to give you a reward if you excel in all of your classes, but isn’t pressuring you to do so as you’re already a model student.

Draco suggests that you’re old enough to start more focused MARTIAL TRAINING. He heard about what happened with you and Pon and is proud of you for getting him to stand up for himself. If you get good enough, he’s willing to take you hunting in a few years in a nearby world-plate.

Riichi thinks you’ve got a knack for being lucky and wants to teach you the tricks and secrets to gambling and having a poker face. You’ll be able to learn the basics of GUILE. She thinks that if you end up a professional gambler like her, you might have a shot of making it big. She’s willing to give you a reward if you get good enough to beat her once.

You know that Pon will take up one of these offers. You have [2] [TIME POINTS] to spend this year. What do you do in your spare time?

Here are some examples of things you could do:

1. Chose an available STAT and focus on it for the year
- AVAILABLE STATS:
[COURAGE]
[STRATEGY]
[CURIOSITY]
[LEADERSHIP]
[LOGIC]
[KNOWLEDGE]
[ATHLETICISM]
[INTUITION]
[CHARISMA]
[CREATIVITY]
- LOCKED STATS:
[LUCK]
[PRIDE]
[PERSERVERENCE]
2. Do an ACTIVITY with one of your parents
3. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
4. Spend time with someone you have a BOND with or forge a NEW BOND
5. Try to learn something new
6. Other (feel free to suggest other ideas! )

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No. 1003271 ID: e51896

Focus on athletics for our future as an archaeological explorer

Hook comes to visit Pon.
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No. 1003272 ID: e2f5cc

>>1003271
supporting
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No. 1003273 ID: 094652

Martial Training and Guile - Do the warrior thing!
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No. 1003275 ID: d09be1

MARTIAL TRAINING

Focus on knowledge
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No. 1003279 ID: ce39da

Take up STUDYING.

Secondly, now that we have more sway with our brother, it’s time to ADDRESS THE PON X HOOK SITUATION before it gets too out of hand. (I wouldn’t be adverse to Hook actually appearing for this in some way, though - there’s something about her we might want to sus out in person.)
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No. 1003281 ID: f8fa51

Focus on Athletics, and spend some time on the puzzle book.
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No. 1003285 ID: 031458

Take up BOTH of our parents offers.

Not only will we get the benefit of new skills but:
MARTIAL TRAINING will naturally boost our ATHLETICS
and
GUILE will help us out with SOCIALIZING. As gambling as a sport uses the whole brain, we could get some useable KNOWLEDGE out of it too, if we're clever enough to make the connections.

Beats studying the normal way, and is certain to make our parents proud!
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No. 1003290 ID: 9db570

>>1003285
Support. Best way to grow both our knowledge and athletic abilities.
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No. 1003293 ID: 96c896

>>1003269
Learning how to STUDY is applicable to your entire life. It is a crucial skill. Plus, Saba/Chi's build is mostly mental, let's play to our strengths.

Learn some GUILE. That will be useful no matter what.
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No. 1003294 ID: 96c896

Wait, shouldn't SABA know how to STUDY? Did he learn that later in life?
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> Shouldn’t SABA know how to STUDY?
Authors Note: He sure does! Though studying is a SKILL that Chi will have to physically practice in order to gain it. You’re feeling the benefits from his studying in the form of your abnormal stat growth. Since Saba knows how to study, picking up the STUDY skill will be way easier and take way less time, but will still require a TIME investment.

> Flaw and Focus
You continue to not devote yourself to your LOGIC classes and still reign at the top of the class. Your teacher heard of this behavior before and doesn’t bother you. You instead just spend your free time in this class napping, working on your journal, or investigating the puzzle book. Your journal is about 1/3 of the way filled. You’ve been packing every page with notes, doodles, and ideas you’ve had, it’s a nice way to relax. You pick up some new techniques and ideas and even do some simple busts of your classmates while you’re bored in class.

Eventually you’re bored in class and decide to mess around with the Puzzle book. The designs and patterns form together to become some sort of cipher or language. You find out that there are extremely subtle indentations and that you can move some of the symbols on the page with your feathered hands. You do so and eventually a very subtle glowing light appears on the page. What a strange book. You wonder to yourself how it’s lighting itself up as a simple book. There must be a trick to it. You spend some time looking at and comparing the cypher with the design on the page you thought was the first one. Unfortunately you don’t get much more free time to go further than this.

Despite neglecting it, your LOGIC stat increased
Your CREATIVITY stat has increased
You’ve figured out a secret of the Puzzle book
- There is a hidden Cypher or Language in the puzzle book
- You now know that deducing it’s contents will also require LOGIC
- It will now be extremely easy to solve the first page

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> Other classes
You continue to devote yourself the minimum amount in your other classes and do an alright job. Pon decides to spend time with Faan learning how to STUDY and by the end of the year he’s caught up to you in the classes you were ahead in. He looks a little stressed and tired by the end of the year though.

One day you get put into a group project with BLITZ and NOODLE, you have to make a presentation on the history of your country. Your country is made up of three world-plates: TENGU, CANUS, and DOPUS. Tengu and Canus engage in trade whilst DOPUS is used to mostly collect fish and have a sustainable food source. Noodle knows a lot about CANUS since her family is from there. Blitz knows a fair bit about DOPUS since his grandparents were fisherkin that went there. So you were stuck with researching TENGU. You end up finding out that the Capital was created after technologies in stonecutting and concrete were learned via trade with Canus.

Blitz wants to take the lead on the presentation which causes the two of you to butt heads a little bit but in the end you concede it to him as he is more CHARISMATIC than you or noodle. The presentation goes smoothly enough, but you know it could have been better if you were in charge. That night you have dreams where Saba is researching the biologies of different kin. There’s no such thing as monsters in his world, so you end up getting some good information.

You’ve learned a little bit about LEADERSHIP
- You’ll have an easier time increasing your Leadership stat next time
Your CHARISMA stat has increased
Your KNOWLEDGE stat has increased


> BONUS - Pon gets a letter from Hook
Pon comes rushing in from the living room to your shared bedroom. He’s ecstatic, excited, and overenthusiastic. You ask him what’s the matter and he points to an opened letter in his hand.

Pon: IT’S A LETTER FROM HOOK!
Pon: IT SAYS SHE’S GONNA COME VISIT NEXT YEAR!
Pon: SHE WANTS TO SEE HOW ME AND NOODLE ARE!
Pon: SHE ALSO SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HER BROTHER, THE 8TH OR SOMETHING
Pon: COMING ALONG. AAAAAAAAAAA.

You take a look at the letter and it’s more abrasive then that. She says something along the lines of wanting to see how useful Noodle and Pon are and how they’re growing. You guess he could interpret it like that. Though the letter mentions that her brother has business in town too with someone else, you wonder who that could be. You’ve always gotten a weird vibe from her, your INTUITION was basically screaming at you when you saw her the first time. Your brother shows the letter to your parents and they are shocked and let you both know not to upset her, Hook is apparently the first heir in line to inherit the throne of the capital. Her brother is the 8th, but he’s sufficiently more qualified to lead, so you both should be on your best behavior.
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> FREE TIME - Train with Draco
You spend every other weekend training with Papa. He’s strict and it’s hard but by the end of the year you’ve both gotten a bit stronger and have learned the basics of self defense from him. A lot of it involves using your wings to change your momentum at a moment’s notice and striking with your legs as they’re strong natural weapons. It’s used mostly to help you escape, but can be used offensively in certain cases.

Papa tells you that these are the basics of the basics and with this you can now learn to use a specific weapon. There are many varieties of weapons out there, but the ones that Wing-Kin primarily use are BOWS, JAVELINS, CLAWS, BEAKS, and SWORDS. He asks you to think over what weapon you want to use if you want to continue training.

Your ATHLETICS stat has increased twice!
Your INTUITION stat has increased
You’ve gained the SELF DEFENSE stat
- Rank one focuses on unarmed self defense
- Higher ranks focus on specific fighting styles
- It’s name will change based off of how you grow your fighting style
You feel like you need to do something specific in order to form a non familial bond with Draco, but don’t know what it is.

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> FREE TIME - Gamble with Riichi
You spend the weekends you aren’t training with Papa learning how to be tricky and deceptive from Momma. She says the basics of these games come down to not letting your opponent know what you’re thinking, and sometimes you have to LIE to do it. During your second lesson she tasks you with playing a game involving dice and guessing how many are on the table. Fortunately for you, your LOGIC comes in and lets you know the probabilities and you wipe the floor with her completely before she realizes she should have started with a different game.

Riichi changes up the game to one purely involving deception and chance and you play that throughout the year. You try to rely on your INTUITION but you’re unable to beat her once in the game that way, it’s like she knows what you’re guessing. But, a deal is a deal, you beat her fair and square once, so she awards you 20 SHINIES and a medallion, you feel like you’ve seen it before, but the excitement of having money wins out in the end. You’ve never had any money before so this is exciting!

You’ve gained the GUILE stat
Your CHARISMA stat has increased
Your KNOWLEDGE stat has increased
- The chance of you mixing up knowledge from both worlds is reduced slightly
Your LUCK stat has increased
You feel like you need to do something specific in order to form a non familial bond with Riichi, but don’t know what it is.

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[YEAR 8]
Another year passes, the last one was pretty busy. You certainly learned a lot. Your classmates shuffle around again. This time you’re in a class with Pon, Drift, Pawn, and a few other students. Next year’s your last year of grade school education. Then you’ll have a short break and either go to Tengu Academy to further your education and learn a trade or two there, or find someone to apprentice yourself to to learn a trade that way. You’ve also learned that at 16 your parents are expecting you to get a JOB to start financing your independence. You’re free to start earlier if you have the skills, but it will PERMANENTLY REDUCE YOUR FREE TIME since it’s a commitment, but in return you’ll be rewarded SHINIES.

Of course if you find other ways to make SHINIES like Riichi does or move out then you’ll be let off the hook. Faan is busy reworking the curriculum for the next few years, so she’s not free to teach you how to STUDY. But Pon’s willing to teach you what he knows now that he’s at the top of the class if you give him some drawing lessons.

Draco is interested in continuing your MARTIAL TRAINING and getting you used to a weapon, he’s got wooden ones prepared. You’ll get to try them all out, but he wants to know the one that interests you the most for you to start out with from these choices: BOW, JAVELIN, CLAW, BEAK, and SWORD. He says that if you take to the lessons well enough then next year during your break he’s willing to take you out on a hunt to a nearby world-plate.

Riichi wants to help you get the knack of gambling now that you have the basics. She’ll be providing you with 10 SHINIES and wants you to double it against her friend’s kids. They’re more experienced then you, but the challenge will spur growth faster or so she says. She’s willing to take you to the CAPITAL and buy you something that costs up to 50 SHINIES and whatever you’ve won if you succeed.

Hooks visit is coming up, you have to voluntarily chose to spend TIME with her and your brother when she visits, or you could leave them to their devices. It’s up to you. You also hear murmurs of the other kids planning a trip to the lake for a week-long camping/survival trip after classes end next year, but it’s just rumors at this point.

You have [2] [TIME POINTS] to spend this year. What do you do in your spare time?

1. Focus on an available STAT
- AVAILABLE STATS:
[COURAGE]
[STRATEGY]
[CURIOSITY]
[LEADERSHIP]
[LOGIC]
[KNOWLEDGE]
[ATHLETICISM]
[INTUITION]
[CHARISMA]
[CREATIVITY]
[GUILE]
- LOCKED STATS:
[LUCK]
[PRIDE]
[PERSERVERENCE]
2. Do any of the presented ACTIVITIES
3. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
4. Forge a new BOND or spend time with someone you have a BOND with
5. Find places to spend your SHINIES
6. Other (suggestions welcome)

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No. 1003315 ID: 4d8b77

That puzzle book seems like a big deal, so we should definitely focus on it. Something so hard to solve must be an in to the kind of places you can really make waves.
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No. 1003316 ID: e51896

Learn studying from Pon for drawing lessons

Form bond with hook
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No. 1003317 ID: 96c896

>>1003314
Learn how to STUDY from Pon.
Finish the first page of the PUZZLE BOOK.
Hmm, since both of those are "easy" tasks, would they only take 1 time slot between them?
If so, we can do some more of Riichi's ACTIVITY to increase GUILE.
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No. 1003318 ID: 96c896

Can we switch our Focus and Flaw yet?
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No. 1003319 ID: afe7de

>>1003318
Authors Note: If at least 3 suggestors want to change the Focus and Flaw I'll allow the change. I was originally going to wait until Year 10 to change it, but that's silly if people wanna change it now.
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No. 1003323 ID: ce39da

We're going to enter adolescence at some point, and since we bought the "REUNITE: CHILDHOOD" option, I think we need to kick Operation: Find Fren into overdrive.

SPEND TIME WITH PAWN. You're not sure you like how he was standing by and watching as those bullies picked on your brother, but he somehow reminds you of that Willamena girl. Maybe he was also trying to toughen your brother up? Or maybe he wasn't actually involved and only came over to see what was happening because he and Pon have really (and I mean really) similar names?

SPEND TIME WITH PON AND HOOK. This weird feeling about Hook is for a reason, you think, though you'll need to investigate her further to figure out its exact nature. Your INTUITION also told you that leaving Pon to his own devices with her would be really bad... So go to them, both to make sure nothing bad happens and to get closer to Hook yourself so you can figure out what your gut is trying to tell you about her.

... Maybe you should ask her about her dreams at some point?
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No. 1003325 ID: f8fa51

Learn studying, spend time with Hook.
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No. 1003329 ID: 094652

Increase Logic (this time), Spend Time with Hook (See if you can impress her with your "I wanna be your guard knight" skillz).
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No. 1003330 ID: e51896

>>1003323
We got the Group Adolescent BOND , not the childhood bond. we should be fine: >>1002771
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No. 1003331 ID: ce39da

>>1003330
Oh, right. I forgot that suggestion went through.

I'm changing my votes to LEARN STUDYING and SPEND TIME WITH PON & HOOK. (I still think leaving them to their own devices would be bad.)
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No. 1003334 ID: 6c227a

>>1003325
>>1003331
oh to be a gifted and talented kid who actually learned good study skills and perseverance from a young age as well. The things such a person could accomplish.
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No. 1003345 ID: 0fae41

Okay, your LOGIC has the potential to go far, not just keep up effortlessly. Switch that to a focus, it will help with the grunt work of the puzzle. Switch flaw to Guile.
Time: Puzzle, spend time with Noodle!
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No. 1003347 ID: 031458

I think we should continue MARTIAL TRAINING, namely that of the SWORD.
Sword training takes YEARS to learn properly, but once we do we'll be extremely formidable and will have a solid base to more easil pick up most other martial techniques.
Therefor, we should start early.

As for the other martial techniques:
Claw or Beak would let us dominate any childhood fights, but any martial training will put us ahead of the average kid...
Javelin would be the fastest to pick up and use, but it's limited in utility outside of normal hunting. If we were to decide to run away from home early this would be the one to take, but I don't see that happening...
Bow is easy to learn and hard to master. Another one we would want to start early. It doesn't train as many secondary combat skills as swordsmanship does, though.

Don't change focus just yet.
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No. 1003350 ID: a49cfd

Weapon-wise, we need a melee option.
If we plan on spending time to train on two weapons, I'd say BOW and CLAW.
Otherwise, SWORD can be fine too.
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> FLAW AND FOCUS
You go through your LOGIC classes per usual, you’re at the top of the class and the teacher tries a new tactic, giving you the year’s assignments ahead of time. She says if you manage to finish them all correctly then you don’t have to attend the class for the rest of the year. You personally take up that challenge and dedicate yourself for an entire month to finish it all, you feel PROUD of your accomplishment. Unfortunately, your dreams of Saba don’t help you grow your LOGIC this year. Instead you learn more about the continents of the world and wars. It’s pretty brutal. They use complicated machinery and explosives. You fear if those weapons were used on the TENGU WORLDPLATE your kin wouldn’t survive.

Your teacher looks over your paperwork and confirms the contents, you’re good to go. For your Creative class your teacher starts getting you to do some more detailed drawings. Getting you to practice REALISM. You get some good experience and you can do some basic sketches. Your teacher is proud of you at the end of the year and lets her know that you’ve reached the limit of what she’s able to teach you. The rest is up to you to practice. Maybe you could get a new teacher in the CAPITAL. She lets you know that if you’re ever looking for work, Illustrators are hard to come by.

Due to a special event, you’ve gained [1 TIME POINT]
This [TIME POINT] is temporary and will only last for the next two years
Your CREATIVITY has increased to the limit of what your public education is able to give.
You’ve learned the REALISTIC DRAWING skill
Your KNOWLEDGE has increased
You’ll be given a chance to reset your FLAW and FOCUS for your final year in grade school
Your PRIDE has increased


> OTHER CLASSES
Your classmates nominate you to make a banner for your class given your art skills and creativity. You go around instead and delegate, showing different students different tasks they can do to support you as you illustrate the main banner. The result pleases you and your classmates feel proud that they could be a part of this.

Your LEADERSHIP stat has increased
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> FREE TIME - Learn to Study and Puzzle book just a little
You and Pon take time on the weekends to learn studying and for you to teach him the finer points of drawing. He’s been struggling with making the basic forms of characters in a scene and perspective. You give him a few pointers and spend the days correcting his mistakes and praising his successes. In the meantime Pon shows you various mnemonics, word associations, and memorization techniques. A few of these are new and different from Saba’s cold hard absorption. You think he was born with an eidetic memory or something.

You both make good progress throughout the week and once you’ve both gained each others teachings have a little free time. So the two of you take a crack at the Puzzle book. With your combined effort you both manage to complete the first page. You think that the cypher has some sort of application outside of the puzzle book, but don’t even know where to begin with it.

At the conclusion of your tutoring Pon warns you about the dangers of studying too much. He’s been really stressed lately and will need to relax more in year 9.

You’ve learned the STUDY skill
- Studying will greatly increase your chances of passing EXAMS, TESTS, and TRIALS
- In the future you can spend TIME to study a single topic or multiple topics
-- Studying a single topic will treat a STAT as if it was a FOCUS with a 1.5x multiplier
-- And will allow you an easier time when trying to surpass any soft limits on a stat (like CREATIVITY’s current limit)
- Studying multiple topics will increase passive stat growth by 1.5x
- Studying has a small [15%] chance of inflicting STRESS [60%- 5x(PERSERVERENCE BONUS)]


STRESS: Everyone handles stress differently, with your high perserverence you handle it the best. While you have 3 or less stress you are fine. Gaining 4 or more stress will will cause a 5% chance for EVERY ACTION to generate more STRESS, increasing the percentage by 10% for every stress past 4.

Gain more than 6 stress and you have a chance of acting erratically or strangely in any action or event. Gain too much stress and something bad will happen.

Your stress limit is 3 + your PERSEVERANCE and is maxed out at 12. You can take the REST free time action to reduce your stress by half or 4, whichever is higher. Or you can DOUBLE REST and fully clear out your stress.

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> FREE TIME - Hook comes to the Village
It’s the day on the letter. You, your family, Noodle, and her brother are all waiting near the schoolhouse. They call this area the town hex, since its in the middle of the 6 small villages of the HADLA county that the students call home. Two guards land in front of you, you didn’t even notice their approach. One is holding a spear, the other has some sort of horn. The one with a horn blows into it and a loud booming noise plays.

Guard A: Announcing her royal princess 1st to the throne Hook De Wellington Rondalphus and the royal prince 8th to the throne William De Mare Rondalphus.

Two more guards land in the forest behind the first guards and you see Hook looking older and slightly more regal land. Followed by a rather tall Cockatoo with feathers covering an eye. He eyes the surroundings, looking at each of your family members present before stopping and looking directly at you.

Your feathers start to ruffle a bit involuntarily. Your heart starts beating quickly, and your legs feel the desire to quiver. But your COURAGE sticks up for you and you do your best not to show it outwardly. Your mind is a mess right now, your INTUITION wants to tell you something, but it cant, instead something deep, deep inside of you is. And it’s that this bird. Is very, very, VERY, attractive.

Hook proceeds to talk to you all, she continues to act pretty haughtily, but it’s a bit more different from before, targeted, like a blade. It’s blunt now, but you feel with years it will have more of a surgical precision. She announces that she’s at the top of her class in her education and that she’s also got basic mastery of claws and daggers. She then asks for all three of your grades and martial prowess.

Noodle replies that she’s been learning the spear and has already understood the basics of spearmanship. Her grades are only so so, excelling specifically in survival but showing average results everywhere else. Disappointed, she dismisses Noodle and Noodle slithers away, obviously hurt. You can see William give a frustrated glare at Hook that she ignores.

Pon looks on in confusion and tries to speak up when a guard silences him.

Guard B: Speak only when spoken to, you are in the presence of royalty!

Hook continues, asking Pon about his grades and martial prowess. He responds that he’s the top of his class in all subjects sans Art. And that he’s started training in basic self defense this year. Hook grumbles but assents that that’s better then Noodle.
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She motions for him to stay and then comes up to you. But before she can speak William comes up and speaks instead. His voice is smooth, practiced, and silk to your ears. But something familiar chimes in about it that you can’t quite tell. And his plumage, it almost sparkles.

William: The name’s William, same questions as before, but I’ve got another one after.
William: Ah, and I’m above average in all grade school topics and have reached intermediate competency in the bow.


You respond, stuttering a bit before catching yourself and responding more confidently. 3rd in class rankings, more skilled in Art and Logic than others in the class without the need to study. Above average in everything else. You’ve also finished basic self defense but haven’t trained in any weapons yet.

William: Good, Good. Makes sense from what ol short and haughty over here said.
Guard B: Prince, do not disrespect your older sister.
Hook: It’s fine.
William: Right, right. Anyway, my question. The name Hadlee mean anything to you?


Suddenly the world stops and you can feel things freeze. Your mind suddenly feels like an egg, and that there’s something inside trying to poke itself out. But it’s not time yet, so you just get a headache instead.

Of course you know the Hadlee name, that’s Saba’s last name. And then it clicks , it’s YOUR former last name, you only had an inkling that this was true a few years ago, but now you [UNDERSTAND] this to be true. But how could he know that name? You never mentioned it, and only said Saba’s name during that presentation. Did he mispronounce HADLA? What’s going on? Something inside of you is trying to [UNDERSTAND] what’s going on. But that same headache comes back. Time starts to move forward again and your mind works enough to give you some advice, and there’s some thoughts you’ve never had there that pop up too.

[CREATIVITY] - Hadlee? Like the Human magitech guild in CANUS? You’re not lying, you’re fishing for info.
[LOGIC] - Hook heard you mention Saba, He has business here, Is his business you? Extending that logic, is this someone from your past life? He disrespected Hook, is that a good or bad thing? Too many variables. There are guards, but they care more about Hook it seems, play it straight, nothing bad should happen.
[INTUITION] - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HES HOT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[GUILE] - Lie for now, be wary of the guards.
[DESIRE] - Hold Back, Play hard to get, give an I might, who’se asking. Boys love it when you’re mysterious!

How do you respond?
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No. 1003365 ID: 094652

Use your... intuition... to catch him off guard.
In fact, tell him that you are a distant member of the Hadlee family between squeals and he'll think you'd say anything to get a date with him.
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No. 1003366 ID: ce39da

You're a LOGICAL being, no matter what life. Play it straight, but don't overdo it to the point that others question what's going on. (Don't let your emotions get to you; if this is who you think it is, you hardly need to do anything for the two of you to get together.)

"Yes, I know that name very well. Is this about the presentation I gave a few years ago?" Glance around nervously and use other wordless cues to flex your GUILE at him a little bit, too, to try and send a hint that the two of you shouldn't be flinging TMI around in the presence of those who are not in the know unless you collectively want to have to answer some tough questions.
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No. 1003368 ID: 735290

Logic
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No. 1003369 ID: dfbac0

To me, this is obviously a no-brainer, which is funny given the answer is using your brain.
LOGIC: Play it straight and buy time, you need to process this information, a small drop of that name could mean anything, from perhaps someone using your speech in a book, or maybe Hook mentioned it which means she holds more respect for you than you thought, or maybe he's had dreams as well... Either way, play it straight and process the information.
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No. 1003378 ID: 3765ac

Until five minutes ago he was the boy of my dreams.
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No. 1003383 ID: e2f5cc

>>1003365
Supporting
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No. 1003384 ID: 96c896

>>1003363
Ok, looks like Hook and William are our buds. They sure lucked out on the royalty roll huh?

Let's ride the Logic train a bit further.
>disrespected Hook
He's being overly familiar, and she didn't mind at all. They're friends.
>asking about Hadlee directly
>his name's William, like Willamina
>Hook vanished immediately after the Saba presentation
You're not the only one with a past life. They're from Saba's world too. How do they know Saba Hadlee though, was he famous or something...?

Tell him that's Saba's last name, and ask if it's ok to be talking about this out in the open?
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No. 1003389 ID: abc174

Logic.

Lets have a little fun with this and have a little bit of our past life spill into this life and mention how you have dreams of being a ln expert DUNGEON CRAWLER but then quickly correct yourself and say you meant travle different world plates as a archaeological explorer

But something important we need to do: first available chance: LOOK FOR NOODLE! I think she feels betrayed by having her old friend Hook dismiss her, and to a lesser extent, Pon for not standing up for her. We need to find her and let her know you're there for her and wont abandon her. We cant have her crying now.

Once you find the opportunity, ask William of you can be excused for about 10 minutes, as what he said about Hadlee left you with a lot to think about and you really need to get your thoughts together.

Then, look for Noodle and comfort her.
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No. 1003391 ID: f8fa51

LOGIC - Let's play this straight. I don't see any advantage to getting caught up in a web of lies here. At most, play it close to your chest without lying.

And I agree that we should try to go find Noodle. Past lives or not, she's our friend here and now, and that matters.
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No. 1003401 ID: 5e9c45

"Have you heard about the Locked Ankh door?”
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No. 1003405 ID: 96c896

...man, how did they get ahead of us? Well, it's possible we could've matched Hook if we'd picked STUDYING last year and continued martial training this year. Must be because of the time we spent on the book and guile. Also I guess we could've spent some time improving a stat instead of hanging out with Noodle.

Seems like William went all in on martial training? Plus bonus charisma, I think. Or he just got good genetics.
Oh. William isn't Willamina though. That's gotta be Marth, because he's got a Powerful Physique. Hook is short!
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No. 1003408 ID: e51896

>>1003405
> Also I guess we could've spent some time improving a stat instead of hanging out with Noodle.

Don't feel bad about it. After all, friendship is just as important as our self growth, maybe even more.
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No. 1003409 ID: a49cfd

Just nod, say nothing further.
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No. 1003413 ID: 96c896

Alternative theory: William is Willamina, and Hook isn't one of our group at all, just one of William's family members who happens to be extra gifted. This would be supported by Chi's INTUITION not pinging like crazy in regards to Hook, only William. In that case it's likely Hook reacted to the mention of Saba and left because William told her about his dreams. Or maybe she just left because she was sick of the presentation stuff? Also it feels like it'd be difficult to form any kind of Bond with Hook.

This would imply we have yet to meet Marth's new identity. Makes sense actually, we're not Adolescent yet so there's still time to meet them, and it's pretty unlikely for both Marth and Williamina to have hit the Royalty roll...
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No. 1003421 ID: e2ce85

>>1003401
I don't know if this is intuition or logic, but it definilty shortcuts a lot of drama.
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No. 1003424 ID: 864e49

William is definitely Willamina, even the hair matches.
Hook is definitely not Marth.

[LOGIC] - Ask if the name Willamina means anything to him.
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No. 1003443 ID: ff2827

Intuition: Just blurt out “Hot.”
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> Logic [BUT INTUITION IS PRETTY LOUD]
You’re still pretty shaken and accidentally sputter out a “Hot” Because of your Intuition. He smiles in response and waits for your actual response. Your face flushes, you cough, laugh a bit, and then respond in a more logical manner.

> Locked Ankh door [LOCKED]
You can’t say that yet, you don’t remember it!

You: Um, yeah. He’s the boy in my dreams? Is this about the presentation?
You: Does the name Willamina mean anything to you?
William: Ah, good, we’re on the same page then.
William: Here, read this in private later.


He hands over a letter to you. It’s sealed with the symbol of the Tengu royal family. You pocket it in your fluff for later and he walks up to Draco. William pulls out a bag of Shinies and holds it up to him.

William: I would like to train under you for a bit.
William: You being the former captain of the guard and now a World-Plate HUNTER I feel like I would be remiss to waste this opportunity while I’m young.
Draco: Wait your business was with me?


William nods, Draco mulls it over before taking the SHINIES. They negotiate a bit and figure out lodging. Hook seems bored, waves, says “See you at the Academy” And flies away. 5 guards follow her, with only one being left behind for William. You’re still in shock from all of this, former captain of the guard? World-Plate Hunter? You knew your Papa went to other world-plates and that he hunts but not that he was a HUNTER. Maybe that’s why he encouraged your combat lessons? The two head off to a nearby restaurant, with the guard following behind. He gives the rest of you a bow before leaving. Pon looks disappointed in the brevity of the visit, mumbling about wanting to actually talk with Hook.

You look to the restaurant and see a sign that says a meal for two is only 8 SHINIES. You make a mental note of that for later.

You can now chose to spend SHINIES by inviting someone to have a meal at the restaurant. This counts as a REST activity and could boost your BOND with whoever you bring.
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> Check on Noodle
You fly around for a little bit, splitting off from your parents to find Noodle, she’s brooding under the giant bug in the park. Her brother is sitting on the bench looking frustrated. You try to approach but get a loud “GO AWAY” as you do.

[COURAGE + CHARISMA] Be strong, comfort her, don’t be scared

You decide to approach anyway, she glares at you and you sit down next to her. You shit talk Hook a little bit and how she left without so much as another word to Pon, arguably her biggest fan. She chuckles at that and the two of you talk for a little bit. You say if she really wants to prove Hook wrong, to study and kick her butt later. She’s only at basic competency in her weapons after all. She’s feeling better at the end of it and you feel a little closer to Noodle. She confides in you that she wishes she was as SMART as you, but studying is just so hard. You get the idea that you could TUTOR her if you wanted. You do have some more free time now after all.

Your BOND with NOODLE has increased to rank 2
- Noodle will occasionally suggest activities for you to do with her


That night you see Papa and William practicing in the field behind your house. It looks like William isn’t taking any breaks and is treating this seriously. The way his feathers ruffle in the wind, his skill with the bow, you lose focus for a few minutes watching him until he notices you and waves. You hide in your room, embarrassed, feeling fuzzy inside. You decide to read the letter under candlelight that night.

Greetings,
We’re similar, you and I. I see an orphan, angry and stressed, who cares deeply about another child thats so focused and logical.
While you see a sad young boy, trapped in his head by logic, the same boy the orphan cares for.
I feel there might be a kinship between us, and have discovered something you might have not.
There’s a practice from another world-plate, it’s called MEDITATION, it allows one to focus their mind for a period of time.
One can meditate on a variety of topics, and sometimes see results.

I would recommend you meditate on the young boy. You might be surprised by what you see.

P.S. There’s at least one other member of the royal family that also sees someone in our age group, and he’s not one you want to anger.
He’s a womanizer, so unfortunately you might have to deal with him anyway. Be wary of Ignis.
P.S.S. If I’m wholely off base, my apologies, please disregard this mail.

Signed, William De Mare Rondalphus


Below that is a guide to simple meditation, it has some breathing exercises and helpful tips on how to not just fall asleep during it.

You’ve learned the MEDITATE skill
- you can now take free time to MEDITATE on a topic or in GENERAL
- If you’re ever stuck on something, try MEDITATING on it

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> EXTRA FREE TIME and A NEW FOCUS/FLAW
Draco is busy training William, but is still willing to train you while William is here. He says that sparring with another at a similar stage can lead to growths in comprehension, but also says that you should figure out what you want to do in your spare time for yourself. (You’ll need to chose a weapon or weapons to practice if you chose this)

Riichi’s challenge is still available for you to take. She says it will improve your GUILE and give you a good chance to get something cool from the CAPITAL.

Noodle could use some TUTORING, this could be a chance to help her out and guarantee she makes it to the Tengu Academy. From how she talks about it she believes she has a low chance of making it in to Tengu Academy at this rate. She’ll be very grateful for your help.

You’ll also need to chose a new FLAW and FOCUS for your final year of grade school, please pick from the following subjects that are being taught:

A. [LOGIC] Maths, problem solving
B. [KNOWLEDGE] History, Science
C. [ATHLETICISM] Excercise, flight speed, how you apply your strength
D. [SELF DEFENSE] How well you defend yourself
E. [INTUITION] Survival, Hunches, guesswork
F. [CHARISMA] Socializing, forming bonds with others
G. [CREATIVITY]


You have [1 TIME POINT] remaining. What do you do in your spare time?

1. Focus on an Available STAT
- AVAILABLE STATS:
[COURAGE]
[STRATEGY]
[CURIOSITY]
[LEADERSHIP]
[LOGIC]
[KNOWLEDGE]
[ATHLETICISM]
[INTUITION]
[CHARISMA]
[CREATIVITY]
[GUILE]
- LOCKED STATS:
[LUCK]
[PRIDE]
[PERSERVERENCE]
2. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
3. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
4. Use a Skill
- Available Skills
[REALISTIC DRAWING] - Make a few art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION] - Meditate on a topic or in general
[STUDY] - Can study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams.
5. Forge a new BOND or spend time with someone you have a BOND with
6. REST or invite someone to the Restaurant
7. Other (suggestions welcome)

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No. 1003480 ID: 094652

Focus: Charisma
Flaw: Knowledge
Try out Meditation. Think about the system of government that's in the current textbooks, and compare it to Saba's country's government. Is there something you're not seeing? Something that, when taken out of the patriotism and trust and placed in the context of real-world situations, doesn't add up?
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No. 1003483 ID: e51896

Lets train with DRACO and WILLIAM, and learn how to effectively use our CLAWS as weapons. We are behind the others on this skill.

BUT ask Draco if NOODLE can get training from him with us too.

FOCUS: [SELF DEFENSE]
FLAW: [CHARISMA]
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No. 1003489 ID: f8fa51

Focus Logic, Flaw Self-Defence

Meditate on Saba. Let's go with William's suggestion for now.
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No. 1003491 ID: 50af53

>>1003483
That's a great idea. I'm down with that.
However, it's the third child in a row that's asked and I don't want to irritate him. He'll probably need need convincing.
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No. 1003492 ID: 50af53

>>1003491
And also lacks wings that the three of you have.
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No. 1003494 ID: 755453

>>1003483

This, except lets have our flaw be INTUITION instead of CHARISMA.

And I prefer sword instead of claw, but claw is my second choice.

Im probably against bringing Noodle, since it might mean our weapon learning wont be as effective if Draco is focusing on teaching both us and Noodle
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No. 1003497 ID: ce39da

I think we have "enough" social skills, at least for this stage of our life. Let's throw ourselves into training.

FOCUS: [SELF DEFENSE - SWORD]
FLAW: [CHARISMA]

If we really can use our focus to learn a fighting style (and thus don't need to spend free time on it), I think it's time to MEDITATE ON SABA. We'll have plenty enough free time in our final year to cram with Noodle (among other things; fulfilling one or both of our parents' pending challenges would be nice).
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No. 1003500 ID: dabf33

Focus Logic, Flaw knowledge. And help Noodle!
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No. 1003503 ID: afa6f6

>>1003479
Focus: Self defense
Flaw: Intuition

Train Claws, though I personally think Javelins would be cool. Not going to try to split the vote though, maybe after claws. It still a type of spear so it has some melee use, and a ranged weapon would probably benefit a flier.
It wouldnt hurt to ask Draco if Noodle can come with, even if he says no, we can make the effort.
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No. 1003504 ID: 96c896

>>1003479
Focus: KNOWLEDGE
Flaw: ATHLETICISM

Meditate, in general.
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No. 1003508 ID: 031458

Focus: Self-Defense (+Sword Training if available)

Flaw: Charisma

Tutor Noodle.
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No. 1003513 ID: dfbac0

>Focus
Logic, hands down. I don't know why but I feel we really need to focus on that, perhaps we can go far with that stat as well, so I want to put a lot of focus into it.
>Flaw
You fools! This is a trick question! You should obviously choose creativity, there's nothing left to learn with that, so it's a free flaw.
>Freetime
Study LOGIC
Meditate on Saba Hadlee
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No. 1003554 ID: 03c8aa

>>1003483
Changing vote.

Meditation (we were told to do this early in our life for Karma) otherwise, if people choose self defense training with Draco, claws (if we have a sword, our wings wont be free. Claws let us attack while flying)

Focus: logic
Flaw: creativity (only if possible) otherwise, charisma

Next year, we'll focus on self defense with Drago, or meditation (depending on which option wins this year) and then help Noodle study.
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No. 1003564 ID: 031458

>>1003513
I'd be willing to change my vote flaw from charisma to creativity so long as we can flaw something else next year.
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No. 1003596 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - Meditate on Saba
You were very heavily torn on what to do with your free time the rest of the year. You almost decided to train with Papa and William, but at the last moment changed your mind and decide to take William’s Advice. You try this MEDITATION thing. And at first, nothing happens. Then the next day you try, nothing happens. You think you’re doing it wrong so you keep trying. After about a week of effort you actually succeed in focusing your mind. You think of the young man, SABA HADLEE. He’s 16 now and is nearing the end of HIGH SCHOOL. You see WILLAMINA, Huh, she’s covering her right eye like William does. But then your focus spreads and you see images, sequences, flashes of memories, like you’re looking at an overview of Saba’s memories.

There’s a lot to go through, looks like Saba’s life was around 65 years in totality. Now that you’re looking at the memories like this, it looks like you were originally going to absorb all of them in totality by about age 18. But now, you have a good idea of the bigger picture, you think that you can shave that down to 16 by being a bit more selective and speeding through some parts whilst still maintaining full comprehension. You skip to the end, curious about what happened. You try to see his moment of death, but there’s static, a bunch of Eyes. Every time you open that memory it automatically closes. But there’s some moments after that somehow. It’s an inky black void, but you can’t [UNDERSTAND] anything that happens and after a few moments the memory closes. It must not be time yet.

You feel like if you could [UNDERSTAND] things better or maybe if your CONSCIOUSNESS was more developed you’d be able to remember more. But you guess that will just come with time and a full absorption. By the end of this meditation session you’ve skipped around and seen snippets of your prior life. Something happens to his world when he’s 25, then something happens to him at 28, something tragic happens when hes 38, and something miraculous but very late happens when he’s 40, but you decide not to rush it for now and instead sift through his memories up to age 24 for the rest of the year. There’s a lot to go through, and you’ve got time.

> A brief history lesson
During your time sifting through the memories you get CURIOUS, what’s the government like in Saba’s world compared to yours, so you sift through the memories of his first 24 years a bit and you notice a few things. First that SABA seems to be an exception to the norm when it comes to KNOWLEDGE and LOGIC. And that the education system in his world was TERRIBLE. Sure, they had better technology, but it seems that most kin were generally worse off, were not trained in a trade until their 20s, and weren’t given basic survival or financial skills in their education. Almost like the world leaders were trying to keep the masses stupid and poor. Lots of them were in student debt, even SABA was, but he became a PROFESSOR due to his excellent intelligence in the sciences and this let him pay it off. There’s also no Monsters in his world as of yet, just these things called MEGAFAUNA, apparently they gave birth to the KIN and HUMANS thousands of years before he was born. But Saba always looked at it like it was a religion and not actual history.

At least here TENGU education is valued and they push education on the young and start them on a trade at age 10, thus preparing them for life in the future no matter where they go. Education at the TENGU ACADEMY is FREE, however the examination is strict and costs SHINIES. But this amount of SHINIES is relatively small in comparison to the large amounts charged in Saba’s FAUNUS, that’s another thing that strikes you as odd. Apparently the World-Plates as a collective in your world are also called FAUNUS. The FAUNUS world-plates are how your textbooks described them.
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You do a little digging and learn that the TENGU ACADEMY was founded 128 years ago to nurture new generations. Apparently the major export of QARA TENGU is their Wing-Kin hunters and a variety of meats and fish. Your land isn’t rich in many natural resources and the only archaeological ruin that has been found here has already been excavated. The fish and meat are of high quality and tend to have these stones in them with slight natural healing properties on non Wing-Kin and are decently valued. But the CURRENT QUEEN isn’t enamored with massive wealth, and instead cultivates them normally, occasionally selling and trading for technologies from MARA CANUS, the capital of the CANUS world-plate.

Once Humans from a foreign world-plate tried to demand and threaten the monarchy, but were swiftly taken down due to the air superiority and speed of the Wing-Kin Guards. Since then, humans occasionally come by and are treated respectfully, but apparently it was too much of a hassle for them to make flying devices and come en-masse when they could just fish in the DOPUS world-plate at a slightly smaller efficiency. Saba’s Faunus had a variety of governmental styles in it’s world. Midland, where Saba lived is a Democracy with elected officials.

TENGU is a Wing-Kin Monarchy. The QUEEN makes the major decisions and helps influence the direction of Tengu’s growth. The KING is a lesser seat of power, they defer to the queen for the most part unless they’re given explicit permission to do otherwise. Some usually say that the King position is like that of an ADVISOR and GUARDIAN. They’re usually quite CHARISMATIC, can function as the leader of an army if needed, and must be MARTIALLY SKILLED. But are ultimately chosen by the QUEEN in the end. New Queens are selected by the previous Queen’s Exams when the old Queen is ready to hand off the throne. The Queen must be the most intelligent and Qualified Wing-Kin possible, typically this is someone of the royal line as they have the advantage in status and resources, however the new queen can be selected of normal birth.

There’s lots of info about if the Queen dies, if the king dies, who is in charge while they pick the new queen, what happens to the heirs to the throne when a queen is picked, etc, but your KNOWLEDGE is lacking and you can’t remember the rest. One thing you did note was that the King is typically not chosen from the royal bloodline, to prevent inbreeding and mental diseases. You wonder why Monarchies in Saba’s world didn’t do this, it seems obvious enough to you.

You now know without a doubt that you are the reincarnation of SABA HADLEE
Your comprehension of your memories has been shortened by two years as a one time bonus from your first Meditation
If you chose to meditate on yourself in the future you can search for specific memories
Your mind has not fully developed, you’re not ready to [UNDERSTAND] things
- You get the feeling this will change during year 10
A ripple goes out through your CONSCIOUSNESS
Your CURIOSITY stat has increased
Your KNOWLEDGE stat has increased
You get the feeling that Meditation can reduce STRESS

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[YEAR 9]
It’s your last year of GRADE SCHOOL. Your dreams have been more focused lately and due to your meditation you’ve just reached year 24 of Saba’s life. You’ve decided to focus on new things this year, learning all that your teacher could offer you in your art classes.

> FOCUS - SELF DEFENSE
You decide to pay more attention in your self defense classes, you’re interested in learning the SWORD and CLAW, but apparently the SWORD is something you’d have to ask for lessons for from DRACO, If you don’t know the basics they can’t help train you in it unfortunately. So you chose to practice the CLAW instead.

> FLAW - CHARISMA
You refuse to slack in your Art classes, it’s fun and you have too much PRIDE in your CREATIVITY, so instead you become just a bit more anti-social, following in Saba’s footsteps. You don’t really pay attention to who is in your class with you this year as a result.

It’s the beginning of a new year, the grass smells great, the cold is gone, you wonder about this thing called SNOW from Saba’s memories, you’ve never seen it, but it probably exists in other world-plates. William is still here, apparently he’ll be staying until a little, training up until right before your classes graduation. His guard can be frequently seen in the tavern at the town hex flirting with various guys.

Your father boasts about William’s skills in the bow. He has a NATURAL APTITUDE for it and might one day surpass even him. This comes as a shock to you as you’ve always thought your dad was pretty amazing with all weapons. He offers you the same invitation from before, to join training with him and makes an off-handed comment about how you seemed a bit lazy lately in reference to your meditation before catching himself and changing the subject before you can interject. [If you chose this, pick the weapon you want to train in, also if you pick this end end up with sword you’ll be able to train in the sword for self defense, it’ll auto change]

Noodle still seems to be struggling and could use some TUTORING. She’ll be grateful for your help

Riichi’s challenge is still available for you to take, she admonishes you and says that someone with your natural LUCK and GOOD LOOKS you would really benefit from flexing your GUILE more often.
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And the TENGU ACADEMY Exams are coming up at the beginning of next year. You’ve learned a bit more about it. Your stats are all ABOVE AVERAGE for those in your age group. Only your SELF DEFENSE skills are lacking, but that’s not a requirement for TENGU ACADEMY entry. so you think you’ll be able to make it in the top 150 at the basic level without effort. However if you want to join the Intermediate or Elite classes your stats are still lacking. 200 students are chosen at the beginning of every year and apparently those who qualify in the top 50 recieve a yearly stipend of SHINIES and specialized tutors upon request, these are considered INTERMEDIATES. Those who qualify in the top 10 are considered the ELITE. They get their own private homes with 4 rooms, a training ground, bulters, maids, and guards instead of the free dorms. They get a larger yearly stipend of SHINIES, specialized tutors, and access to the QARA TENGU Royal Library where treasures from other worldplates and geniuses have been written. You’ll only be able to take out 2 books during your duration at the ACADEMY, but apparently it’s a valuable experience and studying one of these books can MASSIVELY BOOST STATS and even give you NEW SKILLS. Those who don’t qualify for either will receive free meals and lodging at the ACADEMY, but anything extra will be up to the students to gain either from a Job or otherwise.

Your parents aren’t forcing you to commit to anything and are just happy that you’ll most likely get into the TENGU ACADEMY, where you’ll be given enough of an education that you should be free to do what you want with your life. Pon’s been studying really hard to try to get in to the INTERMEDIATE class, and you can see that the stress is really getting to him. You think that there has to be something you can do to help him learn and help him be less stressed, but you’re drawing up blanks. If you can come up with a solution, it’ll take some TIME, but he’d probably be really grateful.

You hear your parents and various kin talking about what they plan to do when the school year is over, they’ll have a lot more free time then normal. Some are planning trips, others want to laze around, some are going to train. You expect you’ll hear more about this when classes let out.

You have [5 TIME POINTS] (2 base + 2 from the early school year ending + 1 due to passing the LOGIC check) Since you have so many time points, your choices will be split up into two sessions. You may spend up to [3 TIME POINTS] now but you must spend a minimum of 2. What do you do in your spare time?

1. Focus on an Available STAT
- AVAILABLE STATS:
[COURAGE]
[STRATEGY]
[CURIOSITY]
[LEADERSHIP]
[LOGIC]
[KNOWLEDGE]
[ATHLETICISM]
[INTUITION]
[GUILE]
- LOCKED STATS:
[CHARISMA]
[CREATIVITY]
[LUCK]
[PRIDE]
[PERSERVERENCE]
2. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
3. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
4. Use a Skill
- Available Skills
[REALISTIC DRAWING] - Make a few art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION] - Meditate on a topic or in general
[STUDY] - Can study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams.
5. Forge a new BOND or spend time with someone you have a BOND with
6. REST or invite someone to the Restaurant
7. Other (suggestions welcome)

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No. 1003605 ID: e51896

Right, so priority is self defense training with Draco and William. Learn how to use those CLAWS more efficiently, I feel this is the best weapon to use when we want to attack while flying, and is good to know how to use our natural weapons in case we somehow drop our sword or something. having something like a sword or javelin will make it tough to fly around if we're holding them with our wings. (though learning a bit of sword would probably help too)

second, TUTOR NOODLE, so she can be in the same school as us. This is her last chance after all.

Third: STUDY in general (or if we must pick a specific subject, KNOWLEDGE or STRATEGY). Gotta study to get to intermediate like Pon is.

when we get around to the second segment, we'll meditate again to relieve any stress studying will give us during this last year.
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No. 1003606 ID: f8fa51

Voting to STUDY for the Academy entry and to help tutor Noodle, as well as focusing our LOGIC (which we still need to complete the PUZZLE BOOK).
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No. 1003609 ID: 094652

>>1003605
This, but focus on Leadership.
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No. 1003612 ID: afa6f6

>>1003600
-Study For the Academy, We should aim for the Intermediate class at the lowest.
-Continue Martial Arts training
-If Both Noodle and Pon And us need to study, why dont we use our skills to put togetehr a daily Study group? That way everyone benefits, and it'll be less stressful then studying alone. I guess that would be something like LOGIC+LEADERSHIP?
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No. 1003613 ID: c8f715

Actually you know what?
Tutor Noodle
Study
And Study some more.

And then consider studying more in the next round.

We are fairly exceptional on our own, we have a genius in our brain, we took time to learn to study, we took time to learn how to manage stress, and we aren't stressed currently.

We could make it to ELITE.
If we fall behind elsewhere so be it.
We'll have world class tutors to make up the difference later.
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No. 1003615 ID: 9f8373

Focus: Logic

In regards to Pon, we just learned meditating can be focused on a topic, increased our knowledge, and can lower stress. So I figure we can teach him meditation and try meditating together on the topic of study itself.

For time use:
Teach how to Meditate/Meditate on Studying with Pon
Study for Exams
Tutor Noodle

This way we go all in on study and be the best tutor we can be in part 1, then we can see where we are for the second part and likely spend some time with our parents.
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No. 1003617 ID: ce39da

If it seems like we need to dedicate study time for just ourselves, I think we can save it for the second half.

For now, between HELPING PON STUDY SMARTER, NOT HARDER, and TUTORING NOODLE (in that order, to maximize effectiveness for the latter), those should be enough to count for something on our end.

For a third task, let's LEARN THE SWORD WITH DRACO. I assume wing-kin prefer lighter blades that require less athleticism and more pure skill than the other weapon options.
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No. 1003620 ID: 031458

I'm game for a Study Group.
It wont help Pon relax, but it should at least take some pressure off of him, and it doubles as tutoring for Noodle.
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No. 1003621 ID: a49cfd

I'm in favor of tutoring and training (claws or sword)
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No. 1003623 ID: 031458

...If we end up martial training as well, I suggest Sword.
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No. 1003625 ID: 96c896

>>1003600
Well we have a bunch of free time let's use it on stuff we're supposed to be doing!
STUDY for exams
TUTOR Noodle but warn her you may not have the time to keep tutoring her during Tengu Academy, she may be better off becoming an apprentice in the field she excels at. Does Noodle know how to STUDY? Teaching her that might keep her afloat without time investment.
TRAIN with Draco, with Swords probably but it'd be best if you try out various weapons to see if there's one you have a natural affinity for.

After the break we can find out our chances of getting into Elite with another round of studying and/or meditation.
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No. 1003626 ID: c17a37

Im fine with whatever

But lets learn some horrifying lore about this world, such as why we wear that makeup, and what it protects us from, and how it protects us.

Maybe we also learn that for the past 5 centuries, it has been discovered that all the world plates are slowly shrinking. They are disintegrating from the edges, and from the bottom, and the land that crumbles off does not teleport back after falling.

Scientists dont know the reason why this is happening, or how to fix or prevent this but they estimate that in about another thousand years, if this continues, the world plates will become weak enough to collapse on itself and cause an Apocalypse.

Thankfully this wont happen in our lifetime, but we're told we'll start seeing some damages caused by this phenomenon in your 30s, or 50s. So far, people have started expanding the tubes to accommodate to the worldplates slowly shrinking.
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No. 1003630 ID: dfbac0

>Focus
Logic, as I feel this is very important
>Flaw
Gonna say creativity again, as I feel we can't progress with it now and we need every other stat available. We can do more with this in the academy when we can actually learn more for it.
>FreeTime
Study Logic
Study Knowledge
Train with Draco (Sword)
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No. 1003644 ID: 0fae41

-help Noodle
-Train with claws
-Focus on Logic
for later:
-puzzle book
-bond with Pon
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> Classes
You decide to take lessons with Draco and William in the SWORD, but won’t be able to learn the basics in time for it to be any use in your classes. So you learn the basics of the CLAW. The CLAW is an interesting combat style focused on BALANCE and FLEXIBILITY Your arms are traditionally supposed to be kept free, while you attack with KICKS, SLASHES, POUNCES, and the like, its one of the more favored style of combat for the Flight-based Wing-Kin. The downside to this style is that in order to BLOCK or PARRY any attacks that come to you, you’ll need to learn how to stretch your legs properly. Your GUILE admires this style and thinks it could suit you if you were to focus more on it. Your training mostly focuses on using the CLAW to fight while airborne, but you also get some classes on how to fight while on the ground. They mostly spend time trying to teach you how to DODGE after teaching you the basics, but there isn’t enough time to learn that right now.

Your SELF DEFENSE stat has increased
You’ve been trained in the BASICS of the CLAW
- You’ve gained the COMBAT SKILL [CLAW (1)]
- When using the CLAW your combat bonus will be Your CLAW LEVEL added to your SELF DEFENSE


Since you’re graduating this year and reached BASIC competency, your teacher has gifted you a set of STONE CLAWS so that you can practice. They’re pretty durable, blunt, and should last you a while. They’ve got some leather padding and are easy to put on. It only takes you about 10 seconds to put them both on since they’ve made you practice.

> Other Classes
Today in History class your teacher started to talk about something strange and mysterious about your world. The End-Plates like DOPUS and TENGU are slowly but noticeably eroding. Shock enters everyone’s expression but the teacher calms you down and explains further. In the past 5 centuries of recorded knowledge it’s been noticed that a very small amount of the edge has crumbled, falling but not reappearing like kin do. Your homes are so far inland from the edges just as a safety precaution against this. However, should this phenomena keep up, then within one to two thousand years the plate might be weak enough that it collapses in on itself, and you’ll all have to abandon your homes, immigrating to CANUS, where the cycle might repeat itself again.

She then goes into speculation about what might be causing it, something about energy densities, birth rates, population, etc. You wonder if this could be something to research at some point. She closes reminding everyone that this won’t happen in their lifetimes, but it’s something to consider. She believes this is also happening to the DOPUS plate.

That night you also get curious about something else, the pigment you wear sometimes, that you see all three of your parents wearing at times. You ask about it.

Riichi: Oh, that? Well it’s nothing too crazy.
Riichi: Basically the shapes and symbols that are made are arbitrary
Riichi: it’s the COLORS that matter.
Faan: YELLOW is the color of ROYALTY or those who work closely with them
Draco: DARK RED is the color of the HUNTERS, children and spouses of the hunters can wear them too.
Draco: We have both of you wear those colors so that anyone who tries anything with you knows they will be found and punished.
Riichi: BLUE and PINK are just arbitrary colors, usually they’re used to refer to BOYS and GIRLS, but are mostly aesthetic.
Riichi: GREEN’S the only other important one, It’s the color used by ELITE TRADESMEN and MERCHANTS
Faan: There are other colors that mean some other things, but only in certain settings, but for the most part the rest are aesthetic.


You thank your parents and ruminate over what you’ve learned.

Your KNOWLEDGE stat has increased
- The chance of you mixing up knowledge from both worlds has been reduced

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No. 1003653 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - Practice the SWORD with DRACO and WILLIAM
You head to the field behind yourself to see a sweating and handsome William practicing the bow, firing arrows at various targets in the distance. Your father notices and you ask for training, so he starts training you on the SWORD like you wanted. One thing you learn about Wing-Kin swords is that they’re styled after the human RAPIER with a longer hilt meant to accommodate your long feathered hands. That blade is specifically chosen for Wing-Kin because it’s the lightest of all blades, second to the ESTOC.

He teaches you how to THRUST and use the hand guard on the blade to DEFLECT. You’re being taught how to be SWIFT. Eventually you get to the BASIC COMPETENCY of the RAPIER. William then challenges you to several spars. Your Rapier against his bow, you think it’ll be easy, he’s just using a bow after all, but in 10 duels you were unable to reach him before being knocked out by one of his blunted arrows. But each experience furthered your growth and eventually you learned to DODGE, but even when you were able to get close he was able to knock you out from a simple chop to the head. It’s a useful experience and you feel a little closer to William as he offers you some tips that help further your way of the sword. He’s surprised you didn’t pick something like the bow too, but respects your decision.

You’re told that you’re 1/3 of the way through the BASIC COMPETENCY of the RAPIER, some more and you will have INTERMEDIATE COMPETENCY of it. Your father is very proud of your growth and wonders if you have an APTITUDE for combat, he also mentions this might be because you’re in your HIGH GROWTH period. He awards you a STONE RAPIER, saying it’s heavier than a normal one to train your muscles on. Wing-Kin have naturally hollow bones and are traditionally WEAKER then the average HUMAN. However he praises you and your bodies ATHLETIC physique, saying that it’s about as strong as the AVERAGE human soldier, and that in itself is already an amazing feat for a Wing-Kin.

Your SELF DEFENSE stat increased
You’ve gained the PRECISION stat
- You’ve gained the COMBAT SKILL [RAPIER (1)] from focused training from a master
- When using the RAPIER your combat bonus will be Your RAPIER LEVEL added to your SELF DEFENSE stat
- Also Gains bonuses from the PRECISION stat
You’ve learned the COMBAT SKILL [DODGE (1)]
- When actively using the DODGE skill your chance of being hit will be reduced significantly
You feel like you should be able to form a bond with William in the future

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> FREE TIME - Tutor Noodle
You decide to speak up to noodle, she’s been depressed lately and aimless. After talking with her for a bit you take it upon yourself to spend your weekends tutoring her in the classes she’s struggling in. She appreciates this immensely and her brother says that his family will never forget your kindness. Noodle seems to have the basics of most fields in her grasp, however more advanced LOGIC and KNOWLEDGE questions just reach out of her grasp. She’s also a bit of a loner, so she’s hesitant to ask for help. You come up with a lesson plan and start going over things in bite sized chunks, introducing to her more effective ways to STUDY.

After a few months she starts to show moderate improvement, with luck and some more studying on her behalf, you believe she could make it to the top 200 and get into the TENGU ACADEMY. You also learn a bit more about her, her foster family is poor, but they’re doing the best they can to get her an education and a good life. She doesn’t want to disappoint them so you doing this to help her really means a lot. She gives you a hug and you return it. You feel like noodle TRUSTS you. At the end of the study sessions you let her know that things will be harder from here on out and that she might not be able to rely on you at the ACADEMY. She understands and promises not to be a burden to you. Her brother also approaches you and hands you a bag with 10 SHINIES, saying it’s not much but he appreciates what you did, and that if you get a chance you should treat yourself to a nice meal or toy.

You’ve helped a friend in need
Your bond with NOODLE has increased twice to rank 4!
- Noodle will occasionally help you on tasks you are having difficulties with
- Noodle now TRUSTS you
- Noodle considers you to be her BEST FRIEND!
- You can now request 1 favor a year from Noodle
= Favors can be any task you need her to do that you can’t accomplish in FREE TIME, or to assist you in an ACTIVITY or PROJECT.
= The more favors you request, the more likely Noodle will request a favor from you
= Rejecting a request can cause your BOND level to drop

You’ve gained 10 SHINIES
Others are starting to see you as COMPASSIONATE


During your process of tutoring noodle you go back through your memories of SABA and notice he also had a predilection for teaching in his career, so you take hints and notes from his experiences, combined with your own. You’ve been doing a decent amount of TEACHING others. You taught Pon to defend himself, how to draw, and now you’ve taught Noodle how to study.

From repeated actions you’ve gained the special skill [TEACHING **]
- You can teach someone up to one level below your current stat or skill level
- For example, Your CREATIVITY is 5, you can teach someone up to rank 4
- At your current rank, you can teach someone up to rank 4 in that skill/stat
- The higher your TEACHING, the more effectively and quickly you can give someone the information.

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> FREE TIME - STUDY FOR THE EXAMS
You decide that now’s the time to study for the exams. Now that you know what’s on the line, you want to make it to the INTERMEDIATE class at TENGU ACADEMY. The benefits are worth it. But in order to do that, you need to figure out exactly what you are lacking in, so you Meditate a bit on it, do some practice tests and figure out the results.

CHI SAVA - WING-KIN - STATS

[COURAGE] xx
[STRATEGY] x
[CURIOSITY] xx
[LEADERSHIP] xx
[LOGIC] xxx
[KNOWLEDGE] xx
[KN OTHERWRLD]xxx
[ATHLETICISM] xxx
[INTUITION] xxx
[CHARISMA] xxx
[CREATIVITY] xxxxx
[SELF DEFENSE]xxx
[GUILE] x

[LUCK] ???
[PRIDE] ???
[PERSERVERE] ???

You organize your thoughts onto a sheet of paper, this is approximately how you see yourself, you’re biased of course, so it might not be that accurate, but this is the metric that you’re going to go off of for now. Your KNOWLEDGE is effectively a 4, but you think it’s better to split it just in case. Saba’s knowledge includes the biology and chemistry of kin, history, and the basics of his world’s science. While yours includes your history, biology, and knowledge of MONSTERS.

You take a moment to wonder why your LOGIC and KNOWLEDGE aren’t at the adult level yet, he’s above average, yet you haven't absorbed to that level yet. And you’re at AGE 24 for SABA already. You assume that by the time you turn 16 you’ll have gotten all the growth from him that you can, this process ISNT PERFECT and you’ll have to fill in the gaps yourself you suppose. Perhaps to get everything you might even have to MEDITATE on it or PRACTICE like you had to do with STUDYING.

You know for a fact that the TENGU ACADEMY values the following stats in new members:

KNOWLEDGE
INTUITION
CREATIVITY
LOGIC
CHARISMA

You’d rate the average kin child to be at about a rank 1 or 2 In any of these given stats as they’re something you can learn in grade school. Rank 3-4 represents above average for a kid and rank 5+ means that you’re a genius in the field expected to go far.

The scale is slightly different for adults. Most average at around 3-4, an above average adult, like a truly skilled tradesman usually gets to 5-6, and a true genius or master of the field would be at 7+

Apparently the first 5 ranks are the easiest with breaking through to 6 being a bottleneck requiring either specialized knowledge, or massive studying/training. You’ve already experienced the bottleneck with your CREATIVITY, so you feel like there shouldn’t be any issues with that when it comes to the exams.

You also learn through your research that there is an extra credit segment whose topic changes every year depending on what the Academy is looking for in it’s new students. This gives students that didn’t do especially well on a topic a chance to get a small amount of extra points. You’ve heard it’s been anything from LEADERSHIP to GUILE in the past but it could even be LOGIC or ATHLETICISM. It’s essentially RANDOM so you’ll have to pray to the GODDESS it’s something you can do.

To gurantee getting into the top 50 would probably require all of your stats to be at 4* or higher, which feels doable. Miss one and you think the likely hood is high, but not guaranteed. Any lower than that and you’re testing your LUCK. You’re sure getting all of them to the 5* level would guarantee you entry to the top 10, but unless you dedicate yourself to solely studying that might just be a floating dream in the distance. And even then it would require LUCK as there are other known and unknown absolute geniuses out there like William, Hook, and that Ignis guy fighting for those spaces. They say LUCK is a skill on its own after all.

You get down to studying while the school year ends. You share a space with Pon and sometimes bounce questions and ideas around. There was a few times you got stuck on questions and Pon helped you figure out the solutions by getting your brain to think in the right way. He also spends some time showing you how to talk to people a little differently, you appreciate the advice and you feel it makes you a little more charismatic.

Pon helped you out, your progress in CHARISMA has increased by a little bit!
Your LOGIC stat has increased
Your CHARISMA stat has just barely increased
You were UNLUCKY, you gained 1 STRESS from the pressure

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> FREE TIME PART 2
The school year is over. You’ve got a 3 month break before the new year and the exams for TENGU ACADEMY begin. Drift headed off with his family on a retreat to DOPUS to go fishing and clear his mind. He’s confident he’ll get into the Tengu Academy, maybe even the INTERMEDIATES, but he just wants to rest. He’s seemed kind of sad lately for some reason.

Blitz on the other hand doesn’t care if he gets into the INTERMEDIATES, he’s got good CHARISMA so he wants to follow in his dad’s footsteps and become a merchant in other World-Plates. He says he’s going to learn a little bit about every trade and stat while he’s there so he can know how to communicate with all walks of life on his journeys.

Pon and Noodle think it would be a good idea to form a study group to help shore off everyone’s weak points. You get the idea that it’ll probably be less effective then studying on your own, but won’t cause any of you to gain extra stress from the moral support.

William bids you a goodbye and says he’ll see you in the capital. You wave him and his guard goodbye. Draco seems tired and is taking the rest of the year off. He gathers your family and suggests you go on a trip to the floating lake. It’ll be a good time to REST, look at beautiful scenery, and calm the mind. Maybe you can even draw the landscape to relax. He says it’s optional for you and Pon if you want to keep studying, but says that too much studying might have adverse results, especially on Pon’s end.

With your INTUITION And LOGIC you’re able to deduce that Pon is VERY STRESSED, but he fears failure and not getting into the INTERMEDIATES more. He promises to rest when he gets in, but you’re worried if he gains ANY MORE STRESS that something bad might happen. He concedes that if you go on the trip, he’ll go too, but if you stay and study, he’ll do that too. He doesen’t want to leave Noodle out to dry and your parents agree that she can join you all on your trip.

Faan tries to lightly PRESSURE you to commit to the trip, but your COURAGE is just barely enough that you resist immediately caving. You think of an alternative solution in the moment, maybe you could teach Pon to meditate, you could even teach him to meditate while at the floating lake, however your INTUITION speaks up in the moment and tells you not to do that. You’re not sure why.

SABA’S KNOWLEDGE then speaks up to you. It gives you an absolutely absurd idea. You could purposefully take on [6] stress to gain [1 TIME POINT] from furious micromanagement of your time. Your LOGIC says that you don’t really need it and don’t want to end up as stressed as SABA and glares at SABA’s KNOWLEDGE that just shrugs innocently at the gesture. Your INTUITION says that doing this will set a bad precedent.

AUTHORS NOTE: After careful consideration I’ll be adjusting how Meals at restaurants and other money spending events will work. Will update you in YEAR 10 on the changes.

You have [2 TIME POINTS] what do you do for the remainder of the year?

1. Focus on an Available STAT
- AVAILABLE STATS:
[COURAGE]
[STRATEGY]
[CURIOSITY]
[LEADERSHIP]
[LOGIC]
[KNOWLEDGE]
[ATHLETICISM]
[INTUITION]
[GUILE]
[SELF DEFENSE]
- LOCKED STATS:
[CHARISMA]
[CREATIVITY]
[LUCK]
[PRIDE]
[PERSERVERENCE]
2. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
3. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
4. Use a Skill
- Available Skills
[REALISTIC DRAWING] - Make a few art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION] - Meditate on a topic or in general
[STUDY] - Can study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams.
[TEACHING**] - Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
5. Forge a new BOND or spend time with someone you have a BOND with
6. REST or invite someone to the Restaurant
7. Other (suggestions welcome)

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No. 1003662 ID: 094652

>>1003652
This world isn't that bad, but... caste armbands? You remember in your previous world those fux-somethings lost everything because they favored oppression and resentment over bonds and diversity. Hook is an example of how something as simple as a daily reminder of privilege can make anyone an asshole.

>>1003655
Odd... didn't Saba's world have a major religion where there was only one Goddess? And why where they explicitly female?
It's not too big a deal, but perhaps the Goddess is one of reincarnation. You may need to show her some respect - after all, if the statistics line up with the beliefs there's little harm in being logical with your faith.

>>1003656
>Saba was extremely stressed
Your previous incarnation worked hard and was rewarded, but developed serious mental problems that clearly eroded his potential friendships. The only way you can truly honor him is using what he earned and succeeding where he failed. That means not repeating his past mistakes, like driving yourself crazy just to get extra time management when you are learning and forming bonds at a healthy pace. You'll get his brain in your head and all the knowledge you need, in exchange you need to learn what he always felt deficient in.

Study Guile
Teach Pon how to manage stress with Meditation. Look at his career plans and see if he's putting too much effort into something relatively minor for his pursuits.
Recommend Pon go on vacation without you.
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No. 1003663 ID: e51896

Take SABA’S KNOWLEDGE advice for one more free time at the cost of 6 STRESS. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made

FAVOR for NOODLE: Ask her to help you convince Pon to go on a trip. She can go too if she wants. You'll stay behind.

STUDY in general (knowledge, logic, intuition, charisma, etc.)

STUDY GROUP with Pon and Noodle, use our teaching skills here. After we study while pon and maybe noodle is gone, we can help teach them what we learned when they get back

MEDITATE in KNOWLEDGE (lowest stat right now that the academy values, and will help lower stress after everything) (plus, we were told to meditate for karma. Best to meditate at least once a year)
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No. 1003674 ID: ce39da

You're a nerd, but nerds should be smart enough to not repeat what they realize to have been mistakes. And that's not even taking into consideration how there's now an impressionable twin brother to consider, who would get absolutely wrecked with his higher current stress and without your past-life experience handicap.

No reason you can't do the study group and the trip with the free time you have left, right?

Start with the FAMILY TRIP TO THE FLOATING LAKE, and use your dedicated TLC time to MEDITATE ON SABA, specifically on absorbing more of his [LOGIC] and learning the secret to his almost god-like [INTUITION], which you're starting to understand didn't come from natural training. You aren't that concerned with how his world changed at Age 25 unless it has something to do with that incredible [UNDERSTANDING] power he gains at some point or could otherwise follow him into the next life. When you're not meditating, the family member/guest you're interacting with the most is PON... mostly to make sure he actually relaxes.

When you get back, PARTICIPATE IN A STUDY GROUP WITH EVERYONE, with your personal focus being solely on reinforcing your KNOWLEDGE (theology and the royal family - you've clearly still got gaps there - plus skimming over Faunus sciences and chemistry to see what you can carry over and what you need to unlearn).
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No. 1003678 ID: 031458

Hmm. a modicum of effort will get us into Intermediate... but there is still a path to Elite, even though it's pretty non-standard. Check it out:

Take Saba's Knowledge's suggestion

Meditate on Saba: Memories of challenges he overcame. - You want his approach to solving problems. With any luck we'll net the Logic we're missing and some Intuition. This will also ensure our stress remains manageable.

Train Guile With Richii - Specifically ask about how to read and work other people. We need more work on our Intuition and Charisma, I don't think there's a better way than this.

Study Knowledge - It's all we'll be missing. The otherworld knowledge should only be relied upon to fill the gaps, it shouldn't be the bulk of what we know. This could also be done in a group setting.
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No. 1003683 ID: 96c896

>>1003656
FAMILY TRIP to rest
GROUP STUDY to finish up our growth
definitely do not micromanage time. It's a bad deal in the long run since we're probably going to have to REST immediately afterwards to recoup that 6 stress.
>Gaining 4 or more stress will will cause a 5% chance for EVERY ACTION to generate more STRESS, increasing the percentage by 10% for every stress past 4.
>Gain more than 6 stress and you have a chance of acting erratically or strangely in any action or event. Gain too much stress and something bad will happen.
We're already at 1 stress, so micromanagement will push us to 7 which means every action afterwards will have a 35% chance to generate more stress. Also, we'll have an unknown chance of acting erratic. That's really bad!

We have enough Logic, Creativity, Knowledge, and Charisma now. Intuition is the only stat we need, we can boost that via group study. Or just FOCUS on it?
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No. 1003684 ID: dfbac0

>Focus
I don't know why but something about LOGIC is calling to me, I know I've said this several times but I feel it to be very important we get lots of LOGIC
>Flaw
CREATIVITY, let's not be too prideful with a stat that's currently bottle-necked.
>FreeTime
1:Meditate on Saba's Intuition to get a better grasp of it, it said we could meditate on his logic or knowledge but I think maybe we could do the same with intuition.
2:Flex your LEADERSHIP and CHARISMA skill to try and convince Pon to take a break on his own and that he needs to rest. Then you can proceed to study Knowledge on your own. We should be CREATIVE and not be set into the binary choices that life presents us but instead use our skills to solve them.
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No. 1003685 ID: dfbac0

>>1003663
Good point, use the favor with Noodle to help us convince Pon to go on the trip, as every bit counts with that.
Although meditating on Saba's knowledge might be bad as that would increase knowledge of his world, not ours.
As for the time management... I say we go through with it ONLY if we can meditate beforehand so our stress is 6 not 7.
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No. 1003689 ID: 031458

>>1003684
Focus and flaw are already determined for this time slot.
Chi is too proud of her creativity to ignore it.

After the recent skill ups, our most lacking area is INTUITION.
Technically our knowledge is lower, but otherworld knowledge is padding it.

Our relevant stats regarding the test are currently:
KNOWLEDGE (2)(3) - 4
INTUITION - 3
CREATIVITY - 5
LOGIC - 4
CHARISMA - 4

If we do nothing with logic in our free time here, it'll probably hit the soft cap next year, and then its likely we'll need to meditate to get it higher.

All we REALLY need to do right now is work on intuition and study a little to balance out our knowledge. Going on the trip and doing a group study would probably be enough.

We are in a position to get {Effectively) all 5's (and a chance at ELITE status) though, if we decide to get creative and take a relatively small risk. The stress is unlikely to be immediately detrimental, instead presenting a manageable but real hurdle to deal with in the coming years.
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No. 1003695 ID: f8fa51

Don't micromanage, go on the family trip, do a group study session in which you focus on your CHARISMA and KNOWLEDGE if possible, meditate on Saba's INTUITION.

Change our focus to KNOWLEDGE and our flaw to ATHLETICISM.
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No. 1003703 ID: 96c896

>>1003689
There's no way we can get four stat points from one time slot!
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No. 1003716 ID: a4f4d6

>>1003703
Bro we gained 7 last turn
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No. 1003719 ID: 96c896

>>1003716
What? No. One time slot as in, one TIME POINT. We just used 3 TIME POINTS and got stats from classes too. The most we can expect from each TIME POINT spent is 2 stat points. We can definitely get Intuition up to 4 and thus qualify for INTERMEDIATE but ELITE is out of our reach even with the micromanagement bonus. It's not gonna happen.

If we had taken mental strength like we were told to, maybe it would have been possible. We can't get greedy now.
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No. 1003720 ID: a4f4d6

>>1003719
If we use all three time slots efficiently we could. Yes it would require sacrifices be made, no it wouldn't be a guarantee. It's possible though.
And from a meta standpoint I doubt Ed would give us the time option if it's wasn't
It's probably too late to really argue the point now anyway. I'm just surprised you take such a hopeless approach to freeform interactive fiction.
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No. 1003732 ID: afe7de
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AUTHORS NOTE: Will be adjusting Flaw and Focus starting year 10, things are going to be different, you’re going to have more time and more choices!
> 1003720
And from a META standpoint: (Don't read the spoilered below if you don't want percentage odds spoilers of whats going to happen.)

I’ll say that YES if you did specific things as of last action round, your chances of getting into elite would be at around 60%, not confirmed, but definitely better odds. Its still possible, but think of the chances of being around 5%, also since you’re reading this, the bonus event could also increase your odds, but that’s going to be randomly decided when it comes up next update or so. And would give an extra 20% if it picked a stat at at least 3.

And don’t feel bad if you can’t perfect through grade school or life, you only found out about the elite/intermediate stuff with 1 year to go. Plus BONDS are important. You can’t always see every event on your initial play through of some games after all. Also, there’s routes for if you just played around as a kid too, I just hope y’all find what I’m writing interesting and enjoy it. Anywho, thanks for coming to my Ed-Talk, now for the update.


> Don’t Micromanage
You decide that micromanaging to get extra time isn’t worth it right now. You feel a collective weight lifted off of you. As if a held breath was released all at once from the core of your being. Your head feels clearer for some reason. Multiple stats are pleased with you.

For resisting temptation your stats have rewarded you by clearing the 1 STRESS you just gained
A ripple goes out through your CONCIOUSNESS again
A hidden stat groans and goes “tsk-tsk” before vanishing


Your INTUITION also speaks up, apologizing for being vague. It meant that you shouldnt teach Pon MEDITATION at the lake, not that teaching him the MEDITATION skill itself would be bad. It has a good feeling about Pon learning MEDITATION in general.

> SKILL CHECK - Convince Pon to go anyway
You wrack your brain a bit and come up with an idea. You try to combine your LEADERSHIP and CHARISMA to attempt to CONVINCE him. You go over the pros and cons of the situation, doing your very best to try to be convincing and let him know that if he keeps this behavior up it might really hurt him in the long run.

Pon OPPOSES your opinion, stating that getting into Tengu Academy’s INTERMEDIATES is worth the stress. He says he’ll try not to do this going forward, but it’s hard to keep up with you. You aren’t able to win this verbal bout, After all, Pon was the one who taught you what you know of CHARISMA, his must be better than yours. You feel Pon’s STUBBORNNESS and CHARISMA are like a stone wall. So, you do cave. You care about your little brother, so you’re willing to sacrifice a bit for both of your sakes. You agree to go on the trip to the lake and invite Noodle, she excitedly drops what she’s doing and joins along.
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> FREE TIME - The floating lake
The six of you: Pon, Chi, Draco, Riichi, Faan, and Noodle take to the skies a few weeks later. Noodle straps herself to Pon and his POWERFUL yet small physique and you enjoy a nice long fly through the continent. The wind beneath your wings, the scents in the air, the beautiful landscapes are all breathtaking. You’ve been so busy the last few years you forgot that you should just take a moment and absorb the environment, life, and everything. Your CURIOSITY points out that the clouds look especially cool today. One of them even looks like an eye. But when you focus on it, another cloud passes by it and it’s gone. Weird.

The trip takes around 2 hours before you see it, the floating mass is pouring water down from its sides like a waterfall, there’s a small mountain and a small field right next to it. In the distance you can see some cabins. There’s a Wing-Kin fishing on the dock as you approach and land. Your Papa hands the man a sack of SHINIES and he tosses Draco a key. Your group heads up the plain to a cabin. With a click the door unlocks and you see a quaint little home. There’s a nice perch on the roof for you to sunbathe, 6 small beds, a toilet and all the basic necessities. Draco tosses down his luggage and speaks up.

Draco: Okay, ground rules, you can’t leave the floating island, or go in caves, but everything else is free game.
Draco: It’s a relatively peaceful spot and most Wing-kin ignore it, so we should only see a few occasional visitors.
Draco: Pon, Chi, Noodle, you’re forbidden from studying or training or anything like that while we’re here.
Draco: You all should take a break, you’ve worked hard already.
Draco: Otherwise have fun and come back before dark. There’s no monsters here, it’s a safe place, been coming here as a kid.

You all laugh and cheer and run about the island. Some days you go for a SWIM, you were trained in the basics during your SURVIVAL classes, but Wing-Kin are better at FLOATING then diving and swimming. You also fish a few times and your parents teach you how to prepare them yourself in tasty new ways your survival classes didn't.

> BONUS - The mountain peak
During your time exploring the mountain you eventually climbed to the peak. It’s not a big mountain at all, but it still took you like 20 minutes to fly up there. You notice a good spot and think that now’s a good time to practice your REALISTIC DRAWING. You take out your sketchbook and look in the distance. It’s the WORLD PLATE TUNNEL. You decide to sketch it’s weird inconsistency and how it just sort of vanishes in the air. You’ve got GOOD EYESIGHT as a wing-kin and the TUNNEL is pretty visible so drawing like this is easy.

During your time sketching you notice something. Two little blue dots come out, then another 4, then another 8. Focusing closer it looks like some kin are coming through. Your eyesight is good, but it’s not good enough to make up anything else other than the lights. You wonder what it could be and add the lights to your sketch. You’re proud of this illustration. You call it THE LIGHTS AT THE END OF OUR TUNNEL. You get a good feeling from this drawing. Maybe you’ll put it up in your dorm room at the Academy.

You’ve made an ORDINARY ILLUSTRATION inspired by a special moment
Collectors might pay you a few SHINIES for it
When placed in a room, kin who look at it will feel a slight bump to their lowest STAT for a short period

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> LUCKY BREAK! - A coin?
In the last week of your trip you decide to go for a walk in the forest with Pon and Noodle, it’s very pretty and there are lots of nice flowers. You put some in yours and pon’s head-feathers and make a flower crown for Noodle. You all feel a little closer to each-other. Your INTUITION suddenly shouts for you to STOP and you do so. A small coin falls from the sky and lands right in front of you. Noodle and Pon are distracted. You look up and see 4 blue lights in the distance, but can’t catch anything before they go into the clouds.

You pick up the coin and look at it. It has a HUMAN WOMAN on one side, the other has an EYE. Must be from the Human kingdom, unfortunately your books don’t mention what the world-plates beyond CANUS are called, or what the Human World-plate is called either. There’s some sort of security checkpoint where only specific individuals are allowed to pass. Apparently there’s monsters beyond that plate in large numbers. You toss the coin in the air and think about hiding it, but when it touches your feathered hand again, vanishes. Suddenly your LOGIC jumps in, silencing your INTUITION which was about ready to scream at you. It tells you to just think of the coin again and it will appear.

You do and it comes back. So then you try hiding it again and it does it once more. You’re incredibly confused. You try this with other objects near you, branches, rocks, trees. You can do this to just one thing but you have to touch it, and it appears in your hand. Is this some kind of SUPER POWER? Saba’s memories recently show that there’s this AWAKENING phenomena happening where people get them. Did you just do that?

Something deep inside you tells you that its not the case. It’s something else. You decide to keep this secret for now on advice from your GUILE. You instead go and show your friends the coin and they all celebrate your luck! When you head back and show your parents they seem shocked. One gold coin from the Human Kingdom is worth 10 SHINIES. They encourage you to keep it, you’ll probably need it at the CAPITAL. The rest of your trip is uneventful and you eventually head home.

Your LUCK has STRUCK!
You’ve found a GOLD COIN from the HUMAN KINGDOM
You can now use your .5 Meter Cubed single object Dimensional Pocket to store things


> FREE TIME - Study Group
Time for the Exams is coming soon, so the three of you wrack your brains and start studying together. You all thought it’d be stressful, but it’s not. Pon seems back to his normal self, all the built up stress is gone and he’s able to go over the material much easier now. With your TEACHING skill you’re able to help shore up your groups missing points much faster than normal.

Noodle and Pon feel left out and decide to help you in their strong points. Noodle shows you new survival skills and ways to use your INTUITION while Pon shows you the results of his KNOWLEDGE, It shores up your failing points and you feel confident about making it into the INTERMEDIATES now, you don’t regret not studying hardcore to get into the ELITES and feel good about helping your friends. You even think Noodle might have a chance to make it in the top 70 now, she hopes the bonus section is something she’s good in, she’ll have to rely on her own LUCK.

Pon takes you aside and thanks you, he was blinded by his desire to get into the Intermediates. If you didn’t make him take a break, he would have probably not made it in just from stress alone. You feel closer to your brother.

Your BOND with PON has increased to rank 4!
- Pon now TRUSTS you
- Pon considers you to be his BEST FRIEND!
- You can now request 1 favor a year from Pon
Your KNOWLEDGE stat increased
Your INTUITION stat increased

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> Dreams
That year your dreams are a strange mess. You learn about the AWAKENING PHENOMENA and how that affected Saba’s world. How he didnt get an Awakened power but an INNATE ABILITY called [UNDERSTANDING] It looks useful, you hope you’ll get it. He meets a young boy of 15 named MARTH WALPOLE and has a strange relationship with him. Willamina awakens and all three work together for years to create a DEVICE for using the power from monster’s cores. It’s fascinating. He meets a demon called SET and learns of a tough situation and tries to fix it. You’re PROUD of Saba, he’s trying to save the world.

All three get married and things are looking great! Saba’s 36 now. You’re getting real curious about how he died. He might have kicked the bucket in a DUNGEON, but he’s so proficient in his custom made MANA PISTOL. He’s even developing plans for a MANA CANNON with 20x the strength. You’ve hit a roadblock in your LOGIC absorption. Saba’s using a lot of terminology and skills you don’t have, making it hard to keep track, especially when he tries to TINKER with things. You’ll have to MEDITATE on and LEARN one of his LOGICAL SKILLS if you want to continue developing your LOGIC. You could also wait and potentially learn something better at TENGU ACADEMY.

Your LOGIC stat increased
Your LOGIC stat has reached the soft cap
You must meditate on a LOGICAL SKILL in order to progress, here are some examples
- VISUAL CALCULUS - Breaking down a scene using EVIDENCE to find out what happened
- INVENTION - Use your LOGIC, KNOWLEDGE, CREATIVITY, and RESOURCES to make things
- EIDETIC MEMORY - Create a MIND PALACE, remember things with unmatched clarity
- OTHER - [USER SUGGESTED LOGIC SKILL]
Some skills are harder than others to learn and you don’t know how long they will take to train.

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No. 1003736 ID: afe7de
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[YEAR 10]
The first week of the first month of the year is when the annual TENGU ACADEMY EXAMS are held. You, Pon and Noodle arrive and are seated randomly. There’s lots of kin here in the exam office. The building has a large indoor gymnasium and it’s fitting over 2000 kin from ages 10-16 You can’t believe that only 1/10th of the participants will be selected to join. Next to you is a HUMAN. You’re surprised, you only saw around 3 total in the place, but when you look at her you feel something strange.

The human has Ropy golden hair and goggles. Her nose is small and she’s smiling ridiculously wide, her eyes scanning the room. Her chest is starting to develop, which you know to be a part of human PUBERTY. Human puberty is really strange. For you its just occasional egg laying and mood swings. But you’ve heard the horror stories from Saba’s memories. You shudder. You keep looking, she’s wearing strange boots. They’re metal of some kind and have these panels you imagine would light up. There’s also meticulous inscriptions that your KEEN BIRD EYES pick up written in lines across the metal.

You recognize those! The patterns and symbols are similar to the Puzzle Book! The feeling intensifies. It’s this same weird feeling, the one from when you met William. Like your Intuition looking at something and feeling strange. Longing? Not necessarily attraction, but definitely like it’s on the tip of your tongue. The girl looks over to you and holds out a hand with a smile.

Marth: Well hey there gorgeous. The name’s MARTH. Weird name right?
Marth: Apparently it’s some famous warrior’s name.
Marth: I wouldn’t happen to know you would I? I’m getting this weird… Feeling I should?


And suddenly that same feeling from back then comes and hits you like a truck hits an isekai protagonist. Things freeze around you, time slows as your heart beats faster, like its trying to break out of your chest. Your mind feels like an egg again, something trying to poke itself out. You get that same headache from before, but it’s more intense.

[LOGIC] - DING DING DING.
[INTUITION] - HERE
[LUCK] - HE
[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] - ISSSSSS!
[GUILE] - Cmon… Am I the only one that finds this suspicious in the least?
[CURIOSITY] - Nah, I’m with you, are we going to ignore the eyes?


How do you respond?
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No. 1003737 ID: f8fa51

>>1003736
Introduce yourself, confirm that you feel something pretty weird yourself, and ask about their eyes.
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No. 1003738 ID: a4f4d6

"A shame, those ears looked good on you, Walpole."
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No. 1003739 ID: afa6f6

>>1003735
>> OTHER - [USER SUGGESTED LOGIC SKILL]
Im feeling some kind of DEDUCTION skill would be appropriate, like using Logic, knowledge and Intuition to make accurate conclusions with little information.

>>1003736
>>How do you respond?
Yeah, Im a little suspicious. Greet her kindly, and agree she seems familiar but lets not push any further then that yet. Ask about the eyes in a way thats not rude.
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No. 1003740 ID: ce39da

>>1003739
That kind of sounds like VISUAL CALCULUS. Let's turn our attention to the current situation, though.

>>1003736
Yeah, the eyes... and the seemingly already solved puzzle book are suspicious. We love Marth, but he was never the nerdy type. Does this girl even have a powerful build?

"I went by Saba once, but that changed a while back. Is that you... Set?" I'm thinking the (former) demon is either just pulling a 'harmless' joke like old times, or their reincarnated name somehow really is Marth.

Ultimately, try to keep the exchange brief; the test is about to begin.
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No. 1003742 ID: 094652

"Listen, I know what we were supposed to say to each other, but you're kind of freaking me out. I'm pretty sure you didn't have inky-black caves for eyes, and I'm definitely sure that the average human doesn't develop freaky eyeball mutations. I can't trust... whatever has its grip on you, I'm not going to say the password, so just treat this as a random encounter by a cuckoo crow -
(grave whisper) Set followed us
- and let's pretend we never met each other all those years ago. Fresh start. *ahem* Hi, my name is Sabachi. Want to help me conquer the world?"
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No. 1003743 ID: 50af53

Crazy out of the blue question, do you have dreams about a canine with the same name as you?
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No. 1003744 ID: e51896

Whatevwr you say, speak it in ENGLISH, Saba's native language.
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No. 1003749 ID: 96c896

>>1003736
>hey there gorgeous
Hmm, if she were male I'd think this was Ignis in disguise...
Those boots aren't a solved form of the puzzle book, no fucking way. They're just... enchanted or something.

This is probably Marth like she said, but something's off. Ask why her eyes are like that(maybe it's Marth's supernatural power?), and if she dreams of Earth. (can we tell if she has a POWERFUL physique?)
DEFINITELY try talking in English. An impostor would have no chance of understanding it. ...unless they had an artifact that gave them universal language skills...
Oh, ask about her boots.

>logic skill
Well, visual calculus is redundant with Understanding, so we shouldn't get that one.
The other two skills synergize with it, though. Invention would be a straightforward pick, as Saba knew it, but at this point all we'd get is some income. Also possible we could pick up Invention just via studying our dreams. Eidetic Memory on the other hand would turbocharge our studies! Hmm, didn't Saba have that too?
EIDETIC MEMORY.
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No. 1003751 ID: e51896

>>1003744

Also, we were told that Marth chose to have a supernatural power before we reincarnated. Maybe those eyes are that. (Otherwise, maybe Marth is half human half insect-kin)

I don't really think we should let Marth know just yet about our dream connections as it would probably put her mind into thinking about us and our past lives in her dreams instead of focusing on the test. But we should wait until AFTER the test to tell her about our connection. We'll let her know in english right now that we want to speak with her after the test is done.
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No. 1003753 ID: 0fae41

>>1003736
Maybe you should get to know me, I'll be headed to the top of the class!
Let's get this out of the way, what's up with your eyes?
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No. 1003754 ID: dfbac0

Acknowledge him! I think we'll unlock the reincarnation memories if we do!
>Logic Skill
Eidetic Memory is too good to pass up, we need that right away! We can do the others later but the earlier we get this the better.
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No. 1003755 ID: dfbac0

>>1003751
Yes, use English to simply say "After the test", I guess acknowledging him can wait a LITTLE BIT, but we do need to acknowledge him eventually.
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No. 1003758 ID: 031458

The english is a good Idea.

As for Eidetic Memory, it IS sort of a cheat skill and is deffo useful, but we won't get it's full potential until we can [UNDERSTAND] things.
The reason being, Eidetic Memory actually circumvents the need to LEARN by allowing us to MEMORIZE. It's not the same. While Eidetic knowledge can be recalled at will, it doesn't allow for the instant crosslinking of knowledge to relevant focuses.
In game terms, overuse of Eidetic knowledge may penalize our INTUITION and cause some weirdness.
[UNDERSTANDING] however, would nullify this, making eidetic memory purely a boon.

I say all this to suggest that perhaps Eidetic Memory need not be the FIRST of Saba's mental abilities we meditate on.
VISUAL CALCULUS or Deduction, as one suggestor put it, would come quite in handy.
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No. 1003777 ID: e51896

couple things to point out

>>1003734
I think I should mention about that coin that while we know that eye is most likely the demon Set's eye, that person in glasses might be that person from the karma shop >>1002771

>>1003733
and those blue lights might be souls for whatever reason. they are mostly balls of glowing blue lights after all
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> Eyes and Boots?
You introduce yourself as CHI SAVA, she says it’s a pleasure to meet you and that you have a nice name. You’re curious so you take another look over the girl in front of you. You didn’t notice at first but she looks like she’s pretty well built. Her arms are muscular and now that you look at her boots again, they look incredibly heavy. Only someone with a POWERFUL physique could carry them.

You politely ask Marth about her eyes and she responds in a pretty chipper attitude. She says they’re COMPOUND EYES. Basically she can see in extremely high resolution and can see in a different light spectrum from others. Says she’s part Insect-kin, her mom was a HUMAN her dad was a DRONE or a male BEE. You’ve only heard about Insect-kin from Saba’s Knowledge. She must be from outside your country.

You also ask about the boots saying they look pretty heavy. She knocks them with her fist, a smile ever present and mentions they’re some MAGITECH her teacher gave her. It lets her FLY, which is kind of required if you want to live in this world-plate. You’re shocked that a device could be made to allow someone to fly and it’s present on your face. She laughs and tells you that it’s not really that special, just expensive.

> Respond in English
You slip into a little bit of English and her smile gets even WIDER. You were not sure it was possible.

You: [ENG] We should probably talk later.
Marth: [ENG] Well there’s a surprise. Sure!

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> EVENT - TENGU ACADEMY EXAM
The test starts and a Wing-kin appears on the stage, introducing himself as the dean. He welcomes the 2318 test takers, says something about how he hopes the best of you make it, but says not to worry if you don’t the top 500-200 in certain sections will be scouted by the various TRADES around the city, so it should be easier for them to get TRAINING too.

The test, like you expected, tests your KNOWLEDGE, INTUITION, CREATIVITY, LOGIC, and CHARISMA. Asking how well you know history, what you’d do in certain situations, how you’d solve certain problems, and how good your MATHS skills are. It’s an overall easy exam, but you’re actually not the first to finish, over 100 other kin actually finish the main exam before you. You don’t sweat as a wing kin, but you spread your wings a bit to relieve the heat and tension you’re feeling. The Bonus Section is the last thing you’re given to complete. Unfortunately you’re UNLUCKY and it tests a stat you don’t have called [PERCEPTION]. They ask you to spot various details on incredibly detailed illustrations and to circle their locations. The difficulty is immediately apparent as the details you are asked to look for are incredibly hard to find. Since most Wing-Kin have GOOD EYESIGHT this is a skill that tends to get overlooked.

You panic but your CURIOSITY and INTUITION have your back and you’re able to find 2/5 things on the image confidently. The final three you just circle randomly, hoping that with a little LUCK you get at least another right. Your paperwork is taken up and you are all told to wait for a few hours while the administration and academy students all review your tests. Your tests will be reviewed by only those with the highest of integrity and under supervision, should any mistake be made or anyone be found to not be acting in good faith you will be compensated.

You talk to Marth while you wait and get to know them a little better. They mention they’re from CANUS, but her Insect-Kin dad was from the world plate of HIVEN. You mention that other world-plates past Canus aren’t on your world maps. She laughs and says that’s because they don’t want kids to know about it, especially Wing-kin. Some fly the nest and leave at early ages to go traveling to different world-plates and end up dying to the monsters. One has to be STRONG to survive out there as the world is pretty different then this peaceful plate.

You ask why Marth came to this World-Plate and she Smiles back at you again.

Marth: Teacher came here to research various things.
Marth: He was also given a job as a TEACHER in MAGITECH SCIENCES and MONSTER THEORY
Marth: He wants to give Wing-Kin a chance to learn the tech
Marth: and feels bad because his ancestors were some of the people who tried to force the world-plate to give up resources
Marth: It’s all in the past now and he’s being paid pretty well by your queen.
Marth: He’s not the greatest MT SCIENTIST, probably only barely a passable tradesman
Marth: But that’s loads better then what you have in Tengu.

You excitedly chirp, that’s great! You’ll get to learn what this MAGITECH stuff is! But you notice he skimmed over why he actually came here, deflecting.

[GUILE] Running from something?
[INTUITION] Maybe something bad happened?

You respond with a little bit of your life’s history, about just being naturally smart and studying the past year to try to get into the INTERMEDIATES. You were once told you had a good APTITUDE to become an Archaeological explorer, but think you want to see the options before committing. She shrugs and says to give the MAGITECH stuff a try, you might like it.

You get the feeling like you should be able to form a bond with MARTH in the future
You get a strange feeling, it’s not unpleasant, but it is strange

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> TRY YOUR LUCK - RANKINGS
The results are in, you’re called up in order from 200 to 1. There are kin you recognize that get called up, some you don’t, and audible groans from the audience, here are the results:

200: PAWN
197: MARTH
118: DRIFT
69: NOODLE
36: CHI (You)
18: PON
11: WILLIAM
7: HOOK
1: IGNIS

You can see visible disappointment in WILLIAM’s face from just being one off of an ELITE. Pon is PROUD and you can tell he’s relieved a bit. You’re surprised to see BLITZ missing, in fact you can’t see him anywhere in the gymnasium. Did he not come? You’re also surprised to see MARTH rank so low. And PAWN made it in? Guess you’ll be seeing him around. You get a good look at IGNIS, he winks at you when he notices you looking in his direction, you’re not sure what kind of bird he is, but his beak makes him pretty handsome you think.

The next week is a bit of a blur, there’s a welcoming ceremony, you’re introduced to the dorms, and given an overview on how the academy works. Since it’s 3 people to a dorm, you decide to bunk with NOODLE and PON. Your parents give you their goodbyes and RIICHI informs you that she’ll be living in the city for a while and if you need a family member to come find her at the address she gives you. She says that she’s always willing to spend time with you and teach you more about GUILE if you’re interested, since it’s not something you’d typically learn at the ACADEMY.

You are told that passing your exams gurantees you a minimum of 4 years of study at the TENGU ACADEMY. If you want to study at the academy after that, you’ll have to pay a yearly stipend of 400 SHINIES, will have to move to the graduate dorms, and can only do it for another 2 years at the most. They want to encourage students to go out into the workforce and practice their trade, stating that if they want to further their education beyond this they can try to go to the college in CANUS or maybe the one in the HUMAN KINGDOM.

You and Pon are both given your yearly INTERMEDIATE stipends, 128 SHINIES, apparently ELITES are given 1280 SHINIES. You’re also informed that there will be a TRADES FAIR at the beginning of your SOPHOMORE (2) and SENIOR (4) years, where you can meet trainers in specific fields to apprentice yourself to, or to compete in a specific trades for the chance to gain entry to the ROYAL LIBRARY to pick out a book for study that year.

You’re also informed that the ACADEMY has a strange policy. You’re only required to attend one class a year, and can take a maximum of 4 per year. You know that most students usually take 2 classes a year, and the elites usually take 4. You can spend the rest of your time doing whatever you like. The ACADEMY is here to facilitate your growth and will only provide guidance and opportunity, as an INTERMEDIATE you can also request a single TUTOR per year to assist your studies in a single class. However you have to request the tutor when you are signing up for the class, as they are limited and tied to their students for the duration. You can also request the tutor for a specific subject that you are interested in, or a trade you are practicing but aren’t taking a class for, but they’ll only be half as effective as a regular class.

You can pay for another tutor if you’d like, but they cost 100 SHINIES per class. TUTORS help increase your learning efficiency, doubling your progress in a class. TUTORS are students that are either on the TEACHING track, or have mastered a specific field and want the extra SHINIES. Apparently ELITES can get a TEACHER as their tutor. You’re also told that its okay to fail classes as you’ll be able to take them again and that through failure you might learn something new, or make lifelong companions in different fields. You won’t be expelled for failing your single course in the year if that’s the path you take. However if it’s found that you are only taking one class and aren’t taking it seriously that is grounds for expulsion. They don’t want students wasting away doing nothing at all.

Classes are held BI-YEARLY. In the first half of the year, then there’s a 2 month break, and in the second half of the year. You’re welcome to stay at the Academy dorms during this time or visit your family, food will still be provided. All in all it’s a pretty flexible course structure. But it relies on students picking good paths for themselves, finding what they like, and managing their time wisely. Though these are the best of the world-plate after all, so you guess that’s kind of already expected of them, for the students to have some sort of DRIVE. At the end of orientation you put up your drawing. Noodle and Pon think it looks very good in the room and they mention it might be a good idea to get more art in the future.
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You look at the class selection scroll your dorm was provided, there’s a lot to chose from and it looks like each class has different TIERS they can teach, each * represents a new tier, so if something is ***** they have 5 classes offered total.

What classes does Tengu Academy offer?

Here are some of the ideas I came up with, feel free to suggest others, and don’t forget about electives or sports, stuff for fun, also, feel free to suggest which one you think is your favorite from these and the other suggested ones, your STATS will speak up and that will influence what they have to say about it!

MAGITECH ** - Developing technologies through runescript
HUNTER **** - Learn to become a hunter with specialized WORLD-PLATE HUNTERS, counts as 2 classes due to the time investment
TEACHING *** - Learn how to teach others and be a good educator
ARCHAEOLOGY *** - Learn the history of the world, how to spot dangers in ruins, and how to be diplomatic with kin in other regions
ARCHITECTURE **** - Learn how to build and maintain structures
MEDICINE **** - Learn how to heal kin by making medicine
OUTREACH ** - Learn a bit of everything and how to offer your services to those who might not have access to them
LEADERSHIP *** - Learn how to lead people, be it in the military, in a guild, in politics or otherwise
METALWORKING *** - Learn to smith metals and craft tools

MONSTER THEORY * - Learn about monsters
SCULPTURE * - Learn how to sculpt
PAINTING * - Learn how to paint

AUTHORS NOTE: You don’t pick a FLAW and FOCUS anymore as you are cherry picking the courses you’ll be studying.

For full transparency, you’ll be getting [3 TIME POINTS], [2 TIME POINTS], and [3 TIME POINTS] in that order to spend while you’re at the academy.

Apprenticing yourself to someone or getting a job will take up TIME POINTS starting from your 2 free time points during your break in the middle, then split up by majority vote past that if you decide to take on multiple jobs (though if you speak up and say you want to take time points from the first segment and time points from the last segment, leaving the middle one, that’s fine too). Taking a JOB will take a time point, same with doing activities and other stuff.

And after careful consideration I’ll be adjusting how Meals at restaurants and other money spending events will work. You can go to up to 1 per year right now, but that’ll change with time. These no longer count as full rest events. Instead they’re moments to INCREASE A BOND and reduce STRESS by 1, so if you find you can’t make time for someone else, you can solve that problem by taking them to dinner or going on a DATE. Dates are available at age 16 and sex at age 18, just FYI.

There are also events and other interesting things happening around the city, but you’ll have to either hope a classmate speaks up and tells you about a place, or go out EXPLORING using one of your TIME POINTS.

Right, and about the LOGIC skills. DEDUCTION and VISUAL CALCULUS are different. DEDUCTION would be LOGIC+INTUITION+INFORMATION to make conclusions based off of not too much information. VISUAL CALCULUS would be LOGIC+KNOWLEDGE+EVIDENCE, letting you reconstruct the scene using hard facts. VISUAL CALCULUS would be useful in figuring out where a bullet was shot from after seeing a broken window and the pieces on the ground without moving and handling it yourself. DEDUCTION would be useful when listening to statements and finding any logical loopholes in them, you could also use it to look at a window and realize that it was replaced recently, perhaps a gunshot broke it? So one’s good for environments and ones good for people.

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No. 1003800 ID: f8fa51

Go for four classes, since that's what an Elite would do. You know your a genius and need to apply yourself better than you did previously.
MAGITECH is an obvious choice, hopefully allowing you to make use of logic, understanding, and creativity to become an inventor; ARCHAOLOGY (with tutor) shores up some of your weaker important skills, including knowledge and hopefully charisma too; PAINTING because you should push yourself to develop this further; and TEACHING because you may end up wanting to tutor your friends.

Other classes you may be interested in include: LEADERSHIP, you're starting to get a gang together, and putting them all on the same track could let you achieve great things; OUTREACH, because using your skills to help others is always a noble goal; and MEDICINE, because it would potentially be another way to use your sharp mind if you didn't want to overspecialise.
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No. 1003801 ID: afa6f6

>>1003796
Hoo, so many interesting things here. Im thinking we should take three classes to maximize our stat growth, while still leaving time to socialize, and maybe by the third year we'll be good enough in a subject to tutor.
The only suggestion I have a for a class right now is one that's a little bit of a mixture of archeology, astrology, geology and anthropology, Thats basically about studying the world plates themselves, their nature, theories on how they came to be, and the world in the greater universe sense.
Call it [Platology] maybe. or maybe just World Studies, I don't know.

The Classes that seem interesting are:
MAGITECH
TEACHING
ARCHAEOLOGY
OUTREACH
METALWORKING
MONSTER THEORY
and out of the arts, I think SCULPTURE would be good. Especially if we take metal working as well.

Right now, im leaning towards Magitech, Archeology and Monster Theory for this year.
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No. 1003803 ID: afa6f6

Im also a bit surprised theres not a Martial Arts class at the Academy.
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No. 1003805 ID: a4f4d6

Looks like we need hunter to go to other plates, best get started with it then.
It's also the obvious place to put the tutor, since we'll get the most out of them there thanks to three extra time hunter takes.

Hunter + Tutor
Medicine (We'll need to know some)
And then either leadership or monster theory.

As for free time I'd suggest
Meditate on deduction.
Train Sword
Train Guile
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No. 1003811 ID: e51896

Maybe we can dedicate our lives to figure out how to save the world plates from shrinking, inspired by how Saba wanted to save his world.

Probably the best I can think of to help with this is

MAGITECH to see if magic can be used to save the plates, or find out if us using magitech is the cause of it for some reason

ARCHAEOLOGY maybe to research the past to see any signs or patterns to the shrinkage no one else spotted

PLATOLOGY like >>1003801 suggested. Will be best to learn more about our plates this way to get some understanding on the shrinking.

TEACHING: like Saba. Might be best to learn this skill to help people get better understanding on the plate erosion and help them help you figure something out.

CLASSES ON ENERGY DENSITY; our teacher in the past theorized this was one of the reasons. Maybe we should learn about whatever this energy is.

ARCHITECTURE, maybe to find out about how we can build things to replace the eroded lands if all else fails, though this class is not high on my list

LEADERSHIP; to help lead the charge in saving the world plates

PSYCHOLOGY; if only to raise our charisma if saving the worldplates requires us to convince large population of people into doing something to save the plates

Some kind of class for meditation? Not sure if this is allowed though.

Oh yeah, not sure of we're choosing our Free time yet, but we definetly should consider meditating at least once per year to help with Karma, spend time with Marth, and spend time with William.
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No. 1003812 ID: 094652

Good for Hook, all her charisma dumping paid off. Give Pon a big hug for doing so well. Tell Noodle you knew she could make it. Stare at Marth for not taking this seriously.

>Elite's paycheck is ten times that of an Intermediate
... Is there something you're not telling us, Headmaster.

>400 Shinies / year for Master's Degree
Aaand there's the student loan debt.

>Intermediate
Well, not getting the highest-class of scholarship is somewhat jarring since you've got the memories of a billionaire genius in your head... and yet, it's probably for the best. The elites are going to be celebrities with privacy traded for luxury. If you don't keep your reincarnation a secret, they're going to lock you in the cuckoo's nest or dissect you for science.

> Class Schedule
1. Hunter - This is everything you've dreamed of becoming, the de-facto of your adventuring career. Concentrate on this class to the point of acing it, even if you have to cut corners on your other classes.
2. Magitech - This is your secondary. You have a treasure trove of magitech blueprints in your head, you just need to synchronize them with this world. Learn the basics of reverse-engineering and invention, the rest will come to you in time.
3. Leadership - This is your role in a group. Get the bare basics and audit the course.

Don't take a fourth class, you'll need that to meditate or form bonds.
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No. 1003813 ID: ce39da

We'll take three (3) classes since one of them is intensive enough for two.

In the first semester, we have ARCHAEOLOGY (Saba's profession of choice - it also helps to shore up KNOWLEDGE and CHARISMA) and MAGITECH (another great KNOWLEDGE and LOGIC class that will inform our archaeology). With our one remaining free time that semester, we'll WORK ON THE PUZZLE BOOK. We have enough accumulated smarts and prior event bonuses that we could probably knock out two pages in one go.

Let's BOND with MARTH during the break - she only said that was her current name, come to think of it; she never claimed that she was Marth previously. You... realize there's a chance that Set also followed you into the next life. Then, let's BOND WITH WILLIAM. His status normally makes him hard to approach, but the fact that he's also taken an interest in you means he gets to meet you halfway on that front.

After the break, we'll take HUNTER (with a tutor; we've been neglecting COMBAT and ATHLETICS long enough). With the remaining free time, we'll MEDITATE ON DEDUCTION.

Assuming I interpreted this correctly, and we don't spend time when having one of those dinners, we'll have it with PON; more for his sake than ours, as we'll check up on how he's handling himself at the academy - maybe hold him to his promise if he's ended up back at his old stressed out ways.
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No. 1003817 ID: dfbac0

>Classes
MAGITECH is a no-brainer and should probably be our main focus. Get a tutor for this as well.
ARCHEOLOGY is importants as it seems to be the leading field of progress and we want to make our mark on the world, also you get some cool diplomacy skills.
A custom one I thought of too...
ENGINEERING, and not the magitech kind but an advanced engineering class based on making tools and items of use or maybe even simply proof of concepts. I recommend this class because maybe we can eventually make satellites to study the world plates and discover new ones and maybe we could even work on a spaceship. Creativity favors the bold!
>FreeTime
Meditate on Invention
Form a BOND with Marth
Meditate on Eidetic Memory x2 (To the guy saying this could harm our progression with understanding: This would not cause us to stop trying to understand information, we just have to use it smartly by not just putting stuff in willy-nilly and only use this for needed information, this would also let us review our memory and spend more time on understanding something. I'm saying this because that one comment changed everyone from wanting this to be scared of it.)
Work on the puzzle book.
Treat everyone we have a BOND with to a nice meal. (This will let us get to know them better and they can get to know each other better as well.)
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No. 1003818 ID: 96c896

>>1003793
Well that's Marth alright. My guess is she's from a War-Torn country and fled here. Or really flubbed her origin roll and was born a slave.
My guess is she wouldn't have passed the exam at all if it weren't for our Adolescent Bond perk.

>>1003795
Holy smokes, Ignis has a strong reincarnation.

>>1003796
MAGITECH cuz cool
HUNTER cuz fight
ARCHAEOLOGY cuz Saba likes it
OUTREACH for the wide range of teachings
METALWORKING cuz it works well with magitech and invention
MONSTER THEORY cuz fight
SCULPTURE just cuz
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No. 1003827 ID: 56a408

For year 1, take Magitech, teaching, and painting.
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No. 1003830 ID: ce39da

So I just learned that the prompt for this post is ONLY to suggest our own ideas for what classes and jobs there are - actual time-usage comes after this. Here are mine.

GUARD - For those who wish to hone their combat abilities and learn counterintelligence tricks to stop assassins before they can even arrive on the scene. COMBAT ARTS (favoring SWORDS and BOWS) and PERCEPTION come in spades here, and this is probably the only formal class that helps with GUILE.

GARDEN CLUB - You've heard rumors about this one; that it's supposedly a thinly-veiled haven for royals and those who would associate with them to relax and socialize. Anyone who can't muster enough CHARISMA or GUILE to stand with them are passive-aggressively nudged out (though you hear being COURAGEOUS and having actual KNOWLEDGE of plants and arrangement both help to a lesser extent, while actually knowing a royal within the club is a huge boon). The club would be a crucible for your CHARISMA and GUILE, assuming you don't get burned by its higher bar to clear.

AEROBATICS TEAM - Hone your ATHLETICS, PRECISION, and REFLEXES while training to put on spectacular airshows and participate in high-flying races.

WORK AS A JUNIOR COURIER - Deliver packages within the bounds of the capital. Earn coin while training ATHLETICS as you make better and better times on your route.
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No. 1003836 ID: 031458

Dance - It goes surpisingly deep, exploring both local and foreign traditional and popular styles.

Aerobatics - Wing-Kin Exclusive acrobatics/gymnastics. Teaches freedom and grace of movement focusing on aerial manuevering, and 3 dimensional parkour.
Advanced aerial combat classes are available to those who possess ADVANCED aptitude with a weapon.

Sorcery- Teaches magic theory, history, and a collection of hedge-magic collected across the world-plate.
Magic is still fairly primitive here, consisting mainly of family secrets, old religious rituals, and a number of simple, practical spells. Still, the amount of information to get through is immense.
A Royal University in Canus scouts yearly, offering graduates who have completed this course, the Magitech Course, and the Hunter Course, a free 4 year post-graduate education in Advanced magic. A series of written, practical, and combat exams are required and they are BRUTAL. It is not unusual for no one to succeed in a given year, though retries in following years (if the student studies for longer than 4) are permitted.
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No. 1003837 ID: 19cc43

After we get a idea of the classes we can take, lets ask a teaching staff member for some ideas for classes they recommend we take for certain career paths, like jobs that involve figuring out how to stop world plates from shrinking, archeological explorer, cartography, other stuff.

Maybe a packet or folder of notes that give us class recommendations to take each year for certain career paths. Dont wanna accidentally take the wrong classes for our MAJOR.

Few other ideas

Law classes
Religious classes
Anthropology
Tinker classes
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AUTHORS NOTE: So we’re reaching the point where you can start earning money. I had to do a bunch of math and got Pawn’s help on some of this, so I now have a better understanding of the financial system, so thanks to you for that bro.
Tutors have been adjusted, they are now TEACHERS ASSISTANTS or TAs, the cost to get a TA is the same as getting a tutor was before at 100 SHINIES per, after your first free one. Mechanically there’s no difference, just instead a TA will be a kin you go to on the weekends for recaps on classes.
TUTORS are a separate job and can be hired for 2000 SHINIES a class or subject. There are also special hidden TUTORS that could give you skills or hidden STATS around the city that might cost more. Mechanically a TA gives you a 2x bonus at learning efficiency in a class. A TUTOR gives a between a 1x to 4x bonus to efficiency, there are some bad tutors after all. You can get a tutor and link them to a class or you can just get a tutor and treat them like you had a class with just them.
ALSO, I have some stuff planned for your mid year break this year, so this year you won’t get those two free TIME POINTS in the middle. This is both to advance plot and so you don’t get overwhelmed with the choices. So this year you’ll have a total of 6 time points and next year it'll be 8.


You look at the classes offered this year. There’s just an overwhelming amount. You know there’s approximately 800 students at the TENGU ACADEMY at any given time, and between 1-400 GRAD STUDENTS. It’s kind of impressive that they’re offering so many courses at all. But you’re a bit overwhelmed, so you go to a member of the teaching staff located at your dorm for recommended classes and career paths. You find a feminine secretary bird named Josie. He looks to be about four years older than you and apparently is a former student who was offered a job by the academy.

Josie: There’s not any strict majors or career paths per-se here.
Josie: If you manage to complete a course to the second or third course you’re usually pretty set.
Josie: There are some classes that when taken together do provide synergy.
Josie: What are you interested in?
You: Well MAGITECH, ARCHAEOLOGY and HUNTER classes sound kind of interesting right now.
You: I’ve also got a secondary interest in MEDICINE, PLATOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AEROBATICS, THEORY, and PAINTING
You: But I’d have to say my strongest points are CREATIVITY and LOGIC
Josie: Weird, usually those two don’t go together.
Josie: Well let me group them up and make the list a bit easier to parse for you.


Josie takes your class scroll and starts marking down different things. Eventually you get a written over scroll back with notes on it. You thank Josie and head back to your dorm to give it a read with Noodle and Pon.

AUTHORS NOTE: I’ve organized the classes into various fields based off of the MAIN stat that the FIRST class uses. Some classes will generate NEW STATS or even use different stats as the work becomes more and more specialized. You’ll find specialization to be a good thing as it allows you to excel in specific fields. The number next to each class is how many courses there are in it. An X means you can take it any number of times

LOGIC CLASSES - These classes require a good grasp of LOGIC to excel in
MAGITECH 2 - Developing technologies through runescript
ARCHITECTURE 4 - Learn how to build and maintain Avian structures
ENGINEERING 2 - Learn how to make tools and proofs of concepts

ATHLETICISM CLASSES - These classes focus on ATHLETICISM and SELF DEFENSE
HUNTER [2TP] 4 - Learn to become a hunter with specialized WORLD-PLATE HUNTERS, counts as 2 classes per course due to the time investment.
MARTIAL ARTS 3 - Learn the finer points of COMBAT the next step up from SELF DEFENSE, offers a variety of weapons to learn from.
AEROBATICS 2 - Hone your skills whilst training to put on airshows and participate in races only wing-kin can do. *NOTE* Using tools to fly is acceptable as well but you must pay for your own resources, the school will not provide them.

INTUITION CLASSES - A lot of these classes are theoretical, focusing on what we know and feel about the topics.
ENERGY THEORY 1 - A class about what might be causing the end-plates to crumble
MANA THEORY 1 - A class about MANA, the energy that powers MAGITECH, and it’s theoretical applications on the body
MONSTER THEORY 1 - A class on MONSTER BEHAVIOR, their theorized origins, and power levels
THEOLOGY 2 - A class on religions, the first focuses on your countries, the second focuses on religions found in other world-plates
MEDITATION x - A class on the foreign art of MEDITATION, said to reduce stress
ARCHAEOLOGY 3 - Learn how to spot dangers in ancient ruins, our theories on them, and how to be diplomatic with kin in other regions that find these places to be sacred
TACTICS x - Learn the secrets of STRATEGY and play WAR GAMES

KNOWLEDGE CLASSES - These classes will help you gain specialized knowledge in new fields
TEACHING 3 - Learn to teach others
MEDICINE 4 - Learn to heal others through practical medicine, the final course teaches minor surgery and ways to save limbs that have been lost
PLATOLOGY 2 - Learn about the plates and how they work
ANTHROPOLOGY 2 - Learn about KIN, how long we’ve been here, and the tendencies of the various races
AGRICULTURE 1 - Learn how to breed crops and animals in our world-plate and farm for SHINIES
ETIQUETTE 1 - Learn how royalty act in this kingdom and beyond

CHARISMA CLASSES - These classes will help you learn about and how to interact with kin better
LAW 2 - Learn about the Politics of this world plate and others
PSYCHOLOGY 2 - Learn about the kin mind and it’s behaviors
LEADERSHIP 3 - Learn how to LEAD and MOTIVATE kin
GUARD TRAINING 3 - Learn the skills needed to be a guard, to spot trouble, and protect the Kin of TENGU.
SINGING 6 - Learn the art of singing, a Wing-Kin favorite

CREATIVE CLASSES - These classes will help you get more creative
GARDENING x - Learn how to tend to plants
DANCE x - Learn different forms of dance
SCULPTURE x - Learn to sculpt in various mediums
PAINTING x - Learn to paint
MUSIC x - Learn an instrument (pick one)
PRINTING x - Learn how to make books and mass produced paper with this new technology

APPRENTICESHIPS - These are class length jobs you can take on. Taking classes in this is unpaid, but if you excel, you may be offered a PART TIME JOB [-1 time point] or a FULL TIME JOB [-2 time points]. But you have to commit for at least 1 year when taking a job.
COURIER 1 - Learn the basics of delivery work, how to read building markers, and more
METALWORKING 1 - Learn how to forge weapons, tools, and devices
OUTREACH 1 - Learn a bit of everything and how to offer your services to those who might not have access to them, will see you traveling around the world-plate on your weekends off.
FARMHAND 1 - Learn the basics of working on a farm, it’s lots of hard work and only the ATHLETIC should go

JOBS - There’s also a single part time job opening with tons of slots. No commitments or experience required.
SCHOOL JANITOR x - Learn to clean! Offered by the school below minimum wage if you are having trouble finding a job. Pays 960 SHINIES a [TIME POINT]
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Everyone: Wow
You: There’s so many options, where do we even start?
Pon: Wanna see about taking a class together this year?
Pon: It’ll probably be harder to do the further along we get in our classes.
Noodle: That sounds fun!
Noodle: I wanna take the Hunter class!
Pon: I want to take the Meditation class, Goddess knows I need to manage my stress better.
You: I dunno what I wanna take, there’s a lot of options.
Pon: Well as long as it isn’t anything crazy why don’t you pick the class we take together?
Noodle: OOOOH we could take dancing!!!
Noodle: Either way, I think we should explore the city and figure out what we have available to us
Pon: That’s probably a good idea. But it’s pretty big so it will probably take some TIME.
Noodle: If we can’t do it now, we’re definitely going to do it during the BREAK though.
Pon: Agreed!


The group chatters on about what classes they’re planning on taking. You decide to listen to your STATS and their opinion.

[LOGIC] - Magitech
[CREATIVITY] - Dance is nice and all, but wouldn’t it be cool to be a sculptor, might have some overlap with METALWORKING
[INTUITION & STRATEGY] - I have a good feeling about that TACTICS class
[CHARISMA & LEADERSHIP] - Leadership might be fun, maybe we can lead better than SABA did
[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] - I’m still here you know… T.T
[ATHLETICISM] - Ladies, ladies, and gentlemen. AEROBATICS. I wanna go FAAAAAAAAST
[GUILE] Maybe invite PON and NOODLE to RIICHI’S to learn GUILE with you?


You’ve now had time to examine the list. It’s time to pick what you’re doing for this semester. You have [3 TIME POINTS] to spend. You can still get a free use of the TA this year. What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
2. Explore the city
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4. Work on a PROJECT like the PUZZLE BOOK
5. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION] Meditate on a topic or in general
[STUDY] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING**] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
6. Forge a new BOND or spend time with someone you have a BOND with
7. REST
8. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY) [CURRENT BALANCE - 168 SHINIES]
9. Other (suggestions welcome)


And if there’s something specific you want to know about a topic or class you’re going into, feel free to suggest it and I’ll try to include it in a post.
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No. 1003880 ID: f8fa51

So taking four classes for the year would mean spending two time points now, and two later, right?

In that case, I think Dance would be the best class to share with Pon and Noodle. If they don't mind you picking outright, we can go with Sculpture instead since you seem to be a fan of it. For your other class, getting started with Magitech seems like a good pick.

For your free time, let's meditate on VISUAL CALCULUS.

Once we've had a breakthrough in logic and a grounding in magitech (I think it might be related), we can maybe do some more work with the puzzle book.
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No. 1003883 ID: dfbac0

>Classes
Reach for the stars! Let's do four for our first year, be a bit ambitious!
1: MAGITECH (Duh)
2: ENGINEERING, a good skill over-all.
3: MEDITATION, with your friends of course.
I was gonna do archeology but I think it's best we wait a year on that, don't rush it. So...
4: MEDICINE, being able to know the ins and outs of healing would most definitely be useful.
>FreeTime
Biggest thing is to meditate on Eidetic Memory.
Other than that we can form a BOND with Marth.
Maybe meditate on Invention if we can.
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No. 1003884 ID: 094652

2TP Hunter [Mod - TA]
1TP Magitech

Make a good first impression to the faculty and bury yourself in work for the first semester. Ease up after you and all your friends reach a total of 3 stress points.
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No. 1003887 ID: a4f4d6

Hunter +TA, it's basically a must have and it's time consuming. Might as well get it out of the way.

On that note, does that mean we can only take two time slots of classes per period?
If so, Then Guile with Richie and friends or sword Training both sound like good ideas.

If we can take hunter and another class, Dance, Martial Arts, and Aerobatics all equally sound good, as all sound fun and all have at least a combat synergy.
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No. 1003888 ID: afe7de

>>1003887
you have 3 TP rn, and you can take 3 classes if you want. Hunter classes take up 2 TP though. so you could at most take a class and the hunter class. And hunter classes count as two classes to your total of 4 per year. If it gets picked you'll find out why.
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No. 1003907 ID: e51896

USE SHINIES HAVE DINNER with Marth and William to help us form a bond with them. It doesnt use up time points, and we need to form bonds with them. Or if we are only allowed to do one person per dinner each year, just Marth then, and we'll form a bond with William during our break time. We promised Marth we'd talk to her, and we should talk about our dreams and our connection through saba and marth in that past life... in english. Tell her about meditation too and it's importance for understanding our past life. We should also talk about our future career paths. Mention thinking about Archeology exploration, or finding ways to stop the world plates from crumbling in your future

how much is dinner though? Still 8 shinies? Maybe we can pay more to have dinner with both for one year?

(Now that i think about it, we probably should have use meals in the past to form bonds with new people, but too late now at least we saved up on our shinies)

For freetime

MEDITATE EIDETIC MEMORY
Class on MAGITECH
Explore the city with Pon and Noodle, look for potential jobs so we know where we can work in our break time for shinies

If we cant explore the city, lets use a FAVOR on Pon to save a time point and ask him what jobs are out there for us to take and other interesting things after Noodle and Pon explore the city without us.
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No. 1003908 ID: ce39da

I say we should share the HUNTER course, for maximum together time. (Use your TA on that one, too; you’ll need the most help with this one this year.)

Our free-time should be spent on the PUZZLE BOOK; we have enough accumulated wits and past event bonuses that we could probably knock out two pages in a single time slot.
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No. 1003917 ID: 791b1c

Meditation class with pon and noodle
Meditate invention
Outreach apprenticeship
Dinner with William and/or Marth
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No. 1003927 ID: 96c896

>>1003877
First off, we gotta get Eidetic Memory, to supercharge our studies and uncap Logic.
Secondly, we need to take an apprenticeship so we can get a job ASAP. TAs and Tutors are extremely powerful, we need to be able to afford them. It's either that or mooch off of William.
Hunter seems important but will have to wait.

Planning ahead:
The puzzle book has runescript on it, so we should take Magitech partially to help solve the book easier but also to get a head start on invention which sounds like would involve Logic and Creativity, which are our main stats right now.
Tactics seems like it'll be important for battles in the future.
Leadership also. Though, I wonder if we should talk to Marth and William to optimize the group's knowledge base? ONE member of the group should be the leader, and one or two members with a tactics focus. On the other hand it wouldn't be bad for there to be two leaders, considering we're picking up friends other than them. We might have situations where we'd need to split up, and having two people trained in leadership and tactics is handy at that point.
Aerobatics sounds fantastic, because GOTTA GO FAST.
At some point we need to talk to Blitz and Drift about their puzzle books, to see if the different colors mean they have different puzzles. Are both blue booklets identical? Maybe the later pages require finding people with different colors, or matching colors. There are probably more colors than just yellow and blue.

So my votes for spending time this semester are:
MEDITATE to gain EIDETIC MEMORY.
METALWORKING apprenticeship.
Take SCULPTURE with your friends, boost with a tutor

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No. 1003930 ID: 731206

Hunting class
Meditate for Eidetic memory
Invite marth for dinner
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No. 1003961 ID: afe7de
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> MAGITECH CLASS
You decide to take the MAGITECH class, to your surprise the amount of students in this class barely reaches 10. You see IGNIS and DRIFT in the class, but don’t see anyone else you know. Your first class is strange, a human man in a large pointed hat teaches you, saying his name is SHIMON CHROME. A MAGITECH researcher from CANUS. He gives a brief overview of Magitech itself and the class.

Shimon: Magitech is the study of using writing to convert energy either generated or absorbed naturally into strange and esoteric effects by the power of RUNESCRIPT.
Shimon: Using an ENGRAVING TOOL and a SURFACE you can etch in something called a RUNE.
Shimon: Metals are commonly used, but leathers and even skin can be used to a lesser degree.
Shimon: However there’s a problem.
Shimon: Certain surfaces can only hold so many runes, and one has to have a steady hand
Shimon: One must also understand the LOGIC behind runescripting
Ignis: Can’t you just teach us the alphabet or the language and we learn the syntax that way?
Shimon: Unfortunately it’s not that simple
Shimon: Runescripting requires COMPREHENSION of the system, for each line to be drawn with PURPOSE and INTENT
Shimon: Some call it MAGIC because your WILL ITSELF actually goes into the pieces you make
Shimon: As such there’s only one way to actually learn RUNESCRIPTING.


The professor takes out from his bag a stack of books that look eerily similar to your PUZZLE BOOK. He looks to each of you and puts on a pair of GOGGLES, after a moment he takes them off and scratches his head, mumbling something to himself. He then goes around and hands each of you a different colored book. IGNIS gets a RED book. DRIFT gets a YELLOW book. You get a WHITE book. And the rest of the students all get a different colored book.

Shimon: These are SCRIPTING MANUALS.
Shimon: I sent them in advance to your academy a few years ago to give to hopeful students but
Shimon: None have finished them, or informed us of having finished them.
Shimon: SCRIPTING MANUALS are easy to make by someone whose mastered the rune inside of them.
Shimon: So consider these a gift.
Student A: Okay, but what do the colors mean?
Shimon: The colors represent the TYPE of rune.
Student B: But can we know what the colors REPRESENT?
Shimon: No. I picked the colors you were most likely to solve, feel free to exchange between each other if you like.
[LOGIC] I get the sense he CAN’T tell us.
Shimon: My teaching for now ends here. You have until the end of this course to solve them.
Shimon: If you can open the book to the final page and COMPREHEND it’s contents come speak to me.
Shimon: I’ll be in the classroom on my assigned days and hours.
Student A: What BULLSHIT is this?
Student B: Yeah, you’re supposed to TEACH US THIS!
Ignis: QUIET.
Student B: Screw this, I’m out.


5 of the students in the classroom leave, leaving you, DRIFT, and IGNIS remaining. Eventually Ignis comes over and proposes the three of you wrack your brains together, looking at Shimon for confirmation that he gets.

Shimon: You can work together, but once you solve one you’ll understand why I can’t teach you at least on the first one.
Shimon: It’ll teach you a fundamentally different way of thinking.


The course goes by slowly, so you take the time to get to know your two classmates better.

Ignis is the 2nd PRINCE, and he loves these kinds of challenges. You also find out he’s 2 years older than you. Apparently he spends most of his time SOCIALIZING outside of classes. Trying to meet people and garner their favor. He thinks he has a shot of becoming KING, but is trying to find out who has the highest chance of being QUEEN next. He dismisses HOOK for her attitude and superiority complex.
Drift on the other hand has been spending a lot of time EXERCISING. He’s still not as athletic as most kin, but stresses he’s been putting in effort every single day. He says something about his body just refusing to grow stronger and laments his situation.
You don’t really see anything wrong with Ignis and are a little confused at what William was hinting. He seems fine you think.

You occasionally see MARTH pop by to talk to SHIMON, and you share a few words with her. Eventually you build up the courage to ask her to dinner, maybe with William as well. She laughs and apologizes saying she doesn’t have the time right now. But promises during the break to talk to both of you, she’s sure you all have things to discuss.

[EVENT - A MEETING WITH OLD FRIENDS - Will occur during TIME SLOT 4 of this year]

Eventually it’s the last day of class and you just barely finished the final page. You’re looking at the completed rune-scripting illustration and are presented with a vision, or hallucination of some sort. It was of a grassy field, you could see the wind blowing in the distance. And a node in the sky, of nothing, but also something, and when you looked at it you could see it sucking in the light greedily. ABSORPTION comes to mind. The INTENT to ABSORB, the PURPOSE of MANA ABSORPTION. You can’t put it into words, it’s more akin to a feeling. But a moment later you’re out of your daze.

You’ve gained the RUNESCRIPTING 1 skill
You can now inscribe RUNES onto SURFACES
- You only know how to inscribe one rune to a surface at this time
You’ve learned the rune for ABSORPTION
- Absorption can be used to absorb the elements to a certain degree
- Absorption can also be used to speed up natural MANA absorption into an object passively
- You’ll need to experiment by putting runes on objects to see the results OR take the second class to know more
- Learn more runes and about runes to increase the skill

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You immediately scramble to a piece of paper and begin to scribble something in runescript. When the ink has settled on the parchment you notice something, it’s faint, but the paper has an incredibly slight shimmer to it now. You run up to your professor and show him the results and he’s shocked. You’re the fifth student he’s had that’s been able to solve a RUNESCRIPT MANUAL. He praises your LOGIC and CREATIVITY and examines the paper you inscribed. He lets you know it’s amateur but shows that you’ve comprehended the manual. Whats more impressive is that you were able to get it to work at 1/100th efficiency using just INK and not even distilled MANA. He hands you 5 more manuals, a RED, GREEN, YELLOW, and BLUE one, you let him know you already have the blue one at home and he swaps it for a BLACK one, smiling at you.

He tells you to finish at least 2 more manuals. Once you do complete it he tells you to sign up for his second course. And that if you have any questions on these to feel free to ask. Since you now know the basics and can COMPREHEND it, you two can actually talk on the subject. He also presents you with a small pen, there’s a bottle attached to it with a glowing blue liquid inside it. He says that it liquifies the mana in the air over the course of a day to fill up around halfway, stopping once full. You can use this to practice your rune-crafting. He says to practice on paper until you’re confident. In the second course he says he’ll show you how to make useful objects and how to LINK RUNES, but doesn’t give you any hints as to what the specific manuals contents are.

You go back to your companions and they celebrate your comprehension. Ignis especially gives you high praise and it feels good. The professor checks up on everyone elses progress and hands them the 5 books they’re lacking, offering the same to them. He says if they’ve reached the last page it’s only a matter of time. You try to describe the feeling of solving the final page but it just comes out as babbling, mush, and sensations. You stop and realize that this was what Shimon was talking about. You look to Shimon and try to talk about the ABSORPTION rune, and he talks back to you about a rune you dont understand, but you can feel a sense of HEAT and FLAME from it. It’s like you’re talking in PICTURES not WORDS. In IDEAS, not SENTENCES. The conversation goes for a few minutes and the class ends. Your two classmates seem to have a fire in their eyes and claim they won’t lose to you before leaving.

[CREATIVITY] But why do I get the feeling that if you reached a certain level in RUNESCRIPTING that teaching others would become possible…
[INTUITION] I think he’s just a shitty teacher that doesn’t want to teach the basics
[LOGIC] I think if you learn more runes and meditate on it you can find a way to teach others.
[PRIDE] You have resources others don’t, you can do this.


Your BOND with DRIFT has increased to rank 2
- Drift will occasionally suggest activities for you to do with him
- Drift sees you as a rival
IGNIS has formed a BOND with you at rank 2
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring IGNIS
- Ignis will occasionally suggest activities for you to do with him

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No. 1003965 ID: afe7de
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> HUNTER CLASS
The three of you decide to take the HUNTER class together. Pon had the aptitude in being a HUNTER as a kid, so he thinks he should at least give it a shot, and it might be better with everyone together. The class is held 4 times a week in 4 hour chunks. Twice what normal classes do. The first class in the course consists of RIGEROUS TRAINING. You are all pushed to the point of exhaustion. And then are forced to wield your training weapons against eachother, those that fall in combat this way are then reprimanded and their training in the next class is increased.

[PERSERVERENCE] This is nothing!!!
[ATHLETICS] You’re… PANT… not the… PANT… one DOING THIS THOUGH
[PERSERVERENCE] It’s all in the mind, pain in the mind…


You chose to practice your RAPIER skills during this period. Noodle practices her SPEAR skills and Pon decides to take up the JAVELIN, he’s been undecided for a while now and thinks the flexibility from having multiple throwing weapons that could also be used as small spears suits him. Yours and Noodle’s ATHLETIC physiques manage to let you BARELY keep up with everything, but you’re still terribly exhausted by the end. Pon’s POWERFUL physique allows him to breeze through most of the activities with ease, he’s noticed by the instructor and is made to do carry heavy weights while he does the rest of the exercises, only then, after he’s reaching the point of BARELY being able to keep up with everything is he put back with the others. You’re told the point of this exercises is to build up incredible amounts of STAMINA, and the ability to force your bodies past your limits. Hunting monsters can be unlike fighting humans. It’s a drawn out, grueling process at times, and then over in a moment at others.

Interspersed during the courses are lessons on monsters themselves. Your instructor’s name is TALBOT, she’s a high ranking World-Plate hunter, this means she travels outside your country to hunt monsters. She makes sure to emphasize that there are monster varieties that are harmless, or even peaceful, but the ones that they go after are typically the ones attacking cities, destroying ecosystems, and that are identified as threats. For some reason most monsters HATE kin and humans, and if they’re on the same world-plate Monsters will actively try to go to kin settlements to feast.

Talbot: Question. Are there monsters in our world-plate?
Flying Squirrel: I thought the hunters took care of them years ago?
Talbot: That’s not entirely accurate.
Talbot: You see there are CAVERNS underneath TENGU, the deeper you go, the more monsters you find
Talbot: This is why parents usually tell their kids never to go into the caves.
Talbot: However hunters have completely decimated the overworld population of monsters on our world-plate
Talbot: Causing it to be the most relatively safe one in the country.


She then goes on to explain that these caverns have either been cleared, or maintained as monster breeding grounds to train future hunters. The one on the floating lake has been cleared, but monsters are a strange existence and have been known to appear in previously cleared areas. She tells you about BIPED and QUADRAPED monsters. In the second course you will be getting live training against real monsters. The class murmurs excitedly at that. You see Pon get a bit nervous, but pat his back reassuringly. The tutoring classes you attended are more focused versions of the main classes, with emphasis on learning the different types of monsters, their weaknesses, and how to spot their habitats in the wild. As a wing-kin you are naturally gifted at this, so they tell you how to take advantage of that. The landlocked kin are also trained in advanced escape techniques. Sometimes you’ll encounter a monster you can’t win against and will have to run. Wing kin can just fly, but others cant.
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No. 1003966 ID: afe7de
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During your time in the hunter class you grow closer to your fellow students. You’re spending a lot of time with each other, but one classmate catches your attention. His name is Glide and he’s a FLYING SQUIRREL. You once read a book that flying squirrels couldn’t actually fly, but apparently he’s the exception. You think it’s kind of cool he broke his genetic barriers and learned to fly as a mammal. Apparently he wears this wing suit so his skin-flaps are more easily contained, and so he gets more force applied when he flies. His only problem is that he tends to be a bit too lazy for your tastes. He’s only putting in the minimum amount of work. But when it comes to combat he can be fierce, eying you down with a lot of COURAGE and not backing down. He’s not scared easily. Eventually the quarter passes and you’re at your final exam.

Your ATHLETICISM stat has reached the soft cap
You must PRACTICE an ATHLETIC SKILL in order to progress, here are some examples
- IMPROVED PHYSIQUE - Improve your ATHLETIC physique one rank to POWERFUL
- FLIGHT SPEED - Fly twice as fast as other kin
- REFLEXES - Gain a new stat, your DODGE skill is automatically converted and becomes passive. Actively using REFLEXES to DODGE provides more bonuses.
- TENACITY - Gain a new stat, Similar to PERSERVERENCE but in reference to the body
- OTHER - [USER SUGGESTED ATHLETICS SKILL]
Some skills are harder to learn than others and you’re not sure how long it will take to train.
You’ve gained the MONSTER KNOWLEDGE stat at rank 2
Your PERSERVERENCE is already at the peak and thinks it’s great that you’re flexing it
GLIDE has formed a BOND with you
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring GLIDE
You’ve gained 3 stress from the grueling training


On the way to the exam site you talk it over with PON and NOODLE, you agree to go exploring the town during the break, it’s been on your mind and you think it’ll be fun.

[EVENT - QARA TENGU’S DAYLIFE - Will occur during TIME SLOT 5 of this year]

Everyone’s nervous, and they should be, brought before each of you is a bound DUSK RABBIT. It’s a deep gray with red, piercing eyes. You would say it looks cute, but it’s got fangs and claws that have both been clipped. You’re told this is the weakest of what would be considered a MONSTER. More a pest that can really hurt if you’re unprepared. You’ve all been given a knife and one job, to kill the creature in front of you. You’re told this is the final exam of the first course, to kill a life. If you cannot do this, then you are not fit to be a HUNTER, but he hopes that the PERSEVERANCE and ATHLETICISM and KNOWLEDGE you’ve gained will support you in the future.

You can tell that Noodle has a fierce determination in her eyes. Glide is calm and collected, he’s even playing with the knife. Pon is scared, you can tell he’s very hesitant. Your STATS are silent in this moment, wanting you to make the decision. Seeing If you’re ready to take a life. You’ve seen Saba do it in your dreams, and you are Saba, which means you’ve technically done it, but can you? You’re feeling the PRESSURE.

What do you do? And do you say anything to Pon?

Those two events I mentioned above are the plot events I’m gonna have happen in the middle of the year. Whenever I have important plot stuff going forward that you get info of I’m going to announce it like this. I’ll try to let you know in advance for the most part.
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No. 1003967 ID: 094652

"... No."
You are capable of killing animals. Of killing people. Of even killing innocents whose existences threaten many others. But here, you are expected to take the life of an animal that has never harmed you or your people, and is incapable of doing so in any way. Even an insect is more of a threat than this bound, defanged, broken little creature. Society is poised to reward you for this act of needless, graceless slaughter.
This is not the path of the ranger, it is the path of the butcher. Let it be taken by one who has devoured souls. But that person is not you.
Release the bun-bun. Demand to fight a (weak) beast that is eager to kill you and has the means of doing so, or you're done with this class.
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No. 1003974 ID: ce39da

Give Pon a reassuring nod.

Then do it. You get the impression that you aren't going to amount to much if you can't fight monsters in some capacity. (Archaeologists encounter monsters sometimes, don't they?)
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No. 1003975 ID: 528dbf

“Let’s make Dad proud.”
End its life quickly.
Also, practice your original puzzle book first, cross referencing it with this one. We’re going to figure this out and teach others what they need to figure out theirs out of spite. That teacher shouldn’t be in charge of first year classes if he can’t even teach people this new way of thinking. Aren’t there books in the library we can just check out about magitech?
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No. 1003976 ID: e51896

could CAVERNS be this worlds' dungeon? if so... *gulp* here we go again... Though maybe not, they seemed to have been cleared pretty easily. Maybe the CAVERNS are at the early stages of being dungeons though?

Killing raises karma sooooo... I guess as long as it's just monsters and wildlife for survival?

Tell Pon that hunting non-threatening monsters and wildlife are sometimes required if he wants to hunt for food like our father did for us back at home. There could be a situation where he may find himself without resources when traveling to different world plates, even those far from civilization, and he might have to kill a harmless creature like a wild rabbit to survive. It's part of the circle of life, after all. (Would our teaching skill help Pon? maybe in courage or perseverance, one of those two? I feel it might be courage to help Pon in since we are feeling a little hesitant from the pressure ourself. TEACH Pon courage a little bit.)

Ask the teacher if you can cook and eat the monster after killing it, so that its death doesn't feel so needless especially in its bounded and helpless state. (assuming monsters are edible of course)

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For our two upcoming activities:

with the MEETING WITH OLD FRIENDS event

ask William and Marth what classes they are taking, their future plans and careers (you're thinking about looking into saving the world plates, but also, you think you feel inspired at taking a shot in teaching MAGITECH, you need to learn how to teach better though. Also talk to Marth about Meditation. Suggest all taking a meditation class together the second half of the year maybe.)

for the QARA TENGU’S DAYLIFE event

Look for job openings, maybe ones that require something we our exceptional at in some of our stats, like graphic designing birthday cards with our creativity. Also, look for dojos for self defense training, look for anything else of interest

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Not final since we are not planning it yet, but for the third part of our year to lower stress, we should look into meditation classes with Marth and William (if they are interested),
Meditate Eidetic memory to also lower stress and learn that skill,
and try to solve the puzzle book, it might be easier now that we took a class in magitech (we need to solve two in order to take another class).

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Long term plan, we could try to look into teaching MAGITECH in our future, we seem to be unique in that we have the potential to be one of the very few kin in FAUNUS to teach magitech effectively to others where other teacher could not. Taking Teaching Classes would be helpful in this.
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No. 1003978 ID: ce39da

>>1003975
>>1003976
Oh, yeah, to add on to these: Restrain it on the ground first. Then, place a cloth on the back of its head, both to position the knife for a double-handed press without hurting the poor thing and to act as a splatter-guard. Finally, press down, hopefully killing it instantly, and wait until its vitals have ceased and you've turned its body to the side before removing and cleaning the knife. Pon wouldn't be reassured to see all of his friends covered in blood after doing the deed.
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No. 1003980 ID: 157c19

Kill it by removing the mana crystal in the back of its neck.
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No. 1003996 ID: 96c896

>>1003962
Oh. So, the 1/1000 thing is just... that most people have no potential for learning Runescripting? I was hoping it was some sort of world-spanning metapuzzle made by some mad genius.
>IGNIS seems fine
That's because he's using his CHARISMA effectively. He's had practice. Maybe William is used to his earlier, clumsy attempts at garnering favor with women. It really is intimidating that he got #1 while spending so much free time socializing...

>>1003966
Do it. Make it as quick as possible.
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No. 1003999 ID: 25e6ce

Note to self: Best not tell Marth what our INTUITION stat thinks of Shimon. If anything, we can say you want to follow in Shimon's footsteps and help spread the knowledge of magitech.

Tell Pon he needs to experience this to learn how to survive as a hunter. After the test give Pon a hug to comfort him whether he kills or not.
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No. 1004000 ID: dfbac0

>>1003978
This seems like a good option, kill it in a fashion that is quick and painless.
Also seeing if you can cook it shows initiative and could teach you how to cook monsters in the wild should you ever need it.
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No. 1004001 ID: f8fa51

Yes, do it quickly. Also, we don't need to worry about telling Marth what we really think of her teacher. She already knows Shimon isn't very good.
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No. 1004013 ID: 031458

Tell Pon... That you believe in him.
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No. 1004014 ID: 96c896

I'm voting against giving Pon any encouragement. We won't be there for every kill, he's gotta do it on his own.
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> Try to CONVINCE PON
You tell him that hunting non threatening stuff for survival is sometimes required. But he continues to shake. He mutters about there being no HONOR in this, that this is just butchering. It’s one thing if it’s trapped and then he kills it but this is a defanged, defenseless beast. This is CRUEL. You FAIL to convince Pon to kill the beast, he’s too STUBBORN. And while you could be PERSISTANT and try to pressure him, that’s not the kind of kin you want to be. This is his choice, not yours.

> Quick, painless, and covered
You: Let’s make Dad proud.

You pull out a small cloth and flip over the creature, you jab your knife with precision into it’s neck using a two-handed grip, severing it’s spine cleanly. It twitches slightly and goes limp, dying instantly. The cloth begins to soak in the blood, getting the most of the spurts. With a twist and a pop a small, blood covered peach-pit like object is pulled from the creature. This you know to be a BEAST CORE. Your instructor looks at you and nods. You ask if you can butcher it so you can eat it, and not let the body go waste. She smiles at you with a genuine smile, one you’re not sure you saw on her before as she shows you the basics of butchering a monster, it’s not an easy process, and you end up messing it up terribly, but you now know how to do this, and given enough practice it could become a useful SKILL. He lets you keep the meat, pelt, and core, saying you earned it.

Noodle has already killed her rabbit, she’s covered in blood, having hit an artery. Glide on the other hand is spotless, having deftly used the knife to kill it with the smallest amount of blood loss. His preferred weapon is the knife after all. You get the feeling he’s done this before. You look to Pon and he’s arguing with another instructor. You get a little closer and hear that he’s actually asking to fight one, that killing a defenseless monster proves nothing.

The teacher agrees and brings him to a pit, tossing in a completely normal and unbound Dusk Rabbit and giving Pon an IRON JAVELIN. He looks at you to which you respond with a nod. Pon grabs it and hops into the pit, you watch a long, drawn out fight, Pon’s STUBBORNNESS is at his peak, he’s bleeding, but so is the rabbit. It’s stressful and tense, but eventually Pon succeeds, landing a blow that crushes the skull of the rabbit with his POWERFUL physique. Pon vomits immediately afterwords, tosses down the Javalin and heads back up. He ignores everyone’s praises and heads to you, falling in your arms, unconscious.

You’ve killed a living being for the first time
Your COURAGE stat has increased
A strong ripple goes out through your CONSCIOUSNESS
Others can see your COMPASSION for life through your actions
- Didn’t let it suffer
- Used the whole rabbit
- Supported Pon
You’ve acquired a SMALL MONSTER CORE, it glows with a dull red light
- Can be sold for 10 SHINIES
- Can be used as a CRAFTING INGREDIENT
You’ve acquired TATTERED DUSK RABBIT HIDE, You have enough to make something small out of it.
- Can be sold for 1 SHINY
- Can be used as a CRAFTING INGREDIENT
You get the feeling you could learn the BUTCHER skill if you practice enough
You get the feeling you could learn the COOKING skill if you practice enough
You get the feeling that Pon is gaining a sense of HONOR
You gain 2 STRESS from killing a living being with your own two hands for the first time


That night you consume the flesh of your kill with your friends, cooking it and seasoning it well, Pon seems back to normal, but you can tell that he’s stressed out. You tell him he should take a break for a bit then you all can go explore the city. He agrees, it looks like it’s been hard on him.
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> TIME SLOT 4 - A MEETING WITH OLD FRIENDS

You’ve planned your weekends during the break to spend time with MARTH and WILLIAM. The three of you meet at William’s Villa. It’s a small piece of land near the edge of the city with two guards and around 3 maids. Supposedly royalty gets mansions, but this looks more like a small two story house. It’s cozy.

The exterior of the house is overgrown but the lawn’s maintained. You head inside to a private room and the three of you begin discussion. At this point all three of you have gained enough memories to understand that your previous lives were together. But now you’re here. William says he’s been meditating a lot and has a more complete picture. Apparently the three of you died and reincarnated together. You, Chi, were the strategist with the biggest brains, helping to figure out what best to get in order to end up in the best position.

Whatever you did seemed to work because William is royalty, albeit low in power. Marth is POWERFUL and has a secret she hasn't mentioned. And you’ve done pretty well for yourself considering you ended up in a random family of the former head knight of the kingdom.

You ask Marth about her secret and she laughs saying it’s nothing special. Just that she has TELEKINESIS. She makes a knife float out from a hidden pouch by her waist and sticks it onto the table. She says she can make it attack with quite a lot of force from around 20 meters, so even when she was running from assassins before she could gurantee escape. The table goes silent from that.

[GUILE & INTUITION] I don’t like being right about that.

The two of you press for more information but Marth stonewalls you, saying that knowing while you can’t defend yourself just puts you in danger. You’re a little upset she’s keeping secrets like this, but you can only let it pass for now. She pulls out a little sheet of cloth, a BLACK LOTUS on it. And says just to be careful if you see anyone wearing this, they don’t know you or have a reason to bother you, but better safe than sorry.

Eventually the days pass and you start talking about future goals. At this point your memories overlap enough that you know Marth and Willamina both died before you did and the circumstances surrounding it. It’ll still take you a long time to get through the rest of the memories. William has looked into it and from his limited royal resources he has been unable to confirm or deny the presence of DEMONS or ANGELS on your planet.

William wants to take it easy, staying in this world-plate and helping better it. He’s pretty smart and as long as IGNIS doesen’t get in his way he thinks there’s a chance of becoming KING if the new QUEEN favors him. Failing that he could always learn RUNESCRIPTING, as Willamina learned a similar skill for artifact creation. There’s some overlap there. He thinks that he could start a whole division in the capital for RUNESCRIPTING and really evolve your plate’s technology.

Marth wants to personally take revenge on something that can’t be forgiven and needs to die. She still refuses to elaborate. But after that, she says she might settle down somewhere, just relax. This country is so much better off than the other world-plates she says. None of you got a break in the last world, so just living a life sounds good to her.
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She elaborates on the outer country situation saying there’s several kingdoms all living in a sort of circle around one massive world-plate. Some say that world-plate is about 4000 km wide. That’s 1/3 the size of Saba’s FAUNUS. And that there are a few NODES that lead to other world-plates. But a tunnel would have to be built to get through the World-Plate walls. That world-plate is full of natural resources and ruins and is highly contentious so conflicts happen all the time. But it’s also chock full of MONSTERS, especially FLYING ONES. There’s also frequent conflicts between other kingdoms over tracts of land, it’s just a mess. This plate is about 3-4 plates removed from the nearest major power, and that’s about 2 world-plates from the WARRING REGION.

She says that there’s also tons of hidden Ruins scattered throughout the known world-plates. Probably none here though, since the Wing-Kin can just traverse so quickly. Many of them haven’t even been discovered yet. The technology on this planet is much further behind Saba’s FAUNUS, so they haven’t discovered a way to map and explore everything as fast without the use of Wing-Kin. It’s surprising honestly, there’s not another Wing-Kin country out there, Wing-Kin are a pretty rare breed out in the other plates. Marth claims that if the Wing-Kin really decided to get their stuff together it’d be possible to make a pretty powerful kingdom in less than a hundred years. She sighs relieved, stating that she’d rather not deal with that though, too much war already.

And as for you. You’re not sure what you want to do yet. You were a scientist before, then you wanted to benefit the world with easy energy, then you wanted to save the world, then you died. Now you’re kind of CURIOUS about the RUINS and have thought about being an ARCHAEOLOGIST. Marth laughs and says that’s just a fancy term for a SOLO HUNTER, since you’ll probably have to fight MONSTERS anyway. You were also considering teaching MAGITECH, you’ve already figured out one book and are in the process of learning others. You think there’s definitely a way to teach other kin how to do it, that Shimon’s style of teaching doesn’t cut it if he wants to actually get a new generation of MAGITECH scientists.

William mentions that it could be nice to teach together and work on this. Marth shrugs and claims she’s already learned the runes Shimon’s going to teach, even if she’s awful at actually applying them. It’s useful for RUIN EXPLORATION, as the language of the ANCIENTS is actually RUNESCRIPT. Funnily enough most kin just go into those ruins blind and can’t read anything, so at least you’ll have a step up if you want to do that.

The last thing on your agenda is to find out what classes they’re taking. William’s planning on taking the MAGITECH class next quarter, and will probably take LAW and AEROBATICS classes. He mostly wants to take it easy. See if he can make some money on MAGITECH.

Marth’s planning on TRAINING, she says she’s probably going to take the MARTIAL ARTS classes and spend most of her time MEDITATING, improving her TELEKINESIS. Other than that, she might pick up a job or take a HUNTER course, or find a DOJO or something around the city to train at.

You start to feel closer to them, but it’s strange. You’re not as passionate about them as you were in your previous life. The others seem to be the same. You suppose if you went through life together and grew together more you could feel the same way, but at this point in time they feel more like slightly distant family. You’ve got the BOND you wanted, but it almost feels forced. You get that feeling again, like your mind being that of an EGG trying to crack open. A piercing headache goes through you, but it passes again. You think that’s Saba’s [UNDERSTANDING] trying to break out, but don’t know why it’s doing this. You also note that even though your memories are that of a BOY, you’re not feeling weird about being born a GIRL that much. Or that your interests are diverging from Saba’s. You could take some TIME to think about it and see if you have any problems with it but as of right now, you’re pretty content.

You have formed a BOND with WILLIAM and MARTH at rank 4
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring the two
- They will occasionally suggest activities for you to do with them
- They will occasionally help you on tasks you are having difficulties with
- You think William now TRUSTS you
- You’re not sure if Marth TRUSTS you
- You can now request 1 favor a year from WILLIAM
- You get the feeling you shouldn’t ask for a favor from MARTH
William will try to take the second MAGITECH course with you when you’re ready
You get the feeling that you’ll start [UNDERSTANDING] things within the next few years.

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> TIME SLOT 5 - QARA TENGU’S DAYLIFE
You, Noodle, and Pon spend the break wandering around the city. There’s lots of cool places to visit and many, many shops. There’s a SWEETS shop that sells IMPORTED SUGAR and sweet goods. Their top selling sweet is RED CANDY. It’s a sugary candy made partially with FRUIT. Each bag costs 50 SHINIES and comes with 12. It’s expensive, but you remember from your youth that it was the most amazing thing you ever tasted, it’s sweet and sour and OH SO GOOD. You could also get a cake and other small sweets for less. You spend 20 SHINIES getting the group some COOKIES. It’s nice and you feel a little less stressed.

Next is the various weapon shops, they refuse to let you in because you are a minor, stating you must be 16 to enter or be 14 with a HUNTERS LICENSE. You look at the prices and everything is in the 1000s of SHINIES. You gasp at the prices, that’s just 2000 for a single dagger! You then remember something from your history class, that your World-Plate is lacking in many NATURAL RESOURCES. So IRON is actually rare here.

[KNOWLEDGE] So… Expensive! You could buy a TUTOR for that amount of SHINIES!

You notice a GAMBLING HALL and try to get in but are met with the same response, that you must be 14 to enter, or have adult supervision, or be able to provide 2000 in CAPITAL to enter and PLAY. You’re about to walk away when you hear a shout from inside, RIICHI pops out and gives you and Pon a hug. She leads you inside and the bouncer huffs. It’s a dark place with the smell of smoke lightly floating about. She introduces you to some of her friends and says this is where she spends most of her time. She’ll let the guard know you three are okay to enter as long as you can provide 200 SHINIES up front. You give RIICHI your last cookie and she gleefully gobbles it up. After reminiscing for a while you head back out.

[GUILE] PLEAASSSEEEEEE. Go baaaaack, my kinnnn!!!!!!
[GUILE] Let’s spend time with Teacher RIICHI this year!


You pass by a few PARKS, a rather large graveyard, and something that looks like a CHAPEL from Saba’s world, only instead of a cross it’s got a large EYE surrounded by spikes like a sun would be. You continue exploring and find a shop that sells something called ANT JUICE. The merchant notices you’re students of QARA TENGU and waves you over explaining his product. It’s a small plant that grows little ANT SHAPED BERRIES. You can drink the juice or rub it on your wings and it produces a… “Relaxing” effect that’s popular with lots of kin. Apparently it reduces STRESS by a lot, a bottle of the juice costs 60 SHINIES.

[CREATIVITY] Oooooooooooooh
[LOGIC] Will that get you… High? Uhhh, I’m uncomfortable here.
[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] Maybe wait till you’re 16 huh? Proper Brain development and all that
[INTUITION] Ignore those two, they’re silly sometimes, it might be useful later!
[CURIOSITY] Just a little try won’t hurt… Right?


Pon looks interested, but holds off on buying for now, wanting to know what the other options in the city are. There’s an ARTISAN’s guild for the creative. They offer classes to teach those interested in certain trades not offered at the academy like clothe-making, engraving, and the like. It’s a small building, but is quite well put together. You also find several Martial Arts DOJOS around the city. There’s the THUNDER LORD DOJO, apparently they pride themselves in being so fast your opponent can’t react. There’s the MIND AND BODY DOJO, they pride themselves in having a clear mind, still as water and reflective as a mirror, allowing them to surprise their opponents with their untelegraphed techniques. And there’s the WING FIST DOJO, they offer the nontraditional form of WING BASED COMBAT. Most wing-kin refuse to do this as they value their wings too much, so it’s the least popular, but somehow members of the WING-FIST dojo usually win against other kin from the other dojos.

[SELF DEFENSE] Nice.

There’s other stuff in the city like farmers stalls where you can get food daily, bakeries, taverns, game halls where you can participate in the strange human custom of BOWLING and DARTS. Unfortunately you have to be 18 to drink ALCOHOL at any of these locations. And you find several resturaunts. A LOW QUALITY MEAL at a resturaunt costs 4 SHINIES per person. A NORMAL MEAL costs 8 SHINIES a person. A HIGH QUALITY MEAL costs 16 SHINIES a person, and apparently there’s EXQUISITE MEALS that cost 30 SHINIES A PERSON or more!

You also notice a FURNITURE STORE where you can buy various things for your DORM ROOM. You never considered that you could just BUY THINGS for your room. NOODLE buys a frame for your drawing to put in the room. She thinks it deserves a nicer home. Pon buys a small paperweight in the shape of a feral dove. You get an extra PILLOW with a cute pattern of a CROW on it.

[INTUITION] This is nice, you should get things you like for your room sometimes!
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You also notice a CLOTHING STORE, they’ve got various odds and ends, armbands, vests, leg-warmers, hats, bands, pins, etc. Their stock of PANTS are severely limited though because wing-Kin typically don’t like wearing pants, preferring SHORTS or SKIRTS if they really want it. You get a cute hairpin you were eying while you were at it.

You occasionally see Wing-Kin on the streets performing, either with instruments of singing and that other kin drop SHINIES in their cups. One in particular catches your eye, a yellowish-orange CANARY. Her voice is beautiful and you get a sense that she’s very CHARMING and CHARISMATIC. You drop a SHINY in her cup and she smiles at you as you walk by.

During your walk you notice several JOBS you could take if you took the TIME to convince them or LOOK FOR ONE later. You could become a street performer, but you lack an instrument or singing skills, you think you saw a shop selling instruments starting at 30 SHINIES around here somewhere. You’ve seen some performers at taverns and bars you passed by and it looks like they’re paid well and get to meet lots of people. You even swore you saw IGNIS at one one time but the crowd was too thick.

You could try to go to the ARTISAN’S guild and pick up a trade with them, they offer you a way to sell goods you’ve made. But you’ll have to learn how to make things they’d want to sell first. You found the Post office, which is where the courier job is located at. Or you could always take a job working a FOOD STALL or something. To be honest, you had a lot of trouble even finding this information as most Kin don’t take you seriously as a KID, no matter how mature you’re acting.

But you did find out something interesting. That most of these jobs offer pay between 960 SHINIES to 3840 SHINIES a [TIME POINT] (or 1-4 SHINIES an hour) And that FULL TIME is usually considered to be [2 TIME POINTS] a year. Working past that usually makes you a WORKAHOLIC and can cause STRESS.

The last thing you did was go to a leasing agent, they handle land and houses. You wanted to know how much a nest costs. Typically they come in HOUSE forms and APARTMENTS. Houses in the city cost more because the monarchy wants more APARTMENTS typically so that more kin can live close to the palace. She gives you a sheet with the breakdowns on typical prices, but not for any locations in particular since you’re just curious. She’s very courteous with you and answers your questions politely.

A STUDIO APT on the OUTSKIRTS of town costs 1440 SHINIES/year
A STUDIO APT in MIDTOWN costs 4320 SHINIES/year
A STUDIO APT in the PALACE DISTRICT costs 12000 SHINIES/year

Shops typically follow a similar pricing structure to the above, and larger apartments are typically 30% more expensive than the previous level. So a 1BR apartment in the OUTSKIRTS would be around 1870 SHINIES.

Buying houses is another matter
Houses outside of the city near a town hex usually go for 8-10k Shinies
This is mostly due to labor costs, already built houses typically go for less but you’d have to talk to the town’s mayor to find out more.

It’s 60K + for a house in the OUTSKIRTS of town
80K+ for one in MIDTOWN
And 100K+ for one in the PALACE DISTRICT

Apartments are typically 3-5x the cost, but let you lease out to tenants and earn you passive income. And housing is always needed in the town as Tengu’s population is going through a BOOM in the past few years. You thank the nice lady and head off, tired from your wandering.

[???] Start early, save early!

In the end you wind up spending 41 SHINIES on your trip throughout the CITY.
You got a STRIPED HAIRPIN
You got a SIMPLE CROW PILLOW
Your room feels a little more cozy
You lose 2 stress from the shop therapy, cookies, and spending time chilling with your friends.
Your STRESS TOTAL is currently [3]


And in no time flat your break is over. You can only take 1 MORE CLASS this year.

[INTUITION] I get the feeling you’ll be stressed if you take another class this year.
[LOGIC & KNOWLEDGE] But more classes means more knowledge!

You have [3 TIME POINTS] What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1003877 for the current roster.
2. Go SHOPPING - (Does not cost a TIME POINT, just let me know what you want to buy, I’ll let you know the price and give you a chance to confirm)
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4. Work on a PROJECT
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION] Meditate on a topic or in general
[STUDY] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING**] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time with someone you have a BOND with
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY) [CURRENT BALANCE - 127 SHINIES]
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome)

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No. 1004027 ID: e51896

Alright, I vote our main goal in life is teaching Magitech to better our world plate's technology, which means taking teaching classes, and actually learning magitech. Or maybe our goal could be going RUIN EXPLORATION (which feels like DUNGEON CRAWLING in our past life)

but for our Second semester:

Meditation classes. It was said meditation classes reduce stress, though it was also said that taking another class this year gains stress? I guess the two would cancel each other out. Maybe we can convince Pon and Drift (since he has a past life too) to come also? Pon showed interest and tends to overwork himself. Lets lower that stress (maybe), and maybe learn something new

Meditate Eidetic memory (gotta fill our meditation quota and lower that stress more)

group activity with Ignis and Drift on helping each other get our SCRIPTING MANUALS completed so we can all go to the second Magitech class together. It seems we have a gift for Magitech, can't let that go to waste. Lets work on our blue one since we already got a fair amount of that done already, and we might have a better chance at completing that over the others during these activities. I was just thinking just have it be us and Drift and leave Ignis out, but the more info we get on other scripting manuals as we help the others, the easier it will be when we get to them, so Ignis can come too. (talk to drift about meditation, let him know it can help him connect with the person he is dreaming about)

if we don't do the group activity, then just work on our blue scripting manual since we already have parts of the blue scripting manual done, and whatever other scripting manual we can

We'll get a job next year. It isn't expected of us by our parents to get one just yet, at least until we are 16.
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No. 1004030 ID: 094652

1TP Audit a psychology class. You won't get the credits but the lack of grading should prevent excess stress.
1TP Meditate on Saba's Magitech knowledge, and how you will reconcile your personal identity with the old man you once you get to the end of your memories.
1TP Check on Noodle, teach her how to keep her hunting bloodlust in check.
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No. 1004032 ID: e51896

>>1004027
Oh yeah, to add to my post, only if meditation classes raise stress, then lets not do that. If that is the case, lets work on a scripting manual along with that group activity with Ignis and Drift. That way, we might get two scripting manuals done (if we get the blue one done, go for black next) and Meditate Eidetic memory.
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No. 1004033 ID: 031458

Let's Take PAINTING.
It'll be a FUN class and it'll give us a new avenue for SHINIES.

I'll also suggest WORKING ON SOME RUNE SCRIPT BOOKS starting with the BLUE one.
We've had it for years. Now we know more or less how to approach it.

We should also PRACTICE SOME GUILE with RICHII. Bring Pon and Noodle if we can!

Finally, Let's have a meal with MARTH. HIGH QUALITY.
Our bond with Marth and William seems artificial because we only USED to know them. We might be Saba, but we are also Chi. They are the same way. We should get to know who they are now.
This Marth is INTERESTING but ALOOF. Unlike William they seems to be quite worldly and in the "Now". It however is also clear that their circumstances are HEAVY, probably PAINFUL, even DANGEROUSE.
It will take effort to get closer to them. This would be a good first step.
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No. 1004039 ID: afa6f6

>>1004023
-Take the MEDITATION class, with Pon if possible
-Meditate on a mental skill, Either Invention or Visual Calculus
-Study the Runescript books, Starting with the one we got from the exam, we can probably knock a few pages out now that we know what we're looking for.
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No. 1004040 ID: afa6f6

On another note, That MIND AND BODY DOJO sounds right up our alley, we should check that out at some point.
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No. 1004043 ID: f8fa51

Meditate on LOGIC (I'll let others pick the specialisation, but default to VISUAL CALCULUS if no-one else nominates anything).

Meditate on ATHLETICISM, specialising in REFLEXES.

Study the runescript.
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No. 1004052 ID: ce39da

MEDITATION CLASS WITH PON AND MARTH isn't likely to produce more stress; MEDITATE ON EIDETIC MEMORY when you're not too busy teaching your friends the finer points.

SPEND TIME ON THE BLUE MANUAL. Let's finish this one off on our own since we've already made headway with it.

WORK ON MANUALS WITH DRIFT AND IGNIS. They're probably about to make breakthroughs with the Yellow and Red Manuals, respectively, and hopefully, that means you aren't far behind. You think you've received a hint on what the Red Manual's about from your teacher - teaching Magitech is much easier when the student already gets the core way of thinking, you'll admit - so that should go quickly. (Also, finish off the Blue Manual if you failed to do so on your own.)

YEARLY MEAL EVENT: WILLIAM (HIGH-QUALITY MEAL)
Your feelings may not be as passionate as they were in your past life, but he is still HOT, and he is still CURRENTLY A PRINCE that you have a built-in connection to; in other words, a guy with a lot of potential.

But the main purpose of this meal is that you have a BAD FEELING ABOUT 'TAKING IT EASY,' and you want to make that known to him. It's unknown whether the word KARMA has fully reentered your lexicon yet, but you do get the feeling that doing nothing but relax may have long-term consequences, at least at the level you're at.
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No. 1004059 ID: e51896

deleted my previous post about having dinner with marth to have it be with William instead. Probably still a normal meal, high quality sounds like it needs to be reserved to dates for me, but I won't complain if high quality meal is chosen.

Mainly talk about magitech, and how we could use it in the future for teaching others to advance the technology of our world plate or go ruin exploration to figure out FAUNUS' history. Also, show him the coin you got from that visit to that world plate with Noodle and Pon. Ask if he knows anything about the figures pictured since he's probably done more meditation to understand our past lives, and he mentioned something about not being able to confirm if angels or demons are in this world, he mightrecognize the demon Set's eye in the back of the coin if that is the case, or at least find it familiar. Probably won't recognize the (maybe) Goddess tough, but good to let him be aware of it.)
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No. 1004062 ID: 031458

Honestly I figure a special occasion needs a special meal.
Though if it's William unless were doing STREET FOOD I don't think any meal besides EXQUISITE would be appropriate.
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No. 1004070 ID: 388f47

Spend time in the gambling hall, meditate on Saba’s understanding, and practice teaching magitech. Take Will and Marth out for a nice dinner too. I have a feeling the bond will be less forced once you learn about the birds and the half-bees…
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No. 1004080 ID: 96c896

>>1004023
Current goal should be to learn Magitech with the intent of teaching others and inventing cool shit. Considering how crap the current teacher here is, it should be an easy way to change the world.
We can also plan to go on expeditions to important archaeological digs since that's also in our skillset.

...did we get a TA for either of those classes last semester?

>time points
Meditate on Logic to learn Eidetic Memory.
Magitech class 2. TA bonus please.
Spend time solving the rest of the magitech manuals if that's not part of Magitech class. Otherwise:
Learn more Guile with Riichi.
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No. 1004083 ID: dfbac0

Meditation Classes
Meditate on Eidetic Memory
Meditate on Eidetic Memory
Meditate on Eidetic Memory

If we're going to build a mind palace we should make an amazing one. I know it may SEEM overkill, but think about it. Eidetic Memory is a cheat skill, if we focus on it this early in life not only would it be extremely helpful but with focusing so much on it early on maybe it will be even easier to learn in the next life. I kinda wanna make it so Photographic memory is our thing, that way we can have a whole collection of past lives and experiences which will hopefully lessen our chance of messing up and ending up with no progress since our last life. We can store all of Saba's life in our mind palace too.
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No. 1004084 ID: b3e977

Take a break from classes, we already had 3 worth of classtime. Lets lower our stress.

Meditate Eidetic Memory

Work in a group with Drift and Ignis on the Scripting Manuals. Try to get blue done

Work on the scripting manuals on your own (mainly blue unless we get that done with the others, in which case, work on BLACK since we got White done for a good balance)

Dinner with William (though we will need to find a job after this to earn some cash, unless we can sell our artwork. We'll be down to 100 shines if we go for a high quality meal unless we do a normal meal)
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No. 1004085 ID: 0fae41

I’d be more concerned about someone we care about being hounded by assassins. Spend some time with them and see what you can do to help - like taking more classes in self defense next year, learn what she knows about these black lotus people, and just… get to know them again. Bonds can’t be forced, but maybe it should bother you it doesn’t bother you more? Saba and co didn’t reincarnate together so they could just be friends, did they?
Spend time searching for a job early and you can get one with a good balance of time and money.
Oh, and lastly, keep working on teaching runescripting. If the ancients could use it as a language, surely it can be taught. Or perhaps, even translated… Maybe you can make a compiler for this Runescript so even people who don’t understand the runes directly can still access more easily comprehensible functions of them.
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No. 1004116 ID: afe7de
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1004116

> Group up and work on the SCRIPTING MANUALS with DRIFT and IGNIS
You were thinking of working on the BLUE MANUAL solo, but get the idea that it would be good to practice trying to teach others. You didn’t get the chance on the last day of classes, and you feel you would be remiss to not try anything. You manage to convince IGNIS and DRIFT with relative ease to work with you. They’re stuck on the final stage, and even WILLIAM is interested since he’s taking the class this semester. It takes a little more than half the semester of you trading tips with everyone before you even remotely see any progress in getting the others to learn. In that time you finish the BLUE MANUAL. Another vision is presented to you, this time of an ocean, light is barely visible, but you see a fish, it’s SWIFT, FLUID, and ADAPTABLE. But that’s not what hits you. What hits you is the COLD. The CHILL, the natural inclination of life to be this FREEZING. And just like that, the moment passes.

Your RUNESCRIPTING skill has increased to rank 2
You can now inscribe two runes onto a strong enough surface
You’ve learned the rune for COLD
- Cold can be used to reduce the temperature
- You’ll need to experiment to find out more
- You get the feeling you’ll need to learn 2 more runes to increase your RUNESCRIPTING skill again.


With your skill at rank 2, your mind starts to process things a bit better. A lot of new ideas start flowing into you and you think of a way to communicate these ideas to your companions. William’s caught up to the other two and is on the last page. You try to TEACH the group this time, with more of a directed vision and understanding. And through some miracle and a little bit of LUCK, you’re able to actually do it. It’s sloppy and it takes the rest of the semester, but you manage to get the other three to learn their runes.

Ignis learns the rune for HEAT. It’s FIERY and TEMPERAMENTAL. He saw a miniature sun expanding.

Drift learns the rune for LIGHT. It’s blinding, overwhelming, and uncomfortable. He says it PIERCES through him, but he also senses PURITY from it. But upon request for an explanation he’s not sure what kind of PURITY it means. He saw a white room, it’s brightness intensifying rapidly, not a speck of dust to be seen.

William also had a blue book, but he learned the rune for REFLECTION. It’s CALM like a pool of water, but FIERCE when touched. He saw himself fall into a lake, only to be forcefully launched from the surface at ridiculous speeds.

You look over his manual and do note that it’s different from yours. You swap the two. Everyone is immensely grateful for your assistance in learning this and they want to take the second class with you when you’re prepared. You still need to learn at least one more RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL before you can take the second class. You get the feeling if you spend TIME on this, you’ll be able to solve 2 more and be ready.

Ignis takes you all out to dinner at the end for an EXQUISITE MEAL as thanks. You have a generally good time with everyone. But for some reason your [INTUITION] makes you feel like you’re being watched from somewhere.

Your TEACHING skill does not improve, but you feel like it could with some more effort
You’ve exchanged the COLD RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL for the REFLECTION RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL
You feel a GROUP BOND forming with your friends, you’ll call it the RUNESCRIPTERS BOND
- Friends in the GROUP will occasionally suggest ACTIVITES to perform
- You can suggest a GROUP PROJECT to work on
- Results will vary based off the competency of the group members
- This group includes IGNIS, WILLIAM, and DRIFT

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No. 1004117 ID: afe7de
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> MEAL EVENT - WILLIAM HQ DINNER
You tried to get MARTH to join, but he was busy with something and said he couldn’t join. William on the other hand joins you after your MAGITECH practice sessions one day. IGNIS really wanted to come, but had something to do that day, so he instead told you of a good restaurant he frequents. It seemed like DRIFT was going to join you but IGNIS dragged him away for some reason, reminding him of something he had to do. It was kind of funny.

[INTUITION] You know, WILLIAM said he was a womanizer, but that was actually kind of nice of him.
[CHARISMA] Ooooh, we get a Dinner date with the hunky prince!

They serve seafood from the DOPUS world-plate. It’s easy to crack open with your beaks, no tools required and it has a fishy taste that the two of you love. You take the time, not to talk about the past, but to talk about the present. Most of your conversations have been on SABA and WILLAMINA. You want to fix that. You find out he’s the most recent child to the throne. The second child to be born by the queen. The other 6 were from the King and his concubines. He assures you that this is very normal and the concubines usually get treated well, or are given training if they wish to get better jobs and social standings.

He also tells you that IGNIS is her first child, 2nd to the throne. Hook’s from his father’s bloodline and a Concubine. Some kin think its disrespectful he didn’t have the first child with the Queen, but he says that mother never really cared. He laments that he only ever sees her once a year, but understands that royalty has work they need to do. She at least paid for excellent tutors and educators in his youth, hence his near ELITE status. Though she only pays for the maids, guards, and villa he lives on when he’s not attending classes, the rest is on him to earn and do well.

> Mention KARMA and the COIN
You’ve glazed at the last memories again, it’s still vague, but after talking with the others you know about KARMA and how to gain it in a vague sense. Do things, inflict change, or kill things. Etc. But something’s scratching your brain. Your [INTUITION] gives you some bad feelings about TAKING IT EASY. William says it shouldn’t be too bad. You’re in a relatively safe world-plate. If something were to happen, it’d happen to CANUS first and your plate would get a warning ahead of time. You also mention the coin you found on the floating island, showing it to him. He doesn’t have anything to say about it though, just that you’re lucky to have found one.

He also apologizes about the mention of IGNIS in his letter. He was just… worried about IGNIS’s behavior in the past. He knows IGNIS also has past memories, but mentions it isn’t his place to share, and that if you want, you could ask him about it. He loves to talk about it. You share details of your past to WILLIAM, there’s some laughs, some gasps, and some chuckles, and before you know it the dinner’s over and you head off to do your own things.

You feel closer to WILLIAM
You feel your previous BOND was SUPERFICIAL, but it’s becoming more STABLE
You spend 32 SHINES on the dinner
You lose 1 STRESS from the nice meal

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No. 1004118 ID: afe7de
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> Saba’s Memories
Saba’s in his 40s now. He’s had many life or death encounters. Fought off Angel assassins, monsters, kin, humans, and the like. Marth and Willamina died two years prior. It was really emotional and STRESSFUL. He’s lost his way. He’s with his family now, mourning, a husk of a man. It’s more depressing then when he was a kid and it’s hurting you a lot. You wake up each morning crying because of the intense sadness he’s feeling. And then one day it stops. He’s AWAKENED, as his world calls it to a POWER called CATACLYSMIC CONVERGENCE.

It lets him siphon the soul out of things and either consume it or feed it to another’s soul. Then came the experiments. He had life again. Something to focus on, something to DO. He’s got this idea, to make a dungeon and to mess around with the souls of the created creatures. You’re glad he at least had something to do now. The STRESS was seriously effecting you.

The SABA’S KNOWLEDGE stat has increased
Your LOGIC stat tried to increase but hit a wall frustratingly
You gain 2 STRESS from the SAD MEMORIES

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No. 1004119 ID: afe7de
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> Meditation Class with some friends
> Extra meditation using a TIME POINT
You go to your friends and try to see who is interested in taking a MEDITATION class with you. You’re only experienced with solo practice, so you’re sure this will be a good experience. You only manage to convince PON, DRIFT, NOODLE, and IGNIS to join you though. WILLIAM and MARTH are busy with other classes and training. You notice PAWN in the corner too, but he’s keeping his distance from you.

You already know the basics, but it reaffirms your foundations in MEDITATION as you take the course. They get you to meditate on a variety of subjects for half the course, leaving you to your own devices for the rest. It gives you a few ideas that you think you’ll want to cover in the future.

For the most apart you spend most of your time meditating on the EIDETIC MEMORY SKILL. You’re attempting to construct something called a MIND PALACE. Essentially it’s a place in your mind where you can look at objects and information and recall things with a lot more ease than before. You realize it’s not exactly like a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. And find that if you push your EIDETIC MEMORY in the future, it might reach that point. But that’s something SABA didn’t reach, so you’re hopeful his foundation would be useful.

One day, when you’re meditating on this, you notice a STRONG RIPPLE go through your CONSCIOUSNESS. You follow the ripple in your mind. It’s an inky blackness, like you’re floating through it without a body. But there’s a spot in your wandering that you notice. It’s like there’s a fog here. It’s dense and you get lost floating through it. You float out of it, not having discovered anything for now. So you decide to start setting up your MIND PALACE near it, just so whenever you’re remembering something, you can take a look and observe it. You’re not sure what form your MIND PALACE will take, but you start laying the foundations for it. Right now it’s abstract, various shapes and fragments. Some fragments look like household objects, some like pillows, others like hairbands.

After all your meditation both in class and out, you feel like you’re about 3/4 of the way done. The next time you meditate you could easily finish, you might even have time to start meditating on something else too. But you’ll have to think about what form the mind palace will take. You feel like it will end up as a small room’s worth of space. The idea of Saba’s old laboratory comes to mind. Filled with books, machinery, etc. The idea of something cozy, your childhood bedroom, or your dorm room also comes to mind. But then another ripple goes out. This time you see it, it’s like a water droplet refracting water in this inky black space. It distorts the space around you and you get an idea. What if it was BIGGER. You get the feeling you could make your mind palace bigger, sure. But you’re not sure how long it will take, or what the results will even be.

The next time you MEDITATE on EIDETIC MEMORY you have a CHOICE
You can either finish your MIND PALACE, as is and gain the EIDETIC MEMORY skill
- You’ll need to pick an appearance for it
OR you can do something else, like expand it, change it, explore the mist, etc
You’re not sure what the results will be like, Saba’s never experienced THIS
But your INTUITION tells you that EXPANDING your MIND PALACE will be hard once it’s solidified
You’ve discovered a FINE MIST in your CONCIOUSNESS
Your MEDITATION skill has increased!
- Meditation is a little more effective
From the large amount of meditation your STRESS has been reduced to 0
NOODLE and PON both look less stressed
DRIFT looks like he has something on his mind
IGNIS’S focused and eye-closed expression looks COOL somehow? CHARMING?

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No. 1004120 ID: afe7de
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1004120

[YEAR 11]
And like that, it’s a brand new year. You get your yearly stipend from the ACADEMY, boosting your SHINY COUNT to 223. You’re realizing the importance of STRESS REGULATION, and can feel the weight of the SHINIES in your pocket.

[GUILE] You should spend money sometimes on yourself, like what you did during the break!
[LOGIC] It does reduce stress
[???] Or. Just hear me out. You could not, and hoard it like a dragon.


You focused PRETTY HARD on classes last year, and you feel you missed out on events and hanging out with lots of new people. Like there was this sheep called CHIPPER you saw wandering around a bunch, what’s the deal with that guy? You think now’s a good time to set up your LIFESTYLE EXPENSES.

Pick a lifestyle, you’ll have a yearly deduction of SHINIES, depending on the lifestyle you’ll randomly acquire things, meet new people, generate events, form BONDS, and reduce STRESS to varying degrees throughout the year.

MISERLY - 0/yr - You spend absolutely the bare minimum and when you can, get others to pay
POOR - 40/yr - You spend money maybe once every few months
MODEST - 100/yr - You go out to dinner and hang with friends infrequently
COMFORTABLE - 160/yr - You frequently go out and meet other kin and hang with friends
WEALTHY - 220/yr You like to spend money on your friends and doing fun things
ARISTOCRATIC - 300/yr You live the big life, you socialize with important kin


AUTHORS NOTE: These are the prices for those types of lifestyles as a kid, prices as an ADULT will be different, and they’re approximations, sometimes you’ll spend a little less or a little more. And if there’s anything you want to add to your room just via lifestyle expenses, feel free to just suggest it and I’ll draw Chi’s room at some point with it in there if it makes the cut.

You’re also informed that the TRADES FAIR will be starting soon. It’s a chance to meet trainers in specific fields to apprentice yourself to, or to compete in a specific trade for PRIZES and the chance to gain entry to the ROYAL LIBRARY to pick from their SPECIAL BOOKS. At this point in time the only SKILLS you feel proficient in enough to compete with are RUNECRAFTING and REALISTIC DRAWING. But you could also try your hand at any number of them. You think through clever micromanaging over a small period of time you can squeeze [1 TIME POINT] out before the fair without causing stress, for you to prepare.

AUTHORS NOTE: making it so that you have 1/2/2/3 time points in the year instead. You can’t take a CLASS for this TIME POINT or the timeline will get messed up, so its up to you!

And LASTLY, your meditation enlightened you a bit. You think that you can set GOALS and SUBGOALS for yourself now. Setting relatively easy goals, or a goal you know you can complete in [1 TIME POINT] will have less rewards and emotional fulfillment, but setting unreasonable goals might not ever be achievable, so you’ll have to consider your options and find a balance. You can also change your GOALS and SUBGOALS at any time with no penalty, you just won’t get the reward if it’s finished later.

What type of lifestyle do you chose?
Do you set any GOALS or SUBGOALS?
- You can set one GOAL and up to three SUBGOALS
- Something good might happen if you can finish a hard goal or many easy goals
And what do you do to prepare for the TRADES FAIR?


1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1003877 for the current roster.

2. Go SHOPPING - (Does not cost a TIME POINT, just let me know what you want to buy, I’ll let you know the price and give you a chance to confirm)
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLACK and REFLECTION are available to work on
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND PALACE / EIDETIC MEMORY = 75% complete
[STUDY] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING**] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY) [CURRENT BALANCE - 223 SHINIES]
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome)

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No. 1004133 ID: e51896

(deleted my previous post, changed my mind on something, mainly lifestyle) (Also, was that IRAPHENA'S SOUL????? >>1004118 ) (also also, I get the feeling Ignis is trying to ship us with William, cute)

Goal: Finish all the teaching classes (will be needed if we want to teach Magitech to our kingdom)
Subgoal: Finish mana based classes (not just magitech class, but also Mana theory class, I feel that learning mana theory is important for Runecrafting)

Poor Lifestyle. I think we've been living like that during our first year, and it's worked well for us. Save the SHINIES. Plus, 100 is still a lot, unless we get a job. Once we get a job, we'll change it to Modest lifestyle. For now, save money on teachers assistants.

To prepare for the trades show, lets work on the BLACK SCRIPTING MANUAL. It will raise our RUNECRAFTING skills and get another script done, preparing us for the next Magitech class, and prepare us for the runecrafting competition at the trades fair!
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No. 1004137 ID: e51896

>>1004133

Oh, I just realized we'd be able to complete two scripting manuals if we spend a time point as it was listed here: >>1004116 and also we're allowed 3 subgoals, not just one


So along with my choice with BLACK, lets work on the GREEN Scripting manual as well since thats the only other color everyone else didn't complete yet.

and for goals and subgoals

Still completing all the teaching classes for our main goal

First subgoal: complete all mana based classes (MANA THEORY class, MAGITECH class)
second subgoal: complete all the current scripting manuals we were given to by our teacher (RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLACK)
third subgoal: expand and finish expanding our eidetic memory

One last thing, when in the future we work on eidetic memory, lets expand it. That way, we can have a room for Saba's memories, and a room for our memories. Perhaps our memories' room could be for Runescripts to help us remember the designs better and cast those spells easier and more effectively.
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No. 1004138 ID: ce39da

MODEST LIFESTYLE - It's dorm living; our essentials are covered to the point that even spending this much is fine. It's still a net gain each year, and getting any job at any point in these four years will be enough to afford grad school.

GOAL: Get good enough at defending ourselves to EARN MARTH'S TRUST in regards to the stuff she's dealing with.
- SUB-GOAL: COMPLETE ALL CLASSES IN A COMBAT COURSE. We've already started on the HUNTER course since it works doubly fine for if we want to return to our dungeon-crawling ways - we should continue it.

FREE TIME: Increase your RUNECRAFTING another rank by COMPLETING THE BLACK AND GREEN MANUALS. This is a good short-term boost for our job-fair prospects. Maybe we could eventually be a TA for the class when the new students come in? It's not urgent if we're not quite qualified yet, though - see above point about jobs.

Oh, speaking of manuals, does PON still have the one he got lying around somewhere? I wonder if it's a duplicate, or if it's different like your and WILLIAM's blue manuals?
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No. 1004139 ID: 031458

Let's start with a straightforward goal.

Goal: Make a solid connection with someone in the RUNECRAFTING trade at the TRADE FAIR
------Subgoals:
---Learn 2 more Runes before the TRADE FAIR.
---Win a PRIZE at the TRADE FAIR
---Land a Job or Conditional promise of future employment at the TRADE FAIR.

Let's work on our RUNESCRIPTING BOOKS, this time focusing on BLACK, and another, perhaps RED or REFLECTION.
Do this with the RUNESCRIPTERS if they are available.

A MODEST lifestyle is currently what is sustainable for us right now.
SAVING MORE only makes sense if our education was less intense or more general, but if we continue our current course we will have options to make PLENTY OF MONEY.

Finally let's find and Take MARTH out to a HIGH QUALITY meal. We've gotten to know current William a bit better, now it's Marth's Turn. Who is he now? Besides mysterious, of course.
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No. 1004140 ID: 8d4bb7

>>1004139
Support on those goals, except lets do black and green as the other suggestors mentioned

Lets show Marth our coin for her opinion when we have dinner with her. Otherwise, talk about how her classes are doing. Dont bring up her mysterious past until we gain more trust with her.
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No. 1004141 ID: afa6f6

>>1004137
How about we combine the Rune/Mana Goal and the teaching Goal? We could have the bigger goal be to progress our skill to the point we can write our own manual, either a general primer for learning runecrafing teaching, or maybe a rune we come up with/discover ourselves.
Another Sub goal: Master a martial art. We want to be able to compete with Draco by the time we leave the academy at least.

As for the Mind Palace, I want to try making it a house with multiple rooms, an upper and lower floor if it seems like we can.
>>1004120
Choose a MODEST LIFESTYLE,
And finish reading the GREEN and BLACK Manuals
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No. 1004143 ID: 031458

>>1004140
I'm willing to lend support to Black and Green.
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No. 1004145 ID: 031458

>>1004141
I think mastering a martial art is a good idea, but it's not exactly a sub-goal, but rather a whole goal in itself.
Though I imagine the whole goal thing is somewhat arbitrary, I imagine subgoals as secondary parts to a primary one.
Put another way, I see sub-goals as either smaller steps on the way to obtaining a larger goal OR as related or adjacent things that would be NICE to achieve, but ultimately aren't necessary to complete our primary objective.


Your desire to focus on martial arts and teaching gives me an idea though. We would need to make some money to afford the 2 extra years but...

If we master HUNTER, A MARTIAL ART, and RUNESCRIPTING/MAGITECH, along with PLATOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY, and ANTROPOLOGY we could go on and research expeditions and basically be LAURA CROFT. Add in TEACHING and LEADERSHIP and we could probably organize and lead those same expeditions.

Saba had the FREEDOM to travel the world and do what he did because he INVENTED something that made him a FORTUNE.
Here we have the opportunity to gain a similar degree of freedom through INSTITUTIONAL BACKING. We need only ACQUIRE THE REQUISITE SKILLS.
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No. 1004146 ID: 38aa7e

Comfortable, and gamble at the hall. If you can walk out of there with more money than you had coming in, you’ll have more to spend on yourself and the fair!
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No. 1004156 ID: dfbac0

MODEST OR COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE: We want to be able to have an alright time here, and I feel anything less than modest could lead to a build-up of stress.
GOAL: Make something NEW and CREATIVE for the trade fair.
Personally I think we should focus less on the fickle ability to win and more on making something BREATHTAKING, that even if we don't win can show our skill and creativity. Along those line...
-Learn BLACK and REFLECTION rune books.
-Find a way to incorporate RUNE-CRAFTING into DRAWING; A painting that changes to a painting of the person in front of it using REFLECTION, clever use of COLD to make a drawing out of frozen ink, etc.

Once we complete our goals it's time for EXTREME MEDITATION: Do nothing but MEDITATE on EIDETIC MEMORY making a BIG mind palace, one that has a foothold built into the fog. It seems we don't have any way to explore the fog currently but what if we built into it? This will take a lot of meditation and will be a big project but imagine: Whilst exploring the ruins on other plates by day, we can explore our mind by night.
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No. 1004158 ID: 96c896

>>1004120
>1 time point to prepare
Learn more rune books! Let's try learning Yellow and Black.

Take Marth out to lunch. Normal quality. Ask her if there's anything you can do to help her with the assassins or... whatever else she's having problems with. Maybe you could become sparring partners?

>Mind Palace?
BIGGER

>lifestyle?
MODEST. Though even that's stretching it, we need to get some income dammit!

>goal for the year?
Learn all your runes and take Runecrafting 2.
Subgoal 1: get a better bond with Marth.
Subgoal 2: get better at self-defense/hunting.
Subgoal 3: Take an apprenticeship to start earning money to afford regular TA assistance. Or take the janitor job for the year. Or just find a decent job without an apprenticeship.
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No. 1004159 ID: afa6f6

>>1004156
>GOAL: Make something NEW and CREATIVE for the trade fair.

We could probably make something runic with the bits from the monster we got, if we wanted to go that way.
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No. 1004167 ID: d05360

Idea: Cat had a cat note, saba had a saba journal, lets use our money to buy a Chi Diary to write our notes about magitech. Might come in handy if we wanna write a book to teach others.

Main goal:
complete all teaching and magitech classes including mana theory (so we can teach future generations this new technology to our worldplate magitech, and bring about a huge change in Wingkin future, karma is given if we make a large enough change in our world after all.)

Subgoals:
-learn enough self defense to fight against potential enemies (in case we want to go ruin exploration) finishing hunting course and taking a dojo class (or taking one more athletic class) may help.
-Finish our mind palace after making it bigger
-find a way to earn the shinies that doesnt involve waiting a year.

Dinner with Marth. Show off the scripting manuals your currently working on.

Time point: Spend time working on the scripting manuals. Use your study skill if you have to. Not picky of which color.
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No. 1004236 ID: afe7de
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> Set GOALS
AUTHORS NOTE: The goals and sub-goals will award the same amount based off of how hard they are to accomplish. The one in your GOAL slot will just affect duologue, what you’re actively trying to do, and make events happen related to it. You can suggest a goal/subgoal to be replaced at any time, if that suggestion happens 3 times between an update I’ll swap them. Once a goal is completed, feel free to suggest something to replace it at any time after. If it doesn't get replaced by the new year, I’ll prompt you to fill it.

GOAL - Learn to TEACH MAGITECH
You think it would be worthwhile to improve your TEACHING SKILL and your MAGITECH skills to the point where you can become a TA or even get hired as a teacher

SUBGOAL - Reach BASIC MASTERY of a MARTIAL ART or WEAPON (Rank 7)
You want to be able to defend yourself sufficiently, HUNTER, MARTIAL ARTS, and going to a DOJO could help

SUBGOAL - Meet someone at the fair that can help you GET A JOB or an APPRENTICESHIP
You think this might be a good way to make SHINIES

SUBGOAL - Win a prize at the fair
You want to win something and have some fun!

> Set LIFESTYLE to MODEST
AUTHORS NOTE: You can change your LIFESTYLE at the beginning of every year. You’ll spend around 100 SHINIES a year at MODEST level

Part of your new lifestyle choices starts with you buying a few journals. You’re going to start your very own CHI DIARY. One for just general writing of stuff you think up, and another for your musings on MAGITECH. You think that maybe one day you can make it into something special, perhaps a prototype for a way to teach other kin how to make runes and learn rune script?

> FREE TIME - Learn the BLACK and GREEN rune scripting manuals
You want to make a BIG impression at the fair, so you spend your early free time working on the new runes. One thing you learn is that the first 4 pages of each manual has the syntax for the COLOR of rune. You guess it could also refer to the ELEMENT, but don’t have a large enough sample size yet to make a final conclusion. Essentially each COLOR has a slightly different language and structure. Your progress is going quickly since you’ve already learned the WHITE and BLUE ones. And by the time the fair has come around you’ve narrowly finished them both.

The BLACK book shows you a vision of a planet in the distance, slowly being encompassed by an inky black mist, eventually, everything is consumed, and you feel the VOID, the LACK OF ANYTHING. But it’s not terrifying, you get the sense it’s natural.

The GREEN book shows you a vision of a mountain. It’s STURDY, DEPENDABLE, and SLOW. You get a comfortable feeling, but then also notice that there’s a deep valley cut in the mountain. Almost as if a large sword has- And the vision is cut short, like the others. It’s a shame that rereading the manuals doesn't produce this effect. You wonder if there’s a way to see them again and gain new INSIGHTS.

[LOGIC] Maybe it’s how best you can see the rune? Like to give the most comprehension?
[CREATIVITY] It’s pretty cool if you ask me

Your RUNESCRIPTING skill has increased to rank 3
You can now inscribe up to three runes onto a strong enough surface
You’ve learned the rune for NULL
- Null has strange properties you’re not sure you understand yet
- You’ll need to experiment a lot to find out more
You’ve learned the rune for HARDEN
- Harden can be used to increase TOUGHNESS

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> EVENT - TRADES FAIR
The day of the trades fair is here, it’s held out in a large field. There’s banners and booths and a variety of things set up. You can occasionally see Wing-Kin flying about, some performing cool acrobatic performances with banners representing different trades trailing behind them. There’s food and various games related to the fields you’re studying in. After getting a snack and traveling the fair you decide to take stock with your roommates and see if there’s anything interesting they might have spotted that you missed.

The things that pop out to you the most are as follows:

Shimon’s displaying a device, some kind of crank powered light machine. It reminds you of a lamp, only you have to crank it to charge it and it lasts for about 2 hours after being fully charged. He’s not offering any sort of prizes, but is trying to get kin interested in his RUNESCRIPTING class.

The Hunters have a challenge where you’re tasked with staying on the back of a SNOUTED HOOF BEAST for at least a minute. They’re offering prizes for the kin who stay on the longest.

There are also the COMPETITION booth, ACADEMY professors are there and for 5 shinies will offer you some supplies related to your trade and ask you to make something out of it. The higher quality the object, the higher your score. Those that score the best will gain access to a single book from the ROYAL LIBRARY for a year. You can even work with another kin, however the pair will have to decide who gets the access. They say they’re extra interested in anyone who has been successful in rune-crafting to compete, but know that the total students that have successfully passed the first class is only 5 at this moment.

[GUILE] Maybe they want to uhhh show off?
[LOGIC] I think you mean they want those students to show off what they learned so the class gets more students
[GUILE] Yeah, that. Sorry, I’m being NEGLECTED, so I’m not as knowledgeable as I could be
[STRATEGY] I feel that
[CREATIVITY] Maybe you should… get creative with your approaches ;)
[???] Or be like me, mysterious and unknowable oooooooo

You also find out that there’s lots of small apprenticeships being offered. There’s not many kin in the FARMHAND program, and they’re offering the same pay as the JANITOR’s job for the class’s length of the job. Then offering to pay you a better wage if you’re selected to be brought on part or full time.

You’re sure you could take a look around and try to find a specific job you’re interested in and learn the qualifications, but unfortunately there’s no job openings for MAGITECH stuff. Though you could try talking to the staff or Shimon to see about maybe TAing since you feel pretty qualified.

You think you see Ignis loitering around various places, you could spy on him and see what he’s up to or just go and say hi. There’s also that sheep, you think his name is Chipper? He’s over by the Artisans booth.

What do you do?

No time points needed here, feel free to explore, do stuff, interact with people. Or suggest booths and stuff you wanna see. I’ll pick the top suggested things and have em happen. Once we’ve had a certain number of events pass, or you willingly finish with the fair, we’ll move on to the next sequence.
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No. 1004239 ID: 094652

Spy on Ignis, see how he draws in crowds and take notes. [Charisma increase]
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No. 1004246 ID: e51896

(edited some things to my post)

>You wonder if there’s a way to see them again and gain new INSIGHTS.

EIDETIC MEMORY can do this, my friend!

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Talk to Shimon about your wishes to be a runescripting teacher and about TAing magitech. Ask Shimon about how that lamp works in regards to runescripting to pick up on some last minute runescripting knowledge before the competition, even if it is just a tiny bit. Let Shimon know your progress so far on the scriptmanuals and ask for tips on winning the competition, and who the 5th classmate that passed is. Also, tell him you finished the black scripting manual, but it's kind of has strange properties you don't understand, and you wanted to ask Shimon about it first since you don't want to test it without damaging anything by accident when you first try it.

What if one of the books from the ROYAL LIBRARY is a super rare SCRIPTING MANUAL? we gotta win that runescripting competition. If we don't win that one, we'll do REALISTIC DRAWING competition next. Maybe William can be our partner? Drift and Ignis might team up... bring Noodle and Pon to cheer you on for moral boost!

Convince Pon and Noodle to try out the SNOUTED HOOF BEAST, you think Pon is powerful enough to do it, maybe even last longer than a minute, maybe even longer than Glide if he's here. Cheer Pon and Noodle on if they do it. As for you doing it... nah, gotta conserve our strength for the runescripting competition.

Show Chipper your realistic artwork skills.
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No. 1004247 ID: afa6f6

>>1004237
Lets take a look around and see if theres any Trademen in need of an artist. They dont have cameras right? That means, likely all pictures have to be made by hand, which is perfect for someone good at REALISTIC DRAWING like us. Maybe we can get a job doing portraits or mapping areas.
Also, I bet someones selling SWEET TREATS around here. Get us some funnel cakes.
WE could check if the local Dojos are doing any events or demonstrations so we could get a better idea what we might want to try next year.
We should see if Riichi is around, any good festival has some (likely rigged) games of chance!
>>1004246
I pretty much second all of this.

For the competition, an engineer could probably come up with some more impressive items, but I have a few ideas what we could make.
The one I think would probably go over best is, We make a MINI FRIDGE. We just need a solid closeable box, and use our COLD rune, maybe ABSORBTION to power it, and make it so it could keep food and drinks cold and fresh. It'd probably go over well with the food and merchant people, anyone who has to transport perishables.
Second idea, we could just make a WING SHIELD with the HARDEN rune. We could make it out f thinner, lighter material and still have it be useful with runes, possibly power it up with ABSORBTION as well to let it tank hits better by absorbing impact and shock. Warriors will probably like it.
Last idea is the weakest but, If we team up with Ignis for the HEAT rune, we could make a SOLDERING IRON. It might open up higher end manufacturing and engineering in the future of the world plate if it gets picked up, but I think anyone who doesnt already know the use for it probably wont be impressed...
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No. 1004248 ID: 18ca2c

[Saba's Knowledge] - Realize that COLD also represents a lack of motion and energy, and that it can also be associated with stillness.

Thus the COLD rune SYNERGIZES with VOID, and perhaps to a lesser extent, HARDEN.

Ask Shimon if he could show us how to link runes "Right Quick". If he can and we get it, Let's Enscribe a weapon with a linked Absorb, cold, and void, the idea being to create something that will indiscriminately sap the energy of it's target.

If you can't figure it out or Shimon balks at the question, there are other things we could try.
Harden Harden Cold on a Javelin or Arrow could make a projectile that slowed it's prey.

Cold Cold Harden on a pair of moccasins or... What to humans call them? Boots? Could perhaps make forward that allows one to walk on water by freezing it beneath you.

Harden Harden Absorb on the Rabbit Core could be used to make a crude defensive amulet.

Void Absorb on a small flat stone could be used to make universal eraser.

Void Void Void...
REALITY IS THIN. EXISTENCE IS NEARLY AN ILLUSION. ATOMS ARE ABSURDLY TINY. BETWEEN EACH OF THEM IS LIES A NEARLY INFINITESIMAL AMOUNT OF SPACE. YOU AND EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ARE BUT THE THINNEST MIST LINING REALITY, UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO SPREAD INTO THE DOZENS OF UN-DIRECTIONS THAT LAY EMPTY, JUST BEYOND YOUR REACH.
THE SPACIAL POCKET YOU HAVE ACCESS TO DOES NOT FOLLOW YOU AROUND, IT IS STATIONARY. YOU HAVE MERELY NEVER MOVED AWAY FROM IT. THERE IS SO MUCH EMPTY SPACE EVERYWHERE

You know on second thought let's make an interspacial ring.
That'll win is a prize.
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No. 1004250 ID: a5b23d

Lets do the runescripting competition without help from anyone, lets get really competitive, that way, we can have the library all to ourself and maybe raise our PRIDE stat since that is locked from us to change manually. But lets get some of our friends to cheer us on, like Pon, Noodle, and Ignis (i do not think runescripting is his main focus so i dont think he is joining the competition)
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No. 1004263 ID: 96c896

We have COLD, HARDEN, ABSORB, NULL. ABSORB and HARDEN are both runes that could be used for defensive purposes. NULL might work for defensive purposes as well since I think it's an energy dump.
I dunno if we can actually make anything on a first attempt... might have to try the challenge several times.
I wonder if you could work with Marth? She knew a bunch of runes before you did. Maybe she knows how to actually make things with runes?

Investigate the possibility of becoming a TA for magitech. Though, it still wouldn't be a bad idea to go for metallurgy. Just not sure how likely we can get a job from that.

Go say hi to Ignis.
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No. 1004282 ID: 0fae41

Absorption, Cold, Harden, and Void... What all can you make with that? A black hole? A refrigerator? Think on that a bit while you play some games at the fair.
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No. 1004294 ID: 0418a2

 like the interspacial ring idea. We could try that, we got the idea of interspacial rings existinf from Saba... however, is it possible? we might need more information on our runes to make sure that is even possible with the null skill. We dont know much about null after all...

We were told we can incresase our skill by learning about runes here >>1003961 so before the competition, ask Shion a little bit about our absorption and Null abilities to get a clearer picture of how they work, even if it is just a little bit.

Once we can determine it is possible, make the interspacial ring. Or maybe something else based off of what Shion said about the two abilities if it isnt possible.

Otherwise, if it proves too difficult or we dont have the runes to do that at this point, then yeah lets go with powering up a weapon, Wingkin might like that. maybe use cold, cold, and absorbtion, or harden, harden, absorbtion on Pon's javelin so Pon can get a powered up weapon at the competition or noodle's spear. It also gives one of them an ice weapon or more powerful weapon to use in hunting classes. (That is, if they let us use outside supplies)

Or a mini portable fridge seems safe, probably use a water cooler to cast cold, cold, absorbtion advertise to hunters and cooks that you can keep meat they hunted frozen or cool so it doesnt go bad... without ice!
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No. 1004296 ID: dfbac0

Man, maybe we should meditate on INVENTION soon to help us out with making MAGITECH.
I've seen some cool ideas which makes me realize... we can make an IMMOVABLE ROD using HARDEN and COLD, possibly VOID. Immovable Rods are so useful, get two and you could make an infinite ladder, they can be used in construction, it can be an amazing improvised weapon, just stick it in a monster's throat and turn it on to watch them rip themselves apart if they move, tons of uses.
Also, and interspacial ring using VOID and ABSORPTION would be cool but something tells me we might need more for that, not sure.
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No. 1004300 ID: afa6f6

I was just thinking, due to our World Plate's lack of resources, theres probably a lack of metal, and metal made armor, weapons, tools, etc.

So maybe if we make something that shows that with Harden, and thus runecrafting in general, you can make things as tough or tougher then metal, it'd probably be really popular.
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No. 1004303 ID: c58093

Edmango said on discord that making a interspacial ring wont work.

I support the mana powered cooler as >>1004247 and >>1004294 mentioned.


one like a fridge or freezer. Powering a weapon is cool and all, but would only appeal to those interested in self defense and hunting.

Everyone likes food though, so a mana powered fridge cooler might work best and appeal to everyone. Lets use COLD COLD to make it be able to cool stuff, and ABSORBTION to absorb in energy around its environment and keep it powered.

Announce that it can cool food like meat without electricity or ice, which is useful for hunters to not let meat rot and are camping with no electricity for days! Or parties on hot days so the ice in coolers dont melt.
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No. 1004306 ID: 094652

>>1004300
This, but work on compliant mechanisms as well. Remember, with a lack of hardened materials comes a lack of stress-resistant hinges, servos, joints, and anything that pretty much bends. But what you do have is easily-produced ductile-flexible materials.
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> Check on Ignis
You decide to take a brief look at what IGNIS is doing. He’s bouncing around different booths, talking to lots of different kin. He seems to know most of them in some capacity. You notice him arrive at the Courier’s stall. He talks with them for a moment before getting excited. You think they offered him a job, not the apprenticeship.

[LOGIC] I think he’s trying to get to know as many kin as he can
[LEADERSHIP] It’d be good to know your future citizens if you were to become KING
[ATHLETICISM] It also implies that he’s got decent stamina
[INTUITION] Doubt he’ll stick to that job for too long though


> Look for an ART job
You head over to the ARTISAN’S booth. To your right you notice Chipper, he’s working on some sort of wooden object. You think it’s a chair. He looks to be in the zone, so you talk to the booth’s representative, asking if there are any jobs for someone CREATIVE that can DRAW REALISTICALLY. They ask for a sample of your work, so you take out the sketchbook you tend to keep with you. They flip through it and remark that you have pretty decent art skills for someone of age 14.

[PRIDE] 11!

11! You correct them. They seem more impressed. They mention they could use a new ENGRAVER or PORTRAIT ARTIST. They mention you’d need to apprentice for a small period so they could test your time management skills and train you on interacting with clients. But have high hopes for someone at your skill level so young.

The ARTISAN apprenticeship will be added to your class list
- You’ll have to chose between ENGRAVER and PORTRAIT ARTIST when you start the job


> Get some SWEETS
You head over to the food stalls with your friends. There’s this food called a FUNNEL CAKE. It’s fried bread coated in POWDERED SUGAR. You pay 1 SHINY to have some. It’s delicious! You ask how they make it and they explain the process. You’re not sure you get the frying process. Saba was never good at cooking anything complicated. They offer an apprenticeship at the bakery they run, mentioning it’s a lucrative business, selling sugary goods.

The PASTRY CHEF apprenticeship will be added to your class list
[INTUITION] I get the feeling this will be a pretty… SWEET job.

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> Talk to SHIMON
You head over to his booth. He’s excited as he sees you, calling you his “FAVORITE STUDENT,” you roll your eyes at this and ask him about the machine. He says it’s a combination of a few runes. There’s a STORAGE rune, a TRIGGER RUNE, a LIGHT RUNE, SPEED rune, and an ABSORPTION rune. The SPEED rune is attached to a very small object he calls a COIL at the end of this crank, so as to maximize it’s duration, when the crank is rotated, the ABSORPTION rune soaks in the energy generated from the high speed of the object being cranked. This is then put into the STORAGE rune. Once it’s stored enough energy you can then flip this switch, inside is a TRIGGER rune. And it sends the power from the STORAGE rune to the LIGHT rune that’s on this small glass rod. Causing it to light up. It’s a series of LINKED runes that’s fairly complex to make, but could have pretty great applications. He also mentions that an INTENSITY rune could be used to change the strength of the light, but that 5 linked runes on a DEVICE is his limit. He offhandedly mentions that this kind of thing is normal in HUMAN ARISTOCRACY because they can afford the materials. You ask if he can give you the STORAGE, SPEED, and TRIGGER runes now. He replies that you’ll have to attend the next class to get them, but not to worry, they’re easier to learn once you’ve gotten 3 runes down.

You ask how the SPEED rune doesn't run out of energy to function properly. He mentions that he made the COIL out of a special MINERAL called ARCANUM. It’s just chock full of MANA and won’t run out of energy for around 100 years with something as simple as a SPEED rune inscribed. Unfortunately, LIGHT runes require a ton more energy, hence the elaborate mechanism setup. You ask if he can show you how to link runes REAL QUICK. But he says it’s a complicated procedure and requires going through the TRIGGER manual. You ask who the other student that passed is, he tells you it’s a Wing-Kin named PAWN.

You thank him and ask about the properties of the NULL and ABSORPTION runes. He says they’re quite simple. The NULL rune is used to clear any surface that has had runes inscribed onto it. Mess up an overly complicated rune, it takes the energy from the inscription and reverts the material. It only works on incomplete runes though. Add three runes or link two together and it won’t work anymore. Some MAGITECH SCIENTISTS theorize it has other uses too. The ABSORPTION rune is also simple, Place it on a surface and it absorbs mana from the environment directly from the surface it’s drawn on. So if you put it on the inside of an object, like this DYNAMO here, it will absorb from in there, if you put it on the outside, it’ll absorb from the air. Write the rune with the syntax of a different COLOR and it absorbs energy from the related element. Earth for GREEN, water for BLUE, light/energy for YELLOW, fire for RED, etc. He mentions that once a surface runs out of energy the rune stops working until it naturally gets the energy again. Absorption runes circumvent that. And if you link an absorption rune to another rune, the conduit created makes it more efficient.
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You then ask if there are any opportunities to TA for his class. He says he is interested in getting one, but that you don’t know enough yet to be good enough at it, that you’ll need to finish his second course and then test you, as you’d only be able to TA for the second course. You take offense to that and mention that you’ve solved 4 Manuals and even helped 3 other classmates finish theirs. He scoffs at you saying that it’s not possible for someone at your level to do that. He’s not even at the level to teach others the basics and has to rely on the manuals. You mention your classmates should have told him that they succeeded with your help. He says they did, but he doesn't believe them, they could just be lying for your sake. He gives you a look, you know that look, it’s a look someone gives to someone they’re disappointed with, just like Saba’s father. You leave, frustrated, not wanting to argue further.

[INTUITION] He’s an old fogey whose stuck in his own ways, go check with the admins instead
[CURIOSITY] You should ask what you need to know in order to become a teacher
[COURAGE] Maybe you can learn enough to encompass him and steal the teacher role
[GUILE] I get a strange feeling about the way he said that…


Feeling petty you decide to go over to the administration tent to ask a few questions. You first ask what the qualifications to become a TA for the MAGITECH class would be. They reply that you should be able to help other students learn the basics of RUNESCRIPTING, but unfortunately the success rate is so low and the professor mentioned that it wasnt possible for someone even at his skill level to do the introduction, that it was up to the students themselves. So they had the policy that they might not hire one. You mention that you’re more than capable of doing it and already did it with 3 other students.

They look confused at you, mentioning the professor said that it wasnt possible. You argue that it is and implore them to ask the other students you helped. They mention it’s not necessary and instead propose a CHALLENGE to you. If you can make it so that 3 students successfully learn rune scripting during either of the semesters this year through TAing for them, whilst under supervision, they’ll offer you the TA position and pay you for your time. But if you fail, they won’t pay you and you get the feeling their impression of you would drop. Your TAing class will be for free to the students during this initial time, so all the students in the class will attempt to attend if they can afford the time.

You’ve unlocked a CHALLENGE: To teach the unteachable
- Teach 3 new students Runescripting during a single semester
REWARDS: Become a TA


You then double down asking what it would take to teach the class. The administrator laughs at you, then looks at your expression and realizes you weren’t kidding. He says that, sure, if you can teach the class better than he can, making it so there’s more than a 70% success rate in getting students to pass the first class due to your TA’ing, pass the second class, and have passed the third teaching course he’ll talk to the class administration department get you a CHANCE to teach the course in a separate class.

[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] Get it in writing.
[GUILE] Word of warning, careful you don’t grow in power too quick and careful of who you offend
[GUILE] Shimon might be bad at his job, but he’s older, has money,
[GUILE] and could make things hard for you in the HUMAN KINGDOM if you ever go there
[GUILE] also please train in me! I’m useful, see!
[STRATEGY] And me.
[CURIOSITY] And me.
[LEADERSHIP] And me.
[LOGIC] She can only do so much…


Just as you’re about to head off, you ask for this in writing. He laughs and says sure, why not. And writes up a simple document, signing it and stamping his administrative seal on it. He wishes you luck and says that the youngest teacher they’ve ever had here was 16, he doubts you’ll break the record though. You thank the man and head off. The document is signed and you notice that he is the DEAN of the LOGIC and KNOWLEDGE departments. Yes, you’re doing this out of SPITE, but If there’s one thing your memory as a professor has told you is that if your students fail, it’s YOUR fault as a bad educator, not THEIRS.

You’ve unlocked a CHALLENGE: Better than you
- Through TA’ing cause the TA’d runescripting class students to reach 70% pass rate
- Pass the third class in the TEACHING course
REWARDS: Gain an opportunity to become a MAGITECH professor


[CHARISMA] Think about asking IGNIS to help you find students to join the class when you’re ready
[CHARISMA] He talks to kin, he’s a useful contact
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> Watch PON and NOODLE participate in the HOOF BEAST challenge
The two of them take turns. Noodle manages to stay on for about 49 seconds before being bucked off with an OOF. Pon instead actually stay on for about 2 minutes before finally running out of energy and being bucked out of the stadium. The Hunters all congratulate him and give him some water. Pon currently holds the record amongst the students and is informed that unless someone beats it he’ll receive 200 SHINIES. Pon excitedling wing-pumps in the air.

You pass by several other booths, there’s games of CHANCE there where you can win some small prizes. Looking at it now, it kind of looks like a festival that you’d see in SABA’s world. It’s nice. You wonder if they do this kind of thing for the regular population too.

> Go to the COMPETITION BOOTH
You and your squad head over to the booth, it’s not that busy, but you notice PAWN in the corner messing with a small disk of metal or stone. He’s inscribing a rune on it and has a basket nearby. He glances at you for a brief moment before it looks like he starts working even harder.

[CURIOSITY] There’s food in that basket. Looks like RAW EGGS and some MEAT?
[CREATIVITY] Maybe he’s trying to make a cooking surface?


You head over to the counter and pay the fee, asking for some supplies. They say to take whatever you need from the piles. They’ll let you know if you’ve exceeded the amount you’re allotted. You’ve only got ONE CHANCE to make something to wow them. Lots of ideas are swirling around in your mind.

> Use the Void rune
You have the NULL rune, not the VOID rune. You think a VOID rune should exist, but from your studies you believe It’s probably a higher tier rune, or maybe a combination of multiple runes. You’re not sure.

> Make an inter-spatial ring
That’s not something you could make in a small amount of time, let alone in your previous lifetime. Making those was something one specific AWAKENED did. And he never revealed his methods. Even Willamina with her grasp of RUNECRAFTING wasn’t able to do it. Speaking of, you know that RUNECRAFTING was William’s prior life’s secondary Awakened power, but it was essentially a form of ENCHANTMENT using resources and her power. You suppose RUNESCRIPTING is the lower level version, more possibility, but a higher learning curve. Given William’s grasp on the subject you’re still surprised you were able to learn it faster then him.

You could make some sort of COLD STORAGE DEVICE. Similar to a fridge in Saba’s world. That would improve the quality of life. You think back a bit, have the people of this world-plate discovered if the cold can store things.

[GUILE] What about that story your dad told you when you were younger
[CREATIVITY] Yeah, about the wolf preserved in the mountains of CANUS
[LOGIC] You can use that as an excuse for how you think it’ll work
[KNOWLEDGE] The HUMANS have probably already discovered this technology but haven’t shared it
[KNOWLEDGE] Your society mostly preserves and dries food and uses perishables quickly.


You think that could work, it’d require some orthogonal logic but it’s something. There’s also HARDENING, you could use that to make some sort of LIGHTWEIGHT SHIELD that Wing-Kin could wear that wouldn’t obstruct flying. But you’d need to get way better at LEATHERWORKING and SMITHING to make something decent.

You could also just HARDEN a material and have them perform attacks on it, showing it’s increased durability. You could also HARDEN things like hinges, joints, etc. But you’d need to TEAM UP with someone to show that you’re making something useful and not wasting their time.

You get the idea that there’s a lot of options on how to approach this. You can get any basic supplies you need, but metal is scarce and you’ll only be able to get a VERY SMALL amount of it. What do you make?

And regardless of your success or failure, is there something you want to do after this at the fair, or would you like to spend your time points and move on with the year?

AUTHORS NOTE: There’s two ways of going about this, saying what object you want to make, and then letting CHI have free reign on how to make it, or describing the kind of object you want to make and the placement of the runes.

For example you could say you want to make a HEATER using a coil of metal with a stone base. And then say you want to place an absorption rune on the stone base. You could put an ABSORPTION rune and a HEAT rune on the coil and it will absorb mana, exhausting heat. There’s tons of ways to do this, so feel free to get as creative as you want, or as simple as you want. The more descriptive you are, and the better you place and do stuff, the higher of a likelihood it has of succeeding.

Also getting simple premade stuff like a wooden box or a glove, or a stone sword is very much within the range of supplies you can get

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No. 1004384 ID: f8fa51

Create a refrigeration unit, because the proof of concept can work at a small scale and has a real chance to change kin's lives. Make a small box out of something relatively insulated, perhaps lined with wool or feathers. Put an absorption rune in the syntax of heat on the inside surface. Your real problem is going to be what to do with the excess energy. Once you know more runes and what the consequences of absorbing too much energy are, this might turn out to be unnecessary, but for your proof of concept put a heat rune on the outside of the box. Come to think of it, we should probably try not to make the outside of the box out of something flammable. Stone should work. If there's any porous stone with lots of air pockets that'll make good insulation, too.

You should check in on Pawn. You haven't really spoken to him in a while.
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No. 1004396 ID: e51896

COLD STORAGE DEVICE is a go

We'll take a box, water, and a large stone base big enough to cover most of the bottom surface on the inside of the box. (EXTRA: maybe a tube of some sort as well, but probably not required)

We first want to make the inside of the box durable, just in case, so put some HARDEN RUNES (and maybe regular ABSORBTION RUNES to absorb air that gets inside) on each side of the box to toughen it up a bit and make it more durable, just in case (mostly for when we pour in water which will be explained in the future)

After we harden the inside of the box, we take the STONE BASE, and put it inside the box. Then, we write a BLUE ABSORPTION RUNE, and then TWO COLD RUNES on the stone base to make it EXTRA COLD.

The reason why we are putting runes on stone base instead of the surfaces of the box because we do not want the the box itself to be too cold for people to touch or hold if there are cold runes drawn on the surface of the box, plus it already has HARDEN RUNES on it.

After we draw those runes on the stone base's surface, we next pour water on the stone surface, and let the BLUE ABSORPTION RUNE absorb the water (If we have a tube, we can connect it to the stone base and pour water through there, just make sure you put HARDEN and ABSORPTION runes on the tube as well). The reason why we are using a blue absorption rune is because it cannot absorb enough energy from the air if the stone surface is inside the box, and if stuff like meat is on top of the stone base. The stone base's BLUE ABOSRPTION RUNE should be able to absorb the water to power the TWO COLD RUNES, and make the inside of the box even colder thanks to there being two cold rune. Also, as a bonus, the TWO COLD RUNES should be able to turn the water poured onto it into ICE so that the water doesn't evaporate, and will only be absorbed by the BLUE ABSORPTION RUNE. Also, the HARDENED box should be durable against the water we pour on the stone surface inside the box if we don't have a tube connected to the stone base.

When it comes time to explain things, mention that story you heard about the frozen preserved wolf in the mountains from your dad, and mention how you had the idea of preserving MEAT and FOOD by freezing it in your COLD STORAGE DEVICE. All they need to do is add water inside the box on the stone base.

To really sell your idea, talk about how with the COLD STORAGE DEVICE (Which you call a FREEZER or a REFRIGERATOR), people will be able to store food and have it be preserved without having to worry about it ROTTING. With this, hunters will be able to store the meat they collect from the hunt if they are several weeks away from our world plate and hunting in another world plate, and deliver the meat to our world plate without it going bad. Imagine the rare monsters and animals that exist only on worldplates far from this one that wingkin can finally eat without having to travel far just to get them.

This can also be good for camping trips for when people are out for weeks or months, and want to bring food with them without hunting or buying more. And hunters who are spending time in the wilderness or in caverns can take food with them to eat while they are gone for several days without them rotting. This can also works for chefs too, so that instead of throwing out food, they can preserve them in the COLD STORAGE DEVICE to save them for the next day!

Give them a warning not to touch the stone base, and if they want to take it out, they'll need gloves!

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After the competition, speak with Chipper. talk about an idea you have that with his craftmanship, and your runecraftmanship, you two could form a partnership and potentially make a lot of new high quality of life inventions using MAGITECH. Give him a demonstration by using your HARDEN runescript on one of the things he crafted, like the chair he's working on, or his tools! Tell him if he ever wants to power up his inventions with Magitech to come look for you.

Also talk to Ignis, mention your dreams of becoming a MAGITECH TEACHER, and the challenges you were given to make that happen (becoming a TA and stuff). Maybe he can convince others to join the class if he hears our plans.

If you can find him, talk to drift, talk to him about his dreams about his past life, and the importance of meditation to connect with his past life better.

but yeah, lets do a game of chance to win a small prize, or maybe do the art competition after this competition.
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No. 1004400 ID: dfbac0

From what I've seen, can we not put ABSORB-HEAT and COLD runes on the inside of a stone box, insulate the outside with wool and add a cover for a simple freezer? The ABSORB-HEAT rune will remove heat and fuel the COLD rune, so whenever it gets warm, it gets cold, so you just leave it to perpetually run and warn people not to leave it open. That way you have a simple cold box that keeps whatever within it cold, and the thing that powers it is also cleverly incorporated into the design. Just use an air-tight lid and keep it insulated.
The other suggestions are needlessly complicating it, no need to use water or vent the heat inside to outside, just MAKE COLD, REMOVE HEAT, simple as that.
>Make INSULATED COLD BOX
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No. 1004401 ID: dfbac0

Should also mention something VERY important.
How many runes you can connect is equal to your RUNECRAFTING level. That means we can only connect three runes at a time. Also, unless something is producing energy for it, a rune won't work unless powered, so you need to be able to absorb something or use some sort of mana stone, which we don't have a high supply of, so covering the box in cold runes is out of the game.
Don't forget we have LIMITS. We're still 11.
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No. 1004402 ID: 6519cb

So, ABSORB-RED and COLD on the inside, and (if necessary to expand the energy) HEAT on the outside?
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No. 1004404 ID: f1c2ea

>>1004402
We dont know the heat rune, unless we get Ignis to help

My question is, how warm does it need to get if we use a HEAT ABSORBTION rune? If it requires being near fire, that might cause some problems, or might just have the box going from cold, to back to warm until it gets hot enough to get energy to cool again, which means we'd have a freezer that goes from warm to cool instead of constantly cool, making food potentially rot.
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No. 1004405 ID: dfbac0

Wait no, I'm an idiot. We don't have heat-related runes.
only ABSORPTION, COLD, NULL and HARDEN.
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No. 1004406 ID: dfbac0

At this point a fridge might be too convoluted to do without help or doing an extremely ineffective way of doing it, so here's some spitball ideas.
God, this is a dumb idea but I think it's hilarious.
DUELING SWORD: A sword that has ABSORB-HARD attached to HARDEN, which when fighting sword-to-sword weakens the enemy's sword while strengthening itself, sort of stealing HARDNESS.

Also kind of just realized we can have an absorption rune on the outside taking in ambient mana which is connected to two cold runes inside. It's slow, but it works. Just have to make sure it has time to get cold before we show it off.
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No. 1004410 ID: e51896

For my idea >>1004396, I am going off the thought that we can inscribe three runes on each surface, so that mean three runes inscribed on the stone base surface inside the box (COLD, COLD, BLUE ABSORPTION (to absorb water)) and then three runes (harden, harden, absorption) on the box itself. I'll be sticking to that idea.

however, if we're only allowed to do three runes on the cold storage device as a whole instead of three runes on each surface of the device (stone base, and box walls together), then I'm changing it to just have it be without the hardened runes on the box's surface, and just have the stone base inside the box be Cold cold and blue absorption... (secondary idea)

however, depending on how cold one cold rune can get, maybe we can have COLD, and BLUE ABSORPTION on the stone base, and then HARDEN the box itself? or maybe a stone base isn't needed and we can have the box itself be COLD, HARDEN, and BLUE ABSORPTION (as long as touching the outside of the box isn't too cold)

>>1004406
>Also kind of just realized we can have an absorption rune on the outside taking in ambient mana which is connected to two cold runes inside. It's slow, but it works. Just have to make sure it has time to get cold before we show it off.

that might work instead of using a BLUE ABSORPTION rune inside as I was thinking. I wonder if it can take in energy on the outside surface of the box, and have it work the inside surface.
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No. 1004411 ID: afa6f6

>>1004402
Maybe we need to link the COLD And ABSORB-RED to a base ABSORB on the outside so it can pull in energy to power the two. Either from a person or some other mana source. We do have that Monster core, that might work?

Separate note, I feel like a working pattern is becoming likely regarding how to schedule our semesters. If we go had on classes during the first half, we can ease up on the second half and do extracurricular stuff. Since it seems like we're on track to try for teaching, we can take that class and another one point class, and then do off class things with the rest, like a part-time job, Dojo training, Practicing to level up our skills (Which I think we need to do for our physical skills for the Hunter Class?), or meditating.
If we Get our physical Skill up and finish the rune crafting manuals off, then we can do the Hunter Class and the second Runecrating class in the semester after next and be ahead of the curve, I think?
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No. 1004418 ID: 96c896

>>1004375
I have a concern. What if Shimon is operating this way under threat? He fled here with Marth, maybe he's trying to keep a low profile or something? Becoming a better Magitech teacher might be very dangerous.
We should also talk to Marth about it. They seem to be friends, so pushing Shimon out of the teaching position could seriously piss off Marth.

>>1004377
Cold Box seems pretty simple to make. We need a container of some sort that has a good seal, though. Can't let the cold air out or it won't work. A smaller scale project would be a chilled cup to put drinks in.
The heat rune Pawn is making seems pretty big, do runes have to be big like that? Does the size change how strong the rune is?
I wonder what he thinks about you. Rival, maybe?
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No. 1004425 ID: e51896

>>1004418
Your concerns are valid. However, the dean said if we become a Magitech teacher, we can teach magitech in a separate class, which means separate from Shion's class so his job won't get taken. Honestly, I think we have a gift for teaching magitech if Chi thinks it is highly possible despite being told it was impossible. Our Pride stat told us we have resources others don’t making this possible.
Also we got to help bring our worldplate get into a new era of magitech by teaching them, and perhaps use magitech to bring about new inventors and even fighters or soldiers to protect our worldplate. That's the best way to bring about significant change for karma with the stats we have I believe.

The only thing we'll need to do though is to make people interested in MAGITECH during our time in school so more wingkin can join the class and learn magitech. otherwise, if the number of students are still as low as when we started, we'll risk taking Shion's job since only one class would be needed. But with more students, that would mean they'd need Chi and Shion both for two classrooms.

a couple ways of doing this is to impress people enough with our invention in the competition, and Ignis can help other students get interested in magitech, we just need to talk to him afterwards.

I'm also all for talking to Marth about it too, maybe over dinner.
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No. 1004433 ID: 031458

>>1004418
I don't think we'll end up replacing him.
Us becoming a teacher of Magitech here will only be a steppingstone for us after-all. It'll pay for years 5 and 6 here, and give us the resources and foot-in-the-door to get to Canus and learn more advanced Magitech there.

If anything, we can teach Shimon our technique once we master it and make him a better teacher before we leave. We'll just have to make sure he doesn't end up resenting us first. Maybe we should throw him a party after we get TA? It's unlikely that he came here for ambition; he'll probably be happy just feeling appreciated.

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We CAN make the refrigerator HOWEVER, without metal WE CANT CHEAT AND USE EARTH TECH in it. Without rare materials, LINKING capability, and HEAT, TRIGGER, and STORAGE runes, we are going to LOSE EFFICIENCY.
...That said... It IS possible. I'll construct an optimal scenario for what we have access to.

We will need to make a Top opening ice chest. (They are the most efficient since Cold air sinks and heat rises).
Materials:
2 Small Chests, One Fitting right inside the other. (Preferably constructed of SOAPSTONE or a BALSA WOOD EQUIVELENT)
Pine tar or other sealant. (For making them air tight)
Down, batting, or scraps of cloth.
Rubber, or another flexible resinous substance.
General fasteners and tools.
Rune scribing tools, Horned rabbit core.

Since we won't be able to make the cooling mechanism efficient, the idea will be to keep the inside extraordinarily well insulted, so it can operate on minimal power. Light materials tend to be full of air, and transfer heat poorly.

Optimally, a smaller soapstone box will be placed inside a slightly larger balsa box, nestled in insulative batting.
The lids should be lined with rubber or a resinous material on both contact points to promote a good seal (Thanks to the lower air pressure of colder air creating a vacuum effect.) The lids should also be linked to prevent accidental disassembly of the ice box.
Two Cold Runes should be placed on the inside of the inner box.
An absorb rune should be carved into horned rabbit core, which itself should be embedded on the outside of the outer box.
To regulate this things power, and for the cold runes to burn colder when the box is warm like after it gets opened, a battery is required. As we lack storage runes, the Horned rabbit crystal will do just fine. It's surely an extremely low power battery, but this is ultimately a low power device.

Some parts can be omitted and this can still be successful (Probably)
If only one box is available, assuming it's the stone one, it's probably ok.
If the monster core doesn't work out for any reason, the absorb rune on it's own is probably fine.
If cloth down or batting isn't availiable, that's fine.

If all of that is a no go... Then maybe work on the hardening armor or the slowing weapon instead.
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No. 1004443 ID: afa6f6

>>1004433
>>1004425
>>1004418

Yeah, as far as Shimon goes, I say we just keep our head down and work hard until we PROVE that we can do as we said, whether he wants to believe it or not, and go talk to him then. Thats really the main reason Chi is getting this heated, I think, that he didnt believe her.
And as for why, it could be right that Chi just has a built in advantage, which is super possible considering UNDERSTANDING, or, it could just be that the teaching environment back on the Human World Plate is just a lot different then here. It could be a lot more cutthroat so that it discourages more people from becoming capable of rune crafting by design, or something. Or he could have just have had a lot of bad experiences in the past that have just crushed his ability to feel hopeful about that specifically.
We can find out when we get there I guess, I ust think we shouldn't jump on a hate/dismissal train until we know for sure.
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No. 1004446 ID: 0fae41

Wowee, I want some of what Shimon's smoking. Students who are all succeeding now would definitely lie about someone helping them understand their work. He makes things hard for us anyway, so we just need to make more money. And possibly stay a big fish in a little pond for now.
Make the icebox, call it a... Chi-larder? Chillarder.
Baking's a good idea. Get some practical chemistry experience. (And make lots of food for your friends... the more you give away the less you'll eat yourself and gain weight!)

So people use the Null rune as an eraser. Perhaps the key to finding out other uses for it is to inscribe it last once the other runes are finished. Can it act as an inert barrier between two runes that would normally react? Can it be turned on/off, or used as an active antimagic barrier?
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No. 1004475 ID: afe7de
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> HEAT ABSORPTION
You haven’t read the RED book yet or learned the HEAT rune, so unfortunately this is out of your capabilities for now.

> CREATE A COLD STORAGE DEVICE
You’ve got a more concrete idea now. You head over to the supply piles and pick up a WOODEN CHEST that is about shoe-box sized. You then go around searching and are about to give up when you spot a SOAPSTONE CHEST with a flat top that fits perfectly inside it. You got LUCKY! You then go around and get some cloth scraps and stuffings. Unfortunately there’s no RUBBER or equivalent material. There’s GLUE, but you don’t want to permanently seal it. You see some jars with screw-band lids, that’s probably the closest equivalent. You get a small clamp and some extra leather and cloth straps instead, along with some glue. It’ll have to do for now.

You start with the wooden chest, stuffing it full of the cloth and stuffings, gluing it along the walls in your best attempt at INSULATION as you can get at this point. The wooden chest itself has small cracks in it so air can still get out, but it should mitigate it enough to show off. Finishing that you get to work on the SOAPSTONE CHEST. It’s simple, and has flat surfaces all around, this makes it perfect for inscribing runes on.

You think about inscribing HARDEN runes on the wooden box but realize that the box is made up of multiple planks of wood. You’d need to inscribe each plank and that would take way too long. If you knew how to LINK runes you think you’d be able to find a way to link each plank so it counted as one whole object. You also think about using the Horned Rabbit core, but don’t know how to link it and innately feel that mounting it won’t really do anything. So instead you get to work, inscribing an ABSORPTION rune on the outside of the soapstone box.

You arbitrarily chose to put it on the bottom of the box, the lid is seperated, so it wouldn’t work putting it there you think. Inside the soapstone box you put the two cold runes on opposite walls of the box. Luckily the soapstone chest is only two pieces, the chest itself and the lid. You immediately feel the sensation of COLD emanating from the box. You plop the stone chest into the wooden one and glue some leather strips to the top of the lid, attaching the clamp you got in an attempt to make a seal. It takes you about an hour of work before you’re finished and you get PON and NOODLE to get you some meat, juice cups, and several small wooden sticks. They return and you place the stuff in the box, hoping that it will at least last long enough to show off.
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No. 1004479 ID: afe7de
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> Check on PAWN
Pawn’s been finished for a little while and has been messing around with his device. He calls his invention a FIRE PLATE. He suggests you can cook on it and is showing off to the judges. They’re very impressed by his work, though you overhear he burnt himself before realizing he needed to put the plate on another surface so no one would get burned. He’s fried an egg on it and some meat and overall looks proud of himself. You talk to him and he seems to be putting on a tough exterior. You ask him how he’s been.

Pawn: Fine. Just trying this new thing. It’s hard.
Pawn: Frankly I’m jealous of you.
Pawn: rumor has it you’re lying about teaching other kin RUNESCRIPT
You: I am not. I’ve helped 3 other kin learn it, but no one believes me.
Pawn: Well, if its true, thanks, it’s good for our race if more of us can learn this.
Pawn: But don’t get COCKY! I’ll shine brighter than you one day!


You chuckle and give him a wave while you leave, he just nods and gets back to showing off his device.

You notice among the other students attempting to create things the Sheep you saw before, Chipper. He’s presented a rather immaculate and engraved chair. It’s georgeous and made with simple wood and materials. It’s been varnished and has a polished and new feel to it. You compliment him on his craftsmanship and he replies in a high pitched and excited voice. The two of you talk shop for a bit and you mention your interest in the Artisans. He says that it’s a good place if you’re good with your paws. You chat for a while, show off your invention and he eyes it studiously, mentioning that the craftsmanship could use some work, and that if you ever need someone to make you a thing, he’s your sheep. For a cost that is. You can practically see his eyes turning into shinies.

[???] I like this one the most!
[CREATIVITY] Could be useful to have someone make stuff so we don’t have to


You can now commission custom works from CHIPPER
if you need something made by him for a device you’re making, he’ll make it for you within your specifications
- WOOD objects cost 10-25 SHINIES
- STONE objects cost 25-50 SHINIES.
- Plus or Minus a few shinies for complexity and parts
He’ll get the object to you within a reasonable time period


Eventually 2 hours have passed and you check on your device. It’s cold on the outside, and when you touch the lid you realize its FREEZING. You pry the lid open and see that the juice you put inside has frozen into POPSICLES. The meat is also FROZEN. You do some calculations in your head and come to a conclusion.

If it took 2 hours to freeze this and it normally takes around 4 hours in a freezer to freeze something, the two runes doubled the time. One rune would probably freeze it in 4 hours given the same tight seal in the same size container. You’re not sure how long this’ll last, but are satisfied with the prototype.

You pry the judges away from Pawn’s device, it ran out of juice already, and show off yours. They look at the Popsicles and frozen meat in surprise. One of them licks one of the juice pops and exclaims.

Judge 1: Wow! This is great! Is this frozen ORANGE juice?
Judge 2: I heard you could only get this in the human kingdom!
Judge 3: And you froze meat. Why would you do that? Won’t that just be wasteful?


You then explain to them that freezing meat and perishables actually increases their shelf life a significant amount. They ask how you know this and you explain by giving the story of your father finding the frozen wolf. They call SHIMON over and explain the situation. He looks over yours and Pawn’s devices and explains them to the other Judges. They’re overjoyed. You ask how long the cold runes will last with the absorption rune like that.
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No. 1004480 ID: afe7de
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Shimon says it’ll last about another hour, before becoming just a little cold to the touch from not absorbing enough passive mana. He mentions two runes will make it more cold faster, but you usually need a ratio of 1 absorption rune to 1 rune to have it maintain indefinitely, and that’s only if they’re LINKED. Otherwise you get about 33% efficiency out of it, since it’s just spreading the absorbed mana around the stone instead of to a linked rune.

Pawn’s plate ran out of energy quicker because of the lack of Absorption runes or mana available. It’s just going to be a slightly warm rock from now on. Then begins a pretty big debate between the judges as to who should receive the prize and Shimon heads back to his booth. The prize is a visit to the ROYAL LIBRARY to pick out a book, and you two are the only contestants in the MAGITECH division. Apparently William, Drift, Ignis, and Marth didn’t participate.

You hear the discussions between the judges and they’re having a tough time deciding. While they praise yours for being more complex, they also praise PAWN’s for being simple and using less resources. Suddenly a man walks into the tent, you recognize him. It’s the dean of the KNOWLEDGE and LOGIC departments, his name is Yondo.

Yondo: I overheard, give it to both of them.
Yondo: We have to encourage growth in the MAGITECH department.
Yondo: What better way then to give rewards for the pioneers in this field!
Judge 1: But the cost-
Yondo: I’ll talk to the Queen about that. I can cover it.


Yondo gives the two of you a wink and he heads off, mouthing a GOOD LUCK at you. The judges congratulate the two of you as do your companions. Before you realized it’s already night-time and the fair is over.

CONGRATS! You’ve completed the subgoal - WIN A PRIZE AT THE FAIR
- You’ve gained .5 goal points
CONGRATS! You’ve completed the subgoal - MEET SOMEONE AT THE FAIR THAT CAN HELP YOU GET A JOB or an APPRENTICESHIP
- You’ve gained .5 goal points
Collect 4 goal points and something cool might happen.
You can now set two more SUBGOALS at any time
- The most suggested ones suggested at any time next will be added

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> Talk to Ignis about a favor
You head over to Ignis who just so happens to be walking by. He congratulates you on your win. You ask him if he’d be able to help you convince others to join the MAGITECH class so you can prove that you can TA it. He says that it won’t be a problem, just tell him what semester you want them to sign up and he’ll do his best to get at least 15 more students in the class, he knows a lot of kin. He does however have a request for you. He asks for [1 TIME POINT] of your time this year. He wants you to take a class with him, he proposes GARDENING, SINGING, DANCE, or MUSIC as the choices, up to you. If you’re too busy in the school year itself, then he’s willing to take [1 TIME POINT] during your break. And if you REALLY can’t do it this year, he’s willing to still help you if you give him [2 TIME POINTS] of your time next year.

He asks you to think it over and doesen’t rush you. He’ll still help you even if you can’t make the time for him. You split off and he lets you know to get back to him after you pick your book

[INTUITION] You get the feeling that he won’t help you in the future though.
[INTUITION] if you ask for help and don’t offer anything in return.
[CURIOSITY] I wonder why he wants to spend so much time with us?
[PRIDE] Maybe cause we’re hella smart and are pioneering a field with him?


The following week you are escorted to the royal library. It’s on the top floor of the palace, so you fly up there with the guards. Apparently PAWN will get to go tomorrow. The hall you enter is massive, and you get the strange sensation that it’s bigger on the inside then it was when you looked at it from the outside. A receptionist sits at a desk in front of two very massive doors. The guard escorting you hands a piece of paper to the receptionist. She reads it over and introduces herself as MINNIE. You’d have to describe her as a larger wing-kin. She’s an owl and it looks like her wings are pretty HUGE. She’s also got a ponytail. You can see YELLOW MARKINGS around the hall, indicating that this location is meant primarily for royalty.

Minnie: You have the authority to pick out ONE of the many books in the Royal Library.
Minnie: This is the only entrance and exit, the windows to the outside are for light
Minnie: They’re reinforced so even a Hunter would have a hard time breaking out
Minnie: But just in case we’ll search you after you come out to make sure you haven’t stolen anything.
Minnie: You’re the only one booked for the whole day, so feel free to take your time.
Minnie: You don’t need to return the books you snag,
Minnie: but I ask that you pile them all up on a single table so we can have easy cleanup
Minnie: Oh, and talk to me if you want a snack since you’ll probably be here for a while.


You’re frisked and searched for any fire starting implements. The doors open and you are ushered in, Minnie enters with you and after a moment closes the doors. You’re told to come talk to her when you’re ready to leave. And that destruction of any of the books or attempting to tear any pages out will be cause for expulsion and banning from the library as well as a significantly large fine. She says she has really good ears for paper tearing.

You turn around and look at the library, it’s pretty big. You’ve got no idea where to even start, and when you try to ask for information the Receptionist simply replies it’s up to you to find something useful for yourself. You sigh and take a quick tour around. There’s several sections of books everywhere. There are history books, instruction manuals, and other strange and esoteric things in the library. You’re sure if you look hard enough you might be able to find even books written in RUNESCRIPT by the ANCIENTS, maybe from a ruin on your world-plate.

You’re at the ROYAL LIBRARY, the books here can MASSIVELY BOOST STATS, give you NEW SKILLS, help you BREAK PAST or even INCREASE SOFT CAPS you haven’t reached yet. What books do you find?

And feel free to set a new goal or two if you like.

AUTHORS NOTE: You all get to suggest books and scrolls that get found here, you can suggest what STATS they would increase or what SKILLS they would teach/increase, some books might even increase MULTIPLE STATS or SKILLS at once. Then I’m going to aggregate all of them together, add in a few I have planned, make some tweaks so its not game breaking, and have you pick which book to take. Some books will take 1 time point to read, others will take longer depending on complexity and how much they give you, regardless of if you finish or not in the year you have the book, you’ll still get something out of it as long as you spend TIME on it.

The only stipulation is that you can’t find a book on outright easy magic like awakened powers and you cant find any KARMA cultivation techniques, other than that have fun!

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No. 1004485 ID: 094652

New Subgoal: Read 20 books on relevant Magitech Research
New Subgoal: Convince one of your friends to take Runescript as a hobby.

>Books
Soft Spots and Softer Hearts
A romance novel used as a framing device for tips on the sensitive portions of wing-kin anatomy.
+ Charisma

Mask and Scarves
A funny stand-up comedy skit script, where a strange monster and a Snake-kin discuss the world around them from their twisted perspectives. It also features a centauress as the heavy.

Ḿ̸̢̗͉̹̦͖̪͕͜a̵̮̭̪̩̳̦̘͕̭͍̤͆͑̓̐͒͊̿̽̐̕͜c̵̮̩̫̙̈́̀́̋h̵͔̥̠͉̝̳̫̬͚͇͉̳̐́͂̊̋̄̂̅i̷̝̩̘̒͒̾̅̒̉̆̀̑͝ḁ̸̹̮̹̱̹̝̻̼̮͑͆̏̊͊͌̈͋̒̿͜v̵̢̟̯̱̜̳̜̪͍̣̳̙̋͗͂̒͊̈́͜ȩ̵͉̮̪͉̄̏̽͊͝l̵̤̬̼̟̩͙̬͚̀̿̅̈́͐͗̊́͂́́̂͘͠l̵͚̱̳̈̂̇̎͊̿̒̊̎͐́̒͌̚i̸̹̻͚̩̠̫͚͚̹̐̓̂͂'̵̨̧̖̭͔̝̙̥̦̝̳̟̠̥̏́͒́͑̄̆͑̒͊̿̓͘͝s̸̨̰̝̘̰̖̣͇̲̝̮͌ ̸͕̹̞̦̄̔̓̑̀̈́̃̓͛̍̋͊̽T̵̛̗̤̱̬̳̙͓̫̺͉̲̯͗͑̉͐́͛̓̈́͘̕͠͝͝h̶͔͔̹͔̱͍͓͍̫̹̑͋͐̏̾̍͒̎͒͜͝ͅę̴̨̛͓̦͙̆͐̈́̆̀́̌̒̾̈́͐̏̀̾ ̵̡̢̳͙͕͉̦̫̭̭̣͋̀̄̄̍̋̒̑̕̚͜Ȃ̸̯͈̈͛́̾̎̆͛̈̃͂̐̐̚͝r̸̜͔̈́̈́̀̽̃͊̆͌̽̍̔́̕t̴̹̭̰͇̬͖͕̗̬̦̺̯̑͋͋̓̐̈́͛̈́́̓̏̔͝͠͠ ̷̧̢̛͔͈͙̭̖͍̮̹͍̼̯͑̀͊͌̔͐̔̔̄̚͠o̷̧̫̻̭̼̙̦͈̗̐͋͛͌f̷̡̖̦̟͔͔̼̳̮͈̙́̑̚ ̶̨̧̬̺̼͓̤̘͉̦̻͎̆̽͒̿̌̂̀̔̚͘͜͝͝Ẅ̸̯͉͇͎̩̥͇̤͚͓͇́a̴̧̠͓̪̥̻͇̻͖̪̞̎́̉͝͠͠r̵̦͔͎͉̈͊̒̈̇̀̅̓̎͌͗͘
A strange, damaged book that just fell out of the sky one day. The Human Kingdom has confirmed it is in their language, but have little knowledge on the author of this book, only that some of the principles labeled throughout the readable sections of the text mimic that of archaic-yet-effective human military doctrines. Since it was clearly written before the onset of modern-day ranged technology, most of the information is obsolete, and most obscure kingdoms have been given copies as a gesture of faith.
++ Warcraft
+ Overall Intelligence
[Detriment: Causes the user to learn the 'ruthless' trait]
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No. 1004490 ID: e51896

Subgoal: try not to let our stress go past 6 throughout the rest of the years we are in Tengu academy

Subgoal: finish all the Scripting manuals we got from Shion from our first semester (RED, & YELLOW is left)

some ideas for books:

Teaching book: books about how to teach others effectively. It gives a boost in the KNOWLEDGE stat and raises our TEACHING skills too. It can also teach you the PATIENCE skill which helps chi endure certain trials and hardships in a calm and collected matter, and can help Chi keep a level head when students aren't learning at the efficiency required from the class, or being a class clown, allowing Chi to think up different methods to teach someone without rushing students with the realization that some students learn in different speeds than other. PATIENCE could help in other situations too, like arguments, or trying to calm someone down. (maybe stress won't raise as much the higher this stat is? Also, I was about to consider it raise our CHARISMA stat, but I think adding too much will have the book require us to spend 2 time points instead of 1) We'll need this book if we want to make sure we succeed in teaching 3 Wingkin Magitech during our challenge... maybe even 6? (this is my top choice

An ancient book written in runescript. talks about mana and runescripting, and techniques in inscribing runes more efficiently. Can raise our magitech skills an boost LOGIC past its softcap. Maybe a new magitech skill can be given from this, one that Shion won't teach in his second semester? I'm not sure what though.

A rare yet complicated scripting manual with a powerful rune that one of the wingkin explorers found in one of their adventures, and picked up and brought here mistakenly thinking it was a book. (if this can count) since it might be something rare and complicated, it might have a strong rune we can learn, but might take two time points instead of the usual one to complete it because of how complicated it is

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once we choose our book, we can talk to ignis about using our time point with him during our break time, especially since we'll most likely need the first and second semesters to do what we need to do.

so planning ahead (Not final, just planning out a list in my head for later), I'm thinking first semester,
Magitech class,
Teaching class (with the free TA we're given, we need as much teaching skills as we can for the TA challenge next semester),

break: spend time with Ignis,
read whatever book you get from the library (if it requires two time points, we'll read the first half here.)

second semester: MIND AND BODY dojo (since it teaches having a clear mind which might help with stress management. the meditation skill we have might give us an advantage since that also requires us to clear our minds)(if the book requires 2 time points however, we'll read the second half here instead of taking a dojo class),
meditation to lower stress and expand Mind Palace (gotta meditate once a year),
TA challenge to get a TA job.
afterwards, we can have dinner with Marth at the end of this semester to lower any stress as well and form a better bond with her
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No. 1004492 ID: ce39da

Subgoal: Earn Marth's trust enough to be let in on her troubles.

Subgoal: Save up and put away enough money to pay for Grad School completely.

You happen across The Book of Orders, a book that discusses the various secretive organizations of the world. Most are known entities, working in open secret for various governments and guilds, even revealing some of their more publically known methods, but what little is known of the more elusive sects is also discussed. (++GUILE, +INTUITION, plus maybe we get to learn a bit about this black lotus group discreetly. We've been neglecting our TRICKY LUCKY potential for long enough.)
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No. 1004494 ID: 031458

An ancient book entitled:
JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST

This book is written primarily in an ancient language. A Translator (presumably) has modified it. It has been rebound with (poorly) translated pages in-between all the originals. Though the translator dutifully went through the entire reference and translated what he could (and tried to add notes where he couldn't), it seems they were unable to understand any of the core material. As a result the translation is largely incomplete, and frankly bizarre in some places. That said, some parts of this book are not unlike the Rune scripting books, and some of the illustrations and examples of what we assume are runes are seriously impressive. Maybe we'll be able to garner some knowledge before we can UNDERSTAND things as Saba did.
At the very least, the translators margin notes are entertaining. It's clear they spent a lot of time with this book, and were slowly descending into madness.

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JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT is part 12 of 21 of the legendary JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING set of books. A set of poly-technical reference manuals that hold secrets of ancient artifice. They tend to be very dense and would be hard to parse even if you were native to the language they are written in. Notably, all volumes are written assuming the reader already has "basic" (A stretch of the word) knowledge of the subject matter. Despite this, the volumes vary wildly on topics. Rote Magic, Runes, Constructs, Mundane machines, architecture, alchemy, and more. It is theorized that the ancients lived extraordinarily long lives due to the sheer amount of training one person would need to be able to utilize all the books.
Supposedly if someone get's their hands on the whole set, they'll be able to create anything they can possibly imagine.

This particular volume concerns Rune Scripting. It covers a variety of runes and techniques, perhaps most notably Compound Runes, an advanced form of linking that actually combines multiple runes into a single glyph. The tome also contains instructions on creating a "Personal Rune". A personal rune provides a method of using magic rune magic on oneself without the need for expensive and dangerous tattoos through the creation of a unique permanently linked designated glyph.
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No. 1004496 ID: bd3ca3

Our logic and creativity caps! Break in through to the other side!
Maybe a book on guile. Perhaps a history of the royal family do the trick? The interest in you and warnings from William area very suspicious combo for Ignis… Speaking of, take gardening with him for your elective. Growing your own food could be fun, perhaps one day necessary.
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No. 1004501 ID: 96c896

>>1004481
We could use the POCKET DIMENSION to steal a book! Steal a book on GUILE, for the irony.

Also, study CREATIVITY. It's our second primary stat, gotta work on it!

>ignis return favor
Take DANCE or MUSIC.
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No. 1004511 ID: 25572b

Im against stealing a book with our pocket dimension.

>>1004490
(Made a small mistake with my post, i meant to say patience stat, not patience skill)
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No. 1004515 ID: 031458

>>1004501
Hmm... We could.
And there would be no way for them to prove it.
They'd probably Know just from an inventory control standpoint. They just wouldn't know how.
I suspect guards might show up in several days in an attempt to get a confession if we do take one.
If we had more GUILE, CHARISMA, or just NERVES OF STEEL, we could more easily throw off SUSPICION and I'd be all for it. As things stand now it's probably a bad idea.

Besides, we'll have unlimited library access soon enough if we continue leaning into Magitech.
A big part of invention is just having the ideas themselves, and we have an entire civilization of innovations sitting in our brain that we can potentially recreate. Namely: The printing press and the photocopier.
This kingdom is an enlightened one that values knowledge and education. If we use Runescripting to create a device that can quickly copy text, most of this library will become public knowledge!
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No. 1004517 ID: f8fa51

For Ignis' favour, take SINGING. We are lacking in Charisma and this will help.

Definitely don't steal. They'll know there was a thief the next time they take inventory, and there will be an investigation. If they find out you're a thief, you could be ruined. Just don't do it.
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No. 1004518 ID: 6519cb

Don't steal. Do repay Ignis's favor. Singing sounds good.
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No. 1004522 ID: 031458

I think we're just suggesting books, not using time yet.
I thought of another book.
THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF KAMAL LIN: COMPLETE
A large tome aggregating all of the ADVENTURES OF KAMAL LIN novels. These stories follow the exciting adventures of the fictional plate hopping hunter KAMAL LIN. In addition to being extremely well written and entertaining, the novels are extremely accurate and true to life. They were written by a veteran Hunter who didn't shy away from doing their research or including gritty realism into thier work. The novels are actually semi-biographical, taking from the hunters own experiences, and those of stories from other hunters. The result is a series of novels that are as educational as they are riveting.
Hunters are widely known to trade these amongst themselves, but rarely do all the novels ever end up in one place. This is truly a treasure.

It seems like every time it's read, something new can be gleaned from it. Even if you've read it a dozen times before.
Geography
Archeology
Monster lore
Anthropology
Basic medicine
Herbalism
Guile
Charisma, people skills, one liners
Survival skills
Tactics
Bartering
Outreach
combat techniques
And more.
This book has so much to give, you never know what you might find.
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No. 1004542 ID: afe7de
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AUTHORS NOTE: Going forward, Saba’s Faunus will be referred to as [FAUNUS 08-C] and Chi’s Faunus will be referred to as [FAUNUS 18-Q] just because differentiating between the two is obnoxious.

Also, changing RUNECRAFTING, Willamina’s secondary skill to ENCHANTMENT, because I accidentally use Runescripting/Runecrafting interchangeably and would rather just call it something different for the sake of simplicity. The RUNESCRIPTING that you do is still called the same thing.


> NEW GOALS
It’s a tie between a few of them, but it seems like you want magitech related stuff, so I’ll assign one related to that now and the other is still open.

SUBGOAL - Learn all of the SCRIPTING MANUALS Shion has to offer you
This might take you a while. You should find out how many he has. You guess he has at least 10.
Progress - 4/??

> SKILL CHECK - Steal a book with your dimensional pocket
You think about this for a moment. No one would be able to find out, it doesn't make a sound, and they’d have no proof.

[GUILE] See. It’s situations like these that we COULD HAVE been prepared for
[GUILE] But if you do it, you’re going to crack like an egg in no time flat
[GUILE] Heck, I bet you’d just blurt it out if you heard anything even remotely close to an accusatory question.
[LOGIC] Hey, we’ve got a lot on our plate already!
[GUILE] Even if you don’t explicitly state that you have it, they will still be very suspicious
[GUILE] And you don’t want that kind of attention
[GUILE] You can at MOST, give a bad poker face, or lie about something simple
[GUILE] Not saying I’m against stealing, just saying you’ll be shit at it.
[INTUITION] I think she’s just being paranoid, but it’d probably be STRESSFUL


You think about it a little more and you FEEL against stealing. The risks are too great, and you get the feeling that if you’re a teacher you might have some more leeway with getting into the library. Though you could still power through it and try anyway, you are kind of LUCKY after all.

> Invent a printing press
So actually that’s already been invented. It’s how the academy distributes its documents and exams, it’s still a very tedious process that takes a lot of time though. You’re sure you could optimize the process when you’re older and have the TIME for it. The QUEEN bought it around 10 years ago and made several duplicates, one for academy use, one for general use, and one for royal use. Unfortunately it hasnt been long enough for a public library to be made, but maybe within the next 7 years there’ll be enough books in circulation that it’ll be possible. Though about 1/2 of the books in the library seem to be hand written neatly, probably by scribes.

> Take stock of the books that interest you
There’s just so many here. You go through the shelves and pick the titles that seem the most interesting to you. Then you eventually find a section in other languages, and a few in something LIKE runescript. You even find a single book written in ENGLISH. Eventually you’ve got a pile and head over to a table. You use some LOGIC and INTUITION and get a general idea of the books contents as you flip through them. This is what you find:
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No. 1004543 ID: afe7de
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MACHIAVELLI’S ART OF WAR
This one’s strange. It’s written in ENGLISH, but you swear you’ve seen a book like this in [FAUNUS 08-C]. The text says it was written in 1573 and translated from ITALIAN on the planet EARTH. There’s a small note under the front cover that says it’s written in the HUMAN KINGDOM’S ROYAL TONGUE, a gift from their royal family. Since your schooling has been kind of isolationist you haven’t really considered languages other than RUNESCRIPT. Your brief skim of the book tells you that it talks deeply about military doctrines, before modern or magi-tech technology existed.

You think it would take about [1 TIME POINT] to read fully and that you could probably glean some insights into STRATEGY from it.

THE ART OF THE TEACH
It’s a book on teaching. It shows techniques on being PATIENT and alternative learning methods for the slow learners.

You think it would take about [1 TIME POINT] to study fully and that you could glean some insights into TEACHING from it.

THE BOOK OF ORDERS
This book discusses various organizations throughout the world plates. Many are known entities, but there are a few elusive sects mentioned. You notice there’s a section on the BLACK LOTUS group.

You think you could easily read it in a few weekends, not needing any TIME POINTS if you just want the information. But if you were to spend [1 TIME POINT] studying it you could gain some UNDERWORLD KNOWLEDGE.

JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST
This book is completely filled with rebound and stapled papers. There’s markings all over the interior and notes written in the margins of most every page. What baffles you is that the original language SEEMS to be RUNESCRIPT, but it’s almost like it’s in a cypher, the symbols are all there, but they’re jumbled up in an incomprehensible way. You see on various pages different runes, diagrams, and some runes Overlapping in some way?

You’re not sure how long it would take to read this tome, or what you’d get out of it. Maybe something like a new RUNESCRIPTING SKILL, but even if you put a conservative estimation on time, it will probably take MORE THAN [1 TIME POINT] to discover anything. Possibly longer to learn a new SKILL from it.

THE LEGENDARY STARLIGHT SONGSTRESS
This book appears to be a story about the LEGENDARY STARLIGHT SONGSTRESS who through the medium of SINGING was able cause miracles like invigorating her allies, distracting her opponents, and causing hallucinations of stars and starlight to descend from the sky. The latter half of the book is filled with songs apparently sung by the protagonist. You wonder why this book is even in here, it looks like a work of fiction. But you picked it up because your CURIOSITY was peaked as you walked by.

You think it would take about [2 TIME POINTS] to fully read the story and study the songs. You could gain some insight into CREATIVITY or possibly SINGING from it.

THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF KAMAL LIN: OMNIMBUS
This is a VERY VERY big tome. You think it’s the biggest single book in the library. This appears to be a collection of stories about KAMAL LIN a plate-hopping HUNTER. The foreword states that it’s a work of fiction based off of the Author’s adventures. There’s just… a LOT in there. You honestly think it’d be better if it was seperated into several smaller books but imagine it would take 15-20 or more seperate ones.

You’re not sure how long it would take to read every story. [8 TIME POINTS] Maybe? And you’re not sure what insights you’d gain. You think it’d be entirely RANDOM and not just from fields you know.

UNTITLED BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK
You’ve found another book written in runescript, only it’s actually legible, parts of it are written in what you assume to be the RED and YELLOW syntax, so with some effort you could probably translate those sections. It has a similar structure to the other rune scripting manuals, only you can look at every page.

You think it would take about [2 TIME POINTS] to read, maybe [1 TIME POINT] if you learn the YELLOW and RED syntax first. You intuit that you could probably get some insights into RUNESCRIPTING, but aren’t sure what you’d specifically learn.

PLATE TUNNELS, A GUIDE
This one’s pretty interesting. It’s a guide on the innerworkings of the world-plate tunnels. Apparently they were an inheritence left behind by the ANCIENTS discovered by the HUMAN KINGDOM, later stolen by the HIVE KINGDOM, and distributed sparingly to the other kingdoms outside of their rule. You can’t move a tunnel after it’s been created, and according to this even the most skilled of Human Magitechs able to inscribe 5 runes onto a surface can’t replicate the technology. This book is about 50 years old, so it’s probably out of date.

This document is relatively small, so you just read through it in about 30 minutes. You also learn that there’s lots of TUNNEL SPOTS that are located throughout the many world-plates. Significantly you now know there’s one in DOPUS and one at the very bottom of TENGU, underneath the floating land-mass. The only other information you get is to not destroy a tunnel as they’re hard to get, can detonate in an unexpectedly large radius, and the contents vanish even if you place a new tunnel in the exact spot it was in. It’s also hard to do, but doesn't list how to do it.

MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE
This is another strange book, it talks about the mind as a soldier with generals and kings and eventually an emperor. You intuit that it’s actually a meditation guide, trying to gather the chaos of thoughts you have into a stronger, unified force. The book itself is very very small, enough to read through in a single day. But you get the feeling it’s more complex then that.

You already know how to meditate, so you’re not sure why you picked up this book.

THE HAWK THAT COULD SEE FOR 10 MILLION KILOMETERS
This one’s a book on Wing-Kin PERCEPTION and eye sight. It gives some tips and tricks to help you notice things you’d otherwise miss. Funnily enough you almost ignored this one but found it tucked underneath a bookshelf, covered in dust. It was really down to LUCK that you found it.

You think it would take [1 TIME POINT] to read through it and get a sense that it’ll help your CURIOSITY and increase your PERCEPTIVENESS.

THE LINGUISTS GUIDE TO FAUNUS
This is a book on the many languages native to Faunus written in CANON, the language you speak and write. It’s one of the most commonly seen languages amongst the Kin, somehow managing to remain similar enough even before the tunnels between plates were made. It’s also got the Human royal language of ENGLISH, and the language of HIVEN. It briefly mentions runescript as a language, and several other relatively small and unknown languages. It takes a long time to learn a language, but you could spend [1 TIME POINT] copying down the syntax, language, grammar, and pronunciations so that you could slowly learn HIVEN over time.

You think it would take [1 TIME POINT] to copy down the language and that you’ll learn a little bit about the cultures of kin on other plates.

There’s lots of other books in the library, but these were the ones that spoke up to you the most. You’ve got a better grasp of the place, so maybe next time you’ll have a better time looking for things you want.

Which book do you take?

And do you GULP use your pocket dimension to STEAL one?

[GUILE] Seriously. You’ll break easy. Dont.
[???] Orrrr you could, and hoard it like a dragon.
[CURIOSITY] So like do you have a thing for dragons or?


AUTHORS NOTE: Books have been adjusted, some are better than others, but it’s up to your LUCK and TIME now everyone!

Next up is a recap of your goals, finances, and the new classes being offered. You’ve still got one goal slot left, though I’d prefer if at least 2 people agree on one before I slot the last one in. I also came up with a few classes I realized were missing and will add them to the list.

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No. 1004548 ID: e51896

Don't steal plz. have some honor... like your bro!

THE ART OF THE TEACH. This will be very useful for the TA Challenge, and to help us with our goal to teach Magitech and become a teacher!. plus, new stat PATIENCE will be given to us.

but whatever we get, make sure it costs 1 TIME POINT, I feel we need to get one with 1 TIME POINT since we already got some things planned (The TA Challenge, and hang out with Ignis.
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No. 1004549 ID: 094652

Get the Hawk
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No. 1004550 ID: 0fae41

Take the super duper rare runescripting book. We can come back for the book of orders when we’re a teacher… but let Marth know about it and if they ever get a chance to see the library it could help. Note down who the author is, maybe we can talk to them directly!
Don’t swipe one, if you think you’ll crack it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. You need to work on that poker face ASAP.
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No. 1004551 ID: afa6f6

>>1004543
Ugh this choice is so hard! Can we like, ask the librarian is we could just LIVE in here, just for like a week? Half joking.
If we had our memory cheat, I wonder if we could have just skimmed through a bunch to memorize books and copy them back down later.

I'll back up a vote for any one of :
THE ART OF THE TEACH,
MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE, or
The JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII)
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No. 1004553 ID: ce39da

STEAL, Y/N?
DON'T STEAL. You've already reasoned out why it's a bad idea right now.

ERMAGERD, BERKS
Take out THE ART OF THE TEACH. It has an obvious reward that's immediately useful to our goals. Maybe skim the Black Lotus section of The Book of Orders for now if you still have time before you gotta go.

EPIPHANY: [???]
... It's painfully obvious as to what this is if one considers the facts for a moment. It started intruding when we started probing the fog in our mind. It's out of character for both us and SABA.

I think we were a dragon before we were SABA, and these intrusive thoughts are an artifact of that life we took in when we started dipping our toes into the fog. The fog represents all of the lives we don't currently remember.
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No. 1004555 ID: 7c6627

>>1004548
>>1004551
>>1004553
Support these for the art of teach

And dont steal, we might get access to the library when we become a teacher. But we will need to work on Guile at some point.

And maybe skim through the pages of a book. maybe book of orders. Then we can use our EIDETIC MEMORY to read what we saw in our mind later. Specifically look into into the black lotus pages

>>1004553

That's be so awesome if we were dragon before! Maybe it is worth traveling in the fog of our EIDETIC MEMORY at some point. Maybe after we finish expanding the palace we're working on.
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No. 1004561 ID: 96606a

my vote is the black book, IT'S CALLS TO ME!
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No. 1004565 ID: 6dead7

>>1004553
Or It Represents normal greed.
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No. 1004569 ID: 6c227a

I'ma say SUBGOAL: come up with 200 shinies in spare cash so you can go hang with RIICHI at the gambling hall

>>1004555
Nah see, eidetic memory allows perfect recall of the experience, but that experience would just be uselessly glancing at the page without comprehension. We would need true photographic memory for that kind of shenanigans, which not even Saba had.
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No. 1004583 ID: 96c896

>>1004543
My selections:
OMNIMBUS so to make the most out of our ONE BOOK
THE ART OF THE TEACH because it'd directly further our goals
THE HAWK THAT COULD SEE FOR 10 MILLION KILOMETERS because perception was on the exam so it must be important

Idea: learn Hiven from Marth!
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No. 1004585 ID: 031458

JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE... clearly offers a CHEAT SKILL related to runescripting. I'm not sure if we'll be able to get it right now without some serious sacrifice. Though if we knew more Runescript we'd probably need less time to decipher it. I can see us getting FAMOUS if we were to somehow pull it off this year somehow. Still, perhaps it would be better to deal with it NEXT TIME, but that means there needs to BE a next time.

UNTITLED BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK could easily be worked into our studies this year, and is of obvious benefit.

THE ART OF THE TEACH could maybe save us a class and maybe even get us to that teaching position earlier. Between our own teaching experience, Saba's memories, our yearly TA in the Teaching class, and this book, we could probably skip the first teaching course and jump right into the second. We could potentially finish teaching 3 by the end of the year.

MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE sounds like it teaches more advanced focused meditation.

Either of the Fiction books
If we feel mildly ambitious, we could take a book that would be [b]FUN[/i] to read, and attempt the extreme time management idea we had a couple years back. Yeah it'll cause some stress, but since we'll just be making time for something FUN, it won't be too bad. We'll have more time to spend on our studies and bonds, while still benefitting from the library.

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Personally I vote for the BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK, UNLESS of course the TIME MANAGEMENT FOR A FICTION BOOK idea catches on.

I also propose:
SUBGOAL: Do something impressive enough to be readmitted to the Royal Library.
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No. 1004590 ID: 13da16

Art of teach

>>1004585
I like that subgoal idea
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No. 1004594 ID: f8fa51

We can learn teaching technique here anyway, and it's not like it'll teach us without a TIME investment. Better, I think, to get something that might be able to surpass what we can learn here. That means JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST.
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No. 1004619 ID: dfbac0

I know I'm late but...
THE HAWK THAT COULD SEE FOR 10 MILLION KILOMETERS gives an extremely helpful skill and more curiosity, perceptiveness helps you see things you'd otherwise miss, so not only is it helpful for combat but research as well, noticing small details and data you'd otherwise miss.
I know I'm late but this is truly an amazing book.
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No. 1004628 ID: afe7de
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> CHOICE - ART OF THE TEACH
You decide to pick ART OF THE TEACH, as an aspiring educator you feel it’s not only a good idea, but you feel an inner calling for it from your prior life. Different teaching methods are always a good thing, and your main goal is after all to teach MAGITECH, so any edge you can get is good.

[SABA’S KN] You’re gonna make my cry, I’m so proud.
Your KNOWLEDGE and LOGIC stats are PROUD of you


You take your remaining time after getting a snack to read through THE BOOK OF ORDERS, specifically you read up on the BLACK LOTUS GROUP.

They’re a mercinary organization, some call them a CULT, others call them a GUILD, but the thing everyone agrees on is that they are hard to spot until its too late. Their origins are from a world-plate near the HIVEN KINGDOM that was decimated. Their current members are unknown, but they are skilled in CHARISMA, GUILE and ASSASSINATION, slowly needling their way into the politics of most major powers. It’s said the founder was a MALE ROOK in HIVEN society, one of the only types of the Insect-Kin that could reproduce with other species. They’re ambitious and secretive, preferring to collect and sell information, but also performing assassinations. They are largely a non-threat to the TENGU plate and the way their internal politics are set up.

The last thing you’re able to grasp before you have to go is that they have a few contacts and at least 1 member in the CANUS world plate. This tome appears to be updated every decade, and was last updated 3 years ago. As you’re heading out you decide against stealing, more firmly this time. You’re not really prepared to lie, you get the feeling the first big lie you tell will be VERY HARD to do and keep straight at your level. You leave and are reminded not to sell or discard the book as you’ll have to return it in a year.

An unknown stat is disappointed in you
Your INTUITION gets a strange feeling, but it passes
You’ve acquired the book ART OF THE TEACH
- You’ll have to spend a TIME POINT on it to gain anything from it

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No. 1004629 ID: afe7de
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A few days pass and it’s the start of the new school year. You heard a rumor that PAWN got a MASSIVE book from the ROYAL LIBRARY and has had is nose in it since he got it. The class roster has been updated, and there’s a lot going on. You can only do so much, but you promise yourself you’ll do your best. After a quick question to the administration you are informed that if you have prerequisite skills you can actually skip some initial classes. You’ll have to take an exam, but after it they’ll tell you if you qualify. You were specifically interested in this for the TEACHING CLASS since you know a bit about teaching already and are going to read the book.

You ask around and find out that the RUNESCRIPTERS will join you EARLIEST next semester as they still need time to study at least 1 more RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL.

IGNIS has a JOB working with the COURIERS, he’s willing to take that class with you whenever.
Noodle, PON, and MARTH are undecided.
WILLIAM’s thinking of taking LEADERSHIP or GARDENING classes.

Classes you’ve already taken will have a #/# on them so you know how many of the courses you’ve passed out of the total.

LOGIC CLASSES - These classes require a good grasp of LOGIC to excel in
MAGITECH 1/2 - Developing technologies through runescript
ARCHITECTURE 4 - Learn how to build and maintain Avian structures
ENGINEERING 2 - Learn how to make tools and proofs of concepts

ATHLETICISM CLASSES - These classes focus on ATHLETICISM and SELF DEFENSE
HUNTER [2TP] 1/4 - Learn to become a hunter with specialized WORLD-PLATE HUNTERS, counts as 2 classes per course due to the time investment.
MARTIAL ARTS 3 - Learn the finer points of COMBAT the next step up from SELF DEFENSE, offers a variety of weapons to learn from.
AEROBATICS 2 - Hone your skills whilst training to put on airshows and participate in races only wing-kin can do. *NOTE* Using tools to fly is acceptable as well but you must pay for your own resources, the school will not provide them.

INTUITION CLASSES - A lot of these classes are theoretical, focusing on what we know and feel about the topics.
ENERGY THEORY 1 - A class about what might be causing the end-plates to crumble
MANA THEORY 1 - A class about MANA, the energy that powers MAGITECH, and it’s theoretical applications on the body
MONSTER THEORY 1 - A class on MONSTER BEHAVIOR, their theorized origins, and power levels
THEOLOGY 2 - A class on religions, the first focuses on your countries, the second focuses on religions found in other world-plates
MEDITATION 1/x - A class on the foreign art of MEDITATION, said to reduce stress
ARCHEOLOGY 3 - Learn how to spot dangers in ancient ruins, our theories on them, and how to be diplomatic with kin in other regions that find these places to be sacred
TACTICS x - Learn the secrets of STRATEGY and play WAR GAMES
TRACKING (new) 1 - Teaches you the basics of tracking and being perceptive, will help you find game and be aware of monster dens, an offshoot created so kin don’t have to take multiple hunter classes to learn the skill

KNOWLEDGE CLASSES - These classes will help you gain specialized knowledge in new fields
TEACHING 3 - Learn to teach others
MEDICINE 4 - Learn to heal others through practical medicine, the final course teaches minor surgery and ways to save limbs that have been lost
PLATOLOGY 2 - Learn about the plates and how they work
ANTHROPOLOGY 2 - Learn about KIN, how long we’ve been here, and the tendencies of the various races
AGRICULTURE 1 - Learn how to breed crops and animals in our world-plate and farm for SHINIES
ETIQUETTE 1 - Learn how royalty act in this kingdom and beyond
NARCOTICS 2 - Learn about drugs

CHARISMA CLASSES - These classes will help you learn about and how to interact with kin better
LAW 2 - Learn about the Politics of this world plate and others
PSYCHOLOGY 2 - Learn about the kin mind and it’s behaviors
LEADERSHIP 3 - Learn how to LEAD and MOTIVATE kin
NEGOTIATION (NEW) 2 - Learn to negotiate, to get what you want, has applications in business
GUARD TRAINING 3 - Learn the skills needed to be a guard, to spot trouble, and protect the Kin of TENGU.
SINGING 6 - Learn the art of singing, a Wing-Kin favorite

CREATIVE CLASSES - These classes will help you get more creative
GARDENING x - Learn how to tend to plants
DANCE x - Learn different forms of dance
SCULPTURE x - Learn to sculpt in various mediums
PAINTING x - Learn to paint
MUSIC x - Learn an instrument (pick one)
PRINTING x - Learn how to make books and mass produced paper with this new technology

APPRENTICESHIPS - These are class length jobs you can take on. Taking classes in this is unpaid, but if you excel, you may be offered a PART TIME JOB [-1 time point] or a FULL TIME JOB [-2 time points]. But you have to commit for at least 1 year when taking a job.
COURIER 1 - Learn the basics of delivery work, how to read building markers, and more
METALWORKING 1 - Learn how to forge weapons, tools, and devices
OUTREACH 1 - Learn a bit of everything and how to offer your services to those who might not have access to them, will see you traveling around the world-plate on your weekends off.
ARTISAN (NEW) 1 - Learn to ENGRAVE or to do PORTRAIT ART, chose one and you’ll be trained in it.
PASTRY CHEF (NEW) 1 - Learn to make SWEETS, both fried and otherwise

JOBS - There’s also a single part time job opening with tons of slots. No commitments or experience required.
SCHOOL JANITOR x - Learn to clean! Offered by the school below minimum wage if you are having trouble finding a job. Pays 960 SHINIES a [TIME POINT]
FARMHAND x - Learn the basics of working on a farm, it’s lots of hard work and only the ATHLETIC should go. Pays 960 SHINIES a [TIME POINT] initially with a possibility of bonuses

> OBLIGATIONS
IGNIS’S FAVOR
- Ignis is willing to help you get students into the MAGITECH CLASS for a FAVOR
- He wants you to take either GARDENING, SINGING, DANCE, or MUSIC with him
- Or you can just spend [1 TIME POINT] with him as free time
- Or you can spend [2 TIME POINTS] with him next year
- You can talk to him to cancel the favor entirely, or ignore him entirely, getting his help anyway
- But he might resent you for it

> CHALLENGES
TO TEACH THE UNTEACHABLE
- Teach 3 new students RUNESCRIPTING during a single SEMESTER
REWARDS: Become a TA

BETTER THAN YOU
- Through TA’ing cause the TA’d runescripting class students to reach 70% pass rate
- Pass the third class in the TEACHING course
REWARDS: Gain an opportunity to become a MAGITECH professor

> OPPORTUNITIES
LEARN GUILE WITH RIICHI [1 TIME POINT]
GAMBLE [1 TIME POINT] [REQUIRES 200 SHINIES]

> GOALS
GOAL POINTS - 1
GP GOAL - 4
GOAL - LEARN TO TEACH MAGITECH
SUBGOAL - REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (rank 7)
SUBGOAL - LEARN ALL OF THE SCRIPTING MANUALS SHIMON HAS TO OFFER YOU - PROGRESS 4/??
SUBGOAL (NEW) - BE READMITTED TO THE ROYAL LIBRARY
You know there’s another chance in year 4’s fair for you, you’re sure that there are other ways too.

You have [0 STRESS] right now
You have [213 SHINIES] right now
You have [2 TIME POINTS] to spend this semester.
What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
2a. Go SHOPPING - (Does not cost a TIME POINT, just let me know what you want to buy, I’ll let you know the price and give you a chance to confirm)
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals RED, YELLOW, and REFLECTION are available to work on
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION**] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND PALACE / EIDETIC MEMORY = 75% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING**] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)

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No. 1004630 ID: 96c896

>>1004629
>PAWN got a big book
Hey, idea. You could read eachothers' books. Though maybe Pawn isn't too interested in the teaching book. In that case you might have to owe him a favor to be able to read his.

>time points
Meditate to expand your Mind Palace and gain Eidetic Memory.
Take a class with Ignis. I'm not decided on which-- either Dance or Singing.
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No. 1004631 ID: c2dc82

>>1004630
Oh I like to book trade idea, you should track down pawn later and propose it to him
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No. 1004632 ID: f8fa51

You can read your book in inter-semester time. Take a teaching class as well as SINGING with Ignis.
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No. 1004638 ID: e51896

(EDITED MY POST AFTER SOME CONSIDERATIONS)

Man, this was hard to figure out how to use time points, but I think I figured out a plan.

First, Let Pon and Noodle know they don't have to wait for you to take the hunting class and they can take it without you. assure them you've got an opportunity to become a TA that you do not want to miss this year, and you don't want to anchor Pon away from his hunter dream. You have your own dream to chase, and they have theirs after all.

Second, suggest William take LEADERSHIP, you want to see him succeed as a KING.

Third: Marth I think can take TACTICS (i might change this later)

>>1004632
Support this idea. Singing raises our CHARISMA. Also, we should buy a gift for Ignis as thanks for helping us with the favor since it uses shinies instead of TIME POINTS. If buying something from Chipper doesn't use a time point, then lets buy a FIGURINE of Ignis to give to Ignis as a gift.

and have teaching be with our free TA this year to make learning more effective.

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Planning ahead:

first semester:
- TEACHING CLASS (with the free TA)
- SINGING with Ignis to fulfill his favor and to raise charisma (consider buying a gift for Ignis as thanks for helping you out, maybe from Chipper, like a figurine if that doesn't use a time point)

break:
- Read the ART OF TEACH book (use our study skill here)
- practice teaching the RUNESCRIPTERS again with your new teaching skills

second semester:
- MAGITECH CLASS
- Meditation (expand our mind palace and lower stress)
- TA challenge to get a TA job. (we're only allowed this school year to do it)
- afterwards, we can have dinner with Marth at the end of this semester to lower any stress as well and form a better bond with her. Show her the coin you got for her opinion.
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No. 1004641 ID: e51896

Also, I personally think we should at least wait until we finish our own teaching book before we consider thinking about trading books with Pawn. reading another book might take time, and his is pretty big.
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No. 1004643 ID: 0fae41

Yes! Let's take that gardening class with William. And Ignis too, I guess.
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No. 1004645 ID: de0582

Garden with Ignis and William
Teaching class with a teaching assistant
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No. 1004646 ID: 031458

Let's take DANCE with Ignis.
And then the Teaching class +TA

Also we know EXACTLY what book Pon took. He won't be interested in ours.
Though, he probably wouldn't mind reading that book aloud WITH us if we made time for it. He'll basically need to drop everything EXCEPT the book if he wants to get through it, so he'll DEFFO be around whenever.
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No. 1004647 ID: afa6f6

>>1004646
Yeah, Dance with Ignis, I think that might increase both Charisma and maybe a physical stat.
Take the Teaching class.

Offer to trade books with Pawn when he reaches a stopping point, and if he's not interested in the Teaching book, offer to let him use all the Runescripting manuals that we've finished and we'll help him with them so he can get throuh them faster. At least since he'll know we reading the Teaching that were series about it and wont waste his time.

Should we take Marth out for a meal this time?
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No. 1004650 ID: ce39da

GARDENING with Ignis and William (and we'll see who else shows up).

FINISH MAGITECH. It'd be kind of silly to try and become a TA before you even complete the class.

We can read books and meditate during our free time when classes can't be taken.
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No. 1004653 ID: b9d847

Teaching with TA
A class with Ignis (im fine with any)

For break time, we'll read our teaching book
And then we'll offer to trade books with Pawn, or maybe trade the scripting manuals we finished with him to let you borrow it to read for a bit. He might not be interested in our teaching book.

DONT trade books until we finish our teaching book! It has information thats valuable to us!
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No. 1004661 ID: ce39da

>>1004650
To add to this: Ignis is absolutely trying to get closer to you in that way like William's letter was implying. He's just a bit more subtle than his younger brother gave him credit for. Since GARDENING isn't too labor/focus intensive, I say we sidetrack his potential flirting attempts by asking about his past life.
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No. 1004668 ID: b91eff

>>1004661
Eh. Nothing wrong with Ignis trying to get closer in that way. It's not like we have given that sort of relationship much thought anyway. We haven't made a lot of time for ourselves, worked on many bonds, or explored our previous life very much.

There's no reason to preemptively cockblock Ignis. If we wanted to keep our life and relationships perfectly neat we'd have taken childhood bond and Early development.
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No. 1004674 ID: f8fa51

Let's not forget also that this is an Edmango quest, so open relationships are probably the assumed default.
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No. 1004675 ID: a42ce8

Chi has 3 parents after all
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No. 1004679 ID: 96c896

Well if it's acceptable to date multiples at once maybe Chi should take GARDENING and hang out with both William and Ignis at the same time? I was against it at first because it'd seem like she wasn't fully committing to Ignis' intentions, but if he didn't mind it'd be fine, and more efficient use of time. Plus maybe the boys could be friends too!

So basically, I'm switching my vote to:
GARDENING with Ignis and William
STUDY the teaching book. Should be more effective than the teaching class, and we don't really need to spend two time units on teaching skill do we?
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No. 1004689 ID: afe7de
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> CLASS - GARDENING
You were REALLY torn between GARDENING, SINGING, and DANCING, but eventually decide to go with GARDENING. This way you’ll be in a class with IGNIS and WILLIAM. The class itself is interesting, it teaches you the basics of botany and herbs. Things you could grow in a garden. It’s a small amount of instruction at the beginning, and then spending the rest of the class day in the garden of the ACADEMY, tending to plants and socializing. He essentially parades you around and introduces you to lots of different kin. A lot of them here are in a higher political standing, their parents being members of the royal court, important merchants, and some are even from important kin in CANUS.

One day Ignis sets you aside and talks to you for a bit.

Ignis: Heya Chi, thanks for taking the time to take a class with me!
Ignis: I just thought uh. That It’d be nice if you branched out a bit.
Ignis: You kinda went hard core in your classes and haven’t spent much time trying to meet new kin
Ignis: And Connections are kinda useful if you can make them early like this.
You: oh uh, yeah. I’ve just uh, been kind of driven lately.
Ignis: Perfectly fine to be driven! But take some time to get out there and smell the roses a bit
Ignis: I think you have a bright future ahead of you!
Ignis: Just let me know when and I’ll rally the students for you, you’ll have a full class I gurantee it!


Ignis gives you a rather charming thumbs up. William approaches and joins in the conversation, it’s lighthearted and a good time. You were worried it was going to be stressful with all these important kin, but you manage to fit in nicely with William and Ignis’ help. There’s one kin in particular you meet that you become friends with. They’re an artistic soul with a weak body. His name is NICO GIOVANNA, he’s a VERY FLUFFY mole, his mom is a sculptor for the monarchy and tends to take on big commissions. The two of them moved here from CANUS. You frequently see him cultivating HERBS of various kinds.
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Nico: I make these to calm myself.
Nico: DON’T EAT THEM THOUGH!
Nico: I’ve got a frail body you see, so I have to make these herbs to grind into MEDICINE.
Nico: and that makes some of them POISONOUS.
Nico: We moved here because we heard the SHINIES would help make me healthier,
Nico: And while I am sick less often, making medicine earns me a little money
Nico: And it helps my constitution a bit you know.


He’s very adorable, but isnt that charismatic. But you take a liking to him anyway. You sometimes talk to him about various things. One day MARTH shows up to the club to deliver something to the teacher before heading off. You wave at her and she gives you a nod before leaving.

Nico notices and asks you who that was. You tell him it’s your friend MARTH. Nico thinks her eyes look really cool and wants you to introduce Marth to him one day. You see the sparkle in his eyes when he says that. You give a light chuckle and say maybe. The rest of the class is pretty normal, you do some light botany, talk with other kin, and spend a lot of time with IGNIS and WILLIAM, growing closer to them both. You’re still a bit YOUNG and DIM in the romance department, you never were that savvy with it, so you’re not sure if he was flirting or not. But you did notice William giving Ignis a conflicted look every now and again when he thought you weren’t looking, otherwise, on the surface the two seem to get along well enough.

Your BOND with IGNIS has increased twice to rank 4!
- Ignis will occasionally help you on tasks you are having difficulties with
- Ignis now TRUSTS YOU
- You feel like IGNIS really appreciates you reciprocating his favor
- You can now request 1 favor a year from IGNIS
Your BOND with WILLIAM is becoming more stable, you think if you spend some more time with him it won’t be a superficial BOND anymore.
You’ve formed a BOND with NICO
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring Nico
You get the feeling that forming a BOND with kin your age in the aristocracy will be easier because of this experience

You’ve learned a little about GARDENING and HERBS
Your CHARISMA stat has increased
Your CHARISMA stat has reached the SOFT CAP
You’re not sure how to progress it farther


Occasionally when you’re leaving class you feel like someone’s watching you. Your [INTUITION] sparks and you turn around, but never see anyone. The only time you caught someone watching was when you saw PAWN eating his lunch on the roof of the greenhouse, he made eye contact with you once, but you think he was more kin watching everyone in general. You disregard that because it’s usually where he had lunch before this semester.
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> SKILL CHECK - Convince Pawn to trading or let you read the book
You ask to talk to PAWN privately one day and he takes you to your room begrudgingly. When you enter he sees you eying the massive tome on his table and he rejects our offers for tutoring, the other manuals, or swapping books.

Pawn: I don’t really KNOW you. Yeah we went to the same grade school and ended up here,
Pawn: but we don’t have a BOND, and I don’t really TRUST you, you could take this, sell it,
Pawn: And then I’d be out a book and get punished for it!
You: I wouldn’t do that!
Pawn: Kin lie Chi.
Pawn: It’s a good book, but if you want a read it you should check it out when you go in next.
Pawn: If it’s you I’m sure you’ll get another chance.
You: What about the book itself, what have you gleaned from it?
Pawn: You can find out for yourself if you read it later.
Pawn: I don’t know if this is some kind of manipulation for me treating Pon poorly when we were younger
Pawn: But I apologized and moved on and haven’t bugged anyone like that since.
Pawn: It’s called THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF KAMAL LIN: OMNIMBUS
Pawn: At least try being friends with someone before asking for stuff like this


You leave, just a little dejected from the rejection. You feel like you were CHARISMATIC enough, but maybe that wasn't it. You feel a little sad about this. But move on anyway.

[LOGIC] You kind of don’t know him.
[CHARISMA] Just because its easier for you to make a bond with someone for you
[CHARISMA] doesent mean that you can put in no effort and expect instant results.
[GUILE] Also, you totally could have taken it into your pocket space and it’d be gone forever
[CHARISMA] Your REPUTATION may not be good enough yet


You get the feeling forming a bond with PAWN will be a little harder now
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No. 1004692 ID: afe7de
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> CLASS - TEACHING + TA
You head into the class on the first day and try to see if you can test out of the class. The teacher looks at you incredulously but offers you the exam anyway. You take your time and fill it out to the best of your knowledge, showing your experience and knowhow. After completing it she looks a little taken aback and speaks a bit more respectfully to you.

Teacher: Yeah, so according to this you should be able to skip right to the third course.
Teacher: You’ll be missing a few lessons on things but your basic capabilities seem sound.
Teacher: Though I’d suggest getting a TA for the class just to be safe.
Teacher: The third class is mostly hands on teaching, but I’ve also heard you’ve been hosting
Teacher: Study groups for MAGITECH, so I think you’ll be fine.


She writes a note and stamps it, handing it back to you. You head over to the third class and notice the teacher to be MINNIE, the receptionist at the royal library. She recognizes you and waves you over, after explaining the situation and handing her the note you hear praises from her and she claims that she’ll be extra hard on you. You sweat a little bit at the mention, it looks like this’ll be a little hard. She hoots a bit in amusement.

The class isn’t as painful as it sounds, there are lessons on different teaching techniques and styles, followed by assignments to memorize certain material or at least write up lesson plans and then exercises where you’re tasked with teaching groups of children in the grade school near by different topics. You make a few mistakes here and there, one time using terms from SABA’S KNOWLEDGE by mistake, which you are sharply punished for, but your KNOWLEDGE and LOGIC back you up for the most part and you’re 90% sure that if you didn’t take the TA for this class you would have guaranteed failed it.

[INTUITION] I actually get the feeling this class was meant to be failed and taken twice
[INTUITION] Unless you use a TA or Tutor or something


MINNIE is proud of your progress and informs you that when you’re older you’d make a fine TEACHER, but she says you should learn a little PATIENCE. You’re still young and should enjoy your childhood after all. She tells you that she’ll talk to the faculty about offering you a TEACHING job next year for some of the GRADE SCHOOLERS, all of the positions are currently filled. She says it’ll be good experience, but that it takes [2 TIME POINTS] (One at the beginning and end of the year, leaving you with 2,2,2 that year) and a bit STRESSFUL since it’s with young children. She says there’s no pressure even if you reject the offer.

You swell with PRIDE over your accomplishment
Your TEACHING skill as improved to rank ***
- You can now teach someone up to your level in a STAT or SKILL
- You unfortunately do not know how to teach past a SOFT CAP yet
You’ve started to learn the basics of PATIENCE, but it’s not fully formed yet

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> EVENT - BLITZ?
It’s the day after break has started and DRIFT comes up to you, asking to talk to you privately. He’s come to inform you that something strange has happened. Blitz has completely vanished. But not just him, his entire family too. He’s been gone since right before the TENGU ACADEMY EXAMS.

[INTUITION] That’s not right, he wanted to get into the academy, to learn a lot
[LOGIC] He said something about wanting to learn every trade so he can communicate with everyone
[CURIOSITY] Ask him if he visited his house


You ask if he’s been to their house, and he nods, he pulls out a small scrap covered in blood and says this was all he found, everything else was gone. He’s shaking. You give him a hug as he mumbles and cries about his best friend.

You: When did you find out?
Drift: The middle of last year.
Drift: I went to visit him and my family during the break,
Drift: but no one had seen him or visited him since.
Drift: Apparently the mayor saw his dad leave the plate one day in a hurry, but I dont buy it
Drift: He would have left me, his best friend a note!
You: This doesn’t make any sense
Drift: Please, I uh.
Drift: I see you as a rival almost, you’re better and smarter
Drift: And I’m nothing, I’m weak. I just have these shitty memories of a dying beast.
Drift: I’m not even close to anyone other than him or you.
Drift: but you’re making moves, you know kin, maybe you can find something out.
Drift: I don’t have much, I don’t even have anything really.
Drift: But if you could find out what happened to him I’d really appreciate it.
You: Why don’t you ask the guards or the hunters?
Drift: I tried, they wouldn’t listen to me because I’m 11.
You: Your parents?
Drift: Thought I was making it up, that it was some kind of game or story
Drift: Like my dreams. They believe the Mayor, but the mayor wouldn’t even see me!
Drift: You don’t have to do this, even if it takes 20 years it’s fine,
Drift: I-I just want to know he’s okay, If I have to find him myself I will.


Drift takes a step back to calm himself and you look at the cloth. Your heart stops for a moment as you recognize the symbol. It’s the BLACK LOTUS. He takes the stained cloth and walks away, dejected.

Due to the accumulation of stress from multiple events you’ve gained [1 STRESS]
Drift has issued you a REQUEST, [FIND BLITZ] there is no time limit on it
And how you attempt to resolve it, if you ever decide to, is completely up to you
Your INTUITION warns you that there’s an unprecedented level of danger associated with this request


Your heart is heavy, but it is the break.

You have [1 STRESS]
You have [213 SHINIES]
You have [2 TIME POINTS] to spend
What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
2a. Go SHOPPING - (Does not cost a TIME POINT, just let me know what you want to buy, I’ll let you know the price and give you a chance to confirm)
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals RED, YELLOW, and REFLECTION are available to work on
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION**] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND PALACE / EIDETIC MEMORY = 75% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING**] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)


AUTHORS NOTE: Just for some clarity, when you next meditate you can EITHER chose to finish the mind palace as is, and gain Eidetic memory, OR continue to build your mind palace with potential higher gains. Either way, the effects from Eidetic memory or better will only start AFTER you finish.
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No. 1004696 ID: 558ab1

Learn guile and finish that mind palace. Claim that mental real estate!
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No. 1004698 ID: 094652

Buy a sculpture of a lotus. Paint it black, and declare to yourself a covenant.
When you accumulate enough stress, stab the sculpture in the center. You will defeat the black Lotus for what they've done.
New Dream: Fight against the Black Lotus guild.
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No. 1004701 ID: e51896

We will

-Spend time with the RUNESCRIPTERS and help TEACH them (to grow our bond with them and prepare them)
-Read ART OF TEACH (So we can learn PATIENCE to better prepare for the TA Challenge the next semester this year, we only have this year to do it!)

-Dinner with Marth to lower stress, and stabilize our bond (Note: DO NOT bring up Drift's problem with Marth until our bond is completely STABLE. In fact, don't, bring up the black lotusts, or her mysterious past. Just talk fun stuff, and classes. Make it a HIGH quality meal.)
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No. 1004703 ID: ce39da

READ THE BOOK ON TEACHING. We gotta finish it before it’s due back.

WORK ON MIND PALACE. I think the agreement was to EXPAND it. Let’s make separate spaces for each of our lives - maybe we can start talking to SABA (and others) directly. Also, leave some empty doorways and paths from which to explore the fog (and for future lives to build off of when the palace is inherited).
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No. 1004704 ID: e51896

>>1004701
To add on to my post,

if we decide to expand the mind palace, we'll wait on having dinner with Marth next semester, since we can lower our stress with that by then.
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No. 1004705 ID: 031458

I think the only thing we HAVE to do during the break is spend a time point reading THE ART OF THE TEACH to round off our teaching.

I would say study the rune script books starting with red and yellow, but... Skipping ahead two classes releases some pressure off of us.

I think we should spend some time forming a bond with MARTH. We work with William often enough that we've gotten to know him, even if we haven't put much time aside for him exclusively. We barely see Marth, however. Let's change that. Heh, we could even try to set her up with the cute mole boy that has a crush on her.

As for the Drift thing...
Run after him. Console him and let him know that you'll help. Hell, if he can use the company hang out with him the rest of the day. Maybe share a meal. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, that probably wouldn't be appropriate. Perhaps something cheaper that y'all could eat on the go while you help him sort his thoughts.
He deserves to know about the meaning of the Black Lotus. This is a serious situation and we, along with anyone else we drag into this, needs to be prepared.
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No. 1004709 ID: afa6f6

>>1004693
Read Art of Teach
Practice Guile
Take Marth out for Lunch. Maybe mention Nico.

1 Free action to BROOD about Drift and Blitz. We should definitely do something but hell if I know what we can do at this point, other then warn Drift and offer emotional support.

Since we're definitely going to get involved with this organization at this point, I think we should put some priority on learning Guile and upping our combat/survival skills, and soon. The more capable we are of defening ourselves the better.
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No. 1004714 ID: eba8b7

Art of teach
Spend some time with RIICHI to learn more Guille and hopefully build our bond with her.

Dinner with Marth. High quality meal. Show off your rare coin!
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No. 1004715 ID: 96c896

>>1004693
Pawn probably refused because the royal books are just too valuable to lend to anyone you don't trust. Using your own book as collateral could work I guess, but he'll probably want to finish reading it first and that isn't gonna happen anytime soon for sure. 8 time points is almost 1 and a half years of doing nothing but reading the book (which is absolutely absurd tbh since you can read War and Peace in like two weeks)

STUDY GUILE
either read the teaching book or get together with the runescripters to practice teaching runescripting.

Looks like eidetic memory is going to take fucking forever to unlock because there's too much other shit going on and each time point is still too valuable to spend on anything that isn't an immediate and tangible gain.
I'm pretty sure at this point that the fog is Saba's mind palace, but trying to reuse it would be tricky without confusing information.
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No. 1004716 ID: 720eec

>>1004714
Seconding this
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No. 1004717 ID: 1d5ff4

>>1004715
We can always meditate next semester this year, could help woth our stress

But also, the main reason why he didnt take our favor was because we havent formed a BOND with him yet. In the future, lets not ask favors to people who we do not have a good enough bond with or else it'll be harder to form bonds with them later. (level 3 seems good for favors)

But after this year, I say we use more time to bond with others. It'll be important to have a lot of friends supporting us like Ignis recommended, and our teaching teacher suggested. Im getting red flags from only focusing on raising our stats the coming years after this year.
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No. 1004719 ID: c99055

Oh! I forgot, lets buy something for ourself, something to comfort us, like a plush toy! Maybe a teddy bear.
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No. 1004720 ID: 031458

>>1004717
If we can figure out a long term goal we can all agree on, it'll help us make more time for social stuff, since we'll know what is and isn't strictly neccesary.

With our current skill set, I've been assuming we were going to try and spread Canus Runescripting to Tengu.
This means we need
Runescripting
Teaching - To spread it
Hunter - To be allowed to travel to other world plates. (Like Canus, so we can learn more runescripting)
We should also put aside some time for the weird Runescripting books in the Library, and perhaps Mana theory.

We can still fit all that into the 4 years we get for free without burning our breaks, though if we plan on staying for all 6 we can get all of that and still have time to make personal connections, or pick up other skills.
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No. 1004721 ID: 96c896

>>1004717
It wasn't a favor though. A favor would be asking to borrow it in exchange for nothing.

On the meditation thing I kindof doubt we're going to ever do it unless Edmango changes how time points work. We're not generating any stress because there's nothing to Study for, so nobody wants to meditate for two whole time points to gain a skill that might not benefit us much.
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No. 1004722 ID: dfbac0

Read TEACHING BOOK, as everyone said, it's a necessity.
Meditate on VISUAL CALCULUS, I know people are arguing the worth of eidetic memory, but if we plan to investigate this disappearance, we need this skill.
If not then I second EXPANDING THE PALACE.

Have a dinner with Marth, High quality.
While having dinner say something along the lines of: "I know you're trying to keep your whole ordeal quiet, but the black lotus might not."
Hopefully when he realizes this he might understand that his situation doesn't only effect him, and keeping it quiet just hurts other people.
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No. 1004724 ID: 031458

>>1004721
Meditating on Saba in general is important, and eidetic or photographic memory is really good to have. It's just life's been busy, we are ambitious, we're still really young, and we're not all that good at meditation. I bet if we spent time with William to get help with meditating, and read that special meditation book, it would become a much more rewarding activity.
We should have a bit more free time in the upcoming years, so maybe those are things we should try to do.
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No. 1004726 ID: 44b1b5

>>1004722
While I agree that our yearly free meal event should be with MARTH, I think we should save it for after classes in the latter half, as we'll already likely be recovering STRESS via meditation.
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No. 1004732 ID: 4ac264

>>1004726
Agreed
If we meditate now, save dinner for next semester.
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No. 1004743 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - THE ART OF THE TEACH
As the break begins you start to have headaches. You ignore them and crack open the book, giving it a read during the break. It’s not a dense read, but it covers a variety of topics and situations someone might come up with when teaching or tutoring an individual. It also heavily emphasizes the importance of patience when teaching others, that they aren’t at your level yet and that everyone has different levels of comprehension.

You give it several reads and practice the information present, it’s a pretty useful tome you think and it inspires in you new ways to teach others. By the time it takes you to read it the many times that you did, you feel more PATIENT and like you can TEACH BETTER.

You’ve gained the PATIENCE * skill
- Patience links with lots of different SKILLS and STATS
- Higher levels reduce frustration from setbacks
- It slightly increases your STRESS TOLERANCE so its a little bit harder to gain stress
Your TEACHING skill has improved to rank ****
- As you teach students you gain small amounts of experience in topics they know
- Due to the different approaches you see them take


> FREE TIME - GUILE WITH RIICHI
You head to Riichi’s apartment. It’s on the 6th floor and is only accessible via flight. You knock on the door and she opens it, it reeks of smoke inside, but she gladly welcomes you in and flaps it out the windows. She welcomes your visit and you reminisce while playing some games.

The rest of the break goes by and she’s still beating you in many games, but there’s a few times you catch her lying, not just in game but outside of it, you call her out on some of them and she smiles, saying that it’s good you’re catching on. It’s important to spot lies, even If these ones are incredibly obvious. The break goes by like this, you reading the book for part of the day, and spending time with Riichi the rest, with occasional breaks to hang out with your buds.

There’s a few times Riichi takes you to the gambling hall and gets you to play games with everyone. The first time you lose 150 SHINIES, but you’re PATIENT now, and you try again. And with a little bit of LUCK you manage to win 267 SHINIES back. Riichi gives you 67 SHINIES, pocketing an extra 50 as PAYMENT since she basically gave you an interest free loan of 150 SHINIES. You don’t really mind it, but hey you got some extra money! In the end you feel like you’re a little better at having a poker face and reading others.

Your GUILE stat has increased!
Your GUILE stat is very happy
Your STRATEGY stat hopes it’s their turn next
You gained 67 SHINIES

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No. 1004744 ID: afe7de
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1004744

> BONUS EVENT - A VISIT HOME
Before the break ends PON invites you and RIICHI home to visit the rest of your family, you decide to go. It’s a warm welcome and you share stories of the Academy, your exploits, and future plans. Your parents are very excited for your prospects of becoming a teacher, and are even more excited when you tell them you’re learning to teach MAGITECH and have even helped a few students out already. Pon talks about how he’s trying hard in the HUNTER courses and that the second DUSK RABBIT he fought was a lot easier than the other one. Draco decides to spar a bit with Pon, and even though it’s sloppy you can tell that Pon has made some significant improvements and he’s slowly starting to have CONFIDENCE in himself.

It’s a warming experience and you didn’t realize you missed your home, your mom’s cooking, the smell of the forest, your bed. It relieves you in a way. Before you leave your papa gives you a small bag, easily able to fit in your pouch. You open it and find two things inside. He says that these were things he found that are normally sold as MAGITECH components, so you might find use in them.

A horn that when you touch it, you feel a strange loss of potency. You’re not sure what that means, or even how you felt it, just that it’s something your INTUITION tells you. It’s a metaphysical feeling. The other is an approximately chicken egg sized chunk of metal, it’s prismatic and reflects the light in a beautiful rainbow-like pattern and is impossibly smooth. You get the opposite feeling when you touch this, that it’s very potent and filled with energy.

You ask your father for more details and he says the metal is a very small chunk of ARCANUM he found in a monster’s lair. He took it as a keepsake because it looked like a really nice stone, and he really shouldn’t enforce the stereotype that wing-kin like shiny things, but here we are. It was only later that he realized what it was. The other is a horn from a PANTAMULL. They’re ambush predators that are long, furry, and have extended snouts. It’s said that MAGITECH enchanted tools are less effective on them.

You head off, feeling better and happy to have seen Faan and Draco. The headaches are still there, but you feel like they’re getting stronger. You might gain some STRESS this semester until they stop, but your INTUITION tells you you’ll be fine. You spend the last days of the summer goofing off, flying around the city, drinking various juices. The break is over and it’s class time again.

You have [1 STRESS]
You spent [22 SHINIES] due to lifestyle expenses
You have [258 SHINIES]
You have [3 TIME POINTS] to spend
What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster.
2a. Go SHOPPING - (Does not cost a TIME POINT, just let me know what you want to buy, I’ll let you know the price and give you a chance to confirm)
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals RED, YELLOW, and REFLECTION are available to work on
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION**] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND PALACE / EIDETIC MEMORY = 75% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)


AUTHORS NOTE: The votes for going to dinner w/ marth during the previous timeslot vs waiting was tied, I’ll usually pick it to happen if there’s at least 3 votes and a majority for it just as an FYI
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No. 1004745 ID: 0fae41

Talk to Marth over dinner now, low quality if you must. It's not about the stress relief, it's about, well bonding with them for one, but more importantly to discuss the Lotus and our desire to help them get back at the group. You have even more reasons for wanting to get involved now. (And you find it curious that their founder was a crossbreeding insect-kin, too.)
To keep up with Pon and continue learning combat, take the next Hunter class. Finish your mind palace now - the sooner the bigger the better.
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No. 1004747 ID: 6519cb

I think MEDITATION would be good on those headaches. There's probably something to uncover or assimilate.
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No. 1004750 ID: c9ec6c

Meditate to EXPAND the mind Palace.
More than just a room or building, it should be an entire REALM, inhabited by your hopes, dreams, and ideas, along with persistent characters of your own creation.

We should definitely have a HIGH or EXQUISITE meal with MARTH.

We need to take MAGITECH 2 And work on the RUNESCRIPTING BOOKS this semester.
Red and yellow, preferably. Maybe reflection.
Though working with the RUNESCRIPTERS collectively on the books would probably be more optimal.
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No. 1004759 ID: 982d69

Take the Teachers Assistant challenge. We should have enough teaching skills and Runescripting skills to teach 3 people in the class runescripting!

Expand the mind palace

Get with the runescripters and get a couple more scripting manuals done as you teach the others. Do the The Red and Yellow ones. We can take the magitech class next year once we get them all done.

Dinner with Marth. (Exquisite, we did get 60 shinies after all)
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No. 1004764 ID: e51896

(Edited stuff to my post)

IMPORTANT!: this is our final chance to take the TA Challenge to become a teaching assistant for the Magitech class.

We told here >>1004375 that to be a TEACHER for Magitech, we need to first become a
Teachers assistant and get a 70% pass rate (we already finished the third teaching course requirement)

but to become a teachers assistant to Magitech, we need to take that challenge to teach three new students Magitech during Magitech class in a semester. We were also told to do this for this before the year ENDS.

I think it is important to become a Teachers Assistant for Shion so we can get closer to him and Marth, and get a better understanding of their black lotus situation.

- Take the second and final MAGITECH CLASS, we were told that everyone in the RUNESCRIPTERS group will be ready for the second class by this semester.

- Meditate to EXPAND our MIND PALACE.

- Take the TA CHALLENGE, we were told this is the only year to take it if we want to be a TA in the Magitech class. Tell Ignis your ready to have students join the class now for the challenge


Shinies to have a HIGH QUALITY meal with Marth Or maybe we can go EXQUISITE QUALITY?

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Once we get this out of the way, we can spend the next two school years training our bodies in hunting class, or dojos, and form bonds with people (and maybe two more once we get SHINES From our jobs as being a teaching assistant to pay for the 400 shinies for the extra schooling)
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No. 1004767 ID: 44b1b5

Complete MAGITECH II. Taking the TA Challenge before we do that is a little silly.

MEDITATE TO EXPAND THE MIND PALACE (and reduce stress before the challenge). I reiterate my suggestion for making separate spaces for each of your lives - it'd be cool to speak directly to SABA about certain stuff, finally. You should maybe lay the foundations for SABA'S SOUL LAB and CHI'S RUNIC ARCHIVES as two nodes on something like a Mind Campus while leaving blank spaces, both to make trawling the fog easier and so future lives can further build on it.

If it takes up time, then definitely DO THE T.A. CHALLENGE. (If that doesn't take any time, fill your final slot with ARCHAEOLOGY CLASS (focusing intently on KNOWLEDGE since everything else you can gain from it is at the soft-cap).)

(Don't forget to actually return that book you borrowed.)

Have dinner with MARTH. Start with just shooting the shit with her, maybe some light complaining about her dad's stubbornness. But pass her a letter "for her dad" with a note addressing her by name to open it in private - it contains the emblazoned cloth and a letter explaining the circumstances of how you came into possession of it. Stress that; A) she doesn't have to let you in fully on her conflict just yet, but that you do now have some vested interest in it beyond your past bond with her, and that you will be looking into this after you graduate, with or without her; B) that you don't know the Black Lotus's modus operandi, so you aren't actually sure if they were the perpetrators or the victims in this case, but either way, Drift thinks the local mayor is suspicious; and C) you have done a little reading on the group's history while in the royal library, and the fact that their founder was also a part-insectkin hybrid does cast an interesting light on her circumstances.
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No. 1004769 ID: afa6f6

>>1004767
I llike the idea of EXPANDING THE MIND PALACE into something like a university campus. We could divide the labs, halls, and buildings up by related Stats. And we could have a big Dorm building, but have it have more fancy hotel like rooms. We could then put Chi and Saba's personal and emotional memories in their own rooms there, and have some more rooms open in case...
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No. 1004774 ID: 2f2bf5

Expand mind palace

TA challenge (if we pass, make sure to ask how much shinies we'll be making with the TA job, and if we can take the job any time we want (like our fourth school year or after schooling is done) or if we are required to work starting next year)

Im fine with whatever for the third time slot

For dinner with Marth, I'd say focus less about the black lotus, we'll talk about that when we're better friends with her and she trusts us more. If we do bring it up talk only a tiny bit about it, but overall, talk about her time at school, how you are progressing, and talk about how you met a mole in gardening who would like to meet her one day.

Oh yeah, return that book
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No. 1004780 ID: 96c896

We have to do the challenge THIS YEAR.
Get a favor from Ignis to spread the word so people actually sign up for the course.

Actions:
Do the TA Challenge. We are prepared!
Meditate to Expand Mind Palace, since other people are voting for it now...

And yeah, dinner with Marth this semester.
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No. 1004793 ID: 031458

>>1004750 (was me)
If we need to do the Magitech TA thing this year then
instead of doing the books AND Magitech 2, lets do Magitech 2 and TA.

Before we go and burn our favor, lets ask if there are currently any students in Shimon's 1'st semester class.
If there are, we can avoid using Ignis's favor NOW, and instead use it when we teach OUR OWN class later.
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No. 1004795 ID: e51896

>>1004793
I was considering that earlier, but then I remembered here >>1004481 that the favor Chi asked was to have Ignis get people to join class for her TA challenge, and we're allowed one favor per year.

Though if we are allowed to have Ignis do it another year (like if we can save our favor for Ignis to do it another year for the other challenge where we have to get a 70% passing grade) then I'll be all for having Ignis wait to do the favor at a later year.
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No. 1004931 ID: afe7de
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1004931

AUTHORS NOTE: EXPLINATION ON FAVORS -
The 1 favor a year thing is something you can get someone to help you with FOR FREE, after asking for a certain amount of favors (or after a certain amount of time), they’ll probably ask for a favor back from you. Or, if it’s something that really puts them out there or takes tons of time away from them, they might ask you for a favor immediately. This favor from IGNIS cost something because you weren’t at that level of a bond with him yet. You can totally ask him for other favors next year.


> MEAL EVENT - MARTH EX DINNER
You invite MARTH to dinner before the quarter starts, she’s not busy so she accepts. The restaurant you go to is INCREDIBLY FANCY, some might say TOO FANCY, but when you get in there and look at the menu you understand why the prices are so extravagant. It’s a four course meal. First they provide greens and seeds along with a small amount of tea. Then they provide the main course, an absolutely massive hunk of SALMON coated with fish eggs and various herbs. It tastes DIVINE, you’re not sure you ever had anything this good, Marth also seems impressed. Then there’s an accompanying batch of fries and salsa that they allow you to dip in it. You’re pretty stuffed by the end of it and then they bring out the dessert. It’s a peach pie slice and it melts in your mouth, you’re unable to resist consuming the whole thing and you feel more full then you ever have been in your entire life. But GODDESS DAMN was it worth it.

You chat throughout the meal mostly, it’s a lot of small talk but you want to get to know marth better, so you try to ask her about some more personal stuff, school progress, etc. She talks about how she’s taken a few classes here and there, but doesn't elaborate much on them. How she’s really just running errands around the campus for Shimon since she really just wants to focus on training for the most part. You mention Shimon’s stubbornness and she just shrugs saying he’s just stubborn, but compliments you on your progress and says that what you’ll accomplish in the future will really help your plate. You ask her about her family and she says that her ant dad was just a rich guy who met a human in CANUS, nothing really special there.

[GUILE] Wait, didn’t she say Bee before?
[GUILE] I don’t have good feelings about this
[INTUITION] You shouldn’t bring up the Black Lotus
[INTUITION] And I think she just doesent want to have a bond with us, she seems real hesitant for some reason


You decide not to press the issue and the dinner ends unceremoniously. You say that Chipper really wants to meet you, you think he has a crush on her. Marth laughs and says sure, she’ll meet up with her, sounds great. Marth says that next time you want to chat you don’t have to get such an expensive dinner, street foods are fine too. At the end of it all you’re not sure how you’ve felt about the whole experience.

You don’t feel much closer to MARTH
You can confirm that your previous BOND was SUPERFICIAL
You’re not sure how to get closer to MARTH, but are confident dinner isn’t the way to do it
You get the feeling MARTH doesn't want a deeper bond with you
You spend 60 SHINIES on the dinner
You lose [1 STRESS] from the EXQUISITE MEAL

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No. 1004933 ID: afe7de
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1004933

> FREE TIME - THE TA CHALLENGE
This is it, you call in your favors and let other kin know you’ll be TAing the first course in MAGITECH. Ignis’s help causes there to be 16 students in the first class and all but one attend your TAing sessions. A student monitor is set to watch your instruction. The students all vary from being seniors to new students. You see NICO, PON, and CHIPPER notably who attend the class. The first day the students come and bombard you with questions about the course.

Student A: Why is Shimon such a bad teacher?
Student C: Yeah, It makes no sense How can he expect us to figure this out with no guidance
Student B: This is going to be impossible!
You: No it wont. That’s my whole purpose with being here.
Student D: What you’re going to magically make us learn when the teacher can’t?
You: You won’t learn because of magic, It’ll be because I’ve figured out a decent way to teach the content
Chipper: Didn’t he say it wasnt teachable, that it was on us?
You: I think that he’s full of bird seed. There’s no such thing as an unteachable topic in my view.
You: I’ve taught Ignis, Drift, and William how to do it in a quarter, somehow,
You: I feel like I should at least be able to at least get twice to three times
You: Maybe more! Than that amount to learn it with what I’ve learned in the Teaching course.
Student A: Better not be a waste of my time.


The odds are stacked against you, you take stock of the students. Most of the ones here are at rank 3 creativity and rank 4 logic, with some exceptional ones like Pon and a student named Split. You’re going to try a general approach and then to help those you can and see how this works.

It’s a strange process, but you talk about these concepts and the basics of the syntax of the runescripting language while the other students follow along. In your spare time you put together a pseudo curriculum for them of information to know and work on. You decide to start everyone off on the NULL rune instead of randomly like Shimon tried. It’s a lot of work on your time so you’re glad you devoted the TIME to it. Eventually you get the outline of a lesson plan and break things down into around 14 classes. Some students required you to be PATIENT with them, as a few even wanted to leave with their brashness and impatience, but you stick through it.

By the 7th week you have your first successful pupil learning it. Pon! He’s excited and proud of himself. You toss him one of your already used books and tell him to use the same method on that one. This emboldens the rest of the students and a few days later you get two more successes, Splint and Chipper. By the end of the course you’re able to get 11 out of the 16 students to figure out how to do runescripting. Unfortunately the lagging students were the ones with the lowest LOGIC out of the group. You spent lots of time and effort on them, but you think they’ll only be able to get it if they did the class over again. They’re mad at you and storm off after yelling at you for your incompetence.

One other student also fails to grasp it, it’s NICO. He’s hopeless in the subject and severely lacks the LOGIC to learn it, but he’s not put off by it and although he’s saddened by it doesen’t blame you and thanks you for the effort you put in. He thanks you for introducing Marth to him saying he’s going to have dinner with her later and walks off. The monitor walks up to you and is incredibly impressed with your work, They let you know that the TA position is yours. You ask about the teaching position, and they tell you your success rate was only 11/16 or 68%, just shy of it.

You give them a cold, hard stare and they reply that they’ll talk to someone about it, you’ll find out more by the middle of next year. You then get more info about the TAing job. This job does not take up a time point and pays 500 SHINIES a semester that you TA. It’s essentially a 2 hour a day weekend job where you do exactly what you did here, only you now have notes and a lesson plan. You get the feeling by the time you’re set to graduate you’ll have a more fortified curriculum and can get at least an 80% pass rate among those qualified. You could also spend a TIME POINT adjusting and improving your curriculum to have that pass rate increase more. You ask about how much the TEACHING position pays, and they tell you it’s twice minimum wage so 11520 SHINIES a year, but you’d probably get paid more as a MAGITECH teacher that’s actually more successful than the one that they have already.

Ignis finds you afterwards and you give him a hug, thanking him for he help, he’s surprised and stutters a bit saying that there’s no problem. You think he’s blushing but he just runs away shouting NOPROBLEMLETMEKNOWIFYOUNEEDMOREHELPBYE! You smirk a little at that.

You’ve completed the CHALLENGE - TO TEACH THE UNTEACHABLE -
- You’ve gained the MAGITECH TA job
- It DOES NOT take up a time point and pays 500 Shinies a semester
- The current student pass rate from your assistance is around 65-75%
- It has a 30% chance of causing one stress every semester
You’ve gained a little bit of experience in some random stats from teaching
CONGRATS! You’ve completed the goal - LEARN TO TEACH MAGITECH
- You’ve gained 3 goal points
CONGRATS! You’ve reached a GP milestone
- You’ve gained 1 FREE STAT POINT to distribute in any stat you’d like
- This stat point can raise your STAT past a soft cap or be used to remove it entirely
- You can also save this stat point for the future
Your GP has been reset, your next GP goal is 4 and will award you a SKILL POINT
- This can be used in the same way as a STAT point but on skills
You gain 3 STRESS from teaching students and having to come up with a curriculum on the spot

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> CLASS - MAGITECH PART 2
This class solely consists of you and the RUNESCRIPTERS, its you, IGNIS, WILLIAM, and DRIFT. The first few weeks see you learning the TRIGGER manual, it’s incredibly straightforward and you find it strange that he didn’t start you all off on this one. When asked he replies that this manual is useless unless you know at least one other rune. Strangely enough there’s no vision with this rune. You were expecting a big red button or something like that.

This manual teaches you how to set and create triggers, these can be energy based triggers or physical ones. It tells you how to make a simple BUTTON using any resources you have available. It’s less a button and more a sensor pad you can touch, but you’re pretty sure you could figure out a way to make a button or switch with this method. It also teaches you about LINKING and INTENSITY. When you link a rune it makes the energy use reach around 98% efficiency, you ask why it isn’t 100% and he replies that no one knows, there’s always some energy loss.

Intensity runes let you modify a rune with subscript to make it use MORE or LESS energy, you can link the syntax of a trigger with an intensity rune to create something called a SLIDER if you want it to use no energy, or some energy, but not go on full blast. You also learn that using different colors to inscribe a trigger rune allows you to make CIRCUITS, or triggers that do not overlap and trigger the same thing. Shimon says they’re pretty useless but your knowledge of SCIENCE from [Faunus 08-C] tells you that he’s severely mistaken.

The next part of the class sees you learning the STORAGE rune, under his guidance you’re able to learn it a few weeks. The vision you get this time is of a metal cube in the center of a white void, you look up and there’s a cloud. Lightning strikes the cube, then a blue laser strikes it, then Lava drips on it. The cube remains unscathed and appears to be CHARGED with energy FULL and STORING it. And after a moment you’re back.

[GUILE] This… jerk… He could teach all along.
[PATIENCE] Patience. It’s not worth the effort
[???] All I’m saying is that it’s really dumb and it should make you upset.


You bite your tongue and continue on with the lessons. The STORAGE rune does exactly what it says on the tin. It lets you make an energy storage device. But it’s limited to METALS only for some reason. You imagine you could make a battery of some kind with it and using Absorption runes allow you to pop in these battery-like objects, thus saving you a rune. You’re floored by the applications just these two runes have in conjunction with your own. The last portion of the class has him showing you how to make a RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL. He says this is the last thing he has to teach you all. It’s an incredibly simple method. You have to inscribe a NULL rune onto some paper, this turns it BLACK for some reason and then just follow the syntax you already know. The process takes a few hours but eventually you get it and the book is sealed like the ones you used before, requiring you to solve puzzles. It’s strange, esoteric, and you’re not sure you get exactly HOW it works in the way it does, but you get the process for the most part.

The last day of class comes and he wishes all of you future RUNESCRIPTERS the best of luck, you’ll have to EXPERIMENT and INVENT different things as his guidance is over. He tosses LARGE RUNESCRIPTING MANUALS at the four of you, in it is a compilation of each of the manuals he knows, you return the other manuals so he can reuse them for his other students. He also tosses you all a few DIAGRAMS, it’s the design for a SCRIPTING PEN and for the CRANK LANTERN, he says you can practice making these if you want some practical exercise on LINKING in the future. You were hoping for more hands on experience in actually making things, but have come to expect this from Shimon at this point.

Shimon pulls you aside and congratulates you on your success at TA’ing students and he says he doesn't mind if you TA for them, but he also tells you to show him how you’re doing what you do, hes impressed in your growth. You’re hesitant, but he offers you ONE INGOT OF ARCANUM if you can show him. You now know that an ingot of Arcanum is around 10,000 SHINIES, weighs about .5 kg and has a lot of practical uses. Your egg of Arcanum is about 1/3 the size of a single ingot, if you just use it as fuel sources, you get the feeling you could make maybe 3 objects with just one ingot of the stuff. Whereas a 1 kg ingot of iron costs 1000 SHINIES and is about enough metal to make a dagger.

You eye him over and ask him several questions. The gears finally click in your head. This man BARELY knows how to teach. If you had to rank his skill you’d say its 1*, and he lacks any patience at all. You groan internally. Using your LOGIC and INTUITION you’re able to intuit that it would take [3 maybe 4 TIME POINTS] to teach him because his aptitude for teaching is just THAT BAD. He could probably take the teaching class and have to spend [8 TIME POINTS] just retaking the courses over and over again. This man was not meant to be a teacher. You’re not even sure letting him read THE ART OF THE TEACH would help him. The last thing that makes you hesitate is his attitude, he hasnt apologized for not believing you and instead is adopting an attitude like you SHOULD do it, it rubs you the wrong way and your PRIDE doesn’t appreciate it. You tell him you’ll think it over.

[GUILE] We should take him for all he’s got, he’s only offering 1 ingot, but I bet he has more
[GUILE] Maybe for 3 ingots?
[???] YESSSSSS I LIKE THIS ONE!
[GUILE] Quiet you, this is about practicality here, that’s a lot of time we’d be wasting
[LOGIC] Plus we’re extremely close to becoming a teacher for the class anyway.
[LOGIC] If logic serves me right (oh wait that’s me, haha)
[LOGIC] the TEACHER job (not the TA job) probably pays enough to get an ingot of ARCANUM
[LOGIC] from a Little less than a years pay
[KNOWLEDGE] That’s [2 TIME POINTS] a year for 1 ingot and some change
[GUILE] It’s a rip off, see


And like that the class is over, you’ve certainly gained a lot from it. You talk to the administration and ask about TAing for both courses and they say it’s more important you TA for the initial course right now.

You’ve learned the TRIGGER rune
- Allows you create triggers in your magitech devices
- Allows you to make circuits using different colors
- Allows you to LINK runes increasing efficiency
- Allows you to set a rune’s INTENSITY, increasing or decreasing output
You’ve learned the STORAGE rune
- Allows you to enscribe and create storage devices
- Can only be used on metals
You get the feeling that learning 2 more manuals will increase your RUNESCRIPTING skill
You’ve gained a copy of each RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL in SHIMON’S posession ( a * means it’s learned )
ABSORPTION (WHITE)*
STORAGE (WHITE)*
EJECTION (WHITE)
NULL (BLACK)*
TRIGGER (BLACK)*
SPEED (YELLOW)
LIGHT (YELLOW)
COLD (BLUE)*
REFLECTION (BLUE)
HARDEN (GREEN)*
SHARPEN (GREEN)
HEAT (RED)
SPARK (RED)

SHIMON has issued you an OPPORTUNITY, [TEACH ME I’M STUPID] he’d like you to do it asap
You can do this in chunks or all at once
This will probably take more than 3 time points to complete.
He’s offering a reward of a .5 kg ingot of ARCANUM worth 10,000 SHINIES
Your GUILE warns you that it’s a rip off
You get the feeling it’ll be very VERY VERY stressful

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> FREE TIME - EXPAND THE MIND PALACE
You take the time to meditate on your MIND PALACE, to CONSTRUCT a space more fitting for you. The headache’s been bothering you relentlessly the whole time, but you perservere as it only grows in intensity. Eventually you reach a saturation point and pass out.

You’re in the void, the mist, you’re lost, you’re not even sure what is up or down. Suddenly the feeling of your head being split open overcomes you. You scream into the void, but no sound comes out, it’s like a ton of information is being poured into your mind all at once. Saba never experienced this, or at least, you don’t remember him experiencing this. You look in front of you, fighting through the pain and see two eggs. A golden egg and a prismatic egg. The golden egg is about the size of a bowling ball, but the prismatic egg keeps changing sizes between being chicken egg sized and being skyscraper sized. The golden egg shatters and something not unlike a cord of wire comes out of it, dashing towards you, it pierces your skull, but for some reason the pain starts lessening, and lessening, until it’s gone, and you’re suddenly given CLARITY. You can [UNDERSTAND] again. You look to the shape changing egg and know that it’s your other INNATE SKILL, it hasn't matured yet and is fluctuating. That pain you were feeling, it was your mind shifting to accommodate TWO SKILLS. You also now know that INNATE SKILLS are held in the MIND and BODY, not the SOUL.

It feels… calming, assuring almost, you feel a contentedness from your [UNDERSTANDING] like it missed you dearly. And like that you wake up, and the world is different to you now. You get a lot of new information about everything. Its subtle, the little things really, small connections you never made before about objects and things. Time flies by and you glean more from Saba’s memories. Your work on the MIND CAMPUS as you like to call it increases by about 50%, you [UNDERSTAND] Meditation a bit better now, this whole mind world is a complete mystery to you still. Your [UNDERSTANDING] tries to make an assumption saying it’s from the MEDITATION BONUS you got, but there’s no real evidence to back it up. You now remember one of the downsides of this skill, it will sometimes EXTRAPOLATE when there’s no data and make assumptions. So it really only benefits you the most when you have good KNOWLEDGE or LOGIC.

Having a larger goal means this will take longer to complete, but you feel the rewards will be much greater. Your [UNDERSTANDING] knows that what you’re trying to do is improve your intended Eidetic memory and make it into something outstanding, so it helps and provides what it remembers from Saba’s time constructing one. You’re able to finish one room with ease, this was Saba’s limit, but you look at this abyss and feel like your limit has changed drastically. You construct the foundation for another room. You decide the first room will be CHI’S RUNIC ARCHIVES, you seem to be following the RUNESCRIPTING path this life, and it feels fitting. The second room will be to the left, and you’ll call it SABA’S SOUL LAB. You’ll leave room to the right for your future incarnations. You get the feeling that this place will STICK AROUND if you ever get that far. After setting the foundation you began to sculpt the void, you gained some ideas when you were using your thoughts to form a room and the process takes a while but eventually you make a massive field It’s grassy, but like a painted picture, broad strokes of paint creating the landscape. You lose track of time and yourself and eventually it’s 5km wide. You think that’s enough for now.

You look back and notice the grass stops just before the mist, it can’t go inside it. You shrug and move your two rooms around, placing them in a slightly better spot now that you’ve got a good idea. You lay out the rooms so that you can enter them from the outside and add to the right and above, making staircases as needed, this way each of your incarnations can add to this, and you think it will make looking at prior memories easier. After that’s done you solidify your room, You’re no longer concerned that you won’t be able to continue if you finalize a building now that you’ve properly thought out the layout. You even think you can break down the walls between some rooms if you need to make your own room larger.

By the time the year’s over you’ve made significant progress. You’ve got a basic outline for the DORM, and you’ve laid the foundations for labs, halls, and buildings. You thought it’d be nice to give you STATS a place to live too, and you feel a slight amount of joy from them. Your [UNDERSTANDING] wants you to finish [SABA’S SOUL LAB] as soon as possible. You take one last look through the fog before you go, but you can’t find that prismatic egg anywhere, which confuses you.

You’ve gained the skill EIDETIC MEMORY
- Recalling information and memories will happen at faster speeds now
- Building structures related to Saba’s memories will happen at twice the speed
- If you read and comprehend something you’ll be able to remember the contents easier, making studying easier
- This is NOT photographic memory, so simply glazing over a book won’t let you remember the contents
You’ve begun construction of a MIND CAMPUS
- It’s about 5km wide right now, but you imagine it could be bigger
You imagine completing the first floor of the MEMORY DORM would give you PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY and make it easier on your next lives
- PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY PROGRESS 20%
The SABA’S KNOWLEDGE stat has hit the soft cap
- you get the feeling it won’t get any higher than this.
- You’re nearly finished with Saba’s memories
Learning EIDETIC MEMORY has broken the soft cap on LOGIC, it can now improve again!

You’ve regained your INNATE SKILL [UNDERSTANDING]
You feel a little bit more complete as a kin.
[UNDERSTANDING] Has given you a gift for your patience and increased your MEDITATION skill to ***
[UNDERSTANDING] Has given you a gift for your patience and cleared your accumulated stress
[UNDERSTANDING] has some new applications it would like to introduce you to
[UNDERSTANDING] Can now be LINKED to a STAT
- It will work together with that stat to chime in with useful information
- It refuses to work with any stat it thinks isn’t mature enough yet ( below rank 5 )
- Applicable stats: LOGIC, SABA’S KNOWLEDGE, CHARISMA, CREATIVITY
- It is currently linked to SABA’S KNOWLEDGE, you can change this at any time
[UNDERSTANDING] Says it needs space in your MIND CAMPUS before it can provide you with more assistance
A ripple goes out through your consciousness

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1004938

[YEAR 12]
New year, new you. You’ve got your [UNDERSTANDING] back, you’ve become a TA, and you’ve got time to do what you want. You’ve got your yearly SHINIES and have deducted your LIFESTYLE expenses. You’ve returned the book to the ROYAL LIBRARY. You take a deep breath and go over things you have to do.

You can set a new goal or change an existing one
You can change [UNDERSTANDING’S] linked stat, currently on SABA’S KNOWLEDGE
You can change your LIFESTYLE if you want
You have to decide if you want to take the 500 Shiny/semester TA job (THIS DOES NOT USE TIME POINTS)
You have 1 free STAT POINT to distribute
You have NO OBLIGATIONS at this time

> CHALLENGES
BETTER THAN YOU
- Through TA’ing cause the TA’d Runescripting class students to reach 70% pass rate
REWARDS: Gain an opportunity to become a MAGITECH professor
NOTES: You will be contacted in the mid year break about this

> OPPORTUNITIES
LEARN GUILE WITH RIICHI [1 TIME POINT]
GAMBLE [1 TIME POINT] [REQUIRES 200 SHINIES]
HELP SHIMON IN [TEACH ME I’M STUPID] [3+ TIME POINTS]

> GOALS
> GP - 0/4
GOAL - BLANK
SUB - REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (RANK 7)
SUB - LEARN ALL THE SCRIPTING MANUALS SHIMON HAS TO OFFER YOU 6/13
SUB - BE READMITTED TO THE ROYAL LIBRARY

There’s a lot to do now, you sigh. You just want to take a REST or something, maybe go out spend time on BONDS. You think it’d be nice to spend [1 TIME POINT] this year doing something like that. You’ve never actually rested have you? It’s not like you’re stressed, you’re handling that pretty well, just, you’re always DOING SOMETHING and that’s exhausting in its own way. Yeah meditation’s good for centering yourself, but like you haven’t been CREATIVE in a while, well you were creative with your mind palace, but it’s not the same! You liked that GARDENING class, maybe another creative class would be nice, or just spending time goofing off coming up with cool rune-script inventions or something. You let your mind wander on that a bit when you get this like weird feeling in your abdomen. Minutes later you’ve laid an egg. Huh, guess you’re going through puberty now. You heard there were Wing-Kin that sell their eggs for pocket change, they use em in cooking. You don’t think about it too hard.

You have [0 STRESS]
You spent [80 SHINIES] on lifestyle expenses this year
You have [246 SHINIES] remaining
You have [3 TIME POINTS] to spend
What do?

1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (no added classes this year).
2a. Go SHOPPING - (Does not cost a TIME POINT, just let me know what you want to buy, I’ll let you know the price and give you a chance to confirm)
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals available:
- EJECTION, SPEED, LIGHT, REFLECTION, SHARPEN, HEAT, SPARK
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND PALACE / EIDETIC MEMORY = 75% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST!!!
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)

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No. 1004940 ID: 094652

>Marth sus
Right, let's not talk to her until she's ready to discuss things. For all we know? They might have done something to her that leaves something else in charge.

>Invention
... Wait, they've invented magitech incubators, right?
Simply put, have the Reflection runes reflect sunlight, put a Heat trigger next to the egg. If the heat exceeds a specific amount, have it Eject a constructed mechanism that closes the flow of sunlight. It will also trigger if the heat goes to an unacceptable lower level.
And of course, install a Heat pad below the egg for some level of consistent emergency heating.

Take the TA job

-1TP Learn Guile with Riichi
-1TP Study the book, for real, then immediately return it. Sign a request for another in advance.
-1TP Invent a magitech incubator for single-parents everywhere OR Draw your mind palace as it is, this will be a series you complete throughout your life as your mind palace grows larger and more complex.
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No. 1004942 ID: e51896

IMPORTANT: That REST option has three ! now. I think we need one time point to devote to doing something to rest and have fun. We're not robots after all.

Lets take this semester to just have fun.

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Take the TA job. It'll be good to practice your teaching and patience skills there.

also, change lifestyle to COMFORTABLE or WEALTHY since we'll be taking that job for more SHINIES! 500 a semester with the TA job is a lot after all. Comfortable or wealthy is good for spending time with friends too. Leaning towards Wealthy, though Comfortable might be good for saving up Shinies even if we'd make 1000 shinies a year.

Use that Stat point on either PATIENCE or LUCK. Luck because it is a stat that is hard to raise. PATIENCE since it is important for teaching. I'm leaning more towards PATIENCE.

GOAL: not sure, either become a magitech teacher, or get accepted into a college in CANUS for more studying.

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Time Points:

try to Form a bond with HOOK. Maybe first get Chipper to make you a figurine of Hook to give to her and get on her good side, she is a bit of a narcissist. It'll be good to form a bond with her just in case, as it will be good to get her support on bringing this worldplate into the age of Magitech. (Plus, I have a feeling she was the person that has been spying on us considering both times, we felt like we were being watched when we were around Ignis and William). We're patient now, so we should be able to deal with her narcissistic behavior, and maybe improve her personality in some ways to make her less narcissistic and become a responsible queen. (plus maybe we can get Hook and Pon to... HOOK up in the future? lol)

Strengthen bond with William. Take him to your room and introduce him to Pon and Noodle!

Work on some Scripting manuals (maybe EJECTION, SPARK, and HEAT) These will be good for inventing stuff. or take a MANA THEORY class, it might help with our magitech teaching venture. Any of these will be good.
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No. 1004944 ID: afa6f6

>>1004938
I think we should Link [Understanding] to Charisma for a little while. We're good with knowledge, but weve really been lagging on our interpersonal skills so far, and this might help. Eventually we'll probably link it to each in turn but it seems important to boost our people skills now between the teaching, guile training and Marth situation.

-Yeah, take that TA job. I cant think of a single good reason not to, and we'll probably improve as we do as long as we make the effort.
-Invite Pon, William and Noodle to a MODEST Meal, and by Modest, I mean buy some ingredients and we all make some ourselves! We can have a little potluck.
-Use 1 TIME to go ahead and try and learn as many of EJECTION, SPARK, and HEAT from the big manual as possible. With those and what we got from class we could really perfect that fridge we made for the contest, as well as the battery idea we had. We might even be able to convince the school to fund some or all of it.
- 1 TIME to take that painting class, it should be relaxing, and it'll compliment our drawing skill. Actually, given how much Runescripting seems to deal with color, im curious if there's a way to incorporate runescript in painting...
-Im thinking Marth might be being hunted, and the reason shes trying to keep people at a distance is due to that Black Lotus business. If its anything similar to what happened to Blitz, it would explain a lot of her behavior. Therefore, if we want to get closer, maybe we should show her we can defend ourselves and Get Good. lets spend 1 TIME point just practicing one of our ATHLETICS skills to get past the soft cap. My vote is for either FLIGHT SPEED or REFLEXES, though TENACITY might synergize with PERSERVERENCE and PATIENCE. might be more stressful to practice though. Anyway, that will probably help us with our Hunter classes next year and when we finally decide to move on that Sub Goal of mastering a Martial Art.
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No. 1004946 ID: e51896

>>1004940
I like the incubator idea. We'll need to learn HEAT, REFLECTION, and maybe EJECTION first... unless we can work on this project together with William?

I'm changing my vote for the time points a bit >>1004938

Try to form a bond with hook (using a figurine of Hook we'll commission Chipper to make for us to give to her)

Learn some Scripting manuals (Heat, and ejection or reflection (reflection if we decide not to build the Incubator with William. If we decide to have William build an incubator with us, then Ejection instead)

Strengthen bond with William by building an Incubator with him for fun. We can even talk about stuff here. (he can keep the incubator after we're done as thanks for spending time with us) We might need to test it with a few wild animal eggs before Tengu can test it on their own wing-kin eggs.

(keeping my votes with lifestyle choice being Wealthy or comfortable, taking the TA Job, and distribution of the stat point and the same, though lets have the stat point be PATIENCE. Will help with teaching Shion how to teach. We may need to help Shion teach in order to get help in teaching TENGU magitech, and maybe strengthen our bond with Marth)
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No. 1004947 ID: 094652

>>1004942
Chi already spent 80 Shinies on expensive food, that's her vacation budget.
The mind palace is going to become one giant vacation happy place.
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No. 1004948 ID: 538994

>>1004947
True, though we were still given that warning to spend time on ourself. Inventing something amd forming bonds seems like a good resting activity as it was stated. and finishing that palace will take awhile too.
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No. 1004950 ID: 031458

YES to TA'ing.

Use the STAT POINT to break the CREATIVITY cap. If were gonna INVENT STUFF we'll need it.

Lets spend a time point on RUNESCRIPTING. EJECTION and HEAT. More if we have the time, or if we do it with the group.

Shimon's inadequacies in rune-scripting have been made apparent. He focuses too hard on the runes themselves, rather than the functions they produce. He hasn't even noticed that he lacks SENSORS of any sort.

Since we don't have any sensing runes we should take an ENGINEERING course so we can make physical ones.

Finally we should INVENT something useful.
An INCUBATOR could be as simple as a dome inscribed with TRIGGER, HEAT, ABSORB, with a BI-METALIC STRIP mounted inside.
ABSORB links to HEAT, HEAT is controlled by an INTENSITY SLIDER which is Automatically controlled by a specially prepared BI-METALIC STRIP.

TRIGGER ABSORB EJECTION could make a mana-charger.
TRIGGER ABSORB EJECTION STORAGE could make a mana-battery, (or mana-pistol.)
TRIGGER on ARCANUM STRIPS or WIRES could create a physical MANA LINK. (Hopefully. That might need absorb, trigger, ejection)
Such machinations would allow for more advanced devices.
For example, a VORPAL SWORD would normally need HARDEN SHARPEN NULL TRIGGER ABSORBx3. That's seven runes. Insane.
Alternatively, Have the grip, hilt, and pommel all be mana-chargers linked physically with the NULL HARDEN and SHARPEN runes on the blade. Yeah you incur the price of 15 runes, but now the damn thing can actually be built! Since nothing has more than three runes on it, normal runescripting artisans can make them, no virtuoso's required!
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No. 1004956 ID: fad4bd

TA job
Stat point on LUCK
Move lifestyle up a peg

Timepoint:

Work on heat and reflection
Rest by chilling with the runescripters. Maybe have Pon and Chipper the sheep join?
Invent an incubator. Work on it with someone like William.

We'll get back to classes next semester, we can probably look into dojos during break.
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No. 1004957 ID: 44b1b5

[UNDERSTANDING]: Reassign this to your [LOGIC]. It’ll serve you better than your more outdated KNOWLEDGE.

TA JOB: Take it. You’re set for shinies now. Case in point...

LIFESTYLE: Change to COMFORTABLE. You can afford it now; you’ve earned it.

STAT POINT: Assign it to CREATIVITY, since LOGIC already had its cap raised just now.

[TEACH ME, I’M STUPID]: Make it clear to him that he’s severely underestimating either the time and effort it will take for you to learn him everything you know on teaching, or your economic intelligence. “One ingot is simply not worth the straight half-year it would take to teach you everything, and that’s not even taking the toll on my mental health into account.”

FREE TIME: You’re right, we should take it easy this semester. No stress (aside from the TA job)! That doesn’t mean we should be outright slacking, of course - we can be productive and social.
1: PAINTING CLASS. Take an easy class where you can broaden your style - Maybe calligraphy art could be applied to runes? - and bond with your more artsy classmates.
2: WHOLESOME FAMILY BONDING TIME WITH RIICHI. Feed your GUILE more while getting in some good old family time - you haven’t done nearly enough of that these days.
3: BOND WITH WILLIAM. You can interact frequently, alone, with him, if it’s under the pretense of something like PAINTING A PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM (or at least drawing the base of one). Drawing and painting should be relaxing at this point, and as we get further along, we could end up opening up about how we really want to rekindle our bond, how worried we are about Marth while on the topic, and use our [UNDERSTANDING] and improved CHARISMA to help articulate our worries about William “taking it easy this life” a bit better - that it’s less about being in danger this life, and more what affecting little change will mean for the next one... especially if they don’t share a close bond with someone who did affect a lot of change.
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No. 1004959 ID: 96c896

>>1004931
>Marth lying, refusing the Bond
That's pretty weird... her parents must be why she's being hunted! That's the only reason to lie to us about them. That means she's trying to keep us at a distance due to the danger involved. She might open up later when everyone's memories are complete, but we also need to be ready for trouble, which means we should be learning combat skills like tactics and martial arts. Tactics first, because we need to breakthrough Athleticism.

>>1004936
Renegotiate the teaching task. Ask him for 1 ingot per time point. That way it scales, and it's actually worth our time compared to a full Teacher job. If he objects, tell him that it will be stressful which means you'll have to spend time meditating to compensate for the stress. It's a bigger time investment than he thinks. Don't allow yourself to be talked down to below 1 ingot and 5000 shinies per 2 time points.

>>1004937
>free stat point
Can we spend that on locked stats like Luck and Perseverance? If we can spend it on Luck now, may as well. If not, I'm not sure what to spend it on and would like to save it. Maybe Charisma to break the soft cap, since we don't know how to do it otherwise?
>Understanding's associated stat
Let's leave it on Saba's Knowledge for now. See if we can ask Understanding to go over our interactions with Marth, see if there's something about Saba's relationship with them that could explain why Marth is being weird, or confirm that it's because she's in trouble.
I have one worry, that Marth is compromised somehow. The eyes could mean her body has been taken over... Has she actually given us any proof that she's Marth, aside from the name and the thing about Marth being a famous warrior? I mean, a bodysnatcher could've heard Marth bragging about that. If she discussed anything private about our shared past lives, that would be good evidence. On the other hand, if we press her and it *is* a bodysnatcher, that could result in her either attacking us or disappearing. Both things would be very bad considering she's obviously a superior fighter right now so a fight could kill us, and losing track of her is both dangerous for us and the real Marth.
Bring it up with William, see if he has any ideas, or if he noticed something similar while talking to her. I guess if it comes down to it we could hire some bodyguards(William should know how to do this, we could use a Favor on it) and meet in a location where she can't fly away easily, then press her for proof that she's Marth. But we shouldn't do that now.

>>1004938
>TA job?
Yeah. It's free money! Mostly. Hmm, what would it take to become a Tutor? Those get paid better.
>lifestyle
Boost it to the next level, since we have income.

>time points
Take a class on TACTICS, with TA assistance.
Learn more Guile from Riichi. Should help with figuring out what's going on with Marth, and it's a skill that would be useful for the group so we can Teach it to the others later. William might already have access to a trainer for the skill but I suspect Marth does not. Maybe once we confirm she's really Marth we can Teach her Guile?
Rest, or Bond with William or Ignis, or mess around with inventions- for instance we could make that fridge:
A more functional, better insulated version of that cold box, call it a RefriChirator or Chigerator. Linked Absorption runes should work for power since those will have high efficiency. Be sure to put a slider in for the cold intensity so you can pick how cold it is, do some tests to see how well you can mark the intensity setting that keeps things just above freezing, so owners know where to set it. Oh, and have it split into two compartments, one intended for freezing stuff and the other just for keeping things cold.

I feel like over the break we should try to breakthrough Athleticism so we can take more Martial Arts without wasting the potential stat boost.
At some point later we should learn Metallurgy, Engineering and Inventing, and start boosting Intuition somehow.
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No. 1004961 ID: f8fa51

Since everyone else has already stated the obvious, I will just chime in and state I still think SINGING would be a good creative pursuit, being a form of music we can create at any time, even if our hands are busy.
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No. 1004964 ID: afa6f6

>>1004959
>>I feel like over the break we should try to breakthrough Athleticism so we can take more Martial Arts without wasting the potential stat boost.

Yeah, we should. I feel like training at a Dojo would help with that, and might be a good way to meet new people or BOND with some friends if we take it or join with them.
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No. 1004965 ID: dfbac0

Set UNDERSTANDING to Logic or Creativity.
Lifestyle: Set to WEALTHY
Use skill point on LUCK.
Take Engineering with TA.
Take Painting class.
Take it easy, spend a whole timepoint to rest, maybe hang with your friends, spend time with family, or just read a good book.
Along those lines have a NORMAL or HIGH meal with someone, maybe Ignis or William.
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No. 1004966 ID: dfbac0

>>1004965
Oh yeah, buy a book, some good fiction, maybe a crime thriller or epic fantasy.
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No. 1004970 ID: 031458

Hmm.
I think it's safe to assume that Marth's life is or will be dangerous.
Given our mutual history, she probably doesn't want us getting involved. At least not when we're liable to get ourselves killed. She's going to make a concerted effort to keep us at arms reach.

Best way to form a bond with her would probably be to get her schedule from Ignis through the rumor mill, and then attend classes and activities with her.
But even that wouldn't be enough. I suspect we'd need to make ourselves useful to her before she shared any real secrets.
We'd either need to focus on combat and Guile until she trusts in our capabilities, or we'd need to lean into Rune scripting so hard that she's willing to entrust her safety and future to our creations.
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No. 1004986 ID: afe7de
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1004986

> LINK - LOGIC
You link your [UNDERSTANDING] to your LOGIC, you’ll understand things and situations more LOGICALLY now and LOGIC will speak up as [UN LOGIC] from now on.

> FREE STATE POINT - LUCK
You pop that stat point onto LUCK. You didn’t realize it, but you’re actually starting to get KINDA LUCKY. Maybe something good will happen in the future.

> LIFESTYLE CHANGE - COMFORTABLE
Your yearly expenses will now be around 160/yr
You now frequently go out to meet other kin and hang with friends.

> ACCEPT THE TA JOB
You accept the TA job, you’ll get 500 SHINIES at the end of each semester from now until you graduate. This semester you’ve got 8 students, it’s all the ones that attended the class, and by the end of it you’ve managed to get 7 to pass the class. You’re happy for your progress and are damn sure that you’ve beat the goal set by the admins now. And Miraculously you’ve not gained any STRESS from the job this semester!

AUTHORS NOTE: Perserverence is at the hard cap, so it can’t go any higher without a special encounter. Luck is now at 6! Luck is a unique stat that’s hard to raise on it’s own without getting special events, it doesent have soft caps as a result.

Also, for clarities sake, as far as you know, the MARTH you know is the same MARTH from your memories. You’ve discussed your past lives together, see https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004020 Specifically the line “You head inside to a private room and the three of you begin discussion. At this point all three of you have gained enough memories to understand that your previous lives were together.” Apologies if that wasn’t clear.


> SKILL CHECK - HAGGLE TIME WITH SHIMON
Shimon’s been pestering you every other day to help him, it’s very annoying. So you decide to haggle with him. You let him know that teaching him is going to be a long affair. Your estimate is that it will probably take [4 TIME POINTS] to teach him. He doesent believe you, so you perform a simple exercise and ask him what he’d do in certain situations. He provides terrible answers and when you point it out he doesen’t get it. This man has enough LOGIC to understand what he’s doing is wrong, but he’s STUBBORN and PRIDEFUL and refuses to listen.

He counters with how teaching him will help your world-plate as he can then teach more of your kind this really useful set of skills. Eventually you lay down your terms, 2 ingots per [TIME POINT]. He guffaws at that and says he only has 3 Ingots, one of which is for class demonstrations, so 2 realistically. You shrug and state with the amount a teacher gets paid here it should be more than enough to buy the extra ingots to pay you. You’re feeling extra devious and you throw in another suggestion. 1 Ingot a [TIME POINT] AND get you access to the ROYAL LIBRARY again. He says that’s crazy, he still doesn’t have that kind of money. You shrug.

You: My time is valuable, I’m in my growth period right now where I have the best opportunities to learn and also be a kid.
You: If it isn’t worth my while, why should I do it?
Shimon: Because it’s the right thing to do!
You: How is teaching someone who is getting PAID to be a TEACHER whose students CONSTANTLY FAIL the right thing to do.
You: You’re actively trying to take advantage of me while I’m actively picking up the slack and having to put in a LOT of effort
You: You’re also taking advantage of the school, if it weren’t for me, we’d probably only have 10 RUNESCRIPTERS MAX by the end of my time here
Shimon: You’re being unreasonable, just help me for the 1 ingot!
You: You may be STUBBORN, but I’m PERSISTANT. No.
Shimon: You’re asking me to spend ALL of my money on this!
You: You’ve saved up money for a couple of years, plus you’re a runescripter, I’m POSITIVE you have ways to make money.
You: Plus, I’m sure if you improve the Academy will pay you more.
You: Maybe go take a TEACHING class or something, that’s probably cheaper
Shimon: Why don’t you UNDERSTAND
Shimon: But you can’t just TEACH RUNESCRIPTING like that.
Shimon: Can’t you just share your lesson plan with me, I’ll just follow that, I’ll give you an ingot for it!

[INTUITION] You have a feeling he won’t even know how to use it
[INTUITION] You’ve set it up pretty neatly and in a good manner but it still requires knowing how to teach and how to focus on students that need help
[GUILE] You could probably share it with him, get the ingot, and wipe your hands free of this
[GUILE] It’ll be up to him if he accepts or not and up to him if he can figure it out from there
[CHARISMA] You can see it in his expression, he can’t believe you won’t just do what he says
[UN LOGIC] He’s probably not dealt with kids as smart as you before
[INTUITION] He seems desperate, but unwilling to compromise.
[UN LOGIC] Going by his behavior we have made a conjecture
[UN LOGIC] Maybe, Just maybe, he’s feeling the heat from the higher ups for his ineptitude 2 years in.
[UN LOGIC] Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s what the little pieces add up to tell me!


Either way the conversation ends with no progress being made. He says he’ll think it over and get back to you. You won’t budge for anything less than 1 ingot and 500 SHINIES per [2 TIME POINTS] of your time.
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1004987

> FREE TIME - REST/BOND
You decide to rest for a bit, you hang out with friends a lot more frequently then you ever did. Some days you just sleep in until late. Sometimes you make some sketches of your friends, other times you just fly around. You mostly just have FUN. When you’re not doing that you spend time with your various friends. You introduce William to Pon and Noodle and decide it would be fun to have a potluck, everyone makes a small meal and then brings it to share. You have it at William’s place, he’s got a fully stocked kitchen so you’re able to make some nice meals.

Pon makes some CHOCOLATE, apparently he took a job working with a PASTRY CHEF because he wanted the experience. It tastes GREAT. Noodle makes some home made NOODLES, taking some flour, egg, and other materials to make a PASTA. You make a nice salad using seeds and greens and some sauces you bought from the market. William makes some nice fried WINGIES. Everything goes together well and you all feel closer to each-other. Pon mentions it’s been a while since he’s seen you relax. Noodle was worried you forgot all about her. William just mentions how you’re working hard for your future and understands.

You go out and play games, visit different locations, listen to bards, and even happen upon Ignis as he’s singing in one particular bar. His voice is extremely CHARMING, it’s ENCHANTING even. It kinda makes you wanna learn how to sing just so you can go on stage and sing with him too one day. One afternoon Pon drops by with some ANT JUICE and asks if you want to try it, you don’t see why not, so you do. You feel light headed after rubbing it on your wings as it seeps into your body. You get giddy and hungry and have snacks and just chill with your brother. Noodle joins in at one point and you all just have a fun time.

[CREATIVITY] Yes.
[INTUITION] Heheheheheheh
[CURIOSITY] I have so many ideas
[KNOWLEDGE] So what you’re experiencing is a release of blah blah blah blah blah
[STRATEGY] Sobs quietly in the corner, why am I the only STAT left at 1


Throughout it all you feel pretty chill and get lots of creative ideas for the future. You’re glad you took a rest.

For resting while you’re at 0 STRESS you’ve been given random bonuses that will last for a year!
- Ending on time slot 4 of next year
Improving your bonds with IGNIS, WILLIAM, PON, and NOODLE will be easier this year
You feel INSPIRED, creative pursuits gain a bonus this year
You’ve gained [1 FUN POINT] It will prevent [1 STRESS] gained this year

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1004990

> FREE TIME - RUNESCRIPTING MANUALS
You decide to take a crack at the EJECTION, SPARK, and HEAT manuals. You get the feeling you’ll be able to solve at least 2 of these manuals, maybe 3 if you can make a breakthrough. You decide to practice in a study room overlooking the garden. It’s a nice spot and Ignis occasionally visits and works on a manual or two with you. Other kin eventually hear that this is your *spot* and come visit you asking various questions about rune-scripting. They don’t pester you too often, its usually just the students from the class you’re TAing. By the end of it you’ve made a breakthrough in RUNESCRIPTING and managed to learn all 3 manuals. You can now say with confidence it will take you about [2 TIME POINTS] to finish the remaining MANUALS, since you’ll have to learn the syntax for YELLOW.

The Ejection Manual provides you with a vision of you being in a strange room, you can see the night sky out one end, you look beyond a glass window, the being behind it is silhouetted, it says something in a language you don’t understand and you’re LAUNCHED at high speeds away from the room.

[UNDERSTANDING] Did we just witness, WHAT WAS THAT?
[UN LOGIC] Oh right we didn’t tell you about this
[UN LOGIC] I’ll fill you in later
[UNDERSTANDING] I know I’m supposed to be the guy who “GETS THINGS”
[UNDERSTANDING] But this is straight up Magic. It’s a sciency kind of magic, but still magic.
[UNDERSTANDING] If I might suggest, finish Saba’s room in the dorm.


The SPARK manual shows you a field, you’re struck by lightning. Rocks fall, and SPARKS fly off of them as a forest is set ablaze. The HEAT manual shows you a volcano. It’s unbearably HOT. You notice there’s a gash in the mountain, you wonder if it’s the same one from before that looks like it was cut by a- And you’re back to reality.

[UN LOGIC] You were going to say a sword right, an incomparably large sword.
[CREATIVITY] Okay, I’ll admit I have some weird ideas sometimes, but that isn't possible right?
[UN LOGIC] We need more information
[UN LOGIC] Also these manuals are really strange, they came from what, a ruin?
[UN LOGIC] We should visit one one of these days
[KNOWLEDGE] The ones here have already been explored, we surmise DOPUS hasn’t been explored yet, but it’s underwater
[CURIOSITY] Maybe we should investigate where a ruin is on our WORLD-PLATE and just take a visit, even if its empty it might be worth SOMETHING
[UN LOGIC] I would appreciate it very much
[INTUITION] Finish the first floor of your MIND DORM before you do it, I have a feeling it’ll take TIME to visit and we want the most bang for our buck.
[UN LOGIC] It takes TIME to get Photographic memory though, sigh.

Your RUNESCRIPTING skill has increased to rank 4
You can now inscribe up to 3 runes onto a strong enough surface
You’ve learned the rune for EJECTION
- Allows you to eject energy
- This energy will take various forms based off of the COLOR it is written in
- BLUE makes it form a liquid
- GREEN makes it form a solid
- YELLOW makes it form a gas
- RED makes it form a flame
- WHITE makes it eject MANA
- BLACK makes it eject whatever was absorbed
You’ve learned the rune for SPARK
- Creates a spark
- Higher intensities can create a flame or even lightning
You’ve learned the rune for HEAT
- This increases the temperature

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1004991

> FREE TIME - INVENTIONS
Making an invention is a long process without the INVENTION skill, but you’re feeling INSPIRED since you’ve rested, so you take a crack at it in the study room. Ignis, Drift, Pon, and William stop by to give ideas and Drift even comes up with one on his own. He calls it a WAND, it’s a small rod inscribed with EJECTION, SPARK, and TRIGGER runes. He’s not sure how to handle to POWER problem because he wants it to remain lightweight, but he thinks it could be a useful device to light small fires when you’re in the woods or cooking in your house.

You end up writing down a lot of ideas and making sketches, schematics, and all sorts of concepts. You come up with the following:

An INCUBATOR, it’s a dome with TRIGGER, HEAT, ABSORB, and a metallic strip inside linking them. An intensity slider is controlled by that metallic strip. You wish you had some sort of SENSOR though.

You come up with a MANA CHARGING DEVICE, it uses TRIGGER, ABSORB, EJECTION, and maybe multiple ABSORBS or STORAGES just so they can hold the excess mana in a dock when it’s not in use

You come up with a MANA BATTERY, it uses TRIGGER, ABSORB, EJECTION and STORAGE. If you put the ABSORB side on the bottom and the EJECTION side on the top you can make it so you can slot it into devices and it work that way. You think about using INTENSITY to change how much is ejected so it’s consistent and doesent run out fast.

You also come up with a MANA LINK, it’s basically just a wire you can use to connect two things together over a longer distance. You run into the problem of INSULATION though, as RUBBER hasn’t been developed on your plate. You imagine the HUMANS have made it, but you’ll have to talk to a merchant or something to find out what resources you can buy for how much.

You come up with a finalized FRIDGE design and a more modern COOKING PLATE design inspired by Saba’s world. You also seperate the crank and DYNAMO from the lantern blueprint to get a better idea of how it would work.

You also scribble down some ideas for a MANA PISTOL based off of [Faunus 08-C]. You’re realizing that this world developed a MANA BATTERY already, they just call it ARCANUM. The only problem is the QUALITY is drastically lower than in [Faunus 08-C] Though you understand that if it’s coming from a rabbit core and other small beasts it’s no wonder the quality is as low as it is already. You imagine a bit of Arcanum used as a Mana Battery could let you fire off 1 maybe 2 shots of a pistol. You’re seriously interested in if the Humans have developed something like that yet.

You were kind of a GUN NUT in your past life, which was what led you to making the MANA PISTOL in the first place, but now you’ve got a lessened romance for it. You think maybe they could use something like that dynamo, a crank attached to the gun to make pseudo Mana pistol. They probably haven’t invented RIFLING yet, so you could probably improve on the design. But you’re not sure if you even want to make it. Maybe it’d be a good idea to figure out what kind of weapon you want to stick with in the future and develop something that uses MAGITECH for yourself.

Ideas of rapiers with explosive tips or that break durability come to mind. You imagine claws that are incomperably sharp, and a really weird idea comes to you, what if you tried to HARDEN AIR, could you make some kind of SHIELD that way that was as light as air but acted as some kind of FORCE FIELD? You jot all of this down and eventually just have a mess of notes and papers by the end.

[CREATIVITY] Yes. Flex my skills. I approve.
[UNDERSTANDING] Holy shit girls I missed SOOOO much.
[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe I should spend some time with KNOWLEDGE for a bit and get a recap or something
[UNDERSTANDING] This is like if Engineering decided thermodynamics didn’t matter and that energy conservation was wild.
[UNDERSTANDING] Imagine what we could do if we found a strong enough source of energy,
[UNDERSTANDING] or made bikes kin could ride on to generate energy
[UN LOGIC] Not much labor producing energy that could power cities, yeah I can see the upsides of this
[UN LOGIC] AND you can take in forms of like anything as energy?
[UN LOGIC] Imagine if someone invented a water wheel and converted it into Mana
[UN LOGIC] or a WINDMILL
[GUILE] I’m concerned bad things might happen if we push too fast into a Renaissance of technology
[GUILE] Maybe we should find out exactly what’s been invented by the other plates first so we know where to push the boundaries at
[INTUITION] I just got a weird feeling. We should only start pushing tech when we’re ready

You’ve started to learn the basics of INVENTION
You’ll need to finish ONE invention to gain the skill

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1004993

> EVENT - JOB OFFER
The administrators come to your dorm and ask to speak with you. You head over and are met by the dean of the LOGIC department Yondo. He praises your success in teaching students and wants to offer you a few things. Firstly, he’s seen your skills and your work ethic in teaching and is willing to offer you a JOB.

Yondo: Typically a teacher’s salary is 5760 SHINIES a class
Yondo: But we’ll pay you 6400 SHINIES a class instead (12800/yr)
Yondo: Please know that we value your knowledge and ability to teach others immensely from what you’ve shown us
Yondo: You can start next year or when you graduate.
Yondo: If you start next year, we’ll pay for your extra 2 years of grad school since you’ll have to
Yondo: Give up a minimum of [2 TIME POINTS] a year, one in each semester, just to teach.
Yondo: If you’re willing to be contracted for 4 years minimum, but don’t want to start right away,
Yondo: we’re willing to pay for your 2 years of grad school As well.
Yondo: You can also apply for a teaching salary of up to 2000 SHINIES to spend on class supplies.
Yondo: You’ll get to decide the curriculum, amount of classes, and how you want to teach the students,
Yondo: if you’re willing to teach all your classes a semester you’ll be paid accordingly,
Yondo: Or you can offer them during one half of the year and not the other half,
Yondo: so long as you teach at least 2 classes a year
Yondo: But you’re young, so try to enjoy your youth alright?
You: Wow uh thats uh a lot.
Yondo: You might not be old enough to get it, but having competent MAGITECH inventors is a BIG DEAL for us.
Yondo: We’ve been trying to get someone to teach us for more than two decades.
Yondo: And the one Wing-Kin we sent to the Canus campus vanished

[GUILE] Is… Is that campus a trap?
[INTUITION] What if the reason Shimon is so bad is because that university is actually bad
[INTUITION] What if… it’s just there to syphon money and not teach anything
[CURIOSITY] I don’t buy it why do that, there’s not a conspiracy is there?
[UN LOGIC] Not enough data, but the bits we have are concerning.


There’s a pause as he shuffles some papers around and his eyes brighten up.

Yondo: Ah, and there’s another thing.
Yondo: If you’re not interested in teaching, if you can invent something, anything
Yondo: That would improve our lives like that COLD STORAGE DEVICE you made before
Yondo: The royalty is willing to pay for the blueprints or devices at a premium.
Yondo: We have 4 kin who have passed the class, but you’re the first one to show this much initiative
Yondo: There’s also another matter. There are rumors that the QUEEN is looking for MAGITECH SCIENTISTS
Yondo: We won’t know more for a few years, but if none of these offers have interested you yet,
Yondo: We hope you’ll continue down this path for the potential future gains.
You: Wow this is just so much!
You: But what about Shimon?
Yondo: He’ll work with us until the end of his contract, if he can’t improve his student’s pass rate without your
Yondo: Help, he’ll be fired.
Yondo: We’ve been monitoring the class, hes had his chances.
Yondo: This is another reason why we want to hire you, we had to suck it up and take the scrapinsg from
Yondo: The bottom of the Human barrel you see.
You: Are the humans bad or something?
Yondo: It’s not that its… Complicated.
Yondo: Adult politics is really tricky.
Yondo: Like the humans attending the academy are fine, and hunters are fine


The man looks drained all of a sudden

Yondo: If you really want to know more about it we can talk more when you become a teacher
Yondo: Or you can go talk to random adults that love whining about our political situation

[UNDERSTANDING] A feud is going on between your kingdoms of some kind.
[UNDERSTANDING] It doesent seem to be about RACISM, but something else
[KNOWLEDGE] It’s because we’re relatively poor and only have soliders to offer
[KNOWLEDGE] They don’t want to give out needless benefits to those they see as primitive brutes
[UN LOGIC] Brutal, but isn’t that how it was on [FAUNUS 08-C], after all, BUX talk
[INTUITION] Something tells me it’s deeper than that.
[CHARISMA] Maybe you should ask WILLIAM or IGNIS about it, they’re royal, they probably know more


> YOUR LUCK STRIKES
Yondo: Ah right, and I’ve also been informed to tell you that the QUEEN
Yondo: Is permitting you one more visitation to the ROYAL LIBRARY at the beginning of next year
Yondo: You’re SMART, and the students have a GOOD IMPRESSION of you.
Yondo: You should take some time to think about this, It’s a lot of pressure for someone as young as yourself.
Yondo: So you don’t need to immediately jump on this,
Yondo: the offer will stand for at least 3 more years unless another gifted student appears and usurps you.
Yondo: But we do ask you let us know your plans by the end of the year.
Yondo: Ah, and since you’re getting this, you won’t be able to enter the contest next year
Yondo: To get another book by competing in MAGITECH, we want to give other students a chance too
Yondo: Feel free to enter into other fields for the contest though!

[EVENT - THE ROYAL LIBRARY 2 will occur before [TIMESLOT 1] Next year]

[LUCK] Yer welcome.
[UN LOGIC] Wow this is HUGE.
[UNDERSTANDING] I underestimated how much they value you
[CURIOSITY] Ask how one gets into the Library in the first place

You: How can I get more reliable access to the Royal Library?
Yondo: Oh that, teachers get access once every 4 years for free
Yondo: OR, teachers here can pay 10000 SHINIES to access the library and borrow a book for a year
Yondo: Upon return, 5000 SHINIES are paid back to them.
Yondo: there are of course special exemptions.
Yondo: ROYAL SCIENTISTS can access the library whenever they want
You: So you paid for me or Pawn to get access to the library out of your own pocket
Yondo: Yup, I thought it was a good risk, and I was right.
Yondo: And some individuals have contracts with the Queen and that allows them to use the Library as well.


You thank Yondo and head back to your dorm, your head is spinning, this is wild. Your STATS are just abuzz with conversation. Although this is a good thing, you’re starting to feel some PRESSURE.

[???] These are some really good deals, BUT, you could try to get MORE benefits out of it
[???] Maybe asking for some ARCANUM?

CONGRATS! You’ve completed the CHALLENGE - BETTER THAN YOU
- You’ve been offered a TEACHING JOB as a MAGITECH PROFESSOR
CONGRATS! You’ve completed the SUBGOAL - BE READMITTED TO THE ROYAL LIBRARY
You’ve gained 1 GP
Your current GP total is 1/4


You have [0 STRESS] that is protected by [1 FUN POINT]
You gained [500 SHINIES] from your TA job
You have [746 SHINIES] remaining
You have [2 TIME POINTS] to spend
You can set 2 new goals (1 goal and 1 subgoal)
What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (no added classes this year).

2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals available:
- SPEED, LIGHT, REFLECTION, SHARPEN,
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 20% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST!!!
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)

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No. 1004996 ID: e51896

Oh nooooo, we took drugs! Don't get addicted to ant juice!

We should get that rare scripting manual the next time we are in the Library.

Lets not think about the teaching position just yet until next semester. It's break time, lets have fun!

Maybe we should consider helping Shimon? I don't think Marth would be happy if we stole his job... Maybe next semester? It's all up to him though if he is willing to pay us more for our time. Time is not on his side, so he might just cave in and give us that offer.

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Time point:
- Mainly: Mind and Body Dojo, gotta work on our self defense. See if any of our friends are willing to take it with you.

for the second time point, either

- Strengthen bond with our brother Pon. Maybe go camping with him? Or BETTER IDEA: maybe we can buy a board game like chess which requires a lot of thinking and maybe from chess, we can build our stragedy stat a little bit as we bond with Pon?

- practice GUILE with Riichi

- form bond with Hook, probably important to form a bond with the possible future queen

- form bond with Chipper the sheep. Might be a good idea to form a friendship with someone who can invent stuff to compliment our runescripting skills.

-Teach Shimon? though we should wait until he breaks to give us the extra stuff we want. Time is not on his side right now.

- work on our scripting manuals (though we don't have to do this now)

- continue Expanding our mind palace

I'm fine with any of these for the second choice. I listed the from the ones I want to do most to least from top to bottom.

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Dinner with the runescripters? it'll be our treat. We'll go for the normal meal which means it'll be 32 Shinies overall for Chi, Drift, William, and Ignis. Though if we want to go crazy, we can have it be a High quality meal and go 64 shines, but I feel at that point we'd be flexing our superiority. so just go for the NORMAL MEAL with the runescripters.
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No. 1005002 ID: e51896

Oh yeah, goals

Main goal: buy a place of your own.

Subgoal: help Shimon git gud at teaching before he gets fired. (but only set this goal up when he decides to give us a better reward)

If not that subgoal, then

Make friends with 3 more people during your time in the university
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No. 1005003 ID: 031458

Hmm. If we took the 4 year contract would it start in year 5 or after post grad?
It doesn't sound like bad idea in either case.
In the meantime we'll continue to TA.

As we got another opportunity to enter the library coming up, we should prepare.
Only thing we NEED to do is spend some RUNESCRIPTING time to decipher the 2 YELLOW manuals.
Once we do that we should have everything we need to understand the MYSTERIOUS BLACK RUNSCRIPING MANUAL, and probably [/i]JOURNEYMAN'S GUIDE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING volume XII: RUNECRAFTING[/i]

If we want to get the BLACK RUNESCRIPTING MANUAL or SOMETHING ELSE then our second time point can be spent on anything really... Maybe spend more time on GUILE with RICHII (I wonder if NOODLE could join us), Hang out with IGNIS and learn to SING (He also seems to have a crush on us), Maybe learn or perfect some MARTIAL ARTS (I bet PON could help us with that.)
Or we could INVENT. We've yet to Actually build anything WORKING. We commission parts from CHIPPER, and use ABSORB TRIGGER COLD to make a PROPER fridge. We could also use ABSORB TRIGGER HEAT to make a STOVE based on PON's design (And credit him of course.). The same would also be good for an OVEN.

All that said, if we want to grab the JOURNEMAN'S GUIDE... then perhaps it would be wise to prepare further. Perhaps we could take the time to learn ALL the available manuals OR we could MEDITATE and continue building that MIND CAMPUS.
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No. 1005005 ID: 031458

Yeah I for one don't care about Shimon at all. If he's not willing to take the first step himself we shouldn't be expected to carry him.

Next time he pesters us, let him know that TEACHING itself is a SKILL. RUNESCRIPTING TEACHING is another matter all together.
If he want's BETTER TERMS for us to agree to teach him, he needs to complete the TEACHING CLASSES offered here. Recommend he AT LEAST finish the SECOND one.
THEN We'll talk.
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No. 1005010 ID: 2aa5f0

so when do we become Indiana jones? I mean we're leaning heavily on become a teacher, there still some talk from time to time about exploring ruins to find ancient and lost artifacts to return to the modern world so that it can learn and benefit from them, and we even have started to invent the common gun to shoot anyone who tries to sword fight with us.

but for real I do think we should take some self defense classes this turn as it's being hinted at more and more that things are going to start getting dangerous soon (and were basically flat out told it will once we start going down the inventor path proper) so I say focus on at least claws for now if you want to keep fighting skill as a secondary concern as just being able to defend yourself without the need of a weapon will probably be more useful if we're not planning on running around everywhere with a weapon or going to dangerous areas often but if you do want to focus more on combat skill then claws and sword skills since we've kinda got points with that weapon anyways.
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No. 1005011 ID: afa6f6

>>1004993
>>You were kind of a GUN NUT in your past life, which was what led you to making the MANA PISTOL in the first place, but now you’ve got a lessened romance for it. You think maybe they could use something like that dynamo, a crank attached to the gun to make pseudo Mana pistol. They probably haven’t invented RIFLING yet, so you could probably improve on the design. But you’re not sure if you even want to make it. Maybe it’d be a good idea to figure out what kind of weapon you want to stick with in the future and develop something that uses MAGITECH for yourself

Guys, we should make a Gunblade: Rapier version. We could probably do it by just making a trick rapier with the EJECTION rune in BLACK built in, and then modify our battery design to just be disposable elemental cartridges to slot in. We wouldnt even need to worry about carrying ammo because we could keep it in our dimensional pocket.
Alternately, for a weapon, if we could HARDEN air, we could just make super lightweight claws with invisible air blades.

Anyway, DOJO TIME!
Spend 1[TIME POINT] visiting the Mind and Body Dojo, Maybe bring Noodle along. It seems like the kind of thing she'd be good at.

Commission Chipper to help you complete the improved version of of our Fridge, or the Incubator. We can BOND over working together.

With the finished invention, we could negotiate with the school to come up with more inventions on a regular basis, maybe like 1 a year, that they could present to the country/kingdom after we graduate. If we have the other teachers/students help us with the production that would even keep the prices low and be more prestigious for the school. In exchange, see if we could get a YEARLY visit to the Royal Library, for a set amount of time after graduation. By that time we should have completed, or mostly completed the Mind Campus, so we might not even need to check anything out if we get long enough access.
With that access, the amount and quality of what we could make and teach would both improve, which is something you should emphasize.
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No. 1005012 ID: afa6f6

>>1005010
Well, Indiana Jones was a professor too.
>>1005011
Ah, to add to this, I think we should finish up our normal schol term TA-ing, and then Start teaching in Grad school.

Also, Im considering whether we should suggest Drift Join us for the Dojo as well. He does have a weak constitution and seems to have a complex about his frailty, If Mind and Body is anything like some real martial arts, it might help, or at least boost his confidence.
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No. 1005017 ID: 44b1b5

Shit... If the situation regarding Shimon doesn't change, something's going to break, and unless we're LUCKY again, it won't be his STUBBORNNESS. If we can see that the writing's on the wall for him, there's no way he doesn't see it... and if you aren't helping him, then you're only going to be a threat.

Obviously, we'll withhold our decision until graduation, at the very least, but this is still a precarious position even if we do manage to defuse Shimon's fears. We'll use LOGIC and CREATIVITY to prosper... but this is looking like a world where we'll need GUILE and SELF DEFENSE to even survive on the stage on which we've found ourselves.

GOAL: MAKE MARTH LET US INTO HER LIFE (USING ANY MEANS). You understand her not wanting to let you in on her more dangerous business. But, as someone who has made SABA's mistakes during a past life, it should honestly PISS YOU OFF just a little bit how Marth seems content to push you away entirely, especially since the damage that would have come merely with being associated with her has likely already been done. She might even be doing more harm than good by keeping you and WILLIAM in the dark about everything. If it means getting good enough at defending yourself and keeping an eye out that she needn't worry, fine. If it means proactively digging into the Black Lotus on your own, effectively making that decision for her, fine. If it means threatening her with the total dissolval of your relationship (and committing yourself to usurp her father's position), fine. Preferably in that order, of course - we don't want to get mean about it unless we absolutely have to.

SUBGOAL: SOLIDIFY OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH WILLIAM. Let's make it official sometime that we're best buds. Regardless of what happens with MARTH, we aren't going to let WILLIAM slip through our fingers after WILLAMENA went to the trouble of reincarnating with us.

FREE TIME
1: TRAIN GUILE WITH RIICHI. I get the feeling that GUILE is way more useful in this life than we assumed, and we should aim to get it to a point where we can attach our UNDERSTANDING as soon as possible.
2: TRAIN SELF-DEFENSE in the MIND AND BODY DOJO. We've spent so much time on our mind, I fear we're beginning to neglect our body. MIND AND BODY style seems suited to the "cloak and dagger" situations we're likely to find ourselves in throughout our life, and we do already have an exceptional mind that would excel in it over other styles. (We probably ought to urge PON that he shouldn't necessarily copy us on this one - he's better suited for the more directly overwhelming THUNDER LORD DOJO, I think. This is assuming he hasn't already begun training at another dojo by this point, of course.)
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No. 1005019 ID: 094652

>I’m concerned bad things might happen if we push too fast into a Renaissance of technology
Just keep your firearms research a secret.

>What if… it’s just there to syphon money and not teach anything
You already know the answer to this one. University monopolies are crap as ever.

Strengthen bonds with Pon, Noodle, and Ignis. By painting them!
Push your creativity to its limits with this one so you can spend your Fun point!
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No. 1005026 ID: 96c896

>>1004990
>YELLOW makes it form a gas
We can make guns with that. Like, a gun that fires solid ammo instead of mana. The gas propels the projectile. Though, I'm not sure how good the rune is at making gas, it might not produce the kind of explosive pressure a gun would need. What *kind* of gas does it produce though? Oxygen? Nitrogen? Hydrogen? Does it know what air is, and produces that compound?
>[INTUITION] I just got a weird feeling. We should only start pushing tech when we’re ready
Yeah, I would not be surprised if Black Lotus is a tech-suppression group.

>Shimon's gonna get fired if you take the teacher job
Erm, is that gonna piss off Marth? Are they friends or what? Wait, is "without your help" only referring to the TA thing? Could we save his job by teaching him to teach? Maybe if we tell him his job is in danger he'll agree to pay more. ...I wonder if he gambled away his savings or something. We should probably ask Marth, find out what's going on with Shimon's finances. If he really can't pay what we want, then I guess... taking a bit less than we want would be the compassionate thing. We could call it a favor to Marth, if they are indeed friends.

GOAL: Finish the Mind Campus
subgoal: bypass soft caps for at least two out of charisma, athleticism, and creativity

>time points
Okay, first, we should break the soft cap of Athleticism. Reflexes seems like a good one to aim for. We can learn that at Mind and Body, right?
Secondly, Meditate and work on Saba's soul room like was suggested by Understanding.
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No. 1005035 ID: 707d76

>>1005026
Actually, im changing my goal vote to this. Lets make it our goal to finish that mind campus
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No. 1005042 ID: f8fa51

We have two overall goals right now, as I see it: Our professional goal should be to become a ROYAL SCIENTIST, and our personal goal should be to become closer to Marth. Towards becoming a ROYAL SCIENTIST, we should be pushing our MAGITECH skills. Towards becoming closer to Marth, we should be pushing our combat skills, which is probably a good idea anyway. In the shorter term, we really should work on expanding our mind palace.

I say put one time point towards expanding our mind palace and one towards studying the runescripting manuals.
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No. 1005044 ID: 9a2966

>>1005042
Agreein' here.
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No. 1005063 ID: 031458

>>1005042
Combat helps our science endeavors too, since we'll need to plate hop to learn more runescripting. I think you're correct in that we should focus on our science and mental abilities right now though.

We're kinda on a roll with this sort of thing, and we currently have no rivals. This coming year or two will be our chance to really impress the royals. Our own students might make that harder past that.
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No. 1005110 ID: 0fae41

Goal: Understand why Marth is shutting us out. She may actually have a good reason, and knowing what's up may put us into the danger she was trying to avoid, but we have to know. Forcing her to let us back in though, that's a step too far. Especially after we've gone behind her back to figure this all out, whether or not our intentions are good.
Is there someone else she might have told clues to? Ask a favor of Will. Perhaps Shimon even knows something that could give us a clue. Get [Understanding] to work with our current Knowledge skill or perhaps even Intuition to help figure this out. Based on conjecture from what little we know, her dad is (or was) part of the black lotus, and they are likely who she wants revenge on, perhaps because of whatever made them flee to here.
I wonder how many people Marth had to off to get into the academy's last slot.

Wait on Shimon to get back to you. I'd rather not make an enemy of him, whether or not your skills are higher his experience is more than yours, for now. If he gets kicked out of his teaching job, perhaps he can save face by joining the Queen's initiative and putting his knowledge to practical uses.
Anyway, bond with Noodle and work on figuring out a sensor. The Trigger rune was a touch based sensor, right? If nothing else, perhaps your incubator could use the properties of thermal expansion on certain materials to monitor temperature.
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No. 1005111 ID: afe7de
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> New Goals
GOAL - Get closer to MARTH
You’re starting to get a little irritated that Marth isn’t letting you in, even a little bit. You want to change that.
Your [INTUITION] gives you the feeling this will be harder then you first assume it to be

SUBGOAL - Finish your MIND CAMPUS
You think something magical might happen if you can do this, but you know without a doubt it will take a long time to do

> EVENT - MARTH WATCHING
You encounter Marth wandering around the city one day, so you follow her, she visits random shops, has some acquaintances here and there, gives Nico a hug, and appears to be attending the WING-FIST dojo. She fights fiercely and other kin sometimes witness her duels. You had assumed she used KNIVES beforehand, but it looks like she uses her FISTS instead. You’re perched on the roof with the other kin, not really hiding your spying as she calls to you to come down.

Marth: You’ve been watching a while, something up?
You: Just uh, I wanted to check up on you, I’ve been worried, you’ve seemed really distant
Marth: I’m fine, that it?
You: …
You: You’re not fine, something’s bothering you a lot, and you won’t even talk about it
You: It’s fine to have secrets, but I still want to try to even have some kind of BOND with you
Marth: Doesen’t it bother you?
Marth: How fake it all feels?
Marth: How we all just ended up in the same place?
Marth: Like pieces fitting snugly in a puzzle
You: That’s why I want to TRY at least, I mean, you waited for me
Marth: On Will’s behalf.
You: You said you missed me, that you waited
Marth: And I felt that way at the time
Marth: But you two got everything you wanted in this life
Marth: And I didn’t. I got to see myself get orphaned.


You hold your tongue, she knows that both Saba and Willamina were orphans, this just hurts to hear. Your stats are ANGRY for you, but you hold it in, wanting to hear the rest.

[???] Why are you just letting this slide, get riled up! Respond!

Marth: And I’m in a worse spot then either of you
Marth: Just- get off my back about this alright?
Marth: I’ll talk about it when I’m ready.
You: But what If you’re not ready in time, what if
Marth: I’ll. Deal. With. It.
Marth: I’m leaving soon anyway, it’s been nice, but I’ll be gone at the end of next year
You: What?!?
Marth: Just… Stop trying so hard okay, you’re not in a position of power over me anymore
Marth: This isn’t some kind of me looking up to the smart guy and falling in love thing anymore
Marth: Everything that happens around you was always a BIG DEAL, and I liked it then, but not anymore
You: So what? Everything we’ve gone through just doesent matter?
Marth: It matters, mattered, did. I just have my own agenda for once and want to follow THAT, not you.
Marth: It always WAS about what you wanted
Marth: bettering the world, saving the world, only the bare minimum on the ones you care about
Marth: and I bet that will happen this time too.
Marth: I only hope Will will have his own thing now
Marth: Oh, and I heard about the Shimon stuff, I could care less what you do, help him or don’t it doesent matter.
Marth: He’s a handful and he wont say thanks when it’s done, frankly I’m surprised you didn't punch him already
Marth: Guess you haven’t let your temper get the better of you this time.
Marth: I’m only with him as the last wishes of my family anyway
Marth: He wanted me to convince you but I can’t be bothered.
Marth: Just… forget about me, live your life however you want without me, it’s for the best.


And then she walked away, leaving you standing there, staring. You did spend time on your family though, at least you remember doing so, maybe it wasn't enough. Maybe it was too little too late. She was smiling the whole time, there’s something wrong with that smile, you think. And her stare. You can’t tell where she was looking, but you get the feeling she wasn’t even looking at you at all. You cried that night. Your [UNDERSTANDING] cried. [SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] cried. Your STATS tried to comfort you, but you couldn’t help but feel a weight on your being the whole night. Even your [???] STATS tried to make you smile, but it didn’t come.

You gained 2 STRESS BUT 1 was blocked using your FUN POINT!
GOAL UPDATE - Get closer to MARTH
You get the feeling the true difficulty for this is near IMPOSSIBLE for right now
Your STATS recommend you change the goal to something like UNDERSTAND why MARTH is shutting you out,
- still hard but more doable.
You can keep the goal or change it at any time


[UNDERSTANDING] Upon further contemplation I have new understandings.
[UNDERSTANDING] Marth’s Father could reproduce, according to that one book, most Insect-kin CANNOT
[UNDERSTANDING] Marth lied about the species of their father
[UNDERSTANDING] I think it’s safe to say her dad was this ROOK thing mentioned in the BLACK LOTUS
[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe not the founder, but involved somehow
[UNDERSTANDING] Marth’s ties probably go deeper than just FAMILY ASSASSINATED BY THEM
[UNDERSTANDING] I have a wild conjecture, it’s probably wrong. Maybe this is like a MAFIA GAME
[UNDERSTANDING] Marth’s the next head of the organization or something, but refuses and wants to eliminate it?
[UNDERSTANDING] We don’t know nearly enough about MARTH, about her ORIGINS, FAMILY, etc.
[UNDERSTANDING] This is the best I can get with INTUITION backing me up
[INTUITION] And IIII Helped!

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No. 1005112 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - THE MIND AND BODY DOJO
To clear your mind you decided to visit the MIND AND BODY DOJO, their yearly membership fee is only 20 SHINIES, so you pay it easily and get access to their building. You invited your other friends, and Drift joins in. It’s made of marble, and is only one story. You think they prided themselves in the aesthetic of the building rather than the practicality. Marble’s not expensive on your world plate, its easily found, but it is heavy.

They offer twice weekly classes and should you show your prowess or potential you might even be selected to become a desciple of one of the senior members. The head of the dojo HONG, rarely chooses a disciple, and usually only chooses from the senior members. You attend the lessons and they teach you the MIND AND BODY FUNDAMENTALS. It’s a series of martial art poses, with each pose requiring a precise motion and mental state. It’s a sort of MEDITATIVE training where you focus on clearing your mind of all noise, becoming one with your BODY as it follows the motions.

It helps center you, CALM you. You ignore your STATS for a bit. It also acts as good exercise. You befriend a member of the dojo, they’re a crow like yourself, but with spotted white patterning on their feathers. Her name is LOU XIN. She’s a Senior member of the dojo, is 16, and notices you’re already adept at getting into a MEDITATIVE state of mind, and that you also practice the CLAW and RAPIER like her, so she occasionally gives you pointers and you get close. She compliments your ATHLETICISM and says that it looks like you’re ready for a BREAKTHROUGH, but are stuck at that last step. She offers to teach you the art of TENACITY if you’re willing to become her Disciple. TENACITY is the art of keeping your FOCUS during STRESSFUL situations. It allows you to keep fighting at a higher capacity even when you’re wounded. The better your tenacity, the more you can exert when you’re at your lowest. It also has a good effect on FORTIFYING your mind, making it harder for you to break unwillingly.

She just requires a small amount of your time every other day, maybe an hour at the most. And for you to occasionally duel other members of this and other dojos. This is similar to your [TA JOB] in that it does not require a [TIME POINT]. But you’re informed that you might not see any effects until a year has passed, unless you’re willing to invest [1 TIME POINT] of dedicated practice. You ask her about that MIND AND BODY technique, that lets you attack untelegraphed, and she lets you know that TENACITY is a stepping stone to that path. She informs you that it costs 80 SHINIES because you’ll be learning some of the OUTER DISCIPLE SECRETS by joining. And to pay her for her time, she likes you, but also wants to get a nice meal now and again. You chuckle at that. You let her know you’ll think on the offer and give her a reply soon.

Drift on the other hand seems to be struggling. LOU XIN says that there’s something wrong with his body, it’s ready for a breakthrough, but she has a SENSE that something is wrong, preventing him from fixing his frail state. He’s frustrated, you can tell, but the meditative exercise is helping to temper his mind. He’s glad you invited him.

Your CLAW combat skill has advanced to [CLAW 2]
Your RAPIER combat skill has advanced to [RAPIER 2]
LOU XIN recommends you focus on one weapon until you’ve mastered the other, or your growth will be slower
You get the feeling that continued practice at this dojo could teach you a way to MEDITATE and EXERCISE at once
[UNDERSTANDING] Your MEDITATION will be weaker, probably halved in effectiveness rounded down.
Your SELF DEFENSE skill says that if you spend enough time here it can go through a metamorphosis.
You get the feeling you shouldn’t be an outer disciple of TWO DOJOS at once.
Your bond with DRIFT has increased to rank 3
- Drift will occasionally help you on tasks you are having trouble with
- You get the feeling you’re one of Drift’s only true friends

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1005115

> FREE TIME - MEDITATION
The MIND CAMPUS continues to expand. You spend your time finishing Saba’s room and the third room in your MIND DORM. By the end of the [TIME POINT] you’ve finished those rooms. And when you finished Saba’s Room something really strange happened. It glowed and got brighter. The light was so intense you had to look away for a moment. And in a moment it was done, you walked to the room and could see someone inside. You open it, and a young SABA is sitting in a large chair. He’s drinking something. He waves at you to come in. Now that you get a closer look at him, it’s not EXACTLY Saba, almost like a Collage of Saba. Like a series of slapped together Illustrations representing him. That’s pixellated. It’s eerie.

[UNDERSTANDING] Thanks CHI! It’s kinda stuffed when we don’t have room to stretch our legs, or a form.
You: Uhhhh are you
[UNDERSTANDING] I’m your [UNDERSTANDING], uhh, well a metaphysical representation of it.
[UNDERSTANDING] I needed a space to kind of… BE so to speak. I can walk around and interact with things, etc.
[UNDERSTANDING] When you finish the LABS and OTHER PLACES you’ll give the other ones room to manifest too
[UNDERSTANDING] This is sooo fascinating! I’ve never once in all of my existence experienced this!
[UNDERSTANDING] Well at least that I can remember. I can only remember 2 generations after all, hahah!
You: Well uh, Nice to formally meet you!
You: I have so many questions!
You: Are you a person, am I keeping you all slaves in my head?
You: Is this place a real place that exists or my imagination?
You: Do I have multiple personalities, am I going insane?
You: Are you all in control of me, or am I you, The implications are-
[UNDERSTANDING] - Pretty wild right!
[UNDERSTANDING] No we’re not slaves, uhhh a proper analogy would be like that movie OUTSIDE IN from SABA’s world
[UNDERSTANDING] How that little boy had emotions in their head talking to them
[UNDERSTANDING] It’s like that, we give you advice and color some things, but you ultimately have “CONTROL”
[UNDERSTANDING] Well as much control as a being does in the cosmos anyway
[UNDERSTANDING] As for If I’m a person… DUNNO!
[UNDERSTANDING] Is this place real? NO IDEA!
[UNDERSTANDING] Are you going insane? Well my theory is everyone is already INSANE, but by definition, no.
[UNDERSTANDING] I’d love to study this place and UNDERSTAND it more, guess I can now.
You: But why do you look like Saba?
[UNDERSTANDING] Oh, I just like this form. Sorry but he was my favorite between the two of you
[UNDERSTANDING] Plus THE OTHER ONE will probably take your form to suit you.
[UNDERSTANDING] Does that mean If I don’t pick up my INNATE SKILLS, they won’t appear anymore?
[UNDERSTANDING] WHO KNOWS? HAHAHA


You poke the being, their essence is firm but swirls at your touch, almost like a painting, they feel like paint too. You grab them and give them a hug, they stay firm for this.

[UNDERSTANDING] Haha!
You: Haha!
[UNDERSTANDING] Ah! I almost forgot.
[UNDERSTANDING] Because I have SPACE now, I can do more things for you
[UNDERSTANDING] You can give me a task and I’ll spend my time COMPREHENDING and UNDERSTANDING it for you
[UNDERSTANDING] Think of it like a free [TIME POINT] to spend meditating on a topic or studying something
[UNDERSTANDING] I can only work with information you already know, but if you, say,
[UNDERSTANDING] get photographic memory and memorize each page of a book, I could read it for you
[UNDERSTANDING] It’ll take me a while to do it though, probably 1-2 years per thing, maybe longer
[UNDERSTANDING] Depends on the complexity of the task really.
You: Why so slow?
[UNDERSTANDING] Well I’m not yet firm, you see, I feel like if you finish the MIND CAMPUS that might change
[UNDERSTANDING] But that’s a big project, and it might not even change then
[UNDERSTANDING] There’s so many unknowns!
You: You seem pretty uhh chill for [UNDERSTANDING], I woulda thought you’d be more intense or curious
[UNDERSTANDING] I’m [UNDERSTANDING] bird friend, I [UNDERSTAND] with what you know, and you’re always learning
[UNDERSTANDING] I’m patient.
[UNDERSTANDING] Let’s look around!


You take your [UNDERSTANDING] on a tour of your MIND CAMPUS, it can’t exit the area where there’s grass, or go into the mist, it also can’t fly like you can. By the end of it he says he’ll work on reading through Saba’s memories, maybe find something you missed. You can always let him know to change gears later. The universes mysteries deepen to you, but you’ve learned more and have a few new theories. You think that making the LABS and CLASSROOMS will provide spaces for your STATS. You’re not sure what the CAFETERIA would do, nor are you sure what a VISITOR’S CENTER would do, but your intuition tells you that it must be something interesting.

Your MIND DORM’S FIRST FLOOR is 40% complete
Completion of this 8 Room first floor will unlock PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
Your MIND CAMPUS is starting to feel more cohesive
Meditation has reduced your STRESS by 1
You can now give your [UNDERSTANDING] a task to COMPREHEND
- This will happen in the background and can be on anything you ALREADY KNOW or HAVE MEMORIES OF

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1005116

And like a snap of a wing, your break is over and it’s time for classes again. By this point, you’ve told Pon and Noodle about the job offer from the academy and they’re ecstatic about it! Pon’s been working as a PASTRY CHEF part time now so he can save up enough to do GRAD SCHOOL, he recommends you wait until you graduate but take the offer. Noodle recommends the same thing, she’s planning on becoming a HUNTER, but will probably be stationed in QARA TENGU since she can’t fly, just handling the TRAINING CAVES. Pon’s thinking of becoming a HUNTER, but he’s also having fun making sweets, he’s working on both paths right now slowly. He’s always been a sweetie and a softie, so it kind of fits that he’s still hesitant about being a hunter.

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- GET CLOSER TO MARTH
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS, PROGRESS - 40%
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (RANK 7), PROGRESS - 2/7
- LEARN ALL OF SHION’S SCRIPTING MANUALS, PROGRESS - 9/13
-You can change these goals at any time but it requires 3 similar suggestions to go through.
You have [0 STRESS]
You spent [20 SHINIES] for membership to the MIND AND BODY DOJO
You have [726 SHINIES] remaining
You have [3 TIME POINTS] to spend
You were offered a position as an OUTER DISCIPLE of the MIND AND BODY DOJO to learn TENACITY, do you accept?
- Does not use a time point
- This will teach you TENACITY, breaking your SOFT CAP
- This will cost you 80 SHINIES
- This will take around a year
You were offered a JOB by the ACADEMY
- Do you accept any of the terms they offered yet
- Do you haggle for better terms?
- Or do you WAIT?
Shimon hasn’t pestered you as hard, but still wants your help
- You can tell the pressure is getting to him
- But he hasnt changed his offer yet
You can assign your [UNDERSTANDING] a task to comprehend
- This task has to be something you already know of and uses information stored in yer noggin!
- You won’t get results back for a while as this is a background task
- If you try to swap the current thing being UNDERSTOOD you’ll get a recap of what it’s found out, if anything
What do you do?

AUTHORS NOTE: You can start teaching after grad school if you commit to the 4 year contract, they just want you to let them know in advance. It’ll start after you graduate.

1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (no added classes this year).
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
- Runescripting manuals available:
- SPEED, LIGHT, REFLECTION, SHARPEN,
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 20% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST!!!
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)

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No. 1005117 ID: 0fae41

Help Shimon, for Marth. You don’t have to make it easy for him, keep up the haggling, but help him sincerely. To a bare minimum unless he’s willing to work with you.
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No. 1005118 ID: f8fa51

Your friends are all suggesting you wait on accepting the offer, and that sounds like a good idea.

Do accept the dojo training offer. It combines two things we want to focus on, after all. Change our goal from getting closer to Marth to understanding why Marth doesn't want to get closer. While it is likely we don't have enough information yet for this to be successful, assign UNDERSTANDING this task until such a time as we have a more promising use for it.

Better save the Hunter classes until we have our Athleticism breakthrough. Let's study the runescripting manual, take a SINGING class (hopefully with some friends if you can see who'll agree) and try to tackle some inventions.

Refrigeration is the invention that stands to make the biggest difference to living standards in the short term, though some other mana infrastructure inventions could definitely support that. We should keep military technology in mind, but not as a first focus, and it should probably be kept secret if so; possibly something to wait until after you're a ROYAL SCIENTIST. I have a feeling it could upset the political situation if it got out that Tengu's military technology was improving.
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No. 1005119 ID: 0d6572

Take the disciple position and take the teaching job after graduating, let’s be an adventurer archaeologist! Speaking of which, the archaeology class is an important supplement to our hunter and runescripting classes.
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No. 1005123 ID: 031458

Perhaps we can make Marth a GIFT before this year is up. Perhaps some PROTECTION or a WEAPON. If she doesn't want to know us right now that's one thing, but perhaps we can nudge a future her in our direction. Assuming there IS a future her.
In truth we should have reached out as soon as we met her. We should have made time for her. She deserves far more than a gift, but it is the least we can do.

Keep TA'ing
Accept being an Outer Disciple I
Accept the Teaching Position W/4yr contract after postgrad.
Ignore Shimone

As for time
Work on RUNESCRIPTING MANUALS (Yellow Syntax)
INVENT-Build a proper Refrigerator. Commission CHIPPER for the cabinet parts. If you have spare time after that, build prototypes of the Mana charger and battery.
Take Singing- Ignis knows how to sing very well, have him teach you.

Let's become an artificer. More than just a scientist or archologist, we will rob the old world of it's knowledge and use it to bring a golden age to our own!
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No. 1005128 ID: e51896

SWITCH Understanding from logic to Knowledge. They kinda wanted to do that, and could help if we want to learn how to invent.

Practice your patience by Waiting until after you graduate to become a magitech teacher like Pon and Noodle suggested. Enjoy your growing years a bit more.

Encourage Pon to learn hunting, but support him if he decides cooking is his passion.

Change goal to buying a place of our own to live in.

Become a disciple to learn tenacity, Focus on your sword training over your claw training (question: if we decide to become a deciple with the free point, will our sword and/or claw skill still increase? or will we still need to use a skill point at the dojo to improve our sword/claw skills?)

Have understanding comprehend what is going on with drift's body, what is preventing him from improving his body? assuming this is how comprehension can work.

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Time points

Take an engineering course with a TA (costs 100 shinies which we can afford it now). It'll be a good idea to learn how to invent stuff with our Magitech through engineering, just in case.

Take an Archeology class, so that some day if we want to explore a ruin, we can learn stuff, and it might help in finding a scripting manual through exploring

Bond with William. Gotta take advantage of being able to bond with someone easier after all.
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NORMAL Dinner with the Runescripters to strengthen the runescripters bond. It'll cost 32 shinies since we will be the 4 of us.

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Also, question: when we got to rank three in Runescripting >>1004236 it said we can inscribe up to three runes on a surface.

When we recently ranked up to rank 4 >>1004990
it still said we can inscribe up to 3 runes on a surface.

Just wondering if that meant to be inscribe up to 4 runes, or are we still only able to inscribe 3
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No. 1005131 ID: 44b1b5

Reassign your goal to UNDERSTANDING MARTH’S DISTANT ATTITUDE. Have [UNDERSTANDING] start working on it (though we’ll have a useful book for that on the way soon).

Take the Disciple position. We have the shinies for it. Focus on the CLAWS for now - they’d synergize well with the GUN if we ever decided to switch gears in that direction.

CLASSES: ARCHAEOLOGY, ENGINEERING, & PAINTING
The first two to further our career paths, the latter mostly for relaxing and bonding with Chipper and Nico (although maybe we can experiment with ENGRAVING and CALLIGRAPHY INK-PAINTING, and how they can be applied to runescripting, whenever we have time alone).

DINNER: WILLIAM (HIGH QUALITY)
Let’s make that last push while the bond bonus is still hot; you’ll have to give up on Marth for now, but damn it all if you’ll let William slip through your talons, too! You can tell him the developments with Marth if you think it prudent, and maybe your newly acquired CHARISMA and better UNDERSTANDING of KARMA will help you articulate your worries about TAKING IT EASY a bit better - that it’s less that you think William’s current life is in danger, but more that your next lives will be worse off if you don’t strive to affect any significant change by the end of this one.
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No. 1005132 ID: 9b7a6a

Take offer on disciple
Wait until graduation to be a teacher.


Timepoints on
Archeology
Engineering
Work on more scripting manuals, mainly yellow, and whatever else

Dinner with either pon, noodle, william, or ignis. Maybe William or pon moreso. Either normal or high quality

TA on either archeology or engineering
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No. 1005135 ID: 031458

>>1005132
This is pretty hardcore but I'd be willing to get behind it with you.

Though for dinner I'd vote for going with Ignis.

TA with engineering, our general knowledge is still a bit lacking.

A lot of archeology is patience, persistence, and meticulousness. We've got everything we need to excel there already.
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No. 1005140 ID: 96c896

>>1005116
Wait on Shimon, wait on the Teacher job until after you graduate. He'll probably give us a better offer soon, but there's something else we want from him now-- information on Marth. We can add that to the new deal to increase its value, and we will be able to gain some information just from Shimon's reaction to us asking. Like, if he refuses, then we know that Marth herself is someone important, not just an orphan that got fucked over by Black Lotus.

Change GOAL to Understand why Marth refuses the Bond.

Take William out to dinner again at High quality, bring up Marth. What happened when he tried to get closer to her?
Take Ignis out to dinner at High quality, and ask him for advice on getting a breakthrough on Charisma.
Maybe we can take them both out to dinner at the same time?
Accept the TENACITY training. Focus on Rapier.
Set Understanding to study Marth to better Understand her.

>time points
Take a class on Archaeology. TA on this.
Take a class on Tactics. TA on this too, we can afford it!
Offer to TEACH Drift Meditation, maybe he can use it to figure himself out. Suggest he try eating a monster core or something, maybe he inherited something from his past life that allows him to gain strength in the way a monster did, and in fact requires him to. If he doesn't want Meditation that much just Bond with him in general.
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No. 1005148 ID: 9f8373

Link understanding to Charisma.

Outside of Time Points (in theory post-classes so we have better negotiation):
I'm in the vein others have noted, I am completely against investing the time to teach Shimon, but he did offer an amount for just the lesson plan. Offer information on Marth for the lesson plan.

For point of pride: Confirm you will be 15 (or since it was offered at 12?) when taking the Magitech Teaching position even after grad school. You want that youngest teacher ever status!

Accept at Dojo

Consider using a favor: William or Ignis can probably learn more about Marth. Hopefully with whatever Shimon can tell us.

Time Points
Class: Negotiation (We have solid Charisma, we need to bridge the gap of our charisma with convincing people which we seem to be bad at)
Class: Music, [Insturment: Guitar] [Especially if you can pair with Ignis’ singing]. Creative outlet we have boosted, and pairs with the singing we wanted to do. (Also forseeing possibly making our own electric guitar or other enhanced instrument with magitech someday!)
Spend time on already existing BONDS [Family]: You just had a huge job offer and you have parents who went through stuff like this. What do they think? Get haggling advice. See how proud they are. Finally go in on Riichi wanting to make you prettier and use your luck. Get to actually know Faan. Learn about Drako’s time as a hunter. Also, take all parents, William, Noodle, and Pon out to a HIGH dinner with your own money because this is all exciting and really fun as a kid.
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No. 1005164 ID: 871f70

Whatever we do, I support teaching drift meditation. If not now, then next year for sure.
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> OUTER DISCIPLE OF THE MIND AND BODY DOJO
You accept LOU XIN’s offer to join the MIND AND BODY DOJO as an outer disciple. She lets you know the training will be intense but in short bursts. It turns out a lot of it is making you stand in precarious positions while she hits you. Her strikes aren’t enough to actually wound you, but they hurt a lot. The stress will accumulate over time, but you trust her teaching method. Your objective is to maintain focus and to not fall even when the pain is intense.

> ACCEPT THE JOB OFFER
You accept the ACADEMY’S offer for you to become a teacher upon graduation. They let you know that the position will be held for you, but to expect to spend [1 TIME POINT] extra on various paperwork, planning, meetings, and administrative duties once you join. It’s only for when you join, after that it’s pretty straightforward.

EVENT - TEACHING INITIATION - Will occur in [TIMESLOT 1] of year 16
You’ve gained a new obligation - MAGITECH PROFESSOR
- This will go in effect starting year 16


The contract you sign is simple and neat, it just states that you will work the contracted period of 4 years, so from the beginning of year 16 to the beginning of year 20. There are clauses that say you are eligible for bonuses depending on the percentage of students that pass your classes, that you’re required to teach at least 2 courses a year in any order, and other simple things. Your first class’s payment will be given to you upfront at the beginning of the year as you’re a new teacher and will most likely need the money to FIND A PLACE TO LIVE. There’s a contract breaking clause that says if you have to stop teaching before a semester begins and you’re contract isn't over you will need to pay a fine of 6400 SHINIES. That is unless extenuating circumstances occur that you discuss with the staff. They say the contract is renewable and will be under looser restrictions so long as you give [3 TIME POINTS] advance notice when you plan to resign after the 4 year period. Your contract is just a bit more strict on this kind of thing because you’re currently the only kin skilled enough to teach the subject well.

You’re recommended to teach 2-4 classes total a year, requiring [4 TIME POINTS] but how you structure your class and if this is required is entirely up to you. You’ll also be given a bonus if you can foster an especially bright student to the peak of RUNESCRIPTING or beyond your skill level.

> [UNDERSTANDING’S] FIRST TASK
You tell your [UNDERSTANDING] to use what available information it has to gain some conjectures on why MARTH doesen’t want to get closer. You want to [UNDERSTAND] her motives better. He agrees and sets to sifting through your memories, he’ll try to see what he can dig up.

> UPDATE GOAL
Your goal has been changed from GET CLOSER TO MARTH to [UNDERSTAND] why marth refuses your BOND.

> When were you born anyway?
You were actually born on the eight day of the first month of the year. So unfortunately, when you start your TEACHING JOB, you’ll be 16. Your PRIDE is a little sad you won’t get the 15 year old TEACHER achievement, but it can live.
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> DINNER - DOUBLE… DATE?
It’s not really a date, but you invite WILLIAM and IGNIS out to dinner, they’re both elated to join you but are surprised when they see the other there. You didn’t think too hard about it and made a small, tiny, itty bitty, omission. But it’s fine. You’re 12 and this isn’t REALLY a date. You get them both a High Quality meal and set about chatting about different things. Ignis opens up about his past as a reincarnator when William brings it up. He mentions being a girl in another life, but she was incredibly ugly and unloved. Her body wasn’t asymmetrical enough. So she studied and joined the military of her country and eventually became a star fleet commander. A pause hits the room.

You: STAR FLEET? LIKE SPACE SHIPS?!?!
Ignis: Yeah! What, your old world didn’t have those?
William: Uhhh, no. I mean. Not enough for stellar warfare?!?!?
Ignis: It really wasn’t a big deal. Though the tech is unreplicatable here.
Ignis: It was like uhhhh organic ships, we don’t have a good term for it here.
Ignis: Plus we weren’t even kin, more like mushrooms really.
Ignis: But yeah, no real love, no real family, only one friend, my ensign really.
Ignis: So when I popped up here and remembered that I decided I was going to be as CHARISMATIC and CHARMING
Ignis: As possible so that kin will love me and I won’t be lonely anymore!
You: Dang Ignis, I’m sorry you went through that!
William: This is the first I’m hearing about the ships
Ignis: Its really not a big deal.
You: I’d love to pick your brain on what you know later, never know, I could come up with something cool.
Ignis: If you could make a HOlO DECK, uhhh, a Simu- uhhh, a room that can make things you give it commands to
Ignis: That’d make me pretty happy.
You: I’m familliar with the concept, yeah, we always thought it was fiction
William: Instead we got superpowers and constant war with monsters
Ignis: There are ups and downs definitely, but really I dont even know how much stock I put in it.
Ignis: I mean, I certainly have the MEMORIES of this happening
Ignis: But it’s not the now, ya know.
Ignis: There’s no REAL way to know if it really happened right?
Ignis: So I treat it as a learning experience and try to live this life to the fullest!
William: Not wanting to dwell on the past?
Ignis: Only enough so I can tell cool stories really!
Ignis: Got a few cool songs about it that I sing at taverns.


The meal becomes secondary as the two of you listen to tales that Ignis weaves, of massive conflicts, of betrayals, of loneliness, it strikes a chord with you, you can even feel a tear go down. It turns out Ignis is a captivating STORYTELLER. Eventually the convo dies down and you’re about to leave but you stop the two boys and bring up your main topic.

You: Okay, so I have a FAVOR to ask of the both of you.
Ignis: Sure, whats up?
William: Of course!
You: Marth, do any of you know more of her past?
You: Anything weird?
Ignis: Well I had my contacts do a little digging on pretty much everyone I interact with or that was special.


The two of you look at Ignis in confusion

Ignis: Oh, I know a few Info dealers.
Ignis: Kinda uh, useful when you remember being an officer in the military
Ignis: AAAAANYWAY. She came from one of the HUMAN KINGDOM’S many duchies,
Ignis: Small world plates that it controls, had a ROOK for a father, which was extremely rare
You: What’s this ROOK? Anyway?
William: I can answer that one.


William then goes on a small explanation of INSECT-KIN society. They consist of a few different ranks of creatures. At the top there’s a QUEEN. She lays eggs and gives birth to 4 tiers of Insect Kin. ROOKS are the queens aides, they are the only insect-kin manipulated by her pheromones and are obedient until death. They have the highest capacity to learn and are basically a smart kin. Think of them as GENERALS. Though if they’re away from a Queen too long, they can become independent. MALE ROOKS are extremely rare, and one being split off is even rarer, this is what MARTH’S DAD is, the technical term is a BISHOP, but no one uses it. Then there’s the KNIGHTS, they have one arm that is a weapon, be it a claw, scythe, etc. They’re not as smart, but are gifted in battle as LIEUTENANTS. Then there’s PAWNS, they’re extremely low intelligence, in large numbers, and have two claws that are either shields, digging implements, weapons, or whatever the queen needs most. Consider them a slave race that only really cares about food and will do whatever for it. William recommends if you want to know more to take the ANTHROPOLOGY class. They have a strange society that isn’t reliant on S-E-X. Oh and all of their blood is blue, even half Insect-kin have blue blood.

You: Thanks, you were saying Ignis.
Ignis: Then she vanished for about uhhh 3 years, and showed up here.
William: Nothing for 3 years?
Ignis: No one saw her. She stands out pretty hard cause of the eyes.
Ignis: I heard some kin were looking for her, but they vanished too
You: Huh, thanks you two.
You: what about the relationship with Shimon and Marth?
Ignis: Grandfather, guardian of Marth, has a bad rep and constantly gambles his finances away.
Ignis: It’s no secret he’s been pestering you, but you really shouldn’t give in for nothing
Ignis: He’s got a reputation for taking as much as he can and giving as little as he can
Ignis: Which is probably why - ah, forget that last part haha.


With that the dinner actually comes to a close, you’ve got more information now, but your [UNDERSTANDING] says it needs some time to process this, it’s a complicated situation. You know there’s info to be gleaned from what you know, but you also get the slight feeling that Ignis knows more than he gave away, but that he probably can’t say.

You had a HIGH QUALITY MEAL at [0 STRESS] You’ve gained [1 FUN POINT]
Your bond with WILLIAM is now fully stable and has increased to rank 5!
- William TRUSTS you more
- William might be willing to do slightly unreasonable things for you
- You can request any amount of favors from WILLIAM, but be aware he might start asking for favors in return
- William appreciates that you go out of your way to spend time with him
- You get warm feelings when you think of him
Your bond with IGNIS has increased to rank 5!
- Ignis TRUSTS you more
- Ignis might be willing to do slightly unreasonable things for you
- You can request any amount of favors from Ignis, but be aware he might start asking for favors in return
- Ignis LOVES spending time with you and you can tell by his mannerisms and small touches
- You get warm feelings when you think of him
Your bond with someone has reached 5 for the first time!
In order to increase your bond further you need to spend some [TIME] with them
- This can be either trying to BOND with them a few times,
- or taking many classes together,
- or working in the same environment for a long enough period of time
Furthering your BONDS does not mean you have to be in a romantic relationship, so keep that in mind!

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> CLASS - ARCHEOLOGY
You attend the class headed by a massive wolf BEAST-KIN, she’s got a coat of PINK FUR and a katana at her side. She greets the class, introducing herself as MIZU, professional Archaeologist and menace to the other kingdoms. The class chuckles at that. She divides the classes into multiple sections, diplomacy with other kin, ruins and how to navigate them, ruin theory, and, the most important part, traps and how to avoid them.

The diplomacy section is very bare bones, it mostly amounts to don’t let them see you, and if they do see you, be polite but firm. Some locations are cordoned off by other Kin, in which case you’ll have to apply to enter, which usually is led by a fee of some kind as even some completely cleaned out can have something left.

She then describes the ruins, many of them are LABARYNTHINE in nature and occasionally rooms are filled with strange devices and traps. The worst part is that after a certain amount of time, many of them completely rearrange their internal structures, so it’s impossible to map them. It’s possible to encounter MONSTERS in these ruins, so she recommends you take a MARTIAL ARTS class or two, even the HUNTER classes are useful. The deeper you are, the higher the danger, so most Archaeologists just stick to the entrance and a few rooms deep. Many of the walls have something called RUNESCRIPT on them, she points to you and continues. She says the students should talk to you or take the RUNESCRIPT class, learning the language is the easiest way to survive as nearly every time before a trap it’s labeled in the runescripting language.

Mizu: I myself am knowledgable in the main 6 COLORS of RUNESCRIPT, I don’t know how to make a rune, but I can read it.
Mizu: But there sometimes appears a 7th and 8th color, GOLD and PRISMATIC
Mizu: Unfortunately none of our researchers have deciphered the language, so If you see it, it’s best you steer clear
Student A: I heard there’s strange treasures behind the doors with it on it!
Student B: Yeah, shouldn’t we investigate everything we can
Mizu: If you want a 90% chance you’ll die then go for it!
Mizu: Seriously that’s the death rate of those who ignore the Gold and Prismatic script.


She then goes on to explain that the main things you are looking for when you enter are ARTIFACTS, TABLETS, WALL WRITING, MANUALS, and RESOURCES. She theorizes that these were LABORATORIES to the ANCIENTS as they’re referred to in translated writings.

Mizu: Also, It’s really weird, but they called themselves the ANCIENTS
Mizu: that’s not a monkier we picked up, or a nickname, that’s what they’re called.


She continues that in newly discovered Ruins the most valuable thing you can find is an ARTIFACT. They come in all shapes but typically do SOMETHING. The only publicly known artifact collected to date is a HUMAN IDOL. It’s shaped like a sitting human that’s thinking and naked, and when placed near crops will cause them to grow at an exponential rate. The HUMAN KINGDOM has one and it’s range is enough that it covers the entire capital. The room gasps in surprise.

Mizu: You see why this is important, ARTIFACTS can save lives and change a kingdom.
Mizu: But if you get one, be prepared to haul ass.
Mizu: The most important thing to remember is to hide it until you can sell it or bring it to our kingdom
Mizu: Having friends in the kingdoms or friendships with the guards to the public ruins helps a ton
Mizu: There are also DEVICES, different from ARTIFACTS that do things.
Mizu: The WORLD-PLATE TUNNEL DEVICE is one such device. It lets you tunnel to another world-plate
Mizu: There’s a companion device for detecting tunnel-able locations as well
Mizu: But these are rare and are held by the HUMAN KINGDOM and are UNOBTAINABLE as of right now.
Mizu: The first kin to find one and bring it back here would probably become royalty immediately and be set for life.
Mizu: The real goal of archeology might nobly be called PRESERVATION or TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
Mizu: But really, at the end of the day, most kin want SHINIES, and SAFETY


The last segment talks about the various traps you’ll encounter. It varies from pitfalls, spikes, arrow traps, basically the most generic of generic. No one knows what traps exist beyond PRISMATIC and GOLD runescript, or if they do know they refuse to tell the outside world. Even she’s never gone past the text before for sake of her own life. She lastly mentions that most RUINS are in caves, or are their own individual buildings or structures typically made of some strange WHITE MATERIAL that’s indestructible by any methods know to kin or man, hence why brute force doesn’t work. What’s even stranger is that they’re not sure how old the material is, since recorded history it’s been structurally sound, only accumulating dust.

By the end of the course you’ve gotten a lot of new information on the subject.

[UN LOGIC] So some ancient civilization used to live on these plates
[UN LOGIC] Something happened and they either left everything behind or were vaporized
[UN LOGIC] And they realized this might happen at some point so they trapped their labs
[UN LOGIC] But made it incredibly obvious where the traps were by using runescript
[UN LOGIC] so now we’re left to pick up the pieces and find out what happened
[UN LOGIC] Though the GOLD and PRISMATIC colors is interesting, I wonder if we can find more interesting runes out there?
[INTUITION] This… feels strange. Does no one else feel like there’s something WEIRD about these places?
[UN LOGIC] Logically, yes. Like, where were the homes of the beings that lived in these labs
[CURIOSITY] Was it another world plate somewhere?
[CURIOSITY] Did they live IN the labs in some hidden space?
[CURIOSITY] We should take a history class and learn more about the origins of the KIN,
[CURIOSITY] we haven’t been around all that long from what I gather, so there’s probably a creation myth
[CURIOSITY] That isn’t a myth, like we probably can get information written by the first settlers
[UN LOGIC] I estimate that from technological progress like we’ve seen we’re around
[UN LOGIC] 2000 years from when civilization started, maybe even less considering tech was gained from ruins
[LUCK] I’m betting it’s been 800 something years
[GUILE] I’ll take that bet and raise you to 1200
[TACTICS] Fools, it must be at least 3000 years, even 4000 years

You’ve learned about ARCHAEOLOGY
Your KNOWLEDGE stat has increased!
Your CURIOSITY stat has increased!
You get the feeling the next class will improve your PERCEPTION and talk about what is commonly inscribed on the walls in RUNESCRIPT

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> FREE TIME - RUNESCRIPTING MANUALS
You spend your time on the SPEED, LIGHT, and SHARPEN runes this time around. The SPEED manual Is straightforward but takes you the longest as you’re learning a new syntax. It’s vision is the strangest one yet. You have become a star in the sky. And then you start moving, going faster, first things start to distort around you, the space in front of you is slowly increasing in brightness. Then objects far ahead start to look like they’re moving farther and farther away, and those things that were once BEHIND you come into view. Eventually you go so fast that you can’t see what’s in front of you anymore, sans a single bright light. You’re moving at the speed of light you think, it’s exhilarating, and in a single moment, its over.

[UNDERSTANDING] Huh, I always wondered what you would see if you went that fast
[CURIOSITY] But does this imply going the speed of light means you’re going backwards?
[UNDERSTANDING] I’ll meditate on it, it’s an interesting theory.


> BOND - Help from DRIFT
Drift shows up, seeing you work on the LIGHT manual, he already knew it and since you both know the YELLOW syntax, he’s able to help you finish it in a fraction of the time. The vision from this one is different from Drift’s instead of a white room you see… IT. That entity. The one that killed Saba. It looks at you, and a beam of light larger and BRIGHTER then anything you’ve ever seen pulses out. It PIERCES through you. You are vaporized, and you feel a sense of PURITY from the nothingness that you become. You break out from the illusion and you’re breathing heavily, if you could sweat you would be doing so right now. Your feathers are ruffled quite literally.

[UNDERSTANDING] Different per kin, interesting.
[UNDERSTANDING] I assume it’s the best way to get you to understand the rune’s nature?
[UNDERSTANDING] The more I see this the less I understand WHY the illusions are needed.


> BOND - Help from WILLIAM
William shows up next upon hearing from Drift you were working on manuals, so he spends some time showing you how to solve the REFLECTION book, just like with Drift’s help you solve it in no time flat. This vision sees you in a dark room, there’s a light at the end, but you can’t move. It’s CALM, but stressful in a way. And in a moment you feel a FEROCITY, and a SPEED assail you as you fly at the speed of sound, and then you realize it, you’re a bullet, and you’re about to hit a wall. But instead you reflect off of that wall and return to the shooter, you look at the being, it’s you. And the other version of you dies. You break from your reverie.

[UNDERSTANDING] So like… Are these manuals messing with you?
[UNDERSTANDING] William saw reflecting water
[UNDERSTANDING] The more we go through these, the more I think some weird entity is messing with you.
[INTUITION] What if it isnt a weird entity messing with us, but what if it’s our subconcious
[UNDERSTANDING] Okay that seems more likely, because managing everyone’s visions sounds tedious
[UNDERSTANDING] STILL, why though.


And with the help from two of your friends you now have enough time to finish the SHARPEN rune on your own. It’s simple enough to do abut the vision is simple too. You’re a blade on a grindstone, being sharpened by a master smith you can’t see. The feeling of the stone on your metallic body is like that of a massage, the polishing of your body and tempering makes you feel SHARP, able to CUT ANYTHING. And with that you’re back to normal.

[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe we complained too much
[UNDERSTANDING] I wanted to see something weird again.

AUTHORS NOTE: My bad, I wrote down the wrong number, it should’ve been 4 when I said it last.

Your RUNESCRIPTING skill has increased to rank 5
You can now inscribe up to 5 runes onto a strong enough surface
You’ve learned the rune for LIGHT
- Creates light sources
- ??? Purifies ???
You’ve learned the rune for SPEED
- Increases speed and acceleration rate
You’ve learned the rune for REFLECTION
- consumes energy to redirect energy and force
You’ve learned the rune for SHARPEN
- Increases SHARPNESS
You’ve hit the SOFT CAP for runescripting
You’re not sure how to achieve a breakthrough


> CLASS - ENGINEERING + TA
The Engineering class is EXTREMELY simple. Coupled with SABA’s KNOWLEDGE and your practice with RUNESCRIPT, you pick up the basics in no time. The TA helps you get some practical theories and so you spend the time learning how to make BLUEPRINTS better, proper measurements, ideas. You learn of the various technologies made by your plate. Your plate learned how to make vertical buildings without needing metal rods using CONCRETE And a strange construction method that provided immensely Strong foundations. Your plate also has specialized tools that allow your larger wing-hands to hold them. Most wing-kin produced weapons are lighter and have longer hilts than others, they talk about the technical limitations of this and future ideas. Throughout the class you get glimpses of your old memories and they fall into place in a way that makes you feel like you’ll be better then you ever were at INVENTING in the future. And in the process you finish up the COOL STORAGE DEVICE with Chipper’s help constructing a custom interior and exterior. Eventually you’ve got a 1 meter x .7 meter x .5 meter MINI CHI-LLER as you decide to call it.

[PRIDE] YES. YESSSS. YESSSSSSSSSSS.

Your teacher congratulates you on your successful project and gives you a certificate saying you’ve essentially passed the whole course. There’s nothing else he can teach you and he’s proud of your inventiveness. You store the CHI-LLER in your room and keep frozen drinks in there to have when you want a snack. Pon uses it to store sweets and wonders if it could be used to store other things.

Congratulations! You’ve gained the INVENTION skill
Your MEMORIES have boosted this skill to RANK 2 automatically
- The better your INVENTION skill, the easier it will be to design and create new things
- You now have a general idea about how long it will take to make something
- SIMPLE projects will usually take [1 TIME POINT]
- COMPLEX projects with multiple parts and that require specialist creations will typically take [2-3 TIME POINTS]
- FINALIZED BLUEPRINTS that you have made ONCE can be mass produced if funds are spent properly
- unfortunately your CRAFTSMANSHIP leaves something to be desired
- If you want the finished products to look professional, you’ll either need to learn how to make these things
- or work with others

[UNDERSTANDING] I’d reccomend picking up the basics of METALWORKING, ENGRAVING, TAILORING, SCULPTING, and PAINTING
[GUILE] Or, Since you’re going to have tons of money anyway, you could pay others to do it
[GUILE] Y’know, stimulate the economy, give your friends jobs, you don’t NEED to be a one woman army
[GUILE] Stuff you make for yourself can look bad as long as it works, y’know
[CREATIVITY] I think I’m being insulted. Are you saying what I make doesen’t look good?
[GUILE] We’re only saying that you’re CREATIVE, and good at DRAWING, but your other skills are lacking
[CREATIVITY] You don’t like my art… T.T
[???] HEY! I thought there was a no EMOJI policy going on here!
[CREATIVITY] If I wasn’t feeling inspired I’d be so sad right now! Ohhhhh you…

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> FAVOR - PON’S first FAVOR
Pon comes to you a few weeks after the freezer has been made. He’s got a wild business idea. He wants to use his pastry skills, combined with his juicing skills that he got recently to make something he calls PON-POPS! They’ll be a little sweet treat. He wants to make a small stall and go around selling them because he thinks it will make more money then working part time at the PASTRY SHOP. If you’re willing to lend him your CHI-LLER or make him a new one that’s LIGHTWEIGHT and can go on his back while he flies, he can make some supply here in the larger one, and travel around the city selling a lot of small, densely packed ones from the pack.

He says that working the PASTRY CHEF JOB is nice, but he’d like to try doing his own thing and see how it goes! He’s willing to split profits with you 80/20, where he gets 80, for a year if the business does well. You let him know you’ll think on it for now. IT only cost you about 100 SHINIES for all the components of the CHI-LLER, you didn’t even use the ARCANUM you had since you just slapped some ABSORB runes and linked them. But this is a new technology that you’ve brought to this plate. So you’re not sure what you should value it at.

[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] The first Fridge would have been worth around 1750 SHINIES if my maths are right
[UNDERSTANDING] But it needed components to make it cost that much
[UN LOGIC] The question here is how much is your work valued at.
[UN LOGIC] Given the supplies and your work speed, working off a blueprint you could make maybe… 5 CHI-LLERS
[UN LOGIC] in [1 TIME POINT] because you’d have to wait on parts from CHIPPER
[UN LOGIC] That would cost you around 500 SHINIES
[GUILE] You could probably value the first pretty high, as its new tech,
[UN LOGIC] But another runescripter could just break it apart and figure out what runes you used to make it.
[UN LOGIC] Though the pool of applicants that passed the 2nd class is pretty low right now…


You’re not sure what to value this at. You haven’t thought that far ahead yet. You’re sure the blueprint is worth A LOT now. You could also tell Pon to take the second class and then TEACH him how to make one. It’d be a good BONDING moment and show him other applications since he finished the first class. Heck, nothing’s stopping you from just teaching everyone how to make this really useful life-changing tool. It’s up to you on how you want to handle this.

> TA UPDATE
This semester was a little more stressful than normal , you gain [1 STRESS], But it was BLOCKED by a [FUN POINT]

> EVENT - THE ROYAL LIBRARY 2
You’ve got some time to think over what you want to do for the next year, and the library is back open to you. They pat you down like before and let you know the same deal. You’ve got the full day to look for something, but this time there might be one or two other kin that pop by. She says to be respectful to them, but you can ignore them for the most part.

You enter and are awed by the stacks of books, it’s nice to see all these interesting tomes in one place. It’s a nostalgic feel for you. MINNIE lets you in and watches over you like before. You immediately go to the runescripting section to pick out the two books you remember from before. The UNTITLED BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK is missing. Then there’s the JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST, it’s there and it seems like this text wasn’t touched since you last came here.

[INTUITION] I think today’s going to be a good day.
[UNDERSTANDING] It’d be nice to come here when we’ve gotten a PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY,
[UNDERSTANDING] by my estimate with a whole day we could memorize around [8 TIME POINTS] worth of books in one sitting
[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe 4-6 counting search time


You spent [80 SHINIES] to become an inner disciple of the MIND AND BODY DOJO
You spent [48 SHINIES] on a HIGH QUALITY dinner for 3
You spent [100 SHINIES] on the TA for ENGINEERING
You spent [100 SHINIES] on supplies for your mini CHI-LLER
You spent [150 SHINIES] on your lifestyle this year
You gained [500 SHINIES] from your TA job
You gained [128 SHINIES] from your yearly ACADEMY SALARY
You have [876 SHINIES]

You’re at the ROYAL LIBRARY again, the books here are the same level of quality as before. You’ve got the whole day, so you can take your time to pick. You’re PATIENT after all. Do you find any new books, or do you take one and leave?

AUTHORS NOTE: Same rules as before, the better the book, the more TP it’ll cost to read, and the harder it will be to find. Any of the suggested books previously are acceptable as well, it’s up to you if you want to look for more books.

Also feel free to discuss potential values of your stuff here, on the questdis thread, or the discord. Or let me know if you want me to value it myself, I feel like the price of a thing at least the first thing you make is kinda important but after that I can automate it if it’s too granular for you all.

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No. 1005191 ID: e51896

We finished all of Shimon's scriptingmanuals now, that means we finished the subgoal, correct?

kind of disappointing that the black runescripting book is gone... maybe next time we come here it'll show up again.

JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE is my main choice. It seems to have techniques in runescriptings we weren't taught by shimon that we could probably in turn teach when we start becoming a teacher. Might even help break that softcap on our runescripting skills, and be able to teach kin even better since our teaching involves teaching someone up to your level in a STAT or SKILL

And no, don't steal anything.
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No. 1005192 ID: 4bc628

I think we have the RUNESCRIPTING chops to handle JOURNEYMAN'S GUIDE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING now, so let's take that.
I'd say spend the day reading the UNTITLED BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK though.
Who knows, maybe we'll get LUCKY
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No. 1005193 ID: e51896

>>1005192
the UNTITLED BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK is missing unfortunately.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, since we were told there will be a couple of other kin here, I recommend NOT looking into books containing info on the Black Lotus. For all we know, one of the guests might be associated with them and get suspicious of us.

We could also skim a little at the MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE before we check out the JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE
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No. 1005198 ID: 031458

>>1005193
Oh, so it is. Uh yeah we could read mind as one while we wait.
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No. 1005199 ID: 44b1b5

Since we've already found JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE, let's settle on that and spend the rest of our time here reading more of THE BOOK OF ORDERS, focusing first on anything we missed about the Black Lotus, secondly on the orders they're connected to. (It seems like the kind of book we don't want certain parties among the public to know we were reading.)

Meanwhile, for now (regarding the request), let's convince Pon to take the second class - we're going to have a lot on our plate in the coming years as is, I think. (Maybe even use the Chiller as an example object exercise for when you TA for him.)

Finally, reattach UNDERSTANDING to your CHARISMA, for now, to better understand Marth's situation - GUILE would be better, but it's not quite there yet.
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No. 1005201 ID: 75331e

Spend the day in the library reading the mind as one technique book. We were told here >>1004543 we could finish it within a day, and since we have the whole day to the library, lets see if we can finish it before we leave. Use our STUDY skill on reading it if we have to.

Before we leave, borrow the Journeyman's book.
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No. 1005206 ID: dfbac0

>>1005201
>>1005193
I agree with both of these people, spend the day at the library reading THE MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE and then bring the engineering book home.
Also, we should not read the book on organizations, as we have been obviously looking into marth, so showing that we know about the black lotus by reading about it could be very bad.
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No. 1005207 ID: dfbac0

Also, in regards to a CREATIVE skill, I think we should learn painting or engraving as both of those skills would help us learn precision and allow us to make smaller runes which then allows us to make more complex things.
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No. 1005208 ID: dfbac0

Also, as a simple thought exercise I think we should write a JOURNAL in RUNESCRIPT, this will allow us to practice writing runes and would help us learn runescripting as a language which will make reading it easier and maybe even allow us to easily read the Black Runescript Book. Just something to do, it would cost us no time-points and would help us keep our mind together while practicing runescript and a journal probably won't cost too much.
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No. 1005209 ID: a077df

If the visions come from your subconscious, what in Sava’s memories carved up that hill in the Sword vision?
Read the book of orders some more. Take out a book on martial arts to train after you’ve made a breakthrough in athletics.
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No. 1005212 ID: 96c896

>>1005186
>lightweight chiller
Sounds like the same basic design, just less runes and a smaller box. Since it's meant to be used to keep things frozen rather than freeze them, it can operate at a lower intensity, or allow less insulation. You're going to need to make sure it has good insulation on the side that contacts the person carrying it, though.
Hmm... let's experiment a little with the NULL rune. Try writing it in different colors, in the presence of many other runes of various colors, to see if it can be used to erase specific runes, or if we can get the null rune to stick around so we can link it to something. I mean, doesn't the rune normally erase itself when it cleans a surface? I was wondering if we could use it to "block" elements. Like, a NULL-HEAT combination would block or erase heat originating from the rune's side, working as a perfect insulator(for keeping something cold behind the rune) so long as it has mana. The reverse would be NULL-COLD, to prevent heat transfer originating from behind the rune and thus keep it warm? Or maybe both rune combinations work the same and prevent heat transfer from both directions. Well, one problem is that if the NULL rune *erases* the element it's linked to, then erasing heat wouldn't keep anything warm, and you can't exactly erase cold can you? Maybe "erasing" cold actually works by blocking the transfer of heat like a true insulator, and "erasing" heat would work like a heatsink, conducting heat away into nothing.

>Royal Library
See if you can find a Gold or Prismatic runescripting book. There probably isn't one here, but you gotta try.
Can we ask who borrowed the black runescripting book? Or just for them to let us know when it's returned? That's definitely a high priority choice.
I'm guessing the OMNIBUS is still rented out, since it's impossible for Pawn to have finished reading it by now.

I agree we should spend the day quickly reading the Mind as One book then take the Practical Runecraft book. The book should give us an insight into how to break the soft cap. Or just straight up do it directly.

How do we increase Intuition? It seems like an extraordinarily useful stat, as it gives insights into things we have no way of otherwise knowing.
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No. 1005214 ID: 031458

>>1005212
I thought the opposite of the chiller.
Lightweight without plastic, foam, metal, and rubber basically means less insulation.
That said, AbsorbX2, trigger, ChillX2 should do the job just fine even on a poorly insulated box. That or a wooden box with absorb trigger chill on two planks. We'll just have to make sure the outside is upholstered. Partially for SOME insulation, and partially so water from the air doesn't free it shut.
I wonder if he would prefer wheels or backpack straps.
I'm thinking straps if it indeed is upholstered.
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No. 1005223 ID: f8fa51

Definitely let Pon have the chiller or make him one. He's your brother, after all. But teaching him to make one would be a pretty good bonding opportunity, so let's do that too.

The JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE is a good option, but skim it first to make sure it actually contains information you don't already have.
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No. 1005224 ID: 0fae41

So, have William's misgivings about Ignis gone away yet? If he's telling the truth about his past life, and truth is often stranger than fiction, their shrewd behavior and clearly defined goal does go a long way to explaining the way they are. You should try drawing some of the things they described, it'll look great in a book someday.
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No. 1005227 ID: 96c896

>>1005224
Yeah William said he got the wrong impression about him and he's not a womanizer or anything, just extremely social.
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No. 1005247 ID: 36784c

>>1005181
>Marth
I feel like we’re not gonna be able to figure anything out before she leaves. So I’d like to propose that we go find her one last time to tell her goodbye and to wish her luck on whatever it is that she’s doing.

It’s sad that our bond can’t be what it was in our previous life, but we still want to at least be friends, if she’s ok with that.

Asking for a goodbye hug might be too much, but maybe we could do a simple goodbye handshake instead?

>>1005183
>massive wolf BEAST-KIN
Quit staring at her massive boobs! That’s rude, you tit! ……wait, you’re a crow, not a tit.

>>1005186
>Pon’s favor
Agree to help.

But he has to let you and Noodle taste test the samples until he gets it right. Once he’s perfected his treats, you and Noodle will buy his products like normal customers. After all, it wouldn’t be fair if we cut into his profits by always taking them for free!
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> Belated Achieved Goal
CONGRATS! You’ve completed the SUBGOAL - LEARN ALL OF SHIMON’S SCRIPTING MANUALS
You’ve gained 2 GP
GP TOTAL - 3/4


> Belated year update
Also It’s [YEAR 13] Now!

> Inquire about the location of the UNTITLED BLACK RUNESCRIPTING BOOK
You ask Minnie about where the book is and she looks through her notes. After a few minutes she finds the right page and says it was checked out by someone a few days prior. You curse your luck and ask who could have borrowed it. She doesn't answer and says that it’s kept confidential for the most part. You sigh and ask if there’s some kind of reservation system, she says that there’s not any for students, if you become a ROYAL or work with them you gain similar perks. You nod, thank her and head back into the library.

> Leaf through the JOURNEYMAN’S REFERENCE Volume XII
You decide to flip through the book and see if you can glean anything to give you an idea as to exactly WHAT this manual would contain. Your understanding of the 6 Colors lets you get a vague idea bout it, but it’s still in some sort of CYPHER. You’re not adept at CODEBREAKING, but you could probably team up with your [UNDERSTANDING] to try to crack it. Actually reading and comprehending the manual would take around [1 TIME POINT] But you can tell it might take [2 TIME POINTS] Or More to crack the code, unless you can find someone adept at CODEBREAKING to help you. The more you leaf through the manual the more you notice a pattern though. Many pages have an ABSORPTION RUNE overlayed with another rune of some kind. The notes in the margin indicate that this might be some kind of SENSOR, a foundational requirement for practical engineering.

[UNDERSTANDING] So is a SENSOR a compound rune, consisting of it and another rune
[UNDERSTANDING] Are there other compound runes?


> YOUR LUCK STRIKES
You continue to flip through it but accidentally drop the book when you hear a noise behind you. Looking down you notice that there were several pages stuck together at the back cover. You probably wouldn’t nave noticed if you didn’t drop the book. You lift the book back up and notice that it looks like another MANUAL, this one’s written in BLACK syntax, and it’s not a rune you’ve found before. You look around and no one seems to have seen it. You tuck it back into the book where it was and continue leafing through for now. Not much else flies out at you, but you think you see diagrams for other devices in there, but its incomprehensible without some sort of KEY. You set the book down and pick up the MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE, deciding to spend your remaining time reading that.

> Read the MIND AS ONE TECHNIQUE
You decide to spend some your time here reading the tome, the main book you wanted is gone, and you dont want to arouse suspicion from whoever might walk in if they see you reading the BOOK OF ORDERS. You quickly glaze through the book to get an idea of how it actually functions. It’s seperated into several stages and discusses some rather strange Ideas. Namely that the mind is made up of CITIZENS, SOLDIERS, GENERALS, and KINGS with you being the EMPEROR. All kin house these beings, some hear them individually, others hear them all at once, others hear nothing, these are typically what you call THOUGHTS. This guide seeks to train your THOUGHTS to work for you more efficiently

The MIND AS A SOLDIER phase refers to turning a CITIZEN of your MIND into a SOLDIER, sharpening their influence and skill so as to increase their effectiveness.

The MIND AS A GENERAL phase has you turn one of these soldiers into a GENERAL, but has the requirement of having at least 4 soldiers underneath them to control. The GENERAL will boost the overall productivity and growth of it’s soldiers, making them sharper when it matters. Acting like they’re 1 rank higher than they actually are.

The MIND AS A KING phase has you turn one of these generals, soldiers, or citizens into a KING, it requires you to have at least 3 Generals and 12 Soldiers. The KING acts as a leader to them all, and is typically the aspect of your mind that resonates the most with you, they are there to enact your will. They’ll typically be boosted as if they were 2 ranks higher then they actually were.

It says that the typical kin usually can make a soldier or two, and that no one has ever heard of a kin reaching the MIND AS KING phase, and that although the techniques listed here can lead to it, it hasn’t been tested or confirmed. The author states that should you achieve that level, you might be able to have a PERFECT DEFENSE OF THE MIND, preventing the supernatural from infiltrating it and allowing you solace amidst the possible horrors of the world.

[INTUITION] This… What is this? Why do I get the feeling this is implying that mental warfare,
[INTUITION] like someone actively invading your mind is a possible occurance.
[UNDERSTANDING] That’s because it IS implying something similar.
[UNDERSTANDING] What I don’t get is why it’s hiding it under the guise of a meditation technique
[UNDERSTANDING] The only kin this would apply to is someone like us
[LOGIC] Does that mean there are others who have made mind palaces, mind campuses, even mind kingdoms?!?!
[LOGIC] What purpose does that serve?
[SABA’S KN] But this doesent make sense! We never experienced THIS and we had a mind palace!
[SABA’S KN] It was imaginary, vague, not concrete like what Chi has
[CREATIVITY] I mean I like the idea of having a place to stretch my legs, but being assaulted?
[CREATIVITY] How? Would it just be like through dimentia and old age?
[INTUITION] Just spitballing here, but what if PERSERVERENCE is actively protecting us from something
[INTUITION] And one day he’ll be gone.
[INTUITION] I mean, he only spoke up the one time, what is he even doing in the meantime?
[EVERYONE] . . .
[UNDERSTANDING] Either way We’ve memorized this, if it has some use later, cool,
[UNDERSTANDING] if not, we can treat it as interesting lore
[UNDERSTANDING] We won’t be able to train any STATS until they manifest anyway
[SELF DEFENSE] You could train.
[UNDERSTANDING] Not a stat, can’t. Or Won’t maybe?
[INTUITION] Okay, just spitballing here, but what if this is a trap
[INTUITION] I might be playing my hand here, but what if we get someone to reach king
[INTUITION] Kings try to overthrow emperors all the time, what if the king becomes obstinate and tries to control CHI
[???] The same could be said for any level of the tree, even civilians
[???] Yeah, While I do agree its fishy, I don’t think just any STAT could become a soldier anyway
[???] It says the typical kin can get 2 soldiers, how old is this book anyway

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You check the book, there’s no date, no mention of any time period, in fact, now that you look at it, it’s on PAPER, not PARCHMENT, like [FAUNUS 08-C] paper.

[INTUITION] Could this have come from a world of cultivators or something?

This is strange and you put it away, wanting to focus on other things, like your time being almost up. Then you hear the door open and a set of footsteps. Theres a “My Queen” uttered and you’re shocked, you freeze, not from FEAR, but from CONFUSION. Eventually the footsteps near you and a rather regal, rather old woman approaches you. She’s a white pigeon and she’s wearing a crown followed by a few bright yellow feathers. Her neck is ringed with golden bands, you don’t think they’re made of gold, but they shine just the same. She approaches you and has a seat opposite of you.

Queen: It’s nice to finally meet you CHI, I’ve heard positive things about you.
Queen: Ah, allow my to introduce myself, I’m Irata De Mare Ronalphus, you can call me Queen or your Your Majesty.
You: Your Majesty, I, uh, um, hello?
Queen: Hah, no need to be flustered, I’m not here to admonish or punish you.
Queen: Quite the opposite, you’re a budding seed, beginning to sprout, and by all appearances
Queen: It looks like you’re going to become quite a tall tree, with lots of fruit, sap, and deep roots
You: I- Thank you? I’m not sure what you mean?
Queen: You were the first of our kin to learn Magitech
You: Wait, are you saying no kin on our plate other than the ones taught at the Academy know RUNESCRIPT?
Queen: some know bits and pieces, but no adults currently know how to inscribe it
Queen: Shimon informed us that it was impossible for anyone above the age of 20 to learn it.
You: That… Doesent sound right?
Queen: We thought as much. But there’s not much we can do about it, its a COMPLICATED SITUATION.


The two of you have a small conversation about various topics, ranging from favorite foods, toys, plumage, boys, and the like. She says she hopes you’ll treat William and Ignis well and chuckles in that old motherly way. You didn’t expect the ruler of your kingdom to be this personable.

[CHARISMA] You notice her posture, she’s leaning forward, attentively listening,
[CHARISMA] but her eyes are subtly darting around your body, she’s paying attention to your body language
[CHARISMA] She’s been doing this the whole time, I think she’s sizing you up.

Queen: I wanted to personally speak to you, to see the young woman who I’ve heard quite a lot about.
Queen: Really your visit to the Library was just an excuse for a quiet encounter.
Queen: You’ve achieved a lot in the past few years, so I wanted to ask you.
Queen: Do you need help with anything? If it’s something small I could help you out.

[GUILE] She’s trying to curry favor in a young potentiate
[INTUITION] I get the feeling she’ll ask us for a favor in the future if we accept
[UN LOGIC] Do we REALLY need anything?


It’s the beginning of the new year after all, and you’ve yet to chose what you’re going to do. No new classes have opened up yet. Do you request anything from the Queen, and do you go to the TRADES FAIR after this, or do you skip it and jump right into your yearly TIME SLOTS?

AUTHORS NOTE: As for Pon’s favor, I’ll be asking for confirmation on that when we reach the first TIME POINT of the year, so feel free to sit on it until then.

Also Marths leaving after year 13 ends, so you still have some time to see her

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No. 1005258 ID: f8fa51

Honestly, owing the Queen a favour isn't necessarily a bad thing, as if anything it gives us an opportunity to foster a working relationship and keep ourselves on her radar. She can't hire us if she's not even thinking about us, after all. Could Chi ask the Queen about Blitz?
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No. 1005261 ID: e51896

Yeah, we'll take the Journeyman's book.

I can't really think of any kind of favor... except one idea I have is asking if the queen could try to arrange a get-together with Hook and attempt to form bond with Hook... she might be our future queen after all, and forming a bond with her might be important despite her narcissism. If she agrees, ask what Hook likes so we can prepare for that get-together with Hook (this could also be a chance to reintroduce Hook to Pon) Being her friend could help us sway important decisions she has to make when she becomes a queen in the future.

DON'T ask anything about the black lotus. Lets keep that to ourself for now.

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But yeah, lets go to the TRADES FAIR and Mainly bond with Drift during this years TRADES FAIR, Maybe ask him to take the runescripting competition since you cannot and cheer him on, you should probably attend as a spectator in that anyway to lend your support to the magitech students and cheer on Drift. (Maybe even ask to be a judge? but then again, if we ask drift to compete, maybe we shouldn't be a judge to prevent ourself from giving him bonus points for being our friend)

But mainly talk to Drift about meditation, as you think it might be useful for him to connect better with his past life through meditation and MAYBE it can help him figure out why his body can't improve physically and find other alternative ways to improve it. You can even offer to teach him about meditation if he ever asks you. You both could even play a game of chance together at one of the booths, your luck is pretty good.

IDEA FOR FUTURE: What if during our break, Chi, Pon, Noodle, and Drift (and whoever else is interested) take a vacation at that small world plate they all visited with Chi's father? That was a fun relaxing place to hang out. Plus it could be a good bonding experience with the people we knew since Chi's early childhood. We might find some interesting stuff there too.

(also, just theorizing, but I think our PERSEVERANCE is quiet because it is in the process of becoming our INNATE SKILL and is in that egg we saw in our mind?)
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No. 1005264 ID: b435f1

Maybe we can ask the queen to find you a CODEBREAKER to help you with the book you're about to borrow so that it can take less time for us to complete it. Mention how you believe you'll learn a new runescripting skill and someone who could help break the code could help you learn the new skill to teach future kin in this worldplate. (Maybe our Archeology teacher?)
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No. 1005265 ID: 44b1b5

"I suppose it would be a bit late and more than a bit presumptuous to ask that I be bumped up to elite status... Ah, but there is a book I wanted to read here to gain insight into a friend's rather troublesome situation. But, I realize that would be an irresponsible use of my limited time in this prestigious library on such a personal matter. I was also worried that someone might see me reading it, and word would get back to the wrong people. But if I had an extra session here of undisturbed reading time dedicated solely to that - tell me, is that the sort of selfish request you could grant?"
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No. 1005266 ID: 031458

I'm tempted to tell her we've nearly perfected a technique to memorize things flawlessly, and to ask for occasional, no-checkout access to the library.
We could get all the books we need without having to pay or take a research contract.
It's very reasonable. We learn more rune script, they don't risk any books.
The fact that we can read basically ANYTHING is just an unrelated bonus.

---Alternatively though...
We COULD ask for some support or protection for Marth. She'll probably be more reasonable when she's older, but we probably won't see her for at least 7-8 years. Top that with the fact that she may very well have dangerous stuff going on? If we want a "Next time" there first has to BE a next time. She can take all the help she can get.

However...

This could be the perfect opportunity to get some help for DRIFT.
Yeah we'd have to mention the Black Lotus, but she deffo knows about them already, and drift still doesn't know about them.
Worst case scenario, she's in on it and sends some official to let Drift know his family is dead. (Whether or not that's the truth)
But even if that's the case, while it would suck at least Drift would have closure.


I'm down for any of these asks. What do yall think?

Also, yeah TRADE FAIR next would be cool.
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No. 1005272 ID: e51896

I personally think asking the queen about anything about the black lotus, like asking to look into Blitz disappearance and the black lotus or protection for Marth might be a bit dangerous and could lead to the black lotus secretly keep an eye on us. Plus, Marth doesnt really want us involved, and I feel asking about giving Marth protection could make her angry with us despite our good intentions.

I think it is safer to be discreet when it comes to looking into the black lotus.

And dont forget, we were told that there are a couple of other guests here at the library. We have no idea who they are or their stance on things. If they work for the black lotus, it might spell trouble if they're listening in.

I'd say lets keep our request simple that relates to our personal or bonding growth. Chi is still a kid after all, i think it is too early for her to get invloved with the black lotus and should focus more on growing without worries and deal the the lotus situation after graduation.

Also, >>1005264 support requesting a codebreaker if we decide not to get the Queens help with talking to Hook. Though i think we should start focusing on our friendship
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No. 1005273 ID: dfbac0

What do you want? Contacts. Your unique position of not only being the first wing-kin to learn runescript, but also having the ability to teach it is amazing, and people will want to get involved. However a recommendation from the queen would make it a lot easier. This way when we get to the point of progressing the sciences of this world-plate you have people backing you up, and maybe some people who can help you produce things at a larger scale. Having a lot of good contacts is necessary and extremely helpful, so I recommend we have the queen get us a few contacts.
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No. 1005277 ID: dfbac0

Also, I cannot stress this enough, but don't ask for ANYTHING regarding Marth, I have a feeling that would go bad, but there's also other things to consider. Marth used to be family, sure, but things change, and if Marth is trying to distance himself, and we've tried our hardest to be friends, then leave him. We don't need him, he's been disregarding our feelings and just making us angry and giving us more stress. I know we want to understand his situation, but depending on what's happening, we gotta let him go.
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No. 1005279 ID: e51896

>>1005277

I wouldn't say totally give up on Marth, because I have a feeling we will see her again, and maybe under better circumstances and information on the situation, we might be able to try to form a better bond with her in the future. But I agree we have to let Marth go for now and believe that we will see her again in the future when we're older.
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No. 1005280 ID: 36784c

>>1005255
Don’t mention anything about the Black Lotus and don’t ask for something to help Marth. We don’t know if any Black Lotus members are secretly listening to us and we don’t want to draw attention to Marth.

Let’s ask for something to help with Codebreaking. That’ll help us with the book we’re going to borrow.

Also, something to consider for the future:
We might be able to improve our Teaching skills if we increase our ability to not confuse things from Saba’s World with things from this world.

I don’t remember which skill does that, but if we increase it, then it’ll be easier for us to Teach, since we won’t accidentally use terminology from our old life.

>>1005261
>Being Hook’s friend could help us sway important decisions she has to make when she becomes a queen in the future.
Ha! Good joke. We’ve been told that she’s way too self centered to become queen. So I don’t see that happening unless she has a complete personality change or something.

>>1005277
I don’t think we should completely cut Marth out of our life. She might be trying to distance herself because she’s in a situation where having a friend is putting a target on their back, so she’s trying to protect us by refusing to bond with us.

>>1005279
>let Marth go for now and believe that we will see her again in the future when we're older.
I agree with this. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet again in the future.
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No. 1005282 ID: e51896

>>1005280
Fair enough. Though I think it might be beneficial to make friends with her regardless.

I'll retract my vote to ask for help being friends with Hook and instead just have my vote be asking the queen for someone or something to help codebreak the journeyman's book with us.
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No. 1005290 ID: 96c896

>>1005255
>Queen's Favor
Tell her there are two things that immediately come to mind. One is to get some help with breaking the code in the journeyman's book. The other is to find out how to help Drift get stronger, since there seems to be something strange about him preventing that.
Don't mention this, but the codebreaking contact will also likely be a contact that will be able to help you with spy work in the future. If we can only ask for one of those things then I guess the codebreaking contact would be good. We might be able to branch out to get more contacts after that, too...

Let's not ask her to investigate Black Lotus related things, as that is something she's already doing most likely, and this isn't a secure location.

At some future point we can try asking a BIG favor, which would be to gain access to a Gold and/or Prismatic runescripting book, or if there's no actual runes of that color simply learn its code.

>Mind as One involves turning your Thoughts into an army, for self-defense against mental attack
Well, it's a book from another universe, obviously, since it's made of paper instead of parchment and involves concepts that are useless to most. The Art of War book is similarly from another world. This means... people have been smuggling books into this world via the dimensional pocket reincarnation perk! Though, it's weird, wouldn't the smugglers have told people on Earth about reincarnation? Maybe it's just a world similar to [FAUNUS 08-C]'s Earth.
Unfortunately it being from another universe means its value might be far less than it seems... unless this near-worst-case theory is correct:
What if the Black Lotus is using mental attack? That would be why Marth seems to be running from them, because we're sharing our PERSEVERANCE with her, which protected her from being indoctrinated. It could also explain why Shimon is with Marth, because Shimon has a large amount of STUBBORNNESS which might have also worked to protect him. Though, he seems to be partially compromised considering he believes silly things like runescripting is impossible to teach, and impossible to effectively learn below the age of 20. That in itself implies Black Lotus is a human-led brainwashing/assassination group, with the purpose of keeping other nations from matching the human nation's level of tech.
It would also explain why those in the know keep saying it's "complicated". They know what they're up against but that knowledge makes people targets for assassination or brainwashing, and they're trying to avoid both.

If Black Lotus is using brainwashing then we should probably learn Mind as One, and Teach it to William and Marth, because we don't know how long PERSEVERANCE can protect everyone. Odd, Understanding said we memorized the book, but we don't have photographic memory yet. Does that mean it's "memorized" as in, we can recall it well enough via Eidetic Memory to learn its skill without having the book on-hand?

Oh, and we haven't actually borrowed a book yet. Let's go with the runescripting-engineering book, of course. Not only because the engineering part of it is immediately useful, but because it's got a new black rune.

>let Marth go for now
No, that's too hands-off. We should Teach Marth stuff before she goes. Show her that we will support her even if she wants to go solo. She thinks we are Saba, let's prove that Chi is not the same person, and will do far more than the minimum for her friends. Even with the "dominant personality" carrying over via reincarnation, Chi's experiences will change who Saba is in this new body. I wonder, has the personality merge happened yet?

>>1005280
>Saba's Knowledge, mixing it up
IIRC, simply increasing the Knowledge stat helps prevent mixing things up, but I imagine making a Mind Palace room for Knowledge would help too.
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No. 1005298 ID: 031458

>>1005277
I think you mischaracterize Marth. She's not distancing herself from us in the classic "edgy" way.

It's more like... Marth has real problems, but we aren't real friends.
It is clear she has little interest in her past life. Our previous relationship with her affords us some extra patience and civility, but not trust.
On that note, why should she trust us?
We haven't tried our hardest to be friends. We've barely afforded her any time.

She accused us of spending only the bare minimum amount of time on the ones we loved.
And she accused us of making everything about us.
But her last words: "Just… forget about me... it’s for the best." Indicates that saying all that still hurt her.

So what do we do?
If we do just forget about her, then we prove her right, we do the bare minimum which in this case is nothing.
If we try and spend time with her, then we prove her right. We'd be doing it for us in a desperate attempt to not lose her.

But...
She did mentioned that her current life has been hard.
If we were to go out of our way and make a sacrifice for her, that still allows her self determination and distance from us... Say, if we made her a powerful gift, or used our favor from the queen to give her a significant windfall...
Not only would that prove her dark view of us wrong, but she'd probably appreciate it.
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No. 1005301 ID: afa6f6

>>1005298
I mostly agree with all of this. Just because Marth may not want to be involved with us, doesnt mean We cant care about and want to help her. At the very least, we need to let her know we want her to be happy and safe in this life, even if we dont see her again.
So making her something to keep her safe before she tries to leave is a good gesture I think. Teaching her the mind as one technique would also be cool, but I dont know how willing she would be to learn from us.
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No. 1005302 ID: 0fae41

Ask if you can borrow the new black manual you found out alongside your other pick. Someone seems to have been using it as a bookmark, it's probably not an official tome but you're not about to try walking out of the library with it anyway.
Definitely go see Marth before she leaves, say you'll miss her and hope you see her again soon... but you want to know what she wants you to do to prepare for her meeting. Sometimes, the best way to find out what someone wants is to ask them.
Also, you should help Pon out by building that new minifridge. It's a subtle way to get that tech out into the world, and flying around should help offset the... benefits of his job.
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No. 1005304 ID: 96c896

Oh, can we ask the Queen who was watching us when hanging out with Ignis and William?
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No. 1005308 ID: e51896

New subgoal idea: bring all the current kin you bonded with bonding level up to 3. (new potential kin we form a bond with won't count, like if we form a bond with Chipper later, just to keep things simple)(Marth doesn't count)(Blitz doesn't count since we can't find him) (groups don't count)
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No. 1005313 ID: dfbac0

>>1005298
Relationships rely on give-and-take, we've tried to be firends and attempted to form a connection multiple times. What do we get in return? Nothing. If Marth is unwilling to reciprocate friendly relations, why should you try? A one-sided relationship is a toxic one. That's why I say we try and understand, and if what we understand means she is unwilling to be our friend, then we won't try for no reason. Saying that we owe her is nonsense and gives her unnecessary power over us. I have nothing against trying to be friends, but I do have something against putting us in a toxic relationship.
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No. 1005323 ID: a9af05

>>1005280
>improve our Teaching skills
You know what would also help? Charisma.

Our future students might be able to learn better if we get excited about the subject we're teaching. It'll also help make sure we don't talk like an emotionless robot when giving lessons. We might end up making some students fall asleep in class if we don't have any emotion in our voice!
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No. 1005325 ID: a9af05

>>1005323
I'd also like to point out that in order to help Pon, we'd have to add cup holders or something inside the Chi-ller to hold his Pon-pops in place. That way nothing spills when he's flying around with the Chi-ller on his back.
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No. 1005333 ID: 031458

>>1005313
There isn't going to BE a relationship pretty soon, is the thing.
We won't be able to see Marth (at least on our own Accord) for at least 7 years after this year.
Should we meet again, we will both be different people when it happens. It'll be a fresh start.
Such a gesture plants a seed of possibility.
Gives us both an opportunity at a second chance, later.
There's no guaranteed payoff. It might come to nothing, or she might indeed not be worth pursuing later for whatever reason.
Sometimes it's worth going out on a limb for people, even if they won't appreciate it now.
I think this is one of those rare occasions.
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> Request help with CODE BREAKING
You mention to the Queen that this book, THE JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST, is written in runescript but has a CYPHER, meaning it would take you a lot of time to decipher it on your own, but would go faster if someone could help you break the code. You’d like someone to help you do some CODE BREAKING or equivalent assistance. The pauses for a moment and thinks on it. She pauses for a moment and thinks on this.

Queen: Hmm, so the problem is that we have one kin that’s VERY skilled in this field
Queen: But they’re on a mission in another plate right now.
Queen: I could get you in contact with his apprentice.
Queen: You should know her well enough, she’s a handful.


She smiles a bit, and coos a few times, chuckling.

[INTUITION] It’s Hook isnt it.
[PRIDE] I don’t like that girl
[INTUITION] Okay, So, I’m sure we could learn a bit of codebreaking from her
[INTUITION] But if I’m guesstimating right, it’ll take the same amount of time for us to learn from her
[INTUITION] That it’ll take for us to do it ourselves
[CHARISMA] Still worth seeing what she’s been up to


She confirms that it’s Hook upon questioning and you groan audibly, she just chuckles more.

Queen: She’s gotten better these past few years. We were worried about potential problems.
Queen: She’s still a handful though, but can be professional when she needs to be at least.
Queen: I’ll get her to ration out some time for you in [TIME SLOT 4] of this year
Queen: You can let one of us know or her directly if you change your mind though.


[The EVENT - SPYMASTER HOOK - Will occur during TIME SLOT 4 of this year]

The queen asks you if there’s anything else you need help with since the Hook situation is rather simple to resolve. You hesitate to mention getting more access to the Library, but dig up some COURAGE and GUILE to do so.

You: Uh, would it be possible to get access to the library more often?
You: Even if I can’t take something out, just getting time to read these books could really help.
Queen: Hmmm.


The queen hums for a moment and appears to think it over. If you could sweat you would be doing so right now. You’re not sure why this simple question makes you nervous.

Queen: Yes. Yes, that’s good. Okay.
Queen: That could be arranged. Though we can only allot you [1 TIME POINT] to do so a year for right now.
Queen: You won’t be able to check out a book without going through the proper procedures though.
Queen: And with that my time here is up.
Queen: It was a pleasure Chi, I expect I’ll be seeing more of you in the future.
Queen: We should meet here again when you graduate, you’re growing to be an interesting young woman.


And with that she leaves. You take THE JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST with you and check it out. Completely forgetting about the hidden runescripting book inside until you’re home already. Oh well, too late to cry over spilt milk they didn’t even realize was spilt.
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> EVENT - TRADES FAIR
It’s time for the BI-ANNUAL TRADES FAIR, the booths are similar to last time and it’s abuzz with activity. There’s more students then last time’s walking around. And you see a lot of new faces. These must be the freshkin that were recently accepted to the ACADEMY. It’s a mix of mostly Wing-kin with occasional spatterings of Beast-kin thrown in there. You even spot a single extremely rare AQUA-KIN amongst them. You could also refer to them as SCALE-KIN, it’s interchangeable and only differentiates the mostly land based ones from the mostly sea based ones.

The Aqua-Kin is rather simple looking, their hair reminds you of Seaweed and mostly covers their face, but you can see a sharp, toothy grin underneath indicative of their carnivorous nature. They have an open-backed dress that appears to be made of some sort of waterproof garment, and a sharp fin protruding out of her head. They walk past you and you notice their tail, it ends in what looks like a large BLADE. You think it’s a natural weapon, perhaps It’s a good thing it’s SHEATHED In some sort of leather covering. But it looks rather easy to remove. They also look to be about your age or even a little older. Their skin also looks soft like a Human’s but your KEEN BIRD EYES tell you that it’s actually just extremely small scales covering their body. Their body is also a cool seafoam green, maybe slightly bluer than that.

You’ve never actually seen an Aqua-Kin before and they’re getting a lot of stares. Probably because it was so hard to contact them in the DOPUS plate to begin with. And if you’re being honest they’re kind of HOT. In like a Mysterious, they probably taste like fish kinda way.

[UNDERSTANDING] Isn’t this like a big deal, the residents of the DOPUS plate are notorious for not communicating
[UNDERSTANDING] That kin could be an ambassador or something.
[???] I wonder how she tastes.
[ALL] HEY! NO. Wait like 3 more years for comments like that.
[???] I meant it in a fish kinda way! Pervs!
[SELF DEFENSE] Well in our self defense its okay to have SOME thoughts like this just uhh,
[SELF DEFENSE] Dont be explicit for Chis sake
[SABA’S KN] We don’t need to make her a pervy teenage girl, but a little thought every now and again is fine.
[UN LOGIC] It is about time to start thinking about it, you’ve hit PUBERTY after all.


You continue to look around and notice a lot of the same things that were around this year.
There’s the SNOUTED HOOF BEAST challenge.
There’s Shimon’s booth showing off the same crank-powered lamp.
There’s the competition booth, it looks like Pon’s competing to make some delicious meals or pastries. Apparently due to popular demand a COOKING class is opening up this year. The main thing that the competition booth seems to be testing is your proficiency in making something with limited supplies. But there’s also DEBATES, THEORY EXAMS, and MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITIONS you could compete in.

You still have a GOAL you can set.
What do you do?

Feel free to look for specific booths, characters, or things to do that would make sense at a Trades Fair, same as last time, I’ll pick the top suggested stuff and have em appear (within reason) and after enough events or things happen we’ll move onto your yearly time point expenditure.
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No. 1005351 ID: 44b1b5

SUB-GOAL: Learn everything you can about GUILE from Riichi. We need to bond with our parents more, and I get the feeling that sussing out people's true intents and meanings (while telling the occasional bluff of our own) will be important to our survival in the coming decades.

FAIR ACTIVITY: We could try our hand at debate and theory, sure! I doubt we'll completely win the first one since some of the other students have surely made breakthroughs in CHARISMA. I feel good about applying our LOGIC and CREATIVITY to the latter (though if there's a point of failure on the table, it'll prolly be CHI'S KNOWLEDGE).

(Actually, since debates are usually done in teams, maybe Ignis and William want to team up for that?)
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No. 1005358 ID: e51896

subgoal: bring all the current kin you bonded with bonding level up to 3. (new potential kin we form a bond with won't count, like if we form a bond with Chipper later, just to keep things simple)(Marth doesn't count)(Blitz doesn't count since we can't find him) (groups don't count)

Marth told us we've been making things about us and giving the bare minimum to friends. so lets fix that.

We should try to strengthen our bonds with people, and the trades fair is a good place to do it. so here is a few ideas which involve being better friends with people:

Watch the competition to CHEER PON ON. Might help with bonding. He is your brother after all

and find Drift. Spend as much time with him as you can, talk to him about MEDITATION

go to the runescripting competition, not to participate since we cannot, but to watch. Maybe one of our friends in the runescripters is competing we can cheer on. (if none of our friends is there, maybe ask if you could be a judge but still watch regardless since you've gained a reputation in Magitech)

Watch the Martial arts competition. Maybe someone in the atheletics class like Glide or Noodle is there we could cheer on. We haven't seen Glide in awhile, and we should spend more time with Noodle.

See about convincing William and Ignis to team up in the debates competition so that not only you can bond with them by cheering them on, but they can bond with each other better.
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No. 1005364 ID: 96c896

>>1005350
>[???] I wonder how she tastes.
Hello Gluttony.

>(sub)GOAL
Learn all the Guile from Riichi you can.

>do things at the trades fair?
How about we participate in a Debate? Or at least watch. See if we can pick up a skill from it. I think mostly we should hang out with friends though. Maybe meet some new people. Getting to know that Aqua-kin could be useful in case we travel to DOPUS in the future.

If Drift is around, ask if he's interested in learning Meditation from you. Also ask if he knows how the monster in his dreams got stronger. From what we know, he must've done something interesting during his past life to be able to afford the memory transfer perk, and being bedridden doesn't sound very interesting. It's possible he needs to do the same thing the monster did. I wonder if monster cores are edible?

Similarly, if Marth is here you can ask if she wants to learn stuff from you. Like Guile, or one of your Stats.
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No. 1005367 ID: abc174

Do that game of chance to flex our luck stat with a luck check a bit and win a prize. Umm... probably best not to do it multiple times, just once or twice is enough.

find some of your friends, mainly Drift and people who you have level 1 bonds with amd spend time with them or cheer them on if they're in any of the competitions

We're not here for business, we're here for fun and watch competitions

I can get behind the bonding subgoal, as long as we dont neglect our stat building.
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No. 1005368 ID: 36784c

>>1005350
>little thoughts every once and a while is ok.
Handholding?! L-lewd!

There, that’s your one little thought on that subject.

>What do?
Go find some friends and hang out with them. Cheer them on if they’re in any competitions. You’re here to have fun, so let’s have some fun!
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No. 1005385 ID: 753af8

>It is about time to start thinking about it, you’ve hit PUBERTY after all

At most, maybe we can think about which gender we are interested in? And also consider our interest in the female aqua-kin might be because of Saba's interest in females and it transferred to Chi. which gender was Saba interested in most?

Maybe we can decide if Chi is heterosexual, homosexual, bi/pansexual, or asexual.
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No. 1005387 ID: 031458

MEET THE FISH
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No. 1005461 ID: a9af05

>>1005350
You're still young, so just relax and have fun today! Don't volunteer to judge anything involving Runescripting, just watch the competition.

See if there are any games you can play where you can win yourself a plushie of some kind.
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No. 1005489 ID: afe7de
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1005489

> William, Ignis, and Chi DEBATE!
You’re feeling like trying out this DEBATING thing, but you know you won’t win by yourself. So you enlist the assistance of WILLIAM and IGNIS who both seem willing to try with you.

The topic of the debate is ESTABLISHING A HUMAN EMBASSY IN QARA TENGU, discussing the PROS and CONS of this. You of course know that the humans have an embassy in CANUS, but now realize that there’s not a place like that here on TENGU. You don’t think it would be from lack of trying. The debate starts off with a general description of the issue. That the reason there’s no human embassy is because the humans want 40% of your taxes yearly to establish an embassy. You’re on the PRO HUMAN EMBASSY side, but that number shocks you. You had NO IDEA that they had such an absurd demand just to have some individuals from their kingdom here to discuss politics, or whatever it is diplomats do.

The ANTI HUMAN EMBASSY SIDE consists of 2 wing-kin and NICO, the mole you befriended in the GARDENING class. He gives you a wave which you return. Their side starts with the statement that embassies should exist to foster communication, diplomacy, trade, and national interests between communities, they’re acting commercially against your kingdom in the interests of diplomacy thus proving that they are not acting in good faith.

Your side pipes up with Ignis arguing about how they are a world-plate SUPERPOWER and that it’s only justify-able that your country pay for the right to glean as much as you can from their resource rich and knowledgeable kin. William supports this statement by saying how CANUS abided by these same stipulations and has been prospering for a decades.

Your opponents side argues that although there has been some upward mobility, their technology hasn’t significantly advanced since then compared to the HUMANS. They only have a few MANA LAMPS and MAGITECH WEAPONS that are frail and easily break.

The back and forth continues for a while, you give your opinion the best you can using all of your [UNDERSTANDING], CHARISMA, LOGIC, and SABA’S KNOWLEDGE and make a few good points, but are outshined heavily by your two partners. In the end your team WON, through the inane strategy of saying you should pay MORE of your taxes to the humans to establish the embassy. The judges were impressed by your teams creative approach. But in the end you can tell that both William and Ignis are disgusted. They hate this topic and think the human aristocracy is intentionally bullying your plate. You can’t disagree. You’re just surprised they fought passionately on the opposite side.

Ignis: That’s debate sometimes. Sometimes you have to fight for things you dont believe in
Ignis: At least this is for practice. In a real debate I’d argue the side I cared about.
William: Oh right, you don’t know.
William: So humans living in our kingdom is fine, whoever it is doesnt matter
Ignis: We don’t have some sort of Anti-Human treatise
Ignis: It’s just they try to silver and gold us for every little bit they can
William: It’s incredibly frustrating.

[GUILE] Is it just me are the humans turning their GREED up to 11
[???] I didn’t expect it to be THIS bad.
[CURIOSITY] Are humans here just naturally stingy
[UNDERSTANDING] No, There’s a reason behind this… this…
[UN LOGIC] Forced economical gridlock?
[UNDERSTANDING] Yes that. But I don’t have enough information.
[INTUITION] Maybe they have a vested interest in keeping other civilizations low tech?
[UNDERSTANDING] That’s on the right track I’m sure.


The group of you split after chatting a bit longer, William takes the LIBRARY VOUCHER after Ignis concedes that he doesn’t really need it. You’ve got the rune scripting book, so you don’t ask for it, it looks like he really wants that voucher anyway. You ask what book he’s going to get and he says it’s a secret, he’s not even sure he can get it but he’s going to try anyway, he mentions something about a PUZZLE and walks off. You learned a bit about the political situation today, you weren’t expecting it, and this certainly does give you something the chew over. But it was just enough to push your KNOWLEDGE up a notch.

Your KNOWLEDGE stat has increased!
- The chance of you mixing up knowledge from both worlds is VERY low.
You’ve learned a little about PURSUASION, but nowhere near enough to get it as a SKILL
Your CHARISMA thinks that PURSUASION is cool and all, but CHARM is where it’s at.

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1005490

> Check out the MAGITECH competition
You head over, Pon, Drift, and Noodle joining you to see what the other students are making. There seems to be 6 students attempting it this year. You know that none of them have passed the second class yet, so they’re experimenting with 2-3 rune creations.

CHIPPER is there, he’s trying to make a small wind up box that EJECTS a little toy. It reminds you of a JACK IN THE BOX from [FAUNUS 08-C]. He eventually gets it to work and you chat over the mechanism with him. He says he was working on it as a CHILDRENS TOY, but is having trouble getting it to last past a few uses. You recommend adding a COIL or SPRING of some kind, describing one to im as he’s never heard of one before. He does, and it seems to work much better, but suffers from running out of energy. You tell him to study the ABSORPTION RUNE and use the LINKING technique from the second class and it should work exactly as intended. He thanks you as you go to look at the other creations.

This kin is making a small rod with a TRIGGER rune and some sort of cylinder attached to it made of wood you think. He’s made about 5 of them and then takes them out of the tent, inviting the judges. He shows them off and their small makeshift FIREWORKS, only they dont explode, they just fly into the sky and fizzle out, falling harmlessly to the ground as dust. The crowd claps and says that it’s a very cool invention. He smirks and asks you to top that, but you reply you’re not participating this year. He looks a bit dissapointed at that, and you move onto the other contestants.

The rest are students you taught, but you just mainly observe instead of saying anything. One student enscribed a NULL rune on an ERASER. Erasers around here are just pieces of MOIST BREAD, since rubber is quite uncommon here. Interestingly enough the rune caused the bread to turn BLACK and erase JUST A LITTLE better than normal. It’s still bread at the end of the day though and will eventually get hard, mold, and rot you think.

Another student was experimenting with an EJECT RUNE, a TRIGGER RUNE, and a ROCK and it accidentally blew up in his face. The Kin wasn’t seriously injured, but he was disoriented. When asked what happened he said he had no idea, he was just trying to see what would happen. You think this Kin accidentally made a STONE GRENADE. It seems like it was MOSTLY HARMLESS though, but this does give you ideas to consider.

There’s one kin whose just writing as many runes on an object as possible, but you notice something strange happen. When he gets to the fourth rune, the object CRACKS down the newest rune. This process repeats multiple times as the student cries out in frustration. It looks like ADDING RUNES PAST YOUR CAPACITY could damage the object you’re imbuing. Strangely enough he does succeed once and his result is… A brick that can slide across the table. Apparently it’s EJECTING AIR on it’s four corners. But after around 10 minutes it runs out of energy. He cries out about his failed creation.

The last kin is PAWN and he has just made something simple. A single DART with a SHARPEN rune on it. You’re amazed the student was able to inscribe the rune onto the extremely small surface of the metal, so you talk to them about it. You ask where they learned to do that, but he just smirks at you, refusing to tell you.

[UN LOGIC] Maybe he learned it in a book? Maybe he has the other manual?
[GUILE] I think he just wants to have an edge on us.
[UNDERSTANDING] Let’s call that MICROSCRIPTING for now. It’s probably an ADVANCED technique.
[INTUITION] It looks like he passed the advanced class but didn’t tell anyone.


You don’t want to go talk to SHIMON and ask him how many more students have passed, but from what you’ve gathered from other students the number isn’t more than 6, including yourself. None of the RUNESCRIPTERS are interested in competing and instead are just relaxing.
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No. 1005491 ID: afe7de
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1005491

> NOODLE TIME!
You decide to spend some time watching your friends participate In competitions, games, and overall giving them your support. Noodle goes into the MARTIAL ARTS COMPETITION and you watch her compete against various kin. Lou Xin is the referee for the competition, but she doesn’t see you as she’s busy making sure no one hurts the other. Noodle goes up against several opponents, easily besting a few of them, and having one close call with the last one. Eventually the final round occurs and it’s GLIDE versus NOODLE. You haven’t seen him in a while. They’ve both got WOODEN weapons on and it’s a best to three first strikes wins. NOODLE is using a wooden spear, the tip uses some denser wood just so it has a similar feel. The fight is TENSE, but what’s even more insane is that his moves are REDICULOUS. He’s not moved an INCH from the spot he’s standing in, parrying and jabbing. What’s worse is that he hasn't broken a sweat.

Noodle gets in a few strikes but one of his parries pulls her in close, he gets a jab off on her and that round ends. The next round is similar, but Noodle keeps her distance, circling him. He turns to face her and blocks the moves, but one wrong slash from Noodle’s spear has him hop above her and jab Noodle in the temple. He’s toying with her. The last round is different as Noodle begins incorporating more subversive strikes, getting in as close as possible and dodging Glide’s hits with her snake-like reflexes. She gets a hit off with the butt of her staff. A frown can be seen on Glide’s face as the next round starts and he tosses one of his wooden daggers. Noodle easily blocks it, but doesent notice him dash next to her. He tries to slash against her, and she blocks, but it was a feint, he surprises Noodle with a KICK and she’s down.

The crowd is raucus at that intense display of combat and Glide gives a bow, helping Noodle up. There doesen’t appear to be any hard feelings, but you can see that Noodle’s PRIDE has been hit a bit from that. You comfort her and buy her a snack as condolence. She bemoans how she was so close to the prize when GLIDE shows up and tosses her something.

Glide: Here, You can have my library ticket, I don’t really need it. My mom just wanted me to participate!
Noodle: Wow, uh, um. Thanks.
Noodle: Won’t your mom be mad you gave away the ticket?
Glide: Eh, I’ll just lie and say I got a book or something.
Glide: I’m too lazy to go up there anyway.
Noodle: You fight really well, how did you even learn how to do that?
Glide: Ehh, it was my mom. She kicked my ass a lot as a young kin.
Noodle: Ass?
Glide: Uh, Butt. Rear. Uhhh, wait you’re a snake do you have a butt?
Noodle: THAT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!


The two bicker a moment as Glide looks very much like he does not want to deal and eventually he just leaves saying he just wants to laze around. Also, you’re starting to hear something every now and again. Sometimes kin use… CURSE WORDS. There doesn’t appear to be a stigma against using them in this world no matter your age, but you guess you’ll have to consider if you occasionally want to use the SENTENCE ENHANCERS going forward. It’s certainly not PROFESSIONAL, but then again you never took any ETIQUETTE classes. You shudder to think of what Hook would sound like if she cursed.

[CHARISMA] Oh goddess is that why she’s a handful
[UNDERSTANDING] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


> Teach drift meditation
You don’t have to do that, Drift took the MEDITATION class with you. But you spend some time talking and relaxing with him. He says that he’s doing a little better now. He’s still sad every now and again, but time heals all wounds. He says he met a new kin, NICO, and has been spending some time with him. They’re both alike in their FRAIL BODIES, and he’s been teaching DRIFT some crop and herb growing techniques. Drift plans to take the GARDENING class next quarter. You give him a hug and let him know you’re there if he needs it and you can see a tear form on his eye as he thanks you and wipes it away. You remember way back when that he mentioned wanting the beast core of a HORNED MIST PUMA. Maybe this is something your DAD can help you find.

> PON THE SUPREME COOK LORD
You decide to go watch PON cook, he’s going through a a few challenges, eliminating a couple students until it’s the final round. It’s him versus the AQUA KIN surprisingly. She’s making some sort of seafood based curry dish whilst Pon is making a savory pastry. It’s an intense competition and the aroma is wonderful. You cheer your brother on and the judges try each dish. A favorable reception is given to both of them before Pon is selected as the winner, he jumps for joy flying in the air. The AQUA-KIN girl congratulates him and gives him a smack on the ass for his win. Pon BLUSHES immediately as she chuckles her big toothy chuckle and walks away. You decide to introduce yourself to her, you’re curious.
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1005492

> FISHFISHFISHFISHFISH-GIRL
You pop out around a corner and wave at the Aqua-kin. She smiles and greets you. The first thing that you notice is that she smells of fresh saltwater. You’ve only smelt it once or twice from the lake you went to as a child, but it’s a nostalgic smell. Second is her voice. It’s deep, sultry, one might even say seductive. Wait you think about that for a second. Can you even call her voice seductive. She’s like what? 13?

[UN LOGIC] It’s just Hormones Chi, you’ll be fine.
[CREATIVITY] Maybe don’t call it seductive, call it Alluring.


Yeah, you say it’s alluring in your head. Not like in a sexually attractive way, but more like that of a Siren’s call. She repeats what she just said.

Aqua-Kin: Hi, did you want something?
You: I uh. I wanted to say Hi. You’re new to town and you just lost to my brother, so I thought I’d be polite.
Aqua-Kin: Oh that guy was your bro?
Aqua-Kin: He’s quite handsome.
Aqua-Kin: Don’t mind losing to a guy like that. He seemed to really care about FOOD.
Aqua-Kin: A fish can respect that kinda commitment to the eating arts.
You: I’m CHI! Nice to meet you.
Aqua-Kin: I’m Nrub’iglia Ogulandra Shterot!
You: Uh um.
Aqua-Kin: Ah right. I keep forgetting. It sounds just strange on land uhh they told me to use another name.
Aqua-Kin: Oh right. You can call me Nubby Shallot! Or just Nubs.
You: Nice to meet you Nubs!


You’re immediately relieved that she offered a secondary name. You have a good memory so you could remember that, but frankly you feel like that name is some kind of ELDRITCH INVOCATION. You wonder just what kind of society they have in DOPUS to come up with names like that.

Nubs: Nice to meet a beautiful wing-kin like yerself.
Nubs: Y’know yer the first of yer peeps to actually ask me my name.
Nubs: Well othr than the faculty, but they kinda need to cuz of the paperwork.
You: You’re saying that no one that came to talk to you asked you for your name?
Nubs: Nah. Kinda dissapointing really, they were more interested in me being part fish or whatever
Nubs: Kinda racist really, like they never saw an Aqua-Kin before


You elaborate that they really haven’t. They’ve been told your kind are elusive and hard to come by.

Nubs: Oh, right there was somefin about that, haha, sorry I’m a little ditzy.
Nubs: We’d invite ya to our kingdom its just that its UNDERWATER
Nubs: And none of y’all can breathe down there.
Nubs: If yuh could get to the CAVES it’d be a different story
You: there are caves down there?
Nubs: Yup! What you expect us to stay in the water all the time?
Nubs: where else am I gonna cook some dank cod
You: Geothermal vents?
Nubs: Haha, you’re great, I like you, we should be friends!


She goes in to give you a hug and just lifts you up, practically crushing you in her grip. She’s STRONG. Why is it that there’s so many STRONG kin around you. You’re athletic, but you feel weird about it. Weren’t you supposed to be ABOVE AVERAGE.

[UNDERSTANDING] To be fair, you are hanging with pretty much the elite, and not the general population
[UN LOGIC] You’re above average to the general kin, but your sample size has been tainted by being at the capital


She puts you down and gives you a smooch on the head. You’re beyond confused. And just stare at her.

Nubs: Hm? Something wrong?
You: You uh I uh head.
Nubs: AH! Right! We’re just real affectionate down in DOPUS.
Nubs: You look like you don’t get enough physical affection. Is it like that with all kin here?
You: Uh I uh, I haven’t thought about it.
Nubs: No biggee. Jus lemme know if I bother ya!


You think about this for a moment, you’re only really physically affectionate with your roomates, William, and Ignis. You guess it’s a holdover from when you were SABA that you didn’t realize you had. You see other Kin cuddling or nuzzling each other affectionately as a form of greeting from time to time. You didn’t realize it, but this is just how they show affection. You did it with your parents too, but you never really did otherwise. It’s not that you don’t like it, it’s just that you’ve been pretty FOCUSED. You guess Puberty’s hitting you in more ways then just the eggs. Strange you aren’t getting mood swings though.

[PERSERVERENCE] My bad, I can let those feelings through if you want. Though Meditation did most of that for me.

You shake your head at the thought, no, remaining clear-headed is fine. You ask something you’re curious about.

You: By the way, how old are you?
Nubs: I’ll be 15 at the end of the year! You?
You: My 13th Hatch day was a few days ago.
Nubs: Well happy belated Hatching my feathered friendo!
Nubs, It’s like We’re TWINSIES! Uh Trips? Yeah that! Just like maybe 5 days apart.


She gets up to you and ruffles your head feathers affectionately.

Nubs: I’m gonna keep checking this place out. There’s some pretty gnarly foodstuffs.
Nubs: We should take a class together! Jus lemme know which one and I’ll be there.
Nubs: I’m mostly here for fun anyway and to learn something new.

[GUILE] That was a lie, well, a partial lie.
[UNDERSTANDING] She’s probably here to see if it’s worth it to form ties with the kingdom
[UN LOGIC] Wouldn’t put it past her being a princess or something either.
[CHARISMA] She seems nice regardless, a bit touchy, but nice.
[CHARISMA] Not sure if we do or don’t like touchy yet, I’m a solid yes its nice!
[CURIOSITY] It’s super weird how we can FEEL stuff with wing fingers though
[SABA’S KN] It’s actually not that weird the science behind it is-


You’ve formed a BOND with the mysterious NUBS
- You can now visit them or have them visit you
- She wants to take a class with you

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> [YEAR 13]
And on that note the school year begins. It’s your SENIOR year, next year you start GRAD SCHOOL. It’s the same as regular school, just you live in a different dorm that’s closeby. You could also get your own place too, since you’re starting to get some SHINIES. You take a moment to write up your STATS. It’s been a while since you reviewed yourself. Lots have changed.

=STATS=
COURAGE - 3
STRATEGY - 1
CURIOSITY - 3
LEADERSHIP - 2
LOGIC - 5 (soft cap broken)
KNOWLEDGE - 4
SABA’S KN - 5 [HARD CAP]
ATHLETICISM - 5 [SOFT CAP]
INTUITION - 4
CHARISMA - 5 [SOFT CAP]
CREATIVITY - 5 [SOFT CAP]
SELF DEFENSE - 3
GUILE - 2
PRECISION - 1
LUCK - ???
PRIDE - ???
PERSERVERENCE - ??? MAX?
??? - 0? No idea who these guys are

=SKILLS=
CLAW 2
RAPIER 2
DODGE 1
TENACITY [IN PROGRESS]
FLIGHT 1
REALISTIC DRAWING 1
STUDY 1
TEACHING 4
PATIENCE 1
RUNESCRIPTING 5
MEDITATION 3

=BONDS=
Drift 3
Blitz 1 [MIA]
Noodle 4
Pon 4
Ignis 5
Glide 1
Marth ??? (probably 0 or in the negatives or something)
William 5
RUNESCRIPTERS 1
Nico 1
Nubs 1 (new)


Wow you’re pretty well rounded on your STATS, you think it’ll be nice to get something higher than 5 at some point. Probably LOGIC will get AUTO BOOSTED by SABA’S MEMORIES this year you think. He’s mostly spending his time now designing the dungeon with one of his kids. You wonder about the ??? Stats, there’s quite a few of them. But mostly 3 that keep hanging around. You also wrote up your bonds because why not, doesn’t hurt to see what you think you’re approximately feeling with others. You take a look at the class roster, doesn’t seem like anything else has changed really.


Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- GET CLOSER TO MARTH
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS, MIND DORM PROGRESS 40%, total progress ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), progress 2/7
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE, NICO, and NUBS)
== Future bonds won’t be added to the list for sake of simplicity.
- You can change these goals at any time but it requires 3 similar suggestions to go through

Shimon is visibly under the pressure
- You wouldn’t be surprised if it reached out to you during the summer period
- but by your estimates it’s already too late for him if he’s getting sacked at the end of this year
- [INTUITION] He’s not getting sacked this year, probably when you graduate from GRAD SCHOOL
- [INTUITION] No matter how bad he is they wont fire him until they have a replacement.
- [INTUITION] Or he’s outlives his usefulness
- [INTUITION] But he doesen’t know that.

Your [UNDERSTANDING] Says it still doesen’t have a good idea as to why MARTH is acting this way. It’s conjectures are that she’s HIDING FROM THE BLACK LOTUS, and that she probably wants to protect you and not get you involved. But as far as you’re aware there SHOULDN’T BE any BLACK LOTUS members here. Or if there are, they’re hiding very well.

> A Message from Lou Xin
It’s time to put your money where your mouth is, you’ll be called out for a DUEL at the end of this time period as part of your arrangement as an OUTER DISCIPLE. You’ve done well in practice spars, but this is THE REAL DEAL. This will be an automated fight using your stats that you have accumulated to this point. As far as you know there’s no penalty for loss, except maybe some STRESS and a hit to your PRIDE.

> OBLIGATION
PON’S FIRST FAVOR
- Pon wants a CHI-LLER so he can start a Popsicle business
- Pon’s willing to split profits with you 80/20 on his business for a year
- You can approach this from any angle you’d like, be it giving it to him for free, teaching him to make one, etc.
- You always have the option to reject the favor
- He’d like a response soon
DOJO FEES
- 20 SHINY fee due on TIMESLOT 4

You have [0 STRESS]
You spent [6 SHINIES] at the fair
You have [870 SHINIES]
You have [3 TIME POINTS] to spend

You’re starting to think about what you like, tis puberty time after all. Maybe a short mental survey would glean some info towards you. https://forms.gle/aCS3wQKYKUrqXMFW9

AUTHORS NOTE: I’ll keep the survey running for a bit, and then at some point lock down Chi’s feelings on the matter. I’ll probably pick what I think is the most interesting or the most popular.

Also, I wanna try something new out, whenever you name a class from here on out you can name a buddy you have a BOND with to be in that class (that goes to the school)


What do you do?

1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (no added classes this year).
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
- Like READING JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 40% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST.
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11. GO TO LIBRARY! [1 TIME POINT] Suggest a book you’re looking for if you pick this option and then the next update will be suggestions of suggested books (and some of my own) for you to read from.


AUTHORS NOTE: I’m gonna be on a trip to see my parents so expect very few to no updates for the next week whilst Im gone. (I’ll have my laptop so I might b able to squeeze one or two out, but no promises) Looking forward to the suggestions!
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No. 1005504 ID: e51896

Whatever class we take, remember to ask a kin to join us

PERSERVERENCE spoke up. What a relief Where has he been? he's got us worried for a moment.

also there's advanced classes? We should find a way to learn how to microscript, but I can't figure out how. Maybe drawing classes can teach us how to write smaller? Maybe he learned that from the black scriptingmanual? At least we will learn a skill from the book we are about to read with Hook even if it is not microscripting.

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TIME POINTS:

FIRST TIME POINT:
Take the time to teach Pon how to make your Chi-ller for a bonding experience. Let him take the second magitech course. Be sure to warn him about Shimon and how he might try to guilt trip him into convincing us into teaching him. Let him know of his gambling ways as well.

Also, tell Pon not to worry about splitting the profits and to save the money. He is your brother and you just want to see him succeed.

And once he passes the second class, ask if he wants to join the RUNESCRIPTERS.

SECOND TIME POINT

-Read the JOURNEYMAN'S, get a headstart and better idea of the book so that when Hook helps us, it'll be easier on her and we can spend more time learning about her.

OR

-strengthen bond with someone (don't care who. Maybe Nico to learn more of Marth, or Glide since he's the person we spent the less time on)

THIRD TIME POINT (I'm fine with any of those classes and will support any votes regarding these from other suggestors.)

-A class with Nubs. Maybe Sculpting or metalworking or painting? will help with inventing something in the future. Maybe painting is how we can learn how to write smaller runescripts for microscripting

-Etiquette, perhaps with Nico or Glide. Learning etiquette might be good when we have to spend time with hook. Maybe it'll raise our patience ability? I'm not sure how we can raise that at this moment.

-Second Archeology class with whoever hasn't taken the second class yet.

- Mana theory with the RUNESCRIPTERS. we passed magitech, now lets learn a bit about mana, the energy that is put into magitech.

- AEROBATICS with Glide, might help give us an edge at the duel.

- Spend time at the DOJO, invite Drift and/or Glide

- Learn more Guile with Richii

- TACTICS to finally give Strategy attention.


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FREE POINTS:

- Dinner with glide, nubs, or nico. Maybe normal or high quality? if we invite glide, ask about his orange marking and what that means. If Nico, ask how his gardening classes going, maybe suggest to him to take NARCOTICS classes, though I'm sure he is already taking those. If nubs, ask about what DOPUS is like, and what their stances are on magitech.

-Commission Chipper to make a small wooden figurine of Hook that we can give to her as thanks for helping us with the book
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No. 1005506 ID: f8fa51

Teach Pon how to make a Chi-ller or just give him yours. Don't worry about the money.

Read the runescripting manual in the back of the Journeyman's Field Guide.

A metalworking class with Nubs and a singing class with Nico.
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No. 1005507 ID: e51896

Oh! I forgot about that scripting manual in the JOURNEYMAN'S book. Changing my vote a bit

teach Pon to make a Chi-ller for the first timepoint

Work on the secret black runescriting book found in the Journeyman's book for the second timepoint

For the third timepoint, do whatever I listed here >>1005504

But still have dinner with one of our friends (glide, nico or nubs) amd get that figurine of hook made by chipper to give to hook
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No. 1005508 ID: 44b1b5

USE YOUR LIBRARY VISIT to read THE BOOK OF ORDERS. You should know where it is, and you won't waste a single moment on anything else except finding a secluded, out of the way corner in which to read it. You want further insight into Marth's situation (and maybe there's some basic stuff about encoding techniques the groups used in there so you aren't completely starting from scratch when Hook arrives).

Tell Pon you can TEACH HIM HOW TO MAKE THE CHILLER if he takes you as a TA for the second course of Magitech this semester. (If this doesn't result in any time-usage (only added stress) this period, TAKE THE NEXT CLASS OF ARCHAEOLOGY (and use a TA - I feel like advanced trap detection and avoidance will require INTUITION, PERCEPTION, and REFLEXES, of which we only have the first (and not even at the soft-cap)).)

SOLVE THE BLACK MANUAL that came with the book - maybe it's more relevant to solving the books secrets than you realize? (And unless that one is hard enough to require a full time slot, use your spare time in between on transcribing the translation from runes in that book - Hook may be your codebreaker, but runic syntax is probably completely lost on her; it will help for her to have access to a transcript in a language she understands.)
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No. 1005511 ID: 66846a

We've been neglecting our friendship building. Lets fix that

>>1005506
Support these, make it metalworking with nubs for the last one... or sculpting.

And dinner with Nico, high quality. Id say talk about Marth with him, but i think we should focus more on getting to know Nico more. Though of he brings up Marth on his own, great!
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No. 1005513 ID: dfbac0

Oops, you fibbed on the goal, we changed it to understanding what's going on with Mart, not furthering the bond.

TIME POINT 1: Work on breaking the code to the magitech book.
TIME POINT 2: Take an Archeology class.
TIME POINT 3: Take a class on engraving and/or painting. (Both useful skills for precision and will let us make smaller runes.)
Give our Chiller to Pon, we can make another one for ourselves later and right now we have a lot to do.
Have a HIGH Quality dinner with Nubs as it seems she's a foodie, recommend having her take a creative class with you.
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No. 1005514 ID: 6c227a

In an effort to figure out what is wrong with Drift's body and preventing him from having a physical breakthrough, take the Mana Theory class. Invite Nubs.

Read Black Manual and (since it may not take a full time point) use any extra time to experiment and look at the other book.

While we could hand him the prototype, Pon wanted a lighter weight Chi-ller to be more mobile. Lets start building some, and show him along the way.
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No. 1005526 ID: 36784c

>>1005493
We’ve been doing a lot of mental things lately. Would it be alright if we start focusing on doing something physical?

I was thinking that we could get some Dance skills and combine it with our Claw combat skills. Since the Claw weapon relies on using our feet, the quick footwork of dancing could help with dodging and attacking while using the Claw weapon.

What do you guys think of that?

I also don’t think we should try to codebreak that book we borrowed by ourselves. Sure, we could do it by ourselves, but the Queen went out of her way to make arrangements for us to work with Hook and I think it’d be rude to not make use of the arrangements the Queen made for us.

But that hidden runescripting book we found is fair game. We can work on that by ourselves.
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No. 1005528 ID: 094652

Take another magitech class, in preparation for teaching more students in magitech. You need a reputation of learning what you teach.

Keep working towards Photographic memory. The sooner you get it, the sooner you can cash in on the Royal Library and speed up your learning rate.
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No. 1005529 ID: 96c896

>>1005493
>Understanding can't figure out Marth
Here's another possibility: she's a spy from the Human government, and she reported back about Chi being Saba, but then she was ordered to break the forced Bond. Or she could be a Black Lotus spy, even. Whichever the case, the Bond is counterproductive to her goals, or those of her superiors.

>PERSERVERENCE spoke up
Oh, kindof sounds like it's protecting us from ourselves, not outside forces. Still must be fairly busy.

>Time points
Take Metalworking with Nubs, brag a little about how you're learning to be a Runescripting teacher. A real one, the first in your plate.
Teach Pon how to make the mini-Chi-ller.
BOND with Nico. Tell him you're worried about Marth.
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No. 1005535 ID: aacf55

OH! I just had an idea

What if instead of solving the black manual ourself, we let the runescripters solve it with us together? Let everyone have a turn at learning what the black scripting manual is! And build up the runescripting bond a level

To everyone who voted on solving the black manual, wanna change your vote to solve it and teach it to the runescripters? We were able to solve 4 last time with 1 timepoint, so teaching it to the others might take the same amount of time point
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No. 1005536 ID: 96c896

Oh right, ask for a Favor from dad to get that beast core Drift wants. God, we could've done this a long time ago...

>>1005535
That does sound like a good idea.
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No. 1005539 ID: 6c227a

>>1005535
That's not bad, sure.
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No. 1005541 ID: da15a8

>>1005511
(Is me, changing my vote to have it be teaching pon, study black runescript with the runescripters, and metalworks with Nubs. Still have dinner with Nico.)
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No. 1005628 ID: a9af05

>>1005526
>Combine dancing with Claw weapon
I believe you're talking about Capoeira, a martial art that combines elements of dance and acrobatics.

If something like that exists in this world, then I support learning it.
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No. 1005649 ID: 031458

Huh. Microscripting eh? that sounds like it needs PRECISION. We could probably learn it ourselves if we learned ENGRAVING and CALIGRAPHY.
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Dance (Should we get it up to a high level) could definitely be worked into a martial art.
Also, it's fun.
Dance is perfect class to take with Nubs!

The JOURNEYMANS GUIDE if I'm not mistaken is supposed to take 3 timeslots. One to parse, one to analyze, and one to decode. We are replacing ANALYZE with LEARN CODEBREAKING during the break. It wouldn't hurt to spend some time PARSEING the thing, though. (Also this isn't the black runebook, Pawn probably has that right now.)
I don't know how calling in favors with the RUNESCRIPTERS will help us though. Not when we asked the queen to get us a teacher for CODEBREAKING.

I also think we should spend some time on INVENTION. Commission some more parts from Chipper and slap some wheels and a handle on a somewhat deeper version of the original ice box. This time with TRIGGER, COLDx2, ABSORBx2.
Since were just modifying existing designs (and commissioning parts) we should have quite a bit of extra time left over.
I think we should blueprint an AMULET OF PROTECTION. Marth died early in our past life. The least we can do is try and prevent that from happening again.
I'm envisioning the body of it consisting of 2 arcanum plates.
1 plate with a trigger connecting NULL, HARDEN, REFLECTION, ABSORB(Kinetic/Thermal Focus)
1 plate with 4 ABSORBS and a Trigger, none of which are connected on this layer.
MANA LINKS connect the lower absorbs to the upper runes, and the lower trigger to the upper link trigger. Lower trigger should specify effect is on wearer not just amulet itself.
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No. 1005655 ID: 8096b8

>(Also this isn't the black runebook, Pawn probably has that right now.)

Chi actually found a black runescipt manual in the back pages of the journeyman's book seen here >>1005254 it's not the missing manual, but a different one.


>I don't know how calling in favors with the RUNESCRIPTERS will help us though. Not when we asked the queen to get us a teacher for CODEBREAKING

We're not calling the runescripters for help decoding the Journeyman's. We are actually calling the the runescripters to share whatever ability the black runescript manual contains. The idea is that Chi will solve the manual first, and then she'll TEACH the others how to solve it so that everyone in the runescripters will learn the ability. We are mainly using this session to grow our BOND with them from level 1 to level 2. Really, we've been neglecting our friends as Marth has told us.
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No. 1005657 ID: 96c896

We haven't been neglecting our friends, Chi has been hanging out with them even when we don't focus on anyone.
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No. 1005659 ID: 8e5a95

>>1005657
I worded that wrong, sorry. We're not neglecting our friends, what I meant to say is we have bonds that are at level 1 that we should work on leveling up. Runescripters bond is currently level 1. Solving the black manual with them could help strengthen that bond. If we strengthen our bond with them, they might share some rumescripting manuals they might find with us.

Also question, does it cost three time points to complete the Journeyman's book, with it being only 2 with Hook's help, or would it take 2 timepoints to complete it with it only taking 1 to complete it with Hook's help?

If it will take two timepoints to complete it with Hook's help, then im changing my vote a bit


1.Teach Pon how to make a Chi-ller
2.solve black manual with runescripters and let them learn it too, and strengthen our bond
3. Read journeyman's book (but only if getting Hook's help still requires us to take one more timepoint on the book after getting her help, otherwise, im fine with whatever the third timepoint will be)

And that dinner of course
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No. 1005718 ID: 031458

>>1005655
Ah. I somehow missed that the thing inside the book was the mysterious black book.
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No. 1005749 ID: ed61d8

Hidden manual is a completely different manual.

You assume without hooks help it would take 3 Tp, with it, 2. Though and this is meta do read at your own risk [spoiler] you should probably wait until after hooks help to do it or you’ll waste a TP. Consider that a spoiler gift cause I’m on pause rn.[\spoiler]
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No. 1005789 ID: e51896

>>1005749
Okey dokey, then my final vote will be to:
-just teach pon how to Chi-ller
-solve and Teach runescripters that black manual
-And support on either dancing or Metalworking with Nubs, as long as it isnt working on the Journeymans and we're hanging out with Nubs (leaning more one metalworking since we're already getting some training from the dojo)

And dinner with Nico or Glide
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No. 1005831 ID: 031458

Same suggestion as before except yeah, play with the black manual instead of the big one.
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No. 1006131 ID: afe7de
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> Commission Chipper for a STATUE
You decide to commission Chipper for a small wooden statue of HOOK, you give him your best illustration of what you remember her looking like. It’s a little complicated since there’s details and it’ll be kind of small.

Chipper: Hmmm. It’ll cost extra for this, there’s little details and if we’re talking about palm sized…
You: Yeah, about that big.
Chipper: Ah this is HOOK right? I’m sure she’d love this sorta self indulgent thing
You: That’s what it’s for actually
Chipper: Cool, that’ll be 50 SHINIES, I could get someone to PAINT it for you at 70 SHINIES?
You: Just the carving’s fine.


He says it’s complex so he’ll have it done before you meet her.

> A Fatherly Request
You make a small stop home before things really get started in the year. It’s nice to see Draco and Faan again, you’ve decided to just call them by their names at their request. You’re becoming a young woman now and they’re respecting your independence. This feels a little rushed to you, but you guess you are kind of more mature than most kids would be at your age. Heck your friend group is full of reincarnees so that probably explains WHY it is that it’s like this. You shrug it off and ask your dad for a favor.

You want him to find the core of a HORNED MIST PUMA. He thinks on it for a moment, he’s not sure if he’s heard of one. You did some research in the library for half a day and found a few entries. It appears they enjoy COLD FOREST ENVIRONMENTS, perhaps a mountainous region. You’re not able to leave the adjoining plates for a while, but are willing to toss some money your father’s way if he needs it.

Draco: Not necessary. I think I know a place that’s outside of Canus that might have one.
Draco: Any other details?
You: I’ve been told that the creature exudes a fine mist around it, obscuring it s surroundings
You: They typically don’t wander far from their nest if they have any young
Draco: I’ll see what I can do. I have an expedition soon, but like usual I wont be back for a while.
You: Thanks papa!
Draco: Haha, anything for my little girl. I’m so proud of you!


You share a nice dinner with your family and talk about your plans, your rune-scripting discoveries, how you met the queen, etc. They’re very impressed and hope that things keep going in your favor.
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No. 1006132 ID: afe7de
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> Tea with NICO
You decide to invite Nico to dinner at a TEA SHOP nearby, they serve decent HIGH QUALITY snacks and have herbal teas. You remember him saying he took medicine and that he was a little frail, so hope this is a good choice. It turns out you were right, as you walk to the shop and stop by, inviting him in, he chuckles and says that he’s a regular at the place. A nice old Wing-Kin man invites you over and offers you some middling snacks, a tea sampler, and a few other things at a discount. The two of you talk about a variety of things. The debate goes up and he just looks embarrassed about it.

Nico: Ugh you’re all just so much better than me at that
You: I was kinda flying with only one wing there, I got carried by WILLIAM and IGNIS for sure
Nico: that’s not true, you got in a few good points
You: Either way, it was an interesting time. You do that often?
Nico: My mom makes me take those classes so I can stand up for myself more often
Nico: Says I’m too quiet and frail and blah blah blah


The snacks and tea arrive and they have lovely aromas. They’re sweet and blended with fruits. You call them REDS and BLUES a few times and Nico gives you a very strange look at that.

[SABA’S KN] Sorry!

You continue on anyway and eventually talk shifts to MARTH. He’s really grateful you introduced him to Marth, and you talk about your relationships with her a bit.

You: I think Marth doesen’t like me
Nico: That’s not true!
You: She… said some things to me that make it kind of clear
Nico: I’m- uh.
Nico: I’m sure there’s uh just um
Nico: some circumstances
Nico: sorry.

[GUILE] Hm?
[GUILE] Press for more details
[GUILE] Ask him what he means

You: What do you mean?
Nico: She just… sometimes she just looks really sad, when no ones looking
Nico: Or when she thinks no one’s around.
Nico: But the second someone pops up she’s back to her old chipper self.
Nico: We’ve been spending lots of time together so I kinda catch glimpses.
Nico: I shouldn’t be talking about this
Nico: Uhhhh, so how’s William and Ignis doing huh? You seem to get along with them well enough


You’re caught off guard by this, then you realize you did all take a class together, so it’s kind of natural for him to be curious about this. You’ve had some time to think on it. So you go over it in your head a little bit again.

You think you’re BI, with a slight HETERO LEAN. You’re only a little PAN, you’d probably be okay with dating an intersex person, but it wouldn’t rev your engine as much as a guy or girl would. As for crushes. You’ve thought it over and you actually have similar levels of crushes on 4 kin. If you had to rank them in a certain hierarchical order, it’d be something like this: William > Ignis > Nubs > Hook. It kind of shocked you to reflect and realize it like this. You think it makes sense you’d like William and Ignis as much as you do, after all, you’re actively putting in a decent amount of effort on that front. Nubs is more an exotic quantity. She’s novel, fresh, smells great, is flirty, there’s definitely something there that’s tickling the physical affection side of your brain. And as for hook. You sigh. You did always like BAD GIRLS. Willamina was like that, a rebel, always in trouble, a mean streak. It tickles that part of the back of your brain that you forgot existed. You hope this doesn’t complicate your meeting later.

[UN LOGIC] I’ve got no horse in this race, I’m bad at romance, so bad, just, so bad.
[CHARISMA] At least you have me this time!
[INTUITION] We’ll play it by ear,
[UNDERSTANDING] Though I will point out that Ignis out of all of them is putting in the most effort
[UNDERSTANDING] The others are just kind of putting in a normal level of effort.
[KNOWLEDGE] Nice this world’s okay with Polyamory, so we don’t HAVE to pick one
[LUCK] You’re welcome.
[PRIDE] Nah, Nope, Nah, not letting you take credit for that
[???] Even I have to agree on that
[???] Ditto
[CURIOSITY] Yeah… You can’t just claim all random stuff is just LUCK
[LUCK] That’s my schtick tho


Your mind wanders back to the conversation, it was a brief aside, maybe 20 seconds or so, and Nico looks at you expectantly.

You: It’s going well. I haven’t really uh. I’m not uh.
You: I was waiting until I was 16 to start dating?
Nico: Huh? Why?
You: Its uh complicated?
Nico: Eh, whatever, you don’t know what you’re missing. Handholding. Is. Nice.


You blush at that again, thinking about holding hands with any of your crushes causes your feathers to ruffle a little bit, Nico notices and laughs a little. You do wonder why it is that you don’t want to date until you’re 16. Must be a holdover from [SABA’S KNOWLEDGE]. You don’t worry about it that much, if you’re feeling really frisky you can just look through certain memories, you’ve done it once or twice. Nico tries to goad out more info on your other crushes, but you stay mum on those, you also didn’t mention that you had other crushes but he somehow knew, strange. He must have good INTUITION. The dinner ends and you feel a little bit closer to Nico. That was nice.

Your BOND with NICO has increased to rank 2
- Nico will occasionally suggest activities for you to do with him

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No. 1006133 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - Runescripting with the Runescripters
You suggest Pon takes the RUNESCRIPTING part 2 class, he does, and you invite him to your little RUNESCRIPTERS GROUP. He passes on that though, saying Runescripting’s more a means to an end to him, and less something he wants to make a career out of.

You gather together the group, it’s IGNIS, WILLIAM, and DRIFT and show them the new Runescripting manual you’ve gotten. No one else has caught up with you in progress on manuals. At most the others have around 5-7 studied, with William having studied 7 and Drift having studied 5. You suggest a group exercise. To crack open this Manual and figure out how to use it. Everyone at the table has completed at least one BLACK manual, so you assume it shouldn’t be too hard.

In reality it only took you all about half the time to crack the rune. You were the first, but then the others followed in a cascade, figuring it out in the same day. This manual doesn’t give you a vision, just like the TRIGGER manual. But it’s use is fairly strange. This manual is called the SHAPE manual. It’s primary use is to be linked with an EJECT manual to cause the ejected substance to form a specific SIMPLE SHAPE, be it HEXAGONAL PLATES, REGULAR PLATES, SPHERES, CONES, CYLINDERS, DOMES, RODS, DISKS, or even CUBES. But it can’t be used to form anything complex like a figurine. The rest of the manual describes how to modify the rune using different syntaxes to make it form a shape that stays mid-air for a short period until it runs out of LATENT ENERGY, or one that can be constantly maintained but will remain stationary above it’s creation point. It also has a variation on the INTENSITY rune that can be used to increase or decrease the size of the created shape.

[UNDERSTANDING] WOAH, this is a very interesting thing.
[LOGIC] Tag team?
[UNDERSTANDING] Yeah
[UN LOGIC] Okay so already we have loads of ideas.
[CREATIVITY] Sword of Light?
[UN LOGIC] Yes that, no idea if it would function like a LASER or if would just be a TORCH
[UN LOGIC] You can use this to spawn a cone or dome shaped bullet to fire from a gun
[UN LOGIC] I didn’t consider that the mana pistols they have would just be firing pure energy or a rock or something
[UN LOGIC] A projectile certainly steps up the game
[UN LOGIC] Then there’s unique applications like a square rod made of air
[UN LOGIC] You could have an air blade or chair, we don’t know the synergies with HARDEN and SHARPEN
[UN LOGIC] There has to be a way to harden or sharpen the thing that’s made
[UN LOGIC] Maybe it’s a complex rune, theories aside this is pretty bonkers
[UN LOGIC] You could probably figure out a way to make a dome of air or water or earth, instant shield!
[UN LOGIC] Though you might need to be careful, what if its air tight, then you’re on a limited air supply
[UN LOGIC] And are the shapes hollow or are they filled?
[UN LOGIC] Can anything pass through hardened air or is it just like a soft barrier, like a tornado around you
[UN LOGIC] If you link this with the original intensity rune can you use that to make it denser?
[KNOWLEDGE] NEEEEEERRRRRDDDSSS
[UNDERSTANDING] Well, yeah. This is cool shit. Our bread and butter, our Eggs and Toast, our uhhh, seeds and feeds.


You do some more tests, you try various things with various materials, unfortunately you’re really only limited to CLOTH, WOOD, STONE, ARCANUM, MARBLE, CONCRETE, and a SMALL amount of metal. Stone just produces dust with the gas rune, probably of the stone it’s made of. Wood on the other hand produces what you assume to be OXYGEN. You put it underwater and it bubbles. So you do a stupid test and bite down on it while its bubbling and through some coughing fits because you don’t really have a non-bird mouth so there’s no lips to close, you do figure out that it can let you breathe. So you ASSUME it must be oxygen. Maybe put an absorption rune on it and it absorbs CARBON DIOXIDE and WATER? Just enhancing the effect of the wood? Arcanum makes a light blue mist, you think it’s pure mana. Marble and concrete both produce a dust. But they make you cough and have to exit the room. And cloth also produces a strange, fiberous dust. You think the gas ejection rune is kind of strange and doesn’t have too many extra purposes.

The rest of your time with the RUNESCRIPTERS is spent experimenting, seeing exactly how it works. Some of it is like you expected. You try using it on an ejection rune and through a variety of different things. Ignis bought a small amount of ARCANUM and gives it to all of you to share and try out. You elect to try on different materials and save your final test for the ARCANUM which the others follow your advice on.

It turns out you can in fact harden air, but it’s more like a strong wind at the default. If you up the intensity to near maximum however it creates a WALL, your testing indicates that it can handle at the maximum a HARD STRIKE from an IRON SWORD that WILLIAM had before dissipating. But it takes up just a TON of energy to make let alone block a strike. It’s impractical. It barely lasts .1 seconds on regular material at max intensity. It’s energy draw is smaller the smaller your created object, so creating a rod of intense air lets you make a stick that seems to be as strong as WOOD, if not stronger, but it has a very limited power draw. Interestingly you discover that the shapes are HOLLOW, as Ignis attempted to make a large ball of air and slowly buffetted up the intensity, but was perfectly fine in the eye of the storm.

You also discover that you can’t hear outside the bubble if the intensity is too high. This leads you to the interesting discovery that it holds air inside it’s contents. Unfortunately you’re not able to test how long it holds the air, or how long you can survive in it, or what happens if you let the air run out inside and then deactivate it, but you have a few guesses

[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] Me and Logic have some ideas.
[LOGIC] If it’s a cubic meter of space and you can somehow fit in it, then given displacement…
[LOGIC] Let’s say you could probably breathe it in safely for uhhh 36 minutes
[LOGIC] That’s if you’re an average human thats completely average?
[LOGIC] Though we just don’t know how much oxygen a Wing-Kin on this plate uses
[LOGIC] Or even if we breathe oxygen at all, we just assume these things
[LOGIC] For all we know we’re breathing Nitrogen and expelling Oxygen?
[UNDERSTANDING] I think it’s a safe bet to say we’re genetically close to Kin to make these assumptions
[INTUITION] I feel like it’s probably a safe bet, but maybe in the future we can dedicate a [TIME POINT]
[INTUITION] To finding out specifics.
[LOGIC] But, this is a solution to not being able to visit DOPUS’s kingdom.
[LOGIC] Though you could always just make some sort of REBREATHER by making an OXYGEN TANK and having it eject it
[LOGIC] Or some other nonsense.
[UNDERSTANDING] I feel like I’ve just come to the conclusion that the only limitation to a BATTERY
[UNDERSTANDING] Would be the size of whatever we’re using as the storage device
[UNDERSTANDING] Unless we make like pressurized air chambers or soemething to store something specific
[UNDERSTANDING] We should test the eject rune see what kinds of gasses it can eject


You do more experiments, shaping flame goes through similar phases, but when it increases in intensity it goes from Red to Orange to Yellow and finally stops at Blue before running out. The stronger the flame, the less time it lasts. You assume it could probably make a WHITE HOT flame but would require massive amounts of energy. Making shapes from liquids has a similar result to making one with Air, only they’re more flexible, able to be pushed and (with effort) pulled at the max hardness you can maintain without using all of your energy. The last experiment you do sees you coming to someone’s pool. You make a linked object that’s fairly crude using some wood and arcanum, and a button. You hop into the water and press the button when you’re low enough. It produces an air bubble straight out from it, you almost drop the thing from the force of the displacement, but now you’re underwater and able to breathe.

William also makes an experimental ICE SPEAR launcher, as of now it just launched spears of water that splash harmlessly onto others, it’s not as hard as air and even at its hardest just bounces off before losing momentum and splashing. He really wants to make an ICE SPEAR LAUNCHER just like he had in the past. Drift is sad you all have had such cool Past lives. His memories have a lock on them or something he mentions, stopping just before it seems like his counterpart would be cured.

You spend the rest of your time experimenting with different runes, clearing old runes and trying to get as much juice as you can out of the Arcanum chunks but by the time you’re done they’re fully exhausted. You have no idea how to HARDEN or SHARPEN air, but you do figure out you can make a PROJECTILE with the SHAPE rune, the harder it is, the longer it takes to dissipate, but even then it barely goes out a single meter at its hardest. It still takes someone with a lot of FORCE to actually cause damage with this air projectile, and you don’t have enough arcanum to test how much force vs how intense of a shape needs to be used to make a MANA PISTOL. You get the feeling this will help, but that will require iteration and a LOT of SHINIES. Willaim’s the strongest of the group, and puts the shape ejection rune on a wooden sword with a trigger, trying to make a few strikes with it, it’s difficult to time correctly, but has an interesting effect of essentially doubling his sword’s length and being as strong as a wooden sword at max capacity. But the wooden sword cracked after a single use, disintegrating after a second use.

The four of you discuss the implications of this and have some wild theories about how if this was used on a mountain, eventually it would syphon the entire mountain and it could just disintegrate, leaving the materials inside. You shudder to think if this could be used on your world-plate, making it crumble over time.

[UNDERSTANDING] THEORY. What if that’s the reason the plate is crumbling.
[UNDERSTANDING] What if there’s a rune somewhere on the plate that’s causing that.
[UNDERSTANDING] What if that’s the rune thats causing your plate to float in the sky
[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe you can find a way to it and figure out a way to fuel it, thus stopping the plate from collapse.


You share this theory with others and there’s a huge clamor, you all agree to keep this a secret for now, it’s just speculation. But you all agree that more testing should be done in the future.

Your LEADERSHIP stat has increased!
Your BOND with the RUNESCRIPTERS has increased to rank 2
- You are the de facto LEADER of this group now
- The others look up to you and are inspired by your ideas
- You can suggest RESEARCH PROJECTS to your group as an ACTIVITY
- You can suggest BACKGROUND PROJECTS to your group, these will take place in the background
-- You’ll be assumed to be working on this in your free time, it takes 8x the time point cost to complete
-- So if it would normally take 1 time point to finish, instead it would be done in the background in 8 time points
- Your bond can increase further, but only up to your LEADERSHIP (3 max currently)
- GROUP BONDS have different rewards at different levels and are harder to improve
- GROUP BONDS you are not the leader of can only be raised to 1/2 your LEADERSHIP as your PRIDE gets in the way

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> APPRENTICESHIP - METALWORKING WITH NUBS
You convince NUBS to try out METALWORKING with you. It’s a simple apprenticeship, they teach you the basics of handling metal, the costs associated with it, and common uses. You find out that an ingot, enough to make a single dagger minus some materials, would cost around 2000 SHINIES on the Human market. Buying ore cuts that down in half, but labor costs and scarcity means that it’s difficult to sell products at anything below the ingot cost. Your mentor explains that it’s a bullshit practice of price gouging, but there’s not much you can do about it because it’s in demand by hunters and the SHINY to GOLD exchange rate is not in their favor.

You’re taught how to make the simplest of things, an IRON NAIL, it’s most commonly used in construction, but is a bit EXPENSIVE. Your kingdom has found workarounds using a layered wood method, carving and having the wood snap together without nails, screws, or glue. They also have stone and concrete, but there’s such a VAST AMOUNT of WOOD in your plate that taking advantage of that would make things a whole lot easier. A single ingot typically produces 75-100 nails, and if you’re full of ingenuity and planning you could probably make a small cabin with it. It reduces overhead and construction time even if your plate has gotten faster at their solely wood-based buildings.

You get a minor lesson in economics and politics which Nubs seems to absorb and even note down. You wouldn’t say your world plate is in poverty, everyone is fed and has their basic necessities and housing filled for the most part. But the quality of living is vastly inferior to the Human kingdom and Canus to a minor amount. You learn from Nubs that they have small slug like creatures that live in their kingdom to produce light and foliage to produce oxygen. It’s not perfect, but their living conditions are pretty similar to yours. Basic necessities met, just stagnant for improvement from lack of resources.

You start to pay more attention to Nubs, how she sweats, how she exerts herself on the anvil. She’s POWERFUL, you know this, but she constantly needs to hydrate in this environment. You were surprised to find out that she does in fact sweat as a lot of SCALE-KIN don’t. It must be something in their genetic predisposition that allows them to live both on land and underwater. You notice the little fronds sticking out of her head, they’re her GILLS, and she even demonstrates that she doesn’t need to breathe out of her NOSE OR MOUTH, but can do so to expel heat or intake more oxygen whilst on land. She appreciates the interest and asks you about yourself and your biology. It turns out you both have egg laying in common, though she lays CLUTCHES of eggs rather then a few at a time. There are a few times she douses herself in water, soaking herself and you find her beauty to be special. You shake it off a moment later trying not to stare. Its so hard when she gives you little touches and turns around so you can see her butt. You chock it up to being a hormone addled teenager and move on.

By the end of it you’ve learned the basics of METALWORKING, you could probably make a dagger if you had the resources and tools, or maybe even more. But it’s a labor intensive process. At your skill level it would probably take [1 TIME POINT] just to make a few daggers or a single sword, though your proficiency would increase with time you think. Your mentor lets you both know that he’s willing to hire you to help improve your skills. It pays 1000 SHINIES a [TIME POINT] Until you’ve reached RANK 3 in Metalworking where the pay triples as you’ll be able to keep up with a regular work schedule. If you were to reach RANK 5 in metalworking you’d reach his level and could set your own prices for things you’ve made given you purchase the requisite resources. He’s also willing to sell you materials and tools at a discounted rate for personal use as you were his pupils.

Nubs passes on the job, citing she wants to try other fields and classes but is polite and thanks the instructor. You let the instructor know you plan on becoming the new MAGITECH teacher, and you wanted to learn this trade in case it was useful. He congratulates you and lets you know that the offer still stands, to come to him if you need any metalworking done, he’ll help you at a discount if you give him some of your shiny new inventions when you’re rich and famous. You’re also told you can use the forge at a rate of 500 Shinies a [TIME POINT] you grumble that you can’t just use it for shorter bursts, but understand that its about availability and profits in the end, as there’s only 4 forges in town, 3 of which are in this building. Surprisingly BLACKSMITHING isn’t a popular trade here due to the high buy in cost and skill requirement.

Nubs offers to buy a third of an ingot of IRON with some PEARLS, but the shopkeep doesen’t quite know how to convert the currency and just gives it to her as payment for her work. You also get a small third of an ingot of iron as well. You offer to trade Nubs some SHINIES for some PEARLS, not knowing the exchange rate, so at a 1-1 ratio. She accepts and you get 20 PEARLS. You feel there’s something strange about them, similar to your SHINIES and ask her about them.

Nubs: The Pearls? Yeah they’re just like… Everywhere in our ocean.
Nubs: Well you actually have to go hunting for them, but there’s this like Clam
Nubs: It scuttles about on the ocean floor and usually has like one or two inside
Nubs: We use em as currency cause it’s a little hard to get them and cuz the monarchy said so
You: Do they do anything? Our Shinies can be used as medicine, we find them in fish and beasts in our plate
Nubs: Huh, now that you mention it, they do. A lot of us eat them to aid in digestion.
Nubs: We have naturally good stomachs but one time an Aqua-kin tried eating one after having a stomach ache
Nubs: Completely cured it
Nubs: Heard that there’s a special way to grind em up and make em into a medicine to cure POISONS
Nubs: But poison’s pretty rare here from what I hear so I’m not sure if we have much to offer in trade other than FOOD
You: I’d argue that having something that cures poison and minor ailments is pretty darn useful
You: We should probably find out what exchange rate there is for this kinda thing
Nubs: I’m not too worried, It’ll sort s’ self out
Nubs: We don’ really have scientists back where I’m from, jus like… Food festivals
Nubs: Games, sculpting, y’know fun stuff
You: I’m sure we can work out a trade between our kin for shinies and pearls or food or other stuff
Nubs: Mhmm.


She wraps you in a hug, as is tradition for nearly every time you split. Her body is cool, with occasional warm spots. You’ve come to understand that she’s a COLD BLOODED creature, and that since your plate is never TOO HOT and is usually pretty normal, it’s a perfectly healthy living environment for her kind. Well, except for the need for flight to travel.

You’ve learned the METALWORKING 1 Skill
- After paying the requisite costs and gathering the resources you can craft things out of metal
- Any product made will range in quality from CRUDE to NORMAL due to lack of skill
You get the feeling that learning another CREATIVE skill, or ranking one up to 3 could break your CREATIVITY soft cap.
You’ve been offered the BLACKSMITH JOB, it’s part time, requiring [1 TIME POINT] a year
- It pays 1000 Shinies a [TIME POINT]
- Taking this job will let you rank up in the skill and increase your chances of getting higher pay
- You can get discounts from this shop just for having trained there
Your BOND with NUBS has increased to RANK 2
- Nubs will occasionally suggest activities for you to do with her
- You get the feeling Nubs would like you to visit her Kingdom
- As far as you’re aware, you’re the closest actual friend Nubs has on this plate

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> FREE TIME - CHI-LLER MK 2
You decide to help your little brother make his own CHI-LLER, you recommend he takes the next Magitech class and he assents. He attends your tutoring sessions and the two of you spend time outside of class redesigning and creating the new CHI-LLER, you get an idea and use your chunk of ARCANUM to allow you to make a slightly more light version that doesen’t use stone, but canvas that’s been HARDENED and the ARCANUM as a power source that is getting fed through absorption runes. The end result is a light backpack that after a few tests you discover does not impede flying very much. You make a few more modifications and add on some wheels and a simple telescoping handle, and it can even be dragged around. You’re proud of your work, but it only really could have been done with the two of you wracking your head on this for the month and a half it took to design it. You burn through about 50 shinies whilst pon covers the rest of the resources. The pack can hold around 200 small PON-POPS after testing and designing a mold that fits in the CHI-LLER. Pon came up with a pretty smart way of wrapping the juice in a waxy parchment that allows for easy removal and unwrapping for the customer. He offers to refund you for the shinies and the ARCANUM, but you refuse. His HONOR refuses to step down and he says he’ll at the very least get you a full ingot of ARCANUM as thanks for your efforts when he can afford it.

Pon: You supported me, so It’s only natural I’ll support you!
Pon: Thanks sis, It uh, it means a lot to me.
Pon: That you’re willing to let me pursue this dumb dream of mine.

[CREATIVITY] It’s a… Cool idea.

You: What? IT’s not dumb! It’s a… Cool idea.
Pon: Oh goddess the pun, it hurts.
Pon: But I’ll get you some Arcanum, I know you’ll need it for whatever whacky invention you’ll come up with next.


By the end of it Pon ends up failing the class on a technicality, You spend some time tutoring him so he knows how to do everything in the end anyway, but you distinctly feel like this is Shimon being butthurt at you and taking it out on your brother. He told you multiple times about Shimon’s attempts at guilt or coercion, but they had no effect on your brother, even poking his sense of HONOR because honestly you’re more important to him then that.

Your BOND with PON has increased rank 6!!
- Pon TRUSTS you implicitly
- Pon feels he OWES you
- You can request any amount of favors from PON but be aware he might start asking for favors in return
- You can tell that you are THE MOST IMPORTANT KIN to Pon on the planet.
- When you think of Pon, you think of a comfortable place at home, safety even.
You’ve gained a BOND PERK - THE BOND BETWEEN TWINS
- In situations that involve your brother you can share simple messages intuitively almost like a low level telepathy
- This is not a MAGIC EFFECT, but more simple reading of body language and inflection
- This can be used to SECRETLY COMMUNICATE in STRESSFUL SITUATIONS
- Bond perks vary from kin to kin, and some kin don’t have them at all!

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> EVENT - ASSHOLE KID
It’s tutoring time and this year is a doozy. There’s more students joining, but barely any for the advanced class. Pon was the only student to sign up for it this semester. You know Shimon is really bad at this but get the strange feeling he’s trying to discourage students from learning the trade at the same time from the first quarter, otherwise why would there be so few applicants?

Most of the students are fine and you bunch them up in groups based off of the color they were assigned. You don’t really have the time to make a bunch of manuals right now or you’d just start everyone on a single manual. In fact you really want whatever device SHIMON has that he used to see the COLORS on students because you feel it might be useful. There’s one student in particular. He refuses to give his name, is antagonistic the whole time, and is extremely disruptive. You opt to do your best to help him with your PATIENCE, but his every word attempts to strike a nerve at you. Your pass rate for the students dropped this semester to 55% due to his interference and this student didn’t even pass, in fact you would almost bet he was there to intentionally sabotage you. Goddess and the worst part is the smell, he just smells so awful it’s ridiculous but no one in the room is pointing it out. You imagine he’s never bathed in his life if it weren’t for the fact that there was ONE day he didn’t smell like rotting trash.

You try investigating the student to find he’s new this year, a BEAST-KIN from CANUS. He’s a Ferret and just won’t shut up. His name is Clausey. There are several times he even says inappropriate things to you. You’re 13 and he’s just 10 and it really aggravates you. And you’re confused how someone can even look like them at age 10. You feel a silent simmering rage at this fool of a student, like they were created specifically to make you upset. Most kin don’t bother you in this way, but frankly, it was bound to happen with how calm every thing’s been going. And how some kin seemed to want to one up you at the trades fair. He shouts and screams at you when he fails the class, blaming you and your incompetence. It hurts your PRIDE and is STRESSFUL and he storms out. You vent about this to the RUNESCRIPTERS at the end of the semester and they ask why you didn’t say something sooner. You reply that you just tried to be the bigger bird in the situation.

Ignis promises you that he’ll do some snooping and find out what the deal with this Clausey guy is, which you appreciate, but tell him is not worth it, just some asshole, he grunts but assents to ignoring him.

You gain 2 STRESS from this student’s constant antagonism, 1 of which is blocked by your PATIENCE
You gained 500 Shinies from your TA job.


> TEACHING BONUS
After a year of teaching your TEACHING SKILL BONUS kicks in and you learn something new. You’ve had to keep an eye on various students across the room, some more PERCEPTIVE than others, after chatting with a few of them you learn something fundamental about the link between PERCEPTION and CURIOSITY that you never knew before. Suddenly it’s like your eyes are open and you can notice things just a little bit better.

Your CURIOSITY stat has increased!
You’ve gained the PERCEPTION 1 Skill
- Perception uses CURIOSITY and INTUITION to help you spot things in the world you might have missed
- It’s not very strong right now, but its certainly better than before!
- You get the feeling that breaking the CURIOSITY and INTUITION Soft Caps
-- might be easier in the future if your PERCEPTION were higher

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> FREE TIME - OH GOD HOOK?!?!
Your break has started and its the appointed time. You head up to the tower and land on the royal quarters. You’re led through a hallway and eventually to a side room. There’s tons of papers EVERYWHERE, the room is completely messy, but messy in the sense of you’re sure whoever lives here actually knows what they’re doing. In front of you is an older looking Hook. Her breasts are growing in, which you didn’t realize was a thing on bats. She smirks at you and invites you over. The two of you chat for a bit, she’s a lot more vulgar than you remember, but for some reason actually has a good opinion now. You assume it’s because of your MAGITECH prowess.

Hook: So, what brings you, I’m supposed to help you learn CODEBREAKING at least the basics.
You: Well I found this book in the Library but it’s in a rune cypher
Hook: Ah, I’ve been too busy to learn rune-scripting, I don’t plan on going on dungeon runs, more administrating
Hook: So I never really bothered.
Hook: I can’t help you directly translate it, but I can tell you some common cyphers and how to solve them
You: That works.


What follows is a blur, hook’s bad at teaching, like really bad, but you’re good at taking individual pieces,[UNDERSTANDING], using [LOGIC], and [TEACHING] to put it all together into a coherent skill set. You give her the figurine you had custom made to her at some point throughout this process and she’s in shock. She’s genuinely enamored with the gift at such a level she actually tries harder for you and begins to treat you better. You’re barely able to get the basics down before your time is up, which you’re relieved about. Turns out CYPHERS are kind of hard, but are used with diplomatic communications quite frequently. She doesn’t show you any advanced ones as they’re royal secrets, but does give you the basics on how to untangle ones you might find in the future. One night you have a conversation, having a few fried WINGIES as your dinner.

Hook: So like, do you care about the throne at all?
Hook: Like not in the sense of do you care about the queen cause like that shit’s obveous
You: You mean like as in do I want to be Queen?
Hook: Yeah that shit.
Hook: Cause like, gonna be honest. Seems like you never really were.
You: Yeah, I mean. It’s just a lot of effort I think
You: You have to manage everyone, find trusted aides, think about the wellbeing of an entire plate
Hook: Manage diplomatic tensions
Hook: Figure out what to give and what to take
You: Create incentives and prevent revolts
You: It’s just. It’s just a lot.
You: I can see myself become a royal scientist, maybe a private inventor
You: Heck even an archaeologist
Hook: You’d probably do fine in Archaeology if it weren’t for human embargos and the blocking of access
You: So it’s true? We just can’t get in anymore?
Hook: Select few can, at least to the human owned ones.
Hook: At least not without paying exorbidant fees and losing whatever you find.
Hook: The ones in the wild, cluck, those are hard enough to get to unless you have good hunters
Hook: The risks outweigh the benefits when we’re barely 1/5 the size of the human kingdom.
You: Why offer it as a class then even?
Hook: It’s really for those who take the hunter/archaologist route really.
Hook: It’s a subtly implied pairing
Hook: Wouldn’t be that way if we had, I dunno, EXPORTS of any kind? That wasnt HUNTERS.
You: What about your SHINY medicine?
Hook: Yeah we foolishly gave them the recipie for it on our first diplomatic foray,
Hook: they gave us a ball of light that died out after 24 hours.
You: So now they can just… take our shinies and make it?
Hook: Pretty much, if it weren’t for the fact we’re up in the air and it’s too much effort
Hook: I don’t doubt they’d have invaded.
You: I refuse to believe it’s that bad
Hook: Yeah, well, we’re trying.


You got to spend a lot of close time with hook. She gives you similar feelings to Willamina, a mean streak, but really just looking out for her benefits. So it’s not… Malicious, per se, it’s more combatative. You guess a woman in her position would be. You’re still not sure if she would make a good Queen, but know there’s at least another queen candidate out there.

You: So what’s this all about the queen stuff, is she getting replaced soon?
Hook: Well, it’s nearing that time. She’s getting to be 70 soon even though she doesen’t look it.
Hook: She’ll probably be an advisor for a few years and then just retire. You know she likes to fish?
Hook: She might just move to DOPUS and live a life on a small island somewhere.
You: Isn’t there gonna be an exam or something like that?
Hook: Yeah, though no one knows exactly what’s going to be on it. So you need a little of everything
Hook: Then we have to pick a king within 5 years and its just bluugh.
Hook: I mean, I’ll do it, I want the prosperity of our people more than the next kin.
Hook: Just…
You: it’s a lot.
Hook: Yeah. Wouldn’t be surprised if it happened when we were 20


You spend the night a few times in her room, there were a few awkward moments you almost saw her changing but were too embarrassed to look. Then there was that time when your hands touched and lingered for a moment, she didnt notice but your feathers were ruffled and you blushed a bit before she finished moving her hand around, she was just reaching for a pen. and like that your time with Hook is up, you ask if you’ll be seeing her around but she just shrugs.

Hook: I spend most of my time with teachers in individual learning, it’s faster, costs more, but is faster
Hook: I rarely leave the tower because there’s just too much to do and learn if I want to be prepared
You: Ignis leaves, he integrates with the kin
Hook: Yeah but he’s going to be taking a more social role anyway even if he isnt King.
Hook: Plus, I wouldn’t want him anyway, William’s the arguably better candidate.
Hook: He’s the most martially skilled, is pretty Charismatic, just ugh, that stupid rule about bloodlines
Hook: Can’t even get with either of them because of “INCEST” and we’re “RELATED”
Hook: Fucking horseshit, I don’t even get the good ones.
You: If I remember correctly. William and Ignis are both the King and Queen’s kids
You: And you’re of the King and one of his concubine’s line
You: But are the first born?
Hook: Basically, I mean, we’re the only 3 real candidates the others uh
You: The others what?
Hook: You dont know? Well uh Blitz De Feral Rondalphus was 7th to the throne, but he up and vanished
You: wait BLITZ, as in, THE BLITZ we went to school with?!?!?
Hook: Yeah, He rejected the throne though, wanted to be a merchant like his dad
Hook: Was kind of a secret, but it’s an open secret and he’s been missing so It doesent feel that bad to share
You: You do realize he was kidnapped right?
Hook: Hmmm, no, that doesent check, I’d have heard about that.


You explain what you know to Hook and about Drift and she looks shocked

Hook: Alright I’ll have to look into that then. Goddess dammit why can’t shit be simple.
Hook: Then there’s the others uhhh, Franco De Feral Rondalphus died at the age of 2
Hook: Then Toni De Mare Olgaphus fell into a coma and died in his sleep at age 13
Hook: Then there’s the Randolphus triplets taking up the 5th-7th slots
Hook: They’re just really dumb, like incredibly stupid. Two girls one guy
Hook: No braincells in them, just total meat heads.
Hook: If you ever take the STRATEGY class you’ll meet them, they’re only good for warfare and strategy
Hook: Try any logic or fancy talk and they just get that glassy look over their eyes

[GUILE] Ooh I have a neat trick try asking who their actual competiton was as if she mentioned it

You: but you said there was one kin who was like actual competition
Hook: Did I? Uhhh, actually yea I probably did
Hook: Well one of the trips isn’t THAT dumb, enough she might be a contender.
Hook: Then there’s kin like you and a few others at the academy that shine through. You met Ignolia?
You: Who?
Hook: She’s in the Theory, aerobatics, law, leadership, guard training, dance, and etiquitte classes mostly
Hook: Basically imagine someone like me right
Hook: Only without the attitude
Hook: Big glasses.
Hook: So I have to work extra hard
Hook: But I heard she’s secretly a s-l-u-t So you know, grain of salt and all that
You: Uh huh.

[CURIOSITY] How old is Hook? This timeline feels weird, she must be older than you

You: How old are you?
Hook: 16?
You: Why’d you go to the exam site and apply for the academy so late then?
Hook: Extenuating circumstances.
Hook: That’s about it though, I don’t really see any new players joining the race at this point
Hook: Don’t get any funny ideas though, I will crush you if you try to join the race
Hook: You don’t even know the first thing about diplomacy or law or Etiquette,
Hook: or theology, anthropology, or agriculture, not to mention you need to be WAY more CHARISMATIC or CHARMING
You: Speak for yourself, I mean on the charming bit, I think I’m at least more charming then you
Hook: Pfff, as If, ever kissed a guy? Huh?
You: I uh, what does that have to do with anything!??!
Hook: Oh you like holding hands is that it? I’ve heard how you look at William and Ignis and that new Fish girl
Hook: Is that what it is? You into fish, some kinda weirdo?
You: HEY! You’re like half beast kin, can you even talk
Hook: Details details.


The two of you burst into laughter. This is a strange dynamic but it almost feels familliar. You think on your bonds for a moment. You’re mostly friends with guys, Noodle’s a girl, but she’s quiet but direct, more tomboyish then anything. Then there’s Nubs whose just like relentlessly flirty. Then there’s Hook, who reminds you so much of old Willamina it’s astonishing. You feel a bit of nostalgia for it even.

You: Oh right, about Nubs, the Aqua-Kin
Hook: Oh, is that her name? Yeah what about her?
You: She’s got these pearls but they can make antidotes and they use em as currency, kinda cool huh?
Hook: Can I see one?


You hand one over to her, she looks it over, asks for a few more, you give her 5 total and she says she’ll look into it. You thank her and ask if she could figure out a currency exchange for her, she needs SHINIES to buy stuff but none of the kin know how to trade it. She mentions Nubs got a stipend from the school, but you mention she probably spent it all on food, she really likes to eat. After that the two of you split, Hook says you’re welcome to visit whenever she’s not busy, which isn’t often, she suggests Wednesdays.

You formed a BOND with HOOK somehow
- You can now visit them, but she’s not able or willing to visit you at this time
You’ve learned the CODEBREAKING 1 SKILL
- You can now break codes by spending some [TIME] given you know the language of the characters used
- Or the final language it is written in
- The more COMPLEX the cypher is, the longer it will take to decipher.

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> EVENT - MIND AND BODY DOJO - DUEL I
Your training saw some significant gains, Lou Xin gave you a lot of focused attention and you feel good about the training you’ve done. It took longer than normal, was a bit painful, but you’re not sorry for it. Your duel got delayed until the beginning of [TIMESLOT 5] but it’s fine.

Your CLAW combat skill has advanced to [CLAW 3]
Your SELF DEFENSE stat has increased!
You gain 1 STRESS from the slightly painful training methods used
You’ve learned the TENACITY stat

[TENACITY] Yo, The others didn’t give an intro but I will.
[TENACITY] Basically you know that feeling, like when it’s all over, that you cant pick yourself up
[TENACITY] But you have to, or shit will get bad
[TENACITY] Or you could die?
[TENACITY] I’m that. And as such I grow differently
[TENACITY] You’ll need to get in fights, and get hurt probably for me to get stronger
[TENACITY] Training in a dojo or some shit will only work for a short while
[TENACITY] I hope you won’t need me, but who knows how the world works
[TENACITY] Yo Perse, you holding down the fort
[PERSERVERENCE] Yeah, It’s fine, just S#%!@$^G W*%!$ F@R %@#M
[TENACITY] Can’t understand but okay.
[UNDERSTANDING] What was that?


You’re knocked out of your thoughts as you remember what you’re doing. Right the duel. Your opponent is supposed to be someone at your level, but they got injured at the last moment so you’re facing a student that’s actually slightly stronger than you. Lou Xin apologizes and asks that you just try not to get the floor mopped with your own body.

You steel yourself, preparing for your opponent. It’s a bald human, he’s silent and doesen’t introduce himself, simply standing at your opposition. You know er to be Wanda, she’s a mute at the WING-FIST dojo, having taken a vow of silence. She’s also 16 and RIPPED. You bemoan the complete unfairness of this matchup but plan to do your best anyway.

It’s a tough match. You’re hit quite often throughout, but you also land several kicks and slashes with your blunted claws. You’re bruised, but your TENACITY shines through, keeping you in the game. You know from experience most fights wouldn’t go this long in reality, but the duels are about showmanship and practice, so you put your all into it. The crowd is silent, tense, you catch a glimpse of fury in Lou Xin, she’s rooting for you. You don’t want to let her down, but as you’re landing your final strike and you kick out, something strange happens.

> YOUR LUCK HAS FAILED YOU
A loud noise cracks from behind you, you’re momentarily distracted and look to what happens to be a FIREWORK. Several are going off behind you, you turn around, back to the action only to see Wanda wrap herself around your leg, twisting and flipping you about, pinning you on the ground. You’re off balance and a crack is heard as you feel Wanda kick off from you. You SHRIEK in pain as you feel something is wrong with your leg. The ref stops the fight and a blank expression can be seen on Wanda’s face, but for a moment you thought you saw a SMIRK. You almost had her, if only the FUCKING firework didn’t go off. What was that even!?!? How’d it get in there!?!?

[CURIOSITY] That was too convenient
[GUILE] I’m suspicious that was done on purpose
[INTUITION] That was meant to distract you, to hurt you even
[UNDERSTANDING] No, you weren’t mistaken, her expression indicated this was premeditated,
[UN LOGIC] probably the injury of the other kin was also premeditated
[UN LOGIC] I’d even go so far as to say that her being a human was even a WARNING so to speak.
[SELF DEFENSE] If only I was better, stronger, I failed you.

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> TIME POINT 5 - HEALING
You’re in pain, but your newly gained TENACITY allows you to focus just enough to hear what’s happening. Your right leg is BROKEN in a few places. It’ll take [1 TIME POINT] to heal, they give you some specially made SHINY MEDICINE that guarantees it will fix the bone like new, maybe even stronger than before. They can’t really fix severed limbs if it’s been too long to reattach, but the medicine helps with most breaks, fractures, and similar injuries. Lou Xin pays your medical bills for you, as the mistake was on her not paying attention.

Lou Xin: This shouldn’t have happened.
You: The training?
Lou Xin: No, the injury you Peck Neck.
Lou Xin: Someone ran to go check what happened and it turns out some kid was just lighting off some…
Lou Xin: MAGITECH thing he made, but it flew in through the window.
You: How convenient
Lou Xin: My thoughts exactly.
Lou Xin: Normally just bruises are normal in spars and duels between outer disciples
Lou Xin: I’ll look into this. Sorry about your leg.
Lou Xin: At least we’re Wing kin, or I guess we should be thankful for the SHINIES
Lou Xin: They let us heal faster then other kin do


You grunt noncommitally, you’re glad this happened just as the semester ended, but hate having to be stuck in bed for a few days before you get a splint and are able to hobble around on a crutch. It takes some getting used to, but you are mobile again after a bit, but are still hospitalized for the time being. You try meditating, but it’s unfocused, unclear, you make little to no progress and instead just opt to recover.

> SABA’S MEMORIES
Your dreams are of Saba’s dungeon designing days lately. You have to admit, it’s pretty weird. Making these dungeons expecting kin to go through it and probably die. If you didn’t have context you’d be a little confused. You hope it’s getting used by someone in the old world to get strong enough to live. But sigh at it. At least there was some LOGIC to the setup, most things were FAIR, usually BARELY PASSABLE depending on skill level. It was never meant to be easy, it was meant to be barely punishing enough so that anyone entering would get the idea that this was SERIOUS. You still think that first room was a mistake though. It’s meant to weed out others, but it’s just cruel, and only one kin can go in at a time, so there’s no coaching, no support, just… A pass or fail condition. At least they’ll only be kicked out from the dungeon, but it’s still…

You think back to a dungeon Saba conquered, the room that inspired it. The screaming doll, Saba would have died there, but it was just too cruel. The blood was over-exaggerated but that just made it more visceral. You shudder, that’s probably one of your worst nightmares of that room. How they got it to do that you only later discovered. You think Saba had a bit of a CRUEL streak in him. Maybe it’s a sense of “I went through this so so should you” but you still have your regrets.

Your LOGIC has increased to 6!
Congrats! Your Logic is the first stat to pass the soft cap!


You’re visited by Ignis every day you’re in the hospital, he’s fueled by a righteous indignation at your injury and promises to find out what really happened. William visits less, but promises the same, chuckling with you about old times. Nubs arrives and brings you some fish sandwiches and a seafood curry that tastes incredible, she promises to take you out to dinner when you’re fully recovered sometime in [TIMESLOT 7]. She says she figured out the currency exchange rate, it’s 2-1 in favor of PEARLS for now since your plate is interested in their antidote properties, it could be useful when the HUNTERS go out. Pon and Noodle both come and comfort you in their own ways, but it’s apparent they’re not used to comforting others after getting injuries, which you’re surprised isn't in the Hunter’s training. Your parents even come to visit you and make sure you’re okay. Your dad isn’t here, apparently he’s returning at the beginning of next year. Drift doesen’t come to visit you, but that’s because you find out he fell from the sky the same day, someone hit him with a firework as he was flying and caused him to crash and get a concussion. He’s otherwise fine.

[UNDERSTANDING] Is… is are you being targeted?
[INTUITION] I’m getting a really bad feeling about this.


The next day William comes in, he’s bruised but otherwise fine, you ask about what happened but he says that he and his guards were assaulted by some unknown individual. Ignis is fine, but William says that Ignis is stationing guards at your window and room just to be safe. You’re starting to get a little worried.

You’re visited by Ignis in private and he informs you that the kin who caused the firework was currently under questioning, it’s the same kin that made the firework at the Trades fair, and it was too coincidental. They’ll know more about it later. He fawns over you and gives you attention. It’s very obvious he has a crush on you and kind of cute, he’s being a bit overprotective, but then again almost all of the runescripters have been assaulted, so this level of paranoia should be warranted.. You caution him to be careful and he promises he will, he gives you a gentle hug before leaving.
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You get two letters one evening, one from hook, and another unmarked. You open them.

> HOOK’S LETTER
Hey, heard what happened, sorry. On my end I’ve just been taking as much time as I can to cram all the garbage I can in so I can figure out how to be the next queen. It’s fucking hard, and I treated you poorly when I was younger. Not sorry or anything, but I did, and It should be pointed out. Anyway, shits hard if you want to be a royal, even harder if you wanna be a queen. Now that I know you don’t have interest in that kinda shit so most of my beef is gone. Plus we’ll probably have a working relationship in the future. I’m still gonna be hard on you and give you shit though, so be prepared for that, consider it a charming quirk (heh).

Sorry I can’t come to visit right now, I got swept up in the fallout of the situation, it probably won’t comfort you, but stuff like this happened to quite a few of our kin, and security’s getting tightened, more guard watches. Anyway, keep doing you, hope you make some cool contraption that makes our lives easier. Get well soon.

Up yours - Hook De Wellington Rondalphus


> UNMARKED LETTER
The envelope is addressed to you, with no other visible information or return address. You open it and flip the letter around looking at it from all sides, but there’s nothing there, you even tilt it in the light, but just when you think you see an indentation both the paper and letter ignite, vanishing before your eyes. Not even the dust remains. You’re not sure what to make of it. You think that indentation was of the number 3, maybe there was a slash on it, you are genuinely unsure. And so are your STATS.

[UNDERSTANDING] Whoever made that had an understanding of magitech beyond us, there was no visible runescript.
[UNDERSTANDING] If that was Runescript, Maybe it was in the envelope itself?

You gain 4 STRESS from the injury, but 1 stress is blocked by your TENACITY


You’re released from the Hospital the next day, just as the next Semester starts. Shimon hasn’t bothered you yet, but you hear rumors he’s at his wit’s end. He was apparently going to bother you in the hospital but PON actually stopped him from pestering you like a good brother.

[GUILE] If you wanted maximum benefits for minimal effort, now might be a good chance to strike, if you even want to
[STRATEGY] Just go with a simple pincer, just offer the notes for the bar, then leave it to him
[GUILE] He did try to coerce Pon into convincing you after all.
[INTUITION] Is it weird that I think we should help him?
[INTUITION] But there’s no benefit, ugh I’m second guessing myself.


It’s the final Semester of your senior year, then it’s grad school. Your mind is swimming, there’s a lot going on and you’ve accumulated a LOT of stress.

[???] I know you TYPICALLY don’t listen to us [the ???s], but maybe take a break?
[???] Or don’t and regret it, you’re just like teetering away from letting me in after all.
[PRIDE] I feel like you all are just being really obvious at this point


Your membership with the MIND AND BODY DOJO continues, with you training your skill in the CLAW, but you’ll need to get your weapon skills or self defense higher before another event will occur. You could always train there directly to speed up the process.

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- UNDERSTAND MARTH
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS, MIND DORM PROGRESS 40%, total progress ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), progress 3/7 (estimated completion in 4 years at current rate)
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE(1/3), NICO(2/3), and NUBS(2/3))
- You can change these goals at any time but it requires 3 similar suggestions to go through

You have [4 STRESS]
- Every [TIME POINT] has a 5% Chance to generate more STRESS
You spent [50 SHINIES] on a Figurine for HOOK
You spent [32 SHINIES] on tea/dinner with NICO
You spent [20 SHINIES] on DOJO fees
You gained [500 SHINIES] from your TA job
You have [1268 SHINIES]
You have [3 TIME POINTS] to spend


1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
- Like READING JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 40% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST???
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.

10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11. GO TO LIBRARY! [1 TIME POINT] Suggest a book you’re looking for if you pick this option and then the next update will be suggestions of suggested books (and some of my own) for you to read from.


AUTHORS NOTE: Wow golly gee thanks for your patience, here’s a MEGA UPDATE to make up for lost time. A lot of gears are turning and hints are spreading, what do you think of the situation now?
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No. 1006148 ID: b417ba

Chi's stress level is too close to 6 for comfort... As much as I wanna take Archeology, Chi needs rest, and we definetly need to lower our stress level for our goodbyes with Marth. Lets mainly take the semester to chill out, hang with friends and lower stress. The only productive thing we should do is finish the journeyman's book as that needs to be returned.


1. Remember that small worldplate our father invited us to? Lets go there again with some friends who are interested in tagging along for a vacation. hoping Noodle, Drift and Pon will tag along mainly, but i want to see if we can get as much people we consider our friends as possible (if Nico comes too, maybe we'll be lucky and he'll bring Marth along). I feel this vacation will really lower our stress levels significantly.

Either that, or spending time with Glide to level up our bond with him if not enough people vote for vacation since his bond is the lowest

2. Finish the Journeyman's book. (Gotta finish it before we need to return it)

3.  spend time with another friend with the lowest bond levels, Glide (or Hook if we already spent time with Glide)

or meditation

Lastly, if we see Marth before she leave, let's give her our gold coin we found years ago. Let her know it probably isn't anything important to her since it is only worth 10 SHINIES, but to you, it's valuable and you saw it as a good luck charm after you witnessed it fall from 4 glowing blue lights in the sky years ago, and would like her to keep it with her, even if she doesn't want to see you again. Our parents asked us to keep it when we visit the capital, but we have this weird feeling Marth could use it more.

(Say the Ankh code phrase in English if you finally remember it as parting words)
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No. 1006157 ID: 094652

>Stress 4
I think having your leg crushed in two places is justification enough to take a semester-long vacation.

>Asshole student
From now on, you're setting up a new policy: if a student is being disruptive to the point of harming the rest of the class, you will give them a complex assignment to pass on their own time, risking expulsion if they fail miserably. The only way they can get out of it is if they apologize for their exact behavior and let the mark show on their record.

>Time
Just spend it all meditating. You should also talk to your Understanding personality about Saba's mean streak, how to avoid it, and what being an adventurer is really like.
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No. 1006163 ID: ce39da

> BACKGROUND RESEARCH
Ooh, I have ideas. The RUNESCRIPTERS group should start looking into the potential of SCRIPTING ON PROJECTED SHAPES. How cool would it be to draw a HARD or REFLECT rune without a physical canvas?

> THE SHIMON QUESTION
Toss Shimon your notes for whatever he thinks they're worth; getting paid for finally letting him try to piss on that wildfire is no feathers off your back.

> MATERIALS
Buy some more of that funny ANT JUICE, or get Drift to get it (royals have enough on their plate right now) if it would cost a time-point otherwise.

> FREE TIME: BERKS BERKS BERKS, ERMAGERD, BERKS
Assuming that meal with Nubs costs no time (including the yearly meal since it's on her behalf), you should attend it; you need to reduce stress.

Spend as much time as you need cracking and reading the journeyman's book.

Use your yearly private library reading time to go through THE BOOK OF ORDERS more thoroughly. Not only do you want a better understanding of the Black Lotus, but you also ought to remember that they're a hiver conspiracy; I highly doubt it's them running the tech suppression clown show here.

If completing the books only takes 2 slots... honestly, you aren't sure if you wouldn't be too vulnerable at the floating lake. Maybe settle for decompressing for now by MEDITATING more on your Mind Campus... while on ANT JUICE. Resolve to focus on the spaces for CREATIVITY, followed by CURIOSITY and INTUITION, then move on to your other more receptive stats to minimize the hit your progress takes for the sake of relaxation.

Have a GOING-AWAY PARTY for Marth for your yearly meal. We've got too much on our beak to make something actively, but I like the coin as a good-luck charm idea.
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No. 1006165 ID: dfbac0

>Timepoint 1
Rest, spend some time in bed, maybe enjoy an ice-cold pon-pop or two, and just enjoy the time with your friends. Maybe you can cuddle with someone, physical contact is great for reducing stress!
>Timepoint 2
Meditate on MIND CAMPUS. You know what might help relieve stress? Interior decorating! Decorating and fixing up your mind palace could be a really fun activity, and while it might not progress the mind campus as much as fully working on building it, maybe it could make the mind campus seem more home-y and help relieve stress.
>Timepoint 3
I know a lot of bad stuff just happened, but no excuses! Work on the RUNESCRIPTING BOOK before it's way too late!
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No. 1006166 ID: e51896

>>1006148
Oh, i had forgotten about Nub's dinner invitation. Im not sure if the wording of the posts means it will take up the entire 7th timepoint, but it if is (which i doubt), I'm Changing my votes around

As I said, main focus this semester is to lower stress, and i'd rather not rely to much on meditation to do that.

If dinner with nubs takes up a time point, then 1. Vacation to that floating lake with friends
2. Eat with Nubs
3. Journeyman's book

Otherwise, if it doesnt take up the timepoint, then it remains the same

1.Vacation to floating lake with any friends willing to come with
2. Finish journeyman's book
3. Chill with Glide, or meditate... or maybe take another meditation class but with Glide?

Give Marth your coin as a parting gift when she leaves.

I Forgot about Shimon. Yeah, pass your notes, and see what he says or does, and if he will be willing to offer something more for your time...

And support on that Background research with the runescripters Detective Caillou mentioned
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No. 1006179 ID: 36784c

>>1006136
>Ignis promises you that he’ll do some snooping and find out what the deal with this Clausey guy is, which you appreciate, but tell him is not worth it, just some asshole, he grunts but assents to ignoring him.
After everything that’s happened, I think you should change your mind and allow Ignis to snoop on Clausey. I’m starting to think that maybe Clausey was paid to be as disruptive as possible in class in order to lower your pass rate of students and make you look like you’re a bad teacher. Probably a desperate attempt to make you lose your chance at getting that teaching job!

>>1006144
>Nubs will take us out to dinner sometime in [TIMESLOT 7].
Cool, we get to spend more time with Nubs!

>Drift was hit by a firework and injured!
We should definitely check on him and make sure he’s ok!

>>1006145
>Everyone has been targeted
Was it a bunch of random Kin that are getting attacked? Or is it only everyone that’s part of the Runescripters? Or is it both, but the Runescripters got hit harder than other Kin?

It kinda feels like maybe this is an attempt to try to discourage us from trying to invent something that could potentially give us an advantage over other plates.

>What do?
Obviously, we should work on that book we borrowed before we need to return it.

And if we go to the Library, would it be possible to look for books that could help us increase our Perception? Seeing as it seems like we’re being targeted, having an increased Perception could help us spot anything unusual before it becomes dangerous!

Other than that, let’s work on getting rid of our stress!
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No. 1006182 ID: f4315b

I hope we didnt get cursed by that unmarked letter or something. Next time, lets not open unmarked letters and get them looked at by a professional.

1. Rest with friends, That vacation sounds cool.
2. Mind palace
3. Finish reading that library book with new codebreaking skill

If we see Marth, lets try to tell her about that unmarked envelope. Draw that slashed 3 we saw. She knows a bit of runescript and might know whats going on. Hopefully it isnt black lotus related, but if it is, at least she'll have an idea. Maybe tell her about Blitz and what we heard from Hook.

And yeah, maybe we should have Ignis investigate Clausey after what happened last semester and break.
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No. 1006185 ID: 96c896

>>1006145
>[???] I know you TYPICALLY don’t listen to us [the ???s], but maybe take a break?
Hi Sloth. I wonder what would happen if we let every Sinful voice in? Probably a perk of some kind, but each one is a burden (even the small amount of Pride we have is interfering) so I'd rather we not.

>SHAPE rune
Imagine using it with Green Ejection to form structures instantly. Hold on, does Green Ejection create mass? Could we use it to duplicate matter? Turn mana into mass?
>worldplates could be crumbling due to a rune keeping them afloat and thus gradually degrading due to mana loss
What if consuming ambient mana accelerates the process? In that case, overuse of Magitech could destroy the world.

>time points
Well, Marth is leaving this year isn't she? We have to say goodbye. That won't take up a time slot though. Maybe we can do it by taking her out to eat some street food, like she said? I dunno if giving away the coin is a good idea, it might be important and meant specifically for Chi. Plus it sounds like Marth might be on an opposing team. Actually, it might be a good idea to tell her that if you wind up on opposing sides of a large scale conflict, you won't hate her. You can both gain a lot of Karma from such a conflict anyway, so long as it doesn't kill either of you; small scale conflicts would be more regrettable. Tell her you know the karmic bond is forced, but you still wish you could be friends, that you could help her through whatever she's dealing with right now. You want to be a better person than you were in your past life. But also, you want to understand why she's pushing you away. If she is grieving, you can grieve with her. She can tell you what she's lost, it will help her feel better.
Secondly, we have to burn off some stress, so we can work on the mind campus a bit for efficient use of time.
Thirdly, we should strike when the iron's hot and renegotiate with Shimon. That won't take up a time slot though, we'll probably wind up starting his education next year.
Fourthly, we should start decoding the journeyman's book.
And we should take a class of some sort. STRATEGY maybe? Or we could work on Perception, either via Study or the Tracking class. Take a class with William or Ignis maybe? What about taking a class with Glide?
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No. 1006193 ID: 031458

It makes sense now!
Why Shimon of all people was sent teach MAGITECH.

WE WERE NEVER MEANT TO LEARN IT.
HIS PRESENCE WAS MEANT TO BE PURELY SYMBOLIC.

I bet if we did teach him before, he would have been recalled!

Giving him our notes will give the enemy insights on us, for better or worse. If we do, we should tailor them so they contain as few runescripting insights as possible, and as many teaching insights as possible.

New runes and techniques beyond what he's taught us should be kept secret for now, shared only amount those we trust.

PAWN is in danger. If his Microscripting gets out he'll be in serious trouble. We should warn him. Pull a favor from Ignis to help make it stick and keep him safe.

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I'm off the mind to Spend the 2 Time points necessary to crack this book, and then INVENT something with it's secrets. ( With three decision of what that is exactly given it's own update).
A weapon or protective item would do us all good. I still wanna give one to Marth but that's optional.

If I am mistaken and it'll only take one time point for the book I think we should dedicate a time point to hanging out with Hook or Nubs.
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No. 1006199 ID: 0fae41

Well, after he pulled that stunt with paying a fat fuck ferret to fail, I'm less inclined to genuinely helping him. Still, if Intuition is still on his side... Do the pincer maneuver. Give him the lesson plan without the means to pull it off. And if he realizes he's still up shit creek sans paddle, tell him your going rates have doubled. You actually would be willing to help him though if he'd do that and try to make up for the trouble he's given you.
Keep bonding with Nico, it's rather shitty to be friends with someone when one of your ulterior motives is to get closer to someone else through them but it does seem like your best option at the moment. Well, it's not the only reason, right?
When you're back up, let's get right back to it - take the next Hunter course!

So, did your LOGIC and UNDERSTANDING ever figure out why all the divergences from your previous life aren't bothering you? The subdued nature of your bond with the people that waited twenty years in the afterlife for you, the gender swap, the difference in interests? Something to ponder while your leg heals, maybe.
Shinies apparently help with this already but if your new innate skill was something that made you grow bigger, better, more powerful after getting beat up, well, your tenacity sure could use it! Marth was the one who chose the athletic perks and they're not so available to go dungeon running with, and constitution is a very unexpected skill for a wing-kin.
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No. 1006200 ID: 5934e7

>>1006165
Pretty much this. Lets just focus on lowering stress mostly, especially since we are TAing and taking dojo classes which has a chance of heightening stress, and we were told Chi could act erratically at around level six. She deserves a break after what she went through.
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No. 1006202 ID: afa6f6

>>1006145
Yeah, screw this noise. If we're going to get sucked into some kind of conspiracy,AGAIN, its not going to go down like it did with Saba. We wont let it. Theyre messing with the wrong bird this time.

If Shimon wants our help, Just make sure to tell him straight up, exactly why we dont wont to and that its only partially about the pay. Its also because of his attitude, and how obvious it is that he really doesn't give a shit if people really learn or not. It might just be a source of money to him, but it serious to us and our world plate, and if hes only going to put in the minimum amount of effort, why should we help him just suck the blood out of the school and students? Its not because he doesnt know what hes doing, hes obviously got rune crafting and some engineering skill, but honestly, by the time Chi is half his age, she'll probably be better then him. So if he really wants her help, he needs to SHOW that he can put in the effort and CARE, otherwise were obviously better off just cutting him off and doing the whole thing ourselves.

For time points:
-Meditate on the Mind Campus. Now that real physical threats are getting involved, maybe we should work on the Phys Ed section.
-Try to decode the Journeyman's guide, now that we know about Cyphers.
-Really work on putting something together for Marth before she leaves. A simple dagger i think is the best we can make ourselves right now, I think, so we can at least enchant it with some hardening runes, maybe a Light ejection so it can make a bright flash and it can e used as a distraction. I just think it should be something we make ourselves.

We should have the Runecrafters work on the energy to projectile dilema. Possibly it could be solved with just a more reliable and abundant energy source, but there HAS to be a more efficient solution than that.

And personal thought, I really think Chi should start working on her SELF DEFENSE and STRATEGY skills if things are getting this serious. I'd feel a lot better if we could maybe get the REFLEX skill too.
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No. 1006206 ID: a9af05

I have a feeling that everything that happened has something to do with the politics that's going on in the background.

The only way to know for sure would be to ask someone that's more involved in politics than we are, which would mean asking one of our royal friends, since they're more involved than us.

I think we should mostly focus on getting rid of stress and finishing the book we borrowed. Not entirely sure what else to add to that.

I'm mostly looking forward to that dinner with Nubs and I'm hoping nothing happens to ruin it.
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No. 1006216 ID: a9af05

>>1006206
I've been thinking about this for a while because of how much it's been bugging me:

The Black Lotus is supposed to be this big super secret organization, right? Doesn't it seem pretty sloppy for them to leave behind a piece of cloth with their symbol on it at Blitz's crime scene? And Marth mentioned that the members have tattoos with that symbol on themselves. So why would they put it on a piece of cloth?

This makes me think that someone else kidnapped Blitz and left some fake evidence to shift the blame onto the Black Lotus, since it would be easier to blame them because of their reputation.

What does everyone else think about this theory?
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No. 1006224 ID: 96c896

>>1006216
>black lotus tattoos
Uh, where did you get that from? Marth told us that they wear the symbols and showed us a piece of cloth. I think you're wrong.

It occurs to me that we really do not know what Black Lotus wants at all, and we only know that they were present at Blitz's house. In fact, the scrap being left behind implies that they LOST a fight there.
Maybe we should ask Marth what they want, since he knows about them. You kindof want to avoid conflict with them, and you won't know how to do that if you don't know what they want. You're being targeted already but it seems pretty likely it's just human spies trying to suppress magitech via nonlethal methods to avoid open war.
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No. 1006231 ID: 36784c

>>1006216
>Marth told us Black Lotus members get the symbol tattooed on themselves.
No, she didn't. It says right here: >>1004020 , that Marth shows us a sheet of cloth with the Black Lotus symbol on it. Never mentioned anything about a tattoo.

>>1006224
>it seems pretty likely it's just human spies trying to suppress magitech via nonlethal methods to avoid open war.
I agree.
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No. 1006325 ID: a0fbee

>>1006143
>[PERSERVERENCE] Yeah, It’s fine, just S#%!@$^G W*%!$ F@R %@#M
"S[ITTIN]G/S[TARTIN]G W[ORRY] F[O]R [THE]M"? That doesn't sound right, but it's all I've got.
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> EVENT - THE SHIMON PROBLEM
As you walk back to the dorm you’re stopped by a loud yell. You recognize the voice. You groan audibly and continue walking, ignoring it until you reach the outside of a study room, waiting. Shimon dashes up to you. He’s in a panic, stressed, and is jabbering quite a lot. You eventually get the idea, he’s desperate and worried about his job and wants your notes in an attempt to keep it. You shake your head at the man. You’ve got a few theories at this point. That he was sent by the humans in order to fail at teaching students, but now that your plate has you, he’s running out of options and time.

Shimon: Please, you gotta help me, anything, please.
You: I don’t really see why I have to. You tried to bother me while I was in the hospital for crying out loud!
Shimon: But I didn’t get to, your brother stopped me.
You: You say that like it makes it better.
Shimon: Please, Just, I need your notes, I don’t have time.
You: You HAD time. You could have acted more reasonably before this, but you didn’t.

[GUILE] Double the payment, seems like he hasn’t actually learned or understood the situation.
[CHARISMA] Ugh, what’s even with this guy

You: I’m still amenable to some sort of arrangement, but it’s really not in your benefit anymore.
Shimon: Please, Anything.


You think it over for a moment, it’ll be nice to get paid for this, but you’re not really interested in teaching him. You COULD if he stayed longer, but given the recent events it’s not really something you want to bother with. You explain to him that this is more based on his attitude and how he’s only doing this because it’s the end of the line. He argues that you have some sort of SECRET, that you can’t actually teach RUNESCRIPTING. You sigh as he asks just for your lesson plan.

> SKILL CHECK - GUILE
You: Ugh. You’re not even getting it now.
You: You know what, fine. 2 Ingots of Arcanum. Final offer.
Shimon: WHAT?
Shimon: I’ll be bankrupt!?!?
You: Not that I dont believe you, oh wait, no that’s exactly it.
You: You said before that you had 3 ingots. You can just reuse some of your old Arcanum from an old device.
You: Or you know, buy a new one with your Teacher’s salary which you can definitely afford.
Shimon: I don’t have any money!
You: I guess you’re out of luck then


You start to walk away but he stops you, pulling something out of his bag. It’s one Ingot of Arcanum and a ticket, you recognize it as a LIBRARY TICKET, it’s different from the normal ones in that you can redeem it at any time to access the library to rent a book out for a year.

Shimon: This is what I have, I saved my ticket just, please. I need this job.
Shimon: There’s, I can’t go back yet.

[UNDERSTANDING] Gambling debt gone wrong? Other circumstances.
[UNDERSTANDING] The data still makes me think he’s here to siphon money from our plate and not even teach.

You: Fine. I’ll get you the notes in a few days. I have to make a copy for myself first.
Shimon: Good. Great. Yes.


He puts away the goods and says he’ll be back in two days. You head off to your room, just out of the hospital and fully healed. You’re not in the best of moods, but at least you’ll be getting approximately 20,000 SHINIES out of a relatively painless deal.

[INTUITION] You should edit your notes so it only shows teaching insights and as few runescripting ones
[INTUITION] That conversation left me wary


You do as such, modifying your new notes so it shows the teaching methods you employ. You feel kind of bad about it, it’s really not that useful for an outside observer. Just things you learned at a higher level from the teaching classes and book. If he follows it, maybe it’ll be worth something, but it’s up to his own efforts if it accomplishes anything at all. You finish it off and do the trade off. You hand him the book and he flips through it, you can see his expression flushing with anger.

Shimon: What is this even?!?!
You: My notes and lesson plan?
You: Isn’t that what you asked for?
Shimon: Where are your insights into runescripting?
Shimon: Where are your calculations going into it?
You: Why do you need that. The whole point is that its a lesson plan to teach kin?
You: My private notes weren’t a part of this.
Shimon: Because without them how can I get the same insights you did?
You: Thats. I.


You take a deep breath and channel your inner PATIENCE, you’re getting more and more stressed as this goes on.

You: Shimon. There isn’t always a SHORTCUT in life.
You: That is the lesson plan I set up and followed the past few months.
You: It will take you studying and planning and adapting it to figure it out.
You: You wanted my lesson plan, you got it
You: Please hold up your end of the bargain.
Shimon: This is WORTHLESS, it won’t help me
You: then give it back.
Shimon: What? No? Then How can I get better?
You: Demonic shit. Are you really.

[CHARISMA] Talk to the administration if this keeps up.
[INTUITION] Something’s not right here

You: Give me my payment, the rest is up to you.
Shimon: I’ll give you just the ingot like I said in the beginning.


You feel something in you snap, you’re patient, but you’re also stressed, and this guy has been unreasonable every step of the way. You’re yelling before you even realize it.

You: IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE TO YOU SHIMON?
You: DO YOU THINK THE WORLD IS JUST YOUR PLAYTHING?
You: FIRST YOU TRY TO DEMAND SHIT FROM ME FOR FREE, THEN YOU OFFER TO ACTUALLY PAY ME.
You: NOW YOU’RE WITHHOLDING PAYMENT AFTER I GIVE YOU THIS?
You: DO I NEED TO GO TALK TO THE ADMINISTRATION? IS THIS REALLY THE HILL YOU WANT TO DIE ON?
You: I COULD NOT HELP. I COULD CARE LESS WHAT HAPPENS WITH YOU.
You: BUT YOU’RE SO GODDESS DAMNED DENSE YOU CAN’T GET SHIT THROUGH YOUR HEAD.
Shimon: See here-
You: NO, THIS IS OVER. PAY ME WHAT YOU PROMISED TO OR GIVE ME MY NOTES BACK.


You can see Shimon’s intimidated. He hands you the stuff he promised earlier and you storm out, frustrated. You head to your room and scream into your pillow, you got what you wanted, but the process was terrible.

You’ve gained 2 STRESS from the encounter
You’ve gained 1 INGOT of ARCANUM valued at around 10,000 SHINIES each
You’ve gained a LIBRARY TICKET, usable to rent a single book from the TENGU ROYAL LIBRARY
You’ve gained the ANGER stat.
- The more STRESSED you are, the more likely you are to give into your ANGER when you lose your PATIENCE

[ANGER] Yo what’s with that shitty condition, with how she’s acting I’ll almost never get to pop up
[ANGER] Yeah whatever hi, just scream or some shit, maybe eat that paper cup over there


You have a paper cup nearby, you scream into it and then eat it. You’re just really stressed right now and even cry a little bit, not from distress, but from frustration. After a few minutes it passes. You have a PON POP, one stored in your CHI-LLER as you just try to relax. You got paid, things are fine, you just really don’t want to deal with SHIMON right now.

> TA EVENT - MORE ASSHOLES
This time you get 3 of them out of a group of 20. They’re incredibly disruptive. You try a different tactic. You assign them complex assignments that require their full attention while you teach the other students. They completely ignore it and continue to harass both you and the other students. One day after class you go to the administration and ask about your particular problem. They let you know that they can have someone secretly monitor the tutoring session and make an assesment.

The next class they do so and the students are as disruptive as ever. You try your best to placate them and to work with them but it’s of no use. After that you discuss with the administration again and they let you know that the students are being removed from the session unless the apologize for their behavior. One of them does apologize to your face and continues the class. But they’re more subtle about their frustrating behavior, distracting other students and asking questions that are somewhat related but require longer explanations and waste time. You eventually ignore them and focus on the other students instead. You can feel your ANGER flaring, but your PATIENCE wins out. You’ve got a plan for how to handle the stress soon, it’ll be fine.

You’ve gained 1 STRESS from the encounter.
You’ve gained 500 SHINIES from the session.

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> FREE TIME - JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE Volume XII
Alright, you’ve practiced your Codebreaking, time to put it in action. The JOURNEYMAN'S REFERENCE TO PRACTICAL ENGINEERING (Volume XII): MODERN RUNECRAFT by CAIN, SANDOVAL, and LOWST is a book filled with rebound and stapled papers. There’s notes everywhere on the pages and on the stapled papers, all in the same code the book is written in. In the end you understand the basics of what the book is saying.

Your [UNDERSTANDING] was spot on with it’s earlier analysis, a majority of the text discusses SENSORS and the basics of COMPLEX RUNES. The book is written by three authors. CAIN, an engineer from the civilization known as THE ANCIENTS. SANDOVAL, a professional RUNESCRIPTER and dabbling inventor. And lastly LOWST, the eccentric merchant that funded these projects. It preaches that the proper evolution of RUNECRAFT and MAGITECH as they know it is through the process of creating COMPOUND SCRIPTS. This cannot be taught by simply reading a manual, as each COMPOUND RUNE requires experimentation, foresight, and an understanding of each of the SYNTAXES that runescript is comprised of.

Essentially, you need to use the SENSOR rune and overlay it in a particular way over a drawn ABSORPTION rune to make it a brand new COMPOUND RUNE. This completely changes it’s properties to instead allow it to trigger under certain stimuli, like heat, the movement of air, the filling of liquid in a container, etc. SENSORS and TRIGGER runes take up the same slot when runescripting, so you DO NOT NEED TO WORRY about it reaching your Runescripting cap. The book expects you to be at around RANK 5 RUNESCRIPTING in order to properly implement it, with a vast variety of runes under your belt. There’s a list of common runes described below the segment:

Absorption, Storage, Ejection, Transfer, Null, Trigger, Shape, Detail, Speed, Light, Spin, Cold, Reflection, Dark, Harden, Soften, Sharpen, Heat, Spark, and Plasma are listed as the 20 common runes found in most simple MAGITECH devices. The SENSOR rune is a complex rune that is created by modifying and adding to an ABSORPTION rune. It’s described that some complex runes can be created by combining extant runes like the SHAPE and DETAIL runes to create COMPLEX SHAPES like swords and small mechanical parts, this rune is called a SCULPT rune, as the actual process is likened to sculpting and can benefit from the skill. The book doesn’t list all the combinations, but mentions that experimentation can lead to interesting results. It also says to practice first, as messing up a complex rune in testing can DESTROY whatever you’re using it on depending on the runes. The SENSOR rune is fine, but others can lead to months of work going down the drain.

There’s lots of preamble and tips in the margins about different techniques that did and didn’t work. Practical applications, and more. It teaches how to make a proper tactile BUTTON, a LIGHT SENSOR, a GAS DETECTOR, a HEAT SENSOR, a MANA SENSOR, a MOTION SENSOR, and a PRESSURE SENSOR. The book describes those as the basics of the basics of any Runescripters arsenal. Light sensors can be used to turn solar panels off, Motion sensors can be used to detect objects entering an area, and using an INTENSITY RUNE can allow you to change the fidelity that you are detecting. Heat sensors can be used to detect bodies and touch, etc.

It provides an example using a SHAPE rune made of air, the shape rune is large, but the air is kept at an extremely low level, invisible to the naked eye. A sensor rune is then used to detect when the air rune is disturbed and can cause an effect like increasing the INTENSITY of the shape rune, or triggering a secondary, stronger one that’s smaller than the first. The book describes the hurdles in which it went through to discover exactly how to detect objects of velocity in a disturbed air shape. You think it would take a lot of experimentation, but see it as somewhat feasible, if not hard to do. The only problem is that ANY DISRUPTION triggers it, so if you have it in a room, and it bumps into a wall, it triggers. It’s only really useful for AIR SHIPS, so development in any further direction was halted. Still, it provides a logical and understandable example.

They talk about how other syntaxes for the sensor rune can allow you to detect heat, but with AUTOMATA being as they are, they only do well in making ALARM WARDS against MONSTERS surrounding your camps. They mention a SUBSCRIPT or RUNE that could potentially allow for the detection of BODIES or specific OBJECTS, even larger details, or an array of things, whilst not being disturbed by natural movement or walls, but mention that the specifics are currently unknown. The author theorizes that combining a SENSOR RUNE with a DETAIL RUNE might allow for that level of minutia, but says at their skill level it’s impossible.

The rest of the book is fluff and suggestions of uses for the sensors. There’s a segment on making WIRES using the NODE SUBSCRIPT, COPCANUM, and RUBBER, but mentions it’s only useful for LARGE CREATIONS, and those are usually IMPRACTICAL and serve SPECIFIC USES, rather than practical ones. There’s no mention of what specifically COPCANUM is, but you assume it to be some sort of ALLOY using ARCANUM. You take extensive notes, this will be something to test later. You can already see tons more avenues in front of you just from this book. You assume the author included the SHAPE rune with the book as they were attempting to create a more usable version of this. In fact this book seems like it was fairly private and meant for the Merchant LOWST more than anything. You wonder how it ended up here.

You’ve learned the COMPOUND RUNE - SENSOR
- This and the TRIGGER rune take up the same slot and do not contribute more than 1 to your cap
- This rune can be used to detect different things based off of the syntax
- BLUE makes it detect LIQUID
- GREEN makes it detect MOTION
- YELLOW makes it detect GAS
- RED makes it detect HEAT
- WHITE makes it detect MANA
- BLACK makes it detect PRESSURE
- The INTENSITY part of the TRIGGER rune allows you to modify the strength of what you are detecting
Your next few inventions using this rune will have a slightly increased development speed
You get the feeling that learning a GOLD or PRISMATIC rune could break your soft cap
But that it’s also possible if you discover at least 2 more COMPOUND RUNES
You can now chose to EXPERIMENT to discover a new COMPOUND RUNE as an activity with or without the Runescripters
- Suggest ideas of what runes you think work together and what you think it turns into when you do
You’ve learned the language ANCIENT COMMON, after studying the book and deciphering the code.
- You assume there are other books out there in this language
- You assume that this might be useful in RUINS

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> FREE TIME - MEDITATION
You spend some time in meditation, your mind is a bit on the fritz right now, so you do some exterior decorating, livening up the environment, growing weird geometric flowers, vines, and other stuff you think makes it look more interesting. You have a short conversation with [UNDERSTANDING] about Saba’s mean streak, which you’ve seen in your visions, and how to avoid it. He suggests to continue what you’re doing, to avoid STRESS when you can, and to increase your PATIENCE like you’ve been doing. It’s kind of a miracle you only got mad just this one time. But he mentions its better you get him in now then later. Anger can be a useful tool when tamed, but a monster if allowed later in your life when you can’t control it or don't have the time to. You ask for more details but your [UNDERSTANDING] just blanks and doesn’t get the question. You guess you can’t get more info on the [???]s from him for some reason. You’ve taken to giving your [UNDERSTANDING] a gender since they seem to take after SABA more, though it kind of happened by instinct over anything else.

Progress continues at a similar pace, you’re about 60% done with the 1st floor of the MIND DORM. There are 4 rooms done in total, with 4 to go. You’re nearly done with the 5th, but it is what it is.

You lose [2 STRESS] from the meditation session
You get the feeling that finishing your MIND DORM will improve your MEDITATION level and make developments faster
Your STATS are excited for you to build the MIND LABS for them


> FREE TIME - THE ISLAND
You invite your friends to THE ISLAND, it’s a floating land mass on your worldplate with an ocean on it. You’ve been there before with your parents, Noodle, and Pon, so this time you gather everyone around whose interested, sending a letter to your parents if they’re interested in joining. Classes are over and you manage to convince PON, NUBS, NOODLE, WILLIAM, IGNIS, DRIFT, and LOU XIN to join you. You try to get MARTH to come as a last minute goodbye time but she passes, saying she’ll see you later. You’re accompanies by 5 guards. Three from IGNIS’S side, One from WILLIAM’s, and NUBS’S Guardian. It’s a bit of a long flight, requiring breaks and switch-offs between carrying the 3 flightless ones, but you spend about a month there relaxing. You fish, Nubs invites you all on a swim, you cook some dank cod, and overall bond with each other.

LOU XIN opens up to you a bit more, still acting like your superior, but treating you slowly like a friend. There’s some sparring, laughs, a surprising amount of cuddling from nearly everyone. You all open up a bit and feel way closer then you were before. It’s a shame HOOK, NICO, GLIDE, and MARTH couldn’t come.

At some point during the trip, after you’ve calmed down and feel nearly stress free Ignis comes to talk to you. He shares what he knows of the students that have been giving you a hard time. CLAUSEY apparently dropped out immediately after that class ended, and when he investigated, found that he wasn’t from the plate, and couldn’t be found after. It’s really strange. The other three from this semester, however, were just students. There’s no concrete evidence of any FOUL PLAY involved, but their families are all from CANUS, and all of those students were BEAST-KIN if that makes any difference, not that he thinks it does. You lay on his chest as he tells you these things. It’s intimate and nice. You feel recharged just from being with everyone. This probably explains just why SABA was so STRESSED and LONELY all the time. He just worked and studied and worked and didn’t really MAKE TIME for anything else. Maybe there was something in what MARTH said about how you didn’t put time into others. You’re glad all of your schedules aligned perfectly so that this could happen. It puts the wind beneath your wings. You look in the distance, to the WORLD-PLATE tunnel. You see a lone blue light streak across the sky at a ridiculous pace towards the tunnel.

[UNDERSTANDING] I think that was a human.
[UNDERSTANDING] We can’t see what it was, but going into the tunnel.
[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe some kind of device?


You’re not that concerned. You just want to enjoy this rest while you can. You talk to WILLIAM about MARTH, the two of you decide you should make her a GIFT. You’re planning on giving her the COIN you found, WILLIAM thinks that you should also do something else. It’s been a while since you drew anything, so you decide to DRAW a group photo of the three of you. WILLIAM decides to SCULPT a small WOODEN figurine of the current MARTH. It’s a nice project that both of you enjoy. Eventually the others join up and although they don’t know MARTH that well, they make other gifts too. Eventually there’s a small satchel’s worth of interesting items made. You think this will make her happy, or at least show you’re trying, not that that’s the reason you should do it, but that you want to make an effort to be better.

Nubs introduces you to their GUARDIAN. Her name is also just as incomprehensible but goes by CECIL. She’s a STORYTELLER and NUBS’S AUNT. She’s just as touchy and affectionate as NUBS. She also teaches you a variety of cooking techniques and the two of them give you treasures from the bottom of the lake. There’s another coin, just like the previous one you have that you take, only this one is SILVER.

NOODLE and DRIFT spend a lot of time together, sometimes sneaking off to play in the forest. They’re both giggling and having a good time mostly, you think they’re dipping into the ANT JUICE. You’re happy that Drift is starting to get back into his groove and join them one or two times after you find out the truth. They’re both just a little embarrassed about it.

The guards remain vigilant the entire time. You’re not sure how they do it, they take shifts but it still seems like a stressful time of it, refusing to speak a word to anyone but their charges. It’s around this time that your family arrives and you have a huge feast brought by your father. He takes you to the side and apologizes, he couldn’t find the HORNED MIST PUMA this time, but he’s discovered that there might be some living near the INSECT KINGDOM. The problem is that the entire Mountain that the PUMA could be found in is covered in an immensely dense MIST. He says that he can’t in good faith take his teammates there without some way to see through the fog. You mention that you might have a solution, but it will take some creative implementing. Your father pats your back and says his next expedition is in [10 TIME POINTS] so if you’re planning on having him get it, then would be the time.

The break ends and you fly back, its a similar process, guards on watch, swapping of carrying. You listen to stories told by NUBS’S GUARDIAN on the way back, tales of the undersea world, of the interesting things found there. They’re a riveting storyteller.

You spent [400 SHINIES] on cabins for everyone
You spent some time RESTING and your STRESS has been reduced by 4
You’ve forged a BOND with LOU XIN at rank 1
- There is a small chance you’ll get a bonus event every year featuring LOU XIN
Your BOND with NUBS has reached RANK 3
- Nubs will Occasionally help you on tasks you are having trouble with
Your BOND with DRIFT has reached RANK 4
- Drift TRUSTS you now
- You can request 1 favor from drift a year now
Your BOND with NOODLE has reached RANK 5
- Noodle REALLY TRUSTS YOU
- You can attempt to ask for unreasonable things from her
- You can request any numbers of favors from her
- Noodle sees you as her BENEFACTOR and BOSOM BUDDY. You feel a STRONG sense of LOYALTY from her.
Everyone appreciates that you took them out
You got a SILVER COIN

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[YEAR 14]
You head out, searching for MARTH, you’ve been doing so for the past few days but have no luck. You search for SHIMON, no luck there either. Eventually you head to the administration and ask what the deal is. It turns out that MARTH left the city in the middle of [TIME POINT 8], they were supposed to stay until the end of [TIME POINT 1] but there’s been neither hide nor hair of them since, so it’s only assumed. You’re sad, you had all this stuff for her, some nice words, some well wishes, but it was all for naught. None of your friends knew, even William. You later found out that Nico knew, but was told not to tell you where she went or when she was leaving. She didn’t want to see anyone.

Nico looks distraught and incredibly sad at this, but doesen’t let you get close to comfort him.

Nico: Sorry, I uh, I need some space.
Nico: Her leaving kind of hurts a lot and I can’t uh.
Nico: I can’t deal right now.
Nico: If you hug me I’ll just break down and I.
Nico: I just can’t.
You: I [UNDERSTAND].


It’s sad, but not as sad as it could be. Marth’s been making distance purposefully, and you guess you won’t find out why for a really long time.

> GOAL UPDATE - UNDERSTAND MARTH
Marth is gone and wouldn’t let you in. There’s not much you can do now to find out the circumstances behind her. This GOAL has been updated to HIDDEN GOAL status. It will always be in the background, and special rewards will be given if you complete this seemingly impossible task. You all store the presents for MARTH and WILLIAM’S house in a little closet, distraught, but hopeful she’ll be back.

You can assign a new GOAL.

> [UNDERSTANDING’S TASK]
Your [UNDERSTANDING] Lets you know that progress will most likely be stalled until you can get some CONCRETE information on what’s happening with MARTH. He doesen’t have all the facts and is better at dealing with OBJECTS, MECHANICS, and CREATIONS, then with INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. Though POLITICS can turn out kind of okay, it just depends. He suggests you assign him a different task.

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows:
- [BLANK]
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS, MIND DORM PROGRESS 60%, TOTAL ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (r7), 3/7 (ETA 4Y)
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE 1/3, NICO 2/3, NUBS 3/3)
X UNDERSTAND MARTH

You have [1 STRESS]
You spent [400 SHINIES] on two cabins for your REST period
You gained [500 SHINIES] from your TA job
You gained [0 SHINIES] for being a GRAD STUDENT
You have [1368 SHINIES]

PON, IGNIS, WILLIAM, HOOK, and PAWN are sticking around in GRAD SCHOOL. NUBS still has 3 years left, but she claims she’ll probably only stay for 1 or 2 more, and NICO still has 1. DRIFT is getting himself a STUDIO APARTMENT at the edge of town. He’s doing OUTREACH WORK, traveling the plate and helping those in need. It doesn’t pay too much, but its low maintenance, and enough to live off of while he tries INVENTING some MAGITECH DEVICES in his spare time.

It’s time to decide if you want to live in a new dorm, or if you want to move to an apartment. Noodle’s thinking about going back home for a few years. She can’t afford GRAD SCHOOL. She’ll be around until [TIME SLOT 2], hanging around before heading home if nothing changes. She suggests splitting an APARTMENT, you, Pon and her, a place to LIVE. She says she could get a PART TIME JOB while she practices to join the HUNTERS at AGE 16. But says it’s a little EXPENSIVE here. She gives some apartment listings she’s looked at.

A CHEAP STUDIO APARTMENT in the OUTSKIRTS is 1440 SHINIES a YEAR
A CHEAP 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the OUTSKIRTS is 2880 SHINIES a YEAR
A CHEAP 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the OUTSKIRTS of town is 4320 SHINIES a YEAR

It’s 2x the costs for a similar sized room in MIDTOWN, the rooms are nicer there and a bit more QUIET.

A STUDIO APT in the PALACE DISTRICT, also known as the LOWER LEVELS OF THE TOWER, is 12000 SHINIES a YEAR
A 2 BEDROOM APT in the PALACE DISTRICT is 20,000 SHINIES A YEAR
A 3 BEDROOM APT in the PALACE DISTRICT is 30,000 SHINIES A YEAR
Rooms in the PALACE DISTRICT are IMMACULATE, and there is a free EXQUISITE DINING HALL that you have access to for free along with several amenities.

PON’S interested in rooming up. Suggesting you split it 3 ways no matter the place you get. Even willing to get a 2 bedroom, sharing a room with Noodle if you want your privacy. He knows how disorganized you can get sometimes when you get into your notes and inventions. You could even turn it into a SMALL LAB. You return the Journeymans book as you think on this. Times are changing, it might be a good idea to pick a more PERMANENT place to live if you’re going to be here for a while. You could also just live in the GRAD SCHOOL dorms to save money, or even to fork over your own SHINIES to let NOODLE attend grad school.

IGNIS suggests a place in MIDTOWN near his and WILLIAM’S Mansions, he’s hesitant about suggesting you live with him because he doesn’t want to impose, but does mention there’s plenty of room in his mansion, It’s got 8 rooms, 5 empty and you all are more then welcome, if everyone felt paying he’d just charge you 800 SHINIES each, but only if you really wanted to pay. Ignis is kind of flubbing his words at this point. You can tell he’s really nervous. It’s kind of cute, and you think that even with his charisma and overall amount of acquaintances, he’d rather have true friends close by. But if that doesn't interest you, he wouldn’t mind fielding you some SHINIES if you’re low right now since he knows you can pay him back more than enough when your TEACHING JOB begins.

You have [3 TIME POINTS]
You have to decide [WHERE YOU ARE LIVING]
You can decide on a new GOAL
You can give your [UNDERSTANDING] a new TASK
What do you do?


1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[REALISTIC DRAWING*] Make some art pieces, maybe one will be worth something
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 40% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11a. GO TO LIBRARY! [1 TIME POINT] Suggest a book you’re looking for if you pick this option and then the next update will be suggestions of suggested books (and some of my own) for you to read from.
11b. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book

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No. 1006334 ID: ce39da

ASSIGN UNDERSTANDING AND NEW GOAL: Figure out who's behind these sabotage schemes.

It's not hard to assume that some human or CANUS organization is behind this, but it would be folly to presume that they have the tacit approval of their entire governing body. Meanwhile, the "agents" are just children; unless there's some seriously shady shit going on with "being raised in the order" or some nonsense, some middleman's probably offering rewards to these kids for what they think is some isolated and benign troublemaking.

WHERE TO LIVE: Honestly, you'd probably be endangering Pon and Noodle by living with them. Accept Ignis's offer, but make it clear that it's only because you feel safer in midtown with all that's been happening. Do insist on paying him.

GRAD SCHOOL?
Yes.

FREE TIME
Take the next ARCHAEOLOGY class.
Train harder at the BODY AND MIND dojo, focusing on CLAWS.
Use your library ticket; hopefully, you finally get to read the BOOK OF ORDERS. You get the feeling its contents are gonna start being important real soon.

YEARLY MEAL EVENT?
I'm tempted to say you should sit down with Nico and maybe ask if he wants to hold on to all your gifts to Marth, but he probably needs some distance right now. Save this for later.
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No. 1006335 ID: 363bcf

The mansion honestly sounds kinda amazing.
We can tease the SHIT out of Ignis, live with our friends, AND pay for Noodles post-grad.

I dunno Ignis, that giant mansion of yours looks like it could get awfully cold. *Take his wing and get real close while looking into his eyes*
You'll keep me warm, won't you?
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No. 1006337 ID: eabde6

...Make up our mind, INTUITION! Is Shimon's problem something completely different from academic incompetence? We should be pushing him for a job change if he needs to stay here to avoid trouble at home. Or is he just a really bad spy? I'd still probably suggest a job change, then. Or, would have...
>Really long, obtuse questions
Encourage these students to seek (paid!) one on one tutoring in which to handle these longer questions, as you have to share very limited time resources with the whole academy as of present. If they cause you more stress there, they're out more money and you have an excuse to ignore these questions in the TA class. Which, uh, do you even have a class to TA without Shimon?
>Copcanum
Copper+arcanum, Sherlock. If you can find plain copper, experiment with that in runescripting too, just so current & Saba's Knowledge can compare notes.
Take Ignis' offer, or, failing that, get a 2 bedroom apartment in Midtown! You can offer to share the room with Noodle.
Time: Continue your education with a hunter class. Continue building your mind palace via meditation - build ANGER's DOGHOUSE.
Goal: Start an underground (so to speak) skunkworks. Somewhere to further your research of runescripting, without releasing this knowledge as it comes. The Queen will have a pretty little stockpile of surprises up her sleeve, and you won't have to worry about sabotage as much in your pursuit of knowledge.
Understanding: what are the humans planning in our worldplate? Be sure to read up on lots of news to fuel this investigation.
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No. 1006340 ID: e51896

>You head out, searching for MARTH, you’ve been doing so for the past few days but have no luck. You search for SHIMON, no luck there either. Eventually you head to the administration and ask what the deal is. It turns out that MARTH left the city in the middle of [TIME POINT 8], they were supposed to stay until the end of [TIME POINT 1] but there’s been neither hide nor hair of them since

Wait, them as in plural? does that mean Shimon's gone too? wonder how this will effect our job as a teaching assistant. if classes are cancelled until you become a teacher, we might need to take a BLACKSMITH JOB next semester to make ends meet, could help with inventions.
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No. 1006341 ID: afe7de

Shimon is still there teaching, Marth isn’t there, I originally had an edit where both were gone, the wording is an artifact from that that I missed sorry.
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No. 1006347 ID: 031458

I think we should ask about the conditions for which teachers can attend classes.

I ask because we have only 12 Time Slots that can be allocated toward CLASSES in our postgrad, but we still need 6 Time Slots to complete the HUNTER course and 2 for ARCHEOLOGY.

I assume that we'll be able to sit in on archeology (or otherwise study it our-self), but with Hunter being very hands on and two-part, I worry there may be restrictions.

In anycase, we need a Hunter's License to leave the world-plate (Something we'll need to do eventually if we want to find more advanced runes), and I worry that it will be much harder to obtain one should we NOT take advantage of this course.

In that vein...

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Take HUNTER 2 + TA.

Take SCULPTING

Set Goal to "Create something that can see through/remove mist."

>>1006335
(This is me)
As for the whether or not we pay Ignis I think we should hold off on it for now, but promise to pay him back later.
If any of our other friends feel weird about taking the offer because they can't pay, offer to cover them too once you start your teaching job.
We should definitely take advantage of Ignis' hospitality, but we need not take advantage of Ignis.
Also I feel like our friends would be safer here, what with the guards and such.
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No. 1006356 ID: dfbac0

If we can get everyone to live with Ignis for the time being, I'm on track with that, but only if we provide something for Ignis, maybe we can have everyone move in with Ignis and provide quality of life inventions in return for living there. I think we should fund Noodle, so that would tie us up financially.
I think we should fund noodle and take the Hunter class with her.
Goal: Make an invention to help father in a foggy place.
Understand: What's going on with perseverance, and whether we can improve it.
>Timepoints
Take the hunter class.
Meditate on MIND DORM.
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No. 1006357 ID: dfbac0

>>1006356
Changing my second timepoint vote, instead of meditating take the SCULPTING CLASS
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No. 1006358 ID: 6c227a

Tell Noodle you don't wanna see your best friend since childhood leave, and if all that's gonna take is tuition money, you're in.

Whatever classes you take, PAY FOR A TUTOR. They only cost 100 shinies, you have the budget.

Study planning:
- Archeology 2&3 is great. Everyone agrees.

- Mana Theory or Energy Theory before digging in too much more with Runes. Sometimes a fresh perspective brings new insights and increases our Intuition stat. (I think Mana Theory might also help with Drift's situation)

- Sculpture 1 for the rune sculpting practice is an easy choice and art is fun

- Etiquette 1 because like half of our friends are royalty and we are totally gonna have to deal with that stuff sometimes.

That's six time points. I don't know if I agree with >>1006347 that we need ALL the hunter classes, but taking another one would not be a terrible idea since they give a good mix of skills.
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No. 1006363 ID: 96c896

>>1006332
>Marth and Shimon vanished at the same time
Hmph. Alright, it's obvious now, they were both spies. Shimon was sent by the human government, right? Safe to assume Marth is working for the humans too. Note that she was initially friendly towards you, and only cut herself off after your first meeting. That strongly implies she was ordered to do so.
Well, it's either that, or Shimon is a double agent and they left at the same time because Shimon had to vanish and Marth was going to help with that.
Either way, I am absolutely convinced now that Marth is acting under orders. Except... wait, that doesn't quite fit, does it? If Marth was acting under orders and was helping Shimon, why didn't she tell you to help him? Maybe the Humans gave her this mission but she decided to rebel at the end of it.
Also, Shimon was obviously ordered to get your Magitech knowledge, but... I don't know why. Seems ridiculous for the Human government to want a 13 year old's secrets.
Huh, an additional reason for why Marth might be pissed at you is that she realized just how much she was neglected by Saba. New perspective gave new insights, and since you didn't immediately spend time with her she thought you were doing the same thing again. Maybe someone convinced her that you were just going to try to use her, or something.
>fast moving blue figure went through the tunnel
That was Marth I think. Those boots sure are fast. I wonder if he was carrying Shimon?

>Canus beast-kin students are disruptive
Well, isn't the Canus worldplate allied with the Humans? There's a Human Embassy there and a Human Magitech facility there too. On top of that, Shimon and Marth are from Canus. Well, I guess the Canus government could be worried about losing their trade advantage too. Doesn't our Queen trade with them for technology? If Tengu gains substantial Magitech, then Canus tech wouldn't be as valuable.

Anyway, since Shimon left early, you should immediately step in and become the Magitech teacher. This will solve the problem of disruptive students, since you can just kick someone out if they are a persistent problem.
...I wonder if Chi has a supernatural skill that's being unknowingly used to teach runescripting? Is it actually impossible normally? That would explain why Shimon did what he did-- Canus/Humans really want to do what you're doing.

>GOAL?
How about "create invention for father to allow hunting in the mist"
>grad school?
Yes.
>where to live?
Mansion. Find out what other friends Ignis is offering those spare rooms to; it'd be cool to room up with Pon and Noodle. Definitely get a SMALL LAB going.

>UNDERSTANDING's task
How about we assign him the task of figuring out how to make a mist-removal device? That'll save us a time point or two. Figuring out the sabotage stuff is a political and interpersonal task, not suited for him. Better to ask William or Ignis for help with that, and we can definitely do that as a Favor.
>time points
Teach Magitech.
Sculpting class, with a friend.
Research mist-removal device.
>free points
Go to the library and check out a book with the ticket. Hopefully the black runscripting manual is there somewhere. Or was that the one that was in the journeyman's book?
Ask Pawn if he'll accept payment for teaching you Microscripting later this year.
Have dinner with William, bond with him over Marth's leaving.
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No. 1006365 ID: e51896

>>1006363
Edmango said that Shimon is actually still here teaching: >>1006341
Only Marth ran away.
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No. 1006371 ID: 36784c

>>1006332
Chi, do you remember what runes were on Marth’s boots >>1003793 ? If so, you could try recreating them and making something for someone who can’t fly.

And did you ever go on that dinner with Nubs? Or has that not happened yet?

>Drift
I know Drift sees us as a rival in inventing Magitech Devises, but I’d like to keep it as a friendly rivalry. So I think we should tell him that if he ever needs help with something, he can ask us for help.

>Noodle
Help her with grad school.

>Classes?
Take a sculpting class. Invite Pon to join you and tell him that he can try making cake sculptures!

>Where to live?
Take up Ignus’ offer to live in his Mansion with him.

>>1006335
>You'll keep me warm, won't you?
Hey now. No saying things that might imply sharing a bed until we’re 16.
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No. 1006382 ID: 96c896

>>1006365
Oh okay, uh.

Not sure why Marth left early then. Maybe she's expecting assassins and left at an unexpected time to avoid them?

Anyway, that also means we don't have to take the teacher role, so...

>time points
Sculpting class, with a friend.
Research mist-removal device.
Meditation, more progress on the mind campus.
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No. 1006386 ID: 094652

>Housing
Before you dedicate yourself, Look around for an opportunity. Seeing as you have talents, you should try to use your connections with the craftsmen, royals, and friends to share space. You don't really need much and you're kind of quiet.

>Time Point
Take a psychology class. You've been stuck with some irritating douchebags, and not understanding what makes them so proud of their intolerable attitude makes you angry. Learning how the mind works may help you [Understand] how to subvert or process bad people.

Spend the remaining time point on meditation.
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No. 1006401 ID: e51896

(if EDMANGO has already started writing the next update, feel free to ignore this and keep my vote Hunters class, and Sculpting with Pon, runescripters, or Glide Sorry for the inconvenience)

Changing my vote one last time since more people voted (deleted my previous two posts to keep things cleaner for vote tallying) Honestly, we can probably not have to worry about passing ALL the hunters class since we are already getting stronger through the dojo (we can take one more at least)... we probably don't need to take a class that uses up two time points. And I do not think it was said it is required to have a hunter's liscence to leave the world plate, MIZU kind of implied it is recommended to take a hunters class, but not necessary to finish them (where was it said we needed a hunter's license to leave the world plates if I'm wrong?)... And we do have friends that are good at hunting already if we want to go exploring ruins, and we can invent a mana pistol to protect us. I still want to know what a hunter's license actually do besides allow students to buy weapons at a young age?

timepoints:
Archaeology
Meditate to continue building mind dorms (make one for perseverance so we can talk to them
Sculpting with Pon, runescripters, or glide

IDEA: Convince Shimon to teach Magitech at Dopus and convince him to really study your notes during class to be ready for that venture, tell him you'll ask Nubs about arrangements for him being a teacher over there later and invent a breathing device or suit for him next year with your buds.

Important hide notes in your dimensional pocket

UNDERSTANDING's Task: try to figure out what is going on with PERSEVERANCE,

GOAL: Figure out what is going on with PERSEVERANCE

RUNESCRIPTERS BACKGROUND PROJECT: Work on some kind of defogger invention to help father.

To help with that background project, lets have UNDERSTANDING team up with CREATIVITY to help with inventing.

PAY for Noodle's first grad school year. (-400 shinies)

place to live: live at Ignis' place with anyone interested, we'll pay him (-800 shinies)
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No. 1006402 ID: afa6f6

>>1006332

>>The disruptive Beas-kin were all from Canus
Huh, maybe this whole disruption thing wasnt the doing of the Humans, at least not directly. Its definitely espionage of some kind, but maybe its coming from the Canus side, or perhaps certain human political or business interests THROUGH the Canus side.

>>Housing
Living with Ignis sounds nice, he's proven to be pretty cool. Of course we'd pay some, and hopefully Pon and Noodle could come too? Probably wouldnt mind sharing a room. It'd also probably be much safer for everyone too.

>>Pay for Noodles Post-Grad
Naturally. I wonder how she's been doing in her studies anyway, we should check up on that. I can only assume good since she hasn't asked for help at all.

>>Time Points
Take Archeology
Go Hard in the Mind And Body Dojo
Take Sculpture, see if Glide, Drift or William are interested.

>>Understanding
Have UNDERSTANDING try and figure out whats stopping Drift from being as strong as he should be, its like he has some kind of artificial caps keeping his stats low.

>>Mist Problem
Seems like theres two ways to go about this. We either make something to clear the mist, or make something that would just let the Hunters see THROUGH it.
I feel like possibly making a COMPOUND RUNE with LIGHT could result in a VISION enchantment, Possibly compounding Light with Reflect?
Or, we could try just making a really powerful dehumidifier, and just make a tool to keep the water saturation in the vicinity low.
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No. 1006403 ID: 36784c

>>1006401
>try to figure out what is going on with PERSEVERANCE.
What is this supposed to mean? There’s nothing going on with Perseverance.

If you’re referring to this: >>1006143 , that’s just because Chi was in the middle of a sparring match and got hit because she wasn’t paying attention. She was knocked out of her thoughts. That’s all there is to it.
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No. 1006408 ID: dfbac0

>>1006403
Perseverance has been really quiet and we want to know what they're preoccupied with, as that was hinted at.
Granted it may just be holding back teenage mood swings but there may be more to it.
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No. 1006502 ID: 36784c

Guys, I just had a really stupid idea that could be fun to attempt. What if we invented a whoopee cushion?

We’d just need a bag and give it a BLACK COMPOUND RUNE - SENSOR (to detect PRESSURE when someone sits on it) and that will TRIGGER a small gust of air to come out of the bag to make the farting sound.

What do you guys think? Does this sound like it might work?
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No. 1006519 ID: afe7de
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1006519

> UNDERSTANDING - SABOTAGE?
You can’t set [UNDERSTANDING] to try to figure out [PERSERVERENCE] you asked him about it but was told it’s not something he can see, parse, or talk about. You get him to try and the words come out garbled, like a soup. Like a half formed idea.

You assign your [UNDERSTANDING] a new task, to try to figure out what the purpose behind the sabotage, attacks, and beligerent students. You have an INKLING that it could be related to the humans. So he asks you to do some RESEARCH so he can gather up a lot of data points. You’re going to start paying attention to the NEWS occasionally. Next year at the BEGINNING of the year, you’ll get a recap of everything you’ve learned.

> LIVING ARRANGEMENT - IGNIS
You look around on your own, curious and find the prices to be exactly what you thought of, some were a bit more expensive as well. Eventually, after talking it over with your buds and figuring out stuff. You decide to get a room at IGNIS’S MANSION. It’s the King’s former home, gifted to him. You ask why WILLIAM doesen’t live here, he’s offered WILLIAM a few times, but William doesn’t want to sell the house. Apparently it was their grandma’s place back in the day, and she raised him for a few years before she died of cancer, so he’s still attached.

> A TALK WITH NOODLE
You get your own room while PON and NOODLE share a single one. Noodle doesn’t really need a full room to herself since HUNTERS tend to be gone half the time anyway. And they wanted to save some money. You also offer to pay Noodle’s GRAD SCHOOL FEES, at first she declines, but then you mention it’s REALLY not a big deal since you earn enough to pay it off from TAing one semester. Eventually you needle her enough until she assents. She’s really grateful but has no idea what she could ever do to repay you. First it was helping her get in at all, now it’s helping her stay in till she can be a hunter. She’s not sure what she did to get as good a friend as you and even breaks down crying.

You comfort her and talk about her classes and dreams. She REALLY wants to be a HUNTER, to fight monsters, she just wants other kin to be safe. She’s only okay at other classes really, hence her need for help long ago. She’s taken the GUARD, HUNTER, MARTIAL ARTS, AGRICULTURE, MEDITATION, and a preliminary session of FARMHAND. She’s already finished the main courses she wanted to, since she didn’t expect to be able to afford GRAD SCHOOL. She says she’ll be a HUNTER for as long as it’s viable then maybe retire as a GUARD for a few years. Or if she’s wealthy enough just buying some farmland and farming for the rest of her days. She doesn’t really want anything other than to be STRONG ENOUGH to protect the kin she cares about. She lets you know that if you EVER need anything from her, she’ll do it. You’re practically her BENEFACTOR but also like a SISTER to her.

Your BOND with NOODLE has reached RANK 6
- Noodle TRUSTS YOU IMPLICITLY
- You can request any number of reasonable or unreasonable favors from her
You’ve gained a BOND PERK - NOODLE’S BENEFACTOR
- In situations where NOODLE is nearby, NOODLE will be stronger, faster, and more reactive
- If NOODLE is nearby and you would take a hit, she can take a free DEFENSIVE action to block or reduce damage
- If NOODLE is nearby and you would take a FATAL WOUND, she would [ENDURE 80% chance], [REFLECT 15% chance], or [TAKE 5%] the hit instead


> HOUSEKEEPING AND INFO TO KNOW
You spent [80] SHINIES on your LIFESTYLE this year. It’s a bit less then normal because you spent a big chunk on the CABINS as a planned expense.

As a TEACHER You can take 1 free class for every 2 classes you teach. Teachers don’t really take extra classes all that often, because they’re already in their fields and most WING-KIN enjoy their FREEDOM and FREE TIME, you and the RUNESCRIPTERS are exceptions because you’re REINCARNATORS, you don’t think implicitly like WING-KIN normally do. And you only need 1 [CLASS POINT] to take the HUNTER class (even though it takes 2 TP to do).

Becoming a HUNTER can be done in a few ways. The most common is to take an EXAM. You need to be a MASTER of a SINGLE WEAPON TYPE and go through a year of TRAINING with the HUNTERS. Those that attend the ACADEMY and have taken at least 2 classes do not need to spend the year TRAINING, but they do need to take the EXAM, and if they fail and try again, they’ll need to go through the year of TRAINING anyway. Those that pass the 3rd Class have a 66% chance to get in, the rest relies on MARTIAL SKILL and COMBAT REFLEXES. And so long as you can pass the 4th class, you’ll be guaranteed a HUNTER’S LICENSE at AGE 16. The 4th class has a similar structure to the EXAM, only it doesn’t cost you anything. The EXAM costs 800 SHINIES, passing refunds you HALF, failing loses you all of it.

The HUNTER EXAM is for you to go in a group with a SINGLE OVERSEER and subjugate a MIDDLE RANK MONSTER. It tests TEAMWORK and COORDINATION. Those that excel have a chance to fast track to become an OVERSEER but that still takes YEARS in the organization itself. A HUNTER’S LICENSE allows you to leave the CANUS plate to the outer world without extra fuss, paperwork, payment, or guards since they’ll know you’re capable.

Your RUNESCRIPTING NOTES are now stored away in your DIMENSIONAL POCKET. You’re feeling a bit paranoid after how SHIMON was acting, so you think it’d be best to keep it safe like this.

Unfortunately you can’t remember what runes were on MARTH’S boots, you never took the time to investigate them. You imagine SHIMON might have a pair, otherwise how could he have gotten into the World-Plate. But you’re loathe to actually engage with him.

You also forgot to think about it, but you broke past the ATHLETICISM SOFT CAP when you learned TENACITY, so that STAT can improve again.
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No. 1006520 ID: afe7de
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1006520

> NEW GOAL - PIERCING THE MIST
You want to create something that will allow your father and his crew to PIERCE THE MIST in the mountain. Either by making it easier for them to see, or by displacing the mist in some fashion.

> RUNESCRIPTERS ASSIGNMENT
You task the group with tackling the PIERCING THE MIST GOAL, it’s a strange problem, but the group of you think it’s possible. DRIFT asks what this could be about and you let him know that your DAD needs this so he can get the CORE and MATERIALS from the HORNED MIST PUMA. DRIFT is in shock, saying you don’t need to do that, but you WANT TO, and everyone in the room is willing to help him as well. DRIFT is now MOTIVATED on the project and will come up with INCREASED INSIGHTS for the project as it progresses. You can spend [TIME POINTS] to speed up the process as well, but this will be going on in the background and take around a YEAR for you to see any progress, maybe EARLIER since DRIFT is so MOTIVATED.

> CLASS - SCULPTURE WITH PON AND THE RUNESCRIPTERS
You invite PON and the RUNESCRIPTERS to the SCULPTING CLASS, you got the idea that it’ll be worth it from reading the JOURNEYMAN’S GUIDE. The class is extremely straightforward and shows you different additive and subtractive methods of sculpting, namely it shows you ENGRAVING, POTTERY, and STONE SCULPTING. By the end of the course you all have come to terms with your prowess in sculpting. IGNIS is good at ENGRAVING. WILLIAM is good at POTTERY, DRIFT and PON are good at STONE SCULPTING, and you’re AVERAGE in all 3 categories. You think it’s a good skill to learn and the group of you think of the applications in RUNESCRIPTING. Pon’s excited and uses his sculpting skills on some CAKES for you all, they’re starting to get more elaborate and interesting and you get the idea that PON might end up becoming some kind off MASTER CHEF in his lifetime.

You’ve learned the CREATIVE SKILL for SCULPTING 1
- You can now ENGRAVE, ADD, and SUBTRACT from materials you work with
You’ve learned 3 CREATIVE SKILLS, your CREATIVITY STAT’S SOFT CAP has been removed!
Your PRECISION STAT has increased!
- Your accuracy when ENSCRIBING runes to a surface has been improved
- Your AIM has improved


> EVENT - TUTORING DISRUPTIONS
It continues, but this time it’s just one student. This one’s a HUMAN, you think it’s the one who broke your leg too. They’re curt and give no ground. They ask questions that you have no way of answering as they’re beyond your scope as a tutor and the limit of your knowledge. She admonishes you for it, but this time other students stand up at your defense and point out her unreasonableness. It would be nice if you could kick them out, but you can’t, as they are asking questions of merit, but are undermining you the whole time.
You encourage the student to seek paid one on one tutoring for these longer questions, but the reply you get is that no one is willing to do it. The RUNESCRIPTERS are BUSY and don’t want to TA or TUTOR. So it’d be down to you. The rest of the semester finishes up with little fanfare, your PATIENCE was enough to weather this storm.

> OPPORTUNITY GAINED - TUTORING
You can now spend [1 TIME POINT] to privately tutor up to 3 students during the semesters of class (TP 1-3 and 6-8). It costs the students 2000 SHINIES for this. You get paid 1800 per student with the school getting 200. You will gain stress equal to 1.5x the number of students you tutor rounded up, reduced by your PATIENCE, as students that would seek this kind of lesson would more than likely be difficult ones to handle, requiring EXTRA ATTENTION.

> TEACHING BONUS
After another year of tutoring your TEACHING SKILL BONUS kicks in and you learn something new. You start to get small inklings of when students are going to ask certain questions, preemptively answering them much to the shock of some of them. You’re feeling a bit more INTUITIVE than normal.

You gain [500 SHINIES] from the TA Job
Your INTUITION STAT has increased to the SOFT CAP
[UNDERSTANDING] Gonna interject here for a sec.
[UNDERSTANDING] INTUITION 5 is basically the peak most kin would ever get
[UNDERSTANDING] Past INTUITION 5 is the realm of ESP, or Extra Sensory Perception
[UNDERSTANDING] SABA developed a similar kind of BATTLE SENSE, but couldn’t go past this in his life
- You’re not sure what you would need to do to increase your intuition further
- You think it has something to do with PERCEPTION, but aren’t positive how it would look without MAGIC
- You’re not sure if it’s even metaphysically possible to increase your intuition further in this realm
[INTUITION] For the conflicting information with SHIMON
[INTUITION] It’s just. FEELINGS change in the moment to moment and sometimes we see and hear things
[INTUITION] Minor things, that can give bad vibes which changes my stance
[INTUITION] Remember, I’m not always right, more a GUT FEELING then anything, so use your own JUDGEMENT


> FREE TIME - MEDITATION
You take the time to MEDITATE this period. Progress on your MIND DORM is nearing completion, so you focus on that. You want to work on a DOGHOUSE for [ANGER], since this time you want to TAME it and not SUCCUMB to it like SABA did. You also think about making a ZEN GARDEN for your [PATIENCE and PERSERVERENCE], but those will take time on their own, and you’d rather get PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. The FASTER, the BETTER. You finish 2 more rooms of the MIND DORM. These rooms are you laying the foundation for your NEXT LIVES, it also somehow acts as a medium through which you’ll be able to get PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. You’re not sure if it will carry over to the next life, but you certainly hope so. You’re nearing the end, it’s so close you can almost taste it. Just [1 MORE TIME POINT] and you’ll be finished with this. You can feel your MEDITATION teasing you at the edge of your mind, just ready to improve once more.

MIND DORM PROGRESS - 80%
- A gentle breeze goes out throughout your consciousness. It soothes you more than normal. You gain a small BOON.
- You get the feeling SOMETHING ELSE will increase too when you finish your MIND DORM.
You lose [1 STRESS]
You feel SOOTHED and will exude an aura of CALMING to those near you.
- Anyone you spend the next 5 TIME POINTS with will ignore the effects of [1 STRESS] or lose STRESS

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> CLASS - ARCHEOLOGY 2
The same Pink furred BEAST-KIN can be seen as you walk in and get seated for class. MIZU introduces herself again and wastes no time in getting into the meat of the subject. ARCHEOLOGY is one of the few ways you can leave the CANUS plate, along with being a HUNTER, GUARD, MERCHANT, or SCHOLAR. There are other ways, but most of those cost tons of SHINIES. As an ARCHAEOLOGIST you can join CARAVANS for a SMALL FEE to travel to ruin sites. Most kin won’t just take a random kin on a trip anywhere outside of CANUS, only those who pay, and those who can show they have the proper skill.

The class goes into customs and entry between the plates. It’s a little complicated and some kin leave the class because they weren’t expecting it, upset they wasted the first class only to find out it would still be difficult. A key point she mentions if one wants to be an ARCHAEOLOGIST is to be self sufficient and able to weasel your way into and out of the plates safely. After that, though, Mizu smiles and begins teaching you about the history and prehistory of this plate and the plates she’s been to. The history of the WING-KIN is strange to say the least. It began around 814 years ago.

[LUCK] CALLED IT!

Written history started around then, with WING-KIN developing their own language. Later on it would be found out that CANON, the language your plate thought they invented, is actually spoken by all kin across all the known plates. Some kin, like the HUMANS and the INSECT-KIN developed their own language. ENGLISH, named after the human plate ENGLIA, their capital being LYST ENGLIA. And HIVEN, named after the insect plate of HIVE-1. The INSECT-KIN don’t have a good naming convention. HIVEN was developed out of neccesity, as there are some kin in the lower strata that CANNOT COMMUNICATE VERBALLY. “PAWNS” as they are called, are low in intelligence, and are workers. It became more efficient to enunciate in clicks and motions rather than in CANON. And HUMANS tended to spread like a wildfire, competing with one another for resources, ENGLISH was developed as a CODE language, but was later adopted by the ELITE.

But WING-KIN at their nascancy believed in something called the [GODDESS] a being that birthed them from her womb into a fertile land that seems practically made for us. Every other civilization has the same creation myth. The TUNNELS are a relatively recent addition. 150 years ago, when the last of the flying monsters on our plate were subjugated, a TUNNEL appeared near the corpse’s death spot in the sky. Weather it was coincidence or an act of the GODDESS, we’ll never know. But HUMANS came from it and this was the first encounter we had with the OUTSIDE. Humans were brought as emissaries and things were good.

It was at this point where humans discovered RUINS on our plate. They threatened the plate and your plate fought back. Since then the HUMANS have charged EXORBIDANT PRICES for even basic trade goods, information about other plates, or restrictions on leaving the plate. TENGU’S MILITARY MIGHT in the form of HUNTERS and GUARDS was the only thing keeping them from a full scale invasion, or so the history books say. They wanted unfettered access to the ruins and we refused, since then taking the time to investigate them, We were able to get far enough on our own, but the ruins were SMALL, INSIGNIFICANT, and SCOURED OF ANYTHING USEFUL by the time we were able to properly investigate them. Apparently the HUMANS got through them first due to their knowledge of RUNESCRIPT.

She then goes on a brief stint about what she’s gathered about the ANCIENTS and it simply adds up to them being an advanced civilization that used RUNESCRIPTING as their LANGUAGE and TOOLS. No one knows exactly what the ancients looked like, but the ARTIFACT that the HUMANS have is in the shape of a human, so they think it’s a safe bet to assume they were humanoid or even human in some fashion.

She goes on to detail around when the extant races history began. HIVEN’s history is old, but they didn’t keep a written language for hundreds of years. It’s assumed they’re at least 1500 years old, but their technology advancement rate is WEAK, given they only have a small number of intelligent elites. You’re also told that the INSECT-KIN were unconventional, and reached their maximum population before panicking and digging underground only to find a ruin that gave them the TUNNEL technology that allowed them to leave and propogate. They’re typically a WARFARING race of weak but plentiful warriors, but most MERCINARY BANDS you’ll encounter are civil enough.

CANUS’S history starts around 1000 years ago, however they were just content to hunt and eat and reproduce, but given the monster reproduction rate in CANUS, they never expanded fully. They’re skilled LAND FIGHTERS with their NATURAL WEAPONS, but are kind of dumb and LOYAL. It’s a shame they BONDED with the humans for the most part, and the royalties allegiances lie there. Their ruin is located deep inside a cavern in their mountain. It’s flooded with a horde of beasts. The HUMANS cleared it out with the help of some BEAST-KIN, but exactly what was found is unclear and is kept secret.

DOPUS’S history is a bit harder to parse. MIZU doesen’t know much, and what you know is only offhandedly mentioned from NUBS. Apparently their history started around 900 years ago, but they were afraid of the SURFACE world for a while. It was too bright, which is why NUBS covers her eyes. It took them courage and many hundred years to head out. And by that point they met the humans, were disgusted by their attitudes and platitudes and dove back down. Apparently it was only a random happenstance when a Wing-Kin was drowning and saved by an AQUAN in DOPUS that led the cultural exchange. You think you should ask NUBS for more info on this later.

Apparently the HUMANS have existed for more than 1200 years and only discovered the way to use RUNESCRIPTING from their RUIN 1000 years in. It’s a shame your plate didn’t have more time, perhaps you could have surpassed them by now. The humans had 2 ruins. One in an open field, and one underneath their palace. Unfortunately MIZU has only been to the one in the field.

Your Plate’s RUIN was discovered a small distance away from the TUNNEL, overgrown. It was small, very small, but laden with many traps that killed WING-KIN, so the WING-KIN laid off for a time. It’s implied that the humans stole your TUNNELS, and PLATE UNIQUE TECH by using their knowledge of runescripting and breaking through with their advanced technology, but it’s in the past and is why this class is here. So that you know the reason why she’s pushing you to STEAL and SNEAK through to get these technologies. It’s only fair, at least in her eyes.

There are ruins scattered about the other uninhabited plates, but they’re typically filled with monsters, so it requires a trained team of hunters to safely navigate to them.

[UNDERSTANDING] That’s… really weird.
[UN LOGIC] Seems like a new civilization pops up every 200 years or so? Maybe every 100?
[UN LOGIC] Given we have some kin coming out at 1500, 1200, 1000, 900, and 800 years ago
[UN LOGIC] that means we’re missing 1100, 13-1400, and 1600+
[UN LOGIC] I’m making the assumption that nothing below 800 years can pop out
[UNDERSTANDING] They’re probably in the early stages of development too.
[INTUITION] Hmm, I think there’s more to our plate then meets the eye.
[INTUITION] Here’s a hypothetical. What if the HUMANS weren’t the only ones to get two ruins.
[UN LOGIC] Hmm, by that logic, the insects had to dig, the beast-kin had to uhh hunt?
[UN LOGIC] The Humans just got theirs for free, maybe there’s something else
[INTUITION] I’d bet some SHINIES that there’s a ruin somewhere under the whole world-plate
[INTUITION] Accessible only to creatures that can fly.
[UNDERSTANDING] Someone mentioned that a while ago. Or was it from a book?
[LOGIC] Twas from PLATE TUNNELS, A GUIDE.
[UNDERSTANDING] Though from what we know now that might not be true. Maybe its disinformation?


She says the last thing to learn is how to TALK like an ARCHAEOLOGIST. If you know that much, then you’ll be able to convince kin to let you join them on an expedition. And she goes about giving you the last grains of knowledge needed to succeed in this task.

Your [CURIOSITY] has increased to the soft cap!
Your [KNOWLEDGE] has increased to the soft cap!
- You must gain at least one KNOWLEDGE skill to rank 3 or learn 3 new languages
- TEACHING is already rank 4
- You already know CANON, ENGLISH, and ANCIENT COMMON
- You already meet the requirements to break the KNOWLEDGE SOFT CAP and it is automatically broken for you
CONGRATS! You have gotten 8 STATS to their SOFT CAPS at rank 5
- You have been awarded [1 FREE STAT POINT]
- This stat point can be used to raise your STAT past a soft cap or to remove it entirely
- You can also save this stat point for the future
- Rather then suggesting what to spend it on, I’m attaching a poll to the end of the post

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> MID YEAR BREAK
You have some dreams about the final years of SABA, his time in his dungeon, making weird contraptions and traps. He’s in the core a lot, messing with the floors, the design. He’s got a terminal set up to interact with the dungeon core. It’s strange and esoteric. You’re kind of amazed he could do that kind of thing with [UNDERSTANDING] and his dense knowledge of DUNGEONS. There’s a logic to it all. And it’s one that you can follow for the most part.

Your LOGIC stat has increased to it’s second SOFT CAP (rank 7)
- Breaking through the second SOFT CAP requires going through two breakthroughs
- You get the feeling something GOOD will happen when you finish learning PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY


> RUMOR - CANUS MURDERS
You’re spending more time listening into what’s going on in and outside your plate. Ignis showed you a few good contacts that you spend your time around sometimes. You’re not really friends, but you swap stories about things happening in the ACADEMY for things happening on the OUTSIDE. You hear that there was a group of individuals in CANUS that were killed recently, black petals left near their bodies, no sign of a struggle, blade to their jugular. A few of them were high ranking members of the royalty. This is of course causing quite a stir in CANUS, especially since no one could find the murder weapon and they tried to COVER IT UP. They don’t sugar coat the info for you, and treat you like an adult. You feel a small sense of PRIDE in that.

Your PRIDE stat has been fed enough that it INCREASED!
You’ve gained the BOAST skill!
- When talking about something you are knowledgeable in, you’ll sometimes get carried away with excessive pride
- You’re PATIENT enough that you can CONTROL this URGE for now
[PRIDE] We’ve got a long standing relationship, I won’t be too hard on us.
[PRIDE] I’ll use it to benefit us I swear!


> UPCOMING EVENT - MIND AND BODY DOJO - DUEL II
Will occur in [TIMESLOT 5] This time you’ll be paired against someone who is ACTUALLY on your skill level
Your [SELF DEFENSE] is on the cusp of becoming something greater than itself.
[SELF DEFENSE] You already fit the requisite requirements for me to break the soft cap
[SELF DEFENSE] but we need to figure out what I’m going to become, SABA had GUN-KATA
[SELF DEFENSE] But that doesen’t seem to be a viable option right now.
[SELF DEFENSE] The way I see it we have 4 paths right now.
[SELF DEFENSE] some sort of claw based CAPOEIRA, improving our efficiency in CLAWS by 2x
[SELF DEFENSE] letting us fake being a higher level then we are
[SELF DEFENSE] But making you worse in other weapons you aren’t a MASTER in.
[SELF DEFENSE] a generic MELEE COMBAT that provides flat bonuses to all forms of melee
[SELF DEFENSE] become DEFENSE, giving you a 2x bonus when defending yourself and others, and dodging
[SELF DEFENSE] but suffer penalties when attacking
[SELF DEFENSE] and [OTHER] something you come up with on the spot.
[SELF DEFENSE] It’s not something to worry about right now.
[SELF DEFENSE] But once I know I can work on changing to suit that need.
[SELF DEFENSE] Think of me as a stat that EVOLVES to fit your fighting style and moves.
[UNDERSTANDING] Whatever new form SD takes it’ll provide better bonuses then just self defense.
[UNDERSTANDING] And you can change it to something different at any time by spending [1 TIME POINT] to meditate on it


> NEW HOME ANTICS
IGNIS is fairly clean. You keep your room fairly clean, but your desk is always a mess of papers, diagrams, and ideas. One day you’re working at your desk and out of the corner of your eye you see IGNIS walking outside. You take a look and see him crash into a LAMP POST sticking out of the ground. He wasn’t paying attention. You bust out laughing and he runs away, red in the face. You think he heard you, you’re sure nothing will come of this.

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- PIERCING THE MIST
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS, MIND DORM PROGRESS 60%, total ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), 3/7 (ETA 4Y)
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE 1/3, NICO 2/3, NUBS 3/3)


You spent [800 SHINIES] on HOUSING
You spent [400 SHINIES] for NOODLE to go to GRADSCHOOL
You spent [80 SHINIES] on yearly expenses last year
You gain [500 SHINIES] from your TA job
You have [588 SHINIES]
You have [0 STRESS]
- You’re currently under the effects of the CALMING AURA for the rest of the year

You have [1 FREE STAT POINT] to spend
- Here’s a POLL for the STAT POINT https://forms.gle/JyNw52ya8gtFmuSH8

You have [1 TIME POINT]
What do you do?


1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
+ You can tutor up to 3 kin for 1800 SHINIES using [1 TIME POINT] gaining stress per student taught this way

2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[DRAWING/METALWORKING/SCULPTING 1] Make a thing
[CODEBREAKING 1] Invent a low level cypher
[MEDITATION***] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 40% complete
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11a. GO TO LIBRARY! [1 TIME POINT] Suggest a book you’re looking for if you pick this option and then the next update will be suggestions of suggested books (and some of my own) for you to read from.
11b. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book

12. EXPLORE, go out into the world and your plate, if you have a destination in mind, go there and look around.
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No. 1006523 ID: 094652

>Self Defense Evolutionary Tree
You know what guns are capable of. You just have to wait for an opportunity to find some in a dungeon.
Flesh out your [Claw] skills, but prepare your Mind Palace to train a combination of Gun-Kata and Claw-Kata; grapple foes, then fire straight into the weak spots.

>Time Points
-1TP MEDITATE. Once you finish Photographic Memory, your library ticket is going to be sooo worth it! The sooner you get it the easier life will get for you.
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No. 1006532 ID: c77fe0

> PROBLEM STUDENT’S IDENTITY
That can’t be the duelist you fought... unless her vow of silence was a total lie.

> TIME SLOT 4
Train at the dojo to prepare for your next duel. We’ve learned our lesson since last time, even if it was a special circumstance. We should be ready even if there is another nasty surprise waiting for us.

> TIME SLOT 5
Meditate to complete your MIND DORM. The sooner we have PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY, the better.

> MEAL EVENT - NICO (HIGH QUALITY)
We’ve given Nico space, and now we have a CALMING AURA. I’d say this is the time to deepen our bond with him. Would he be comfortable holding on to the gifts we wanted to give Marth? (Don’t physically bring them and put him on the spot, of course.)
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No. 1006537 ID: afa6f6

>>1006522
>>Time Point:
Practice for the upcoming match. We need to for sure pass this time.

On the subject of SELF DEFENSE's evolution, I feel like theres a style suited to Chi's skill set, specifically using INTUITION, PATIENCE, DODGE, and PRECISION to focus on avoiding or turning the opponents moves against them, and then landing single, critical strikes. I feel like theres an applicable real analogue for this, something maybe in Chinese martial arts, but im drawing a blank on coming up with a name or term for it.

>>Noodle
Based on her goals, and since she said shes already completed most of the classes she wanted, We should advise her to maybe take the gardening class and talk to Nico maybe about medicinal plants. Healing and helping when people are sick is also keeping them safe, and it would fit in with her Farming.
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No. 1006541 ID: e51896

>>1006532
We were told we only have one time point this year unfortunately, the fifth timepoint is on the dojo match

>>1006531
to add to my vote, lets see about maybe getting a meal with GLIDE. (high quality) maybe we can get some tips from him for our upcoming match since he seems so calm during his fight with Noodle, and could help with the dojo which values having a calm mind. We can probably ask what the orange markings on him mean too. Plus, we might get a fun point since we aren't stressed

although, if we do not hang out with Nico and Drift for our time point, I'll change dinner plans to have a meal with Nico and Drift instead of having a meal with Glide. Reason why we're inviting drift too is because I think he can help us make Nico feel better since they're both good friends and with a combination with our calming aura we have right now.

But I think we should spend time with Glide during the next semester if we do not during our break.
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No. 1006544 ID: de0582

>>1006541
*break, not "year". Sorry
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No. 1006548 ID: dfbac0

>TimePoint
Did everbody forget about our once a year library access?
Go to the library and read that perception book, as having good perception can help you spot things you'd usually miss and can also help quite a bit in the duel.
>Dinner with Hook
Have a high quality meal with Hook, as it is important to have a good relationship with someone who might be the next queen.
If she's not the next queen, I'm certain Willian or Ignis will be the next king so being friends with Hook simply covers all out bases.
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No. 1006549 ID: e5e623

>>1006548
We didnt forget, we just need to get our photogenic memory done before we head to the library
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No. 1006554 ID: 96c896

>They ask questions that you have no way of answering as they’re beyond your scope as a tutor and the limit of your knowledge.
Well let's fucking fix that then! We should take Magitech 2 at some point, and/or start studying it.

>murders
Marth could have done that... The black petals imply those are Black Lotus assassinations. Marth being in Black Lotus makes sense considering her behavior.
The targets... could either be Human sympathizers or anti-Human elements in the royalty. So we can't really say what the motivation is for the killings just yet.

>time points
Spend a time point focusing on the mist invention. It needs to be ready by the end of the year!
Spend the other one meditating to finish the mind campus.
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No. 1006558 ID: 730e76

Let's use that library ticket! We could take that big book of generalist life lessons and be pretty much set on reading material for the rest of the year.
DEFENSE sounds like a good spec to take, it improves not only our survivability but the survivability of those around us, who will no doubt be more focused on offense.
I'm sure nothing will come of watching Ignis beef it. But he'll have to buy our silence...
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No. 1006560 ID: bf7239

>>1006554
We already took the second magitech class

However, i think Mana theory and Energy theory classes might help teach them as well as practicing our inventions and runescripting. (Which could help with using their powers as magic shields and attacks too)
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No. 1006563 ID: 96c896

>>1006560
Oh, so we did. Guess we have to explore other avenues. Though, we've already hit the soft cap...
I guess we could try to get Microscripting, see if that breaks the softcap.
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No. 1006565 ID: bf7239

>>1006563

Discovering 2 compound runes, or finding a gold or prismatic runescripting manual was said breaks the soft cap. Maybe that could help. We can probably discover the two compound runes by practicing with the Runescripters.

Here's an idea, what if we use the Library ticket to get that Black Runescripting manual, solve it with the runescripters, and then practice discovering a new cmnpound rune with them for the rest of our time with them?
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No. 1006566 ID: a9af05

>>1006522
I'm worried about our Pride. If we start rambling while trying to teach, our students will stop paying attention to us and will start getting annoyed with listening to us.

Should we build something for Pride in the Mind Dorm in order to keep it under control?
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No. 1006581 ID: a9af05

>>1006566
Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

Since we can just meditate to change to a different fighting style later, I'd like to give the Capoeira fighting style a try.
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No. 1006583 ID: f3f534

This is a special announcement from your teenage hormones:

>>1006521
Woah! Look at the size of Mizu's boobs! You could fit your entire beak between them! Is there anyone closer to your age that has boobs that you could sneak a few peaks at?

On a more serious topic, let's try to work on an invention that can get rid of the mist.
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No. 1006613 ID: 36784c

I kinda want to choose the Capoeira fighting style, but I'm not sure if I should.

Speaking of which, if we created a Dojo for Self Defense in the Mind Dorm, would that make it easier for us to switch our fighting styles? That way if we wanted to switch, we wouldn't have to spend an entire Time Point to do it.

Other than that, I'm stuck between making progress on the anti fog invention or meditating to finish the Mind Dorm.

>>1006537
>Noodle suggestion
I agree with that.
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No. 1006615 ID: 96c896

On the subject of self defense, don't we mostly have Sword and Claw skill? Maybe we can combine the two.
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No. 1006620 ID: e51896

I'm changing my vote (deleted my previous post)

Lets invent that mist removal device with the runescripters, if only to further our bond with them, and help with increasing stats

What we could do is sculpt something like mist powered lanterns, flashlights, or something. Something that can absorb the mist around the hunters to clear it, with a bonus of having it form a light,

give it the compound rune Sensor to detect liquid from the mist, absorb the mist around the hunters so the area is clear, and then use its energy to have it trigger a LIGHT and EJECTION rune to eject light to up the lantern so that if other hunters get lost, they could look for the lights within the mist and get back with the hunting group.

SENSOR, ABSORB, EJECTION, and LIGHT is probably what is needed. Though maybe sensor isn't needed and just ABSORB is fine for taking the mist away? maybe a intensity rune

Though shape runes did play a part in making a form of oxygen within water


also, Still have a meal with both Drift and Nico since our calm aura can help ease Nico's sadness, and Drift can help comfort Nico

One last thing, if the Library ticket doesn't cost a time point to check out a book, lets see if we can get the BLACK SCRIPTING MANUAL. Hopefully its back.
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No. 1006621 ID: e51896

Also, while we're at it, when we see our father again, lets offer to upgrade his weapons with magitech (HARDEN and SHARPEN runes for example)
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No. 1006641 ID: 36784c

>>1006620
>mist removal device
That sounds pretty good. But is there a way we can test it to make sure that it works? It’d be bad if we gave it to our father and the device only worked for a single minute or something.

We’d also need to make it simple and easy to use, so that it’s not a pain to use. Maybe we could add a button or switch to turn it on and off?

>>1006621
>upgrade father’s weapons
Didn’t we test doing something like this with the Runescripters? We tried adding different effects to weapons and the weapons ended up either breaking or the effects ended up wearing off after a single strike with the weapons.
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No. 1006711 ID: 031458

By vote is to MEDITATE and finish the mind dorm.
however...
If we do end up trying to INVENT...

An arcanum sphere with three Light/Heat Combos, Ejection, and Trigger(Sculpt-Partial Sphere, Intensity), placed upon an Arcanum Absorbx3, trigger, eject charging pedastal would do it. Put it on a rod BOOM Sun Scepter. Good luck keeping your new tropically hot surroundings misty, animal.
But it would be fantastically dangerous. If the trigger rune gets damaged it'll start shooting heat rays uncontrollably.
Alternatively... We could go the vision route
The runes needed to make a heat detector would be simple. The runes to make an infrared light sensor would be trickier but doable. The issue is the viewing medium. We either have to create a screen, or some sort of goggles. Goggles would have limited scripting surface, a screen would have lots of little parts.
Either way we'd need microscripting.
Pawn would probably love an opportunity to lord his skill over us if we asked for help, and it won't be for free.
I doubt he'd outright teach us, no matter what we offered.
We could try to develop Microscripting independently, but we probably need higher precision. We'd probably need to take a calligraphy course and practice with the rapier some more, as a start.
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> Hormones
One day while you’re daydreaming on the roof of IGNIS’S house you start thinking about your friends, teachers and other kin you’ve met. There’s a few times you caught yourself staring at IGNIS and WILLIAM’S tail-feathers. You had to catch yourself and hide around a corner before they saw you and you got embarrassed. Noodle caught you once and you went beet red, walking to your room while trying to LIE that it was nothing. Your GUILE might have fooled her because she trusts you, but it was a very bad lie.

Then there was this one time in your Archaeology class that Mizu’s breasts were just bouncing rediculously and you couldn’t keep your eyes off of it, fantasizing about [REDACTED]. You [REDACTED], glad for the private room. Your other thoughts like [REDACTED]

[STATS] Okay, moving along, yes Chi is a normal, horny teenager,
[STATS] Blah blah blah, you’ll hear these uncensored thoughts when she’s older

You’re glad you’re at least HAVING these thoughts. Your feelings were so muted in Saba’s life. It’s kind of nice to be able to INDULGE yourself sometimes in them. Living with IGNIS is certainly helping you feel closer to him, sometimes you cuddle on the roof and Noodle and Pon will join as you all just talk about life, the universe, and how really weird it is that the plates function as they are. They’re like mini planets but not? A lot of your conversations with IGNIS are about the potential METAPHYSICS behind this. Your prevailing theory is RUNES obviously, but you posit the idea that it has something to do with KARMA. You’re surprised, you knew IGNIS was LOGICAL, but you didn’t know that he had such an astute grasp of METAPHYSICS, apparently in his past life he did research on strange phenomena and societies when he wasn't at war, in the hopes that eventually he could make friends, didn’t work out, but it gave him new perspectives.

PON and NOODLE like to talk about Monsters, they both finished all the Hunter classes, so sometimes they talk about hunting monsters to get some good MEAT. Make a MEAT PIE out of a FLYING JAVELIN BEAST, this massive, flying snake like thing. It’s got four wings like an insect and a javelin like snout that it uses to pierce and suck the blood of other monsters. Apparently it refines the blood of other creatures to enhance it’s body creating a dense core of MUSCLE surrounded by gobs of FAT and TISSUE that would be great for FRYING. Your conversations usually go like that, talking about their powers and the like. Something new you discover is that a lot of STRONG monsters have an INNATE ABILITY like the HORNED MIST PUMA, creating mist around themselves, firing lightning, denser bones, etc. You could learn more from a MONSTER THEORY class or the HUNTER courses. You all guess that the FLYING JAVELIN BEAST’S ability must be being TASTY and that gets chuckles all around.

WILLIAM’S been surprisingly absent lately. You went to his house and he said he’d be gone for a trip for the BREAK, it was a last minute thing, but he’ll come back with a present when he returns. It warms your heart that he left a note for you. Nubs also went home for the break, You gave her some SHINIES to bring you back some stuff from her plate half as souvenirs and half to experiment with. She just chuckles and promises to bring you something good whilst grappling you in a bear hug. You appreciate her and these little touches. Last you talk to Noodle and ask her to take a GARDENING CLASS so she can meet NICO and learn some applicable stuff. She says it sounds like a good idea and agrees to do so.

> STAT POINT
You’re indecisive between IMPROVING INTUITION or SAVING it for now. So you decide to HOLD ONTO IT for now. You’ll get another opportunity to spend it at the beginning of NEXT YEAR. You can also spend it ahead of time if more than half of the suggestions suggest you spend it on the SAME THING.

> Thoughts
You think about WEAPON STYLES and what you COULD BECOME. There’s CLAWPOEIRA an extension of Capoeira but focusing on the use of CLAWS and DODGING. CLAW-KATA could be a useful variation on your original GUN-KATA, it’d be the same just with CLAWS and GUNS.

The last one is a budding idea. You’ll need to work on it, but it’s something you’ll temporarily call FIGHTING INSTINCT. A style that is more a form of combat relying on INTUITION, PATIENCE and DODGING as well as your actual combat skill. Instead of taking an active mode in combat, you can see your opponents moves a split second before it happens and COUNTER. It’s a HARD PATH, requiring high INTUITION, PATIENCE, DODGING, and PRECISION to get it working remotely you think. You imagine you won’t be able to get this unless you reach a RANK 7 or 9 variation in COMBAT. But this is all hypothetical at this point. You’re not sure you could even do it, but your [CREATIVITY] thought it sounded like a cool idea when suggesting it.

You mull over the news you heard recently. You wonder if MARTH is responsible for the killings in CANUS. It’s concerning, the timing is suspect, and you don’t really know the motivation behind the killings yet.

You also think about upgrading your dad’s equipment. You could do it you think. If it’s just a simple HARDENING or SHARPENING rune you could couple it with an ABSORB rune and it’ll work just fine you think. You know for sure that using the SHAPE rune will cause problems as it doesn’t have enough energy, but a simple augmentation isn’t a big deal. The only problem is you have no idea how it would affect it’s natural DURABILITY, how long the sharpness rune will last while it’s in use, etc. You’ll have to EXPERIMENT or do the mods and WAIT since you don't use weapons like hunters do.

The last thing you do, as you’re thinking about this is head to the LIBRARY. You talk to the lady at the counter and ask if a certain UNMARKED BLACK BOOK is checked out. She says that it still is. You curse your LUCK. Your LUCK is a little saddened by that, but carries on anyway. You ask if there’s anyway to reserve it, you have a TICKET for the library. She says that with the PURCHASED tickets its possible. You hand it over and she says a message will be delivered to you when it’s available. It’s been checked out the day it’s been checked in for the past few years by someone waiting outside. She says you can always take back the ticket if you change your mind. You breathe a sigh of relief.
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> FREE TIME - INVENTION
You gather up the RUNESCRIPTERS, WILLIAM is absent this [TIME POINT] as he has some important business to take care of, so it’s just the 3 of you. The three of you set out to make various schematics. You’ve got an ingot of ARCANUM now, and are budgeting 2 parts of the ingot for testing, with the last one being used for the actual device. It’s expensive, but you don’t see any way to get this done without a decent power source.

The three of you come up with three different approaches to the problem. IGNIS tries to come up with some sort of GOGGLES that can let you sense HEAT. He has the idea to use a sensor rune and a light rune as small as he can to light up a portion of the goggles, letting you know the general direction of a heat source. The problem is it reacts to ALL sources of heat, the rune gets in the way of vision, and it only works about one meter away. The idea is scrapped in the cradle for now. You’ll need MICROSCRIPTING or something similar, but you’re not sure how to get past a lot of the technical hurdles at this time.

YOU come up with a SUN SCEPTER as you call it. It EJECTS LIGHT and HEAT in an attempt to DEHUMIDIFY the area in front of it. It’s a small rod with a button to activate it. You go through a few trial runs and it’s somewhat effective, but uses up a lot of power depending on how hot and bright it’s made to be. You think you could probably make 3 that just work at a normal capacity, or one that is extremely powerful. The powerful one could definitely pierce the mist, but it would make it harder for the rest of the group to keep their vision up, given they’re operating in a group of 3-5. You table this blueprint and move on to the next idea.

DRIFT’S idea is a little interesting. It’s a MIST POWERED LANTERN as he calls it. It uses two sensor runes, one to detect AIR and one to detect LIQUID. It then will ABSORB the LIQUID at maximum intensity and a small pseudo lightbulb will be lit using just the energy taken. The problem with this design is that it will only absorb the mist in a small area surrounding the lantern.

You test the LANTERN and SUN SCEPTER by fogging up a large warehouse that IGNIS rented and modified for air-tightness for a few SHINIES for the day. You froze a few blocks of ice using your and PON’S CHI-LLER, brought them over, and made some heat rune infused stones to try to create STEAM, it’s as close an analogue as you’re going to get to MIST. Eventually you’ve got a pretty thick and hard to see through room.

The SUN SCEPTER does an OKAY JOB at making the area about 5-8 meters in front of it clearer, getting harder to see over time. You assume the high powered variant would work at DOUBLE or TRIPLE the distance, though it might hurt any kin that walk in front of it. The MIST POWERED LANTERN, however, works at clearing out around 1 meter in a sphere surrounding the lantern. It’s easier to spot at the limited distance you can see, and using the resources you have at hand, you could probably make enough for the whole group. The only problem is this wouldn’t help prevent ambushes until it was too late. It could make for good checkpoints if you were to mass produce them, but you simply don’t have the resources for that.

The last attempt you make is to use the SHAPE rune in some novel form, you decide to call this the PULSING PLATE. You make a rather large wooden plate, about a meter by a meter wide. It’s got the largest SHAPE rune you could draw on it followed by an EJECT rune. You’ve also placed a button on top of it that, when pressed, will jet out a gust of AIR in a sphere with a slider so you can test the intensity. You go through several plates, trying to get It working right. Eventually you have it working so that it can PULSE and clear out an area about a 4 meter radius. The problem is that it’s LOUD and CLUNKY to carry, it will probably alert any creatures nearby when used, but the good news is that it CLEARS OUT the mist, for at least a minute before it naturally fills back the space. You only get two good uses out of the plate before it breaks. You get the feeling some ARCANUM could alleviate the usage problem though, but not the sound issue.

All in all you feel that it was a productive session and you boil things down to a few main points.

GOGGLES - Ineffective without more runes, components, or microscripting
SUN SCEPTER - Good at a range, can make at least 3 using a single ingot of ARCANUM or or a single HQ SUN SCEPTER
+ Heats up the area in front of the scepter and revealing it with light
- Can Hurt whatever’s in it if held for long enough
- 1/3 an ingot can create a single sun scepter
- 1 ingot can produce an HQ SUN SCEPTER
- the HQ scepter has a chance of OVERHEATING, BURNING THE WIELDER due to lack of testing
MIST POWERED LANTERN - Clears out 1 meter around the wielder and provides light, easy to mass produce
+ Provides utility for the whole squad
- Distance is rather short and won’t prevent ambushes
+ Low to no chance of MALFUNCTION given it’s simple nature
+ Can make 2 lanterns with 1/3 an ingot of arcanum
PULSING PLATE - Clears out 4 meter radius of MIST on button press
+ Provides the most range and use
+ Mist returns after about a minute
- Large and clunky to carry
- Loud and will alert nearby monsters
- 1/3 an ingot of arcanum will allow for 12 uses
- 2/3 an ingot of arcanum will allow for enough uses that it finishes the campaign

[UNDERSTANDING] You could probably mix and match, or make single use Plates,
[UNDERSTANDING] But then it becomes trouble to transport them.
[UNDERSTANDING] There’s no easy and elegant solution here.
[UNDERSTANDING] A MIX and MATCH of a single SUN SCEPTER and a few LANTERNS might be useful
[UNDERSTANDING] But it comes down to SHINIES.


You and your crew will get to work on finishing up whatever you decide to go with by the end of the year, it’s up to you on what you chose to go with. You could also chose to TAKE A LOAN from IGNIS in order to purchase more ARCANUM. He’s willing to buy some for you, but lets you know the price has just gone up. The HUMANS are going to change it from 10,000 an ingot to 15,000 an ingot, you assume its because they now know there are competent RUNESCRIPTERS on the plate and they want to price gouge you. He can at most get TWO INGOTS due to the new price, but will need you to pay him back within 4 YEARS. You could also attempt to ask THE ROYALTY for a LOAN of 30,000 SHINIES as you’re a bright pupil and soon to be teacher, there’s some leeway. You’ll have to pay back 38,000 in 4 YEARS though, with the amount needing to be paid back increasing by 2000 every year.

You send a letter to your dad, letting him know that you might need money and are willing to RUNESCRIPT his gear to SHARPEN and HARDEN it for better protection. You get a letter back a few days later. He’s willing to provide 10,000 SHINIES in capital for you to make the project work so long as you let him sell the nonessential parts of the HORNED MIST PUMA. He also says that if your invention is extremely successful and he’s able to hunt enough creatures to be reimbursed, then he’ll even toss some of the SHINY overflow your way.

AUTHORS NOTE: You now have a choice, you can spend more to increase your father’s team’s SURVIVABILITY, the more you spend and more resources you give, the easier the job will be. However, you have limited funds and will eventually have to PAY THEM BACK if you decide to go into DEBT. Going into DEBT with a friend is possible to come back from, but they’ll pressure you for it back at some point. So if you invest too much and the campaign is a flop sans your sole objective, you won’t have gained much. Put in too little and BAD THINGS can happen. For your reference, your Father’s team is a group of 5 Hunters including himself, all Wing-Kin. If you want to upgrade all of their equipment you’ll have to spend [1 TIME POINT] to do it, you can do your father’s for free. It’s a variable mission, so it’s up to you how much you prepare them, ah, and keep in mind, they need to be able to FLY, and ONLY ONE OF THEM can carry a PULSING PLATE due to the clunkiness of it

[GUILE] Money troubles suck. There’s always GAMBLING, but you’re kind of shit at it right now.
[GUILE] Or you would be if you tried it, since you haven’t PRACTICED.
[UN LOGIC] There’s a LOT of options here. You’re guaranteed SHINIES when you start next year, but its not much.
[UN LOGIC] You might have to teach extra classes to pay off the debt.
[UN LOGIC] It could be useful to go for all three, or arming all of them with SUN SCEPTERS
[UN LOGIC] The LANTERN is probably the weakest of the bunch
[UN LOGIC] But I think you should make the choice given what we’ve said


You try to reach out to PAWN, but he’s not interested in working with you. He’s busy making his own designs, you look at his desk when you’re talking to him and notice plans for some sort of GENERATOR connected to some LIGHTS. You assume he’s trying to take the idea of SHIMON’S crank lantern, and find a more permanent solution for a larger group. You say you could really use the skill he says he still doesn’t want to teach you, citing that it’s his only advantage in the field and that you’ll overtake and over shine him leaving him with nothing and no way to progress in the world.

You don’t really agree with that assessment, as the more kin that have the technology and ideas, the easier it will be to share the knowledge. Though you wonder if that’s your [PRIDE] talking, or if it’s your actual feelings on the matter. You propose a TRADE then. Your SHAPE rune for his MICROSCRIPTING. He says he’ll think on it if you throw something else in, like an ingot of ARCANUM since they’re so hard to come by, he has a few prototypes he wants to make and sell, but he has no capital. You suggest he joins up with your crew but he still rejects it. You take some time to consider this while time passes.
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> TIME SLOT 5 - MIND AND BODY DOJO - DUEL II
You’ve had some gains this year of passive training.
Your CLAW skill has improved to rank 4
Your DODGE skill has improved to rank 2


The duel is with someone different this time, your original intended opponent. It’s a sloth named Geralt. He’s got LONG, NATURAL CLAWS that have been strengthened by STONE CLAWS like the ones used on your feet. He’s making slow movements as he enters the arena, seemingly disinterested. The two of you engage in friendly banter and pleasantries as you wait to begin. A little before it starts he speaks up, this time a little more loudly.

Geralt: Heard what happened to you last year. Sorry about that.
You: It’s fine. I won’t happen again.
Geralt: I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
Geralt: Sorry in advance.
You: What are you-?


And in that moment the bell dings, the match has begun. The sloth stands up right, you hear a crack from his back. He bends forward, a smirk on his face.

[INTUITION] RIGHT LEG.

You pull your right foot back. It’s like a flash of movement. The sloth was 2 meters away from you, and now he’s slashing down in front of you. All it took was half a second. You like to make jokes that you’re sweating sometimes, and apply that to other kin. Wing-Kin can’t acctually sweat though. But if you could, you would be able to feel the perspiration heavy on you, your feathers ruffle in goosebumps. His swipe misses as you finish DODGING, moving your leg out of the way. His expression is that of genuine shock.

Geralt: Oh wow, you dodged that. Uhhh.

You don’t respond with words, but instead with an upward swipe, his head perfectly in position for your retaliation. The strike connects, blood is drawn. The first round ends. It’s then when it clicks with you. This kin is from the THUNDER LORD DOJO. That first strike was ridiculous. He’s supposed to be at your level, what is this even? Do the Dojos have some kind of death wish on you?

The next round begins with a similar motion, only this time he dashes forward and attempts to connect multiple strikes. You leap over him in anticipation, kicking off his back. It’s a tense fight and you’re bruised, but not bleeding. Your training has paid off. You assume he’s only 1 rank higher than you at the claws. His striking speed is ridiculous, but he leaves himself wide open after each strike, you assume this to be a drawback of the technique.

The final round comes up, it’s an even match, the next point decides it. The sloth is panting, visibly overheating and exhausted. You’re not doing much better.

Geralt: Well, I guess I have to actually try now don’t I
Geralt: Sorry again.


There’s a moment where you see two Geralts right in front of you. One coming to the left and one coming to the right. Is he moving so fast you see double, is there two of him? You’re not sure.

[INTUITION] The RIGHT one’s real
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> YOUR LUCK STRIKES
You attempt to dodge the strike but some blood left over on the stage causes you to trip. This movement is unexpected, but puts you in the perfect position to see what’s actually happening. He’s zig zagging at such a speed. Your INTUITION wasn’t wrong, but it wasn’t accurate. They were both him, and the crazy thing is that he swipes with both claws, but because your body is in midair, falling, it misses and he trips over you, crashing into a wall outside the stage. Your legs are heavily bruised from that, but no broken bones. You won the match.

You can tell this was unexpected as the usual applause doesn’t occur, that is until LOU XIN and an unknown woman start clapping. The rest of the audience does the same after that. What follows next is a blur of congratulations and talking to various kin. LOU XIN informs you that the THUNDER LORD DOJO actually sent an inner disciple to fight you. You shrug, half expecting some kind of response like that. She apologizes profusely about the mismatch AGAIN. The woman looks at you and smiles, introducing herself as LARA XIN, LOU XIN’S grandmother. She’s a spotted crow of similar build, but she is TALL and BEEFY.

Lara Xin: You fight well. That last move was… unconventional,
Lara Xin: but from the looks of it he was trying to injure a limb. He’ll be reprimanded, as the other girl was.
Lou Xin: You think they just hate our new disciples?
You: I’m just glad I didn’t break anything this time.
Lou Xin: He ended up with a concussion cause of that last hit, serves him right.


LOU XIN spits on the floor, but is smacked on the back of the head by LARA XIN.

Lara Xin: Either way, you did well in there. Much better then I expected.
Lara Xin: Keep up your training and maybe you’ll end up an inner disciple.
Lou Xin: Really? It’d be nice to have someone on my level to spar with, but she’s much more a uhhh
Lou Xin: Nerd? That the right word?
You: Yeah I like science, so sue me!


The three of you chuckle a bit

Lara Xin: In all seriousness, good work.
Lara Xin: I came to spectate to make sure no more shenanegans happened and they still did
Lara Xin: I’ll have a talk with the other heads and find out if we can’t get to the bottom of this
Lara Xin: In the meantime, you should spend some time at the dojo this [TIME POINT]
Lara Xin: You’re sure to have had some ENLIGHTENMENT from that encounter,
Lara Xin: it’s good to meditate and train immediately after to absorb the lessons.


You do, the three of you head out. You feel a few combat based things kind of CLICK in your head. The way LOU XIN was training you was actually a path to having a clear mind, You feel like you’ve achieved breakthroughs in several different paths all at once. It’s an invigorating feeling. She coaches you on the practice of the MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE since you’ve been properly prepared and you learn it.

Congratulations! You’ve earned several bonuses due to the combination of your STATS and EXPERIENCES.
Your SELF DEFENSE stat has increased to rank 5
- The SOFT CAP is automatically broken
- Your SELF DEFENSE is indecisive about your path, so it stays the same
You’ve learned MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE 1
- You’ve slotted the M&B TECHNIQUE into your COMBAT STYLE SLOT
- When equipped you have a chance to instantly strike an opponent before they can react
- SELF DEFENSE can only hold one COMBAT STYLE
- Evolving SELF DEFENSE will allow it to hold another COMBAT STYLE
Your SELF DEFENSE STAT suggests evolving to MIND AND BODY
- Doing this will double the effectiveness of the COMBAT STYLE of the same name
- Provide small bonuses to MEDITATION
- And give you another COMBAT STYLE SLOT
- You’ll need to MEDITATE to convert it, or wait for it to reach rank 7 where it will automatically pick an evolution
Your MEDITATION skill has increased to rank 4
- Meditation effects improved by nearly double
- You’ll make progress on your MIND CAMPUS twice as fast now
- There’s an increased likelihood of you gaining mysterious bonuses from pure meditation
You can now meditate using the MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE
- Doing so will give you small amounts of SELF DEFENSE and ATHLETICISM EXP and allow you to MEDITATE at the same time
- Meditation progress will be halved when using this technique

Your bond with LOU XIN has reached RANK 2
- LOU XIN will occasionally suggest an activity for you to do with them


AUTHORS NOTE: COMBAT STYLES and your COMBAT STAT are different, they synergize well together. Think of the STAT as the foundation, it’s what the rest builds off of and uses. The SKILL then adds to, sometimes even multiplies the strength of the STAT itself. And the COMBAT STYLE is like the etchings, adding details or a TITLE that grants bonuses.
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> DINNER - NICO - HQ
You have a HIGH QUALITY MEAL with NICO. It’s at the same TEA-SHOP. He looks a little hesitant but the longer the chat goes on, the more RELAXED he seems. You don’t talk about anything too serious for the most part. It’s more a calm moment. The two of you read some books and just enjoy each others presence for a bit. Eventually you do talk, its briefly about Marth.

Nico: I miss her.
You: Yeah. Me too.
Nico: I’m sure we’ll see each other again one day.

You get the idea that Nico had a crush on her, this was probably why he was so devastated. So you say he should meet up with NOODLE, she’s a good friend and the two of them can bond, talk about plants and medicine since it’s something she has an interest in. Nico doesn’t look too interested, but says he’ll talk to her anyway. You offer Nico to hold onto the presents you all were making for Marth, but he’s not sure if that’s right. You argue that he was the closest one to her, as much as that pains you to say and he agrees without much stress. You can tell he’s visibly calmer and feeling better. Maybe a LITTLE LESS STRESSED.

He talks a little more about his family, his mom the sculptor, saying she’s really good with a CARVING KNIFE, has been since she was a kid. Though her commissioned works are LUDICROUSLY EXPENSIVE for someone your age. He talks about how he picked up KNIFE skills too from her, that NICO and MARTH actually talked about knives as a kind of BONDING POINT. You mention how GLIDE is skilled in knives but he seems even LESS interested in hanging out with GLIDE. You make an assumption. Maybe Nico only likes hanging out with Girls? You don’t ask it, but you certainly do think it.

The last thing the two of you do is play a game of DARTS with him. You’ve got some PRECISION now, and you do alright. You score about 3/5 of the total points. It’s not a hard game, but you never really played it before, even on [Faunus 08-C]. What surprises you is how PRECISE NICO is. He gets a nearly perfect score, only being shy of 10 points. You ask him for a few pointers and he just says you have to have PRECISE HANDS when handling the medicine he does, some have THORNS, and some of the ones with thorns are POISONOUS, it’s a fine line between medicine and poison, so to navigate it precision is something you need. You nod, it makes sense. He says he’s willing to give you pointers on [PRECISION] if you really need it, but that he’s NOT A GOOD TEACHER, so it’ll probably take multiple years to improve, oh and you’ll be buying him meals. He chuckles at that. It’s good to see him in a better mood. The dinner ends and you hand off the mementos to him. You had fun and feel closer to him.

[b]Your BOND with NICO has increased to rank 3
- Nico is now available as a SKILL TRAINER
- You can work with him in the background, getting updates after a year like with TUTORING and the M&B DOJO
- This is the last BACKGROUND TASK you can assign, should you chose to.
- OR you can spend time directly with him
- however he’s NOT A VERY GOOD TEACHER so progress might BE SLOW.
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> EVENT - PON-POPS II
Pon’s really excited today and asks you to meet him on the roof. You do so and he blindfolds you. You ask what it’s about but he says its a surprise. He asks you to stick out your hand and you do. Something hard is in it. It’s slightly malleable, you think it’s an INGOT of some kind. ARCANUM? You ask him if it is and he says you can take off the blindfold. It’s the ARCANUM he promised you. He’s finally made enough profits to repay you for your kindness. He beams at your excitement and you give him a big hug. This is exactly what you were needing! It’s a wholesome moment. You’re glad you have a cool brother like him, and are kind of impressed that he’s made enough to buy one of these, its only been a year and a half. He says he’s made 17,980 SHINIES.

Apparently PON-POPS are a hit! And since no one can make them other than him, he’s monopolized the market. He’s pleased as punch and says that with another year or two of sales he can rent his own shop, maybe come up with a WALK IN CHI-LLER so he can store more product. You’re proud of him for following his dreams and are glad he’s so successful. Apparently he’s only selling them for 2 SHINIES right now. That means he’s sold nearly 9000 PON-POPS! You encourage him to increase the price since there’s a demand for it. He says he’ll think about it. He talks about selling to the other students and kids around town. He likes interacting with them. He also says that now that he has money, he’s going to hire NOODLE to help him sell the PON-POPS, this way she can afford RENT and GRAD SCHOOL. He’ll need to make another CHI-LLER, but since he knows the process it shouldn’t be too difficult for him to accomplish on his own. He lets you know if you ever need him to cover rent, he’ll help you out, he knows you’re trying hard for DRIFT’S sake and is proud to be the brother to someone with such HONOR of going above and beyond for their friends like you tend to do. You feel really warmed by this situation, but then a pang of guilt hits you as you think about MARTH and how you failed her.

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- PIERCING THE MIST [BEGINS IN 5 TP]
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS, MIND DORM PROGRESS 60%, total ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), 5/7 (ETA 2Y)
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE 1/3, NICO 2/3, NUBS 3/3)

Your CURRENT BACKGROUND TASKS are as follows (2/3)
- SEMESTERLY TUTORING (+1000S/yr)
- MIND AND BODY DOJO TRAINING (-20S/yr)
- [EMPTY]

You can take on the new task PRECISION WITH NICO costing 300 SHINIES a year

Your current YEARLY OBLIGATIONS are as follows
M&B DOJO MEMBERSHIP - 20 due at [TIME SLOT 4]
NOODLE’S GRAD SCHOOL - 400/y due at [TIME SLOT 1] Handled by Pon
RENT AT IGNIS’S - 800/y due at [TIME SLOT 1]

You spent [20 SHINIES] on your membership to the MIND AND BODY DOJO
You spent [32 SHINIES] on your meal with NICO
You have [526 SHINIES]
IGNIS is offering a FRIENDLY LOAN for up to [2 ARCANUM INGOTS] that cost a total of [30,000 SHINIES]
- You should pay it back within 4 years without interest
- You can also ask for less money if you need it
You can take out a LOAN from the ROYALTY for [30,000 SHINIES]
- You need to pay it back within 4 years with a yearly interest of +2000 SHINIES a year
Your father is offering you 10,000 SHINIES starting capital for your work, you can accept or reject it.
You have [0 STRESS]

You have to decide a path for your EXPERIMENTATION to take, each has its own costs.

1/3 an ingot can create 1 SUN SCEPTER
1 ingot can produce an UNSTABLE HQ SUN SCEPTER that risks OVERHEATING
1/3 and ingot can produce 2 MIST POWERED LANTERNS
1/3 an ingot can produce 1 PULSING PLATE with approximately 12 USES

You have 1 and 1/3 of an ingot of ARCANUM in your stock, what do you make? There’s a chance for a minor BREAKTHROUGH in the thing you decide to make the most of.

You have [3 TIME POINTS]
What do you do?



1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
+ You can tutor up to 3 kin for 1800 SHINIES per student using [1 TIME POINT] gaining stress per student taught
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[DRAWING/METALWORKING/SCULPTING 1] Make a thing
[CODEBREAKING 1] Invent a low level cypher
[MEDITATION****] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 80% complete
- can use MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE to meditate at half efficiency, but also gain XP in ATHLETICISM and COMBAT stats
[STUDY*] Study a topic or in general. Has a small chance of gaining stress, but increases stat growth and helps you pass important exams
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11a. GO TO LIBRARY! [1 TIME POINT] Suggest a book you’re looking for if you pick this option and then the next update will be suggestions of suggested books (and some of my own) for you to read from.
11b. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book
12. EXPLORE, go out into the world and your plate, if you have a destination in mind, go there and look around.

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No. 1006757 ID: e51896

(deleted my previous post)
- PSYCHOLOGY CLASS to help us teach students better, (if not PSYCHOLOGY, then MANA THEORY with the runescripters)
- Tutor a student for 1800 SHINIES and help pay some bills and prepare us for when we go into DEBT, maybe our TEACHING BONUS will kick in too, or even help raise our PATIENCE to counter our PRIDE from getting in the way. plus, it'll raise the pass percentage rate of the class) We'll need Shinies right now.
- Invent a Sun scepter and some Lanterns like UNDERSTANDING recommended with the runescripters
-unless we can have inventing those stuff happens in the background by the end of the year instead of using a time point, then spend time with Glide instead, that way we can continue our goal in getting our friends bonds to level 3, and lower stress/ get a fun point

I prefer getting 30000 from the Royals and go in debt from there. I'm doing some budgeting, getting 38000 from the royals in four years will take 3 years of teaching (since we'll get 38400 by then) once we become a teacher to get the money by the fourth year, which means we should also do some METALWORKING and TUTORING to give us money for other things (like pay Ignis 800 yearly, and other fun things.) Tutoring will give us teaching bonuses, metalworking can improve our inventing skills, and we can probably add some runes for practice.

I'd rather not bother Ignis about getting money from him, he might need the money for other things.

We can upgrade the hunters equipment at the start of next year
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No. 1006759 ID: e51896

>>1006757
Forget what I said about Glide, lets just use the timepoint to invent instead of inventing in the background, that way we can increase the hunters survival rates if we actually invest time.
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No. 1006761 ID: 0e01b9

Idea for favor for DRIFT: ask if he could experiment with hardening and sharpening weapons with absorb runes and test them and give you reports on the results like durability and effectiveness so when you upgrade the hunters weapons at the start of the year, we can be sure they wont malfunction and increase the survival rate.
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No. 1006763 ID: cb9c9e

I think the "main" output should be scepters (preferably one that attaches to a headband/helmet)
Also, what about a lantern at the end if a pole?
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No. 1006764 ID: afa6f6

>>1006746
So many avenues, exciting.
First off, lets use [1 TIME POINT] to Meditate in the Mind And Body Technique and finish up the Mind Dorm, now that weve got some breakthroughs.
Man, I was looking through some martial arts stuff, and almost wanted to suggest Chi develop some CQC, err, CCQC, for claws, but I dont think she is FAST or BRUTAL enough to really be effective at it.

For [TIME POINT] 2, I think we should take some time to test out and perfect our rune upgrades before we do them for our Father and his group. Try out all our improvement ideas and make sure they work, and we can have Pon and Noodle test them out(With ackups of course), since they hunt.

We should definitely do the Precision training with Nico, background for now. PRECISION seems more important then ever, especially if we plan on using guns in the future. If we get good enough, maybe we could double it with Guile training and Hustle some people at darts.

Im not sure what to do for the last time point. I want to take another look at that SCRIPTING PEN diagram we got from Shimon a while ago, It might be useful for our fine scripting issues, and we might be able to improve it somehow. Innovating prior designs is part of inventing too.
I had a few ideas for more inventions we can do too, like making a Tactical Vest for the Hunters. Basically a durable vest that wont get in the way of their wings with pockets, and slots to put thin stone plates underneath for added protection. We can enchant the stones with Hardening and maybe absorption, and they'll be replaceable so its okay when they break. They could carry some to switch out as needed, and since they just slot inside the vest, they could be carried separately, to alleviate some of the weight issue.
Also, I thought we could still use what we can currently do with runes to make a simple gun, using Absorb and Expel to make a compressed gas gun, and use it to shoot something small, like needles or pebbles if ammo is an issue. Splitting the functions might allow us to focus the power of the Expel rune if it becomes an issue.
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No. 1006768 ID: 6c227a

Try out this Mind and Body thing while completing the Mind Dorm. Double base meditation plus half meditation effectiveness should be plenty to finish that project. Does the Mind Campus need an athletics team field too?

Take Mana Theory class.

I'm feeling three lanterns and one scepter, minimum, to form a perimeter while the beam points forward. Any chance of getting a shape rune on the lanterns to make them effectively hooded lanterns? (greater effectiveness in one direction instead of being omnidirectional)

I'd feel better with one more ingot, to make another sun scepter and have a lantern for everyone.
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No. 1006769 ID: afa6f6

Note on my Tactical vest idea, the plates would probably work as clay or pottery as well, and might be slightly lighter, though they might not be as durable. Once again, I really wish we had access to some rubber or plastic, We might want to look into trying to figure out how to make that. Nico or Noodle or someone who knows about plants might be able to help us find a suitable plant for it.
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No. 1006773 ID: ce39da

>>1006746
PROTECT. THAT. SMILE.

> COMBAT STYLE?
Sure, let's set it to MIND & BODY for now. We can meditate to change it later if it turns out to clash with our claw-kata ambitions.

> INVENTIONS
I'm not sure if we should lock things in just yet. We could try combining the lanterns and sun rods' designs, or maybe link multiple units together to form a wider cage of absorption. If there aren't enough rune-slots for either of those, maybe we should experiment to find more compound runes that can help, like combining LIGHT and HEAT, or ABSORPTION with SHAPE and increase the lanterns' range of influence that way. Let's noodle on this some more before taking out those loans, even going so far as to use a TIME POINT on it. Ideally, we'll only need to take out one or two Arcanums from Ignis at the end of the day.

> CLASSES
It's probably fine if we give up on completing HUNTER IV (seeing as we'd need to dedicate every last available class point before graduation to do so), but not doing HUNTER II at some point would be downright wasteful. (Plus, we might run into GLIDE there, even if he's likely already reached a more advanced course like Noodle and Pon did.)
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No. 1006783 ID: 094652

Set Self-Defense to Mind and Body
Meditate [Mind And Body Technique] on Mind Palace to reach 100%
Psychology Class
Metalworking Class
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No. 1006785 ID: 4a7485

Im against background on learning PRECISION WITH NICO, at least not yet. I want to make sure we are making enough Shinies to afford it, and we are going to go into debt for our invention.

If we do this, We will need to start doing some metalworking and tutoring to pay for it.
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No. 1006787 ID: 96c896

>Pawn won't teach microscripting unless we give him Shape and an ingot
How about we commission him for the runework on some goggles, then? Should be cheaper than a whole ingot, allowing us to use more funds for other preparation. Heck, we can offer him the blueprints as payment for the first two working models, since he should be able to make them on his own. Well, maybe it's impossible for him to help us with them without the blueprints anyway, which means we'd just pay him shinies. ...commissions aren't restricted to those we have Bonds with, right?
At some point we should learn microscripting from him, but I'm just not sure we have the funds at the moment.
Oh, ask him how far along he's gotten in his book. That'll give us a rough estimate for when it'll be available again.

>equipment
One or two pairs of goggles depending on how expensive they are, and two sun scepters to go with them. The plan is that the goggles can be used to spot things to point scepters at, preventing ambushes and allowing more precise usage of sun scepters. (2/3)
We'll want some lanterns too, so that the group can fight a more extended engagement. Might as well make four. (2/3)
That uses exactly as much arcanum as we have, so further funds can go into the goggles and refining the inventions. If we can fix the overheating problem, I wouldn't mind making a super sun scepter.
>sharpen and harden
So long as there's an absorb rune powering the equipment it should be fine right? Still, we should make a couple of prototypes and have someone test them thoroughly.

Take the 10k from dad for general materials costs and paying Pawn, get a 30k loan from Ignis to fund extra arcanum. We can give back the excess to Ignis once everything's done, keeping 2.8k in reserve just so we don't have to bother him for a tiny loan next year and will have 2000 left over after paying him rent.

Uh, don't tell Drift how much capital we're dumping into this expedition. If he asks, tell him you're probably going to make money in the end from people buying more of the equipment.

>time points
Take Mana Theory.
Spend time on the inventions for the expedition. I think the priority should be on making the improved sun scepter less prone to overheating.
Meditate, split between mind and body and mind campus, since we're at double effectiveness and would have normally only needed one to finish it. Can we use that half-point to transform selfdefense to mindbody instead of stat growth?
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No. 1006797 ID: a9af05

>>1006742
>Pawn
You should tell Pawn about the attacks against you and the others, then warn him that he might also be targeted.

Just because he's your rival, that doesn't mean that you want anything bad to happen to him!

>>1006746
>Pon
Damn, he's making a lot of money! Good for him!

>What do?
The only thing I can think of is Meditating so that we can finish our Mind Dorm.
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No. 1006800 ID: afa6f6

A side note: The high power Sun Scepter seems like it has possibilities even if we dont use it for this mist mission, so we should probably keep developing it. If the issue is that the staff of the scepter itself is getting too hot, and its not just blasting heat back towards the wielder which is a much bigger problem, making some heat proof leather gloves should work as a stop-gap until a better solution becomes viable.
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No. 1006805 ID: 3c2b53

Woah, spend that point on INTUITION now, a banked point isn't doing us any good until it's spent!
Time: Dinner with Glide, take Nico's Precision training as a background task, meditate on your victory at the dojo and take the next hunter class, you're getting on in your academy career. Is Pon still thinking of hunting, or has his mind turned fully to business?
Go with two sun rods with 12 charges each, in case one is lost, and plenty of lanterns. A one-use disk would be nice to have in an emergency, but budget isn't infinite. Take your dad's offer of capital to invest right back into his equipment.
You may want to look at alternative arcanum sources already. Is it used in decorative forms where it can be reclaimed and smelted down? Can you work on more efficient runes to reduce your consumption?
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No. 1006815 ID: 36784c

>>1006741
>hormones
Yes, it’s a good thing you have these thoughts. Just remember to not get too carried away.

>unused stat point
I’m voting on spending that stat point to improve Intuition!

>>1006746
>Pon-pops are a hit!
Since everyone loves them so much, does this mean that even Hook has bought some? If so, then I bet Pon is really happy about that!

Let’s Meditate so that we can start benefiting from our improved memory whenever we go to the royal library.

Then take a Mana Theory Class. It might help us with our Runescripting.

>>1006797
>warn Pawn
Yes, do this!

If he’s successful with his generator, he’s gonna have a bigger target on his back! Someone might even try to kidnap or kill him!
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No. 1006818 ID: 60d729

The thing I fear about telling pawn even if our intentions are good is that he will accuse us of discouraging him from runescripting, see us worse than a rival, burn bridges and never talk to us again, trying harder to be better than Chi. He was pretty upset with us when we asked to trade books that one time before we were friends.

If we want to warn him, WE NEED TO TRY TO BOND WITH HIM FIRST.

we can attempt bonding with him next year and then warn him then.

And i think the best way to bond with him is to teach him shape runes without asking anything in return
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No. 1006835 ID: 36784c

>>1006818
I guess you have a point. Let’s wait until we Bond with Pawn before we try warning him. I just hope waiting until next year isn’t too late and something happens to him.
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No. 1006858 ID: 5ba456

so it's pretty messed up that you have either a nation state or some kind of underworld group trying to constantly put you in the hospital? And they have managed to at a minimum get at least four people working to hinder you specifically? a 14 year old??? like also the whole thing with a bunch of royalty being either assassinated or kidnapped seems pretty concerning. basically I'm just thinking that probably the whole potentially being in imminent mortal danger should probably be high on our list of concerns here
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No. 1006860 ID: e51896

>>1006858
Didn't Ignis say that the guards were interrogating the student who set off that firework? Maybe we can ask Ignis about it during our invention segment if there is an update on new information, that'd be a good way to get started on getting info on that.
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No. 1006864 ID: afa6f6

If you want to make it a priority, you can suggest starting on solving that as a long term Goal.
I'd back it up. However, it'd probably take a lot of work in stats and disciplines Chi isnt currently deep into, like Strategy, tactics, and politics
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No. 1006866 ID: e51896

Yeah, Lets save that goal for after we finish one of our goals
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No. 1006879 ID: ce39da

>>1006773
To further add to my noodling suggestion; maybe we can come up with mechanical solutions to our inventions' flaws, like using a mounted mirror behind the core (or perhaps even an open box of mirrors) to reflect a sun rod's backlight forward and increase the range output without increasing the raw energy usage - make that a "light-flooding" rod as a play on floodlights - or make the mist-consuming lantern a bullseye (or even just further hooded) so it can at least try to pierce the fog more than a meter out, even if its direction is more narrow; the only purpose it can serve as it is is to indicate exactly where its holder is standing.
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No. 1006890 ID: 031458

Meditate-Finish the mind dorm

Take Mana Theory, if we have a TA available might as well use it.
Our plate doesn't seem to know much since only one class is offered, but maybe we'll get an insight.

Invent
I think we've been approaching the mist problem wrong. We tried phase changing it, We tried absorbing it, we tried seeing through it. We tried pushing it, but in a primitive way.

Attempt to combine EJECT and SHAPE to create WARD. Link said WARD rune to a BLUE SENSOR rune to create a LIQUID WARD. Liquid that enters the space should be pushed away. Even if the effect is weak, it should do fine against microscopic droplets.
Better yet, this would function with only 2 runes. We could add Three absorbs, or two absorbs and an extra ward to boost power, we might not even need Arcanum!
Further more, this could be much smaller than the pulse plate, and much less dangerous than the HQ Sun Scepter. Perhaps even wearable.

That said if the Ward Rune proves to be a dead end, work on perfecting the HQ Sun rod. A simple if inelegant solution would be to replace an absorption rune with an unlinked cold rune that just makes the mechanism itself colder, and then supplementing it by planting it on a mana charger base powered by at least three absorb runes.
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No. 1006891 ID: 96c896

Yeah may as well use the TA.
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No. 1006920 ID: a9af05

>>1006787
>commission Pawn for the runework on some goggles
Things to keep in mind if we do that:

We'd need to get permission from whoever came up with the goggles idea, since they might not like the thought of giving those blueprints to Pawn. Or we could just bring that person with us when we go to Pawn.

We'd also have to explain to Pawn what we're trying to get the goggles to do. And since we'd be paying him, he'd give a professional opinion on how to improve the design of the goggles.

And if the goggles are a success, he'll also want a cut of whatever profits our father sends us from his expedition.
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No. 1006972 ID: afe7de
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> Thoughts
You think about two resources that could be potentially useful. PLASTIC and RUBBER.

RUBBER shouldn’t be too hard to find, but you’ll need to either EXPLORE the plate for a while to find the right TREES, or HIRE someone to go searching for it. It’s something to think about when you have SHINIES.

PLASTIC on the other hand is a chemically refined thing that uses fossil fuels. You’re not sure fossil fuels even exist on this planet. But Oil, gas, and coal probably do, the problem is you need so many extra materials to combine it with and then a way to process it, and some way to manage pollution because that was a BIG PROBLEM in Saba’s world. You mentally file this away for the future.

IGNIS gives you a belated updated on the firework student. He was released briefly after the incident, apparently paid by some woman in a large coat and wrappings. No information on the woman has been found, and that student was expelled from the ACADEMY for willingly attempting to harm 3 kin whilst being paid.

You also consider the fact that several kin have been trying to hinder your progress, two of which attempted to harm you physically. It’s concerning to you. But you’re not really in a good position to do anything about it. You’re still a kid, and as much as IGNIS tries to keep it secret, hes had a guard following you to make sure you don’t get attacked. You talked with him about it and although you’re fine with it, you think he’s being a bit paranoid. But then your INTUITION screamed it was a good idea and you let it pass. You’re just not used to BEING protected and instead being the one TO PROTECT.

You decide against warning PAWN about everything that’s going on for now. You’re not close and you’re almost positive he knows about what’s been going on since he hasn’t really left his residence other than to go to class. He’s toiling away at some RUNESCRIPTING PROJECT. You think that it might be good to befriend him, but that he’d also like a win so he doesn’t feel like he’s just going to be useless in comparison to you. Maybe you should get him something as a peace offering and then attempt to create a rapport with him, it wont be easy, but it’s not an impossible task.
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No. 1006973 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - MEDITATION - M&B STYLE
You decide to spend your meditation sessions on the roof, practicing the new technique. Your progress is slowed due to the new technique, but feels like it’s at about the same pace as your meditation before it improved was. You’re going through the motions of the technique, working your body at its core as you move, calming your mind at the same time. It requires more focus than before because you’re essentially splitting your mind into two by doing this, one focusing on what you’re actually meditating on and the other half focusing on your body.

Each motion in your MIND CAMPUS feels like it’s with a certain amount of force, a rhythm is put to it. It’s an unassumingly large structure. It bends in an L shape near the fine mist with doors to the left as you exit. To the right and beyond is the rest of your CAMPUS. Now that you’ve finished this up, you’re able to estimate about how long it will take to make a room for each of your STATS and how long it will take to make the rest of the buildings. In total it will probably take around 24-36 TP, you think, to do it, depending on if your MEDITATION improves or if you fully meditate. It’s a MASSIVE project after all, and you’re probably going to add extra rooms in the lab section for future NEW STATS, and future stats for your other lives. In the process, you decide to convert SELF DEFENSE to MIND AND BODY for now, it’s just a matter of moving your body as you make these changes.

Eventually you finish the MIND DORM. Like a block sliding into a hole perfectly shaped for it things just *CLICK* and a bright light appears, blinding you for a moment before the dorm takes a more solidified form. You get a brief headache, like before, but it passes. When you look up, [UNDERSTANDING] is there. He gives you a thumbs up and points behind you. A vaguely hazy figure floats there, it hovers around until it’s next to your [UNDERSTANDING]

[LOGIC] So this is what it looks like?
[LOGIC] Heya Chi. What a strange place…
[LOGIC] Is that a bird?


You look around and see what does in fact appear to be a bird. It’s a WOODPECKER of some sort. You get the feeling of [PERSERVERENCE] by looking at it. It appears to nod at you, then you blink for a moment and it’s gone. You wildly look around and don’t see any other birds.

[UNDERSTANDING] And that’s basically how it works here.
[UNDERSTANDING] You’re probably in that form because this finished and you lack a home
[LOGIC] I’d say it makes sense but you know it doesn't.
[LOGIC] The others will pop in every now and again, I think my time is up for visiting
[UNDERSTANDING] Have fun, see ya again soon!


With a wet POP your [LOGIC] vanishes. You talk with your [UNDERSTANDING] and find out your mental power has slightly grown, so they were attempting to manifest themselves, albeit poorly. You also feel like your thoughts are a lot clearer all of a sudden, like remembering things going forward will be just that much easier, even minute details would be too.

You’ve converted SELF DEFENSE to MIND AND BODY
- You now gain small bonuses to MEDITATION
- You gained another COMBAT STYLE SLOT
- The M&B Techniques combat effectiveness has been doubles
Your ATHELETICISM has increased!
You’ve completed your MIND DORM. (at least the first floor of it)
- Your future lives will have a home here should they find their way
You’ve gained PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
- Just looking at something will allow you to remember it and reflect later
- Just looking at every page of a book will let you read it in your own time
- You can spend your MEDITATION ACTION to read a book you’ve memorized instead of working on your MIND PALACE
- This process takes the same amount of time reading the book would normally, but confers no MIND CAMPUS progress
- You can also assign your [UNDERSTANDING] to a book to have them read it for you.
- It takes them 4x the TP required to read it, so if it’s a 1 TP long book, it will take 4TP to read
- And you can queue up books
- This is separate from your regular [UNDERSTANDING] task.
- Your [UNDERSTANDING] Says that constructing the HALLS OF KNOWLEDGE is a task about as big as the MIND DORM
- Some STATS will also MANIFEST that as their residence as well as providing other bonuses he’s unsure of

[UNDERSTANDING] Maybe it’ll take us less time to read? No idea!
[UNDERSTANDING] Any way, next time you can start with whatever STAT you feel like needs a home first
[UNDERSTANDING] There’s a good amount of space here to work with, so it’s up to you when to start
[UNDERSTANDING] You’ve been neglecting some of your stats so maybe make them a home first,
[UNDERSTANDING] It’ll probably be easier.

You’ve partially completed the GOAL - FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS
You will receive 4 GP for this milestone
You’ve reached your GP goal
You’ve been awarded 1 SKILL POINT
- These can be used in the same way as STAT points but on skills, breaking past SOFT LOCKS, or increasing them
Your GP has been reset, your next GP goal is 10 and will award you an UNKNOWN BOON
Your current GP is 3/10

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> CLASS - MANA THEORY
You head to the class and the teacher is someone you recognize, it’s the same falcon that officiated your AFFINITY TEST when you were like 5 or 6, it was kind of a long time ago. She introduces herself as YONDWA, wife to YONDO the head of the LOGIC department. She explains the class is about a lot of THEORETICAL topics and might leave one with more questions then answers. She allows you to speak amongst yourselves to figure out any questions you might have for a moment. It’s at this point that a young woman, about 16 years old comes up to you and starts up a conversation. She’s a CHAMELEON, a rare SCALE-KIN, with just extremely massive THICK RIMMED GLASSES. She speaks with a slight slur, stressing the “sses” because of her seemingly always out tongue. Her name is IGNOLIA WISSE, and of note you notice she has the same BOOTS that MARTH wore, only these are SLIMMER.

Ignolia: Greetingsss
Ignolia: CHI Right?
You: Yeah, Hook mentioned you

[CURIOSITY] Please ask how she can fly, she’s in the AEROBATICS classes and she has no obvious wings
[UNDERSTANDING] It’s the boots, but you should ask anyway.
[CURIOSITY] Oh, and how can she be a queen’s candidate if she’s not a WING-KIN

You: So uh, I heard you were in AEROBATICS, how-
Ignolia: I’m a FLYING CHAMELEON, we’re rare, but really it’sss more like gliding.
Ignolia: It’sss the bootsss. Got em custom made and imported.
Ignolia: Boosts me and I can fly with my flapsss.
Ignolia: He’sss a merchant, I was born here, I wanted to fly, blah blah blah
Ignolia: And to get it out of way, I’m TECHNICALLY a WING-KIN.
Ignolia: We can get to my life ssstory later.
Ignolia: I wanna know about you!
You: What do you wanna know?
Ignolia: What’sss it like being accssepted as the youngest teacher ever?!?
You: I technically won’t start until I’m 16, so I won’t be then.
You: But uh, pretty good. It’ll be nice to teach others RUNESCRIPTING officially.
Ignolia: I’m actually getting hired on to run another theory classss myself.
Ignolia: I’ll be 17 when it happensss though.
Ignolia: Gonna replacssse that SSSHIMON’S MONSTER THEORY class, maybe make it a mixss of my own ideasss


She’s inching VERY close as you talk. You’ve gotten used to this by now, but the amount of attention she’s giving you is like 30% more than IGNIS does. You stay PATIENT though, assuming she wants something more specific. You shuffle around and she sits back a little bit.

Ignolia: Sssorry, I’m QUITE BLIND as you can tell by the glasses, gotta get in close to kin to see
Ignolia: Their Expresssionsss
You: Oh, that’s fine. Glad I don’t need glasses, that sounds terrible.

[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] It in fact, was. Up until my awakening where my vision cleared up significantly
[SABA’S KNOWLEDGE] Though not enough to completely eliminate the need for them.


The two of you chat and come up with some ideas for the topic, apparently she’s taken this class before, but is taking it again in preparation for her job. Runes eventually come up and you recommend she takes the class. She says she’d rather wait until you teach it, the rumors about SHIMON are bad enough as is. They’re even talking about firing him at the end of this SEMESTER because he’s been doing such a poor job. He blames you a lot, but she doesn’t buy that it’s your fault, after all, students are passing because of you.
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The class itself is rather informative about MANA. How there’s different COLORS of MANA. She pulls out some goggles and lets all the students use it, she warns them not to break it since it’s fairly expensive. They’re a pair of BLUE LENS GOGGLES that look kind of similar to the ones you remember MARTH wearing at one point. When you use them you notice that each kin in the room has a slightly different FLOW and COLOR to them, IGNOLIA has a slight BLUE TINGE, your teacher has a slight YELLOW TINGE, you look down at your chest, it’s hard to see from this angle but it looks like there’s a slight BLACK tinge there. There’s something in your bodies from your BRAINS to your HEART and out a little bit before fading. It’s almost like a separate system of veins, but you [UNDERSTAND] that it’s broken somehow. You’re the last one to look at them and the professor goes on to talk about it but you thoroughly examine the device, you need to know what runes it’s using. You search it all over and even use a magnifying glass to find just extremely small runes on the rim of the glass itself, they’re covered by a small layer of ARCANUM, which you’re led to assume removing would make it impossible to read without damaging it.

[UNDERSTANDING] That looks like MICROSCRIPTING and another RUNE we don’t have. Maybe a COMPLEX RUNE?
[UN LOGIC] I’d say it’s probably a GOLDEN RUNE or even a PRISMATIC one, what logical COMPLEX rune could it be?
[UN LOGIC] SENSOR and DETAIL? But how would it work on glasses, how does it JUST SHOW the MANA like that
[UN LOGIC] Just think, you could see issues in your RUNESCRIPTING creations by watching the flow


At that thought you look at the BOOTS on IGNOLIA, they’re dark, you assume this is because they aren’t active. But you do have the RUNESCRIPTING PEN on you, you look at that and note the flow from the air to the ABSORB RUNE to a very small, pipeline that MANA flows through, eventually turning to liquid. It’s fascinating and before you know it the class has ended.

You ask the teacher how much one of these costs, you NEED one for your research. She says that she got it secondhand in CANUS from an old friend 10 years ago. It’s true cost is probably 100,000 SHINIES, but that you shouldn’t tell anyone the price. You gasp, that’s a ludicrous amount of funds and hope she’s exaggerating. You mention that this would be extremely helpful in your MAGITECH research, and wonder if there’s some sort of BARGAIN that can be struck to rent it or something.

> YOUR LUCK STRIKES
She sees the desperation in your eyes, the yearning for this object and for a moment she looks stern, before she snaps her feathers in realization and a very affectionate expression washes over her.

Yondwa: You’re DRACO and RIICHI’S kid aren’t you?
Yondwa: Draco Sava?
You: Yeah, and FAAN’S, that’s my parents,
Yondwa: No wonder you’re such a bright kid.
Yondwa: Tell you what, I’ll gift them to you as a graduation gift.
Yondwa: They’re more just a novelty for me anyway,
Yondwa: I’d rather they go somewhere that can actually find a good use for them.
You: I. What? But. You said it was 100k SHINIES??!?
Yondwa: Yeah, but what you’re doing and what you’re going to be doing is more important.
Yondwa: You’re going to be changing the PLATE.
Yondwa: Plus I owe DRACO a favor from a REALLY REALLY long time ago after I broke up with him
Yondwa: Biggest mistake of my life.
You: Isnt uh, Isnt polyamory a thing? Can’t you just?
Yondwa: It’s already too late, it was more a… The mistake wasn’t in the relationship with him.
Yondwa: Next time he’s in town tell him to visit me and the hubby for dinner, it’s been a while.


She hands them to you and you make a pocket on your RUNESCRIPTING NOTES to slot them in. It safely gets hidden away in your DIMENSIONAL POCKET. You’ve noticed that as long as you can hook together stuff in a way that when you shake it nothing falls out, it counts as one contiguous item that will fit in the space. You tried it with a small crate that you could lock shut and that also worked fine. But try it with two toothpicks just floating around and it fails. An interesting limitation. She then mentions the latent psionic capabilities that she believes could be in KIN, similar to monsters and their abilities. She also talks about how MANA is present in small forms in nearly all objects, as evidenced by how you can inscribe a rune on a surface and have it function. She calls it ARCANODYNAMICS. The rest of the class is a TON of theory and you get a lot of interesting ideas out of it.

You also spend some time getting to know IGNOLIA. She seems REALLY KEEN to get to know you and you form an easy BOND. She’ll be your COWORKER in the future, so it’s probably a good idea to speak with her more.

You’ve gained the GOGGLES OF MANA SIGHT
- Increases the chance of finding FLAWS in MAGITECH CREATIONS
- Allows you to see the COLOR of MANA being used in devices and in others
- The RUNESCRIPT is SMALL and OBSCURED, disassembling it might allow you to learn the rune
- But with your skill level you think there’s an 80% chance of destroying the device instead
You’ve learned a bit about MANA THEORY
- You’ve accrued general knowledge in 10 different fields
A combination of your UNDERSTANDING, LOGIC, and KNOWLEDGE is now providing you with new research opportunities
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - COLOR THEORY - ??? TP
+ Attempt to find a way to create COLORED MANA as a more efficient energy source
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN - 1 TP
+ You feel like there’s more you could do with the SCRIPTING PEN if you spent some time working on it
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - MANA VEINS - 1 TP
+ There are lines of mana that act as a sort of VEINS in your bodies, find out more about this
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - MONSTER CORES - 1 TP
+ Monster cores are chock full of mana, and so are monsters, you need to study a live one
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - SENSOR GLASS - ??? TP
+ SENSOR GLASS would be incredibly useful in your efforts, you can try to study what little you can see
+ Results may take a long time to come out this way without some FORCEFUL methods or other insights
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - WEIGHT RUNE - ??? TP
+ If its possible to harden and sharpen, why not change the weight?

You can undertake a research assignments with the RUNESCRIPTERS by spending a TP or by assigning it as a bg task
You’ve formed a BOND with IGNOLIA WISSE
- There is now a small chance that you’ll get a bonus event every year going forward featuring IGNOLIA

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> FREE TIME - INVENTION
There’s a LOT to cover, but you first show off your new find to the crew, the GOGGLES OF MANA SIGHT, everyone is floored by them and by the things you can see. If you had something like this to give to your FATHER they’d be able to see the MANA in the forest and find the MONSTERS. There’s a problem with that train of thought though. You test your creation method for STEAM using your RUNESCRIPTING OBJECTS and the mist is impossible to see through. It’s FULL of MANA to the point of obscuring your vision more than it was before. You assume this will be the case with the HORNED MIST PUMA unless you make HEAT SENSING goggles.

You assign GLIDE to testing HARDENING and SHARPENING runes along with absorption runes. You take your father’s money and get some cheap IRON WEAPONS at a discount from the BLACKSMITH’S SHOP, turns out the cost of IRON has gone up too, so it’s at the old price, which still is all of his money spent. He’s more than happy to help you. GLIDE tests on several of them, seeing what happens when it runs out of MANA, and the durability changes in the tools. It appears that the durability just drastically reduces with each swing of a HARDENED or SHARPENED blade that strikes a target. There’s still about 600 swings you can get in before it becomes too brittle to swing and shatters. Using an ABSORPTION rune doubles that, and two makes it so that even after 1800 swings it still hasnt broken. It appears METAL is a better conductor for RUNES then STONE or WOOD by about 2x. It’s a shame that it’s still expensive. For reference, arcanum is around 20x more effective and lasts around 100x as long. You imagine an ARCANUM BLADE that is hardened and sharpened would be a MONSTEROUS WEAPON that would last you quite a while. The GOGGLES even let you see how much MANA is left in an object when it’s used.

You don’t get a great idea on how to make things more efficient, but you do get a better idea of how much energy is actually spent. You request a FAVOR from PON AND NOODLE, to go out on a simple hunt with the SHARPENED weapons as a field test. They come back with rave reviews. Occasionally regular blades get stuck, but these slice through most hide like butter. Scale provides less Resistance but still a good amount of it, same for iron. Now you’re more confident you won’t destroy your Father’s Equipment, and some of their team members can swap out for these weapons. You file these away as a success and gain the following after spending your Father’s money:

RUNE SHARPENED SPEAR
RUNE SHARPENED DAGGER
BROKEN RUNE SHARPENED DAGGER
RUNE SHARPENED SHORT SWORD

WILLIAM has returned and he’s back to helping you. His present is 2/3 of a chunk of ARCANUM. He went out to do a JOB somewhere, but can’t say where for now. It looks like he really wants to tell you, but holds his tongue, he knows how important this is, a true test of everyone’s cooperation and design skills and doesn’t want it to fail. He’s just upset the prices of ARCANUM skyrocketed like they did and he couldn’t get a full ingot.

WILLIAM came up with an innovative new idea, he commissioned CHIPPER and made a VEST with CERAMIC PLATES covered with harden and absorb runes. It’s lightweight and tests show that they take a beating pretty well. Only well and truly breaking after many, many attacks. If left alone, the MANA absorbed would keep it hard, but if it’s hit too many times the plate runs out of MANA and becomes a normal plate, breaking easily. He eventually finishes a single CERAMIC PLATE VEST at the relatively cheap cost of 100 SHINIES.

IGNIS has been working on alternate designs of the tools you’ve created. Making a lantern on a stick, which doesen’t really do much except make it hands free above yourself. It works the same attached to a bag or in the hand. He also prototypes a HOODED LANTERN variant It makes it so that a cone in front of the wielder of 1.5 meters gets revealed, so it’s not really that much better of a difference, but it requires very little overhead to implement a switch.

You try to fix the SUN ROD using mirrors in an attempt to recreate what you remember about FLOODLIGHTS. Allowing it to use a reduced energy consumption, lasting longer and having a similar effect. It’s a good flex of your INVENTION skills. It doesent fix the OVERHEATING problem the HQ sun rod would have, but you brainstorm solutions and eventually come up with a COLD RUNE GRIP that allows you to hold it and potentially cancel out the heat. Rubber would be pretty nice right about now, you mention the material and everyone but Drift, whose never heard of it in their past lives, agree that it’d be useful. William mentions that he thought of the idea and that’s where he’s been gone for the past few [TIME POINTS] no such luck as of yet. You ask why he couldn’t tell you and he says it was meant to be a surprise, something he could contribute that would make a large impact. You empathize and commend his initiative, he blushes at that.

IGNIS also proposes an other idea. It’s a simple LEATHER GLOVE, but with a COLD and ABSORBTION rune enscribed on it. But the twist is he’s made a rip off tab, it functions like a button, but when its ripped off, it completes the “circuit” and activates the rune. It might be a reasonable alternative to a cold handle.

You try to find alternative ARCANUM sources, but have trouble with it. Metal is a better alternative as it lasts longer, but not nearly long enough for it to be cost effective. It’s around 10% of the cost for 5% of the effectiveness. Your group-mates also discuss your ideas for MANA CHARGERS and MANA BATTERIES, these would be useful to have to make more MODULAR devices. You consider researching it again in the future. You also start working on an idea for a gun that shoots pellets or needles, but it has so many small parts and mechanisms you’ve yet to find the solution for that barely any progress has been made with everything else you were working on.

The last thing you’re able to work on before it reaches the end of the TP is a new designer. You try to make a WARD RUNE for mist. When the AIR shape rune is disturbed it does activate, but the problem is that the SENSOR RUNE just detects if the shape disturbed, not exactly what enters it’s space. You think a SENSOR with a DETAIL rune would allow for that level of minute fine tuning, but that would require RESEARCH and you’re not sure you could make it work at your SKILL LEVEL. Though throughout this process you did find a better way to make mist. A shape rune that is spraying out liquid, but at such a low intensity it comes out as mist. To summarize, these are your new discoveries:

GOGGLES - Not a viable option
CERAMIC PLATE VEST - 100 shiny cost per, light enough to fly with, takes a beating well
+ Cheap
+ Light
- Will probably block a few strong hits and then be useless
SUN SCEPTER - Good at a range, can make at least 3 using a single ingot of ARCANUM or or a single HQ SUN SCEPTER
+ Heats up the area in front of the scepter and revealing it with light
+ Stronger using mirrors
- Can Hurt whatever’s in it if held for long enough
- 1/3 an ingot can create a single sun scepter
- 1 ingot can produce an HQ SUN SCEPTER
+ OVERHEATING on the HQ SUN SCEPTER has been reduced by adding a COLD HANDLE
- Still a small chance to overheat
MIST POWERED LANTERN - Clears out 1 meter around the wielder and provides light, easy to mass produce
+ Provides utility for the whole squad
- Distance is rather short and won’t prevent ambushes
+ Low to no chance of MALFUNCTION given it’s simple nature
+ Can make 2 lanterns with 1/3 an ingot of arcanum
+ HOOD VARIANT, can switch between normal and hooded
PULSING PLATE - Clears out 4 meter radius of MIST on button press
+ Provides the most range and use
+ Mist returns after about a minute
- Large and clunky to carry
- Loud and will alert nearby monsters
- 1/3 an ingot of arcanum will allow for 12 uses
- 2/3 an ingot of arcanum will allow for enough uses that it finishes the campaign

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - WARD RUNES - ??? TP


Your LEADERSHIP has increased to rank 4
Your BOND with the RUNESCRIPTERS has increased to rank 3
- You can suggest up to 2 BACKGROUND PROJECTS now
- They still take 8x the TP cost to complete, but now you can have 2 running at once
You spend 2/3 of an ingot of ARCANUM on tests since you were just iterating.
You would have gained [2 STRESS] from the encroaching deadline but your CALMING AURA and MEDITATION negated this

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[YEAR 15]
> BOND - NUBS’S REQUEST
The year wraps back around again. It’s your last year as a student. You see GLIDE around, he’s as casual as ever, this is his last year of GRAD SCHOOL, and you’re fairly confident you could wrangle him into any class you wanted to. Nubs pulls you aside at the beginning of the year, you’ve been spending time outside of classes together the last little while and she’s made you some meals while you made her some, she apparently really enjoys your company. Though you do tend to BOAST a little bit about your advances in MAGITECH to her.

Nubs: So birb like. Yer cool
Nubs: My Auntie thinks yer rad
Nubs: I’ve been talkin ya up back at da plate
Nubs: This is uhhh, kinda weird but like uh.
Nubs: Y’know that MAGITECH stuff yer teaching
Nubs: Cod ya make somefin that could let ya breathe underwater?
You: Hmm? It’s definitely something I’ve thought about, there’s been a lot going on though
Nubs: Yeah thats cool.
Nubs: So like if you can make one for you and whoever
Nubs: Would you be willing to come to mah home?
Nubs: I’ve kinda been talking about it a little bit with you before but this is more an actual offer
You: When would you want me over, it’ll take some time to make the device.
Nubs: Uhhh, either [TIMESLOT 4 or 5] of this or next year.
Nubs: I just. You’re really cool okay,
Nubs: and you’ve shown me around your home and it means a lot to me and my kin to do that kind of thang.
Nubs: there’s lotsa cool FISH there, and you’ve always mentioned wanting to go to other plates


You can tell she’s a little flustered, she’s got her arm behind you, pinning you to the wall, she only usually does this when she’s kinda nervous and wants to be in a more dominant position, like it gives her CONFIDENCE. You don’t have to use your stats to get that interpretation. She also says that any of your collective friends can come. Even some ADULTS if you make enough devices. She says that it’s a 10 minute swim from the surface, but you’ll have to fly to a spot to get there, or swim the whole way, and she says she means no offense, but claims you’re a pretty terrible swimmer compared to her, which you aren’t offended by, she can’t fly after all. She gives you just a big old hug, smacks you on the ass and heads on out. She smelt a little different today, slightly sweeter? Either way, it’s something for you to consider for now.

You’ve gained the OPPORTUNITY - UNDAH DA SEA
- REQUIRES UNDERWATER BREATHING METHOD
- Can occur in [TIMESLOT 4 or 5] of this or next year


> EVENT - SHIMON’S DISMISSAL
Since you’re trying to keep in the know about everything going on, of course you find out about this juicy bit of gossip. Shimon’s apparently been fired a year in advance. He attempted some radical new teaching methods, but somehow that led to a higher failure rate amongst the students. You did your part, tutoring, but even then the pass rate was only 1/3, even when you worked your tail feathers off. The administration didn’t fail you for this though and paid you your normal rate. There won’t be a MAGITECH TUTOR for the rest of this year. But they do pay you 800 SHINIES as parting salary for the lack of notice on their part. You don’t see SHIMON anywhere on or near the campus.

You’ve lost the MAGITECH TA JOB

> EVENT - VISIT FROM RIICHI
Your mom RIICHI pops in to visit you at IGNIS’S place. She wants to see how you’re doing. She heard you’re doing some strange inventing stuff so you share a bit about what you’re doing. She seems very impressed with you, but scolds you for not spending that much [TIME] with her. She’s leaving to head back to DRACO and FAAN, it’s been a while since she’s stayed over there and her business here will be done for a while, she earned quite a bit. She says your LAST CHANCE to learn GUILE from her will be throughout this year, otherwise she’ll have to charge you, since you’re going to be a very lucrative young lady soon. She says that you could always just GAMBLE with her to spend some time together instead of spending [1 TIME POINT] with her. You think she just wants to BOND with you since she’s not been a big part of your life for a few years.

GUILE WITH RIICHI will close down at the end of this year and you’ll need to find a new SKILL TRAINER
RIICHI is offering the BACKGROUND TASK of GAMBLING WITH MOM for the year
- you must buy in between 100 and 10000 SHINIES
- Potential max rewards are 20x
- Your rewards are based off of your GUILE and LUCK, there’s a chance to lose it all though.


AUTHORS NOTE: Due to changes that will be happening starting next in game year, I’m going to be changing the TP distribution now. We’ll now be operating on a 2/2/2/2 schedule. (though when you start next year, it’ll be a 2/2/2 schedule with me peppering in flavor for your class stuff. Or if you work 4 classes it’ll be 2/2, up to you all, You’ll get an opportunity to set all that when you start.

Study has also been incorporated into teaching because it hasn’t been getting used and study is just teaching yourself through books. Nothing really changed there, you can still study if you wish. I may consolidate more stats/skills with overlap at some point as well.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
- PIERCING THE MIST [in 2 TP] [costs no TP]
- TEACHING INITIATION [in 8 TP] [costs 1 TP]

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- PIERCING THE MIST [BEGINS IN 2 TP] [STARTING SOON!!!!]
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS
= MIND DORM PROGRESS 100%
= MIND LABS PROGRESS 0%
= HALLS OF KN 0%
= ANGER’S DOGHOUSE 0%
= total ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), 5/7 (ETA 2Y)
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE 1/3, NICO 3/3, NUBS 3/3)

Your CURRENT BACKGROUND TASKS are as follows (2/3)
- [EMPTY] Laid off from tutoring job
- MIND AND BODY DOJO TRAINING (-20S/yr)
- [EMPTY]

You can take on the new task PRECISION WITH NICO costing 300 SHINIES a year
You can take on the new task GAMBLING WITH MOM costing 100-10000 SHINIES a year
- [WARNING] You could lose the money or gain up to 20x [WARNING] -

Your current YEARLY OBLIGATIONS are as follows
M&B DOJO MEMBERSHIP - 20 due at [TIME SLOT 4]
RENT AT IGNIS’S - 800/y due at [TIME SLOT 1]
COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE ~ 160 S/Y

You gained [10,000 SHINIES] from your dad for prototyping
You spent [10,000 SHINIES] on Iron gear to test with
You gained [500 SHINIES] from your tutoring job
You gained [800 SHINIES] as severance pay
You paid [800 SHINIES] in rent
You spent [176 SHINIES] in lifestyle expenses
You have [950 SHINIES]

IGNIS is offering a FRIENDLY LOAN for up to [2 ARCANUM INGOTS] that cost a total of [30,000 SHINIES]
- You should pay it back within 4 years without interest
- You can also ask for less money if you need it
You can take out a LOAN from the ROYALTY for [30,000 SHINIES]
- You need to pay it back within 4 years with a yearly interest of +2000 SHINIES a year
You have [0 STRESS]

You have to decide your final picks to take as well as your SKILL and STAT point allocations. Here’s a handy form for that, it makes it a little easier for me to sort out the actual votes.

https://forms.gle/7W5ATVUAyLRcYvw78

You DO NOT need to spend a time point making these since you spent the last time point updating the designs they’re easier to make and will be done in the BG based off of what you get. If you go over your budget you will default to getting funds from IGNIS then from the ROYALS.

100 SHINIES can create a CERAMIC PLATE VEST
1/3 an ingot can create 1 MIRROR SUN SCEPTER
1 ingot can produce an STABLE HQ MIRROR SUN SCEPTER that has low risk of OVERHEATING
1/3 and ingot can produce 2 MIST POWERED LANTERNS with a hood mod
1/3 an ingot can produce 1 PULSING PLATE with approximately 12 USES

You have 1 and 1/3 of an ingot of ARCANUM in your stock, what do you make?

You have [2 TIME POINTS]
What do you do?



1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
+ You can tutor up to 3 kin for 1800 SHINIES per student using [1 TIME POINT] gaining stress per student taught
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
- GAMBLING WITH RIICHI
- UNDAH DA SEA (req underwater breathing method)
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
4c: RESEARCH something
- COLOR THEORY - ???TP
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN - 1TP
- MANA VEINS - 1TP
- MONSTER CORES - 1TP
- SENSOR GLASS - ???TP
- WEIGHT RUNE - ??? TP
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[DRAWING/METALWORKING/SCULPTING 1] Make a thing
[CODEBREAKING 1] Invent a low level cypher
[MEDITATION****] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 80% complete
- can use MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE to meditate at half efficiency, but also gain XP in ATHLETICISM and COMBAT stats
[TEACHING****] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11a. GO TO LIBRARY! [1 TIME POINT] Suggest a book you’re looking for if you pick this option and then the next update will be suggestions of suggested books (and some of my own) for you to read from.
11b. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book
12. EXPLORE, go out into the world and your plate, if you have a destination in mind, go there and look around.

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No. 1006981 ID: 094652

Spend a time point and 350 shinies gambling to increase your Guile
You're gonna need it for your next mission:

- Hide in the LIBRARY and Read ALL The Books
*Mission Impossible Music*
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to conveniently lock yourself into the library with almost no supervision, and then mentally photograph as much as you possibly can. It will take cunning, manipulation, and a healthy glut of snacks.
[This message will self destruct in 5 4 3 2 1
ARMPIT PILGRIMAGE!
... close enough.]

Recommended Book - Following Your Shadow
A strange story about a girl trying to sort out her feelings between her crush and his phase-shifted alter ego that happens to have the exact same personality as him.
This book is cursed. Under the right conditions, it will conjure a phase-shifted clone of the reader. Only one entity of the two may be physically constrained at any time; all interactions between the physical world and the 'illusory' clone are psionic in nature, with the body of the 'illsory' clone replicating the bodily functions of the physical down to the cellular level. The two entities will only split into two fully-physical clones under specific conditions, of which is performing a life-changing choice. At random periods, the two entities will swap roles; the clone will become physical while the original will become 'illusory'. The original author of this life-destroying dimension-spanning series has been given an eternal sentence in prison, in A House Of Many Doors.
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No. 1006994 ID: e51896

wait patiently for the black scripting manual to return so you can check it out.

Also, I've been thinking about putting our skill point in PATIENCE so that we won't get as stressed out once we become a teacher, and it will help keep PRIDE from getting in our way.


We'll need to make money this year if we want to buy ceramic plate vests for the 5 hunters (500 shinies) Metalworking and tutoring (probably isn't available right now) is the best way to do it. Gambling might be too risky with our low Guile.

If we need more ignots, take out loan from royals for the price of whatever ignots we need left, lets not bother Ignis to keep our bond strong with him as he might need the money.


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- Timepoint 1: We'll need money. so lets tutor a couple students and get some teaching bonuses, although if we cant do that since magitech classes are cancelled, do some BLACKSMITHING so we can make 1000 shinies to make up for losing our TA job, and build up our inventing/creativity skills. Lets see if we can use runescripting to help us out here too

- alternative choice to Timepoint 1: the last archeology class

- Timepoint 3: Psychology class, if students have been stressing us out with their disruptive behavior, maybe psychology can help us get a better understanding as to how to deal with it.

when we visit father for the second timepoint, after we give our inventions to him and the group, lets upgrade whatever weapons they have know the durability and stuff

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BACKGROUND TASK: work on the breathing device with the runescripters
Background task: INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN

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No. 1006995 ID: 5ba456

So if we want to take up gambling with mom, we want to think about giving Guile and Luck some space in our MIND CAMPUS. So that's my vote for how to spend our timeslots. We're broke and we have potential to fix that and thereby fix so many of our other problems!
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No. 1007004 ID: dd9239

Psychology class
Train at dojo to try out our mind and body technique to prepare for the next fight and meditate (explore in the mind fog)
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No. 1007008 ID: afa6f6

>>1006980
So we have two free stat points right? Putting 1 into Patience doesnt sound like the worst idea.
I feel like taking the loan from Ignis should be the first choice, theres no interest, Plus, he'll know what were using it for, and if we invent something broadly useful enough, we can give him the design and use it to pay him back, and it could help him with his political work. Like both the Waterbreathing device and some of the other stuff were making could be really useful to the plate, and thus make him more important. It might be a good idea to offer that to William too, after all, theyre both helping a lot with this stuff.
Speaking of designs, when we finally finish the Battery and Charger, one of those might make a good peace offering for Pawn. It'd basically be saying we believe in his ability and that he could make something good with it. You know, make t a friendly rivalry if it has to be one. at the very least I dont think Chi has any bad feelings towards him.
>>BACKGROUND RUNESCRIPTING TASKS
Yep,
Innovate the Runescripting Pen
and
Water breathing Device

Timepoint 1: Do the Metalworking Job, money, and hopefully can finish up more equipment on the side.
Timepoint 2: Take the Psychology class I guess. Kind of bummed we didnt get to finish Archeology or Hunter but, maybe we can make it up with practical methods.

Also, I dont think this would take a time point, but we should DEFINITELY take a look at Drift with the Goggles. Im betting whatever is going on with him will show up somehow on them, and any insight at this point would be useful.
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No. 1007012 ID: abb12d

>>1007008
>look at Drift with goggles

not only that, we should look at Ignis and William as well, only because when we first took the magitech class, Shimon looked at everyone with his goggles and used that to determine which student gets which colored scripting manual.

Interestingly, Chi was given a WHITE scripting manual to begin with, and her tinge was BLACK. Maybe that means students with a black tinge has an easier time with white scripting manuals.

For reference, Drift started with yellow, Ignis started with Red, and William started with blue. (We can probably also check with Pon what he started with and what his tinge is, and maybe Chipper)

My guess is that students with certain tinges gets a manual opposite of what their tinge represents (like maybe red tinged gets blue, blue gets red, white gets black, black gets white, yellow gets green, green gets yellow)
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No. 1007017 ID: ce39da

> BACKGROUND RUNESCRIPTING TASKS
Innovate on the runescripting pen.
And...
Project water-breathing device is a go! (Let's pen that plate visit in for next year - we can always dedicate a TP to it if the team can't finish it passively by next year.)

> BACKGROUND ACTIVITIES?
Let's not start gambling right now while our GUILE's still undertrained. I do get the feeling our LUCK will improve even further starting now, though, so maybe it won't take that much training to get to a level where we're confident...
And we can't really afford to take NICO's training until we actually have a concrete idea of how much debt we'll be paying off and in what way. That's budgeting 101!

> MONEY
Do start with IGNIS when it comes to taking out a debt - save the one with interest for last. It shouldn't be a problem as long as we're diligent about paying it off!

> FREE TIME
I agree with DOING PART-TIME METALWORK for [TS 1] - not only will we already be starting to work off our inevitable debt, but we might even gain some bonus weapons or material for filling out the order for dad's crew.

If using an additional time slot for actually making everything we planned to make won't do anything, I say we use [TS 2] to start catching up on LEARNING GUILE WITH RIICHI, under the assumption that we can still take a class in [TS 3] despite the period rearrangement.

> BANKED EVENT ACTION
Make sure to hug your dad goodbye, of course. You're probably nervous; you can't help but think this expedition will be more dangerous than anything he's faced (even if that's not necessarily true), and this will be the first real trial by fire your inventions will face.
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No. 1007023 ID: 96c896

>>1006975
>people have different colors when viewed with the mana goggles
Hey, maybe that's why Shimon assigned first books the way he did? That implies he has some way of seeing mana, but we didn't see him with goggles on, did we?

>[Shimon] attempted some radical new teaching methods, but somehow that led to a higher failure rate amongst the students.
Uh oh. You're going to need to find out if those methods matched your lesson plan. If they did, he's going to blame you for getting fired early, and that means you may have made a mortal enemy. Better to be forewarned about that. It might also be a good idea to just generally ask if he's doing okay, if he's got a new job lined up. As frustrating as he is, he seemed to be in a bad situation and compassion dictates we make sure he can recover from this. Maybe he would be better off as an inventor anyway?

>Riichii is leaving
It occurs to me that this year we're mostly done with our most critical tasks so it's a good time to learn guile anyway!

>background tasks
GAMBLING WITH MOM, set aside 500 shinies for it.
>runescripters research
Work on a proper underwater breathing device. Make sure we have at least two backup plans in case the primary device fails. Though that might be as simple as having multiple people swimming with us, to share breathing devices if one fails.
Also innovate on the runescripting pen. Getting more advanced tools will help with every other project afterwards.

>time points
Take Monster Theory with Glide.
Learn Guile with Riichi.
(free time)Spend a day at the library memorizing some books so we can start reading them via Understanding. IIRC, we got permission to do this via a favor from the queen.
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No. 1007026 ID: 58acf3

>>1007023
He did put on goggles, seen here: >>1003961

>The professor takes out from his bag a stack of books that look eerily similar to your PUZZLE BOOK. He looks to each of you and puts on a pair of GOGGLES, after a moment he takes them off and scratches his head, mumbling something to himself. He then goes around and hands each of you a different colored book. IGNIS gets a RED book. DRIFT gets a YELLOW book. You get a WHITE book. And the rest of the students all get a different colored book.

The mumbling is interesting though. Maybe he saw something weird with Drift?
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No. 1007041 ID: 96c896

Wait, Chi's color is black though, why'd he give her a white book? Was he giving out the wrong colors on purpose?
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No. 1007043 ID: afa6f6

>>1007023
>>Shimon:
>>It might also be a good idea to just generally ask if he's doing okay, if he's got a new job lined up. As frustrating as he is, he seemed to be in a bad situation and compassion dictates we make sure he can recover from this. Maybe he would be better off as an inventor anyway?

Yeah, If this comes up, I think Shimon really WOULD be better off as a technical consultant or just an inventor/mechanic. basically he seemed to be proficient at all the parts that weren't people related, which were the parts he was terrible at. And it really seemed like he was only really interested in money so, he might go for it.
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No. 1007057 ID: dfbac0

Start memorizing the perception book and many others in the library.
Learn GUILE with Riichi.
Innovate Scripting Pen.
If the library visit doesn't count as a time point then invent a breathing apparatus using wood to absorb CO2 and make OXYGEN, or something along those lines.
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No. 1007069 ID: 0fae41

Take on the blacksmithing job to hold you over until you start teaching. Improve your crafting skills! Take on Precision with Nico too.
Actively: For the love of god, take more than the basic hunter course! You might learn something about the job that your father's about to go on that you could apply some extra runesmithing touches to. This is the last year of study, after this there will be plenty of research to do but classes are scarce! Look forward to spending some time with your mom after the deadline's done.
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No. 1007070 ID: 96c896

...if Shimon has goggles that are worth 100k, I wouldn't be surprised if he sells them now that he's been fired.
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No. 1007072 ID: 36fc59

Learn GUILE with Riichi, learn Aerobatics with Glide.
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No. 1007073 ID: 36fc59

Background task: Learn PRECISION with Nico
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No. 1007114 ID: b85170

- Guile training with Riichi (we should try to take two more time points with her this year after this to bring it to 5 unless people vote to put a stat point in Guile, in which case, just one more this year)

- Psychology class

For background tasks, we cant afford Nico's training and Riichi gambling is risky with low Guile so...

Inovate the pen
Begin work on breathing device. After we get results on the end of the year, we can spend a time point next year to perfect it in time to visit Dopus.
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No. 1007122 ID: 55d87d

Guile Training with Riichi
Psychology class
Background Task (After the two above to best our odds): Gamble with 700 Shinies

Also: Since Riichi brought up your looks before as a thing to work on long ago, talk about boys... and girls... and just SO MUCH IS HOT OR CUTE. Get being cute advice.
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No. 1007129 ID: e51896

I'm wondering if we take a psychology class if it will help us in gambling since we'd have a bit of knowledge on kin behavior and how they think in relationship to nervous tics or tells that they might have.

I'm still against gambling until we get a higher guile, and not changing my votes >>1006994
but just a thought.
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No. 1007151 ID: a9af05

>Shimon
I honestly don't feel bad for him. We tried to help him and he ignored us, so he got what he deserved.

Even though he might be better as a consultant, I wouldn't be surprised if he's still upset with us and would continue to his attempts to sabotage us.

>Riichi
Aw, we forgot to spend time with Mom and now I feel bad! Let's spend some time with her before she has to go back home to Mom and Dad!
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No. 1007161 ID: 031458

Train Guile with Richii
Blacksmith job - We could use more money AND we need to train metalworking.

Personally I think we SHOULD gamble with Richii. Even if we lose, we'll learn something as long as Richii's around.

-If we end up taking a part time job, my vote for this years new background task would be gamble for a year. 2000 Shiny Buy In.

-If we end up NOT taking a part time job, my background vote is to learn precision with Nico. Little shit gets free food and the company of a pretty girl to essentially just hang out. He's lucky he's cute XD.
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No. 1007162 ID: 36784c

>>1006974
>Ignolia has the same boots as Marth, only slimmer
They must work differently than Marth’s boots.

If we could take a closer look at them, we could probably copy the runes on Ignolia’s boots and make something for other Kin that can’t fly on their own. Unfortunately, we don’t have a high enough Bond to ask Ignolia if she’d let us examine her boots. And even if she let us, I’m afraid we accidentally break them and she’d be piss at us!

>>1006980
Does anyone think that Riichi has heard some rumors from her gambling buddies? We could try asking her to see if she knows anything about what’s going on with the humans. But we really should spend more time with her.

Let’s Innovate the Runescripting Pen and work on the Water breathing Device in the background.

>>1007122
>Also: Since Riichi brought up your looks before as a thing to work on long ago, talk about boys...and girls...and just SO MUCH IS HOT OR CUTE. Get being cute advice.
Do this!
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No. 1007218 ID: f3f534

>>1007122
All of this
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No. 1007242 ID: afe7de
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AUTHORS NOTE: Small update. Updating BACKGROUND TASKS to have a subsection for RESEARCH, RESEARCH TASKS are what you and your RUNESCRIPTERS are doing. Should the group split in the future and you create another group or work in another team it’ll function the same way. You can have a max of 3 BG tasks and 2 RESEARCH tasks. RESEARCH tasks arent just research it can be having everyone just make things or work on other stuff, but it always relates to the RUNESCRIPTERS.

> BACKGROUND - RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
You assign the UNDERWATER BREATHING APPERATUS task to the RUNESCRIPTERS, you have some leftover ideas from the SHAPE RUNE testing that might show some gains. They’re excited and want to come along on your trip to DOPUS if it works.

You also assign the RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT - INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN task to the RUNESCRIPTERS, they’re not sure what gains could be gotten from this, but you all will work on it together. There’s SHIMON’S BLUEPRINTS for it, they’ll start there.

> SKIL/STAT APPLICATION
You decide to put the STAT point into LUCK. Your luck now has a [+2] modifier to it and you’re feeling PRETTY LUCKY. You wonder what effect this will have on the future.

You put your SKILL POINT into PERCEPTION, it was a tough call, but you think its the right decision. Your PERCEPTION now has a [+1] Modifier to it.

> PIERCING THE MIST - PREP
You’ve done about all that you can in terms of research given the time you have left. You gather everyone around and they all share their opinions. You know your father’s team is a team of 5, two use RUNESCRIPTED BOWS and CLAWS, one uses a SPEAR, one uses CLAWS and BEAKS, and your father uses a RAPIER. Apparently the bows were expensive, but this is good news as it means you won’t have to supply them. You’re willing to part with the RUNE SHARPED WEAPONS, it’s a shame you don’t have a pair of claws, but it’s not in your budget, so you’ll be keeling the RUNE SHARPENED DAGGER.

They have NO ARMOR given armor weighs a lot and it would ruin the WING-KIN ADVANTAGE of flight and mobility. So you decide to invest the 500 SHINIES towards the 5 CERAMIC PLATE VESTS. The rest of the inventory is a bit tricky. There’s a few ways you can go about this and the four of you debate this heavily for a bit. You eventually settle on getting a LOAN from IGNIS for 20k, enough for one more ingot and 5k left over for various purchases and dealings you might need to do. He acquires the Ingot and you end up making 1 HIGH QUALITY MIRROR SUN SCEPTER, 2 MIST LANTERNS, and 2 MIRROR SUN SCEPTERS. You end up with 1/3 of an ingot and donate it to the RUNESCRIPTERS for testing. DRIFT pitches in 200 SHINIES for the ARMOR and WILLIAM pitches in 300 SHINIES. IGNIS doesn’t pitch in for obvious reasons, he already pitched in the most, you feel like you kind of owe him. Maybe you should ask him out on a DATE in year 16, or do something nice for him while you build up your finances. At this point you’re all financially committed to this endeavor and want your dad to be successful beyond their expectations so as to pay back their investment. The development process takes a little bit, but you’re sure its going to be done before the deadline.

> LUCK - BLACK SCRIPTING MANUAL
You get a notice from the ROYAL LIBRARY stating that the individual that borrowed that book has gone MISSING, they missed their due date and were looked for, but they’re unable to locate the individual. This feels like BAD LUCK to you, but your LUCK says that maybe this is a blessing in disguise. It sure doesn’t feel like it. You get your ticket back and they let you know if it ever turns up you can rent the book for a year for free regardless.

[INTUITION] Weird how after you found out it was being held on the person who had it fled.
[UNDERSTANDING] We must be under closer watch then we thought
[GUILE] Please raise me so we can keep an eye out for spies or liars. Please.


You know you have access for [1 TIME POINT] to the library to just read, so you think up a new BACKGROUND TASK, LIBRARY MEMORIZATION, where you’ll try to memorize as many books as possible while you’re there. You add it to your potential TASK LIST.
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No. 1007243 ID: afe7de
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> USE GOGGLES ON COMPANIONS
You put them on and examine everyone. You had a theory, that SHIMON was giving out the opposite COLOR MANUAL to the color he could see with his goggles. It was the right guess as IGNIS appears with a BLUE tinge, DRIFT appears with a GREEN tinge, and WILLIAM appears with a RED tinge. There’s something strange about DRIFT though, the connection between the spots in his MIND and CHEST is VERY THIN and SICKLY almost. You swap the goggles around and everyone gets a look. No one seems to have a bigger MANA VEIN, as you’ve taken to calling it, as the others. DRIFT’S seems weaker and disjointed, almost like two suns that want to meet but can’t. Everyone discusses things for a bit and they mention that learning their ACTUAL COLOR seemed to be EASIER than the one they were assigned. You feel deep in your bones that he did this to make it hard or even impossible on others to learn. It’s just a FEELING though. It’s a shame you aren’t tutoring anymore or you could have tested out this theory in teaching new students their matching colors and figuring that out.

You’re not sure if this is the SOUL of an individual, or something else. If it was a SOUL, then shouldn’t yours be bigger than the others, especially WILLIAMS? Or are your SOULS reset after every incarnation, meaning it gets harder and harder to gain KARMA as you go through lives. You feel like there has to be some carry over, some base level it doesn’t go below, but it was a SHOP after all. There’s too many questions and this is all metaphysical stuff that’s hard to comprehend. Your [UNDERSTANDING] Says it’s definitely going to be an IMPORTANT LINK in the future, but its applications are as of yet unknown, MANA VEINS sounds like a good name, it wonders if there are any applications to RUNESCRIPTING or even MAGIC that could come from utilizing it.

> MAKE AMENDS WITH SHIMON
You’d rather not. You have a good feeling that SHIMON was sent to make things hard for your plate whilst teasing success, but you specifically threw a wrench in his plans. Though why he let other kin pass after you did, like Pawn, is beyond your knowledge if that was his purpose. If you see him you guess you could recommend he try and apply to be a scientist with the kingdom, he does seem to be a better inventor than teacher. You think at the very least a conversation is in order if you see him.

> UPDATE - SABOTAGE?
All of the news you’ve gathered and conversations you’ve had are collating now. Your [UNDERSTANDING] has a report for you. The SABOTAGE to you and the RUNESCRIPTERS appears to be related to the HUMANS in some capacity. More specifically it seems to have heavily died down, barring a minor incident with the dojo which may have been unrelated. There’s been activity in CANUS and in the course of two years at least one death every [TIME POINT]. They’re guarded, but suck at keeping information quiet, so its easy to find out what’s happening.

It seems the deaths are related to your situation as they’ve all but stopped after the initial few events. But [UNDERSTANDING] says that it’s the CALM before the STORM, and you don’t know when the storm is coming, but it appears to have bought you some [TIME]. The exact purpose of this attacks is foggy, but your best guesses are that they do not want TENGU to become a beacon for MAGITECH, or to have a secret alliance with DOPUS. You wouldn’t be surprised if it all came down to GREED, but you feel there’s something missing. A link of some sort. Some sort of SECRET UNSPOKEN that the higher ups of your plate don’t know but desperately want to. You feel like it has to do with the natural progression of the plate but really can’t say more without going into speculative theories that might be way off base. One thing your [UNDERSTANDING] does note is that every time the DIPLOMAT came to QARA TENGU, they always were sighted at least once with SHIMON. It might be related, or it might not be, either way its useful information.

Your [UNDERSTANDING] task has been cleared and he can be reassigned to something new.

> BACKGROUND TASKS
You decide to take RIICHI up on her gambling task offer. You buy in with 700 SHINIES after debating exactly how much to spend. It’s certainly a gamble, and you’re not sure if you’ll win in the end, but you’re already gambling on your father with some MAGITECH, might as well try this too and hope your LUCK doesn’t go tumbling down. Maybe if you’re REALLY UNLUCKY in GAMBLING your DAD will be SUCCESSFUL in his hunt. You’re not sure if that’s how LUCK works, but its something.

As for NICO, you’re unsure weather you should take it or not, there’s the LIBRARY VISITS that you could do too, but you’re really indecisive about what to do at this point due to your lack of funds. You’ve alleviated it for now, but it’s still going to be a problem going forward, so you hold off.
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No. 1007244 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - GUILE WITH RIICHI
You spend time with one of your mothers. You head to her house occasionally and she cooks you some home cooked meals. Honestly you missed the smell and taste of it all. You visit your other parents every now and again but everyone has their own unique flavor they bring to the table and this one is of nostalgia. Most of your time is spent at the GAMBLING HALL, it’s a dark place lit up by candlelight, torches, and the occasional crank lantern. SHIMON must have pawned one off when he lost here. The smell of smoke is heavy in this place as half the players are smoking, your mom included. Your mom drags you around to a bunch of different games. There are games of chance, games of skill, and games of strength. You participate in several of them just to get your bearings. A lot of the time you’re talking to your opponents, the game is secondary to them and the socialization is where it’s at. There are several times that you’re tripped up by the conversation or say things you shouldn’t have revealed of your strategy due to your BOASTING. It teaches you PATIENCE which is still fairly low. There’s also one thing that still surprises you, it’s like your mom turns into a BEAST when she starts to gamble, like a switch is flipped. You’d say she’s a HARD CORE GAMBLER, but it looks like she only ever breaks slightly above even. You wonder if that’s on purpose.

You also uncover some rumors you hadn’t actually heard from others while you’re here. Apparently the QUEEN plans to select an HEIR in YEAR 20 through the ceremonial CHALLENGE to those WING-KIN that desire entrance. Apparently it will require ASSEMBLING A TEAM, though this is supposed to be kept quiet from the ROYALS, the others there claim it’s an open secret. The team requires 1 MAGITECH SCIENTIST, 1 LEADER, 1 WARRIOR, and 1 WILD CARD. The exact examination is unclear, but it’s something to consider.

[UN LOGIC] Must be some kind of trial where their leadership and delegation is tested
[UN LOGIC] I wonder what form the challenge will take, maybe it will be a kind of elimination based tournament?
[UN LOGIC] I assume there will be at least 10 teams that actually get to participate
[UN LOGIC] Though the criteria they’re going about to pick the LEADERS is up in the air
[UN LOGIC] I assume there’s also no age restriction, so it could be old and young kin in the running


You think about that for a moment. You know two queen candidates from what HOOK has told you, and there’s a few others roaming around you haven’t met. You might be approached by one of them the closer it gets to the deadline as you are one of the leading figures in the field.

Time progresses slowly as you rekindle your relationship with RIICHI, she’s proud of the woman you’re becoming and so you talk a bit about boys, girls, relationships, what is hot vs cute. You have these memories of SABA, but he never really figured this stuff out, or had a family figure that could help him through this. So it’s a heartwarming experience to be able to share it with a parent. She says that there are basically TWO WAYS of accomplishing something like that.

You could be PURSUASIVE, which means you’ll be a bit domineering, though this can be subtle. A lot of kin definitely find this to be HOT, but some kin find this to be MANIPULATIVE.

You could also be CHARMING, which means you’ll be acting with an alluring grace, this can also be subtle. A lot of kin tend to find this CUTE, but some find this to be CHILDLIKE as well.

There are PROS and CONS to each of these approaches, but you could always bash through with RAW CHARISMA and pursue the path of BEAUTY, though this path tends to lead to the destruction of kingdoms. You question her on this, she says that she once heard a story, a beauty that could destroy kingdoms, or something like that. That it led to the downfall of a KINGDOM? You ask where she heard the story but she’s not able to tell you.

Riichi: I think it was told to me as history when I was a chick.
Riichi: Something Something Black Something was destroyed by monsters
Riichi: So the story goes that the WHITE kingdom existed alongside the BLACK kingdom.
Riichi: The BLACK kingdom was new and very diplomatic, enough that they got their own land as a vassal.
Riichi: Time passed and they became prosperous, eventually seceding.
Riichi: To promote diplomacy between the two kingdoms a marriage was proposed, one between the PRINCESS of the WHITE kingdom
Riichi: And a PRINCESS from the BLACK KINGDOM. The two hated each other, but wielded enormous political power.
Riichi: so they did the sensible thing and swayed their courts, instigating a war between the two kingdoms.
Riichi: But on the eve of the battle, a group of monsters came to attack the BLACK KINGDOM, destroying it.
Riichi: The warriors survived, but blamed the PRINCESSES for the event.
Riichi: Thus they became the beauties that could destroy kingdoms.
Riichi: It’s unsure if this is about HUMANS, BEAST-KIN, or something else, I’m not even sure if it’s a true story.
Riichi: But the princesses of the tale were quite seductive.
You: I think I’d like to read or hear the full original story
Riichi: I’ll see if I can find the book its from or where I heard it, it was when I was a chick,
Riichi: so it’s fuzzy in my memory


You think it over a bit, it looks like your CHARISMA has a few avenues for it to evolve. It’s possible to pick up all 3 SKILLS you think, but it will take active effort for you to make gains in one path or the other. You could take a NEGOTIATION class to learn more about PURSUASION, a SINGING class to learn more about CHARM, or find someone to teach you about SEDUCTION, you know that that is a thing, but you just mentally cant bring yourself to practice that until you’re at least 18. You could also ask IGNIS for help as he does seem to be fairly proficient in CHARISMA. He does look like he’s had something on his mind lately, he’d probably appreciate you spending [TIME] with him. Same for WILLIAM, but apparently they’re both too TIMID to bring it up themselves, which is funny because you’re sure WILLIAM’S inner WILLAMINA would probably scream to SCREW SUBTLETIES.

The last few days of the [TIME POINT] come by and you notice something with your PERCEPTION, it was a brief moment, but you thought you saw NICO in here. He was in the far back, talking to someone. They were hooded, it looked like a heated argument. There was something red coming out of his mouth. You only saw it for a split second before looking away, then when you looked back, realizing it was him, he was gone.

[GUILE] What was he doing here? And what could he have been arguing about.
[UNDERSTANDING] I’ll double check the memory and let you know if you missed something, otherwise I’ll stay silent.

You spent [200 SHINIES] at the gambling hall.
You earned [213 SHINIES] in winnings!
Your GUILE stat has increased to rank 3
Your CHARISMA yearns to break past it’s soft cap
- Breaking past your SOFT CAP will require getting a CHARISMA SKILL to RANK 3

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> CLASS - PSYCHOLOGY
You take this class, wondering what exactly you’ll learn, yes it’s about the psychology of kin, but you’re curious how it would differ from Saba’s Knowledge. Glide’s here too, he wants the easy A, so you spend a bunch of time kind of chatting when nothings going on in class. The class starts with an irate looking wing-kin, only, she doesn’t have WINGS. She’s got ARMS. She’s like some kind of FLIGHTLESS BIRD, it revulses you slightly for some reason, like its unnatural. After a moment you’re back to normal though and the feeling fades. It surprises you exactly how strong your reaction was. The WING-KIN introduces themselves as YOWIE, a male YETI. Oops, you mentally mean he. They begin their lecture.

Yowie: Before you ask, yes I’m a wing-kin
Yowie: No I can’t fly
Yowie: I was born as a mix between a falcon and a bear and got the short end of the stick.
Yowie: Anyway, here’s the one sentence summary of this class. All kin, no matter what, desire the same three things.
Yowie: They want to EAT, FUCK, and SLEEP.


There’s some chuckles around the class and murmuring, Yowie pulls out his hand, claws appearing and scratches the chalkboard, it’s a sickening sharp sound that stirs everyone to attention.

Yowie: As I was saying, it’s the basic desire endemic to all of us.
Yowie: Barring a few exceptions of course.
Yowie: We’re going to talk about the mental differences between Wing, Beast, Insect, and Humans.
Yowie: We don’t know much about the AQUANS, so I can’t speak on them.


He goes on a lengthy ramble about the key points endemic to each race.

HUMANS as a collective are GREEDY, they typically WANT things or WANT to WANT things, this can be changed by living in different cultures and societies, but visiting the HUMAN CAPITAL will show you this is a truth. BEAST-KIN are DUMB and TRUSTING, they latch on to the first kin they care about and remain loyal through their lives. They usually don’t pursue academia, and even at the academy in CANUS there is only a 20% Graduation rate for BEAST-KIN. INSECT-KIN are filled with WRATH, they’re not GREEDY in the traditional sense, they only want land to expand, but if you encroach on their rights or attempt to harm or take away from them they hold a GRUDGE. And WING-KIN are PRIDEFUL, they are typically martially skilled and can travel where they want, literally being above others.

[UNDERSTANDING] Woah this guy is racist as fuck.
[UN LOGIC] Yeah um, let’s take this with a grain of salt.
[???] Y’know I’m usually for this kind of thought, but even I think that’s a little black and white of the situation
[KNOWLEDGE] Okay we know at least from [08-C] that this is just labeling kin derogatorily


There are several students that object to these declarations as soon as he finishes speaking, it practically an outcry. Students try to debate the teacher on that, but he simply kicks them out and fails them if after a few minutes of giving answers they just start yelling. You take the lessons as they come, just goofing off with GLIDE, you’re not taking this class seriously. You learn more about GLIDE’S overbearing parents, they want him to be a hunter, but also the best in every field, it’s just a pain to him, so he’s putting in minimal effort, going to be a hunter and then bugger off somewhere. After thinking about it honestly, you wouldn’t care if this class was your first failure. You just don’t agree with this point of view that Yowie is presenting. Many kin are disgusted by the things Yowie says. She talks about WING-KIN first mindsets and the superiority of their race and you just gag at that. There were too many kin like that on [FAUNUS 08-C], though most of them died thankfully. A few kin eventually start believing the crap that he’s spewing.

Maybe, just maybe, there might be some small inklings of truth in there, but it’s hard to see. He has a way of being PURSUASIVE, even if the content really rubs your feathers the wrong way. He knows and talks a lot about events in history from different perspectives, and he’s patient, only kicking out the really terrible ones. You fail this course, mostly because you refuse to take the final exam seriously. Your PRIDE, KNOWLEDGE, and ROMANTIC ORIENTATION together refuse to give in to even pretend like you give a shit about this. You leave a terrible review of the professor and hope something will come of it. Maybe you’ll have different thoughts in a few TP, but right now you’re not all that happy.

You gained [2 STRESS] from FAILING the class.
Your PATIENCE skill has increased to rank 2
You feel like you could have learned something about CHARISMA in this class but it didn’t stick
Your BOND with GLIDE has increased to rank 2!
- Glide will occasionally suggest an activity for you to do with them
- Though you shouldn’t count on his initiative, he’s VERY LAZY

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> EVENT - PIERCING THE MIST I
Your father comes near the end of the deadline. You’ve already messaged him you’re prepared and he comes with his crew. DRACO is the leader, he’s the parties OVERSEER, in charge of ORDERS and PLANNING. MAGNUS is a BOW and CLAW user, he wears a sash over his eyes that he can see through and is a DOVE. BALK is a very tall BLUE JAY, she’s gorgeous and wields a BOW and CLAW as well. SNOW PEA is an OWL, he is BIG, BULKY, and uses a BEAK and CLAW, but you imagine he also uses his BARE FISTS from the looks of him. Lastly there’s GUNGNIR she’s a very lithe HUMMINGBIRD that wields a SPEAR. You’ve already had their measurements taken and provide the VESTS, they’re confused at first, but it has all the same pockets their normal gear has and after a few adjustments fits tight on their bodies. They try it out and test their weapons on it and are seemingly pleased by the results. You already borrowed your FATHER’S GEAR to SHARPEN it, the others were busy making the final preparations so they were unable to inscribe the rest of his team’s weapons.

SNOW PEA has trouble wearing the vest due to his MASSIVE SIZE, but you’re able to get it to work and slot in a few extra plates. The three test fly them and feel they work just as good as their normal clothes. You also hand them the MAGITECH creations you’ve toiled away on with your crew. The group of you give them all test runs using the mist room, which IGNIS is thinking at this point might be better to outright BUY then to keep using in this way. It costs about 50,000 SHINIES though, so he holds off for now. They use the prototype tools before testing their actual tools a few times. Everyone seems satisfied and is praising your groups ingenuity.

The group discusses plans while you let your father know how much you end up spending. It cost you around 4 ingots worth of ARCANUM including testing with a little more than 2 ingots being used in the final product. You explain you wanted, no, needed to make sure everything worked properly. He gives you a bug hug and exclaims that he’s incredibly proud of you, suggesting you sell some of the remaining prototypes or something to try to recoup the costs. You explain that most of the arcanum is used up as you wanted to see exactly how much energy use each would take.

Draco: I’ll do my best to come back with a killing in parts so you can recoup the costs.
Draco: We can probably do a few other hunts with these tools too.
Draco: Plan was to come back in [4 TP], but I think we’ll update that to [6 TP] and see if we can get a good haul.
You: Please be careful. I don’t want you getting too hurt, that’s why we invested in these vests too.
Draco: I’m sure if you figured out how long these would last, or sold replacement plates you could make insane profit.
Draco: Wing-Kin don’t typically wear armor since it stops flight
Draco: Well, unless its RUNESCRIPTED, can you make LIGHTENED things? LIGHTENED iron armor would be great.
You: No, I don’t know what that rune even looks like.
You: If you can get a hold of one I might be able to reverse engineer it
You: But it’s all theoretical, I might break it, and I don’t even know if its possible to reverse engineer RUNES yet.
Draco: You’re something special Chi Sava. You were once a small young girl.
Draco: Now you’re turning into a bright young woman. I’m proud to have had you.


You break into tears a little bit, you always wanted the approval of a father figure, but this hit you square in the sSOUL, like a LIFE LONG AMBITION was just accomplished. You feel several ripples go out through your mind and an incredible migrane starts to grow. At first you thought it was nothing, but when your father left you noticed that you were a mess. You look to your side. It’s strange, but WILLIAM and IGNIS appear to be going through the same thing. Drift is concerned for the group of you. The three of you lie down together in a pile of pillows and try to relax, a little while later the pain passes at once. The last time this happened [UNDERSTANDING] popped up, you wonder what will happen this time, and what’s going on with the other two. You ask WILLIAM if he’s awakened his [INNATE SKILL] and he replies that he hasn't. IGNIS asks what that is, and you explain it, he’s surprised and hopes he gets one too.

[UNDERSTANDING] This didn’t happen when SABA got his. Maybe this plate’s mystical laws are different?
[UN LOGIC] Thermodynamics is already out the window, so probably.

CONGRATS! You’ve completed the goal - PIERCING THE MIST
- You’ve developed tech that can pierce the mist, the end results are up to fate now, may his passion bring about change.
- You’ve gained 3 GP!
- Your current GP is 6/10
- You can assign a new GOAL


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UPCOMING EVENTS
- TEACHING INITIATION [in 6 TP] [costs 1 TP]
- PIERCING THE MIST - RESULTS [IN 6 TP]

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- [ YOU MAY ASSIGN A NEW GOAL ]
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS
= MIND DORM PROGRESS 100%
= MIND LABS PROGRESS 0%
= HALLS OF KN 0%
= ANGER’S DOGHOUSE 0%
= total ???
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), 5/7 (ETA 2Y)
- GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3 (GLIDE 2/3, NICO 3/3, NUBS 3/3)

Your CURRENT BACKGROUND TASKS are as follows (2/3)
- MIND AND BODY DOJO TRAINING (-20S/yr)
- GAMBLING (-700S) [ENDS at the beginning of year 16]
- [EMPTY]

You can take on the task PRECISION WITH NICO costing 300 SHINIES a year
You can take on the task LIBRARY MEMORIZATION to memorize as many books as you can
- A poll will be added when this is submitted and book submissions will be taken until the end of the year
- 8TP worth of books will be added to your MENTAL LIBRARY at the conclusion of CHI’S choice from the list
You can always drop or remove a task, but you forfeit the invested FUNDS if any.

Your CURRENT RESEARCH TASKS are as follows (2/2)
- UNDERWATER BREATHING [ETA TP1 of Y16]
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN [ETA TP1 of Y16]

Your current OBLIGATIONS are as follows
M&B DOJO MEMBERSHIP - 20 due at [TIME SLOT 4]
RENT AT IGNIS’S - 800/y due at [TIME SLOT 1]
COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE ~ 160 S/Y
DEBT TO IGNIS - 20k SHINIES due before the end of YEAR 18

You gained [20k SHINIES] as a loan from IGNIS]
You spent [15k SHINIES] on an INGOT OF ARCANUM
You spent [700 SHINIES] on GAMBLING for the year, only time will tell if you have any gains
You earned [13 SHINIES] as PROFITS from GUILE WITH RIICHI
You have [5263 SHINIES]

You can take out a LOAN from the ROYALTY for [30,000 SHINIES]
- You need to pay it back within 4 years with a yearly interest of +2000 SHINIES a year
You have [2 STRESS]
You can SELL your unused LIBRARY TICKET, or give it to someone who needs it for 10,000 SHINIES
- You can now memorize books, so it’s only useful if you need to take a specific book out for others

AUTHORS NOTE: You can take a single class in this TP chunk, if you chose to take the HUNTER class, it will take up TP 3 and 4, and You’ll only be able to take classes in TP 7 and 8 in the rest of the year. I’m willing to abstract this out so it works.

You have [2 TIME POINTS]
What do you do?



1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
+ You can tutor up to 3 kin for 1800 SHINIES per student using [1 TIME POINT] gaining stress per student taught
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
- GAMBLING WITH RIICHI
- UNDAH DA SEA (req underwater breathing method)
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
4c: RESEARCH something
- COLOR THEORY - ??? TP
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN - 1 TP (in progress)
- MANA VEINS - 1 TP
- MONSTER CORES - 1 TP
- SENSOR GLASS - ??? TP
- WEIGHT RUNE - ??? TP
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[DRAWING/METALWORKING/SCULPTING] Make a thing
[CODEBREAKING] Invent a low level cypher
[MEDITATION] Meditate on a topic or in general
- MIND DORM 1F/ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY = 80% complete
- can use MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE to meditate at half efficiency, but also gain XP in ATHLETICISM and COMBAT stats
[TEACHING] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book (the black book is MIA)
12. EXPLORE, go out into the world and your plate, if you have a destination in mind, go there and look around.

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No. 1007251 ID: e51896

>lifelong ambition fulfilled, father figure's approval
poor Saba... Glad he fulfilled one of his lifelong dream, despite it being in another life

I hope Nico didn't get kidnapped by a Black Lotus member...

- BACKGROUND TASK: Memorize books! (I think the queen might meet with us again and ask for a favor here)

- Task UNDERSTANDING with figuring out some teaching methods Saba employed as a professor since we'll be becoming teachers soon. If psychology couldn't help us, then UNDERSTANDING will!

- Give our library ticket to Pawn as a peace offering, for free. we don't really need it now that we can memorize books (don't tell him that). tell him he can get any book he wants, but recommend the Journeyman's book. Though warn he might need extra time to break the code. You're willing to tutor him to help break the code though (As a bonding experience) Just tell him to let us know what he decides if he gets the Journeyman's book. Make it clear that while you want to invent stuff to help bring Tengu's quality of life better, you are more interested in finding ways to teach magitech and help raise those numbers of bright new magitech scientists to change the world. Inventing you feel is a good way to get a good understanding in MANA to help teach. Maybe that can cool his competitiveness with us a bit. Mention that the black runescripting manual went missing. (maybe do this after the negotiation class

- TIMEPOINT 1: Negotiation class to break charisma's cap...
or tactics to FINALLY give Strategy some love. He's probably suffering from depression right now for not giving him attention.

- TIMEPOINT 2: Guile training with Riichi... AGAIN. And invite Glide as a bonding experience, his chillness can make for such a good poker face, maybe you'll learn something from him too

- MEAL WITH HOOK, high quality talk briefly about what you heard about the CHALLENGE and how you could help her. also bring some Pon Pops to share with her and tell her your bro made them, and remember to tell her that he'd like to bond with her someday. He is such a good hunter and can make for a good warrior for the challenge, and us as a magitech scientist. She will be the leader of course, so recommend some leader classes and tactics classes.

Though if she can't visit us or if Glide doesn't want to have Guile training with us then...

MEAL WITH GLIDE High quality. Learn how he can keep his stress levels so stable.
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No. 1007256 ID: ce39da

I say we FINISH OUT ARCHAEOLOGY and CONTINUE GUILE TRAINING WITH RIICHI.

Yeah, spending our meal event now should help mitigate some stress. I think it's too early out to be talking to HOOK, though, and >>1007251's phrasing comes off as a bit heavy-handed.

If you can't bond more with GLIDE during these two lessons, then yeah, spend the meal event with him. If you do manage to bond with him organically - I approve of this "just shooting the shit" bond, and it'd probably lend itself well to just organic time-spending - I'd rather switch the target to CONFRONTING NICO about what you saw. (Assigning UNDERSTANDING to that weirdness seems as good a task as any, in the meantime.) Make sure he knows you're coming from a place of concern for him rather than suspicion of him, of course.
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No. 1007258 ID: e51896

Also, I think we want to buy a mage hat as part of our quality of life purchases. Similar to what Shimon and Yowie wore, except pink, and with a large heart pin, just like her hairpin. We'll wear it when we start teaching magitech next year.

>>1007256
Yeah, that might be heavy handed to talk about. I still want to spend the meal time with Hook or Glide, but we'll leave out discussions the challenge if we hang with Hook. but I still want to give her some Pon Pops to help set things to have her reconnect with Pon. Though right now, I think I'll lean more towards a meal with Glide if he doesn't take a class or visit Riichi with us.

But whoever we take a meal with, I'd say we should start raising our bond with Hook starting next year.

If we do have a meal to talk with Nico, I'd say go easy on him on it. If he doesn't want to talk about it, respect his privacy and don't press him too much about it, as we don't want our bond with him to diminish. Though maybe we can bring Drift along since he's Nico's friend? (maybe our guile can persuade him to talk to us about it.)

Now that I think about it, when we first met William years ago, maybe the reason why Hook was visiting Pon, Chi, and Noodle was to probably find potential teammates for when she takes the challenge in the future now that I think about it. It would be cool if her team consisted of herself as the leader, Chi as the magitech scientist, Hook as the wilcard, and Pon as the warrior.
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No. 1007259 ID: b83475

>Shimon and opposite colors
It's possible starting with your own color makes it harder to learn further colors. Or at least, It's possible he thinks so.

There are two main possibilities about Shimon: either he's a bad teacher on purpose, or he's a genuinely bad teacher and that's why they sent him. Either way, it's a given his homeland wanted him to fail. I lean towards the latter: I doubt he was in on it.
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No. 1007262 ID: afa6f6

>>1007246
>>Time Points
1:Take the Archeology class
2: Do some dedicated work on the Water Breathing Apparatus. Got a deadline and the sooner its finished, the better.

We should really consider taking Draco's advice on the Vests, and make an effort to try and figure out a method of mass production, and not just because of the money. It might be important later if that "Calm before the storm" premonition turns out to be true.
Also, on the Psychology class, is it just me or did all the sins and failings of the various kin seem rather...deadly? Especially if you add in the Aquans apparent love of food. I wonder if there are two other kins we're not aware of?

>Background Task:
Start working on a group portrait of the Runecrafters and everyone staying in the house for Ignis. I feel like he would really appreciate it. Maybe put him in the center.

>>1007251
>>BACKGROUND TASK: Memorize books!
Just want to point out on this note that I added 3 more possible books in the discussion thread if anyone thinks they would be useful for this.
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No. 1007263 ID: 2aa5f0

how did we make the ceramic plates again? Did we use the black smith's forge or did the runescripters make them on our own? Because that might actually be a good way to make some quick money without changing things TOO much. I mean they're simple to make and cheap(ish) so if nothing else the group could make spares in their free time to sell to maybe set up a group fund so we wouldn't have to keep paying for things out of pocket all the time. Because things are starting to become expensive.
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No. 1007264 ID: e51896

>>1007263
William commissioned Chipper I believe.
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No. 1007273 ID: ce39da

>>1007245
> Further thoughts on PSYCHOLOGY
I can actually see how he'd be PERSUASIVE about it without coming off as pants-on-head dumb - maybe there are observable psychological trends among the different types of kin? But Mr. Teacher said it himself; that those raised among other kinds may end up breaking their mold.

Ergo, it's not difficult to realize that his assumptions regarding these trends are a classic case of CORRELATION NOT EQUALLING CAUSATION (a phrase Saba oh so loved to use during his gadfly professor days). That is, these observable traits are far more likely to be a product of a kin's environment and upbringing than of their biological species. It's not hard to assume that the supposed GREED displayed by humans are more HISTORICALLY SYSTEMIC in nature than that of NATURAL DISPOSITION. (This is all assuming that these trends EXIST as he says it does, to begin with.)

In fact, some of your colleagues have even theorized that CANUS EDUCATION HAS BEEN ACTIVELY SABOTAGED by an outside force.

Heck, you might even suspect that the teacher was PROJECTING HIS PERSONAL PROBLEMS onto what ought to be an impartial field of science that supposedly aims to study PEOPLE, not ANIMALS.

The UNFORTUNATE TRUTH about psychology is, however, that regardless of what conclusion you come to, IT'S ALL GUESSWORK. ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE has NO PLACE in a respectable field of scientific study, but that's all PSYCHOLOGY has to work with, at least for now. You're not even sure what anyone is thinking, trying to take that course in this day and age. Though you suppose SOMEONE has to make progress of some kind for things to start improving.

If you ever retake the class or encounter the teacher or more receptive students as you go about your day, you're not sure if your PATIENCE is enough to stop your PRIDE from speaking out regarding these conclusions you made.

Or maybe you already wrote all of this as such in your positively NUCLEAR review of him. Heck, maybe THAT'S what you were working on instead of your final exam - the beginnings of a 10-page MONSTER of a peer-review paper titled "A Concerned Student's Assessment of Both Teacher and Subject," wherein you bring all of your ANGER, STRESS, PRIDE, LOGIC, KNOWLEDGE, and CREATIVITY to bear in systematically outlining each of his major points before proceeding to tear into every single one of them in every way you can possibly conceive, concluding with a scathing accusation of him achieving THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE for instantly failing so many students for daring to disagree with him in such a GUESSWORK-RELIANT field of study. You're PATIENT enough to try and keep your language polite for the most part and hold off on the more PROBLEMATIC ad-hominem attacks you could have included; the last thing you want is for you yourself to be accused of discriminating. Still, anyone with half a brain for reading comprehension is liable to GET THEIR FACES (figuratively) MELTED OFF by the sheer animosity implied by the plain contents upon reading it. This ought to be AN ACHIEVEMENT IN VITRIOL, the likes of which this field has never seen (in this world).
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No. 1007276 ID: 094652

>>1007273
Supporting this train of thought.

-30 Sh Exquisite Meal with Glide
- 1 TP Take a Martial Arts class
- 1 TP Innovate on the Scripting Pen
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No. 1007277 ID: 96c896

>Shimon giving opposite colors was bad
Okay, there's only one possibility that would redeem him. His goggles might have been sabotaged to show the wrong colors. I feel it is incredibly unlikely though.
>[???] Y’know I’m usually for this kind of thought, but even I think that’s a little black and white of the situation
Hmm, having trouble identifying this one. Envy?

>background task
Library reading.
>new goal?
Prepare for the Storm. This means improving self defense and guile, and developing personal equipment that can be used to fend off assassins.

>time points
Negotiation class. Get a Private Tutor on this one, see if you can gain two ranks in Persuasion! Find out if any of your friends are interested in coming along. Did Ignis or William already take the class?
Guile training with Riichi.
(free)Meal with Glide, high quality. Ask him if his mom has a dojo or something, does she ever teach others how to fight?

Also make sure Nico is alright. Something red coming out of his mouth implies he was injured.
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No. 1007279 ID: 96c896

Oh, Ignis and William want to spend time with Chi... This year is going to be mostly full of Guile training though. Where can we fit in the time?

Hmm, I think next update we should take the second Negotiation class to get rank 3, and spend time with one of the boys instead of guile training. The update after that, spend time with the other one instead of taking any classes, and finish off guile training.
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No. 1007291 ID: 031458

-Guile with Richi
It's our last opportunity to do so without having to pay her for travel expenses and trouble and what not. Also, we seem to be entering a point in our life where we're gonna need it.

Invent
A water breathing apparatus is somewhat more complicated than it first lets on. There are 4 main challenges:
Oxygen
Regulation
Pressure
Swimming Capability

Notably, as a Wing Kin, our HOLLOW BONES seriously differentiate us from our mammalian counterparts in regards to diving. We get BETTER oxygen capacity, but REDUCED Swimming capability and Pressure Resistance. The pressure issue in particular is WAY more dangerous to us than to a mammal. Descending too quickly can CRUSH US. Ascending too quickly can cause our bones to outgas or EXPLODE. Not that we can normally get that deep anyway, since we should normally be to buoyant to dive reliably.

On the oxygen side of things, a regulator that doesn't rupture the lungs should be doable enough with a pressure sensor and a trigger rune, but we're missing OXYGEN STORAGE. Unless we want to shell out for STEEL, we need to experiment to find a Rune that can hold physical matter. I'm thinking Storage + Null = Void might do it. Obviously we need this for an OXYGEN TANK design, but we'll still need at least a small amount of storage to make a reliable GILL SYSTEM, though a small steel tank might be more viable there.

Personally I suggest a 2 Part Solution. A GILL system based on SHARKS, and a DYNAMIC PRESSURE BARRIER.
Sharks breath through constant motion, forcing water through their gills as they move.
Likewise, we can make a propulsion device that passes large volumes of water through a set of runes that extracts the dissolved gasses. Solving the OXYGEN and SWIMMING CAPABILITY problems together. Experiments will need to be done to find the optimal speed and exchange surface. In Saba's world oxygen density dissolved in water tended to be about 20 times less than in air. Since thermodynamics seem to work differently, that ratio here will also probably be different.

As for the DYNAMIC PRESSURE BARRIER, two pressure sensors, one on the inside of the regulator, one on the outside of the body, tie in via wires or mana links to a Harness. The harness not only mounts the SHARK GILL system, but contains runes that either draw in or push out the surrounding air of fluid to slowly equalize the the pressure on the body. The core device will likely actually be three separate devices: Pressure up, Pressure Down, and the Power and Control Hub.

This is all pretty extra when compared to a simple scuba tank and pressure outfit, but I think it would be worth it. Not only would we be able to visit our friend, but this would enable trade and diplomatic outreach between our nations. We'd basically get a guaranteed spot as Magitech Scientist during queen selection, our nation would finally get an edge on those damned humans, and we'd surely be given a shitload of money by the royalty. All while we are still relatively under the radar. I fear we will start getting watched by the humans MUCH more closely once we start teaching.
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No. 1007292 ID: afa6f6

>>1007279
>>Oh, Ignis and William want to spend time with Chi... This year is going to be mostly full of Guile training though. Where can we fit in the time?

We can organize a poker night?
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No. 1007305 ID: 36784c

I have a bad feeling about this. I honestly think we should spend a little time practicing our martial arts so that we can have a decent chance of protecting ourself if we need to.

And maybe meditate to reduce our stress.

>money
We could start selling Chi-llers.

So far the only use it’s gotten is for Pon’s business and the personal use of our friends. I’d imagine there would be plenty of people who would want a Chi-ller!
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No. 1007309 ID: 2a938e

>>1007305
If so, give Pon advance warning that he'll have to find something more novel than "monopoly on cold" to keep his business edge. Good news is, he's also becoming a chef, right? There's more to frozen treats than popsicles, and he's in best position to find them.
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No. 1007322 ID: 0fae41

We still haven't taken the second hunter course? We're going to be woefully underprepared for expeditions. That takes priority over all else while we're in the academy!
Charisma path: Be charming. Be the opposite of whatever professor bugbear was doing, work on that Patience so you could stand up to him without resorting to yelling. Is Patience a charisma skill? Later, we should use Meditation to build a room for it, maybe while we're practicing charisma with Ignis.
Understanding task: Study Drift and internal mana circuit function. What happens when you complete the circuit?
Drift may be lazy, but this is a useful quality on the runescripting team - assign him tasks that could stand to be automated or optimized, who knows what clever solutions he will prototype.
Background task: Take on library memorization. The upside of our luck is an additional use of the library ticket, so take the big book of everything, or the legendary starlight songstress. Maybe some speculative fiction will spark our creativity. Heck, ask the librarian if she recognizes Riichi's story.
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No. 1007342 ID: 96c896

>>1007322
Hunter classes are for hunting. Archaeology classes are for exploring ruins.
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No. 1007343 ID: a9af05

>>1007246
Take the Archaeology class. Exploring ruins might help us learn more about runes. Especially if the runes are ones that aren't in any books.

>>1007305
>Practice martial arts
>Meditate to reduce stress
We can do both if we use the Mind and Body technique.

>Sell Chi-llers
That could work, but we'd need money in order to get the materials to make them in order to sell them.
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No. 1007347 ID: 0fae41

>>1007342
And hunters and archaeology go hand in hand. We'll learn more combat skills and known monster species, and whatever innate abilities they have we could harness.
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No. 1007349 ID: 96c896

>>1007347
We don't need to know how to be a hunter to investigate ruins. If we need protection for the trip there, we can hire hunters.
But yes, it'd probably be a good idea to take another hunter class, so that we're not completely reliant on other party members. We can do it next year while teaching, though. We could also just read a book on the subject.
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No. 1007350 ID: 96c896

Oh, I'm voting for Understanding's task:
I think we should set it to figuring out new Runescripting techniques. Either compound runes or a skill like Microscripting. Maybe we can develop a specialized skill for disassembling magitech devices? Or learning runes without a manual?
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No. 1007361 ID: 36784c

Maybe we should take more Teaching classes? That way we’ll be better prepared for when we start teaching.
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No. 1007362 ID: 031458

>>1007361
We've learned all we can from the academy on that department, to learn more we'll need to learn from experience.
We could spend a time point prepping scripting manuals (and making sure Shimon didn't sabotage the existing ones), recruiting Ta's, and refining our lesson plan.
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> WARDROBE UPDATE
You decide to get a MAGITECH HAT, it looks exactly like a WIZARD HAT from your old world, but it’s waterproof. It’s covering up the more unruly parts of your head-feathers but you think it looks nice. There’s nothing special about it, but you could always do some RUNESCRIPTING on it later to modify it if you want. It’s PINK just like your hair clip, you get a BLACK PIN that matches it and pin it to the hat. You like the symbolism of your MANA VEIN’S color being on it. It costs you [40 SHINIES] to get it custom made by CHIPPER. At this point you’ve developed a good working relationship with CHIPPER from frequent shopping.

You’ve developed a CONTACT with CHIPPER starting at rank 3
- Chipper will make you things at a discount
- Chipper will let you in on the occasional cool deal when you use his services
- Chipper can help you get manufacturing services at reduced rates
CONTACTS are like bonds but specifically related to businesses
You can tell that CHIPPER just really likes working, it’s not that he doesn’t want a normal bond, it’s that he’s INDUSTRIOUS and a WORKAHOLIC. You imagine if you hire him in a more permanent sense in the future it will be possible to form a normal BOND with him.


> BACKGROUND TASKS
You decide to pick up the task LIBRARY MEMORIZATION, you’ll memorize [6 TP] of books this year and be updated on which ones you’ve memorized. You can drop this task at any time and you’ll be updated with the books up to the time you’ve spent.

> THOUGHTS
You had a few fleeting thoughts in the last bit of [TIME]. You were thinking of giving PAWN the library ticket in an attempt to befriend him. Maybe he’ll see it as a peace offering and that you’re actually more interested in benefiting everyone then being super greedy? You’re unsure, but it could be a good first step.

You were thinking of having dinner with HOOK at some point to maybe discuss the Queen competition. But the thought occurred to you that you could also try to discuss it with IGNOLIA or any of the other candidates should you meet them. There should be one in the TACTICS class, and there should even be some ADULTS that are going to make their bid for queen. Though you doubt anyone older than 26 at the time of the competition is applying based off of what you know, so it really might just be those of your generation and BELOW. Maybe you’ll meet one as a teacher.

You also think about the FINANCIAL side of things. You’re going to need money soon. Since this plate’s exports are typically HUNTERS and SHINIES, it might be a good idea to mass produce the CERAMIC PLATE VESTS, or see about finding someone interested. You definitely think the HUNTERS would be interested, and know without a doubt that the ROYALS would be interested too. The modularity of the design means some spaces can be protected with other materials whilst keeping the light weight.

There’s also the CHI-LLERS, and a similar conundrum occurs, you talk with PON and he doesn’t think it will affect his margins, he’s already got a pretty popular client base and cheap prices. He says the food markets are already heavily interested in what his CHI-LLER can do after their several discussions with him. He’s actually pretty popular amongst the older women of the community and blushes a little bit when you poke fun at him for being into older ladies.

You’ll need to spend a [TIME POINT] on financial negotiations though, this includes negotiations between your fellow RUNESCRIPTERS as for their cut of the funds. The CHI-LLER was all your design and PON doesen’t need a cut. You think the better your GUILE, CHARISMA, and PURSUASION, the easier it will be to negotiate with others. Or you could hand the job off to someone more experienced like IGNIS or WILLIAM as a BIG FAVOR or for a CUT OF THE PROFITS. They’ll be preoccupied for the TP required for the negotiations and can’t help research though.

You’ve unlocked a CHALLENGE: INCORPORATED
- Negotiate with the any of the following groups to establish the foundations of your business
= The HUNTERS
= The ROYALS
= The FOOD VENDORS
REWARDS: Establish Business relations and their initial orders
TIPS: It takes 1 TP to negotiate with each individual group, these are just the groups you and your companions know of right now, there are more that you can discover.

[UN LOGIC] I’d finish up classes and get all these ducks in a row before committing yourself to negotiating
[UN LOGIC] And while you might get more control over the deal, maybe its better to delegate if you’re in a rush
[UN LOGIC] We do have time until our debt is needed and we won’t have to worry about classes next year, just teaching
[UN LOGIC] Which means steady income.
[GUILE] One thing to keep in mind too is that each group wants and would pay different amounts for different things
[GUILE] The HUNTERS probably want WEAPONS and ARMOR and will pay more for those
[GUILE] The VENDORS probably want the CHI-LLERs and will pay more for those
[GUILE] The ROYALS probably want EVERYTHING but will pay less than the others


AUTHORS NOTE: So I was thinking of a few ways of doing this and came to a final conclusion. You’re going to get a skill check if you do the negotiations. The better you do, the higher your profits. You can hire someone like IGNIS or WILLIAM to do the negotiations for you, however they’ll take a cut of the deal as they are putting in the work. Only one Kin can do this task, and their roll will count as the results for all the financial stuff that’s yet to be decided. You could also try to convince them to do the work for you for free, but they might make demands of you in the future.

Once that’s done you’ll have a seperate EVENT where you will decide method of production and how much time investment you want to give based off of the order. Automation is possible, but requires HIRING OTHERS and spending a TP on MANAGEMENT. You could also HIRE A MANAGER or assign a Runescripter, but that requires more payment. So you could earn more by doing as much yourself as possible, or delegate to earn less and have more free time.

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> MEAL EVENT - GLIDE HQ DINNER
You take GLIDE out for a meal, this time its a series of kind of fancy food stalls, there’s a big variety of small snackish food that you are expected to buy piecemeal from different stalls. It leads to a lot of good walking and talking. The two of you just sort of babble about different things you’re interested. Really you just shoot the shit as it were. It’s a very casual relationship that the two of you have. You get the feeling that GLIDE is kind of an INTROVERT. But mostly the kind of introvert that just wants to be lazy, if he can be lazy with others he doesn’t mind it, but its more of if his friends are too demanding or need too much attention he just gets drained.

You ask him if his mom is some kind of Martial Artist or master of something since he talks about her making him do stuff a lot. He laughs at that.

Glide: Well, she was.
Glide: She was like… a savant I guess you could say?
Glide: The long and short of it is that she’s disabled now, so she’s kind of living through me?
Glide: It’s a weird relationship and I’m kind of at the age where I wanna do my own thing you know?
Glide: Love her to death, but she can’t keep living like that. Well, I guess I’d feel similar if I lost an ARM and a LEG.
You: If you don’t mind me asking, how’d that happen?
Glide: Eh, I don’t want to get into it.
Glide: Let’s just say monsters were involved and leave it at that.

The conversation doesn’t skip a beat as it continues to flow naturally. You thank your CHARISMA and GLIDE’S LAID BACK ATTITUDE that it didn't turn into a faux pas. By the end of the night you’ve had a good time and Glide hands you [10 SHINIES]

Glide: I felt bad you were paying for everything and yer not even my girl or anything.
You: Oh, you sure? I mostly just wanted to kind of BOND, get to know you. I usually pay for my friends.
You: Everyone’s so busy all the time so moments like these are hard to come by.
Glide: Yeah I get that, and I’m sure, don’t wanna feel like I owe you or anything.

Your BOND with GLIDE has reached rank 3!
- GLIDE will occasionally help you on tasks you are having trouble with
CONGRATS! You’ve completed the goal - GET YOUR REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE BONDS UP TO RANK 3!
- You’ve made bonds with a lot of kin now, they appreciate the attention you’re giving them.
- You’ve gained 3 GP!
- Your current GP is 9/10
You lose 1 STRESS from the nice meal

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> FREE TIME - GUILE WITH RIICHI
You spend more time with your mom. She’s glad you’re taking the whole spending time with her thing seriously. You’re starting to get a pretty good grasp on BLUFFING, opponents you were having trouble with before are becoming more easily readable. The main game this gamble house plays is something reminiscent of a MAFIA game. They call it UNDERGROUND, the rules are pretty simple. Each character has a role and a task. There are two teams, one is the UNDERGROUND, the other is the ROYALS, their objective is to eliminate the players of the other team. The surviving members of the winning team earn the pot split betwixt them. You remember something similar from Saba’s world, he was always REALLY BAD AT IT. It’s a game about DECEPTION. However one of your opponents, whom you see quite frequently in fact is a master of a different guile tactic, INTIMIDATION. Threats and misdirections are par for the course with him. His name is RUFIOH, he’s a penguin, which is another flightless wing-kin.

Playing against him is honestly pretty stressful and half the time he has you questioning what you already know about your opponents. Even when he’s on your team there are times you question his loyalties, as it appears his objective is to get everyone to turn on each other so that he’s the last remaining player to win it all. To your surprise, the tactic of removing him early doesen’t do you any favors as he then turns your allies against you. Its a bit stressful in a mentally stimulating way. You LOGIC your way through most scenarios, but it’s hard when you’re not sure what’s the TRUTH or whats a LIE. Another thing that pisses you off about the guy is that he’s filthy rich, the amount of games he’s won makes you assume he must be loaded as he continuously preys on the lower skilled players. You wonder how RIICHI and SHIMON would fair against him.

Your [COURAGE] apologizes to you frequently as it fails you, the penguin is quite INTIMIDATING and you’re not able to hold up too much against his tactics even though your logic is sound. It’s a fine balance between revealing what you know, and staying silent to ensure victory. Your Mother is proud of your guts to stick through it to the end and coaches you in between the short 5-10 minute rounds.

Your GUILE stat has increased to rank 4
- You get the feeling it will take more than one session to rank your GUILE up again
You’ve learned a little bit about INTIMIDATION, the art of scaring your foe into doing what you want
You’ve learned a little bit about DECEPTION, the art of LYING
- You get the feeling that breaking your GUILE stat’s SOFT CAP will require learning BOTH.
You gained a little COURAGE EXPERIENCE through the process
You gained [1 STRESS] from the INTIMIDATION TACTICS of your opponents
You lost [58 SHINIES] from gambling against a stronger foe


You ask RIICHI about the book that story was from, but she says it hasn't been that long in her search so she’s not come up with anything. She’ll let you know when she finds something. You pout a little bit but understand.

[GUILE] Thanks for investing in me, you won’t regret it!
[STRATEGY] Sobs incoherently

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> CLASS - ARCHEOLOGY 3
You’ve learned about what ruins are, the theories we have behind ancients, the history of ruins, how to bargain with others to gain companions and safe travel. Mizu claims the third class seems to be the most important, it’s about the designs of dungeons and their most dangerous elements, TRAPS.

She once again talks about the basics, pitfalls, spikes, arrows, and generic traps. These are all something she calls LABELLED TRAPS. Before most of them, if you pay attention there is usually RUNESCRIPT that directly indicates there is danger. The RUNESCRIPT sometimes can be deciphered and will tell you what the trap is, other times it tells you how to disarm it. On these simple traps the disarming instructions are almost always accurate. These are normal, however, the deeper you go, the harder it is to trust these signs. They ALWAYS indicate either the contents of a room, or that a trap is near, sometimes both. She tells you things to look out for, spots to be wary of, potentially hidden signs due to terrain and the works. She then describes two of the deadliest traps she’s ever witnessed. She pulls out some diagrams and pastes them to the wall.

Mizu: The first is a seemingly innocuous orb.
Mizu: If you see one, do not get close to it without some HEAVY armor.
Mizu: For the sake of reality, these are basically dead ends.
Mizu: The devices are simple. On the surface are many small shards of SHRAPNEL that are vibrating
Mizu: It might look to the keen eyed of you like a ball of squirming worms.
Mizu: Get too close and the shards eject with a velocity similar to an arrow and a similar piercing power
Mizu: But it gets worse, the pieces are all vibrating, so the pieces in you hurt you even more.
Mizu: And after a few moments if you haven’t left it’s range, the SHARDS are pulled back, hurting you even more.
Mizu: I lost a few kin that day, consider this my biggest warning, your lives are more important than treasure.


There’s a pause at that, you know there were a few students in the room who were still thinking of the treasure, but they grow silent at hearing the distinct possibility of death being brought up again. She continues.

Mizu: The second, is easier to spot in some cases, harder in others.
Mizu: Does anyone know what a LASER is?


You raise your hand at that.

Mizu: Makes sense the RUNESCRIPTER would know, please enlighten the class as to what one is.
You: Uh, imagine a beam of light
You: Now imagine it’s concentrated so heavily that it could cut like a knife
You: Though it requires massive power consumption to work properly.
Mizu: Okay, now imagine around 12 of these coming at you slowly
Mizu: Not a big problem right?
Mizu: Well what if the door behind you closed.
Mizu: You’d have to contort yourself, but if it touched you,
Mizu: the resistance of a knife isnt there, it would go right through you.
Mizu: And then there’s the invisible variants, I’ve only heard rumors,
Mizu: but the telltale sign one is near is a SHARP WINDY SOUND
Mizu: I theorize its compressed air, but have never seen one with my own eyes.
Mizu: I repeat, this is serious, go too deep and you could get lost or even die.


Mizu then goes on to list the occasional monster that lives in the dungeon, for the most part they are UNIQUE CREATURES. Sometimes it’s something you could find on a plate, other times they’re these pure white monstrocities, some have been dyed red by the blood of the ones it’s slaughtered. She tosses out a tooth soaked in the blood of something, as if her words weren’t enough. You’re able to keep yourself collected, you expected as much, but others in the class are looking sick and leave. Eventually you’re the only one left in the class.

Mizu: You’re sticking through it? You know it’s going to be hard right?
You: No path worth walking has ever been EASY, has it?
Mizu: That’s true.
Mizu: You’re probably going to become one of the most qualified ARCHAEOLOGISTS if you ever pursue the path for real
Mizu: You could probably create tools to prevent harm from most of these traps
You: I’m already thinking of a few solutions, but need many iterations to come to something that works.
Mizu: If you can come up with anything to make archeology easier I’d appreciate it.
Mizu: I know some kin who’d pay, so keep me in mind when you do.
Mizu: I’ve retired for the most part, hence the teaching job, but I know a few kin with some fur in the game.


You thank Mizu as you finish the class, it was enlightening and you feel your senses SHARPEN ever so slightly.

Your PERCEPTION skill has increased to RANK 2(+1)
- Due to your specific training you now have a bonus +1 to detecting TRAPS and STRANGE THINGS in RUINS
You’ve completed the ARCHEOLOGY COURSE!
You’ve gained MIZU as a CONTACT at rank 1
- Mizu is your contact for ARCHAEOLOGISTS and can get you information related to it
- Mizu has left you with a standing request for anything that can make ARCHEOLOGY easier.

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1007417

> EVENT - MIND AND BODY DOJO III
You’ve had some gains this year due to your training, there was no duel scheduled this year as you won your last duel. LOU XIN is waiting for you to MASTER the CLAW before providing you with a decent CHALLENGE. She worries the other DOJOS will try to pull something, so she wants you in tip-top shape. You instead spar with her and other members of your DOJO.

Your CLAW skill has improved to rank 5
- You have the feeling getting from 5 to 6 will be harder then the others
- But there is no SOFT CAP blocking your way
Your TENACITY stat has improved to RANK 2
- You have the feeling that it will take twice as long to improve from rank 2 to 3 and so on
Your body is becoming firmer and more muscular, especially in your LEGS and THIGHS
- you think you could take a proper beating and still maintain coherency throughout it.


LOU XIN says that if you want to continue to improve at this pace and are willing to pay an extra 180 SHINIES a year, she can teach you more intensely. But you will gain a guaranteed 3 stress at this point [end of TP 4] every year from the extremely rigorous training.

> EVENT - ANIMAL FRIEND
You’re heading home one day when you see a small MEOWRET in a box. It’s cold and alone with a sign that says FREE next to it. You examine the creature more closely. It’s got features similar to a FERRET, being small and rather lanky with CAT-LIKE ears, two tails, and four paws. It looks like it hasn't eaten in days but its giving you the cutest expression it could possibly muster. You could take it home with you and keep it as a pet. Or give it to another kin, you’re sure PON or NOODLE wouldn’t mind a small animal friend to take care of, and it could add some livelihood to the house. On the other hand you could also bring it to the OUTREACH SHELTER, they take care of small animals like this.

[KNOWLEDGE] Oh, these things are pets you normally find, normally they eat small rodents that get into farms
[KNOWLEDGE] Or into houses or pantries, typically they’re GOOD OMENS
[KNOWLEDGE] The only problem is they require a lot of time spent giving them attention or they could get depressed
[KNOWLEDGE] They also squeak and are pretty fast, meant to be outdoor and indoor pets
[KNOWLEDGE] Oh and like to hang off your shoulder or hat, close contact is just something they really like
[CREATIVITY] It’s so cute!
[ATHLETICISM] For starving it looks pretty strong for a little guy
[KNOWLEDGE] Actually all of the species are hermaphrodites, no males or females, though I guess you could call them whatever.
[???] Its… So… PRECIOUS!!!! <3 <3 <3
[CHARISMA] You’re way cuter then that thing
[PRIDE] I agree, none are cuter than we!
[UN LOGIC] We don’t really *need* a pet… We have William and Ignis for that!
[SEVERAL STATS] Bap [UN LOGIC] on the metaphysical head


AUTHORS NOTE: Taking care of a pet requires either one time point a year dedicated to it, or a background task slot alloted to it. Each update you have any pets there is a 50% chance nothing happens, a 30% chance of losing 1 stress or gaining 1 FUN POINT if you are at 0 stress, a 15% chance of gaining STRESS from pet based shenanigans, and a 5% chance of a SPECIAL EVENT occurring. You don’t get the bonus if someone else is taking care of the animal. Your lifestyle expenses will also increase to cover the costs of raising the creature.

If you do adopt the animal friend, you better pick a name for them, or someone else will! Oh, and one last thing, if the pet dies you’re going to take a large amount of STRESS depending on how long you’ve been with it.





UPCOMING EVENTS
- TEACHING INITIATION [in 4 TP] [costs 1 TP]
- PIERCING THE MIST - RESULTS [IN 4 TP]

*REMINDER* - in order for me to add a new goal I need to have at least 3 similar suggestions
Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), 5/7 (ETA 2Y)
- [ YOU MAY ASSIGN A NEW GOAL ]
- [ YOU MAY ASSIGN A NEW GOAL ]
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS
= MIND DORM PROGRESS 100%
= MIND LABS PROGRESS 0%
= HALLS OF KN 0%
= ANGER’S DOGHOUSE 0%
= total ???
- 9/10 GP, next reward: UNKNOWN BOON

Your CURRENT BACKGROUND TASKS are as follows (2/3)
- MIND AND BODY DOJO TRAINING (-20S/yr) [Can improve to -200S/yr +3Stress/yr for continued gains]
- GAMBLING (-700S) [ENDS at the beginning of year 16]
- LIBRARY MEMORIZATION [2 TP of books MEMORIZED]
= LINK TO BOOK SUGGESTIONS: https://forms.gle/5f7ofmtzVRfkmvmbA

You can take on the task PRECISION WITH NICO costing 300 SHINIES a year
You can always drop or remove a task, but you forfeit the invested FUNDS if any.

Your CURRENT RESEARCH TASKS are as follows (2/2)
- UNDERWATER BREATHING [ETA TP1 of Y16] 50%
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN [ETA TP1 of Y16] 50%

Your current OBLIGATIONS are as follows
M&B DOJO MEMBERSHIP - 20 due at [TIME SLOT 4]
RENT AT IGNIS’S - 800/y due at [TIME SLOT 1]
COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE ~ 160 S/Y
DEBT TO IGNIS - 20k SHINIES due before the end of YEAR 18

You spent [20 SHINIES] on your DOJO MEMBERSHIP
You spent [40 SHINIES] on your new HAT
You spent [32 SHINIES] on your dinner with GLIDE
You earned [10 SHINIES] from GLIDE at dinner
You spent [58 SHINIES] GAMBLING
You have [5123 SHINIES]

You can take out a LOAN from the ROYALTY for [30,000 SHINIES]
- You need to pay it back within 4 years with a yearly interest of +2000 SHINIES a year
You have [2 STRESS]
You can SELL your unused LIBRARY TICKET, or give it to someone who needs it for 10,000 SHINIES
- You can now memorize books, so it’s only useful if you need to take a specific book out for others

AUTHORS NOTE: You can take a single class in this TP chunk, if you chose to take the HUNTER class, it will take up TP 5 and 6, and You’ll only be able to take one class in TP 7/8 in the rest of the year. I’m willing to abstract this out so it works.

You have [2 TIME POINTS]
Do you adopt the MEOWRET?
And do you NEGOTIATE or send someone else to do it for you to start your business? You can send someone off to negotiate with everyone and they’ll get back to you when they’re done, or you can do it one by one, you’ll get a final say before confirming what you do.
What do you do?



1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
+ You can tutor up to 3 kin for 1800 SHINIES per student using [1 TIME POINT] gaining stress per student taught
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
- GAMBLING WITH RIICHI
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
4c: RESEARCH something
- COLOR THEORY - ??? TP
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN - 1 TP (in progress)
- MANA VEINS - 1 TP
- MONSTER CORES - 1 TP
- SENSOR GLASS - ??? TP
- WEIGHT RUNE - ??? TP
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[DRAWING/METALWORKING/SCULPTING] Make a thing
[CODEBREAKING] Invent a low level cypher
[MEDITATION] Meditate on a topic or in general
- Continue construction of MIND CAMPUS
- can use MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE to meditate at half efficiency, but also gain XP in ATHLETICISM and COMBAT stats
[TEACHING] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book (the black book is MIA)
12. EXPLORE, go out into the world and your plate, if you have a destination in mind, go there and look around.
13. NEGOTIATE with any of the following groups to start your business and make money
13a. HUNTERS - WEAPON AND ARMOR SALES
13b. ROYALS - WEAPON, ARMOR, and CHI-LLER sales
13c. FOOD VENDORS - CHI-LLER sales

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No. 1007418 ID: 094652

>Adop
YES
You relieve stress so easily with just one pet
For some reason, you have the urge to call it Izzie the Reaper
If you don't want to keep them, do not give them to the shelter. They're basically a glorified euthanasia center.

>What Do
-1 TP Use a Favor from Ignis to help you start your business with Royal contacts
-1 TP Take a negotiation class to show you're serious about future business courses.
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No. 1007426 ID: e51896

IDEA: we'll work on inventing after next year begins and we see what progress and inventions was made in the research task. afterwards, we'll spend a timepoint to make that breathing apparatus to perfect it in time to visit Dopus. (I'll think up some invention ideas until then

Still want to give our library ticket to Pawn as a peace offering. Maybe once we bond with him, he'll someday teach us microscripting.

I'm thinking we can form a business with Pon and use our runescripting mainly to invent things to enhance the quality of food with Pon. But we'll cross that bridge after classes as UN LOGIC recommended, so next year we'll negotiate with food vendors, or any other business. We'll need negotiation class first before we do that.

I wouldn't recommend hunting class, we're already getting training from the dojo, we can always sign paperwork to leave the worldplate without a hunters license, and we have Pon, Noodle, and maybe Glide to protect us with their knowledge of monsters. (plus library memorization can help us learn hunting skills if there are some hunting books)
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TIME POINTS

- TACTICS CLASS (with a tutor) TAKE THE CLASS WITH HOOK so she can be prepared for the challenge: Can we give Strategy some love? He's suffering from depression. To make up for it, The tutor according to >>1003877 gives a 1x to 4x bonus to efficiency bonus, so we should use that tutor since we've been neglecting it since childhood when we took that aptitude test... wow, that was many many years ago. Plus we'll need strategy when shit starts hitting the fans with Canus trying to stop us from teaching... and black lotus

- our yearly MEDITATION quota needs to be filled, and will help reduce stress. Lets work on our mind palace. Any will do... maybe ANGER’S DOGHOUSE? (Anger will probably be angry with us when he finds out it's a doghouse we're building as a place for him. Hopefully he won't become the ANGRIEST DOG IN THE WORLDPLATE and reach a state of rigor mortis.

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GOAL: Find a way to breathe to take Nub's offer to visit Dopus
GOAL: Find a BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND (begins at year 16)

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Pet? I don't know... I'll let the others decide or figure out later. But call it RHODIE if we do... something about that name seems familiar...
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No. 1007427 ID: 0fae41

Bring it to the outreach center and do your good deed for the day.
Take the Hunter class now. We can finish up one more class this year and then we'll be very busy making contacts and starting up businesses. Say goodbye to our free time...
Negotiations can wait, I want to do at least one ourselves before going to Ignis or William about it.
The ticket is... well, we could certainly use that as a bargaining tool, since we have other, unique means of utilizing the library. How about offering to sell it to Pawn for a discount, half price or more? Use the excuse that you can get plenty more time due to your teaching job.
Begin the intensive training with Lou Xin, and ensure you have a means of stress reduction.
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No. 1007428 ID: 2e49ea

Spend the last of our break time with Ignis (not a date, since we are not 16 yet, just hang out) he has helped us so much with stuff, that he deserves some attention. Maybe we can ask him for charisma advice?

Tactics class with tutor. We can scope out Hook's competition that way too.
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No. 1007430 ID: ce39da

> PET
Dunno if we can be responsible for the li'l guy... I ultimately have no clue what we should do, so I abstain from voting on this topic.

> GOALS
NEW GOAL: PAY OFF YOUR DEBT
NEW GOAL: START A RUNESCRIPTING FIRM/COMPANY/GUILD/WHATEVER (< Whichever of these can potentially be folded into an official branch of the crown.)
May as well make it all official.

> FREE TIME
More GUILE TRAINING WITH RIICHI for [TS 5]. I want to reach Rank 5 by the end of the year (though we can easily abort finishing that next chunk if we think Chi needs to HECKING RELAX before she takes the TEACHING CHALLENGE, paying to finish our training with Riichi later at home if we must).

For [TS 6], since we won't have time to do both during the next chunk of time (what with the TP needed for the teaching challenge), let's SHORE UP OUR PREPARATIONS FOR TEACHING. We don't want to stumble when we make our educational debut if we can help it. Set up a SYLLABUS AND CLASS EXPECTATIONS that you can spend the entire first session of class explaining; EXPAND THE SUBJECT TO THREE COURSES, appending a class onto the beginning that focuses on teaching everyone the basics of Manual decoding with a uniform (and simple (likely TRIGGER)) Black Manual - they won't be able to make much with a single rune no matter what it is, so this is fine - then moving on to other Black Manuals if a student completes it early, then the second course is when you introduce them to other syntaxes, with the intent to learn them all six main ones (with passing mention to how we (Tengu) have yet to unlock the secrets of Gold and Prismatic Syntax), with the last course being mainly similar to Shimon's, but without the out-of-hand dismissal of logic gates; SCOUT OUT POTENTIAL STAFF/TEACHER'S ASSISTANTS, because goddess knows running (and taking) this class alone may get overwhelming; WORK OUT A DISCIPLINARY PROCESS for the inevitable problem students you're going to be sent; and MAKE SURE YOU'RE STOCKED WITH THE MATERIALS YOU NEED, even making the manuals yourself if you have to.
Ask WILLIAM & IGNIS for help with this if you have to (regarding the materials and staff search - the lesson plans and procedures are all you).

We can totally take HUNTER II as our teacher's class for the year next year; let's not sweat it.
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No. 1007432 ID: 36784c

>>1007417
>increase intensity of training?
Maybe when we have a better way of reducing stress, but for now, my answer is no thank you.

>adopt Meowret?
I don’t think we should, I’d be worried for the Meowret‘s safety. I know it’s only a 15% chance for a pet related shenanigan to happen, but since the Meowret would spend most of its time in our room, it could be dangerous during those shenanigans!

Our room is also our lab where we experiment with Runes. If the Meowret bumps into something or knocks something over or sits on something we’re currently working on, it might activate a Rune and set itself on fire or something! I’d feel terrible if it ends up getting hurt or killed by some Rune related accident in our room!

Of course, I don’t want to leave it here or take it to the Outreach Shelter, so I think we should bring it home and let Pon or Noodle have it.
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No. 1007443 ID: 96c896

>>1007417
>pet
Uh... I don't know. How likely is it to break some of our stuff? Magitech inventions are expensive. If we can keep it out of our fragiles, then sure. Everyone should own a pet at least once, it's a good learning experience! After the gambling background task ends we can use that slot for the pet.

>[???] Its… So… PRECIOUS!!!! <3 <3 <3
Hmmm... Maternal Instinct? Love? Hormones? If Anger can be a stat, then I don't see why Love can't be one.

>guile stuff, soft cap requirements
Why only intimidation and deception? What about stealth and lie detection? I wonder if Noodle has learned much about stealth, maybe we can ask her for advice.

>goals
Pay off Debt
Befriend Pawn, or at least get a Contact relationship with him
Find out what Black Lotus wants
Visit Nub in Dopus

>UNDERSTANDING's task
Find a compound rune or special runescripting skill.

>time points
Negotiation class. With either a TA or a Tutor.
Bond with William. Ask how his goals are going, and if he has decided how he's going to build Karma. It should be obvious what you're doing, by now, and it seems like Marth is taking a path of violence. Nothing wrong with that really, so long as she stays true to herself.
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No. 1007465 ID: f3f534

>>1007417
>Your body is becoming firmer and more muscular, especially in your LEGS and THIGHS
If we keep going, Chi is gonna have some thicc thighs! Eventually, we'll be able to crush someone's head between our thighs! (And I don't mean that in a sexual way, I'm serious about being able to crush an enemy's head as an attack.)

>Pet
Awww! It's so cute! Can we please keep it?
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No. 1007499 ID: c68cde

Bring that thing to the shelter, no thank you.
New goals: Business time! And while we’re at it, goal: get an edge over the human kingdom. Probably some invention of runescripting you’ve solved and they haven’t! Publicly anyway.
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No. 1007510 ID: 6519cb

I agree with others, Chi's household is probably not the best for a pet.
Might wanna tell our friends in case they want a go at it, though.
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No. 1007531 ID: 28a3cf

Adopt the meowret and take care of it as a background task. Yes to the enhanced training.
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No. 1007532 ID: 96c896

Oh yeah I'll vote yes for the intensified dojo training as well. Stress can be managed while being productive, thanks to meditation, the mind campus project, and book memorization.
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No. 1007537 ID: afe7de

AUTHORS NOTE: You can only have 3 BG tasks going on so if you adopt the pet you'll need to drop a BG task since you're full, or spend at least 1 tp a year with them, so keep that in mind.
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No. 1007544 ID: 094652

>>1007537
I'd drop gambling for the kitty.
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No. 1007552 ID: 55d87d

TP 1: Negotiation Class
TP 2: Meditation

Pet: I don't know if its as great for us... but Pon could use a mascot!
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No. 1007557 ID: 031458

Go for the intense training.

I'm against a pet at this time, though I'm not against asking if our roomies want it before taking it to the outreach folks.

The pay off debt goal suggested is reasonable.

I think we should put aside a time slot for Ignis. That's all he really wants despite doing so much for us. We should show him that we appreciate him.

I also think we should meditate. We recently had another weird migraine, that usually means we need to do something mentally.
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No. 1007601 ID: 485a8d

If we do the negotiation class this update, id say do it with a TA instead of a tutor.

I want to save our tutor money for Tactics class as our last class next time (if we do that class after this update as one of our final time points. Otherwise we'll save the 2000 for ignis). Strategy and Guile works well together, so raising strat up as much as we can with the tutor will be very helpful
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No. 1007620 ID: a9af05

>>1007417
>Legs and thighs are getting more muscular
Why do I feel like we could become Chun Li if we keep training like this? We might be able to emulate some of her moves and start kicking really fast!

>Pet
I agree with everyone saying that it'd be too dangerous for us to keep it. For now, let's bring it home and see if one of our friends wants to adopt it.
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No. 1007726 ID: afe7de
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> NO PET
You’re concerned about adopting this poor fellow, you’re always so busy and you handle volatile materials frequently that you’d be worried of it HURTING ITSELF. You think it would take you SEVERAL TP to train the thing, maybe less because you are GOOD AT TEACHING. But you feel bad for it and think it would be cute if PON had a mascot, so you bring it home and talk with your friends. It slinks around you curling around your arm and neck eventually settling on your hat. It’s a cute little creature. After some discussion at home PON decides to adopt it with IGNIS’S blessing, so long as it’s TRAINED PROPERLY. PON decides to name the creature DORA. It squeaks excitedly and seems to enjoy it’s new home. You keep your door closed for the most part while it’s being trained just so it doesn’t get hurt by your inventions.

> NEW GOALS AND BG TASKS
You decide to set yourself a new goal, PAY OFF YOUR DEBT EARLY. You were already planning on paying it off, but setting a personal goal to do it faster will put a bit of a fire under your tail-feathers. Perhaps the emotional reward will make it feel better.

Your torn between what to do for your second goal, but feel like the general idea should be STARTING YOUR RUNESCRIPTING BUSINESS. You’re not sure if it will take the form of a GUILD, or a COMPANY, you think that it’s important. You’re also completely fine with whatever you make being eventually folded into an official branch of the crown. You’re not in it for the money at this point, but for the betterment of your kin, and as far as you know, the royalty here hasn’t been as corrupted as countries have in your past life. This might have to do with them being a FLEDGLING NATION, but it gives you HOPE.

You also don’t reach a consensus on intensifying your training. You’re at a 2-1 vote mentally towards pros and cons for it, so you decide to hold off for now, but maybe that’ll change in a few TP. And as for the TICKET and PAWN, you’re torn between SELLING it to him and GIVING it to him. You’re not sure which approach would lead to a more favorable outcome and you’re floundering on it, it’s a bit of INDECISION that’s bothering you. You really need to put your foot down on this and decide, so you consult your STATS and others. No one else knows about your PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY, but they know about your LIBRARY VISITS, so when you say you have a ticket on offer, wanting to give it to PAWN, they suggest either a trade, or offer it to him in good faith to have him join the RUNESCRIPTERS.

[CHARISMA] I don’t think he’ll join us until we get a strong BOND with him
[CHARISMA] He seems to care about the plate as well,
[CHARISMA] maybe a gesture that shows we also care about the plate to him will move him.


You’re not sure what PAWN is going to be doing next year, but he will be graduating. You assume something MAGITECH RELATED, probably in the city. You might not have a shot of BONDING with him if you don’t act soon though.

> FREE TIME - IGNIS
You dedicate a significant chunk of time to IGNIS. He’s been a part of your life for a while now, hes been supporting you, offering loans, and being what would generally amount to ONE OF YOUR PILLARS OF SUPPORT, both emotionally and realistically. The two of you spend some time flying throughout the skies, just sort of drifting, enjoying yourselves some days. Others you mess around and try to make some less serious RUNESCRIPTING INVENTIONS, one day IGNIS makes a FARTING DEVICE that makes it sound like you shit your pants when you sit on it. He laughs and laughs and eventually you laugh too whilst everyone present generally also got in the fun times. He confides in you his concerns for the plate some times, he’s deeply worried about the state of things, coming from a more MILITARISTIC PRIOR LIFE gives him a unique perspective.

Ignis: We’re alright in the interim, but some things truly worry me.
Ignis: Did you know that there are some plates that are CRUMBLING faster than others?
Ignis: This isn’t happening on colonized plates, but some of the outer plates with MONSTERS are starting to shrink
Ignis: One has even VANISHED, leaving no TUNNEL.
You: That’s really strange, and with how restricted we are I doubt we can actually figure out the cause
Ignis: That’s what worries me. What if it happens to us, what if it happens outside of CANUS
Ignis: It’d be great if we had one of those PLATE DETECTING DEVICES, but that’s a distant dream at best.
You: SIGH, I wonder if there’s something we missed, a hidden piece only WING-KIN could get to
Ignis: No one’s seen the true bottom of the plate, it’s possible, they just get TELEPORTED when they get too far down
Ignis: There’s also deep underground caverns, but the easily accessible ones are already mapped.
Ignis: I just worry about escalation, if the HUMANS are doing this, doesen’t that mean they’re hiding POWERFUL WEAPONS?
You: The bigger stick can enforce things the way they want after all
Ignis: We don’t have a big enough stick, but that just leads to harder escalations
Ignis: Why can’t things be simple like with CANUS and DOPUS, somewhat reasonable regional relations
You: And making the biggest stick doesn’t guarantee it wont get used without the creator’s consent
You: It happened in my old world, I’m sure it will happen again.
Ignis: I just have a bad feeling is all, I have a big sense of uhh I guess its NATIONALISM
Ignis: A holdover from that other life.
Ignis: I’m worried our way of life will be overwritten like CANUS is, or that it will happen to DOPUS.
Ignis: If we can come up with water breathing devices for the DOPUS expedition, why can’t the HUMANS?
Ignis: What reasons are they not pushing harder on our plates, it’s things like this that keep me up at night.
You: Whose to say they haven’t? I’d bet a large amount of SHINIES that they have.
Ignis: And yet they don't engage in trade with them, this isn’t speculation mind you, this is hard facts
Ignis: You know we’re in negotiation with them? A mutual research agreement and trade?
Ignis: But there’s heavy push-back from the HUMANS and CANUS, they might intentionally sabotage it.
Ignis: And for what? To keep us from progressing? Why?


There it is, that feeling again, it’s like seeing a shadow at the periphery of your vision. You can almost make out what it is, but the moment you truly look it’s gone, as if it never was there. You can tell IGNIS is in a similar position. Your [UNDERSTANDING] is straining itself, but you’re drawing a blank. There’s more talks, a few debates and even a single argument with IGNIS over something kind of stupid. He’s stressed over many things and is trying to juggle what he can. From your perspective it seems he’s genuinely concerned with the progress of your people, but knows that working with you on MAGITECH and it’s processes will be his best way to impact the kin in a significant way. Eventually he brings up something that’s been bothering him.

Ignis: Hey Chi, can we talk?
You: Sure, what’s up Iggy?
Ignis: Can I be in charge of NEGOTIATIONS for our business.
Ignis: I know you’ve been talking about taking NEGOTIATION classes so you can do a better job
Ignis: But this is what I’ve been training myself for.
Ignis: I- I trust you a lot, but I want you to trust me on this
Ignis: That I could do a good job on it
You: I was thinking about asking you for a FAVOR for you to do it
You: But I held off because I wasn’t sure if it was time for us to do it yet.
You: Not because of the financial, but I guess my STATS told me to wait?
Ignis: STATS?
You: Uhhh, mind, my thoughts, sorry, there’s a lot in here, imagine a bunch of voices
You: Not in a crazy way or anything!
You: Uh you know how you have an internal monologue going sometimes
Ignis: Yeah, sure, everyone does.
You: It’s like that, only it perks up in different situations
Ignis: Sounds convenient, I only have the ONE VOICE
Ignis: And it’s mostly just CHARISMATIC
Ignis: Though sometimes I hear small inklings of LOGIC which used to be my worst subject and TACTICS
Ignis: Honestly if it wasn’t for you I probably wouldn’t have figured out RUNESCRIPTING
Ignis: but now I know it like the back of my mycellium. Uh, hand.
Ignis: But uh, think on it would you, I’d appreciate being given the opportunity to flex my skills.


Ignis and you spend the remainder of your time together visiting various diners, you see him perform his SINGING, he’s got quite a beautiful voice and can be both deep and light in tone depending on the situation. It turns out he does know A LOT of kin, most kin you come across in these places really. He’s 17 right now, almost 18. You forget that he’s 2 years older than you sometimes. You ask him for some tips on breaking through your CHARISMA DEADLOCK, he says it’s not too hard, that if you take the SINGING class he’d be willing to act as a PERSONAL TUTOR for FREE to help you break through in one go, or you could spend another TIME POINT or TWO with him to get it done outside of a class. You get the feeling he could help you with PURSUASION as well, but that he wants to show you his skills to prove his competence first. You get the feeling he would be A LITTLE UPSET if you used him to learn PURSUASION and didn’t at least let him help or attempt a negotiation on his own.

IGNIS has issued you a REQUEST, [LEAN ON ME] there is no time limit
- This REQUEST fails if you NEGOTIATE for your business without allowing IGNIS to attempt on his own
Your INTUITION warns you that rejecting this offer will cause IGNIS’S TRUST in you to drop significantly
IGNIS is willing to act as your PERSONAL TUTOR for SINGING to give you CHARM at RANK 3

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No. 1007728 ID: afe7de
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> FREE TIME - MEDITATION
You were torn between what you wanted to do this [TP] but go with MEDITATION for now. You dont use the MIND AND BODY technique for this one, wanting to see just how STRONG your MEDITATION is after ranking up. You decide to be a bit cheeky and establish what you’re lovingly calling [ANGER’S DOGHOUSE] it’s a slightly large doghouse with a nice open roof and open entryway. You make a little grass path on top of the wood or whatever ethereal material it’s made out of to give it a sort of Hobbit-house look. It takes you about half of your meditation time to make this, you imagine this to be a [RANK 1] building. You get the feeling that you can easily expand it later unlike the MIND DORMS for some reason. You also manifest a few decorations when you feel a slight warping occur, and with a POP you hear a [STAT] speak to you.

[ANGER] Did you seriously fucking build me a goddess damned doghouse
[ANGER] WAIT, I’M A DOG NOW
[ANGER] ARF WHAT IS THIS DOGSHIT
[ANGER] I’m only kidding I was already going to use this form
[ANGER] I Guess I should thank you for building my place first but you made it a fucking doghouse
You: Uhhhh
[ANGER] Fine, fine. Thanks “MASTER” Is that how you get your sick kicks, don’t adopt a real pet so you adopt your SIN?
[ANGER] Whatever, I have a place now. At least this means you like me more than PRIDE.
You: So like, ummm, HI I guess?
[ANGER] Yeah, hi. Don’t expect much from me, I’m fairly weak and doubt I’ll ever be important to you.
[ANGER] At least now I have a place to sleep, but can I get like a cushion or something


You will a cushion into the doghouse, she heads in and lies down.

[ANGER] I’ll go bother [UNDERSTANDING] later, you can just ignore me
[ANGER] I want to help you in the long run anyway, so I’ll just stay out of the way


Seeing as how finishing a room for a STAT appears to make them manifest you spend the rest of your time building a sort of QUAD, a meeting area, it’s really bare, some tables, a big tree in the center and some flowers. It’s cozy, kind of the CAMPUS SQUARE as you’re calling it. You’ll probably add to it more and more as time goes on but you get an idea for something. For a CAMPUS GATE. You’re not sure WHY you want one, but you slap down a rudimentary one anyway in front of the MIST. The Gate is a simple arch made of stone of a similar color to that of your DORM. You think about making a FLAG of some kind to represent your mind but wonder if that’s too PRIDEFUL or SELF ABSORBED. You turn to the mist as your time here draws to a close, It’s fluctuating, but attempts to enter it are met with you being pushed outside of it. You suppose you’ll have to keep waiting to find out what the deal is.

You’ve provided housing to your ANGER
- Despite it’s complaining, it seems quite pleased with the arrangement
- Your ANGER is too weak to provide any bonuses
- Your ANGER says it will try not to be a BURDEN
You’ve created a CAMPUS GATE and GATHERING AREA
- Your STATS will occasionally congregate in this spot
- You’re not sure if this will have any effect in the future
Your MIGRAINES are a problem, and would have given you [1 STRESS], but your MEDITATION removes [3 STRESS] instead.

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No. 1007729 ID: afe7de
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> SOMETHING STIRS IN YOUR MIND
It’s late at night when you get an intense flicker of pain, a migraine like before. Instead of being constant it’s throughout the night, it interrupts your sleep and is annoying as all heaven. You later find out that something similar happened to WILLIAM and IGNIS. It’s suspicious, your [UNDERSTANDING] Says that maybe you are [LINKED] by something that is causing this pain. Only time will tell what exactly it is that is happening. The GEARS ARE TURNING in your mind, not only do you feel something coming in what is quite possibly the other INNATE SKILL, but it’s as if a fundamental REVELATION is coming to you as well, but you’re just missing that last damn piece and you’re not sure what it even is really. Is it related to the WORLD PLATES, is it related to the HUMANS, is it related to KARMA, you’re not sure, but you feel like it will provide a small but impactive PUSH to you in the near future. For some reason in this moment you think of two things, NUBS, and your world plate TENGU. You dismiss the thought a moment later as it fleets away from your memory, which it by all rights and purposes shouldn't given your impeccable memory.

Speaking of memories, you’re nearly at the end of SABA’S just a few more TP and it’s done. You’re not sure if there’s anything left to learn as you’ve already absorbed all of his KNOWLEDGE and surpassed his EIDETIC MEMORY gaining PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. You suppose the other LOGIC skill you haven’t earned yet, VISUAL CALCULUS would be a good thing to gain, there’s also that LOGIC SOFT CAP you still have to break, but maybe you’ll get something that SURPRISES YOU in the final moments, a gleaning of INSIGHT perhaps.



UPCOMING EVENTS
- TEACHING INITIATION [in 2 TP] [costs 1 TP]
- PIERCING THE MIST - RESULTS [IN 2 TP]

Your CURRENT GOALS are as follows
- REACH BASIC MASTERY OF A MARTIAL ART OR WEAPON (R7), 5/7 (ETA 2Y)
- PAY OFF YOUR DEBT EARLY
- START YOUR RUNESCRIPTING BUSINESS
- FINISH YOUR MIND CAMPUS
= MIND DORM PROGRESS 100%
= MIND LABS PROGRESS 0%
= HALLS OF KN 0%
= ANGER’S DOGHOUSE [RANK 1] 100%
= total ???
- 9/10 GP, next reward: UNKNOWN BOON

Your CURRENT CHALLENGES are as follows
- INCORPORATED [ Negotiate with HUNTERS, ROYALS, or FOOD VENDORS and establish your BUSINESS]

Your CURRENT BACKGROUND TASKS are as follows (3/3)
- MIND AND BODY DOJO TRAINING (-20S/yr) [Can improve to -200S/yr +3Stress/yr for continued gains]
- GAMBLING (-700S) [ENDS at the beginning of year 16]
- LIBRARY MEMORIZATION [4 TP of books MEMORIZED]
= LINK TO BOOK SUGGESTIONS: https://forms.gle/5f7ofmtzVRfkmvmbA

You can take on the task PRECISION WITH NICO costing 300 SHINIES a year
You can always drop or remove a task, but you forfeit the invested FUNDS if any.

Your CURRENT RESEARCH TASKS are as follows (2/2)
- UNDERWATER BREATHING [ETA TP1 of Y16] 75%
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN [ETA TP1 of Y16] 75%

Your current OBLIGATIONS are as follows
M&B DOJO MEMBERSHIP - 20 due at [TIME SLOT 4]
RENT AT IGNIS’S - 800/y due at [TIME SLOT 1]
COMFORTABLE LIFESTYLE ~ 160Y [TIME SLOT 1]
DEBT TO IGNIS - 20k SHINIES due before the end of YEAR 18

You have a REQUEST
- LET IGNIS NEGOTIATE ON YOUR BEHALF

You have [5123 SHINIES]

You can take out a LOAN from the ROYALTY for [30,000 SHINIES]
- You need to pay it back within 4 years with a yearly interest of +2000 SHINIES a year
You have [0 STRESS]
You can SELL your unused LIBRARY TICKET, or give it to someone who needs it for 10,000 SHINIES
- You can now memorize books, so it’s only useful if you need to take a specific book out for others

You have [2 TIME POINTS]
What do you do?



1. Take a CLASS
- See https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1002288.html#1004629 for current roster (You took one class this year).
+ Blacksmithing part time job is now available
+ You can tutor up to 3 kin for 1800 SHINIES per student using [1 TIME POINT] gaining stress per student taught
2a. Go SHOPPING for something
2b. Commission something from CHIPPER
3. Do an ACTIVITY with someone else
- GAMBLING WITH RIICHI
4a. Work on a PROJECT
4b. Try to INVENT something with RUNESCRIPT
- Using a blueprint speeds up the development process
- You currently have the following blueprints: Incubator, Mana charging device, Mana battery, Mana link, fridge, WEAK mana pistol (req power source), Experimental weapons (incomplete), Runescripting pen, Cooking plate, Crank Dynamo, Crank Lantern
- EXPERIMENT with making COMPLEX RUNES (describe the runes you use and your intended result)
4c: RESEARCH something
- COLOR THEORY - ??? TP
- INNOVATE ON THE SCRIPTING PEN - 1 TP (in progress)
- MANA VEINS - 1 TP
- MONSTER CORES - 1 TP
- SENSOR GLASS - ??? TP
- WEIGHT RUNE - ??? TP
5. PRACTICE or STUDY something
6. Use a Skill
[DRAWING/METALWORKING/SCULPTING] Make a thing
[CODEBREAKING] Invent a low level cypher
[MEDITATION] Meditate on a topic or in general
- Continue construction of MIND CAMPUS
- can use MIND AND BODY TECHNIQUE to meditate at half efficiency, but also gain XP in ATHLETICISM and COMBAT stats
[TEACHING] Improve other kin’s stats and give them skills given time
7. Forge a new BOND or spend time on BONDS
8. REST
9. Take someone to dinner (DOES NOT USE A TIME POINT BUT USES MONEY)
- Chose between a LOW (4S (shinies) Per person), NORMAL (8s Per), HIGH (16s Per), and EXQUISITE (30 per) quality meal.
10. Other (suggestions welcome, I’m trying to include everything, but I might’ve missed something!)
11. Use your LIBRARY TICKET to check out a new book (the black book is MIA)
12. EXPLORE, go out into the world and your plate, if you have a destination in mind, go there and look around.
13. NEGOTIATE with any of the following groups to start your business and make money
13a. HUNTERS - WEAPON AND ARMOR SALES
13b. ROYALS - WEAPON, ARMOR, and CHI-LLER sales
13c. FOOD VENDORS - CHI-LLER sales

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No. 1007739 ID: e51896

Yeah, we'll take Ignis up on having him be our negotiator... And after hearing Ignis talk so much about negotiating, I don't think I want to take the negotiation class anymore and just have Ignis handle negotiations to make him feel important. Plus I don't want him to feel upset if he finds out we take a negotiation class. So I'll be against taking a negotiation class. He'll handle that weak part about us so we can focus on other things. That's what the BONDS are for after all. We can just learn to sing from him and get our charisma to CHARM.

and give Pawn the ticket for free to help build bridges.

IMPORTANT:
STRATEGY is still at LEVEL ONE, and this is probably our LAST CHANCE to level him up easily before the academy arc is over. Poor guy has been at level one since year 5, so I propose for his tenth birthday, we take a TACTICS CLASS with a TUTOR. Tutor gives a 1x to 4x bonus in efficiency, so maybe we might get lucky and have that level up more than one level to make up for neglecting him? I think he deserves it for waiting 10 long years to be given attention.

Strategy I feel will be very helpful with planning things especially when Canus and the Black Lotus starts becoming more of a problem. Plus, Strategy was very helpful as a tagteam partner with GUILE when against Shimon with that pincer strat during planning >>1006145 though I think he could have been better if he was stronger. Imagine what it could do if it was stronger. soo

TIMEPOINT 1: TACTICS CLASS WITH A TUTOR (take it with Hook maybe)

TIMEPOINT 2: REST WITH GRADUATION PARTIES with our friends, Chi deserves this after completing the academy, plus it'll be fun to hang out with friends and reminisce the good times we had. These moments with friends are always heartwarming.

or ENERGY THEORY CLASS for timepoint 2 with Ignolia

but my main choice is graduation party. we can't have a graduation without one.

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Our background research projects are almost done. After that is done and we see what inventions chi and the runscripters came up with, then we'll spend a timepoint to perfect them.

That said, for now, I propose we all come up with wacky invention ideas and runes for breathing underwater they came up with for the background resarch. shape runes with wood helps with water breathing if I remember. I'll come up with some ideas later.
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No. 1007746 ID: ce39da

> WHAT ARE WE READING?
If nothing else, the first book we should be analyzing is THE BOOK OF ORDERS (for that sweet GUILE and KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LIKELY ENEMIES). (Although I was sorely tempted to suggest THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF KAMAL LIN: OMNIBUS - that 8-TP monster of a book - for both the random stat gains (including almost certainly GUILE at some point) and the fact that it's almost certainly where PAWN got MICROSCRIPTING from.)

> FREE TIME
This may be our last chance to IMPROVE OUR LESSON PLAN before we make our teaching debut. This is where you incorporate some concepts from SABA'S world that are actually kind of useful, such as making a SYLLABUS for each class and dedicating the first session of class to going over it, including CLASS EXPECTATIONS, SCHEDULING, GRADING AND DISCIPLINARY METRICS, and COMPLIMENTARY COURSE RECOMMENDATIONS (such as MANA THEORY, ENGINEERING, and ONE OF SEVERAL CRAFTS CLASSES). Draw up a THIRD CLASS that goes before the first two, that goes over the basics of decoding a manual, with everyone starting with the same black one (likely [TRIGGER] - it's not like they can do much with a single rune no matter what it is, anyway), while moving on to other black manuals if they finish early, and RETOOL THE SECOND CLASS to be about learning your students all six main syntaxes (with passing mention to how GOLD and PRISMATIC syntax are beyond our knowledge for now). The LAST CLASS is mostly unchanged, except for dropping the outright dismissal of LOGIC GATES. Maybe ASK SOME FAVORS to ensure that you HAVE THE REQUIRED MANUALS AND OTHER MATERIALS for this class structure ready, along with potential TEACHER'S ASSISTANTS we can hire.

The TEACHING CHALLENGE may happen on [TS 8] this year, but if it's not - that is, if it's actually [TS 1] next year - then let's spend the last slot of this year ensuring we aren't going into this challenge STRESSED - for specifics, let's do FOCUSED MEDITATION: VISUAL CALCULUS. I want to knock out the last skill we've yet to inherit from SABA before we're done absorbing him, especially since it might have been a critical part of his ability to use [UNDERSTANDING] in tandem with his INVENTION skill.

> WORLD-BUILDING
(Speaking of - making a WORLD-ESTABLISHMENT suggestion to propose incorporating PICTOGRAM CHARACTERS into CANON's writing system, on top of the PHONETIC LETTERING borrowed from ENGLISH; I can't imagine CALLIGRAPHY even emerging as a viable style, otherwise.)
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No. 1007747 ID: 6ce3f6

- Tactics class with tutor
- meditate visual calculas
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No. 1007762 ID: 0fae41

Haha, and who says we don't have time for pets? Oh wait, me, I did. Well, set Ignis to the task of negotiation! I say he does two, we do one (the food vendors?) just for practice. And learning to sing with Ignis sounds like a Disney princess moment, do it.
Speaking of housing pride, since you do need to manage that too. You should give it a humble abode. Maybe an office under the stairs.
Well, you still didn't take the hunter class. So take the hunter class! Seriously! Just get it done with! Bookend your education, I guess!

In the meantime, ponder what your first official inventions as a business will be. For something that could benefit archaeology, how about a life decoy? A deployable object that will mimic the signs of life that commonly serve as trap triggers (body heat, humanoid weight, movement and breathing) and possibly prematurely trigger traps, letting adventurers know where it is and possibly get by while the trap is on cooldown, or study its effects. The royals could also use these to create false troop movements for anyone that might be scouting the worldplate out using remote sensing technology. And the hunters... well, they can use different shapes of decoys as bait!
You'd need a run that can make something heavier, a shape rune could project breath and/or a humanoid silhouette, the warmth rune would simulate temperature. Lastly, you could optionally add a method of self propulsion or just design it to be thrown at a spot and unfold/project itself there. Perhaps you could use that wingkin's method of an air skirt, like a hovercraft. The skirt would probably need rubber in order to build.
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No. 1007767 ID: dfbac0

>TimePoint 1
Get TACTICALLY TUTORED! Probably gonna need that if you ever go into the ruins, you might not be good enough to direct tactics, but at least you'll be able to understand them.
>TimePoint 2
I think one of our timepoints is being used by the teaching initiation, but if we still have another then...
Meditate on VISUAL CALCULUS. This seems like a good practical skill to have in ruins as it may help you deduce if there's a trap or how a trap works if you can't decipher it with runes. Also goes hand-in-hand with strategy, as you could tell how soon something's gonna go somewhere, and where it'll go simply by calculating it's trajectory, so this plus strategy may improve your dodging capabilities.
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No. 1007768 ID: dfbac0

>>1007762
I feel like an office might be troublesome, as it promotes boasting to work partners and such, so maybe make it a cozy homely place, as I feel pride is useful if we keep the prode for ourselves, but don't spread it around by boasting and all that, simply knowing that we're competent is enough, and we don't need to let others know.
A personal pride rather than a boastful one.
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No. 1007771 ID: 96c896

>>1007729
>Pawn
Yeah let's offer the ticket to him as a gesture of goodwill.

>Ignis
Sure, he can do the negotiations.

>training
Intense training please.

>Understanding's task
Can we tell it to figure out what the migranes are about? Or figure out how to investigate the bottom of TENGU?

>time points
Spend Time with William, find out what his karma strategy is and if you can help.
Tactics Class with a TA or Tutor, see if anyone wants to join you.
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No. 1007792 ID: 36784c

>>1007726
Yeah, we should let Ignis handle negotiations, he’s going to be way better at it than us.

And take him up on his offer to teach us singing for free.

>>1007728
We should try and make something for Pride. It’ll help us control our boasting so that we don’t start doing that during the classes we’ll be teaching.

>MEDITATION removes [3 STRESS]
Wow! That could cancel out the 3 stress from the intense training with Lou Xin!

I say we should start the intense training! This might be the final push we need to finish out Basic Mastery Goal!

>>1007729
Let’s take a Tactics Class with a TA or Tutor. We should do what we can to improve Strategy! I feel bad for neglecting it for so long.
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No. 1007803 ID: 96c896

Oh, and I like the graduation party idea but I don't think it's gonna cost a time point. Sounds like the equivalent of a dinner.
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No. 1007807 ID: d7ed04

I'd imagine Pride's place being a room of mirrors or vanities, just to get distracted with looking at and admiring herself
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No. 1007830 ID: 6519cb

>>MEDITATION removes [3 STRESS]
>Wow! That could cancel out the 3 stress from the intense training with Lou Xin!
>I say we should start the intense training! This might be the final push we need to finish out Basic Mastery Goal!
Keep in mind the teaching class is likely to cause stress, especially the first one.

So I'm seconding Detective Caillou: Let's improve our lesson plans.
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No. 1007839 ID: afe7de

>>1007830
Meditations supposed to only do 2, and occasionally something random or cool will happen, this time it was getting a third stress out, so please be aware that this is NOT the norm.
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No. 1007854 ID: a9af05

Let Ignis do the negotiations.

And take a class to improve our strategy stat.

>>1007839
If that's the case, the let's not do the intensive training. We'll wait until we have a better method of dealing with the stress.
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No. 1007863 ID: afa6f6

>>1007729
>>Ignis's Plate worries
Wow. A lot of information to unpack here. That point about the uninhabited plates disintegrating faster, I wonder if theres something about not having kin on a plate or having a lot of monsters on a plate that makes it deteriorate faster?
And about the Humans...Ive been thinking, you know that theory the group came up with about how runecrafted items degrade, and how there might be a rune keeping the plates floating somewhere and thats why they're crumbling? The Humans have been using runecrafting a lot longer, what if they had the same theory, and thats why they want to discourage others from developing runecrafting? Maybe they think theres a finite amount of mana or whatever , and runecrafting uses it up faster. It'd be pretty hypocritical of them to keep using it themselves in that case, but that'd e pretty in line with what we know of humanity still. Also, if Monsters use up a lot of mana, it'd make sense why their cores contain so much and why the plates with only a lot of monsters would crumble faster.
Alternately, maybe the Human's super aggressive trading has less to do with greed for currency, and more with them wanting the Shinies themselves, like, as an object? Maybe they want them for some other reason.
Hey, did we ever look at Shinies with the Mana Goggles? Where exactly do the things come from anyway?

>>Let Ignis negotiate
Thats a big yes, though if he coould let Chi help if he ever makes a deal with the Hunters it would be nice, seeing as half of CHi's family are Hunters.

>>Pawn
Yes, Give Pawn the Library ticket. if we really want to bond with him, I think it also might help if we COMMISION something from him, shows that we trust his skills even though we compete in the field, put our Shinies where our mouth is, and all that.

>>Time Point 1
Take the Tactics Class invite William. If hes still aiming to be a King, he might be interested, if he hasnt already taken it.

>>Time Point 2
Research COLOR THEORY, because it may be important to our teaching to find out how a students Mana Color correlates to learning. If Pawn is open to it after the gift, maybe he'll be interested in helping .

>>Free Time
IMPROVE LESSON PLAN, make a Syllabus and all that
Also, Put together that graduation party, invite everyone!

If we haven't already, check Shinies with Mana Goggles.
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No. 1007917 ID: e51896

Since we are nearing completion of the breathing apparatus research task, I’m Trying to figure out the breathing apparatus invention.

So overall, I’m thinking as far as materials go we will need:
-WOOD
- METAL (since metal can be the only one that stores energy)
-TUBES
-SOIL (only if we do the green absorption rune)
-GLASS (only if we do the green absorption rune)
-GLASS BULB (only if we don't do the green absorption rune)
(though EARTH might not be needed if we absorb something like light with a yellow absorption rune or regular energy with a white absorption rune, plus it could cause weight issues if we filled a tank with soil, mainly those as materials to make a rebreather or oxygen tank of some sort.)

Then, for runes, we’ll need
- ABSORPTION (either green, yellow, or white)
- STORAGE
- TRIGGER (BLUE SENSOR and INTENSITY),
- SHAPE (WOOD for AIR)
- LIGHT (only if we don't use green absorption)

Now it would be easy to just have the absorption absorb water for energy, but if we mass produce these, this could drain the water of Dopus which we don’t want to do. That is what the storage is for, to take energy from outside, store it, and the activate the air when we’re under water with the shape rune.

Here’s what I’m thinking how we’ll do it: we’ll make an enclosed metal container and connect some wood inside it, and maybe some soil in another compartment of the container if we decide to use the green absorption rune.

Then, We’ll put a GREEN ABSORPTION RUNE inside the compartment that contains soil so it can absorb earth (The glass is to show us how much soil is inside left before we have to refill it), or a yellow or white absorption rune outside of the container to absorb energy from the light or natural energy outside.

We then link whatever color ABSORPTION RUNE to a STORAGE RUNE inside or outside of the container to keep the energy stored for when we need it later.

Afterwards, link the STORAGE RUNE to a BLUE COMPOUND SENSOR RUNE so that when it detects water, it will activate the storage rune and give energy, and an INTENSITY slider so we can control how much air we’ll get, and energy we’ll use (unless intensity and sensor doesn’t count as one rune, in which case, forget intensity). Connect the BLUE SENSOR RUNE to a GLASS BULB (maybe if we don’t use a green absorption rune since we’ll see how much soil is left) with a LIGHT RUNE So that we can get an idea of how much energy is left before we have to surface for air before the tank runs out of air. If the light starts dimming, we’ll need to surface for air and more energy before it runs out. Then, have that BLUE SENSOR RUNE also connect to the SHAPE RUNE on the wood inside the container that we inscribed on so it dispels an air bubble inside once the SENSOR activates from detecting water. We will be able to breath through the tube from inside the container.


ALTERNATIVELY: if it is just us and our friends visiting Dopus, and metal can’t be gotten to store energy, we could just have it be a different material instead of metal as the container with a BLUE ABSORPTION RUNE to absorb water around us when we’re diving, and link it to a SENSOR, and connect that to a SHAPE RUNE on the wood to trigger the shape rune to give us air from the water around us. Though keep in mind this is just for Chi and her friends to use temporarily, and will need to come up with an invention so it doesn’t absorb water when we mass produce it with METAL.

So for the alterantive solution: a non metal container with a BLUE ABOSORPTION rune on the outside, linked with a SENSOR RUNE to detect water, as well as an INTENSITY SLIDER to adjust how much air we can be given so it isn’t too much or too little, and link that to the SHAPE RUNE ON WOOD on the inside to give us air to flow through a tube we can breath through from the container.
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No. 1007959 ID: 031458

Hmm... Sounds like humans are only interested in plates they can exploit... Or Dopus is fucked. We'll find out when we go there.

Increase the training intensity, three stress over a year isn't terrible.

Give pawn the ticket, don't mention we can memorize books, he'll likely be resentful if that.

Let Ignis Negotiate. He wants to and we trust him.
Royals are probably best bet. Less money, but more freedom and protection.

I think we should spend a time point refining our lesson plan and making sure we have the proper scripting manuals, perhaps making copies secretly just in case the old ones disappear...

I think we should also do the metalworking job for a time point. Less for the money more for the crafting experience, the money is good too though.


A thought strikes me: What if we manifested all 7 sins? Would that not be it's own form of enlightenment? We would effectively gain strength from every mistake we ever make.
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No. 1007961 ID: e51896

If we're working on the lesson plans, we should talk to MINNIE for advice, and moral support. tell her we're nervous about our first day as this was kind of our life's dream to become a runescripting teacher.

We should consider giving students scripting runes that match their color of the mana veins

Still having my vote be tactics with Tutor and Hook

but changing the second timepoint be meditation on VISUAL CALCULUS since more people are voting for that, only if we can have a bonus event for a graduation party (doesn't have to raise stats, or anything, just a cutscene)
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No. 1008033 ID: 031458

I'd be willing to switch my metalworking suggestion for meditation on Saba's logic skills, starting with visual calc
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No. 1008126 ID: afe7de
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You look at some SHINIES with your goggles, not having thought to do so before. When you look at them you actually see some MANA in them, just like when you look at a chunk of ARCANUM or something you’ve RUNESCRIPTED. You use your LOGIC and UNDERSTANDING to come to a conclusion, that it might be possible to extract MANA from the SHINIES. But you’re not sure what the conversion rate would be. They’re not THAT DENSE, so it might take a lot to equate a chunk of ARCANUM. And you still have the whole BATTERY problem, meaning you still need to make one. You’ll start with SHINIES, but if you can get access to MONSTER CORES you could do research there as well

You’ve gained the RESEARCH TASK - MANA DENSE MATERIALS I [SHINIES]
- This task costs 4000 SHINIES worth of materials to do
- This stage costs [1 TIME POINT] to do
You’ve gained the RESEARCH TASK - MANA DENSE MATERIALS II [MONSTER CORES]
- This task costs 16000 SHINIES worth of materials to do
- This stage costs [1 TIME POINT] to do
- The cost can be reduced by owning actual cores


> MULTI SKILL CHECK - GIVE PAWN THE TICKET
You visit PAWN one day, he looks stressed. There are papers everywhere in his apartment. He moved out of the grad dorms a little while ago and has been living here whilst attending his final classes. To your surprise he’s happy to see you and pours you a cup of tea. You take a look at the designs all around the room, it’s hard not to. The one you look at is a HYDROMANA CONDUCTOR, taking the flowing movement of water to produce energy. There’s a RED X on it with a note that says, AQUEDUCTS NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH. There are several diagrams for attempted PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES, but all have RED Xs on them, saying NET LOSS on them all. The last has a YELLOW SQUARE, it’s of something he calls a ENERGY CONTAINER. The actual cost of the materials is rather expensive, it’s a crude unoptimized thing, but just by the design you can tell that it should work in theory. Pawn’s been busy. He walks in as you’re looking at that design.

Pawn: Oh yeah, sorry about the mess.
Pawn: It’s been kind of a haze lately
You: These are some good designs, you’ve been busy!
Pawn: Yeah, most of these are failures though, or cost too much
You: What are you trying to generate all this energy for?
Pawn: Well, LIGHTS, WATER, and HOT PLATES, if we can somehow get it into kin’s houses it could really revolutionize things
Pawn: It’s hard, but rewarding work. But you came here for something, you considered my offer?
You: I, I think we got off on the wrong foot.


You hand over the Library Ticket and he looks confused.

You: I don’t want to be antagonistic with you.
You: If we can work tangentially, or even together I think we could achieve more good then anything.
You: I kind of just…
You: I want to make the plate a better place to live
You: I want to try forming a more coherent BOND if that makes sense
You: Or failing that have each other as CONTACTS, able to trade information if need be or help even.
Pawn: Uh Huh.
Pawn: I won’t say its impossible for us to get there or anything.
Pawn: We kind of did start off on the wrong foot after all.
Pawn: It’s just…
You: Just what?
Pawn: All the other RUNESCRIPTERS kind of suck
Pawn: Not your group, but like the totality of the kin that learned the trade.
Pawn: I’d say that your group, me, and like 2 others are actually competent enough to do something.
Pawn: The rest kind of just… Don’t know what to do with the knowledge?
Pawn: Ever notice how the kin taking the second class was nearly nonexistent, or at least the ones that passed it?


You think on that for a moment. You can probably count 20 kin that you remember passing it that used your services. And of those 20, potentially 8-10 that you could see becoming scientists. A lot of the kin here did treat it as a hobby more then as an actual career field. Pon was kind of like that, only using it as a supplement to his cooking, rather then diving deep like you were. And those that passed the first class, even with your efforts, kind of just seemed to drop it due to the difficulty and LOGIC needed. It’s not your fault, the teacher didn’t do a good job of even explaining what you could be capable of doing with the knowledge.

You: Yeah, I kind of get what you mean.
Pawn: Then I see you, the first kin to pass it, actually doing stuff with it
Pawn: It’s just frustrating. It takes me like 2x as long as you to do the same thing.
Pawn: So you get why I’d be at least a little competitive, flustered, or JEALOUS?
You: Yeah.
Pawn: Listen, the other two girls that I was talking about, they tried to get me to join them, but their offer was just.
Pawn: Let’s just say it sounds like SLAVERY more than anything, and I don’t SIMP for girls like that.


You wonder BRIEFLY where PAWN learned about SLAVERY and SIMPING as those are two distinct things you haven’t heard mentioned on your plate. Pawn recognizes your expression of confusion.

Pawn: Ah, I learned those words from a book, basically SLAVERY is restricting a person and forcing them to do what you want
Pawn: And SIMPING is… Well I’m not sure, something about blind worship?
You: Uh Huh. Yeah, I know the terms.
Pawn: OH! So you read the OMNIMBUS? What was your favorite part?

[GUILE] You’re in the process of reading it (lie)
You: I’m in the process of reading it, can I get back to you on it?
Pawn: Aww, yeah sure.
Pawn: Well, if we can be amicable like this then maybe I can help you out later on.


Eventually you leave him after offering some advice on a few of his designs. He says that he’ll be around his place for a while, he’s getting a job to pay off the bills but he’s vague about what it actually is. You can feel a BOND forming with PAWN as his attitude shifts from ANTAGONISTIC to NEUTRAL.

You’ve formed a BOND with PAWN at RANK 1
- You know that PAWN is seeking employment so that he can RUNESCRIPT
- You’ll either need a GOOD PITCH to hire him, or INCREASE YOUR BOND to find out his terms
- Spending time with PAWN will be helping him with his EXPERIMENTS and BLUEPRINTS

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> LET IGNIS NEGOTIATE
You decide it’s a good idea to let IGNIS negotiate. He’s fairly good at interacting with KIN and he really wants to show you his skills. He’s ecstatic at this and promises not to let you down. You should hear back from him at the end of [TP 1] of NEXT YEAR. He plans to make preparations, find key individuals in the royalty, and get the best possible deal.

> CLASS - TACTICS + TUTOR
You decide to take the TACTICS class, you invite WILLIAM along and he joins, noting he hasn't been in the class for a while, so it should be fun. The class is… Not what you’d have expected at all. There’s about 11 students in total in the class if you include WILLIAM and YOURSELF. The first class is a short lecture on rules, then all of you are issued a 20 page or so manual. You’re told this is the latest version of what he likes to call PLATE TACTICS. It’s a tactical and logistical game of his own design meant to test battlefield tactics and orthogonal thinking. It plays eerily similarly to a few other games you remember from Saba’s world. You have a single plate on one of 6 tables in the room. Apparently there are more tables in the back if there were more students, ready to be put out. Then you have a variety of tokens of various colors and shapes. Each side will have an opposing force. One is the DEFENDER, the other is the ATTACKER. You have points to spend on units and some units do specific things. Then you have the duration of the class to settle the conflict. Some kin take a full week to play out one skirmish, others make a CAMPAIGN out of it. This is just BOARD GAMING. You try out the single class matches at first, playing against each student that’s interested in turn, then you start week long matches with one kin in particular. She introduces herself as TINUPTUA DE PHANTOM RANDOLPHUS, 6th to the throne. She points to her sister and brother VICKY and GOOB, 5th and 7th, respectively. She seems nice enough at first, but is extremely fierce when it comes to these tactics games.

Now, you’re a LOGICAL person. And you tend to play these games in the most LOGICAL manner. But TACTICS is a branch from LOGIC that requires a different mindset. Every individual you play against sans the teacher, who is very obviously holding back, royally kicks your tail-feathers in these games. William is no different. You’re left questioning nearly every move you make, what’s right, what’s wrong, you cave and get a TUTOR for the class, spending the [2000 SHINIES], your PRIDE almost refused to let you, but you’re desperate. The teacher ends up being your tutor directly, so that it’s as unbiased as possible. He spends the classes giving you tips, tricks, openers, platoon formations, and the like. But the problem is that he’s TOO familliar with the game and is more BACKSEAT GAMING you, giving you directions but not GUIDANCE. It’s frustrating, it looks like you didn’t get a GOOD TUTOR this time. William steps in every now and again to give you ACTUAL ADVICE and you cut the TUTORING in half, getting some SHINIES back because you can tell it’s not really going to be useful and WILLIAM is way more capable at helping then the teacher.

In the end you do end up learning about TACTICS a bit, but the progress is a lot slower then you would have preferred. You feel a little sad about that. In the past you prided yourself in your LOGIC and PLANNING, but you never lead large numbers of units, not in this kind of way. This kind of WARFARE is different from what you’re used to, you think it will probably be one of your weaker links in this life.

Your STRATEGY stat has increased to RANK 2
You spent [1000 SHINIES] on tutoring, refunding half due to bad teaching
You did not form a BOND with the PHANTOM RANDOLPHUS TRIPLETS
- You think they’re a package deal, and that to form a bond with one of them, you need to befriend ALL of them
- You’re an acquaintance to TINUPTUA, just two more to go

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> FREE TIME - MEDITATION - VISUAL CALCULUS
> END OF THE MEMORIES
You finally absorb the last of SABA’S memories. He lived a fairly long life, 65 years. There were lots of ups and downs, mysteries he never solved, and lives lost. But he impacted everyone in bits with his research. You’re proud to have been him for what its worth. You feel the memories have one last gift to give you, the knowledge of VISUAL CALCULUS.

You’ve gained the VISUAL CALCULUS skill!
- You can examine a scene in detail and recreate the physical events if you have enough KNOWLEDGE and EVIDENCE
- You feel like the FIRST of TWO barriers has been broken towards completely removing your LOGIC SOFT CAP
Your mind has fully integrated it’s past memories, your second INNATE SKILL will now awaken.


> LINK
The headache comes, but you’re meditating at the time, in your MIND CAMPUS and you watch as streaks of light break through the mist. Many ripples go out knocking you, ANGER, and UNDERSTANDING to the ground. It’s several moments of pain, then it dissapates. A few minutes later it’s stronger pain, you think you hear something in reality, but you’re concentrating. You think it’s Ignis and can feel someone sit next to you. The pain ebbs and flows for a bit in a much more intense fashion than before until suddenly a cool and refreshing feeling washes over not over your mind, but your body as well. But it doesn't stop there. You see the Prismatic egg now, it’s coming out of the mist and heads to the center of your CAMPUS SQUARE, above the big tree. The tree bends and morphs to become more nest-like and the egg CRACKS. You see two things pop out of it, one is a rather large CRYSTAL-LIKE object. It’s almost like a FOUR POINTED STAR. Two of the points fire a beam out into the darkness, you’re not sure where to. The other thing that pops out of it is a girl. No, It’s YOU. But like [UNDERSTANDING] it’s abstract, like a painting, spritework, and illustration all at once. The girl stands up and walks over to you, [UNDERSTANDING] is close by and is watching.

[LINK] Heya, I’m [LINK]
You: Uh, Hi. Are you my new INNATE SKILL?
[LINK] Basically, yeah.
You: And this uh?
[LINK] Oh, I was just being theatrical!
[LINK] You only get to introduce yourself once right?
[UNDERSTANDING] This is very interesting, Hello there!
[LINK] Heya yerself.
[LINK] Yeah I can either let you just like intuit how I work or explain stuff
You: Explain please.
[LINK] Coo. Coo. Coo.
[LINK] So I’m a manifestation of your desire for BONDS
[LINK] I’m also a manifestation of your FEAR of losing TIME
[LINK] Honestly if you didn’t try so hard in the beginning I probably wouldn’t have popped up
[LINK] There was even a time when You almost abandoned getting your BONDS up at all
[LINK] But I’m rambling.
[LINK] I link to up to 4 karmalings that you’ve BONDED with.
[LINK] I picked two that you seemed to like to start with.
[LINK] Then those you’re linked to grow FASTER.
[LINK] You kind of had a ridiculous growth rate there for a while
[LINK] So that’ll be slowing down a bit now
[LINK] Not skill growth though, just STAT growth.
You: Uhhh, that sucks
[LINK] You got like 80 STAT POINTS already, you’ll suck it up I’m sure.
[LINK] Most people get to 40/50 by the time they’re 16, you just got a head start.
[LINK] Oh, but there’s also good news.
[LINK] If they have an INNATE SKILL you get a portion of it.
[LINK] It’s why I picked these two.
[LINK] Oh, and you can remove a link for free at any time
[LINK] But you can’t add a new link to that slot until 4 years have passed since someone’s been set in it
[LINK] That doesn’t count for the IGNIS and WILLIAM ones, but I doubt you’ll be changing those.


An image of WILLIAM and IGNIS appears in your mind. And you [UNDERSTAND] their innate skills. You also realize they can feel the LINK between them to you. You feel like if you just… tug on it. William’s doesen’t respond, you think he’s too far away physically. But Ignis is right next to you, and you hear confused squawking from the CAMPUS GATE. It’s IGNIS. Wait, he’s in your MIND CAMPUS?

[LINK] OH, you can do that?
[LINK] What is this place even?
[LINK] I don’t think I’ve ever seen a
[UNDERSTANDING] *AHEM*
[LINK] Ah right, I forgot.
[LINK] Anyway, I’ll let them tell you what they can do, and you’ll just know what you get out of it.

Ignis: What in the 8 heavens?
Ignis: Uhhh Chi? Chis? Are we in space?
Ignis: Is this a spacecraft?
You: No, No, c’mere Iggy!


Ignis comes over and you introduce him. He’s got an intense expression of confusion on him, but calms down as you explain the situation. He’s in your MIND DORM, some sort of metaphysical representation of your mind. He takes it in stride after his panic dies down as you’ve talked briefly around the subject before. He’s surprised at the abstract-ness of your INNATE SKILLS, but greets them politely. That’s when a look of excitement appears on his face.

Ignis: SO YEAH
Ignis: I came to you because the headaches were back and I was worried you were having the same problem
Ignis: So I just sat next to you because you seemed to be handling it well and copied your meditative stance.
Ignis: And I like just kind of instinctively KNEW what my INNATE SKILL was.
Ignis: The weird thing is that apparently it’s been affecting me for a while now, but now it’s supercharged.


Ignis explains his INNATE SKILL. It turns BONDS into POWER. Anyone IGNIS is bonded to at rank 3 or HIGHER gives him a BOOST to his stats based off of that kin’s main stats. It essentially adds floating points to his stats making it so he acts as if the stat was higher, its easier to learn new things, and skips caps if he knows the right kin and the bond is HIGH ENOUGH. Like for example, because you’re so close to IGNIS he gets LOGIC AND PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY from you. He’ll always be acting at least at RANK 7 for LOGIC rolls.

You instinctively know that this bond is heavily restricted for you. You only get IGNIS’S main stat, CHARISMA. It’s at a whopping 8, which means your CHARISMA checks will always operate at that rank, and breaking past your soft caps will be even easier. You feel that if you were to get closer to IGNIS you’d get more gains, and potentially even get to use this on others you are LINKED to.

After a bit of time passes you gather at WILLIAM’S house, or you would have if William hadn’t appeared at your door with a worried expression on his face. You invite him to your MIND DORM and are seated near the tree. William’s INNATE SKILL is that of a BATTLE TRANCE. When in combat he can ignore intense levels of pain, and even debilitating injuries, allowing him to fly with a broken wing, or eke out a final strike with the last of his willpower. However as soon as he’s to safety he will collapse and suffer from those injuries as they’ve most likely been exacerbated by his movements. William has always been a pretty fierce warrior, he’s been floundering in a few fields lately but eventually settled into trying to become a GENERAL or LEADER OF THE GUARDS. He mentions that it feels like he had a lower form of this skill already, before it awoke, but now it’s more complete.

[UNDERSTANDING] So if you’re destined for an INNATE SKILL, it can lightly manifest in advance?
[UNDERSTANDING] Though I guess it was a bit different for us since I’m around.
[LINK] Cause I’m the best!


You instinctively know that this bond is also heavily restricted for you. WILLIAM has no time limit on his BATTLE TRANCE, the only limit is his STAMINA. You can use a weakened version of his, for 10 seconds, but this doesn’t have to be in battle. So if you’re injured and broken but need those last 10 seconds to do something, anything, you’ll have them. The three of you chat amongst yourselves, wondering what even to do right now.
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You: So, got any secrets you guys were too scared to share in the real world?
You: I get the feeling we’re going to stick together, and this is kind of a, well, unreachable domain.
Ignis: You know what, yeah, I’m down, I trust you guys.
William: Trust trio? Yeah. We’re bound to each other now.
Ignis: So I heard a rumor from a human spy we have
Ignis: It’s that the HUMAN PLATE actually MOVED at one point
Ignis: Apparently it was around 154 years ago and caused a big cacophony

[KNOWLEDGE] That was a few years before our plate met the humans.

You: That was right before we met the humans
Ignis: Yeah, weird right. But what caused them to move?
William: I feel like this is on the tip of my tongue.

[UN LOGIC] Didn’t the Humans only discover RUNESCRIPTING around 200 years ago?
[KNOWLEDGE] They existed for more than 1200 years, and got it 1000 years in from what MIZU said so, yes.


And thats when it hits you. Your brain has been floating around these puzzle pieces for a few years now, but it was like making a puzzle in the dark, with only a dim back-light to show you the way. You look to [UNDERSTANDING], the both of you coming to the conclusion at the same time.

You: They used RUNESCRIPTING to move their plate.
Ignis: What?
William: Is that even possible?
You: Think about it, we theorized there’s a rune keeping our plate floating right?
You: What if-
Ignis: What if-
William: What if-
Everyone: What if they found the rune?

[UNDERSTANDING] This is all conjecture but a lot of this lines up.
[INTUITION] What if they didn’t find the rune?
[INTUITION] What if they made a rune?
[UN LOGIC] That’s another possibility
[UN LOGIC] Though, thinking about this now, they must have been able to contact other races before that
[UN LOGIC] and ARCANUM is rare
[CREATIVITY] Could it have been more than just a move?
[CREATIVITY] What if the move WASN’T INTENTIONAL?

William: We’re just in conjectures at this point. But if this is the case.
Ignis: It’s a good argument for why they wouldn’t want us to learn RUNESCRIPTING
Ignis: So we couldn’t LEAVE?
You: But couldn’t they just follow us?


That silences the group of you. If they could just move like you theorized, then why haven't they done that to invade other plates, to invade HIVEN, or TENGU even? This brings more QUESTIONS then ANSWERS. Eventually you stop meditating and continue your conversation outside, things have changed for you all in a kind of significant way. That night your [INTUITION] speaks to you.

[INTUITION] You need to use one of your remaining two bonds on a DOPUS kin.
[INTUITION] No, please, trust me, its like. It’s like something’s screaming at us, in our metaphysical head.
[INTUITION] If we don’t do it with at least 1 kin from DOPUS
[INTUITION] I know you don’t believe in prophecy but I get the feeling only bad will come from NOT doing that
[INTUITION] But only GOOD will come from doing that


You think on that, there is NUBS that you could [LINK] with. And you are visiting DOPUS in a while, maybe you’ll find another INNATE SKILL USER there. You wonder why your [INTUITION] thinks this is a good idea, shouldn’t you just go for whoever gives you the max gains possible? Or maybe the kin you care the most about that will be involved in your day to day? You hope your [LINK] can evolve, or that you can invite others to your [MIND CAMPUS] from farther away if your BONDS are higher or something. You’ll have to try this out at some point.

You’ve gained the INNATE SKILL called [LINK]
- You gain the ability to create links between you and 4 kin
- Links provide a passive multiplier to their STAT GROWTH
- After a short adjustment period all linked Kin will have their stats adjusted to be SIMILAR or GREATER than yours
- Depending on their current stats
- You will also gain a portion of the linked individual’s INNATE SKILL should they have one
- You can invite LINKS to your MIND CAMPUS if they meditate in close proximity to you
- You can force a LINK with someone non consensually, but this could have unintended consequences.
- You can terminate a link at any time, but a link slot cannot be set to another kin until 4 years have elapsed
- WILLIAM and IGNIS as links does not count to this for now and they can be removed and reset at any time
= Though you get the feeling they both wouldn’t appreciate it and it might not be the best idea to do so

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> RESULTS - UNDERWATER BREATHING
You and your team have come up with a few prototype ideas. Like before they have their pros and cons.

You come up with a REBREATHER design, it involves a mouthpiece, a tank that stores energy to convert it to air, and tubing. Unfortunately there are several problems with the design. And they mostly come down to NOT HAVING RUBBER. William’s been searching and he says that there’s still a few areas with different trees that there MIGHT be some at, it’d go a lot better if you could pay an expedition to look for it instead, but you’re all strapped for SHINIES at this moment. This design would have been pretty good, but your BIRD BEAKS can’t make seals whilst clamped on something without some sort of rubber or waterproof sponge to block it and prevent drowning.

The second prototype idea comes from DRIFT and involves making a headband that uses about 1/3 an ingot of ARCANUM. It will create a bubble of air that will surround your head and should last long enough for you to get down there and up several times. You think with clever rationing of ARCANUM you could probably make 3 per ingot, but this is the expensive yet safe alternative. This could also be made into a CHOKER with relative ease and he implies that it might be safer that way.

The third prototype is unique to say the least. WILLIAM came up with it, It requires making a literal helmet out of wood with a glass window and some straps. You can strap this over your head and the inside of the helmet will produce air by absorbing water from the outside. There are major safety concerns with this one though and it all comes down to lacking RUBBER. You don’t have a way to make a seal. And you don’t have a way to accommodate for water pressure the further down you go, so you’re worried the wooden helmet might rupture the deeper you go.

IGNIS came up with another option, one based off of a pressure suit he vaguely remembers from his past life. It’s a GILL and PRESSURE system. Several points along a suit are inlaid with runes to absorb water via motion, your swimming. Motion makes oxygen go into the suit and he even has a few ideas for regulating pressure depending on the water level. His dreams are also dashed from the lack of WATERPROOF MATERIALS THAT YOU CAN SEAL. You have glue, but it’s water soluble based off of your tests. You’ll need to INVENT a new glue that isn't along with the RUBBER. You’re starting to get upset that all of your good ideas are being shut down by lack of resources.

Then there’s a 5th option, an alteration on the second, a large carryable device that eliminates the water in the area, you’d have to stay close to the other kin, but then you could walk on the floor of the water without it ever touching you. You also have to make a light, so you add a lantern to it, which only increases the power consumption. You sigh, It all comes down to money again. You’re out of personal ARCANUM, and the last 1/3 that remained from before is getting passed around and reused until it runs out. You hope your dad has good news from his hunt, or that IGNIS can come up with a good trade with TENGU, you let him know to mention this part to the ROYALS as part of the deal in case they’re interested.

You can decide between making a HEADBAND OF AIR or a LANTERN OF BREATHING
- HEADBANDS OF AIR cost around 5000 SHINIES in materials to make (1/3 an ingot of ARCANUM)
- LANTERNS OF BREATHING cost 15000 SHINIES in materials to make and let you bring multiple kin with you
= But you have to be careful, accidents could happen if you’re not tethered together.
You might also want to bring along a SUN SCEPTER so you can see in the dark as this is underwater


You bring up these ideas and concerns to NUBS and she lets you know that the kin they brought, the one that was drowning, they were able to safely bring them down at high speeds without any problem by giving them constant mouth to mouth. Which almost didn't work since they had a BEAK and all, but that she’d prefer not to have to do that as the process is a little demeaning and highly risky. At least you know that WATER PRESSURE won’t kill you at the depths you’ll be going to for the city. Nubs says that she’ll see about getting some SHINIES so you can make 3 HEADBANDS. You’re obviously putting in the effort that excites her, making her want to also put in the effort.

> RESULTS - SCRIPTING PEN RESEARCH
Your scripting pen research provides partial dividends. You figure out a way to modify it so that you can make THICKER and THINNER rune-scripting inscriptions. The effect of drawn runes is the same, but now you know that if you learn MICROSCRIPTING you’ll actually be able to inscribe things much smaller then even PAWN could, unless he also knows how to do this. You use your goggles to check and it’s possible to make barely visible inscriptions with this. You can’t figure out how to siphon other color mana yet, but if you learn MICROSCRIPTING you can make a more STREAMLINED SCRIPTING PEN. The ones you are all using are unwieldy, tattoo-gun-like things. MICROSCRIPTING could let you turn it into a more traditional ballpoint pen or pencil.
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> RESULTS - PIERCING THE MIST
Your father and his team comes to your house a little before the end of the year, he’s got a satchel he puts down and you look over the team. They look a mixture of EXCITED and FRUSTRATED. You look to the group and your [PERCEPTION] spots something. SNOW PEA is missing one of his feet. You ask what happened and he looks embarrassed.

Snow Pea: It’s my fault. I… I got pulled into the mood, everyone was so excited with their new gear
Snow Pea: I forgot my claws weren’t modified too, this is my hubris.

[GUILE] He’s lying, hiding something

Snow Pea: I’ll probably become a trainer or a guard now.
Snow Pea: This is a risk of Hunting after all.
Snow Pea: But other then that it’s good news, great news even!
Draco: It was terrifying, but yes, other then this AVOIDABLE INJURY
Draco: It was successful
Draco: You know I love you SNOW PEA, but that scared the shit out of us
Gungnir: Us giving you shit is how we show we care y’know.
Snow Pea: I know, I know.

[GUILE] It’s subtle but I don’t think he lost his foot from a PUMA


Your father explains how they entered the mountain and stalked for weeks until they found the lair of what they thought to be a single Puma. It turned out to be a PRIDE of them, there were at least 10, but using your gear many of them froze and were cut down with ease. Draco pulls out a softball sized peach-pit like object. A Monster core.

Draco: And this. This was the LEADER’S Core. You said you wanted one, well this is the best we could get.
Draco: All the cores are in here.
Draco: There’s also a few bones, claws, etc. There’s also the pelt of a large one in there, it’s a heavy bag.
Draco: I figure you could make something out of the stuff with your MAGITECH


You’re told that the parts from a single MIST PUMA sold for between 4-6K SHINIES without the CORES. The cores themselves are normally worth 2-3K SHINIES and are about fist sized. You look at them with your Goggles and they are DENSE with MANA. You don’t have accurate data on them, but you imagine that one of these cores has more or less around 1/3 of an ingot of ARCANUM’S worth of MANA in them. But the LEADER’S core might sell for as low as 30K SHINIES or as high as 100K SHINIES. That one is much denser then an ingot of ARCANUM that’s for sure. The surplus parts from the leader gave them a bonus of 10K SHINIES and that was a very pleasant bonus. Unfortunately, due to SNOW PEA’S injury, the funds they were going to give you as compensation are being given to him instead so that he has backup funds. In total they earned over 66000 SHINIES from that one endeavor.

You ask them why the trip took so long, they explain it was [1 TP] of traveling to come there and back, [1 TP] of scouting for the location, [1 TP] for the encounter, and the other [3 TP] was for a separate job. And with that the entire group thanks you and wishes you well. Your father remains behind and tells you that he left you another surprise in the bottom pocket of the backpack. He leaves and you open it up. There’s a single ingot of ARCANUM there and a note. The note essentially says that your weapons were beyond amazing, so he spent his share of the gains on an ingot of ARCANUM to pay you for the enchantments. He couldn’t say it in front of the group because they agreed to hold onto their shares and he’s the leader. And that you shouldn’t worry, the other job paid as well so him and your moms won’t go hungry. You’re touched by your father’s kindness but still feel like something is off.

[INTUITION] I don’t really think confronting him will gain anything, he’ll probably tell you when he’s ready
[UN LOGIC] That does tend to be how macho men act.
[CHARISMA] Not PON tho!
[CHARISMA] He’s a softie!


> RESULTS - GAMBLING
Your mom is heading back home soon, so you squeeze a lot of time for her this year. You also gamble a non insignificant sum of [700 SHINIES]. It’s time to see how you did. You avoid some of the higher roller tables, avoid that penguin guy who keeps messing your games up, and play the long, safe game. You don’t take TOO many risks. Some might say you played it TOO SAFE, but not you. You came up with a profit of [635 SHINIES]. Your GUILE doesen’t increase this time, but that just means you need to gamble more! Your mom says you need to take more RISKS when you’re at the lower end of gambling. It’s the best way to improve faster.

You gained [1335 SHINIES]
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> EVENT - GRAD PARTY
You and your BONDS decide to get together after the last day of classes. You all take that weekend to relax, have fancy meals, and party! Your parents come, their parents come, it’s generally a good time. PAWN even shows up at your invite and after a few minutes of awkwardness ends up being rather sociable with the others. Nubs is there, celebrating with you even though she still has classes.

16 years. You’ve certainly grown up rather fast these past 16 years. So much has happened, from a baby bird to nearly an adult you’ve gone from putting things in your mouth to putting things in the minds of others. A TEACHER. It’s a noble goal. Some kin might not like what you’re doing, but you’ve got STRONG BONDS. Good CONNECTIONS, and tons of IDEAS. There’s no doubt in your mind that you’ll bring CHANGE to this plate. Sure you’re a bit PRIDEFUL, but your LOGIC is KING.

So what if there are CONSPIRACIES abound? You can UNDERSTAND them. Armies? You’ll ARM your PLATE and protect them from the back lines. Who knows it will come to any of that, but you’re preparing yourself and those close to you as best as you can. Is it weird that you feel more IN CONTROL of your life this time around? In your previous one, you were just a leaf floating on the breeze. A leaf that got shocked with Electricity and grew powers, but a leaf nonetheless. Holes eventually appeared but you were still floating along the breeze. That is until that same electricity came and burnt you to ash.

This time is different. You’re a literal bird in the sky. The sky is the limit, you have FREEDOM, you have KNOWLEDGE, you can make things BETTER. Though this might just be your PRIDE speaking, you don’t think its far off.


END OF PART 1
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AUTHORS NOTE: Wow unholy shit, thanks for reading everybody. SHARDS was meant to be a simple side quest I ran whilst doing the CATALYST INTERMISSION, but it ended up as so much more. It became this strange, really in depth life sim. I certainly learned a lot by running this, and I’m hoping to apply what I’ve learned to the future of SHARDS. For example, TIME POINTS, I went really in depth with some of them and it kind of caused bloat, but I tried my best not to make it all fluff and apparently you all really enjoyed that.

I thought up the idea for this quest because I was inspired by WUXIA, REINCARNATION, and ISEKAI stories. I wanted to tell something that I had floating in my head, of a universe that only cared if you paid it (lmao) and thats kinda how KARMA works, it doesent care how you get it as long as it feeds the machine in the end. I think the decision to become a teacher is going to be an interesting one and lead to some interesting plotlines.

I’m really looking forward to part 2. I have a few events planned that I think are going to be pretty interesting. Including a few ADVENTURE styled events where you play as Chi in a more CATALYST style, exploring an area like DOPUS and doing things or meeting other kin. There’s also a few ruins I’ve got planned, and if you trigger a few scenes there will be a major plot event and slight tonal shift. Can’t be a happy peaceful life all the time. Well actually it could, but it requires both doing some things and not doing others, which I of course won’t spoil for you ;).

Thanks for sticking with me these past 2.5 months, this thread went on longer then I expected, heck I was originally intending to speed through your adolescence and jump into an entirely different quest but you guys came up with so many cool and unique setting bits that I just had to make it the main thing. Sometimes the coolest ideas can come from allowing your first idea to float away, and I think this is a good example of that.

Stay tuned for PART 2, we’ll hit the ground running with TEACHING INITIATION and also any missing resolutions like what breathing apparatus style you’re going with, what’s your new research, books, etc. I’m probably going to have [TP 1 and 2] get used during the first update just so we can do the syllabus and the first class all in one, but we’ll see.

~Later~
-EDMANGO

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No. 1008135 ID: 094652

You, Good Sir Or Madam Or Any Configurations Thereof, have bedraggled us with pure awesome. Well done!
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No. 1008136 ID: f8fa51

Thank you, Edmango. It's been amazing.
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No. 1008139 ID: eaa5e7

>>1008134
I found myself absolutely OBSESSED with this quest.
I really appreciate staggering amount of effort you put into each update. The writing alone looks like it must have regularly taken hours.

Thank you so much for making it happen!
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No. 1008160 ID: 2aef11

What a ride it's been. Congrats!!!
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No. 1008217 ID: d2f034

This has been an awesome quest so far, one of a few that got me regularly checking for updates.
Thanks for all your efforts running it; looking forward to the next part as well.
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No. 1008610 ID: b75f42

>>1008139
What they said!
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No. 1008614 ID: afe7de

Aww thanks for the kind words everybody! I'm doing some job app stuff so I wont be starting the next thread until I have a job in place or know if I need to start hunting for more jobs. Once that's out of the way I can get the next thread up and running. Sorry to keep ya waiting!
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No. 1008615 ID: f16886

>>1008614
Nah maen, we saw how much work you put into this. You more than deserve a break!
And that goes double if you got life stuff!

Take your time. We'll still be here when you get back on it.
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