we could profess ignorance in general.

'I don't know why I can understand kobold either.'

>>795560
I am an amnesiac with a talent for languages. Sorry.

>>795562
Ignorance is a shield

>>795560
I have know all since I was born.

>>795560
Kiss her, you fool. Jump the shark!

>>795661
Kiss that Fish!

>>795661
I think Strott's excitement is from finding someone who can speak their language, not from anything else. Besides, this is the first time Emils has interacted with them, kissing would be inappropriate.

Regarding Strott's question: I think ignorance is the better option here.

>>795681
But look at the body language! Strott is a towering figure getting closer and closer from this girl with an obsessive look wile firmily holding her in place. Menwile Emils is gently caressing his cheek.
If this is a misundertanding it's a hilarious one and even Strott have to recognize it's not an unreasonable assumption for Emils to make. Iwant her to kiss his snout because she is too young to say "don't be gentle".

>>795621
The primary issue would be the amnesia, not the cave; the story being that we grew up alone in the wilderness would be damaged by not remembering part of growing up.
Also, dont mention caves when people recently die in them.

Something along the lines of "I am really good at learning language; I dont know anybody else who can understand lizards, either. It seems like magic is a language, too.I think I might be a magical girl."

Kissing is too forward. Just boop the snoot.

>>795560
"I am good at languages, but not very good at reading. I have always been this way."

>>795560
"My earliest clear memory is waking up near a river in a cave, and fighting off creatures to survive. Before that it is all blurs of light and sound; flashes of memory and emotion, little more.
I can't tell you how I can understand you, as I do not know."

This is completely consistent with what she already said, and is entirely truthful. It doesn't conflict with what Emils told Bea either.

>>795689
Also I just remembered the last time we booped a snoot it was quite aggressive. Dont do that. A poke on the snout or a nose-rub will suffice.

>>795711
That does fit with the lying with truth thing.

>>795711
Do this.

Emils 2017/04/13(Thu)22:07 No. 795731 ID: 6cbace
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"I don't know."
"What?" Her grip hardens on my shoulder, and my body feels hurt.
"My earliest memory is waking up in a cave. I came to this city some time later and got adopted."
She was silent.
"I've already told the others about this, but I don't have any memories beyond that."
Her smile falters, "Nothing at all?"
"No. No memories at all. I don't know who my parents are, where I was born, or what my name was."
She looks at me, unsure on what to do. Her claws still tight on my shoulders.
"All I do know is that I have some kind of dragon traits in me that I don't fully understand."
I lower my hand from her water bubble and bring my head closer.
She looks sad, "I... I'm sorr-"

I boop the snoot.
Emils does not understand the concept of a kiss.

>>795731
giggle. Giggle like a amused child.

Apologize for being bad at snoot booping.

That's not .... that is not how you boop a snoot. You poke your finger to their nose. Or you can boop their nose with your nose.

>>795731
So how does it taste? (don't eat her)

Apologize. Say you're used to having to bite anything that grabs you.

So how do they taste? Are there any witnesses around? Don't leave a job unfinished.

>>795731
wonder how many other kids saw this just now?

anyways, say she was getting a little to close... and that your shoulders kinda hurt now... and that your not mad.

Emils please don't guess what verbs mean if you don't know. That's not "boop".

>>795736
Yeah, not a bad explanation to say it's kind of instinctual.

Scrape off some genetic material. Excuse your actions as a cultural exchange of jaw-biting. DO NOT KILL. S/he is too important an asset, due to diplomatic relations with water factions.

Lol. Let go of his face.
Your claws hurt, yo.

>>795743
I wonder how much we will be able to mimic with the skin cells and saliva in the water...

>>795731
Disengage, dont give anything about cultural exchange or kissing, a simple explanation of 'Your claws hurt' should suffice. Dont act as if its unusual or anything.

Maintain awkward stare until Strott say something.

CONSUME

Emils 2017/04/13(Thu)23:05 No. 795761 ID: 6cbace
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"Em- Emils, wha"
He tries to pull back, but my teeth holds her in place.
I run my tongue against his snout. It tastes like diluted slime. Different from mine, and my mouth retches from the flavor.
"Please Emils, my nose! It's very sensitive!"
His hands release my shoulders, as he starts trembling.
His gills shake as water flows faster though his mouth.

[Absorption] can be triggered. Consume: Y/N

[Y]

Y

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Apologize, you got carried away.

N

please no murder.

N
cave instinct

N!

>>795761
Y

N, says his grip was a bit too strong and that was the only thing that came to your mind to stop him.

Yes.

Remember Emils, this >>/questarch/780537 is proper snoot booping technique.

>>795761
N.

"Sorry, I got confused."

N

NO

>>795761
N.

His form is not advantageous except in water, and we are not near enough water for it to be a good idea. We can eat a shark when we travel to shark lands.

Y

NO!!!!!

N
Is that not something normal people do?

>>795761
It would be difficult to mimic (Which I believe is still a standing order) without learning more of the shark-people's expected social responses.
N.
But also how can one lewd the dead?
Would we ever even sort out this annoying gender confusion?

No.
Because we haven't asked her how Nereya make children yet. That's important information and this person may be the only one who knows it. So the explanation for our actions should be this:
"Sorry, I thought you wanted to make children. I was told that it involves two people coming close together, but I had no idea what I was supposed to do."

>>795761
dude wtf? we talked about this, compassion is important for magical girls!
drop the fish and apologize!

No

N

Hey now, bad tasting stuff is how you know you shouldn't eat it.

Spit it out kiddo.

>>795761

No, for fucks sake. Emils, a kiss is done with the lips and is a soft, gentle gesture. No teeth. Explain it was a reflex to bite because of how hard he was gripping and apologize.

>>795791
holy -FUCK- this

>>795791
THIS ALL THE WAY

>>795761
N

>>795791
I was hoping for the awkward kiss ignorance explanation, but that escalate the discomfort level even further. Let's do this! Maybe the rough love is still a possibility.

Y

>>795791
>>795801
ALL THE WAY

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Emils 2017/04/14(Fri)02:44 No. 795814 ID: 6cbace
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I let go of Stort's nose, causing her to retreat, holding her nose in her hands.
"Why did you bite me?"
"Was that not a lead up to a kiss?"
"Wha what?"
"You grabbed my shoulders and lean your face in towards me. From what I've read, that is typically how a kiss starts."
"Where did you learn that?!"
"From Bea's books."
She turns her head, "I.. I need to discuss what kind of things she's teaching you." she mutters. "And for your kind, that is not what a kiss is."
"Oh. How does my kind kiss?"
Her skin turns a darker shade, "You should probably ask Beatrice and Hoor that," she grins, "they would know better than I would."

"Incidentally," She looks back at me as I ask, "What gender are you?"
She blinks, silent for a moment before releasing bubbled giggles from her gills, "Ah yes, I forget that it's different for land races."

"Nereyas do not have male or female like your kind does. We are neither until we find a mate. At that point, the lead turns female while the partner turns male and stay that way for the rest of their life."
"And you do not have a gender?"
"No. I am neither male nor female at the moment."

>>795814
amazing such diversity! I shall claim you as my own!

>>795814
>We are neither until we find a mate. At that point, the lead turns female while the partner turns male and stay that way for the rest of their life.

That's neat. I didn't know that. So do you want me to call you he or she then? I have kinda been using both interchangeably for awhile now.

>>795814
apologize for hurting the fish

>>795815
boop his arm with your mouth to claim him as your own. do not bite into the arm.

>>795814
"Sorry if I hurt you, are you okay?"

And now for the finale.

"So then, you were grabbing me because you want to be my mate? Do you want me to be the lead?"

>>795815
I don't like this idea because ordering them to be yours will just end up with them thinking of it as a joke. We need to be srs here. We need to be sure of their feelings first. Also, we don't know how the claiming process works. Better ask them about it first!

>>795816
Neither is accurate, immature Nereyas are as 'IT' as it gets.

>>795815
done

Interesting! Non-slimes with shape shifting capabilities.

>>795814
Now, obviously, we need to turn Stort female so she can be a magical girl.

>>795827
This is better than anything I can think of.

"Sorry, didn't mean to hurt you. You seem to know lots about kissing and taking mates and such. Can you help show me all this? Maybe I could help you become gendered if you want. Does romance ever happen outside your species. How are genders chosen then?"

>>795836
But if both of us are female how will we know which of us is supposed to be the lead, or are you suggesting we help Strot find a boyfriend?

>>795814
On no! Strot's water bubble around their head is gone! Act worried and ask Strot if they're ok because you're worried about their water bubble being gone!

>>795839
The fact that Stort would go female implies we took the lead, sort of by definition.

Part End Emils 2017/04/14(Fri)07:03 No. 795850 ID: 6cbace
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"Then were you perhaps trying to mate with me?"
Strots face grows the same color as before, but it's more noticable. "No! No no no. Please don't be mistaken. I was just excited because you're the first Rabbold I could talk to. Forgive me, please. Besides, you're not my type."

"So should I refer to you as a he or she from now on?"
"Well, I'm okay with either. Between Nereya, we use gender neutral terms for those of us who don't have a partner yet."
"So how does it happen?"
"Pardon?"
"Finding a partner. Kissing. Turning male or female. Making children. That kind of stuff."
"Ah, that is not a subject for young ones such as yourselves."
"Why?"
"It... It is a private thing for Nereyas." He says, shaking his head. "Maybe if you were older."

He lowers his body so his hands are on the ground, "We should head back, lunch time is almost over."

Carry him to where he's going.

>>795850
over all I would say this was time well spent. Learned a lot and might have made a new friend. Well might as well carry them back as a way of say sorry for bitting their nose.

>>795850
Is Strot even aware of the fact that their water bubble around their head is gone? I think we should tell them before they start having a hard time breathing!

Since there is nothing more that we can learn from them their only use for us would be as sustenance, so if there's no witnesses around we should eat them.

Or

If we have to play nice with our food, wich will inevitebly come and bite us in the future, we can say it was good talking to them and compliment their voice or something.

also try :{Liquid(water):Flow; Target:Coordinates(1m surrounding 0):Vector(towards 0); Scale:1%; Initiate;}
where the 0 coordinate should be our mana core, if you want a more noticable effect.

>>795850
We are gonna make a MAN outta you, Strot.

Your species is awesome.
Need a lift?

Hmm. Strot could be handy. They will deffinantly want to pursue a friendship, and friends are good. Especially friends that can eventually lead us to another species to consume. We will need to eat at least one eventually.

>Besides, you're not my type.
TFW getting rejected for the first time.

Hmm, but checking my agenda..
|Blush| Hug |Kiss | ---------+-----+-----+-----| Victoria | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ | Eliot | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | Beatrice | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ | Strot | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ | Alice | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Hoor | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Charls | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | Forrest | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
..I'm pleased with the outcome. But we still have a lot of work to do though.

>>795850
Can this be thread end too? It's getting to be a bit long.

Emils look around town for people who look dirtier than the rest and keep track of where they are to come back and eat when no one is watching

Well this is a conundrum. Does he want you to absorb him? Why else would he say you're not his type? You could be his type, by absorbing him, but then there wouldn't be any reason to be his type, because you absorbed him.

Go to the open markets, buy a few things, act cute and innocent. Remember, your stats and abilities make you strong enough to take on a praetorian guardsman, so you can take advantage of your devouring violence by luring in gang members and eating them when they try to kill you.

>>795960
+1 Vigilante Justice

It would be good to hone some of those combat skills we have been learning.

>>795960
Good plan, except the market during the day isn't the best place to find rapists and murderers. We should wander the rough parts of town at night if we want to lure crooks.

>>796034
There is no point in absorbing people with weak or no skills.
We might as well cull the monster population around the village if we cannot absorb magic holders or stronger guild members.

>>796055
This Isn't prototype though. Emils gains almost nothing even from skilled people beyond their mass. After absorbing 20 soldiers she barely got a few unrefined talent's and that was probably mostly from observing those skills be used against her.

Absorbing monsters and animals is a must though. More forms, bloods, and breath weapons.

>>796055
Emils learns skills from observation.
Emils learns biological functions from consuming.

Emils can't learn skills from consuming, but she might be able to learn biological functions from observation.

Eating people risks being discovered, which would be Very Bad, but would yield little to no advantage over her current form.

Going out into the wild alone and eating monsters is much less risky, and provides greater variety.

>>796055
More biomass AND more disguises. If she eats a high-ranked member of a crime family, she can pass herself off as the bastard princess between a mafia lord and a duchess. If she eats a famous rogue mage she can pass herself off as his daughter. Stuff like that will get her access to higher levels of learning.

>>796070
The idea of hunting in the wild had been repeated as a suggestion to gain mass, but I imagine eating things like wood would be much more efficient in that regard. She can digest anything, so the quality of the food is irrelevant.

I still think grave robbing to steal magic cores is a good idea. All those spells, just sitting there for the taking... and no one would even know when they go missing.

>>796076
Actually, going after and absorbing a tree (or some other kind of plant) might not be such a bad idea. In addition to some guilt-free mass we could possibly gain other abilities like photosynthesis. We'd just have to make sure the garden or woodland is isolated enough for us to not be caught by some random pedestrian.

>>796070
Good point. Let's go hunting!

Vigilante Justice can come later, with eating optional. After all, to be the Best Magical Girl, Emils must fight evil.

>>796070
Emils got spear- and swordplay skills by absorbing. The thing she doesn't absorb is information.

Dragonblood will interfere with any [Organic Mimic] so our disguises are a little limited in terms of use.

Ultimatly she will need to shed some of our excess mass if she still needs to hide herself among others, all the furniture she breaks would become a little conspicuous and I think Victor is catching on...

>>796076
That won't work. Emils only gains mass from eating recently-deceased animals. It needs to have mana in the body in order for it to be processed into slimemass. Otherwise, all it can do is support Emils' currently mimicked body's dietary requirements.

What about your water bubble?