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Araquu Journal Session #15 - A Mae Zing Training Kind of Day

Time: After Session #21

Characters: Cecily, Zing, Yahzu, Drewett

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With stakes being stacked, and growth coming slow, Cecily decides she needs to learn some new tricks...

Somehow, Cecily felt she was going to find a way to regret this. She was standing in the DISC Unit station’s elevator and tapping her foot with slight anxiety. Of course, the swordswoman knew she didn’t really have much options or choices left when it came to preparation to recent events. That being said, she got off on the designated floor and walked straight towards the Second DISC Unit office. “Well,” she says when opening the door. “Keep an open mind.”

No sooner than Cecily walks into the door, a frog suddenly lands directly on her face, springboarding off of her and onto a nearby desk, as Sir Drewett very barely manages to stop himself from slapping Cecily in an attempt to grab it. Zing is sitting in a chair, sipping a cup of tea like this is normal, and Yazhu is nowhere to be seen.

“Ugh, bleh!” Cecily said, wiping her face and sticking out her tongue. A frog just landed on her face and she almost catch a smack from Drewett too. Lovely start. “What the hell?!”

"Hi Cecily!" Captain Zing waves. "We're helping Drewett with his reaction time and such." The frog seems to stick out its tongue at Drewett, who - despite being living armor, seems enraged as he resumes chasing it around.

“...You’re doing that in the office?” Cecily says with bewilderment. “Aren’t you worried about breaking stuff?”

"I have the utmost faith that Yazhu will not lead Drewett to anything that can be broken."

“Wait... Yazhu?” Cecily blinks with her single visible eye. She only looked around the place and wondered if she overlooked the small boy. Still, she didn’t see him. “What are you talking abo- ...Wait.” Now Cecily is just slowly looking at the frog Drewett is chasing. It can’t be.

As she stares, the frog jumps onto Drewett's head, spinning his helmet so it's on backwards, then springs away and continues taunting him. Pretty human-like actions, I'd say. "Yazhu uses Frog magic," Zing explains.

“Well, if he ever jumps on me again I’ll stomp on him,” Cecily just comments while just being in awe when it came to the second unit’s weirdness. And she thought her team was the only wild bunch. “A-anyways, Captain Zing. Seeing as you don’t look busy, I need to ask you something important.”

"Is this about my sword?" she asks. "Tashi said you might be asking about it."

“Well... it sort of involves that,” Cecily says, scratching her face with conflicting emotion.

She nods. "All right guys, that's enough for now!" Zing calls, and the two separate. With a poof and a ribbit, Yazhu turns back into himself, and the two sit down to discuss what they were doing right and wrong. Zing then turns her full focus onto Cecily. "What's up?"

The sound of a gulp comes from Cecily’s throat as she looks only directly at Zing. After a deep exhale of breath, the swordswoman immediately bows in front of the Captain. “Please train me under swordsmanship!”

"Okay, sure!" Zing smiles. Huh, that was remarkably easy.

Quinn only lifts up her head with a surprised look. “Wait... really?”

"Yep," she nods. "We're in this fight together, right? Why shouldn't I help my friends get stronger?" Then her expression becomes serious. "Besides, if we're gonna have any hope of freeing your mom, then we need to be able to beat her first, and it's too dangerous for me to fight her, considering I've got one of the relics they're after."

“R-right, of course!” Cecily nodded, standing up straight. “But, if I may ask, what’s special about the sword specifically? Like, what does it do?”

"It's like this weird magic luck thing," Zing explains. "If a hit would be bad enough, it's like it alters things so that I don't get hit at all!" Mechanically speaking, it grants her several ranks of the Luck advantage.

“So... it’s literally a lucky charm?” Cecily wonders. And here she was expecting some kind of more offensive use since... it was an actual weapon this time.

"Yep; sometimes it works the other way around too, like if I'd miss a critical attack I suddenly hit."

’Makes me wonder how strong she is with a normal sword,’ Cecily mentally thinks, recalling how Drillhammer said she could level a block if she fought her mom. “So... I guess I’ll be in your care while we’re training then. Haven’t exactly had any other teacher than my mother.”

Zing grins. "I swear, I'll help you become a better swordswoman, or my name isn't Mae Zing!"

Cecily only looks at Drewett and Yazhu, as if telepathically trying to ask the two on how much work does she have cut out for herself with Zing as a teacher.

"Dame Mae is... easygoing," Drewett stresses the word, "But she is a good leader. Once she has a good grasp on what you're capable of, she'll help you grow in ways that perhaps you may not have realized you needed."

“Good to know,” Cecily smiles. Drewett saying that sure did remove any doubt she had about this.

Zing gets to her feet. "What's a good time for you?" she asks. "Since we both do have our job-things."

“Oh! Well, my team is currently suspecting news or a good lead on something that happened to an ally detective,” Cecily mentioned, remembering the Mel clone incident they couldn’t stop. At least Mel survived her mother. “I never was good at picking up on a trail. So until I get called up by the others for a mission I’m free.”

Zing nods. "That's fair. We've been busy looking into a case ourselves, but we ran into a dead end so we're taking a break for a bit..."

“What kind of case?” Cecily asked out of curiosity.

"Werewolves," Zing nods seriously. "There's been a whole bunch, almost organized, lately."

“Werewolves? You mean there’s more still roaming about in town?”

"I mean, they're not ROAMING," she sighs, "If they were that'd make life much easier."

“...You have a good point there,” Cecily sighed. “I’d hate to have to deal with more.”

"But enough about that! What say you we head to the practice room and see what you've got?"

“Um, yes ma’am!” Cecily nodded, gripping her sword tightly.

#text #araquu #Journal Session #cecily #zing #drewett #yahzu #magic and masterminds #magic & masterminds #Mutants and Masterminds

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derenyanai · 5 years

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Araquu Journal Session #14 - Look Who Rolled In

Time: After Session #21

Characters: Yue, ReRoll, Drillhammer

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Captain Drillhammer gets introduced to DISC founder Alex’s replacement...

Yue is currently at the office while others are doing some planning for sure. She is sleeping on a couch she moved into the office.

Vrrrrmn... Kerthunk. Oh hey that was the elevator just outside of the DISC office! Was someone back already? The door opened and... Oh that's a new face, a young man, with an... Interesting fashion sense, in some way fitting of Araquu, but not really in others. He looked grumpy about something. A concerned citizen coming in to ask for help, perhaps? "Hmm."

Oh boy. There is a sleeping Yue just turning in her sleep. The person would note 2 doors one on either side of the hall. One is the original room where offices are and the other is for the new DISC unit members like a 2nd branch if you will.

The newcomer, without a second of hesitation, shuffles a leg up slightly and mildly thwacks the side of the sofa in an attempt to awaken Yue.

This works as Yue sits up the side of her hair a bit messy, "What's the big disaster?" she wonders in a bit of a stupor.

"You were asleep on this tacky sofa, I'll give you a second to wake up. So, this is the DISC unit office hall isn't it?" The guy asks after Yue gets her bearings, getting right to the point, it seems.

After fixing her hair she stands up, "Yepper this is the DISC department H.Q." Yue says cheerily, "Are you here to report a small crime or a dimensional disturbance?" She asks seeing the guy getting right to business.

The man nods, and somewhat quirks a brow at Yue's overt cheerfulness, but he says nothing about it. "Thanks. I'm actually here to deliver some letters. One for a Sergeant Drillhammer, and the other for three members of the first unit."

"Oh, Captain's in the other room and um...3 members of he first unit?" she wonders. "Oh, those guys, They're out for now but the Captain or I can give the letters to them."

"I'll try my luck with Drillhammer first. Thanks." With that, the man moves along over, reaching the door to Drillhammer's little office. Then, he knocks on the door probably a bit too hard to be properly polite... Eh, at the least its confident.

After a few moments of shuffling sounds, Drillhammer answers. "Come in."

The young man opens the door promptly upon the signal and enters, closing the door behind him. As a matter of politeness he bows slightly. "Sergeant Drillhammer, I have a series of letters entrusted to me by Alexander Cadbi Kelazem. The specifics of his current situation in terms of his employment are detailed within the one addressed to you. The general gist is that he currently has no access to anything but... Well, physical mail."

Drillhammer gives him a flat stare, but after a moment wordlessly holds out a hand as if asking for letters.

As such, the letters are promptly handed over. Such efficient, much wow.

He opens the letter addressed to him with a long and annoyed sigh.

The gist of the letter is that Alex is unable to return and is dealing with something pretty heavy duty elsewhere out in the west. Furthermore, the man delivering the letter has been asked to replace him in DISC as a favor in return for assistance. In fact, considering this guy probably knows the contents of this letter at least considering it pertains to him in some manner, gives a similarly annoyed sigh. "Yeah, I know."

"...this unit and randomly recruiting people I swear..." Drillhammer rubs his forehead. "All right, what's your thing? Who are you and what do you do?"

Without a word, the man turns a dial on a device he has and—

"This. Call me ReRoll." Also wowie, no magic. Huh.

He takes a deep breath, and I mean a really deep breath, then sighs. "Right, I'll let them know to come by so they can meet you and all that."

"There's two others but, you get the idea." A zwoop and he back to normal. "Anything else? I'd rather not take up too much of your time."

"No, that will be all for now. I can get a demonstration of that when I'm not in the middle of paperwork."

"Understood, sir. Thank you." ReRoll nods and leaves the room, thereby returning to the main lounge. 'That went better than I expected.'

You hear a distant THUD as Drillhammer's head hits his desk.

'Nevermind.' ReRoll grimaces, almost audibly before properly moving on out of the office and therefore building to go and do other things.

[[END OF JOURNAL SESSION]]

#text #araquu #journal session #yue #reroll #drillhammer #magic & masterminds #magic and masterminds #Mutants and Masterminds

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Ashes of The Old World: Gurag’s Funeral Service

Characters: Gurag

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Wake 1, Act I: Brisk Cruise

Gurag you had won a free cruise ticket from Tiné on Devito that’s headed to Brisk free a summer get away, fresh and full of food ale and party passing by the VOID for some neat viewing pleasure, because Devito and its population just have no fucks to give and just wanna have fun, and for some reason or another you find yourself on this boat sailing away.

The smell of ocean is nice and crisp, the skies are bright and clear, the sun is shining and some drunk asshole is naked and unconscious on the stern of the ship.

I look over toward the drunk naked asshole, feeling a bit obligated to help the fellow out. Since he's unconscious, I am going to go ahead and drag him toward the center of the ship so he wouldn't fall out into the water. Can I do that?

Yes you may, and him and his elf ass are pretty light so a roll isn't even required, a groggly moaning about "goblin stealing his teeth" as he's dragged.

What?! A drunk elf? Man... the role reversals are at play here. I casually drag him toward the center of the boat, but not directly into the rooms and whatnot, just away from the edges. I look around to find a giant blanket to cover the drunkard with.

>Roll Perception

You'd think there'd be some giant cloth lying around on this boat, being some weird cruise party looking at void boat, but no, just tablecloths on tables and sails on the boat itself, all in use.

Well, I don't see how I can cover this drunk elf, I don't think I can help this elf even further. Urgh, I needed to get away from the happy go village and going to Bricket on a cruise was the ticket to that. With a grunt, I made my way around the cruise, seeing if there's anything interesting I can interact with.

As a cruise ship there is numerous amount of cabins for people to stay in, tables all along the boat holding food, and occasionally people, such as this blue kobold staring wistfully out at sea like some kind of dramatic lil shit.

I observe the blue kobold a bit as I head toward the tables of food. I am actually quite famished. As I made my way there, I expect there would be some sort of fruit or vegetable to consume upon. Picking up one of them, I began to bite into them as I looked at the blue kobold, is there anything he's actually looking at? An island, an animal? Or just the horizon of the blue sea?

I dunno let’s take a look.....Shit fam prolly the sea. Water is pretty neat.

Okay, so I walk next to the kobold quietly and then finally ask, "What are you thinking about?" I ask, curiously.

"AH! HOLY SHIT!!!" The kobold stumbles, suddenly jumping up surprise and landing directly on their kobold butt.

I turn toward the kobold, slightly concerned for their sake. I munch on the fruit quietly, "Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you." I offered my free hand to help them up.

"You look like you came from heck here to pull my soul out my spine, frightening me was gonna happen" The kobold takes the deepest breath, and the longest exhale, grabbing Gurag’s hand.

I pull this kobold up and then looked at them for few moments. "So, one way ticket to Brisk or you'll be turning around and heading back home?"

"Well I'll be turning around but not on this boat, think it'll be gone by the time I’m finished what I’m doing" The kobold does an answer.

”I'm Venison Stoneshark" shaking the hand you gave her.

"Name is Gurag." I replied back, "Hm, it seems like I am not the only one who is leaving the cruise once we dock. Personal business, I take it?"

"Yeah, gonna go visit my sister. She keeps sending me mail tied to a rocks...there just this pile in the corner of my house" Venison chuckles "What you headed to Brisk for?"

"Well, I got a free ticket to Brisk. I have been searching for someone for a long time. Couldn't find them back at home, so decided to try another island to see if I could find them again."

Venison looks Gurag up and down "Given...what your wearing...you collecting a bounty?"

"Surprisingly, no. I am armed to teeth in case if this person I am looking for actually got kidnapped."

"Must be a pretty important person to go through all this trouble" Venison comments, as the sky suddenly gets darker, the winds whipping around like a...whip, thunder cackling without clouds in the sky, Venison becoming startled again, fortunately not falling over this time.

I look around to find the source of the cloudless storm that's brewing around the giant ship. I wonder what's going on around here. I look around to see if there's something quite large that may be casting a giant shadow over the cruise ship... or perhaps follow the source of the crackling of the thunders.

>Roll Perception

The cause becomes as clear as the VOID visible from your location, Thunder crackles just contantly bellowing out from it, loud and unrestrained, its unknown if the wind is coming from it as well but its certianly there, the area becomes significantly darker the closer the boat sails in proximity towards it.

Is it possible that I have heard myths about this complete void?

>Roll History

It goes by so many names, The Pit, The Void, The Spot, That there big hole in the ocean, But collectively, this is where it happened. The event.

That which shattered a large continent into islands. Ending the old world with such unmatchable force and fury that the land has been scarred with the single most massive puncture wound, Ashes covering the shores of almost every island circled around it.

Strangely despite the massive hole, no water ever falls in, it just stays there suspended at the edge. No one has figured out why.

I hastily rush toward the cockpit of the ship. I really hope the captain himself isn't drunk on alcohol. I did not work this very far just so I'd die on that land! "Captain! That's The Void! Steer the ship away from it!" I yell as I search for the bridge.

The bridge assumingly being at the front of the ship...cause this boat big you gotta see where you going.

A man with the most fashionable goddamm hat turns and look at Gurag from the wheel. "I dunno Laddie, Dis be clearly some other giant hole in thar ocean that i wouldn't be able to miss even if i be blind" A sarcastic groan.

"Why are we heading towards it!?“

"Other than the point of the cruise ta pass by the void, loop around and pass by again and stop at Brisk, The reason just escapes me, could it be tha coin that been paid from our gracious passengers? it be the coin yes" The captain sighs. "I be completely capable of keepin a safe stretch away from The Void, why must everyone ask, least you didn't run in here naked screaming about goblins stealing yer teeth"

Oy, there was a drunk elf muttering about goblins stealing their teeth earlier... no matter, that's not really important. "Then what's the point of endangering our life by sailing near The Void? Sightseeing tour!?"

"Yes actually, you're one of dem free ticketers ain’t ya" The captain frowns at Gurag. "Alright, ladie, tell ya what, I can give you a row boat and you can paddle yourself to land miles away while you wet your sissy pants, spooked of the big scary hole"

Orc's culture and urges to the the bravest, the strongest, rising.... "Steer the boat aside to safety, or I'll stab you and steer the boat myself."

>Roll Intimidate

"Fucking free ticketers, Go ahead steer the ship" The captain throws his hands up and just leaves the bridge.

I immediately run up to the bridge to steer the boat away from The Void! "Fuckin' senile seafarer..." I mutter quietly under my breath.

Guess who doesn't have sea vehicle proficiency? :D

[ oh fuck me, well... erm... what do I gotta roll? ]

>Roll that bad boi at a disadvantage

Unable to even slightly navigate the tides, the difficult whipping wind, or even this massive ship, it start careening toward the void.

Is there any other co-captains present that could be of an assistance?

There someone in the back of the bridge chewing an apple, leaning back in a chair and watching you. They also have a fashionable sailor hat.

"Hey, you! Can you help me out here?" He gestures toward the steering wheel of the boat, "I'd hate for us to die in The Void."

"Oh me too, that is a fate i'd love to avoid, but some mad man seems to have taken over the wheel scared off the captain, and seems dead set on steering as close as possible the fucking hole. if only he'd get the fuck out of the bridge and let us do our job" they don't sound even slightly happy.

I am not really happy about this but... I cross my arms and then stepped aside, "Just don't have us head to the freaking The Void again.”

"Never was the plan, just getting close enough to see it, and curving the fuck away, and oh look we're close enough to see it, guess what we we're going to do until you got here?"

She lifts her arm and points to the door of the bridge. "Out"

With a grumble, I leave the bridge quietly and then stepped out of the bridge. I head down the stairs and then just went to the table once more to get a giant leg of cooked turkey and grab a bite out of it. I focus my eyes over The Void to ensure that they aren't driving us to our death. Something about The Void is very unnerving.

The ship is sailing away now, going directly to Brisk now since one of the passengers is very aggressive about it.

Venison in the distance looking at the sea again.

A dull flop sound suddenly, against the floor of the ship, like something squishy hit into it.

As long as they head straight for the Bri- what was that? I looked around to see what the sound was coming from. I headed toward the source of the sound very closely to investigate.

When you head down to the source there is...something strange that’s flopped onto the ship, It...Its looks like a weird amalgamation of parts attached to some kind of pink squishy thing.

Okay, I see the weird jelly fish thing. I immediately call attention to others about this creature thing. Assuming it's already dangerous from its otherworldly appearance. I withdrew my (spellbound?) sword and poise myself as I prepare for battle.

A second one flops onto the ship, from visibly directly upward.

>Roll Initiative

These strange creature suddenly attack two passengers closest, and they drop like a sack of potatoes.

>Gurag’s Turn

I dash past the passengers in front of me to get closer to the thing! I cast Thunderwave.

You unleash a thunderous blast as it erupts loudly knocking one of the creatures ten feet away, and mildly damaging the other as they both wriggle painfully.

>Their Turn

One of them dissappears suddenly, as the other flees away. The passengers that had been attacked suddenly stands straight up.

>Gurag’s Turn

Well, that was a bit strange... I am slightly concerned about that. Anyway! I head straight after the small creature! Before I do anything, I have a question. I do have a spellbound weapon, correct?

Well yes, what is the weapon you choose to bond to?

As of now, only the Scimitar.

Well you can summon out of nowhere as long as you are bonded to it, and it’s literally impossible to take away from you.

Good, that answers everything I wanted to know. In that case, I run toward this creature and hurl my scimitar at it from afar.

So that would be improvised weaponry with dex?

Pretty much.

The damage roll would be 1d6, right?

Same as the melee dmg.

It go over the creatures, like a pillow made of sword and lands harmlessly in front of it and it looks down at it and looks back at you and then back at the weapon, Turning around at you on-

>Its Turn

The creature runs right up to you attempting to slash at you with weird claws, Not getting through you dank armor at all, seeing this is fruitless it looks right up at your head despite the lack of eyes.

>Roll Int. Saving Throw

You don’t know what it was trying to do but it actually looks legitimately scared of you.

I recover my scimitar and then bring the sword down on the creature with an intent to kill! TWICE. (Using Fighter's Action Surge, I think?)

Ye its good

>Roll Away

Half of your two strikes land against the creature cutting against its flesh, and it shudders and shakes in pain, no noise, it doesn't appear to able to cry in pain with mouth.

>Its Turn

It attempts to flee again, an attack of opportunity is available.

Yeah, I am going to fling my scimitar at it as it runs away again.

[I mean you can use melee, but if you wanna throw it]

[ I wanna throw it as it tries to flee for flavor ]

It lands square into and through the squishy pink bit, pinning it to the floor and it stops moving.

Alright, good, I assume it's dead... now... where did the other one go? I looked around and then narrowed my eyes. Hm, it has to be here somewhere... I head over to the woman and then inspect her wounds.

>Roll Medicine

Her cuts looks pretty deep, its likely she might bleed out if these aren't treated, and she look on the verge of tears. "Ow ow ow, I just wanted to go on a cruise, why can't anything ever go my way..."

"Hey, no touching the wound. We don't want to get that infected. We don't know what that thing was. Let me see if I can dress that wound for you. Can you move and sit in the seat, yeah?" I motioned toward the seat next to her, I also look over to someone nearby, "Can someone get me alcohol? Anything with alcohol, oh, and a needle."

The passengers are being about as helpful as they can.

>Roll Medicine at advantage

"Much thanks." I asked as I took the alcohol and then just took a swig of it and then exhaled sharply, "That's really strong. Sorry about this." I said as I pulled a small piece of cloth from my waist to retrieve a makeshift thread out of it and then proceed to dress the wound...

You does a good stabilize. She’s sniffling as you stitch her up, but eventually says "Thank you"

"Don't thank me, I did my best. I am no doctor. All I did is stop the bleeding. You really, really need to see the doctor."

"I'll see if i can't find the him..or her. Thank you so much" She gives you a big hug and trails off in search of medical meme dank.

"Right then.... erm..." I turn back to the rest of the folks on the dock near me, "Back to your partying. Let's try and avoid The Void as much as possible, eh? It's safe to guess that these creatures came from there."

The passengers nod and get fukin wasted, drinkin the alcohol, dancing and making the sweet music noises with a instrument.

Is there anything you gonna do in the amount of days until your arrival at brisk?

Options include but are not limited to:

{1} getting also wasted

{2} nothing

{3} getting super wasted

{4} Doing a slep

{5} Contemplating the structure of the universe and everyone's place within the great machine, each their own cog, turning the wheels of fate, inexorably changing the world with even the small actions, as they go about their lives, their goals, and their dreams

{6} reading a book

{7} writing a book

{8} booking a vacation for your book

{9} ????

I choose 9! If there's nothing interesting, I'll choose a 4, to gain a short rest.

>Roll hit die if you choose, although i don’t think you even lost health

Nothing interesting at the moment, you return to your assigned cabin and acquire yourself some rich sleps, the sleps of kings, the kind of slep that really didn't need to be interrupted by a sudden scream a couple hours later, but that’s just what happens with king sleps, sometimes people do a screm and wake people up.

[TO BE CONTINUED]

#text #ashes of the old world #Journal Session #Gurag #dnd #dnd5e #5e #Dungeons and Dragons #gurag's funeral service

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derenyanai · 5 years

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Araquu Session #20.5 - Mel’s Very Bad No Good Awful Day

Time: During Session #20

Characters: Mel, Trevlac, Nolene

While the group chose to help defend Potions in Motion from robbery, Detective Colley would go and explore the villains’ presumed hideout alone...

#screenshot #Journal Session #araquu #mel #trevlac #nolene #magic & masterminds #magic and masterminds #Mutants and Masterminds

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derenyanai · 6 years

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Ashes of the Old World Session Branch 13-B Part 6

Time: Sometime after Session 12 Characters: Zealous Terminator

This is a continuation from Part 5

If you would like to start from the beginning here is Part 1

"Well, that happened." Zealous, I, said.

"I have a night hag in a basement i didn't know i had, fucking dammit" Daniels groans loudly

"Well... we can try to seal the crack up, but she'll come back around. Thought you said you didn't have a cellar?"

"that i just said, just now, that i didn't know i had"

"Hm, this is very worrisome."

"NO SHIT" Daniels flails his arms up "Still we need to deal with this, we don't know what shes doing or when shes comign back up, we might not have time to unbarrel the door" Legs doing a talk

"I was worried you'd say that." I muttered quietly, "Alright, let's just... let just find a way to get down to the basement and see what we can find."

"Give Me a Momment...Now its vodka." Daniels gives up spinning his wheel and stands up from the crease "Think a good whack'll open it?"

"I suppose so? Anyone got a hammer?"

"I got this hammer!" Legs does a kick it, oh hey it...it did an open!

"Oh.... well... good job Legs! I knew it was a good idea to bring you along!" I cheered and I charged into the hole.

your allies come in shortly after, there is this nice slide all the way down before you land, in this lair, with the glowing table the rack of random misc things the cauldron, and a bed

"Okay, but can you please not?"

"Nyeeehehehehehehe, Not wishing to dance with granny?, thats fine, I'll let you go on one condition" The night hag cackles

"And that is?"

"Slap that pretty little potion seller on my table and end his life" The granny cackles "The fuck, no, Fuck you, fuck off" Daniels having a standard reaction

"Okay but why? I am curious, does it benefit you in any way?"

>roll persuasion "Wouldn't wanna spoil the surprise~nyeeehehehehehehe"

"Well alright then... anyone know how to beat a ghost?"

"Magic mostly, and sliver, No, but shes not one of those, Shes slipping in and out of the etheral plane using magic." Daniels explains >Roll initiative, HERE WE GOOOOO

screm noises

i charge forward toward her, screaming at her to intimidate.

SO Despite using the same exact tactic used at the start of the last fight, You does a spook her, And she a frighten, bumping her ac down -2

Nice.

>daniels turn

Daniels moves in to swing the whip!

Well that was hilarious at the very least, as the hag swats daniels whip away >her turn

she casting a spell pew pew, The sleep spell!!! causing Legs to fall asleep >Legs turn but he asleep >Zealous Turn

I START PUMMELING SHIT INTO HER WITH MY OWN HANDS.

Landing some mean hits on her, Granny body >Daniels Turn

So, I am going to try to have Daniels dispell the ward in the middle of the room, if that's possible?

>Roll his Arcana Magic is alot like math, it hard to understand to some people, like daniels for example

Granny turn Granny uses more spell shenanigans, casting magic missle at Daniels with all 3 darts causing 12 force damage >Legs still sleep, >Zelaous Turn

I CONTINUE TO PUMMEL FISTS IN HER FACE.

Grannies snoot got booped by that first hit, but the second she swayed away from, If it hadn't become abundtly clear, Shes "resisting' this kind of damage quite well >Daniels turn

"GRAH! I CAN'T DO SHIT. I DON'T KNOW MAGIC. DANIELS, I NEED SOME ADVICE HERE!”

Daniels continue to figure the ward thingy.

In Daniels attempt he's somehow made it worse, and its glowing brighter "ummm...WELL FUCK" >her turn

She casts sleep again and Daniels is doing a sleep now too....Or he would be, but his elf ancestry prevents doing a sleep from magic >Legs turn...Oh wait >Zealous

ALRIGHT THEN. I RUN TOWARD THE WOODEN PIECE OF THE FLOOR THING AND START RIPPING IT UP.

>Str check fucking destroyed

"HAH! HAH! HAAAAAAAAAAAH!" I shouted at top of my lungs as I rip it board BY BOARD!

Christ, >Daniels Turn

Daniels should try to check and see if the ward has been dispelled through physical means.

Well >Roll arcana then "Shits Broken" Daniels says "How dare you pretties, now its going to take me months to make another ward, grrrr" >her turn

"All of the effort goes to foiling your plan, Granny!"

She does cast another magic missle, at zealous this time for 11 force damage >Legs lies there undisturbed unable to wake on his own >Zealous turn

"OUCH." I yelped out in pain from the magic missiles, "I'LL MAKE YOU REGRET THAT!" I ran toward the shelves on the right of the room, What do I see?

>Roll investigation There is a series of frogs on the shelf, A strange horn, A jar with actual fire in it somehow still on despite the lack of air, Wierd packets with dust inside, a whole tube full of actual glitter, 3 bottles full of various liquids, and just, so many potion components, presumably stolen from daniels

And a whole cauldron beside that

Can I pull the shelf down, maybe?

The whole shelf full of potentially unstable materials and magic items? shit fam okay

I PULL IT DOWN.

...........

But real question tho. Did she regret it?

Stacking a shelf full of unstable materials, yeah shes had about a moment to regret it before being obliterated

NICE Now second question, did Zealous survive that?

You can possibly, if you can roll stupid high on your dex save

And so ends the story of Zealous Terminator, Obliterating a dangerous Night Hag Along with himself, saving Possibly alot of people at the cost of exploding, You meet up with the diety Dé in the afterlife she looks down upon you and "Welcome, Zealous Terminator, I'm surprised you didn't end up here sooner, but we're glad you came when you did"

"Wait, where am I? What is this? The fuck is you?"

"I am the god of death, You're dead"

"No, I am Zealous Terminator."

THE END

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Ashes of the Old World Session Branch 13-B Part 5

Time: Sometime after Session 12 Characters: Zealous Terminator

This is a continuation from Part 4

If you would like to start from the beginning here is Part 1

Alright, I head on over toward the crease and then turned to Daniels, "Hey, was that there when you bought the store?"

"What was the-..... i actually hadn't noticed that the hell?!"

"Welp, looks like we can set a trap in here and see if the thieves comes through here."

"You are dangerously more clever than i gave you credit for...." Daniels sounding surprised so imma allow short rest untill they arrive, so you can roll some hit die if you wish

Ye! Just 1 die

for the Duration of this quest you will have access to both Daniels and Legs sheets in the allies folder, Are you going to do anything before thier arrival?

Hm..... I don't think so.

Just gonna stand out in the open, or try and hide?

Ah! In that case, yeah, I'll first make a trap if possible. Then hide.

Neat, what kind of trap are you setting up?

Some sort of.... thumbtacks traps. They enter certain spot- they get pointy things in their feet.

>Roll survival to set this up, there not much materials around to make em, but you may make do

These caltrops are terribly made but they'll do the job

>roll stealth to hide Well, it might be hard for them Not to notice the birghtly dress wrestling gnome Anyway, Shortly around when the night falls, A noise starts crackling around the stone crease

I wait it out until they step into the trap!

A silky black smoke starts spilling out from the Crease, It looks thin at first but it grows and thickens, untill it starts forming a figure which takes solid form soon after, A strange humanoid figure stretches thier arms and cackles softly, their feet kicking against the caltrops to which they look down at them

"Oh great, it's a weird ghost. Man, I should've brought a white sheet like I said I was gonna."

"Got yourself curious whose takin your stuff, you fools did, a poor old lady such as myself wouldn't hurt a fly....you however~ Nyeehehehehehehe" >Roll initiative, she doin a hostile, and by that i mean roll all the initiatives Legs first

I shall have Legs run toward the ghosty thingy and kick twice!

He flailing his kickies, but each hit misses, what noticable is that this opponenet is dodging, not just staning there >daniels turn

In that case... I shall have Daniels do Entangle!

The roots spring forth from the ground, though there effort valiant, can't seem to cling to the Lady, as she tugs pretty hard away from them >Zealous Turn

I run toward the ghastly woman in a barbaric rage! I trigger Rage once more! And I am going to try to intimidate her.

"Ooh little sweetie look at you trying to act big, Grannie'll have to give you a cookie, a cookie of death! nyeehehehehehehe" She doesn't seems very phased unfortunatly >her turn

She castin Magic Missles at ya'll three, a dart for each of you, dealing force damage, 2 to daniels, 4 to legs, and 3 to Zealous, this damage is uneffected by rage >Legs turn

I shall have Legs resume the kicking!

Only the second kick hits! with a small "ouf" followed by a giggle, the attack isn't dealing much to her >Daniels turn

I shall need time to look through the book of spells Daniels moves to Entangle the granny witch once more!

Just barely managed to wrap her, advantage on attack rolls for as long as shes stuck >Zealous turn

"ALRIGHT DANIELS. NOW IT'S TIME FOR.... ZEALOUS TERMINATOOOOOOOOR" I proceed to do 3x attack, spending a ki How does advantage roll apply?

A wild barrage, against her each hit landing perfectly, they don't seem like they're doing as much as they could though..... > her turn

She rips through the vines very shortly after the attack, her cackling growing, because an action was needed to do this > legs turn

LEGS SHALL CONTINUE THE KICKING!

Legs gets a foot up in his attacks! landing both strikes >daniels turn

Daniels does the entangling thing! Because that worked before and it worked so well.

With what spell slots?

[ you may have to explain that rule to me, I am new to spell slots ]

spell slots determine how much you can cast things a day, Daniels is out of these cause hes only got one level in a spellcaster class druid, so hes only got 2 1st level slots, and can only cast cantrips now

[ oh in that case, erm.... I also assume he cannot cast cure wounds further in the game too? ]

Yeah, he fresh out, going to have to rely on cantrips or his, rouge and fighter multi-classes

[ alright, just checking ] In that case, I shall have Daniels somehow sneak away out of sight.

>Sleath, this is the Hide action LOOK IT THIS SNEAKY BITCH

[ doubt I can attack with Daniels? ]

you still have movement otherwise >zealous Turn

AS FOR ZEALOUS TERMINATOR. I SHALL DO A ROAR AND BEAT HER UP

You manage to boop her with the first hit, however she is cackling loudly >Lady turn

She doin a claw at Legs with her lengthly old lady nails, Dealing 13 slashing damage >Legs turn

Ouch... well... Legs continue do his thing with kickings?

did he star in footloose? cause...fuck where was i going with this? nevermind, he can't seem to land a solid hit on this old lady >Daniels turn

Daniels does the thing with net?

Daniels toses his net and it lands cleany on the old lady tanglign her up, This does about the same thing the entangle did, until she can free her self >zealous turn

I shall have my fists fly at her once more!

The net makes it awfully hard for her to dodge, however cackling with each hit you land >Her Turn

She suprisingly has a hard time escaping the net >Legs turn

Legs shall resume kicking the granny down!

A whirlwind of kicks knock against this granny, looking like its discomforting her greatly >daniels turn

Daniels shall move forward and attack with a whip!

Daniels is having a solid time hitting the granny wit his whip >zealous turn

I SHALL DO THE DOUBLE WHAMMY

The whammy is mostly certianly doubled, dealing her some boops on her snoot >Her turn

She suddenly tears apart the net with her lentghly nails, cackling loudly >legs turn

"Well, this isn't working out quite well, anyone have any ideas!?"

" I mean we could try fla-" Legs about to suggest but Daniels shouts out

"I HAVE A BRILLIANT IDEA" turning to his wheel

"Oh boy, I wonder what this idea is!" Zealous said.

going to have to wait until his turn untill then, Legs

Aight then. I shall have Legs continue kicking the shit out of her

shes actually blocking now, with her hands, cackling loudly >Daniels turn

And Daniels was gonna do...

He runs to his wheel and spins it...water comes out "...wait shit, dammit" >zealous turn

I am going to try to grapple her!

>roll athelitics you got her gripped tightly "little sweetie giving granny a hug, how sweet, so sweet you might die nyeehehehehehehehehe" >her turn

Your arms start going right through her as she turns back into the mysterious fog, and slips back into the crease

TO BE CONTINUED->

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Ashes of the Old World Session Branch 13-B Part 4

Time: Sometime after Session 12 Characters: Zealous Terminator

This is a continuation from Part 3

If you would like to start from the beginning here is Part 1

You wake up sometime later, head hurting somefin fierce, good thing this wasn't a death match or...well you get the idea

I check around my belt to see if this fukr stole my money pouch!

He's actually sitting right to you happyly humming a turn, your belt of money is still with you, you're currently on one of the tables tha used to have people cheering, actually....the building looks empty now"

I looked at him and then rubbed my own face. Man, that guy sure had given me a beating. I should have thought about the consequences... but it was a worth a shot. "Alright, alright... you got me good, fair and square."

"Heck yeah i did, Thanks for the Pr, Makin my potions look impressive, should have seen the crowd reaction, I mean you were unconcious at the time, but whatever" he laughs, Daniels hands zealous a bottle of red looking liquid

I look at the bottle of red, "I take it this is the same potion? What is that called?"

"What? No, Its healing, not gonna just hand out strentgh potions, those are expensive" Daniels Scoffs

"Alright, alright... well... thanks." I said as I pulled out my bag and gave him 300 gp in return as I retrieve the potion, "Here's your reward as promised."

"Gotta another deal for you actually, You can keep that gold And I'll help you out with Sexy Fred, i'll even throw in 300 myself, if you do a little something for me"

"Hm? And that is?" I ask.

Oh also get 1000 exp for beating Legs

"Someones been breaking into my shop after dark and stealing my stuff, my really expensive stuff, Every night for the past three days, Guards can't seem to help because, of course they can't, so perhaps you can....wait for them and teach them a lesson?"

"What sort of lessons? I need to know so I can carry proper equipments! I kinda need to, I told Legs that he should, and I should represent that very example."

"Just....Kick them out of my store, spook them off, Try not to kill them, key word being try" Daniels frowns

"Okay, I'll need to bring some ghost costumes then."

"........" Daniels just looks at zealous "Sure...I...Whatever man, you do you" giving you the adress to his shop and the time to come by

[you gonna drink the health potion or....?]

[ yeah of course ]

its a juicy good health potion giving you 31 hp

Whenever Zealous inevitably exits the building, the arena fighty punchy building known as Richards Butter Slam, on the way to [insert location here] he doth percieving sounds of a rough and loud banging nature within an alleyway nearby, this shrouded space between two adajecent structures, holding a mystery of vaguely mysterious description, like what in my bag of cereal, does get toy? and then you realize it 2017 and they dont do that anymore and you do a cry in your soul

In that case! I shall inspect the sounds! Off I go! TROTTING MY WAY OVER THERE!

Looks like one of the opponents you've had in the arena previously, Legs, is having a rough house with some angry looking fellows "I lost 100 credits on you, so i'mma show you what happens to losers in this city" is said by atleast one of them peoples with the moustaches an hat, Legs dosen't look like he's recovered very much from his last fight

I wasn't liking what I was seeing. After the first second at glancing this, immediately afterwards, without thinking.... I ran toward them with my arms flailing and I am screaming at top of my lungs in order to scare them away.

>Roll intimidate Well you've certainly startled them, an amount of them actually step back with concern

"I AM ZEALOUS TERMINATOR AND THIS IS MY SIDEPUNCH, LEGS!" I shout at top of my lungs. I hope they get the pun.

...Omfg, Well they don't appear to get it, Legs seems to laugh under his breath "You just git outta here this dosen't concern you" One of them says with their mouth words

"THIS CONCERNS ME! You are attacking a man who fights in the ring! You attack him, you attack me as well! He fought well, you punks! I'll show you why he lost to me if you dare!" I pound my chest with my fists, "Unless you are scared!?"

Three have come up to you pulling out sords >roll initiative

wow 20

I activate the RAGE. And then punch the man on my right.

>roll away A narrow miss, the Bandit just barely shifts out of the way of the punch >Bandit turn

Somehow all three of them fucking miss, as they just can't seem to land a single swing onto your supple gnome flesh >your turn

AH YES! IT'S TIME! I TURN TO THE SAME BANDIT AND THEN SWING MY PUNCHES AWAY LIKE MACHINE GUN

Knocked across and into a stray barrel, this bandits be two, remain and it is their turn

Despite thier attempt at flanking they somehow keep rolling stupid low, you can partially see when they miss thier own sords hitting against each other >your turn

I flip backwards behind the bandit and start pummeling away on this man's spine! Acrobatics first?

acrobatics then the opposite bandit aquires an attack of oppurtunity which bandit?

The one behind me. In this instance, the one on the left.(edited) I MEAN RIGHT. Right.

oppurtunity attack hits,Take 3 slashing damage, reduced to 2 becuase rage, and you flip over him like a majestic fuckign eagle

AND NOW THEN, I WAIL AWAY ON THIS BANDIT!

You bap him about once in the back with a resounding yelp from him afterward .bandit turn

One manages to clip your shoulder while the other is a fucking dissapointment, take 7 damage reduced to 4 because rage. >your turn

EXCELLENT! I continue to pummel into the same bandit!

And he's out sliding along the ground like a sack of potatoes, one remains, and he's looking mighty concerned turning to the rest for help but they've fled, and so will he

I'll let him flee to tell the stories to his friends about the fearsome Zealous Terminator!!! But my mind is elsewhere, I turn to Legs and walked toward him, "You alright?"

"I will recover, thank you for the aid, Hopefully i can repay the favor somehow"

"Actually.... there's one way you can do that... I am kind of in a jam. I need to scare off some goons at a guy's house. An extra pair of hands will be nice."

"Oh, well I can certainly lend a hand, or a foot" legs nods Ally aquire: LEGS the half-elf

"Excellent! We should be on our way to collect things. The guy would like to get that sorta thing done asap." I said.

Alright so Legs is going to be following you, any preperations you're going to make before going to the potion dudes place?

I should probably find some health potions for Legs! And some to take to the guy's house.

alright, given how populated this city is, isn't to hard to find several potion stores, and alchemists and what have you, but the consistent price for your standard health potion is 50gp

Alright, I'll buy 5. So that's 250 gp.

Indeed, Alright good stuff you now have 5 health potions

Alright, so I hand two potions over to Legs and three to keep myself. "Alright Legs, I am going to go ahead and give you two. If you don't need the other one, you can hand it back to me after this is done?"

"Thank you very much" he downs both of them, looking significantly better than before

"Alright, I guess not!" He shrugs and then makes his way toward the place with Legs!

When you near your destination you notice its a building with the sign [Potion Roulette] above the door, and next to another building with a similiar sign that says [Shop of many things], it seems this is his store and not his actual home that he need people spooked out of

"Alright, we are here Mr. Legs! Let let's see if this guy's home so we can let him know we'll patrol the place out."

Upon entering The dude is inside, he waves at you, The majority of this building just seems to consist of this massive roullete wheel and a series of barrel on the wall, "Ah! good you came, Its rather difficult to run this business with the thieves having thier way with my things" Legs is squinting at this gentleman

"Ah! I brought a friend, I hope you don't mind." I guesture toward Legs and then to the man, "This is the man I was telling you about."

"Oh,you....." Your employer groans "Well i can bare helping this cheater i guess" Legs Sighes "Its not cheating if the rules allow me to do it" They apparantly already know each other

"Hey, hey... I got beaten by this guy fair and square. It's our fault for not establishing rules when it comes to potions or spells either." I said, "Anyway, let bygones be bygones. We have important things to do."

"........" "Yes of course, either way, Some time during the night someone manages to keep entering my shop and steal the potion components I use for my wheel, its becoming....expensive to replace each time, I locked up my doors at night, they get in, I've even bricked up my windows and they still get in, I don't know how, its frustrating" Daniels explains "So i figure if i have someone here when it happens, Bam, spooked the thieves, or atleast give them second thoughts"

"Hm.... do you have a cellar somewhere?" I ask.

"....Not that im aware of, When i had purchased the space, it was merely a cube space with a door and some windows, admitly it use to be apart of the shop next door but there has been renovations since then"

"We should probably check out if there's any tunnels in this place that leads to this store. It's worth checking.... hey Legs? Mind helping me move these barrels to block the doors and windows in case we spook them? I don't want them running out of the houses that way."

"Sure thing Zealous my man" "I was gonna leave while you two....nevermind guess i'm staying" " :D " So you barrel that door up real good

"Sorry mate. If you happened to see them enter a particular way, you'd know how to bar them from entering the place next time too." I say as I look around.

"....Fair enough" Daniels lil unhappy but dealing wit it >roll perception There is this straneg crease in between a couple bricks where you moved the barrels from

TO BE CONTINUED->

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Ashes of the Old World Session Branch 13-B Part 3

Time: Sometime after Session 12 Characters: Zealous Terminator

This is a continuation from Part 2

If you would like to start from the beginning here is Part 1

"Erm, can I earn five minutes of rest? I am kind of.... well... hurt from my last fight." I gestured to myself, "Wallopings from feet hitting my face is very taxing on my health, y'know."

"Well that a shame then, I have to be off shortly, I certianly can't wait that long" The mans muscles seem to be growing exponentially after drinking the potion, It looks like hes both drinking performance enhancing potions and trying to get you to fight you while you weakened from the last fight

I look at him for few moments, pondering the possible consequences if I agree to thi- "DEAL. LET'S DO IT."

>rolllll initiative again

[ I got 17 ]

Baron Dan Daniels is cracking his knuckles, Your turn

I screamed as I head toward the man with my hands flailing about! I swing and swing! (Using a Ki point to send this man flying back.)

Open hand technique? Gotta use flurry of blows when doing that

You manage to just hail this elf man, this danny elf man with furious and repeated attacks for a total of 12 dmg, but cant manage to knock him back it seem the potion is makign him real stronk, "Hmm hmmm.." He winds up real good and, wait did this fuck just cast a magic??? Entagling roots just spurt from the ground

Oh boy.

You've become stuck in these magic vines, your turn

Well... it seems like I am in a spot of a trouble! In this case... I suppose I'll have to go Captain America style on this boyo! I grip the giant door from my back and fling it like a frisbee!

while suffering the restrained condition this is going to be at a disadvantage

The shield swings past the baron and gets caught in the fish net walls, then falls landing behind him, his turn

Daniels baps is fists together and hits you in the entagled snoot for 7 dmg, your turn

I am going to start ripping the roots out!

Str Check You are still stuck, Daniels turn

He's just wailing away at you while you're stuck, this fukr take 7 dmg, your turn again

I inhale and let out a roar as I start to grapple with this man's hands as an attempt to buy myself some time.

Athletics at disadvantage this fights going south really quickly, as his turn rides around the corner

One last punch and everything goes black

TO BE CONTINUED->

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Ashes of the Old World Session Branch 13-B Part 2

Time: Sometime after Session 12 Characters: Zealous Terminator

This is a continuation from Part 1

The tackling dosen't seem to hit, as he does a ballet spin around it but the wailing there after does hit his floor leg, he takes 8 dmg and its, his turn

"Get me where my name sake is eh? well guess i'll have to break your zealous!!!" Legs chops down with both his hands, you've easyly moved out the way of one but the other hits your shoulder take 7 dmg, however the first attempt has him off balance next attack against him gets advantage, Your turn

At this moment, I felt rage boil in my stomach. I ACTIVATE MY BARBARIAN'S RAGE. I claw at my face as I yell an inhuman scream. I gripped the man's wrist and flip him over my back. (On my second attack, I attempt to force him into submission by pulling on his arm. Grapple first?)

Fun thing to note Rage activation is a bonus action, your second monk attack is a bonus action, you only get one bonus action

Oh shit. Okay. I'll not do the rage activation then.

Roll us some Grapple, while you only use athletics, he gets the choice between acro and athletics to oppose it

Well shit man you nearly had him, but he manage to pull his hand away in time, its still your turn

Your secondary attack dosen't quite cut it either with is GOSH DANG LEGS allowing him to move back enough avoid gnome kicks, his turn

"YOU SLEAZY OLD HAG, you got some oil on your body to slip through my grip, doncha!?"

"Nothing but these battle hardened one hundred percent legs!" Legs exclaims patting his legs, seems to make him feel better as he rush force toward you does him a round house, take seven more dmg, your turn

I yelped out in pain as I took a foot to the nose. I push myself from the ground and then grunted. Now I activate the Rage. I dash toward Legs and slid in order to sweep him off of the ground!

Does him a jump over you he does, with his legs, that he has, he spins round attempting to kick you in the butt twice, BUTT only one strike lands take only 3 dmg because rage, your turn

"Gosh darn it!" I growled as I pat down my face, "Stop that! Stop your fancy leg work, you overgrown leperchaun!"

Legs look at Zealous with a deadpan "I'm Legs, its my whole shit"

"And what would you do if someone breaks them!?" "Legless?"

"I'll burn that bridge when I get to it" Legs shrugs

"I'LL BREAK YOU AND YOUR TITLE! I AM ZEALOUS TERMINATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!" I yelled my war cry as I charged for Legs and attempted to do a flip in order to plant my legs on Legs' chest and kick him in the chin. Twice. (Using a Ki point).

Fifteen straight damage to his chin parts, to which he starts bleeding, he's look a little wobbly, but does his best to shake himself out of it and send out a flurry of leg blows, which you've manage to to weave mostly through, take only 4 dmg because rage, your turn

"NOW.... FOR YOUR LEGS..." I wiggled my fingers devilishly. (This is intimidate.)

>Give it a roll, this is goign to be an action tho

"Bring it on Zealous, My legs shall bare any storm!!!" Legs dosen't seem scared

I run towards him and attempt to grab his legs!

Unfortunatly, you've spent you action for your turn, its his move

In that case, it's his turn.

Legs attacks becoming less and less accurate, his exaustion showing with each leg flurry, Take only 2 dmg with rage, your turn

I scream as I bite my teeth, open, close, open, close. That's quite terrifying. I swing my hands at Legs' legs! I can't really punch him up there considering the size but...

Thud, he's out cold, his reserves couldn't withstand your final strikes, knocking the legs out from under legs, his face planting onto the solid wooden crate platform That crowd cheers loudly, chanting ""Zealous terminator, Zealous Terminator, Zealous Terminator!!!"

"THAT'S RIGHT! YELL OUT MY NAME! I AM ZEALOUS TERMINATORRRRRRRRRRRR!"

The crowd continues to do so as staff drag Legs out of the Platform. "Zealous Teminator, Zealous Terminator! Woooooooo!"

"Okay guys, guys, guys...." He looks over toward Legs who presumably got dragged out and then back at the audience, "Who is Sexy Fred?"

SO, let me just, track this train of events for second, You went to the librabry to find pit fight lore, you learn about sexy fred, after not getting information from a random student about him, you go to a pit fighting arena beat up a man named legs, and then ask audience....okay

....Alright so you know how its hard to hear an explination through multiple people talking all at once, now imagine a whole audience, >Roll perception

you can swear you heat at least two people talk about bees for no apparant reason, three are trying to explain, Four are noisely complaining about losing a bet while the rest are still chanting zealous terminator,

"Wow, this guy must be completely nonexistent then." I muttered to myself quietly and then shrugs. "Alright, here's a deal guys. I'll play more of these fights if one of you all can get me information on Sexy Fred!"

A new set of footprint on the Wooden Crate Platform Stage, Strolling behind him "Tell you what My man, i got an offer for you"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeess?"

"Defeat me and i'll lay some exposition at you revolving sexy fred and give you 300 gold, Lose, and you'll give me that amount" He appears to be downing a potion after that statment, with a burp at the end

TO BE CONTINUED ->

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Ashes of the Old World Session Branch 13-B Part 1

Time: Sometime after Session 12 Characters: Zealous Terminator

Starting things off for the hell of it, Zealous, You're in Anxe, a city known for being really tall and built out of mostly towers, the excited comradery and celebration of the populace is fairly loud after the wierd spider invasion has been fought off recently in part thanks to your "friends" , Your "friends" are currently having to deal with tarnocks trial coming up, something about a guard going missing, as you might have been told by uncle ashara, either while he was drunk or slightly less drunk, either way you have free reign to explore, what do you do?

"Hm, I wonder where everyone is at right now?" I wonder quietly as I step through a door, looking about himself to get an idea of what the whole place looks like at this time of the day. At this very moment, I felt like actually exploring the library for some books on famous wrestlers. Hopefully I can find some interesting lore.

The library is a dusty bastard, people with pointy hats and vaguely important looking educational based cloths filling these halls, probably from various schools and colleges, while not a large buidling its pretty sizable and presumably chock full of books on various subjects, >Roll some hot saucy Investigation check to look for your desired books

While few books you find have the term "Wrestler", You find atleast five in total revolving around arena games and pit fighting, One actually going into a specific biography about one of these participants in these games "Sexy Fred" detailing how sexy he was and the force at which he ripped opponents in two and danced beautifully after victory, two of the books have two different accounts by two seperate authors about the start of competive fighting stating there own home town as the start of it, contradicting each other atleast every respective chapter, The remaining two are ledgers holding lentghly lists of known "wrestlers" or "arena fighters"

"This sounds fun." I stated as I flipped through the pages, "This Sexy Fred sounds quite livid." After few minutes of reading into it, I had already begun to form ideas in my head. This... "arena games" and "pit fighting" sounds like something I should look into. I turn to the nearest coneheads which are also deemed as guardians of the library. "Hey, where can I find pit fights?" I ask.

The nearest conehead, A halfling with freckles all round thier face and bright orange hair almost going down to thier feet, confusidly looks to Zealous, she looks tired trying to determine if shes even awake after just glancing at him for a couple seconds, with the only immediate response being, "....what?"

"The pit fights, the arena gaming, the place where Sexy Fred fights at. Can you point the direction out to it for me, please?" I ask, growing mildly concerned for the exhausted ginger in front of me.

"...Finals coming up and I'm already hallucinating" The ginger halfing shakes her head, as if trying to disprove to herself that Zealous is even there "....And you're still there, Hello, sorry I don't....I don't know what your talking about, I don't know a fred, Is he a friend? I can check the ummmm...Lost and found....no thats....you can't put people in there, no" The tragic lack of coffee in this time becomes violently apparant

"If you are taking history finals, you are failing it terribly, my young fair madame!" I shout at the librarian as I waved at her. "Sexy Fred is somewhat of a gladiator I hear. Never mind, is your elderly one or a supervisor around?"

"No they're at the college, they make me buy books they wrote and the libraray sells them here, 50 gp is fucking bullshit, course requires it too, they only reference ONE FUCKING PAGE, I just wanted to learn astrology dammit, The fuck is an algebra" Ginger Halfling has started crying

I sigh out of exasperation. I do not know why this young lady is telling me her troubles with school and finances. I just want directions to a pit fight, or an arena. "Right... I don't know what an algebra is either, but if it's important, you might as well learn it." I stroke my orange beard out of frustration. Right then, I might be best be off to find a place that sells or gives information about maps. Wait, I am at library. I slap my forehead and began to search for maps.

Yeah don't even roll for that, they got maps, theres even a large sign saying MAPS, at the reception desk

I pick up the map and began to look through them for locations of the pit fights and arena games. I am on a mission ladies and gents! Zealous Terminator is coming!

There is actually several in and around Anxe, Roughly Thirteen competing ones in the lower city tier, Three in the mid city tier and one large one in the highest tiers

Assuming I am already on the lower city tier... I am going to go ahead and visit one of the thirteen pit fights then work my way around from there. Hm, I wonder if I should be concerned with Tarnock's trial? I should be looking for evidences to help him break free. Oh well! TO THE PIT FIGHTS!

I ran as far as my tiny little legs can take me.

The Richard Butter Slam, Is the fighting pit you come up to first, it looks a little bit in disrepair, wooden boards covering atleast two destroyed windows,

A small line out front, A bugbear with yellow spots, A father and his five children, An elf, and various more nameless npcs large bouncers standing at the door

I sure hope these bouncers don't recognize me. By their sizes, I should be able to slip by easily between their legs!

?????.....why are you worried about them reconizing zealous?

You'll never know if I need a code or password to get into the fight club.

(Look at this fuck forgeting the first rule of fight club) That has nothing to do with being reconized, but i suppose if you wanna slip in without being noticed by bouncer senpai you'll half to make a sleath check

The Bouncers notice Zealous-Kohai very shortly paying very little mind untill looks like hes doing a sneak , closing thier legs before he can walk underneath them "Hold it, where you think you're going?"

I look up and then chuckled uneasily, "Erm.... inside?" I said.

"If you watching get in back of the line, Or are you looking to get messed up?" The bouncer grunts

"Look at me and tell me what you think?" I point to my mask and my outfit, surely it is painstakingly obvious! "I am here to MESS someone up."

>Roll the better of intimidation or persuasion

"................" The bouncer is having the hardest time not laughing "You Serious??? HAHAHAHAHA" welp there he go, doing a laugh

Can I do a punch to make him change his mind?

Shit fam give a go >roll your attack

The bouncer is hit in such the right spot to spit out a whole Electrum piece, The other Bouncer is looking with concern "Lenny, We talked about this don't eat coins"

"No thats from....way back I don't.....look fucker just go in ow" Lenny bouncer grimaces

With a prideful grunt, I walk into the fight club! As upon entry, what do I see?

Zealous should be able to gaze upon, A bunch of chairs and tables filled with people, Surrounding a platform created by just having a bunch of crates pushed together, there is what looks like a fishing net at each side of the crate platform, This building clearly wasn't intended for this kind of activity but was makeshiftedly turned into it.

There is two people fighting inside the platform currently one with a club and the other punching him real hard, loud cheering from the crowd

I have urges rising inside me, warrior's blood boiling, screaming me to join in the fight. However... I think I am going to look around or hear anyone talk about this... "Sexy Fred". I walk about in the arena, also looking for something to eat. I am not just being here to revel in the fight, I am also here to eat food and pick up on the lead on the guy as well.

There is alot of Butter stands like selling whole sticks of butter, in The Richard Butter Slam arena, As well as barrels of ale, Bread stands, A stand deep frying bread using ale, wierd stuff

Hm, I think I am in mood for some Buttered toast and a glass of ale.

Costs about 12 copper in total, most of the price coming from the butter, its not very expensive down here and thats probably because everyone is poor as fuck

I SHALL TAKE THAT! Upon after purchasing them, of course.

pffft, alright the conversion rate of gold to copper is 100 Cp per Gp, so...math that out, or just pretend its pennies to dollars if that helps. The stand (user) owner happily gives you your change and hands you your food

Nice! I grabbed dem food and then walked toward the table nearby and began to eat them as I watch the fight! I am totally secretly studying my next possible fighter's fighting techniques.

I'm just realizing zealous is probably the richest fucker in the room....Anyway! Yeah the two fighters are distributing a whole wallop to each other, While the club wielder have the clear damage advantage the fist fighter is moving around to dammed fast,making it hard to land anything on him, sliding around each swing and bopping the club wielder's nose, after a couple good snoot boops Club user finally collapses onto the platform, an announcer shouting, "Ohhhh! and thats another win for Legs Leviticus, The Club Conroy is going to be mad about that when he wakes up"

"END HIM!" I shout from the chair, shaking my fist violently as I spew butter and bread from my seat.

Legs makes his way to the end of the platform looking down at Zealous "What is with this....Sassy lost child?"

"I AM ZEALOUS TERMINATOR!" I shouted from the distance.

"Well you aint gonna be shit after I'm done with you" Legs motions upward with his thumb as if to challenge Zealous, Club is being picked up and dragged away by staff

"THAT'S A CHALLENGE I SMELL. I SHALL TAKE YOUR CHALLENGE!" I shout and charged toward the clearing, entering the ring by doing some sort of acrobatics for a dramatic entry.

Take a wild guess on what you're going to >Roll

You look like your about to make a glorious amazing and majestic flip entry, Right up untill you hit into the fish nets you've apparantly completly fogotten about, Legs seems concerned motioning to where Club is being carried out, theres apparantly a small flap where in fighters enter and leave the platform

I hurriedly remove myself from the net to face the Legs more properly. I also make mental note that there's a small flap in case I should inspect it. "Alright, just... give me a second here." I muttered quietly as I attempt to get myself upright.

Task is simple enough not to require a roll, since the net is fixed to the crates and the cieling, There is very little way to get tangled, inless you break it

Nah, no need to break it. Anyway! I get into the clearing and face the Legs more properly. I size him up from the ground, assuming he probably got a huge size advantage on me?

Apparantly yes, standing 6 feet tall and having him some pointed ears, legs starts stretching his legs

I point up toward the Legs and shout out in a mighty prideful cry, "ARE YOU READY TO GO BACK TO YOUR MOMMY FOR SOME COOKIES AND MILK!?"

"SOMETIME LATER TODAY SURE, BUT NOT BEFORE I TEACH YOU SOME TABLE MANNERS" Legs exclaims stomping his legs onto the platform floor

"THEN GET SOME TABLES AND I'LL GLADLY ACCEPT YOUR LESSONS. TEACHERS NEEDS TO HAVE PROPER SUPPLIES TO TEACH THEIR STUDENTS!" I screamed at top of my lungs and proceed to grab at this man's legs.

Oh boy Combat start, Roll some crunchy Initiative, mostly just to determine who goes first

Good Shit, >roll athelics to grapple

The legs to fast to touch as they hop out the way of your grab attempt, His turn

Seeing you leaned over he reels one of his legs backward and strikes it forward, this misses, but shortly after his other legs comes trailing behind, but this has about the the same success, zealous turn

I tackle and wail on the remaining leg he has on the floor!

TO BE CONTINUED->

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Araquu Journal Session #13- Navi and the Lich

Time: Just after Session 20 Characters: Navi, Cecily

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Following the revelation that Navi’s lich is Steven, Cecily seeks out some answers...

Navi was making her way in the direction she could sense Eiriol had gone, browsing her phone's messages to pass the time, and groaning about the fact that Maska's Chirper update about the dragon fight already had 200 rechirps because he'd mentioned Yue in it.

Navi’s phone dings with a text notification. The text is from Cecily. The preview only says: ‘Can we talk?’

Navi looks at the new message, opening it and scanning to see if there was anything further, then tapping the 'call' button and bringing the phone to her ear as she walks.

“Hi,” Cecily voice picks up from the phone’s speaker. “Any idea where Eiriol flew off to?”

"Based on what I can tell, she's either at or making her way to the police station. Good news bad news on that front, because it means a lot of people'll probably have seen her, but they may be at ease if anyone sees her land there without attacking," Navi explains.

“Good,” Cecily replied. “Me and the others are still en route to the Hidden Hollow.” Then, a sigh goes through the phone. “...But that’s not why I called admittedly.”

"Had a feeling that'd be the case," she admits. Based on the wind and stuff she's walking pretty quickly, but she doesn't sound too winded. Perks of being undead I guess?

“I want to ask you about... Steven,” Cecily said, grimacing when even thinking of the name. “If that’s okay with you.”

"I dunno how much I'll be able to give y'all on that front, but I suppose you may as well ask away," Navi frowns.

“Anything you know is fine by me,” answered the swordswoman. “I want to diminish as many surprises as possible once I find that bastard... but for starters, how do you know him? Besides the obvious of course.”

"I mean, he rezzed me? That's about all I can give, really. I certainly hadn't known him back when I was alive, anyway," she explains.

“He never gave a reason why he revived you?”

"I mean, I can pretty well guess what it was, but it's not like I could ask."

“...that’s fair,” sighed Cecily. “Next question: how does he act as a person? Noticable quirks, unpredictability, etc?”

"Very... overtly polite? Or at least gives off the façade of that. Sweet to the point of saccharine, really. Tends to adjust things on the fly based on new developments."

That very much matched the tone of the letter Cecily read back at home. Probably how he suckers people in to be on his side. Despite that, an ability to adapt to any ten of events is something to worry about. “Know anything about how skilled he is at lich magic?”

"I mean, he rezzed me," Navi points out. "I'd been dead for like... at least forty years before he did. Apparently I'd been on ice, that's what he said, I think? Wasn't very coherent..."

“I guess I can say he’s highly skilled for now...” A pause elapsed as her voice picks up again. “I’m sorry if this sounds like I’m interrogating you Navi.”

"No, no, I probably deserve it," she admits, with what sounds like a shrug. "Ask away. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner, honestly."

“But you haven’t done anything,” she argued. “It’s not like you asked to come back, or get involved with that man. Hell, we even got you involved with us and you almost died after getting arrested for something you couldn’t control. Does that sound like you deserve it?”

"Oh, right, you guys... hadn't figured out that... errmm... how do I put this delicately..." How do you put WHAT delicately? "I... kinda kick-started this whole thing. I'm literally carrying three of the relics on my person."

“...you’re what?!” Cecily covered her mouth, trying not to alert the others by her raise in voice. She then audibly clears her voice and proceeds to talk. “You have three of the relics?”

"Y-Yeah... the orb, the rose, and the locket." Well, that explains the fabric from the rose scene, but what's this about a locket?

“Why do you have them?” Cecily immediately asks. “And how come you never thought about telling us?”

"Because I was gathering them for Steve!" she hisses back. "Of COURSE I wasn't gonna tell you lot I was grabbin' them for your enemy! Especially with how badly you all reacted to him havin' been the one to get the mask to your mom, what was I supposed to say, 'By the way I'm part of this whole thing in ways that you don't know about yet and also helped her get into the city without being noticed by customs'?!"

Cecily was at most silent at Navi’s confession. So she was on his side at the very start. She honestly didn’t know how to really react to this info. Was she angry? Yes. Directly at Navi? That was unknown at the moment. “...I... don’t know what to say.”

There's a bit of silence for a moment. "...if it helps at all, I... don't know that he wanted me to have sentience."

“...do you consider us as friends at all Navi?” Cecily eventually spoke up.

"I'm tellin' you all this, aren't I?" she says. "Against my better judgement..."

“That’s true,” Cecily says in the same somber tone. “I... I obviously have never been good at holding back my anger when it comes to these moments. Hell, one could say that the slightest annoyance could set me off, given a particular someone in our company. And if I’m being honest when I heard you were associated with Steven... I wanted to lash out on you. But... I also don’t want to jump any sort of gun with someone I call a friend. Especially after what just happened earlier. I just want to know that I can trust you to watch my back. And... if you trust us to watch yours.”

"...don't let anything take the locket from me. Please." Navi sounds... oddly desperate about that request.

“...I promise,” Cecily nods. “Wouldn’t be a comrade, or friend if I just let that happen.”

"If it goes, then- I don't know what will happen to me. I- I don't know how or why, but- this locket is what gives me my sentience to begin with. I don't think Steven ever intended for me to have free will."

The locket is the reason Navi is still her? That must be what power the relic has. All the more reason to make sure nothing happens to her or the locket itself. “Then it’s another mistake that bastard made that’s to our benefit. We’re all glad that you’re you Navi. You have my word. And the others... if you’re willing to also tell them about it.”

Navi nods. "I'll... see if I can once I catch up with you guys at that Hidden Hollow place. Once I've met up with Eiriol it'll just be a matter of her flying us over, hopefully..."

“Promise to stay safe while you make your way back to us, okay?” Cecily asks. “Can’t help but recall that one time you split up from the rest of us.” Quinn still feels guilty about it to this day.

"I'll try my damndest," she nods. "Take care."

“You too,” Cecily smiled as she hangs up.

[[END OF JOURNAL SESSION]]

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Araquu Journal Session #12- A Short Interlude

Time: Sometime after Session 19 Characters: Maska, Navi

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After the event at Yue’s hideaway, Maska catches up to Navi to see if she’s okay...

After the deal with Wu, they part ways. Maska catches up to Navi, "Hey, Navi! Wait up!" He runs up to her.

Navi was making her way towards Willow's place when Maska ran up to her. She turned to look over at him, confused about why he was calling her. "What's up?"

"I wanted to talk to you about what happened back in Yue's place" He stops in front of her "Do you have a minute? It'll only take a moment, I swear. No bullshit."

She raises an eyebrow, or at least least that's what you think she's doing considering the hood. "I suppose so? Only if it takes a minute, though."

"Alright; What happened back there?" Wow way to be blunt, then again this is Maska, "Back when when were talking about the zombie invasion? It looked like you wanted to say something but couldn't, or wouldn't."

"What do you mean, 'what happened'?" she asked. "What kinda answer are you lookin' for?"

"I'm just asking because you seem really conflicted to say anything" He said, "Wanted to know if you're fine."

"Depends what all you mean by being fine," Navi frowns.

"Fine with Cecily and Nevan's ghost coming down on you so harshly, I meant" Maska explains.

"I'm fine," she says, shaking her head with a sigh.

"You sure?" Maska tilts his head, "I know I sound like a broken record but I'm just worried. Sorry if I'm acting a fuckboi or something." He grins nervously.

"I mean, I'm a bit concerned about what all we saw," she frowns, "But I'm fine."

"Great! Oh, speaking of zombies, our mutual friend finally helped me with that magic," Maska told her, looking proud all proud of himself.

"...really? He's helping you?" Navi seems a bit perplexed by that.

"Yep, taught me-" He looks side to side to make sure no one's near them, then leans over to whisper, "Taught me how to restore the soul of someone."

"That seems... unlike him," she frowns, but seems to accept it.

"I can be very persuasive when i need to be" Don't look proud about that Maska.

"Uh-huh," she doesn't seem to think so.

"No seriously, I can be very persuasive!" He tried to defend himself, "I persuaded Wu didn't I?"

"You made puppy eyes at her until it worked."

"N-no! I gave her" Dramatic pause, "the Smolder" then does it.

"What is that thing you're doing with your face."

"That's the smolder" He doesn't stop doing it.

"It's gonna get your teeth broken is what it is."

"You're no fun" He drops, but smiles anyways "In any case, I'll let you do whatever you were doing or going to do."

"To Willow's. Where else?"

"Willow? Who was Willow again?"

"My witch friend. She runs a potion shop."

"Wait is that the witch Cecily's dating?"

"I guess so."

"Oh, well tell her I said hello."

Navi nods, then waves and heads on her way.

[[END OF JOURNAL SESSION]]

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Araquu Journal Session #11- Eiriol and Jessica

Time: Sometime during Session 19 Characters: Eiriol, Jessica

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Eiriol heads to the Araquu Police Station to question Jessica about her friend...

The Araquu Police Station held prisoners of all shapes and sizes. Those kept in this particular branch were low-power individuals, of whom magical suppression could effectively contain. As such, it was the perfect place for Jessica and Jared to be contained. In separate cells, of course- the police weren't idiots- but this was where they were being held regardless. Velvet had been moved to a more secure prison after she had literally broken several walls in her Grand Escape after the last time she'd been held here.

Eiriol makes her way down to the prison cell that holds Jesse, along with a guard to escort her, as per protocol. When she reaches the cell she nods to the policemen to acknowledge that she would be fine from there, but to stay close just in case.

Jessica looks over from where she's laying on the cell bed, noticing she has a visitor. "Well, well, if it isn't the little dragon. Come to make amends for your little betrayal?" she asks, though based on her tone she really doesn't think that's the case.

"No, obviously." Eirol folds her arms over her chest and lets out a small chuckle. "I'm honestly surprised you let me in the way you did, not even thinking I could have been going in for stuff to bring you in, or... what do the humans call it here, 'under cover'?"

"Funny. When life gives you a dragon willing to attack its friends, you don't question it, you go 'Oh hey cool, a dragon that's gonna help me!'," she rolls her eyes. "So what do you want, then? I doubt you just came to say hello."

"I didn't even attack my friends that hard, and I was feeling so guilty for hurting them. I thought for sure my face was going to give me away, but it didn't." Her smirk grows a bit now that she's getting to what she came for "But yes, where are my manners! I never did say hello!" She gives Jesse an actual genuine wave and smile "Hello Jesse! I hope your cell isn't too out of your liking, but down to business, I'm here to talk about my friend Velvet."

You swear you hear her mutter something about her name being Jessica, not Jesse, but you may just be imagining it. "And? What about her?" she asks.

She goes off what she thinks she heard, "Would you prefer Jessica? If it bothers you that I don't say your name correctly, please, let me know." She'd rather be wrong, then not know at all. She uncrosses one arm, letting it dangle at her side while the other stays tucked where it is, "I want to know where Velvet came from please. I'd like to know her origin so I can better understand some things."

"Firstly, my name is Jessica, not Jesse. Secondly... I haven't the foggiest. She just appeared one day."

Eiriol notes her name is Jessica, and is going to make sure the others know that too "She just... appeared? Kind of similar to how I did?" She looks down in thought for a moment before she returns her gaze at Jessica. "Did she come through a portal as well?"

"Yes, though it was different than yours. Hers seemed more like a tear, while yours was more natural, I suppose." She rolls her eyes. The information isn't very helpful, which is probably why she's giving it.

"Okay, well, that tells me some good information. Now how about how she joined your group? Would you be willing to tell me about that? She's pretty dedicated to you."

"I asked her if she wanted to help us and she started calling me 'Keeper'."

"Okay, so that might be something from where she's from then, maybe what they call the leaders, or their elders like my home," She looks down, bringing the unbent arm up to her chin and begins to try out puzzle pieces together. "Did she ever talk about where she came from?"

"No, not at all." That's, kinda disappointing really.

"I suppose I could ask her myself then." She thinks up any other questions that could help her out. "How about where he portal appeared? Do you remember?"

"In my fucking living room," she sounds annoyed about that.

"... That was not insured either." She says with that face of just ew and cringe "Na- A friend of ours always gets mad when I accidentally lose my human form and turn into a dragon in her home, she's always telling me I shouldn't be wearing myself thin with that, and I should probably listen to her on that more. Anyways, do you remember how she was reacting when she left the portal? Scared or confused? or even calm and knowledge-able of what was going on?"

"Now, this whole thing has been fun, but why should I answer these questions again?" she asks.

"I'm trying to help my friend, why else would I be asking you questions?" she replies back honestly, and without hesitation, "You have a team with you as the boss, whom she looks up to and trusts. You and Jared have known her for a while and so you're the only ones I can ask about her, well, except for Velvet... but uh..." Eiriol sighs a bit. "She's still mad at me for trying to de-arm and safely capture you." She begins to rub the back of her head, " Sorry about the ice by the way, I'm still trying to get better hold of that so I don't cause damage when apprehending people..."

"She does whatever I say," Jessica smirks. "Without question. It's great."

"And she never says no, I know. And that worries me. I feel like she doesn't have her own will. What do they call it here... Oh, hive mind, it's like she has hive mind. She deserves her independence where she can say no to things, don't you think? With how much she's done for you, doesn't she deserve to have freedom from serving, even for a little while?"

"Let me think... no, not really. She seems happy to serve me."

"Again, because that's probably what she's used to" She sighs, "How would you feel if you were in her place? Just... minus the extreme hive mind... Wouldn't you want a break?"

"She's getting a break while we're all in prison."

"That's not a real break and you know it" Eiriol huffs "You don't call your time here a break, do you? It's more like... captivity. I know because I made them out me in a cell after I came back from ‘working’,” she does the quote fingers "For you. Those cells are not fun to be in for too long when you're a dragon."

"And she's not a dragon, is she?"

"And neither are you, and it still doesn't mean you're any more comfortable in there than she is."

"Things are quite comfortable actually, very nice."

She just rolls her eyes, "Well then I suppose I could let the office know that you're getting too comfy in your cell, and have you moved to a more let's say, compact living quarters that better suits your basic human needs."

"And if you do that, then good luck getting any answers out of me about Velvet."

"Hence why you know what you need to do, otherwise I will do what I need to." Eiriol has a very deadpan serious look not only on her face, but in her tone. She isn't fooling around about her friend at this point and knows she's running low on info from Jessica. She steps a little bit closer to the front of cell and lets a puff of crystally cloud ice from her nostrils. "I'll let you think on that. Have a good rest of your day Jessica," And with that, Eiriol turns and leaves with the guard that escorted her earlier, keeping in mind all of the bits of info she got to help her with Velvet.

[[END OF JOURNAL SESSION]]

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Araquu Journal Session #10- So Here’s The Plan

Time: Sometime after Session 18 Characters: Maska, Cecily, Yue, Aldrid, Navi

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After the incident at Floradai Park, the DISC Unit discusses what to do next...

Yue was laying on a couch in whatever meeting room they be in kicking her feet in the air as she lays on her stomach hands on her chin supporting her head, "Sooo, we're out of leads then huh guys? No more relics to go after then? Is there some Small crime going on we can handle then?" she wonders out loud.

Maska is sprawled on whatever table they have in the room, head resting on the hard wood. With a laptop in front of him i guess "I could look up news article of the past few days..."

Cecily is only standing up and leaning near a corner of the room, having her arms crossed. "I could call one of the council members and see if they have any more info on relic locations," she suggests, pulling out her phone.

"Is there any thing else we should be doing aside from relic searching?” Yue asks. “I feel like that's a fun pass time searching for relics and all, but isn't there some more important other things we should do? Like finding the person actually stealing the relics, then we don't have to waste time to look for the hard to find artifacts."

"I could look up the year they were made in," Maska blows his single strand of hair of his face, "What year was it again? 18 something?" He sits up and brings the machine closer to him.

"1944," Cecily corrected.

"Ah yes, the 40s" Maska said, in a mocking old timey voice "Where showing a single ankle was like hardcore porn to men" He typed up ‘City of Araquu, 1944′ on google.

Some furious Google searching is enough to yield some rather interesting results. You have learned the following! • 1944 is the same year that the current Emperor became, well, the Emperor, having formerly been a part of the (then) council. • Several businesses and attractions were established in that year; Café Bleu de la Lune, Yinxiu Trinkets, Floradai Park, and Shimmering Fabrics are all familiar names. Attractions at the Park of the Lady, and a few recently discovered things (exhibited at the History Museum and Museum of Modern art) are mentioned. • Several powerful mage families also emigrated into Araquu at that time. Listed are the Summers family, the Noah family, and the Meyers family.

"Woah what?" Maska gasp, "Wendy comes from family of mages?"

"This is Araquu, most families here are families of mages, why are you so shocked by this Masky?" Yue wonders.

"Even my father's side of my family are mages," Cecily offhandly mentions.

"Yeah, but they're pleabians" He opens the Powerful Mage families emigrations on a different tab, "Says here they're crazy powerful, this I gotta see."

Which one(s) are you looking into?

"Hrm, let's start with Wendys family" He clicks on the Summers Family.

The Summers family is currently composed of: • Mikhal Summers, aged 58. An expert at tracking magic and capable of using various other assorted magics. • His son, Matthew Summers, aged 26. Rather talented in the art of plant magics. • Matthew's husband, Mark Summers, aged 25. Rather talented in the art of song magics. • Their adopted daughter, Wendy Summers, aged 10. She's too young to practice magic.

"I'd expected the current family be bigger, then again Wendy’s fathers are gay" Maska rubs his chin, "Plant Magic, Song Magic and Tracking Magic... her grandfather's magic could be useful provided he lend us a hand, what do you guys think?" He turns to Yue and Cecily.

"Well we can certainly add that to the things to consider," she cuffed her chin. "...Check to see if there's anything else worth looking into to broaden our options."

"Let me check to see if I can find a connection to the Summers Family and those darn relics," Maska searches the entirety of family to see if there’s a link.

You search the article for a while but don't manage to find anything. Apparently it's not online for everyone ever to see?

"Nothing, let's check the Meyers Family" He goes back on the site and clicks on the Meyers "Never heard of these people."

You have learned that an old lady named Geraldine Meyers is the owner of Shimmering Fabrics.

"Oh hey, it's that old lady from Upper City" Maska shows Cecily the picture of Geraldine, "The one we got the pin from."

"I recall her," Cecily said, flattening her expression. "Reminds me of something else I plan on doing later. Anyways, see what it says about the family."

"Oh right, I should actually look up the actual history of the family." Damn it Maska, anyways he reads the history of the Meyers outloud.

Geraldine lives on her own with like, 50 dogs, she has no family.

"50 dogs? Living the dream right there, good shit." He looks over Geraldine's profile once again, "For someone who comes from a powerful mage family, doesn't seem like she has magical abilities."

"So you're saying that they're nothing to note besides working at one of the locations we've been to?" Cecily asks.

The problem is, no one really knows much about her. She lives on her own and doesn't socialize that often. There's not much information available online.

"Nope, well if you count that she had the relic in her shop and having come from a prestige family" He goes back and clicks on the last family to emigrated to Araquu, "But I don't think that's a connection."

THE NOAH FAMILY, aka Councilman Noah's family, probably his parents or grandparents? That's like all you can find, the council is pretty damn secretive.

"I forgot how secretive mages were with their history, it's really fucking annoying" Maska lets out a sigh with a grimace on his face. Fucking mages.

A sigh only comes from Cecily. "Great," she says. "In terms of people that doesn't leave us with much. How about any other places that relate to the date? Some we haven't visited?"

"Give me a sec, you know you can come and look see yourself instead of trying to blend into the wallpaper" He closes the tab of TreeAncestry dot com and goes back to the google one. He clicks on the page relating to the business that open during 1944.

Before you can investigate any further, the door opens and Navi walks in. "...WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK WHY IS MY HOUSE YOUR HANGOUT!?"

"Hey boo, we just invited ourselves in hope you don't mind" Maska waves at her.

"...if it makes you feel better, I brought food over," Cecily says, pointing to some left over donuts in a box. "You can help yourself."

Navi mutters something about having sworn she locked the door before going to grab a donut. "Any luck with those last few relics we don't know about?"

"No, but I did find out that Wendy’s gonna be a powerful mage when she grows up" Maska stretches a bit, "Right now we're looking into the business that open during the 40s."

Navi takes a few bites to eat her donut, munching as Maska searches. Unfortunately there are too many Dank Memes on the interwebs right now, so he can't find anything that they don't already know.

Cecily, it suddenly dawns on you that perhaps it wasn't so much businesses that were given relics, so much as people who were entrusted to take care of them and put together something they could use to hide it. A lamp at a cafe isn't something that draws attention; nor is a hatpin at a clothing store.

"...There is a connection I do notice," Cecily thought to herself. "Perhaps it's not so much as locations, as it's actually people we should be more concerned with paying attention to. Like, people the Emperor must of knew or trusted."

"Huh- oh uh" Maska quickly closes the Bill Wurtz video he accidentally clicked on, "Right Emperor, question; how do we figure out who he knew? The guy is a well guarded secret."

"That... is the tricky part," Cecily sweatdropped. "I mean, we could ask one of the councilmen. After all, Councilmen Noah is tied to the year 1944."

"Hang on I'm gonna check this article for a hot minute" He clicks on the search result on how the current emperor became as such.

It seems to be a 'picked by the council' thing; and they usually have a sort of trial of their own design to figure out if the person trying to become Emperor is capable of the tasks that would be set before them. Also, you've found a forum where people try and theorize what kind of magic the Emperor uses.

"They do a trial to see if they're fit to be the Emperor, huh i always thought it was more of a 'who the most powerful mage of them all' cue lightning crackling-" He pauses at what he found "Oh hey! Look, conspiracy theorist!"

Navi groans. "Maska for the love of god no, when has anything useful ever come from conspiracy theories-" boom shakalaka

"Shut up! I'm listening to crazy people!" He clicks on the link to the forum.

Cecily facepalms. "...So, Navi," Cecily says, deciding to small talk while Maska is wasting time. Maybe he'll get back on track soon. "What have you been up to while we were in the Upper City?"

Maska, you can't find any signs of intelligent life here. There are approximately thirty different theories about what kind of magic the Emperor uses, although only two of them seem to be actually trying to present any evidence. There's also a running poll and betting pool about what gender the Emperor is, which is basically neck and neck for Male/Female right now.

"Mostly been runnin' deliveries and what not for Willow. Helpin' her out. She's expectin' a new shipment in soon and wants to be careful it doesn't get stolen again."

"Hm.... I should come back and bet on this when we find out," He mutters to himself and opens both theories that are at least trying their best in their own tabs.

"Robbed?" Cecily asks. "What was stolen?"

"It happened a while ago, she said it was some or other ingredients she doesn't actually sell 'cause they're usually illegal to hang onto," Navi explains. "Said she has permission to use 'em in her own private work though. Actually, she spoke to Aldrid 'bout it, I'm surprised he hasn't told y'all this happened."

Maska, the two primary theories are that the Emperor either uses some form of Body Manipulation Magic (that is, manipulating their own body) or that they use some form of Time Magic. The argument for Time Magic seems to have more proof - various photos of things and locations in places the Emperor has apparently been that indicate time changed somehow - although a lot of the photos and things are "I took a picture here with my mom at this point in time, and then a thing happened and now it looks like THIS" or something similar so it's hard to verify the validity of any of those; on the other hand, Body Manipulation Magic has a very strong following and many people have pointed out that surely it HAS to be that because of all the photos of the various damaged areas from the scene, or the fact that no one fucking knows what the Emperor looks like so they have to be able to change themselves at will... tough to say, really! However, based on your own investigations of these things, you're more inclined to think the Emperor is some sort of time mage; a lot of the things being argued as going under Body Manipulation can actually be viewed as time magic if looked at from the right angle, and with how secretive the council is it's really no surprise that people don't know what the Emperor looks like either; especially if he or she could just, I don't know, pause time and go where they need to go and then unpause it or something similar!

"Pft maybe Wu Hou is the Emperor, or maybe related," He re-reads the time magic theory again. Hypothetically, a egg inside of Maska’s head begins to crack, crack, crack, and hatch to reveal a chick. Maska stands up and shouts "OH MY GOD WE NEED TO FIND WU HOE" frantically.

"AAAAH, JESUS!" Cecily replies, jumping a foot into the air.

"AAAAAHHH!" Yue falls off the couch and sits up looking around. “I'm awake totally.... what happened who's yelling?"

"It makes somewhat sense" He re-reads both theories on the forum he found "Maybe we really need to find Wu Hou..."

"Huh? Why?" Yue asks standing up and brushing herself off.

Maska explains to her the theories he found and his after thoughts on how the Emperor could be using it, also he brought her up to speed on what they had found out "...So, if we do find her, not only could we find more about people that are connected to 1944, we could find out more about the Emperor themselves."

"Assuming that this Wu person would be interested in even bothering to help us. What makes you so sure we can count on her?" Yue puts a finger to chin in thinking form.

"Same goals? Cecily did mention she was trying to 'save the city.'" Maska opens up a new tab and goes to youtube. Might as well get some music in the background, the silence is the deafening, "Besides, I trust this Hou person very little but I do trust Cecily's judgement. Most of the time."

"Huh, Well, glad to see you're not taking that at face value." she smiles, "I've run into so many people that claim the same thing in this line of work that it's hard for even me to trust everything someone says. Besides how would we find someone that could travel through time, and not alert HQ?" Yue sits down cross armed, "What about talking with the council again, maybe they can help us figure something out?"

"I think that’s the point, even if the Emperor would use time magic, wouldn't their magical signature already be notified by the police?" He clicks on some random music and lets it play on low volume, "And true we could take it up with them again, but remember they can't always help us. When was the last time we even met them again in person? Still, not denying that we could go talk to them."

"Did you have a reason to meet them again in person before now?" Yue wonders leaning in.

"Beside seeing Fira again, not really" He leans back on his chair and yawns, "So we can either find the Hoe person or talk to the councilmen."

"I feel like it would be in our best interest to go after the councilmen, if we wanna continue finding the relics. I feel like we could stop this relic running round thing easier if we go after the person hunting them down first. Any ideas on who we could try and track down?"

"I don't know about them anymore, it feels like we're going on a wild goose chase." Maska scratches his head. "What would that even accomplish? We have the Relics then what?"

"I don't think we should be collecting the relics right now." Yue flat out states.

“Well, what do you suggest we do then?” Cecily turns to Yue, while rubbing the back of her own head. “I know we’re a police force that also deals with small crime too, but that still doesn’t mean there’s no sense of urgency either.”

"No no, hear me out here, why would we need to collect all of the relics? Can't we use what we have now as bait to lure out the enemy instead of gathering all the trinkets to make things easier for the opponent?" Yue smiles.

"That sounds flawed, you want to use all of the relics we have to bait out the bad man?" Maska pipes in.

"Pardon my askin'," Navi pipes up from where she's cleaning up a bit, "But have we figured out WHY these guys want th'relics?"

“Nothing concrete if that’s what you’re asking,” Cecily groans. “The only thing I could think of is someone destroy them because of that ritual hiding warehouse we came upon. The relics are tied to the city, right?”

"The relics are tied to the shield that protect the city" Maska leans back on the chair, "If you destroy one the shield weakens."

"Finding the reason as to why they wish the barrier destroyed..." Aldrid starts to say as he walks in "May be part of our primary objective."

"I didn't say use all of the relics Maska, why are you jumping to that conclusion? We would only need to use 1 of them like my hairpin." Yue is stuck on that conversation, "It would help us try and figure out why they're going after these relics and determine if we'll be falling into their plans by just taking all of the relics ourselves."

Cecily crosses her arms and only looks downward. “It could also give us the chance in catching my mother as well...”

"So, we're doing that instead?" Maska rocks himself on the chair he was already leaning on, "We're going to lure out the baddies?"

"I don't see why not, and I have an idea on how to get the word out about the bait too." Yue smiles.

"I swear to fuck if you tell me you're gonna make a god damn video about it then I'm leaving."

“You’re gonna leave your own house?” Cecily deadpans.

"WELL WHY THE FUCK NOT YOU PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN IT FOR YOURSELVES"

"You seem upset," Maska observes.

“Were the donuts not enough as an apology?” Cecily asks.

"Yeah we brought you donuts, isn't that enough?" Maska asks.

Yue goes over to Navi, "Aw, come on, So, what's your bright idea then?"

“Correction: I bought donuts,” Cecily looked at him. “You just shrugged and walked about nonchalantly.”

"Yeah, but I got her this laptop so suck it" Maska that's your own laptop.

“I’m not sure Navi wants whatever you already have stored in there,” Cecily assumes.

Aldrid just kinda stands there, awkardly, like usual.

Navi lets out a deep and clearly frustrated breath through her nose. "We're trying to keep people from panickin', ain't we? Publically announcing something to an audience that may not even include who we're looking for isn't a great idea," she points out. "Also food as a bribe only really works when I actually taste things."

“Fine, I’ll just make it up to you another way then,” she sighs. “But... Navi does have a point. We don’t want a city crisis, and given your popularity...”

Yue sighs then smiles with a thumbs up, "Do you really think that I would state something like 'This is a relic, one that holds the city barrier together. Protecting us from the outside world. Hey baddies come and get it if you dare.'" she states the script like statement in the most sarcastic tone she could muster making sure to emphasize that if this is what you guys were thinking then you're kind of dumb. “I was going to make a video about showing off this pin that could resize clothing. It's a cool parlor trick and any bad guys that seem to know exactly what each of the relics are, would know that this is a relic. Also on the point of if they would watch the video, I have a big following in the city and people do talk about my videos, so while yes it is a long shot that the opponents would hear about this, it is still worth the shot. This way no one knows about any relics that shouldn't know, also they won't know about who the baddies are or heck about the barrier. There wouldn't be a city crisis or anything like that with this idea."

“Okay, so stating you have a relic, but not flat out saying it is one,” Cecily followed along. “And the only people who would know about and make it known, that’s how we know the bait worked.”

"Well, the word would get around, and we would probably have to make a location known of where I'm live streaming or something... and we'll know if it works if the enemy shows up either at my home or on the stream, I guess really we'd have to wait and find out if it worked." Yue nods.

Navi stares at them. "...well, it's more thought-out than I thought it was, but it still seems stupid. Where would you be broadcasting from, first of all?"

"Unless you have a place, or we could use one of our houses," Maska rocks too far back and ends up flat on his back.

"Oh, I have a place we could use." Yue grins.

"Do y'all need me along or can I opt to NOT participate in this stupidity?"

"NO! You've been gone too long!" Maska struggles to get up a bit.

"It would be nice to have you along, Navi You're our friend, but if you don't want to join I won't force you." Yue says.

“We’ll need all the friends and help we can get,” Cecily says with a reassuring smile. “Please?”

Navi's eye twitches. "All right, all right, fine! I'll tag along on this stupid idea, but only so I can bail you idiots out when it backfires."

"Yay!" Oh he finally got up, "Thanks boo"

“We’ll owe you one if you have to,” Cecily smiles warmly.

"Can I use that to request that Maska never calls me 'boo' again?"

"Fine"

Yue does a quick hug on Navi, "Thank you, Navi. You're a true pal." she lets go with a smile.

"Let go of me," Navi bluntly says.

“Well in the downtime, might as well prepare for confrontation,” Cecily says, grabbing her sword and turning to everyone. “Need anything from me before I head out?”

"Let Eiriol know what's happening, then tell Willow I won't be able to make it to work for a bit, since I don't know how long this'll take."

“Sure then,” Cecily nodded. “Anyone else?”

"Nope, I'm good in fact I need to set up! See you around everyone." Yue smiles as she waves goodbye then leaves.

[[END OF JOURNAL SESSION]]

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Araquu Journal Session #9- Yue and Wendy

Time: Not long after Journal Session #9 Characters: Yue, Wendy, Navi

Posts indented like this were typed by the GM.

Posts that were not indented were typed by the player.

The morning after she goes Werewolf, Wendy seeks breakfast, and Yue decides to join her...

Emerging from Maska's room, with a yawn and a rather loud growl of her stomach, is Wendy! She had woken up not long after the conversation previously covered, and was only just now emerging to get some breakfast.

Much after everyone else Yue wakes up on the couch, head on the ground feet on the back. her hair is a mess. the blanket is behind the couch and her pillow some how on the other side of the room. She stretches and yawns. She would look around spotting Wendy coming out for some breakfast, "Good morning" she cheerily states upside down on the couch.

"Good Morning!" Wendy greets with a smile, though it's shortly punctuated by another yawn. "Mmm... foooood..." Spying the tray of pancakes on the table, she moves over to help herself.

"Food?" Yue states half awake still, then it dawns on her FOOD Actual Food! She flips around where her back use to be on the couch she is now stomach facing the couch, her legs on the cushions and hands on the floor and she crawls over to the table in her tanktop and shorts, "Foooood..." she states grabbing another plate with edible food on it.

Wendy is, pun fully intended, wolfing down the food. She doesn't appear to be stopping. Must be hungry.

Yue is also very hungry as she is also wolfing down her own food, "Mphh this is very good." she states looking at Wendy.

"Uh-huh! I wonder who made it..."

"Prolly Maska or his dad.... Unless someone else knows where everything in this house is located" Yue points out.

"Maybe it was a GHOST!" Wendy theorizes, as she noms the foods.

"Yeah, That's true. Though it would be one of those nice ghosts." Yue confirms as if it's normal then after a pause does a bit of a laugh.

Wendy nods seriously. "So what're you guys gonna do after this?" she asks.

"We're..." Yue pauses not really sure, "Going to do some police work and be, TRUE SUPER DETECTIVES!" She states in a showmanship kind of tone to help entertain.

"Detective stuff is boring," Wendy pouts.

"No no, Super Detectives, where we face inter-dimensional beings bent on invading our world for their own purposes. Also facing down super villains bent on Destroying our magic. Let's not forget about taking down monsters that wish to harm others, such as yourself. It's never boring for a Super Detective!" She has gotten up and put a foot onto the table Captain Morgan style, "Super Detectives are avengers of justice! Unlike those normal boring detectives." Suddenly a cloud of smoke booms from behind her, yes she spent one of her Variable points to have the flashy magic to do this.

Rather than being impressed by this, Wendy yelps in alarm and hides under the table, apparently scared by this.

Yue raises an eye brow then looks under the table, "Hey, hey no need to be scared, the baddies are gone." she says, by the way there was no sound just visuals.

Wendy is shuddering in fear, but she does seem to listen and slowly climbs out from under the table.

"Sorry about that I can get a bit carried away some time." she rubs the back of her head looking down as if she was just scolded.

"A-Are the monsters gone now?" she asks, whimpering.

Yue places a hand on Wendy's shoulder, "Yes the monsters around here are all gone now." if Wendy allowed Yue would hug her for comfort.

She's not comfortable with hugs, but she does calm down a bit more, and is easily pacified when Navi passes the table and drops off more pancakes, this time with syrup.

Yue begins to drool some before wiping her mouth, "So, it was you making breakfast all along." she grins, "Thank you."

"T'be fair, Maska did start us off, but then he had to go do store stuff or something lame like that," Navi waves Yue off as she moves the ten steps she has to take to re-arrive in the kitchen.

Wendy is wolfing down more food. Werewolf transformations must make you hungry.

Yue smiles at the food eating that Wendy is doing when her stomach growls, wait didn't she just eat? She begins to have her seconds of what is there on the table. Using her connection to Magic (variable power) must make her hungry as well and she used it for a good chunk of the night.

Navi shakes her head, not quite disappointed, but not really shocked either, as she makes more food for these hungry children.

"So what kinda police stuff are you doing?" Wendy asks between pancakes.

"Right now, I'm helping out the others here, handle creatures that come into our world, also some secret stuff I'm not sure I can share with you." she puts her finger to her lips in the 'secret hush hush' manner.

Wendy gasps in wonder. "What kinda secret stuff?"

A faint 'thud' as Navi whacks her head against a cabinet.

"I don't know, are you sure you can keep a secret?" she leans back in her chair as if judging her.

"I keep it a secret that I'm a werewolf!" she huffs, a bit offended that Yue thinks she can't.

Yue smiles, "That's good." She looks around then leans in motioning Wendy to come closer.

Wendy leans in closer, excited about this as evidenced by the fact that she's bouncing up and down in her seat.

In a whispered voice she states "We're working with the city council to protect special artifacts from around the city that help keep the city safe from evil outside forces that would want to cause harm to the people here."

"Ooohhh!" Wendy nods seriously. "Like Grandpa had!" Yeah, that makes sense. Wait, what?

"Yeah like grandpa..." Yue looks confused for a brief second before looking like nothing was wrong she was rolling with it.

Wendy doesn't seem interested in continuing this, just nomming her pancakes more.

"So, Wendy, you said you enjoyed my shows right?" Yue wonders taking another bite of her pancakes.

"Uh-huh!" Wendy nods. "They're super cool! It's something to do afterschool 'cause I don't have friends."

Yue looks shocked, "But you're super cool though. How about this, I'll be your friend, how does that sound?"

"Really?" Wendy gasps. "My dads don't let me have friends 'cause I might hurt other kids my age, or turn them, and that'd be real bad, something about proximity?" she shrugs. "But you guys already showed you can handle it!"

"Yep! Also, since we're now friends, how would you like to join me on my show some times?" she wonders.

"I could!?" she gasps, then her smile falters. "But... I can't do magic yet."

"Just because you can't do magic doesn't mean you can't join my show. We could do a whole learning segment, and..." she pauses a bit, "...I think it will be great! I can help teach you magic and you can join me on my show, what do you say?"

"Dad says you can't learn magic until you're at least sixteen, and I'm only ten," Wendy pouts. "I don't wanna break the law."

"Only 10 huh? And here I was thinking you were older," Yue is trying to make good of an awkward situation since she has herself been capable of doing magic since a young age and was taught how to control her abilities to a degree she was a special case, "Well, in any case, you can still help me there are tons of things non-magic related that we can do from, singing, dancing, parkour, and other activities. Heck we can even just play some games with each other."

"Ooh! Parkour's the one where you go to a park, right?" Wendy. Wendy please.

"Sometimes, It's basically doing really cool stunts like climbing walls and being able to tumble from a fall and such." She smiles.

"Oh, that sounds like it'd hurt..." she frowns, nomming another pancake.

"It could... There would just need to be some practicing, then you'd be the envy of most people."

"But wouldn't a parkour wolf be dangerous?" Wendy asks.

"Only if the wolf was uncontrolled." Yue points out, "I think you could be able to control your special abilities given the proper training," she states.

"Y-You really think so?" Wendy asks. "I could be like... a wolf hero?"

"I don't see why not." Yue replies, "Though having some proper training to have control of your wolf self would be the most important part. I could help you if you like," she grins.

"Do you have experience with werewolves, Yue?" Wendy asks, sipping some syrup from a cup, because she's ten.

"Yeah, I do have experience with werewolves. And I'm sure everyone else here would be more than happy to help as well," she states now dragging everyone else into the mess without consulting them.

"DON'T DRAG ME INTO THIS SH-...OW WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!" Navi yells from the kitchen.

"So, you wouldn't want to help, our adorable friend Wendy with being able to control her abilities?" Yue called back.

"You'd have about as much luck convincin' me to do something I have no idea how to do as y'all would have with convincin' Maska to stop flirting with people," Navi points out.

"But, Navi, that's what Aldrid and I are there for, you, Eiriol, Maska, and Cecily would just need to help us execute our plans to help our important friend. What do ya say huh?"

"Unfortunately for you, I'm immune to puppy dog eyes and the reasoning of a ten year old," Navi snarks back as she puts more pancakes on the table.

"Then how about this, You scratch my back I scratch yours. In exchange for helping Wendy, I'll do any favor within my power for you, how about it?"

"No." Navi gives a flat glare to Yue, which actually looks kind of intimidating with her hood and how her eyes almost seem to glow underneath it. "I don't do favors for people I've just met."

"Fair enough." Yue puts her hands up in defeat, "Well, you have your reasons." Yue smiles to off put the intimidating glare.

With that said, she goes back into the kitchen, cleaning up, apparently finished with her cooking for now.

"...she's kinda scary," Wendy frowns, staring at her back.

Yue keeps up the grin, "Yeah, but I think she's warmin' up to me a bit." she gives a small chuckle looking back at Wendy trying to liven up the spirits around the heavy atmosphere room., "Just give her some space, she has her own troubles, everyone does."

"If you say so," she says, sounding uneasy as she finishes her food.

[[END OF JOURNAL SESSION]]

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