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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another edition of Succubus Quest! Now with an original thread picture because god damn I think we need a change of pace.

Last time on our quest, we concluded Demon Queen Miyu`s flashback, and as a reward we got her signature weapon: C-Toxin and throwing syringes! After Brooklyn had his innocence stolen by Miyu, and then managed to increase the power of his light magic! But what was really special is that he learned a brand new, unique spell that combines light and darkness magic with explosive results!

But last time we left off, we met one of the three Noble girls inside of the town bath house. In order to prove what power we could give her, we flexed a tiny bit of a light and darkness powers. And we shall continue at that very point!
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CHARACTER SHEETS:

Brooklyn (Protagonist): https://docs.google.com/document/d/16x32JNNBRnUAk-PQNXcqMaVvtDMLsHRARj3kk4mrj1M/edit
Mina: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAOC8_7DCjRIiV2_Zzzfz0xu9_JHCGfti8dw0eZSS8E/edit
Brodin: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jIfmmTHbwrujeLZ9CkBeVoTEs6_uJPpo7CW5EKKTj_8/edit

OLD GAMES:
Thread 2 (Contains link to thread 1 in first few posts): http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22034277/
Thread 3: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22094978/
Thread 4: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22112102/
Thread 5: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22163212/
Thread 6: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22181221/
Thread 7: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22261914/
Thread 8: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/22316221/

If you enjoy, then please vote!

Chat: #SuccubiDemonLordCYOA in irc.rizon.net
Twitter: Sandact6
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[1/2]

“Pretty cool huh? Darkness and Light... a duality of sorts. Completely opposite forces but yet still two sides of the same coin. You were quite lucky to run into me! ...Or maybe I was lucky running into you. I guess we could call it fate!” you say while smiling happily.

Amanda doesn’t reply, rather just staring at the power coming out of your own hands.

You release the power within your hands, letting them return to normal again. “I’ve got a few important questions for you. Ones you shouldn’t rush and give your time thinking them over. Why do wish for power? What are you willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of it? What do you truly value in life right now? What lines would you refuse to cross? What do you want most in the world?”

Amanda is about to open her mouth in reply, but you hold up a finger to silence her. You can tell that she is quite eager.

“I said this is something you will need to reflect upon yourself. Think hard on those questions, and when you truly have the answers for them, then you can come back to me with the answers of those questions.” you tell her.

“Y-yes milady, your words contain great wisdom.” Amanda says doing a small bow in front of you. You notice that her aura is a brown (???) colour.

“While you certainly are ambitious, I do feel that three pupils is a relatively small group. Tell me, do you know of anyone else we could possibly invite?” you ask.

Amanda seems to think for a few moments. “I may know a few my Queen, although I will need to undergo a more careful selection process to weed out anyone that may seem undesirable.”
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>>22368902

[2/2]

“Yes, please do. You have a sharp mind Amanda, and I’m somewhat envious of that. Certainly it is a blessing bestowed upon you.” you tell her.

“Your words flatter me milady.” Amanda says. It seems as if things have taken a 180 and she considers you to be a higher social standing. Upon hearing this, you cannot help but blush a bit.

“I give praise where it is deserved.” you reply. “Now what about setting up times for future meetings? Our last meeting ran into an unexpected end.”

“We’re free tonight at eight if you wish milady. I cannot speak for the others, but if you wish to give us extra lessons then I will made all due effort to reach them.” Amanda replies.

“You’re friends with the other girls. Can you give me a guess of when they’ll be able to make it?” you ask.

“They’re preparing for the arrival of the Demon Knight coming into town tomorrow milady. If I had to hazard a guess, they’ll probably be busy for the next while until he leaves the town.” Amanda’s aura turns into a bright red colour (anger) as she says this. She’s probably angry at waiting. “I can talk to them to be sure, but I’m pretty sure after the demon knight has stopped paying attention to them, their schedule will be far more open.”

You heart nearly skips a beat as she says this. The demonic knight is coming tomorrow!? Alright... Just relax... Just remember what Marina said. It’ll most likely be in the castle for all day and Marina will need a full day to finalize any plans of her own. If you have any last minute training or planning to do, it’d be now or never. There’s also the rather pressing issue of your tutoring job, and how you plan to handle that.

“...Is something wrong milady?” Amanda asks.

Oh great, now she’s probably caught onto your worry as well. You try to think of a way to deflect here.

(Also mention what time you’d like to meet with the girls)
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>>22368915
We're busy with the twins tonight so that's off the table. Tomorrow is probably going to be training and prep for the Knight, we don't know exactly when the killing day is so that makes scheduling difficult.

"Nothing in particular. Knights coming to town rarely herald good tidings for anyone in the vicinity. Some people panic, others are investigated, there may be fighting. While it has nothing to do with me it may disrupt my surroundings.

Sadly I have already made plans for the rest of the day or I would gladly join you tonight. I'm sure the next couple days will be quite hectic for the others. If you provide me with a method of reaching you I'm sure we can find a good time, perhaps in 3 or 4 days."
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>>22369072
This should do just fine.
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“N-nothing in particular! Knights coming to town rarely herald good tidings for anyone within the vicinity. Some panic, others are investigated, and there may be some fighting. While it is has nothing to do with me, it’s most certainly disrupt the surroundings for a while.” you tell her.

“Very well, and the lesson times?” she asks.

“...Sorry I kinda made some other plans for the rest of the day. But believe me if I could I would go on for tonight! I’m pretty sure the next couple of days will be a bit crazy for everyone involved, especially your two other friends. If you provide me with a method of reaching you then I’m sure we could find a good time.” you tell her.

“I take a bath within my building here daily. You can always find me around the same time here every day here.” Amanda replies. “...Speaking of which milady, could you possibly suggest any ways to perhaps read up on some skills? I understand that actually performing feats by yourself is dangerous, but would there be any harm in reading up on the material by myself?”

You certainly know some books in the library that fit her bill. You don’t need to worry about them containing dangerous magicks, as by law public libraries cannot contain such things. Still, you wonder whenever or not it’d be a good idea to allow her to do such things.

(Also any other questions you want to ask her)
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>>22368902
>my Queen
Oh my.
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>>22369380
"There are some books in the library, and I wouldn't be surprised if your family had a private library of its own. Books on demonology and magic ought to be available to you. Further your education, read them, but do not believe every word they say. There is quite a few inaccuracies, common mistakes, and so on that are prevalent. Not to mention the purposeful inaccuracies and things left out. Take everything you read with a handful of salt, and when we next see each other I will do my best to correct anything you if you have learned that isn't correct or has mislead you.

I expect great things from you dear child. Know that you are my favored student." Give her a small gesture of affection, and then we have a date to prepare for and get to.
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[1/2]

“There are some books within the library, though I wouldn’t be surprised if your private family library had some. Books on demonology and magic theory ought to be available to you. But be careful when reading them though. There are quite a few inaccuracies, common misconceptions, and other such errors. This is excluding things such as purposeful inaccuracies, bias, and things left out. So do not not take everything you read as gospel. Take everything you read with an open mind, and when we meet each other once again, we’ll go over what you have learned. I’ll do my best to correct anything that may have been misleading or is incorrect.” you tell her.

“Yes milady.” Amanda replies.

“I expect great things from you my dear child. Know that you are my favored student.” you say giving her a small smile then giving her a hug.

At first Amanda is surprised, perhaps afraid that you may accidently incinerate her or something like that. She then returns the hug back to you. It does feel somewhat strange though, as you’re smaller than her while you’re Sarah.

You then pull away from the hug. “Until we meet again Lady Amanda, and remember to stay out of trouble.”

“But of course milady.” Amanda says giving you a small bow.

As you come down around the corner, you slink back over to the hot tub pool and relax within it. You’re somewhat surprised when you can see Mina next to you, staring at you.

“...C-can I help you?” you ask, a bit nervous with how close she is.

Mina then leans in and whispers in your ear. “Hello Brooklyn~.”
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>>22369949

[2/2]

Your eyes go wide upon hearing that. “H-how’d you know!?” you whisper back.

Mina then has a large, mischievous grin on her face. “You just told me.”

You’re about to open your mouth before you stop. Mina had just caught you.

“Actually I was looking for you earlier. I didn’t see anyone else come in or leave, so you still had to be here. But...”

“...But?” you ask.

“Oh you’re just so cute! You’re just like a doll!” Mina says hugging you close to you. Not in a sensual way, but in a way that women hug things which they find cute.

“M-Ma’am!?” you ask as you can feel Mina hugging you.

“The way you speak and everything is just too adorable!” Mina says continuing to hug you.

“Can’t... Breathe...” you gasp as you can feel Mina crushing the life out of you.

******

“...You could’ve been a bit more gentle you know...” you warn Mina while both of you have some privacy in a sauna. At Mina’s insistence, you’re still within your Sarah form.

“I couldn’t help it! You just look so adorable in that form! No wonder Lance is falling for you!” Mina says.

“Well tonight isn’t about Lance, it’s about the twins.” you tell Mina.

“Oh! Do you know where to take them?” Mina asks. “The girls seemed like the type where they wanted a partner who’d take charge, so do you know of a good place?”

“Do you?” you ask, seeking Mina’s input.

“Hey! I’ve spent two years working in a tavern, so your guess is as good as mine!” Mina says.

Shit... You need to think of some place where you can take the twins.
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As for places, keep in mind while Fort Hope isn't a large metropolis, it isn't a slum or a Hamlet either. You can get a wide variety of foods and a decent variety of activities still (Mainly winter ones, such as ice skating, outdoor plays, etc...)
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>>22369958
Hmm, we did the Atlas last time. So not that.

We go out for food pretty often so we should know some good spots. I'm thinking a comfortable hole in the wall, a bit casual, warm, cozy, friendly, that sort of thing. Maybe take them out to see some sights or if there's a play on take them to see a play afterwards. I'd suggest taking them dancing if we knew how, but I don't know if we do.

"I kind of like being Sarah. It's a fun persona to play, and being adorable doesn't hurt. Miranda is very different. Though all of my identities seem to be scholars of some kind, stick with what you know and all that."
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>>22369958
Take them someplace with good food, a place that wouldn't really be known if you don't know the town really well. It having some good privacy would be Bonus, for obvious reasons.
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Huh? What's this I had laying around? Hm... Interesting...

FADE TO BLACK 1 NWS

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h0h5qoTcoloBFpnjDR1zDhSFp8Z9UNbqPaQ_xLmGkLA/edit
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>>22370358
Yay, fade to black. Mina is the best roommate ever.
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>>22370358
Holy shit Sandact, that is........surprisingly good smut. Good enough I have to ask if you are a female or if you've had practice writing smut before.
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[1/3]

"I kind of like being Sarah. It's a fun persona to play, and being adorable doesn't hurt. Miranda is very different. Though all of my identities seem to be scholars of some kind, stick with what you know and all that." You then turn to Mina. “What about you? You have any alternate identities?”

“Besides older or younger versions of myself? Na, not really. I always found it a bit difficult to be anyone but myself ya know.” Mina replies.

“Really? I thought all Succubi would have a few identities they’d keep.” you tell Mina.

“...Yea most I’ve met do that. It’s more of a personal thing really. I kinda believe that one should take responsibility for their actions and that everything goes back to the individual. D-Don’t get me wrong! I’m not saying that you have to do that!” Mina trips as she tries to explain herself.

You chuckle a bit while patting her on the head. “Don’t worry, I understand what you mean.”

Mina breaths in a sigh of relief. “Good, I was worried I was making an idiot of myself there.”

You take a sigh as you wrack your brain trying to pick out some good locations for the twins. “I think I’ll take them to the Red Fox Inn. It’s a tavern of sorts, but it has a reputation for being one of the less rowdy ones. My friends and I often go there because of how how we can discuss things and eat at the same time. The Food’s pretty good... So long as you don’t order the the pork.”

“It’s getting pretty late too, isn’t it?” Mina asks.

“Yea I’m pretty sure that it’s about time for me to go now.” you say standing up, about to shift back into your normal form.
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>>22370939

[2/3]

“Wait Brooklyn!” Mina calls out as you stand up.

“Yes Mina?” you ask, turning around to face her.

However Mina doesn’t say anything in return. She just seems to stare at you.

“Mina?” you ask, somewhat confused.

“OH YOU’RE SO CUTE!” Mina says reaching up and hugging you again.

“MINA! MY NECK!” you gurgle, but she doesn’t seem to let go.

******

You eventually get out of Mina’s death grip and head over to meet the twins, who are already out waiting for you in the lobby of the inn. Both of them dressed in the same dresses as of last night along with the same coats.

“Oh! What a surprise! I hope you haven’t been waiting for me for too long!” you say sounding surprised.

“N-na... We decided to come down here a little early is all.” Katlin replies.

“So where will we be going Miss Miranda?” Stacy asks.

“A nice little place called the Red Fox Inn. It’s not as fancy as The Atlas was, but has it’s own little charm for being one of the more relaxed Taverns of sorts.” you say.

“...Yea... with all the stuff that’s been going on lately, something more relaxed would be nice...” Katlin replies.
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>>22370943

[3/3]

“Then let us be off, shall we ladies?” you ask offering a hand to both of them.

“Let’s.” both of them say while blushing.

******

You reach the Red Fox Inn in a short period of time. It’s a rather cozy place, similar to the Adamant Door but it tends to have a lot of wild animal heads mounted around the place. The owner of the place being an accomplished Hunter. More impressively, a few demonic animal heads are also on the wall too, such as the dreaded Phase Stalker.

But what immediately catches your eyes isn’t the wild game, but rather Brodin slumped over the counter of the bar area, a few glasses around him. Thankfully he doesn’t appear to have his scythe nearby, and the girls just seem to ignore him just like most other people around the area.

“Table for three?” the waiter comes up and asks.

“...But of course!” you reply, somewhat being surprised by Brodin being here.

The waiter then leads you over to your table and seats you down. “Anything to drink?” the waiter asks.

“Just some water for me.” you reply.

“I’ll have some water as well.” Katlin replies as she looks over the menu. “Hm... The pork line looks to be pretty good...”

“I’ll have a mug of Black Horse please.” Stacy says.

Katlin seems to give a look at Stacy.

“What? I don’t see the difference between it and wine. I’m not sure why father doesn’t like us drinking it.” Stacy replies.

After you place your order, it would be a good time to ask the twins some questions in order to get to know them better. ...At least that’s what you read that’s how dates go.
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>>22370833

Female? No. Practice doing it before? Quite a bit.
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could ask them about their family. Get to know them a bit better.
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>>22371007
This,

Also, quietly warn her away from the pork and suggest something good you've had here before.
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Work our succubus magic, but not overtly, just make it so we look awesome, wise, and seductive. Eventually if we turn them, they will know our capabilities, so we don't want them to hold a grudge over us if we force them into being succubi
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>>22370951
Ask them about travelling with their father, what they've seen, what they like about various cities.

Also ask about their hobbies, those being reading and bookkeeping for Kaitlin and the forest and practice with the lance for Stacy. What got them into those hobbies, how they like them, that sort of thing.

Ask about their hopes, dreams, goals, aspirations, that sort of thing.

We can also ask what attracted them to us, what they like about us, if both of them usually steal people's hearts.
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>>22371081
Oh, and order some wine, preferably red, to go with dinner. See if Kaitlin wants something to drink other than water as well. Them getting a bit drunk isn't bad, just keep an eye on their intake. Also help them pick out good stuff from the menu and not order the pork.

Oh and turn on Aura Sight, if we start hitting an uncomfortable topic we can switch gears.

>>22371033
We could use Suggestion, but that seems a bit much. The girls already idolize the hell out of us, we don't need to throw magic at it.
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“I heard the rabbit here is just simply divine in it’s own right.” you tell Katlin, trying to make her avoid the poison that is the pork.

“Really? ...Wild Rabbit does sound tempting... I’ll go with that then. Wild Pork Platter please.” Katlin asks handing the menu over to the waiter.

“I’ll take the steak platter.” Stacy says passing the menu in.

“With the salad.” Katlin says to the waiter after.

“I’ll just have the chicken vegetable soup please.” you say handing your own menu in. “Oh, and a bit of red wine to go with our dinner as well.”

“Right away Madam.” The waiter says taking all the menus away.

“So ladies, what can you tell me about your life on the road with your father? Surely you’ve got to have some stories you can share about that.” you ask.

“Oh... We’re not that special...” Katlin says as she blushes, having a white (???) aura.

“That’s a lie and you know it sis.” Stacy says. “I’m pretty good with the lance and riding with mounts, also I know how to use the spear. I mainly learned everything I know from the mercenaries we always travelled with. I mainly consider it putting the lessons of horseriding our father taught us to good use.”

“My sister does have some talent with martial pursuits yes, but father doesn’t let her get into actual combat.” Katlin says.

“He let’s me help with navigation and trails.” Stacy replies.

“My job is that I often help father with the paperwork and bookkeeping. Keeping a merchant caravan afloat is a tough job. Every time we pull out, there’s always the risk of when we pull into port, the products we’d have won’t be into demand at all. There’s also the haggling aspects, but father is the main social muscle behind that.” Katlin replies. “What about you Miss Miranda? Can you tell us any stories of yours?”

“Yea! You’ve got to have a few awesome stories!” Stacy replies, her aura becoming a vermillion (happy) colour.
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yep we could talk about the town we grew up in just don't mention we grew up there (best lies are half lies)
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>>22371422
Creative storytelling time!
Surely you have some interesting experiences in dealing with pirates?

Withold being male before obviously.
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>>22371422
And it looks like it's time to lie our ass off.

"Well, I'm not that special. I usually prefer a nice night by the fireplace with a mug of tea and a good book to taking part in a heroic action.

But I suppose I can think of a good story for two beautiful women such as yourselves."

Tell them a story, made up of course, about us and some friends, loosely based off of a few of the Queens personality wise with names, appearances, and maybe even gender on a few of them, changed. We were brought along because we were completely fluent in Latin, which is needed for some literature, and knew a fair bit of history about the area. We heard about a library/university/ruin that had some bandits in it, but we figured there could be something valuable there that the bandits wouldn't have noticed. We went there, took out some bandits, adventured it up, found a couple books in passable quality and a few other nice things and raw material.
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>>22371534

you know we could go Indiana Jones rout sort of. exploring ruins with old technological devices.
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>>22371557
That works as well, we don't want to make it too implausible, we don't want them to wonder why we don't have old world tech around, maybe any that we found wasn't in good enough shape to use but we managed to sell it to the right collector for a fair bit, any books we found weren't in good shaped so we gave them to a local repository of books, that sort of thing. And don't go too heavy on the traps, more on the dangerous nature of exploring a broken down building with all sorts of holes, breaks, cave ins, destroyed parts, and that sort of thing.
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“Oh! Well I’m hardly as interesting as you make me out to be. Most of the time I’m quite content with curling up next to a fireplace with a cup of hot tea and a book. But.... There is one adventure I had with my companions from a while back.” You say.

You then tell them of an adventure that you had a while back, with the companions of yours being the Queen’s. You tell them of a tale in where you tried to find a cache of old world gear, and they hired you on for your knowledge and fluency in Latin. You many stick to the areas you were good in, but you try to keep the tale suspenseful while still remaining believable. You sneak in the dramatic bit where you needed to avoid a bandit group, and how you outsmarted them, fighting off a small squad before running off back to safety in the city.

“...Wow... That’s a really awesome tale...” Stacy says, her aura being Vermillion.

“Yes. It is fortunate you and your friends made it away while we... we...” Katlin holds her shoulders as she begins to shiver. Her aura colour turns into an Orange (fear) colour as she seems to recall bad memories.
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>>22371680
now is not the time to ask where the bad man touched them on a doll, now is the time for hugs and reassurance
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>>22371699
Seconding this.

I think we are really going to need a crash course of advanced colour vision.

I suggest we ask the queens when we have time.
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>>22371422
Clearly we must talk about our Angel friend. He's a morose drunk.
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>>22371680
Hold our hand out for Kaitlin, take her hand with both of ours and gently squeeze it and rub it. Then pull her close for a reassuring hug and backrub.

"Shh, it's okay Kaitlin. It's alright, you're safe, those men are dead, all of them, I made sure of it. They can never hurt you again.

The only way they can hurt you is through fear, do not fear the dead, do not fear those who are gone forever. Remember when I came for you, when I saved you, when I protected you, remember that moment.

You're safe, you're with me and your sister. Can you be strong for me? I believe in you, you're strong, you're intelligent, you're kind. Now wipe those tears away, you're under my protection right now. There is nothing to be afraid of."
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>>22371743
We probably shouldn't. We're currently Miranda, and I'd rather not have to explain why Miranda is on first name terms with a reaper and possibly why he calls us Brooklyn.
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>>22371761
humm we should see if we can refine our magic for telepathic communication or something similar. however i don't think we can do that as that is a psi power.
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>>22371761
well he's drunk, he also calls us black something- when hes drunk, also could explain it as him mistaking us for a friend we go for adventures with
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>>22371828
Lets just ignore our bro and continue on influencing the girls. Its them we want to corrupt, we don't want to involve bro who we can't even eat.
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>>22371828
Yeah, but that wouldn't really help us with our time with the twins. And it'd still raise awkward questions of why we're acquainted with a crazy drunk man or if they notice he's a reaper a crazy drunk angel of death.
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[1/2]

You reach over the table, placing your hand on Katlin’s, gently stroking it.

"Shh, it's okay Kaitlin. It's alright, you're safe, those men are dead, all of them, I made sure of it. They can never hurt you again. The only way they can hurt you is through fear, do not fear the dead, do not fear those who are gone forever. Remember when I came for you, when I saved you, when I protected you, remember that moment. Do you remember that moment?” you ask her.

“Y-yea... I remember the moment where I heard your friends attacking the base, then your brown skinned friend came and brought us back to father...” Katlin says recalling the memory.

“Good. You’re safe now. You’re with me and your sister. I need you to be strong for me Katlin. I believe in you. You’re strong, intelligent, and kind.” you reach up and brush away some tears from her face with your other hand. “You’re under my protection right now. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”

“I know I know... It’s just... we felt so powerless. They belittled us... Insulted us and made us feel like animals!” Katlin says as the tears continue flow down her face.

You get up from your spot, rushing over to hug her closely in a gentle embrace. “Ssshhh... It’s painful I know, but that time is all over. You’re safe and sound here with us...”

Katlin tightly embraces you as well for a few minutes, her sobs getting slower and slower until they finally stop.

“...Sis is right though. Nothing could’ve prepared us for that. We felt so powerless... I-I never want to feel that way ever again.” Stacy says as she stirs her potatoes.
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>>22372003

[2/2]

“You’re right. Nobody could’ve prepared for that.” you say sitting back on your own seat, patting her on the back. “But for a little change in topic. Out of curiousity, what originally made you two so attracted to a woman like me?”

Both of the girls auras turn into a Bright Green (Obsession) and Deep Red (Desire) colour. “W-what makes y-you say that?!”

“Well... I think dinner with your father made that obvious.” you reply.

“Well... It’s just that you seem... so calm, you always seem to know what to say.” Katlin replies.

“You always seem so confident as well. You seem so... sure of yourself. You’re also so brave...” Stacy says while blushing.

“I-I never thought I’d be attracted to another woman as well but after what happened... I think it might be a while before we see men in the same light again...” Katlin says.
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>>22372013
OHOHO!
Well then, I suppose we should promise them a /very/ fun time and to make them forget all about men for a while.
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>>22372013
"Well, I'm deeply flattered to be the target of affection for two of the most incredibly beautiful and wonderful girls I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.

Though you probably shouldn't give up on men entirely just because a few of them are truly horrible. Love and affection shouldn't be based on the gender, but on your feelings for them and nothing but that. And I will have you know that I care deeply for the both of you.

Later tonight I would like to show you how different, how wonderful, it can be with someone you care for, with someone who knows how to treat a lady properly. But only if you want me to. I will never make you do anything you don't want, I promise."
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>>22372083
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misattribution_of_arousal

Just saying.
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>>22372092
Seconding this.
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well, it sounds like it might be time to wrap things up here and move to another location... if you know what I mean. A little later we might want to introduce Stacy to Mina for some training while teaching Katlin some magic. That way they can start feeling a bit more safe while at the same time getting them accustomed to magic and the possibility of being more then they are now.
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>>22372096
Yeah, that's probably part of it. But it's a good thing to take advantage of when furthering their admiration, trust, and love of us. It sounds a bit manipulative, because it is, but we do like the girls and since we're planning on turning them into Gemelli I'd like their feelings for us to be assured.
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>>22372117
We really don't want to mix our separate personae. If we bring Mina in, it might eventually lead to questions about how we know her.
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>>22372096
yea my advice is to tread carefully with this.

Also throw in the comment that being brave is not being fearless it is caring on even though your afraid. Add to this that confidence come with time and practice. (trying to not make us into a mythical figure but someone they can relate to. Also makes it easier if they work with us in the future.)
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>>22372096
So we should clearly cement their feelings while we can, by showing them a good time. And by Doming them apparently
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>>22372140

They already saw her when we rescued them, so it would be weirder if we didn't know her.
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>>22372140
They already saw her with us, and when they mentioned her we said she was a friend.
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"Well~, I'm deeply flattered to be the target of affection for two of the most incredibly beautiful and wonderful girls I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.” you say raising your wine glass.

“Oh stop~...” both of the girls say as they blush

You drink a sip of your wine before putting down the glass. “Though you probably shouldn't give up on men entirely just because a few of them are truly horrible. Love and affection shouldn't be based on the gender, but on your feelings for them and nothing but that. And I will have you know that I care deeply for the both of you.”

“I... We like you too Miss Miranda... A lot...” Katlin says, looking away from your face but blushing heavily while her aura is a bright red.

“Later tonight I would like to show you how different, how wonderful, it can be with someone you care for, with someone who knows how to treat a lady properly. But only if you want me to. I will never make you do anything you don't want, I promise." you tell them both.

“I’d... I’d really like that...” Stacy says.

“M-me too...” Katlin replies.

“There there...” you say, reaching for both of their hands. Both of the girls tightly squeeze your hand in response. “But for now, let’s finish our dinner, shall we?”

(Dinner cost: -3 gold)

(Where will you take them? Back home? To a hotel? The hotel will cost at least four gold)
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>>22372279
a hotel would be better I think, less shenanigans if a drunker brodin comes back and call us by our true name
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>>22372279
Back home, we can get a nice fire going in the fireplace, make them some tea, cuddle together and get the comfortable before we put Mina's lessons to work.

Before we leave make sure to signal Brodin to stay out tonight as we have company over.

Mina already knows we have a date and she isn't going to interrupt us, she'll find something to do and probably distract Brodin if he gets any funny ideas.
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>>22372310
But we can't actually get a message over to them if we haven't already.

In this case, a hotel would probably be the safest bet.
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>>22372319
considering brodins track record, I actually have to agree.
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>>22372302

Second as we already have 2 different people who stay at our place.
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>>22372319
Mina already knows and it'd take 5 seconds to walk over to Brodin and tell him that he shouldn't come home tonight. We won't even have to change our form to do so and the girls aren't going to question it much, we can just say we saw a friend and wanted to say hi.

A hotel also seems more impersonal and less cozy, loving and protective than our home does.
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>>22372279
On one hand since we had ten gold at the start of the thread, a hotel will cost us a lot of money. On the other hand, if we are teaching the Nobles actual magic, our revenue will increase substantially. Not to mention whatever cut we get of the whole "taking over the town" thing.
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>>22372343
all we have to do to supplement our revenue is kill off pirates, steal their stolen good, sell to merchant, make money, then fuck bitches.

Just sayan
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>>22372279
I prefer our home, it's more romantic.
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>>22372096
stop throwing that link around, its not like we're a succubus who can make people feel awesome with a little effort right?
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Home. Definitely home. It's a lot more personal and even if we do get interrupted it will make a better impression then just taking them to a hotel.
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>>22372279
Home, this is Brodin, he's not going to get home for hours, he hasn't drained the bar completely dry yet.

What type of message are we showing the twins if we take them to a hotel instead of our abode?
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Hotel: 4
Home: 4

If I counted right.

Flipped a coin. Home won.
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[1/3]

“Come, let us retire to my abode, shall we?” you ask the twins, taking their hands.

“Y-yes Miss Miranda...” both the twins blush as you lead them out.

******

I hope you don’t mind, but I figured it’s a cozy little place to live while I do my work here.” you tell the twins, opening the door to your house. You head over to the fireplace and begin to light it up.

“Um... Miss Miranda?” Stacy says as you enter the room. “Could we just... cuddle for the night?”

“We... we still have the bandages the doctor put on us before and... and...” Katlin seems to have trouble saying the next part.

“Ssshhh... That’s fine by me dears...” you say walking over to them, giving them both a hug. “I said I’d never do anything you didn’t want to be done, didn’t I?”

Both of the twins hug you back as well, some tears in their eyes as they hug you closely.

“W-we’re just afraid that when we come back, you’ll be gone Miss Miranda...” Katlin says as she hugs you.

“Oh don’t be worrying about something as small as that girls. I’m here for a bit of a long term job, so I won’t be going anywhere for a while.” you reassure them.

“Oh thank goodness...” Stacy says sighing in relief.

“Now it’s been a long day for the both of you. How about we get some shut eye?” you ask the twins.
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>>22372639

[2/3]

“Y-yes... That’d be great Miss Miranda...” Stacy says as she makes her way over to your bed with you.

“Oh, can you set the time for 6 AM tomorrow? Father is going to want us to leave early.” Katlin asks.

“But of course!” you reassure the twins, setting the time on your alarm clock for 6 AM.

******

The next morning, you’re enjoying some tea with the twins before you sent them off back to their father.

“...This tea is really good Miss Miranda! And I usually don’t like tea!” Stacy says as she drinks her tea.

“The trick is also making sure the cup is warm as well.” you reply.

“Well... Thank you for the tea Miss Miranda... But we really need to be going...” Katlin says putting her cup down.

For a few few moments, there is only the sound of the ticking clock within the room. It is then both twins reach over and give you a big hug.

“There there... Don’t worry. I’ll be here when you return with your father again.” you reassure the twins, giving them a deep hug. You continue to embrace each other for a few more seconds before finally letting go.
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>>22372643

[3/3]

“...Come on Stacy... It’s time to go...” Katlin says as she stands back up, heading over to the coat rank.

“G-goodbye Miss Miranda...” Stacy says, seeming to hold back tears.

“Now now, it’s not goodbye Stacy dear. It’s ‘see you later’. I have no intention of saying goodbyes to you and your sister just yet.” you correct her.

Stacy then looks up at you, a smile on her face. “Alright, see you later Miss Miranda.”

“That’s the spirit!” you say patting her on the shoulder.

You escort the twins out of your house, standing by the door as they walk away from your house, waving as they leave.

As soon as they’re gone, Mina comes out around the corner, apparently having finished her morning exercises with an unconscious Brodin leaning on her. “S-so... How’d it go?” she huffs.
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>>22372649

You should know, a lady never kisses and tells!
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>>22372649
"We had a lovely evening. We went out to dinner, came back home to our place and given recent events they didn't want to go too far so we cuddled.

Nice girls, can't wait to see them again."
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>>22372649
>unconscious Brodin leaning on her.
I bet she was bench pressing our drunken reaper
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>>22372675
This.

Its good that our twins will be out of town for our confrontation with the pride knight. we wouldn't want our Gemelli pets to get hurt.
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More importantly, the demon knight is coming into town today and we STILL haven't learned to mute our aura. We've gots WORK to do!
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>>22372675
this
>>22372705
followed by this
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“We had a lovely evening. We had dinner, then we came back to our place and due to some recent events, we cuddled for the rest of the night.” you reply.

“Dddaawww...” Mina says as her heart melts.

“Anyways come on in. We need to talk about the incoming demon knight today.” you say waving Mina in.

“Oh! What do you plan to do today!?” Mina asks.

“Find some way to disguise my aura, also part of a plan.” you say, telling Mina the plan you have outlined to kill the Demon Knight.

“...Wow! That’s a pretty good plan! Count me in!” Mina says clenching her fists with stars in her eyes.

“Perfect!” You reply, happily clapping your hands.

“But what about your teaching job?” Mina asks.

...True you are supposed to teach Brodin today. Right now it’s 6:35 AM. You can certainly learn magic at an accelerated rate, but learning it before you meet with Brothen? That’s probably pushing it. You could call in sick. They wouldn’t mind if you missed one day, but two days would be pushing it. Brothen is a nice kid, but the job itself is a pretty generous paying job.

...Or maybe you can think of something else involving your job?
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>>22372872
We have a few choices. We could call in sick today and learn it. Or we could say we're feeling under the weather, but could teach him at the library, our home, the Teahouse or something like that as they're closer for us and it wouldn't look as bad as a tutor showing up at their place wrapped in a blanket sniveling.
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>>22372872
Let's just go teach him. Do we have any idea of when the knight is gonna get to town?
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Calling in sick vs walking into the demons lair without a way to mask my aura when anyone sent could almost certainly spot it... hmm... Sounds like a good time to call in sick.. not that that's a reason to slack on my practice. If I CAN mask my aura in time I might still want to go.
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>>22372872
Let's go give him a 'life lesson' on the local geography or something like that. Anything to get us out of the castle.
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>>22372872
Calling in sick on the day a demon knight arrives?
Like that is not suspicious at all.

Lets go to work and give him some LOOOONG reading excercises, we could train while he is reading.
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>>22372936
Adding to this, it's suspicious to call in sick that day, but we could grab him and take him outside and teach him things outside of the castle. There's lots of things to learn outside. Teach him outside the castle somehow, whether it be saying that we can't go out but would happily teach him from home or the library or showing him geography, examples of architecture, or anything like that.

>>22373024
The Pride Knight probably has Aura Sight and I'd rather not bank our life on learning Aura Hiding before noon.
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>>22372872

could call in sick, pretend we think it is the dark flu :) (however that may cause more problems than fixes)

could be out on a week long trip to collect rare books from another town. just throwing ideas out
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>>22373024

It might be suspicious if it weren't pretty obvious that only a small number of people even know he's coming at all. Unless they're already looking at us it should go relatively unremarked with everything else going on. ... And if they are looking at us, showing up without being able to hide our aura is the LAST thing we want to do!
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>>22373074
No, WAAAY too attention grabbing, it draws attention to us when we don't want to.

>>22373024
But its been said that if he follows regulations he will be resting the first day. I sincerely doubt he'll be resting with aura sight on.
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>>22373132
add to the fact that he is new to the job and most likely cocky so he shouldn't be ever vigilant
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I'd like to point out that even though it wasn't shown, every time we has a little downtime there was at least one post talking about learning to hide our aura since we learned the pride knight was coming. I assume we've been practicing this off camera at least, so we should be closer to learning it then you might think.
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[1/2]

“I’ll send a message to the castle, telling them I’ll take Brodin out for a history lesson around town. They’d gladly buy that hook, line, and sinker.” you tell Mina. “After that I’ll come home and try to learn some method to hide my aura. What about you?”

“Hhhhooo... I’m no Okarian or Laminian. I doubt I’m going to learn magic to hide my aura in a week, let alone one day.” Mina says. “I think I’ll work on sharpening my mind against any mental attacks the guy could have.”

“And I’ll... I’ll have a cookie!” Brodin replies after.

“I think they’re still fresh.” you say getting out the tin of cookies and passing it to Brodin. You then get out one of your old world pens and begin to write a letter, explaining of your idea of a less to give Brodin a history lesson around town.

“I’m going to head out and deliver this letter to the castle guards. I highly doubt the Knight will have arrived just yet.” you say folding the letter into your pocket.

“Brodin and I will stay here. Have fun!” Mina says waving you off.

Delivering the letter itself isn’t that hard. The Royal Palace guard accepts it and immediately heads off to get the letter delivered. However one thing you plainly notice is that there is far more security than normal. It appears the Langy’s purchased some extra security in the form of Mercenaries. You can notice a lot of Crimson Bears patrolling the area around the castle, at least double the number of Royal Knight that you can count with your naked eyes alone.
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>>22373257

[2/2]

However, on the way back you can notice a crowd gathering around the road. Curious, you head over to see what it is. Upon seeing it yourself, you wish that you didn’t let your curiosity get the better of you.

Four overmuscled Demonic Bodyguards march in formation, carrying shields and spears with the court Emblem of Lord Articus. They seem to tower over everyone in the crowd, but compared to the person they’re protecting the middle, they may as well not exist in your field of view.

A man that is about seven foot two, dressed in icy blue articulated plate and a long, flowing cape billowing behind him and his long, blue hair. Two black horns come out from the top of his head, while his face could almost be mistaken for that of a teenager.

“Citizens of Fort Hope! Do not be alarmed! My presence here means nothing for the fine people of this city!” The demons voice bellows out. “All I ask from you all is that I have your devotion and cooperation, and we shall depart just as fast as we arrived!” the demon says.

Your heart seems to skip a beat as the Pride Demon says this. You can feel a wave of ease wash over you, knowing that such a noble soul has arrived to help your city. Like the rest of the crowd, you kneels begin to weaken. Your instinct telling you to drop down to your knees and thank him for coming here, and perhaps thank him of his benevolence.

(While normally this'd be static, I'd allow a roll to resist this. Difficulty of the roll is 70, and since you don't have a Willpower rating you don't get any bonuses unless you stunt trying to resist it)
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Rolled 2

>>22373272
How would we stunt a Willpower roll such as this? Internal monologue?
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>>22373302
Oh goddammit.
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Rolled 97

>>22373272
I'd say resisting it anyway out of training but still follow the orders.
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>>22373302

Basically. You can call upon certain memories as well.

...And this is entertaining. We rolled a botch AND a crit in two rolls!
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>>22373272

Hmm... Chose to be the only one NOT falling to her knees when the pride demon's done talking. ... Such a good idea!

I'll pass. I say drop to our knees and grovel with the best of them. We'll save those willpower rolls for when it doesn't make us stand out quite so much.
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>>22373272
First, we should probably bow/kneel anyways, we don't want to stand out. It's good practice.

We saw what the Pride Demons did, we saw what his Master did and how his master was crippled for the rest of his life. We know that they aren't as strong as they think they are, we know how to hurt them, they do not scare us, they are NOT NOBLE. They are scum and we are better than them. This fucker is going to die by our hands, we owe him no respect.

That being said still kneel, but because we choose to, not because we are ordered.
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>>22373318
More like controlled grovelling? So she doesn't feel the need to spill her guts or lose control or something?
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Rolled 57

>>22373322
And I utterly forgot to put dice on.
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Rolled 70

>>22373328
Well, that was average.

What's the protocol for which rolls are taken again?
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>>22373326

There was nothing in there about wanting to spill our guts, but I don't care about the specifics as long as we don't stand out. The primary goal here is to make sure we fit in.
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You’re about to fall to your knees, before you come to the fact that this bastard had just used a social attack the crowd, yourself included. You’re sure that you’re fine right now, but even a tiny bit of lingering remains saying that you should throw yourself at his feet.

But in the end, you still kneel with the rest of the crowd. But not because he ordered you to, but because you choose to do so out of your own free will.

The Demon Knight smiles as he sees people bow before him. He even walks over towards a little girl, kneeling beside her and holding out his hand. You can see mist quickly gather around it, before a small ice statue appears in his hands. The kind of sculpture that many other artists would labour an entire day for.

“For you, little snowflake.” The Demon knight says, giving the ice statue to the little girl, before flicking his cape and walking back to the castle.

Even when the rest of the crowd departs, you remain on your knees for a moment. God damn you *barely* resisted that. Horror thoughts go through your mind in that if he did such a thing again, you don’t think you’d be able to resist.

You walk back to your house, pondering of the current events that have just transpired.

“Welcome back Brooklyn! Did they take th... Brooklyn! What’s wrong!? It looks like you’ve seen a ghost!” Mina says, getting up out of her cross legged position on the floor and rushing over to your side.

“T-the Demon Knight is here...” you tell Mina. “H-he did... some kind of mental attack in the yard... Forcing people to bow and respect him. I-I almost did myself... I barely shook it off...” you tell Mina.

“Wow... Yea I heard Pride Demons have a thing for social magics, which makes sense considering their braggards and all.” Mina says.

A few thoughts go through your mind, wondering if you revise your training schedule in light of certain events, or continue as planned.
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>>22373518
We can avoid coming in contact with him for a few days, we can't avoid the social bullshit he pulls. Especially with our emotional swingyness and if he directs it at us instead of making it AoE.

Our training now is mental fortification, emotional control, and so on. That's what's on the menu.
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Rolled 88

>>22373518
Learn skill: Resist Mindrape.

THEN learn how to hide your aura.
Procrastination ho!
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>>22373537
Oh, and get Mina and Brodin in on it too. They both have better Willpower than us, but we don't want to leave anything to chance. And tell Brodin that we're expecting him to help us with this and go full Reaper scythey on this Pride Demon's ass.
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>>22373538

That would be Willpower. Willpower will be used to resist social magic and psychic mental attacks
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>>22373538
mental training is a good idea, and how long have we been putting off training our aura hiding? we're going to have conquered the planet before we get around to it
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We've been trying to learn to hide our aura forever now. Let's just buckle down and finally get it out of the way before trying something else. I'm tired of putting this off.
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>>22373563
is there any magical spells or stuff we can learn from Oksana to help with not being mindraeped, like magic mental shields or somesuch?
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>>22373581
Would likely take longer than simply shoring up our willpower. Also, I suspect the ritual might attract attention from other demons.

I can't recall - were we close to a breakthrough on the aura thing last time round? Will we lose it if we move to something else?
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Rolled 80

>>22373563
Well then, training Willpower it is.

.>>22373570
we've been putting it off a week now?
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>>22373591

You were close to a breakthrough on advancing cloaking. From what Lamia and Marina told you, you need to learn how to physically cloak before you can learn how to suppress your aura.
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>>22373605
And the second part? Are we likely to lose the train of thought if we put it off for much longer?
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>>22373605

Then let's cloak god damn it! I'm tired of not doing what we were going to do! Like the rednecks like to say, "Get er done!"
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Willpower: 4
Cloaking: 2

Updating.

>>22373618

Na, you'll be able to pick up from where you left off. You may be able to learn aura cloaking by the time begins if you really crunch hard at it. The Basic and Average rank won't take much, but starting from Good! and higher the ranks will take more time and effort to raise. Even with your Okarian faster magic learning bonus
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[1/3]

You decide that while you can easily hide from the Knight for the next few days, you cannot afford to be affected by his mental magic when it comes down to actually fighting him.

“I... I think I’m going to learn some mental fortification.” you tell Mina. “Got any good mystical techniques to help me out, teacher?”

“That’s sensei to you!” Mina says touching you on the nose playfully. “But yes, I do. Come, let me teach you a few meditative exercises I know you. They always worked for me whenever I needed to resist something.”

With that, you sit down on the floor for the next few hours with Mina. Apparently there isn’t that much in the way of instructions. Mina said that instead of letting a mental assault batter against your mind directly, just try to direct it so that it flows around you instead. The mental attack becoming the wave that crashes against the rock of your mind. It’d hit, but in the end it ultimately does very little to the rock, receding without any ill effects on the rock. Do not make your mind into a gate, which can be torn open, but rather into a rock.

A few hours later you awaken from your trace, confident that you’ve sharpened your mind a little closer into that rock like status.

(NEW SKILL! Brooklyn learned Willpower Basic!)

“Thanks Mina. I can feel that what you’ve done has really helped.” you say as you get up off the floor. “...Mina?”

You look over to her, seeing that she’s actually fallen asleep and is calmly snoozing away.

You cannot help but smile at this. You throw an extra log onto the fireplace for Mina before heading out to your job with Brothen.
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>>22368885
Brooklyn's character sheet seems to be missing that fate ritual we learned. And the C-Toxin.
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>>22373911

[2/3]

******

Thankfully, the Langy family actually liked your suggestion a lot. It gave some time for Brothen to go outside, for him to get out of the castle so the adults could do things for a while, and Brothen excited that this’d be a field trip for him. While you’d be accompanied by two royal guards at all times, that’s more of a good thing as it’d make people question you less.

“What’s the history of this building!?” Brothen says, pointing out to the bath house as he runs down the street.

“H-hold on!” you laugh as you try to keep up with him. “I can’t run very well in this dress!”

“That’s because mommy dressed you up! It really does suit you Mr Brooklyn!” Brothen says.

“...You know it does somewhat...” you reply in turn.

“Uh? Oh hey Brooklyn.” Brodin says walking the street, scythe in hand.

Your eyes snap over to Brodin right away. You can suddenly taste the sharp fear of the two guards behind you.

“...Who’s that man?” Brothen asks innocently.

“That’s uh...” you struggle to come up with an answer.

“That is a Reaper young Langy.” another familiar voice says behind you, one that makes chills blast up your spine.

You turn around and see the Demon Knight standing behind you, nearly pissing your pants in the process.

“Sir Blizzarios!” Brothen says running over to him.

“Ha ha! You remembered my name! I’m flattered!” The Demon Knight says as reaches down to pat Brothen on the head.

“You left the castle?” Brodin asks the Demon Knight.

“But of course! I wanted to personally meet all the children inside of the castle, as I personally adore the little youngsters myself.” Blizzarios says. “...But I have to inquire what a Reaper is doing here.”
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>>22373924

[3/3]

“Oh you know the drill. Demon Knight comes to town where demons are rare. People start overreacting, accusing each other of worshipping some false god, tensions run high, etc etc... I’m not here for any of you.” Brodin states.

You can hear the two royal guards give a large sigh of relief.

“Besides, the knight on the left will be dying in about a week anyways.” Brodin states.

“...Wait what?” the royal guard asks.

“...And me?” the other guard asks.

“Oh you have years left.” Brodin replies.

The other guard sighs in relief.

“N-No seriously, what? I have that little time left?” the guard replies.

“Ah yes, that does make sense yes. It is always so annoying when those pesky wraiths rise up and I need to deal with those as well. To get on the job early, you certainly must be a hardworking Reaper. But... I didn’t know that young Brothen had such a charming young professor...” Blizzarios says, holding out his hand in front of him and generating a rose of ice for you.

“Yea! Brooklyn is taking me around town and telling me the history of everything behind it!” Brothen replies.

“Well that sounds a great thing to do myself! I never had time to read up on this place before coming over, so learning a little about it’s local history certainly couldn’t hurt. Would you mind if I tagged along Lady Brooklyn?” Blizzarios asks.

The very instant you hear Blizzarios ask this, you can feel his words impaling your chest clean through. Metaphorically speaking, and he certainly wasn’t using magic behind it.

Before you flip out completely, you notice that he hasn’t taken out his sword and smited you on the spot. This is good news, as if he does know aura sight he certainly doesn’t have it on now. Your mind begins to wonders what you should say to the Demonic Knight.
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>>22373913

Noted, I'll add them now.

Welp, time to head off to bed. I'll see if I can continue this thread a bit before my plane ride outta here.
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>>22373929
Well we can't exactly turn him down. A normal person wouldn't dare, and if he starts to think we're not normal he could turn his aura sight on. Take his rose and be all flattered and nervous and say "I'd be honoured" or something.
>inb4 we fall in love with him too
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I'll bet people wish they could hide her aura now! Anyways, might as well turn aura sight on now ourselves and try to see how deep of shit we might be in. Thank god Brodin's here.

"Naturally we'd be honored to have you accompany us. I saw you when you entered the city and I was moved that you'd be willing to visit us in our small town. How have you liked it here so far?"
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>>22373929
when we agree, we need to appear awed by him, that way he'll think the awkwardness is due to his status not because a succubus is right under his nose and he doesn't notice.
also his name is silly(don't tell him that)
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>>22373929
Fuck. Play it cool. Cool as ice. Maybe turn Aura Sight on, at the very least it'll help us gauge his power level.

Take the rose and admire it, look flattered, maybe blush a bit.

"Well I could hardly refuse you should you truly wish it.

But to be perfectly honest I would rather you didn't. As much as Brothen and I would enjoy the esteemed company of a gentleman such as yourself, your presence is rather imposing and you receive quite a bit of well deserved attention.

Should you come with Brothen would be distracted both by your presence and by the milling crowds and interested passerbys that you attract. It is difficult to get Brothen to pay attention at the best of times and I place his education as my absolute highest priority while he is in my care.

Perhaps some other time My Lord Blizzarios, I would be honored to show you the city. Perhaps after whatever business you have here is concluded I could show it to you without either of us being distracted by our duties and obligations."
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>>22374053
To be fair, our name is silly too.
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Rolled 7

>>22374053
Seconded.
Except the name part. Its a respectable demon name. I mean, what demon is called Brooklyn?
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>>22374063

I'd rather not tell an all powerful overlord that is getting sucked up to from all quarters no. That's probably not the best way to get on his good side and I doubt we'll hold his interest for very long.
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Rolled 31

>>22374143
Except we apparently are very pretty, and he is so very young...
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>>22374143
There's still plenty of sucking up, we complement his presence, call him a gentleman, and say the reason we can't is because he's too impressive. It makes references to duty and obligations which Pride Demons love more than Succubi love sex.

>>22374063
Forgot to put this, when we talk about distractions at the very end put a somewhat flirty note and subtly indicate the royal guards, the crowd, and Brothen.

It isn't saying no, it's saying I'd love to but not when we have a kid who I have a duty to educate with us.
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>>22374182

So we want to come off as bland and uninteresting as possible. The last thing we want to do is come off as a "challenge".
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I've already voted but if we take him with us we're in trouble. We need to politely decline or put this off.

Brothen might blab about us being Mr. Brooklyn and that'll grab his attention and he might turn on Aura Sight. He might scan the crowds as we walk and talk and that'd involve him turning on Aura Sight. He might want to gauge our emotions or just turn it on for shits and giggles.

He also gets more time in our presence and might pull some Social Magic on us, which is bad, because we couldn't resist that without it being readily apparent.

If he does see that our Aether burns brighter than most we may be able to bullshit our way out of it, say that we're one of the few people who is naturally able to channel Aether, but that's risky and will garner more suspicion than I like.
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Brothen's not drunk and knows our situation so I doubt he's a risk. Hell, I was one of the votes for staying home and working on concealing our aura, but now that he's here I think it's more risky to try to get rid of him. I already voted too, so whatever.
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>>22373929
Of course, there's always the option that he does have his aura sight on. If he was called here because Langly noticed us, he knows exactly who he's supposed to be investigating. He might just be scouting us out, trying to work out what sort of creature we are so he can decide how to deal with us.
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>>22374352
Possible, but at that point it matters little if we say yes or I'd love to but later, we shouldn't plan around that possibility. Also a bit of Aura Sight in his direction ought to reveal if he knows or not.
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>>22374430
Well if he knows we're an enemy then trying to get him alone will look like a trap. Although he is a Pride demon, he'd probably just walk into it anyway because the concept of something he can't deal with is a bit much for him.
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i would advise against the use of any magic near him as it might somehow alert him of our nature. we should also act in awe of him. do things such as thanking him for anything he does. also we must swallow our pride for the sake of infiltration and 'big up' pride demons. that should stroke his ego, thusly keeping him relaxed and off guard.

just try to get through the historical tour without raising any suspicion.

we can exact our true opinions and beliefs upon him when we sacrifice him to the queens.
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>>22374905
Yeah, I'll agree on no aura sight. We don't know if he can sense it.
But no monologue before killing him either. That's the kind of stupid thing a pride demon would do.
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>>22374932

As far as we know, aura sight has no tells, and I'd rather risk turning it on now, when we have a friendly reaper handy, then when we're alone with the pride demon and something doesn't seem right.
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>>22374932

i don't mean that we should explain our master plan and gloat over him, just that if the mood should take us, have a bit of a laugh at him, maybe make a witty remark about his 'pride' or some such...

but, i bow to the hivemind.
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I missed the thread, but wasn't there some thought related to using C-toxin and slipping it to the knight to make sacrificing him easier?

Though it might screw up the larger plan to take the city.
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I have no problem gloating. As long as we do it in between us sacrificing him to the queens and them eating him.
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>>22374063
I vote for this ^
Decline politely, while playing on his pride and sense of duty.

Also, I have to say that this thread has been confusing Brodin with Brothen names. OP is guilty as well!
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>>22368902
>I may know a few my Queen
I will assume that this is a typo on your part Sand?
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>>22376490

that just confirms that Amanda is to join the Aide clan.

she seems ideal to have as a loyal hench-woman...
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>>22373924
Poor Brodin, nobody's ever happy to see him. Must be lonely being a symbol of death.
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>>22378389
one of the cons of the work I guess, if people spent time with him they'd see he is a BRO
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>>22378389

Are you kidding me? When that pride demon showed up I was ready to dance for joy when our resident reaper showed up!
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>>22378646
You are not the only one, BRODIN TO THE RESQUE.
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>>22378495
But nobody spends time with him because they're scared shitless, and when he does find people like us (not that we talk to him all that much) he has to move on to the next town for the next job pretty soon. I wonder if we can get a more general communication ritual from Oksana so he can call us.

>>22378646
But he showed up before the pride demon, and we were all like 'oh shit, he's gonna blow our cover' in the update.
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>>22378744

we could always provide a half truth, and say that we met him in a bar one night, and we have been discussing various things, as a reaper such as himself has a wealth more knowledge than a young scholar such as our-self.
of course, we only say this IF Blizzarios asks how he knows us.
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>>22378830
The truth, a powerful tool.
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>>22378830
Yeah, if he asks we say that we found him in a bar one night and let him stay on our couch in exchange for telling us about the afterlife and so on.
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>>22373581
Would a tinfoil hat help with this?
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>>22379308
heh nicely done
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>Emotional instability
>Against a guy who manipulates emotions.
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
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>>22380218

if anything, it can help us as well, since we are prone to mood SWINGS, he could successfully manipulate us, but then MOOD SWING and we hit him in the groin with an annihilator beam.
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So, should we archive this?
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>>22383171
probably, at least that way OP can read through our posts if his plane doesn't crash
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>>22380750
It would be hilarious if that made him only want us more, if only for the challenge of handling the mood swings.
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>>22383341
shhh, don't give Sandact ideas
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the part about Amanda saying "My Queen" was a typo yea.

Anywho, typing update now.
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>>22386418
aawwww, well we'll have to work on that!
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Why you gotta tease us like that
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>>22386581
probably for deviant sexual reasons
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[1/3]

“Oh why thank you milord!” you say taking the rose into your gloved hands. You’re afraid that you may break the icy rose, but even within your hands it feels almost supernaturally strong.

(GOT ITEM! Ice Rose!)

“Well I can hardly refuse such a request from one such as you. I’m sure that our little town would hardly impress one such as you.” you say to the Knight.

“Oh no! If anything I’m quite impressed! The security of this fortress is top notch. It has enough supplies to starve off long bouts of siege warfare, and most armies would be stopped dead by these massive walls that surround your city. The only thing that perplexes me is the location, it’s nice to have a base this far north.” Blizzarios says.

“Actually, the fortress was originally an old world military fortress made during the last days of the war.” you tell him.

Blizzarios looks like he has an epiphany.“...Ah but of course! It makes perfect sense now! A remote military base far away enough from hotspots, but still close enough for occasional resupply!”

“...Oh man those were dark days... I rarely had a single minute to myself...” Brodin recalls.

“Mr. Brooklyn! Mr. Brooklyn! What about that place!” Brothen says pointing to the bath house dome.

“...Mister?” Blizzarios asks.

“Ha ha! Oh Brothen just often gets confused at times! There is only one letter off from Mrs. and Mr. so...” you quickly try to explain off.

“Oh you’re married!? Forgive me ma’am, I had no idea!” Blizzarios says.
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>>22387099

[2/3]

“...I do?” Brothen asks.

“Of course you do!” you lie, patting Brothen on the head. “And don’t worry about such a thing Sir Blizzarios! I often get such advances time to time when I head out by myself! Now! The Richardson bath house is actually one of the oldest structures run within our fair city, made nearly 285 years ago when Grendal Richardson discovered a hot water spring below the city!”

You begin to lecture about the city as best as you can, playing tour guide for both the Demon Knight and Brothen. It goes on for about an hour later than your usual lectures, but Brothen and the Demon Knight don’t seem to mind at all. You however, can feel your heart beating so hard to the point where you swear it could shatter your own ribcage.

The tour finally ends with you taking Brothen out to a sweets job and getting him a cookie.

“Oh no, please let me Lady Brooklyn.” Blizzarios says as he pays for Brothen’s cookie.

“T-thank you Sir Blizzarios.” you say, accepting his offer.

“If you don’t mind, may I escort Brothen back to the castle myself?” Blizzarios asks.

“I don’t mind, nor do I think his parents would mind either.” you reply.

“Excellent. And what of your rates for your lectures?” Blizzarios asks.

“My usual rate is 1 gold and 3 silver per hour.” you reply.

Blizzarios reaches into a small coin pouch, handing you a platinum coin. “Here you are, this should cover your teaching fee for the day.”
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>>22387104

[3/3]

“A-A P-Platinum coin! S-Sir Blizzarios! I could hardly accept this!” you gasp. “I-I mean that I am grateful but this much for someone like me!?”

“Nonsense! Consider it payment for allowing me to come along on the trip as well!” he says patting you on the shoulder, his cold touch seeming to even seep through your clothing. “I’m fairly certain the Langy’s would reimburse me for Brothen’s share as well.”

You a curtsy towards the Demon Knight. “T-thank VERY much for your give milord!”

“And thank you for showing me around your fair city! Now come along young Brothen! It is time to head home for the day!” Blizzarios says picking Brothen up and putting him on his pauldrons.

“Yes sir Blizzarios!” Brothen laughs as the Demon Knight takes him back to the castle.

You wave to Brothen as he leaves, and the instant they vanish from sight you collapse against a nearby wall. Clutching your chest and weezing for air.

“That went rather well.” Brodin says walking out of the bakery with a croissant.

“It feels like my heart is about to shatter my ribcage...” you tell Brodin.

“You’ll be fine. You won’t need to worry about him for much longer anyways.” Brodin says taking a bite out of his food.

“Why’s that?” you asks.

“Because he’s going to die tomorrow.” Brodin nonchalantly replies.
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I have no reaction image for what I am feeling right now.
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> “Because he’s going to die tomorrow.” Brodin nonchalantly replies.

Well that's good to know.
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Oh yea, any questions you may want to ask about this, then perhaps what you wish to do after.

Also one Platinum is 10 gold
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>>22387113
Well, we made serious bank from this at least. Note to self, do not keep the rose, it might have residual effects.

"Well that's reassuring. By the way, in case you didn't already know, you're helping us kill him. Consider it rent, but paid in dead Knights.

Since that's taken care of I think I ought to get back to practice, can't be too careful against an opponent like him.

And you're joining us for practice as well, if you don't Mina will be annoyed with you, and she'd be sad if her new designated sparring partner didn't show up."
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My paranoia is telling me that Blizzarios is walking Brothen home to ask him why he calls us Mister.
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>>22387113
Brodin truly is awesome, unless we fuck up our rolls and all die
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>>22387191
Oh, and ask Brodin how strong Blizzarios looked when he took a look at him with Sight. If he got any more details about the death than it being tomorrow.

Ask about his combat style and capabilities, we have his character sheet but I'm not sure Brooklyn knows much about his capabilities.
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>>22387201
probably

>>22387191
Yea don't keep it on our person, and even preferably not in our house, but we should still have it somewhere that we can get it, assuming it doesn't just melt away
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"By mine or Mina's hand per chance? Or is it against the Rules to tell me"
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Well, it's back home and back to training.

After all, at the end of the day it doesn't matter how nice he is to women and children. He's here as a threat and we already promised his soul to the queens.
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>>22387113
"How does that ability work, anyway? Is the whole of existence pre-determined with nothing we can do about it, or does everyone have little sand timers that run out and then kill them in the most convenient way at the time, or what?"
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>>22387251
maybe we should try to find out whether the rose can be used to track us and plant it at the shrine when we want to lure him there?
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[1/3]

“Uh... That’s fairly interesting. It lines up with Marina’s plan almost exactly...” you say, feeling a bit more confidence. “By the way. When time comes, you’re going to help us kill him. Consider it payment for the rent.”

“...Well yea I guess I can’t freeload forever.” Brodin casually replies.

“Did you find out how strong he was?” you asks.

“In my experience Aura isn’t a good indicator. It’s like telling who’d win in a fight because one person has bigger muscles.” Brodin replies.

“It’s better than nothing.” you reply.

“Point. Individually he’s stronger than any one of us. I think if we fight him three on one it should be about even.” Brodin replies.

“...Does it say who’d kill him? Or would telling me be against the rules?” you ask Brodin.

Brodin shakes his head. “Na, I can only see time until death, not what the causes are. If I really want to know, I can just send a message to my boss and ask him for more details about the cause of death. There’s also no written saying that you must not tell people how they die, but generally it’s a very bad idea. People tend to get real jumpy when they often know what’s going to kill them.” Brodin says. “Except the Nords. They’re actually pretty chill knowing how they’ll die. Hell, some even carry the weapon that’s fated to kill them.”

“...How does Death countdown even work anyways? Does everything in existence have some pre-determined end with nothing that we can do about it? Or does everyone have something like their own hourglass sand timer of death in where it runs out, fate just kills them in the most convenient way possible?” you ask Brodin.

“Well actually the latter. Here have a look at yours.” Brodin says passing you small hourglass.
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>>22387815

[2/3]

Looking at the hourglass, your eyes nearly come out of your head in seeing that there is barely any time left. You try to flip it upside down, but only to see that the sand still keeps pouring in it’s original direction, defying physics.

“Na I’m just kidding. That thing you have there is just a party trick.” Brodin chuckles a bit.

You roll your eyes and pass him back the hourglass. “Fun-ny. You heart did cause me to die by almost giving me a heart attack. But seriously how does it work?”

“Well for mortals, you’re pretty much correct. With mortals, everyone has their own predetermined end that the ‘Greater Powers that Be’ make. The system works fairly well most of the time, and in the rare cases in where people do actually escape their predetermined death, they send people like us out.” Brodin replies.

“So like me?” you ask.

“You’re... unique and not the best example to use. I was more thinking along the lines of a soldier getting out of a war that he was supposed to die in perfectly fine.” Brodin says. “Awakened beings are a different kettle of fish however.”

“Why’s that?” you ask.

“Every time an Awakened being uses aether power to manipulation himself or the world around him, they change their destiny. Their own time of death can be delayed by using their own powers, assuming they have the powers needed to ward death off.” Brodin replies. “Blizzarios’s death time, as of the moment I saw him, is assigned based off the fact that he will not use any magical abilities right up until his time of death.”
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>>22387825

[3/3]

“So you’re saying he won’t die tomorrow?” you ask.

“What I’m saying is that whenever you hear a death cloak for an awakened being, you shouldn’t take it as gospel. Awakened beings are creatures who have the chance to forge their own destiny, rather than being shackled to it.” Brodin says. “...That said since I’ve got insider knowledge of your plan, I’m pretty certain he will die tomorrow.”

“...And if he doesn’t?” you ask.

“Oh then he lives for another few decades or so.” Brodin replies. “Reaper’s often get sent out to hunt down awakened beings all the time. Including so-called immortal things such as gods.”

“...You’re saying that a person wants to live a few more decades, all they need to do is beat the Reaper sent after them?” you ask.

“Basically.” Brodin replies.

“...And who made these rules?” you ask Brodin.

Brodin simply shrugs. “Don’t ask me man, I just do the job I’m told to do.”

“...Fair enough. Anyways I’m going to head back to my place now.” you tell Brodin.

“Yea I got a little more work left to do. I’ll see you at your place later.” Brodin says waving off as he heads off into town once more.

Heading back to your house, you wonder what you should be training with, now that you have the rest of the day free.
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>>22387836
Practice invisibility, it'll help with the ambush.
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>>22387836
First use Aura Sight on the rose and otherwise check it for magic or anything like that.

We're going to be doing the killing tomorrow so there's not going to be more sneaking about so we don't need invisibility or aura hiding that badly. But we are no where near resistant enough to social/emotional magic to take this guy on without a good risk of it fucking with us. So I advocate Willpower training.

Help Mina compose the challenge letter to drag him to the location that we'll fight and then incapacitate the Knight and take to the Shrine or lure to the Shrine.

We should probably give Marina a syringe or two of the C-Toxin for her to use when she sneak attacks the fucker, ought to mess him up.
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>>22387836
>Yea I got a little more work left to do.
>reaper
>work

hmm, seems to be some killing in town to be done.

also we should try to ensure that demon knight stupid-name has no reason at all to use his magic
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>>22387959
>also we should try to ensure that demon knight stupid-name has no reason at all to use his magic
You mean, like trying to kill him, for instance?
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>>22387836

Can we please learn to hide our aura now? It's only been about 5 years that we've been putting it off or so. I hear invisibility and stuff is good.
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>>22388072
Agreed. Aura hiding is essential if we want to be ready to back Mina up if things go pear-shaped.

After that, if we have time, I say we either learn to fly, or learn the nuke.
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>>22388102

I'm not sure how useful flight is when we have shadow walk, but nukes are always good.
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>>22388133
Flight is so we can kite in battle. Combined with invisibility, they'll never be able to hit us.
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Rolled 18

>>22388061
*until we try to kill him, don't want to ruin Brodins prediction
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>>22388216
woops, forgot to turn dice off
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>>22388216
If it will be ruined anyway, what does it matter when we do it?
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>>22388238
to give us the best possible chance? do you not want us to succeed?
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>>22387836
Aura hiding. We have physical invisibility but if he sees the big glowy light surrounding us that's kind of useless. Constantly jumping between shadows while invisible seems like it would make us hard to hit.

>>22388102
We have wings. I know we can't quite use them yet but learning a flight spell seems kind of silly.
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>>22388305
>We have wings
Sonuvabitch you're right. They haven't been mentioned in so long that I'd forgotten about them. In that case, priority goes to cloaking - aura hiding first, then silencing to hide the sound of our wings.
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>>22387836

I know we're pretty much set on feeding the pride demon to the queens, but is that really necessary?
He doesn't seem like a complete douche, so maybe we should at least spend some thoughts on what we could do with him that doesn't involve killing Blizzarios?

As a freshly transformed succubus, Brooklyn should be smart enough not to simply off somebody because of their race and current allegiance.
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>>22388451
We're offing him before he offs us. Or rather captures us and tortures us until we break and he can erase and rebuild our mind and shapeshift our body and turn us into his perfect waifu. Our existence is illegal and he's a police officer.
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>>22388479
pretty much this, unless we could break him to us, which would be unexpected
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>>22387836
>you wonder what you should be training with
Hide Aura. We have been putting this off.
Heck, choosing to teach the kid outside so we wouldn't run into the Knight, while we learn other stuff. What happens? He comes along! Don't temp fate anymore anons.
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>>22388479
yea this. Besides, Queens need more power right now. Who knows, taking this Demon Knight may allow them to convert more people into succubi, which is a plus for us.
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[1/4]

On your back to the house, you turn on your aura sight to look at the rose. You can tell something is odd about it. Unlike the rest of the environment which appears to be rather bland in colour, the rose appears to be in full colour. This is somewhat surprising, but you’re not sure what this means.

Upon reaching your house, you put the rose in a vase above your fireplace. Mina appears to be deep in her own meditation. Then you head back to your concentration you had the other day of trying to perfect your invisibility powers. You begin to use your powers once again. Once you can feel the aether flow through you, you gently try to nudge it aside. Using Mina’s example of the water and the rock. You let the aether flow around you rather than trying to stop it full stop.

It is then you can finally see your form becoming transparent, before you suddenly vanish from sight altogether. However when you take a step, the first thing that happens is that you trip, since you cannot see your feet and fall the floor, decloaking in the process. OK you’re clumsy, but at least you got it down pat.
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>>22388606

[2/4]

(NEW MAGIC UNLOCKED! CLOAKING (Basic)! You are able to gently bend the flows of the world around you, letting yourself become invisible! At this point, you are able to vanish from the visible light spectrum. In addition, any minor sounds such as heartbeat, breathing, or drawing a weapon will also be muted. At this level, trying to move away from the spot you activated the cloaking on will cause you to de-cloak, as will any fast movement such as attacking [Includes spellcasting]. However if you decloak while moving, you can resume the cloaking field for no additional Aether cost [Attacking makes it so that you need to cast the spell again]. Duration of the cloak is 15 minutes. Aether cost: Medium. NOTE: This isn’t 100% foolproof. People with very good vision could pick you out. However unless the person has a high level of awareness, they are unlikely to see you. Addition levels of cloaking will improve things such as how quickly you can move while cloaked, in addition to bonus perks [Such as increased sneak attack damage or Aura suppression])

“...I still don’t know how learning this will help with hiding my aura...” you mutter, recalling Marina’s and Lamia’s advice.

Suddenly you can hear a frantic knocking on your own door, causing both you and Mina to jump.

“Alright alright... Coming...” you say walking over to your door.

As soon as the door is opened a crack, it forced open wide. A little girl dressed up in street urchin clothing.

“He saw me! He saw me! I fucked up!” the girl says barging into your house.

“Woah woah! What happened!?” you ask.
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>>22388610

[3/4]

“Aaawww... It’s OK little girl! You’re safe here with us!” Mina says walking over to the girl.

“DON’T CALL ME LITTLE GIRL!” the little girl screams hysterically as she swats Mina’s hands away from her.

“Hey! Don’t go screaming things into stranger’s houses!” Mina warns the girl.

“Mina relax, it’s the Laminian.” You tell her before returning to Marina. You almost didn’t recognize her yourself as this appears to be a new form. “Marina calm down! Take a few deep breaths and tell us what happened.”

“He saw me! That god damn demon knight saw me!” Marina says, shapeshifting back into her curled hair form.

“How are you sure of that?” you ask her.

“Bloody bastard asked to meet all the kids! Sadly that included myself. He shook each of the boys hands and kissed all of the girls hands. But when he was leaving the room after meeting us he... he shot me a look...” Marina says, sitting down on the bed clutching her chest. “He knows. He DEFINATELY knows.

“...He can tell by touching someone?” you ask, your heart about to beat out of you chest.

“Yes, but only if he can touch your direct skin.” Marina says sitting on the bed while huffing. “...Do you have anything to eat right now? My nerves are completely shot...”

You can feel yourself taking a massive breath in relief. You were wearing gloves today, so the Demon Knight never touched your skin directly.

“Wait! Did he track you back here!?” Mina asks.

“Give me some credit! I had an emergency escape plan just for this situation!” Marina says, snatching the cookie tin out of your hands, grabbing one from her hand and eating them.
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>>22388619

[4/4]

“...He knew but didn’t kill you on the spot? Why?” you ask. You know full well that it was within the Demon Knight’s rights to smite Marina on the spot.

“I don’t know! This thing is probably like a game to him!” Marina says, her eyes suddenly welling up with tears. “All those years of planning... Careful pruning of the family... All to FUCKING forget about that damned Aura Touch ability!”

Marina throws a cookie across the room in a fit of rage, before finally breaking down and crying. “Damnit! I’m nearly 56 years old for christsake! I thought that maybe I could have a place of my own for once! But oh wait! I forgot! I’d never be able the hold a position of power more than a few years because of my FUCKING STUPID SHAPESHIFTING!”

Marina then breaks down, sobbing uncontrollably on your bed. It’s a rather pathetic sight to see a fully grown woman break down and cry like this. You wonder what you can say or do.
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>>22388623
Comfort her. Tell her that it is ok, that once we take over this place, she wouldn't need to hide, as to the people, it just changed from one demon's hand into another demon's hand.
Also, tell her that a reaper told us that the knight will die tomorrow.
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>>22388700
>tell her that a reaper told us that the knight will die tomorrow.
Everything except this. I just feel like it'd be a bad idea.
Also, get her to change her form just in case, and bake more cookies.
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>>22388623
I think I know what this situation calls for. A nice hot mug of tea, a blanket, and some cookies. After we have her set up with some comfort stuff sit down next to her and give her a hug with one arm.

"Shh, calm down Marina. We still got this. He's still an arrogant fuck. we can still lure him with a challenge letter from Mina, or we could lure him using you, he's going to chase you and we can lead him right to the shrine and sacrifice him. He's so intent on playing the game that he has tunnel vision, he's not going to see anything other than what he's looking for.

He's expecting 1, at most 2 opponents who he considers himself superior to, he is not expecting 3 succubi and a reaper to hit him from behind. A reaper who told me he is dying tomorrow unless he alters his fate.

Speaking of sneak attacks I have a gift for you. It's from Miyu, it's a virulent toxin she developed and some syringes she made, it ought to give us an edge in this fight. You're probably the best suited to use them in this fight."
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>>22388623
In addition to what the others have suggested, make her some tea.
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>>22388749
YES! TRAIN OUR TEA SKILLS! RAISE THEM TILL THEY'RE OFF THE CHARTS!
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>>22388738
This. Definatly this.

We need a cup of tea ourselves too.
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>>22388770
The Queens thought our motivation was arcane power, controlling a world, gaining knowledge. They were wrong, our motivation is to make the perfect cup of tea and share it with the world.
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You walk over to your dresser, grabbing your wool reading blanket and throwing it over her. “Shh... there there Marina... Calm down. We still got this.”

“Huh! Like that name is going to be any use to me now!” Marina scoffs. “Call me by my real name, Ada Waller. It’s not like I got nothing worthwhile to hide anymore.”

“Well then Ada, whenever or not he knows about you means we can still go about our plan to spring a trap on him.” you say getting out the kettle to boil some water. “We can still issue the challenge letter to Mina, or maybe even yourself. At this point he has tunnel vision so bad that he’s most likely blind to whatever is going on around him. He’s intent on playing the game since he’s new and arrogant.”

“Huh! He may be new and arrogant, but I doubt he’d be stupid enough to accept a challenge letter from a Laminian!” Ada scoffs. “Mina is still our best bet for this.”

“Still, he’s only expecting one, at the very most two opponents whom he considers himself superior to. He will not be expecting three Succubi and a Reaper who are going to hit him with everything we’ve got.” You say as you begin to warm the cups. “In fact, the Reaper even told me that he’s going to die tomorrow.”

“No! No you don’t get it! The Demon Knight was always a small part of this picture! It was always about me taking over the town! I’d finally have a place to call my own!” Ada says, wiping tears from her face as she eats another cookie. “My mother and I grew up with nearly nothing! She always told me the old stories, talking about how the Succubi Queen’s often run things from the Old World! Even the Laminians! B-but no... I fucked up... Even if I gave myself up I couldn’t even become a Pride Demon’s handmaiden...”

Wow. It appears Ada is going through her mid life crisis.

(I will mention the C-toxin bit once she snaps out of this)
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>>22389064
Argue that he hasn't told any other Pride Demons of her existence yet, and probably won't think of doing so until after he's killed her. As long as we kill him, she should be fine.
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>>22389064
Keep on making the tea, if we see hugging or physical contact as a necessary part of the process use Shadow Tentacles or a Light Goon to prepare it.

"Ada, look at me, you are not going to become anyone's handmaiden. Pull your pretty ass together, calm down, and look at this objectively.

What resources do we have? 3 Succubi who cover each other's weaknesses and a Reaper who could get hit by a train and brush it off. That is far more that you had when you were plotting this out.

What are we up against? An arrogant newly Knighted Pride Demon who is trying to prove himself and will not admit any faults or troubles back to his superiors. He's not going to report that he found someone and they got away. He's enjoying the game too much to say that he thinks he knows who the mole is and not be able to present her. All he knows is a fake name and that there's a Laminian around. He wants to prove himself, solve everything in one fell swoop.

What is the goal, to kill the Knight and use that as an opportunity to instate you as the ruler of Fort Hope and in the future much more.

Your identity still ought to hold water, and if it doesn't it'll be dead easy to get them to recognize you as the leader midst the chaos. With the power we're amassing in time you could even rule openly as a Succubus.

Now give me a hug and drink your tea."
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Rolled 49

Let us all roll to make the most calming tea ever.
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Rolled 39

>>22389279
Let us roll for calming tea indeed tea
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Rolled 26

>>22389279
tea in coming
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Rolled 86

>>22389370
well that sucked
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Rolled 72

>>22389279
>>22389363
>>22389370
You all fail at tea.

Irony might make me fail as well.
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>>22389064
can we get everyone to check the rose, I'm still paranoid that its a bugging device of some sort, even more so with its weird aura
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>>22389279
>>22389363
>>22389370
you guys fucking suck at making tea
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Rolled 90

>>22389396
Our tea shall be so great that whatever ill effects the rose has will all be negated.
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>>22389400
Look, I was in shock ok?
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Rolled 83

>>22389417
Good luck with that shock thing
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[1/3]

You make a sour face as you continue to prepare your tea, instead just making a Soliogram butler to finish making the tea for you. You walk over to Ada, wrapping your arm around her shoulders and hugging her close.

“Ada, look at me. You’re not going to become the handmaiden of anyone. Now pull your pretty little ass together, calm down, and look at this objectively.”

“At least you have an ass...” Ada mutters.

“Just look at it this way. We have three Succubi whose clan specialities compliment each other perfectly and a Reaper who could could survive something like a building falling on top of him and without any ill effect. That is far more than what you originally had when plotting this out. And what are we up against? An arrogant, freshly knighted Pride Demon Knight who is trying to prove he has the biggest dick around. He won’t be admitting any faults or problems back to his superiors. Hell, if anything he’s deliberately letting you go so that the story of hunting you down will be all the more dramatic once he does find you! Besides, all he knows is a fake name that that there’s a Laminian around. He’s going to want to prove himself, so he’ll leave everything for one dramatic moment.” you tell Ada.

“Brooklyn’s right! The goal here is that we can defeat the Pride Demon Knight and use this as the chance to install you as the new ruler of Fort Hope!” Mina says sitting next to her.

“B-but my Marina Langy identity... All that work...” Ada says.
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>>22389702

[2/3]

“Will still work absolutely fine, as he isn’t going to tell a soul about this just yet! If he does, then it’d be ridiculously easy to install you as the leader of the Fort amidst the chaos.” You tell her. “In fact... With the power we plan on collecting, you may even have a chance to rule openly as a Succubus.”

Ada seems to light up at this. “M-me? O-openly rule? Not just use puppets?”

“Yup! It may not seem like it, but Brooklyn has a long term plan for this!” Mina says.

“I.... Thank you. I guess I did overreact. I apologize for having to put up with a sectional life crisis of a Succubus such as myself.” Ada says, trying to regain her composure.

“There! That’s the spirit! Now let’s have a little bit of tea to calm ourselves down.” You say as your soligram butler brings a tray of tea over to you all.

Ada holds her glass and sips. “...My goodness, this is actually really good tea.”

“So Ada, are you over it now?” Mina asks her while sipping tea.

“I’m still a bit jittery from having a giant bull shit all over my plans, but seeing as things can still be salvaged I guess I shall be alright.” Ada replies.

“So do most Laminian’s go through the body rejection thing like you?” Mina asks.

Ada sighs as she looks in her tea. “You wouldn’t understand, and I’m aware of how stereotypically teenage like that sounds, it’s true. It is not uncommon for a Laminian to go through such as phase in their lives. It is frustrating to see your companions and friends grow up around you, but you remain stuck in the body of a child. Even if I pushed my shapeshifting, I couldn’t make myself appear much older.”
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>>22389705

[3/3]

“Nope... Can’t say I understand the feeling...” Mina says putting her teacup aside. She then begins to stretch in a way that draws attention to her chest. She then begins to expand her breasts bit by bit until they’re a great deal larger than they were originally.

You’re afraid that you’re going to have a fight break out in the house, but what surprises you is that Ada seems to calmly keep her composure and sip her tea, ignoring Mina.

“Well I sure hope that y-” Mina stops as she picks up her cup of tea again. She then flips over the cup, a frozen brown lump falling down to the floor and thumping against it. “M-my tea...”

“Oh I’m sorry my dear. Sometimes my ice powers get a bit out of hand when cows enter enter the room.” Ada replies.

You can’t help but get a good chuckle out of it, seeing that Ada is recovered enough so that she can take a joke like that.
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>>22389711
Gently scold Mina for teasing Ada, and Ada for wasting good tea, then make Mina a new cup.
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>>22389734

Anything after that? I'll give Ada the C-toxin before she leaves.
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>>22389762

just caught up but yes we will give Ada the c toxin.
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>>22389711
Keep on hugging Ada.

"The trick to good tea is to heat the cups and pot first, if you don't the tea cools down too fast and doesn't steep right and isn't quite as aromatic.

Now stop bickering you two, you're both hot. Mina, don't tease her for looking young. Ada, don't do such a thing to an innocent cup of tea.

So we're killing him tomorrow, so we should probably draft Mina's letter now so we can review it and make sure it looks right. Ada, what would be the best way to deliver it into his possession?"

Also make sure to give Ada a kiss on the cheek before she leaves and make sure she knows that she's pretty.
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>>22389782

problem i can see is if he brings witnesses to witness his victory. easily solved by looking like different people.
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>>22389711
Well, she has Mina, Brodin, and Brooklyn now. Ada doesn't have to act like a teenage girl when she's with the three of us. We'll treat her like an equal, and we should let her know that we care more about her personality and character than anything else.

Also remind her there's nothing wrong with DFC.
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Well, the knight knows about Ada, right? Why doesn't she drop the bullshit next time she speaks to the knight and give him the letter then?
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>>22389782
Next on the agenda:
- Give Ada Toxins
- Write challenge letter
- Lure pride demon into trap
- Sacrifice pride demon
- ????
- Profit!
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>>22389820
Because he still won't trust her. And if this is indeed something of a game to him, he might just waste her on sight if she drops all pretenses.
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>>22389792
We'll set the battlegrounds away from the city, it's a Belkarian sending the letter so he'll probably believe it to be somewhat legit. I doubt he'll decide to have people trek an hour or two out of town to watch him fight, because it's less impressive to have them follow him out all that way than it is to come in from the snow with a Succubi's head.

>>22389820
The problem with that is if the Laminian gives him the letter he's going to not trust it in the slightest, and might just waste her immediately.

>>22389798
There is absolutely nothing wrong with DFC, and we ought to let her know that. We're busy as hell tomorrow so we should probably get to bed at a decent hour and not stay up all night banging, so we can consider the option later.
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>>22389851
>not stay up all night banging
The funny thing is that this is actually a legitimate form of preparation for a succubus.
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>>22389867
Yes and no. If we're banging other succubi it's a zero sum thing as any Aether we get will be taken from one of our allies. We'd need to bring in outside parties to drain for that.
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>>22389879
"Yo, I'm going to go look for more pirates to drain, who wants in?"


"Come on, it's aetherlicious!"
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>>22389890
It's the night before something big. I think we're doing okay on Aether and I'd rather not have any distractions or anything which might point to there being more Succubi or anything like that around than Blizzarios thinks.

Besides if we have time to go out hunting we have a chance to try and bump our Willpower up a notch and/or prepare ourself mentally for the coming fight.
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>>22389890
>it's aetherlicious!
I'm now imagining a Miyian manufacturing pre-packaged Aether supplements and earning massive profits.
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>>22389921
"It's like an orgasm in your mouth!"
"Sex in a can!"
"It's Aetherlicious!"
"Miyan brand Aether snacks, for the Succubus on the go."
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>>22389937
Almost makes me wish we'd chosen to play a Miyian.
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>>22389921
Aetherflakes!
Like sex in your mouth!
A different soul in every bite.
Choose from 6 different unique flavours! Thief, Rapist, Murderer, Greedy Merchant, Orphan and Barbarian!
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>find kindergarten
>take toys from children
>refuse to give them back
>feed off ensuing temper tantrums
>???
>profit
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[1/2]

“The trick to having good tea is to heat the cups and pot first. If you don’t, then the tea will cool down too fast and doesn’t steep right. It’s not quite as aromatic.” you say.

“Quite.” Ada says sipping her tea.

“Now you two stop bickering. Mina, don’t tease her for looking young. Ada, don’t do such a thing to an innocent cup of tea.” you warn them both.

“I’m... Sorry about that Ada. I just got a little carried away...” Mina apologies.

“Yes yes, and I got carried away with freezing your tea. Now can you get those things out of my face?!” Ada says pushing Mina’a chest away. “I swear you’ll poke someone’s eye out with those things.”

“Oh! Sorry!” Mina says as her breasts begin to shrink back down to normal size.

“Now we’re going to be killing tomorrow. We should probably draft Mina’s letter n-”

“On it!” Mina says rushing over to your desk to prepare the letter.

“...What’s the best way to deliver it into his possession?” you ask Ada.

“I’ll sneak it into his room tonight when he goes to sleep. Leave on his endtable and that’d be that.” Ada says.

“No offense, but why don’t you kill him while he’s sleeping?” you ask.

“I fear he may have some sort of countermeasure for that. Pride Demons live a life of courtly drama. I think they’re all well-prepared for someone slitting their throat while they sleep.” Ada admits.

“...How’d they do that?” you ask.
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"Diet Aether, all of the energy, none of the calories. 7/8 Queens can't tell the difference!"
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>>22389968
>find kindergarten
>take children
>refuse to give them back
>???
>profit?
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>>22389980

[2/2]

“Fate magic I think. Needless to say I don’t think the alarm would go off just to deliver a harmless letter. If anything they’d relish a chance to have duels of honor.” Ada says.

“...Hey Brooklyn? Where are we going to fight him?” Mina asks.

“...Eh let’s just use the old Snow Pirate base. Even with power vaccums installed, I don’t think anyone could move fast enough to put enough supplies into that new base.” you tell Mina.

Mina writes a bit before she finishes the letter. “Aaallllllright! Done! What do you think!?”

As you look over Mina’s letter, you can see that it’s in an entirely different language altogether. The letters appear like nothing more than chicken scratches. A small map on the back shows the location of the fight, and the only thing in English is her name at the bottom, “Crimson Goddess of Love”.

“...It’ll do.” Ada says taking the letter.

(Anything else you wish to ask/mention?)
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>>22389950

yea i wanted to go miyan but it would have been too hard as the tech level is currently screwed.
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>>22389985
Ask everyone if they are capable of resisting pride demon social magic. Just making sure that it doesn't become a 2v3...

and the c-toxin and needle handover to Ada, rogue weapons belong in a rogue shop.

Then see as a form of preparation if you can apply the invisibility ability over individual items that you are carrying.
Invisible axe can only be an advantage in a fight against the demon.
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>>22389985
"Crimson Goddess of Love? Will the Pride Demon even understand what you wrote?

The base is pretty close to the shrine, so we ought to be able to take him down and sacrifice him without issue.

We have a busy day tomorrow. Ada, could you drop a letter off for me saying I'm sick, I'd rather not have to head over there myself with the Knight being on full alert.

Remember to steel your minds and prepare to resist social attack, if someone falls to it in the battle get them to snap out out of it, we need to watch out for each other."

Give Ada the needles and toxin. Tell her what it's from and how we're unlikely to get any more so don't squander it, but it ought to give us an edge on Blizzarios.

Pull Ada into another hug "Ada, I think you're pretty just as you are, I wouldn't change a single thing." And give her a kiss on the cheek..
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>>22390019
We ought to keep at least one of the C-toxin needles for ourselves just in case. Also, please don't make us fight that guy in melee.
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>>22390053
We do not go in melee with him. We do not even consider it. We stay back and spam tracking explosion shots, tentacles, and lasers, Mina and Brodin go in melee with Brodin focusing on protecting the squishier members of the party, he should also go full Avatar of Death of Blizzarios at a good time. Mina punches him in the face and Ada sneak attacks him, injects him with C-Toxin, and uses invisibility to not get hit and constantly backstab him and hit weak points.
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>>22390075
Oh, and summon Light Goons if needed, using them to block a hit from him, flank him, and keep him tied up in melee.
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>>22390075
stick C-toxin needles between Mina's fingers and THEN punch lord stupid-name in the face
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>>22390102
I'd personally prefer them used in the sneak attacks so we're sure we get the most use out of them, if Mina holds them in her fists a lot of them won't get through, he'll be able to hit that hand make her lose her grip, and so on. We don't have that much of it and I want to make the most efficient use of it as possible.

Also Ada almost certainly gets bonus damage to sneak attacks which might apply to the C-Toxin damage.
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>>22390122
very true, it was meant as a more rule of cool thing
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[1/2]

“...Crimson Goddess of Love? Will the Pride Demon understand what you wrote?” you ask.

“Challenge letters transcend all language barriers!” Mina boasts.

“It’s fine. People such as Blizzarios and her share a common language.” Ada reassures you. “With the map I’m sure he’ll be fine.”

“Well with the base pretty close to the shrine, everything should neatly be folded up once the fight is done.” you say. “Oh and Ada, can you also drop a letter off for me saying that I’ll be sick tomorrow? I’d rather not head over there with the Knight on full alert.”

“I don’t blame you for such a thing at all. I shall do that for you.” Ada replies.

You walk over to your coat, looking for the needles and C-toxin. “Alright, so the plan is that Mina will meet and challenge him. Ada, are you good at throwing things?”

“I have a bit of talent in it yes.” Ada replies.

“Good. Use these as your first attack on the knight.” You say passing Ada four needles and a container of C-Toxin.

“...What in the netherrealm is this?” Ada asks looking over the syringes and C-toxin canister.

“A special set of throwing syringes and poison made by Demon Queen Miyu herself. The poison is well past it’s due date, but considering whom it was made by it should pack quite a punch. The needles themselves were capable of punching through the plate armor of Demon King Valvatosa himself, so all you need to do is make them hit. Just be careful with those. We don’t have that many and we cannot afford to waste them.” you tell her.

Ada’s eyes grow wide in surprise as she begins to inspect the . “Oh my! Yes this is certainly better than anything I’ve got! The only problem with these appears to be the scarcity of them, but a justifiable expense with ten years of work on the line.”
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>>22390369

[2/2]

“And Ada, just for your information, I think you’re a charming woman. Even if I was a human, I’d happily have a relationship with someone like you.” you tell her.

“Hm! As if you could ever afford someone such as me!” Ada laughs as she puts the needles and toxin into her coat.

“What are you going to do now?” Mina asks her.

“I’m going to get something to eat. Hastily making an escape while covering my tracks did take some effort.

“Hm... I think I’ll do the same. I lost a good chunk of my aether recently, so refuelling before the big fight is probably something I should do.” Mina says.

“I’m pretty full, so I think I’m good.” you reply. You’re not 100% full, but you definitely have most of your energy reserves.

“Pretty full? Not bursting? Oh! Why don’t we all go out and get something to eat then!?” Mina suggestions.

Hm... A quick bite to eat before you head to bed wouldn’t hurt. Or should you spend some more time training?

(Alright guys, I need to call this thread as I got a flight to catch soon. School is starting, but my schedule actually looks pretty good this semester, including an entire free day. With luck would have it, I’ll be able to run this quest a bit on Tuesday and Wednesday, along with Ada’s statsheet. If anything changes, I'll use twitter. Feel free to discuss whenever or not you want to take up Mina’s offer, plans for battle, plans for exotic teas, etc...)
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>>22390372
"You two have fun, I'm at close enough to full that it won't make much of a difference, but meditating and preparing my mind and will for this might.

Don't get in too much trouble."
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>>22390431
Kiss Mina for Aether. And luck. Can't forget the luck.
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>>22390454
That works, we skim a bit off the top before she goes and fills up. And we'll keep a spot open in our bed for her to cuddle with us if she gets back home after we go to sleep.
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I don't know if we should send Ada off quite yet. She might still be shaken. What she needs is a good fuck to calm her down, then she can go!
>>
Now that I think about it, we should clarify with Mina before the fight if she wants to play with Blizzy a little, or we should just nova him when he's least expecting it.
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Definitely continue to train! I want that aura hidden!
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>>22390563
We should probably let him drop his guard and then when he least expects it he gets a pile of syringes full of toxin stabbed into his back, Brodin's scythe going full choppy, and us launching a dozen tracking explodey balls.

>>22390539
She's doing a lot better, and that might be moving too quickly. I advocate a close hug and 2-8 smooches with good locations for them being lips, forehead, and cheeks.
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>>22390601
>We should probably let him drop his guard and then when he least expects it he gets a pile of syringes full of toxin stabbed into his back, Brodin's scythe going full choppy, and us launching a dozen tracking explodey balls.
This is what I was thinking too, but we should make sure Mina knows this so she doesn't get mad or anything at our impolite interruptions.
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>>22390372
any ideas when you'll be running the next thread?
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>>22390615

With luck, Tuesday. I will have to break for class at night, but considering I literally live across the street from campus, getting back shouldn't be an issue.
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Rolled 15

>>22390372
let's do the puppet show, again!
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>>22390739
Let's not do a magical puppet show when there's a demon knight in town, shall we?
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>>22390793
yea we might want to find something a little less attention getting, lest the demon knight ends up in the audience

also I'm still paranoid as hell of that rose, not saying we smash the thing but might want to investigate it/exercise caution around it if we have the time
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>>22390810
So, subsequent course of action: skim a little of Mina, investigate rose, then meditate to improve willpower?
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>>22390834
That seems like a plan.

Though tell Mina that if she doesn't come back completely full we'll give her some Aether back and fill her up. She needs to be full for this fight more than us, she's going to be burning through Aether due to being in close combat with the Knight.
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>>22390905

I thought the plan was to finally hide our aura
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>>22390454
This. Then we have enough time to train hide aura!, while Mina goes and replanishes. Kill 2 birds with one stone!
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Could we temporarily absorb the knight's soul as he's dying between the three of us and give it to the queens? I'd imagine even in his death throes he'd have quite a bit of aether
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>>22394079
Depends if we have enough spare capacity to hold it. We'll all be full before we start and in theory we have the advantage so we shouldn't need to expend as much energy as him to win. Killing him at the shrine would be more effective. Although your method does give us an excuse to kiss the queens.
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I hope you all realize that the Demon knows we are a succubus.
It's very likely he enchanted the rose with Aura Touch or something similar.
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>>22395666

which is why we aren't going to touch it.... just stare at it... and possibly hate it to death...
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>>22395666
But we haven't touched the rose without gloves. We put it down when we got back to the house and haven't done anything to it since.

But yes, we all realise the magic ice rose isn't natural, and several people have said it might be some sort of spy.



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