《Blood Fractal》 Chapter 0 - A Girl Gets a New RPG Computer Game Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter O A Girl Gets a New RPG Computer Game ¡°YeSSSSS!¡± What is held in my hand is the newest MMO on the market, OK so, physical copies are so 5 years ago. Nothing like the feeling though. New Addition of addiction material acquired, included new game box smell. Whatever it is, I feel complete for a few seconds... or at least until I think how many games have come before it and failed to satisfy. It is not like I have anything else I am truly interested in spending so much time on. Allow me to fall for the marketing gimmicks and limited edition gifts every once in a while. This time in addition to the early access and extra bag space... wait for it... you will love this... Bragging rights. Yup, that is pretty much it. I''ll let you indulge in some jealousy now, going to go check on the online down-loader, cya. - Later in My Room - Now the biggest decision of my gaming life, what character do we play? It always comes down to the Ideal version of myself I can kind of fit into the game or some kind of Bitch mode idea that gets into my head after having a bad day at school. Well, there have been other types in the past, we don''t talk about the Sailor Moon one... ever. It is important to have a concept at the start right? Strange this game starts everyone off as a villager then you change to a class later if you want. Added to that, you start with no skills, no money and only starter clothes. So, lets do this anime hair color, yup boys will love that... Ah, maybe purple instead . Then length it down to my butt , then reduce the automated D-cup size they give here. Now the hardest question do I stop at a B cup or A cup. Pretty sure every boy in my grade is crying now... Maybe B cup that way less loli fans will hit on me. Strange that men concentrate on the extremes like a war of gloabal importance or something. Ah let us make the Eyes ... they seem to be only basic eye colors still lots of adjustment to the other properties seem to make it feel like a lot of variation. I went with an icy blue grey with a lavender fleck normal iris and shape. So after a few more ''Minor'' adjustments, Presto! Naked teenage girl with anime hair color, B-cup breasts, prettier than you will ever find possible face and perfect proportions. Plus the standard fugly and plain mandatory censor underwear that is impossible to remove. The nearest to perfect me for in game. Ok save that for later Mr. hand in pants over there. Well this game has a flexible character creator, lets see what else it can do. - 2 hours later - Ah, after a couple of trolls, orcs, elves, mental cases, a few too many male love slaves later we back to pretty much what was the 1st creation. After saving them and starting over just in case, I wanted to make an alt character later. So now we''ve totally wasted 3 hours of pre-access time lets pick the name and get going. Panty change managed so quick you would think I was an African track star. What they known to be really fast at running. Yea, I absolutely didn''t get wet making all those love slave characters. Or when I made up the back stories on each. Or when they were forcibly put into my harem. Lets just stop here before I have to change my underwear a second time. Naming, so I am not fantastic with that either and the last 12 names I tried are impossible or taken. Taking a look around my semi-girly room I spot my English Literature notebook. Guess that would work. Macbeth''s Ophelia was kinda a rock''n name. I try that... Yup already taken, what you say? Well, not surprised since at least 12 million pre-order copies sold. So maybe a derivation then. Ophilia , yup that was successful. Off to the pretty hand painted splash screen we go and 1, 2, 3 and a 4th minute later we in game. And what do we see here? I stare at the screen trying to understand the new interface and configuration. Standard fair, skill bar check, hp, stamina bars, are there. Wimpy inventory page with the early access expanded area slots. Newbie default gear Get! No weapon or tools, sigh. Guess we are all set to go, go, Go! ¡°Dear! Did you want some lunch today?¡± I hear from downstairs. I call back, ¡°Mom, depends what is for lunch?¡± Heavens know how much I love my mom, but some concoctions she cooks are the most vile things on earth. Maybe cook is the wrong verb here. Destroys? Invents? Evil, it exists, and it was birthed from mothers mistakes in the kitchen. ¡°Making sandwiches you want one?¡± Well those would be hard for her to corrupt with her ultimate evil skill. ¡°YES, please.¡± - In Game - While walking around the starter town and waiting for my Saturday lunch of possibly evil incarnate, thinking they sure made yet another pretty game. Sincerely I hope the game-play lasts longer than some recent flops on the market. Starter town, do we even have to remember the name of it? Might as well call it town 1. The village of Acdin for any that actually care. As a starter town, Acdin hosts the standard stuff. A starter set of shops with gear we can''t afford yet and may never need. Also basic skill trainers for most staring crafting, life and combat skills. So skip past them till I find the tailors shop and maybe get to learn a crafting skill. Why start there because with no starter weapon to go kill rats or what ever the lvl 1 thing is here. There no way I am going to punch to death anything with villager stats. Hold on I am getting to my point. In a game where everyone needs weapons, where is everyone going to run to first. Answer of course woodworker, blacksmith or some variants. Where do I go if I want to get ahead and afford to buy the weapons thousands of users will be selling cheaply? Some place that will actually be able to make some coin later. Thus, tailoring everyone wears out clothes under there armor. Back to about monsters, from my Intel, even the level 1 monsters take a minimum of five level 1 villagers to fight. They are call monsters for a reason yah know. Maybe if we had that 3D full immersion technology we could do a fancy trap or trick then critical them to death, maybe. Not expecting a high school girl with no actual combat training to do that, are you? Tailor shop where are you, come out, come out where ever you are. So Plan B time. ¡°Excuse me there sir NPC.¡± ¡°Hello Miss?¡± the villager NPC looks at me with a questioning look. Wow, they did really well with the facial expressions of even the mundane things here. ¡°Um yes, I was looking for work or skills or gear or legendary equipment, perhaps a lost winning lottery ticket, even an over powered cheat skill or at the very least a tailor shop. Could you help me out?¡± At this I drop my best version or adorable puppy dog eyes at the screen for zero effect. Gaming gods know. There no way he can actually see me through the screen. It is just habit from asking my mom for things. ¡°Ha, Ha, Ha, Miss not sure what some of those things are or even where you can get them, but if it a tailor shop, there behind you six stores on the right.¡± says the NPC, ¡°Was there anything else I can help with? Have to get to my post for shift change soon.¡± Turning to look behind me, yup, It was back there and totally blanked passing by. ¡°Thank you mister helpful militia man have a good afternoon. Oh, I''m Ophilia see you around town.¡± ¡°Strange girl that one.¡± I heard as he all most left hearing range. Yea, I''m the strange one. Isn''t he the one going on guard duty with only a basic spear and villager clothes in a world with monsters? Looking up at the building in front of me is a Tailor shop all right ''Stitch in Time'' says a wooden sign hanging above a wooden door. Cloudy glass window with clothes fairly visible. Authentic for the times, maybe. Best computer graphic town in a fantasy setting I have seen to date. ¡°So real it is frightful.¡± Inside we go. - Inside the Stitch in Time tailor shop - Yes, this is the place, strange there no players here yet. Might be the fact I wandered in town for quite a while with no real destination. Even as a starter town there were numerous dwellings and random purchasable housing for players. Empty shop fronts and such. This shopping area gives may be the main one, yet a large distance from the plaza they first dropped me in. ¡°Hello anyone here?¡± seeing as there was no one out front of the shop I called out. ¡°Welcome to the- *THUD*, OUCH! Ah, the Stitch in Time. I''ll be out of this pile in a moment,¡± called the woman''s voice from the back area of the store. Peeking past the archway to the back, yea, storage area. I see a large pile of fabric and a woman making a tactical retreat from the center of it. ¡°Shelf broke?¡± ¡°Yes. Were you looking to buy an outfit today or maybe some material?¡± ¡°No sorry, was looking to go kind of the opposite direction from a purchase.¡± Seeing a see through icon for action here at the pile I use my OAD to put the fabric in an orderly pile near the base of the shelf. Most of the world seems to be made up of objects you might be able to interact with.(4) ¡°Then were you interested in selling crafted clothing or harvested material for tailoring?¡± ¡°Um, more the case is... ¡± dramatic pause, ¡°truth is I am not from here and just got into town today. No money, no food, and really in need of training or a job. My goal is to make really cute clothes, and I will-...¡± Interrupting me she starts, ¡°Well I can understand the cute clothes part. Since the store IS currently in need of a new shelf how about you get that for me then put the fabric back and clean up the store then we see about getting you a mark for an apprenticeship?¡± ¡°Yes! I, Ophilia am up to the task!¡± Just what I had hoped for! Quest Time! Finishing with a quick salute for fun. ¡°My name is Miss Utica and I am the shop manager for this chain store of Stitch in Time tailor shops. Now, we will have you go to the carpenter shop we use and get a new shelf. Take the old one so they can get the right size.¡± She also told me the directions which updated my mini map, after that it was easy to find, after struggling to get the shelf out then dropping it into my inventory. - Carpenter shop - It certainly has the appearance of a place the makes things out of wood, piles, stacks, ''Iketa'' like wood furniture here and there, wood products, woodworking apprentices, and a guy that looks like he is part tree. His skin certainly has a bark like coloring and textured look. A few leaves and *bam*, instant tree. All this is visible while looking past the wood gate with plenty of wood carved details. Oh and a wood sign, that part was a bit obvious. ¡°Hey, how is going?¡± I ask as entering the workshop yard. A few of the boys look up at me, and a couple of them blush a bit and look back down. Shy perhaps... The first to answer is a future archer. His brown hair bit thin and tall build, with wind and birds in his attitude. ¡°Pretty good. We future top players *wink* are trying to keep ahead of the rest. You here to learn wood working?¡± One of the others add in, ¡°This is the place you want, the lumber mill on the other side is more for architets. You know the types with building on the brains all the time.¡±(2) ¡°Yea the NPC is named Paul. 10 silver or do a few odd jobs then take the apprenticeship.¡± Adding in to the conversation last was a black haired mage type who was working on a nice looking staff as he had just finish carving it he was starting to polish the top and was definitely focused on it with a lot of concentration. All I could do was look else where and think of him as a treat. Really, I would have to save that image and thought for shower time later. *cough* Mage boy said, ¡°It is possible to get additional reputation with NPCs if you talk about their interests or do special tasks for them.¡± Glancing a Paul who was about to finish his current task he added. ¡°For some reason if he isn''t talking about wood then it is about beef or cows. I really don''t understand his obsession...¡± ¡°Ah, yea thanks you all-¡± Ah just in time to save me from having to let them know I already have an apprenticeship lined up. ¡°Hello Miss, I am the local Artisan woodworker and shop Owner, is there something I can help you with?¡± He waves me over from the working students. Jump, here is my chance. I drop a shy emote in the chat box and my character does a shy and a bit bashful move. ¡°Mister Artisan Paul sir,¡± I pull out the shelf from the shop and present it to him, ¡°Miss Utica from the Stitch in Time sent me to get a new shelf. See this one broke.¡± ¡°Sure enough looks as if it wore out then broke. Let me make a new one for you right now.¡± Just as he was about to take it and replace it for me I got an interesting idea. Pulling back the board a bit out of his reach, ¡°um well, you see, I was wondering...¡± ¡°Yes?¡± he prompts me to continue. ¡°If maybe I could maybe make a shelf for the pretty Miss Utica, I am sure she would be impressed. Sure if you could teach me how, I could make you a shirt or work apron or pants after learning how. I am sure I could make you a nice one, it sure would look good on a sturdy model like yourself.¡± At this point I could see him getting a bit nervous and ready to refuse me and ready to get this conversation over with so dragging it on a bit more. ¡°Plus, since there are a few other shelves wearing out, it would be good if we replaced them and no one will get hurt. The cloth did fall on Miss Utica this time, thankful no one got too hurt. So if we could make a few of them when we need them we could save you some time since you all seem very busy.¡± Whew, now to see if he accepts my plea. Waiting with a charmed emote floating around my top half, you know hearts bubbles and adding to that a childish look of anticipation. Paul takes a second. Uncertain what to do then, agrees. ¡°Over here,¡± he starts to show me the basics. Congratulations! You have learned [Woodworking] level 1. Next he shows me how to make the shelves. You have learned the recipe [Basic Shelf(Wood)]. Then hands me the shelf he made. The one to show me the recipe, along with the bill for the shop. Certainly he only charged the shop for the piece of lumber for some reason. Thanking Paul and nearly skipping all the way back to the Stitch in Time. I could only think that was the best spent minute in a conversation with an NPC I have ever had. ¡°What the hell was that?¡± One of the apprentice players asked. ¡°How did she pull that off?¡± Another cried out. The ranger type only shook his head and looked up, ¡°I should have played a female character.¡± The mage boy offered a bit of consolation to his co-worker, ¡°We can hope that it is possible for other NPCs to react to us elsewhere like that. You know fall in awe of our heroic nature and deeds. Or maybe Paul just has an affinity for that look or type of girl.¡± Walking past and hearing just a part of their complaints. Definitely going to put a no talking order on the mage boy for the next fantasy moment. Taking a last look between his staff and his lower robe. Yup, no talking for mage boy next cut scene. Truthfully he was in his starter outfit, still for some reason I can only see him with that English magic school robe outfit that is so popular right now. My mind wandered a bit on the way back, mini map saving me from getting lost again, thank you developer god. Opening the door to the Stitch in Time, I entered. - Carpenter shop courtyard - DRanger X looked up from his wood working and ¡°Shit, there is no way that just happened. How-¡± ¡°Every one of us had to do like an hour of errands first, right?¡± another asked. ¡°Ah hell!¡± spat out Romulus a future top 20 ranked mage. ¡°The staff only came out uncommon.¡± ¡°Still better than all our commons stuff we made here!¡± ¡°I should hope so but still, if I hadn''t spent almost 2 times the amount of time on it. Think I should make another and try for Rare or make something else that might sell better?¡± A shy kid spoke up, ¡°Anyone know how she did that? Or did anyone see her name? I thought she was kind of cute.¡± After such a confession to the others he quickly looked back at his crafting and tried to act like it wasn''t him who said such an embarrassing thing. Suddenly from out of a recessed area or the courtyard mostly hidden by the two large wood piles comes a voice none of them recalled until now. ¡°Think it was Ophelia or something like that, and I have a few guesses as to how she did it.¡± The young men and boy got up and took a look at from where the voice was heard. There sat a quiet mousy small young man. ¡°How long has he been here?¡± Randomly was heard. The future thief or assassin sat there and raised a pointer finger, ¡°One, she used what you guys told her and added emotes to a critical effect on NPC Paul over there.¡± Pausing he held up a second finger, ¡° ''B'', she got lucky and rolled a 00 on the rep gain or something.¡± picking up his next piece of wood to work on he finished his conjecture up, ¡°or she had a quest or she came here with a task from another NPC that gave her the possibility to pull that off. Last guess would be that she played in the testing and used info from it to the best effect. Could be a combo of those.¡± ¡°Ninja might be right there.¡± Returning to their work they all were thinking about what skills in the future they would be able to learn like that, or hoped they could. As it was NPC woodworking Artisan Paul was still thinking, how come he taught her for free. - Stitch in Time Acdin Branch - It was quite noisy in here now. At least a dozen people were asking Miss Utica questions about everything. Looking like she was about out of patients with them too. I edged up to the counter while still out of the crowd. I pulled out the new shelf and spoke up. ¡°Have the new shelving unit here should I go install it for you?¡± Looking over Miss Utica gathered her wits, ¡°Wait! I only teach the skills Weaving, Tailoring and Mercantile and each one is 10 silver.¡± Trying to calm them all she waved some down. ¡°Now if you can excuse me for a moment there is something I must take care of, I shall return shortly.¡± She had me finish up with the shelf and would come inspect it when it was done. Pulling out the new shelf, I started to work. Returning all the fabric to the shelf that was piled up on the floor. Few second later Miss Utica returned. Looking even more worn out from the onslaught of new players. ¡°Good, this will hold for a long time and you even put back the fabric in the correct order.¡± When she was about to give me my next task I interrupted her. ¡°Would you like me to take care of the applican''ts?¡± as I tilted my head. ¡°YES!¡± Looking as a thousand weights had been lifted, she relaxed. Miss Utica''s information was, ¡°We have space for 2 more apprentices and if you could find some that are smart and not to noisy it would help. There will be an interview first. So please select a few and have the rest go over to the Weavers Mill in the trade skill area. One block over from the carpenters shop. They should take the rest.¡±You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. ¡°No problem.¡± Turning to head out to the shop area, I had a thought, ¡°What if you had a sign out front that said if you were hiring or not and what skills you taught?¡± At that moment it could only be described as a light bulb going off. ¡°That-¡± she seemed stunned for a moment. ¡°Why,¡± she rebooted and paused again. ¡°If we had one of those no one would bother me like that again...¡± and she is gone. My guess, there are some things just too important for an apprentice to do. - Stitch in Time shop area - It is quite noisy again out here. ¡°HEY! Not so LOUD ok¡±, there were quite a few with a ''what the hell'' looks in the crowd that seemed to have gotten a little larger. Speaking even a little louder, ¡°If you want information on a... F. R. E. E. apprenticeship, I have it.¡± Now to get a couple people for the interview. ¡°.¡± This must be what a cemetery sounds like in the middle of the night. ¡°.¡± ¡°Well!?!¡± ¡°1 copper.¡± I sit at the counter and wait for the hysterics to start. A few dig into their inventory and start heading up to the counter. Others start discussing it. Those complaining, not even going to listen to them. As they get louder I add, ¡°AND, if you don''t keep it down I can 100% guarantee you won''t get an apprenticeship.¡± After they quiet a bit I elaborate a bit, ¡°For 1 copper. I will tell you where to get an apprenticeship for free, if you don''t get one come back and I will return your 1c. Also, you must promise not to tell any here what I tell you.¡± The first few to have thought this a good idea had gotten to the front and were ready to trade. I accepted the coin and sent a chat whisper to player Aveon, ¡°There are 2 options for you. I can recommend you here if you return after the crowd is gone, or you can go to the weavers mill in the trade skill area. Either place you will have to do a few errands 1st, then accept an apprenticeship.¡± Aveon''s reply was an ¡°I''ll be back.¡± Never guessed her one for an Arnold fan-girl. As for the fifteen following players for their 1 copper I informed them that the mill in the trade-skill area would give them the ship after a few errands and such. Anyone left that made too much noise and refused to leave was threatened with the calling the guards to remove them. They left in a sour mood. Now then with who was left was a few that were quiet and those who really didn''t know what to do. I waved over a smart looking one and proposed the following, ¡°Hi, you see there is one apprenticeship slot left here if you want to interview, you tell the others over there that the weaving mill is the place they want to go if want to get one, since they will take everyone to train.¡± Quiet girl had the look she had been asked to do something really difficult, yet she still managed it after a few stressful looks around for help. With that we had two for interviews and the rest of the applican''ts gone. *bang!* In rushed some kind of half squirrel-half boy, no maybe a chipmunk was better description of him. ¡°P-ple-please, can I get that info too I have four copper, please?¡± Chipmunk boy took a bent over couple of breaths, ¡°just ran here, a friend told me you know how to get a tailor apprenticeship. Said it wasn''t worth paying to get the info so he left.¡± Oh right I still had to get the shop cleaned up. ¡°Okay, 4 coppers and you help me clean the tailor shop here and I''ll tell you.¡± Chipmunk held out a paw to seal the deal. ¡°4 copper.¡± He slowly pulled it back and handed over the 4c. With only him and quiet girl in the store I spoke up, ¡°Great, after you clean you can wait to do an interview here then run errands for the store to get an apprenticeship or you can go over to the weavers mill in the trade-skill area and do errands 1st then get one.¡± ¡°Ah, so that how it worked here, should have looked on the net or something.¡± Quiet girl had looked like she had learned the source of all her current problems. With that out of the way she started to browse the shop for interesting things. With impeccable timing Miss Utica had returned with a new sign for the front of the store. ¡°Ah this is much better than before. Excellent work Ophilia.¡± ¡°Thanks! The 1st to interview is a-¡± like it was scripted from a TV show the girl Aveon opened the door to the store and made an entrance. ¡°That''s her she is smart and quick to act, next is her,¡± pointing at Quite Girl over there. She waved. ¡°And last is Chip over here, but first he is going to help me clean the store did you have a broom?¡± ¡°My name isn''t Chip it is-¡± Miss Utica hands me a scroll to put my mark on and the sign to put out front. ¡°This scroll will accept you as the stores worker for 3 days, you must work 12 hours time before 4 days have past and here.¡± ¡°Yes Boss!¡± I quickly add my mark to the scroll and accept the skill book she gives. My mark ends up being my name in an English looking calligraphy it is very stylish, by the way. Getting out from behind the counter I go to put the new sign out front and focus on the new skill book. As Miss Utica heads back to the workshop area to ask Aveon a few questions. I chat at Quiet girl and focus on the skill book, you just have to stare at them long enough to get the skill, there is actually a bit of stuff written but most of it seems so common sense that after half a page you get the idea its just fluff. Mystical tells me her name as I wait for the skill notice. In a moment of boredom I ask her if her name is actually Misti or something and if she lives in California. Congratulations! You have learned [Mercantile] level 1. Seeing she hasn''t answered and I was done staring at the skill book. I look at her, she has a look that one thinks ''This person is a statue that has stopped mid action.'' She finally moves, looks down and bounces her head. I hear a really weak ¡°yes.¡± Interrupted by a loud *grumble*, ¡°Did anyone else hear that?¡± Chip and Mystical look at me and both reply ¡°No.¡± In my embarrassment I let them know that it would be a few seconds before I returned. Now would be a good as time as any to grab a snack and do a call of nature. I took the stairs down at full speed. Pulled a few thing out of the fridge and made a small tower and headed back up the stairs at a slightly slower pace. Did what little girls do to feel less like dancing in place and returned to the computer. You were *poked* by player Aveon, *poke* *poke* *poke* yea that times a million was in my chat history. In less than 3 minutes she had filled my entire chat history. ¡°Stop, I''m back¡± You have been *poked* by player Aveon. ¡°Arrg, Quit it!¡± ¡°Oh, hey welcome back. Sorry. Here¡± She showed me a note ''Delivery for Sister Bucho''. ¡°Miss U said you were to get it from there.¡± Pointing to a storage for the store behind the counter. ¡°It is my first errand, thanks totally worth one c¡± Sure enough I could see an Item called ''Delivery for Sister Bucho'', after inspecting it no more info was given except weight, that it was a quest item for Aveon, illegal to open and that it was described as a product from ''Stitch of Time''. ¡°Here.¡± With that Aveon headed off on her errand and I was left with Chip as he worked on the floor with the broom he got from someplace and a dustpan. Not much else to do guess I could chat with him, ¡°Hey Chip, how do you get those other 3 copper?¡± ¡°As you can see my name is NOT ''Chip'' its Badmofo. As for how? I got some random stuff when look''n round town. Some alleys, they have broken boxes with trash items some sell for a copper, they really are rare to get. Yea, didn''t know what else to do so was doing that for a while. When Alex, I mean Strongbone sent me the tell about getting ripped off for some info about getting work. I just ran to sell them then came here.¡± Once he got started talking, would he stop? Yup totally stopped listening after a few hours of it. Mystical returned with a second skill book for me from Miss Utica. Her errand was to get supplies from the general store. Chip was lost in his rhetoric and cleaning. As to not waste any time Opened the next skill book. This book contains the skill [Basic Weaving] do you wish to learn it? {Yes} Miss Utica returned and started asking Chip, I mean Samuel L. J., I mean Badmofo. Yea Chip got a few questions in the isles of the shop area. One minute left to learn [Basic Weaving]. ¡°Ah it is a little longer than mercantile to learn.¡± Putting my thoughts into words for no one in particular. STARE, time move faster already... Miss U returned with broom and pan in hand and asked how much more time I would work today, it was starting to become evening and darkness would soon descend on my first day in this world. ¡°Think for dinner I can wait some. Could I have a quarter of an hour for that then I can work as long as I can stay awake?¡± Confirming that Miss U had done all she had to for the moment. ¡°Once you can make some decent fabric we will teach you to make clothes and other items. Oh and just put any store transactions back in there.¡± Indicating the place where I had gotten Aveon''s parcel from. ¡°You won''t be able to take anything out unless the store or a Manager such as myself permit it. Basically do not store any personal items in there unless they are a gift for the store.¡± Thinking that was all, she started back to the workshop. ¡°Ah last thing. If you want to sell to a store you have the option to open a trade window with the sales register. Chains and larger shops will have a magic personality even. We have one she is very... charming.¡± Miss Utica looks around carefully like saying something offensive might offend the store. Right, stores have AI''s, super interesting. Looks like the server I am on is pretty much in the same time zone I live in, its getting dark at a similar time. Server day/night is the same as the real world. Some shops close others don''t. Maybe it depends on the NPCs working there and the service they provide. This store closes at the time Miss Utica leaves. She said today the shop closes at 20:00 or 8pm my time. That leaves me with time before I should be sleeping, mom is a big no go on staying up past 11pm or 23:00. First day in game she might let me stay on longer. That and being a Saturday currently. Congratulations! You have learned [Basic Weaving] level 1. ¡°Miss Utica, done with the skill book.¡± I let her know and she stops stocking the display area of the shop and comes over. ¡°Already, nice then we can get you started in back with some simple fabric. Take out the raw flax from the chest in the workshop and make so fabric, repeat with the raw cotton after that. When we are satisfied with your work we will move to the next skill tailoring. Bring the fabric from the flax and cotton after each attempt please so I can make suggestions. I''ll be here.¡± - Stitch in Time workshop - Simple enough, chest open, grab mats toss into machine, play with settings wait a few, do a few actions with the machine, out pops a crafting fabric base on your skill and some other things with some variation from the system. Rinse repeat. Turn in to teacher homework then try again. Coming up on 30 minutes of this and we finally get an uncommon quality fabric from flax and a big surprise. Congratulations! Your skill [Basic Weaving] is now level 2. Finishing the cotton ones, they had come out as commons so far, had to redo them until I got one that was uncommon. As that seems to be the level of quality Boss was looking for. Each time she seemed to give tips that would have been helpful had I actually been doing any of the creation besides the putting in a material and getting back the processed one. Ten cotton joy filled tries of fluffiness later found me getting the cotton fabric of an uncommon quality. I peeked at my crafting skill and looks like level 3 is around 1.75 times the experience level 2 was. So the remaining to next level is about 5/6th of the level. A bit on the slow side. Still it was weaving and not an item production skill, maxing out this skill will never be important for me. My not so gourmet mom peeked in my room and let me know in no uncertain terms that Pizza was not on the menu for dinner sadly, but if I was to separate myself from my current alternate family. Dinner would be a strange combination of vegetables and sauce with gluten free bread. Quick as I had heard the vagueness of sauce and the word gluten, it was 100% confirmed I would be eating my own cooking tonight. Conclusion mom is on a new diet. Checking the tower of snacks I had liberated from the kitchen, maybe 2 hours remained until hunger might set in. With the second part of my task competed. Said turn-in fabric and I returned to the shop and waited while Aveon was getting her 3rd errand and Misti was getting her 2nd. They both looked excited and were having fun. Chip, I had earlier heard him cheer when Miss Utica told him to start some errands for her so we can think he got an apprenticeship here, even if there was only 3 spots taking a 4th might be possible maybe they could be influenced a bit more than what they just said as fact here. Or that or maybe he said he would work for half the reward. That chipmunk would do something like that. ¡°This is the cotton fabric that was just finished, and I think its is the best one so far will this do?¡± She handed me the next skill book and asked me to watch the front shop. I read or stared at the book, and she went to eat an evening meal. Up on the counter I go with my feet swinging around while I start the counter on the skill manual. ¡°Ugh, 5 minutes spent reading this, or at least time with my eyes pointed at it.¡± Flipping up to a window with forums for gamers. The kind of forums for people with an addiction to Online Gaming. This one was popular with players that ended up in the top 100 of power-players. Combat, crafting, etc. I browse a few threads on this game and glance at a few topics to see if anything is going on. Every once in a while, checking to see no new chat messages happened in game. From the forums, it seems most people are having issues getting jobs still. Hundreds of people asking for weapons and groups to then hunt even if they have no skills. A couple selling their souls for help with this or that. Few fake threads on how to get work or skills, one about a person taking their last cent to sell them info same as they can get here for free. Must have been someone I met. How could they be so heartless? A few other joke, story, role-play threads there. Looks like only a few big groups were successful hunting monsters and many gave up after heavy deaths and the penalties stacked up. Might be because the apprenticeship items you make belong to the shop still unless you pay for them, but no one has actually gotten a weapon other than a branch or plain rock yet. Guess we will see a lot of new combat information in a day or so. Tough game to start off in it seems. Ah I can imagine the bragging now, next year veterans will be like ''back at the start''... Oops chat message. ¡°Yes I am here, what did you want?¡± Some guy had been there trying to talk to me for a bit, got so tired of waiting he was checking my avatar really close up. Not as if the starter pants and top were anything special or even attractive. ¡°Job, give me one.¡± ¡°No pervert leave.¡± ¡°Please, I''ll apologize¡± ¡°You should have just Apologized First and said Please second. Even then it wouldn''t change anything, no job here right now. Leave.¡± He stuck out his tongue, ¡°Well aren''t you a brat.¡± I waved him off and returned to the skill book, 30 seconds more, ''Yes''! Planning a bit ahead, Proprietor Utica would be back from dinner in quarter of an hour more, with that leaving nothing to do, and her not leaving anything other that the skill book. Guess I can check out the inventory in the store to see what the clothes look like and things that might sell along with getting a few ideas on that to gear myself up with. Bouncing off the counter just as the system reports. Congratulations! You have learned [Tailoring] level 1. Ah the glow and sound of love from a developer. Anyways after the afterglow I headed to the displays. Learned [Sewing Kit Use], you may now equip a Sewing kit. Learned recipe [Cloth Gloves]. Learned recipe [Sock]. ''It is nice that a recipe can be instant learn from books.'' That skill certainly knows how to satisfy. By the time Miss Utica returned Chip had as well. Sending him off for his next errand she was set to start my instruction when quiet girl walked back in. Since this may take a while, Boss Lady went ahead and provided the next errand to Mystical. When Aveon and Mystical return they should be ready to mark a Contract Scroll for Apprenticeship. ¡°Ready to make some items? Sure you are, lets go to the shop task board and see what can be made to supply the store stocking limits.¡± This scroll chained to the workshop will list all the items you can attempt to make for the store to get income above your reward for the apprenticeship. Each item is listed with an amount you will earn if you make it with store materials. If you fail, you will not be charged for the materials but have to make it up in item production. So if you failed and wanted to you could pay it off with coin and before we release your contract you must be at 0 or above earnings. Any profit can be withdrawn from the front register at anytime. You can also see how much you have earned and current profit or debt available. Any questions?¡± Seemed a good system. ¡°What if two apprentices make the same item and go to turn it in at the same time?¡± ¡°Store goes into over stock on the item and until enough sell there will not be any of that item on the workshop list. Both get credit.¡± ¡°Only one project at a time I gather?¡± ¡°Yes¡± ¡°What if I sell an item from my materials?¡± ¡°The store will either reduce a stock on this list by one or you can place it in a for sale by user slot, and you will get money for that item when it sells, if it falls into the stocked type category you can get money right then from the register. For sale by user slots get displayed in the store and mostly for expensive items or high quality ones.¡± Looks like the store will buy any and all raw and processed crafting materials. ¡°New patterns or recipes?¡± ¡°Ah yes good, Next we will look at the pattern book. It is over here.¡± I ask as we walk over, ¡°Is any pattern learn-able here?¡± ¡°It is possible to learn any in the book, but there are conditions. One, you get to learn two free recipes per day, after that you can buy them with production income or coin. You can choose 2 later to learn for today. After that you have two more days of contract and can learn 4 more free(2 per day). Additions will cost the amount shown in the book if you end up buying it.¡± Indicating me to sit at the covered workstation table for making tailored items she continues the lesson. ¡°All the tools you need in sewing kit are included in this table you can use them in the workshop, after that you can buy your own. The basic set from the shop is not as good as these, and the skilled and master sets are increasingly better.¡± ¡°Materials from here, today we will use the cloth you already made, then make the item here and put in the chest back there. Let me see the items before they go into the chest until we see the consistency of your work. Now off you go, make a few sets of socks or gloves bring each pair to me in the shop after they done.¡± - Later - - 1 Hour later - Yea Crafting can get boring after a while. Break time. There was a well out back to draw water from, drink as much as you like, can wash off all that role-play stuff. Thing was there is a stamina requirement for food and drink and if you did work, fighting, travel it would go down over time. So far I was down to 4 points of stamina out of 10 and needing to keep above 50% kept actions from failing. A quick bucket full of well water later, I was back up to 100%. Guess we can go peek at the recipe list. My socks and gloves were good enough to get uncommon quality now. There was only a few failures. Closing in on level 2 tailoring, just a few more and I''d be there. You have learned recipe [Underwear(panties/drawers)] and [Underwear(bra)]. You have learned recipe [Shirt/Blouse]. They were both level 2 and I can image they would be worth having for later. I do recall also that they were both a good number still required on the store stock list. Daily items sell well even for NPCs? To keep from getting bored I tried to make a set of biker like cloth gloves out of some left over common black cotton cloth that was too small for anything big left in the store stock. End result, uncommon gloves ventilated, lower weight and a bit higher selling value than the ones I had made before. Seeing them turn out I went to Miss Utica, ¡°Boss, is it possible to buy the items I make for less than the store amount?¡± ¡°You can register them as failure with the store and pay the material cost. Those turned out nice, well done.¡± ¡°Failure and material cost you say.¡± If I had an evil grin, it would be on my face at this point. ¡°That is not the type of face we show to customers is it?¡± She asks. I run to the back to the workshop because even if this is an evil grin, it will probably be stuck there for a while. I equip the gloves. Rocker outfit engage! Delinquent maybe. Only in a few of my better fantasies. Sure enough there is a register failure of materials in the shop trade window for the chest to get more materials. I browse the available items to craft with, nothing special left to work with so guess I make a few sets of underwear and a few boxers, then try some shirts later. Next successful craft I read. Congratulations! Your skill [Tailoring] is now level 2. - 1 hour later - Congratulations! Your [Basic Weaving] is now level 3. System: Once you gain 10 levels in Tailoring related skills you can advance to [Novice Tailor] job.(optional) You currently have 5 of 10 levels in a related field. Aveon and Mysti from California have begun the skill books. No clue on Chip. The girls are weaving. They have to share a few of the machines sometimes have to end up doing other things to keep busy. Not too large of a bottle-neck at the loom yet, and I can use the processed stuff in stock. We can create fabric later if no one else has by then. There seems to be quite a bit on hand in any case. Maybe if all four of us had to use the looms at the same time there would be an issue. Topic of interests for girls often ended up being Item acquisition for Aveon and boyfriends for Mystical. Aveon will try to steer us to talk about shopping, and Rho-day-O(Rodeo) Drive in Hollywood even if she has never been to the west coast. Mysti will complain that she couldn''t afford to even know what it was like, plus it was too far, and shifts back to talking about the boys in her area. Me, well keeping up with them was no challenge, but if they had asked me about my browser history or games it would be K.O. knock out for them. Yea, talking about real world stuff in an MMO does have issues and is normally frowned on, though here it is a bit more normal talk, we busy crafting and chat is localized so there is a more friendly atmosphere. Little later Chip, no sorry Badmofo joins weaving circle and Aveon moves to Tailoring table with me. And the girls stopped talking boys and fashion the moment he entered with Boss lady. After Miss Utica closed the front shop she entered the workshop made a few items for what may have been quest or NPC requests. She helped the others with their progress and let us know she would leave 2 hours later so to have anything for her by then. She would return in 6 am. Chip said he would continue working tomorrow and had to go in nearly an hour. Mysti was logging at roughly the same time as Miss Utica would be leaving the workshop. Aveon didn''t say and just worked. Making clothes would be as you would expect it to be, mark then cut the material with a tool then join the parts with thread and maybe decorate. For now, we didn''t waste decorations on them since the cost would never recoup on a uncommon item. The crafting process for items was almost near what you would expect a future tech full immersion MMO to be. Now if they could only figure out how to hijack the brain... *drool* ¡°Ophilia must be thinking about her dinner, or a boy...¡± ¡°Nah way, she just got an email with the newest specs on a gaming rig.¡± ¡°Hahahhahahahha.¡± Seeing Aveon out of the corner of my eye laughing hysterically at me I return to the task at hand. ¡°Pfft, buy me a new Recipe and I''ll let you know the truth. *wink*¡± Wish I had a mirror, did I really look that funny with drool on my face? Just in case I turn around to wipe my face off anyways. - Later - We all end up leveling, working, learning and grinding till Boss decides to leave, even Chip stayed a little late. He was sure he could handle one hour less of sleep as it were. Seeing the others off, Mystical and Chip logged out straight from the workshop. I took another short break to ask Miss Utica some questions by the water well. The route to her residence was that way. ¡°Do you teach any recipes other than the ones in the book?¡± With a smile she says, ¡°Of course, some are for sale and others only if I see someone worthy.¡± Yes that grin must be back. ¡°I don''t want to keep you but still have some questions. There are just a few I want to know tonight. What skills count as Tailor related?¡± ¡°Yes a few questions, I don''t mind. First for the ones that count as tailor related, there are many. Ones to help you become a Novice Tailor, and obtainable here, lets see, they would be, [Tailoring], [Basic Weaving], possibly [Skilled Weaving], [Craftsmanship] for decorations, [Tool Making(tailoring)], [Coloring], [Repair], [Gem Crafting], [Lace Crafting], [Knitting], [Leather Working], [Enchanting] and lastly [Embroidery].¡± She ticked off her fingers as she recalled each one. ¡°Yes I think those are it in this village.¡± Copy and paste of chat log on that one so I can remember it later. ¡°Is it worth it to become a Novice Tailor if I am going to focus on magic or fighting later?¡± She looks at me with a bit of sadness, ¡°Gaining skills is never a bad thing, and also fighting is dangerous and I would hate to see you face that. If that is your path, even so there is some gain to being a Novice Tailor. Villagers get experience for very few things, and little even when they do. As a Tailor you would get what a villager does, in addition any item you complete as a tailor would give you experience to level up.¡± Looking at my experience area of the character sheet I see that villager is at 60xp out of 100. Ah everything I did so far got me only 60xp, wait it is 10xp gained per skill level then? I see, combat class at lvl 10 villager would take forever then. Ha! That is one hell of a grind. I can see a lot of people rushing for jobs when they find that one out. Better share that with my gamer club. What you think I don''t have real life friends...? ¡°Was that all you seem lost in thought?¡± Oh think, anymore ah, where... ¡°One last one, Any hints you wish to pass along? I''d like to get to Novice Tailor pretty quickly.¡± ¡°Harder recipe level success means more experience, in addition if you get a better quality you can receive a bonus. Easy patterns do not get that. Same with trivial. Quality can be raised after completion also but no added experience. If you stop actions on a very close to completed item you may consider it complete and be awarded the xp for it(leaving an item that could be considered a finished one too long awards xp). Last one is if you want to get better quality you can keep working an item till you think it can not get any better then let it complete. You may get a better quality depending on your work and finishing. Okay then good night Apprentice Miss Ophilia. See you in the morrow¡± ¡°Yes! Until then Boss!¡± *Salute* So much to work out, for now water then back to the skills. Oh also need to stop to make dinner, grrr priorities... Water, Dinner, Craft. - 1 hour until mom said to be off the computer - Since all the shop NPCs were asleep or drinking, and learning new skills seem something to put off till day time. I focused on using Blouse recipe and underwear to make a few higher quality ones if possible. Astounding leveling speed increase achieved. Not quite double, but close, real close. Looking through the recipe book I picked out one to buy for level 3 tailoring and ended up getting [Skirt(female)]. It cost me 30 copper from my production earnings. Well worth it if I could make enough of them and still recover the cost, equip myself with a decent one and level faster at the same time. Making a level 3 skirt recipe at lvl 2 turned out to be about 25% more time intensive than making a lvl 2 shirt at lvl 2 tailoring. Now the best part was the experience gain was way over 25% more even if I made them common. Blessed crafting deity if I made them uncommon, which turned out often. Now that I got the hang of it and had a few things I wanted for myself to wear, I started to make a more complicated design. Pleated, pocketed, belt loops, form fitting for me. What re-sizable clothes? Forget that nonsense, first time it is worn the setting is fixed. What I ended up with, I was about to find out. Me and Aveon were working mostly non-stop, she was almost lvl 2 tailoring now. Think it took her a while to stop failing at making gloves. She also had gone to look at all the recipes and a few of them she went on the net to see if she could find some information on them. We didn''t chat too much other than a few traded questions. We both knew we wanted to get ahead in the game. So attention to detail and precision sewing, plus careful planning. Putting on the last belt loop carefully, I held it out in front and declared it complete. It looked really cool, or would once I colored it also. Using the Mouse I activated the Interact and selected complete and... Congratulation! You are now [Tailoring] level 3! You have completed a rare item. As a first time only villager experience award of 10xp is received. Item {Skirt}: quality rare received. ¡°Oh, Snap, darling that is so sweet!¡± Aveon paused and looked at my skirt, ¡°Its not bad, a little short for my taste, guess would be better if dyed, or maybe as a Halloween outfit piece... and I would call it spicy more than sweet-¡± ¡°*choke*, *cough* NO, I mean true, but the villager xp I got for making my first rare!¡± At that point Aveon, pulled a Mystical move and froze. ¡°Wait, what?¡± *smile* photo-opportunity if you wanted it, now would have been perfect. I start to examine the skirt and see its stats. For a rare cloth it gave a few points in defense since it didn''t cover much and was so short it may have lost a few. No one can really say much about the combat system except death sucks and starter clothes have no defense. Might be some Info up by now on the net, not going to look this moment in any case. The skirt was also light-weight, compared to my current pants, had room for items in each pocket. The pockets seem to fit things according to dimensions and ranges a small pocket would hold one tiny sized item for example. An item''s quality might be 5 additional to the stack per level of quality. That kind of thing for pockets. With 1 medium pocket and 3 smalls ones it was fashionable and functional. The belt loops would let you add an additional belt to the skirt as a slotted item. On top of the one you could wear normally, how they came up with that I''ll never guess. At the end of the item description it had the name of the crafter and the date. Looks like it may be possible to set lore information and Name of item. All it said currently was Skirt, short of length, pleated, buttons, with pockets and belt slot. Pockets 1 Medium 3 small. ¡°Hey, you zombie, tell me what the xp was. Please!¡± ¡°Yea, 10xp for 1st rare item you make.¡± ¡°I have 50 right now how did I get those?¡± ¡°Think, and I am about 90% certain, it is 10 experience per skill level you have gained so you got the 10 for mercantile, then whatever you have in tailoring and weaving. 20 and 20 is my guess.¡± ¡°Isn''t this like super important info?¡± ¡°What, the rare xp or the leveling villager?¡± ¡°All of this.¡± ¡°Sure, you want a combat class right you have to get to level 10 of something 1st. Be that villager or novice tailor.¡± ¡°I did see the notice about becoming a Novice tailor in system. What happens if you change?¡± ¡°Not sure, truthfully don''t know. But I heard it is very much easier to level up as a Novice Tailor than a villager.¡± ¡°And getting 10 levels in weaving and tailoring is enough right?¡± ¡°Yes, Although it might be easier to get one or 2 of the others skills possible, instead of the level 5 or 6 in tailoring or weaving. Depends if you have 10 silver by then to buy a skill or know where to learn and how to get it without paying for it. In either case should be easy enough to get by the end of the apprenticeship. Hey if you learn [Coloring] that would be one less level needed.¡± ¡°Wait, let me go on the internet to see if it has anything to say.¡± Not having to do it myself even better. I put on the skirt and take the failure cost of the materials for the skirt. Ah no more Newbie pants. Except for the basic cloth color again its really, more incredibly refreshing. OK back to it, I have less than an hour and enough in the production account to get the level 4 recipe for [Robes]. In about 40 minutes 2 were completed and mom would be getting up for her early morning bathroom brake and drink of water. She would look in if I stayed up so logging off was a must. ¡°Good night Aveon, good night world.¡± She waved and added, ¡°I found a few xp related things I can share them tomorrow. Thanks for the help with the apprenticeship, I am sure you made a decision on who to push for the interviews.¡± ¡°You are welcome, later!¡± You will log out in 10 seconds... ¡°Can I share what you said with the others if i see them 1st?¡± ¡°Guess so.¡± You will log out in 5 seconds... ¡°Great!¡± ¡°God of gaming please let me get enough sleep to game all day tomorrow! And keep my mother from coo-¡± You have logged out. I spin in my chair and then clean up the snack disaster and dinner remains. Bed its over there, ah so far to walk back in the morning, ick. - Darkness - An eager ancient male voice from nowhere, ¡°What do you think, any possibles on the first day?¡± ¡°Sir, Madam I reserve my judgment for those that actually arrive at the required level and qualifications.¡± A woman with a Noble and proud sound continues, ¡°Now, Now, no sense in messing up a pleasant surprise is there?¡± The first man is heard again fading into nothing, ¡°You do realize I was never one to wait for things that I wanted?¡± END CHAPTER O Logging back in I see Aveon Girl in the same seat not moving, if I had to say, looks as if she slept on her keyboard. Yes it was an image I had going to sleep.
  1. Paul Bunyan reference, wiki if you want to know more
  2. Intentional spelling, word play on the french word Tete for head.
  3. 00 is rolling 100 on a 100 sided dice. 1% chance
  4. OAD: Optical acuity device, computer add-on to trace eye movement and selection. In my current universe there may be a few working prototypes nothing of this sort seems to be retail available yet, or widely used.
Chapter 1 - Day Two: A world out side the workshop, such a thing exists? Blood Fractal Chapter 1 Morning, yup, sun god Ra is up and entering boldly into my inner sanctum. How it has the nerve to enter around the heavy curtains. It is a curse inflicted on me every sunny fall and winter day that I am home on a weekend. I jump up, yes I am in a new MMO this week must prepare for total victory and complete domination of that world! Bathrobe, check! I activate my Glitter Vampire senses and head out for food. I sense Count Choca(1) in the storage unit above in the pantry must hurry before the others find it and devour it all. Blood choco levels must be maintained! Next, off to the local water supply to rinse off glitter. Vampires today should really follow my example and go back to being sensual not rave happy. A bit of personal time in the shower, if you all will excuse me then. Ah, ah, ah. Hmm Mage boy and his staff polishing was really a treat yesterday, for some reason. Oh, Going back maybe those love slaves were spot on in the character generator. Oh they do know how to find exactly the right place in my harem. Hah, tub starting to get deep enough guess we can turn off the shower head of pleasure, the one in charge of organizing my morning harem. Well now what will Miss Utica teach us today... ugh wait, back to the Mage boy show me the snitch hunting skills ¡°and just where are you going to put that staff young man¡±. Slowly on the outside first, boys always so ready to grab for the gold. Don''t they know to tease the snitch a little. Mmmm ah... Hha Fu, oh real it in Miss Ophelia. We can''t spend all day in here. Anymore and we will end up sloppy for a bit too long. Must get more skills, level, power, harem. Okay hair conditioner then dry and check email then, favorite free porn site, just kidding *wink*, then club forum, game forum then login. Intense shower on a weekend aside and recovered from, the forums have a few more interesting things to say. Mostly about how hard it is to get to combat class and the such. Those that went for combat class without trying to do any work in town are now pretty much done, either raged out or went to find a job. Combat muscle heads got totally shut down, that is awesome. Their might be hope for a PVP scene still. Next bit of news is the skill site listing all found skills and who is most often to teach them. I was aware of a few skills not on the list already. Same problem was that I didn''t know who was likely to teach them yet. So thinking they might be rare to find it may be in my interest to pick them up today, if possible. ¡°No Mom, I have lots and lots of clothes I can still wear!¡± ¡°What, no I am sitting in my underwear cause I am still a bit damp from the shower. I''ll dry better this way.¡± ¡°Washing clothes, no, not enough to make you do a run sorry.¡± Think I did mine Thursday... ¡°Mom I am going to turn the world back off, knock if its life threatening or something!¡± Next big news was the first guild on any server, apparently it took over 100 players all day and night to get enough to make a guild that had room for 20 people. The fall out after who would get to enter was horrific as one or two promises were broken and all out favoritism took over. Really hate to see a good guild fall so easy, at least the hate will be in another town or server. Oh funny story. A second post about yours truly being a succubus or something from closed beta testing, pretty sure it was a joke. Someone even went as far as to add an animated cartoon strip .gif of me getting skill instruction for free. Moving on. A few about the flexibility of the crafting and what you can do with it. Such as the max number of additions, slots, decorations, functions, and durability and defense offensive stat calculations. Mostly theory and a few examples of what might happen. Considering no two items even after an hour of trying to get them to be the same could be the same. Weight, value, stat, it was always something or a few somethings that differed. Very helpful post. Last big news. There seem to be almost no bugs in the game just things that annoyed the heck out of people. Awesome, a game I am enjoying has no errors or crashes, all for that. 7:00 am or 0700 hours, gamers lets roll out. Yea Mom won''t let me play before that, says ''if she was going to keep me from ruining my life I should start by not destroying my sleep cycle''. 2300 to 0700 should be for sleeping, she thinks to get me enough sleep even as an adult. Habits of the good type and all. Maybe college will be its down fall. Loading screen is still pretty, It is of a church on a hill looking over a ruined battle field this time. And presto, we have Go, I repeat the light is green, all engines engage. Oh look, ¡°Morning Aveon, sleep any?¡± ¡°.¡± Think the store opens at 8:00 so could be an hour before we see Miss Boss Lady Utica. What the hell was she doing in my shower time this morning. A distraction maybe to keep me from topping off maybe. Not sure it had much effect like that. Or possibly my gaming obsession is starting to be too much. OK Robes, still a few on the stock list I can make before we will have to get another recipe. Let''s plan to make the three here on the stock list that I can and then check the pattern book. ¡°Good morning staff.¡± I grin a second thinking about harem leaders performance this morning then return Boss''s greeting. If I wasn''t a girl I would be considered a total pervert right? No way. Not possible. See 2 against 1 majority wins. I quickly work on the third robe for the morning, finished and ready to add it to stock inventory. When it completes I headed over to Miss Utica to show her and ask if there was anything I needed to do today other that 4 hours of online time making things. ¡°A couple of cloth should be made of cotton it looks like. Any lower then all projects will need to be from raw materials if possible, weaving is not our primary job here we could always get it from the mill but it would raise our price some. Try to keep the looms working all day today.¡± We head to the store front and she Unlocks the entry. ¡°Ah yes, someone, if they could watch the front at lunch and dinner time for me would be nice. Its nice to have a relaxing meal over a busy one.¡± ¡°Between the four of us we should be able to manage two breaks. Will we be doing anything for getting more decorations, colored dyes, and such?¡± ¡°I do recall you mentioning wanting cute clothes. Decoration, we can always use more of those. We do what we can from the general store. Also, yes we do have a dye pot in the workshop, bulk dye orders can be done in big cites at the dye shops, here we just get them from the alchemist in the village. Some color would look good on your fancy skirt. Did you make that?¡± ¡°Last night, sure did. It came out a rare quality. My first one. Do you think maybe I should enchant it also?¡± Finishing up in the display area we head back to the counter talking, ¡°Enchanting well it is possible, expensive but possible.¡± Taking a look at the skirt, I consider it, ¡°Who would enchant it? Maybe later if fortunes favor me I might.¡± ¡°There are three in town with the skill I know of right now. The Gem crafter Boggers, Elementalist instructor Jene, and Sister Bucho. Although now that I think about it Sister no longer does them other than for the church or as Instruction.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± So looks like maybe Aveon might have the info on Sister Bucho since she did the delivery for her yesterday, and the general store for craftsmanship, I''ll ask about coloring later and if there is time today. If time remains, embroidery. ¡°Can start some cotton fabric now, anything else?¡± No? Then it is off to the diamond mines my little dwarfs. Why 12? Congratulations! You have leveled [Basic Weaving] to 4. And to my surprise at the same time I was bathed in a light of the heavens. Congratulations! You can become [Villager] level 2! You have gained +1 to all stats. And 1 point to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 3 is 0/200. Want to know my stats so do I, but I look later, things to do right now. During that time I also managed to craft the last 2 robes for the store stock inventory and learned the level 5 recipe [Shoes(cloth/leather)]. I found out most general stores would buy pairs of shoes and any items that might often sell at a decent price. A profit higher than selling to our store sometimes. After making a pair seeing they would not be too hard. I stocked this common pair and made a second try for uncommon. Success 1 pair uncommon cloth shoes. Accept the cost from my production for the materials, looks like there is 87 copper left after spending on the patterns yesterday and the three Items I kept. The skirt was looking fresh still and the gloves were comfortable by now and had decent attitude. So let''s see if we can sell these shoes for some profit. Wait maybe a pair of gloves would be possible to sell at the store too. Quickly making an easy recipe turned out to be really quick, and the quality was uncommon. Accepting the material cost on the gloves was 3 copper, I was set to go. Gave Aveon the living statue a quick *poke*. Not back yet... Oh well. Let''s do a quick run to the General Item Store. 9:00 am should be calm I hope. Heading into the front of the shop to get directions from Miss Utica, I heard Mystical greeting Aveon. ¡°Can I run to the general store, and do you need me to bring anything back?¡± The NPC talking with Miss Utica had just finish their business and waved a parting comment. ¡°One second, she pulled out a wrapped package, there is an order for a few things here. Please have them give you what can be brought back now, and leave an order for the rest. We will settle the tabs between stores weekly. Monday is the common day for that in Acdin.¡± ¡°Ah should I bring enough coin for dye? I would like to with draw 40 copper from the shop.¡± She points to the register and says right go ahead. Counting the 21 copper already in my inventory that gave me 61c, hope I could get a few things at the store. I felt rich for some reason. On the way there the mini map did most of the work. At the fountain with a big square some merchant stalls, I joined the other NPCs and players for a drink of water. Eavesdropped a bit and saw the sights. Looking at that name on the sign the word play on the phonetics was not lost on me. I had a feeling I too would be leaving poor, of coin at least. Inside was packed with players shopping for item and goods they would be buying in the future. A few more were already using the trade windows with the register so I headed over. That had to be a good place to start. [Trade to Store] activated. Dropped in my shoes and gloves to see what they would sell for. The gloves were 15c, a profit of 5 copper then the shoes were a whopping 25 copper profit over what the tailor shop would pay. With that in mind I closed the window and started a new one and looked through all the items listed in stock. {Dye(Black)} was 17c and {Dye(Indigo)} was 8c. Cheapest food was 3c, smallest water-skin 12c, leather(tanned) was 4 copper a small square, 1 copper a small strip. Wood was in logs and 8 copper each. Stepping back I looked for the owner and started to get in line to talk with them. While waiting, I opened the store trade and started screen-shotting the prices of all the items sold just in case. After my turn to speak with Mr. Owner, I pulled out the delivery and presented it. ¡°Hi oh, store owner. My name is Ophilia and I am apprenticed to Miss Utica at the ''Stitch in Time'' here. Some to be picked up now some later.¡± *smile* ¡°Greetings Miss Ophilia, they call me Mr. Gelders. Let us take a look here.¡± While he is looking at the list I ask, ¡°Ah we were talking Miss Utica and I that is, about decorations, and something we thought we would like to try and make came up. Apparently none of the things we wanted to add to the dress were for sale in town. Thinking we would have to have them made, none of the people we knew could make them correctly either. Well, if I could learn...¡± I whisper to him, ¡°[Craftsmanship].¡± Looking as thief like as possible for a second, I continued. ¡°Maybe we could make them and have a pretty dress.¡± He looked up, ¡°Here, this what we have today for the order. Someone can pick up the rest later. As for the other part, you and those Gloves you are wearing might have a chance at the Crafting Guild building. If you can speak with Thoman, you might get what you are looking for then.¡± He left his empty hand there waiting for something after I took the package. Ah, ¡°Sure, thank you very much. I''ll head right there!¡± With that I add 5 copper to his palm quietly. ¡°Should I make more effort than that?¡± He passed his right hand over the left he had extended and after it had passed I saw that there was a wood chit of some kind there now and not the five copper I handed him. ¡°This might open a door some place behind a tavern near the south gate...¡± he turned his head and smiled, ¡°you may or may not be interested in some of the functionality available there. Please do not use anything you learn there in my store.¡± *he gave me a wink* Thinking there might be something if he had offered it for a reason, I''ll try this ¡°OK, great.¡± I pass my hand over his and the moment my hand touches the chit I add it to my inventory so that it looks like I did the same thing leaving an empty hand with just a passing mine over it. Very sneaky. ¡°Guess I will be leaving here with a coin after all.¡± I turn and head back to the register to buy and sell. ¡°Smart girl, hope she doesn''t get into too much trouble.¡± He smiled and went back to the flood of people that he had no idea where they had all come from. Business to tend to yup it is a good day. At the register I picked up 3 dyes in Indigo and a water skin, 2 squares of leather(tanned), equal to 44c selling the shoes for 50c, that left me with 62 copper. Including the funds in the production account I had close to 1 silver and some spare copper. With all the damage done here for now I headed to the Crafting Guild building. So big, just kidding the place is less than 3 stories like almost all the buildings in town. There must be 4 or 5 storage buildings here. Heading in the front of the Main building with a sign saying ''Enter Here new business''. To think I would have remained lost had that not been there. ¡°Welsome to zhe Crafzer Guildz¡±. Said a bored looking young man. ¡°Why shank yous.¡± I humorously replied. ¡°So surelies yous cans helps mez.¡± ¡°Wow, you haz a nearly prefecz snake accentz! Didn''z thinkz anyz onez in townz uzed that onez, wherz you learnz it?¡± He certainly was excited to keep using his lizardman accent and even more so when I played along. ¡°Ohz, Oh excuse me my name is Craft, Lawrence Craft that is. And NO, I don''t actually own the crafting guild I just work at the counter, ironically my name just happens to be Craft also. Lucky me. Shall I be of assistance today?¡± ¡°Lawrence, truthfully not sure where I need to be at here, the kind gentleman at ''The Mighty Coinpoorium'' suggested that in addition to myself, these gloves would be sufficient to perhaps getting information on the skill [Craftsmanship], was he correctzz?¡± ¡°Ahz noz. He waz nots. Eh sorry, Partly, let me explain. From the looks of it he had two things in mind. First that the custom pattern on the gloves would be of interest to us. This satisfying the first condition to access the guild, and to apply for membership if you wish. Second, would be that the guild master would be meet-able upon gaining an appointment. He is the one to speak with regarding learning that skill and is the only one in town who knows it at a level to teach it.¡± OK time to see how this plays out then, ¡°So these gloves, they become a recipe other than the basic [Gloves] recipe? Do I pay for that?¡± After looking at a pile scrolls, Lawrence grabs a form scroll. ¡°Here, fill this out at the table add one copy of the pattern to be registered. Turn in at the office labeled ''New Patterns'' back down that hall. Then bi-annually stop by to collect the earnings. Oh appointments to see the guild leader are made at his secretary, she on the second floor. Stairs over there. She will send you a message when he is able to meet. Won''t do any good if you have not registered a Recipe, Pattern, donated or received membership some other way first.¡± Right, help them, they help you. ¡°So, how much do you all get from my recipe?¡± ¡°Nothing If no one buys it. Something that generates more sales then they take less. Not sure the precise amount, you should ask the staff in charge of the submissions.¡± Paperwork in game is easy, its like a mark you look at the item and activate it. If it has a multiple choice it gives a drop down list. If there is a field to fill in you get a prompt window for typing. One at a time can do back and forward at all field so you can even change the default info, even lie if you want to. I get the feeling some creative player someplace will cause a lot of problems in the games future. One registered pattern later, I let them have one half of the set of gloves I was going to sell. They said 5% of the earnings would go to the guild if more than a gold worth was sold in a biannual amount. If less than a silver was generated they took everything. With the number of players joining it could be worth while to register quiet a few patterns. NPCs buy them too as well as companies sometimes. As for the secretary, she was busy, took my information and shooed me out as soon as possible. Stopping at Mr. Craft''s desk on the way out to thank him, ¡°skanks a lots back theres. Goods lucks wis the lizards assents.¡± He was quite impresssed for some reasons. ¡°Diz you learnz that inz the zouthern Marsh?¡± ¡°Something like that. So kind of got the standard run around for the appointment any idea how long I''ll have to wait?¡± ¡°He''s really is busy. Huh? No, sorry. No help here. Be zafe out zere.¡± Heading to see what the food was like since my character had only had water so far. I headed to a nearby plaza that may or may not have a food vendor or quick food store. In luck there were a few, also had stuff cheaper than the general store at 1c for bread and 2c for snack like meat or vegetable items. I stocked up with a cooked meat dish, 2 vegetable things and bread, filled my water-skin and headed to the ''Stitch in Time''. Was going to ask Miss Utica about the tavern at the south gate. Eating one of the fried vegetables that I bought to see the effects they gave other than filling Stamina. This one increased health regeneration and gave a 5 minute buff to intelligence. Apparently, it also made my avatar happy because the buff said so. Words are power so they say. Miss Utica was in the front helping Chip with somethings. When she had a moment I greeted them both and as soon as Badmofo was out of chat range, ¡°Have anything to deliver to the south gate? I have in mind visiting the tavern there next before coming back with lunch.¡± ¡°Let me check, I think, no, guess not.¡± she looks at my face for a second. ¡°It''s a bit rough that part of town, be careful not to enter the old slums.¡± Nodding and getting directions, I head that way. Yes the area has a red tint on the mini map over that way, maybe it has a mob area in town, kind of common thing for a game to have. The tavern sure fits the bill of a shady low rent get in trouble if you don''t have poverty written all over you type of place. I dare peek in side to see, yes, there is positively 100% chance of at least 1 beggar, 1 thief, 1 assassin, and few of thugs in there. Even at this early hour NPCs of that type gathering here can only mean one thing is going on in the back. Underworld trainers. So shall we see what they are charging for lessons? Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. Chit in hand I head to the back door. The one beggar nearby does nothing and no one I can see is stopping me. I flip the chit in the air. Opening the door there are stairs up and down. My guess is the cellar is where the main action is so I descend and listen for people. There are a few muffled voices down here so it is not like I will be the only one. Entering the room slowly a large Himalayan Siamese looking cat checking me out. He then wanders off. ¡°Here kitty, kitty want some meat?¡± Hey, why won''t you let me pet you! Looking back it actually says ¡°No.¡± in a rough male voice. That was definitely human and older than me. I jumped. ¡°Shape-shifted?¡± Yea, I believe that would be the most probable, my other guess would be Illusion Magic. Shame soft fur like that must really be nice to pet. Looking for who or where to start, I begin with observing each person in the room, the cat''s description was ''I am a cat nothing more, REALLY''. No comment from me. The rest were NPCs and just had a name. My Original goal was to go magic path, think there were a few things to learn here which later might be good to know who trained them and what they cost. Two ways to get the information came to mind, buying it and forcing it. I had a little bit of funds, thinking that spending it here would reduce the time it took to buy one was just silly. So forcing it will be the first thing we try. Annoying begging shall commence. ¡°Excuse me anyone, I have a few questions.¡± No answer. Broadcast method yea. ¡°If I were to say have a rat problem in our store and if we wanted to get rid of them with shall we say a slightly toxic and a permanent death state. Whom should I speak with? Hypothetically. If said elimination of pests was to be handled by myself including the alleged production of - ¡± Sometimes things just work out in your favor, as I saw one person actually head my direction. ¡°You know, problem has already been solved. Thanks for your assistance.¡± When the person heading my way stops in front of me, they appear to have a female form under the travel cape they have yet to take off even though the weather outside is still nice. ¡°Good morning, intrepid traveler. I see the weather inside is horrid, I should have brought my hood.¡± ¡°Ha! you either brave or stupid can''t tell which.¡± with a low private whisper she continues. ¡±Poison yes, did you need to learn the skill or just the recipe for killing rats. If not maybe you should just leave.¡± ¡°Leaving would be a pleasure, soon my annoying-ness will be gone. If I were to continue not being annoying and want to learn those what would the donation for instruction be?¡± After a quick scan of my possible net worth by the girl she presented the offer, ¡±20 silver and we might teach you the [Poison] skill, as for the recipe for [Weak Poison] that would be 30 copper.¡± ¡°Annoyances aside, is there a cheaper recipe for something that effects rats, actual rats not anything bigger.¡± Poison expert A here is definitely confused over this, ¡°So you are really trying to get rid of a pest problem? And you came here for it? Is it brave or stupid... look here¡± She ends up writing a recipe for [Even Weaker than Weak Poison]. ¡°5c take it and don''t come back. Even better forget about this place.¡± ¡°Sold.¡± Handing 5c I thank her over and over till she practically throws me out of the place. ¡°Oh would you also be able to teach me how to impale them on a dagger so I don''t have to touch them. Want to move them to the trash as well?¡± ¡°Flabbergasted!¡± She looks like she can''t decide if I am genuine or not. ¡°That guy, same as poison. Leave! Before I get a headache from your chatter.¡± Leaving I wave and bow. ¡°Bye kitty, would you like something other than meat next time?¡± I say to myself walking up the stairs. Exiting the Guild from below comes the sounds of someone trying not to despair. ¡°Oh God, she is coming back!?¡± Recipe in hand I head to the tailor shop. Yes kitty and expensive trainer I will be back. Turning into the street for the shop I run into a beggar as I pass the corner. Guess since the mini map was so useful I had stopped paying attention. ¡°Oh, ow, sorry¡± the old man on a crutch apologizes for some reason. ¡°No, no, complete and wholly my fault this time was not watching where I was walking.¡± I hold out a cheap piece of bread I got earlier. ¡°Would you want this?¡± ¡°Must be my lucky day.¡± Sarcasm dripping as he fearfully takes it in the hand not holding him up. This is a real challenge. ¡°Hmm guess that is not very tasty, I hear theses are so bad a cat won''t even touch them.¡± I pull out the meat looking at it like it is something I am about to throw out, ¡°guess it was not worth buying, know a landfill around here?¡± ¡°Yes I do, I know everything around here.¡± He is looking at the meat on a stick while he says it. I start to walk around him to the side. He hobbles a bit slow yet still manages to move to keep me from passing. ¡°Um. Don''t you want to know where it is?¡± ¡°Not really.¡± Move to pass and intercepted again. I wave the meat on a stick over to the left of me. Eyes watching it like it was the only thing keeping him alive. ¡°Might be a place you do want to know the directions for miss?¡± ¡°That also could be, sure can not think of anything like that right now.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°There must be something I ca-¡± ¡°Well I was trying to learn [Craftsmanship] from Thoman, but couldn''t get an appointment. All the people at the tavern I was at were pretty forth coming about who could teach me to use a Dagger when I had 20 silver. Not that I have 20 silver... Well since you don''t want that bread and I don''t want this meat maybe we could trade...¡± I felt so much better after venting to him some of the things bothering me. Without a second thought he handed the bread to me, ¡°Please that deal would be quite favorable for me.¡± Now then off to the tailor shop then, ¡°OK, then thanks, have a good day.¡± Leaving the human map behind I head off. ¡°mmm mmm yes thank you also mmm mmm¡± was all I heard. ¡°Welcome, oh hey you are back great.¡± It was chipmunk the Badmofo at the shop counter for some reason. Maybe Miss Utica was in back helping one of the girls. ¡°So who is in the back?¡± Asking as I head that way. Putting his head on hands and folding over the counter he looks like he added a few nuts to his cheeks almost. ¡°Everyone now that you are here.¡± ¡°Great, have fun holding down the fort.¡± I wave. In the back Aveon is no longer a statue and is working the loom. ¡°Ah woke up I see, did you fall asleep on your keyboard?¡± ¡°Yes yes yes, I did and my face looks like a waffle now leave me alone.¡± Must not be a morning person, I surmise. ¡°And hello to you too Miss Misty from California. How did you sleep?''¡± ¡°Ah welcome back, fine why do you ask?¡± ¡°Myself was in such a hurry to get back to the skill grinding I couldn''t sleep.¡± I gave a mischievous wink and headed to the stock list to see what I could make next. ¡°By the way how did the research go Aveon?¡± ¡°Oh yea, ah yea, the experience for villagers and such. Not much on the crafter profession since last night. There are a list of xp firsts you can get that have been found. One for each level of item crafted rare and above. First kill, player kiss, murder, broken crafted item, each Class gained, spell cast. Most seem to be things other games would give titles for.¡± ¡°Hmm, the broken item is there any restrictions? And how do you break them?¡± A bunch of other questions came to mind. She finished crafting at the loom and started the next run. Sat at the tailoring table to continue, ¡°They said just wear it out in use. The kiss also had to be consensual and mutual. Kill didn''t matter.¡± ¡°So crazy idea...¡± ¡°I''m not kissing you.¡± ¡°OK, then lets put socks over our shoes then.¡± ¡°HUH?¡± came from everyone in the room including Miss Utica. ¡°If we put on poorly made socks and wear them out, will we not be getting the 10 villager xp for that?¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Don''t like that ''Idea''? Then gloves or shoes and hit or kick a wall till they break. We obviously don''t have weapons here. Might as well get 2 things done at once. We can have Badmofo wear one to see if he can wear out half of a set and get credit too maybe. Learning things like that may help someplace else, crafting wise. Besides I''ll make Mystical kiss me instead you can go kiss Mr. Chipmunk out front.¡± ¡°He does look like one doesn''t he.¡± If the floor was carpeted I definitely could see Mystical rolling on it laughing right now. She didn''t say no to the kiss either. Sad mage boy wasn''t here would have been my first choice so far. ¡°Anyone still making socks then. We need three point five sets then.¡± Honestly pretty sure just wearing out one would be enough for the system if the craft pattern for a single one could be forced. ¡°Really you girls are very strange.¡± Miss Utica was almost looking happy, wonder if her boy/girlfriend or wife/husband was doing his job properly. ¡°Ah yes, before I forget again here is the partial delivery from the general store.¡± Handing the package to Miss Utica she seems pleased. ¡°You mentioned the coloring skill before, are you able to teach it also? The Indigo was a reasonable price today.¡± ¡°Yes, we can begin instruction, when you have an item or cloth and a dye ready. It is better to color a fabric or cloth then make an item since you can often get more out of the dye that way. One dye can do a few cloths sometimes.¡± Looking at the Dye and my skirt I made last night, ¡°Here, is there enough dye to make cloth also? I''ll get the loom started next time its free.¡± Taking the items in hand, ¡°With this single dye I believe the item and 2 more fabrics can be done.¡± ¡°So buying 3 was over kill...¡± ¡°Hey!¡± ¡°What, you are so grumpy when you sleep at the computer move the bed closer to the computer or something.¡± ¡°S-sorry, how much were they?¡± Aveon seems to be reflecting so I''ll forgive her, even if she won''t sacrifice her lips for me, She did go get the information on the Villager firsts. ¡°If memory serves me, just around 8 copper each dye.¡± She and Mystical drop what they are doing and head to the register at what physicist would compare to nearing the speed of light, to get some coins. Aveon returns to me quickly and stands very, close. ¡°So are you going to sell one to me or do I have to beat the location out of you and run there?¡± ¡°Sure let''s fight, 9c for the dye? Also can you make a few extra cloths on the loom today for us all to dye? Mmm I mean just make them, we can cover the material cost taking them out of the store as raw mats.¡± ¡°So 1c profit and the time to make the 4 cloths of cotton I assume? Fair enough I accept.¡± Mystical offered to make the socks for us to destroy, her tailor seemed to be the lowest level of the girls. ¡°But Mysti my darling lover we also have something else to take care of,¡± winking at her flamboyantly as I can manage. ¡°Still 9c for the dye.¡± Dragging her to the back court yard and water well. ¡°But, wait, I never-¡± No good huh, ¡°Yes you did. When you didn''t refuse earlier. Pretending to blush now is kind of pointless. Think of it as practice for those boys you were drooling about yesterday.¡± With that we exit out the back and I place the dye in her hands. ¡°Did Aveon tell you about the villager experience and becoming a Novice Tailor?¡± ¡°Wait what?¡± she hands over the 8c she got out of her production earnings. ¡°I can get one more coin, hold on.¡± She turns to escape and when I start pulling her back she looks a bit afraid. ¡°It is OK, if you don''t want to get to your combat class sooner you can do that the hard way. You have villager xp already right?¡± She opens her screen and peeks at it. ¡°Wait, I only have 40 xp so far? And level 2 is 100 experience?¡± She ponders for a second, ¡°When did I get these? And why does it feel like I should have a lot more.¡± I educate her right there, ¡°My guess 10xp per skill level you have, so 20 points in tailoring or weaving and the 10 from the other plus 10 from the mercantile. Those villager firsts we were talking about were things that earn you more xp. So for example if you were to share a simple kiss with another player, said player also sharing a kiss with you would also get the exp.¡± System: You have sent a kiss request to the player ''Mystical''. Prepare your heart. She seems conflicted for a second. ¡°Well, if you don''t want to fine give the dye back and you can have the 8c back. If you hurry I can go get the xp from chipmunk boy out front, I don''t want to lead him on and all but if you don''t like me then that is fine, just a game after all.¡± Holding out the hand with 8 coppers in it I wait while she thinks. She starts to say a couple things and stops a few times. It really is kinda cute to watch her struggle. ¡°.¡± ¡°Earth to Mysti.¡± ¡°Hold on I''m thinking...¡± ¡°Do you need a breath mint or something? Do I?¡± I check my avatars breath, ¡°seems passable to me?¡± I also sniff her mouth, ¡°Smells like cotton candy from here.¡± ¡°Fine.¡± Player ''Mystical'' has accepted your kiss request. The screen user interface fades out, and me and my lover are circled, we get to watch as a romantic music grows in volume. Hearts bloom, flowers sparkle. Mystical''s avatar and mine are shown getting closer. A bit of drama as her avatar becomes shy, and mine bringing her close we give a slight embrace and slowly moved in for the kiss. Lips touched it was chaste and pure then, wow, it kind of got steamy. I certainly blushed as tongue may have been digitally exchanged. Few heart thumping seconds later it was over. Yes it was a magical moment, a near perfect setting in a garden next to a well, with hearts and flowers surrounding us two girls. When it was over I actually found myself holding my breath. Mysti was a cute avatar, not that any female avatars had me feeling a tingle anywhere before, still could not help but wonder what she actually tasted like in the real sense, and if it felt as good as they had tried to make it out to be. Away vulgar thoughts away! ¡°Thank you daaaaahrling.¡± I sweep her off her feet best I can and try to princess carry her back into the shop. ¡°The honeymoon is over kids, job, old age. I can see it now.¡± Mysti laughs and makes me put her down. Some reason I want to continue making jokes to keep up a front. Looking at the message for the event was as follows. Player Mystical and Ophilia have shared a first kiss in game together and received 10xp towards the next level. Congratulations on your blossoming relationship! ¡°Well that was fun, off to support the wife and kids, Honey don''t forget the naked apron when I get home Kay, smooches.¡± ¡°What is a naked Apron?¡± We take a second and look at Miss Utica. ¡°Who wants to answer that one?¡± ¡°Badmofo, we have a task back here for you!¡± I shout. In comes chipmunk boy. ¡°Hey got a second, we need someone to demonstrate a naked apron for Miss Utica.¡± Yup, that didn''t work, as he blushed big time and fled. ¡°Are you married Miss Utica?¡± I wink. ¡°Never mind I am sure I understand the basics.¡± ¡°No you really don''t, Aveon do you understand the appeal of the Naked Apron? Could you enlighten her? Maybe even craft one? What level is that recipe anyway?¡± ¡°It is level 3, why?¡± Mystical went and looked it up. Shouldn''t it be higher like level 10 because of the damage that could be inflicted? ¡°Should we make a few for the store? For that matter can changes be made to the store stocking system?¡± Explaining the xp earning of the crafting level and the difficulty along with the resulting quality of the item that I learned yesterday to Aveon and Mystical, leveling should increase. I let them know a few of the things the forums said about adding things to recipes like slots, pockets, decorations, durability and defense. They were quite glad to learn the link of the post too, so I shared it out of my browser history. Now to get that level in tailoring. With another two pairs of cloth shoes one common the other uncommon. I used the first set to earn some production and the second would sell to the general store later. So *ding*. Congratulations! You have reached level 4 of [Tailoring]. While I had been working on level 4, Aveon made me the 2 cotton cloths to dye along with my skirt. Mystical finished all the socks and handed them over. I got mine with a blush and a *giggle*. A flashback really, hope I didn''t flip a switch there. Other than the warm memory, wait why am I assuming it was about the kiss. Anyway. We three girls in the back ended up getting pairs of socks to wear over our shoes, and we gave Badmofo a single one to wear to test it out. It worked after walking around all day over the shoes they finally wore out became 0 durability and became trash items called {Worthless Rags} and we all got 10 more xp. Completely worth the 1 copper worth of flax they cost us each. Dye in one hand skirt and cotton fabric in the other I head to Miss Utica in the front store area. Figured I would take the lunch shift at the counter after learning [Coloring]. Few instructions later, we put all the items in the dye wash tank and when they sat long enough I''d get the skill. Easy enough. Miss Utica headed off to lunch with an apron in hand. Guess she was either sharing the wealth or exploiting it. I didn''t pry. Lunch was rather busy for the shop and about 20 minutes after I took the counter position I receive quite the system spam. You have learned [Coloring] Level 1. Congratulations! For participating in a sufficient number of trades, you have reached level 2 of [Mercantile]. System: Once you gain 12 levels in Mercantile related skills you can advance to Novice Merchant job.(optional) You currently have 6 of 12 levels in a related field. Oh what is this a new possible profession for me? Busy day. Shortly afterwards Miss Utica returned thanking me for both my efforts and the naked apron. With that I went back to work in the workshop. Using some white cotton cloth I made a just over the shoulder sleeveless blouse. It was buttoned and had a length of fabric in the front meant to look like it had been tied. If the word pirate was mentioned one could see the influences yet it had a more business is good feel to it. Making sure to make it look less street walker-ish looking, I went with black cat head shaped buttons down the front. And an Indigo cat head pocket in the left front panel. Made the buttons. Changed them with my woodworking skill I might have gotten some experience for it since each of the buttons were medium wooden ones to start with. Even though I spent a little more time on it than I wanted, it only came out uncommon. Item {Short Custom Shirt}: quality uncommon received. Other than the normal sized pocket it was a normal enough, cat buttons and pocket aside. Later the other girls asked me to make a few buttons for them also. Thinking to compete the outfit I thought shoes in order. Using the Leather I bought at the store, I start to prepare for making a set of shoes with them. The cloth ones I made before looked of and were of enough durability that they would last a short time, yet I have never been comfortable with the thought of just fabric as the bottom of a shoe. With a few hints that the recipe downloaded into my character I work my way through making a pair with fabric and leather. Even had Aveon help with the design, she had a good sense of it. Taking lots of extra time and putting in extra effort to get something worth wearing for a while. During the planning at some point Miss Utica came over and watched. She also added a few suggestions and suggested we use additional workshop materials to increase the strength and quality of the shoes. At some point we just decided to go all out, using a bit of silk from the store and a bit more leather for a boot look that laced up the sides. The new shoes were slowly turning into a monster project. So I got a bit of help with ''how to proceed'' from Miss Utica also. Taking a little over one hour of game time, the little project is finally wrapping up the planning phase. ¡°They definitely need to be black!¡± said Aveon. ¡°Well they have the black dye at the general store for 17c, I could send Badmofo for some.?¡± ¡°They do?¡± asked Aveon, ¡°and what else?¡± ¡°Ah. maybe you should go see, maybe visit the alchemist for any other colors they don''t have. Oh if you are going. Y- you can sell these for the coin to get the dye.¡± Pulling out a previously made pair of uncommon shoes I had made. Handing them to her she was kind of confused. ¡°So you do realize that not all shop prices are the same nor are the prices they buy things for, right?¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Really.¡± ¡°Good to know. I''ll be right back.¡± she spins around then, and again turns back to us and is about to ask when I cut her off. ¡°Get directions from Miss Utica or an NPC it will update your mini map.¡± Miss Utica understanding she will be asked, went ahead and shared the directions to both the potion shop and the general store. ¡°She is...¡± I hear as she leaves. I shout back, ¡°I am so what?!!!!¡± ¡°Nothing!¡± Me and Mystical take turns making a cloth on the looms. During the day the others also learn Coloring. Except for Chipmunk Badmofo who I didn''t have enough dye for but we let him know he could pick some up at anytime. Maybe Aveon would also buy him one, don''t know and didn''t ask. So to continue leveling I checked the stocking list for the store and made another set of Robes. Aveon must have been shopping hard, she was still out so I set about making 2 shirts, one common and a second one a little like the one I was wearing to sell. Second one also came out uncommon, so looking at the quality I made almost 30% more for a step up in quality. Was nice finally getting to build up a little experience and earnings. Waiting for Aveon was starting to get old. Many things could be done so I started making the buttons requested by the girls and added a cute pink cat button to the plan for the boots and carved it carefully. From the single large pink cat button I finished I got the system notice. Congratulation! You are now [Woodworking] level 2! For creating a private recipe. As a first time only villager experience award of 10xp is received. New recipe created [Cat Button]. Item {Cat Button Large(pink)}: quality rare received. I examined the button and the stat boost was +1 charisma. Now if cuteness was a stat I am sure it would have gotten that instead. With a huge grin on my face I walk over to Mystical, ¡°My Mysti, here are the bunny buttons you wanted.¡± ¡°Eh already! Wait I''m not going to kiss you again OK!¡± after a second she composed her self and added, ¡°Thank you.¡± Thinking I could tease her here a little, ¡°I thought we were past that, a little snuggle time too much to ask for honey bunny?¡± I poke her side and head to the pattern book. Not sure where those comments lead her thinking but it was cute. The blush I imagined she was showing the computer screen right now. It took her a while to return to the game. ¡°Not really why I was so happy, Apparently I crafted a rare button and it gave me a Recipe after that.¡± Let us completely gloss over the fact that I have woodworking skill and made a second rare. ¡°Nice, you really are good at these games.¡± ¡°This one is different, with how detailed it is I am a bit worried about combat actually. Even more so having to do a lot of melee range. Magic might be the way to go in here if the damage is fair. Casting speed will also be an important consideration.¡± We both end up making a few more cloths on the loom and craft a few things before Aveon comes back. Excited, I toss the black Dye and the materials for the boots with an extra 4 cloths in. Since Black will make that many might be the reason for the price to be higher after all. ¡°Ah yes my copper please?¡± ¡°Oh so, as it turns out...¡±, pausing mean she spent it. Was it for her or did she find something good? ¡°Then you bought something nice for us? God, I hope it wasn''t an investment scheme or something like that.¡± ¡°Hey! I, resent that, just how dumb do you think I am.¡± ¡°Other than having a foul morning temperament, I think the world of you Aveon... No offense darling Mysti, So what did you buy?¡± ¡°This!¡±. Putting a few things on the table. ¡°Sharks tooth?¡± the thought it might be cool on a jacket jumped in my head. ¡°And some dyes a second black for her I gather. Also a recipe? And two pieces of candy.¡± Guess it might have a use later I tuck one into my inventory for later use. ¡°That it?¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Do you have any coins left?¡± ¡°Yes here,¡± handing me the 18 copper coins she had. ¡°So if it was the same as last time the shoes were around 50c the dye 18 plus the 18 you had left. 14 c left? Ah while I''m remembering it, here are the Random lucky charm buttons you wanted.¡± I''d worry about the money later in anycase, outfit was nearing completion, and the tailoring level was going to ding any second. Maybe once the boots were done. I got to work on them as soon as the dye was done. I made cloth and worked on the non-dyed parts. Very careful with the concentration of a surgeon I worked the parts of the boots together with as fine a stitching and assembly as possible. Miss Utica was strangely observant and keep a gentle watch over the construction in progress. I was quiet happy with the results. We were all very surprised. After 80 some plus minutes of effort, Success! You have made a unique quality item. A first time villager experience award of 10xp is received. Player ''Ophilia'' has created a unique item and gained 10 fame. Everyone in town will soon know. System: Player Ophilia created a unique item. Congratulations! Item {Custom Shoes(cloth/leather)}: quality unique received. Would you like to name this item? I caused a scene in the shop and all the girls were way too excited. All of us talking at the same time and loudly, Miss Utica was a bit upset. A few minutes later we all worked to come up with a name. {yes} Item name: Cat''s Princess Sexy Black Boots of Seduction They pretty much forced parts of the name on me as punishment telling me if I didn''t they would go nuclear on me. Girls are scary even if I am one. So what did the stats look like? Hold on while I observe them. [Cat''s Princess Sexy Black Boots of Seduction] Quality: Unique Item Type: Shoes(cloth/Leather) Defense: 16 Durability: 30/30 Weight: .93 kg Added Stats: Charisma +3, Movement Speed +2 Added Effects: Agility +5% base stat applied to action involving the feet, Quite +3% to stealth movement actions Equipment Slots: 2 Knife or Daggers Decorations: Leather laces, Rare Cat button, Silk Description: A pair of black, cloth and leather shoes made by an apprentice and friends. They are adorned with a single cat decoration and 2 weapon slots able to hold knives or daggers. The stylish design and practical combination of cloth and leather make it unique and an attractive pair. Put together with great care the item has higher durability and added defense. Due to the double layered leather padding walking in rough terrain is easier and silent. In addition, people with an addiction to cats will feel compelled to ask you where you bought them. Modifying this item is impossible. It is Unique and cannot be copied. My craft orgasms done with I was pleased. Still, it was my hope to level with its creation. Fear not 2 creations later came the fated event. Congratulations! You have achieved [Tailoring] level 5! You have gained enough levels in [Tailoring] related fields to become a [Novice Tailor]. Do you Wish to accept this profession as your primary one now? ¡°.¡± Duh of course! {yes} System: you have become a [Novice Tailor] level 1. Villager will remain at level 2 the current xp will be applied to your new profession. System: There is a new [Novice Tailor] In town. Should you tell others of your class you will gain 5 fame. Should you tell others you are the first of your class you will gain 10 fame. Congratulations! You have leveled a trade profession to level 2 [Novice Tailor]. You have gained +1 to all stats. You have gained +1 to Dexterity, +1 to intelligence, and 2 points to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 3 is 0/200. Whew, so much to think about, I decide it is a good time to feed myself in the real world and let the others know I shall return after a late lunch. Right before I leave the keyboard I''ll let them know- ¡°Did you just become a Novice Tailor O?¡± ¡°Yes! Cya after lunch!¡± They knew, no point saying anything then. ¡°WAIT!¡± Yup I ran away. So goal achieved, got a profession. Outfit looking decent. Level up to get a combat class and some magic or weapon skills. OK then what should I work on. Skills, power, money or friends? A shop or buildings, leadership, a guild maybe or national conquest goals... Muhaha. I should work on my harem in game, just mage boy not going to be enough, I think. Should I go shopping for treat? Munching on my lunch away from the computer should let me de-pressurize a bit, is that a word... meh don''t care. Let''s see, homework, I did Friday so I could indulge all weekend in game. I should check the forums real quick to see if anything new happened I should know about. Yes the afternoon is about to become fun filled. (1) if Count Choca breakfast cereal actually exists I was unaware and totally innocent. Chapter 2 - How to Relax on Any given Sunday or Not Blood Fractal Chapter 2 How to Relax on Any given Sunday or Not Ah my computer got a virus from the free download I made while at lunch, and the computer hard drive has melted. Please someone send me a geek squad member with high charisma and excellent stamina stats. So joking there. Really as if I could afford to call them. ¡°Ah dreams!¡± - My Room - Leaving my character siting at the bench behind the sales counter and currently marked away from keyboard. I''ll take a quick look at the forums. Like I had expected, there were a few posts about unique crafted items. In the post that mentioned the Systems world announcement from my village. I put a screenshot of the Unique Boots and the Item observation stats and description. Adding a quick image of my feet wearing them. And a note that said ''lucky to be that player huh?'' A few other towns and servers had some unique items weapons mostly, a few light metal armors. The crazy amount of blacksmiths had gone all out it seems to try to out do each other. No bow types were listed but a few staff and blunt type wood ones were in there also. In fact all of them were compound material creations and most were mentioned that several players had worked together to develop the item. Next on my research list was the thief skills I had learned of. Searching the forums there were a few posts about the lack of finding such skills. One post detailing that the game was going to suck because they weren''t actually in game. Another suggesting the skills were obtainable since there were NPC thief classes. None saying where they could be obtained from. I created an anonymous post in the Role-play area, ''Annoyances inside a thieves guild story.'' Short synopsis. Role-play story for the community that enjoys such things. Detailing what I had learned and actually happened. It played out from the point where I checked out the bar, continuing to when I left the guild. While pretending at the end of the post that I had wished it was in game. Maybe someone would figure it out at some point. Left out the part about the chit didn''t want give that part away. Did a fast look for more information on magic skills and combat. No good news about magics other than they were more expensive than the thieves skills, around 40-50 silver for the arcane and elemental types. The more dark and typically evil ones were not even talked about. Maybe no one had found where they were taught yet. The only other place to learn the dagger skills turned out to be Bard and Ranger trainers. The consistency of trainers and the skills they had was less than perfect and gave a feeling that every city and trainer was a unique individual. Knowing only Acdin so far I could believe information since one of the posters was actually from a gaming group I trusted. Sitting for a moment I ponder, If I visit the trainers and look for one that teaches daggers might be cheaper than the Thief I knew of. Also should check to see what magics were learn-able in town. I would kind of like to go with a non standard one. Fire boredom, too messy. Lighting stuns always were nice in the past games, maybe void, arcane, colorless, charm magics, illusion, or shadow was fun in a few games and spacial would be awesome. The biggest problem seems to be funds. All the good skill going to require lots of silver or an apprentice ship, total wallet currently about 1 silver and change. What to do? There is selling to players, or shops and merchants. Then there is the scam methods, and other less reputable ways of making money, not looking for trouble early though. Information brokering might be worth a few coins. Still crafting to level up to level 10, then class switch will make some of the need money. Making custom clothes for players then might even make some big profit there. OK! then let''s get a market plan going. Advertising! Start with a forum post in the crafting adverts section with a Custom made gear in Acdin for details and pricing see me in the tailor shop ''Stitch In Time'' add a few pictures of the shirt and skirt and boots. Next, in the town crier area forums for Acdin lets put ''Information service for Acdin reasonable rates 100% guaranteed accuracy''. Add contact and location to find me in game. Now for a little subterfuge in the class skills forum. For each posts about thieves guild or assassin''s guild or related skills that seem promising I add an anonymous reply saying someone in Acdin found out information about the thieves guild, ''just a rumor'' good luck finding more. With that we should be good. ¡°Ah¡± I should say on the posts how long I plan to be on tonight and planned hours for tomorrow. I add that and get back in game, can we say withdrawal already. Time check 4:30 in the afternoon, let''s game. - Stitch in Time - Aveon and Mystical had hounded my chat to no end with questions and begging me to answer or at least come back. I let them all know of my return. That their pleas would go unheard and they would ultimately be destroyed by me in the end. No mercy! Such is the path of world domination. ¡°Ha ha!¡± Just kidding back to the grind. Miss Utica took over the shop counter. I started answering the two girls questions about novice tailoring while working on some gloves and a robe. After a half hour of questions they started to run out and the time between each increased. I let me know if anyone asked for me about custom orders or information and my future plans to sell such and if there was a pattern I didn''t know maybe they could do the job instead. I offered to out source some information gathering to Mysti or Aveon about magic skill and such available in town and maybe one of them could find the trainers and all the pricing in town. This started a whole new set of questions. They were a bit surprised. Apparently I now also get class experience for making items falling under skills that count for the class. Thirty-seven minutes after my returning to game the first customer arrived. A player named Todders wanted a Borg like outfit. I didn''t ask why. The girls and I started working out how to manage it. ¡°So Mr. Todders, will it have to be a one-piece outfit or can they be a top bottom set? Additionally, what is your current budget?¡± ¡°Uh can it be one, I have 1 silver 86 copper to spend.¡± he started to get excited, I can tell these things. It was the little jumps over and over as he talked. ¡°OK any details you want on the outfit? Black right?¡± I turn to Aveon and Mystical, ¡°OK, I think we can make this work again, I can make a shirt and if one of you gets a shorts or pants recipe then we can just sew them together once he puts them on. He won''t be able take them off separately and they will become a single item after that right Miss Utica?¡± She didn''t know, crafting experiments, fun stuff! Mysti stepped up at this point as none of us had the recipe. She got the level 4 pants recipe. I had the thought it would be funny if the set was with a knee high shorts for the Borg outfit. Had the feeling that would complete the geek effect to some extra high level of out there in a fashion sense. I whisper to the girls, ¡°Start finding every piece of tubing, scrap metal, dark colored scrap cloth you can find and the stranger the look the better.¡± Really now nerds and geeks are just that even they have fashion sense, even if it was not for me to understand. ¡°Hey, Tubbers, ugh sorry Mr. Todders, could you run and get some black dye and any decoration you want added. The general store over that way has the dye. Think it cost 18 copper we won''t charge you for that.¡± ¡°OK!¡± Swear I heard the sound of a star-ship entering faster than light travel. He exited at a speed nearing that. Using the black cloth from before I started on a shirt and let Mysti know that no pockets would be needed. Handed her the other black cloth left and she also began after she finished her other project she had started. We had Aveon do the honors of taking the exact body measurements for skin tight clothing when Todders came back with the dye. They may have had a moment, who knows. She had a weird smile afterwards. We both did our best at making them look robotic and sci-fi like. Here, the shirt turns out like this. Item {Custom Shirt}: quality uncommon received. Class experience received. [Strange Shirt] Quality: Uncommon Item Type: Shirt(materials too many to list) Defense: 4 Durability: 15/15 Weight: 1.56 kg Added Stats: Charisma -1, Wisdom +1, -4% to stealth actions, +2% to surprise attack actions. Decorations: Many(no functionality) Description: This black cotton shirt is of questionable design and function. The wearer will defiantly attract notice when wearing this shirt when alone. Due to the unknown decorations, being attacked will surprise the target. Pants were similar. So it is interesting at least. I take a screen shot along with the pants and the observation screens. Will edit them later and add them to the forums advertisement. We sew them together while Todders wearing them. Then collect the money for the items. Guess putting the set together added a set feature to his outfit. Rather than ruin is geek moment, we let him nerd orgasm for a while. ¡°37 copper for the decorations, one black dye, 2 fabrics, plus the crafting pattern cost, add the crafting fee. Your total comes to.¡± Thinking one silver might be fair, but just having to work so many decoration added a bit of time. ¡°One silver 45 copper and the black dye you already gave us earlier. Will that be cash or charge sir?¡± ¡°Cash!¡± He pulled out the coins and dumped them on the table, thanked us for three minutes and then ran off to show his friends. ¡°Here¡±, I hand Aveon and Mysti their share, Aveon got 10 copper, Mysti earned 57 copper and the rest was mine after paying the material costs of 17 copper. Not too bad for 1 hour of effort on the second day. During the Borg outfit making, the store also had 2 visitors looking for information on a few things. One wanted class information we didn''t have yet but was found where, on the internet, price 5c, 3c of them to Aveon for her searching. The second was someone wanting to know about the Tree of Life. Failing to find any information we suggested the mage trainers and the likes in town. Couldn''t charge for what we didn''t know. We sent Mystical off to research the local mage trainers with them at the same time. It was my hope that Mysti would come back much more informed, leaning anything at this point was a good thing. While watching the shop at dinner time for Miss Utica I worked on some items for the stock list and earned experience and 30 copper. Started the loom a few times. Helped Badmofo with some items and a few wood decorations from buttons. He was working on making a suit along the likes of something from movie where Samuel L. J. does the scene in the diner with the robber couple. He also had plans for trench coat, I could imagine a huge market for those later once he could make them from leather or better quality materials. Since the lvl of [Coat(long, cloth)] was level 6 he was having a hard time. Guess 3-4 levels of skill difference made it a real challenge. We helped out a few times. ¡°Is there a Doctor in the HOUSE!¡± I heard from the front all of a sudden. Freak and customer came to mind, I walked out to the shop. ¡°Hello, how can the ''Stitch in Time'' tailor shop chain store help you today? Sorry, Had to start the machine in the back room.¡± ¡°Yes, I want to buy a nurse outfit, for uh my future girl... friend.¡± ¡°Details?¡± I say looking at a scroll like whatever his fetish was I''d be professional and stay out of it. Also I just wanted to act a bit like a Doctor. ¡°Hello nurse, right, white and sexy, with red trim and a hat. Like so...¡± ¡°Size and measurements?¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Any details or decorations that are an absolute must?¡± Shaking his head. ¡°For a male, female, transgender or non-human?¡± ¡°Human, female.¡± ¡°This females height and rough size?¡± Using his hands he gives a heights and chest size-¡± Indicating I needed more I pointed at hips and waist. After a short pause, which I was sure he was trying to forget the chest image he had used just before, ¡°Here and here.¡± ¡°Budget for outfit and made from flax or cotton?¡± ¡°Cotton, I think and 90 copper.¡± ¡°Slit on the side of skirt or not?¡± I give him the eye of curiosity. ¡°How long should the skirt be or do you want shorts.¡± ¡°Skirt, yea, And-¡± This long indicating where he wants them to stop on the body. ¡°Sleeves on the top? And cleavage approach?¡± ¡°No sleeveless, and what approach?¡± ¡°How much of the cleavage should show like a V shape or curved, none at all or button up to the neck or folded open?¡± ¡°V to here.¡± ¡°Hat type, just describe it to me.¡± After that it is simple enough. ¡°So a recap of your order, One sexy nurse outfit with-¡± blah blah blah ¡°and if you want red decorations could you get the red dye from the general store or the alchemist.¡± I point out the general direction. ¡°Without dye that comes to 1 silver 20 copper, Today only special am offering 10 copper off! If you go buy the dye it will be 96 copper for the 3 items.¡± Since I''d have to buy the hat pattern It would be worth it to add a bit more. Sale price part was just to incite his male savings gene. ¡°Super. I''ll be right back with the dye.¡± Not only does it save us some time. It keeps the customer busy while waiting. I get to work and the items are easy and quickly made. All came out uncommon quality and gave decent experience along with quite the profit. Had the feeling when I put this on the forums post, I''d get a few orders. Was surprised there were 5 requests already for custom items 4 of which were possible the fifth one we won''t even discuss. I messaged the 4 posters forum accounts saying to stop by, get details and give a price quote. Gave them the directions and time I''d be on today and tomorrow as well, woots! for copy and paste. 6:30 pm or 18:30 hours rolled around as I was almost done with the Nurse outfit. I''d did most of my work at the shop counter even. Miss Utica had quite the interest when I described the usage and purpose of the outfit in question. I offered to make one for her or her partner for a pattern of her choice in addition to material costs. She surely blushed and declined. So I made a second one that would closely fit her and put it up for sale in the shop for sale by owner area with mannequins. Price 1 silver, and It sold by the next day''s lunch time, not sure when or to whom.Stolen novel; please report. Some time around 7:00 pm got a happy notice from the system. Congratulations! You have gained a level in [Novice Tailor] it is now level 3. You have gained +1 to all stats. You have gained +1 to Dexterity, +1 to intelligence, and 2 points to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 4 is 7/350. Mystical came back happy about learning of here future career in magic and I had her tell me everything she could remember about the excursion to the trainers. Price and skills they taught, things they may treasure, everything they had said as close to possible, where every one of them were and so on. As for the Tree of Life it is an unknown still and a large city might have more information other than legends and rumor. Mysti started to look exhausted after my questioning and logged off completely for dinner. I learned a lot from her but the key point was, skills could be bought for silver along with the class. Apprenticeships were also available, as for how to get them it might be interview, event flagged or luck. Hey, you might be able to buy them also. The magics taught in this village that they just check on were Elemental, Summoning, Life, Enchanting, and a few other sub types of those. More were possible we were sure off that, just not from who or where. The got prices for the single skill and class training along with the price for weapon handling and skills like meditation etc. One last detail to consider, was if she wanted to be added to the forum post for custom items from the shop. She agreed and let me know the time she would be on so I added it to the post and added the items she would like to push. Along with Aveon''s information we would have a bit of good business going on. Congratulations! You have leveled [Basic Weaving] to level 5. Aveon for the most part did her tailoring, weaving and coloring, she also worked on an outfit for herself or two, she really didn''t show us them. The next day she let me know that overnight she had become a novice tailor. It was about time to arrange for a couple starter weapons so I did the next best thing. Amazonia''s Everything you Never Wanted dot com, I mean the forums. Looking for local smiths for a dagger and maybe a wand maker the forums had many, locally not so many. After nearly 15 minutes I headed out after getting the store locations from Miss Utica. - Street Out front of Shop - In the street outside I noticed the beggar I had conversed with before. ¡°Hiya.¡± ¡°Oh hello Miss. Thank you for the food yesterday, don''t eat so well everyday.¡± He said from the ground where he was loitering at. ¡°So my name is Ophilia, and you looked hungry again so here you can have one of these.¡± I pull out the bread first then the cooked vegetable second. ¡°here¡± ¡°oh hey thanks.¡± he takes the vegetable quick as a rabbit spooked by a fox. ¡°No problem. Is the bread really that bad?¡± I take a bite, ¡°mmm not the best I''ve ever had, still it''s taste is acceptable¡± giving some thought to the situation ¡°would be OK with a bit of sugar, or perhaps cinnamon or spice maybe.¡± more to myself than anyone else. ¡°Butter! for sure¡± ¡°Miss do you have a cooking skill or something?¡± Munching on the vegetable he asks. ¡°No... It would be called a hobby. I''d like to learn someday. Mom really is the pinnical of food disaster creation. So adding things to help taste is a must.¡± ¡°If that is the case then hold on a second, I have just the thing to repay the kindness you have shown.¡± He goes to a nearby alley and walks to a spot makes a few measured steps the crouches and pulls up a loose cobble stone. Underneath them he pulls out a small booklet. Waving me over he replaces the stones. In a small voice, ¡°Quickly read this and return it to me. I''ll keep a lookout.¡± You have been given the skill book [Survival Cooking] do you wish to learn it? {yes} System: Learning this skill will take 4 minutes. Please continue to read the book. ¡°Four huh, okay I''ll relax over here where no one will watch.¡± ¡°Good¡± During the time we talk about why he has such a treasure and such, long story short. He was a guard then an adventurer learned to cook on the road then lost part of his leg. Wrote all he knew in the book after losing his business to a competitor''s evil ways. Turned to begging to stay alive after hiding his only remaining possessions. One day hoping to get his revenge but not really ever putting much effort into it. ¡°Think you might have a use for this more than me.¡± It is the extra glove from the recipe registration. Thank goodness I never throw anything away until I need the room. ¡°Thank you, it fits quite nice.¡± You have learned [Survival Cooking] level 1. ¡°Your welcome, so Mr Human map-¡± ¡°hahahaha, good one¡± ¡°Yes, I was heading off to the ''Arm of Underarm'' blacksmith. Then the ''Wooden Bucket'' woodworking shop. Shall I bring you anything else?¡± ¡°A tart would be nice.¡± ¡°Not sure they sell those kind of girls cheaply here, I can look.¡± Waving before he can make a response I run out of hearing distance. - Arm of Underarm Blacksmith shop - ¡°Greetings and welcome to-¡± ¡°So its you huh?¡± ¡°Apprentice FlavorFlay, do you known this person?¡± He is looking at my shoes, my guess is he saw the notice yesterday about the unique and guess it was me. ¡°Not personally, she is the one who made a unique item as an apprentice yesterday.¡± ¡°That was me, good guess!¡± I wave at the shop foreman. ¡°I wanted to talk to him.¡± I point at the apprentice, he the only other one who could have made that post on the forums. ¡°Me, you have a job for me?¡± ¡°Well sure maybe. What I saw was a good pricing on the forums. May-be able to make something in exchange, a trade? Everyone needs clothing right. Except pigs and animals and such. Oh and also Manamals.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°Were-creatures, pfft. Anyways daggers, or knife set, to fit the boots pockets. Plus a spare or 2 at some point. Iron would be best, if you can.¡± Moving over to show him the boots and the weapon slots I observe the men in the shop. Flay is moderately handsome and the smith a bit outside my strike zone age wise. Simple starter clothes for Flay and worn and burnt clothing for the other. They both might look good in a Starfleet outfit together. Ha ha, or Flay might clean up to the second struggling prince trying to earn the crown type. Tempted to slap myself for thinking outside the game, ¡°and good durability wood carving tool for woodworking, one mining pickaxe also good durability, ah a good rare quality sewing needle, one crochet hook, a handful of steel studs for clothing. Anything else?¡± I tick down the fingers, trying to think of anything else. ¡±Maybe a cheap training dagger or two and a nice athame.¡± I look at him. He looks at me, then the foreman, then me etc... ¡°What?¡± ¡°I can do most of that now. I have no clue what the anathema is.¡± FlavorFlay returned to reality I guess. ¡°Look one up on the net later, it is the least important one right now when you find one I want the longest waviest one you can make and not be the size of a short sword.¡± So he can do the others then great, ¡°Anything in trade in return? There is also a modification I''d like to try on the training daggers. We can price the athame separate if need be.¡± Well that is what I came here to order and ask about for trade. ¡°Think it over I am headed back to my shop the ''Stitch in Time'' should I drop by later here or on your forum post?¡± ¡°Which ever you prefer.¡± ¡°Forums till something is ready to pick up then?¡± ¡°Great.¡± ¡°.¡± No one had anything else to say I guess. ¡°Bye¡± - Wooden Bucket - Well to my surprise it was a tavern rather than a woodworking shop. Looks like the apprenticed woodworker spent as little time in the shop he worked at and carved and drank here for fun. ¡°He was the college dropout musician image to the core. Even in started clothes you could tell he was one who had finally got kicked out of home and school for never graduating. Rather than spend too much time in the loud bar getting hit on, I placed the order for a wand and seven wood bracelets and made a hasty escape. The image on the web of them was nice and thought they would be good for gifts to the other girls 2 each for them and 3 for me. - Alchemist shop - Smelled like the right place, and really fit the clich¨¦ image. Potions, dyes, herbs, old witch thinking about how to cook you and strange familiar monster in a cage so old you couldn''t tell what it was originally. I was hesitant but skill gain and profit drove me more. ¡°Hello, Ophilia from the ''Stitch in Time'' I am here about purchasing dyes.¡± ¡°Come closer child, cannot hear a word you spoke.¡± Hum the plant and potion smell definitely getting stronger the closer I move. Standing next to her speaking in a louder voice. I repeated my request. ¡°So the scroll there has the prices, anything else? Speak to me again when ready to buy.¡± I move next to her again as she had moved off to the back some, ¡°Yes, I have an interest in the [Poison] skill and a recipe I would like to learn.¡± I flap the paper to the side. ¡°Oh so you do, do you? Really such a dangerous usage for plants. Why would anyone do such a thing?¡± She hobbles away slowly. Thinking she either doesn''t approve or wants the reason. I''ll decide how to answer after shopping. The prices are a bit better than the general store. I end up with a officer looking blue an extra black, a pink and Chinese dress red, a yellow and one forest green. ¡°I do, I am not sure how to answer but I am pretty much sure the plants don''t care that they are poisonous. As for the usage well its natural for them to be helpful or harmful, then naturally its acceptable to use them that way too, right?¡± ¡°Are you asking or answering?¡± ¡°Both. Since its possible to help and hurt at the same time.¡± ¡°Such an apt pupil. He he, come here child let me see your recipe.¡± What smarts for an AI, ¡°So instruction is possible then.¡± ¡°Could be, come show me.¡± ¡°I''ve also heard rumors of a clever old woman who loves all things plants and potion.¡± ¡°Eh?¡± ¡°It might be the case where my leverage is gone when what is most valuable is lost.¡± ¡°Your right. In my haste I have forgotten that I know every recipe possible in this area. The total for your order is 37 copper, here give the coin take the dye and go.¡± ¡°So you don''t want this huh?¡± ¡°Nope, probably know it anyways.¡± ¡°Then of the 6 ingredients a recipe with the second one of Tube Bells Flowers dried and added all at once in the second stage is of no use then...? Sad guess then our business is complete with the coin.¡± I start counting out the 37 copper. *mumble mumble mumble* ¡°You dear, I may have spoken in haste earlier, come sit show me the recipe, please.¡± I put the recipe in my inventory and sit, ¡°Sure we can talk what about? It is a bit late will this take long?¡± Seeing her options becoming more limited and running out of ways to get the recipe she might be feeling the spark of a challenge and motivation to share a skill knowledge. ¡°So tricks, asking and shaming have failed, that leaves trade, force and blackmail. My guess is the tea you have loosens tongues and the poison over there is impossible to cure without your aid. Maybe, not that you would stoop to such measures for a simple recipe you may already know.¡± ¡°This childe, what an imagination.¡± ¡°flattery,¡± ¡°eh? What was that? Didn''t hear you?¡± ¡°Senility?¡± ¡°Sure, I''d like to get back to work here this old lady has a business to run.¡± ¡°[Poison] skill for a recipe not the worst trade I''ve made this week. If that''s not enough I know a cooked rat recipe. Also how to make clothes. I could come back tomorrow possibly.¡± ¡°Hassle to wait that long.¡± ¡°Torture is a method one can use to delay spilling the truth.¡± I reply ¡°Bargaining?¡± ¡°Worth lies in the individual. What I have you want.¡± ¡°Hmm¡± ¡°The Mighty Coinpoorium is reselling everything in its dye selection for 3-4 coppers more than you each.¡± ¡°What!¡± ¡°There is at least two other places to learn to [Poison] in town one of which is near the south gate, and we can''t sit here all night having a good time. I have young men to stalk at the dance hall. Ho ho ho.¡± Never was one to use the evil villainess laugh before however the timing seemed right. ¡°I fear for your spouse and loved ones child, come.¡± Yes and after a quarter of an hour of instruction I had my new skill and she had learned my extra weak poison recipe. You have learned [Poison] skill level 1. You have learned [Weak Poison]. Add the recipe [Weaker than Weak Poison] to your crafting recipes? {Yes} I hand over the 37 copper and the original of the recipe, she also convinced me to pay out some copper but we decided 30 copper was enough. Received the dyes and a hug. Guess she was happy to learn something after all. Headed to the tailor shop next, stopping to watch for pretty boys on the way home. - Stitch in Time - It is a little after 8:00 pm Miss Utica has probably closed up the shop and I was still a block away. Entering the workshop from the well area. Inside the front was closed it was cleaned and done for the day. I had a few hours remaining until having to logoff. First, check what the smith FlavorFlay was thinking. Left him a message on the forums, what I need with a bit more details about the training daggers I wanted made. Something like a place to attach a cord or leather strap to them on the end of the handle. And a few other things. I checked the forums quickly for any contact messages. A few easy and quick replies. Started the loom and learned the [Dress] level 6 recipe as the second free one for the day. I had in mind a Asian looking red number that would be popular with the fighting game crowd or cosplayers. Set some fabric to be dyed red. Made some longer finger gloves for the princess look to get used to the pattern might make some of better quality if I get my hands on some better materials at some point sad they wont have Rayon fabric here, might get silk at some point. A few other items for store stock. They were easy to make things I had made before and using the crafting interface for trivial items happened so fast my avatar looked like a blurr. I filled up the stock for socks, gloves, underwear and shirts in no time. Next, I did a quick analysis of the stock list to see if any level 6 or 7 recipe had a high demand or selling potential, some decent prospects would be apron, coat, gown, corset and Hats(fancy). Congratulations! You have become level 2 in the skill [Coloring]. I set some more black cotton fabrics into the black dye after the red was ready. Looking at the crafting screen to see what all was new for the day I found that at some point during the day my [Basic Weaving] had leveled up to five. I read the information on the skill and showed that at level 10 you could learn the skill [Silk Weaving] and [Fine Weaving]. Not that I could see any difference in using the loom. Spiders being one of the more famous mobs for games that skill was going to be worth it, not sure about what was different in fine weaving. If I came across the skill for free I''d not say no. I felt a bit in a hurry. So many things I wanted to do and so little time until mom would come in and would force me to logoff and sleep. School was at 7:15am, why so EARLY!. So deep breath and relaxing stretch, a snack from the pile, let my mind calm some. After a short respite in the bathroom. This girl absolutely do not do anything but wash her hands and powder her nose. So with a little time until I had to stop for the day I wandered around town then stopped a few cafes, restaurants and taverns to see the available dishes and entertainment were. Pretty people, funny people, stupid people, NPCs and players of all sorts, and lots of things to see and do. Talked to a few players and a few NPCs. Ate some of the shared food here and there, drank some water. Many of the players were in starting clothes a few had shop items or crafted things. The world was starting to get interesting for them. NPCs already had their own styles and fashions. - My room - Got a last minute order for an item on the forums, but I let them know I could make it tomorrow in the afternoon. Ate my remaining dinner I had made. Watched a few videos off the internet for the game, filled in a couple forum posts about the thieves guild and that someone in Acdin knew where to find them. Maybe I could get a bit more coin for the information service I offered took off. So I bumped my forum post on that as well including Magic skill information could be obtained for Acdin from us as well. Yea, any later and mom would make a deal out of it later. Took of the T-shirt, bra and shorts I was wearing. Let''s see for bed I feel like something thing soft and warm. Grabbed a shirt that fit that, changed for bed then feeling a bit of a tingle from just changing clothes. My breast had felt quite the rush pulling on the shirt. Thinking about the day decided I would roll a full on hard core fantasy about the game world and a few of the inspiring boys. I started to touch myself in as many stimulating places as I could find. Ended up with getting tired after a while and decided to just get it over with and climax. When the image of me and Mysti kissing jumped into my mind. No I don''t like girls that way do I? Thinking about Mysti wasn''t a big deal it was the kiss. Thinking what it was like with all the details and suddenly there it was the it was, orgasm. Mmm, what to do? One more time. Yes! Two times was enough right? That kiss was it because it was in the game? Or with a girl. I don''t have much experience with such things. Other than my in room or shower myself, never had a relationship. I started to feel excited again, and scarred myself, thinking about the kiss. Remembering the feeling and holding my breath waiting to take Mystical''s avatars lips with mine. I slipped in a finger and roamed freely. Outside again, the kiss. Ah slip my finger in again and put my tongue in between Mysti''s lips, AH! Did something happen to my vision? Waves of pleasure rolled over me and I released my breathing. Panting some, I pull out my finger and clean it off on my underwear. I roll on my side and curl up, hope I can fall asleep thinking about Flay or mage boy instead of that kiss. Should I be embarrassed that kissing a computer avatar of a girl made me climax like that. I don''t know, and any implications of it will be denied. No, I just need to have a kiss like that with a boy. Please just let me sleep after a few incredible orgasms. Why? were the orgasms I was having before these so much less intense, the hardest part to stop thinking of was could they get bigger or better. Such is the life of a highschool perverted girl huh? - Someplace in my dreams - The ones and zeros were racing past me in the background. I was sitting spinning slowly in a computer chair that felt like it was mine. Slowly the traveling numbers went around and past. I sat and spun. I looked where we were going and it was the world just outside Acdin. That''s right the closest I had seen was the outside gates of the town and what lay just past. Was I ready, I could only panic and think I needed more time or to never go there or to run there now and never look back. What was I to do? The dream morphed and I was naked in bed, the sheets came alive and felt like new bodies had been formed. Touched by male and female body parts of fabric it felt sensual. Silk, cotton, other exotic fabrics of rare materials. I wanted to kiss them but they had no mouths. My breast swelled and burst forth a potion of blood and destruction. Feeling sad that I was like, that I touched the centers and calmed them. Loving them as they were returning to normal. As I searched back out to the ones and zeros from before, I wanted them to show me the way back and forward. I slowly turned to stone. The defense value of my skin must have been very high. Stimulating my skin, it returned to flesh as I touched each area and part. Shuddering from the pleasure and sin I was about to cause in this world I rode a wave of feathers. Opening my eyes it was dark still and I could smell the heavy flow of womanhood in the room. Not the usual dream, that time of the month, I thought. Returning to sleep after washing up, changing clothes and sheets. I felt less pain or discomfort than normal. Did something change my cycle? - Morning before school ''Monday'' - (If you don''t care it''s fine to skip to the next chapter.) School would be rough today I could already tell. Grabbing my clothes and bag I head to the school. We live in a two floor apartment so close to school you could jump 4 times and be on the lot. So after 8 steps I am at school. First class, sleeping practice, commonly know as math class, Pre-Calculus for College as the professor calls it. So, nap time. Don''t know why I had to get that one so early in the morning, not as if anyone can actually function at that time of day. In the hall between class at my locker I get the books for French Class, Oui, Oui. Pretty much never use it anyway. Teacher has the worst accent. She sounds like she is from Atlanta, Georgia and her accent has every flaw her English skills do as well as sounding like she only knows English and bad English at that. Sorry the evil me came out as soon as I left my room this morning. One more class, I get my book go to class, not paying attention once again. Well pretty much all the class is about is homework anyways, do that turn it in pass the class long as you don''t skip too many days. Sad state of education here in this state. Someone install a 3d real time game link in my head so I can game and attend class at the same time, PLEASE, and I''ll sell you my first born along with a few other things. Wait! When is someone going to invent one of those, hurry please! Lunch all I can say is hope they are not serving spaghetti. Mother insists I eat at school for bad mouthing her cooking, she should have learned by now it is a reward to not eat her food even it the state provides it from a contract won by the cheapest provider. Ah I can feel the love in the schoolsbudget againtoday, Hot Dogs at least. Today my fourth class is something I''ve already learned as is normal for most of the classes of Social studies. We off to dream land yet again. No wait if I get my school work done now I can log in sooner, ugh!Open head, insert brain! Game Over! I mean school over. Let''s report to the game club members then head home. With the new game still three days since launch, I can guess a short report with everyone wanting to get home to play. Plus I was feeling the need for a quick shower. The warm water would feel really good today. Yes, cramps suck. End of chapter 2 Chapter 3 - Mondays and Gaming Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 3 Mondays and Gaming Of the people in the group only a few would be here today, of them, there was one I had to meet with. Dora the explorer, otherwise known as Ted. He was a good a source of game unknowns and things you wanted or needed to know to be in the top ranks in any online multi-player. How he kept up with so many games was beyond me. That guy must never sleep. If asked how, I was sure to enter a conversation with no ending. Safe to say, stick with a single topic with the Ted or you would be in for a long conversation. I learned a few things from the others, when waiting for him to show up. To begin with, many of the club members had started in different towns and as the forums mentioned, all the trainers were unique in every city. How they created such a diverse NPC system seemed to boggle a few of them. A description of the combat a few of them tried out was that it was ''Hard core''. Combat was no joke. Without skills or stats to back you up anyone under level 10 had no way of putting up a fight. A few tried with large groups and even then the ''easy'' prey was not even close to simple. One of the members had seen the world map or something close to it, covering most of the Continent at least in rough detail. Think along the lines of Indonesia with Papua New Guinea added with the Islands being way bigger and a different shape. Minus many of the smaller Islands. He mentioned the north parts connecting with a polar cap, no mention of a southern one so maybe it was too far away or uncharted. What came to mind was it melted or was never formed. Another mystery waiting to be found. He arrived about 4 minutes after I got there. Ted was full of useful information as normal. I added a few things to his that I found out. Including the existence of a Thieves Guild in Acdin. Additionally, that as far as I knew, I was the soul possessor of said information. He was impressed and excited by that bit. Offering to trade that for any information that would get me something of equal value and be able to use for myself. Ideally something along the lines of dark magics or advance combat skill ability. The crafting and experience secrets, I shared everything we had learned in the shop so far. It was only to the club for us to all benefit there and level up faster. Reach the top get more to share. Keep ahead of the pack, basically staying competitive. ¡°Message me on the forums later, Theodore. I have got to get home and log on.¡± Running wasn''t allowed in the Library and Computer Labs but the second I was out the door, no one was there to stop me. Good thing I live so close in a small town. Didn''t take long to get off school grounds and back to my room. Shower time, sorry to say it but today is a just get clean kind of day. Extra warm water and some conditioner maybe. The biggest towel and a winter bathrobe should be good. Plan of attack for today, forums then production. While the game loads, we''ll start answering our requests on the forums. New orders received, information service promoted. Ah, we should be able to afford a skill if I made all of these. Reject the perverts and idiots asking for handouts. Such a chore, I should be getting paid for this. OK, let''s remember not to be in a foul mood in game today! Attitude check complete. Login! ¡°Welcome back!¡± It was chip, or Badmofo to you action fans. ¡°Afternoon Badmofo how are things?¡± ¡°Busy, you have a few messages from players and NPCs actually.¡± He hands over a square of paper. You have been given 7 messages, they have been added to your inbox. Handy function that is, very cool. The image on the paper fades afterwards. Can re-use this, neat. Messages: a few orders, a question for the information department. One for my email address; Deleted. ¡°Thanks.¡± I peek in the back and see it is empty. ¡°Did you want to craft some? I was doing some work at the counter yesterday. Can take over if you want to run the loom or use the table.¡± Secretly hoping I could get the shop counter so I could get the mercantile skill up experience, every transaction the store made or you completed counts a little, such a slow skill to level. ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°Did you get the coloring skill yet?¡± ¡°Nope, that might be good right?¡± ¡°Yes, that will help you become a Novice Tailor faster if you not one already, are you?¡± ¡°Close. Today for sure.¡± Quickly showing Chip how to use dye and vat in the back I get a surprise from Mr. System. Congratulations! [Coloring] skill is now level 3. It might be teaching gives good experience along with group work. We should learn more about this my evil cohorts! So happy anything to level up right. Orders, let us get them taken care of now. One sexy nurse outfit in teal of all things. Flight attendant fetish... could be. Two work shirts, a green hunting skirt, a pair of gloves, a single apron, an extra nurse outfit. Yea someone bought the one from yesterday. Adding today a Chinese dress in Overpowering red to the things I''ll stock in the store for money. Congratulations! You have gained a level in [Novice Tailor] it is now level 4. You have gained +1 to all stats. You have gained +1 to Dexterity, +1 to intelligence, and 2 points to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 5 is 12/647. Should be about time I decided to spend my stats points that were accumulating. Dexterity, intelligence seem to go perfectly with my skill-set I had in mind. With magic use though, it might be good to have additional wisdom it gave a better bonus to mana and resistance than intelligence. Guess I will throw all caution out the window and put 2 into each dexterity, intelligence and wisdom. I will make a dangerous magic assassin in any case. Enemies will never hear me coming. Using the last free point. I drop it in strength, more carry weight will help. Character: Ophilia Race: Human Class: Novice Tailor level 4 str 8, int 17, wis 10, end 7, dex 15, char 11 Very nice! Now, thinking creative sales I make a few hats that might be popular with college men. And then we off to meet up with the woodworker fellow. He said to meet him this afternoon at the Tavern. ¡°Hello, everyone I am back did you miss me!!!¡± Aveon popped into the world with a grand greeting must be a good day. ¡°Did we hit a sale at Tiffany''s?¡± ¡°AH? No such luck... what a shame... Just glad to be back in this world, I guess. How''s business?¡± ¡°Great, we are adding skill teaching for [Coloring] to the list of things to sell here. You really want to push teaching it, great skill experience! Get all your friends to stop by with a dye so we can teach them. Charge them around 10-50 copper for the time and effort and skill.¡± ¡°Really?¡± She paused and I continued making a few hats. ¡°Done! Might see a friend or more later. Anything else.¡± She knew right? ¡°Yea, have you considered learning a bag, pack or, purse recipe? We could use a few at some point and-¡± ¡°On it. No need to convince me huge use and sales there.¡± ¡°Want a hat made? I am trying to make the perfect hat for a college man, boy. Whatever.¡± No not attracted in the least. Just a way to reduce the expense and make a profit, believe me, he was definitely not my type. ¡°Might, what did you make so far?¡± ¡°Here is the Jungle fighter Cuban special.¡± Straight copy of the old Castro look. ¡°This is the Loser from up north look one.¡± Didn''t turn out as a sell-able product in my mind, needed fur, never know. ¡°A Greek fisherman''s type.¡± ¡°That''s neat might work.¡± ¡°Wait there is more. The Tennis-pro, and a Japanese ghost looking thing. Was going to try a baseball one but the front lip was not working may need something to fix it. Here actually, you can have the sweat band, Just in case you want to do an 80''s montage dance or something.¡± ¡°Ha, you really think I could pull one of those off?¡± ¡°Next was the beret, having a difficult time getting the fabric to drape right.¡± After a 10 minute effort, we made two rare ones. Aveon kept one and the other I would see if the college kid wanted it. If not, keeping it as mine after I dye it. Item {Custom Hat}: quality Rare received. Class experience received. [Stylish Hat] Quality: Rare Item Type: Hat Defense: 2 Durability: 10/10 Weight: 0.1 kg Size: small Added Stats: Charisma +1, Endurance +1 Added Effect: NPCs with high fashion or nobility will find this item of interest. Decorations: Ribbon Color: none Description: This hat is stylish and draws people with an interest in fashion or headgear. Both were about the same. After the many tries and me helping with the patter Aveon learned the recipe for [Hats(cloth)]. Knowing it wasn''t that hard to get patterns and recipes I picked up the two remain free ones for the apprenticeship. You have learned the recipe [Corset]. You have learned the recipe [Gown]. Strange, now that I think about it I had made the Naked Apron once without a pattern and it turned out fine. Maybe recipe was only needed for harder items or trivial production from the crafting page. Or auto crafting if you were lazy. Interesting. I''d try to get Chip to teach me coats and the pants off Mystical later in exchange for one they wanted. *grin* ¡°Zen, off to scam the college kid, need anything Avie?¡± ¡°What, nope think we good, later.¡± ¡°Who''s going to cover the front, you can work the counter if you want mercantile skill up if not have Badmofo do it.¡± Place was busy even this early. ¡°Hiya! Free seats everywhere grab the one you like!¡± Serving maid, with a fair skin and bright eyes called from the bar. Her outfit fits the place. She might be better with an apron or the half shouldered blouse with better cleavage if she wanted to push better tips. What sales... focus me, one trade at a time. Boys and their image. Concentrate. Big packages full of promise and ruin. Yup that works. ¡°Over here!¡± He waves, saving me from my delusions of sexual deliverymen. Image check yea, I don''t look like a starter and have the right attitude. Charge! ¡°Oh you were here! Nice.¡± Heading over I drop into a bench as he waves at the bar maid. ¡°What is good here? You know the place the best.¡± Hope he doesn''t see my nervousness, college boys do that to me for some reason I have a small fear of being eaten almost. ¡°Anything, can''t taste it after all.¡± Adding one more for himself to the maid''s workload. ¡°Usual.¡± She nods looks at me and waits. In a near panic I look around for a menu of some sort. Ah no luck, calm down me. ¡°Um, what does the staff recommend?¡± Hopefully she will save me from looking pathetic. ¡°One of those,¡± *wink* ¡°right back with yer drinks.¡± Truth, If this weren''t a game I would be incredibly scared right now. ¡°Flirting with you already she is such a clich¨¦.¡± ¡°Uh really?¡± Opening his brown hemp bag he looks so apathetic. On the table he rests a couple wands a staff and the handful of arm bracelets. ¡°You made any rings yet?¡± While perusing the goods, ¡°or earrings?¡± These seven bracelets will do. ¡°Nice look and style these.¡± All the wands increase magic skills in some way, the staff the most. With such a low strength that much weight will not be nice for me. Never seen a thief or assassin use a staff, pass on that. Not to say a Kung-fu staff master couldn''t mess you up or be an assassin, I meant the fancy magic staff type. The one you care for and polish a lot, not bash someone with. I pick the wand with the best magic increase. It was not the prettiest of the lot. Nice looking carvings with a comfortable handle. Ended in a sharp point. This could apply a poison maybe... ¡°This one. And those 7.¡± Now time to pull out my attack. ¡°How much? Oh wait, you are not interested in any of these. These were made today and are unpopular, could they be traded?¡± Dropped the hats on the table and watched the maid bring me my drink. ¡°Might be useful these,¡± a set of uncommon gloves that had +1 dexterity, not the same as mine or colored still a stat point it a stat point. Dropping the pint for him then placing the drink I ordered down with a look that was serious. ¡°Tab or 1 copper.¡± Out of my league here, do I tip in game or run the tab then tip. Bars and restaurants, common place for adults, and I may be smart but there are somethings I had never thought to learn about. Embarrassed maybe I should just go with interpersonal skills, ¡°Tab works, my name is Ophilia and I work at the ''Stitch in Time''. Not much of a drinker so if I pass-out make sure I get back please.¡± *innocent look* ¡°Sure dear.¡± She waves and weaves between the rough tables back to the bar. ¡°Not bad these.¡± He was looking at the Castro, the fisherman''s hat and combat bucket one. Would Avie be right and he would go with the Greek one? ¡°Rings and earrings right, did you make any yet? Rings might be low durability but easy to make if you got a minute quantity of fancy wood or leftovers. I found experience on buttons to be decent even myself.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°What?¡± He stopped responding did I say something strange? *wave* ¡°You there?¡± ¡°.¡± He pulls out a small piece of wood and starts to make a button. ¡°You, how old are you really?¡± ¡°Right, I am still in High school here. Not even old enough to drink. I can vote next year.¡± ¡°If you had to wear one of those three which one has you think I''ll be here when you get back.¡± ¡°.¡± Was this a moment of honesty from him. ¡°None.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°They would all look good on your avatar. What you want to pass on would best be expressed another way, not sure how. Mysteries huh?¡± We talk and drink a few more, crafting tips etc. Was a fun date. After a while things are about villager firsts and class experience. He was shocked to learn about some of them mostly the mutual kiss. ¡°Want to get that one with me?¡± ¡°Did that with a co-worker back at the store sorry, she was cute afterwards too. I wanted to tease her for hours.¡± ¡°Want to have a threesome, I mean after they put sex in the game.¡± He really asked that in public chat just now right. I am not mistaken hearing that am I? Serving girl looked at me rather intensely was she jealous or did she want something else? She had arrived to bring CunningTwist another round. Yes, that was his in game name. ¡°You are at least 18 by then right. Would be OK in game right?¡± ¡°Wait, wait, wait. Sorry not interested in th-three.¡± I didn''t know what else to say. It was way outside my expected realm of possible questions I would have expected. ¡°Fair enough.¡± ¡°Three?¡± The serving girl was strange for a second, she blushed then completed her duty here and rushed off. ¡°Want to kiss anyways?¡± ¡°Um not now thanks.¡± He really collapsed my image of him in an instant. His choice, the Greek fishing cap style, are they popular these days? With business done and a total expenditure of 47 copper I prepared to leave. Uncertainty in how I felt was nothing new but I had an Icky feeling at the moment. Maybe a real world side effect of that time of the month. One last question for CunningTwist, ¡°Hey, do they have embedding, varnish, metal coating in game already?¡± ¡°Think so.¡± Heading out the young woman who had been serving us help me with paying my tab. Three drinks and a snack for 5 copper. I made it an even 10 copper coins and thanked her for everything. ¡°.¡± ''This is a big tip, is there any meaning behind it?'', was that the look she was giving me? ¡°Miss Ophilia you are very generous thank you.¡± ¡°You are welcome, hope that part about the threesome was not misunderstood. It was about a kiss with a female co-worker.¡± I really didn''t want her to have a bad opinion even if she was an NPC. ¡°Two girls and him, no, no, I understand that wouldn''t work.¡± You know I have seen that light bulb look before in town someplace. Had to be Miss Utica. ¡°My name is Dainea. My door is open anytime, and this is for you.¡±The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. NPC Dainea has given you pressed a flower. Having customers calling her, she made for them with a smile and a wave. I look at the flower and head outside. {Observe} [Pressed Flower] Quality: Fragile Item Type: Gift Durability: 2/2 Weight: 0.0 kg Size: tiny Description: A delicate flower press-dried. Does this work like the chit, quest type item? Another strange item has come my way. Is my luck like a super stat or something? Ah, the wand is so pretty, I had to look at it again. Even hugged it a few times heading back to the shop. New weapons are the best finds in-game. [Carved Yew Wand of Magic] Quality: Rare Item Type: Wand Magic Skill Increase: 7% Durability: 10/10 Weight: 0.2 kg Length: 21 cm Added Stats: intelligence +1, wisdom +1, dexterity +1 Added Effects: Unknown Decorations: none Description: A wand carved from a Yew branch with a carving and long sharp point. The maker has potential in woodcarving. After showing such progress, I felt complete. Aiming the wand down the street, ¡°Onwards the mischief and escapades await.¡± Yea I felt a bit silly. No big deal. Mystical had logged in and was in the workshop with Aveon chatting about who knows what. Chip was at the counter. Since I had a second I ran for food and a napkin. And underwear, I didn''t forget after the shower I just lost focus and was game centered, you understand right. After dropping my butt in my computer chair; the wood only made a slight protest against the force impact. No, not fat, just an old chair. Wishing for a new fancy spinning office type one... Focus! Back in the workshop we all chatted some. The gift bracelets were well received by the two girls no stat boost but they had an appeal rating so maybe it figured into some calculation for NPC favor or reaction. I recommended CunningTwist to them for wands or staves in the future and mentioned, more warned of his rejected three way offer. Mystical was at a lost for words. She thanked me later for not pimping her out. There was some speculation about the magic system and we rubbed the wand some. We spent some time coming up with ideas for gear and way to get better magic bonuses. Miss Utica mentioned embroidery skill was a stat and effect granting mechanism for clothes. She let us know where the trainer was in town. Enchanting added more effects if the item would survive the process. The convention for magic also held in-game with wood types, with yew, for example, gave high magic effectiveness. Next level up was magical woods with a price outside of common sense, a beginner''s problem for sure. Cloths, metals every material had a preferred stat or magic use. Must be a universal concept or something for fantasy games. We all did some skill-up work and included a few orders from the forums. Sold off the hats to store stock that wouldn''t sell to players. Made up a list of things to ask Miss Utica before the apprenticeship ended and a few for after. Trivial crafted a few other items for shop stock. We did turns starting the loom, and coloring fabrics. ¡°Resistance is futile.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°We come in Peace?¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°The federation thanks you for your service?¡± ¡°Your welcome?¡± Such a weird conversation, I was at a loss. Aveon and that person. The one with the Borg outfit entered the workshop. ¡°What? I am teaching him [Coloring] like you to said. No harm making friends in game right?¡± ¡°Why you defending yourself, Avie? Guilty secret?¡± A jab at her now was well timed and anymore would have been hurtful. ¡°No such thing.¡± Unfazed, must be true. ¡°My resistance is useless. Can you teach me here.¡± Red dye not to far from the Starfleet officer color. Yes obsession runs deep. Watch out for this one young padawan. ¡°Miss Utica is there a company profit margin for selling the stores supply of cloth?¡± ¡°Company profit margin?¡± ¡°A way for the store to sell some cloth, we only sell the finished products up front?¡± ¡°Not yet...¡± Off she goes, wait there was an office back here? ¡°Might want to limit sales and have a higher than the weaving mill price to keep our stock from getting all sold in one go.¡± I add around the corner. Let us see what chip is doing. Borg and Avie, the image was, the word fitting here was, disturbing. ¡°Badmo, can I call you that?¡± ¡°What? Sure don''t mind.¡± ¡°Going to craft here a few don''t mind me. Your turn for the loom.¡± I sit and start an auto crafting. I got a response from smith FlavorFlay on the forms and as I thought. His interest was focused on leather goods. The was no problem with making some with leather. It was the price of the raw mats that was something of a situation. Leather prices were actually going up in town. And no one was bringing in additional leather. Supply was going to be an issue with so many players. Possible to corner the leather market? No, what if traders brought more in as soon as they found skyrocketed prices? Left with so much inventory to risky an investment for me. Should I look at the Leather Workers Guild maybe? Outsourcing? Is there a cheap leather good seller player? Maybe I could sway another NPC once. I look on the forums, the ones in town were average price. I left a message about possible trades with them for cloth goods, buttons and information services. Borg and Avie entered the shop after a while they parted with a handshake and a coin trade. ¡°Service fully rendered?¡± *grin* ¡°I have no idea what you are implying there. But yes, he got the skill and I leveled up thanks.¡± ¡°Imps turn into devils all the time right.¡± I put up fingers for devil horns on each side of my head. ¡°Not too much of a horny devil yet, I predict devious intentions captain.¡± ¡°HA, you are too much. No way, no day. Don''t tell Mystical that I thought the Borg Queen was so cool in the movie. OK please.¡± She handed me a Silver coin and a few coppers. My share, for the days information requests and some orders that got picked up. Yup I see them at Drag Con in Atlanta next year doing cosplay as a couple... No doubt about it. Congratulations! For participating in a sufficient number of trades, you have leveled [Mercantile] to three. Always nice Mr. System thank you. Back in the workshop I went to Miss Utica. ¡°Boss, where do you learn [Silk Weaving]?¡± ¡°Capital Cities or silk farms on another continent. A city with a high concentration of spider monsters may have a teacher.¡± Seeing what the topic was the girls and Badmo paid attention. ¡°Do we have-¡± ¡°No such luck, spiders very uncommon around here.¡± A good thing for those with arachnophobia, bad for tailors right. ¡°Can you teach leather skills or can we just use tailoring?¡± ¡°I know a few recipes, pattern book there, just a few. It is mostly just a sub-material for most of them. Don''t have the skill myself at a level to teach it.¡± ¡°What happens after the apprenticeship ends? Can we work for more training here?¡± ¡°One second.¡± Back in the office we hear her shuffle through stuff. The other girls seem focused on the door. I start the next dye to make new cloth. Open up the crafting screen. Looking at what is there, is there anything I feel I missed or need to ask about. Returning she holds a book. ¡°It is time to close the shop soon, might as well, Mr. Badmofo could you shut the front door and clean up later?¡± In enters Chipmunk. Even without fur that is the only image that comes to mind. ¡°This is the Tailor Job book for the Stitch in Time Company. Easiest is gaining 30 levels in [Tailor] related fields. Or 10 levels as a [Novice Tailor] then you change to [Tailor] class. If you want to go into this as a career I will let you read the book. It has some information you will need about the company. Planning to change class away from tailoring, nothing in here will be very helpful.¡± ¡°Repair skill?¡± ¡°No, maybe another trainer knows that. I don''t fix many clothes past my own. Selling new was always the company focus.¡± Badmofo decided to read the book. For the most part it was useless information for us or stuff we knew already. ¡°She was mistaken on a few things, Miss Utica was. This book has a map and a store location list.¡± ¡°Really? Quick, show me.¡± Screenshot time. Not the most detailed but helpful. ¡°Next, was a part about store management and pricing. It seems dry but there is info about some regional pricing it varies and is updated by the stores in the headquarters. Trader information worth some.¡± ¡°I hesitate telling you this... All the employee contracts track player and NPC information. Also in the HQ. Levels, skills, some other things. Big brother style.¡± Meaning if a player went to work at the corporate HQ they could get a bunch of information on staff. Big leap forward in gaming there, neat. Magic and combat is where the money is the fun happens at the same time. Not planning to grind trade skills to level cap here. ¡°Thanks Badmofo.¡± ¡°Will we be able to access the workshop and store resources after the apprenticeship stage?¡± ¡°Yea in the book. You can get a few different contracts with the store or manager.¡± ¡°Great.¡± ¡°My contract ends tomorrow can we set up a new one then?¡± ¡°Yes, we can. All four of you have been helpful and less difficult than many of the past. What was the word applican''ts.¡± ¡°Anything else for the day boss? Want to see about getting some leather for later. With about 2 hours left of working in the workshop today. If not? Is a trade with cloth or padding for leather possible for the store? If anything there should be a huge increase in the number of orders for their leather equipment soon. Their guild or stores will want a supply. We don''t compete with the weaving mill for raw materials or fabrics just finished details.¡± ¡°Something for tomorrow then. Have a good night all.¡± ¡°Bye¡±, ¡°Cya¡±, ¡°Good night¡±, ¡°Later¡± Chip was in a hurry to log off, returned the book then vanished. Aveon worked on bags and a hat for herself. Mystical was forced to make pants and shorts with me until I got the actual pattern. She got skirts pattern in exchange. Didn''t take too long. The extra ones we sell to the general stores, our shop stock was full for them and not worth wasting player selling spaces on. She would do that before school tomorrow since her time zone was different from Avie''s and mine. Stores would be open at that time. Having got Mystical''s pants off of her and she my skirt off of me, we were satisfied and did other things. With a few more loom runs I added another level to the skill. Congratulations! A skill called [Basic Weaving] was leveled to 6. Ran a batch of dye. Made one more order for the forums. Went thought my mail again in-game and out. Then started a gown project for the player sales area. As the highest level pattern in my list, itwas bound to be good experience. Priest gear, with a lady of the lake feeling. A bit of elvish styled with silver threading and white carved buttons. Wasn''t all you would think it was but for a small village with starting level materials it turned out delicate and slightly expensive looking. Yes, and hit complete, what do we get? Item {Custom Gown}: quality Uncommon received. Class experience received. Congratulations! You are now [Tailoring] level 6. [Gown of White] Quality: Uncommon Item Type: Body Material: Cloth Defense: 3 Durability: 20/20 Weight: 1.4 kg Added Stats: Charisma +3, Intelligence +1, Wisdom +1 Added Effect: NPCs with high fashion or nobility will find this item of interest. Wearable at a formal ball or dance party. Decorations: Silver Thread and Carved Buttons Color: White, Silver Description: Stylish dress wear for priest or party goer. People may want this item with an interest in fashion, dancing, healing or white clothes. Value slightly raised due to the skill of the tailor. Nice on the rack you go. ¡°Turned out nice didn''t it? Sad a bit more might have been rare.¡± ¡°Could get married in something like that.¡± Avie had a distant look in her face. ¡°You think so?¡± Mystical was obviously hiding the fact she was thinking about who could be her boyfriend first. ¡°You will find one honey pie, just keep cool there. Anymore thinking and the steam will escape.¡± ¡°What. You could tell?¡± She turned around and started to cover her face. Whoops, she escaped. Mission for the day successful, progress excellent. Let us go for a walk around town. 8:45 water break would be a good start. At the well I got my fill of water and thought to see the edge of town and maybe over the city walls if possible. The city at night was definitely fun. People, sites, stalls, merchants and travelers, respite from the wild in a safe spot for the night and people would normally let loose. Now is the time Taverns open, brothels would rise to the need of women and man alike. The lights spilling from windows and houses both. Noise, life, activity so different from the day. I find it more interesting obviously. Some games have slaver areas, not sure if Fractal Online has them, might be one of the shady business types. Hidden deep in secrecy. All things possible, Muhaha! Maybe someone in the Thieves guild would know. Tormenting the info out of the girl that offered to teach the poison skill for 30 silver might be fun. At night, it might be good to stay out of the rough part of town, South Gate area bad part of town even in daylight. North, go north young man. Not all that different from south gate aside from buildings one would want to inhabit. The Gate Guards were up top at night and the doors closed to wagon travel. Side doors let foot travel pass still, not that anyone other than players would be doing that at night. With Fighting classes still to far away for many, those doors will not see much use for a while. I head to see into the darkness that lays out there. Might hear a wild monster with luck. At the north gate they will let me out the door to see all I wish. ''Don''t go too far from the gate or village its dangerous even crazy'' was the repeated sentiment from the four guards I met at the gate. Looking won''t hurt right. Forest off in the distance hills quickly becoming blackness as the last light is fading from the sky. What I imagine is a cool gentle summer wind passes the branches and grass nearby of any surviving plant-life. A few wild flowers of a tiny nature, I pick a few random ones and make a bunch that might look good in the store for the counter. They only observe as flowers and no value. Might need a [Herbalist] skill to see more detail. The few remaining clouds are thin enough to see more stars appearing. Cannot help thinking, overkill on the environment effects for the game. ¡°Ah it is pretty here.¡± Nowhere near the skies in our town, there must be 100 times the number of stars visible here. ¡°Can''t see the stars where you came from then, must be sad?¡± ¡°IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE¡±, ¡°... Eh? WHAT THE HELL! don''t sneak up on someone like that!¡± I turn around. I am going to turn back around and forget about turning around again for a while. ¡°Sorry¡± *sniff* It is a freaking ghost! What do I do now? He is mostly transparent mist if that even. ¡°Ah. Yea not forgiving you forever for scaring me like that.¡± ¡°Really, I understand.¡± He sits there as I collect myself. Gah, freaking heart attack 100%. Even mom even came to check on me. That scream was not in game apparently and had sent her into mom concerned mode. After explaining the ghost she told me 10:00 pm log off no change. ¡°Are you a friendly ghost?¡± ¡°Is there another type?¡± ¡°Monsters, ghosts, undead, demons all same category in this world right?¡± I hope I was wrong here. ¡°.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Maybe?¡± He stopped pretending to sniffle. The sound of his voice was thin and remorseful really sad even. ¡°.¡± ¡°I forget a lot of things now.¡± ¡°So you don''t attack people, you just scare them into an early death?¡± ¡°No¡± ¡°What do you do? By any chance do you have a job?¡± ¡°I was looking for something for my sister, it was her birthday and she wanted something. When...¡± Check, one memory impaired ghost with a life quest to get his darling sister a present. He does look the type and age to maybe dote on a little sibling. ¡°What kind of something?¡± ¡°Not sure it matters anymore. She is a ghost now. She is angry all the time too, just at me though for some reason.¡± ¡°Resentment yea, guess that happens even when dead.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°So maybe you get her a different present and go from there? What kind of present would fit her?¡± He gave that a thought while I watched more stars appear. And finally made the resolve to turn around and face him for the first time. Didn''t know that ghost actually were that scary. There were a few games with them as NPCs. Yet for how real the game played, sometimes I forget we are in one sometimes. Never did fancy the horror movies. Childhood traumas, moving on people next stop, the lunch room. ¡°She likes me a lot, girl things.¡± ¡°Sugar and spice and everything nice? Flowers, ribbons, gifts? Male strippers, wedding showers, biker cosplay? Help me out here?¡± Nothing. ¡°So where is she now?¡± I look around not seeing or hearing her. ¡°Her seat maybe in the stone garden by the wall over there.¡± Looking back at the city I see the grey stone walls and the light on the top around the village to the west around 200 meters from the gate part of the village''s burial plots and a single stone mausoleum. Fenced off with a weathered wooded fence in need of repair; gone in a few places are whole sections. Ghost hangout 101 says she there with a few of her friends complaining about her boyfriend not giving her any attention. How bad her life sucks and how cool goth clothes are these days. Want to bet? Oh night time lets go to the graveyard with no combat skills and no weapons or defense against... pretty much anything. Hooray for good ideas! ¡°Should we go ask her what she wants?¡± I really hope he says no at this. ¡°Would you?¡± ¡°Would I what?¡± ¡°Would you ask her?¡± ¡°Would you want me to ruin the surprise for her? It is a gift from her beloved brother after all, part of the fun is the surprise.¡± No we don''t want to go into the pit of undead over there get the hint. ¡°If you saw her or her chair maybe you could guess what she likes¡± Great a smart ghost with memory issues. ¡°Sure lead me to my death. Hurry, let''s go!¡± I''m so dying to find out the end of this event *wince* off we walk, a ghost and a stupid girl that gets lead to her first death in game, voluntarily. See not scared at all, wish the owl would stop hooting. Gives me the worst ''you going to die vibe'' ever. Who is going to die, I am, thats who. And is there no care-taker for the graves they look so untended parting gifts tossed here and there left to natures wrath. ¡°Does no one come to clean up here?¡± ¡°Clean, why?¡± ¡°Respect? Devotion something like I''d take care of you forever even in death? Spirits of the elders or even family ties?¡± ¡°No, don''t think we have such thing here¡± Is there some lore I should learn about? We arrived at the place. It was messy as the rest. Compulsion drove me to tidy up her ''seat'' a stone marker nondescript and worn as the rest gravestones. I put a few of the flowers down and say what comes to mind. ¡°Poor sister of a worthless layabout ghost, making some dumb girl like myself come to the graveyard in the middle of the night and help him get a gift for his darling sister. Please accept these flowers from us.¡± ¡°Will she not be angry anymore?¡± Looking around there is no one in sight. How could I know, can only guess what she is upset about. Might even have the same memory problem as the brother. Family trait and all. ¡°Don''t know. Could go ask her. You should be safe with making an effort here yourself?¡± ¡°Happy birthday little sis.¡± He held out his hand palm forward. His form had become more full and visible near the graves here and he was a more blue color than the white before. He returned to face me and said he was going to go. He moved slowly towards me and was a few inches from my face when he paused. ¡°Are you going to suck my life force out now too?¡± ¡°No, Why? Did you want me to?¡± Blushing ¡°It''s that, you are, ah, slightly close and even I am not sure what to think.¡± His eyes focused on my face and lips. No way! Um, well it''s a game. Once and a life-time opportunity to kiss a cute boy ghost like Patrick and Debbie did in that movie you know. ¡°Well as long as you don''t use tongue a kiss would be OK as thanks.¡± The kiss with Mysti was one thing but this was a whole different level. Inter-exsistance and all, I was a bit freaked. It is an NCP everything is copacetic. I move a little nearer to the ghost''s face. If he was alive, it would be considered handsome or charming. The Ghost ''Brother of the Sad Sister'' has thanked you with a kiss. The moment was seriously ethereal. His lips moved to mine and most of the mist which was him became those lips. The body becoming faint and a mere trace of what he had been. The moment passed into a lengthy camera pan of us in the graveyard his wisps of hands and body pressed against my outfit moving it slightly where a body would have. I could see a single hand moving down my back slowly. Wait what is with this camera scene? It shows him lightly groping my left rear ass cheek. So not what I had signed up for. Back to the face it shows his wisps withdrawing slowly and returning focus to my avatar. ¡°Thank you.¡± He faded, ah the bastard escaped. ¡°Your welcome perv!¡± I say turning around in a circle looking for any witnesses to silence permanently. Poor NPC didn''t even have a real name. I start heading around looking for loot and lore in the graveyard, never know. After a few, it is clear everything is all worn out or useless with no value to a player. Leaving back for the North gate I could only think what insane writers the game had. ¡°Wait¡± ¡°IEEEEEEEEEE¡±, not again. ¡°Mom it''s OK it just happened again and I wasn''t expecting it.¡± ¡°Now that is the second heart attack in one evening you ghosts have impeccable sense of theatrics. Whispering in my ear like that how could you? I''m gonna cry.¡± ¡°Sorry¡± *sniff* ¡°Ah not this again, I''ll forgive you just don''t cry. What? I need to go soon, almost bed time.¡± ¡°I just want what should have been mine, could you give it to me? Would you let me have it?¡± Girl ghost, so sister? She is the adorable little sister type. Her clothes match the style and fashion of her brother''s quite closely. They were happy village children for all you could tell before thier demise. He had similar facial features and they could only be a few years apart in age. Since they were mist like, hair didn''t really have a color for them. ¡°Sure what was it that I have?¡± She was looking seriously at me and my face... Was it disappointment on her face and a few tears. She was a little shorter than me so she started to float up off the ground. Was that drool on her face now? At that moment my avatar became un-moving. Was it a paralyze effect? Her hands reached for my mouth and hovered there. Oh so it was the kiss from her brother, so get it now. Her form a pretty blue like her brother hovered close. She moved so slow it was painful. She moved her left hand to her chest then to mine slowly and it hovered there. ¡°Why couldn''t he have pressed against my body like that?¡± She moved her body to mine as her small frame eased nearer. ¡°One small kiss, was all I ever wanted from him. Just one!¡± Her ghost lips moved to meet mine as she focused there, ah ghost tongue, it just went into my avatar. I couldn''t even imagine the night ending like this. After sexually repressed sister ghost had her fill of the locations that her brother had touched or kissed. She shed a few more tears. ¡°Now we can''t even get close to each other.¡± She must have a real complex to be this obsessed still. ¡°We don''t sleep, I can enter his bed after he gets up in the morning! He doesn''t drink anything so I can''t use his cup afterwards. Ah, the world is so unkind.¡± Yup no need to confirm what I had guess. Good scripting here. She moved ghost wisp like arms around and inside of my chest and mouth and my character shivered, not lying here I promise! Innocently kissing, totally feeling me up at the same time, then ravaging my avatar. Even if it is a ghost, how is this game not rated more mature? She finished up caressing and kissing all the places her brother had touched and smiled and let me know that his gift was meant for her alone. She, having finished with my body, and the claiming of her ''gift'', I became free again. We can only assume she set off to stalk her brother some more at this point. ¡°Like brother, Like sister. Perverts all three of us. Really taking advantage of me like that. A pervert like me, how lucky am I?¡± I tell you now I was wet and agitated after her brother now I wasn''t sure what to think. ¡°Crazy is just plain too much sometimes.¡± I said to no-one in particular as I sat staring at the screen in my room waiting for the world to make sense again. Ah bed time, I ran to the village gate to log off inside of town. ¡°You came back from the graves, pretty quite place out there. See any critters tonight sometimes we hear things?¡± ¡°Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. Keep up the good work I am going to sleep. What do people here think about the dead?¡± ¡°The dead, you give them a parting gift then move on, right? No time to worry about those gone to their end.¡± ¡°And if they come back and ask for sexual favors?¡± ¡°Have you ever heard of them coming back asking for sexual favors?¡± He was looking at the other two in the post. ¡°Never, not even once.¡± ¡°Why would they even come back?¡± ¡°Yes, why would they... Thanks, keep the perverts out, Kay thanks. Bye¡± Moments later this pervert was back in town and ready to sleep. I''ll ignore those system messages that disturbed me and my walk back to the gate. You have been repeatedly kissed by the ghost ''Sister with no Gift''. Received status enhancement ''Pleasure of the Body'' for 1 hour Charisma +2. Received status reduction ''Physical Fatigue'' for 2 hours Strength -2, Endurance -2 Your intimacy with the ghost ''Sister with no Gift'' has earned you a title. Gained title ''One Seduced by a Ghost''. Having made contact of the intimate nature with more than one ghost has earned you a title. Gained title ''Concubine of the dead''. Would you like to set a title now? Great game, never telling this to anyone. Ever. I mean EVER. {No} Chapter 3.5 - Monday has Left Me a Complete Wreck Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 3.5 Monday has Left Me a Complete Wreck - My Room - All of a sudden I was awake and sitting up. A sense of dread slowwwly fading away. My room, it looked normal. I was in my bathrobe still. Uncommon, but understandable since I was menstruating still. Slight clamminess and sweat covering me. Did I have a nightmare? Was I sick? I felt my forehead, maybe it would feel warm. I searched my room with my eyes for any clues to this feeling. Was it fear, anger, sadness or something more complex? My computer was on. Normally I turn it off to save some power. What was it I did last night. Gaming yea, I had recalled that. Mr. Stuffed animals did I really get spirit molested last night... twice? Mr. and Mrs. Waifu, didn''t answer. Don''t ask why I named them that. I was young and impressionable at the time and did not know any better when I got those two stuffed rabbits. Pretty sure it is a good thing mom also doesn''t know the meaning of the word. I''d be a bit more embarrassed if she did. Food, school, yup really real word calling. Going to rinse this sweat off first then eat. I shall return my fluffy bunnies to there business. Mr. Waifu don''t be to rough on the Mrs. there. Yes they have sex on the brains more than I do. Impossible you say? Non-sense. - School Hall locker area - Surprise I have visitors waiting for me before first class. Three Gaming Club members are waiting in ambush with gold, loot and experience to offer. And the first kill goes to... ¡°Morning, game goin-¡± ¡°Thieves Guild info.¡± Yes they not going to let me go anytime soon, darn thieves, problem remains what the trade value is of their loot. Dora did his job faster than I thought or the rumor trading was high this time. Some of them actually had physical loot for me it seems. ¡°Oh, yes I do know something... Guess it would be good to sell while the value is highest after all.¡± Leader Winnie looked worried. He and I had player vs. player a few times together and separately. I imagine he understood my play style well enough. Club members called him Winnie due to his high win percentage, more an insult than anything, jealousy is what it is. ¡°You, no. We- yea, um we know the info is worth a real world fortune and all, and none of us are that loaded. Cou-¡± ¡°Before you sell me off as the money hungry loser you want to paint me as today. There are a few things I would certainly trade for, the hidden magic''s maybe. I do want you guys to get ahead and help us rule the game. Otherwise, an auction would have been done online, right?¡± ¡°True.¡± Interjected Josh, he didn''t have a nickname yet. One of the more attractive kids in the club he would be good boyfriend material If I had the time and him any interest. Some man would be real lucky someday I imagine. His fresh look was inspiring some days. ¡°And, Necromancy is not one of them!¡± Blurting that out, the stress level off my voice jumped up for some reason, calm thoughts, calm thoughts. Nothing happened yesterday that anyone will ever learn of. ¡°No¡±, ¡°No¡±, ¡°Maybe.¡± Winnie and Josh looked sad and then hopeful at Bookworm ''maybe''. ¡°Really¡± can someone other than the two people who say something at the same time say, ¡°Jinxs I guess.¡± ¡°Ha,¡± Bookworm looked at me and continued, ¡°Well, there are some sources for that in-game so far.¡± ¡°I''m listening.¡± looking at the possible gifts they were holding at the same time, ¡°Is that a loot distribution container there?¡± ¡°The snacks were a pre-raid buff item, here.¡± ¡°Oh, very yummy nice!¡± The four of us sit down in the hall with a few minutes before class and start snacking. A taste much better than everything that was passed over in the fridge this morning. ¡°Let us guess, the Library or Bookstore you found or work at has lots of lore?¡± ¡°Exactly.¡± He confides with Winnie. ¡°Does she always know everything in game?¡± ¡°Man, you are not that hard to figure out.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Yes. Get on with it we got class soon.¡± ¡°The lore covers all the basics you can imagine, any trainers would be secretive about it since some are outlawed like; Necromancy, and Demon Summoning and anything that controls people. Charm spells can fall into a gray area some banned others allowed. For the most part, they all have a bad image and even if you learn them taking the class is frowned on. Nobles and the like don''t even touch the stuff in public. Trainers will mostly be other classes.¡± Makes sense, pretty much my best guess so far. ¡°So, a bit like the combat side in that anyone who falls into it might be available through the Thieves Guild? I hadn''t thought of it that way. A return visit might be good.¡± Winnie drew closer, ¡°No way you''ve been inside even!¡± ¡°Your jinxs is still in effect, we can talk after.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°Go on.¡± Bookworm was running out of information you could tell he was thinking for anything to help. ¡°There are stories about all types, not sure any of them helpful right now.¡± ¡°In Village Acdin me and a few co-workers found the normal trainers, it was my hope they might have an organization or some such place for the darker sides.¡± Fireballs are fun for a while but the interesting game-play has to be support in combination with an attack.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. ¡°Acdin, yes that is my town as well.¡± Josh started there too interesting. Might have to see what his avatar looks like. ¡°Your jinxs is not over yet either. But, my class is novice tailor and am at the ''Stitch in Time'' store we can meet up for drinks or shoot the shit later.¡± He nodded. ¡°Hmm, guess I can share that the guild there uses a chit token system for entry in to the actual location. I got it from an NPC of course.¡± ¡°I''ll buy you what ever I can for $20 if you tell me how you got the chit. Plus,..¡± He started looking for anything of value at hand. Winnie was just too excited. He wasn''t even thinking anymore. ¡°Give you Josh and Dennis as slaves for a week.¡± ¡°Hey offer yourself first.¡± Josh didn''t approve of being my love slave how dissapointing. Dennis looked at him like he was crazy, ¡°Just be a slave yourself for two weeks, leave me out of it.¡± ¡°No good, Josh is not into me and Dennis here said no.¡± ¡°Three weeks!¡± Are you going to be that bad of a slave that you went from 2 to 3 just like that? ¡°Dennis, find out about Charm, Illusion, and Shadow magic if you can. Time or space if they have it, feels like those would be high profile capital city magics. Josh can help me in game or get me the local contact or something. And you well I don''t need a crappy slave, One week helping and a decent computer chair. Mines about to break.¡± ¡°That seems like a lot...¡± one of them says. ¡°Auction time huh?¡± I pop a snack into my mouth and head to class as the bell rings. ¡°Not that, OK, OK!¡± ¡°Dennis, we got sold to the devil.¡± ¡°Josh, you are in the same town as her. You know moving sounds really hard right now.¡± ¡°What he gets to actually go to the guild with her and not get a chit maybe.¡± ¡°Winnie, were breaking up if I have to do anything unpleasant you know.¡± ¡°Since when were we dating?¡± Bookworm nodded, ¡°Yes if the devil has us do anything unpleasant we are breaking up the band.¡± - School classroom - First class of the day, Chemistry, would be good to sleep in but a group assignment prevents that. Lazy teachers, don''t you want to work either? Deal completed I just had to pass on the details and get my loot. I might have earned enough for a semester at college on the ''GmoreInfo'' auction site. I''d still could maybe if we hurried. Taxes, darn-it that would be annoying. Maybe one of the three had an account? Or Dora? Before the second class started, Winnie became a free worker for a week. A chair would be found soon. I let them know all the details of how I got the chit. Guild Itself and the 30 silver price to buy skills. Proposing that a training position like any trade skill might be the best route although difficult to train. We discussed selling the information for real funds, that was left up in the air for after-school. Second class was Phys Ed, and the dreaded locker room. Not awful since Claire would be there one of my few non gaming connections. She was short and a bit cute if you must know, date-able guess you might consider it. Normal has an appeal, I don''t know her dark secrets though so don''t ask. Moving on gym clothes. Got out the t-shirt and shorts that were required. Some of the larger girls changed into sports-bras so the sight of them bouncing painfully wasn''t forced on us. My nearly B cup, not so painful to exercise with. Not sure if it was a good thing or bad that girls and boys still had separate classes at our school only one gym room made things hard to manage that way possibly. Myself was of the position of indifference, they didn''t look at my small chest and I didn''t get to see them working hard sweating. ¡°Claire did you start the part-time yet?¡± ¡°Yea, that was the other day. Boring not as fun as I thought.¡± ¡°Too bad, you going to pass math this year?¡± ¡°!¡± ¡°Maybe, OK then.¡± I pull off my shirt and drop my skirt. ¡°Having your period?¡± ¡°Yup.¡± She could tell, not to hard if you pay attention. ¡°Bad enough to sit out today?¡± ¡°No, think this one is different half the problems, less pain.¡± ¡°Really? That''s so lucky.¡± One of the other girls looks over. Chu normally has the worst menstruation of the group from what I remember. ¡°First one like this ever.¡± Clair liked Chu a bit, but they had liked a similar boy for a while as friends they had drifted apart since then, ¡°Jealous Chu?¡± ¡°Might be.¡± Ah, she escaped to the classroom. ¡°Isn''t it time you two stop being bitches to each other?¡± Looks like a few of the girls felt the same way. I pull up my shorts and notice one of the girls on the other side watch me or my crotch at least. Yes we can guess we have someone interested in me today. Should I flash her my chest? No, leading her on would be unkind. I pull on my shirt and tuck it in and wait for Clair and her Sports-bra to finish. ¡°Great let''s go pretend to exercise.¡± Showering after class Gym was optional, feeling gross for the rest of the day was an option a few choose. Today would be acceptable I had everything needed in my bag or locker in case. Towards the end I felt like the person interested before was watching again shyly from as far away as possible. Hope I am not her only interest. A stalker would be uncomfortable. She can look today, if we catch her again then we might have to say some honest words. Walking out I dry my hair with the towel instead of covering up like most do exiting. Passing her there in the corner I ask politely in a neutral voice, ¡°Sorry should I cover up, or have we seen enough?¡± Not waiting for the answer I go to get my clothes. Yes towel moved into place leaving the shower, not everyone needed the naked show. Next class I got my nap in, after the teacher notice he had me stop sleeping. Twenty minutes more than enough to feel better. Doing the assignments due tomorrow the rest of class passed by quick. Wiping the imaginary drool from thinking about lunch off, I head out after the bell. - Lunch Room - Josh and I had the same Lunch time they had two times so they didn''t have to build a bigger kitchen, and hire enough to make meals for all the students and faculty at the same time. Winnie had the earlier one so he missed buying me desserts. Josh had his crushes he hung out with and Bookworm Dennis might not even eat lunch. So sitting with a few that knew who I was, enjoyed whatever the stew was they served and left the stale bread. Better than Mom''s creations any day. ¡°Clair if you need help with math we can find a person to help you.¡± Cleaning up the drink she spit out she complained, ¡°Evil, its just numbers, why do we even need them once we can count?¡± ¡°Who is cute in your class, get one to help you!¡± Random girl offered. ¡°Even worse they see me, and I at my worst.¡± ¡°No you know that is perfect. Real Men want to help the maiden in distress and drop their pants at the first sign they helped out. As if it''s a due reward or something.¡± That girl has been reading way to many web romances. Not far from the truth, still often times fiction is based on the real world. ¡°I think it would be OK.¡± Accepting you then would be a great start. The girls gossip about that for a while, was it better being quite at the beginning? What class was next? Brain tired not enough naps today. Or the food has a drug effect to put us to sleep at 4th class. Must be it. Time to go. - Class room - Yup over and done with, whatever they taught us I have already forgotten it and moved on with my life. - Front of School - The three boys from the ambush are waiting out front. Dennis, Josh and Winnie had found a chair and would bring it later today. Surprised that I lived in the apartments a-joining the school on the same block. As for Winnie''s work as an indentured servant, he would do the delivery after. Having 3 boys walk me home was a first, and If Josh had given me any attention other than about games. It would have been cause for celebration. Some lucky guy future, I hate them without even knowing them. Maybe I could get them to send me an adult video of them. Wait if I did that he would totally know I was a pervert. Forgotten like all the stuff in the last class. ¡°So the information, do we sell it?¡± Sitting on the railings and steps of the apartments we chat. ¡°Could get a new machine or parts.¡± ¡°Does anyone we know have an account first?¡± ¡°Sure someone in the club has one, or one of us could open one.¡± ¡°If I remember, the options for sale are limited number of transactions, unlimited purchase for a base rate, or single unit sale.¡± ¡°All would make money, which you think would profit the most.¡± ¡°Well, other than not having to declare taxes here. I agree with what you three decide.¡± ¡°Why¡± ¡°Don''t ask.¡± ¡°kay¡± They started to work things out on that end. I told them I''d be logging in now and check the forums. Gave those without my email my current one and put them in my contact list. If they found a decent NPC that they would consider shady I recommended trying to impress or entice them to get a chit or access locally. Josh I''d just walk him to the Mighty Coinpoorium and see if we could get him one. The hand to inventory trick might be enough for them, we shall see. Was nice to get something taken care of other than school work at school. New chair, you are so going to be welcomed here. Yes the evil grin I don''t have is not on may face as I raid the fridge for snacks. End Chapter 3.5 Chapter 4 - Today was Good Day to Die Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 4 Powered up the computer jumped to the forums for me and I started the days online busy work. Starting the game up, I''d be done by the time it loads. My lovely clunker machine, do your best! Should I hold a service for my departing soldier? The years of commitment holding my butt up. Must have been so hard. *Sheds a single tear* You will be missed. I''ll leave you down stairs maybe Mom will find a use for you. The chair brought by Winnie was in good shape. He didn''t mention if it was new, my guess it was slightly used, no damage, just a decent upgrade. In response to Mom''s questions I just told her it was a hand me down. Not a gift from a boyfriend. She was a little hectic about me not getting pregnant for some reason. At my age, what did she think, I slept around for it or something? Like I could be so lucky. Oh, to not be a virgin still. Big news on the forums was about a few who had grouped up as higher level trade-skill classes and went hunting with crafted gear. They had a few successful hunts and minor losses of life. Sounds like at level 5 they were starting to get strong enough to not get one hit killed in combat at least with the best they could craft at the moment. They still took Raid size groups to kill easy monsters, but success was in sight for party size groups soon. Few jobs, some information to trade, couple of offers on things I didn''t need, etc. I entered the game at the North Gate, took me all of 3 minutes to get over my tears at the memory of last night invasion of personal space that didn''t happen. We will not talk about it anymore. OK today we need to meet with the blacksmith at some point and level more. Maybe visit the Thieves'' Guild, and find a Hunter or Ranger trainer in town. If Josh shows up, I get him to the Coinpoorium. Mini map where are we going, whoops it is that way. ¡°Hey, devil over here.¡± Some strange butler looking character was calling me over. He was clearly forty plus maybe sixty even. Do I look like I would be fooled by an old man with some candy. Not that innocent anymore. I head to the counter seeing Aveon there was surprising maybe Boss or Badmofo was busy. She took the least shifts out front of us all. ¡°Hi, what''s new Avie?¡± ¡°Just these, and that.¡± She produced a note from under the counter with a few in game messages and a small coin bag. Then pointed to the old guy. ¡°Do you know him or something? Don''t tell me you started a loli escort service also?¡± ¡°HA!¡± That is a great Idea! ¡°Think we can dress up Chip and sell him daily?¡± ¡°You would. So scary!¡± The butler type came over. ¡°Should I use your real name or is avatar that strange you don''t recognize me?¡± ¡°No way, your-¡± ¡°Yea,¡± He turned and looked away ah it is so Josh to act like that. Never guessed him to be into the service with a smile and dedication type. So strange. ¡°So James, or is it Hughes or Sabastion. I think I''ve run out of typical English Butler names already. What is your name here?¡± ¡°I went with Southersbee.¡± ¡°I see, I see.¡± I pull him into the workshop. ¡°What? Where we-¡± ¡°Aveon this is Southersbee a real classmate. Southersbee this is Aveon a-¡± I look to see no Mystical or other player in the area, ¡°a- Star tech fan-girl I work with.¡± I look at Aveon with an I know you were talking about me look before I got there. ¡°Hey I thought I asked you not-!¡± ¡°What is Mysti here?¡± In the back work area I teach the basics of dyes to Josh and we leave the store while the cloth is processing. My guess, he will get the skill on the way to the Tavern where the Guild is. ¡°Don''t worry you will get the skill later when the timer finished on the batch.¡± ¡°What skill?¡± ¡°[Coloring]. I get like huge skill experience every person I teach. Some skills work that way I guess. Things everyone can do. That one will hep me level my trade skill class.¡± ¡°Oh cool, thanks¡± ¡°Right no problems! Now- scratch that. Just send everyone you can in town to the shop to learn it. Jeeves.¡± He he, might as well role play him the butler type if he like the look so much. ¡°Sure...¡± ¡°So what is your class now? I know you want to get some form of skills from the Guild, you didn''t say which.¡± He cringes, ¡°Ah yes I am a cook right now in a barracks. Mostly its errands and cleaning though, a little cooking.¡± ¡°Did you at least change from [Villager] yet?¡± ¡°Yes, yesterday. [Novice Cook] level 2.¡± - The Might Coinpoorium - It was fast and easy, we talked to Mr. Gelders and tipped him a few coppers. That seemed to be the impromptu demand it was a few more than my initial trade with him. Guess personal opinion mattered some in each case. ¡°Oh while we are here.¡± I buy the potion mixing set and the second level tailors kit. How many leathers do they have left here? I buy all the leather left in stock was only 4 so not too awful even with the increase in market price. ¡°Do you get free use of raw materials as a cook?¡± Looking at Josh browsing the store. ¡°Um, no we can only make what they tell us too.¡± ¡°Sold your self into slavery and yet you won''t be my sex slave, sad very sad. But now that I see theyou inhere I am kind of glad.¡± Big smile, can I tease you more? ¡°Ho what, that is the kind of slave you wanted from us?¡± ¡°Just kidding!¡± Kind of. ¡°Back to skills, can you use the kitchen at least with things you buy?¡± ¡°Yea.¡± ¡°If there is a recipe 1 or 2 levels above the base skill, make them if you can.¡± If they sell to a restaurant or someone someplace you can skill up faster. You already two levels behind me... *poke*¡± ¡°You really are the devil...¡± ¡°Am not, just his daughter or something, I have the butler to prove it.¡± I grab his arm and smile. ¡°In any case we should get you something to wear other than the starter gear, can be helpful with NPCs I heard.¡± ¡°You are going to put me in a butler Tux aren''t you.¡± Yes I can see his tears on the other side of the screen. ¡°No Badmofo will, if you can scrape enough copper together later. Till then do the recipes and buy food stocks.¡± - South Gate - With tokens in hand we head to the Tavern, with a quick peek inside for players, of which I can''t see any obvious ones. We head to the ally. ¡°Door is there. Down seems to be for the thieves not sure about up stairs. Your job should you decide to accept is to infiltrate and bring back critical information key to my future success in ruling this world. And if you are caught any knowledge of you will be disavowed.¡± ¡°Great your obsession with movies is scaring the crap out of me.¡± ¡°Touche¡± ¡°Hey the skill was learned, why did it take so long?¡± ¡°Oh and find out about as much on dark magic trainers as you can.¡± I grab his arm as he starts off. ¡°Wait, one last thing, the cat downstairs is not a cat, It talks or is a familiar. He might inspect you when you go down stairs, use that to your advantage somehow.¡± ¡°Yes, mas-¡± ¡°You can''t say that to me I might misunderstand...¡± I blush and hurry off after adding him to my friends list. Seeing everybody working hard and progressing was nice, they had all made [Novice Tailor]. The four of us had new contracts worked out. Boring details blah, blah. No thanks. End results a scroll which allowed me to use the Company work areas in all stores at slight increase in the cost of used materials but with free use to sell to the shop stock at a price above the non-employee price. Outsourcing at it''s finest. I trivial crafted a few items for stock, so much faster than hand made. Did a few order pieces and items for the sale area. Sexy nurse was turning in to hit for sales. Crafted another Red Chinese dress for the display, a set of stocking for my-self and a few new hats. Made a few buttons for the shop and girls to use which they had asked for. Congratulations! Level 3 of [Woodworking] has been achieved. Thank you Mr. System, he was always a friendly visit. A leather Apron from 2 of the new leathers I had bought added inside pockets of thick cloth might be helpful. Resulting in a rare quality, would be good for FlavorFlay as the message to meet after shop closed today was set up a few minutes ago. On the forums, between us the message exchange was getting longer with ideas and products we could use or make grew. Ran another batch of dye and added a piece of leather to it that we could use for the daggers he would make. When asked if he wanted to learn [Coloring] skill just in cases he used non metals, he said he would run over after closing with a few things. To color metal it looked like it needed a paint or to be done in the smelting process. ¡°So anyone have anything fun happen today?¡± ¡°Got a new computer chair from my new indentured servant.¡± I grin twisting in my seat, different but nice. ¡°No I meant more like had a male escort on a date like happenings.¡± ¡°Oh, that?¡± Totally heartbreaking girls let me tell you. ¡°He likes male parts on his partners.¡± ¡°.¡± Mysti you started this conversation are you not going to finish it? ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Yes Aveon, THAT guy is 100% not into girls.¡± ¡°Shame, other than calling you the devil, he seemed really nice.¡± ¡°Mysti, I can see you laughing from here.¡± ¡°No, no, I am really not laughing at you.¡± She really was. Someplace in California a girl was laughing so hard she was having a hard time breathing. ¡°If you want to meet prince charming he will be here at shop closing time.¡± I change the topic skillfully. Mysti recovered nicely. ¡°Who is this now? Not that I was interested mind you.¡± Deny all you like this girl has boys on the brains. ¡°A blacksmith apprentice I got to make me some weapons. If you want anything made he had good prices and a few recommends on the forums.¡± If prince charming was not dating someone I feared he may become the object of affection for someone here. I certainly would say no to his looks in game. My darling princess Mysti soon to be a woman in the hands of a prince was clear image in my mind. Not that I would surrender her without a fight. Why? Don''t I have enough slaves setting one free is only kindness right? Guess we can only tell with time. Few other orders and jobs to teach [Coloring] to stopped by. I thought I saw the maid from the tavern yesterday in the shop front window for second. Took me a second to see who was there and where I remembered them from. She vanished shortly afterwards. We ended up putting a sign out front for [Coloring] lessons for 25 copper. Huge profits in the days to come from that alone. Store ended up getting a second dye vat for the front of the store the next day. Miss Utica was quite happy she didn''t have to help teach the skill yet get additional profits for the store. Managers had some kind of store rankings and her pay was directly affected by profits it seems. The vat paid for itself in less that 3 days. When I finally got around to managing my funds, I was quite shocked that I''d obtained close to 14 silver so far. Let''s see how much I would have to hand over for all the gear tonight. Tomorrow I could go skill shopping perhaps. In addition to a headband giving a point of strength and the rare Apron out of leather for Flay I managed a set of gloves with +2 dexterity. He might like a few of the hats in stock, or other clothes. Seems Mystical was excited enough to finish an outfit for herself finally. She looked the part of a caster class now. Blues of several kinds made her rare robe look very dress like and see had a few delicate decorations that added to the effectiveness. Give her a large honking magic staff and she would be raid ready. She might have to figure out how to make high heels though. Flay was pretty tall. ¡°What, I din''t say nothing.¡±(1) ¡°Sure but that look says a million things.¡± Not sure what she meant there. ¡°Yes, just thinking high heals have a wood, plastic or metal curved shiv and leather, cloth or plastic outsides with no plastic that leaves a few options...¡± ¡°You think we can make high heals here?¡± Aveon came running at the warp speed of a sales shopper. ¡°Why not? We can make anything the materials support. Comfort or durability might be an issue, we don''t feel here so that leaves just how long they will last.¡± I look to Miss Utica. ¡°Does the capital have high fashion footwear? Like these?¡± Using the cloth chalk I sketch a pair of 2 inch heals for her. ¡°This part here needs a piece of wood or metal to support the structure here.¡± I learned how they were made one day long ago, never wore a set like it but Mom has a pair she used back in the day. Not anymore as a kid, I have a picture of me walking in them someplace; burn that photo was my only thought. The shoes came apart in pieces when I investigated them for their source of pain and torture. The girls started making Aveon and Mystical a pair each. I said my current gear was more than sufficient. In my mind I hugged my boots. Leaving the trio, including Miss Utica, I headed up front to see Chip clean up. He was glad to do it since I pretty much forced him to for the group. We talked about making a Tux set or butler outfit for Josh. He had a few Ideas. I said he would be back soon enough they could talk about it then. Sure enough 5 minutes later Southersbee walked in and reported what he had found to me at the back water-well in whispers. Apparently first he wanted to report his newest dish was a success and shared a serving with each of us. The buff was decent. Would be great to eat this earlier and have it for the evening. ¡°Tomorrow you will server dinner after getting online? Badmofo out front will help you with an outfit talk to him later. On week ends... Whatever is fine.¡± Jumping up and down, ¡°Now tell me about the caster trainers already!¡± ¡°Boss we found the guy with the skills I wanted. He will think about training me when I am ''strong enough'' or ''fast enough''.¡± ¡°Who is the devil now?!?¡± ¡°Upstairs is the prostitute area and deal rooms.¡± ¡°A safe house and storage for a fencer.¡± ¡°I am getting inpatient here!¡± ¡°The fencer is off site.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°The cat is actually a druid class with a second class as assassin.¡± ¡°That''s great! Not about dark magic, who teaches it?¡± ¡°... I don''t know.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Something to do with stats. Was not smart enough to know that yet was the basics of the responses.¡± ¡°Hmm, we will have a start there then, congrats on finding your class trainer.¡± He hugged me at that point. ¡°Um not to interrupt but thanks for dinner and we made you a return gift, you can choose.¡± Mysti my savior you saved me. Anymore and I would have to force this kid to be my slave for life. ¡°No such apology needed, he was just happy for finding his combat class trainer.¡± I wink and head inside, ¡°You mister will have to explain your actions later.¡± Waving I see a bit of fear on his face. ¡°Ascot, tie or bow tie?¡± Mystical was holding out three items for him to choose, they looked good. Boss lady inside must have liked the food, her style was definitely part of the creation process there. Sitting crafting a few items I asked Miss Utica for a level 7 or 8 recipe or pattern, 8 would be the best. She gave it some thought, then returned with a slip of paper. You have learned the pattern [Soldier Formal Uniform(Custom)] level 7 [Tailoring]. This item is an official outfit for the Principality of Tusk. You have learned the pattern [Maid Outfit(Custom)] level 8 [Tailoring]. ¡°The maid outfit there is used in the capital of this country anywhere else it will be unpopular.¡± I was a bit excited. This is perfect. ¡°Hey, Avie get Everyone we have a mission.¡± After looking at the supplies in the store I have Southersbee run for what we don''t have for the uniform. ¡°Get the places to buy whats missing from Miss Utica and you are free after bringing them back, hurry.¡± Chip, you got the pant recipe right? ¡°Hey Badmofo, make a set of pants this size.¡± You two get those shoes done. ¡°If you need the splint I can carve one from a piece of wood. This size.¡± We are going to do a cosplay event tonight even if I have to sew my fingers off. Five minutes before the closing of the store we have all my plans complete. Prince I apologize now for any discomfort you are about to suffer. I hand a princess veil to Mysti and say here equip it. The shoes, veil and caster robe give a nice image that works with the uniform that was moments ago completed. Once the second victim gets here we can start. And shortly after 8:05 pm in the back door enters our prince. Avie bring him to me.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ¡°Here, equip it please.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°Well we just finished it and it would fit you decent, you look the part, there is a changing room over there if you are shy or into role-play. Hint, Hint.¡± Honestly I''ve never paid attention to how the graphics show the change from one gear to another. Think new gear just pops in after half a second and changed gear the image morphs and blurs some. It is hard to really describe it but magically all of a sudden we have a prince in our workshop and Avie had a big grin. Seeing Mysti being shy behind the arch to the front we call out to her. ¡°Sorry, prince one second.¡± ¡°Mysti can you make your entrance. The time is reversing it is no longer past midnight and Cinderella is still at the ball.¡± I pull her back into the room fully. The understanding starting to show on Flays face. ¡°Ah what?¡± ¡°No, no its fine, we won''t charge you anything for this. Just need a screen shot. The pair of you would be best in the well area out back might be the most scenic I think, yes, yes- no don''t protest it will be soon midnight and the Cinderella needs her beauty rest, lets go.¡± I usher them out and we get a few screenshots they go straight to the forums of course to sell more outfits. Not to embarrass Mysti at all, never crossed my mind, nope. After the posing is done for the forums I get an evil grin apparently. ¡°Look out.¡± Oh too late. ¡°Um here, FlavorFlay this is Mystical. Mystical our blacksmith friend Flay here, one last picture of you two going in for a magical kiss.¡± ¡°!¡± ¡°Excuse me!¡± ¡°You Don''t have to kiss, Just. Just pretend. And move your faces closer. Nice to meet you like. You don''t mind do you? We can help you advertise your goods, later IF you want?¡± ¡°Yes I can see it now a barbarian holding a two handed ''sword'' rescuing a stone-age dressed woman. Very manly.¡± ¡°That may be a... Too much!¡± ¡°It''s just a pretend kiss. Is it your first time prince?¡± Mysti you are a shade of red that would put those dressing out front to shame. Perfect. ¡°No, I am Not scared to kiss, or wait pretend to kiss her!¡± ¡°Mysti would your second kiss in game be nice with this fellow here?¡± ¡°Eep!¡± She ran inside. ¡°Um Aveon get our princess please.¡± That was a yes in any language I know of. Come back Mysti. While we wait I apologize to FlavorFlay for the impromptu photo shoot and ask about the items he brought. Handing him those he would most like. He would accept them and I offered to let him have the prince outfit, he said that he didn''t not like it, but it was just was too much for him to ever wear. Guess Mysti gets to keep it for good memories. ¡°I am going to kill you later.¡± Mysti was back and in good form, yup, yup. ¡°Fine I deserve it for the interrogation on Southersbee.¡± ¡°Is that what this is about?¡± ¡°Not really, you look really cute with cheeks that red.¡± Smile, the jury will never convict this face. ¡°Right.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Kiss, kiss time.¡± I get the screenshot I want. They are about an inch from each others face and have a lovely look. Mysti''s hands holding an arm as she wishes him luck for the battle head. I secretly get the shot from an angle where to the right where it has the appearance of an actual kiss instead of straight on where you can see the space. They won''t know till later, it''s fine. Good memories all around! With pomp and ceremony out of the way. We look at what he made in the workshop and I give the outfit to Mysti to ''store'' for later. Whispering to her to keep it and not sell it. Her lost lamb look certainly fit the moment. The metal items, tools ectera turned out fine. Into the inventory they go. Two of the daggers store nicely in my boots and a third in the skirt pocket. The Two sheathed combat training daggers which are bigger would fit on the belt I would make later. The combat versions stored for later. All that is left was studs for gloves and bracers and jackets to count out. The athame was set to be made once he got proficient enough with steel to make it, wavy swords the length just under a short sword were a challenge in and of itself. He was glad for the work challenge but it still would take a bit more time. Bill for all my toys was 1 silver and 78 coppers. Everything was uncommon quality and of cheap materials but still worth the amount. Being that there was a mine in the region it was not difficult to get copper, tin zinc and iron ores. God help us once we were ready for magic ore, that stuff was deep earth or hard to create. From the information out there, with a single type found in a given area. Some towns with access to a magic ore focus solely on that for trade and industry. So said the forums at least. None of the starter towns had access so far. Finding of new veins was even less common so rare was the key word here. I promised to send him a copy of the cosplay photos and he blushed some. The other girls had a few things to talk to him about so I left them to him with a final reminder out loud, ¡°Yes, Mysti I offered to let him have my permission to date you as part of the deal but he refused saying he couldn''t afford even to pay for such a fine blessing. This ruler is so disappointed in the youth of today, no guts to take freely offered rewards.¡± The rampage in the back room afterwards must have been interesting. It was very quiet until after a bit a lot of noise was heard mostly about that never happening and was not what was meant on and on... I left for the front room to use the dye vat. Congratulations! With the obtaining of level four of [Coloring], you can now make variations from a batch increasing or decreasing concentration. As well as combine some colors to greater effect. Well that is a fun fact to learn, thank you Mr. System. Since I was afraid to leave town, and was unsure about being granted the buff effect from ghosts again so quickly, finding something to do like locating a dagger trainer might be nice. Returning to the back room the conversation about dating my Mysti seems to be over and the apologies and denials had cleared. Stir, stir, stir. ¡°So is the charming couple scheduled for tea on a later date?¡± Mysti was mad enough to kill maybe we should at least confirm if things would progress? ¡°What? No why?¡± Do you not want to, shame such a cute couple? ¡°So you don''t want to thank Mysti for helping to make such a nice outfit that fit you perfectly. OK that''s fine.¡± Sometimes even cupid would be scared by my accuracy. I heard later Mysti and Flay met for tea and sweets. She didn''t even kill me. She may have dearly wanted to a few times. I went back to the office to grab Miss Utica for a question before she left, she was still here after helping set up the outfit. Some of her work got put off until after closing. She stayed to watch us finish the photo shoot with a happy face. She looked healed from the day of stress even. ¡°Excuse me boss, recommended anyone to teach me daggers? Need a trainer and all.¡± I had the money, time and the weapons now the skill. ¡°Sure, the archery instructor or the martial instructor for the guards. Although, the martial instructor may refuse. He tends to only help men and want to champion the cause women are too meek.¡± She had a smile. ¡°?, Is something wrong?¡± ¡°No, no... you''re either going to love the Archery instructor or hate her.¡± Now I have a shiver for some reason. The thought that people here have zero negative connotation to same sex pairings. It is almost as if all the Earth''s conventions don''t cross over exactly. And if the lady to teach me daggers is, no, I don''t have that bad of luck. Maybe I should go another day. ¡°Find her at the gambling tavern near the Northwest corner of town most nights. Or so my friends tell me.¡± ¡°You have friends? Ha just kidding, CYA!¡± Yea, days stress is back. Those looks were possibly dangerous, that one certainly said I would be dead in a few seconds. ¡°Is that the face we show our customers?¡± I vanish post haste. Is it possible I am a glutton for punishment? Wa-waiting can''t help the situation and I only have a limited time. The martial one could say no, is there a point in checking? I mean the ghost event was novel writing, what is the worst that could happen. I get tied up locked up and used and abused for days on end by a masochistic dagger instructor focused only on tormenting and pleasuring me till the very end of my life. That the worst right? Game, this is a game they wouldn''t do something like that right? Yes a good bit of therapy and I''ll forget all about it and yesterday''s soul sucking sister of lust. I can do this. Forward, or maybe not. Feet how long you going to wait. Tavern is, what was it called again, yea, ''The Breach of Trust''. Who names these things? Is it part of the lore or something? - Out front of the Breach - Bar, loud, people cheating each other at games of supposed chance. Although I didn''t see anyone there that relied on luck and actually won. Several sleight of hand movements, a few bluffs so bad even someone with no poker experience could see they were faking. Never went out and gambled but the ''How To'' book on the web sure covered enough. I read that when I was seven. After seeing a royal flush in the movies, I couldn''t understand how they had gotten that kind of luck. Guess they hadn''t. It was just fiction, still made me read up on the subject. What I was seven and the movie made no sense. ¡°Who gets that lucky?¡± Among them was the target I was trying to find, yes the atypical ''love em and leave them'' heart-breaker type of girl. While she seemed a bit more skilled than her cohorts, she was by no means raking it in. Must be the lie low win enough to be kept from getting thrown out play. What should I do, win, lose or draw? While thinking I head over to watch the games they playing. Looks mostly like dice, accuracy daggars on a board I would never have thought of, ''Is that the ass of a man or woman?'' Totally facing the other way, in could only flinch as someone scored really close to ''that place'' with a dagger. What else, in the corner was someone flipping square coasters in some contest I didn''t comprehend yet. Was it a memory and speed, kind of thing? They moved them and their opponents blocks each turn and played for money and drinks. Mean game, get pissed and miss or slow and you done for. I took a seat near the woman, of who I was most certain was going to molest me later. God I fear the scripting in this game even more now. She freely had been groping her friends and other players in the place a few times already. The game she was playing, turned out to be a liars game type of dice and bluff game each player had 2 number dice and a third one with characters on it. They didn''t look familiar so I could not say what they meant or were for. A round played out like this, up to four players put in 1 or 2 colored dice into a cup one players dice differed from any other. Chose a character on their third one put them next to the ante. 1 copper ante, the dice were scrambled by one player then put on the table. Each player depending on the result was passed on to the second round by the result of characters and their dice. Second round players made a bet depending on the who was left, 2 players and they could wager. Three meant the first round play style happened again till 1 or 2 were left. If 1 was left they won. With 2 players left a face off of a single dice and a character chosen. Characters I found out were High, Low, No choice, Between and Tie. With complex things happening if more than one player chose the same as another. If two players picked High then all players had to hope to roll the highest. All the number dice of each player had the numbers in dots for 0 or blank, 1, 2, 5, 8, and 9. Three, four, six and seven not on a die. A bit overly complex, I could see the appeal for players with some experience. Add to that if several High characters were chosen the singe highest would win, If low only the one with the highest would get knocked out and forced to drink. A few other rules I picked up after a few rounds, truly a scary game for anyone with hopes to go home sober or with coin. So to lose here would be unpleasant I need to afford the skill. Draw would go on all night seeing that the singular idea for the place was to get drunk, dead, poor or a roll in the hay. Walking out with too much and you were not welcomed back. One merchant had been refused already to play or drink, no one would play if the bar didn''t serve you first. The only rule the place had so far. So drink ¡°Bar keep what is you most foul and cheap drink you have?¡± ¡°seriously?¡± He whispered softly, ¡°you do know this will make you sick if you are not used to it? To my knowledge the last three people who drank it died.¡± ¡°No, but thank you for the warning, can I also get something which won''t cause me undue stress.¡± Two coppers, well one idea was shot down. This left the second one. ¡°Hey Anne? Can you get a second to take the trash out please.¡± ¡°Mom, I''d be happy to does that include the old chair?¡± ¡°Yes¡± ¡°Do you know the words to say for a departing solider off hand? His contribution to my life will never be forgotten?¡± ¡°Honey if I knew I''d tell you. Really now, the things you ask. How would any normal person know them?¡± ¡°Just asking stuff I don''t know.¡± Up we go, ah the new chair is so nice and comfortable. Sorry old one the new gen has come and the old must go. I take the old chair to the trash area and wish it well in its next incarnation. Today was a good day to die. I also wonder if my Mom is really my Mom, or do I just take after the father I don''t know. I sat back near the group and watch waiting for someone to give out. ¡°You in next?¡± one of the men playing asked, his eyes staring at me and my parts of me men like to glare at. Upgraded a tier they were OK compared to my real ones, nothing to scream holy mother of... ¡°yea sure.¡± Placing the tank of drinkable liquid on the table I look at the three I''d be facing soon. One extremely affectionate and sexually aggressive Archer Trainer. Villager B with no skills and about to fall over. And the guy who was drooling at my chest. He was about as skilled as any in the place. Not up or down just getting his drinks paid for at least. Scary level of performance just like her, who was already anticipating what was inside my skirt from the looks of it. Could be that shiver I just felt both in the real world and in game was an indication of the future. Or could be someone walking on my grave, who knows. Let''s do this. After 30 minutes the game was on and well under way, Villager B, named Herthwreed, was gone. The Oh so lecherous man named Klink by his friends was about to fall over. The combined in game abuse of me and the woman known as the ''Called Shot Archer from the Abyss'', or ''instructor'' to those in training. Her lovers calling her ''Relentless'' and the staff here ''the bottomless pit that never uses her own money''. Klink was out of luck. Certain to need help to get pretty much anywhere. In fact heck, for staring at me all night I thought I''d give him the help know his place and get there faster. I walk around the table and push him off the bench. ¡°Timber!¡± Yup, in his place across from woman who will be teaching me daggers later. Game on. I pulled out the nasty drink I got at the beginning of the night. It was sitting next to my half-full, third drink from the serving girl. My avatar had a pretty bad reaction to the intention to drink it before not sure if it was even possible to drink even forcing myself. All system would say is ''nope you don''t really want to drink this''. ¡°Am I seeing double why do you have two drinks?¡± Hope this works. ¡°Oh I thought it would be a good drink but the bartender said it was enough to make you sick, I had an idea to drink it, but couldn''t do it. Seeing as it is about to get real in here I figure I would bring my A-game.¡± ¡°A-game, rught.¡± ¡°.¡± Took a second, my character was getting tipsy too. Blur and unsteady in walking, yup the 4 stack of a drinking buff. Much more and Ophilia would be like the fellow I just cut loose. ¡°So much better to look at than floor mat there, ha! SsssO what is this A-game? Never heard of it.¡± ¡°Loser drinks this, winner keeps the money, any game you choossee.¡± Oh I get slurred speech now. Funny. ¡°Oh tasty little fishy, lets play.¡± ¡°No speed or accuracy gammess please, you tooo much better.¡± I added just to be safe. ¡°He he, you about to find out how much better, the name relentless is not for nothing my fresh desssert.¡± ¡°Upping the ante then?¡± ¡°Sure you will be mine for a while, say when I get bored you go free...?¡± ¡°That isss a lot to add, hows we say you teach me to use these if you loossse.¡± My new toy gets added to the table the one for practicing. ¡°Just in case I do fall here in battle, winner makes sure the loser gets home. There ere goats here would pick a fallen friend clean at closing time.¡± Strong stuff maybe the bartenders warning wasn''t in vain. Along with the system complaint I was worried it was going to end messy. Game or not, I''m going to win. I have to. No time to worry about it. ¡°Where do Wee drop you off at?¡± ¡°Hommme.¡± ¡°Noos, where I have no ideea wher you live.¡± It is not far from here I can make it, the pace is really slow and I was way over the limit on drinking buff. Up to 6 stacks of the buff. It was a close game, we had quite the audience by the end. For now, she was putting me over the weight limit for my inventory and had to puke every 3 or 4 steps. Really what I''d do for a free skill was way too much. I''d better hurry Mom''s is going to riot if I''m on late. Least there was no smell on the internet. Is this what college life will be like? Dragging your friend back to the dorms because someone lost the keys to the car. ¡°Blegh!!!¡± You''ll be fine. ¡°Little more we almost therrrr.¡± Woman why you so heavy, are you carrying bricks in your inventory? ¡°Bu- bu- blegh¡± *splat* I feel bad for her it is my fault after all. ¡°So hurrid, aful. Wy wod eu du uch ah then to meh?¡± Let me translate she said, ''so horrid, awful. Why would you do such a thing to me?'' Reason: ¡°touh teaach meh daggersss ffor free siiilly¡± I din''t know honestly how bad it would get. ¡°gud reeassson.¡± guess she understands the economics of the situation. - The home of the Relentless - She had started crying a while back. I joined her 10 feet from the door, it was sad and painful 2 block trip that took way longer than should have ever been possible. How traveling the distance of 8 or 10 small buildings turned into an hour plus adventure was beyond me. Mom thought I was asleep as I had shut down the computer screen and jumped in bed to pretend to sleep when the hall light went on. When it went off again I got up drop a cloth to block the light from the door and turned the monitor on and put headphones on. I had to get her home before logging off otherwise it would be a fail on the agreement. Sorry Mom your daughter has twisted priorities. At the two story house our heroine lived in we stopped as she struggled to access the door and key. A few violent gags and shakes later she had the nice wooden door open and covered in puke. So not going to help clean up any more than I have to. We make it to the bedroom on the second floor, for an NPC apartments it has every function our home did. Plenty of decorations and nice style. I''d say she had put lots of effort into making this a loving home for her self. Sadly the trail of stomach contents was an unpleasant addition. Really that is going to smell for a while and maybe hurt the wood flooring. ¡°Waatr¡± I pull out my water skin and help her to drink some. ¡°anks.¡± ¡°Welcome¡± We manage the bedroom on the second floor finally and get her in to bed. She points to a bedroom storage near a water basin. Holding out two fingers. ¡°Yup, one ssecnd¡± I get the basin and open the storage. Potions a few different ones. Hum. I get the ones that description say Cure Poison and Cure. Plus one for Sleep. ¡°whitch?¡± I present them all. She pulls the Cure Poison one out of the group, that bad huh? Putting the basin down as it is about to be needed again, ¡°blegh.¡± I open the potion for her. How do I feed it to her? Crying we sit her up some in bed and slowly bit by bit get enough into her mouth to have effect. By the end of the vial she has put an end to the projectile vomiting and is almost just drunk. Still crying and holding my hand we sit as the potion effects kick in. You have earned a title for your compassion to a friend and opponent. Title earned ''True friend''. Would you like to equip a title now? {yes} Title effects added, title set ''True friend''. A friend on your friends list can be called on for assistance once a day if close to your location.(see title page details for usage) NPCs can be added to your friends list if they have agreed and have maximum affection for you. So you have to equip a title to see the benefits, wonder what happens if you remove it. Something for later. With tears in her eyes still. She pulls me close in a hug on her bed and starts talking, ¡°You know I really thought I was going to die just coming home.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Never have in all my years as an instructor or adventurer, been in such a state.¡± ¡°Ssorry¡±. ¡°No don''t be.¡± She smiled weakly at me and hugged me. ¡°Even if it is the worst, and I mean it, the worst experience of my life. I have learned something new.¡± The tears start again. I get up and get a cloth from the wash basin area. Return to her side and hug her. ¡°It may be a game for me but I feel really bad you experienced the worst moment because of me. I didn''t know and was only thinking of the gains here.¡± Carefully wipe the remains from the trip home off her face and other places. We recline a bit on the bed, move the pillow so her head is a bit more comfortable. My hand caressing her hair as she rests and cries some. ¡°What the hell did you have me drink?¡± I didn''t know either, ¡°You can order one from the bartender anytime you want to punish someone I guess. I really didn''t ask after ordering it.¡± She rests her head on my chest and weeps gently. You have rested in bed for 3 minutes you can now log off and receive a sleep bonus for every hour offline. Wait really, really? really. I read that system notice a few times. Does anyone else know this? ¡°Hey instructor, is your bed special and give a buff or do all beds give a rest bonus?¡± ¡°My bed has given many girls a bonus none of it has ever been for resting, why?¡± She plays with the hem of my skirt gently with little purpose other than to do something with her hands and returns to resting on my chest. ¡°No reason...¡± ¡°How long can you stay?¡± The clock near the bed says 11:45 pm. Mon would fit if she caught me up but my emotions and reasoning seemed conflicted as a friend Computerized or not I want to comfort her for the hell I instigated. ¡°I''ve got time I guess.¡± ¡°Thanks¡± She smiles looks up in to my eyes and tears form as she puts her head back on my left breast area. ¡°Sorry, Really that much puke, how is it even possible...¡± ¡°ugh, don''t remind me. where did that skin go? Her eyes looking for the water skin. I pull it out and take some and pass it over. She empties it and hand it back. Kissing my cheek and resting on my chest again. ¡°Even in my trouble youth and back alley days things were never that bad. That drink opened up my eyes.¡± ¡°I am shocked you drank the whole thing you didn''t have too, a few sips would have convinced me.¡± I pet her hair a few times, it is nice and soft looking. A bit messed up from the trip but comforting. The light blonde hair with a short clean length had a mature look. Girls would think it is handsome for sure. I just have the desire to pet it some and let her rest. Giving her a hug. ¡°Do you need anything else before you sleep?¡± ¡°If you are offering an orgasm, I''ll accept. Were you not, I am more than OK with the current situation.¡± ¡°Perverts this game is full of perverts.¡± ¡°Is that so... Nothing wrong with that from what I know.¡± She kisses where she is resting her head. Tells me a few stories from her youth. - 2 Hours later - We talked, she told stories, I went for more water once. She hugged me really tight for a while after I returned. I shared things from my world. I felt warm enough to get into sleeping gear at the computer. The period I was haveing was almost done. So a change for sleep was nice. She kissed me a few times more out of affection rather than passion. And always someplace convenient and not the mouth. Extra movement on her part was still a challenge. I played with her hair, we talked about past traumas, me and lack of father, her and her childhood stuff. We changed her clothes into something without puke on them. Her skin was firm, white and pretty, her chest smaller than mine in the real world. The NPC underwear was better than I had imagined and was remove-able. The digital scramble went into effect in those places if you looked you saw only blackness. Was really strange dressing her in bed while she lay on her side. ¡°Is.. Is my body pretty?¡± How do I reply to this? Resting back in her bed in her arms, with mine holding her and caressing her hair. ¡°From what I can see it is a very pretty body. You know for me I cannot see the important parts when the clothes are gone.¡± ¡°Really, how sad, they are some of the best parts around.¡± She rests again on the left breast. Kissing mine again. ¡°Thank you again. I want to give you more than just teaching you how to use your dagger. It is my guess you won''t accept the things I really want to share.¡± Drawing her hand up to the place she kissed she passes a finger over where the nipple would be I think, the censor underwear covers it. In any case so do avatars even have one? Letting her hand and body rest she just holds me and I her. Tiredness is starting to creep up on me I''ve almost nodded a few times. Teacher kept talking for a while. She shared a few combat tips and weapon strategies for knives and daggers while I drifted off at the keyboard. College second year, me and Teea we went drinking and having a blast. I take her home to my dorm and we got intimate the moment I was about to get touched I woke up and the computer system notice startled me. Yea really, she did that all night long... It is 4:30 in the morning and Teea, Miss ''relentless'' had relentlessly talked and taught me about daggers and weapons all night. Still describing uses and actions to my character who only dissented if I made her.Ah lucky me. Missed all the good tips... Wonder if any of it was important? Congratulations! You have learned [Daggers] level 3. You guessed it that is the notice that woke me up. I scrolled back the log to look for any and all notices. Looks like after I got level one I got a [Basic Attack] skill.Talk about learning in your sleep. ¡°Were you going to get any sleep dear?¡± I put my hand on her head and feel the soft hair and ruffle it some.It so so soft ah, *mussy mussy* ¡°Do you sleep with your Eyes Open. that quite the skill for an adventurer.¡± ¡°No I just couldn''t respond. It happens when I fall a sleep on this side.¡± ¡°?¡± She looks confused. ¡°Is that fine?¡± ¡°Yes that is how it is for us players.¡± ¡°Can I log off here. Not sure what will happen when I do.¡± ¡°Of course, log off all you like.¡± She looked up with care and fear in her eyes, they look so sad after having cried for so long. ¡°Will we talk later?¡± ¡°I think so, not going to run away am I?¡± Giving her one last hug and a kiss on the forehead. I start the Log off ¡°Thank you for getting me home. I''d be dead otherwise.¡± I almost start crying again. ¡°Your welcome, and I am so sorry too! I hope you can forgive me.¡± She hugs me and caresses me and kisses my chest again. Returning to a rest the on my left breast. ¡°Forgiven completely.¡± Non-Player Character ''Teea'' has reach maximum affection with you and requested to be friends. Do you accept? {YES!} ¡°My first true friend.¡± ¡°Me too, me too.¡± You have logged off. In addition you have logged off in a shareable bed. Sleep bonus will accumulate for every hour spent there. You can be kicked out of it since it is not yours. Bed, please come closer, Mr and Mrs, Waifu help me walk. I crawl into bed and grab one of the rabbits and place it near my stomach. No luck tonight my lucky Waifu, just keep me company. I push it closer to ground zero and let the softness and sleep take over. Goodnight. Come my real world sleep bonus. Has to be less than two hours until school. ...zzzZZZ (1) intentional spelling and grammers for slang *** please note the conversation at the end, they were still under the drunk effect. As such they both had the conversation make sense and no longer need to get "drunkified". You get the point, I don''t have to suffer to think how they sound and speak. :) Chapter 5 - Disappointment of Hump Day Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 5 Disappointment of Hump Day - My Room - So sleepy five more, please anything, anyone, more sleep. ¡°Mom let me sleep.¡± ¡°No. Get up. You''re late. Move it, hurry. Why are you so tired.¡± ¡°Girl problems. Sleep please.¡± ¡°No class starts in 5 minutes you can make it, those boys are outside waiting.¡± ¡°Why they only want my brain to make them money and powerful. Sleep!¡± ¡°How would you make them powerful? Never mind that get up.¡± Ah there goes the covers. ¡°What are you doing with that rabbit?¡± Oh yea Waifu was there... ¡°sleeping... where its warmest...¡± What else of course, ah I don''t care anymore!!! ¡°Fine I''m up!¡± Hope she forgets about me so I can go back to sleep. *push push push* Why is the sun god so evil? And bright? ¡°Moning dev-, Anne and Misses De Madmam.¡± ¡°Oh hi, slaves. You actually knew my last name so impressive. Don''t mind my snores.¡± *zzzzzzZ* ¡°Boys, good morning, see that she gets to class?¡± ¡°No worries, it is within the power of these pitiful slaves, come on devil we''ll be late.¡± Bookworm has the gal to ask, ¡°Why so tired?¡± ¡°In the ever pursuit of cheap skills and gaming advantage I made a sacrifice to the Gods of ale and friendship. They return they favor thus-ly.¡± ¡°This I have got to hear.¡± Josh was about to fall over laughing, ¡°No, not gonna share, you can''t even possibly afford more credit right now.¡± Anyone know what classes I have to attend today? I can''t think of anything except crazy ways to get back into bed and tease my friends. ¡°Hey forget the locker, I can''t remember the combo.¡± ¡°I believe you had a key lock tied to your smart phone idiot.¡± ¡°Did you bring my phone?¡± Guess not. - Class Room - Good thing it was only Pre-Caclulus I can do this class in my sleep, and proceeded to prove my self right. There is no proof either way. After class, I had recovered enough to get home and find my phone and get to second period with book in hand this time. Not that I had the energy to comprehend or remember any of said classes today. - Lunch Room - Two events happened, first was I dropped my drink in my lap after nodding off. This lead directly to the second which was getting cornered in the girl''s bathroom by my stalker friend I flashed yesterday in the shower during gym class. Her face was flushed as you would expect with any confession. Her make up must have agonized her as she had done it with the utmost care and her outfit had to have been the cutest of her whole closet. And still, there was no feelings in my heart for her. ¡°Could we go out? On- On a date?¡± ¡°Come here.¡± I reach out and hug her close, remembering last night. Her breathing slowly changed and I felt her lean more on me. Yea that''s not helping huh? I am just too tired to care. I pull her off gently and slowly untangle her arms that were in a firm hug around me. ¡°Look, I am not really into you I guess, I''ve had zero sleep last night and am sooooo tired I am about to fall over.¡± I look at her sad eyes, they realized where this is going already. ¡°We could do something but I know for sure I am not going the place you are going with this, friendship is my limit. What that entails who knows. Not kissing you and not any sex. I want a boyfriend to do those things to me and hope that it happens soon. Really soon actually. The sooner the better even...¡± I look into the mirror. Yes another couple hours a sleep would be nice. ¡°What''s your name?¡± ¡°Steph.¡± ¡°Nice, Steph, you going to be OK?¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°No problem then, hope you meet a nice girl before you leave college and make her yours and marry. Statistically that is your best option, failing that move to a big city that accepts such a lifestyle.¡± I turn to leave. She doesn''t let go of the hand she grabbed. Yes, back to lunch. I exit the room. I sit down at the lunch table with, ¡°Steph? Still holding onto me, she has to let go at some point right?¡± I ask a few sitting at the table. A couple of shrugs. Ah life is evil. Could I bribe someone to be me today and get some more sleep. Knock, knock, reality calling. No one home for me or Steph. Off to last class. Remind me to never stay up all night again. - After school at the Gaming Club - I still have an abnormal growth even now, she still hasn''t said anything since the bathroom. Breathing check, pupil dilation, it does. Good. Breath in her ear, ¡°I am not going to sleep with you or kiss you.¡± She still responsive to voice and stimulus. Right will let her stay then, not hurting anything. ¡°So guys check this out, no not her, listen. Sleep bonus is in the game, what it gives I would assume, experience don''t hold me too it. Applies to logouts in beds after 3 min of resting. This is going on the auction site as well if there are no other sources. Do a web search and follow up after the auction. That is all return to your work.¡± ¡°Where did you get access to a bed? There are no cheap Inns in the villages that will accept you even if you have money, they say you can''t stay here and you get thrown out.¡± ¡°Even the brothels won''t let you stay more than in the common room.¡± Some pervert. ¡°You went to one how was it?¡± Those guys blah, blah, blah. ¡°Maybe you need level 10 or something.¡± Someone actually thinking. Was there any point to my being here? ¡°Steph, were are not in a relationship. OK?¡± No response here. ¡°Dora where are you?!¡± From down the hall. ¡°Down the hall no need to shout almost there.¡± Finally, ¡°Dora the three amigos you sent were perfect, thank you! Have you met my newest appendage, this is Steph. As a fully autonomous agent she can do things other appendages can''t. So anything new in your life? Hurry, I want to go home. The universe is coming unglued and I don''t know if it is safe here.¡± ¡°Sleep bonus?¡± I caught him up to speed on the news. ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°That is more than incredible.¡± ¡°Crazy thought, have beds built see if they can be places in town back alley or outside if that fails, take turns sleeping and guarding if you have to outside of town. Or group purchase of a space someplace if they have a solid earning income. Maxing rep with Inns like the apprenticeships start too? Loitering and panhandling is accepted so why not player slums. The real ones have mobs in them. Just stay away from the nicest places should be good. You all can''t have my sources or how I found mine. Assuming I get to use it again.¡± ¡°Steph, do I have to feed you anything? Special housing considerations. Never had a pet before...¡± She glanced at me then back in to where-ever she was, hiding in plain site was that it? ¡°You have the weirdest harem there devil.¡± He handed me a print-out. ¡°Ah yes, that is the map of the ''Stitch in Time'' stores we work for I thought you''d like that for your birthday gift.¡± ¡°That what this is. Holy $#!T.¡± ¡°What did I not include that in the email?¡± Where are my manners...? Oh yes in game someplace. ¡°Guys we have a basic map of... looks like 40% of the starting towns on one of the continents.¡± Wow, huge continent we were on. ¡°Hey if you need me for anything else it is walking distance, just holler back.¡± ¡°Steph you coming? Home is that way I want to rest.¡± Maybe? - My Room - Steph came over to play I had her use the left arm for a while so I could use the mouse with my right. If the event ever fully processed for her, I was ready to talk about it any time. ¡°Hey let me know if you get hungry or have to take a visit to the- Um, my bathroom. There are times I''d like to get to myself, showering, sleep you know the normal things kids do alone.¡± Nodding yea that is a start. Can this Hump, Wednesday day get any stranger? Is this better than a stalker at this point we don''t know. ¡°We are still not going to have a relationship OK? No sex or kissing 100% on this you know.¡± Forums, orders, information service. Rumors, new skills some, dark magic info zero. So let us see what can we learn on the auction site, about time someone had a decent find. ¡°Open up.¡± I feed Steph on of the baby carrots from my pile of snacks. Then have one myself. There is life and happiness in those eye for a while... Guess she will be OK, at some point. Why can''t that be Josh he''d be the perfect love slave, from a looks standpoint. Or maybe the guy from the Art group who looks like he could be in the Theater club. Reminds me of a star I''d seen. Maybe too pretty to talk too. Josh might be better after all. Steph what do you think about that. Josh and the guy from art club at the same time. Won''t really ask might be too much and she''d explode. Is this really my life? Connecting to Game world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The world was as I left it at 4:30 ish AM. Me in bed with Teea on my left side. Yup my other out of control exsitance. Such is my life, much more entertaining than the other games we got sucked into the last couple of months. ¡°Why is she sleeping with a girl?¡± ¡°Yes that is where I stopped playing the game last night. Wait morning.¡± ¡°So you do like girls sleeping with each other.¡± ¡°We only slept Steph.¡± ¡°So there is hope? We can have sex right?¡± ¡°Why is it always that. No I want to be with a boy and hope it happens soooon.¡± ¡°.¡± And gone again, quiet. ¡°Teea can I get up?¡± ¡°Maybe dear, could you get more water and some food from the stores downstairs? I have a seriously awful buff against any actions at all.¡± I hug her and play with her hair. ¡°That I can do, shift over some.¡± As I get up she reluctantly lets slip my hand as I leave the bed. The buff on my experience bar is pretty hefty. This should help a lot... Like most games, any experience gain is increased until a set amount is used up. Adding a nice 60% to any gain. All day in bed while at school and it may make up for not getting to play while at school. Those players doing this full time will be within site if I can put this to good use. ¡°What sounds good? Meat cheese or veggies?¡± I call upstairs. ¡°Oh some of each is great.¡± I fill my water skin and a couple mugs, then head back up. ¡°I have never had a sleep over before are they always this fun?¡± Handing over the food and drink I sit on the bed and help her sit. ¡°mmm, sure, first time I have someone over and don''t make her my meal.¡± ¡°yes, yes, sure, sure. Something clean to wear?¡± ¡°The ah, that one there on the left.¡± ¡°I grab the one on the right.¡± Nodding yes this is much more practical and less likely to have her rape me once she can move. ¡°What that one is perfectly fine for house wear.¡± ¡°Lace teddy and crotch-less panties are not perfectly fine house wear for two friends, who are not sleeping together sexually.¡± Sides if she wore this all I''d see is a black circle censoring the parts she wanted me to see in the first place. She must not understand the concept I explained last night. And if anything that would be worse since I''d always be looking at the strange circle and her thinking I was seeing the real thing might incite her worse. We take her clothes off and get her into a nice house dress that has better coverage and a decent appearance. Change the basin and leave some water up here. ¡°Should I stop by around dinner time, you sure you are not milking this to make me work right?¡± ¡°Ha, ha, No. This drink did a real number on me tomorrow should be fine.¡± ¡°Work?¡± ¡°It is not busy right now strangely I would expect a few more initiates with the influx of new people to town, most just not able to learn the skills or such.¡± Staring at the wooden paneled ceiling she thinks some. ¡°Should be well enough, they might come stop by but with the trail of puke they may guess what happened. Wouldn''t be the first time things looked like that.¡±Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on. Not sure how they judge the learning potential of players, ¡°How was I able to learn [Daggers] then?¡± ¡°You were ready? Don''t know. Fast enough and strong enough, why they all ask to learn bows or sword fighting is beyond me when they couldn''t even draw one or swing one long enough to be decent.¡± ¡°Ah I see.¡± Email time, Dora: news flash, learning weapon skills has a strength or dexterity requirement, if we started at daggers it would be fine like I have, unless you just want to skip daggers and level a trade-skill until you have the stats for the weapon you want to start with. Couple of crazy emotes and such, Send. Get busy you slackers. ¡°Steph, my drinks gone can you separate long enough to fill this?¡± One small step at a time, ¡°Promise I''ll be here when you return.¡± ¡°You will.¡± I nod in affirmation of my promise, ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Anything else before I go to work Teea?¡± ¡°Thank you?¡± She points to her lips and I can only guess she wants a goodbye kiss. Not gonna happen. *slap* yea that was me smacking her butt. ¡°No now stop making me late.¡± ¡°Grr, so this is what all those girls felt like when I left them in bed to go to work since they couldn''t walk.¡± Relentless, I totally get it and yet not interested. ¡°Thanks Steph.¡± ¡°Your welcome. Mom wants to know if I am staying for dinner?¡± ¡°Are you?¡± ¡°Am I?¡± *Shrug*, ¡°If you are best be prepared to make it yourself. Mom''s food will kill dragons or Ogres.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Well that solves one problem but creates another. ¡°Back in a few hours'' teacher!¡± ¡°Be safe!¡± - Stitch in Time - Sleep bonus research time. To see how they managed it, we focus on Novice Tailoring skills and only them, should help. Doing a few shop stock items at a lower level than mine the bonus is used slowly. Making an item closer to my level used a bit more, but not as much as I expected it too. The uncommon quality experience bonus with the sleep bonus ended up being better with less bonus loss. Experiment then, we''ll try for a rare item. I buy the [Belt(leather/cloth)] recipe from the store manual for a few coppers, slightly higher than when I was an apprentice, still not a huge price difference. From the rares, unique and the forums talk, everything points to group efforts, materials, attention to details and effort to make a great item. Only Miss Utica is in the store. The others on errands or not here yet. Boss lady it is then. ¡°Good day Miss Utica, sorry about my impertinence last night on my way out.¡± I smile and wave. ¡°Oh it was fine, I should expect as much from you by now.¡± Looking around like who me? Ho, in game stalker is back in the window. *wave* cute she waved back. ¡°Making a belt next want it to come out rare quality at least any suggestions on making sure that is the case.¡± ¡°.¡± I wave at the window, again she waves back. Fun game. ¡°Who is that waving at you?¡± ¡°Steph that is a stalker, you know the type right?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°If you make sure that the quantity and quality of the materials are in sufficient proportions to get the stats and durability along with the best production during an item. Items with 2 or more status increases or effects will be rare for a belt, a Robe may need 3 effects to be rare. Use two rare sub-components most times you get a rare item.¡± ¡°Could it be? You make the heavens above part and the glory of the sky descends and blesses us with the ability to create perfection.¡± ¡°Not sure what you mean Ophilia. You are possibly right.¡± She agrees anyways... With the metal studs from yesterday, ¡°How many of these on a belt would give the item the effect from the decorations. I am going to wear it.¡± ¡°On a belt? She inspects a couple. Might go with 8, 9 or 10 maximum.¡± ¡°How do you make that calculation?¡± I tilt my head and wave at the window without looking. ¡°Weight, fabric, quantity, material and some amount of practical experience.¡± {Observe} Name: [Steel Stud] Quality: Uncommon Item Type: Decoration Weight: > .01 kg Description: A basic piece of steel to be used in fabrication of another item. ¡°What do you see when you look at this item? I can see its name, type and weight and a description.¡± ¡°Think my Class adds a few things like resulting possible effects. This will add durability, or strength, endurance: extra damage, defense, or both: along with a few possible uses, effects. Like traction on boots or blunt on gloves.¡± ¡°Very good to know. Again grand master you have enlightened this one.¡± I bow and turn, oops stalker went to work so I can''t wave at her again. ¡°Steph are you good at cooking?¡± Oh Dora answered back, looks like a promotion to God status was approved then revoked back to devil for having a harem. What three guy-lackeys none of which I want or willing to go out me, with a girl who only talks when she jealous acting as a third appendage, and 1 NPC stalker, and a skill teacher I almost killed and want to rape me every chance I get. Is there no chance of getting a Male NPC to do anything other than kiss me and grope my butt? I break now and give in, will I be OK with myself later? ¡°If that smell is your Mom''s cooking then yes.¡± This girl, maybe she was cool after all. ¡°Hmm. We are still not a couple. Do you snore?¡± If the way the universe has been going continues. I am having a second involuntary sleep over in a row. Back in the work shop I pull out one of the remaining leathers a red dye, a black dye and some wood scraps to make a way to fasten the belt. Mystical logs in happy as all the world is right in her area, a bit suspicious, has she been leaching my happiness and luck? ¡°Steph we are just co-workers, although she did take my lips for the first time ever digitally in this game.¡± ¡°Hi Mysti, did prince charming agree to the date?¡± She pouts and informs me she is not speaking to me for a while as punishment for my evil deeds. Having the smile return instantly I am not too concerned at this point... ¡°Steph lighten up she likes boys like I do.¡± Ah that had the opposite effect she stuck tighter now. Might be the boys part she worried about then. If we make two belts of this leather and put 9 studs on each I had a bunch left then. The wooden clasp and a black cat button on each what would that do if the button came out rare. Should I make few buttons and see. Can the experience buff be turned off in the setting even? ¡°Hell that was easy.¡± {Exp buff off} Five buttons later I have three uncommon cat buttons and the two rares, they took some time but are super cute if I do say so, ¡°Steph agrees too right?¡± {Exp buff on} Item {Belt Custom leather}: quality rare received. Congratulations! You have reached level 5 in you class [Novice Tailor]. At level 10 you may change to [Tailor] or a combat training class upon finding a trainer. You have gained +2 to all stats. You have gained +2 to Dexterity, +2 to Intelligence, and 3 points to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 6 is 0/1740. Nothing new there we didn''t know before. Except for the HUGE stat gain at level five! Nice one! I high five Steph. I can really see the benefits of friends of the 3 dimensional type these days. The sad part is the level curve towards level 10 might be a tab bit harsh. Next level is just short of 3 times the level. Character: Ophilia Race: Human Class: Novice Tailor level 5 str 10, int 21, wis 12, end 9, dex 20, char 13 Dropped my stat points into 1 int, 1 wis and 1 char. Seeing as everything incredible seems to flow from NPC liking me so much might as well play that up. A charm magic might be good. With daggers learn-able at 9 strength and 15 dexterity... what would the easiest magic requirement be? Confirming my suspicions, making better than common items at higher level of difficulty gives better buff experience usage, the math is completely not evident. But the results are obvious now. On to the second one, lets add one of the daggers for training as a decoration to see what happens. How should I say it, I had a feeling it would be fine. ¡°So you kissed her but won''t kiss me? Was she that bad you stopped?¡± Wait what? ¡°No it was for the experience to grow my character and level faster, plus I got to tease her it was cute then. One time deal. It was in-game and virtual is not phyisical.¡± Grave dug should I dive in head first and close the lid now? Wait ghost lovers might find me better find a better place to die. Guess She constructed the thought and voiced it finally. Way to grow there. Ah great timing Josh was getting hungry. ¡°Here I got over a level since yesterday. Making my own food helps a lot.¡± ¡°Hey I just leveled up too, how are your stat gains?¡± ¡°There is no stopping you, is there...¡± ¡°Anne, why are you talking to my brother''s character?¡± ¡°Oh so your brother plays this game too that''s cools, so you know some about it.¡± Talk about a small town, how did I not know they were siblings. Looking at her really closely... Nope nothing alike. ¡°What?¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°I don''t know what your are talking about.¡± ¡°Southersbee, your sister is asking why I am talking to you, what do I tell her?¡± ¡°Whatever, she got up the courage to ask good for you Sis.¡± ¡°I don''t know what you are talking about but we are not going to be having sex or any kissing, ever.¡± ¡°No I am not telling you brother anything more, forget it.¡± ¡°Let him know I''ll see him tomorrow at school.¡± ¡°She staying the night... I guess¡± He doesn''t look too disturbed or even shocked. ¡°OH the food buffs are great, how is your sisters cooking?¡± ¡°Don''t know, don''t work her too hard devil.¡± ¡°More worried about other things at the moment, how long have you known?¡± ¡°Long enough.¡± ¡°Special family service then, there is a beggar in town and if you play your cards right he will teach you survival cooking. No promises. Don''t tell anyone else or thatyou sister has started living with me.¡± ¡°Deal! His name or a description and if you like I can bring over some things for her to wear in to morning. It won''t look like she has the same clothes on.¡± That might be good, someone like Clair knows everything in my closet. ¡°He''s one legged. Might be in the area here.¡± ¡°Wish you had sold that bit of classified stuff yesterday.¡± ¡°You had nothing but your body to offer at that point. My Secrecy today was fair trade.¡± ¡°Either, way I lose right. Yea, yea good luck. And Sis if things don''t work out you know Dad''s out for a week okay.¡± Working a little faster from the food buff. Item {Belt Custom leather}: quality rare received. ¡°Miss U is there a way to make a set out of two items? Other than attach them?¡± ¡°If you put them in your inventory and make a set of them.¡± ¡°Perfect!¡± ¡°Want to get something for you to eat or drink, there are cups and food in the kitchen.¡± Now work you magic and become a set belts! Item {Belt Custom leather} and Item {Belt Custom leather} have become a set. Would you like to name this set? {Yes} Any names come to mind? ¡°Dueling cat belts?¡± Good as anything I can think of we can go with that Steph, ¡°thanks.¡± Set name: Dueling Black Cats Belt You have created a Unique set Item and gain Class experience. Player ''Ophilia'' has created a unique item and gained 10 fame. Everyone in town will soon know. System: Player Ophilia created a unique item. Congratulations! With a name already set this item does not need a new one. ¡°Hey nice, congrats!¡± Mysti enters from the front, time in the penalty box over for me already? ¡°Thanks want to look?¡± {Observe} Name: [Dueling Black Cat Belt] Quality: Unique Set Item Type: Belt Defense: 5 Durability: 45/45 Material: Leather, Steel, Wood Weight: 0.2 kg Decorations: Two carved buttons, a Dagger, and Wooden clasps Added stats: +2 strength, +2 charisma, +1 luck Added Effect: Once a day the user can push their luck and get a short luck boost of +1, making a verbal wish for luck on one of the ornaments will activate it. Description: A pair of belts added together, an additional belt slot is required. Two rare buttons, a weapon and steel decorations have been added to make this a fearsome belt. The owner will be considered lucky to even be able to equip such a odd creation. Congratulations! Level 7 in [Tailoring]. {Equip item} You have equipped an item with the luck stat, you now may view it from your character sheet, hidden stats are not adjustable with level earned stat points. Current luck is 10(+1). ¡°I wish for luck.¡± No time like the present. Your luck is increased by ++1 for 2 minutes. ¡°Miss Utica would you be my friend?¡± ¡°No¡± ¡°Not that lucky yet huh?¡± Well two minutes is good and what is that ''++'' thing? I craft a few trivial items to see if the luck has any effect, in the end not that I can tell. Oh Steph filling my drink for me nice. Let make a pair of maid outfits with the auto craft and use the bathroom while I am free. I knew Josh had family and they were in an odd situation It never occurred to me they were siblings I mean they look different, same parents? There are a few rumors. Never paid much attention to them. Small town are like that people talk and things go around. Mostly stuff you don''t want to hear. Too much hate sometimes. *knock, knock* ¡°Almost done, you can use it next.¡± ¡°Just making sure you were here.¡± Her voice sounds happy through the door guess that is good news. She didn''t come in and stare, or crack the door to peep. Unless she is trying to look under the door, scary thought. When done I find her at the computer sitting in the chair. She lets me sit and returns to my arm. Instead, I pull her off for a second, she has a bit of a panicked look till I bring over the floor cushions for her to rest on while I play. I let her use one arm easy enough. ¡°Happy?¡± I get a few extra inches of typing room and she is not on hard floor anymore. ¡°Kis-¡± ¡°Not happening. We are not dating Okay? No sex, no kissing.¡± Order for a strange Item came in on the forums, a description would have to be fetish combat outfit. Something I considered usable if you had zero or less self respect. Not going to say anything about someone and their tastes. It wasn''t a difficult request and the silver was worth it. I made it secretly handed it over later secretly and was enough. Part of the processing payment was for such and such will be provided. Even Steph was perplexed by the outfit. Even just sitting in my inventory I was uncomfortable with it around. Ah about time we fed the teacher. Of we go, stopping at a food stall or two to get a few edibles for the bed ridden I had created. Do the NPCs like fresh food better, does the system track that even? Package was also payed for on the way over. - Teea''s House - With the key from Teea we entered and offered tribute to instructor. She had me join her in bed said she was lonely all day. We talked about what normally went on during the day while eating. Up early training then off to the range to teach others or made arrows. She often took lunch off to play with one of her recent subjugations. Then after lunch more training or militia classes or inspections. Maybe a monster hunt if no one else was free. Then 4 out of 7 days she spent most of the night gambling for the price of drinks or to claim fresh meat or skin. ¡°You can stay right, would be best if that were the case, she argued. Hugging me and eating the extras I had pulled out of the storage on the first floor.¡± ¡°Sure, no last outfit on the right stuff?¡± ¡°No.¡± Teea pouts some. ¡°Sorry, never thought my life would be in such a risk within the town walls. Kind of caught me off my center. Last night was a me no one has ever seen.¡± ¡°I can think of worse things to happen.¡± I shiver thinking about sister ghost. ¡°Yes worse things.¡± ¡°Why are you so nice to her. And, ... me?¡± Tough questions, ¡°That is because I almost killed her and it was my fault, as for you. Might be because you actually blushed looking at me naked.¡± Teasing her this much. No too much. She looks at me closely too close. I push her forehead back down so she is seated again, ¡°Not dating... Kissing nada, sex, impossible. You know, I don''t know my dad and Mom is strange. I guess I don''t mind people outside or even different. If you try anything strange you know... I don''t mind changing it to a restraining order. Nice mainly you deserve to be treated that way. Everyone should be...¡± ¡°Kissing?¡± ¡°Strange.¡± ¡°Why?¡± Without an answer for her, I return my gaze to the game. Why indeed? ¡°There are a few hours till I have to sleep, I''d like to get more tailoring done.¡± ¡°I won''t stop you. Go, I await my nurse''s return.¡± ¡°No I will not be wearing a sexy nurse outfit for you when I arrive either.¡± ¡°Shame, heard they were quite something through the rumor circles¡± dropping the corners of her mouth into a frown.¡± ¡°I can make one if you give me a measurements set. Won''t be for me so don''t even ask.¡± ¡°Really?¡± Smile is back, I can exit and not be too worried then. ¡°Are hugs ok?¡± Steph moved to that sure. ¡°You going to grope or feel me up? No? Then we can.¡± She stands, ¡°later maybe.¡± - Stitch In Time - Back at the Shop, might have to a call it an early night I feel so tired since I played way late. Another 2 hours burned the sleep experience and saw a bunch of clothes for sale made. The Sexy Nurse outfit became a new custom recipe of its own in a top and bottom part. With the recipe for that I could now auto trivial craft a Nurse saving a lot of time every day. The hat would too at some point. Made a gown for dancing and put it for sale in the front. Avie was back with load of news. Looks like she found the Light magic trainer and set up a chance to learn some skills later. What ever she was doing sales wise she wasn''t any less cash heavy than myself. As a caster, she was going to start with white then move into elemental and possibly summoning. Asked her if I should make a pet collar for her or her pet or her pet Borg-friend. I got hit and kicked repeatedly for a bad pun and an evil tease at the same time how awful. She forgave me when I told her that Mysti had a date with prince charming already. Then Mysti started hitting and kicking me. For different reasons. ¡°You two already did 5 hp worth of damage stop already.¡± Seeing chip return, I called out for assistance, ¡°Badmofo, how does a bad ass stop an attack on the mothership?¡± ¡°I don''t know, is this a test or a joke?¡± Chip was at a loss as to an answer. ¡°Both apparently.¡± ¡°You, this is not the escape route you are looking for.¡± ¡°I get it, it just not very funny¡± ¡°Must not stay up all night again.¡± ¡°You didn''t sleep no wonder you acting all spacey.¡± ¡°Ha funniest pun all night you win,¡± here I toss over a pair of undergarments. ¡°No rest for the wicked.¡± Stitched across the back. ¡°Steph can we make some dinner soon?¡± Affirmative response, nice. ¡°Heading to bed, if you can find one in game I suggest you do. A, really worth it boost.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°Yes it''s like that. Catch you all Thursday.¡± - Teea''s Place - One sexy nurse outfit and a late snack and some water handed over. ¡°Your welcome, could I sleep, so tired.¡± ¡°Sure come here, join me in bed.¡± She let me caress her head some and she hugged me and examined the nurse outfit. ¡°Can I go to work in this tomorrow?¡± ¡°Won''t say no, not your lover or your Mom. Will you be able to walk in the morning?¡± ¡°So far it is three or four steps.¡± She looked me passionately, ¡°Better than none. Do you feel anything for me?¡± ¡°What do I feel at this moment. The urge to slip into... unconsciousness.¡± ¡°Tease¡±. Yea that is me. ¡°And a devil too.¡± I add. ¡°See you in the evening tomorrow, I''ll sleep all day again, no choice about it really. You are good with that right? And Did my character stay while I logged?¡± ¡°Yes, yes, why wouldn''t it?¡± ¡°Don''t know, never slept over before either. Dream time.¡± Put my hand on her head. You have logged out in a shared bed. - Our Kitchen - What to make, a little before 9:16 and I am so ready to fall over. I take Stephanie and we go downstairs. ¡°We can cook anything in here except the nasty stuff already mixed into evilness.¡± I pull her in to look with me. ¡°See anything edible you like.¡± I close my eyes and hope she doesn''t say what I think she is going to. ¡°What I like?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Maybe...¡± ¡°Ha, I really thought you were going to say I was the meal you wanted most there.¡± ¡°Did I say that out loud, I didn''t mean too.¡± ¡°Walked into that one didn''t I...¡± ¡°Can we kiss?¡± ¡°No. Hug. Over here before the thought enters my head that I am an idiot.¡± Standing in front of the fridge we hug, the cold air gently floating out of the fridge and into the kitchen. Stephanie''s hug feels warm and full of desperation. A little bit of fear in her. I feel the goose bumps on my arms from the cold air and the gentle warmth of a desperate girl in my arms. What am I to do with you? ¡°Why do you like me so much?¡± She just clings tighter. Her nipples start to press out. Hug over. Must be the air from the fridge. Wonder if mine have started to swell? ¡°Is that enough we should have some food.¡± ¡°Yes, you would be very tasty.¡± ¡°Not my idea of a good joke at the moment but Ha, you got me there.¡± ¡°Wasn''t joking.¡± ¡°I know, food I''m so tired not thinking straight.¡± End up having a sandwich and juice, it was enough for tonight. I grab a pudding and pull the top heading up the stairs. Steph follows and wants a hand or an arm on the way back upstairs. Not on the stairs going up please. Since the cycle was so light and over so quick shower was on my mind with so much frustration in and around the game. Leaving Steph at the computer with half the remaining pudding, I shower and get in a quick self play. ¡°Can I watch you shower again like at school?¡± ¡°No, not a good Idea there at all. It is pretty much a crazy situation as it is and getting you excited, not helpful at all.¡± Done drying my hair I find her looking round my room. ¡°Want something to sleep in?¡± Offer her a long shirt. ¡°There is underwear not sure how you feel about mine.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Want to go home?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°What do you want?¡± ¡°Sex.¡± ¡°No kissing, we are not dating and no sex. I am going to bed, we don''t have an extra, nor any sleeping bags, you can sleep on mine if you behave.¡± ¡°Is that right?¡± ¡°What?¡± Sliding under the sheets I pull them up and close my eyes. What is going to happen tomorrow or the next day, is there an end to the odd things that keep happening? ¡°Kiss?¡± I pull the sheet over my head, ¡°Go to sleep Steph, do you really feel that way about me, dating, sex, kissing, why?¡± ¡°Sometimes. You more than anyone else around.¡± ¡°Honestly, I can understand that.¡± ¡°What happens tomorrow.¡± ¡°What do you want to happen?¡± ¡°If you answer will it change anything? If I answer will I get what I desire?¡± What is it I want? If world domination was out of the question, and didn''t have to go to school. Would gaming be enough. A different world to play out other pseudo me in different forms... is this just irrational panic? ¡°Can you get me out of school with no repercussions?¡± ¡°Nothing comes to mind.¡± ¡°Can you be my friend and we go from there?¡± ¡°Probably.¡± ¡°Spending all this time with me is not boring?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°No one else better. Hard to imagine. Good luck putting up with the strange!¡± What would a relationship with this girl mean, I was ready for intimacy with a woman? I thought, if I had that leaning. Means a Pervert of greater scope than before. Overthinking. Hey sleep come here and end the day already. Yet again Hump day has passed without me getting to hump, no I am not Humping my new hug pillow. End Chapter 5 Chapter 6 - School is not a Kind Place Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 6 School is not a Kind Place - My Room - Good morning evil Sun. Oh wait, its cloudy and raining today take that Ra! He will return with a vengeance tomorrow Steph reports from under the sheets. Hmm do I still have my bed clothes on? Guess she didn''t surprise attack in the night then. Room is the same. Should I ask her if I should expect to be moving in any furniture. ¡°No I just have a few clothes.¡± Is she reading my mind. ¡°You talk in your sleep... Some.¡± ¡°Do I have anything interesting to say?¡± Did I not say that out loud? I get in to a sitting position. ¡°Is it really OK for you to just move in to my room. And a life like a new pet I brought home on impulse?¡± ¡°Was there a question I have an answer for coming anytime soon? Or are you still talking in your sleep?¡± ¡°Both.¡± ¡°Good morning then.¡± ¡°Good morning to you as well.¡± I blush did I just get an image of mad sex in the bathroom and bed. Must have been another sickness I am coming down with. A fever, delusions? ¡°Not sure the teachers will let you sit at my side for all my classes. What to do. Withdraw you from school, they might want you off grounds.¡± ¡°Think I can manage a few hours a day away from you long as you promise not to have sex with anyone else.¡± ¡°Well there is always the freak possibility of a time distortion opening up and a handsome-prince-daemon-arch mage-sex god jumping through and proceeds to charm me and ravishes me right there on my desk at school. It has to be a what, 0.0000000000000000001% chance? Little less you think?¡± Her laughter is shy and cute this might be a decent day. Let us get dressed and eat. ¡°Josh show up with clothes yet?¡± - Class Room - There is no proof either way. But I think the news spread about the following: One, I got walked home by three or more boys for a sexual slavery type purpose. Two, I bought a person. Three, I was a full blown Dyke-Lesbian and forced myself on innocent girls. My gang bang activities are on the internet for free. Adding in the one about me being so poor I''d give sex favors for candy. The best one topping the charts and most popular was that I had willfully and with full intent lied and got a driver license and a car. Wait for it. All paid for by me from selling people online to old men. What the hell so not even close to real. People here are ¡°ID E OTS!¡± Sorry, I cover my head with a text book and close my eyes. After class, I had recovered enough to get up the nerve to talk to Claire. ¡°We can''t be friends anymore.¡± ¡°Right.¡± Not even going to fight that one. About face, and walking off. Come along fifth appendage. Gym class was painful ''mentally'' for the first time. Steph was the only girl in school talking to me now. Not a huge change from before, still made it awkward. Might want one of them to get out-of-the-way once in a while, ¡°If their fat Ass was in the way!¡± The girl blocking me from running a good pace finally got the hint and moved so I could pass. So they listen but are pretending not too, good info there. Thought I had become a ghost to them for a second. - Lunch Room - ¡°Could we go out? On- On a date? Come here.¡± I reach out and pull Steph outside to the courtyard to eat. ¡°This is the way dates go in your world?¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Steph?¡± ¡°No, although most of the rumors don''t seem to be about reality and some of them are to do with me. Not sure why but this is worse than anything before.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± Yes, back to lunch. I exit the reality. Sitting near the trees on a bench with Stephie. Find the play make it work for you get revenge, rule the world. Ah so much effort. ¡°How is class today?¡± ¡°Was,¡± ¡°Was?¡± ¡°normal?¡± AH she just took some time to finish the thought. ¡°I am telling you this, normal is the last thing this should be.¡± We had the corner to ourselves even if the rain had stopped the weather played nice. ¡°Thank you clouds.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°Never mind.¡± It just be too much otherwise wouldn''t it. ¡°Sure, so when''s the date?¡± ¡°We having it apparently, enjoy it while you can. And sex where everyone can see it not even in any realm of existence going to happen.¡± ¡°So You''ll kiss me back then.¡± ¡°How did you jump to the conclusion there would be a kiss?¡± ¡°Was the ones last night not good enough?¡± ¡°I just don''t agree with putting on a show for them.¡± I point and wave. Sure stare you ignorants. ¡°No kissing in front of them, if you say so.¡± Why do I think, she is already, in her mind have sex with me, regardless of where we are. - After school at the Gaming Club - ¡°Dora where are you?!¡± Most of the guys are curious about the rumors and Steph''s addition to the group on a regular basis. There were a few questions on the game and people wanting my best educated guess about stuff. We tried to diffuse a few of the loose tongue stories and create a counter warfare plan. The balance would not stop the damage but might ease the harshness. The Thieves Guild income on the auction site was starting to pile up and the three guys brought gifts of food. Bookworm was the first in the group outside of Acdin to access ''the Guild''. He confirmed trainers for a few of the magic arts of the foulest nature were in game. His village had a four out of all the possibles I could imagine in game. Happy news for me at least. Texting Dora, reply email to me, later, big news. I got Josh to walk us to Stephanie''s room later. Yes he''d be doing the heavy lifting. Good thing he was with us or we might have trouble. Few girls from school about to start something. Josh joined us outside, they changed their mind and went elsewhere. ¡°Thanks Josh.¡± ¡°Yes, I don''t have anything to say. Hope it gets better.¡± ¡°This is bad? Can not wait to see hell mode?¡± - My Room - Steph joined me in my room she wasn''t an appendage anymore at home, just close all the times she was in the same room. Do we get you a bird cage, a cat pillow or a doggie bed? ¡°Steph, what we going to do for sleeping arrangements? I can''t say a hug pillow is the worst thing a human can turn into...¡± Mom may or may not have something to say about it. Connecting to Game world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. - Teea''s Place - She was sitting in bed when the screen was visible finally had a book open and was reading. ''War Skills and Leadership of Mobile Battalions by Juilip Gents'', is that like the equivalent of war and peace or a skill book? ¡°Hello, feel any better?¡± ¡°Yes I can get around. Training start tomorrow, HOPE you ready.¡± Spartan sex crazed instructor with 2 day bed rest teaching me tomorrow, right. ¡°Funny story, tomorrow, Sleeping scheduled all day... alone!¡± ¡°Peasants feed. Sounds edible totally isn''t¡± ¡°Yes, teacher, I''ll be ready.¡± ¡°What sounds good? Meat cheese or veggies?¡± I ask Teea who is resting at the table. ¡°There is some left?¡± Opening the doors, empty. ¡°Got your appetite back?¡± ¡°Change out of that Nurse outfit while I shop, I am embarrassed by my lack of skills¡± ¡°Yes I believe that you just don''t want me flirting.¡± She is right, but so was I. The cosplay effect on her was just poor. Maybe the office set would go better with the short hair. ¡°You have a nobles or officer uniform get up?¡± ¡°Sure they get hard, never thought about wanting that part of it again.¡± ¡°I meant an outfit.¡± I take the screenshot of the prince and princess and drop it on a message paper. So she can see it. ¡°Oh something like that... no never have. Nice magic image too. Did you want to see me-in-something-like that?¡± Blushing in the real world I was a tempted to say yes. ¡°Might look good on your figure. If you don''t want one that''s fine.¡± Food, right, off we run. ¡°Ah she escaped.¡± - Stitch in Time - ¡°Who is that waving at you?¡± ¡°Steph that is someone in game that mirrors what did not happen in this world. A girl who wants my character in a way similar to the way you do?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°What would you do in my situation? I mean about her in game and nothing else.¡± Today like yesterday the experience buff should be used to level up [Novice Tailoring]. Making two of the Officer outfits would be fair experience gain. One to match Teea''s blonde and a second to make match my purple hair. ¡°What would I do...¡± Girl is thinking very hard there? Done and stored, the next to make is an apron for the maid girl, a travel cloak for once I leave town. What else should I tailor. ¡°Miss Utica, what is the common material to make stuffed toy animals here?¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°They do have those here don''t they?¡± ¡°What do they use where you come from?¡± ¡°Cleaned washed cotton, foam, plastic beads, feathers... there were a few others...¡± I stopped basically, ¡°Something soft and cheap would be good, was thinking the cotton to valuable to use for stuffing here. Wild flowers could be added for scent even.¡± ¡°Let me look into it. Hey before you sell it to the company make sure the pattern is trademarked at the guild.¡± ¡°Right I forget about that, I''ll do it later.¡± Mr. System responds to my crafting efforts shortly later. Congratulations! [Novice Tailoring] now level 6. You have gained +1 to all stats. You have gained +1 to Dexterity, +1 to Intelligence, and 2 points to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 7 is 0/3500 Congratulations! Level 8 [Tailoring]. The stat bonus for level five might be every 5 or a rounding of the math. Around 5:30 I take a break, no buff left I head to the front counter after starting the loom and dye vat. Chip did the cleaning and went into the back. ¡°I shall eat and return, if someone calls I am still away.¡± - My Room - ¡°Hungry?¡± We head to the kitchen. ¡°Mom can we help with dinner?¡± ¡°What did you do to my daughter?¡± ¡°Very funny. You have two now is that OK?¡± ¡°Two of you or you and you?¡± She points at me a few times then Steph and I. ¡°No more like three or four more Annes and one Stephanie.¡± I pull out something we can actually eat from the fridge and work on dinner with Steph. ¡°Would you eat something we make it. Even if it doesn''t fit your diet?¡± After eating, we bail on the dishes to Mom. ¡°You and your Mom are nice.¡± ¡°Think so?¡± ¡°You can shower anytime, you can live here like mom says. Free to be you I guess.¡± Looking around. ¡°How many shelves or drawers you want.¡± ¡°The drawers I want are here.¡± Pulling close. ¡°That is cute but these are being worn right now.¡± ¡°Tsk-¡± ¡°Did you really just click at me?¡± ¡°No. It was the situation...¡± ¡°You get two, that shelve and this drawer, your clothes here.¡± New roommate, weird stuff. ¡°Need additional we make room.¡± ¡°So shower, go. You didn''t get one yesterday or at gym class since we got chased out. Towels dirty clothes there and there. Anything in there free to use. If I catch you sniffing my clothes I might be worried. Fair enough?¡± ¡°Yes, will you help me strip and wash?¡± ¡°Did you want me to?¡± ¡°Ues, Yes!¡± ¡°I''ll meet you half way turn around.¡± ¡°I pull her clothes off carefully folding them and placing them in the dirty clothes.¡± Only her panties left. She is waiting for me to finish. I can rise to the challenge and lower the bar on personal expectations any time any place. It just may take me a second to get the fear under control. Moving behind her I place my fingers inside the frayed elastic band and lace around the top of her hips. They a bit loose from excessive use. ¡°Might be able to get some new ones if these are overly worn out you know?¡± I say from behind her ear. She shivered. ¡°Was it that cold in here. Wait we can start the water then.¡± ¡°Mmm not cold at all.¡± ¡°Your trembling there.¡± ¡°R-Right.¡± Behind her again I insert my finger to the waist and slowly draw them down. Already regretting starting this, her scent was strong and the moisture on her underwear was certainly apparent. I showed her the water settings on the shower head and pointed out a few of my favorites and the effects. Along with letting her know she had as much time as the water heater could last. 47 minutes. I waved as I shut the door. Why I still had her underwear in my hand was something I didn''t understand at all. May have to convince myself that these were not to be worn anymore. And not something I wanted to own for a worshiping reason. Opening the door and tossing them into the dirty clothes pile and shutting the door. Forty-six moaning filled minutes later a very happy looking Stephanie returned. I pointed to a bath robe so I could stop avoiding her breasts and her nakedness. ''What do I see when I look at this item?'' Right have to level. - Stitch in Time -The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. I went on to auto-craft every time I could start one. Me and the other three players worked sharing the vats and loom. Miss Utica would grant someone an apprenticeship tomorrow. In case one person left was normal for 1 person to be in training all the time. Craft till you can craft no more. Theme for today. Stopping around 9:00 pm I headed out back to the well to stretch and get water. I pulled out my single remaining training dagger, the other on my belt now permanently. I swung it around some. With a thought I switched over to the forum and did a quick search. Combat skill, then on duels, and last on Player vs Player. I had the dagger skill, many of the post out there didn''t mean much for my case. Most were about players still with only trade-skills or villager classes and no combat skill. I filtered the remaining searches for information from the other searches wanting to reduce the total worthless ones. There was little news in that tiny search I found the gem I was looking for. Like trade-skill patterns and recipes skills can be made after many repeated successful uses, AND only required one related combat skill. *my light bulb exploded* Going back to the game I ran to the shop and made two important items. A throwing target sheet and a wood backing for it I''d get later. Next was a leather animal training dummy. It was a small ugly looking animal and you wanted to attack it on purpose. Next I attached a leather cord to my dagger and secured it to one of the wooden bracelets I bought. Most this allowed me to spin the dagger with one hand and not loose it if I let go. With the bracelet keeping the other end of the cord secure it wouldn''t fly off and I would get added range on a dagger attack if used with a bit of skill or an active attack skill. People always underestimate a short range weapons. Adding any range at all was incredible. Magic for returning a dagger thrown at this point seem way out of reach. Many crazy things went through my mind for attacks. I had planned to try this out since days ago. Now it was good time. I spent the next few running to the lumber yard for the target wooden back. Then grabbed a second load of food for Teacher Teea. - Teea''s Place - Turned the key, I hear someone approach. Look over my shoulder there is our maid friend from the ''Wooden Bucket''. ¡°Hiya¡± ¡°Is this considered cheating Steph? What do you think I should do here if this was you?¡± ¡°What would I do. She looks nice, what is she like?¡± ¡°Nice, flirty, works in a normal tavern for tips mostly, not interested in men. Gave me a flower.¡± ¡°Hi Ophilia, so the rumors were true you have fallen to the ''virgin eater of Acdin'' after all.¡± She had a sad look. ¡°Don''t hug her yet.¡± ¡°I did because of exhaustion, was in need of not falling over.¡± ¡°That so?¡± ¡°No, no, no. I am here to learn [Daggers] skills and help her get back on her feet after I nearly killed her.¡± ¡°That rumor someone puked to death was about this?¡± ¡°Eew, yes someone still needs to clean that up don''t they...¡± Trail had not faded much even after a day. Hurry rain, remove the signs of my crime. ¡°After learning daggers I have to learn magic. Instructor relentless is going to help with the weapon skills after loosing in a game of chance. She is walking again, effects should be gone by tomorrow. Not really interested in being one of her toys in bed.¡± Peeking as much as she can inside with not making it obvious. Dainea sighed in reliefe. ¡°Good I was a bit worried you were lost to us. You will come visit me at work again?¡± ¡°I can.¡± Pulling out an apron I hand it over, ¡°She is a friend though. This is for you, might go better with another serving outfit, but I had you in mind when I made it. I still have your flower, thank you.¡± ¡°You are very welcome, like I said my doors are always open to you.¡± ¡°Is that a common expression? I don''t know the exact meaning.¡± Blushing from head to toe there, is it that hard to say? ¡°It, means that you are wanted to ah, my room, thena place on my body.¡± Image processed and filed for later. Doors plural got it. ¡°I could guess that right away.¡± Steph you are not helping, second guess as to its meaning, truth, third guess. ¡°So it wasn''t a group, or home visit invitation, well my third guess was that.¡± ¡°Did you not know what it means to say such a thing. That does make sense now.¡± ¡°Did I do something strange again?¡± ¡°A little, you accepted my invitation to play and didn''t make a time or a place.¡± ¡°The pressed flower means that? Oops. Promises right, and play includes?¡± Pink returns to the cheeks as she lists off a few of the possible things she could imagine and put in to words plainly. Okay not all the listed items included act of depravity or illegal in some countries. ¡°She hasn''t had much experience with girls is my guess one maybe two at most.¡± ¡°Steph how many lovers have you had?¡± ¡°Just you.¡± She is such a Liar. ¡°What?¡± ¡°Just me?¡± ¡°Past lives? Count?¡± ¡°Point taken.¡± ¡°Promise to play accepted right... I can spend time with you later, tonight last night that ''relentless'' needs care from me.¡± Work and weapon lessons tomorrow. Add school, either after that for the evening or anytime on the day after. Think that is how my day-planner looks. ¡°I''d be happy to have you at my place for a while.¡± ¡°When?¡± ¡°When you get there of course.¡± Inside teacher has a grin on her face, she was listening so plain to tell. ¡°Yes here is more food. And put this on.¡± She had black circles on and whatever the outfit was there. It was not enough material covering outside the black cover to figure what it was. The Uniform on her, I hadn''t been planning to be the first one to get to see it but totally met my expectations for her. ¡°Ah WOW! This like is so. Ummph on me. I know three or four that are going to be weak in the knees later. You probably don''t want to hear that.¡± ¡°You are a lady killer and virgin crusher extreme, if you cause any pain with that outfit I will come and take it away and force you to drink V again.¡± ¡°v?¡± ¡°Vomit drink.¡± She paled and went back to the rough metal mirror to look again. ¡°I''ll try my hardest to be good in this then.¡± *she winked and saluted* so not helping. ¡°You one hundred percent sure you don''t want to sleep with her?¡± I turn and look at her over my shoulder. ¡°What¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°If I had to pick one to sleep with, I mean have sex with it would be you or the serving girl.¡± Pointing at the screen. ¡°Dressing someone in something that fits and wanting to pleasure them, completely different.¡± ¡°Ah, you would sleep with me? Tonight is good!¡± ¡°Yes sleeping will happen 100%.¡± Back to the reason for entering this den of temptation, ¡°I have these. Throwing skill? I am not sure how it works.¡± Placing the dagger and targets in front of me for her to look at. ¡°These should be workable, although why so ugly?¡± Holding up the leather creatureabomination. ¡°If it was cute fluffy had hearts and flowers and no killing intent would it still be useful to stab and destroy rather than cuddle with at and, and rub against your skin and ¡­ off topic... back to the point.¡± ¡°You do that with the rabbits don''t you...¡± ¡°Can you? Sure help yourself later when I''m not around, washer machine, warm, light load, and no bleach. Knock your self out.¡± The smile on her face was, basically creepy. I wipe her drool and go back to the other conversation. ¡°Never knew a girl who got off on furry toys before, that is kinky.¡± ¡°Here we call it something else... [Throwing] skill?¡± Moving the dagger around and the target to emphasize the task at hand. ¡°Just toss a dagger or any tips?¡± Putting down the animal for a second she set up the target against the wall on the table. Pulls out the single cutting knife in the room and throws its. *ssssz clang* ¡°Like that?¡± ¡°Did you totally miss or what?¡± The knife bounced off the wall and hit the floor spinning some. ¡°Oh, come on now it was an unbalanced crappy ass kitchen knife and I am... Used to using a bow and an aiming skill.¡± We talk about the combat skills and a few things she told me while I was sleeping. The dependency on skills seems to be way over-kill here and natural talent seems limiting, you only have so long to live after all and, franklies you have to get those skills up to survive. We toss the dagger I had for combat she said learning with them was fine the training one would be good for blade vs. blade combat to reduce wear. She had the feeling I could handle a short bow soon. If my change over the next few days was as normal as the growth she had noticed over the time together so far. Mom didn''t look in or even come by tonight to see if I was sleeping. Did something change with Steph entering our family? Steph grabbed drinks and snacks, played with things in my room had fun and talked about things she found interesting. I worked with Teea to handle the daggers and showed her what I had in mind with the toy, had her throw it while I dodged or attacked and swung the dagger or spun it on the cord. The damage when on the cord would go down with poison or a magic buff would it really matter if the attack hit and the effect got transferred rather than the low dagger blade damage. She was thoughtful then agreed. With my thinking an attack not meant to do damage and dagger damage was low unless you hit a weak spot, critical area or vital point. My gaming experience and her practical training, I had a better idea of how things would play out with combat as we ate and talked. "Although a bit silly using a ''toy'' to practice combat, might be good in your case." Around 11:30 Teea was ready to drink after so much talk of combat. She pulled out a small cask and we drank or she mostly. ¡°Stop her after this cask or you''''ll be at it all night.¡± ¡°Good to know.¡± I played with a few concept skills and practiced a few throws and dodges of the missile known as ''Ugly''. We also talked about her training programs. How to make it the most effective if it were to come to war around here. Hoping I could get a few ideas to increase my skill and level gain later. Player vs. Player would be cruel later if you were to out of range of your opponent. My fear of full time players was slightly elevated when thinking of Player vs. Player. We had a hard time trying, and it really took both of us, to stop ''relentless'' from dragging out a second cask of ale. Around 12:30 I asked if Teea had a second bed to sleep in. ¡°Course not, think I''d give a girl a way to escape sharing one with me?¡± She pulled me into an embrace and dragged me to bed. ¡°I know you like your outfit there, but you should really get something more comfortable to sleep in.¡± ¡°Best defense is your work clothes you''re used to fighting in?¡± She sat on the bed and pulled me in close, looking up at my face. Me standing in front of her, her face and cheeks slightly rose colored. Admitting here she would only seduce me if I asked her to. She like me and would do anything to ravish me at that point. Defeated in battle and a friend for life. I had her respect and love in many ways. If we felt the same possibly a promise to the god about fidelity even. She claimed to have never thought to do this for anyone before. And was shy after. Did she really want a new life after such an experience? ¡°She may want that. I would. I mean do. That the wedding thing with you. Sounds fun.¡± Looking in my inventory I have a couple shirts and the starter gear a bunch of random crafted ideas and some underwear sets I change into the closest to sleep wear and turn around. ¡°It is a sight to behold¡± ¡°Truly?¡± I walk over to the mirror and pose some. ¡°It is cute.¡± ¡°This girl calls that just cute.¡± ¡°You, have a warped sense of perception, I agree. Anymore cute andreligous leadersgive up their beliefsand pray to you.¡± Tired of the view I head back to bed, Teea wearing another sleepwear welcomes me into her bed for the third night in a row. ¡°Shall we dream?¡± ¡°We shall.¡± You have logged off in a bed owned by another. - My Room - I sit on the bed, look at Stephanie''s face. What is it I want? From life, people, myself, the world. Am I doing the right thing in the right place. Will dad ever be a concept that has meaning. Will sex be easy. Will I know what a man looks like while I climax with them. Or is it girls all the time? Almost 18 and nothing makes sense sometimes. I flop backwards on the bed. ¡°You worry like I do.¡± ¡°Right.¡± ¡°Just different things.¡± ¡°Can I kiss you? ¡°What happens after that?¡± ¡°We do understand each other don''t we?¡± Her face looking at my head and more my eyes. ¡°Stephanie wants you.¡± ¡°Is that enough wanting. Is having next?¡± ¡°Sometimes.¡± ¡°What to do?¡± Hand me a Waifu. ¡°Pass one over.¡± She hugs me. Adds a pillow to my head. ¡°Kiss?¡± ¡°No.¡± I roll up and pull her into a hug under the blanket. Place a hand on her lips and press. Her tongue bringing my finger inside. Her sucking face is erotic, I have a hard time thinking as she plays with my finger in her mouth. Nibble, licks, warmth and movement. The unique feeling way more than I expected. I thought this would be an innocent way to appease her affection and not myself. There are other places I want to explore now with my finger, the idea conflicts with what I want and I halt that idea. There it was what I want. Now where did the rest of my desires hide? With the girl next to me sucking my finger I pull her in for a hug and ask her if we can sleep. ¡°It''s torture you know.¡± ¡°Can you forgive me.¡± ¡°sometimes. ¡°Rest.¡± Some point in the middle of the night I feel Stephanie''s tongue on my finger again. Waking slightly at a loss, I can think of a few things now. Most of them include touching me or her. I''m not ready for her yet and neither is she ready for me. In the morning, I take a relaxed shower, get ready for school and all. Having Stephanie''s panties still hidden in the dirty clothes I pulled them out remembering her scent, it was so strong then. Did I feel anything for it did I want to smell it more, did I like it? I looked closer at the pair, so worn and sad looking, any cuteness was almost gone. Despite conflicting thoughts I raised them up then slowly to my face and breathed in. Her moisture was gone. Scent remained, faint and not unpleasant. What do I know? I don''t obsess about that or want more of it at this moment. Let''s put them back and hope we can forget we even checked. Sure not overly in love with the girl, just like her some. Her tongue, might be a differnent problem. - School Halls - Friday and everything at school is normal. Normal for yesterday that is. None of the girls will talk to me and we can guess why. Not to be tainted by Homosexual vibes or something. If anything out of the ordinary happened I''d let you know. At lunch, I sat alone in square, Steph was having stomach problem''s at the nurse. Felt like hanging with a few of the game club guy might be possible, infecting them with the rumors was bad for business though. Time by myself was a new thing for me and very productive. I got all my weekend homework done and figured out why everyone in the big city lives in a big city. Not this small run-down no-where place. Darkside was growing stronger I needed an outlet. I started practicing my breathing. A good shadow spell to suck the school in to a hole of darkness sounded about right. - Nurse''s Station - Found out my pet was at home playing with her pet. Possible with the help of one or two Waifu. They were Downy fresh when I got home... ''Me time'' was important so I knocked on my door for the first time in my life to see if someone was in. Rolling in bed still? ¡°Feeling bad I heard, truthfully I don''t understand. Well you have your reasons.¡± Smiling I turn on the computer, help yourself to anything, I meant it. She sat straight up. ¡°You''re home!¡± She bounced over. Why was I so mad. Sexual frustration and hate, that was the most of it, this town, people and nothing. ¡°Can you fix me, think I''m broken too?¡± Caught off guard for a second we looked around. ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Kiss¡± Moving closer she moves her lips to mine and I push her back, ¡°not that. That was not what I was.¡± I turn away, I return to the forums and look for the combat threads in addition to anything new on skills. - Teea''s Place - With the experience buff off we start the basic [Daggers] training and light workout for Teea to get back in shape after the bar incident. 3 hours of effort, level the skill up two times and I have added a few additional basic attack skills. Adding a group skill [Thrown Weapons] and the basics from that. At the end teacher recommended strength and stamina training, agreeing with her I posed the question of what was the best options here? Continuous practice and fighting was most of the answer, dueling or combat. Affirming that in game like out more done was better than doing nothing. Thanked her and headed to do exactly that, nothing at the tavern for a short spell. - Stitch in Time - Greeted everyone, checked to see if Miss Utica had any jobs. Turned on experience gain and started a dye vat and the loom up, crafted every second I could. It was a grind that had to be done. Better, faster... yea all that. 9 o''clock rolled around before I even realized it and I did a quick snack run myself and a check of the forums. Also, went to the bathroom. Skill gains for the day was a level in [Coloring], [Basic Weaving] and strangely [Poison] leveled. My guess was that a few of the mixed dyes used were toxic to consumption. And while playing around for colors and such, in the last mixes I had inadvertently created poisoned cloths, who constantly uses identify on things always saying the same thing after all? The system observe action didn''t level here. It wasn''t the actual skill you wanted to get and max out. My thoughts: For those happy to run around and see every detail you wanted to learn [Analyze] and it made your character sit there and stare at the item until you knew all the details and could spit out an answer. No instant ''you know everything now'' kind of skill. OP cheat over, get busy killing kind of game. Guess for a raid it would be good enough to have one character with the skill, analyze the boss as everyone fought. Or as an identify skill for magic items found later. Back to [Poison] skill aside from gear that might be dangerous now, anytime I mixed the dyes now I made sure to observe the results in vat and after. Just in case. Killing an NPC even indirectly would really not be enjoyable. Thirty minutes later I finished up in the shop and headed to the ''Wooden Bucket'' to complete my inadvertently promised rendezvous with Dainea. What ill event did fate have in store for me tonight and how could I escape being consumed once again. The only thing on my mind. Thank you mini map for not letting me escape and get lost. - Wooden Bucket - Not unsurprising was a new addition to the staff here, a lusty Player Character by the name of Bella. She fit the bar maid type so well I thought she was an NPC at first. Many of the NPC and player guest responded well to her too. Those DD size monsters might be part of the reason. They were like twice the size of the initial creation over-sized suggested model. How could they not be a problem in a combat situation. Maybe she intended to flash them to stun male enemies into a paralyzed state or heart attack. Not sure, maybe I should introduce her to Teea. Just for the stunned looks. Not seen any NPC with such an endowment anywhere near that volume. Moving on, date time. Dainea was more than happy to finish anytime now and run off with me, I let her pick when. Had a drink and chatted a few locals and players while she got ready and ended her shift. Not making much more than a standard wage until the player rush recently, her room upstairs from the bar wasn''t much. In the living area rented out by the owner, for one silver coin a week, she got this room. Employees only. Maybe the other player was able to get a room at the same rate. Did the Stitch company offer something similar? In bigger stores. The one story construction for most of the town wasn''t common in the bigger cities after all. Acdin had a few buildings with 2 floors. Mind you not many. So the fearful moment arrived and I was dragged with much excitement upstairs. A few faces filled with confusion and jealousy saw us off. It''s a game, nothing more. This is totally FINE. The room was comfortable a few decorations and items that suited her taste. Simple curtains with no patterns, dishes for one and a few extra drinking ones. Few places to put clothes and a few left out used or to be used later. ¡°She to be your first lover?¡± ¡°I do love you for your candor you know. Nothing more, the sucking was, talented and nice by the way thank you.¡± ¡°You are welcome. Want more.¡± ¡°I am conflicted, we going with ''no'' for now.¡± ¡°Later is good.¡± ¡°Welcome to my little room, it''s tiny I know. Don''t be shy help yourself.¡± She released my hand and pulled my arm as we entered. ¡°Sit?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± At the small table we sit not across but with a corner between us. ¡°I am not very sure how this goes or what to say.¡± ¡°Good. We can sit and talk some. Alright?¡± Taking off the apron she had on, made by myself, she folds it up. ¡°Thank you for the gift it was very kind. What kind of trouble did you want to get into tonight?¡± True to form she blushed a little. ¡°I heard the new uses of these and was ah, curious to try it out. Even if I am not much of a cook.¡± ¡°Pretty sure the new use includes no cooking to start with. Lucky you.¡± ¡°So evil, getting a girl so excited so quickly. That''s bad you know.¡± Frightening. ¡°.¡± ¡°Drinks?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°What kind?¡± Gulp, ¡°water is okay.¡± Pulling off her over dress. Dainea brought cups and a jar. ¡°Water it is.¡± Handing over a cup. ¡°To flowers!¡± Down in one move, ok. Ah the effect on the buff list is definitely not water consumption. ¡°To, ...lightning?¡± I ask more about the buff name than the toast. ¡°So you had this before, the lucky person, tell me who.¡± ¡°No- Just the buff I got says lightning... I don''t understand.¡± ¡°She going to take advantage of you, get you drunk, herself as well and seduce you and use your body to her contentment.¡± ¡°You think so?¡± ¡°Best guess.¡± ¡°Ice breaker. We can have more if you want to get raunchy right away?¡± ¡°Wwwww, one was enough!¡± She frowned. She brings out another liquid to drink and we have a few. No surprise buff this time. She did move around to sit next to me and we talked or I listened a lot about her life. ¡°You''re so boring, take me to bed already!¡± I snapped out of and found we were sitting with a few empty containers. Her down to her bottom underwear and the two black censor areas over her chest. Leaning against me on the right side heavily. ¡°How?¡± ¡°Fine.¡± She grabs my hand and pulls me on top of her. ¡°Be my blanket for a while, there''s a chill.¡± Playing with my hair and watching my face for reactions. I check my panties. They''re not wet yet. ¡°Not turned on? Wow, I am. That girl is skilled.¡± ¡°Dainea, as an Avatar there are things I can and can''t do still.¡± ¡°Can I at least have you as my lover all night?¡± Honestly I don''t know. Not that it stopped the ghosts or anything. ¡°Should I just let you have your way and wait?¡± No loss there right. Can turn the monitor off anytime I get uncomfortable. Could there be skills to learn? Is using her that way right? I''m tempted to try. ¡°Would you like the apron then?¡± Getting up she hops over and grabs it up and throws it on. Nice. Fits the role-play to a tee here doesn''t it. ¡°Cute.¡± ¡°Should I, what does a couple do with it now?¡± ¡°Um,¡± I turn a and look away, ¡°there are a few uses.¡± She spins. ¡°Yes it is a bit devilish.¡± ¡°Oh my.¡± Did I just imagine her with a succubus tail. ¡°What?¡± ¡°Oh just the random thought a tail would likely complete the outfit at a cosplay event.¡± ¡°You are too strange, I can get one if you like.¡± Grinning she moves in close to give me a kiss. *smooch* ¡°How do relationships work here?¡± Have I done anything as bad as commit myself to a life-long commitment here? She is cute and the cleavage is certainly an image from this angle. ¡°You have no idea about that?¡± ¡°Yes, I have been in this world less than a full week and most of it has been getting used to it.¡± ¡°I see,¡± *smooch* She stands up and pulls me to the bed near the wall. ¡°Wearing that to bed?¡± I look down, yes, let''s not take off our only defense against people. Changing into a long shirt and stocking I rest on the edge of the bed. What is it I want. Skills, talking, friends, lover, passion, to win the game and be a top ranked gamer. A relationship with this NPC means what in the end: Time, gain and loss, effort. ¡°That''s kind of cute, I love it.¡± Dropping her last article of clothing on the ground I stare at the apron and cute panties on top of them. There is no scent here no taste, does that make this easy or possible? ¡°I sleep naked is that a problem?¡± ¡°Your bed your rules right.¡± ¡°Over here.¡± Pulled into her arms we cuddle some. She went for my underwear and was confused. ¡°Do these come off?¡± She tried again and again. ¡°Grr. are they magic?¡± ¡°How would I know, really it would make sense for it to be possible.¡± Guess she going to be denied what she really wanted. She settled for my stocking one at a time with her teeth and mouth. Pulling up the shirt to stare at the underwear that would not yield. ¡°Fine, shirt off then¡± Whoop there it goes onto the floor pile. NPC Dainea has initiated an intimate act in a private place, due to unfair World policy on sex, all actions must be consensual and censored to meet said World''s laws. Do you accept? ¡°I have got to see this.¡± ¡°Stepha, you OK with this? Thought you''d be jealous some.¡± ¡°I am, I want to be your first partner, sexing you up is one of the biggest things I want now. Can we?¡± ¡°Why don''t I feel the same?¡± I say to myself and the screen. ¡°Scared, attraction is different, love?¡± {yes} What is the worse that could happen? It''s a learning experience right? ¡°Where did they go?¡± Under the covers the underwear poofed and there I was with my own set of censor images floating just about the surface of my avater. ¡°Crazy, those black images you see them on me don''t you?¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Shame you don''t get to see... Still thank you for the treat.¡± My character reacted to all the things that happened afterwards, I got few options at this point and most were of the kiss, hug, cuddle nature. Not that I wanted much more than that. Dainea was able to give us disappointing cut-scene, in retrospect she was very satisfied and affectionate. Was if I had to put it into words, an hour long soft porn shoot with very little fan service and no crappy music. ¡°Who is using Waifu and who the bathroom?¡± That girl is nuts. ¡°You...¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°I don''t care, if-¡± ¡°Both on the Waifu and in the same room?¡± My mind went blank... I am an innocent girl who has no reason to call her self a pervert, yet living with a pervert. And perverts are OK. I believe this completely. ¡°Same room?¡± ¡°How do I get over my embarrassment?¡± She moves over to the bed touching a few places. Smiles. Comes back over to me and looks at me. ¡°I was a little embarrassed. I survived.¡± Turning around my computer chair I look at her. ¡°Don''t.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°Don''t copy me.¡± ¡°Then what would you like?¡± ¡°.¡± She looks down then up and is happy. ¡°To see you naked. To kiss and have sex. Marriage even.¡± Did the world turn pink? I can manage the naked part. Pulling off my shirt and bra, then the skirt. At the last I look down and the panties are spotted a bit with a scent full secretion. ¡°Oh. Guess I got turned on.¡± I shimmy out of them and drop them in the pile and turn back around. ¡°For some reason you get really embarrassed by things I don''t understand. Yet do things I would never.¡± Over my shoulder I ask, ¡°What isn''t that call personality? You are not naked yet what is taking so long?...¡± ¡°Yes the panicked look is cute do-¡± too late she fell over while stripping out of the bottoms. ¡°I''m fine, owch.¡± No bruises good. ¡°No sex.¡± She huffed out in frustration and jumped on the bed. Dainea had her way with Ophilia and we got the show, sad as it was. The sounds coming from Steph were entertaining.The buff after climax was nice, used up while sleeping, sad face. She made Ophilia promise to do it again soon, like tomorrow. I reluctantly agreed she could have her way with me again. Free bed was a gift from heaven. All in all it was really a fun evening compared to a few of the others nights. We talked until Dainea fell asleep. With little to do I logged off and turned around to see about getting some sleep. Waifu number one was moving slowly up and down and in circles on Stephie''s lower region on the bed while she looked at me now. Yup still naked. ¡°Ready?¡± ¡°For what? Bunny racing, a show, bath time?¡± Getting up and stretching, I went to the bathroom, left the door partway open and started to shower. Mmm yea, a good couple of orgasms would be nice. I thought about the past few days and Josh, and Dora, and Flay, and the mage boy, I didn''t get his name. ¡°Steph watching from the doorway?¡± Wasn''t too much of a shock or even a distraction, priorities and all. I did leave the door open. Washed my hair. Did a second grand climax thinking about panties. Would they look good on any of those guys? I got pretty excited about Josh in a nice pair. ¡°Steph? Ever seen Josh in girls clothing?¡± ¡°No.¡± She was entertaining a Waifu gently while watching from the other room. I got a bit faster, then relaxed again. The Waifu paced mine some, was that intentional or not? Steph''s breast full out at hard level maxed. I check mine. Not so much, just a little excited. Very sensitive now, a little caressing is nice there. I move my hand to help the water from the shower. I face the door. Looking at the girl there in a state of pleasure rubbing some. I move my hands lower, the area there ready for another wave, then lower slowly into the tub to get comfortable. ¡°Enter or exit, all the air in the other room is too cold.¡± She walks in with the bunny cumming a few times closer. Sitting on the toilet while I recline in the bath. The conversation is most about what is good and makes the moans the best. Guess this was the fourth option I didn''t propose, Waifu and bath in the same room. Dirty bunnies wasgood name for it. I had the desire to watch what was behind the bunny there didn''t have the nerve to ask. She might agree in a heart beat and that was the scary part. I let or more made Steph dry my hair and got us into sleep clothing me doing the dressing part. ¡°That was nice, different but nice. Lovely even.¡± Her smile was evidently just for my benifit. ¡°I do feel better, good thing no school until Monday though.¡± I roll over and face the wall feeling bitter. ¡°I don''t know how you feel but it''s going to be fine.¡± ¡°It is the getting to the fine part that worries me the most.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Goodnight Stephanie, wash Mr. or Mrs. Waifu tomorrow at some point kay?¡± ¡°Why Waifu?¡± ¡°When I was little. In the toy store in shopping center next town over. They were talking about Waifu''s and their favorite animal parts. Rabbit ears was most of it. So I thought rabbits and Waifu were connected for a few years. Mom had no idea what it meant. Ah works out, they really good at sex after all.¡± ¡°That disturbing.¡± What the sex part or the fact two men were talking about Waifu in a toy department? ¡°Goodnight Princess Waifu. That is you by the way Steph.¡± Just for tonight. ¡°Kiss?¡± I wrap her arms around me. A small amount of touch would be nice after so much sex. The image of her and the rabbit on the toilet cumming played over in my mind. Pervert after all, just not the one you would expect. The look of lust on her face, was too much I had to focus on something else. I caressed her skin and softly feel asleep. End Chapter 6 Chapter 7 - Weak-Week Weakness the Weekend Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 6 Ah! The weekend, and I forgot to kill the alarm clock and we or more I, wake up. It is WAY too early! Going back to sleep. Looking around I think we may have to get counseling for the Waifu couple later. They seem to have gotten more use overnight. If things don''t change, the amount of washings they receive may also be problematic. They a bit older now and excessive use at this age, it might be too much for them after all. ¡°I didn''t use them too many times just three.¡± She figured my chain of thought from me staring at the bunnies. ¡°Hmm, they do look happy and tired.¡± Whatever, Steph is happy all that counts right. ¡°Are they nice? Was it a reward? For them or is it some kind of punishment? Good that you made a new friend, right Mr. and Mrs. Waifu.¡± ¡°?¡± Steph looked confused and I wasn''t really bothered or interested. ¡°Food?¡± She pushed a left over snack carrot from last night into my mouth. Nibble. ¡°Eggs okay with you?¡± I ask. ¡°Anytime.¡± Great then off the kitchen I go. Returning with a few fried over-cooked eggs and bread with berry jelly of some kind. The drink from last night that was sitting near the computer and we have a picnic on the floor. ¡°Want some?¡± She presents the fork to me waiting for me to take a bite. Now she is feeding me too, rather than establish a pattern. ¡°One bite, then I''ll feed myself.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± The freckles on her legs stand out to me for some reason and she lifts her shirt to show me the lack of underwear there, her trimmed hair and a slightly slick area, a little flesh peaking back. Her efforts kinda wasted as I look back at her face, put on a light awkwardsmile and chew my food. ¡°Cute.¡± I think trouble is headed my way again. Weekend what is in store for us? I shiver in fear for a second. Help, I think in the meekest voice inside. I arrive in the world as I normally do and Mr. System has wonderful news. Due to sleeping through many challenging situations you have earned the skill [Deep Sleeper]. Not sure I want to know what those ''situations'' were at this point. What I am happy about is the skill. A passive skill active during sleep allowing me to basically, you got it, sleep more. Oh and an increase in recovery rate while sleeping for all recovering stats and damage. Am I Over Powered yet?... Can''t be that hard to sleep in a combat zone. Hey can you cast sleep on me after each fight, kay thanks. No I was really happy for any skills now, even strange ones. ¡°Oh did the sleeping one finally awaken?¡± There from under the sheet comes a voice. ¡°Having fun?¡± ¡°More than you can imagine. You are so cute even when you sleep, I couldn''t resist.¡± ¡°I would say my pleasure, but you know I wasn''t participating, so as along as you were having fun.¡± The buffs were stacked quite high for the physical pleasure there. May have trouble walking to the shop, or out the door. ¡°I need pleasure right now and it was the only thing I could think of.¡± She looks in dire need of comfort. Or revenge. I start with trying to interact with her in any way possible holding her, caress her hair, emotes, I am just about to give up. I look in the system actions on the character page for anything and a possible action occurs to me. Duh, this is so not going to work. You have requested a Duel with NPC ''Dainea''. She has accepted. Fight starts in 3 2 1 A naked duel in bed has been Initiated. Combat actions have been replaced with physical intimacy actions. Any actions in violation of the World''s Decency Laws will not be shown or enacted on screen. Enjoy. Oh my friggen lord, I am so in-trouble! Her naked PVP skills have to be ten times mine! So going to lose. ¡°Good luck me.¡± Wait how do you end combat in bed? Is there experience gain? Ah there are skills here. Wait, wait, wait, I can''t read them fast enough. Oh there goes some stamina. Oh and 1 hp damage on the headboard not good. Least Dainea looks happier. Did she just explode down there? Can''t tell, there was a sound though. Gah, they don''t show enough! Thump, Thump, thump, a rhythm game easy no problem. Mastered those years ago! , add a combo attack. Ah she is panting and down to low stamina, hold back and let her focus just a little then recommence the attack. Oops I fell out of bed. That was a reputation loss. Get up and fight! Get back in there champ. That''s a silly looking pose. How do two people even get in to that position? This is actually fun compared to the video show last night. Dainea is asking for mercy now. Advance in revenge or hold off in pity. Suffer wench do you have any idea how hard it''s going to be to walk with all these debuffs? ¡°Oh I surrender, you win. Just kidding come here round 2 is just starting.¡± No way she was faking that. Ah revenge, attack, triple pleasure combo. Position change. Push the stamina drain. Oh she collapsed. ¡°You alright?¡± Tilting my head, Dainea looks like she is about to faint. *Pant* ¡°Yea one second.¡± *pant* ¡°The timer says you are going to surrender if you can''t move soon.¡± ¡°No problem, I''ll just rest here.¡± Cuddle action go! Player ''Ophilia'' has defeated ''Dainea''! In bed. Duel successful, you have won and gained experience and the skill [Stamina] from your mighty victory. [Villager] class has become level 3, your current class is not applicable to the gained experience. Current class [Novice Tailor]. You have gained +1 to all stats, and 1 stat point to spend on a stat of your choice. Mr. System you have just made me the craziest slut in all the town, I mean it. Stamina skill so cool. Now if I could only hurry up the debuff removal. I''d be so happy I could die. I pull out some water and food and feed us since Dainea can only mumble words. Walking was out of the question so I tried to crawl to the pile of clothes on the floor to get dressed. ¡°Did you learn anything?¡± ¡°Steph, if I get to the point where I can use what I just almost saw, I can''t even begin to comprehend the difficulty I will have trying to lead a normal life.¡± ¡°I don''t understand.¡± ¡°How long do you think I am going to get to sleep after several escapades in one evening? With my proclivity towards sexual indulgence I have the feeling working from home or online college may be critical to any life plan as I may never leave bed again.¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°If I start, I may never stop.¡± ¡°oh, OH! oh.¡± Can only guess she is seeing good and bad things about this. DD queen Bella was in the tavern below. Once I regained my walking ability and left the second floor she knew or guessed I had logged off last night upstairs and welcomed me back. Eating some food with an endurance and strength buff to make the walk to work was first task. She put the order of food in front of me and I got busy in a different sense. Eating this time. ¡°Have a good evening?¡± ¡°Can say it was better than the rest of the week.¡± ¡°Ho? Is that so?¡± She looks like she wants to sit and gossip. ¡°I can listen, you want some advice? Or just to girl talk? Baseless town rumors?¡± ¡°No, think the food is enough.¡± I wave her off. ¡°You are a guy right?¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Hey, not important, just a guess. Are triple F size like them possible in real life?¡± Player Bella has sent you a message. ¡°Can I read it later.¡± ¡°Now please.¡± I read it, sure no problem. ¡°Not one to gossip, or hold anything against people for what they like in-game or out.¡± Looking at the Grand Canyon that whole buildings could get lost in. ¡°Only thing that really bothers me are those and how they hurt just imagining the discomfort they would bring.¡± ¡°Ha, right they would be very heavy in real life.¡± She returns to the kitchen. ¡°Hope I can make it to work today. Bella thanks for the meal.¡± ¡°You are welcome.¡± She looked a little worried I''d spread around that she was a he in real life. Didn''t really care he played a she in-game. Looking through my commands page I have a new action. One for naked duels now and it says it will only work with a Player or NPC with a high enough affection. So, should we share this tidbit of information with the rest of the game world? Looks like the experience buff was left on over night, well any skil gain is a good one. Well even if sleep bonus was used on night time activity skill learning, any growth is good at this point. So a little more work for the profession class then? In the workshop alone, I look in the pattern book for level nine recipe. And any level ten ones useful. There is [Hat(fancy)] pattern at level 9 to buy and anything for 10 and up needs materials you cannot buy cheap in town. Monster drops or better cloth or the likes. I learn the pattern for fancy hats and get to work. Getting low on dyes today, will go shopping later. Vat and loom started. I auto-craft the hat pattern to see what got made. The result is kind of pretty, nothing I would wear or want to see others in, shop stock ''sell''. Tailoring leveled after a few items. Hello level nine. I do a quick craft of all the things I want to register with the Crafting Guild. They want one to extract the pattern from. Future income would be good so getting a few patterns registered now might be worth it later. About 45 minutes before noon, I go shopping for dyes and pick up some supplies from the other stores. Shop here, shop there. Extra leather, more dyes! Sell the crafted items I don''t want or need. A stop at the lumber yard for cheap scraps. Buy, spend. A few ingredients for the weaker than weak poison recipe I have. Pick up some errand packages for the shop. Check in with Teea at the archer range. She is alive, no guilt there. Food for later tonight and schedule revenge on my bar maid Part Two. Poor Dainea has created a monster of a different kind; a moment of silence for the death of my soul and my habits of good judgments. Yup, registered all the new patterns and paid my Guild due''s. Now an official card carrying craftsman. Fun right? Back to the shop leveling should be easier now with some room in my bag. Lawrence was not practicing his Lizard accent anymore, maybe he perfected it? He was more into his current hobby, stabbing the desk with a letter opener. So be it. Aveon had a gift for all of us, a rare quality back pack for each of the crew in the shop. They held a few more items and were nice for sorting stuff. Equip-able to the back slot and could be shown or not and used with the inventory window we had already. We met the new apprentice to be, she was a werewolf girl. One of the starting races, one big flaw with taking it, were-creatures had involuntary Player vs. Player with racial enemy classes. No trading with racial enemies either. Add in a charisma, intelligence and wisdom stat gain penalty offset by a strength and endurance gain boost. Left the race played by warrior heavy fighter types. A lot of which had quit after finding out you couldn''t really go straight to combat. Awoo was a bit furry and somewhat charming. She fit in well with our group in no time. I forced her to wear a fancy hat later for a forums picture. Think I lost a little reputation or affection with her in doing so. The cuteness factor I felt completely justified it. A pouting werewolf girl in a cute hat, post access increased by 300%. In the name of sales it was worth it, even if most visitors were only there for the pictures, and Awoo resented me a while. Awoo did a few errands and got the apprenticeship contract. We all crafted and shared crafting experiences and helpful things. It was 4:00 pm and I was struggling to find new things to craft. ¡°Anyone want anything made? Out of ideas to make things.¡± I mixed a poison in the alchemy set bought the other day in the water well area. ¡°What are you making there?¡± ¡°Oh Awoo, ah a, hmm, yea, a weak poison that might be enough to make a rat sick.¡± ¡°Does it have a use?¡± ¡°?¡± ¡°Sure, it might make a rat sick.¡± ¡°That''s it?¡± ¡°Stomach ache?¡± What else can you expect from a really, really, weak poison... ¡°Forget I asked. Do you have a reason to make it?¡± ¡°Skill up? Cheap to make. Never know when a disgusting rat might want to become ill.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Did you want me to make a tailored item?¡± ¡°Dress, could you help me?¡± ¡°Yes, got the fabric in the color you want?¡± I ask just in case. ¡°Blue dye, not got any.¡± Checking my supplies I have a few. ¡°Light or dark?¡± ¡°Dark¡± ¡°Contrast with the eyes, nice. Did you get the [Coloring] skill yet?¡± ¡°Not yet.¡± ¡°Okay. Oh-wait a sec.¡± I complete the poison recipe, then store everything away. ¡°Get the fabric, we can color it when the vat is free next. One dye, oh enough for about four fabrics.¡± ¡°Great.¡± We work on the cloths making the dress, a pretty dress fitting for Awoo. Completing the dress, Mr. System has words for me that stun me for a second. Congratulations! You have level up [Novice Tailoring], it is now level 7. You have gained +1 to all stats. You have gained +2 to Dexterity, +2 to intelligence, and 2 points to increase a stat of your choice. Required experience to Level 8 is 55/3269. With 10 levels in other profession classes you are qualified to earn a Combat class from a trainer. !!! So villager PLUS tailor and I have enough, oh why don''t they tell you these things earlier. Ahhhh! Such a pain and here I was set to grind the next three days. ¡°You look troubled anything wrong?¡± Mysti! It is quite the opposite dear. ¡°No, just going to step out and get a handle on where to get a combat class... Don''t mind me.¡± I hug her a few times and jump up and down. ¡°Does she need to use the restroom or something?¡± Chip that is rude, girls don''t pee. Add the fact this is a game why would you ask that? ¡°Thank you for the help with the dress it looks perfection.¡± Yes, we were working on that weren''t we were-woman. ¡°Put it on lets see how it looks.¡± ¡°One sec.¡± The dress is nice and the hole for the tail is in the right place even. ¡°Turn around let me see the back, did we get it right?¡± Turning around so I can look at the tail, I tug the dress a bit and see if the tail movement is good it really is a nice tail, soft and looks if it would be fun to use on a serving maid in the up cumming duel. Wonder if they have a detachable version or if they can be looted from dead NPC were-creatures? ¡°Can I have my tail back?!?¡± ¡°No I really want it as payment for the dress sure you won''t sell it to me?¡± I play with it a bit more. So soft. ¡°EEP!¡± Ah drats she escaped. De tail included. ¡°Thank you for the help!¡± Awoo cries and flees. Yes, she going to be hard to catch at this rate. The last few stacks of the debuffs would make it rather hard to keep up with Awoo who is sprinting away from me. Oh well. Combat trainer it is. On the way to visit our chef-butler-gay brother in law-love interest who scorned us and handed us to his sister I check my stats. Level 7 Novice Tailor. str 13, int 27, wis 15, end 12, dex 26, char 16, luck 13 With 3 free points what should I increase? Not making a decision in time before I arrive, I put it off for now. ¡°Yo, you here Southersbee?¡± ¡°Huh that you Ophilia?¡± No it is some other in-law you dumped your sister on. ¡°Might be, so I''ve come to ask for food and some information. The cat in the guild we don''t talk about. Know anything about him yet?¡± ¡°Like what? Told you what I know already.¡± ¡°Food allergies, favorite color? What his taste in cats are? You know things I can use to twist a knife in his side.¡± ¡°Ah, you''re going to find the local trainers.¡± ¡°20 points!¡± Josh turns and finishes cooking something, ¡°Not a clue.¡± ¡°Southersbee could there be vegans in this world? I offered him meat before he was a bit grumpy about it.¡± ¡°?¡± He had a puzzled look. ¡°I was going to feed him, unless you have any other ideas how to get him to give the info. Just worried if he was reluctant to share that knowledge. Plus it would be cute to watch the kitty eat.¡± I sat and thought a while. Slave Southersbee finished up a few more dishes. I looked at a couple of the things he made and decided on two servings of the same high-quality mixed vegetables. I had an idea and if it worked I be set. After a little more chatting I headed out for the south gate and the Thieves Guild tavern. Yup, nothing like the sights and sounds of the shady part of town right before evening. Good thing I got here before dark. I head and peek in the tavern, nothing exciting going on yet. I may pop in later. With a bit of excitement to learn of the magic trainers in town, I open the guild door and peek in, and back down the alley behind me. All clear, I step in. ¡°I have the feeling something bad is coming today.¡± is heard from downstairs. How could they know I was coming? I wait and listen to a few conversations about trivial things going on. So I head down the stairs.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators! ¡°So it''s you. Why are you back?¡± The NPC I got the poison recipe from asked me. I look around. ¡°I wonder...¡± she steps back in fear for some reason. ¡°wanted to see Mr. kitty cat, is he here?¡± The relief shown on her face felt a little like an insult. Let''s provoke her, ¡°Or you could teach me more recipes!?¡± I give a big smile. She tensed up. ¡°No, that is fine. I think he was over there, bye.¡± She left up the stairs two steps at a time and I heard her run down the alley. She must really dislike me, I think and turn around to look for our Mr. kitty. ¡°Looking for me?¡± We meet half way to his corner where he was cat napping a second ago. ¡°Yes, hungry?¡± ¡°Not really.¡± He turns and slowly walks back to his table and does a stretch then jumps back up on the table. ¡°Your loss.¡± I sit down and look at him closer. ¡°Really looks like a cat. Skill or magic?¡± ¡°Why would you think I am anything other than a cat?¡± ¡°No reason.¡± I look around then pull out a plate of the veggies Josh made for me. ¡°Mmm these pretty good for a novice chef.¡± Eating a few and waving them around to see if the smell would entice him. He did sniff the air some when I pulled them out. So I munch on them and continue talking. ¡°Can I pet you?¡± ¡°No.¡± Trying the blunt approach first here, I ask. ¡°So... I was thinking, know anyone in town, who could teach me any of the less popular magic skills?¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°That''s a yes then?¡± Pop in a few more veggies off the plate. ¡°Mmm really yummy.¡± ¡°Don''t think I want you having anyway to cause more problems than you already do.¡± ¡°Me, problems, how so?¡± ¡°.¡± He looks me in the face and says, ¡°Just a thought on keeping the world safe some of us had.¡± He mumbled something about a future demon lord candidate. ¡°Honestly, you all are no fun, sure you don''t want one, these vegetables are tasty.¡± I pop the second to last one in and chew. His interest may have grown in getting a taste, he did look at the plate a few times while talking. ¡°Still won''t tell you.¡± ¡°That is fine, it is your information and who you sell it to or don''t, is up to you.¡± I pop the last one into my mouth. He makes a disappointing look and rests his head with no food and nothing else to do he must be thinking about a nap again. I take out the second dish and put it on the first plate. ¡°Here help yourself. You don''t even have to tell me who trains dark magics in this town.¡± He sniffs the plate and takes a bite. It is really nice when a plan comes together I smile gently. Watching the cute Mr. kitty I feel warm at the cute sight. ¡°You can''t pet me either.¡± ¡°Drat!¡± Pulling back my hand, ¡°So what do they call you?¡± ¡°Paws.¡± ¡°No kidding.¡± A vegetarian cat named Paws. How ironic. ¡°Paws is a druid or a were-creature?¡± ¡°I am a cat.¡± He takes another piece to nibble on. We talk about the town while he works on the mixed veggie plate. When he is almost done I ask one last time, ¡°You sure you won''t tell me who can train magic in town? I feel I am ready for a teacher.¡± ¡°You are, but it would be bad for me to do so. Ugh...¡± ¡°Eat too much there?¡± I smile. ¡°Looks like you ate most of that, did you get the stomach ache already.¡± ¡°Uuuh, you sound as if you expected me to get a stomach ache.¡± He looks a bit pale even for a cat, green even. ¡°Well of course with the delayed acting deadly poison on that dish, it would be the first symptom after all. Just kidding totally lying to you here.¡± His face is really shocking even for a cat, the screen shot later goes viral. ¡°.¡± ¡°No, no, nothing to worry about you just ate too much right?¡± That done I take the last veggie on the plate and hold it in front of my mouth. ¡°See, nothing to worry about, at all.¡± I pop it in my mouth and chew. ¡°Mmm, so tasty. Hope this is the one I didn''t drop that vial on. The old alchemist said that one would really not be good to consume, Ever.¡± ¡°Uuuuugh, Vivie you over there still?¡± Guess he wants a second opinion from our poison trainer friend. ¡°You mean the girl that ran out just after I got here?¡± He didn''t look very happy. Pitiful even, never seen a mouse in a trap before. Did it have the same look as our new friend Paws here? The debuff for poison didn''t show up on me yet, so maybe the weaker than weak, didn''t give a debuff. Might be I didn''t get enough from the dish. Nope there is the stomach is upset debuff. No status effects yet though. ¡°Did you?¡± ¡°Give you a deadly poison, no, I wouldn''t do that. How could I? Such a cute, friendly, talkative kitty such as your self.¡± The cat definitely turned green as a Saint Patty''s day hat. Moving to crawl off the table. ¡°Oh, I can pet you?¡± ¡°No! Uggh...¡±, as he reached the edge of the table. I picked him up anyways and scratch behind his ears. He didn''t have much energy or fight at this point. ¡°Here I''ll put you down on the table.¡± Placing him back where he had been in the center of the table. He looked like his vow of silence would be coming to an end. My guess with no way of escape he would give in. ¡°Still hungry?¡± I go to pull out another dish. Instead, I pull out one of the green dyes from the shopping from today. ¡°What? For all you know this could be an antidote.¡± It was 100%, just an ugly green dye, but he had no way of knowing. Right? Guess the effects of the poison in the food were pretty strong, for his size he was just a large cat size after all. No helping it since he had my trainer information as a hostage, gloves are off. ¡°Trainers?¡± ¡°Uugh. Fine give me the antidote.¡± ¡°Right, no need yet, you have lots of time left.¡± I put away the unhelpful green dye and prompt him to continue. ¡°Trainers right, ...¡± While he remembered, I pull out some water and put it on the clean plate that was under the toxic one then place the toxic plate in my bags. ¡°There are three I know of for sure in town. I am not going to die here am I?¡± ¡°Why would you die? It''s just fresh water.¡± He looks at me like I am crazy. ¡° I meant the antidote.¡± ¡°Three, then you know what they teach, and where to find them or their names?¡± Drawing close to him I scratch his head. Close the water-skin and put it away. ¡°Vivie said something bad was coming today. Should have listened, she is always right. Uggh.¡± The green cat, Paws looked sad. ¡°Fine! ... There is the Necro-¡± I interrupt him, ¡°No! Next, the other two please!¡± I blush and recall blue ghosts doing unspeakable things to my avatar. Was it my imagination or did the event get blown out of proportion every time I recalled that evening afterwards? What titles? I don''t curently have any titles like that. ¡°Sure, then there is the bard with charm magic and void magic trainer. I also know someone that teaches intimidate not that you need to learn that.¡± ¡°Charm and void they sound promising, who?¡± ¡°Show some mercy here I feel terrible.¡± ¡°What it won''t kill you, it was just a weaker than weak poison recipe I got from Vivie. That was her name correct?¡± ¡°No.?!¡± He froze for a second. They say laughter is a great medicine but he only seemed to suffer more as he slowly rolled there laughing and intermittently complained about his stomach for two minutes. He gathered his wits and cast a spell. A soft green glow covered him then faded and kitty started to recover quickly. ¡°Bard and void?¡± ¡°Fine, here are the directions to the place the bard is often found. Void trainer well, he looks like a noble and sits in the park all day staring.¡± ¡°Thanks! Damage done here. Unless you want to chat or such I was going to go. Can I pet you?¡± ¡°No!¡± I give him a scratch behind the ears, a wave and head up and out the back door. Such a nice Paws to the skill grinding. With the tavern filling up now might be a good time to head to the other where the bard was supposed to be found. Not that I really want charm magic that badly, would be good to find the price and skills he would teach. What really had my panties wet was the Void Magic trainer and what I could learn from him. Since it was late my reasoning was the park would be a daytime event. Well he could live there as a homeless person, but if he looked like a noble, that might not be the case... You have gained 10 infamy for poisoning a local NPC trainer from the underworld. Well that was interesting. Leaving the guild happy,I took a moment to reflect on my bad behavior. Did something like that happen? I don''t recall... ¡°Really? Really? Who the hell names these places?¡± I say to no one in particular outside the place. In front of the wood and stone one-story tavern hung the sign, a woman serving a drink to a man with a trumpet like instrument. ¡°If only I didn''t feel so odd about entering inside.¡± Thinking there is no helping it, can we just get this over with. Even so why do I feel some guilt here. (1) Once inside the Maid and the feeling of discomfort had passed. I looked for a place to sit. Over there, to the right, were a few Bards and various NPCs. Looking around we also see a few player characters. I''ll sit there and see what is what. *Thump* I sit at the long wood table a few seats from the Bards. I watch the Bards for a while. Nurse a drink and watch the group. While its obvious who the Charm magic user is, I mean the guy''s personality screams sleazy-woman-chasing-scum only interested in self pleasure and the sorts. Now, how to get away without being subjected to his spells or trapped for an evening with him? Steal his current target? Bruise his ego? Play at getting revenge for a sibling? Maybe just ask him? ¡°Hello there, my name is Ophilia, could I ask you to play a song for us all? I don''t have too much coin but would you and you possibly perform a duet.¡± I hold out seven copper for the two Bards I didn''t want to ask questions of. ¡°Sure!¡± The tallest one with a lute stands and reaches for the coins, ¡°Come Astute we have a request!¡± ¡°Hey wait.¡± The Bard named Astute follows him to the stage reluctantly. They begin to discuss what to play, and I turn to the guy flirting with his prey for the evening. ¡°They any good?¡± I ask him. ¡°Huh?¡± He looked really confused. ¡°I asked if they are any good?¡± ¡°.¡± He looked around and made the connection I was asking about the other bards. ¡°Yea.¡± He starts to turn to his girl he was chatting quietly with and I interrupt again. ¡°No, not them. You, your skills? Are, they, any, good?¡± ¡°I am better than they are, little girl, can you not see my talents worth in my clothing.¡± He was quickly starting to get the jist of the conversation. ¡°Was looking for a skill teacher, a cat suggested this place.¡± ¡°!¡± He looked around hurriedly, it finally clicked with him what I was talking about. ¡°Wait!¡± He whispered to his girl and took me to a less crowded corner to talk. ¡°If you here to learn to sing any bard can do that.¡± ¡°Come now prince charming, I am so, not here for flute lessons.¡± Maybe if he wasn''t slimy and looked a bit better possibly but this guy no way, there was a reason he had learned these skills after all. ¡°What is it you want to learn then, if not music from a bard?¡± Pulling the magic wand from my inventory I lightly poke him in the doublet he was wearing. ¡°So coy. Please teach this girl how charming you can really be. If you want, it can be another time so you don''t lose your fishy there to the wolfs in this hen house.¡± I point to the girl who was getting attention from a few males in the room already. ¡°Ah right...¡± You could tell he did not want his new found conquest material to get taken. Even if there was plenty at his table currently he was conflicted. His indecision was really heart warming. Make a few coins here and possibly me for dinner or the goal he had been working for a while now. ¡°Hey.¡± I break is tough process and bring him back to the conversation. ¡°We will make this easy, tomorrow mid-morning or after lunch? At that time how much coin? Do you need anything else for the lessons? Contraception is not an option here Mr.¡± I smile and put away the wand. ¡°Oh, um... after lunch is best. For you it is 25 silver for skill training.¡± ¡°No it is not. Cat said less much less.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°No. I offer you 10 silver for your charming lesson.¡± *Gasp* ¡°No way, 20 is still way too low.¡± ¡°Well,¡± I pull out my wand. ¡°Guess I can go cast dispel on that girl for practice.¡± I turn. ¡°Wait!¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°15?¡± ¡°12 silver.¡± I face him again. Wand back into the inventory. ¡°13¡± ¡°12 silver 50 copper. I can''t in good conscience go any higher.¡± He looks quite defeated at this point so he agrees. ¡°Fine. Tomorrow after lunch. How is the graveyard north outside the walls?¡± ¡°No, No, No.¡± Not good at all I try to hide the panic. ¡°Let us meet in town at least.¡± ¡°We need a place no one will see or interrupt. My room?¡± ¡°Hah! In your dreams! No offense. Oh I have a place, meet me around this place.¡± I give him the directions to the store near Teea''s place, she never did ask for her key back. ¡°We meet out front, little after lunch then?¡± ¡°Works for me.¡± Heading back to his flower for the night, I head for mine. I check in with everyone collect a few coins for my share of the orders picked up and information sold that day. Get a quick chance to start a dye vat and the loom. Talk a bit with Mysti and Aveon about magic classes and there future goals in game. Ask them about Awoo and chip. They all seem to be growing stronger and will be ready for a combat classes soon. I let them know that tomorrow I have plans to get some skill training and might not be in the shop much. I start a few crafts in-game and ate dinner with Steph in my room, she had found my unused smart tablet during the day and had been entertaining herself for a while now. There were a few old games and applications on it. I asked her if she thought my weekends were boring. Her reply was, ¡°Very. Up to you how you spend your time though.¡± We talked about a few things from school and foods we liked. Some about the games on the tablet she liked so far. When we were done with the plates, I took them downstairs and cleaned up, then went back to the game. One of the rabbits had disappeared to the bathroom with Steph. Wow that girl was so horny I had no idea. Maybe that is how she dealt with the boredom. The happy sounds from the bathroom were not too distracting. Just to provoke the girl, ¡°Hey Steph cum really hard in there for me once, will you?¡± Guess that helped her reach a new level and the sound got a little more intense. ¡°So evil.¡± I heard at some point. Was that a good evil or bad evil? The panting went on and on. We had a guess it wasn''t too bad. Back in the workshop I finished up a few orders and resupplies for the store then headed to the tavern I might find Teea at. Asked her if I could use her place for a magic lesson tomorrow then bought her a non vomit inducing drink and headed to where Dainea worked. I drank a few drinks served by Dainea, talked with H-cup Bella and the woodworker Cunning Twist. They Both seem to be progressing with their levels and skills so far. Talked about crafting and woodworking with Cunning as well. Using what I had on hand I got a few tips on making things out of wood. From buttons to hair pins and trinkets. We carved and chatted until Dainea was ready to finish her shift. She had worked most of the midday once she was able to get out of bed apparently. Having made 4 hair pins, a few buttons a wood ring, and a very low quality wand that had zero stats and low magic attack. Making those and a few other random things, Mr. System let me know of my progress. Congratulations! You have leveled up the skill [Woodworking] to level 4. Not too far from another level in Novice Tailoring might happen tomorrow if I craft some clothes. Dainea came to drag me up to her room soon afterwards. ¡°Whew, what a day, I have never been so slime leg like going to work before! This morning was-¡± Having said that her clothes start flying off as she pulls me nearer the bed. ¡°Huh? get those off I want a rematch now! Not going to lose this time.¡± With the pile of serving girl clothes on the floor and her slipping under the sheets, she uses her fingers indicating for me to be faster and come near. ¡°Faster, strip!¡± Holding the sheet up for me to get in. The anticipation in her eyes clear and sparkling. No helping it huh? Skill gain time? Putting away my gear one piece at a time slowly I give her a smile knowing that the levels of the [Stamina] skill will certainly be worth my efforts here. Plus she was so cute that I didn''t mind her hurry. I just had to get over the images of her in the cosplay I wanted to see her in. With the last item I had on put into storage and the cursed, ugly censor default underwear on I slipped into bed. As soon as I was getting under the sheets she pulled me in and out popped the message. NPC ''Dainea'' has challenged you to a duel. Do you accept? {Yes} Naked duel starts in 3 2 1 A naked duel in bed has been Initiated. Combat actions have been replaced with physical intimacy actions. Any actions in violation of the World''s Decency laws will not be shown or enacted on screen. Enjoy. Steph came over and we watched together as Dainea blitzed us in bed. Yes she stacked up the buff so fast and so many that Ophilia could hardly move. The noises from my avatar were very reminiscent of the sounds we had just heard from Stephanie in the bathroom. ¡°You know, I am not kind of jealous that she gets to do that to you and I don''t.¡± Steph looks in my eyes. ¡°Do I have to share you like this?¡± Resting her hand on mine. I let go of the mouse. Turning the chair around. Look at Steph there in a light shirt with an aroused chest and a skirt with probably no panties under. I let her sit in my lap. Her scent of arousal was still strong, if it was left over or fresh I''d no way of knowing. ¡°Steph, you are cute, and a bit sexy and fun to be with. I don''t mind you in my life. Really in a sexual sense, I just don''t have that craving for you. I may be a bit scared to have casual sex with someone but even so I just don''t imagine it when I look at you.¡± She played with my hair caressed me a few places. Scared me when she fondled my chest a little. After a few moments she stopped and didn''t know what to do seeing only my body react. ¡°I''d give you lots of pleasuring...¡± She was honest there. With my hand I move hers off my small breasts they had started to get a bit sensitive to her musings. ¡°Maybe I am not ready?¡± I play with her hand and move it up close to her chest. I rub her erect nipple with mine then her fingers. ¡°Not feeling like I should continue this.¡± I leave her hand there. Her hand starts moving back and forth and around her breasts. Steph starts moaning some. Turning the chair, I move back to the duel still in progress in game. While Steph is working towards personal satisfaction and yet still in my lap. I try to get in a few actions in against Dainea. Yea today might be my first loss in a PVP duel in a long time. For some reason Stephanie''s progress towards a climax and Ophilia''s have the sensation of being in sync. At the same time I see Steph in my lap start to shake and spasam, it plays in rhythm with the noises from in game. Shocked for a second at the reality level of the game, as well as the fact a girl is masturbating in my lap, my thoughts are interrupted by the system messages. NPC ''Dainea'' has defeated you in a Naked Duel. Recovery from a stunned status will take 1 minute. You have reached maximum affection with NPC ''Dainea'' and may now be added to your friends list. Non-Player Character ''Dainea'' has reach maximum affection with you and requested to be friends. Do you accept? {Yes} With a reassuring smile Dainea rests next to Ophilia. A few soft kisses and caress. A plea for further mercy from me and a snack. Steph''s breathing returns to a more normal state and I finally notice the feeling of my underwear and skirt soaked and completely drenched from her orgasm release. After noticing that herself, she looked very embarrassed and I really wanted to tease her. ¡°Steph, feel good now?¡± She nods up and down. ¡°Great, can you get me something to wear instead of these?¡± ¡°Kiss?¡± She brings her hand she had just pleasured herself with to my cheek and her scent is the strongest yet. I kiss her finger. ¡°That enough?¡± Hope she can do with that much. ¡°No please, just one.¡± She moves slowly to my lips with hers. Ah! What do I care. ¡°Here.¡± I point to my cheek she had just touched. I eat some food and drink with Dainea and Steph presses her lips to my cheek to kiss it. Could my life be anymore strange??? ¡°Mmm¡± *kiss* I send Dainea a kiss in game and lay down to rest some. Stephanie''s finger moves to my lips and traces around them. I am glad she is happy, but the same time sad that she and I don''t have similar level of feelings for each other. I gently bite her finger and she quickly replaces her finger with her lips. ¡­ Yea I froze up ¡­ ¡°Steph mmm¡± She slid her tongue in at that point. It was not unexpected at this point. Warm, passionate and effective. She put everything into making it last longer. Pulling her away I catch my breath. ¡°Please get me some fresh underwear and something to put on instead of this skirt. Thank you Steph.¡± Pouting she moves off my lap. Her body no longer against mine felt a bit cool and the warmth of her legs left mine, replaced by the just the feeling of the soaking she left on me. ¡°Here.¡± ¡°No, no, you made the mess now clean it up. And not with your mouth...¡± I turn and stand waiting for her to fix my clothes. ¡°You want me to-¡± ¡°Put on my underwear and skirt? Yes I do.¡± Teasing her might go on all night at this rate, good thing no school tomorrow. God forgive me for missing church. Was a good reason I swear! She carefully removed the damp clothes and put them in the bathroom hamper, she returns to me smiling. Just so she could get a good look. ¡°Yes, yes, please finish.¡± ¡°Sure you don''t want to let me please you for a few hours?¡± ¡°Nope, just change my panties and skirt, that will suffice, thanks.¡± Frowning, she searches my underwear drawer for a nice pair. I can see she having quite the time keeping from touching herself at the same time she is deciding. The grin was obvious she was enjoying something. ¡°Hey, if you don''t hurry no more Waifu use for 2 days.¡± She panics and grabs one off the top and hurries back. Black of course. Putting them on she slows down as they reach my pubic area. Her stare is fixated on me. She licked her lips and her fingers twitch as though she wanted to drive them in there and play until I cried for mercy. The remnants of her soaking hid the fresh moisture she had just created in me as she had casually trailed her fingers up my legs when she drew them on. She swallowed as I help her hands finish the job. They had paused for a longer stretch than needed. ¡°Skirt please.¡± She went back to my closet and started looking for something to wear. Seeing that it might take a while I sat down and flip through a few forum messages and posts. ¡°How about these?¡± She placed my shortest skirt in front of my eyes while standing behind me. ¡°Fine. Put them on.¡± I let a few return messages to the unanswered orders and requests distract me. Rotating ninety degrees in the chair, I stick out my legs. Then stood up when the skirt reached my thighs. She finished helping and I thank Steph, ¡°Good work, thank you.¡± ¡°Anne, can we have sex?¡± ¡°You with, me?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Us?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°No.¡± I sit down. She looked a bit sad. ¡°Was the last climax not enough for you Steph?¡± ¡°.¡± She smiled again remembering back a few moments. I have the feeling that at some point in the future, either she is going to wear me down till I say yes or she plain rapes me. Would I be okay with either of those endings? Seeing my escape route, mission accepted, I head to the kitchen with my empty drink. ¡°Want anything from the kitchen?¡± Her blush gives me the image of her imagining several unacceptable things she may have in mind. I move out quickly in order to avoid hearing them. Mom hearing me come down from upstairs waves at me from in front of the TV, one of the signals she wants to speak at me while not missing any show or commercials. I refresh my drink grab a few more healthy snacks and peek in the room. ¡°We too noisy up there?¡± ¡°Huh? No. You two doing okay?¡± ¡°Meaning?¡± ¡­ ¡°Just checking, can talk to me about anything you know.¡± Mom''s concern was touching but misplaced. ¡°Like what? We know Steph''s home life wasn''t good at all. She is Okay with me and I with her. Something I should know about?¡± ¡°Now it is just a bit strange that is all, not worried.¡± ¡°Sure.¡± I wave and head back up to my, okay our room now. ¡°Sorry, I drifted off there.¡± I answer her with a kiss. She had been talking about work and life and growing up while I got changed and fetched a drink. You have challenged NPC ''Dainea'' to a Naked Duel. I got out of her bed and looked out the open window from her darkened room. *smile* My turn to increase my player versus player win percentage. Naked duel starts in 3 2 1 A naked duel has been Initiated. Combat actions have been replaced with physical intimacy actions. Any actions in violation of the World''s Decency laws will not be shown or enacted on screen. Enjoy. [Summon Friend] ''Dainea'' Summoned friend has arrived. Cooldown 24 hours. ¡°What?¡± The complete shock on Dainea''s face only lasted a second. As she had teleported rigth in front of me, I pushed her against the frame of the open window and began my evil plan to win. Using every combo and trick I had seen or learned so far in the last two duels we brought Dainea to a fast earth shattering climax in front of the open window. She shook and gasped in pleasure and torment while holding to the window sill and frame. Not letting her escape for a second I brought her to a few more subtle, then fierce orgasms. When she finally got back from the waves, I held her against the frame of the window gently so her failing legs didn''t give out. Stimulating her in soft and slow paced rhythm games until we climaxed together. Drained her stamina too close to zero with a rainbow of plays. Don''t think she stood a chance of winning. The smile on her facewas super funny as I carried her back to bed. Wiped her drool and hugged her and added a few kisses. Caressed her face and held her close as she calmed some then from under the sheets. Ophilia did her best with her mouth and fingers and a victor was declared. Player ''Ophilia'' has defeated ''Dainea''! Duel successful you have won and gained experience and 1 stat point to assign as you choose for the mighty victory. Congratulations! Skill [Stamina] has reached level 2. Interesting, The benefits of being morally flexible keep rolling in. Plus this actually might be educational. Can I actually deceive myself anymore, who am I kidding I am really having fun pretending to have sex with an adorable NPC girl. Why wasn''t it a guy? Could I do the same with a guy if I met one I liked as much? These buffs from Dainea''s first dual tonight are going to be on for a while. Walking anywhere is a no go. Plus she went and fell asleep a bit after wishing me pleasant dreams with a huge sloppy grin. With nothing to do I turned to my inventory, while watching her peaceful sleep. I assigned the 4 status points 1 each to intelligence, dexterity, wisdom and charisma. Pulled out the remaining ingredients bought this morning and mixed them into poison and stored them away. Used the rest of the cheap wood scraps to make trinkets and buttons. Squeezed a wood ring onto a finger on Dainea''s right hand as she slept. Hope she wouldn''t be too shocked or assume too much of a meaning from it. ¡°Don''t make me wipe too many trays. My lover is waiting for me.¡± Ah she talks a bit in her sleep. Her smile is cute too. With the rest of the wood turned into stuff I pull out some cloth and leather and work a few more small items. I made a Waifu for Dainea, but let''s not tell her what I normally use it for in the other world. Was out of materials to make things so sliding out of bed slowly, and moved to the window. I pulled out my dagger and wand and played like I was fighting things. In the dark room in front of the open window, spell then skill. Next Adjust position and strike from a blind spot. A finishing move and victory, I raise my hands to the sky and inspect for loot. ¡°Eeeeeeek!¡± Two feminine hand had reached around me and hugged me. ¡°I totally recognize those, thought you were asleep?¡± Due to repeated intimate actions with the same NPC you can now turn on auto-accept feature for each individual NPC or character from your friends-list. NPC ''Dainea'' has initiated an intimate act do you accept? {Yes} Guess we can turn that on for her. NPC ''Dainea'' has been set as auto-accept for all positive type actions. ¡°I was asleep but woke when your warmth wasn''t there. Did you defeat the monster just now? Thank you for protecting me.¡± She added a few more minutes of debuff and a few more stack counters. I watched the dim streets below and let her play some. Ophilia shook and quivered a few times and the remote camera view kicked in after not moving for so long. The view of the two girls moved me emotionally inside and I felt a few things. Sad, happy, jealousy, regret, joy, excitement, and a desire to be Ophilia at that private moment. I was falling and I felt a huge amount of panic all of a sudden. Dainea continued to make love to Ophilia, the passion of it all was rather overwhelming. I started to shake a bit myself and felt a bit of a gasp escape my lips as an orgasm passed through me and into the past. So gentle was that pleasure, like a wind blew through me leaving me to wonder what actually happened just now. ¡°We should sleep or neither of us will be any good tomorrow.¡± I went back to bed with Dainea and Ophilia and let them sleep. ¡°Right, good night Darling.¡± I respond. ¡°Sweetness until we wake.¡± Saying that she closed her eyes. Snuggling till she fell asleep then I logged off. I wasn''t ready to turn around and face Steph yet. Went to the forums and read for a short while. Oh the time! About to hit one in the morning and I hadn''t even noticed. I crawl into bed after removing my clothes and had put on a sleeping shirt. My damp panty left with the rest of the clothes in a pile on the floor. ¡°You had fun didn''t you?¡± ¡°You upset?¡± ¡°Why would I be? Really.¡± She was a bit and playing it off as best she could. ¡°I have you here and want her there. You might be-¡± ¡°So what do we do about that?¡± She asked. I had no real answer. ¡°You can do what you like to me anytime ya know?¡± Steph offered everything again. ¡°I could...¡± I know that I really won''t. ¡°If you do what you want when I am asleep and don''t wake me, I can''t really say no, now could I.¡± My half statement-half question didn''t make much sense to me. I had trust in her too. ¡°Are you saying I can. When-¡± ¡°Yes, No, I mean... What... You are not allowed to wake me up. Doing things I haven''t said no to, before then is Okay.¡± I blush and move to the inside wall of the bed and hide my discomfort and confusion. ¡°.¡± Facing the wall I pull her to my back and hug her arms and hands. ¡°Is this okay? I want to sleep now.¡± ¡°So...¡± She has something she wants to ask. Not got enough energy to listen and I drift off thinking about that orgasm I had watching Ophilia and darling Dainea at the window. Steph will you be okay with this much? I do want your happiness as well. Only dreams followed after. (1) the name of the bar was actually ''Maid and Trumpet'' not ''The Maid and Strumpet''. Chapter 8 - Unto A fractal Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 1 Chapter 8 Unto a Fractal - My Room - Ah! The weekend, and I forgot to kill the alarm clock and we or more I, wake up. It is WAY too early! Going back to sleep. WAIT! That was yesterday, mmm very warm today and the room is a bit humid. There is also a feeling that some fresh air might be good! It is not too cold yet this time of year. ¡°Steph can you open the window some?¡± Roll over to see if she up or not. No luck. ¡°Hu ah, eeh... Wa, nnnn?¡± Guess she was in a state of dreams or pleasure, or exhaustion, something. Whatever she had been up to last night must have been a real work out. I open the window some and crawl to the bathroom. 5:55 am no time like the present to get an early start on the last day to game before school on Monday. *frown* Shedding the single shirt I''d slept in, I started the bath water and took care of cleaning the places that seemingly always need maintenance, toe nails, arm pits, legs and so forth. Had no desire to look like a troll or goblin at school tomorrow. The dreams last night were pretty erotic, and yesterday''s events played over in my mind. What do I do about Dainea and my character? What do the NPCs in game expect. My goals there? I really wanted to see that girl in cosplay outfits. Should I make something for her, cute something or sexy? So many possibilities. Slid into the warm water and wash the yesterday''s perversion away and initiated new ones for today. I thought about a few guys in school and Stephanie''s brother. What would an intimate encounter with their nether regions look like. I''d seen enough porn but what would contact be like. Would it be as rough and scary as it looked in some of those videos? Or what? An encounter with Dainea? Clean, clean, sparkle! AH! Much better not being sticky or slimy, oh there is some dry skin where is my lotion. Thought about my feeling regarding Steph doing as she pleased when I slept, and being a lesbian in game or even here in this small town. Then fantasized about having the perfect boy toy and decided I was borderline Bisexual and if that was the case then so what! It was the case. Does life mean for people have to choose one side or the other every time, nothing in between? Only reason I didn''t want to have sex with Steph might be because I want to love or at least find them attractive sexually for my first time, a sense of romance even. I thought of Dainea that way and Josh that way. And a few others... Just after six in the morning I headed to the kitchen and had cereal and latte coffee then went to the computer. Bunch of orders for us, comments from Aveon and Mystical. Few bits of news about fighting and the world. Dora finally got back to me with some good information about combat classes and magic and with any luck there would be combat details from groups soon. So looking forward to drops. - Dainea''s Room Above the Wooden Bucket - Logged in to find myself being hugged by Dainea, I felt warm and happy at that. I had a few game messages from my friends-list and replied to them before caressing her face to wake her so early. ¡°Morning.¡± I smiled. ¡°Hey.¡± ¡°Hum, how do I put this Dainea, are we a couple, in this World''s view or just lovers?¡± ¡°I be happy if we were.¡± She pulled me in again for a snuggle. ¡°How does this world view such things?¡± ¡°Oh, normal... You know, I don''t know.¡± I wait for her to continue. She didn''t know how to explain common sense to me. ¡°Then us, or two girls is okay? And your parents won''t scream bloody hell and your school mates or friends won''t shun you?¡± She had a complex look and a bit of pity. ¡°Mom and dad wanting grandchildren?¡± A bit of surprise and blushed at that one. ¡°Are there any rules I should know? You know expectations...¡± She thought then kissed my cheek, ¡°No playing around, I want you to myself, that good?¡± I looked over at Steph on the bed and thought about a few hard male items then agreed. I could handle that. In game that was fine for now, not like there were many prospects for dating in the game or outside of the game. Dainea was pretty to me and I did have feelings for her even if I don''t fully understand them yet. ¡°Yes.¡± Then I had a thought and added, ¡°Not responsible if I get molested by a ghost though.¡± Her shock and finally laughter was really cute so I pecked at her cheek with my lips. ¡°I was serious, silly.¡± I shed a tear inside, then rolled over and hugged her. ¡°I have magic lessons today, did you want to Duel or just play this morning? Nope I''ll let my love sleep then.¡± Rolling off of her, she grabbed me before I could escape and the morning sex Olympics began. We had three full duels and tried everything we could to keep the bad debuffs away. Important for us to be able to actually walk and do our jobs later. With the win score tied we ate breakfast and made funny faces and the such at each other. The sun started to rise on Acdin village. The noise from the NPCs below heading to work made this morning''s second breakfast with my first digital girlfriend more real, special even and memorable. - Stitch in Time - I walked into the workshop of the Stitch in Time with a nice smile and got to work. As the first to arrive again today, I had time to enjoy the peace and quiet and get some things done. I made a cat ears and bunny ears for Dainea and some casual fashions from my world, could this be considered reverse cosplay then? I auto crafted a bunch of things to fill the shop stock then got all my funds from the store. Not sure if learning Void Magic would cost me a lot or If I could just get an apprenticeship. I was excited to find out, and just as excited to see Dainea in those cat ears and short skirt. In any case my total funds were now around 18 silver, something I could at least work with when the time came. - Streets of Acdin on the Way to the Park - There coming down the street slowly was the Human Map beggar I had learned Cooking from, ¡°Hello again.¡± ¡°Ah, Miss, good morning, morning.¡± ¡°On your way to find a morning tart?¡± I asked. ¡°N- No. but that would be tasty.¡± ¡°So how much are they? I do still owe you one if I recall.¡± ¡°Think a ten piece would be sufficient Miss.¡± Handing over the 10 copper coin I wish him a good day and head to the park. ¡°Thank you. Miss?¡± Paused, I turn around and we chat for a while. I learned that out Instructor friend would be in the park already and he would be there most of the day. Along with a few other rumors and things happening around town. ¡°Welcome.¡± and a wave. We parted and I headed to the park. - The Park in Acdin - The place wasn''t much more than a few stone benches and a pond with a few residents passing by now and then. Random plants of a decorative nature here and there. There sat the hopes dreams and core of my future as a mage, scholar, master of sorceries of the universe and key to world domination. Mr. Planknel a well dress professor type; put a tweed coat, lab coat, or corduroy and bam you had the perfict fit. He was just stareing off to nothing. Should I go online and research what Earth knows on Nilhism? I had the urge to throw myself at him in his office or pull his membership out in the teachers lounge and play with him for some reason. Anything to have him give me a good grade in Void Magic. I swallowed my nervousness and thought about the promise I had made to Dainea this morning. A little demon was shouting at me to break it and have my way with him. Summoning my good side I would not be swayed here. Magic important! Must learn! ¡°Hi.¡± Well long story short, fifteen minutes of weird and esoteric conversation later, I was accepted as an apprentice. Without even have to spend money or commit sexual favors. I was conflicted about that part. He was still very stimulating to my young school girl heart. ¡°Magic is about many things, most of which are forcing the world around you to do things you want it too. Opening with 101 magic studies alright let''s learn! To do this of course there are several ways; ask the universe nicely with a payment, force it with things or someone else does it for you while you reap the benifits at none of the cost.¡± Yes, the normal stuff about magic for 10 more minutes. The lecuture added a point of intelligence and wisdom to my base stats. Mr. System also let me know a few things. You have learned to wield magical engery, Called Mana in your world. Having met all requirements you may now equip and use Foci without restriction of class. Skill [Magic Focus Weapon Use] Gained. ¡°Ah finally I can use this!¡± I instantly move the wand to my hand and equip it. He was a bit shocked, Oh not bad, that will be perfect for later. Let us now talk about chanting. Blah, blah, Gained incantation skill level 1, blah, blah. OK, even if he is attractive enough for me to want to jump him in bed, he is boring enough during a lecture to put me to sleep. Oops, I wasn''t careful and in my dazed state, while listening to his long winded class on magic theory, he took me to the lands of nightmares, yes the graveyard outside the north gate. I panicked for a few second then seeing no ghosts there to molest me I calmed a bit. Nice to overcome a trauma so quickly and glad I had a restroom nearby, before I soiled my underwear. ¡°Uhm, not many come here. We can cast void magic here and not be seen or heard.¡± So that is why he dragged me here. ¡°And not good to talk about that in town anyway...¡± ¡°Use your wand and magic energy to create a small sphere and we will learn to fling it at those fences or other objects here.¡± Moving his hands he creates a small grey and white sphere of magic energy. ¡°Here like this. This is the first step lots of things we can do with this to make it a weapon we just fling it like so.¡± Off it flies at a decent pace and hits a piece of junk and turns it to dust. ¡°SO freaking COOL!¡± Your trainer has taught you [Mana Bolt] spell level 1. Having a trainer, a focus, a spell and the required competency you can now become a [Novice Spell Caster]. Would you like to set this as your main combat class now? {Ask a dumb question like that again and I''ll mana bolt your stupid ass.} ?!? {Yes!} You are now a [Novice Spell Caster] level 1. Access to your spell book is on the combat class page. You have gained +2 to all stats, +2 intelligence and +2 Wisdom. You have 2 additional stat points to assign to a stat of your choice. He then proceeded to show me the level seventeen version, the highest he could manage, needless to say there was one less huge tree in the forest today. Rest in pieces Mr. Tree. Next I learned [Void Sphere], it was a non-moving, magic trap that did, yes you guessed it void damage to anything that touched it until the mana ran out. Mr. Planknel explained that it was a higher level of difficulty or a tier two spell and the bolt version was tier three and after learning the basics I would get there in time with my ability. After we cast all the void spheres I could and a few mana bolt to use the last of my mana, he sat us down and we worked on a [Mana regeneration] skill and [Meditation]. Both of which got added to my skill list as soon as the long boring technical lecture was over. With that much accomplished I mentioned my afternoon lessons and he agreed that when I had time this evening or tomorrow I should return for more lessons. I thanked him for his benevolence. With a warning not to cast spells in town recklessly, he left me to practice and went for lunch elsewhere. Right after teacher left I practiced a few [Void spheres] and [Mana bolts] until was low on mana. Then I heard a shriek from behind me. ¡°Steph? What?¡± ¡°That ghost just scared me. Sorry.¡± She pointed at the screen. Do I turn around and look or just play it off and shut down the computer before things turn crazy and I get more titles that I won''t admit to having. ¡°Crap.¡± I turn around I really wanted to see Dainea in those outfits. - Graveyard - ¡°Hello again.¡± It was the young boy that started me on a path of ruin with the undead. ¡°Hi, so how is your sister doing. Still angry?¡± ¡°Most of the times.¡± ¡°Hey I have a great Idea how you can make her happy again.¡± I get an evil smile. ¡°You do?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± ¡°How?¡± ¡°Follow me over there behind the Mausoleum, I''ll show you.¡± Revenge time little sister. ¡°OK listen to me here, see if she likes a pose like this.¡± I do a muscle builders pose for him and flex my arm muscle like a Mr. or Mrs. Universe would. ¡°Like this.¡± He was a bit confused. ¡°She will like this?¡± ¡°Well, a lot of girls will. Maybe because you have your shirt on it looks and feels strange. Can you take that shirt off?¡± ¡°?! What?¡± ¡°It''s Okay, it is a pose that means you are strong and want to protect your little sister.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Your Sister is going to be so happy she will run away in tears of joy, probably.¡± ¡°Here let me hold that shirt for you.¡± After a few moments thought he takes it off and hands it over. You have received {Ghost Shirt}. I urge him to do the pose again. ¡°Oh much, much better, your little sister will really know you care now. Hey make your body look more real though.¡± He concentrated and became a little less transparent. ¡°Not bad, not bad.¡± He had had a solid body and would have been better if it was touchable. Not average but not too defined muscle wise. ¡°Now, if she is happy with this pose and wants to see more I can help you out there too.¡± Pointing at him then letting my hand fall some to indicate his pants. ¡°If it will make her happy I''ll try it.¡± I put the shirt in my inventory and turn around. ¡°You may not be able to do this one, lets make sure you can first. Can you take those pants off, put them over there. I won''t look, go ahead.¡± ¡°Sure. Ready.¡± I Rotate the camera view to look behind me and yup a young male ghost in his underwear. ¡°Does your underwear also come off?¡± ¡°I think so. Should I check?¡± ¡°Yes Please.¡± Yup there they go and screen shot for posterity. Too bad the censor circle is there. ¡°Um, I am a tailor and I like to learn about clothes. Is it fine if I look at yours to see how they were made?¡± Standing there naked he didn''t seem to mind. ¡°Is it possible for you to play with items or water?¡± ¡°No sorry.¡± Well all disappointment aside of not getting to see a ghost showering, this was kind of productive. Placed the pants and underwear in my inventory and walked off. His sister was so going to love this. Reading my messages on the way back, Mystical''s date with Flavor Flay went well, her message gushed about how the next one was already set and they were going to chat a lot later today. I headed to ''the Wooden Bucket'' to do an 80''s wardrobe montage with my 2-d girlfriend. Add in a set of ghost clothes, what a weekend I was having. Deciding It was a life threatening situation if I was found with big brothers clothes I ran for the North Gate and the safety of Town. The clothes had no weight and could be seen through, how I was able to hold them didn''t make much sense. That aside I thought if I could use the fabric ,tons of neat items could be made. What kind a pervert would I be if I didn''t have the mind set to make an outfit to seduce my lover, or have her wear one to seduce me? {Observe} Item Name: Ghost Shirt Quality: Ethereal Common Item Type: Shirt Defense: Unknown Durability: Unknown Weight: 0.00 kg Added Stats: Unknown Added Effect: Unknown Color: none Description: This is a shirt off a ghost. Poor thing is Naked now. - Wooden Bucket - Might as well get in a lunch time special with Dainea. I pull her upstairs for my lunch leaving the other workers in a bit of a bind. More important was seeing her in the cat then bunny ears. ¡°I''ll pay any missed lunch wages, cum quickly.¡± Her grin was evidently of satisfaction not humor. Pulling out clothes as we enter the room upstairs I start handing her things to wear one after the other. ¡°Its too much!¡± ¡°Never! Pick a few. Put them on. Who has the boom box and the cassette tape? Never mind, here.¡±Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Turning on the Music player on my computer I watch as Dainea becomes quite modern looking and had cat ears there in front of me. Honestly I shook with pleasure watching her embarrassed looks at me. A few times my hand found its way to places to stimulate my body in anticipation of more play. When we got to the mini skirt, blouse and the bunny ears I had Ophilia have some fun with her in bed. The level gain in [Stamina] was nice as well as the orgasms the three of us had together, shocking I know total pervert. Hate me later. Glancing at the time, I had a few minutes to get to the shop, I was supposed to meet the bard at. I got a list of the items Dainea thought were the best on her and fled with a deep kiss that lasted a good amount of time. I threw on the bunny ear and ran down the steps singing ¡°I''m late, I''m late...¡± The amount of strange looks in the tavern were less oppressive than I thought. Grabbing a carrot like vegetable off the plate of one of the servers I dashed out in to the street to head for the meeting with the bard. Later this would be a popular image on a tavern plaque, someplace I had never heard of. - Teea''s House - When the Bard waiting for me came into view, I started to relax. Put the bunny ears away and strolled up to him. ¡°Greetings Sensei¡± ¡°? Sensei?¡± ¡°Means teacher...¡± ¡°Oh, then where to? We can''t do lessons out her after all.¡± ¡°This way.¡± Taking him to Teea''s. I unlock the door and start to push it open and I fall forward as Teea opens the door for us with a big grin on her face. ¡°Relentless?¡± ¡°Oh so you know of her? Good this is her place and the lessons will be here, no one will interrupt. Or take advantage of us.¡± *wink* I look at her and smile. Having a supervisor against someone with this kind of talent and someone to use it on might be a good thing. In addition, it is someone of repute so he might be less likely to have his way with me. Didn''t know she would be here, but glad she is. Let the lessons begin I cheer. New school of magic learned, [Charm] level 1. New skill learned [Vocal Empowerment] level 1. New spell learned [Charm Person] level 1. Teea also got lessons and learned the skills, apparently she was of the mind they would be useful since she was the target for our practice. We agreed not to misuse our new over powered skills for evil or in places of significance like royal palaces and the such. With that much done he took his payment and I prodded Teea into adding a fair amount for her tuition. He decided to leave town soon afterwards. His feeling of a lack of safety was such that with the next trade convoy he would change towns. So NPCs can move locations interesting. After Sensei Bard left, Teea and I talked about our separate plans, and she proposed me moving in again. Declined and with a hug I left. With returning to the park in mind, set course on the mini map and made my way there. - Acdin Park - Mr Planknel was there looking out into the nothing as usual. So many things about magic seemed to be possible in game, so I wanted to get a few questions asked. Looking at him sitting there I thought maybe I should increase my resistance to perverted thoughts first. Do they have a skill for that? ¡°Teacher, how are original spells created?¡± ¡°Well... That is a very advance topic for a novice.¡± Thinking for a moment, he changed his focus to me and began explaining. ¡°Several ways, a magic user plans out or randomly creates a magic effect then repeats it until a spell or skill is formed.¡± Showing me the basics he taught me how to form a mana infused image for getting the Void Sphere to follow me instead of being stationary. Then attach it to an active Void Sphere. The resulting spell would be [Tracking Void Sphere] at tier 3. Once I had perfected it on the average about 8 to 10 casts would be needed for early tiered spells. In the larger cities, magic guilds and academies had whole sections of libraries dedicated to spell construction. It was a huge field. We talked a bit about magic and getting more proficient. ¡°What about gaining experience and fighting monsters?¡± ¡°Now don''t be in too much of a hurry there, you are getting stronger, I know. Just wait and you will be ready soon enough.¡± ¡°Is there a place I can go to find things to hunt as a single person or will groups be needed? What is the first thing to hunt?¡± ¡°This one is eager to fight. Why so?¡± I knew it was a bad answer however I just blurted it out, ¡°Growth wise and value wise, isn''t hunting resources and gaining experience at the same time a very efficient use of time? Coin and growth, minimize expenses of time, energy, and costs for the greatest return. If you want to be strong and reach your goal right? Monsters have to be thinned town needs goods-¡± ¡°That could be. There is something like that. Well out in the Fields there are vermin at night, in the forest during the day a few things that might suffice as starting targets. Just that in the woods there might also be a few things that might possibly eat you.¡± ¡°Vermin in the fields at night?¡± ¡°Yes you don''t know about them? Thought everyone did... There are large dark grey crop eating critters not much for skins. The meat is low grade, their claws are not too useful but might be sell able in bulk.¡± Turns out that the starting creatures were pretty well hidden and if anybody had encountered them before it wasn''t really publicized. Now the question remains how hard are they to hunt. ¡°Hard to fight them?¡± ¡°With your [Mana Bolt] and [Void Sphere] should be enough... They won''t attack just run away. Ah, I remember the days back when we were kids-¡± I stopped paying attention after a while he did tend to ramble. ¡°Last question is it possible to cancel a [Void Sphere] I had cast or someone else has left behind?¡± ¡°Yes there is.¡± He lectured me on canceling magic and gained the skill [Cancel Magic] and if it was leveled up enough would become [Absorb Magic]. Guess wouldn''t hurt to see what they were like. Marked the best fields for them on my map after thanking teacher and headed to get supplies for a quick evening hunting session. I had some creatures to hunt finally! - Fields Outside Acdin''s South Gate - Eating with Mom and Steph was rushed. I wanted to get back and level up so bad, every time I finished something on my plate I wanted to jump up and run upstairs. Evening had fallen and the darkness was still not too bad. Not long after finding the fields the medium dog sized critters were seen coming out of their burrows to scavenge, quickly returning after finding food. With the lack of light and how quite they were, the slow moving things certainly were not obvious. *Evil grin* Hunting will be good tonight. They were omnivores and would eat meat or plants I found out after leaving a portion of food out to see if they''d go for it. Setting up food lures and [Void Spheres] around them I set to wait for them. Moments later a few headed for the lures. *Squueeeeek!* Hearing the cries the rest turned and fled for their holes. A [Mana Bolt] at the wounded one. It collapsed dead, leaving a still corpse. No full auto-loot huh? I picked up the body and reset the [Void Spheres] trap. Moved back to a place just in range of may attack and put the body down and checked my log. ''Field Jerry'' has hit your [Void Sphere] and taken 12 void magic damage. ''Field Jerry'' had fled! ''Field Jerry'' was hit by your [Mana Bolt] for 5 points of magic damage, killing it. Experience gained 50. Rights to corpse of ''Field Jerry''. You have gained item {Field Jerry Tail}. Congratulations on your first kill you have been awarded 10 experience for a villager first action. Congratulations on the first solo kill for the village you have been awarded 10 fame. Looks like they have health less than 18 then, pretty easy. Their memories are also short as it looks like they are heading back to the bait. I move around to drop a [Void Sphere] in front of one of the holes one had just come out from. The one to reach the bait shrieks I finish it off with a quick [Mana Bolt]. The one coming back to his hole that I trapped in front of, set off the trap and ran back towards the bait area fleeing in fear. With a second quick [Mana Bolt], it also dropped dead. Chain kill gave an additional experience bonus and one more fight and I should get a new level in my [Novice Spell Casting] class. Mr. System told me, I got a claw and meat as loot this time. Gained a new level in [Void Sphere] spell. I picked up the corpses and piled them with the original victim. Picked up the bait, cast [Cancel Magic] at the remaining trap spheres and let my Mana regenerate with active meditation. {Observe} Item Name: Adult Field Jerry Corpse Item Type: Animal Corpse Description: A Dead scavenging rodent type creature with mild claws that burrow in the ground. The meat is of low quality as is the skins. Several parts are usable for various things. Farmers may reward you per tail sold to them sometimes. I set up the traps in the next field over. Got two more bodies to add to my pile and second meat. Congratulations! The spell [Mana Bolt] is now level 2. You are now a [Novice Spell Caster] level 2. You have gained +2 to all stats, +2 intelligence and +2 Wisdom. You have 2 additional stat points to assign to a stat of your choice. Eight more bodies later, that gives me 13 total and level 3 in [Novice Spell Caster], [Mana bolt] and [Void Sphere]. With a weight capacity of a third of that, I set about reducing my load back into town. Cutting of the hands with claws first. My dagger was sharp enough so no real issues other than taking time. After claws, I cut off the tails. Then made a mess of a corpse trying to separate a skin and meat from it with no real success. I did learn a few things. Removing the guts made the body lighter so I got rid of those on the 12 bodies left. Good thing I can''t smell anything. The mess drew a few insects and a couple more Field Jerries. They left me alone for the most part seeing any creature different from them put them in retreat. That was until I met this guy. He was the biggest one yet at one and a half times a regular one size. I dropped 4 [Void Sphere]s in front of the waste pile and between us and waited from him to get closer. They were not the brightest creatures so when it got close and charged I knew I was right that it was either a mini boss or a rare at least. Dropping the spheres was the right move. It hit the first void trap, shook its head and moved at me again only to hit the next one. Few [Mana Bolts] later it was dead. You have killed ''Boss Field Jerry''! Congratulations on the first solo Rare mob kill in game. You have been awarded 50 fame. Other hunters will know of your prowess should you inform the guards or local officials. You have found a Rare Item {Boss Jerry Accessory}. Rights to corpse of ''Boss Field Jerry''. You have gained item {Boss Field Jerry Ears}. Congratulations! Skill [Mana Regeneration] is level 2. {Observe} Item Name: Boss Jerry Accessory Item Type: Ear, necklace, badge or token slots. Quality: Rare Added effects: Dexterity +1, Leader of the Jerry: +2% chance to detect harmful actions. Description: Large tooth from a Boss Jerry it''s uncommon size you would think it came from an animal like a wolf or small bear. Equipped the Accessory to one Earring slot. And turned to face the pile of corpses I had yet to gut. "Ick." Boss gutted and in my bag, I completed the last four from the regular Jerry that had yet to be lightened. You have gained skill [Field Dressing (Animal)] level 1. That was helpful Mr. System what took you so long? Even with all my efforts due to the weight and bulk, I could only take a few into town. The boss and 5 adults in my bags and drag 4 more behind me. I had all the claws and tails at least. - Acdin South Gate - Stopped at the gate to get directions for the butcher and skinning shops. I had not been to them yet. The trip to the gates was uneventful but forgetting this was the south side of town I found myself confronted by a trouble maker when I was heading to the Skinner. Darn, I should have gone the main road not the side ways. Letting go of the dead weight I drew my dagger in the right hand and put the wand in my left hand behind me so I could cast spells without them noticing. ¡°Oh pretty what do we hav'' here?¡± Thug A grinned at his friend coming out of the alley. Thug B responded, ¡°A free meal and entertainment If I had ever seen it Tooom.¡± ¡°It does appear to be so even if it is field Jerry and a tooth pick for desert. I gladly indulge here.¡± [Void Sphere]. ¡°Sirs, are you interested in this fine meat?¡± Indicating the dagger to myself and the dead weight on the ground. [Void Sphere]. ¡°We are! Aye little tooth pick.¡± They came walking over with no fear. [Void Sphere] ¡°Oh? So you two alone, are going to be enough to take my dinner from me?¡± [Void Sphere] Slowing to consider me for a second they continue forward a bit of drool apparent at the corners of their mouth. ¡°Mmm, tasty free goods like them.¡± Ten feet from me, ¡°Is that so.¡± [Charm Person]. ¡°Sad and here I was all set to give this all to you and none for your friend Tooom there.¡± Thug B stopped in his tracks with little hearts growing in his eyes you could see his status effects right away. Thug Tooom kept walking forward. ¡°If you wait there for me I''ll give you your reward after.¡± Thug B nodded and waited while drooling even more. Yes, side effects of this skill were a bit over the top right now. Tooom got within attacking distance I jump back at an angle then stepped behind the consecutive Void Sphere castings. In the dark streets you really couldn''t tell they were even there unless you really looked hard. Tooom appeared a bit wary of my dagger so I held it in a good grip out of the Sphere''s line of sight. He moved to strike range and made contact with two of the spheres. ¡°Ow, what the Hell!¡± [Mana Bolt] to the face. ¡°Ugh! That all you got!¡± He ran forward and took damage from the other 2 Spheres set just behind the first couple. He winced in pain from them and I add a basic dagger strike to his face. Being overwhelmed by a little girl the panic in his face was evident as he was forced to decide to flee or not. ¡°Yo, why are you just standing there help me.¡± Yea Thug B totally going nowhere near combat right now. Aiming at his chest I fling a dagger. Then swing at his throat. Not caring which strike killed him the point was he fell to the ground dead. Before the charm spell broke I had to hurry and finish this. ¡°Here is your reward, my darling exp bundle.¡± I walked behind B and dropped 2 more Void Spheres. Had him fall on them as I slit his throat and back stabbed him. The criticals and magic damage were a bit overkill in any case. Two thugs down and no one else left in the streets to bother me. Time to loot. Congratulations! [Dagger] skill is now level 6. Congratulations! Your spell [Void Sphere] is level 4 now. You are now a [Novice Spell Caster] level 4. You have gained +2 to all stats, +2 intelligence and +2 Wisdom. You have 2 additional stat points to assign to a stat of your choice. You have gained item {silver ring(unidentified)}. You have gained item {silk handkerchief}. Rights to corpse of ''Slum Thief Tooom''. Rights to corpse of ''Slum Thief Wic''. Title earned ''One Who Defends the Starting Village'', see titles to change current titles. Congratulations, conditions met for interview. Not sure what that last one was about but I started taking everything off the thieves. Two sets of crappy clothes, random belt and pouches, 20 copper off Wic and 35 off of Tooom, wooden club, an iron dagger and a useless necklace accessory with no stat gains. Since I had a few stat points to use I added 2 strength, 1 dexterity, 2 charisma and a point of intelligence. I took a peek at my stats. str 23, int 47, wis 34, end 20, dex 36, char 27, luck 21 - Our room - I sat back in the new chair Dora got me and took a breath, wow. Intense moment there. Wasn''t sure I could handle them both. Was a good thing they gave me time to cast enough spells. If they rushed at me, I would have been a one dead newbie. Not to mention the charm may have failed. There in the streets of the game were two dead thugs and a pile of Field Jerry corpses and Ophilia. A message window popped up that shocked me. I looked closer at it to see if I hadn''t misread it. Hello Miss Ophilia, we would like to thank you for your devotion to project Fractal, or Fractal Online. We here in the world of Fractal offer you a choice. An in or out of game reward. Which would you like? Huh? Out of game reward what would that be, and what is the in game one? I look over at Steph and she is happily in bed playing with the tablet. I get up and go down stairs and grab one of mom''s beers she keeps for guests and sit at the dinner table and open it. What do I do? Mom would never let me get things online, earn money or receive things from anywhere that wasn''t in town. I take a drink, ¡°Ick do adults really like this crap.¡± I get rid of the evidence and head to the restroom to was my face. I grab a breakfast roll and a vitamin water and head back upstairs. What am I going to do? In-game would be fine right? Mom wouldn''t throw a fit, but what is this out of game thing? They didn''t have any promotional items with the game and the website had none of the trashy gimmicks to sell the game the way others did. Could it be something only the developers could have? That would be a bit cool. Our room was quite, really quiet. Steph was not in bed and no sounds came from the bathroom. In front of the computer was the chair and the screen had changed only showing a strange hand graphic and a note to say touch to continue. I don''t recall such a screensaver or having a touch monitor. ¡°Steph, you in there?¡± I ask at the bathroom door. No one was inside so I sat back at the computer. ¡°?¡± ¡°Shit can''t get any weirder right?¡± I touch the screens hand with the mouse pointer. Nothing Changed so I put my finger to the screen. - Vague Space Between Worlds - Eh? My finger is, is what exactly? Passing through and being pulled and called into a strange space like the feeling of acceleration in a real fast car. With the rest of me seated in the chair. A warping and twisting of the image and space itself projects out and around me and I exit standing in a space there is atmosphere here and I can breathe, yet the stars and galaxy around us is simply breath taking. Nebulae, stars! Debris. A tri-nary star system and planets. A God''s playground child''s size scaled with everything within reach. I turn around amazed, and find myself moved to conversation distance from three people even though there were miles away milliseconds ago. Super conveyor belt style zero inertia and resistance. Whoa! My balance was effected a bit mentally. ¡°Hello Anne, Pleasure to meet you.¡± The noble looking man sits in a soft comfortable chair. ¡°A delightful pleasure at that.¡± The smile on the woman''s face reminds me of a few I had seen on Teea''s face. Especially the ones where she was thinking of me as dinner. Not lucky am I? She leans against an invisible wall. I want to move my head to see what she was leaning on. The third person moves to serve the sitting gentleman. ¡°May I introduce, Master of the system known as-¡± ¡°Long winded as always. I am Niva, Deity of knowledge for the Nivar system. Go ahead show your fealty by asking lots of stupid questions now.¡± Not losing to his sense of sarcasm I smile. ¡°Great fucking game.¡± The lady leaning on the invisible wall starts to snicker then bust out with a loud snorting laugh. The tears in her eyes were priceless apparently. Everyone else in the room was shocked at the outburst. ¡°Thanks?¡± Niva staring at the woman response. ¡°You alright there, Lillithe?¡± ¡°Ha, mmph¡± *gasp* if she didn''t stop laughing soon she might start turning blue. ¡°He, ha... I, am, alright.¡± A few more breaths she calms herself. ¡°Now then.¡± Returning focus to me I see his eyes. The songs from earth I recall about power and magic being there all fit and resounded ''this was the meaning of those songs''. ¡°Yes.¡± was all I could say after that even if he had told me to say ''No'' it would still come out meaning yes. ¡°Your reward as the Focal point of our star system transfer to your universal collective.¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°We, or more I would offer you the choice of which planet to receive as the place of residence.¡± The servant type guy handed Niva a ball of knowledge. ¡°Looks like your contribution as a bridge between worlds contributed to 72% of the needed soul intimacy with our planet. Is this right it seems a bit high?¡± Nodding the guy smiled, ¡°It is so.¡± ¡°Guess that might be possible with the blessing of luck she has there from her own World''s Deities.¡± ¡°Really?¡± The woman Lillithe looked closer at me now and moved closer. I could only blink as she shimmered closer. Did she lick her lips just now? ¡°Now, for your reward.¡± ¡°What did you have in mind Niva?¡± Lillithe asked? ¡°Choice of destination for her soul, and an additional blessing. Did you think of something?¡± ¡°A weave of her game persona and her real self. Definitely an interesting outcome.¡± ¡°SO BE IT! Now which World? Our World or Earth?¡± I could only answer in the affirmative and that would always be his, ¡°Yes, yours.¡± ¡°Thank you and good luck then.¡± He waved his hand and everything I was as Anne separated and instantly joined with everything that was Ophilia. I found myself sitting in the park in Acdin staring at the beautiful park I had been in virtually hours before. Alone. I fainted. - Acdin Park - There was a soft wet felling as something was licking me, rousing me from an unconsciousness. The darkness behind my eyelids was no help, opening my eyes into focus comes a blurry dark figure with silver blobs still licking my face. Cat? ¡°Mmm¡± ¡°Oh you woke?¡± Steph voice came from behind the blob. No more it was from the blobs. Or no, the cat sounds like Stephanie. ¡°Recovered, not sleeping.¡± ¡°You doing well enough to get up?¡± The cat''s question was strange because last thing I remember I was sitting in a park. Looking closer, she was correct I was on the ground just in front of the bench. The effects of falling started to return, ¡°Ehhh, my head.¡± The pain faded and the darkness subsided and the fuzzy feeling of blacking out passed from my body. Steph or cat that sounded like her with spry movements sat next to me on the bench as I got up myself. Although, she was two, almost three times the size of a house cat, she was certainly not able to help me to stand and sit again. On the bench she entered my lap and began to nuzzle my chest. Enjoying the thoroughly erotic nuzzling and licks of the kitty I pet her head and back, played with her ears and nose. After she kissed me on the face I knew for sure it was Steph. I hugged her soft and firmly a tear fell from my eye and down my cheek, I didn''t feel sad anymore and this moment was causing me to cry. ¡°What happened to you?¡± Purring, ¡°I got a bit of your reward I guess. Sorry about clicking the computer while you were down stairs, when I woke up I saw you and that is about all I remember.¡± Between hugging and caresses, I looked around again this certainly appears to be Acdin. But there are a lot of difference I can see already. Smell, background noise, the writing on the buildings outside the park are different. Trying a few things to see if I have an inventory or not or menu options stats or skills, nothing does anything. My joined memories of Ophilia suggest that this world is just like ours and the game things for the most part, just an interface for our world to view a copy of theirs. Now what do we do? ¡°There is a backpack there behind the bench.¡± Looking behind me Steph point out. ¡°Might be your inventory things.¡± ¡°Sure is, that is the one Aveon made for me. Totally matches my outfit.¡± Checking out what I was wearing. I see that the outside was all Ophilia''s outfit and the undergarments were mine from Earth. ¡°At least the good socks from Earth came with.¡± ¡°You worry about strange things sometimes you know.¡± ¡°You got soft pads there you have any idea how much walking I am going to have to do here?¡± ¡°Uh huh okay.¡± ¡°We stick with Steph as your name or you want a new one? Ophilia Anne will do I think for me.¡± ¡°Mew, not attached to anything.¡± She looked tired and so was I, ¡°Should we go... to an Inn?¡± Standing up with Princess Stephanie in my arms I move her to one arm and pick up the bag. It was heavy and at the limits of what I could carry physically it seems. Resting it on the bench and moving to open it, from behind me the wind stirs and a voice chimes gently. ¡°As the heavens declare fancy finding you here, of all the places.¡± Was not convinced in the least this was accidental. ¡°That must be the person who is having me for dinner tonight, isn''t that so Lady Lillithe¡± ¡°What is it you say on your World, Dingo!¡± ¡°Bingo?¡± ¡°Sure. Oh darling we are going to have so much fun tonight.¡± Shivering for a second I turn and smile. ¡°We are?¡± ¡°Yes, excuse us for a second Moon Minx.¡± She puts Princess Stephanie down on the bench and pulls my hand then all of me with a magical wind into her A-cup breasts. The world starts to turn as we rotate in a half circle and arrive in a fancy bedroom nowhere near the park we were in second ago. My legs give out. - Bed Chambers of an Unknown Castle - Lillithe pulls me up gently. Standing again. She touched my shoulder and gently moved her hand up along my collar bones, I felt a predatory and prey chilling kind of moment. Most assuredly I was the prey here and all my warning bells had started to ring. Problem was zero exit solutions and moving definitely would have the wrong effect. Her cool fingers, lingered, yes, they certainly lingered. Encircling me, she moved into a position from one side to the opposite behind me. Only sound that was there was this deep beating of what sounded like a heart beat. It could have been mine. Abducted again and about to be eaten are you sure I had a blessing of luck in my world? Somehow I knew this was where I was meant to be and nothing would change that even if it was scaring the pee right out of me, I had to squeeze to keep it in. No point making a mess on the incredible rugs in here. A pleasant caress of my hair her hands culled me and she inhaled my scent next to my ear. Every part of my body jumped to attention at the sound and waited for the exhale. Lillithe''s hands slipped with a quivering sensation to my chin and pulled my face closer to hers. The skin, her fingers passed by cried out in a mind numbing fashion wanting the fingers to return and restore peace. I could see her eyes looking at me from behind, devouring me in a way I thought impossible. Her thoughts of what to come teased my mind, she shared them so fast and softly as if I had remembered hundreds of encounter with her already. Lost in those memories I felt a pain then a rush of heat. A falling sensation as we landed on sheets finer than any I could imagine. My body arched as the gushing of fluids and heart beats flooded my mind. She was the only thing that existed and nothing else. Her soul and mine became one for a second and then she left me in the darkness. The darkness lasted so long, I saw her again I was happy to not be alone. My weakness grew and I knew in seconds there would be death. I was small and nothing to her but she lent me one drop of herself from there I would grow strong and thrive in the world. My Eyes flew open and I was on the bed, she touched me and I felt calm. I knew she had used mana and many spells and skills to do whatever she had done to me. My body climaxed and shuddered in attempts to distract me. Her mana continued to arouse my body. ¡°You are learning too fast.¡± She pulled her hand back and the pleasure stopped. The climaxes continued as I lay there and my body did what it was going to doing. Do I push her out or pull her in. I could only think I didn''t love her so it was wrong. Still, if she was not doing things I didn''t want. I wouldn''t resist. ¡°Thank you?¡± ¡°Strange little kitten you are, I am the one to thank you for such a delectable meal.¡± Nodding, I notice I had lost a bit of weight and was quite pale now a bit blue even. Where she on the other hand was no longer an ''A'' size around the chest but more close to a ''D'' size. Her body fat had increase like she was a different person. Meal, happy meal indeed. ¡°I expect a return on my investment.¡± Passing the last bit of my bodies convulsions, I pull myself up slowly on a pillow. ¡°Investment?¡± ¡°You wanted me for a reason right, nothing is free in life and you mostly take as I can see.¡± ¡°You may be right darling, fun indeed.¡± Getting off the bed, Lillithe moves to a decorated piece of furniture probably worth more than the USA''s yearly national budget. Pulled a book of the shelf and handed it to me with a wiggle of an index finger it changed to a cloud of moving runes and moved along my skin and became what I guess was a rune on my back left shoulder blade. ¡°Fair trade, maybe? Good luck with that.¡± She grins and pulls me in for a hug as if she was an older sister or my mom. ¡°We are family now in a way daughter.¡± ¡°Really. Can I borrow the car and hang with Princess Stephanie tonight?¡± ¡°No cars allowed they too slow.¡± Pulling me in with that magic winds again she lifted me into a cradle carry and spun half way around and we were back in the park looking at Moon Kitty Stephanie. ¡°Could you teach me that skill?¡± Holding out my arms to Stephanie as I prayed I''d get to learn it. ¡°Ophilia dear you will most likely learn it before I could teach it too you. Still, if you would like I can exchange lessons for a meal later, possibly.¡± ¡°Humph.¡± Putting her chin on my breast princess asks, ¡°Anne, I mean Ophilia, are you alright?¡± ¡°Sure, just a little hungry that is all.¡± ¡°No food for a while dear sorry.¡± She steps back and waves and adds. ¡°Liquid diet from now on after all.¡± All we see is what was behind her as she had vanished. ¡°DO my canine teeth look any bigger to you Princess?¡± I smile and smile again and show my teeth. ¡°.¡± I put my finger up to one and check. ¡°They feel sharp.¡± I kiss Steph and put on the pack Aveon made and head out of the park. ¡°How long was I gone?¡± ¡°About 3.8 seconds.¡± ¡°That so.¡± ¡°Yup.¡± ¡°What do you want to do now?¡± I ask Steph. ¡°Kiss, cuddle, and take long naps. Maybe eat some sushi. Play with your hair and rub your chest-¡± ¡°Sounds good.¡± Not sure there is an ocean near here but the rest might be possible. ¡°That purr is incredibly cute you know.¡± Playing with her ears we enter the streets near the park. If I recall, the places Teea and Dainea lived would be that way. If, they are in this world, that is. ¡°No, think you want that way she points to the other way.¡± ¡°Truthfully?¡± ¡°Even I don''t want to sleep outside naked, despite having fur.¡± ¡°Shall we make you an outfit later? Magic cloak or kitty dress?¡± ¡°Sounds unpleasant in the extreme, knowing you, you will make one any ways.¡± ¡°Princess I won''t make anything you don''t want to wear. Winters might be cold in some places here.¡± ¡°Mmm Soft fluffy wolf fur cloak maybe? Turn right here.¡± ¡°Thanks.¡± I guess not having a mini map might be a real problem I got lost often even in my small town back Southern Maine.¡± - Wooden Bucket - Assistance from Princess Stephanie and we arrived at the wooden bucket within a reasonable amount of time. I sat in the Tavern adjusting the place, more dust and smells of drink than I would have guessed. The interior was dead on and the food was similar but had smells now. I wanted to try some but ended up feeding it to Princess instead since my body refused to ingest any of it. My drink was a standard cheap one I bought before but now was a decoration so people thought I was partaking in the atmosphere. Pretending to drink now and then, I waited to see if Dainea still worked here. Sometimes noise would come from upstairs rooms or more lively conversations would happen. I noticed things that I normally would not have paid attention to. Hearing voices clearly across the room was also a new experience, and focusing in an active tavern at night took a bit of mental refinement. Midnight bells rang before I saw her for the first time in this world. The sight of her was the first thing to interrupt my petting of Princess Steph since entering the place. She was beautiful the moment I saw her and her dark, dark brown hair was trailing behind her as she entered, her eyes bright and full of the colors of the flower she had given me. The few moles and skin marks were in the same place from the game. I remembered every one of them. The thin delicate neck and main artery screamed take me... Rewind a second. The delicate collar bone leading to her neck looked so lick-able. The scent of her that floated over after she entered the room, floored me I was thoughtless for a few minutes. A bit spicy, a hint of lightning and a tint of flowers dumped on her gentle musk from a bit of sweat. The apron on her, the same as the first day we met. She has two others upstairs in her room. Her dress on now is one I had seen on her floor yesterday. The delicate fingers on her hand just as in game. Those eyes drew me back and lavender color made me swim. Did I fall in love with her just from those few days in game? Princess curled closer into my lap and chest in protest of my staring, not bothering to interfere. While waiting to see if she would come over I dug out the flower she gave me from the bag. I tried to observe, inspect or appraise it to no luck. ¡°Nice flower, is it from someone or for someone?¡± Shocked out of my thoughts I look up to find Dainea there looking at it with a dirty smile on her face. ¡°Here, for you, I am returning it to whence it came in hopes of a better reunion. You are welcome to me. NO wait. My doors are always open to you.¡± ¡°Do, do I know you?¡± ¡°You don''t?¡± I look at her and hope. ¡°.¡± ¡°Other World''s and maybe in dreams I guess.¡± ¡°My dreams have been filled with romance and a lover I don''t know recently.¡± ¡°I am Ophilia and this is Princess, I am glad to meet you here. And the flower is sincere.¡± ¡°Nice to meet you Miss Ophilia and Princess, I am-¡± ¡°¡°Dainea.¡±¡± We say together. I reach out to shake her hand. ¡°Are you free later tonight?¡± ¡°Am I?¡± She blushes the smokey red I am used to when she is embarrassed. ¡°I might be.¡± She returns the hand shake, my, my, this heart of mine certainly is in a hurry tonight. Dainea and I talk a lot during the early hours of the day and I admit it was my fault she didn''t get much work done that night or decent tips. I was horny and hungry and wanted her more than anything. Finally, around five in the morning she was happy that we could share time after work and plunged into her room. We had clumsy virgin sex and the blood from my new body when opened for the first time sent me into a small frenzy to feed off her. Shocked at first, then when she was comfortable with me and the fact that I wasn''t going to eat her or change her to one, the hormones that had brought us here took over again quickly enough. She let me feed off her finger first then between her legs later. Even a small amount of blood or fluid was enough to climax and satisfy the hunger. Three hours later we covered up the window with a sheet and kept going. It was wonderful, more so than I could imagine. After five hours she collapsed and I followed soon after calling princess over to sleep with the two of us. She was welcomed to do anything she wanted when Dainea fell into slumber and we kissed and I got licked. Petting Steph where she wanted to be pet and found what she liked the most. Hugged the two of them and fell asleep embracing them both completely spent. Thank Niva. I am not a virgin anymore! ¡­.zzzzZZZZ End Chapter 8 Vol 2 - Chapter 1 and 2 - Not so Brave World Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 2 Chapter 1 Not So Brave New World - Dainea''s Room in the Wooden Bucket, Acdin - Sunlight was never really my friend before, even less so now that I was on a permanent liquid diet of blood. Good thing the afternoon bells had sounded a few times and would soon be evening again. I hugged Princess Stephanie and Dainea close and tried to close my eyes again. Dainea kissed me and sniffed the air, ¡°Do you smell something funny?¡± ¡°Other than us after five hours of sex?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± She rolled over smelling the air and pulling my arms around her. I smell my pits then her then Steph then the air. ¡°It''s not me.¡± Steph yawned and added. ¡°It talks?¡± Dainea was very surprised. ¡°That is Princess for you, bar maid.¡± Steph retorted. ¡°So we did introduce Princess Stephanie yesterday. She is...¡± I look at the Moon Minx. ¡°Eh, a Moon Minx that used to be a person. And we um...¡± ¡°Meow.¡± Stephanie laid down and snuggled with me. ¡°Sure, that''s-¡± Dainea looked a bit jealous but seemed to think she had the better deal being able to have sex after all. ¡°I smell it, but it is not coming from the bed.¡± I try changing the subject. ¡°Like something is dead and going bad.¡± I jump up. ¡°Oh! The corpses from the hunt last night, must be in my bag still, Shit! What do I do with them?¡± ¡°!¡± ¡°Just a couple of ''Field Jerry'' after all.¡± Moving to the bag, I take the sheet covering us and wrap it around me. Leaving me with a great view of a naked Dainea and Steph checking the competition out. ¡°Oh in that case lets take them to the kitchen.¡± Taking out the bodies and the meat drops, ¡°Good Idea!¡± I gag getting a good whiff of them up close, they smell awful. ¡°People actually eat these smelly things?¡± ¡°Sure couple places including this place, sells dishes from these.¡± Getting up from bed and moving to put on some clothes, Dainea smiles and puts on her undergarments. Plain, with some regret I watch her cover up. Mmm, once we get some decent clothes on this girl. ¡°I might make something from the skins, can the kitchen save any useful scraps?¡± Always interested in getting the most from something I think stuffed toys might work. ¡°Or do they need to be processed?¡± ¡°Don''t know, can ask.¡± She watches as I pull the last and biggest one out of the strange pack. ¡°These are huge and so many where are they all coming from?¡± Apparently my bag has some kind of dimensional thing going on because the amount of stuff inside was my entire inventory from before just piled up neat, one item on top of another, took a while to get anything out if it was near the bottom. So spacial enchantment of some kinds exists here at least. My guess is the back pack might be quite the expensive item with how impressed my girlfriend is with it. Leaving the backpack in the room we carry the corpses to the kitchen and Princess follows behind. In exchange for all the bodies they will give me back the skins and suggest the town Skinner or a leather worker handle them later. Chef''s aid did a good job on the meats and bones, learned a bit still didn''t figure out everything they did though. Princess found the hearts enjoyable and the cooked parts tasty. She still liked human food and would not eat some of the things offered by the kitchen staff. Pretty sure her food cost are going to remain rather high. Only thing I had a taste for was the main arteries of anyone''s neck I looked at for too long. At dinner, I ask. ¡°Dainea was kind enough to host us last night. I have some money, if you would want to join me in a fancier Inn tonight? Not that I wouldn''t mind sleeping in your bed even if it was a bail of hay.¡± The redness on her cheeks was just right, and put my hand on her leg under the table. Oh that amount might be too much. She looks extremely flustered now. ¡°Any of the Inns around have private baths for two maybe?¡± The wobble to bar maid looks like she is fantasizing about something and non-responsive. I get ready to hold her up steady just in case, then hug her arm. ¡°Wha, what a bath for two people?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°Sounds divine!¡± She melts into my arm some her healthy breast resting there feel quite soft and warm. "Mom, I''ve married someone rich!" Those words made no sense to me as my brain wouldn''t process them. I turn a bit letting the new ones I am still getting use to the weight and size of, meet hers and whisper near her ear, ¡°Is there an Inn like that in town, flower?¡± ¡°There is.¡± ¡°What time do you get off tonight?¡± ¡°Such a loaded question miss...¡± She grins, ¡°If I work until night''s last bell then it is good.¡± We arrange to get the room at an Inn with a private bath for the night. Meeting around the time of the last bell. Princess remembers the directions, since I might get lost. Settling the bill from last night and today with the Jerry meat and bones. There was enough coin to tip the staff a few coppers and have a few left over. The special for the next few days was a Field Jerry stew apparently. Steph''s critique of it was ''not bad, she had eaten worse things''. Leaving Dainea to start working downstairs, and returning to Dainea''s room for my stuff, I pull out and leave the bunny ears and a new apron on the table for her. I start looking to see if everything is in the pack, gear, weapons, random stuff I had collected so far in game. Everything was in there I had when I went across the World''s. Including the clothes I had on that got replaced by Ophilia''s they needed adjustment now as my body was as close to Ophilia''s as it had been in the character creation process. There was that bit of fluid loss from last nights race conversion mind you. Speaking of which I should find some more soon. Steph was there, but human blood seems to have the most appeal in my mind at the moment. Maybe an animal if it was alive. Should we see about a thief or thug later for dinner, early breakfast... I pulled out my wand and tried to cast a [Void Sphere] spell and it took a little longer to remember how and make it work but there it was sitting where I cast it. Steph and myself just watched what looked like a censor circle that just hung in the air watching in awe. When the spell faded a bit later we looked at each other, ¡°¡°So Freaking Cool!¡±¡± I cast [Charm Person] at Steph and she turned a bit more affectionate and had a slight pink effect to her eyes. Told her I was sorry for casting it, and asked what she felt afterwards. More lust than anything and a desire to please me beyond anything she had before. I found that casting a [Mana Bolt] out the window had to be concentrated on as the range increased or the spell would fade fast. Could cast the spell without the wand but was 2 to 3 times harder, took longer and less powerful by some amount. Same for all the magics it seems. For the most part, everything about daggers that we learned as Ophilia was retained in my memory and I could recall even a few lessons I had while away from keyboard the night Teea gave us lessons upon lessons. ¡°What now Steph?¡± I look at her laying where I had slept this morning napping. ¡°Sight seeing?¡± She yawned not too interested. ¡°Hmmm.¡± Sun about to set I pick up the lazy Minx and my slightly smelly bag and head for the ''Stitch in Time'' to see if things were any different. - Outside the Wooden Bucket - What is the world like really? The sky is still blue, clouds look white the ones I see. The one visible moon looks nothing like the one on earth. The others may be off hidden right now. For the most part the construction methods are very similar to Earth. They did copy the game world from this one very closely, but there are differences for sure, somethings that might not be acceptable to our World were certainly edited out. Well more about that fun stuff later. Wonder if Miss Utica is like the one in game. I avoid pot holes and sewage and other stinks in the street and head the wrong way of course. Course corrections made, we are go! At a store that was selling random things, I sell off the claws and tails to get them gone, along with the things from the in-game thugs last night. I buy another water-skin and a few bags for holding items along with survival items I might need. A tooth brush and hair brush for me and Princess, some tools for making clothes and leather items. A few hair ties and an extra pair of socks plus a cloth to wipe off my boots with, seems a common item here that many had. That wasn''t needed in any game I had ever seen before, but really made sense here with the streets as they were in some places. Bought a small bowl for camping and feeding use now that Steph was semi dependent on being fed having something to drink or eat out of was helpful. On the way to the tailor shop I got a good look at a few mounts in this world. A large dog like creature with a half-ling sized humanoid on it went by once, and there was a huge lizard tied to two wheeled skiff transport. No horses here I could see yet. A few tamed creatures I''d never seen the likes of before. And more fashions than were seen in game. - Tailor of the Times Shop - So, looks like names from the game world had a few changes. I could read this world characters after thinking about them for a while, felt as if I was trying to learn something I had classes in many years ago. I wiped my boots before entering, as the streets were still a mess at the end of the day. I hesitated at the front door. The emotions of not seeing Aveon, Mystical and Badmofo even felt like a lump in my throat. ¡°Hello?¡± I open and enter. ¡°Welcome, can I help you find something?¡± A shop girl came out and put down some needlework on the counter I had worked at in game so often. ¡°Um was looking for materials for making clothes, and if possible to speak with the manager about consignment.¡± I frowned seeing there was help, not that I wanted the job just it wasn''t one of my friends. ¡°It is possible to buy cloth here, we get some in from other places, if you want basics there is the Weaver''s Mill. As for resale, we accept some items if they have potential.¡± The smile of a sales person there was so professional. ¡°Ophilia, that''s me, can I see the cloth you have for sale?¡± Putting my two hands together in front of me palms up in a gesture of a bowl, I had seen others make on my way here as they did introductions. ¡°This way, please.¡± She did the return gesture of pushing the down with one hand. ¡°You can call me Wensi.¡± My guess would be that it was an offer of greeting and good will. While the pushing down was the acceptance and meaning no more was necessary. A few times a bribe could be passed either way at that point if someone refused to accept an empty bowl you had to pay. If the person offered hands put a coin in that was the reverse and a debt or credit made. I had yet to learn when such times coin would be needed, and I should ask someone soon. So many conversations I had seen around so far had things that made little sense until I had thought about it for a long time and made many guesses. ¡°Does a Miss Utica work here?¡± ¡°She does.¡± ¡°Oh. Thanks.¡± Maybe fearing the loss of a commission or sales she held back information not sure. Or I needed to tip more, or ask directly, learning customs always is interesting. The cloths were quite good, and varied and the shelf that had broken in the game version actually looked like the one here was about to break. I let the girl know and she started removing the folds of cloths just in case. ¡°Thank you.¡± ¡°No problem, how much do these go, hmm, sell for? One whole unit.¡± The girl with the brown hair with light highlights looked around. Her outfit was fitting for a tailor''s apprentice for sure was higher quality than a lot of the dresses, had a more straight body line and felt more like a caster robe than work clothes. ¡°Those cheap one 5 copper, oh and up to 20 copper for those and these are patterned to 30 and those of better quality up to a lot.¡± ¡°Do you have any scrap cuttings as well?¡± I poke around the cloths looking for nice ones I liked. Piked out Two. ¡°Can you sell half a roll?¡± ¡°What exactly is it you are making?¡± ¡°Custom life necessities form myself and friend.¡± ¡°?¡± She was perplexed at that. ¡°Half roll, half the price. Cuttings I don''t know yet.¡± ¡°Right, I''ll take those two, that one and half of that one.¡± ¡°Now?¡± She looked surprised at something. ¡°Will there be any problem with that?¡± ¡°No, how you going to carry that much?¡± ¡°? What? Is that much that heavy? Don''t worry about it, totally got it covered. Literally.¡± ¡°Sure. Please wait while I cut this.¡± ¡°Will look around, thanks.¡± I head up front to look around. Some interesting things in backwater towns after all. It was not the top of fashion, but this is the upscale place in town and even so, a few items have some potential here. She brought the fabrics to the front and started bringing out an addition set to count up the price. ¡°70 copper for that all.¡± I set Princess on the pile and pull out a silver coin. ¡°This one good enough?¡± Handing it over I smile. ¡°My, you do like clean coins...¡± I had noticed all my coins were perfect versions of the ones here without a scratch on them. Suspicious, not illegal at least. Guess I should get them dirty or marred a bit here and there. She handed back three ten copper coins and sat to work on her stitching. ¡°Anything else?¡± ¡°The scraps, if you have extra could you find the price for them next time I shop here?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± ¡°Thank you.¡± I bow and leave with my pile of Minx and fabrics. Nearest alley, I dump the rolls in the bag and head to the Skinner-leather worker shop. - Southern Gate Area - I had made the visit to the Leather-workers and parted with unprocessed cheap furs and got two higher quality ones to make something I had in mind. Cost was a few copper coins in difference. After that we stopped at the Inn to offload some weight in the room I reserved until tomorrow evening. A bit expensive at 1 silver for two people and 1 Minx with breakfast included. The place was a rare one with private baths so doing this once in a while in the future had merit. Made my way slowly to the bad part of town. Some calories before I had to meet for my date later. It was getting darker and soon there would be something of interest. Sadly, I gave up waiting and went out the south gate after 20 minutes of nothing interesting. Out in the fields I had to be careful not to damage any crops, I walked the edges of the fields looking for anything to hunt. Was not like advertised in the game. Nothing near the city popped up in the fields and my senses only noticed a few tiny rodents and birds. We walk closer to the forest to see if I could notice anything from the edges and spied for anything to collect plant wise. At this point Anything would be good. Citizens must scour the surrounds for living material regularly after all. Nothing else to do I drop a Void Sphere, and work on trying to get a tracking version to work like teacher showed me. Every time I feel close to full on magical energy I cast one off or attempt to get a tracking one. After making it 45 degrees around the city towards the east gate, I find some plants and flowers that might be useful, I bag whole ones roots and all, and make sure I don''t take more than one of each of them. Fine a tree branch thick enough and low enough within reach to cut off. Can make buttons after it dries. Pick a few leaves from each of the trees so I can get wood type lessons later. Carving the branch quietly and hunting for usable things, I continue to work in the direction of the east gate. My knowledge of survival cooking perks up when I find one plant usable as a seasoning. Stashing that separate in my bags, we continue. Only hear a few critters they were pretty timid and I had no way to catch them even if I had seen them. My noise and scent must have put them off. Didn''t feel like rubbing plants on me to cover my scent. Princess got some exercise chasing a few things with no luck. We made sure she didn''t get to far away. ¡°Not a starter anymore, is it Princess?¡± ¡°Nope. You worried?¡± ¡°Not about somethings, it is the dying in the wild and starving to death part out here if we got far from town.¡± With an around an hour left before the time to see Dainea I headed back to the road for the east gate and blew through my mana on practicing spells. Close to fainting from the effort I stopped and walked back to town. Exiting the trees, the darkness now was deep and the city lights and watch fires were impressive, stars had come out with the second Moon now up, and it too was a different color from ours. Even had a ring of its own. At a stone well inside town, I watered Steph and washed up some. Dirt and nature cleaned up some we bought some snacks for the girls and headed beck to the Inn. Sitting on the mount hitching posts waiting for Dainea, Princess and I thought about what my goals should be and our future. My thoughts it may be good to keep conversations in public to a minimum until we know how problematic a talking Moon Minx might be. What we came up with was skill and magic practice. Food hunting for me. Local knowledge, support systems and places to retreat to. Thinking it might be good if I at least met with Teea and or Miss Utica. Along with a few more spells from Teacher. Life skills like reading etc. then crafting for income. A fight broke out at a nearby tavern, it was far enough not to see it, I could tell someone got more than just their feelings hurt. Civil disputes here and there earlier told me many of Earths problems also exist here. Education or lack there of seemed to be the cause a few of them. Dainea shy appearance showed up right on time. ¡°You know I don''t normally run off with strangers and sleep with them the first night I meet them.¡± ¡°Technically, it wasn''t the first night for us, it was the fifth night. On your side also was the next morning we had intimacy.¡± I giggle and poke at her tickle spot above the hips gently. ¡°I am ready for a bath. You?¡± I pick up her hand to have her follow behind. She swatted my behind. ¡°Such a naughty girl. Where ever did you come from?¡± ¡°Same place all girls come from. Hot water?¡± - Inn Room - Not sure what I had expected for my moneys worth but this seemed much more luxurious than most of the town. Bedding with several layers. Bed was a soft wood frame with leather filled mound as a mattress of sorts. The bath was a wood floored area with a wood sided tub. Pipes of water emptied into heated metal basin you could add to the tub or scoop out of. They had different solutions of a lot of things we took for granted. Filling the tub to a comfy temperature for Dainea and Princess, once full I dropped Princess in to check for toxins. Just kidding, I really just wanted to see her all wet. She gave me a kiss for my attempts and laughed at me when I frowned. She knew me pretty well. Three of us bathed until two girls had wrinkles on our fingers. Dried each other off and talked and played in bed for a while. I shared the snacks from before, those two went and got serious on the food. I begged Dainea to let me feed from her finger. ¡°I don''t want you to be hungry and you don''t have to beg.¡± She offed her hand to me. ¡°Really its acceptable and there is some pleasure in the conveyance.¡± Her blushing and smile made me believe her. I felt the flush on my cheeks thinking about the satisfaction from my new food. Plus the sensual effect of her fluids feeding my body, the warmth got me in the mood for more playful things. A few drops after starting, there seemed to be a problem. ¡°Mmm this may not be enough tonight.¡± Licking the last atom of blood from the surface. I could think that maybe surface suction or other fluids might be enough. ¡°Can I try a few things down there?¡± ¡°There? That won''t hurt right?¡± ¡°No, no, if there is any pain knock on my head or say a stop phrase of your choice. A short phrase is good, hurting you is something we never want to do. Well, always thought you were more into being seen than the into pain type. Not saying you don''t like to be spanked a bit sometimes.¡± I stop rambling.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there. ¡°Please stop.¡± ¡°That is fine, problems if they are words that often get used in the climax like please, or don''t stop.¡± ¡°No more flowers?¡± ¡°Excellent choice.¡± I hug her and move closer. ¡°You ready?¡± ¡°Very.¡± Trailing kisses to her thighs, very close to where her thigh meets her torso I leave a serious kiss mark long enough blood came to the surface a few times through suction. Didn''t even put a dent in the hunger. Her scent was heavy and the moisture from her juice was driving me wild. I had to get it and enjoy it. Moving my focus and tending there. She screamed and climaxed bouncing me away as she shuddered. It was a bit shocking. ¡°Again!¡± she called. Moving hands to her hips, I placed her back on the bed and moved my mouth in unison with her undulations the best I could. Pacing and sucking, licking and teasing. She called out again and again. She gave in and released a heavy torment of liquids. I concentrated on them and tried to get as much as I could. Kissing licking and sucking them and any drops left for me it was only a slight appatizer. ¡°More!¡± She grabbed my face and kissed me then forced me to do it again. Her climax leaving her stunned I rocked back and forth on Dainea''s leg and help myself to a bit of pleasure while waiting for her to become self aware again. ¡°Darling lover, do you want a taste?¡± I licked her lips some to see if she had passed out. ¡°No not just a taste, cum here.¡± Meeting her tongue warm and delicate it felt so alive, I felt so alive. My home back in Maine, never had I felt so alive, so hungry. I swallowed and knew I needed to hurry and feed tonight, but not here and not on her it would be deadly and a viscous kind of feeding, one filled with fear and death. I shuddered, and from that motion brought back Dainea''s focus. She thought it was from pleasure I was sure. She moved fingers into the hair between my thighs, then slid them straight to the goal line and directly in for a Grand-slam! From what I remembered of last night sex, this time was one hundred times more stimulating. And my mind escaped into the orgasms over and over from her touch. Not sure what happened so much after that, but after four major spiritual breakthroughs of the orgasmic kind and she stopped. When rationality returned, I asked her to wait while I went to feed otherwise she might really get hurt. Princess stayed with her and they could bond, chat, hate, whatever. I needed blood and more than I felt safe to take from either of them. Changing into my gear, I left the backpack and only brought a bag and weapons. - South Gate - Good thing I had visited the south gate area before during the day so I had an idea of a few good places to hide. Whether it was divine providence or luck, one way or the other I ran into Tooom and Wife. The real ones this time. In-game they had tried to take my dinner and even if it was only implied, made mention of me as entertainment or dessert. Unlucky for them Huh? Even had we not run into each other in my World''s game, the conversation I overheard between them was just disgusting. There was no such thing as a sex offender list in this World. As they sat, talked and drank I started casting Void Spheres in a group where they would hit them if they came at me in the alley. With just enough power to cast charm person at Wife. Again, I whispered the words he wanted to hear. Free dinner all you can eat pain and suffering. Tooom heard something of the whispers and saw the glint of the dagger I flashed at him. He would most likely charge this time with an intent to kill me in the shadows here. ¡°Dinner served, thug.¡± ¡°Don''t know who you are, gonna tear you up! Right, Wic?¡± He looks over at Wic, ¡°Eh? You right there drink too much?¡± ¡°No, he just waiting his turn. You the boss after all?¡± ¡°Right.¡± He pulls out his weapon again today and advances. When he runs into the group of void spheres the sight forces me to close my eyes as his legs pretty much disintegrate from the damage. Falling right there I close the distance before he can scream from the shock and damage. Moving a bit faster than I had expected, it worked out somewhat as I could turn and get him from behind as he was trying to maintain a crawling so he could get away. I gag his mouth with the bag at my waist and cut his neck to feed. Indulging, feeding and draining the gushing neck wound until at last the heart beating is not enough to supply any new blood. ¡°Yummm. Bad guy ''A'' done, how does lackey ''B'' taste?¡± Now that the hunger and fear of having to face them both had passed. I have to face the guilt of having human food even if they are scum, the urge to vomit was pretty strong. Hope I don''t have to do this forever. Lillithe did say for a while, more details would have been nice, unless it was going to be like centuries before that happens. Smiling at Wic, I ask. ¡°You ready for your turn?¡± He should be enough for the night, I need to hurry before getting any sicker thinking about the monster I become. The scent in the air pulled me out of those thoughts as the hunger pulled me to Wic''s neck and I gently pierced it with a top fang. Did it grow or was it always sticking out like that? My body seemed to pull the blood from him into my mouth and teeth and throat. Vanishing on my lips like a dry sponge pulling in water. Letting my skin clean some of Tooom''s blood off my outfit, it would be a bit easier to get clean from now if blood was this easy to absorb. Still making a mess wasn''t part of the plan. Seeing the damage from the void spheres. I really got new respect for that spell. Thinking about anything to distract myself from the fading of Wic''s heart beat and the loss of his life. He passed away in my arms. I wanted to cry or feel human about it. He was street trash and had rough life I am sure. I left him fall from my grasp and looked to the stars. Should I feel bad, for him, myself? He was food. Main course tonight, his life forfeit to let me live. I know I didn''t actually need to kill him here and now, he was under a spell after all. May have been for the best troubles won''t follow now just have to clean up some... I collect the coins and a few things, three serviceable boots, one got destroyed in the Void Spheres. Some clothes a worn copy of the necklace and silver ring from before another club and dagger. I cast Mana Bolt a few times at the corpse of Tooom to see the effects it had, just as grisly as the damage from the void spells. Void seemed a little better as it had a bit less explosion than a Mana Bolt. When the bodies got to the point nothing traceable or could even be thought of as a single person rather than two I went to wash off outside of town in the river staying as much out of sight as possible. Then returned to dry heaving next to the river thinking about the blood and gore of the evening. Since there was nothing in my stomach, nothing came out it was just the reoccurring desire to be sick, happening over and over. Tonight I killed for the first time. Two empty cans splattered in the streets. - Inn Room - I filled the tub and washed until Dainea had seen enough and dragged me to bed. We talked about life and death and the World here around us. She rubbed and massaged me, hugged and comforted. Steph''s shock was high at some level she understood what was happening. Honestly if not for Dainea I may have starved later. After thinking some about it some, Princess Steph returned to snuggling and talking to me. There was so much I could say about those early morning hours. Most was the hope that I didn''t become the monster I felt I was inside. That said I knew I was a monster at PVP but this was a bit outside my expectations. I cried a lot after that. End Chapter 1 Chapter 2 What do You do with a New Collar on? - Inn Room in Acdin - Aside from scaring the crap out of everyone that morning the daylight arrived. Dainea brought back breakfast for her and Princess. Looked good but I couldn''t eat anything still. Refilled the tub one more time and bathed out and washed my hair again. Sunlight didn''t have a damaging effect of me, it just felt itchy and blinded me some, okay a lot. On the other side of things I could now focus on and pick up on things even Minx over there had trouble hearing. She could still smell better than me, so that was something. I brushed out my hair then Princess Stephanie''s hair then Dainea''s. Both of them cooed and purred Steph threatened me when I stopped. Despite not wanting the attention at first, Dainea was certainly looking like some kind of pudding when my arms finally laid her back in bed. Having felt like some kind of penance was made to them I laid back in bed myself. They fell asleep as I pet them lightly. Started work on a pillow for Princess to rest on. Once I got materials for fill, I would finish the one for Steph then a larger one for Dainea and I. I''d use the other material from today for the second one. If the Inn had any questions about the missing towels, tell them I know nothing about the subject. Little before noon I felt like having a snack so I ate out at Chez Dainea again. Not sure if the bill was settled properly but the service was great. Feeling a bit more calm after watching her sleep I made some clothes, some that the in-game Dainea had liked and agreed were wearable either in public or private. I washed my bag some and cleaned the daggers like Teea taught me. Daily gear check should become a habit after all. ¡°Hey.¡± Steph moved over after the maintenance had been finished. ¡°Come here.¡± I pulled her close and pet her ears. ¡°Thanks.¡± ¡°For what?¡± I looked her in the eyes. ¡°For everything and...¡± I look at the sleeping Dainea. ¡°I want you to know that you being here now is more than I deserve and I,¡± ¡°Can you say it. Wait... It was an incomplete in the locker room.¡± ¡°.¡± I was not sure what to say. ¡°You liked me even then, more than everyone I knew, except Josh and that went another way.¡± Looking away then nuzzling my chest and purring. ¡°You are a part of me I never had before. I didn''t know was missing and now I won''t give up. I hate you and love you at the same time.¡± Her eyes a bit moist. ¡°I wanted what she has with you now. I don''t want to wait and can''t do anything now...¡± I pull her gently to my chin and pet her body and behind her ears. ¡°Princess, the way we are now, you are going to have to help me to help you be happy. Let me know what I can do.¡± Did that make sense? ¡°You followed me here, I don''t know what happened, but I am very okay with you as you are now. More so than before, strangely enough.¡± Think I turned a bit red there. ¡°Yes I lloo, yes I llloooo.¡± ¡°Well don''t force yourself there kitten lover.¡± ¡°Do you love me Steph?¡± ¡°...¡± She looked at me like I was crazy. ¡°Of Course.¡± ¡°Could you be alright with me loving Dainea?¡± ¡°If I have too, then you are happy right?¡± ¡°I love you Dainea.¡± I whispered to the sleeping love there. She mumbles something about eating her again. ¡°Princess Stephanie, I also love you.¡± ¡°Anne, I love you too and so much more.¡± She licked my nose and face and mouth. I kissed her and caressed her face. Then laid down next to Dainea and pet them with different hands. The purring and breathing lured me into a light sleep. Princess and my girlfriend were talking about something as I woke and lay there smiling at them. ¡°You are my girlfriend right?¡± I sat up straight asking loudly. ¡°Huh?¡± Looking shocked at my sudden entry into the conversation. ¡°Lover, girlfriend, partner sex-goddess any would fit right?¡± ¡°Oh good!¡± Resting back on the bed, I close my eyes. ¡°You are my first real partner if you couldn''t tell and didn''t want any confusion on that part.¡± ¡°She can be so weird sometimes.¡± Princess walked over and pawed my chest some. ¡°Did you two get lunch?¡± I started to play with Steph tail unconsciously and she became still and shook a little. ¡°No, think that surprise lunch attack pretty much put any thoughts about food out of my mind.¡± Hunger on her face was plain as day. ¡°Steph you hungry for anything? Or was breakfast enough?¡± I look down at the silent Minx ¡°Steph?¡± I paused stroking her soft tail. ¡°OH. For God¡¯s sake, don''t stop now!¡± Her shaking had become exaggerated by now. ¡°What is the emergency phrase for continue?¡± I look at my and then her tail. ¡°Yes.?¡± ¡°Please, yes, yes, YES, continue where you left off.¡± She hit me with her tail finally. ¡°Sure.¡± I play with her tail some and look at Dainea, ¡°You good with me sexually frustrating my pussy, cat to no end, then giving her a big finish?¡± I twirl the tail and flick the end a few times. Panting a few times the only sound was a light ¡°Mew.¡± Shrugged my shoulders, then went back to making the Minx happy. ¡°So food? You need any?¡± ¡°Nope, good, I''ll just supervise here.¡± She reached out her hand. Steph hissed and spoke up, ¡°Not, not, this time okay, maybe later, first time is with Ophilia!¡± ¡°I had no idea!¡± Looking at them both, I was glad of something, sure it felt weird having Dainea watch me give satisfaction to a huge Moon Minx. I laid in bed with, not to mention that the Minx was an ex-stalker candidate that had moved in with me and followed me to a new World. Adding to the fact that my 2-D girlfriend had become a 3-D girlfriend and we had just had incredible sex in an expensive Inn which took me less than a day to make the money to stay in. I was sure that whatever tomorrow brought couldn''t get any stranger than this. Well that is until Dainea said she had better orgasms with Princess watching then she had had with other girls before. Feeling a bit of lust at the whole situation I spread my legs a little wiggled a finger and asked if she wanted to watch, or help. She held out a total of three minutes then jumped my pussy. I mean Minx, I mean vagina, I mean body or my mind. I don''t know anymore the perversions flew and things got crazy. Sometime before dark we recovered and bathed again. We had to send out for towels. Being the most dressed it was Princess with a note in her mouth for the desk attendant to leave some at the door. Good kitty! - Streets of Acdin - Walking Dainea to work we arranged to meet before dawn. Staying at her place tonight. ¡°Where would you want to live? First choice.¡± I asked both girls on the way to the tavern. ¡°Magic school dorms.¡± Dainea answered quickly, then giggled. I knew we had some common fantasies. Who knew? ¡°New York City. I thought about it after in the bathroom.¡± I tried to recall what she had been told. Total blank. ¡°?¡± Dainea''s confusion was understandable. Petting Steph, I continue. ¡°She told me, or more asked to date me. I said ''No'' at the time and something else.¡± I try to fill in some blanks. Steph filled us in. ¡°She said to find someone who was into girls and not let them go, the best chance was college, if not try a big city where the best odds to find someone increased. All I could think of was her and me in highschool, then college, then the big city.¡± ¡°¡°Really?¡±¡± Dainea and I chime in. ¡°¡°And you?¡±¡± Dainea and Steph chorus together. ¡°Ah...¡± I look up, ¡°¡°a Castle.¡±¡± Princess and I echo. ¡°Why a Castle?¡± Dainea asks. ¡°Every good vampire queen needs a castle to plot World domination from, right? Right? Well maybe not a good one...¡± Too much? - Park in Acdin - Kiss for Dainea, then me and Princess were off to see if Void Magic Teacher Planknel was there in the park as per normal. Found him where he was found in-game on the same bench as he stared into nothingness. Even with the Sun have set he was still there. ¡°Good evening teacher how goes the pondering of inner space?¡± I greet him, might be a bit over the top he was into weird so it might be a good thing. ¡°Good eve-, do, do I know you?¡± ¡°Meow.¡± ¡°Nothing of the sort, but I look forward to learning from you again, wise one.¡± I smile and sit next to him. Holding out a bit of cooked food I saw then bought on the way here. It smelled decent. Steph liked it as well. ¡°But I don''t have anything to teach you.¡± Pulled my wand out and rest it in my lap. ¡°You sure? You did teach me to use a spelled called Mana Bolt then showed me the basics of a less popular magic school and the first spell. You won''t know this but the World I came from had something of a copy of this world. My coming here tonight, was in order to continue those lessons. If you don''t want, guess I could go find other teachers. That cat might be still around, what was the name of the tavern near the south gate?...¡± Sitting down his panic subsided. ¡°That so?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°What has that other me taught you then?¡± I cast a Mana Bolt upwards. Then form a quick Void Sphere then cancel it, before anyone can see it. ¡°That was the first day''s lessons.¡± ¡°In ONE day, I taught you all that in One day?!! How is that possible?¡± ¡°Ice cream?¡± I look at Steph and ask. ¡°Since we can''t get sushi here would that do?¡± Steph nods and Planknel gets his World back in order. I shrugged, ¡°Might not be able to learn new things as fast in this World, after all there is a large difference between. Still, I''ll work hard, will you help me learn?¡± Putting on my best pitiful please help face. ¡°How can I say no? Such a genius!¡± Guess he was either focused on his teaching skills there or something else. Learning more about mana and it''s control. How to create a better light from basic mana. Fire creation from mana, then how to better move or place spells. All in all that lecture took a few hours. Didn''t want to keep him out all night, so we agreed early evening lessons would be acceptable. Planning to meet tomorrow outside the walls for practical lessons, the forests past the north side would be fine. Meeting at the gate just before the Sun would set. Vampires seem to be known but not entirely understood in this area. Some regions had worse infestations and some would be accepted in society if they had enough restraint. Those were few. Such was the extent of his knowledge on my transformation. Next stop would be the alchemist, we stop by to see if she was up at night. - Alchemist Shop - Having no real sign on the shop in this world, there was nothing to do but knock. The outside it was covered in vines and plants, and every space was taken by storage or plant life. The old woman answered, she was the same as before, add this time the smell of overpowering chemicals, plants and earth. Some pleasant some worse than vinegar. Inside, many containers lined the walls, all varied in shapes, size and colors, roots and drying plants hung in many places. My eyes going to creatures in liquids. There were baskets of claws, and bits, parts and so many things I could only compare it to what I thought a Chinese Medicine shop would be close to. The magic in the air felt almost visible. She was interested in some of Princess''s fur as an exchange. Princess specie was rare and she could use the fur as an ingredient. In exchange for a few we got lessons on native flora and their uses. I got her to make a few black dyes, and learned to make a few others from things she had on hand. The last items I was interested in were paralysis and stun poisons. I added an aphrodisiac to my bag for later. A mild perfume because sometime the smells here were just, yea, that shitty. Added one potion to stimulate recovery. Such things as healing potions and mana potions with instant recovery just were really too unpractical even in a world with magic as the cost would be astronomical. Near instant healing spells? Here it really took several Saint Classed Priests knowledgeable in healing, along with a few mages. Best if you don''t lose any limbs or other body parts! A Priest would help someone heal about two times faster than normal. Used or sold any of the extra plants from my bag. Shopping taken care of and a little copper lighter in the wallet. Princess and I made for the bar Teea frequented. Rather that get targeted by her I put on my travel cape and hung out in a corner. - The Plaza of Acdin - Heading to Teea''s favorite tavern, we were crossing the main fountain and plaza in Acdin, when the local town crier sounded out. He started describing the bloody murder of someone in the south part of town. A reward for information was offered by the town guards. Stopping dead in mid step I decide to fill my water-skins and listen to the Town''s News. Nearing last bell the traffic had cleared and most evening merriment or drinking had come to an end. The local news boy had left a while ago, I was still hanging around listening to gossips and watching people for behaviors common in public. Teea''s den for gambling wasn''t too far from here, so we headed that way with Princess riding on my backpack. Her balance had increased with new form and was really used to her body now. We found the place from the noise, wasn''t to difficult. - ''No Trust'' Gambling Den and Tavern - The place was as packed as the game version. Many of the NPCs from then were now real people in front of me. This place had some serious regulars. Our heart-breaker weapon instructor ''Relentless'' was there canter stage with girl of the evening in hand, freely groping any unprotected female part that entered arm length range. There were more cuts and scars on the faces and bodies in here than before, that or I am just noticing now. Damage to a few chairs and even replacements for a few things. The excitement of the place was still high even at this hour. Same games of chance and skill were played here. With what I had learned so far the Liars Dice game was still only game even close to fair for me, might have a chance at darts or thrown daggers, depending on opponents skills. Rather than risk all out annihilation drinking again, I thought to just go for the conversation route. I bought some drinks from the bartender and opened a tab with a sliver coin. Then sat down at the table Teea was at and waited until she was sans opponents. Then moved across from her and placed a drink in front of her and her girl for the week. Guess she liked this one and had mentioned she had a few days worth left at some point during my wait. ¡°Hello ''Relentless''.¡± I sit and slide the drinks to her, ¡°Those are on me.¡± ¡°?¡± I sit Princess next on my lap and pet her calmly and tell the remaining guy, to join another game. ¡°Would you listen to my request?¡± ¡°Ho! A request is it, been a while since someone wanted me for a sex party!¡± ¡°No, no, just had a three-some with my girlfriends this afternoon. Any more sex and I would have trouble getting to the forest to train some. Thank you for the offer though Prince Charming.¡± Her hair was really boyish after all and a very pretty blond color. Sparkling personality once she was behaving herself. Her archer outfit gave off a musk of slight sweat, the hint of alchol and sex. She clearly had daytime fun like us girls had. ¡°If not a romp in bed then what, Bows? You don''t give off the bow type attitude there.¡± She eyed me then peeked under the table. She wasn''t sure of my outfit, many in town seemed a bit wary not knowing what my occupation was. It had a rogue-ish kid charm to it after all, an eccentric noble''s kid maybe. Teea empties her old drink. Asking, ¡°Are you like pretending to be a thief or some sort?¡± ¡°Is that what people are thinking?¡± I look at the girl Teea is holding. ¡°Do you think so too?¡± ¡°Well no, you look strange not many people wear animal clothes like that are you a kid or a Minx Tamer?¡± She gave her opinion. Tamer that might be good. ¡°Well no actually, I just like wearing cute clothes that are comfortable, stylish and easy to move in. If anything, I want to be a mage.¡± ¡°Still don''t understand why you come to me?¡± ¡°Survival and hunting training in the woods here.¡± I smile and wave for another round for the two silent girls across from me. I pour a cup of water for Princess as she looked thirsty. ¡°Let me see if I understand you. You want me, the garrison archery instructor to teach you survival and hunting skills? Why?¡± ¡°Let us suppose we were friends in a different life and we had bonded over a life and death situation caused by my greed and arrogance. I trust you the person inside with my life and a small part due to guilt over the pain and suffering caused.¡± ¡°What did you do?¡± ¡°I won a bet and made you drink the most vile drink this place served. You nearly puked to death going home. Yes I know, it is only what? Nine houses from here. Oh by the way here is your extra key.¡± Handing over the key. She takes it and checks her clothes for hers. Comparing the two they are very similar indeed. ¡°This is the spare key to my place?¡± ¡°Well, yea, but it came from a different world so you have and extra, extra now.¡± I smile and pass her the fresh round on the table. *Gulp gulp* She pounded the one I brought first and pulled in the new one. ¡°You didn''t break in and steal this did you?¡± She twitched and kept herself from looking at her house. ¡°No, like I said it is an extra, extra from a different World. You can keep it or hand it back. Up to you.¡± I took a sip of wine from my prop drink I found I could swallow a small amount at a time. Nice can get drunk with Dainea later. Let''s get some good recommendations. ¡°You want to help me train? Has to be at night, right now daytime hard to operate in. Plus your lunchtime is booked solid I see.¡± I grin at the young girl next to Teea. ¡°I don''t teach survival skills normally.¡± She looks rather bewildered at everything going on. ¡°You can think of it as ''friends going shopping after dark'' then.¡± ¡°Shopping. Ha. Who are you?¡± She eyes me suspiciously. ¡°Um, forgot that part didn''t I?¡± I look at Steph then back at the couple. ¡°Princess Stephanie, not a real certified noble of course.¡± I point at Minx Steph, then to myself. ¡°And I, Ophilia Anne, Novice Spell Caster in serious need of learning how to survive in a World I know little about.¡± I smile and lean in to the table without crushing Princess. ¡°You, a friend and weapon teacher, the virgin crusher, the relentless Teea of the local militia education department. Her, a toy for the week and current distraction. She is tasty looking. Wouldn''t say no to that first counter offer, if I wasn''t in a serious relationship. You two do make a lovely couple by the way. What is your name?¡± Upset at me but deciding her affections for Teea more important, made a pouting face, very cute but Steph''s was 6 tiers higher in quality after all. She sat there quietly and drank some more of the ale. ¡°Well, think it over. Have the rest of my open bar tab.¡± I wave over the bar maid closest, let her know to have Teea and her girls drinks on me for the night any left overs to be tip for the staff. ¡°I gave them a silver coin when I got here, drinks on me tonight. Make sure you both get home safe.¡± If Teea wasn''t so composed. I was sure her mouth would have been hanging open like her current fling''s mouth is. Guess that was a good opportunity to attack as Teea moved in with her tongue after a moments delay and the moaning soon followed. Happy couples are good couples they say. I walked out the front door and the Princess riding on my pack already. ¡°Steph do you have any skills?¡± ¡°Maybe.¡± ¡°I meant the combat or magic types.¡± Warmth spread across me as I thought of weird things. ¡°Who knows.¡± ¡°Mini map, plot a course for the wooden bucket please.¡± ¡°Pfft. It''s that way.¡± ¡°Thank you darling.¡± There were a few hours left Dainea could work for tonight so time to see about skill practice and magic. With lessons from Planknel I could cast the void magic a little farther away from me and cancel it. I pulled out my wand and in the darkened streets started to cast Void Spheres ahead of me and canceling them as they got closer. If I could get faster, stronger and do spell casting without having to look where the spell was landing it might be useful on a whole different level. Growth now was at human speeds not video game levels. Practice and effort was going to be required. Now then a Castle needs land, land needs money or power to take and keep it. How strong are we going to have to get and/or how much money. The six plus silver in my bag was not going to last forever. Or should I work on getting a house in town and live a quite life as a tailor or inventor, with a pretty maid for a wife. My blood needs might be a source of problems later, getting that under control soon should be important, and speaking of which guess my hunger today is good, not felt hungry or a huge desire to eat anyone all evening. Other than Dainea that is. Oh there was that town crier boy, he had a firm but when he bent over to pick up his things as he left the square, yum, and Professor Planknel he might be fun to... - Wooden Bucket Tavern Acdin - I smiled at everyone as I entered the mostly empty room at the Dainea''s Workplace, I went up to the bar and asked about all the drinks they served and the tastes and effects. Dainea helped me pick out a few things to try later in her room along with an extra bottle of lightning. Her grin was over the top at that one, while calling me a bad girl for getting her so excited at work. Placing Princess on the long tables with some ales for us to drink we start getting used to the flavors and effects. It was the third time ever really drinking. For me the other two were the single beer I stole the other night and the one time I got drunk on some wine during a holiday. Mom was mean afterwards and levied a huge amusement tax afterward. ¡°No computer for a month!¡± Those words of doom echo in my mind even to this day every time I see wine bottles. Learned my lesson good, I tell you. Drinking slowly with Steph we chatted about stuff. The ale was a bit sweet and the tasted of the plants that were used, was quite a strong flavor. ¡°I don''t look like a pirate, do I Princess?¡± Being summer or early fall here, the harvest festivals were not far off. Soon it would be time for a heavier outfit. We talked about what to wear, and made plans for winter clothing for us. Having the thought to go to the restroom, I pardoned myself and went out back to the public facility for the tavern. Coming back to the table I sat down quietly, ¡°Steph, I don''t think I am going to have to ever use the toilet again...¡± ¡°That bad?¡± She was thinking about the smell mostly. ¡°No, well, Yes, but that was not what I meant.¡± I look at her and whisper, ¡°Nothing in there anymore. I mean well, no pee or stink. Not once since I''ve been here have I had to you know, go. The amount of blood I consumed this morning enough out of one and a half persons. That is a lot of volume, more than four quarts of it.¡± ¡°All liquid, you think you would at least pee right?¡± ¡°You went like a few times already right?¡± I look at Steph, she had excused herself a few times so far to scat. The scent was a dead giveaway after all. ¡°Think I''ll have a menstrual cycle anymore?¡± I go to a far away-land and rejoice for the end of the evil cycle of pain and suffering. ¡°! Anne, what do you know about cat reproductive cycles?¡± ¡°A few things, why?¡± She bites my finger. ¡°Because, stupid.¡± ¡°Oh well, you are not a cat after all you are a Moon Minx and well we don''t have any clue what those are yet. If I had to guess, and if they were anything like those of Earth. You are going to be an attention slut for a few days a few times every year. Doing anything and everything to get laid and knocked up. Hummmm, not much different from before then, Hey! No drawing blood, you know what it does to me right!¡± I suck my finger she had clamped down on. ¡°Can you forgive me? Didn''t mean to be so awful there.¡± Hugging her and returning to the ale. ¡°Only when it came to you was I like that you know!¡± ¡°No, I don''t know and most of your past was left that way on purpose, if you wanted to talk about it that''s fine. I don''t know anything other than stupid rumors that circulated our One Gas Station Town. None of which I believed anyway because they were stupid rumors.¡± ¡°I was abused by several people and shipped all over. I hate most of my family for letting it happen and Josh saved me a few times, more or less. It is really hard to talk about being damaged goods.¡± A tear fell to the table and we looked at each other. ¡°Go on.¡± ¡°What else is there, the pain the suffering, the hate the lies. Being ignored, played with. Not being able to get away. Bruises, the loneliness. They are never going to do that to me again!¡± ¡°Your right. They don''t exist here.¡± ¡°.¡± ¡°Come here.¡± Picking Stephanie off the table and into my lap I caress her and give her a few kiss on the between her ears. ¡°I love you Steph and if you feel hurt and pain with me I am so sorry. You deserve so much happiness and love. You are not damaged good and I will never believe that to be true.¡± ¡°I love you too, and I think I always have.¡± Took us sometime to collect ourselves after that. I absent mindedly play with her tail at the table for a while and she climaxed once or twice maybe. ¡°Thanks.¡± ¡°Welcome!¡± I smile being able to do something for her. Returning to normal petting mode she purred for a while. Dainea joined us and we started with a new round of drinks. Sun would peek into the windows soon, we had all morning to get drunk. Later, I had to carry them both upstairs and fish the key out of Dainea''s pocket which excited me to no ends. Nearly passed out getting her to bed was good enough for now. Removed her work clothes and changed mine to something simple and sat down to do some light tailoring. I watched them sleep they looked peaceful and worn out from a long bunch of days. Made the Pillow from the soft furs that I got from the Leather shop. Would add any extra scraps or cuttings of leather and cloth to it later until It was full. Using the boss ears item and some cloth made the start of a stuffed animal added wooden buttons as eyes then put it back in my bag to wait for stuffing materials. Made a sodier uniform like the one I learned in game but without decoration. One more apron to replace the one I left for Dainea. Might as well see if they could be sold later. Crafting items now was a little more time consuming and like it was on Earth, I had to do every little detail and action. My Ophilia memories had been filled with every bit of knowledge of a fully trained Tailor''s Apprentice. Everything came out at a level of quality you could sell at the Shop here in town. Getting into a grind mode, I made: a set of gloves, a few hats, a cosplay dress, and a blouse, a few wooden button, and started a magic wand, not to be confused with an actual wand you would use in combat. Between crafts, I emptied my mana on spells every so often. There was a slight increase in cast speed and distance after a while. Running low on thread I packed up the tools added the cloth scraps to the pillow. Put everything away and crawled into bed with the girls. Teased Dainea till she moaned, then slid under the sheets and had some fun. Studied her body and touched generously, when she came close to waking I would pause and play with me. After a while I had enough and moved next to her and let myself climax. Steph stretched a bit in her sleep and I played with her tail, she opened an eye and blinked at me then fell back asleep. Snuggled myself up close to them and fell into a light sleep after that. I think I woke up to Dainea pleasuring me once then later to Steph doing something similar. Who knows the dreams that day were strange after all. End Chapter 2 Vol 2 - Chapter 3 - What Goes Around Comes Around Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 2 Chapter 3 What Goes Around Comes Around - Dainea''s Room in the Wooden Bucket, Acdin - ¡°Noooooooo!!!#$@#$!¡± Ah, so it was only a nightmare and I wasn''t living in a black and white, 1980s porno video that seem to go on forever and ever. The sound track repeating over and over and over and over was awful beyond belief. Not that the bad acting in the dream was any better. Or the strangeness of the sex without any sense of contact. Wiped my forehead and got up. A shower would be good right about now. ¡°Yup, no running water in here is there...¡± I frown and look around the small room we slept in last night. Dainea''s room, the wooden wall framing and furniture, worn in a few places. Very rustic and even if this was now the world I lived in, am I going to be alright missing so many modern conveniences? I got a bit shaky thinking no more internet and computer games. Real people every day, working to make a living. Savings retirement, further education, school loans, kids, grandchildren, Car Payments, or wagon rentals... Mount fees, insurance, riding lessons. Death around every corner waiting to have sex with me, please no more ghosts!!!! Magic, I must learn more magic to protect my self! Instead of crawling back into bed like I wanted, I started to pace the small room. Those two were still sleeping, I peek past part of the curtain I pull back, might be close to lunch time or a bit after. OK! Plan, we need plans! Keep practicing, learn new spells, less pacing around the room more casting, I cast charm person on Steph and a few Void Spheres closer to the ceiling where no one would walk into them, they stay where you cast them, not like an intangible empty space as any weight to it? I can move them if I put in some energy and focus hard enough. I cancel a few of them and cast new ones until I am close to fainting. Then sit on the floor near the table, it is the same as the one in game for all I can tell. I check everything in my bag and do a practice maintenance on my weapons. ''I will not let those ghosts get me again I swear!'' That and I should get to learn the local monsters. Oh and learn to cook more things for Steph and maybe, my girlfriend, wait I really do have one of those now, huh? I look over to the two sleepy heads and smile. They so cute! I hop up and put on the bunny ears on the table and crawl back into bed with them. ¡°Good afternoon there Princesses.¡± I hug them both and play with Steph''s Minx ears. They are really soft after all and the tufts of hair at the end very pretty. Her dark hair and pretty eyes, wait, when did I fall in love with her... I look over at Dainea''s sleepy face and I feel the same level of attraction and more, is this how harems get formed, not wanting to give up one love for another? I can only see problems in the future, hope it works out. I pull my hand away from my face to keep me from continuing to chew on my nails. Wonder what they do for nail trimmers here? ¡°Morning you.¡± Dainea smiles a soft reply. ¡°Is the sun going down yet?¡± Steph stretches and rolls some. I rub her tummy and she begins to sound out a loud purr. ¡°Very cute both of you. So erotic dreams and the later nightmares aside, we need lots and lots of information if we are going to live here.¡± ¡°What kind of information?¡± ¡°Dainea we kind of need to know everything about living in this World. As far as the two of us are concerned.¡± I point to me then Steph. ¡°We came from another World and one completely different than this one. Language, rules, history, common sense things, magic we basically don''t have that in my World. Nobles, politics, insults to avoid, we know like zero about fighting monsters, and I assume they are going to get real as shit there. Because, from what I''ve seen, from some of the pets in this town. The things that could be running around out in the wild, are no joke.¡± ¡°You are also a vampire, so there''s that too.¡± Yes, thanks Steph for adding to my panic. ¡°That too!¡± Luckily there is always good sex to distract you from the crazy stuff in your life. And a few cuddles later. The discussion on this World''s common sense began. Life in this World? ROUGH, frontier life being the hardest, city life being good, If you can stay out of trouble. Everything you would come to expect from a world with few lawyers and fewer judges. The good things about this nation seem to be a steady line of fairly tolerant Kings and other rulers. Historically there are the standard very good times to very bad times. Rise and fall of many nations and the current reign of peace between nations seems to be around 200-300 years with known written history of the area going back 4000 years or so. Magic seems to help and hurt at the same time with keeping written records from falling apart. The part when accidents and damage happen, cities get torn up sometimes. Or more accurately, removed from the face of the planet, or in a few cases eaten by monster raids. It''s magic go figure! Laws and customs would come down to something similar to the 10 commandments minus a few of them. Marriage here is quite uncommon and more of a concept of saying you will stay together then actually attempt it. Most common cause of death: betrayal or theft, or getting eaten by a monster. Well if war would start up again that would be a different issue. Dainea didn''t have much to say about vampires and monsters having lived most of life in this and one other small town. The other town they moved away from because of a difference of opinion. The monster''s opinion was that the town would be a good feeding ground, and the villager''s opposed it. Once it had been decided that wall or no wall, the monsters were going to have a meal, even if the residents themselves decided they didn''t want to foot the bill. Last minute decision was, it was as good as time as any to run out on that check. ¡°Check, hasty relocation is possible.¡± I took a few minutes to make changes to my travel cloak so daytime travel might be a bit easier. Thinking of desert nomads I put a few layers of cloth to make a slight gap to peek out between. Can pull it back to wear normally at night. Alrighty then! ¡°Steph, can I ask you to hang out in town and around and listen for news and things? As much as I love taking you everywhere, it might be nice to get you used to information gathering and things like that.¡± Plus a little exercise might be good for her. ¡°Sure.¡± A quick kiss on the nose later she is out the window and set loose on the town. I fear for the fate of this planet for some reason. There really is enough for me to worry about already so I set the bunny ears back on the table and pack up, and with a few ounces of blood from Dainea and I set out for the day myself. The hunger is coming back, may have to feed tonight or the day after depending on how strong the hunger got later. - Tailor of the Times Shop - Entering the familiar tailor shop, seeing Miss Utica, I smiled. I want to give her a hug so badly right now. In my mind I am thinking of her as the older sister type. Never had one of those before. This time she is real, there in front of me and so much like the one I knew in game. ¡°Good morning is there anything I can help you with?¡± ¡°Um, yes there is a few things. I am Ophilia and a big fan of your work!¡± I look down at my outfit the skirt and boots I wore now was thanks to her teaching me after all. They fit really well too. ¡°Nice to meet you Miss Ophilia, so then what can our store help you with today?¡± ¡°I''d like to sell a few things and if possible buy a few scrap cloths in bulk, I want to stuff a few things. I pull the stuffed toy I was working on and place it for her to see.¡± ¡°A toy is it?¡± ¡°You could say that.¡± I smile and think of the Waifu couple back in my room on Earth, yea toys. Very loving and intimate toys. I blush at the memories. ¡°You said you had somethings to sell?¡± Coming back from Waifu land, focus on the task at hand Ophilia. ¡°Yes, all of these.¡± Pulling out the uniform, apron, a few hats, and everything I had worked on so far. She looks through a few things and when she was about to reject the apron for not being an item they would stock, ¡°You know before you say no to selling that here, let me tell you the favored use for that item back where I come from...¡± I begin to whisper to her the secrets of the naked apron. ¡°Really?¡± *whisper, whisper* ¡°No!¡± The rose colored blushing of her cheeks was very cute. *whisper* ¡°Oh my, I never would have guessed!¡± Miss Utica turns away and giggles some, and a bit redder in the cheeks. ¡°Do they have anything like that here, popular clothing for bedroom role play?¡± ¡°Now that I think about it.¡± She folds up the apron and places it under the stuff the store would buy. ¡°We will, I mean the store will buy this one to see if it is a product that might sell.¡± Hiding it so nothing shows under the pile, I get the feeling it might be a popular item in this world. I mean the game version of her loved it too, stands to reason her partner enjoyed it in game as well. I pull out a second one, ¡°Want to try selling this one too?¡± She grabs it and hides it with the first one. You do know there are only aprons right? Not some illegal substance or anything. Should I tell her about maid play also? ¡°Does Miss Utica know of the common fashion for maids in the countries around here?¡± We talk some about the different types of maid uniforms and the use of clothes in bedroom play and women''s toys a few things for a while in hushed tones. After buying some fabric and scraps I give her a hug. Not forgetting to get the directions for the mill so I can buy thread and more fabric. ¡°Thanks, it was so good to finally meet you!¡± ''Again!'' I wave and head out for the mill. - The Weavers Mill in Acdin - The Weaving Mill is partially fenced off with open sides and a large wood roof for the dye area. The smell of the dyes was strong and a bit bothersome to my senses. The other large building held the looms and a clack, clack, clack could be heard from it. A big storage shed looked to hold the bulk of the raw materials and people were moving back and forth. All in all it was quite an efficient and practical workplace, with little in the way of decoration. There is quite a few workers here and they all seem to be focused on their task of making tread and cloth, with a few being colored in common colors from the region. When, someone finally passes by, I interrupt them to ask them where to buy stuff at. ¡°Pardon me, where or who do I ask to buy things from here?¡± ¡°Oh a new customer, sure this way please.¡± The young girl directs me to the sales counter. With things to do she scurries off into the building. ¡°Hello-¡± there was a second there I didn''t know what to say the young boy. He was pretty attractive and I could only think the word ''lunch'' after that. ¡°Greetings...?¡± He looked at me wondering what I wanted. I really couldn''t say a thing with what was going through my mind at the moment. ¡°Would you be my lunch? No, no, I meant I am here to buy lunch, no! I meant, thread and dessert, Fabric that is.¡± Whew, hope I didn''t give too much away there. Two things sprang to mind, me jumping on that neck and sucking him dry or me running away right now. I looked from his neck to his eyes then the golden flecks in the sea of darker browns was certainly delicious looking but the body tone of his shoulders and neck was really hard not to stare at right now. Ah, lunch is served, this 15 year old kid was going to have to be my meal later. Okay, all the drooling aside, we need supplies. ¡°How much and what kind?¡± ¡°Humm, all of it would be too much and one pint might be enough to keep you standing afterwards.¡± ¡°Pint? What is that?¡± Oh crud, I said that out loud! ¡°Sorry that was nothing. Need thread, about enough for 50 items right now should be good. And... can we look at cloth and fabrics you sell here. You have a discount for bulk orders or repeat customers?¡± ¡°Yes, yes and yes, if you will follow me then.¡± ¡°Certainly.¡± That blood supply looks perfect. ¡°And he has not said no to me yet.¡± We spend time looking at the fabrics picking out several to get delivered to Dainea''s room, I''ll just put the large spools of thread in my pack. Losing my nerve to ask to feed on him I head to the door. On my way out the door I pause. Look back then firm up my resolve. Take a deep breath and go back to the counter. ¡°Now, we can do this.¡± I say to my self. ¡°Do what?¡± His confusion really apparent. I open my self up to the mana in and around me empowering my voice followed by a light version of the Charm Person spell. ¡°Sure you don''t want to be my lunch, you have a private place here right, take us there.¡± Placed my hand on one of his. ¡°Hurry now, I am quite hungry.¡± ¡°This way please, Miss.¡± ¡°No, missing could be fatal, important to have good aim here.¡± I grin and follow him to a storage space in the building. ¡°Do you have a girlfriend?¡± ¡°There is one I like yes.¡± ¡°Do you treat her nice?¡± ¡°We don''t talk much but I see her from time to time.¡± Going to have to get used to this sooner or later. Now, how to get the blood without hurting or leaving a mark? Kiss mark or hickey going to be too slow. Slice and dice time, pulling out a dagger I lean against him and place it next to his finger. ¡°Relax, this is not going to hurt.¡± I slide the dagger across his finger and feed on the drips of blood. Letting the blood send me into my pleasure. I use my other hand to search his body. Sucking his finger and caressing him at some point sent him over the edge and he added a new scent into the mix. Curious a bit, I slide a hand to his pants and try to get inside. He helps out by dropping them to the floor the stickiness still spread on the skin''s surface. I touch the head and a bit of the liquid. He shivers as I sucked the blood from his finger still. The liquid smelled of Peanut Butter? Why Peanut Butter? Adding that to his finger, I taste that as well. Not a great mix with the iron and strangeness of blood. Hope Dainea is okay with me as I am. Food is one thing, but the side effects of feeding are, well a slight bit, problematic. When I felt satisfied with enough blood and thinking lunch was getting a little pale I stopped sucking the wound. ¡°Thanks, please make sure you don''t tell anyone and might be good to remember nothing like this happened.¡± I wrap a small piece of cloth around his finger to stop the bleeding. ¡°Oh, get up the nerve to ask that girl out, best to make a move before someone else moves in first right. No, in fact, next free time you have, ask her out. If she says ''No'', ask when she has time.¡± ¡°What if she is not interested?¡± ¡°Either give her time to change her mind or give her a reason to be interested.¡± I wink, make my exit, pulling my mana back and letting the spell fade. - Park in Acdin - It was a bit earlier than the time to meet Teacher Planknel for magic lessons, so I thought I would surprise him at his office in the park. Sitting with my hood up and a few hours until sunset, I started to practice making a flame. Mr. Planknel was off doing other things right now. With no plans might as well practice. I recalled all I knew about mana and the Mana Bolt spell, along with what he told me in lectures, fire was the closet in nature to raw magic. The evidence of matter changing and releasing heat, magic was another form of energy, so there was two ways to get real flames at first. Mana into magic flames or mana into the raw materials to make them create a flame. Please this can''t be too hard was what I was thinking. I played with the surrounding mana, moving compacting it interacting it with the oxygen in the air best I could. Tried rubbing two blobs of mana together quickly. Only to have them become a bigger blob. Tried to get a mana bolt to heat up by itself before shooting it way into the sky. Tried to drill mana into a wood button. The wood heated up some, nothing close enough for a fire. I tried hitting a Void Sphere with a mana bolt, the reaction was interesting to say the least, but a complete direction away from making things flame. Doing that might be closer to say ice magic without water. In a silly attempt I even used voice empowerment on some mana asking it to be fire. Can only imagine everyone in the Mage Towers across the universe laughing at me right now. It''s not funny in the slightest, this is hard! Needing a break I got some water from my pack and sat and thought. Magic can do a lot of things, can''t it. It was no wonder so many games made ridged foundations for such a flexible system, without it people on earth would be lost. Two hours had pass with no success at making fire. The sun almost dipping behind the buildings, might as well head to the gate to meet teacher.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. - Forest Clearing - Yes it was a nice hike up the mountains to converse with nature, no not that. It was a great hike into the woods to see the fall leaves, nope. More like after nearly falling asleep to the lecture while passing the fields in front of the woods. I learned about all the rules and basics of mana, runes, language of magic, elements, some basic physics. Laws of entropy, change, all the stuff they teach kids in middle school. Just before we get to the woods I ask, ¡°Mr. Planknel, how long does it take the light of the sun here to reach the surface of the planet?¡± His confusion was off the charts. ¡°What do you mean the light is already here.¡± ¡°You do know light is a particle of energy in the visible spectrum, when it leaves the surface of the sun it travels at a high rate of speed but not instantly. The time it takes the particle to hit the surface of the planet before we can actually see it. How long is it, last planet I was on, it took eight minutes roughly.¡± Well that is a great face he is showing us now, but not helpful. ¡°Aside from a few words I didn''t understand, how do you know all this already and not know magic?¡± ¡°Where I came from we did not have magic and science ruled.¡± ¡°If that is the case we can skip many of the rudimentary stuff...¡± He paces a bit and looks at me after thinking some. ¡°You might even be able to help me with a few questions I was working on.¡± He was so much less talkative getting to the location of our lesson after that. ¡°So to make fire what do I have to do?¡± I relate what I know about fire to him. ¡°Yes I see, very good, try doing this.¡± He shows how to make a flame from a piece of wood then a leaf then some from just the oxygen in the air. Showing me how to feed it mana and air and hold the flame above and away from his hand. So easy, why didn''t I think of that. Course I couldn''t even do that with the dead stick I got off the ground. But I was a lot closer than in the park and that earlier practice made it much easier. Five more minutes and I had a short lived flame and a burnt stick. After that he showed me the second way and I had a roasty campfire on the end of the stick I had to hold it away from me it was so big. Still it was difficult and took time to do. ¡°What is the difference between the moving mana quickly, and separating out the fire or heat element out of magic then?¡± I could only think why did all of them together do nothing big when only the heat part of the magic did so much more? ¡°Guess you can say the rest of them counter act or interfere with the end result.¡± ¡°Those darn trouble makers.¡± His laughter was authentically teacher like. Once comfortable making fire, he showed off some earth manipulation and water control. Last thing for the evening was a bit of ice creation from the water. ¡°I tried a few things before the lesson, yes. This will help more. Can teacher do thing like moving things in to a void space or traveling by shadows?¡± ¡°Travel by shadows... No don''t think I could do that one. Void space might be possible. But pretty much anything going into won''t be coming back. I mean void really deals with emptiness and nothing. Dimensional and Time and Space Magic is not really my field after all.¡± He cleans up a few things from our practice and heads back to town after a parting remark. His light spell following along behind him fading off into the distance. My night vision seems to have picked up a bit since coming here so I decided to jog around and play some. Climbed a tree to get a view of the area, picked up a few medium size rocks and tossed them as far as I could. My strength and abilities about twice what they were on Earth. I could run quite fast now, enough so that I had to work hard not run into stuff in front of me. Stephanie had also, spent a large amount of time today doing similar things in town. I found out later. Walls, window sills, roofs were her playground now and she had found a whole new world to play in. I had the feeling she might have needed some time to see the sights, while away from me. Not fully used to my new condition and body it would be some more time until it was more synchronized. The sounds of water from the local stream could be heard near here and the thought of a bath presented itself cleanly in my mind. Water was slightly chilly but the timing was good and I really wanted to get clean after lunch, the magic training, and some exercise. I smelled a bit like a sex maniac who had romped though a campfire after working out all day. Pulled off my clothes and put them with all my gear close to the river bank where no monkeys could steal them. Do they even have monkeys here? I looked at my new chest and sighed, what I wouldn''t give to have my old shower head. The water was cold on my skin and immediately my skin tightened up and my nipples stood out. Were they the same as before, or just a bit similar to my old ones? Even if I had played with them often enough, wasn''t as thought I looked at them so closely recently. Was a strange sense of not knowing myself for a moment. I rinsed in the stream and rubbed my skin to stay warmer. Tried to practice the water element of mana and moving the water some. More difficult than my proficiency, so I stuck with separating mana elements with my wand in one hand and the other tracing along my skin to pleasure my body. Not having enough luck with the mana practice, I focus on my arousal and body and used my wand''s handle on my insides delicately and slowly. Didn''t want to work off too much stress, still had to keep plenty left for Dainea. Thought about the second magic wand I was making. It was getting closer to done, wondered if she would be happy with it or should I leave it a surprise. Clean and refreshed, on the way back to the city gates I''ll practice infusing my voice with mana. I sang and hummed a tune all the way to Teea''s place. - Outside Teea''s House - Teea wasn''t at her house, so at this hour. By process of elimination she was at the tavern or someplace else doing naughty things. Gambling den it is then. Walked the two quick blocks, there she is girl in hand at the same table different seat. Must be her table of choice, I think. Her short light hair was hard to miss, and her constant molesting the girl in hand and passerbys was the same as always. I ordered a round at the bar and went to Teea''s table. It''s a different girl! Not too surprising. ¡°Well met ''Relentless''-''virgin killer''.¡± ¡°Ah you arrived, come sit!¡± ¡°Your drinks.¡± The server placed the three on the table. I push two of them across to the ladies there. ¡°Thanks.¡± I pay the server some copper then nod to Teea. ¡°Want to teach me survival lessons?¡± Her answer, ¡°Of course I''ll do it. Bat-shit crazy things like this don''t happen every day, oh and thanks for the drinks.¡± Drinking deeply half the drink disappears. ¡°Great!¡± I empty mine and set it down. Whew that was a bit more liquid than my body could digest at once. The nausea from non-blood items was still rather high after all. ¡°Ho, ho. Big drinker there! Another round?¡± Teea started waving for the bar help. ¡°No, that was more than enough for now. Thank you. Do we need to make any arrangements for class?¡± ¡°Other than when and what kind of remuneration, can''t think of anything.¡± She smiled and sipped her drink, squeezing her current girl now and then. ¡°When, soon is good, today is acceptable. I have,¡± I glance at my bag. ¡°A few silvers ready and can get more if need be, also can offer clothing in trade if need.¡± ¡°A few silvers she says...¡± ¡°How much were you expecting to earn?¡± I ask. ¡°And here I thought you were trying to get to work cheap.¡± ¡°Not sure how long it will take, I have the time and quite a few silvers.¡± I drop the coin purse on the table. Despite having spent some for raw materials at the tailor and mill, the amount from Miss Utica was not small after all. She handed over what amounted to 20-30% of the expected sales to hold the inventory after all. Even if the game was on a different scale money wise, there was plenty in the small bag on the table there. The sound was solid enough. ¡°Ha, a few silver she says!¡± Placing the coin back in my bag I wink at the girlfriend. Then look at Teea eyes, she really is a womanizer, that face so strong and passionate. Muh, I have a girlfriend of my own, two in fact don''t need a full on blown harem. Task at hand focus! ¡°Yes, how will this work, learning to live in the wild, night classes style?¡± ¡°What all did you want lessons on?¡± ¡°Hunting, animal lore, surviving if I have to travel, shelter, how to deal with anything that might be less than pleasant and all that. My minx may or may not be there from time to time, and may want to have another noncombatant type with me on my travels.¡± ¡°That all? Did you want archer training also?¡± ¡°No, you did already teach me to use a dagger and how to toss them fairly adequately. Although, a friend of mine might. I can ask, suppose you would charge extra for that.¡± ¡°Then 30 copper an evening for the lessons, any materials like torches or equipment is your responsibility. If its archery lessons, that would be 50 copper an evening.¡± ¡°Fine, lighting is covered, bags I have, for hunting will I need a better weapon to field dress?¡± Placing a few daggers on the table. She looked them over, ¡°Those will be acceptable, if you want get a bone saw edge tool. Those may not cut through harder bones or hides sometimes.¡± ¡°Right! And rope I have a little...¡± She gives me list of things to buy for the lessons. Not as bad as camping, something mom would never let me do, but still was a new experience for myself. ¡°Good, good, now another round.¡± I enjoy chatting with the two and spend some time playing a more friendly version of the dice game from before. We all try to keep it in moderation. At some point the two of them decide to return home together for a more adult version of the game, and declining an offer to join them head back to the tavern Dainea is working at. Last bell hasn''t sounded yet, should ring soon. We will meet up with Teea the night after tomorrow for lessons, after the lecture time from Mr. Planknel. Guess if time was the same as Earth around 9 pm to 1 am. I have the feeling the days are a bit longer than Earth not so much that it was obvious, but enough that might be so. I Don''t expect all planets to have the same revolution and distance from the star after all. My best guess would be close to 65 or even 70 minutes per a single hour here. As for the calendar and days of the year I hadn''t asked anyone yet. My feeling it was not 365 days a year anymore for me. - Wooden Bucket Acdin - Sitting down on a squeaking bench in the bar, I wave at Dainea and the other staff. Seeing me she hurries over. Not many remaining guest thought they do stay open at all hours as a place dedicated to travelers and the local drinkers. They kick out people at sunrise they don''t know personally and serve meals only at dinner. Leftovers may be bought anytime until gone. Workers can use the kitchen at any time and the owner treats them as family. ¡°So darling, would you be interested in a larger place, or splitting evenings between two places?¡± ¡°Eh? So fast?¡± ¡°What no good wanting to live together? Okay guess I can move to the next town over, so you don''t have to see me so often.¡± I put on a false pout and give her my best ''puppy is hungry eyes'' I can scrape out. ¡°Well as much as I''d love to live here with you, I don''t actually work here. None of the others have live in room mates. So help me find a place you like as well.¡± I pat my coins in my bag and dream of my first split level condo overlooking Central Park. What, it was a dream after all. ¡°True, tell you what we can look tomorrow, if we get up before nightfall that is.¡± ¡°What time do they open?¡± I was thinking a Real Estate Office or something existed here. ¡°What time does what open?¡± ¡°How do you find new places to live here? Was thinking they had a place that collects information on new places that were available, might be too small of a village for that huh?¡± ¡°Yup here you pretty much go door to door or look for an open space mark.¡± ¡°What do those look like?¡± Using the spilled drink on the table, with her finger she draws it out to the shape of the marks. There were a few different ones, open space, for sale and rent. I recall a few around town, not so many to make me say ''wow these are everywhere what are they?'' ¡°Good to know. So busy later? I know this incredible girl who has a room upstairs she may even let us use it for the night?¡± ¡°Such a flirt! For a first time visitor from out of town that is. Going to take your cloak off and stay a while?¡± She winked and headed beck to the bar. Ah yea, I put my stuff down and wait for my girlfriend to have a chance to chat more. ¡°Did Princess come back yet?¡± Dainea asked at the same time handing over a drink. ¡°Not seen her yet, did she stop by earlier?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°That is okay, she has to get used to new things here just the same.¡± If I was worried, we could start looking. As a Moon Minx even if she was rare creature, the pets around town seemed no more strange or unusual. ¡°She is fun to have around after all, I really like her too.¡± ¡°Me too. We went to the forest the other day and she was so cute trying to chase down small animals for us.¡± ¡°Really?¡± Her tone was the kind where she was a bit sad I wasn''t talking about her. ¡°You know what was really cute the other day was that noise you made when-¡± ¡°Shhsss!¡± She covered my mouth with her hand and I kissed them. The other serving person walking by added in, ¡°That was her? I thought it was-¡± she got chased away by the girl, before she could finish. ¡°Do you have any thoughts as too learning how to use a bow?¡± asking her next time she had a chance to come and flirt with me. ¡°Me a weapon? Why?¡± ¡°Aside from the fact that monsters live in the woods and have been known to destroy towns, and the fact that war could happen, or the eventuality that I may want to move to a new town to get more lessons in magic. I thought, it might be nice, If say when we go for picnics or leisurely walks in the forest that if you wanted to say shoot something for dinner or chase away evil squirrels. It might be a nice skill to have. My survival skill teacher, Miss ''Relentless'' Teea, could teach you.¡± ¡°You know her? She is dangerous you know.¡± Winking back, ¡°Not as dangerous as when you-¡± those hands again so lovely. ¡°Mmmm!¡± ¡°I''ll think about it.¡± With a big smile goes back to working. ¡°Sure.¡± She says in passing while cleaning up empties on the table nearby. ¡°Sure, you want to move in together or sure you want Archery lessons?¡± The next fly by was a whisper to my ear, ¡°Both!¡± She didn''t use magic but the charm spell she had cast sure seemed to be working. With a loud protest from the bench across from me she sits after the last of her work, she took the few coppers for the drinks I had earlier so what ever she was holding out appeared to be from her. I was a large portion of lightning, the drink you have when you want to get intimate, really fast in this world. More than enough to get her to the point of exploding if we didn''t hurry to her room even. We almost didn''t make it to her room, her and I both that is. Throwing the door open we were already all over each other shedding clothes, think one of her shoes was left in the hall even. - Dainea''s Room - ¡°That stuff is strong. Oh my god, type strong.¡± Resting my head on her shoulder and pulling the pillow closer, I put her leg between mine. Anything to quell the quivering down there. Sex and that drink had left my parts feeling numb but like they were still vibrating back and forth at the same time. I pushed myself against Dainea more, still that only slightly helped calm me. Much more of this and we go yet another round. ¡°Are you used to it or do you not still feel it there.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± She looked concerned. ¡°I lost feeling in my body a while back. That is the effect of too much, part of the reason it is okay to drink too much of the stuff.¡± ¡°Then me still feeling this way is because it is not over yet. Or I didn''t go over the limit.¡± ¡°Yes but that was like enough for almost two people how could you still be feeling anything?¡± She was trying to get up and not getting far. ¡°Fine, its fine! Might be part of being a vampire or my additional stats.¡± I push her back down. ¡°Stats?¡± Oh yes, that they don''t actually have them. ¡°Um everyone has stats, basically just a way to say you are strong or weak by numbers. I think with me, my starting stats are higher than normal because of coming here. So my resistance to drink and poison might also be stronger.¡± ¡°Strange that,¡± she smiled, ¡°very strange.¡± ¡°I agree but if you want to say someone is strong. How strong do you say the Captain of the Guard is compared to a young kid. Maybe the Captain has twenty in strength and the kid has two or three. That would be Stats.¡± ¡°If you say so. Here rub your self against me.¡± She lifts up her hand as much as she can and offers me some relief. ¡°What is this World view on toys during sex?¡± With her hand, I try to subdue the vibrations of my lower body. ¡°Toys? Toys, you mean to...¡± ¡°Yes I mean toooo... Sorry mmm, yes those things.¡± ¡°Maybe the rich have them or a person might if they are single and into something strange. Most people not sure... Places like town, it is easy enough to find casual sex for an evening, but toys not that common.¡± Might be they are a little less important in a more open sexually society and where daily necessity over rules the indulgence of personal pleasure. Hard to tell. ¡°Dainea take a deep breath.¡± When she finally understands and agrees and breaths in. I pull us together and get busy letting her really help me out of the shocking situation, a lack of lightning overdose left me in. I held her hand to my chest and had her get air every time she tapped out. ¡°Thank you girlfriend, so much better now.¡± Resting next to her, the sensation had washed out some so I could rest a bit. When the sense of touch returned to Dainea, it was my turn to taste her loveliness. I was finally getting used to flavor of Dainea, the more we shared fluids the more it was becoming like a dish I craved. Stranger still was the fact that I didn''t need to tap out for air anymore. A bit past sun up Stephanie entered the room. She found me working on sewing things and crafting. I had already done a gear check and was watching Dainea sleep off and on while making clothes. The mill had brought everything earlier and was piled up ready. Hopefully a few things will be popular enough to sell from the last batch on top of a few new Ideas I had. ¡°How wa, wa, was your night pussy cat?¡± I look up as she enters. ¡°Think I have discovered a whole new World on the roofs at night.¡± Dreamily she says, comes over and slumps next to me. ¡°Oh do tell, do tell. Hungry?¡± I offer her the food left from the meal I had picked for Dainea before she went to sleep. I had picked it up from the kitchen with both of them in mind. While recounting her nighttime adventures, I feed her a few of the better pieces. She was in love with flying from roof top to roof top, the views from up top. Going up walls and being free to go anywhere and best part no one could say no or stop her. Few people yesterday tried to feed her things too, if she got tired she could nap anywhere. As for news, there were the standard rumors and such about the Nation and Village. This town or that got attacked or which populations of monsters were acting up and where. Things about who was dating who and the local affairs of that nature. Lot of information about people sexing it up. This world may have never succumbed to the puritanical beliefs and practices of Earth after all. It was amazing the difference missing one crazy religious movement made. I shared my evenings happenings with her and brushed her coat clean. ¡°Anything you would like me to do for you tonight my Princess.¡± I pulled her cushion out and she rested near me. I pet her tail she placed in my lap and played with her ears with the other hand. ¡°I will see what we can do about the Ice cream once we find milk. The animals here don''t seemed to be used for that, and human milk doesn''t seem to be that fit for the usage.¡± ¡°Wow, never considered that before.¡± She purred and let me continue. Using my mana I tried to separate out the wind element to effect the air, I was getting closer, but not close enough yet. So I sent some regular mana into Steph to see what happened. She perked up at that and had a strange reaction. Watching the mana release from her I ask her to try to imagine holding it in. Wasn''t really sleepy, ended up making things and petting my two girls off and on. - The Streets of Acdin - ¡°Room for rent?¡± ¡°Yes that is what we are looking for.¡± Everyone was up and fed, except me. We got the things for the tailor shop I was going to sell together. Dainea''s new outfit was a cute layered one piece that went past the knees, I made it that long since most fashions here in the village did not tend to be anything but on the practical side. You know, good for working in or to protect one in several kinds of weather. Summer weather was still in play, and we all agreed that she looked nice in the dress. After fixing our hair we moved out to start the day, even though it was after lunch already. The three of us together went pad shopping. My idea was two rooms or more and one bathroom space to wash. Area to cook and such. Well access was nice and within reach of public transit. Just kidding who wants to be near all those animals. We discussed what other cites were like. Asked questions about the World, teased her about previous boyfriends. Stopping at a few doors to see what space they had. We made it to the Tailor of the Times and received a few earnings and left more items. Both Miss Utica and the other girl Wensi were there today. Wensi was slightly hostile at my arrival. Not sure what it was I had done to upset her, a few things possibly entered into my thoughts. Pushing her animosity out of mind, we got back to the work on what we could make to sell in the future. Miss Utica liked the one piece on Dainea so I offered to make a few more. A few hats, gloves, dress and one of the stuffed animals were acceptable. I got another roll of fabric and more scraps to fill pillows with. Said goodbye and headed back to the pad search. ¡°Princess did you see Wensi glare at us?¡± she nodded. Returning to the Wooden Bucket on a different street we found a house with an upstairs room set to rent. The place was standard construction for the town with mostly wood work, sturdy wood fitted window, no furniture, water well access out the back of the first floor, roof had no apparent leaks. Might have to wait for rain to see for sure. Price was fair and we accepted a week by week agreement with two weeks paid up front. Well I say a week but ten days was their closest equivalence. When we got back I''d have to have Dainea teach me the calendar and times of the years, holidays and things. With the remaining time before dinner, we set off to get some furniture for the place. With my excellent wood shelf pattern we were set in that department, anything else we would have to buy, sadly. We or my two girls ate dinner while I drank wine. We sat around an end table on pillows in the new pad. After eating, we christened the place with once in each room then sent Dainea off to work, slightly weak in the knees. That done and lessons soon starting I grabbed Steph and headed for the gates to meet Mr. Planknel. On the way to meet him we got interrupted by someone. ¡°Miss, may I have a moment of your time?¡± ¡°Nope, I have to make an appointment can we schedule a meeting later?¡± I could see from his clothes he was wealthy and of a similar family from Wensi. Hair, eyes, skin color and features really made family association easier in this World, sometimes. ¡°Miss, now would be a good time.¡± His displeasure and anger started to show on his face. ¡°Absolutely, if you can afford to keep me from my meeting then an appropriate compensation would be required.¡± He was stunned for a second and regardless, I kept walking to the gate. ¡°Miss, I would just like-¡± ¡°No time for it, please see my secretary at the Wooden Bucket.¡± ¡°?¡± He was falling behind and looked winded and out of shape. Merchants even out in the sticks like this no mach for my new full tilt walking speed. Now the only question remained what kind of trouble did I just put off until later? - Forest Clearing - OKAY! Got this elemental mana separating down, or at least to the point I might be able to use it for something now. Most of today was spent learning that along with getting control of starting fire from a dead wood with mana. Was a lot of effort but was getting easier. ¡°Arrrg! This is going to take forever!¡± My attempts at water and air mana control still seemed far off. Certainly I didn''t feel very productive today but not every day''s gains can be huge, I reason with myself. - Wooden Bucket - That man from before got up from the table he was waiting at and approached as I entered the place. ¡°You sure hold inconvenient hours, Miss.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Why do you think that?¡± ¡°Beca- Nevermind! I am here-¡± ¡°Let me guess to warn me way from stealing Wensi''s one true love in life?¡± ¡°What she-, No! I am here to-¡± ¡°Was it to force me to marry that cute girl?¡± ¡°Huh, No! I am here to make-¡± ¡°An offer to work for you or your company making stuffed animals?¡± ¡°? Course not, I am here to-¡± ¡°Would you hurry up and tell me already, I am getting tired and my next meeting is about to start.¡± ¡°Sorry, wait! Stop, STOP, interrupting me! I am here to tell you to stay out of Wensi''s tailor shop and you are no longer allowed to sell things in this town or-¡± ¡°Or what? I refuse. Don''t make this hard on yourself, you can''t even keep up in a conversation or with me walking on the street, how are you going to keep me from doing business in this town?¡± His bewilderment was off the scale and the fury on his face was uber-epic. Can''t wait to see what he brings back to threaten me with. ¡°You are a very frightening LITTLE girl, be warned however, I will not go easy on you!¡± Turning to leave he adds, ¡°Next time we meet you will not be in a position to make demands BRAT!¡± ¡°Please make an appointment in advance at that time then...¡± He stumbles on something and continues out the door in a huff. Seems my skill at voice empowerment has gotten a bit better after all that practice. ¡°A fan of that Wensi girl from the tailor shop?¡± Steph asks from atop my pack. She straightens a whisker with a paw it was really cute, guess she not too worried either. Meh, typical bad guy route, no reason to be scared. We picked up Dainea and headed to her room to get a few things before sleeping in the new place for the first time. Even without a bed frame the pile of pillows and cloth would be fine, maybe even more so than Dainea''s current bed. End Chapter 3 Vol 2 - Chapter 4 - When Violence Calls We Fight or Maybe Dont Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 2 Chapter 4 When Violence Calls We Fight or Maybe Don''t - Our New Second Story Living Accommodations in Acdin - The first night or morning in the new place was expectedly calm. The noise from the street wasn''t too loud nor was there any problems with the neighbors. Most of the neighbors were busy during the time we were sleeping anyways. The three of us were snuggled up in the fabrics and pillows. The World felt comfortable. I could recall a few years ago, back when I was little, we had a sleep over or two as kids. This felt a bit like that, no pillow fights, no talk about boys, all of us sleeping on the floor. I recalled also that friend had moved away months later. Wonder what they are up to now? Looking around the place there was a lack of furniture, today would be good to get what we needed. Wanted to crawl back under the sheets with Dainea, she was in need of a bath. We all were actually. Even Steph had the scent of sex on her. Taking the largest bowl we had, tossed on the travel cloak and I went out to the well and drew some water. ¡°Fireball!¡± I lit the fireplace and started cleaning up, washed myself then Steph and last Dainea, so I could take my time and enjoy teasing her. She only complained about me being strange a few times. Sure it wasn''t actually a fireball spell, just me saying fireball, while the magic lit the wood on fire. Clean and ready to start the day, I ask them to buy things for the place while I crafted. The sun was bright out and if I could spend less time outside during the day then all the better. Seeing them off with enough coin, I got to work again. Princes Steph and Dainea returned with a load of random things, food, a few things to cook with, a chair. A bed frame would be delivered some time later. Would take a while to decorate at this rate but the fun of moving into my first apartment was quite the thrill. We talked a great deal about things we would like to do and get for the place. Watched while Dainea set about making a lunch for her and Steph. I could at least enjoy the smell. Thinking about the promise I had made to Steph I asked Dainea, ¡°Not seen many things made with milk around town, are there animals you can get milk from around here?¡± In the end I had to explain milk to her as well. Apparently, there is such a food and it is not common in the region, something similar to a goat or sheep hybrid crossed with a yak. More of a mountain region type of ingredient as pasture lands would tend to get raided. Things like keeping cows alive would take walls or guards or something. ¡°How about fruit? What kinds do you get in the area?¡± ¡°Fruit, there are...¡± None of the names she gave sounded familiar and having her describe the flavors only convinced me we would have to try them to get much past sour or sweet. ¡°Ophilia, If you can''t eat food why do you want to know about fruit?¡± ¡°Well,¡± while looking at Steph I continued, ¡°wanted to make something called Ice Cream, since milk is not easy to get, I might be able to fashion some kind of sherbet or iced fruit dessert for Princess.¡± ¡°Sounds tasty.¡± ¡°If we find a fruit you like would that be okay Steph?¡± ¡°I know you want to get something for me, it is not going to be too much work, is it?¡± She purred in my lap. ¡°If you invent something in this World you can make a lot of profit if done right. There are thousands upon thousands of light novels from Asia like that these days. Want to sell the rights to a chain or busy body someplace can buy my castle with those funds, right Princess?¡± ¡°Right I did hear about light novels or something back in 2018.¡± Steph didn''t seem to worried, honestly the tailoring would be enough to make serious cash. Still, there was only so many things we could sell in a small town before having to just knock out common items. ¡°Dainea, Princess what would you like to do in the future?¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Is it your goal to work at the Wooden Bucket tavern forever? And maybe there is something Steph can manage besides napping all the time.¡± I poke Steph''s nose then scratch her ears. ¡°I like serving drinks in the tavern, I can do other things.¡± ¡°Besides the bow anything you interested in learning? And you pussy cat, Moon Minx?¡± I rub her nose some then smile. ¡°Guess learning to read would be good.¡± I look at her, ah, that is right. I had Ophilia''s skills transferred to me, including reading to some extent. Steph may just be going by words alone. Check add writing and reading lessons to the list. I''ve not held a pen in a long time either. Computers on Earth pretty much voided that skill three years ago. ¡°Interested in learning? Anything? Might be,¡± She crawls up to me and leans towards my face, kissing me on my nose. ¡°Maybe every face you can make in bed?¡± The color of her cheeks was enough to put me into motion. I quickly push away the pile of clothes and stuff. Pull her down on top of me. Steph in between us had nowhere to go. - Hour later - I know, I know, I have to learn to relax a bit and live in the moment, but for some reason, I want to focus on our future and the possibilities ahead of us. Might be, it is just my roll in the group. How is everyone''s cooking skills? Will we live through battle with monsters? Steph can get away running, I can fight, but if things were to happen not sure what to do with Dainea. Dainea''s archery lessons. A bow hum? Guess we should ask Teea to look at Dainea and see what she can learn. ¡°We are meeting Teea at the north gate around Second Night Bell for wilderness survival classes. We can get you lessons on using a bow from her. She might have time during the day, but with militia training it might be group lessons. At night, It conflicts with working at the tavern, what do you want to do Dae?¡± ¡°You were serious about that?¡± ¡°Of course, going to the next town has risks, can''t live here forever can we?¡± ¡°Oh!¡± She put her finger to her cheek, thought for a bit, ¡°Let me ask at work today. I''ll meet up if they say it''s okay then.¡± ¡°Sure!¡± I clean up the pile of fabrics just in time for the bed frame to arrive. Adding the curtains we nailed up, the new bed frame, sans mattress, the new chair and random things, the place is starting to become livable at least. Before today''s classes, I had time to drop off a few things at the tailor shop and arrange some wood to be delivered. I''ll make shelves and stuff later. Add to that some firewood, that stuff ain''t free for some reason. Unless you are going to cut, haul it from the forest and dry it yourself. - Forest Clearing - The walk to our practice clearing was discussion filled this time. Mr. Planknel was good about helping fill in a few things about magic in relation to this World politics and the various schools and such across the Continent. Three major schools a council of mages who set regional policy and laws restricting certain practices. You weren''t allowed to pillage graveyards or summon things from different Worlds apparently, not only along with creatures that might be slightly dangerous there were also infectious diseases to worry about. Long time ago some creature was pulled in from another World, along with it came a plague it carried. Untold thousands died due to the crap inside the summoned things, before the plague died out from the winter weather months later. Things like that tend to make a solid reason to set up such a policy, I guess. Technologically it was a great set back as well. Whole kingdoms lost tend to do that, especially when they are the leading magic centers. Could only hope the individual that had brought us here also took that into consideration. New bodies might be one of the reason it was acceptable for him. Then again, someone who could create a room, no, a space like that would have to have some level of ability. Wars and events of that level of destructive nature tend be more disastrous with magic involved. Rise and fall of civilizations as it were affected everything in different ways. Some places would shun magic for generations then it would crawl back. If anything, it was the scapegoat for more problems than sex or Rock and Roll here. Not that rock music was big in this world. As for religions there were a few most never got to the point of dominating the entire populace and those that tried were put down after failing to deliver in the end, kind of like bad Kings were sometimes. In the current times there was the healers believing in the Goddess Wan''ni. The Conclave of Knowledge who ran libraries in large cities around the country, our town was not large enough for to consider for such an honor. They believe in Niva the guy who dragged us here. Of course there was no need to mention that fact, I was sure that would cause more trouble than it was worth. The last huge religious group was the spirit followers they held to the land, Mr. Planknel was not very knowledgeable about them, just mentioned them before we arrived. ¡°How has your practice been coming along?¡± Turning to me he was ready for me to cast my fire spell. ¡°Fireball!¡± Shouting, I incinerate a torch nearby. One I didn''t even have to look at after I had seen it entering the clearing. I had practice out of sight casting and the fire parts to a decent effect so far. ¡°Much better than I expected, now put it out.¡± He clapped his hand together. ¡°Out?¡± ¡°Yes, out.¡± I turned to the fire and noticed it was spreading on some leaves nearby. ¡°Oh!¡± I run over with my water skin and empty it out. Then stamp on the leaves to get the embers. Whew! Good thing someone was pay attention. What that bear on Earth said all the time was right, only you can prevent forest fires! ¡°Guess we can teach you to put fires out with magic later.¡± He sat and began today''s lecture. ¡°Magic, today we talk about: the void, darkness and light.¡± His topic of expertise. ''Woot!'' was the only thought that came to mind. ¡°We taught you fire and showed you the other elements, they alone are widely similar only a small difference in usage and difficulty. First, you gain proficiency in one element, it would be normal to move to the others.¡± ¡°As you know, how you know is still a mystery, in any case, my favorite school of magic is and will be Void, the study of empty space. An absence of everything physical, leaving only magic. The existence of the Void.¡± He opens his hands in front of him using mana to pad an area of nothing, a Void Sphere of an adjustable type basically with no light passing through it. The sphere only looks like a hole in space dark and cold. ¡°You mentioned I taught you this right?¡± I nod and cast two Void Spheres near me and cancel the first one after I made a second. ¡°You called it Void Sphere spell and was useful as a trap until the mana faded.¡± I watched as my spell finally gave out as I had not put much mana into casting them. ¡°Those were just light ones, think I could cast a large one not sure how big, or even a longer lasting version.¡± More than scared at the effect after what it had done to those thieves. It left me not wanting to use the spell again on people. I mean the flash back image of his legs shredding into a bloody mess and him falling on his face played back in my mind. It shook me even at this moment how really bloody and messy my first kill was. I shivered, then focused on the forest and trees around me. ¡°I understand, so we can move on to why it is practical to talk about it now. Unlike with elemental magics you use the standard mana when manipulating Void, Space, Time, Light, Darkness, and things that directly impact Existence around us. Not that elemental mana can''t be used in some cases. Just for most cases, that is the practical sense of things.¡± He created a Void Sphere then flattened it and split a rock with it. Then took some time and used Earth mana and had the rock split itself. Next he heated one of the halves with fire mana, until it melted the rock in a thin line and broke apart. ¡°Similar effect different paths to accomplish it. Time and place makes one thing more practical than another.¡± He lifted two rocks then smashed them together and they were reduced to a pile of gravel. ¡°The end product also determines the most effective way to reach such a goal. I expect you understand most of this, yes?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°On we go then. Now it is frowned upon to study Void Magic due to the nature of the incompatibility Void has with most things. Living material dies, hot things become cold, somethings even become more compact and somethings shatter.¡± ¡°You are talking about heat dissipation, absolute zero temperature and the absence of air or atmospheric pressure.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± He looked confused in place of what he expected me to show after speaking about it. ¡°Sure, continue.¡± I smile. ¡°Are you sure no one has taught you this before?¡± ¡°The magic to cast this spell,¡± I cast another Void Sphere up in the air and move it. ¡°Was only a concept in a game or literature in my World. No one could teach us how to do this. Here in this World, what you taught me in that game carries over. I only really had one week with the game, but the concept is fiction there. Common to many of the games and stories we make up. Mana, magic, it is pretty much the first time using it for real about three days ago.¡± ¡°That so?¡± ¡°Yup.¡± We sit pondering the mysteries of the universe for a few seconds then he gets back on task. ¡°Where was I... Ah yes, there are not many common uses for Void Magic but using it gets us familiar with using all mana at once to do things in other schools. I also think that one of the reasons they stopped teaching Void Magic was to keep magicians from getting better at the taboos of time magic and such things.¡± ¡°Oh that does sound fun!¡± ¡°There are some practical uses of Void Magic. Regarding refracting light and Ice Magic, and creating darkness. Please don''t leave the circle I make here.¡± He draws a circle on the ground then pulls in a large amount of mana and creates a Void dome around us. As the light fades he creates a light spell in his hand. All around us the dome seems to suck in the light and only us and the ground is lit up by the magical glow. The temperature also slowly decreases until he releases the dome. Only trace of his spell is a slight chill in the air the circle where the dome met the ground. A perfect one inch deep circle around where were still standing. ¡°Wow, more than I expected. Wow!¡± He sat down to rest and continue speaking. ¡°It is interesting, yes, I had a similar feeling after I got over the chill, it was mostly from the fear of that spell my teacher showed me. I remember it to this day.¡± ¡°I can see that, very cool spell! So why does the light get sucked in? Is it having the energy taken or is it redirected elsewhere?¡± ¡°What do you mean?¡± ¡°I don''t know.¡± I think for a moment. ¡°From what I know about physics and learned on the internet, light is a particle and it moves in a direction. Mostly in a wave pattern, I think. When I look at a Void Sphere, it is black in the center right? So, the light passing through it is no longer traveling from the other side.¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Then... A, the light from the other side is drained of energy, or B, the light from the other side is stopped by the mana containing the sphere, or C, the light entering the sphere is displaced to a place where it is no longer here. Those are the possible out comes I see. Which would be the case?¡± ¡°I don''t know. Honestly never thought about it before.¡± He cast a small Sphere and observed it. ¡°A, B or D.¡± His answer was not helpful. I shrugged, something to learn in the future maybe. Took a few minutes before he gave up and returned to the lessons. ¡°What is it that teacher spends so much time in the park thinking about?¡± ¡°My biggest preoccupation these days is lightning.¡± He looked to the sky. ¡°Hmm, what part?¡± I look at him thinking there must be a reason. ¡°Well some mages can cast lightning from the sky now days, a few have figured how in the past to make it happen other ways. It really is not a common usage of magic. My time was spent on how it was done, how to cast the spell mostly.¡± ¡°Okay, I get how they would create clouds to make lightning, and then also generate the electric charge on the ground even. But you would think just generating enough static charge or a high difference in charge polarity would be good enough.¡± After a moment of quiet reflection, ¡°You know the Emperor shooting lightning out of his hands in that movie, really didn''t make much sense to me, even now.¡± Well teacher looks broken, so practicing voice empowerment here might be good. ¡°Hey, you awake?¡± Wave my hand in front of his face. Didn''t know shock could really do that to someone. ¡°Really?¡± Took him ten minutes to come back from where ever he had run off to in his mind. ¡°What part?¡± ¡°I feel kind of cheated. You, you have all this knowledge about things and some of them I can''t even understand, much less know the words you are using. What is charge polarity?¡± ¡°Yeah, that, you know electricity right?¡± Guess the few words that Ophilia didn''t know or had concepts for came out as the English version. ¡°?¡± He works out the phonetics, ¡°El- lec- tris- eh- tee?¡± With a stick, I make a drawing of a square on the ground for him, ¡°Sure say that was made of copper or some kind of metal that was good at conducting heat and or cold. A wire so to say.¡± ¡°Now, if you move the energy of lightning around one way or the other inside the wire.¡± Pointing at the wire with my wand and rotate the wand a couple times one direction. ¡°So that would be direct current electricity. Always going in one direction. There is also another way to pass the current but doing so is a bit more complicated you basically going back and forth in one area all over at the same time. Imagine a bunch of wands moving the current in all places on that circle back and forth.¡± I wave my wand back and forth at a single area of the circle. ¡°Alternating current so to speak. Different use, different generation. Both Electricity. It is the particles of energy in the metal or air that is the charge or current. When it reaches the visible spectrum is when the air catches fire or ionizes, during a storm surge lightning strike. Something like that right?¡± Was a long time since I had that basics in science class after all, was sure some parts were incorrect. ¡°So casting the spell was like breaking the rock? There are several ways to get the result?¡± ¡°Sure, that works.¡± ¡°So if I wanted to say master casting lightning from one place to another? How would you do that?¡±If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. ¡°Yeah, no clue.¡± He looked downtrodden for a moment. ¡°But if I had to guess. Moving a mass amount of electrical charge would amount to: First, setting up an area that generated a large amount of charged air or metal, then channeling it along the course to it destination where it would do what it naturally does, dissipate. Now, if that area was also induced to be of the opposite charge then it would be easier.¡± ¡°I don''t understand, why metal?¡± ¡°Sure, here!¡± I draw a wand and a hand holding it in the dirt. ¡°Okay, if we charged up that metal wand with lots of energy of a static or electrical charge type, we take it and store it in the end of the wand. A mace head, round no extrusions might be good.¡± I make the end of the wand a round one at this point. ¡°Things to consider are the electrical energy stored will want to discharge down the body to the ground below the person, the human body contains a lot of water and our nervous system is sensitive to conducting such charge. Too large of a charge into the wand, the charge goes down the arm and you paralyze yourself or get really numb. Right?¡± ¡°I don''t know never tried it.¡± ¡°Yeah, sure. Now if the wand handle was wood or something less conductive, maybe rock, or bone, anything with no water left and little metal content then the charge might stay in the end of the wand better. So we whip up a dry wind or something and spin it around the wand head until sparks jump off. How you send that to another place controlled is only a guess. A path of, or chain of water might be more conductive than normal air. A bridge of raw potatoes or lemon fruit juice might work... Douse the target in water even. Have them hold a metal sword even. Well that is the basics to getting started. Suppose, if you get good enough, moving particles, you can generate a greater amount of charge after all.¡± I look at teacher, think that was the basics of lightning magic, done the science way. Sad Bill isn''t here, he might know better. ¡°You asked why metal right? I would say, like starting fire with a stick, it is a step easier with the right items. Most metal and some liquids conduct electricity better the way the sub-atomic particles move along the-¡± Lost him there, ¡°If lightning hits water like a lake it will spread out until it is almost nothing, lightning hits sand, it melts it, but doesn''t go very far. Let us say, if you had a long thing of metal, say silver or copper, from here to far away you could send the lightning to the horizon. Might lose some power but it travels really far.¡± ¡°I see quite the challenge, is that why so few have ever mastered it?¡± ¡°You like the hard stuff don''t you?¡± Was thinking he was totally gay at the same time, just as a joke. ¡°What?¡± ¡°The hard stuff, the most difficult magic and things that challenge a generation, push boundaries make one famous, etc.¡± I sit and look at the ground and mess up the drawing. ¡°Might be the case after all.¡± Appearing slightly enlightened we end the discussion there and head back to town. ¡°Thank you for the lesson, was not expecting to learn so much in one day at this age, and from a student nonetheless.¡± Parting ways as we approach the gate, I feel odd about Mr. Planknel''s gratitude. The meeting with Teea might be soon and it was not good to be late on the first day of class. - North Gate - I run to hug Dainea, the image of me shocking her with enough static charge to give her a bride of Frankenstein hairdo came to mind, I could only happily giggle and squeeze her some. ¡°Hiya, glad you made it!¡± ¡°Can''t miss out on learning to protect myself now can I?¡± She hugged me back harder. ¡°So why are we hugging in the street?¡± ¡°DO we need a reason?¡± ¡°Nope.¡± * cough * ¡°That must be the affectionate jealous teacher type with no one to currently flirt with.¡± I grin and turn us around still hugging Dainea. ¡°This one is mine, get your own.¡± Making sure she understood ''Completely''. Holding Dae''s hand, I introduce them, ¡°Darling Dainea, this is the ''Virgin Killer''-''Relentless'', Teea, the militia''s archery instructor.¡± She is mostly harmless in my mind. ¡°Nice to meet you.¡± They greet each other carefully enough. ¡°Likewise.¡± Nodding back, Teea looks less stressed about the whole issue. ¡°Yup. Dainea works evenings at the Wooden Bucket Tavern, she will learn archery, right Dae? While me and Minx here get survival lessons. What is normal? Payment up front, daily or at the end?¡± After waving Steph''s paw at Teea, I tilt my head. ¡°Up front.¡± Teea''s response. ¡°Daily.¡± This was Dainea''s rebuttal. ¡°Now, now, how many lessons you think this will take?¡± I hand over a small purse of silver coin to Teea. ¡°I trust Teea to not run off with the money besides, we know her house and favorite place to hang out. And Dainea is also right, that normally daily would be sufficient for an unknown length of time. That should be good for a two weeks right?¡± About a month if my guess was right. Weighing the coins she looks less concerned about it. ¡°Great, works for me.¡± ¡°So do we buy her bows and arrows, maybe you should help her with gear choice tomorrow.¡± I look back at all the shops closed and think what the cost might be. ¡°Should I invest in one for training at this point?¡± ¡°¡°Might be good.¡±¡± Teea and Dainea both looked good with that. ¡°So then off to the woods for the evening of lessons. Do you need to work today Dainea?¡± ¡°I want to go with.¡± She eyed the virgin killer for a second and held firm to my arm. ¡°Great! Lass do dis then, y''all!¡± I drag them all back out the gate. ¡°Survival 101, lesson one don''t die.¡± Great, with that out of the way I ask, ¡°so what is the next?¡± ¡°One-oh-one?¡± Dainea asks. ¡°Where I came from the first lesson in college for any topic was 101.¡± ¡°Why?¡± asked Teea. ¡°I always wondered that myself.¡± Answered Steph. ¡°I don''t know, could be they wanted a place holder for the second number or it was a classroom number and just happened to get made that way, its trivial right?¡± ¡°Could be.¡± Steph added. ¡°I don''t get it at all.¡± Dainea was not getting the topic so I explained it to her while Teea regained her composure at the issue of a talking Minx. What? You don''t see one of those every day? Might just be me then. ¡°It talks?¡± ¡°Well yes, that is Princess Stephanie, didn''t I introduce you at the bar already?¡± Must have slipped my mind. ¡°Now that we all know each other, again, what is lesson two?¡± I cast a light spell above our heads and wait for Teea. ¡°Ah, she even knows magic. Why am I not surprised...¡± Heading to the woods and the darkness therein. ¡°Told you I was a spell caster too. Do we need more torches?¡± ¡°No.¡± Teea leads us to the stream further into the woods. ¡°Lesson Two, women will always drop their skirts for me.¡± ¡°Teea, hon, I have, have almost killed you in another life but that doesn''t mean I want to sleep with you, despite how handsome you may, or may not look in a soldier uniform!¡± ¡°You''ve seen her in a soldier''s uniform that must have been something.¡± Dainea even nodded thinking it would really fit. ¡°I know right, so hot.¡± Steph was even in agreement. ¡°Wait, what really?¡± Teea''s stress level went up, again. Will you be okay there Teea? You look a bit exasperated. ¡°Lesson 3 hunting critters.¡± Took a while, and a promise to make a uniform for her, along with a promise to give a few extra lessons at no charge before we got back to learning anything. She had me cancel the light spell once we found a spot near the stream and waited for our eyes to adjust to the dark, if something too mean shows up, she would have me cast it again. With the stars and the space above the river, I could see the point in waiting here, then to get used to the dark night forest. Creatures would need water and this was a common spot for it. Teea slid her bow off and pulled an arrow to the string, when faint noise could be heard she pulled tight on the bow and took aim. Seconds later a creature on the other bank slumped to the ground. ¡°Wait a second then cast light, If something was stalking it. We don''t want to be the next target.¡± Nothing showed, after a minute, I ask if I should do the spell. We gathered the corpse and had lessons on field striping and game preparation for dinner. I asked about herbs and roots to add to the cooking. There were a few in the area we learned the names of, some fit the names I remembered from the survival cooking lessons Ophilia had. During dinner around a small fire we chatted, while all the girls ate. ¡°Hey, why aren''t you eating anything Ophilia?¡± Teea was confused and finally decided to ask mid meal. ¡°Well my meals are of the liquid nature mostly.¡± I take Dainea''s finger into my mouth and draw blood, the pleasure seemed to be a lot more this time and Dainea made an effort to control her body that quivered in the most sensual way. Licked her finger then went back to the wine skin I had. ¡°Hey! That food is still good, don''t waste it! Want me to go wash it off in the stream for you Teea?¡± ¡°Sorry, what?¡± ¡°Nothing.¡± I smile. ¡°You''re a V-vam-¡± ¡°Might be.¡± I put a finger to my lips, ¡°Shss, don''t tell anyone Kay?¡± ''Bat shit crazy was that right word choice.'' The night''s lessons went on longer than planned. We learned many things on how not to die quickly while out in the wild. Hope some day we won''t need them, but just in case. We, well more I, decided, to go easy on Teea after the dinner episode. Any more shocks to the system might leave us without a teacher. I was strong enough to carry her back to town, still didn''t want have to do that. More herbs, hunting tips and the basics. Stealth tips for Princess, arm strength exercises for Dainea, for me lessons about trees and the types of wood and uses. Common things to find in this area to eat and son on. Close to sunrise we headed back to town with a few pelts and carcasses to sell. During the hunting, I found animal blood drinkable, but less pleasant than humanoid blood, mostly the smell was different. In addition, the fresher it was the better. As for the taste, the plant eating critters had a less intense flavor, true for the most part. The sun coming up in the west was a pretty color as we entered back into the gates. We would get the pelts treated later and sell some meat to the Wooden Bucket. Not the best price but we agreed getting to have some later might be nice to see what got made. Dropping a few extra carcasses at the butcher we then made for the Wooden Bucket for a quick drink before bed. Teea was oddly skipping work today and seemed more interested in hanging out. Said something about, ''they had drills and a standing prepared lessons'', just in case someone ''slept in''. My conclusion was, this might happen more often than she would admit... - Wooden Bucket - So, we meet up with Wensi''s fan club yet again. The merchant idiot from before was waiting, and fuming into his drink. Guess he was a bit unsatisfied with his bar tab or the service. ¡°Hey! My last warning. Stay out of my little Wensi''s store.¡± He got up from the table and teetered a bit. Tired from all the hunting all I could do is ask, ¡°Why?¡± ¡°She doesn''t want you there.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Wensi wants something, she gets it, I make it happen as her uncle, that''s my job.¡± He looks quite the doting uncle then. Seeing Teea about to interject, I wave a hand. ¡°So, uncle is in love with doing things for Wensi. She doesn''t want me in the store. You and what army are going to stop me?¡± ¡°This army.¡± He put his hand on a sturdy adventurer type that was sitting next to him. He turns and moves to stand up. Teea whispers something to Dainea about some soldier nonsense. A rank I didn''t understand, something along the rank of group leader maybe. ¡°That her Uncle? Got it covered, see you later.¡± I wave to uncle dumb ass and turn back to the-, whoa! Big solder type. He stood a good foot higher than myself and was certainly in shape. ¡°I would prefer not to hurt you. You going to listen to my crazy uncle, or do we drag you out of here and beat some sense into you?¡± That deep voice pricked my sense of fair play. Worried that I might be way out of my league. ¡°Mr. you seem to have a brain compared to your uncle there, before we go all out nukes on each other. Can we not come to an understanding? I will continue to sell things to the tailor shop and you won''t try to become a stain on the ground.¡± He thought about my words for a second, then sighed. ¡°You did you just insult me and tell me what was going to happen.¡± Looking at the rest of my group I ask, ¡°Is that what I did?¡± ¡°Think so!¡± Dainea chirped in. ¡°Yeah, might be the case.¡± Teea added with a smile and a chuckle. Princess just got off my bag and went to get picked up by Dainea. ¡°Guess I did... Can we dump our stuff before we go all out and wreck each other?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Handing over the meat to the Wooden Bucket cook. We stash the rest of our things up in Dainea''s room. Everyone gathered outside the place and waited for me to come back out. ¡°Ready?¡± He asked warming up his arms in a pre-fight way. ¡°Two questions really, what happens after you make a stain on the ground? Also, what should we do if you get hurt?¡± ¡°Girl, me getting hurt is the least possible of possibles. As for you winning, never gonna happen.¡± ¡°Basically, beating you will get me nothing? Idiot Uncle will still come back, right? Well I honestly expected as much.¡± Got it, let the ass whooping begin. I shrug and close the distance a bit. Gathering mana, I cast a few lights around the ring to give everyone a good show. ¡°Magic? Who...¡± ¡°We want a good view of the stain don''t we?¡± I grin my best Harley grin. His confidence wasn''t broken, yet he was not as sure if it was as good as it was a moment ago. I take out the daggers from my boots and hand them over to Dainea to hold for me. ¡°What? A fist fight is fair enough right?¡± ¡°Right, that is fair enough, don''t mind the bruises now.¡± We narrow down to fighting distance, don''t ever recall having a fist fight before. Everything was kind of new this time. Still, dying to those thieves the first time was scarier than this. Only concern I had been about losing my teeth, getting hit with those big fists, ouch. Girls with gap teeth are not pretty, please I so don''t want that. His first swing was fast and heavy. A swing more of a testing maneuver though. Was he going easy on a little girl. As such I had plenty of time to react and move to the side, the memory of Teea''s dagger lessons came to mind all at once. The follow up attacks were progressively more and more of an effort to avoid. He was starting to get serious about landing at least some kind of punch. I step back some and taunt him some. ¡°He is strong, I give you that much, think if I got hit with one of those might knock me silly for a while. Hey D want me to leave a stain on the front side or the back side?¡± ¡°I would think neither, though the front would really be a bit more embarrassing.¡± Teea acted as proxy for some reason. ¡°This little girl gonna knock the piss out of me? Never.¡± ¡°What was that saying again, oh yeah, Never say Never.¡± With the sun peeking over the tops of the buildings finally and shining into his face it took him a second to guess my plan and try to dodge, yet my foot already in full motion found its way to the spot I had intended and he folded like a chair. Several of the watching folks remarked and groaned in sympathy. ¡°Give up? No? Remember this is not my fault then.¡± Letting the mana gather in my voice, I whisper to him a few words. ¡°Sure all those drinks inside don''t want to come out? A piss right now might be a good thing. Gosh, you drank enough for a whole army last night. Really now, you already started Pissing and moaning, why not let it all out?¡± A little poke with my voice filled with mana. The gates let loose. He groaned in pain a second time. He didn''t look to be getting up to attack. Just like that, a puddle started to form in the street. I walked back to get my things from Dainea and the room upstairs. We head back to the apartment, thinking it might be better that no one knows it was ours and we would be there tonight. That dumb Uncle would return at some point, hope soldier guy didn''t hold too much grudge against me, I did warn him. Heck, I even went easy on him. - Apartment on the Second Floor - ¡°Was that a bit unkind of me?¡± I could only think it was more pleasant than purging the shit out of him. The smell alone would have been too much. ¡°No, no, just ouch, I can''t even imagine.¡± Steph and Dainea were sympathetic to his pain and Teea seemed uncaring. She pretty much just laughed at him afterwards. ¡°My girlfriend is such a bad ass.¡± Princess added while I sat petting her back and ears. Letting mana move in and around her whiskers and body as a form of mana practice and magic sensitivity training for Steph. Might be able to use magic if she got better at sensing it herself. Plus, some of the erotic effects were fun to see from her Minx body. Dainea and Teea went off shopping for a bow together. That and set of tools to make arrows. They had enough coin to buy a training bow, the tools and a set cheap arrows. Dainea would practice with those later. I took a short cat nap holding Steph in a sitting position. I woke when they returned. A few drinks with Teea later then we finally chased her out to sleep. The last couple of days, I needed less and less sleep. The fight and all the stress from hunting in the woods was mentally larger than normal. Down time was in order and we all slept on piles of cloth and pillows on the new bed. It was like separating light, you just had to look at it differently to get the mana pattern. Then to single out one! Ah so much easier now! Remembered from my dream I sat up in the pile of fabric, Minx and Dainea. So easy, it was so easy! I focused on the mana and pulled on the elemental types one after another it was a crazy mixed up magical elemental rainbow of the strangest type. The order didn''t make sense and a few colors were for a few things I didn''t understand, but there it was. I felt like I had made a breakthrough of the greatest kind, had to ask teacher about this later. I had the feeling to share my happiness. ¡°Daineaaaaa, can I pleasure you right now?¡± I softly inquire near her ear. ¡°You don''t have to ask me that, of course you can. Wait, in bed at least that is true...¡± ¡°Aw, so if I want to pleasure you, say, under a table at, work? I have to ask?¡± ¡°Ugh my girlfriend is such a General, beating up soldiers and putting on maneuvers.¡± I didn''t get the saying but understood the meaning. She pushed me down to the good spots between her legs and let me play some. I used Steph''s tail effectively in combat attacks on her behind. Combined with my frontal assault we managed a complete domination of the battle field, bring surrender in record time. Oral military tradition night became a historical event in our relationship after that. I would have to create a second uniform for us to use later won''t I? - Tailor of the Times Shop - Miss Utica sold us a few of the items needed to make the uniform for Teea. Good to have the right color fabric and a cording. After witnessing the dyes at the Weavers Mill, felt it might be better to not have to worry about that smell hanging around. The dyes I had we could store for later or something. What they didn''t have here, I would have to get from the Mighty Coinpoorium or whatever they call it here. Mr. Gelders should also be given thanks for making much of my current life possible. I didn''t see Wensi in here today. Would have to ask her about the idiot uncle and her pissed off cousin later. - Outside the General Store - Looks the same as in game, but the name of some stores were not written onto the signs they had. So what to call the place I had no clue. The inside was a bit different from the game, some isles were less accessible and cluttered to the point of not being walk-able. Finding things in this mess may take a while. ¡°Fair day to you all.¡± Echoed from the counter. Mr. Gelders was there in all his roguish glory. I flipped the guild chit he gave me at him and put my Moon Minx on the counter. ¡°Afternoon to you as well.¡± ¡°We don''t buy these.¡± He passed the chit back. ¡°Not for sale, just wanted to stop in and thank you for the help.¡± Returning the guild chit to its pocket. I look at him then pull my hood down. ¡°Thank me? Don''t recall assisting such a charming,¡± He looked down at my boots and finished his evaluation, ¡°toothpick as yourself.¡± ¡°Tooth pick? Sure, mind if I turn on the lights in here?¡± I cast a light spell to clear some darkness from the counter area of the store. ¡°Quite the talented one. What can we help you with today?¡± ¡°Buttons.¡± ¡°Buttons?¡± ¡°Metal buttons for a military uniform.¡± I correct my order. ¡°I see.¡± Not sure what he is thinking, but it is not as bad as he might imagine. Or maybe it is. ¡°They don''t have to be authentic just enough to match this fabric and cording.¡± I pull out the items to show him. Such a heavy atmosphere in here, wonder if this is my fault. I smile just in case. The fact I get worked up about my cosplay is one thing, but do you think I go to far sometimes? In addition to the buttons we get a few things for corpse dismemberment, it was quite the somber conversation and totally felt like a Hit man buying everything they needed for a one time mission in a foreign country. Mr. Gelders level of professionalism was good to, he even suggested a few items, such as a water-proof tarp and gloves, I passed on the gloves and agreed to the tarp. What kind of tailor would I be if I didn''t make my own gloves? ¡°And here I thought that guild token was a fake.¡± ¡°Oh yeah, it might look that way doesn''t it? Some of my coin is like that too.¡± I pull out one of my perfect silver coins and hand it over to him. ¡°Ho, ho, not a scratch on it, like it was minted with magic.¡± Paying him in copper and regular silver coin for the rest of the amount due, we pick up Steph and head out. He would have a delivery boy take the household items and stuff I bought to our apartment. I had the urge to decorate a little, in addition to getting a few things for cooking and cleaning. The straw broom was of decent quality, couldn''t pass up that if I wanted to learn to fly later right? Putting up the hood as I neared the door. ¡°Thank you for your care.¡± We step out into the street. I could only hear a sigh of relief from inside. Placing my urge to laugh hysterically aside, what next? - Acdin Streets - Decided to check out more of the food available in town. The types of fruit, vegetables, dry good and so forth. Might want to share a few of the things I knew how to make from earth with Dainea and Steph. ¡°What would Steph want to eat later?¡± ¡°Think they have an equivalent to chocolate?¡± ¡°Mmm that would be nice.¡± There were lots of things to try. Steph looked a bit full by the end of the trip. I could only taste the items and not swallow them. Gaining weight was not a concern for me today. We found a few fruit that would be good as a dessert and bought a few. There were a few types of nut candies. Sweetness came from a dry good called Paz, we will just call it sugar after all. Paz was the sap of a tree, dried then ground into a powder, the taste was close to sugar and it did leave an after taste, I wasn''t able to name or describe. As an import from another region, Paz was slightly more expensive than most local goods. We bought enough to make a few things along with a few vegetables I had seen in stews and remembered from my cooking lessons. The meat from hunting tonight and these should be good. Also, we bought a few loaves of unleavened bread. Yeast might not be popular here or even discovered, who knows. Not that I could remember how to use it even if it did. Eggs were available but they came in various sizes and colors, might have to ask Teea more about them later. After seeing Dainea and Princess off at dinner time I left them to eat while I had magic lessons. - Forest Clearing - Lessons continued and we talked a bit of science as well. I did my best to answer what I could. Hard to get him to focus on magic while going on tangents all the time about things he didn''t know. Just to see if I did. Claiming a death in the family, I excused my self a bit early from lessons and went to practice in the forest, before the time to meet up with Teea. Dainea didn''t mention if she would be working or learning tonight. I could only guess if they would show up or not. Near the time for survival classes, I left the edge of the woods and walked back to the gates. Most would be telling the time by the Moons and the time that had passed since the bells. Learning that was leaving me wishing my smart phone or one of my watches came with me. Maybe in the capital or big cites they had clocks. Teea waved as jogged back to the gates. ¡°Just the two? Off we go then.¡± She pulled me in the direction of the forest. Most of the monster hunting we would do consisted of some kind of trapping then ranged damage. Now that I thought about it, most if not every good hunting society did the same in Earths history. Overpowered groups with low risk or single person using the environment to work. Even mastadon hunt had to be similar for cave men. Maybe chasing them off a cliff or something. I totally get the man''s romance of wanting to best a bear or some silly thing like that, but how would you actually go and do that all the time? RPG games were big into pandering to that notion on Earth, the practicality of it here was really different, have to live to feed the family tomorrow after all. Sure there was magic, and it could do things that would make it seem reasonable for a small group to go out into dungeons and the wilds and level up and earn a living. As Teea explained it, they were more raid sized and in the event of war you would call them mercenary groups. Any stories she could think of where a group less than twenty went around there was always some kind of loss of life or tragedy was bound to happen. Hero''s and stories of them, surely there were at least one successful group. Maybe poetic license got the best of them at some point, so hard to tell. Other than a few seduction tries and fails, the night passed by quick. Teea wasn''t too worried about the length of the lessons and shared the fact, she didn''t mind the change in pace from her normal routine. I recalled her in game version saying something similar to a lack of friends she could count on outside of work. Lessons five through seven were about things not to touch, eat or at least make an effort to avoid. Most of them were nothing to be concerned about in this area. Surrounding territories might have them. Dragons were on the list for you lizard Otaku out there. Seeing the riding lizards in town, it made sense after all. They were of a similar species to them most likely. We returned to the gates with a few trapped kills after cleaning them. - Back in Town - We all had a few drinks at the Wooden Bucket tavern then called it an early night at dawn. Okay, joking it was about the same time as always for Dae to finish work and we went home and worked on the shelves and food together. Teea ate with us then headed to work. She was sleeping in the afternoons perhaps? ¡°What do we do about these?¡± Ah, forgot about the hunting today. Dainea was holding the critter up we brought from the woods by one hind leg. ¡°Same as we always do dear.¡± I nod to some private joke inside my head. ¡°You want to separate the meat from the skin for me?¡± ¡°Sure.¡± Using mana at the same time prepping the skin and meat. I hum a tune and apply mana to random things at the same time. Didn''t make too much of a mess of them critters this time. ¡°Done!¡± The pot by the stove was full of meat and I had a few more skins to take to the leather workers later. Washed from a bucket of water we had and went in for my rewards. One long hug later, I get back to putting up the couple of shelves that were ready to put up. Hammering at this hour would no longer wake up all the neighbors after all. * bang! Bang! * ¡°They straight?¡± I step back and hold Steph while petting her. ¡°Can you tell?¡± ¡°Stop it you home making monster. I was sleeping.¡± ¡°Grumpy? Need more exercise? If you get fat, how will I be able to carry you.¡± ¡°Okay, you are not a monster after all, that is rude to monsters.¡± ¡°Maybe we should have you catch your own meals for a while?¡± ¡°Eeh? Sorry.¡± ¡°Me too.¡± Hugging Steph some then putting her on the larger lower shelf. ¡°Think it will hold?¡± I run away while she swipes at me with a full claw attack. Returning to a nap shortly after, while she was still resting on the shelf. Kind of wish I had a camera right now. I peek from the safety of otherside of the room. ¡°Nice I like those.¡± Dainea liked them, guess they can stay there. The random things in the room with nowhere to go ended up filling the shelves. Not tired, I got to work on the Uniform for Teea and one that might fit Dainea or myself. Dae finished cleaning up and pulled me into her arms to sleep, I felt her kindness and her gentle love for a moment, then the snoring from Princess made us laugh and we pull her off the shelf to join us. I didn''t dream that night but the visions were just as confusing. End Chapter 4 Vol 2 - Chapter 5 - Funny When you Win Without Conflict Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 2 Chapter 5 Funny When You Win Without Conflict ¡°I became conscious, standing there, on top of a some uncooked Ramen, yes the dried noodles that they sell in plastic wrap. These noodles were not the regular size as one might expect, but something on the scale of two train cars next to each other. The white noodles were themselves, the thickness of a trees. Standing there many meters away was the edge of the slab of noodles, out beyond that were dancing, spinning and rotating vegetables and meat cuts. Further out, I could see huge containers the size of skyscrapers, labeled with many types of soy sauce or hot pepper brands. Salt and pepper shakers like cars or buses that flew between them. Yes, never again was I to be allowed the food of the Gods known as instant Ramen. I felt a tear slide down my cheek. I tried to turn away from the sight. That out of reach Blessing of Heaven before me. The vision left me with only the aftertaste of spring onions.¡± - Year 22173 of the Navi calendar, excerpt from the book ''Day of Renewal'' unknown author. - Our Second Story Living Accommodations in Acdin - Waking up to a face full of hair, I tried spitting out Steph''s Tummy hair from my mouth. Using my tongue to get her soft fur back to the exterior of my lips. Giving up, I lift up Steph off my face and rest her on top of Dae stomach. Will have to scold her later for thinking she can imitate one of those Internet cat photos people post all the time. Getting up, trying to member the strange dream I had been having about foods from Earth. The recent craving for clam chowder and lobster bisque had been getting worse and at some point I was going to snap. Maine''s seafood was nothing to joke about. Back in Maine, I had a regular appointment at a local dinner and with the new game coming out sometimes I put off going to save a few dollars. It really was a serious addiction, I might end up hurting someone if I didn''t get my soup fix within the week. Princess Steph extended her Minx''s arms out and yawned. Patting her head, I got up and rinsed clean with water from the bucket. My new shelves held up over night. I knew they would, still I was a tad bit proud of making something for the apartment. Never had been into making things for my room on Earth, Mom was good at decorating and had so many things for us already, there was no need for anything to be made. Dainea complained about Steph''s weight and the claws slowly coming out invoked a painful cry from Dainea. Subsequently, I made them both say sorry. I made some food for them. Today Dainea''s plans were to practice the bow then head back to work, then later join us for survival class at the gate. We had funds to live on, but working some would let her keep her job and the room she had above the at tavern, along with some coin to eat if things changed. We all agreed on that. Steph was on gossip and information gathering duty today. I asked her to listen for things about the Wensi''s fan club today. The fight last night proved how ''important'' little Wensi was to that mentally retarded Uncle. I ask if grudges or bulling was common here, and same as with any World. The answer was ¡°of course it is¡±. I would have to spend some time thinking, see if we couldn''t come up with a way to encourage one Uncle with an abundant amount of stupidity to be, well, less stupid. How? The few ideas that came to mind involved death, blackmail and kidnapping. Still getting too hungry might not be a good thing and influence any decision, so I asked if I could enjoy Dae''s finger for a moment. Her hesitation was nil, seeing as she immediately shoved a few fingers in my mouth and urged me to hurry up and start. Her cute squirming only delaying me a few seconds. I had the image of her as a large wild Bear, hovering over me growling out the words ''Eat Me Now''. Her eyes not letting me escape even if I wanted too. How she landed me on my back so fast I had no idea. Her rubbing against my lower body as I broke the skin and let the blood flow, the heavy breathing started and she was lost to the sensation before I had even an ounce of her covering the inside of my mouth. The shuddering and her gasping for air was enough to shake the bed. I felt a bit conflicted as I don''t think even if I tried, I could compete with that simple act of me feed on her finger, unless it was feeding someplace else a little more sensitive. I would have to research what had changed. Did I get better at being a vamp? Or did she just get off on it more? A combo of both? Not being able to communicate anything at the moment, I''d have to wait for her to get lucid. I wanted to hide, after the effects feeding on her. I was scared and really didn''t know why. At least I was a bit less hungry and after caressing her face and brushing away the stay hairs. I started work on the clothes and other items to sell. - Wooden Bucket Tavern - Steph and I walked Dainea to work. After she had recovered earlier, she went off to practice archery for a while, her and Steph enjoyed a light dinner then we walked here together. No one was waiting for her or us, that was a good thing at least. Didn''t see either the Uncle or the soldier, so we asked the rest of the staff if anyone had come asking about us. Given a response of no one had seen or noticed them, guess we had time until the next wave of attempted bullying. Steph was going to watch over the tavern while I had music lessons, I wanted Steph to pick up magic from listening, but Dae''s safety was a lot more important. As a preemptive measure, I would stop by and see if I could have a word with the source of the misunderstandings. ¡°See you at Second Night Bell then?¡± *smooch* Dae had swept me up into a long kiss then rushed off to the kitchen. Stunned for a second, forgetting what I was going to do next. - Next to the Water-well Behind the Store Tailor of the Times - Wensi exited the back of the store with a sour look on her face, ¡°Miss Utica said, you wish to speak with me?¡± ¡°Yes Wensi, I do wish to have a few words with you.¡± I had been waiting for a few minutes now. Wensi was off on an errand or something and the resulting issue was, I would be a bit late for the magic classes now. My level of annoyance was definitely rising. ¡°About what?¡± I could only think she was trying to sound innocent there? ¡°Your Uncle and family, tell them to leave me alone.¡± ¡°Well it doesn''t really concern me, but surely they haven''t done anything bad have they?¡± ¡°Well aside from threats, nothing unforgivable. Say, if something was to happen to one of my friends... Well I would like to apologize now, see I am in a bit of a foul mood.¡± I cast a light spell and pulled a dagger out and started cleaning out my nails best I could. Inspecting for any spare dirt that had collected they were clean, but I thought the image was plenty good. * gulp * That wasn''t me so, ¡°Oh where was I? Yeah, your family.¡± I look up at the sky and try to draw out the moment. ¡°If, and this is only an ''if'' mind you.¡± I look her straight in her soft shivering eyes. ¡°Anything, anything at all bad happens. To my friends. So much as a hair out of place.¡± Her knees make a knock, knocking sound. ¡°I wonder, I wonder what I would do to your...¡± I smile and walk away. Adding extra mana to the Light Spell, making the spell unstable. The spell flashed out of existence, the final popping sound a nice final effect. Not sure the reason but some failed spells would have effects like that. Few of the failed things I tried so far ended mostly in a less than pleasant way. ¡°Eep.¡± That was the only sound I could hear after I left. The moment I could no longer be heard, I ran full speed to meet up with Mr. Planknel. - Forest Clearing - Today''s lesson began with separating out the elemental mana, and a few questions I had about all the mana colors. From the way it sounds, my way of making a spectrum was unusual, not unheard of, just uncommon. Mr. Planknel explained it as, maybe with your knowledge in science, was easier, as the method was normally taught to Elemental Spell Users needing more than one mana type. He was not much of a dual element caster himself, so never found the reason to learn the skill. Now, with his interest in electricity and magic. It would be useful, so after a bit of effort on my part, I explained what I knew of the method. We both started to use, what he had called the ''Elemental Mana Spectrum Technique'', to pick out mana, then apply them to basic spells. Spells like controlling water, fire and wind cyclones. Those spells all on the small side but practically at a level above my current skill. I started to sweat from the effort, even in the cool hours of the late-summer night. At the end of the practice, I was more proficient at opening the mana spectrum, but my use of it in spells was still dismal. Other than fire, me casting an element spell wasn''t happening tonight. Walking back to the North Gates of Acdin, we talked about a few things related to magic and science. Dae and Teea greeted us, and Steph made a quick dash to the top of my shoulders. ¡°What''s up?¡± I ask the three. The two of them shrug and try to look innocent. Steph is soft I know that might be part of the problem. I could only think, please be gentle with my Minx girls. I give Dae and Steph a quick pet we four all set off into the woods for survival lessons. - Into the Hills Around Acdin - For the most part, the greater area around Acdin is forested, and slightly hilly. In three directions you can see large hill groups past the trees. If the hills were any higher you might think of them as tiny mountain ranges. Today, we walked to the nearest hill north of town. ¡°Steph, the exercise is good for you, stay off my pack.¡± Pretty sure saying anything more would be bad. Not that she really had gained any weight or was difficult to carry. ¡°Please!¡± She cried in a pathetic voice. ¡°Maybe, Princess was a bad choice...¡± I reflect on calling her that for a moment, but it really fit her at the moment. ¡°What was that?¡± Dainea asked, breathing deep and slightly winded? ¡°Love you both, bunches.¡± I smile and urge them forward. It was basic stamina training 101 today. Teea commented on our affections. Then hushed at us. Going uphill was quite the effort after an already long walk through the woods. At one of the breaks, I had started to carve a walking stick for Dainea and the result she put it into use after roughly twenty minutes of uphill trail. Using my Light Spell to guide the way, Teea leading the group, encouraged us to be quiet and on the look out for trouble. Today''s breakfast would be berries along with Stump. What is Stump you ask? It is a heavy ground crawling critter, it acted like a turtle, had feet like a turtle, a hard pointed nose for digging in the dirt and a bunch of living plants on it''s back. No shell part to collect at least that I could see. As for how the plants got there, apparently, part of their mating ritual is the arrangement and care for those plants, done in the most part by the partner. Dainea had stumbled across if when she saw a pretty flower and went to pick out the plant for us. When it started to move, Dainea''s shriek alerted us. A few arrows to the head was all it took. Teea collected her arrows and taught us the best way to harvest it. You could just take the meat, and bones, the head and feet were also useful parts. Leaving anything leftover under the plants on it''s back was acceptable. With the meat, berries and a few plants we had collected, around the middle of the night we had arrived close to the hill we were hiking towards. At a good size clearing we scouted around for signs of predators then made a campfire. ¡°This is tasty, I can see why, they call it Stump. The flavor is such that you can''t tell what the meat is. Some times it tastes like this meat and sometimes it tastes like that meat.¡± Steph was comparing it to other meats she ate in town. ¡°Not a common animal to find, Dainea was lucky to pick a flower off the back of one.¡± With a grin Teea bit into the portion she had left. ¡°She is lucky, that is for sure.¡± I lean against her some and drink a sip of water. ¡°Ah, thanks.¡± Dainea pet my head and smiled. She to enjoyed the cooked Stump. ¡°When we get to the top of the hill, we can rest, then have a lesson in climbing trees. Then return by early sun rise.¡± ¡°Could we get a chance to bathe in the stream near town? It feels-¡± Jumping to my feet due to the chilling feeling I had, then involuntarily I let out, ¡°Something is coming.¡± Moving my hands to wand and dagger. Teea and Dae pull out their bows and I let my senses search the woods and darkness. I don''t hear, smell or see anything. There is something out there, a few of them, my body knows it and is repulsed by whatever it was. ¡°Think they heard us coming.¡± A rough male voice comes from the tree line. A slightly higher but still rough voice joins the first one from a few meters off to the side. ¡°Yes, such a warm welcome.¡± ¡°Didn''t think we made that much noise.¡± A more timid third voice from the other side of the first one. Arriving at the clearing is the rough voices pair. Two men step out of the tree line and survey the campfire area we had. I push a fresh piece of wood into the fire in hopes of a little more natural lighting. ¡°Oh, they are Wolfkins.¡± Steph whispered from the top of my pack. ¡°Yes, I can see the ears from here now.¡± The Wolfkin lackey on the right had a light bow and a short sword. The leader had no weapons showing. Seeing the state of the weapons I could see I looked at their armor next. Leader''s gear was mostly leather with a few parts of metal, tooth and bone worked into it. The leather was colored a dark brown almost black in the shadows. The teeth and bone both stained black were all good for hunting in the dark. The quality of his gear really showed. The lackey was wearing more of a work shirt and longer boots the grays and faded blues looked more like casual work clothes than a combat outfit. Might be more in matching with his gray wolf tail, fashion wise. The two Wolfkin also had similar wolf ears they were more to the sides than I would have thought, the leaders were a bit smaller and a shade different color. Each of them had a few accessories on, rings or bracers. Really wasn''t enjoying the condescending look on the lackey''s face either. The two Wolfkin moved a few meters from the fire. Teea asked, ¡°Your friend going to stay hidden or what?¡± ¡°Ah, don''t mind him, his appearance is flawed. Hey come out you idiot!¡± The Wolfkin lacky said while leaning on the leader. From the left side of those two, a larger Werewolf walked out of the tree line. The moment you could see him Dainea and Steph both reacted a bit, the fangs and eyes had little humanity there and was full on huge wolf beast type, a complete opposition to the timid nature he had. The claws and teeth alone would give kids nightmares on Earth. His shabby clothing gave off the feeling he was picked on a lot by those in his life. ¡°Sorry.¡± said the really tall scruffy Werewolf. ¡°Pack mates?¡± One of the girls said. I was thinking several things at the comment made by Teea. The image of the three of them cavorting naked in the woods, etc. Yes, yes back to reality! ¡°That one smells kind of rotten.¡± The leader of the three commented. ¡°I do not.¡± The word impulsively exited my mouth. ¡°She does a bit, she one of those girls that likes boys, who likes boys?¡± Who said that, I will kill them here and now! ¡°So they have that here too huh?¡± In any case, I try to get the image of the three of them doing a front to rear chain or sandwich. ¡°It''s not really the case, although if you have the inclination, I would never say no to a good show. Perverts are perverts after all.¡± ¡°What, you calling us a pervert now?¡± The Wolfkin lackey retorted with a sneer. ¡°No, I meant myself.¡± ¡°She totally called you a pervert dude!¡± The leader added. ¡°Ugh,¡± This is totally degenerating into a big mess. ¡°Sorry, this girl is more into doing perverted things with my lover over there and I meant nothing by my comment before.¡± ¡°I see, so you''re saying we not good enough then, dude she is so, not into you.¡± The lackey Wolfkin was wanting to fight now. ¡°Hey, stop poking, I mean provoking him.¡± I sneer at the guy trying to egg the leader on. See what you all have started now! ¡°We are done with the campfire you can have the spot here.¡± Teea''s was doing her best to sidetrack the confrontation. ¡°Why don''t you cook for us, women are good at that right?¡± ¡°No, lackey number one, we won''t be doing that,¡± I toss a stick meant to be fire wood off to his side. ¡°Why don''t you cook your own meals.¡± He reacted to the stick and the movement, then faced back towards the three of us. ¡°Hey!¡± I tilt my head a bit, ¡°What?¡± ¡°You trying to insult us?¡± ¡°No, just you. Did you want fight or something? Been nothing but a yelping pup since you arrived.¡± I look at the Wolfkin leader then Teea. ¡°Calling my good friend a pup, I can''t let you get away with that.¡± The leader''s response was a bit proud. You could see he agreed with me in some ways. ¡°Oh, sorry about that, idiots rub me the wrong way. Nothing against you personally.¡± ¡°Yeah,¡± Gathering some mana, I also ready myself to cast a spell. ¡°This bitch, can I show her who she is dealing with here?¡± Lackey was about to burst from agitation. ¡°I don''t mind the four of us killing the three of you, rather not have to clean up afterwards. So maybe I just kill him and solve the original problem.¡± That was my first offer to the leader. ¡°You kill me? Ha!¡± ¡°Well, I don''t mind putting an arrow into them either way.¡± Teea added. ¡°Dainea, put your bow down.¡± I eye Dainea who was starting to shake a bit at the level of tension. ¡°O-okay.¡± Lowering her bow, she calmed down some. ¡°So two on two then, I guarantee your cute big friend there is not going to fight.¡± Winking at the big Werewolf. I smile gently and let some charm magic out as softly as I could. ¡°Me, cute?¡± ¡°Shut up, you can''t even shift, you trash.¡± The lackey was digging his own grave here. ¡°He''s just envious of your mature stature. Bet his shift isn''t nearly as cool as you are now.¡± The spell landed and the look in his eyes was all I needed to see that even without the magic, he was charmed. I mean boys don''t cry like that for no reason. The leader may have had enough. ¡°Hey, you two this isn''t fun time in the village, we are out in the wild. You, get your act together, and you, calm down.¡± Not sure the leader has ever had to deal with something like this before. Tonight was unlucky for him, now that he had let his buddy run his mouth. ¡°Teea, what is the common sense way to greet a group in the wilds?¡± ¡°Not sure there is a single way. When you have good intentions you greet with an introduction and go on from there.¡± ¡°Great, we''re a group from Acdin, nice to meet you, despite a crude start, I hope we can get along. Still, if lackey number one there, does not apologize for his multiple offenses. Things are going to get messy.¡± ¡°Fair enough, apologize.¡± The leader said to his buddy. ¡°And if I don''t?¡± ¡°Not going to make you dude.¡± The leader finishes. ¡°You okay with us killing him then?¡± I grin. ¡°More than okay.¡± The leader answer was pretty casual. ¡°What?¡± He looked shocked. ¡°Don''t What me. You tend to go over do it sometimes. I mean picking on the girls in the Clan or even Warhol there. You are not going to listen to me. You might as well deal with it yourself. If she is strong enough to kill you, I can''t do anything about it, can I? Do you want the two of us to fight her then her friends join in. Sounds like a conflict of personalities to me. Step up and duel her or we all fight and I don''t think that either is a good idea. The whole encounter is strange.¡± ¡°Fine, let''s fight.¡± He pulls out his sword. ¡°Teea, there any practical rules for duels?¡± ¡°Don''t die?¡± She looks like she is about to die laughing. So glad I can be her comedy relief. ¡°So you are not going to show us your wimpy shift form. I''m so sad, I am gonna cry.¡± I pull the dagger from the leather sheaf and put a bit of the really weaker than weak poison on the blade. The lack of apprehension on his face vanished at that moment. Then when I pulled out my wand from the belt behind me with my left hand his face paled even further. ¡°So? You Ready?¡± I ask gathering the mana for a tiny Void Sphere. If he should pull the bow, I will definitely snap the string with it. Sadly he put the bow aside, along with his shirt and a few other things like shoes. ¡°Oh a strip show, shame we don''t have screen shot capability, huh Princess?¡± Lackey got a bit flustered and turned angry again. Aside from the fact I was talking to Steph the Moon Minx, he must have thought I was insulting him and his gender. He did shift for us, it was quite the impressive sight, stretching first then moving a single part of his body at a time to change its shape. He ended up 10-20 cm shorter than the other Werewolf. My guess about him feeling inadequate was spot on. Now that I see it, a bit wary as to why I picked a fight with him in the first place. Guess I was hungry for blood. I unconsciously, I licked my lips and moved away from the fire and our seats. Now then, how do we go about not dying here? - Clearing in The Woods During Our Hunting Trip - Not sure how it ended up this way? We are about to duel this little girl with long colored hair and a strange outfit. Not only did she put poison on her blade, she also pulled out a spell casting wand. I can''t identify the poison as any I''d seen or smelled and never fought with a magic caster before. Sure I was angry as I could get and all the stronger for it, yet this felt dangerous. ¡°Bitch, you going to cook dinner for me after this, even if you have to crawl on the ground to do it.¡± I charged at her and swung my sword. She backed up as I kept advancing not taking my swings at all. Must be too weak to engage me after all. In our clan, I am in the top ten of the strongest after all. Even if my weapon skills are skill low, I should have no problems. ¡°You gonna stop running away?¡± I move after her faster. ¡°Okay. How about this?¡± She stepped to the side and a fire sprang up as I lunged into it. Hot! I plunged further into the fire unable to pull the swing, I rolled forward and to the right as she had stepped to the left. Putting out the flames on my arms with my left, I return to a standing position. Waiting for an attack, it never came. The fire I went through didn''t fade and stayed large and bright. She moved to her right coming out from behind the fire and stood there with a hungry look on her face. ¡°Well? You warmed up enough yet?¡± she asked. The singed hairs on my arm smoking a nasty smell. My arm now just registering the amount of heat from the flames. ¡°Just starting out!¡± Standing, I get ready to attack. She did it again! Now there two fires burning and I had attacked into the new one. I put out the fire on my pants this time and moved to defend. We had yet to draw blood and I was getting cooked. Any thoughts of giving up and apologizing long since given up. She needed to feel pain and suffering now. Again, more fire, damned bitch needs to die. With her insane dodging and the three fires, this evil woman needs to die. I charged again ignoring the singed areas on my left side now. *pant* ¡°Die!¡± ¡°You did ask me to cook for you, although I do like my food more raw? Feel like giving up and saying you''re sorry? Maybe begging me to let you live rather than become a late night snack?¡± *pant* ¡°No! I will kill you first!¡± There is fire all around me where did she go? I will kill her the moment I see her then rape her fresh corpse and eat her heart. I''ll leave what is left for the bird in the morning. Where, where? *cough* It is getting hard to breath and see now. ¡°Give up?¡± That evil voice again from behind the fires, all I can do is swing my sword at it. The fire burns again! If I don''t swing at it, a dagger flies through the flames and cuts me. At the same time I am running out of strength. I can''t talk, If I open my mouth the smoke and heat chokes me. I can only breath through the fingers of my left hand barely. Can''t give up must kill that evil voice. - Clearing filled with flames - I stare in amazement at the scene in front of us, not only is that idiot getting cooked to death but no one can do anything to stop it. Lured into a frenzy, ''All Claw'' has been trapped on all sides by those huge fires. Of the many fights I''d seen, this may be the most painful to watch. Plus I wanted to cover my nose, pretty sure if that guy has any fur left, its under his feet. What can I do, I wanted him to be punished a bit, have a hard time maybe, but what do I do? Those guys, his father and clan, when I don''t bring anything left of him home, what do I tell them?If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. I look at Warhol, might be, he has fallen in love with that demon. Certainly, he has no love for All Claw who beat him and teased him for ages now. As for the girls companions they stop watching after the third fire due to the graphic nature of the event, and went back to sitting around the fire talking. This was supposed to be a quick sprint through the woods to the other clans camp and back, yet here we are and my childhood friend is gonna die because of his pride. ¡°Sure smells bad doesn''t it. Wonder if I should pick some flowers for that girl? Would she like the smell of those better?¡± Warhol wanted to go pick flowers for this demon is he in his right mind? Hopeless and idiots all around me! How does Grandpa even handle beasts of the clan? - Clearing in the Woods During Our Hike up the Hills - Looks like that Idiot has no more fight in there. Canceling the mana to the fires behind him, he didn''t seem to even notice anything anymore. Letting the fires in front fade as well. I let the air clear some. During the fight, All Claw had earned a few cuts most of the burns were not that serious. Most of the damage was oxygen deficiency and smoke inhalation, as if he fainted standing up, and not to fall in the fire took all his concentration. The fires gone. He fell forwards, before hitting the ground I caught him and cut his artery on the neck and drank. I could feel his fury and the warmth from his blood was a fire. A fine dinning experience with no cost. Free and it was all you could eat night. I would not stop for anything until his heartbeat was nothing. His strength was becoming mine. My meal nourished me like nothing before ever had. I pushed the monster inside me down tied it up and chained it away. The flames from the fight became the image in my mind for the rage and fury within his blood. Fear, jealousy, hate, blood-lust the desire to conquer and sex, they spun in his blood and drove him, now they drove me to look for the same satisfaction. I picked up his body and threw it as far into the woods as I could, if I had seen the sight of the little me tossing a huge werewolf into the forest with such fierceness I would have run away terrified. I didn''t toss the thing over any tree but certainly it went a ways past the edge of the clearing. ¡°Leave!¡± was all I could yell at the two Werewolves staring at me. Blood dripping down my face. Inside me someplace, I knew, knew that if they stayed I would have their blood too. I didn''t mind that but the shock on Dainea''s face was enough. I don''t know if that All Claw was dead or just out cold but all that mattered at the moment was the passion in my blood right now, the need to fight, kill, eat or copulate. Dainea would have to do for the moment in the last case. And I certainly wouldn''t mind having an audience, but for safety''s sake. Best if the boys left before they had a chance to take revenge or join the party. Either case I didn''t feel good about them being there. ¡°LEAVE!¡± I canceled the charm spell and empowered my voice at the motionless wolves. A few birds in the area also thought I was speaking at them and also left, fleeing into the air. They both turned and ran out of the clearing. ¡°Good, Dainea will you join me for some post combat healing? I have a feeling we may not be getting back to Acdin before sunrise.¡± I pulled her hand to my chest to let her feel my heart rate. ¡°Oh, my Ophilia are you okay?¡± Dainea concern was heartwarming in a different sense. My desires were at the moment driving me to climax. ¡°My meal was, to put it mildly, too stimulating. You know that lightning drink you are so fond of? This is a few time more stimulating and way more vicious. When I said a few, I lied, it is like, oh forget it.¡± ¡°Eeeh? Wait! Put me down.¡± Dainea said from atop my shoulder. I head into the treeline opposite side of the clearing from where the wolves went. ¡°Please, no more.¡± She purred into my ears. Must have been an hour already and she was spent. ¡°This is no good Dainea, You the only one here and-¡± I shed a tear, we had exhausted Dainea''s body she couldn''t even lift a finger now. Yet my lust wasn''t satisfied. ¡°I am pretty happy right now, do you mind if I sleep?¡± She nodded, wobbled a bit, working to stay awake. ¡°If you go to sleep, I might attack Teea? I can''t fight this desire by myself. Steph is cute, as a cat she doesn''t quite work, you know?¡± ¡°That''s fine, shoo, sleeping.¡± I was really stunned. Just like that she said it was fine to attack Teea, in my arms, I carried her back to the campfire. In my current mental state, it was hard to debate the pro''s and con''s of the situation. Gently on the ground now. She issleeping with the goofiest grin ever, Dainea was sleeping so deeply and so cute. Nom! ¡°Um, Steph come here.¡± ¡°No, no, no, Y-you stay over there. I''ll keep look out.¡± She headed over to Dainea quickly and rested her head. ¡°What''s going on?¡± Teea''s question broke my restraint, and my hopeless plea to Steph left unanswered. ¡°Teea?¡± I turn my hungry eyes to Teea and my next meal. ¡°What?¡± She replied, sitting there a worried look on her face. ¡°Have you ever taken a girl, without their consent?¡± ¡°Maybe. Difficult to tell sometimes, when you are really drunk-¡± I had already steped up to Teea and put my hand into her hair. I guide her up from her sitting position. A long forceful penetrating kiss and she goes a bit slack in the knees. My left hand goes from her blushing cheek, trailing fingers down her right side fluttering between her arm and small firm breast. Pulling her body to mine from her waist, then sliding my left hand between her clothes and into her warm soaked thighs. A quick bite of her lips and more deep kissing, I dance my fingers around her soaked opening, while she shakes and reacts, pushes and pulls. With only my left hand I support her entire weight off the ground. Her riding my two fingers while my mouth is just pushing her deeply for more. My right hand still firmly holding her hair. Her tongue and whole body are the only two things she seems to be focused on at the moment. Her arms still hanging at her side. Me having released her mouth and tongue, she awakens to the moment, having realized what is happened now. Before she could do anything, I set her down with my left hand, with that same hand put her right hand in my mouth. Discovering the new length of my canines I puncture the skin of Teea''s finger. *gasp* Teea shuddered and moaning some. ¡°Seriously, erotic there Anne.¡± Steph''s voice lingering in my ear for only a moment. Teea shudders again and breathes in heavily, seeing her mouth I raise my soaked finger to her lips. She sucks my fingers clean while her blood swirls in my mouth. I pulled us down to the ground slowly, steps from where we had made our meal. The slight ground cover our only cushion. With the additional blood from Teea and two more hours of intimacy, again mostly with Teea, I recovered enough sense to know, never to drink from a frenzy crazed werewolf ever again. Al that and Teea and Dainea have really different sexy faces. The return trip was, for the most part, those two helping each other walk and Steph getting tail and tummy molested the rest of the way home. Steph couldn''t escape even if she tried. We dropped Teea at her place, entering our bed around 2-3 hours after sunrise. - Our Apartment in Acdin - Those two slept. Or tried for the most part, I kept petting them and snuggling with them. Sometime later they drifted off to sleep. Left with only more free time, I worked on understanding the changes in the blood drinking, and the effects it had on me. One thing was, the more times I drank from someone the more erotic they found it. Next was my teeth grew sharper from before, and they were a fixed sized, that in and out extending of teeth crap still not possible. My sense of about the nature of the blood was growing. Blood could be absorbed by any part of me, but if it was through a fabric, hardened/dried or in my hair, I couldn''t. A notion of the feelings and mental state of the person I was drinking from also came to mind and could influence how I felt for a time afterwards. Add to that, every time I fed, there was also a growth to my body or ability. Wasn''t a huge growth mind you. Yet, with the werewolf blood, when it was drained I was sure there was, if it were a game, you would want to round it off to a point of strength and a point of constitution or endurance. Reasonable to assume I could consume the blood and get the benefits of their highest stat. How permanent it was, yet to be seen. Maybe even a point in rage if such a stat existed. Those thieves in the back alley, were like a point of dexterity or agility. Drinking a person dry, felt like that kind of growth, if it was so and that was actually the case, I could only image what kind of monster I''d become later. Did later growth come as easily, would the Yankees get to the playoffs this year? Was having sex with Teea that many times a good thing? A mind full of questions and sleep was far from possible right now. I got to work on my previous creations, a copy of my Waifu rabbits from Earth and a phallic wand, maybe I should retire to a cave someplace be a monster there and not hurt anyone. ¡°I kind of want to go home and see everyone right now...¡± ¡°... Mmm home sucks and people are crap everywhere you go anyways...¡± Steph put in her two cents on that comment apparently. Her asleep again second later, it was me with my thoughts again. Not sure how to handle having had sex with Teea, but Dainea was fine with it, even if she said she wanted me all to herself. I mean, I really felt that way too. For some reason I had always imagined a harem in a bad light, only good for something in fantasies. When it becomes mutual to all parties involved, isn''t that just an ongoing orgy? Not to mention do they have those bad things you can catch from others? Do I have to worry about that when I feed as well? Tried out my new wand a few times. Waifu needed some raw cleaned cotton as filling at this point. Made the rest of the uniform parts for Teea, then set about cleaning the apartment up. All Claw''s blood left me in power mode for the rest of the day, and the next day and part of the day after. Exhausted from the long hike and plethora of extremely rough sex that morning, Dainea didn''t get up at her normal time and slept in. Only getting up around the time to drag herself to work. All three of us went together. Dae holding my hand to keep from stumbling on the short walk. - Wooden Bucket - ¡°What do we think about this morning?¡± I finally got around to asking outside the tavern as we arrived. ¡°What about it?¡± Dainea''s nervousness only apparent from the sound of her voice and not her words. ¡°About the part where... I drank a werewolf and partied and consumedtwo girls all morning? Sure, what is there to think about? Par the course, the insanity that is my life. More, sorry I had to sleep with Teea, I don''t really like her that way. Not that she isn''t a cool beauty type. But I like you best.¡± ¡°I couldn''t tell.¡± Steph''s comment mostly a joking tone. ¡°Sorry to you as well! I know, you didn''t have to, ''have that done in front of you'' after all.¡± I felt embarrassed that I did so, now. ¡°Totally learned something from that one, I mean wow. My girlfriend is strong and lustful as well.¡± Steph put out her tongue at me. ¡°Sure, sure, when you learn to shift, I''ll have sex with you then.¡± I said in a joking manner, looking at Dainea I added, ¡°That is if it is okay with Dainea.¡± ¡°Fine by me.¡± ¡°¡°...¡±¡± Me and then Steph were a bit stunned. ¡°No really, I totally expected that. So you think she can really transform?¡± At Dainea''s comment, we all looked at each other. ¡°I''ll be right back!¡± Not sure where Steph was full speed dashing off to, but since we had arrived at the Wooden Bucket. I had no problems hanging out for a while here. I can apologize to instructor Planknel, for being late, yet again. After an hour of no Steph, I dashed off to meet up with Mr. Planknel. We had lessons in the Bucket today in magic theory and science, left the casting for another day. A little later, ¡°Well, well, if it isn''t Mr. Planknel. Not your regular hang out, how are you doing?¡± Looking up from our discussion, teacher puts on a shocked look. ¡°My, it''s hasn''t been that long Magister Feller. Doing good and you? Why are you back, I thought you were retired in the next town over with that apprentice who sucked you into her bed?¡± Then got up to greet him properly. ¡°Oh ho, still angry she didn''t choose your bed is it?¡± The man in travels robes and a riding gloves stood there smiling at Mr. Planknel. More like isn''t the reason he is angry is because he didn''t get the chance to share this man''s bed? I had the feeling Mr. Planknel went both ways. His blushing made the whole thing way too obvious. I mean the moment he saw the man, his breathing changes and his face got a bit of color to it. I would have to say, Mr. Planknel''s type is skinny, sharp and very smart, men or women. ¡°What brings you to Acdin?¡± Mr. Planknel avoided the question from earlier and moved on. ¡°Family thing, very boring family things. Mind If I sit for a drink? I don''t see who I was supposed to be meeting.¡± The Magister looked around again. ¡°Sure, please sit, you don''t mind do you?¡± Turning to me, Mr. Planknel asked. ¡°Should I let you two reminisce? I can head to the bar and chat with Dainea?¡± I asked Certain that, when it came to choosing between being alone with a man he cared for and talking about magic and science it was a challenging decision for teacher. ¡°Please sit, he''s married after all. Ah no, I mean- um, let''s get another round.¡± So obvious! ¡°Good Idea!¡± The Magister Feller waved at Dainea to come for a drink order. The two men finally sitting back down. Having a chance to look at our new drinking addition, he was old, old enough to be a Grandpa or Great Grandpa. I was not one to be able to guess the age of old men, I would say 50-70 years, who knows. Mom never did let us meet up with most of our family after all. And hanging out with men in town didn''t seem to be acceptable in Mom''s view either. He was skinny. The gray beard was trimmed cleanly and his hair, short up top. Only a couple inches in length. The travel robes were the kind where you wouldn''t care if they were dirtied normally but even if he just got into town, they were really clean and a bit more expensive looking than regular ones. You could tell he was a magic instructor right away, the sharp features of his face would snap to any mistakes you made in casting or etiquette. I could imagine the fear he instilled in many of his less apt pupils. When Dainea arrived, I pulled her hand in and gave it a quick kiss. Magister Feller looked at me then nodded in some sort of understanding, that even if she was a serving girl disrespect meant something. Too many places in town, the patrons treated there servers bad sometimes to the point of trouble. Feller learning Dainea was mine, and that I was hers was pretty common behavior as far as couples go in this World. ¡°Since I just got in town, can I get the first choice for today and good ale to go with? New drinks for you apprentice?¡± Feller put in his order to Dainea. ¡°Not yet, oh, uh? Miss Ophilia, were you ready for a fresh one.¡± Planknel looking at me quickly then back to Feller. ¡°Instructor Planknel, my current one is good, thank you.¡± ¡°Instructor?¡± Magister looked more surprised than anything. ¡°Hmm?¡± Planknel made a strange reply then looked away. ¡°Got it, I''ll bring the next round when you are ready dear.¡± Dainea squeezed my hand and kissed it back. Magister Feller rubbed his hands together after putting down is riding gloves. ¡°I didn''t think you were interested in taking on apprentices or students, or even teaching?¡± His inquiry was not to be denied was the look on his face. With no place to hide in sight, Mr. Planknel sighed, then gave in and answered, ¡°She is talented.¡± He said at the table, then hid behind his newly discovered drink on the table in front of him. ¡°Talented, he says.¡± He looked at me with a raised eyebrow then, glanced back and forth waiting for more information. ¡°Surely he is stretching the truth a bit. My meager understanding of magic is so far a drop in the bucket after all.¡± My making a joke about the tavern at the same time. *cough* *spit, spit* Mr. Planknel had issues with his drink and the liquid came back out his mouth and landed on the table. The Magister fellow cleaned up the few drops on his face and hands then took a drink. ¡°Now I am really curious.¡± He added as an after thought, mostly to himself. ¡°Sooooo, what was so urgent that you made an evening trip to Acdin? Cannot imagine that succubus wife is happy about this.¡± Mr. Planknel''s change of subject was apparent to everyone in the room. ¡°Afraid I''ll steal your student there or worried I''ll sleep with her before you do?¡± His crass remark was a bit off point and a wasted attack for the most part. ¡°Sir, my girlfriend is more than satisfactory for me. Besides, I don''t think that was the problem in the first place.¡± I tried to educate the man on his misunderstanding. His confusion left me sure that whatever happened, this hopeless main protagonist was the stupid type when it came to people''s affections. I could only smile and hope Mr. Planknel''s future love interests turned out better. ¡°Anyways, she''s pregnant and anything I can do to get out of the house now is better than, you know.¡± Old man not shooting blanks is he? My thoughts were about how lucky for them, she must be young then. If that is the case, how old is he really? ¡°Congratulations, please send my best wishes to Marllena.¡± ¡°Thank you. I shall.¡± Dainea set down the meal plate in front of Feller and he dug in with a surprising vigor. ¡°Ah meat, so good! Finally, Marlee has us eating vegetables three times a day hoping for a girl.¡± ¡°You do know that the sex of a child is determined by the male''s sperm right?¡± I spat out before thinking. Covering my mouth with my drink I look around innocently. The two men look at me and ask, ¡°What is sp, erm?¡± ¡°Really, you are not virgins at this age, I would think. You would know what comes out of ''there'' by now.¡± I say trying to derail the conversation to no avail. Magister puts down his fork and looks at me again with a lot of concentration. ¡°Girl, you are saying that the sex of a baby is determined by what comes out of men? How do you know this?¡± ¡°What? Did I say something unusual?¡± I hum, and look innocently at the exposed roof beams in the room. ¡°She is talented.¡± ¡°Is that a code word for you guys? Tal, ent, ted?¡± I ask making fun of them at the same time. ¡°Guess it is a good thing right? I mean, if you can convince the mother of such. You can have meat again right?¡± Poking his weakness for the sleeping comment before. ¡°Okay, that aside, how do you know?¡± ¡°Fine, read it in a book by an expert. That is how most people spread knowledge right?¡± ¡°Is this book, available anywhere for me to read it? Does it have a name?¡± Magister probed further. ¡°Available, hummmmm, you finding a copy, would be unlikely in your lifetime. It''s name... ''Genetics for Dummies''.¡± ¡°Ge, net, ics?¡± Mr. Planknel asked. ¡°That would be the inherited traits passed on from one generation to the next. Eye color, sex, skin, body type things and the rest that makes us up.¡± Filling them in again, this lesson might take all night. ¡°You know the name of the person that wrote this book?¡± Magister looked hopeful. I took a second to think. ¡°No clue, think it was more than one and even then, you meeting them, not likely.¡± Drinking my drink verrrrrry slowly as to not have to talk too much more. ¡°Such a treasure, I can''t even imagine.¡± Magister''s mind was at a far away place. ¡°Not really, one of the most boring things I every picked up.¡± *cough* ¡°Um, Magister Feller, might be best if we kept a few things we talk about tonight to our selves.¡± *cough* I could only think inventing a cough drop in this world would solve so many problems right now. ¡°Boring she says, talented he says... very suspicious I say.¡± Returning to his plate he asks one last question about the subject. ¡°So how can you tell? If I gave her a boy or girl?¡± I look at Mr. Planknel. Him giving me a shrug was unhelpful, ¡°You want to know that, ask the baby.¡± I shrug not coming up with any way to teach them how to make an ultrasound with a spell. The thought of a microscope from a spell might be possible, not sure how that would help with this problem. ¡°?¡± ¡°Mind magic might be possible?¡± Magister was looking at it that way. ¡°I am pretty sure there is no way to see the baby until it comes out, any intro-vaginal inspection would possibly create problems, If you can create an image with sound it might be possible. Just don''t use any sound loud enough to hurt the baby eardrums. I think the mother would be upset in any case. A crazy husband trying things on her like that. I just know the sex of the baby depends on the man''s contribution. Finding out what the result is... Difficult. Like most things not impossible.¡± ¡°Interesting!¡± A couple people in the bar return to their drinks after my short lecture. ¡°You sure she isn''t the instructor Planknel?¡± ¡°Well we have a bit of an information exchange, more than one way lesson.¡± His answer was correct, I guess. ¡°What have you been teaching her? She seems to know a lot of things I had no Idea about.¡± I fill the silence left my Mr. Planknel, ¡°Let''s see, in the last week or so. He taught me the Spells for Mana Bolt, Create Light, Summon Fire, helped me get my elemental separation technique to a good level of skill, and he showed me the basics of the other elemental controls, still working on that one. Was that it? No there was the Voi-¡± *cough* ¡°The spell for shadows sphere, she means.¡± I got corrected, my mistake, sorry. This time it was Mr. Planknel''s turn to get cover with drink exploding out from the Magister''s mouth. ¡°Habit to cover each other with liquids is it?¡± I ask, handing a scrap of cloth to Mr. Planknel. ¡°N, No!¡± His blushing was too much so, I ended up biting my lip to stay quiet. ¡°I see,¡± wiping up some himself. ¡°So you gave her that many lessons in one week, crash course, refresher, or some crossover student?¡± ¡°?¡± It was my turn to be confused. ¡°Nope.¡± Mr. Planknel smiled at something then looked away. ¡°Then why so many lectures, wouldn''t the time be better used learning to cast Mana Bolt before teaching the other principles?¡± ¡°Talented.¡± The smile behind his drink was really cute, he should show it to more people. ¡°What do you mean?¡± ¡°You mean it isn''t normal to learn the lectures, then how to cast them then actually do so successfully in less than ten days?¡± I ask no one in particular staring at my drink. Magister stood up then tumbles backwards over his stool. The shock was too much for him apparently, he looked back and forth between us a few times waiting for something to make sense. ¡°What''s a crossover student?¡± ¡°When a person from another magic school or similar enter for lessons in a different school.¡± ¡°Yup, a week ago I had never once used mana. Now it''s like a light as entered and illuminated my mind.¡± I cast a small dancing flame in front of me and played with it some. Letting the flame become bigger, then smaller while it dances to the air currents in the room. I must say it got quite easy after playing with that Werewolf for so long. Back from the floor, Magister Feller had an odd smile. ¡°Okay, say I believe you, learning three types of magic in one week. Sounds, a little far fetched to me.¡± I shrugged my shoulders and let the flame fade out. Not really big item on the top things to worry list about right now. ¡°So did Magister Feller here, teach you the ''shadows sphere'' spell?¡± My turning the conversation to Planknel was to see, what was what with them. ¡°No, that was after I left and went to recover from, I mean learn new magics. Magister Feller is an Elemental and Light Magic Spell caster. He can also cast spell in Mind Magic but he''s scared to use that school''s magic after an unfortunate incident.¡± ¡°Yeah, never happened.¡± Feller nodded. Seeing most of their drinks had ended up on the table, we were about ready for another round, a look at Dainea the Pro bar waitress, and we had new ones on the way. - Half an Hour Later - Conversation for the three of us centered around magic and science. Normal for Instructor and myself, so adding Magister Feller, we covered a few things, we had between the two of us talked about before. ¡°Not a regular hang out for you Magister, did you have a meeting here? You mentioned something before.¡± Mr. Planknel asked. ¡°Oh, right! I was supposed to talk to a girl wearing a black skirt, white shirt and boots, a bit like a coastal-waters raider or some such.¡± I look down at my outfit thinking that is my normal wear, and now that I recall. I had changed to wash those since they smelled of roasted werewolf and burnt hair. I was wearing something similar to Dainea casual wear when not working. Something made for her but fit me also, as a casual wear it works while my stuff was drying in the apartment. ¡°So what did you want to talk to me about?¡± ¡°Oh Lizards Crap! That''s you? Figures.¡± Magister started mumbling about something over his drink. His exclamation was loud enough to draw the attention of more than one patron and employee. Not a good sign in any case. ¡°.¡± ¡°?¡± Instructor and I waited for my to finish thinking. ¡°Guess it doesn''t matter now, I''ll talk with my Idiot family member and clear it up, if I can.¡± ¡°Oh, is this about the thing with Wensi''s Uncle and his nephew the other day?¡± Dainea rushed over hearing me talk about the pissing event. ¡°Could be, sounds like it may be that.¡± Feller sat there thinking. Dainea reaching the table asked us, ¡°Is everything good here, did you need anything else?¡± ¡°Not at the moment, let me settle the bill. Least I can do if that problem child has made another mess.¡± Magister offered to pay the tab, before he could do so I stopped him. ¡°You know I can''t let you do that, this is like a first home for me and Dainea, as such I should be the one to offer hospitality, Dae, his money is no good here and this, It is the least I can do to cover the damages to his family jewels.¡± Winking at Dainea she giggled and returned to the counter. ¡°Sure? Can you explain to me what you meant?¡± Feller and Planknel both looked at me with a look that said I made little sense. ¡°So you crushed his family juice shop, eh? Down right frightening child there Planknel.¡± Telling the story of everything up to today, only leaving out details a few times. Everyone laughed and joked, as we passed around drinks, It went on for a while. At some point, having forgot to meet with Teea, she showed up thinking trouble may have happened and came looking for us. Adding one more reason to tell the whole story again, the five of us drank and relaxed talked of magic and local stories. An hour later Teea had found a lively specimen to add to her lap. The young girl she found was originally with another guy, but got scared off by Teea somehow. Her skills were legendary around here after all. - Streets of Acdin - Planknel was super drunk and Magister was not far behind, they got carried home by four girls. Can only hope the rumor doesn''t get back to his wife about that. We dumped them at Planknel''s bachelor pad in town and headed back to our Apartment. Teea and her girl going their own way when convenient route to her home appeared. ¡°There is a Harvest Festival coming up soon, I didn''t think to ask before this, would you and Steph go with me to it?¡± ¡°Course I''ll go with you. Wait, what are the festivals like here?¡± Walking hand in hand with Dainea I pause and look at her. The image of a few ancient Greek and Pagan festivals sprang to mind. Making me blush then become a bit nervous. ¡°Vendors from out of town, a pageant for the Winter Maiden, a dance in the main square and a day off for a lot of places. Lasts all day, my working hours will be normal ones so we can go during the afternoon or early evening.¡± ¡°Sounds pretty normal, what is the part about a pageant for the Winter Maiden?¡± ¡°Hehe, um, a girl gets chosen and she has to sleep with all the single people in town before the first snows.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°No.¡± Dae''s effort to make a joke and my lack of response disappointing her. ¡°Gosh you are not fun at all, I thought you''d be a bit shocked.¡± Her cute pout was so cute, I pulled her into the nearest alley. We enjoyed a few crazy minutes. ¡°Winter Maiden pageant?¡± ¡°Right!¡± Straightening her dresses hem and fixing her chest as she walked out of the alley with me. ¡°All the cute girls in town dress up and one will get chosen to be the representative for the winter festival. She will represent the long nights and the hope for a good springtime.¡± ¡°Then why do they do that in the fall?¡± ¡°There are dresses and she needs to practice the prayer, a song to sing at the Winter Festival.¡± ¡°Oh, makes sense.¡± After a thought I ask. ¡°Did you ever participate in the pageant?¡± ¡°What? No, no, I''m too old now and our old town did something different. Plus, I''m not really a maiden anymore.¡± ¡°Did you do that with a guy? You said she had to sleep with all the singles in town.¡± ¡°Do what with a guy?¡± I made the finger into a circle thing. ¡°Why would I do that? Not like I want a child.¡± ¡°Isn''t being a maiden someone who hasn''t had sex? Or has her skin still?¡± ¡°Maiden is a girl who is ten or fewer years old.¡± ¡°Oh. Still, making a dress for that sounds fun.¡± Had the thought of a few dresses that might work in mind, most from cartoon movies about Winter. Might be an opportunity to sell a few at the tailor''s shop if that were the case. ¡°Can you tell me about the dresses from the past years?¡± Heading back to the apartment, there was still no word yet from Princess Stephanie. Hope her hunt for a skill trainer is going well. - Our Apartment - Was a good time to clean up and do some gear maintenance. Dainea ate a meal then sat with me. We drew out a few ideas for a few dresses on the fabric and discussed making a few later. Her skills at tailoring where to the point of maintenance only, so anything she needed fixing I would work on as well. With a late dinner for Dae out of the way, she edged over to me while working. She seemed to have something in mind, yet I couldn''t quite guess. Putting down the fabric and tools I sat looking into her eyes. ¡°Ophilia.¡± Whatever she had been about to say was interrupted by her kiss. Her hand slowly making a path up from my waist. She hesitant about which direction her hand was going every time she it got close to my face she moved it away. Her tongue was interested in my teeth more than ever before. I breathed heavily, calming myself, waiting for her to ask for what she wanted. She moved her hands to my lips as well. She, resisting the urge to explore me mouth. Seeing the conflict in her eyes, helped me decide to break the kiss. I picked her up in my arms and walked over to the water bucket with the washing cloth. Placing her on the short wood stool we used to wash with, I pulled the cloth and washed her face as we kissed. Cleaning her and making her messy at the same time, we continued this way. At the point she could take it no more. She breathed hard and heavy in my ear. ¡°Please feed on me, please, anywhere just, please, drink me up soon. Hurry, I can''t last much longer.¡± Her plea was enough and her eyes confirmed her words along with her grasping hand at my mouth. ¡°I think I can, it might hurt a bit more, don''t let me take too much Dae.¡± Rolling up her skirt and apron, I took the cloth and washed her thighs, the cool water sending shivers along her legs. Using one hand I pushed her torso back so she rested against the wall and I lowered my head to her lower garments. I finished rolling up the skirt above her waist then moved her underwear to the side. Her fully swollen pinkness and flushed folds waited and pulsing in time with her fast heartbeat. Her heartbeat picked up even more when a moved to start drinking. A bit of anticipation of the pain then pleasure had her juices dripping down in a light trickle already so far gone. I brought her left swollen lip into my mouth she gasped a few times. I let my upper fang press lightly on the flesh and she convulsed, the involuntary movement causing me to penetrate the skin the scent of blood and her sex filled my senses and we climaxed over and over together. Some were together, a few at different timing. When the waves of pleasure subsided I washed her legs and feet, then we undressed and moved to the bed. The rest of our play that morning was gentle and happy. ¡°You are the best monster a girl could ever have for a girlfriend! I know you don''t like to be called that, I''m happy we are together. Really!¡± ¡°Dainea, You are going to make me cry if you say something like that.¡± - Dreams are Windows to the Soul They Say - Sizing a dress for a younger girl was challenging, best we could do is a rough guess. A military wedding for Teea. Her in a dress and her girl partner in a Uniform? I had a dream. Dreamed about spicy werewolf-meat tacos. Topped with a salsa and smattering of Cheddar cheese. Served on a platelet of shining silver. Little Steph''s in Moon Minx form danced to a happy melody as I was fed snippets of wisdom from all my friends. The winter snows fell upwards into the sky. I sat in a desolate field after a war had raged. The fruits of the season celebrated their win against the evil vegetables trying to take over. Winter flax, rice and wheat marching in to scavenge what was left of the fallen. I could only panic as my red silk dress flew away into the winds. Springs flowers were so far away, yet I remembered their scent and hoped to see them soon. End Chapter 5 Vol 2 - Chapter 6 - Working Title Blood Fractal ¨C Volume 2 Chapter 6 Working Title ''I find time is highly mutable, first there is never enough, later there is too much, and sometimes, just sometimes, it tends to do things so confusing you''ll never understand what it is or how it works.'' - Last words of, Time Magister Elks, year 1297 of the Holy Calendar of Plume. Today Miss Utica is managing the front and Wensi fled the moment we arrived. We are getting the money for a couple of sold items and picking out a few fabrics to make things from. The fabric here for the most part is a better quality import. When making the fall pageant dress I had in mind, the local mill fabrics are not up to the task. The day so far was uneventful, sex, blood, some Rock''n Roll. Well, hangovers for a couple of my friends maybe. Other than all that, boring. Think there is a Werewolf in town willing to donate a pint? That kind of food really had a kick to it. Okay, diet and food aside, we should get back to working on the money and skills, you know, the things that can keep us alive. That and finding what happened to Princess Butter cup, she still off chasing her dream of true love or at least a fulfilling orgasm. Not sure if she had really thought through choosing to be a Moon Minx when we got sent here, if she got to choose at all. I get the feeling there was and with my affections for stuffed animals in my room. Think she actually liked the cats ones more than Mr. and Mrs. Waifu. I know I had told her not to play with those, they were the oldest ones in my collection after all, and I didn''t want them falling apart, mostly. Well then, a trip to the Thieves guild might not be totally out of the question today. First we are going shopping. I dragged Dae''s over sexed, exhausted corpse all over the place. Things for the apartment, food, veggies, tools, information and everything else on my list. You name it, today we looked at it. Anything I didn''t understand, I asked about. Found out about the normal price as well as where it came from and who made it if possible. Very illuminating day or late afternoon at least. While Dae had slept through the mid-morning, I had time to finish the cosplay uniform for Teea, in addition to extra stock items to sell at Miss Utica''s shop. Apparently, a few husbands have also started to ask their partners about short skirts and one piece dresses, quite a few had sold recently. Maybe prancing about town in the one piece dresses and my game outfit was starting a fashion movement in the bedroom. I don''t really concern my self with it too much. Easy income was easy income after all. Yet, I feared for the reputation of tailor shop only dealing in items used in the bedroom. I relaxed my cheeks as the grin on my face was becoming a bit cramped. No, what evil grin? No such thing... Next major purchase today were scales from animals or fishies. I found what I needed after a few stores and stalls, and went on to shop for things to create some treats for Dainea and Steph later. I couldn''t do cakes but with a different cooking pot and lid, in the fire place cookies or grilled items might work. Not to mention, stews and soups were starting to get a bit old, even if I didn''t have to eat them, watching the girls eat bowl after bowl was starting to make me miss the Clam Chowder from back home too much. Plus, if we got a good steak or filet, can dress those up just as easy now. Mmm I wonder how a good wolf flank might fry up? Really, I am getting thirsty just thinking about it. Yup, really tasty, moving on here. We finished up shopping and walked Dae to work then jogged over to the Thieves Guild hideout. Same door at the back, same dark basement, just this time, it was possible to get hurt, even get killed in there. It was a bit nerve wracking, the nighttime activities of the area were not in full swing yet. The depressed area near South Gate certainly felt poor, smelled poor, sounded poor, and worst of all was definitely taken care of poorly. The crap in the alley was, yeah enough said. I hurried to the door trying my best not to step in anything or on anyone. Even with a new level of agility and dexterity it was quite the task entering or escaping cleanly. At least the steps were clear and the inside a bit less nasty than the alley. If gamers from our World saw this there would probably be a lot less people wanting to play killers or thieves. I didn''t see any one down there once I hit the bottom step, I could only flash my guild token to see if anyone came out. Luckily the woman who gave me the poison recipe came out of a hallway after a short wait. ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Hello, seen-, ah what was his name? Paws! That was it, seen him round?¡± ¡°Maybe. Why do you want to know?¡± She was digging for more information. It was plain as day, that or a bribe. I played with my guild token like a poker chip a bit then pocketed it. The action was somewhat shaky, I still did my best to seem not too nervous. ¡°Not so much your business as it is mine, just skill related.¡± ¡°You seem like trouble, I don''t like those types in my basement. Why don''t you leave?¡± She was looking pretty serious, not sure what I should respond with at that point. ¡°Mixing it up with you wouldn''t be my first choice. But, the level of trouble I bring today won''t be that much. Not enough to send me on my way, without helping me find my wayward cat friend at least. Speaking with them should be all for today. Besides, last time we ate Dinner together, he never even said thanks.¡± ¡°Well you spoke the truth even if some of it sounds suspicious.¡± ¡°Yup! Yeah, sure. I am the suspicious one here. Sorry for wanting to talk with a talking pussy.¡± Her choking back a laugh was almost too much, I really wanted to pat her on the back and say it was going to be okay for some reason. ¡°Sounds like something my sister would say.¡± She caught herself, straightened up and continued. ¡°Hold on. You can wait in here.¡± Leaving back down the dark corridor she was hard to see even after my eyes had gotten better with the dark. There was almost no light down here. Constant practice for the guildies maybe? ¡°I certainly don''t recall eating Dinner with you.¡± Said Paws entering from the hallway followed by Poison recipe girl. ¡°I do.¡± Steph''s voice came down the hall. ¡°Strange, did someone use mind magic to make me forget?¡± ¡°No, that would be nice if I could, but I have yet to find a willing instructor. This time it would be correct to say, think of it as an idea of you that never existed in this World. By the way, thank you for introducing me to Mr. Planknel, such a nice teacher.¡± ¡°Really? I did that too, strange since normally I would never do such a thing.¡± Paws was really confused by this point. ¡°Part of the reason you never actually thanked my for that meal. Since it was prepared with a bit of help I twisted out of her for a couple of coppers. All in the past Guild Mates, all in my past. So Steph? You good here then? I''ll head back to the North Gate for lessons then.¡± ¡°Just what kind of lessons are you getting from the Militia Archery Instructor?¡± The woman ask me moving in close with a slightly menacing look. ¡°Teea sister?¡± I gasped, they looked a lot alike, now I could really tell that she got close and made that face. ¡°I am not related to that succubus in any way.¡± ¡°Okay great! Then it''s totally okay I raped her for two hours yesterday morning? Whew, I was so worried over nothing then.¡± ¡°¡°¡°...¡±¡±¡± Three people stood there stunned. Yes killing a conversation is totally fun, lets do this more often. ¡°Ha ha, ha ha, ha, no way! Completely no way? Right? I mean she is like 100% the one to do the attacking after all. Right?¡± That girl actually fell over laughing, such a good thing the floor was clean and she was laughing with such a happy tone. I mean, who wants to piss off someone that can poison you to death. ¡°Yeah saw the whole thing, if I had pants, I would have had to change them after that show. Most of the reason I am here after all.¡± Nice back up there Steph, thanks! I gave her a thumbs up! ¡°Really?¡± ¡°¡°Really.¡±¡± Me and Steph both answer. ¡°Okay, even if I don''t completely believe that, don''t tell her I''m here. Please.¡± ¡°Sure. Anyways the lessons are survival in the wild 101 and evidently intimacy 69 oh 2.¡± ¡°I don''t understand.¡± Paws interrupted. ¡°I''ll tell you later if you add another skill lesson.¡± Steph winked at me. ¡°Fair enough.¡± The cat accepted just like that. Wow, wish all my teachers were that easy to get skills from, Oh wait, they were... ''Muhaha''. At least until the game ended and the real World started. ¡°So will we see you for breakfast this time you Minx?¡± ¡°Wait, how long have I been gone?¡± ¡°What, it is just before nightfall now, and you left us at the tavern yesterday around this time? So, a whole day?¡± ¡°That long? yes okay, I''ll make it home for breakfast then. Gee a whole day, felt like a couple of hours...¡± Hoping up into my arms to get a petting recharge and a kiss, then a hug from me. She headed off back to wear they were to learn more I guess. Cats, never can guess what they are thinking after all huh? I wave a bit lonely but happier for the affection, then turn to Teea''s sister. ¡°Think Teea will look good in this?¡± I pull out the uniform and show it to her. ¡°What are you trying to deflower every virgin girl in town with that? She is already too much for them as it is! They will have to install a barn door on the front of her house to keep the traffic flowing. Please don''t tell my you are giving the woman a God Class Weapon like that.¡± She looked a bit defeated, then crumpled to the floor. I could only picture this woman in an Asian Halloween Pumpkin Witch outfit at the moment. Still, even if she was the older of the two sisters she really had the figure and temperament for such a Halloween outfit. Wondered for a moment if I could get one made in time for her to wear for the festival? Feeling the level of damage inflicted to her psyche today was sufficient. I headed to the North Gate for magic lessons. Maybe I should have asked, she was the prefect look for it. Oh well no camera. Let''s go. Today was Water Magic lessons. Based on the dry weather this year and an increase risk of my fire spells going out of control. I had no other way than letting fire spells burn out after canceling the mana. Other than tossing a full water skin on them it was a bit problematic. Might be a good thing to learn, seeing that if there were other things around to burn they would still ignite from the high heat during the spell. Water, cold or lack of air would also work, all three in extreme case too. I mean, how often will I find my self near the core of a planet trying to put out magma quality flames? I could only think of couple cases, all very frightening, and all very famous in games. Sitting with a full dish of water we worked on moving the water as today''s lesson. When my mana ran low, I carved the scales I bought today and meditated. Moving water with Mana, probably one of the most boring skills to learn, however the application was worth learning. Who wouldn''t love to be able to create their own magic wet t-shirt contest wherever they go?... Come on really? I know someone has to have thought of it. Just kidding, I would never support such a contest. So much more fun to use it to embarrass those hot male adventure types by making it look like the peed themselves after acting all cool in front of their harems. Just kidding, not going to go the Demon Lord route anymore. Was probably a common practice at Magic Schools across the multiverse anyways. Just kidding, those schools probably have a list of tricks that fall under Capital punishment for preforming after all. Just so bored learning to move water around with mana. I had to think about something. Teea applauded as I separated the water into thin streams that bounced up and away from the surface of the water. Near the end of the lesson, she had arrived early and found us out in the forest clearing. Behind her was Dainea with a slight concerned girlfriend look. I could only guess those two were a bit edgy about the other morning still. It was completely understandable after all. ¡°Thanks, met your sister by the way, she didn''t want you to know, so forget I told you.¡± I was going the issue avoidance route this time I guess. ¡°Yes, knew she was here, dad sent a letter long time ago.¡± ¡°Cool.¡± ¡°You have a new spell Oli?¡± Dae asked. ¡°I do, once it gets good enough we can do things like this with strange fluids and wreak havoc on young girls, tormenting them to no end.¡± Creating a more erotically shaped stream of water for the girls then pumping it up and down for them. After I let it splash back into the dish, they share their thoughts on the issue. Most of the statements were ''not interested'', but I could tell by the glances at the water they were thinking lots of things they might be extremely embarrassed to speak out loud about. The flushed cheeks that kept appearing every time they glanced over said so much after all. ¡°Really, If I could control the spell without looking at it I would completely share it with my partner. Maybe a week from now, that good for you Dae?¡± ¡°Sure, I, I, I mean! No, no, no way, not, not really interested in, in-¡± The words didn''t come out of her mouth. ¡°That?¡± Wiggle, wiggle. Oops, she ran away. Come back, I''m sorry I just wanted to see you blush some more. ¡°Interesting application, I''ll have to remember that for later.¡± Looks like I taught something bad to Mr. Planknel he didn''t consider before. ¡°So Teea? What are the lessons for tonight?¡± She jumped for a second there. ¡°I wonder if the elemental casters I know can do that?¡± Oh, maybe she was running through a list of ex-lovers with such a skill capability. Certainly, she wasn''t interested in that experience after all. ¡°On a different topic, anyone know a village maiden we can dress up this year for the festival?¡± Bad timing? Jumping from water tentacles to maidens a bit too quick? Teea has the look she had a mini orgasm just from the thought. ''Yes I am a complete pervert sometimes.'' ¡°No sorry.¡± Mr. Planknel completely missing the subtext within my words, might have been for the best. ¡°They don''t tend to let me near kids of that age for some reason.¡± Teea''s response made a huge amount of sense in my mind. Well water consumed after infusing so much mana certainly felt refreshing. I drank up the water and returned the dish to Teacher. Teea''s disappointment was maxed after that for some reason. ¡°Teea, about the other day.¡± ¡°Good times huh? Who would''ve thought...¡± ¡°Yes, your sister knows too.¡± No point hiding that, best out in the open with everything and into step two of recovery. ¡°You didn''t?¡± ¡°Well she said, she wasn''t related, I had to think of a shocker, that was kind of the top of the list, you know.¡± ¡°You, you- no, what? She? Did she, what did she say?¡± ¡°About what? My subduing you for a couple of hours or that she thought you were the one to do the attacking normally?¡± ¡°Yeah.¡± ¡°Well? Do they have the expression rolling on the floor laughing in this World?¡± ¡°No, but the image is certainly expressive enough...¡± ¡°Yes she did that for what? Six minutes at least.¡± ¡°I am never going to live this down, am I?¡± She dropped in to a pouting seated position. ¡°Hey, as an apology I guess I can hand this to you now, with a few conditions that is.¡± Pulling out her new God Tiered Weapon Set, I start to pass her the garment. ¡°This is to be used indoors only. It is soul bound to you alone. Please use it only on single-non maiden-consenting-partners and only after they agreed to intimacy. Should this garment ever be used for nefarious or evil purposes you shall swear to return it without delay. As a Knight of the Adult Virgin Orgasm, I hold you to the highest standards, please approach and receive your God Tier Weapon.¡± Having had my fun, I hand her the bag as she peeks inside. ¡°On my honor, I will accept this in the name of bringing joy to virgins everywhere.¡± ¡°I was afraid of that, quick! Give it back.¡± ¡°No!¡± She hugged it tightly, peeking inside again. She smiled then included me in the hug. ¡°Can I go home and wear it now?¡± ¡°I thought we had lessons? Would hate to die in the wild after having missed just one lesson that could have prevented it.¡± ¡°Fine! Come on, I''ll teach you how to put on a Chasity Belt, it is going to be about the only thing keeping me off you later if you keep this up.¡± She pointed at the water bowl. ¡°Dainea, come back! She wants to dress me up in metal underwear.¡± ¡°I''m here! Don''t start with the water again, please. It is hard enough to stay standing around you as it is, sometimes.¡± Dae popped out from behind a tree. ¡°That so?¡± I asked with a big smile on my face. We had tree climbing and up skirt peeking lessons for the rest of survival class. ''Relentless'' had the best view since she never left the ground. Dae and I took turns drooling and watching the other go up and down the tree. I didn''t feel too conflicted flashing Dainea a few times. Her return gifts were heart racing and completely affected my knees. We understood that later there would be fun and games. It was important to work hard in class after all, we increased the flirting speed a bit to pass time faster. Next, it was off to bathe in the stream with local fauna as cleaning agents. Teea was made to turn around on threat of loosing further raid loot privileges if she looked. ¡°Stop it, you two!¡± Teea got angry at our flirting. ¡°Sensei, this one has made a mistake. Please forgive us.¡± A big grin on my face. I think Teea might be taking her frustrations out on an innocent girl later. I felt bad for the level of strain to be placed upon said girl later, by our current excessive flirting now. Neither of us could nor wanted to stop flirting at this point. ¡°No, shut up and both of you focus on the bow.¡± We watched Dae increase her skill and receive archery pointers, Teea also letting me know where and what to look for, should I want to use a bow later. Giving us so much information I might even be able to teach someone else later. ¡°So difficult. Ha!¡± Dae currently panting from releasing so many arrow draws, she is certainly improving fast. She has a basic level of talent and interest so she may get decent with more time invested. Muscle conditioning, that will be the biggest help for her right now. ¡°Guess that will do for the evening. Excellent work Dainea, I also noticed you are getting better at casting that light spell Ophilia.¡± ¡°¡°Thanks¡±¡± We chime at the same time. The last town bell for the middle of the night had sounded a long while ago. We were getting more time from Teea than she had originally agreed on so maybe we should offer her more money. ¡°Off to work some Dae or you want to do something else?¡± I asked. ¡°I think we should eat then I should serve tables. Sound good, let''s go!¡± She grabbed my hand and walked a bit faster towards the North Gate. A bit faster, was her full speed possible while still considered walking. She didn''t leave me a chance to say anything so maybe she had something in mind. ¡°Later Teea, remember what I said about the uniform!¡± Waving as Dae dragged me home for dinner. After having subjected Dae and Teea to the idea tentacle sex play, I felt I should probably behave a bit more proper now that we''re back in town and in public. Dinner with Dae had consisted of very little actual food and quite a bit of play time in the apartment. Fair enough I thought, I wasn''t actually hungry today either. ''Yes, I am an oversexed maniac right now running rampant in my youth. Deal with it.'' In the tavern tonight a few of the girls were gossiping about the new boy, rumor has it, he was one of the refugee''s from another town that got hired today. That might account for the number of single girls still working and drinking now at this late hour. The bonus for me was Dae could sit and talk, rather than having to run drinks all morning. We did get lucky to find a maiden to wear the outfit I had planned for the pageant. One of the girls in the tavern has a little sister they would introduce us too later that day. As long as we promised we wouldn''t teach her anything bad, knowing Dae''s preference for girls, along with the large amount of unusual rumors surrounding me. We promised only to make the dress, take measurements, and a single fitting. At least with the description and rough size of the girl, I could estimate a few things and get started. We told her to bring the girl by the apartment at any convenient time today. Hour later, we caught sight of the new boy working at the tavern, a slightly shabby dark brown haired boy pretty close to our age, looked a bit underfed. He wasn''t much compared to Steph''s brother Josh. I could see why the girls around here would be interested in the fresh meat. A bit of confidence and a touch of adventure seemed to fit him well. ¡°Hi, I''m Reno.¡± He offered his greeting to Dae then me. I guess you would use the phonetics ''Reh- noh'' to say his name. ¡°My name is Dainea and this is my Ophilia.¡± Dae answered for us. ¡°Hello.¡± I said then took a drink. ¡°More drinks?¡± He asked. ¡°No, I''ll get them myself if we need them thanks.¡± Dae looked back at me and our pageant dress project parts on the table. He was confused for a second until I filled him in. ¡°She works here too.¡± ¡°Oh great, then we will see you around then.¡± ¡°Mmm, would it be too much to ask not to run into trouble every night...¡± I sigh in exasperation. ¡°Trouble?¡± Dae asked tilting her head. I nod in the affirmative. ¡°Him? You think so?¡± I nod. ¡°He really likes Dae a lot, I can tell.¡± For real, the scent he gave off the moment he started staring at her chest and face was like walking into a swamp or port-a-potty. I never imagined I''d have a sense of smell that could detect arousal before, this was a bit strange. I only compare the smell to those because the intensity of them is on a whole different level, and plus it was about Dae and she was mine, and for some reason was bothering more today than ever. ¡°He''s not my type.¡± She squeezed my hand then closed her eyes at me. In this World it was a sign of trust and affection. I brought her hand to my mouth and she shivered some in excitement, I kissed it quickly and let her catch her breath. Her arousal scent scattering away the smell of departed Reno. We worked on the dress and talked about things. Steph arrived closer to sunrise. They eat and we all drank together. Leaving the talking for the apartment later, the fewer people knowing Princess was able to talk the better. She felt happy enough purring in my lap while munching the meat and cooked vegetables. Food and drink finished off. We made our way back to the apartment. ¡°Welcome back Princess.¡± Dae gave Steph a scratch behind the ear then went to wash up some. She had yawned most of the way back, so much work and exercise had wore her out. ¡°Missed you. Learn anything from Paws?¡± Scratching behind the other ear, I asked Steph. ¡°Mmm.¡± She waited until we stopped petting her. ¡°Yes, looks like I can learn to shape-shift, it may take some time, but it is possible. In time...¡± ¡°That''s great! Tell me more.¡± ¡°First, I have to get used to nature magic energy, It was really similar to your mana. Think my brother called it Key or Ki or Qi or something in games...¡± ¡°Life energy? Makes sense... I do recall us playing a few of those Chinese cultivation MMOs. They also did have aura and monk type classes for Fractal Online. Can you show me the energy yet?¡± ¡°What are you two talking about. Less than half of what you said made any sense.¡± Dae interrupted us, and dried her self then sat on the bed. ¡°Stuff Princess needs to learn, similar to concepts from our World. An energy fighting masters needed to do fancy skill things with.¡± I add. ¡°And it is similar to nature magic energy, nice.¡± She rested in bed. ¡°Here tell me about it, while I help Dae sleep.¡± I moved to Dae side and adjusted her sleep wear then started to gently massage her shoulder and back. ¡°Oh, so good.¡± She moaned. That was the last we heard from her as her breathing quickly changed to that common in her sleep. ¡°I, a bit jealous Anne. I-¡± ¡°Stephanie, I''ll give you a massage anytime you like.¡± Yup you can learn a lot on the internet after all.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡°Okay. I didn''t know you could.¡± ¡°No one asked. I guess. Qi, come, show me.¡± After Steph recited what she could remember from the lessons, I watched her try to focus and circulate the energy inside. The best she could describe it as was a liquid energy, warm and concentrated pulse. I offered a few impressions from past games and literature that I could remember. She did grow warm and a slight glow of silver slightly showed around her. Pointing out a few things I let her know she was shining just a tiny bit, seems to make her even happier. Steph cultivated and I worked on watching her, mana manipulation and sewing. The dress for the pageant was nearly done by the time the girl from the tavern and her sister showed up at our door. They knocked at the downstairs entrance and I let them in. ¡°Hi again. This is my lil sister please don''t corrupt her!¡± ¡°Sure, had no plans to! Nice to meet you, I am Ophilia a dress maker.¡± ¡°Nice to meet you Miss Ophilia, my name is Summer Dance because that is how my mom got me.¡± I look at the big sister, ¡°Pint, huh guess her naming sense hasn''t changed?¡± ¡°¡°Right.¡±¡± ¡°Come upstairs, Dainea is sleeping, think it would take the town blowing up to wake her so don''t worry.¡± Well that or a few well placed kisses. ¡°Thank you.¡± They both stop just inside the door a bit freaked out. ¡°Wh- Why is your cat glowing?¡± Pint asked. ¡°Oh so you can see that too, good job Princess it got stronger.¡± I smile at them, ¡°Don''t be scared she is just practicing. Don''t tell anyone okay.¡± ¡°Not sure anyone would believe me even if I did.¡± Summer went to pet Princess while Pint looked at me for more information. ¡°So glowing Minxes are unusual good to know...¡± I turn and go get the dress adding a few light spells of my own to light up the room. *gasp* Summer Dance froze seeing the magic lights, her hand stopped mid stroke down Steph''s back. ¡°Ah, yeah a light spell, cheaper than candles. Here Summer, can you try this on?¡± Little rainbows of light dancing around the room reflected from the dress, it was a really neat effect. ¡°...¡± ¡°You don''t like it?¡± ¡°NO! Not at all, its incredible!¡± Summer stood in front of the dress with a long stare. Slow reaching for it like the dress was made of platinum. Scared to get it dirty or damage it. ¡°Too much?¡± I ask Pint who also has a sparkle in her eyes. Pint and Summer worked on getting our little maiden into the dress carefully. Pint Stepped back and Summer stepped forward. The light reflecting from the fish scale snowflakes bouncing around the room like a wild planetarium. It was almost perfect, ¡°Here turn around Summer.¡± I pulled out a brush and the ribbon accessory I had made. She was the right height already so she didn''t need to sit down for us to do up her hair. I had Pint help weave in two sequined ghost ribbons into her hair. I put in a fish-bone pattern down the back finally tied at the end with the ribbons. The reflective fish scales shaped as snowflakes looked to almost float in the weave pattern around her hair. Matching the dress, her silver grey, the colorful winter blue fabric woven and stitched with a fine silver thread. I had spent a enough coin on the dress but felt the effect and view now alone worth the price. ¡°What is this made of?¡± Touching the ribbon in her sisters hair. ¡°Best if you don''t ask those kind of questions.¡± I could only imagine what her reaction would be if I told her it was a ghost''s underwear, and a boy''s underwear at that. ¡°That expensive? And these?¡± Playing with the fish scales. ¡°Carved scales.¡± ¡°I''ve never seen the likes.¡± ¡°Hurry! I want to see. Do you have a looking glass?¡± Summer bounces a little. ¡°Mirror, right!¡± I grab the large hand one I bought and bring it over. ¡°Can I really wear this to the fall festival?¡± She looked up at me with water at the corner of her eyes. ¡°I told your sister it was for you right, why would I say differently now? Of course you can wear it.¡± Tears forming on the little girls face, I dried them with my sleeve, ¡°Now, now, no use crying. If you don''t stop, I might start too.¡± Steph hearing the commotion came over and rubbed a cheek against us, trying to act cat like. I was almost fooled for a second. Summer grunted as she picked up Steph. She was bigger than a full adult cat by a large amount, it was a matter of size not body fat. But at this moment, I could only wish I had a camera. Princess being carried by the little girl in such a pretty outfit was so cute, I had to suppress a squeal. Steph was definitely frowning at the grunt made by Summer. She mouthed out the words, ''Not funny.'' ¡°Glad you like it Summer! It looks great. Just a few changes and you can take it with you, can you wait or do you have something to do today?¡± I pull out a few pins and prepare to make a few modifications to the dress. ¡°Sis?¡± Summer looks to Pint for an answer. Pint was staring in awe of the sight of her pretty lil sister there in front of her. She could only nod in agreement. Summer changed back and was playing with Steph, while Pint asks me about the dress sequins. Taking my time with the changes so the final outcome will fit better. ¡°They are just carved fish scales attached to the dress, very reflective ones mind you, but cheap and not too hard to get from the vendor.¡± She acts like it is the most incredible thing to ever find its way onto a dress. I drop a few extra un-carved ones into her palm, and tell her who sold them to us. With all the fixes complete, I pass back the dress to Summer and wake up Dae. She had to see the finished product after all. It was close to the time she got up normally, and was glad to be able to see the final fitting. Everyone took in the sight of Summer sparkling like winter snow on a bright winter day. It was quite the sight rainbow snowflakes reflecting the light. The walls covered in diffused light patterns, every move sparkled with light catching the eye with colors and patterns. It was really hard to convince Summer to take the dress off to take it home. I didn''t want the pageant competition to have any chance of coming up with a creation that could compete with this, right? ¡°She is going to win this year.¡± Dae looked at Summer holding Pint''s hand walking down the street as they headed home. ¡°You did a really good job on that dress.¡± ¡°Good.¡± I said and waved. I hope the dollar signs in my eyes fade by the time the festival starts. I can see a few custom orders coming back from this if all goes well. ¡°Meow.¡± ¡°Yes, yes, Princess is not fat at all-¡± *Owch!* ¡°Please spare me! It is good you have this much weight, if you didn''t then when you shift things will get really unpleasant.¡± ¡°Wait, what do you mean?¡± I look at Steph, ¡°That werewolf right, even in his big form he only had enough blood for me as he was in his normal state.¡± ¡°Which means?¡± Steph not understanding my concern. ¡°Think of the normal Wolfkin state of his as an empty balloon and his big Werewolf form as full one. Now which state is harder to pop?¡± ¡°Eh?¡± ¡°The larger the difference you want to shift the harder it is going to be. How much more mass and size were you on Earth compared to now? Not saying extra body fat going to help, just, your size and weight right now, any smaller and my guess you would never get taller than Frodo when trying to shift.¡± ¡°You might be right Paws was saying that I would do well to think of a smaller or similar forms in the end.¡± ¡°I think it will be okay if you are a bit small when shifted, it will be easier to maintain and less risk of getting hurt. Long as you are careful and makes you happy. That''s good right?¡± I hold Steph in my arms a tad bit tighter. ¡°Hungry?¡± ¡°¡°Yes!¡±¡± Steph and Dae echo together. Good, if Steph lost any more weight, it might be problematic. ¡°Good, who''s turn for lunch?¡± Ugh! ¡°Don''t you both point at me, I haven''t slept in oh gawd, two plus days now, that wolf has terrible side effects.¡± ¡°See what happens when you blow out your diet?¡± Steph jokes are very pointed just like her claws. ¡°I had no idea it would turn out this way. Learn something new every day, don''t we?¡± ¡°Yes we do, what is a diet? And Mass? And ...¡± Dae had a list of words she didn''t understand. ¡°You want to tell her while I nap Steph?¡± Heading back up stairs I pass the buck to Princess. Listening to Steph talk about Earth related things with Dae, I drop onto the bed and tune out the world. I had a dream, and it was completely forgotten the moment I realized I was being woken by kisses from Dainea. I grabbed her and pulled her into bed and licked her face for a while. She was insistent for me to stop because it was too strange but was laughing and smiling the whole time. ¡°Can you teach me how to make cookies?¡± ¡°Oh that''s all? Sure what kind?¡± ¡°Kind? There are more than one?¡± ¡°Dae, My kitten! There are more types of cookies than people in this town.¡± ¡°Steph said before she went back to her lessons, that she missed them, and I might like them too.¡± ¡°Yeah, I would say I too. Let me think. We have sugar and salt still right?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Wait, might be better to use the taverns ovens, those for bread. Do they just put the loafs on the shelf in the oven?¡± ¡°I think so, not sure as I never looked.¡± ¡°Should work then, lets get a cooking sheet and the rest of the ingredients.¡± We gather up a few suitable items I had already bought and we headed to the market. ¡°You recall those husked oats they make porridge out of? We need some of those. Some of that, that and that. Those might be good there, and some of those. Just not as much as the oats. What can this get us?¡± I drop four silver coins on the table of the market shop. ¡°See what kind of fruit they have over there Dae, here.¡± Placing a silver in her hand. The shopkeeper pulls out what was requested and weighs a few of each making adjustments to a pile of stones to keep track of the cost. ¡°More oats there if you have them.¡± ¡°Sure they are quite cheap as it is mostly used as a milled item.¡± ¡°Great thanks, send them to the Wooden Bucket tavern for us?¡± ¡°Delivery is-¡± ¡°Hmmm, didn''t I buy enough to get that included, guess Jassen over there should supply us next time?¡± ¡°Fine!¡± ¡°Yup it is fine since even with delivery you overcharged us 17 copper. Since, your goods here are of such good quality I don''t mind though.¡± Followed by a wink I quickly smile. ¡°How?¡± ¡°Number of stones you used there.¡± I turn to look for Dae, ¡°Where did she go? Did you see Dainea go someplace?¡± The kind shopkeeper points around the corner of the building. ¡°Thanks.¡± ¡°No problem, but I think she was okay, that man was fairly attractive.¡± She last comment stunned me then put me into full out express mode, I sped up only leaving a small dust cloud behind. ¡°Darn it!¡± I could smell the swamp scent from here. They went into the next alley. ¡°No.¡± Dae''s voice was pretty clear there, he should listen better. ¡°Hi!¡± I say from right behind Reno. ¡°Where did you come from?¡± He jumped a good half a meter into the air just before reacting to my greeting. ¡°Dainea was our new friend here causing any problems?¡± She slid out from between him and the wall and joined my side. ¡°Not really.¡± ¡°I just asked her to join me for drinks after-¡± ¡°If I asked you, I''d listen. I asked Dainea here first.¡± ¡°So was there something he wanted to show you in this empty alley?¡± Looking at Reno while listening to Dae. ¡°He pulled me here, he didn''t say why.¡± Dae said and held on to my arm. Reno swallowed and looked a little nervous. ¡°Oh I see, not like a co-worker has any reason to doubt the honorable intentions of a new employee who just got to town where nobody knows or cares about them?¡± ¡°Um-¡± ¡°Reno?¡± I interrupt again. ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Did I ask for your input into this conversation yet?¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°Dainea, did the Kind and Gentle co-worker ask to bring you here or provide any reason to leave your other friend alone in the market place?¡± ¡°He certainly did not.¡± ¡°Reno?¡± ¡°Yes?¡± ¡°Did you have a kind and gentle reason to bring my dear friend here without asking permission?¡± ¡°...¡± *gulp* ¡°I see, that is a No then Yes? Or a Yes then No?¡± ¡°Eeek¡± ¡°Well Reno, for your benefit, I will assume you just didn''t know the proper way to ask my lovely friend Dainea how to escort you to an empty alley where goodness knows what kind of things might happen unobserved.¡± I smile as gently as I can to him. ¡°The proper way is you don''t!¡± ¡°Ever.¡± Dae added. ¡°Right! I''ll just be on-¡± ¡°No.¡± ¡°No?¡± ¡°I think you may want to hear what would happen to someone that misunderstands me tonight, Reno.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Should one speak more than what is necessary at work, or in case of an emergency, or words other than of a respectful and decent nature. They would find themselves hung upside down near the South Gate by their family juice shop. I assure you any thoughts of self pleasure or pleasuring others will be far from possible after I am through.¡± He looked down between his legs and then back up understanding most of what would be the outcome of such a transgression. ¡°Guess we understand each other then?¡± *Hic* ¡°Yes!¡± ¡°Wow, you are so protective Oli. I want to take you home right now.¡± Dae''s happy voice putting me back into a good mood. ¡°No good, we need to make some cookies.¡± Is my reply as we exit the alley. ¡°What are cookies?¡± Came from the nearly empty alley, that and a couple sobs. Well the blacksmith had a sheet of metal that we would use as a makeshift cookie sheet. It took a bit to get it polished clean first. We got two just in case. The market shopkeeper sent the goods over and we started our first attempts at making cookies. The Bread ovens were just done with the days needed loafs so adding a bit of fire wood kept them going just fine. After a few bad initial product, we had an edible cookie. First one was not moist enough, the second too much salt, the third still too dry and broke coming off the cooking sheet, it tasted fine though. ¡°Let''s make a few to take home then make a few to sell in the tavern tonight, as a rare first time offer we make them over-sized and bump the price up a bit. Think twenty copper would be too much for one this size?¡± I put my hands in a circle about double the size we had made to take home. We might make enough to recoup our expenses and more if they sold well. A couple sheets of cookies later, I had dinner with Dae. I warned the head staff to let me know if anyone gave Dae trouble, including the new boy. I set off for lessons with Mr. Planknel feeling a little more comfortable knowing a few people could look out for her. ¡°Today we are again practicing water manipulation and casting, with the lack of rain this season if fires break out. Things could get really bad.¡± ¡°Great, pretty sure Dae might enjoy it, if I can get over the negative connotation from my World so might Princess and I.¡± ¡°Get over what?¡± ¡°Never mind.¡± I waved my hands trying to wave off the conversation. ¡°Already forgotten! Here raise up the water like so and separate it, then let it fall where you need it. I could only think about the *wiggle, wiggle* and the effect it had on Dae yesterday. Must save torture by liquid tentacles for later then. Up we go water. And splash right on Mr. Planknel''s hat. ¡°Hey watch it!¡± ¡°Sorry. Good thing it was the small one and not the big one huh?¡± ¡°?¡± I point to half the river that is now hanging in the air over there. ¡°You are way too crazy to be my student, sure you don''t want to go to the Academy or the capital and learn?¡± ¡°As fun as magic classes from the schools or capital might be, I can only Imagine problems. I don''t know enough about the World here, while at the same time if I am not prepared to defend myself I can only suspect an entirely different set of problems.¡± ¡°True, that. Well I guess my suffering shall have to continue. Now try to maintain water control while casting a Darkness Sphere.¡± ¡°That''s possible?¡± ¡°Yes and a lot easier than casting two different elemental spells.¡± ¡°Dual casting, nice. Why is it easier, Void, I mean Darkness and elemental control? Rather than two elemental spells?¡± ¡°One using regular mana and one using water mana or any single elemental. Allow you to take the remaining mana from the water spell and cast the Darkness spell, the difficulty in casting is a minor increase without the water mana, in fact you can cast any Darkness spells with only Void mana if talented enough, just easiest with full spectrum mana. Other Elements don''t react that well since they have the canceling effect from the opposite mana. Now why the light element doesn''t cancel Darkness spells is due to the fact that Light and Dark mana are non canceling. Before you ask why, we only guess that they are not in fact opposites but tangents. Even my teachers couldn''t explain the reason and effects of it to me.¡± ¡°Oh wait, then the opposite of Void would be creation energy and the opposite of light would be destruction energy? Then creation energy isn''t light mana¡± ¡°That would make sense...¡± He sat down to think about things like he was back in the park, peering deep into nothing. The Void Sphere spell I was used to, was a self maintaining effect, the mana used to cast the spell kept it going until it ran out. Manipulating the water in the air was a channeled effect, it took constant concentration. Having to concentrate on the water in the air, and then concentrate of a whole different magic spell to cast was hard, so much so that I had a head ache after a few tries. The amount of water I tried to manipulate was reduced to a glass full and it was still difficult. I practiced relaxing and meditation when the stress was too much. Around the time for our lesson to end, I walked back to town with Teacher. We talked a bit about his progress with the lightning magic. Currently, a small static shock was the closest he could generate. Even so he was hugely proud of that and assured me that even in the capital the number of mages that could do that much were few. Maybe only two in fact. Inside the North Gate I parted with teacher and waited for Teea, could my gift to her have been put in to use already? Was it partly to blame for her absence? After a while, I let the Guards know that should Teea come by, to inform her I was at the apartment. The headaches from class along with being in overdrive the past two days left me a bit low. I wasn''t hungry and didn''t have a lot of energy. A little drink of ale, a quick wash and a nap was what I had in mind. On the way to the apartment I did see a lot of festival preparations had begun, stalls built or left in half assembled states, a stage in the main square was mostly done. Along the street, decorations were put up here and there at a few of the buildings. I could only compare it to Earth, where some neighbors went all out and getting really excited about a holiday. I drank. I washed, and then I napped. Plans successful, now would be a good time to make breakfast for Dae and Steph, or should I wait till they get home? I decided to wait. Checked all my gear and clothes, fixed a few things, patched a few of Dae''s outfits. Inventoried my bags and our pantry. Thought about what to make for Steph to wear once she was able to shape-shift. Wonder if she will look like her self from Earth? Close to sunrise I started cooking some salted meats along with a few starchy vegetables similar to potatoes. They would smell good even if I didn''t eat them, at least it would remind me of Earth some. ¡°Something smells good.¡± ¡°Welcome home Dae! How was your morning?¡± ¡°Other than a few questions about what I did to the new guy, it was great! We made nine silver and 45 copper off the cookies!¡± She dumped the pile of coins onto the table, most of them were ten copper coins. ¡°I never imagined making so much in one night.¡± ¡°That''s awesome! But how did we end up with 45 copper?¡± I was a bit perplexed by the math. ¡°Oh that, I sold one of the fruits on top as extra!¡± She dropped down at the table and started to play with the coins. ¡°Service for one my lady?¡± I put a full plate down in front of Dae on the table. Guess the food was good she dove into it with great vigor. ¡°Mmm, it''s really good after smelling cookies all night.¡± ¡°They do say one desires something salty after eating sweet, and vice versa. Some even called it a viscous cycle on Earth.¡± ¡°Mmm, mmm.¡± I add a drink to her breakfast. ¡°Wait, this is-¡± She looked up at me after taking a sip. ¡°You don''t want to?¡± I put on a sad look, while the drink she had sipped already started to kick in. ¡°Oli, I just thought we didn''t have any left.¡± ¡°That''s true, some might have gotten lost in my bag, that thing holds a lot, and well, I found it. I thought it might be a nice celebration for us. Hurry up and finish your plate before you can''t hold back anymore.¡± Yes, the lightning was hiding in my bag. Figured today would be good, since we nearly doubled our initial spending for the cookie ingredients. I didn''t take any myself as an experiment, I wanted to see if I could concentrate on circling mana, sexual energy, or chi even. She ate everything as fast as possible. Dae quickly tossed her clothes everywhere and pulled me to her right there at the table, her thinking was already at the point of just needing a release of any kind. We touched and kissed, her breathing already ragged. I tried to be a balance to her needs by slowing her down. I gathered mana to us and my voice my hands, then tongue. I whispered to Dae my affections and caressed her as she kissed and touched me back with a growing passion. Dae moved to bring us to the floor. Instead, I steadied us and increased the caresses and mana flow. Dae removed the last of my clothing with a little assistance. Letting her finally lower me to the ground, Dae ended up on top of me. I rotated under her at the last moment. ¡°Dae, cum for me. Take your pleasure let it cover me, please.¡± Her hips and pelvis rubbed and thrust at me rocking to her own private rhythm. Fingers stimulated each other, our mouths came together and separated time and time again. Dae lost her self to the moment and I relaxed to focus on our energies. I could see or sense maybe, it was the life energy building, a warm oval shape near her throbbing opening. Opening my body to my mana and imagination, letting the pleasure and desire mirror Dae''s growing orb. I worked to create my own orb to mirror Dae''s ¡°Not yet Dae, more.¡± I spoke to her with mana in my voice. Immediately she clamped down on her climax, opening her eyes staring at me with a burning fire unlike any I had seen in her before. She had a minor pleading look wanting to let loose and climax right now. She arched her back and rocked back and forth on top of me at a faster different pace. Using Dae''s moving body to stimulate my growing orb to match hers, I imagined connecting them with mana and life energy streams. With a sudden jolt the two orbs started feeding off and to the linked connections. Dae gasped then came and kissed me. ¡°You! What was that?¡± She panted between ragged breaths. ¡°Hold on it''s going to get crazy from here out.¡± I smiled and started to breath heavily with her. Moments later the World outside was gone, the two of us connecting on a level of energy with no words worthy to be used. My calm passion and love sharing with her lightning induced lust and need. At times, we traded what we felt back and forth, the in sync understanding and energy grown so large I could see us glowing. When they grew past the point of needed streams to connect them they became to halves of the same entity. They danced together, played together, while our bodies connected and each point of skin contact grew the unified orbs. ¡°I can''t anymore Oli. Goddess of pleasure, I can''t wait anymore.¡± ¡°Yes now is good Dae.¡± I made a sphere of Mana and Chi around us to keep any energy from affecting the neighbors. Then let myself climax with Dae leading the way. Dainea on top of me arched one last time then we were lost to the waves of energy, emotion and pleasure. A torrent of liquid sprayed out of us both, most of Dae''s covering me, who was below her. Mine gushing out and along my legs. ¡°Incredible.¡± I swallowed a breath and held Dae who had collapsed on my chest. Breathing short quick gasps of air. ¡°Mmm!¡± was all that she could get out. I washed off the sleeping Dae and myself before carrying her to bed. ¡°Something to look forward too?¡± ¡°Oh, welcome home Steph. Yes I think you will really enjoy that.¡± I smile and pull her on top of us in bed. ¡°Soon, hold in there Princess.¡± I play with her ears and nose some with my free hand. ¡°All the more reason to learn how to change then.¡± ¡°Yes, more reason. Just, don''t do anything dangerous, I can''t imagine being here without you. I even thought about you in the midst of that.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Truly.¡± I did, the thought of her name popped into my head, right there at the climax. ¡°Okay, can we really do that, us, together?¡± She nuzzled me for more contact. ¡°Steph.¡± ¡°It''s okay, I just wanted you for so long and being so close and with things so, unexpectedly... The pressure is a lot on my mind.¡± ¡°Well...¡± I look at Dae sleeping face still plastered with a funny grin. ¡°We could try something if you have the energy now?¡± ¡°What? I have the Energy! What?¡± ¡°Here.¡± I sit up in bed and move Steph to my lap facing me. ¡°I think we can create a climax just with enough focus and effort. Do your chi meditation then focus the pleasurable energy to a place. Collect it then we release it all at once. Were you watching us on the floor.¡± ¡°I did catch the end there you two, you were so in sync. I was really sad you were so connected.¡± ¡°We connected because we made the connections. Using chi or mana you can connect on a conscious bridge actively making it happened rather than a passive one we develop on Earth. Want to try?¡± ¡°Yes.!?¡± ¡°Great, it''s going to be a challenge since I don''t know about the size or body difference, I imagine it is not too hard.¡± Looking into Steph''s pretty Moon Minx eyes I see hope and anticipation. ¡°Focus on the energy, and sensations, build a source for us to connect to. Just relax and we will have fun together. You don''t have to be nervous love.¡± She blinked in surprise and calmed down and started to focus inside. ¡°Is petting you going to help or distract you too much?¡± I played with scratching behind the ears, petting down her back then the tail base. Touched her whiskers then the tips of her ears gently. She like the end of her tail a lot last time so I saved that for last. ¡°Oh god, too much.¡± Steph cried as the tail end was played with, she broke her concentration and kissed me. Her Minx tongue was really strange for me still. I was always a bit shocked and conflicted when it entered and touched mine. ¡°Sorry, let''s try again.¡± We focused on building up our energy to a point where I felt we could connect them. If they were too small, it just didn''t maintain form long enough. My hands petting and caressing Steph and her paws knead my stomach while she purred and concentrated. Letting the mana enter my voice and surround us, when it was sufficient, I used the mana to stimulate her whiskers and body. As her sensitivity increased her sphere of life and sexual energy became perfectly round. Her control must be better or different, I modified my collected energy to match hers. Again like with Dae I slowly built energy bridges to connect us. Her orb grew very slowly and I made an effort to pace her growth. When the orbs of energy inside us were large enough I focused on bridges of Mana and Chi, Steph joined me moment later when she felt what I was doing, letting her focus on the life energy and me the mana seemed to work the best. ¡°Anne? I''m scared.¡± She whispered. ¡°Do you want to stop now?¡± I asked just before the connections were complete connecting us together. She drove the connection forward aggressively and I was the one to be shocked this time at the flood of pent up rage, lust, anger, and desire. She was a rage-ing river of hateful sin filled desire and passion flowing into me second by second I could only grasp for branches of my self to keep me centered as I finished the mana connections. Once they connected, the process back washed like a huge wave retreating from land. ¡°I''m so sorry!¡± cried Steph into my chest. She was currently feeling what I felt the moment before. ¡°Steph it will be okay, it is our first time after all. I didn''t mind it.¡± Smiling at Steph I work a hand slowly up her soft dark furry tail. Letting myself feel a bit of what she felt when I did so. I felt an intense tingle at the tips of my ears and felt my toes curl at the same time, how strange was all I could think. Steph''s sexual energy was still a bit difficult to handle as she and I continued fighting off the feeling of being hit while experiencing pleasure. I could only imagine that Steph had been abused more than once at this point. I could only hug her tightly and share my feeling of arousal and pleasure with her and not any act of violence that might be affecting us. My only gift to her would be the kindness I could imagine she had never experienced before during sex. The early hours we shared that day was complicated, struggling to over come her memories, her fear, her anger, the abuse of the past. My long indifference to her that had made her suffer in a different way, and she let me know all of it now. We cried, holding each other, she licked and pawed to connect physically as I pet and let her do as she wished. My wanting for her happiness, was shared to her energy and fed back into our desire for satisfaction. When Dae stirred in her sleep, Steph reacted with a startled twitch. That spasm echoed into myself and set off a chain of events between us. A wave hate, anger, then jealousy, and some caring plus a nice heavy amount of attraction existed there as well, all originating from Steph. Those feeling along with my thoughts about each of us fed into the loop also. I let a finger from my right hand slip inside me and used my left to play with Steph''s sensitive tail some. The added layer of this bringing us really close to a peak as we were. The urge to deeply kiss Steph in my bed back on Earth arose in my mind and left it even harder to keep concentrating. ¡°Stephanie, love, hold on.¡± ¡°I can''t I, I am too- not strong enough yet, this is the most I can do for now.¡± Using the last of her focus and energy to say that much. ¡°This much is more than enough, our first time. This has been incredible in a different way. You shared so much with me, things I never imagined before. I look forward to us, being together, together happily for a long, long time my little Minx.¡± At my last words Steph moaned out a long and pleasure filled sound. I let go of all the mana and energy and let happen what ever was going to happen now. Our orbs of collected energy had just reached the size they could come in surface contact with each other. Lost in the aggressive nature of the moment, I felt as though we had just finished a long fight and peace was descending upon us. Giving up her last defense, Steph quivered and shook. The last of my sex fluids slowly spreading into the sheets, I held her tightly and gently as I could. Then rested and cuddled with her between Dainea and myself. The energy dispersing back from where it came. ¡°Anne, Ophie? Thank-¡± ¡°Mmm yeah.¡± ¡°you. It was... That us just now, it was beautiful. Never. I''ve never before...¡± *sniff* ¡°You can cry Steph. I feel the same you know. I was there with you the whole time, remember.¡± She cried for a while then fell asleep. Me? I was not to far behind entering into dreamland. As I drifted of to sleep the image of me in a Winter Formal gown, a human Steph appearing in an Anime cat girl outfit and dress and Dainea wearing... Yeah, that had to be the best image of her cleavage ever. Thank you internet.