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[Enemy post]

"So, you're a sea cucumber. There's a few things you should know 'bout the life, if that's your choice."

Teach the Princess Sea Cucumber Care.

Dennis also nods agreement to the new rules.

[NJW2000]

"So she wishes to believe she is a sea-cucumber, cares not about others, and is interested in politics. The future of our country is in safe hands, I am sure. Now let me see, do I still have my primers on childhood psychopathy and amniotic regression?"

So she's traumatised before being injured? Looks like Maxime's speciality will come in handy after all. She persuades the moths and spiders of the tower spin a cocoon of sorts, imbued through Maxime's art with the comfort and security of the womb, garaunteeing pleasant dreams. This should allow Marcille to indulge her need for protection and withdrawal, a natural consequence of the deaths of her parents and traumatic lessons, while giving her sufficient confidence to face the outside world during the daytime. Or at least somewhere to run to and recover when someone gets 'orribly murdered.

Maxime creates the cocoon in an out of the way corner, perhaps created by moving bookshelves around on the fourth floor, arranging them around a bed in one corner of the room. Important to have one's own room, and if people want to get books out, tough. Maxime carefully transfers her charge into it once the young woman is asleep, though only if the magical construct actually works.

Also attempt to prevent anyone trying to force Marcille into doing something she's horrified of, like going into the basement or tearing a man's throat open with a sacrificial blade.

"That might be the horror that was locked in the basement. Someone forgot to inform me about it and when I opened the basement, the thing fled into the rest of the tower. The nightmarish being has been haunting the tower since then. This is why I proposed flooding the basement with sea water and have her swim there instead of staying inside a small sea cuccumber tank. The monster probably is afaird of the basement after being locked there for so long and eon't return there if it's full of water. A safe place where the princess could peacefuly swim without being haunted by the abomination."

"Perhaps then your main priority would be to contain the nightmare, rather than inflict further trauma on a young woman already spending too much time as an echinoderm? Marcille seems to think that the horror still resides in the basement, and a princess who is a sea cucumber is little better than no princess at all."

[randomgenericusername]

"The problem is that it's not there anymore, and thus is the only safe area in the tower. She also refuses to leave the water and the only place we have that we could flood with water is said basement. Most of the trauma comes from these lessons that teached her about cruelty and Nji's foolish decision to have her kill insects with mushrooms.
Or maybe it was the mutant mite. I noticed that you were trying to stick a parasite on her head. May I ask why?"

[NJW2000]

"Yes, I was attempting to create a creature that could monitor her mental state in case of extreme terror or neuroses. That won't be necessary now you have ensured she is both terrified and neurotic, a far more efficient method. As I have said, Marcille is horrified of the basement, so forcing her to stay down there may make the sea-cucumber delusion permanent. Even if the shadow-being lurks in this tower, Marcille should be safe if we remain with her. Unless you lack the puissance to defeat the thing?"

Archeux knocks on the table in a firm, yet awkward manner. "I have called here a meeting amongst ourselves to impose some rules upon ourselves for the preservation of the princess. I have only _ rules in mind, but these are but an outline on what we could agree upon, if anything. Firstly, whatever we try to teach or do with her, we should have consent in the first place. If she changes her mind afterward, though, we can still proceed with our lesson. Second, we are able to deny the princess a lesson if more people oppose the lesson than support it, but she can veto this if the opposition is less than double the support. We may not have any Oathmaking mages here to enforce this, but there should be enough trust among us for the time being. Now, who is in favor of these rules, who would like to suggest alterations, and who has not attended the meeting? "

"I would support this. Students of magic should not be coerced into learning branches they are unsuited to. Remember how the Twenty Plagues of Karimzal Academy came about? I try not to."

[randomgenericusername]

"So you were making a brain parasite. No wonder she's so traumatized of everyone here, you were trying to control and manipulate the little girl just like I suspected. She doesn't fear the basement, but the thing that was locked in there for who knows how long. I feel the monster is lost and confused, just like the girl, for being trapped in there against it's will. I do not like your constant threats and your obsesion with staying in control, but I can't do anything because I am but a simple priest. I will refuse to fight you or anyone else, not because I fear beig hurt but because I dislike causing harm to others. Violence is never the right answer."

"And if you want her to only learn what she likes and is inclined to, then let her become a sea cucumber mage. That sea magic might not be of use for our future ruler, but it's what she wants to learn."

[NJW2000]

"It wasn't a parasite or attached to the brain, but as you're a priest and simple, that's as close as we'll get."

Maxime smiles icily.

"Perhaps you are right, I am too controlling. So how about we ask Marcille if she'd like to go back into the basement again. If she happens to refuse unconditionally, I'm sure you'd be best suited sending the eldritch horror you released back home, compassionate as you are."

[Enemy post]

"And if you want her to only learn what she likes and is inclined to, then let her become a sea cucumber mage. That sea magic might not be of use for our future ruler, but it's what she wants to learn."

"This guy gets it."

[randomgenericusername]

"I don't want you to try to control to her anymore, please. You have already tried to take her privacy from her and I don't want you to hurt her anymore. Her wellbeing is of the highest priority, but she also has to mature and learn to not be afaird. She is still too young to make choices by herself, but she also has the right to like and dislike things. If she likes being in sea water, then let her be in sea water. I just think that the basement is the only flood-able place in the tower just because it lacks windows and that we should let her have more space than just a small tank."

[NJW2000]

"She can like or dislike things? A girl? A brilliant advance. Are you sure that the clergy was the right vocation? Anyway, I suggest you see if she likes or dislikes the basement. If keeping her there will send her permanently insane from terror, she can pretend to be a vegetable elsewhere. Frankly, your time would be better spent protecting her from the nightmare creature you released than flooding the guild."

Maxime glowers at Enoch.

"Don't worry about me trying to make another monitoring device. I don't need something that tells me when Marcille is in danger - with you around, she's always in danger."

[Doomblade187]

((Mage fight, mage fight, mage fight.

No ulterior motives here, no siree. >.>))

[Egan_BW]

((Fight! Fight! Fight!))

[randomgenericusername]

((Is literaly no one going to come out and support me? I gave pretty good arguments and I would have thought that anyone would come out and say something like "Hey, maybe trying to put a brain parasite on the princess was a bad thing". Maxime seems to have clearly evil intentions and someone should have noticed, right?))

[Egan_BW]

((Less clearly evil intentions than the dagon priest, probably. I'd rate her, like, second least not-evil, at bare minimum. ;P))

[randomgenericusername]

((What, did I do anything wrong other than being assaulted and mind raped by the thing in the basement? I'm just trying to get her to leave the sea cucumber tank and because building a pool or artificial lake is too hard, might as well just flood the basement with sea water so she can swim there instead of being in the tanks.))

[Doomblade187]

((I'm actually rooting for your character. They have the princess's best interests at heart, it feels.))