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[Glass]

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Let’s go hunting! I wonder if we can tame the thing with vivomancy. Even if not, the parts could be useful.

[Yellow Pixel]

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[Enemy post]

That was quick. We'll help, free of charge.

"I'd be happy to help," you say. "Free of charge. That's what friends are for."

Tal gives you a hug. "Oh, thank you! I knew I could count on you."

You know that Tal grew up poor, and she still constantly lends money to her mother that isn't always repaid. So she must be grateful that you didn't ask for a share from the hunt. (Increased Tal Relationship.)

"What have you been up to, anyway?" Tal asks. "Actually, wait a minute, I think I know."

You shrug. "Yeah, exploring eldritch mysteries, peering into the heart of truth itself, and accumulating enough power to rule the world. You know, like ya do." You say it in a low voice, so only Tal can hear, and she giggles and gives you a scandalized look.

"You shouldn't joke," she says. "There are any number of people in this town who would kill you for what you are." She nods to the dancing, laughing people. You suppose she's technically right, but it's a little hard to believe at the moment.

You notice that Tal has finished her plate. The fiddler is playing a peppy tune.

Across the square, you see Mayor Cos greeting various townsfolk as he makes his way to the dance floor. The young mayor looks genuinely aggrieved as he goes from one townsperson to another, consoling people for the loss of their gardens and animals.

You wonder whether asking the mayor to dance might put him in better spirits. You've always found him interesting and personable.

Or maybe you'd prefer to dance with Tal?

Or, you suppose, you could just animate Tal's favorite stuffed monkey Noodles for fun. Tal would probably like that.

1.Ask Tal to dance.
2.Ask Tal if she wants to see Noodles dance—out of sight of the townsfolk, of course.
3.I excuse myself to go talk to Mayor Cos.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:6
  Automation:4
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:47%/Caution:53%   
Humor:58%/Solemnity:42%   
Empathy:29%/Calculation:71%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 59 (Good)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 4

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 220 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.

[brewer bob]

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What could possibly go wrong?

[Glass]

1

[Knightwing64]

2

Then let’s use her dear monkey to kill her in her sleep

[Yellow Pixel]

1

[Glass]

Then let’s use her dear monkey to kill her in her sleep

ABSOLUTELY NOT

[Knightwing64]

Then let’s use her dear monkey to kill her in her sleep

ABSOLUTELY NOT

Spoilsport

[blueturtle1134]

I detest this whole situation for making me vote with Chron.

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[King Zultan]

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[Maximum Spin]

2
I don't like either of these characters.

Don't use the monkey to kill her in her sleep though.


Make the monkey watch.

[Knightwing64]

2
I don't like either of these characters.

Don't use the monkey to kill her in her sleep though.


Make the monkey watch.

My type of man

[Enemy post]

We offer to make Noodles dance.

"Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Noodles came to life?" you ask Tal.

She looks shocked. "You can do that?" she murmurs in a low voice.

"Well, I can't do it here, but since the whole town's here, we can do it pretty much anywhere else."

Tal takes a cautious look at the reveling townsfolk, and then the two of you quietly sneak off to a nearby alley, where the sound of the fiddle can still be heard. Tal unties Noodles from her waist and presents the stuffed monkey above her head.

"Elekron potens, simia vita simulacra!"

Lightning flashes from the sky to your raised hand to the monkey, and just like that, Tal has a dancing monkey in her hands. She sets down Noodles, who flops from one pose to the next with a surprising sense of rhythm. The monkey's enthusiasm is contagious, and before you know it, the three of you are dancing together, stuffed-monkey style, and Tal and you are laughing like mad. (Increased Tal Relationship.)

"How is this possible?" Tal says, giggling.

"Well, it's really just an illusion," you say. "It's your expectations that are driving Noodles' behavior. It's just a kind of automated make-believe."

"Weird," Tal says, shaking her head. But then she goes back to dancing.

"I think I saw the lightning strike over here," you hear someone say around the corner. Tal quickly grabs Noodles, and you hurry in the opposite direction out of the alley.

"We can go to my place," you offer. That sounded innocuous enough. You think.

"Sure," Tal says. "Party at Foo's place. I never really feel like I fit in at these things anyway."

You head homeward, each holding a hand of the stuffed monkey between you who continues to shimmy to the distant beat. (Increased Humor.)

Back at your place, you and Tal chat about everything on Tal's mind, while Noodles rearranges your food-shaped furniture into a food fort.

"Oh, and my mother has a new boy toy," Tal says. She takes a seat on your meat-wrap-shaped bench. "Get this—he's almost as young as us."

"Ew," you say.

"I know! They met in the mountains. She was just going climbing alone on a lark—"

"Alone?"

"Right? So there's an avalanche, and this guy sees this pile of snow carry Mother into a ravine, and he says to himself he'd better go rescue her. And when he does, and hears about how she's just living alone in a shack, he gives her a huge bag of gold!"

"Does that mean your mother's rich now?" you ask.

"All the money's gone, story of Mother's life. But that happened a little while ago." Tal sighs. "Still. Why can't that happen to me? Where's my lover and pile of gold?"

Did you want to act on that opening?

1.Yes. I'd like to be the lover; still working on the gold.
2.No. I'm not interested in Tal that way.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Foo Orison

Appearance

A bookish, spectacled man wearing a shimmering cloak and tight black clothing fit for a thief or an assassin

Magic
  Negation:6
  Automation:4
  Glamor:1
  Divination:1
  Vivomancy:8

Skills
Ancient History: 3 (Decent)
Fighting: 1 (Bad)
Subtlety: 5 (Good)
Charisma: 2 (Decent)

Personality
Optimism:47%/Caution:53%   
Humor:62%/Solemnity:38%   
Empathy:29%/Calculation:71%   

Relationships
Romances (Interested romantically, but not sexually, in men and women)
None

Tal: 61 (Very Good)
Cos: 50 (Fine)
Church: 40 (Bad)
Undiscovered relationships: 3

Kingdom
Adoration: 50%/Vilification: 50%

Inventory
Gold: 220 gold
Sword
Alchemy Set
Torc of Life and Death
Clutch of Dragon Eggs
History Book, True Life of Abraxas
Golem Manual

Students
None

Pets
None

The Dead
The Academy Inquisitor

Plot Points

Chapter 1

You and Tal stumbled on an ancient magic academy.
You discovered a book of vivomancy, and an inquisitor chased you.
You found an ancient dueling ground.
You killed the inquisitor with negation magic.
You explored the academy library.
A divination revealed a potential ally in the form of a golem, so you took a manual on the operation of golems from the library.
You animated a serving tray to retrieve an alchemy set, but in the process, you released some dangerous chemicals.
You found a laboratory with a trapped specter.
You destroyed the specter.
You obtained a clutch of dragon eggs from the crow's nest of an ancient airship.
It became clear that the spilled chemicals were going to consume the whole academy.

Chapter 2


You flew up the coast of the Negative Sea back to Akriton.
You created two horses and freed them in the woods.
You made your parents think your finds in the academy were purely of historical interest.
You read in True Life of Abraxas that those who follow orders regularly are more likely to be glamored.
You learned the location of the Magisterian capital from True Life of Abraxas.
You met a hat seller but bought nothing from her.
You allowed a thief to steal from Fruitseller Fran.
You agreed to hunt a dodecapede with Tal.

[BlackPaladin99]

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