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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Hejlikka
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- wears glasses the constantly slide down her nose, thus causing her to push them up out of habit
- a female elf who works as a supervisor of office workers, receptionists and customer services workers in the guild
- currently relegated to the night shift in the guild
- has a younger brother called Julrik who is higher up in the office than her
- has parents who moved to another world a few years ago using one of the portal gates
- owns a house near the tavern, but further from the guild
- is very strict when it comes to work, always maintaining a diligent and professional work ethic
- has masochistic tendencies that even she hasn't realised
- dislikes most men due to seeing how her brother has acted in the past
- acts kinder and is more tolerant towards females
- seems to have a one-sided crush on the new-born vampire, Liana

Reference:

Quest Report - verified

Reaching the barracks, Harrison took one look at her and shouted: "NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU WORK HERE AGAIN!" Seeing the surprised look on Liana's face, her gold eyes beginning to quiver, he softened his voice as he glanced around awkwardly, "I heard about how upset you were when Samson took over the morning shift...I'm giving you a break from doing that kind of thing so you don't damage your mental health." He gently patted her head before continuing, "Go do a job that doesn't let you see blood and gore tonight. Hey, I heard that the guild is understaffed in the customer service department, why not head there?" He gave as reassuring a smile as he could - although it ended up looking like a grimace due to him not being used to smiling like that.

"If you say so...I just thought I'd be able to console them and ease their passing into the next life if I was there..."

"No, I'm not letting you down there for a while. They're still getting rid of the bodies and sorting out the cells. Go." With that, he turned around and left her, heading to the prison to help deal with things there.

Pouting, Liana left the barracks and headed to the guild to see about this customer service job Harrison had mentioned.

Arriving at the guild, she mentioned to a receptionist about the job who then sent her with a signed note to the customer service department where a familiar looking female elf was reprimanding someone with a fresh black eye.

"--matter if he started it! We have guards here to help deal with such people! I'm docking your pay due to your poor interpersonal skills. Get out of my sight! Go work in the back and sort through the files!" She pointed an arm out towards the door leading into the filing department and pushed her glasses up.

"Yes ma'am!" The man with a black eye ran away in fear, not wanting to embarrass himself further and gain more of his superior's ire.

Turning around, Hejlikka saw Liana with a note in her hand, and a congenial smile on her face, and looked away awkwardly with a slight blush on her face.

"You're Miss Hejlikka, right? I took on the customer service quest and was told to come here for it. Here's the signed note." Liana smiled gently at the female elf as her gold eyes shone with warmth and kindness.

Taking the note from her, Hejlikka felt a bit disconcerted by the 180 degree change in attitude and personality but still retained her professionalism, "Ah, yes. Liana, right? Everything seems to be in order. It's good you arrived when you did since we've just had to remove an employee from the front lines." She led Liana towards an empty booth while detailing the kind of work she would need to do, expressly emphasising the part about not upsetting customers and being fair in evaluations of complaints.

"I see. I'll be sure to remember, Miss Hejlikka. Thank you for your explanation, it's much appreciated." She gave a small, delicate bow and smiled before sitting at the booth with her hands neatly folded on her lap.

"Yes...well...be sure to have successfully resolved at least 5 complaints! I'll be back in a few hours to see how you're doing."

"Okay! I'll be sure to try my best!" She smiled more enthusiastically, showing eagerness to do well on the job.

Satisfied with Liana's attitude - but still feeling a little off about it - the female elf went off to do other duties.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Sitting at the booth, waiting for someone to come, Liana observed what the other customer service people were doing in a bid to learn how to better deal with possible difficult people. Eventually, a burly man - with a very dark tan - strode in with a face full of anger. Sweeping his gaze over the booths, he saw that Liana's was free and so walked determinedly towards her. Seeing the man, she smiled gently.

"Hello, sir, is there a problem you wish to complain about?"

"Of course!" He replied in a gruff tone.

"I see, I'm sorry to hear that. What seems to be the problem?" She presented a saddened expression, which slightly tugged at the man's heartstrings.

"Ah...well I was on the Escort Duty quest - helping some merchants deliver their goods - only when I came back the receptionist refused to give me the reward claiming I had failed!" He slammed his fist on the desk, drawing attention from other customers and workers.

Liana seemed unfazed as she showed surprise on her face before gently stroking the man's hand, "Is your hand okay? Let me rub it better."

"Ah...thanks..." He blushed before shaking his head and putting on a firm expression again, "Never mind about that! Why was my quest deemed a failure?"

"Hmm, could you give me your name, level and rank so I can check the files, please?" Liana smiled gently again while signalling for someone to bring over the most recent evaluated reports.

"Bigsley Hardsen! Level 4! Unranked! Ah, but I swear I'll be Level 5 and ranked soon! This blasted quest would have helped me fulfil the requirements for that, tch!"

"I see, I see. Let me just check for you, Mr Hardsen."

A man came over and placed a large stack of evaluated reports yet to be filed on her desk and went off to return to the receptionist section. Going through the files, Liana eventually found the report in question and read through it diligently.

"Let's see..."

Bigsley started fidgeting as he waited for the beautiful and gentle woman to finish reading his report, rubbing his swelling hand that had hit the desk earlier. After a few minutes, Liana put down the report and smiled wryly, looking a little embarrassed before casting her gold eyes on the customer.

"I'm sorry. As much as I would like to help you get a reward, it seems you failed to mention in your report the name of the merchants you were escorting, as well as the goods they were delivering. It pains me to say this, but you also didn't ensure they wrote a note confirming that you succeeded in the task."

"..." Bigsley breathed in heavily, a burning rage simmering inside and ready to explode.

"However, I can see that this is easily rectifiable, although it may take you some time."

"Tell me!" The man slammed his hands on the desk to the point he was leaning close to Liana, as he was staring into her eyes.

Gently smiling at the man, Liana replied: "All you'll need to do is take back the report, return to those merchants, record their names and the goods they'd delivered, as well as get a signed note from them detailing and confirming your work. Then you'll simply have to come back and re-submit your report."

Bigsley looked at her sternly before standing straight again, lamenting a bit that the woman didn't rub his hands better after he'd slammed them down on her desk. "But the report was deemed a failure, won't you get in trouble for allowing me tor re-submit it?"

"This report has not been filed away yet, so I have deemed it as if you never having submitted the report. I hope that is all right with you?"

"Ah...sure. It's just a few hours of walking back and forth and getting their confirmation, not like anyone died."

"That's good, then." She smiled brightly at the acknowledgement of the solution provided. "Then, I wish you a pleasantly safe journey, as well as success the next time you submit your report."

"...Yes...of course..." Bigsley took the report with him and left, blushing all the way out of the building. Seeing the man leave, Liana called for someone to take the stack of reports away since other booths might need them.

After half an hour, a female elf came over with a sour look on her face. She saw Liana was available and headed in her direction. Noticing the elf approaching, Liana smiled at her as she greeted, "Hello, this is the customer service department, is there a problem you need help with?"

"Yes." The elf replied curtly.

"I see, and what seems to be the problem?"

"The receptionist marked my quest as partially successful and I found her reasoning unsatisfactory."

"Oh? I'm sorry to hear that. What part did you find unsatisfactory, if I may ask?" Liana showed a concerned look, evoking a sense of gratitude from the elf.

"She said she struggled to read my writing, thus deducted some of the reward because she needed to put on some glasses which she claimed made her look unfashionable and so wouldn't get a handsome adventurer to look her way if he came in while she was wearing them."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise at the reason for the quest being evaluated as partially successful.

"I am incredibly sorry to hear about that. Could you give me the name of the receptionist, as well as your own name, level, rank and the quest you undertook, please?"

"Of course. The receptionist was called Imelda Carson - a half-elf. My own name is Freja Haljssen, my Level is 6 and my rank is E. The quest I did was to be a personal bodyguard to city official and his family for a week. I shall refrain from naming them since the report already states it and I do not wish for prying ears to learn of their current predicament."

"I see. Thank you for being forthcoming with your answers. Let me have a look and see if there was anything else wrong with the report before I inform my superior about the receptionist. Ah, please take a seat while you wait."

"Sure."

The elf woman sat down as the man in charge of delivering quest reports came over again with a stack of reports waiting to be filed. Finding the correct report, Liana read through it before asking for someone to call Hejlikka over. Looking at Freja, Liana called her to come back.

"I've read through your report. Although the handwriting is not as elegant as some peoples' are, it's still legible. I see no problems with it and your employer also seemed to be happy with your services. It seems they've even sent for your services again. As for the receptionist, I need to ask my superior about that..."

With that, Hejlikka arrived with an impatient look on her face.

"Why did you call for me? I'm busy. Haven't you seen the large stack of...Freja, why are you here?" She noticed who the customer was and frowned in uncertainty.

Freja gave a nod of acknowledgement to Hejlikka before responding, "I'm complaining about how my report was evaluated."

The superior showed surprise on her face as she turned to Liana for an explanation, to which she complied: "It seems that receptionist Imelda Carson has unfairly evaluated Miss Haljissen's report, not giving her the full reward she deserves on account of the writing style forcing her to wear glasses and looking less attractive towards the male customer base. I called for you because I wasn't sure how to handle the receptionist or this case."

"That hussy! I'm so sorry about this, Freja. I'll go get the reward you weren't given and then will thoroughly punish that girl for her unprofessional behaviour!" Hejlikka then stormed off, came back after 30 seconds to place a bag of coins, to then storm off once again towards the receptionist section.

"Well, it seems that we have clarified the problem. Please allow me to add the missing experience onto your guild card, Miss Haljssen."

"Of course." She replied with a light smile on her face, making her seem a lot more beautiful than earlier.

"Then, if you have any further problems, don't hesitate to come here and our department will do our best to help resolve them." Liana gently smiled at the female elf, which made the customer smile even more.

"Thank you." She then left with a satisfied expression.

Hejlikka came back a few minutes later with an energetic look, like she'd let a load off her chest from venting/shouting, etc...

"Good work, Liana. You did right to call me over. If you need me for other cases, I'll help." She then left to deal with some other stuff.

A while later, a little girl came in crying and immediately ran over to Liana's free booth.

"Waaaaaah! Why can't I get a reward? Waaaaah!"

Seeing the girl crying non-stop, Liana got out of her seat and quickly went up to her, knelt down and hugged her while gently rubbing her head. "There, there. Sh-sh-sh. Why don't we sit over there and you can tell me about what happened?" She said in a soothing, placating tone.

The girl sniffed a few times before snuggling into Liana's chest and explaining what happened:
"I went on my first quest *sniff* and gathered lots and lots of pretty flowers for it *sniff. Only the mean old man said I failed my queeeeeeeest! Waaaaaah!"

"Oh? What was the quest that you did?"

"*sniff* It was called Healing Herbs *sniff*. Mummy told me that pretty flowers were full of goodness and would make anyone who saw them feel better *sniff*, so I picked up lots and lots! But the man said that none of them were healing herrrrrrrrrbs! Waaaaaaah!"

"I see, you poor thing. Such a mean man for telling you that. Do you have some of the flowers still with you? How about you let me have a look instead?" Liana smiled gently at the girl, her gold eyes making the girl feel warmth from them thus calming her down. The girl then gave her one of each flower before falling asleep from all of the crying she'd done.

Calling for the report - using the name on the girl's guild card - so she could go through it, Liana carefully inspected the flowers and recognised them all as ones her temple used to sometimes use when making healing poultices. Re-evaluating the report as a success, she then procured the rewards and gently woke the girl up.

"I've had a look at them and they all do indeed have healing effects. Your mummy was right and that old man was wrong. Here's your reward for completing your first quest." She smiled brightly at the girl as she handed the reward over.

"Ah! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

The girl jumped up from the chair and hugged Liana's waist in happiness and joy, before waving at her and running out with a smile on her face. Liana returned to her seat at the booth and had the reports cleared away once more.

An hour later a man with fox ears and tail came in and nonchalantly strolled over to Liana's booth.

"Good evening, sir! Is there a problem?" Liana opened with a gentle smile.

The man's tail swished and his fox ears twitched as he gently smiled back and said, "My quest was deemed a failure, even though I fulfilled all of the objectives set. I would like my full reward and re-evaluation of my report, please."

"Oh?" Liana looked surprised before asking, "For what reason did the receptionist give for deeming it a failure?"

"It was a silly reason that you don't need to know. However, my report really does fulfil the quest objectives so..." He smiled wryly, "...please give me my reward?"

"Well, can you please give me your name, level, rank and the title of the quest please? I need to verify the report and evaluation given by the receptionist."

The fox-man gritted his teeth briefly before smiling even more gently, "Of course~ My name is Felix Wiska, I am Level 2, Unranked and did the Charity Work quest."

"I see. Then, please, have a seat while I check the situation."

"...Of course..."

After a few minutes, Liana was given the report, along with a note attached with bold capital letters on it, 'FAKE REPORT! EXTORTION OF MONEY, FOOD AND GOODS! ON CITY GUARD WATCH-LIST'. Still smiling gently, Liana hid the note under the desk and carefully looked through the evaluation and report. She then called Felix over and smiled apologetically.

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do, Mr Wiska. You see, it seems that what you wrote in this report isn't what actually happened, and so...with regrets, I cannot give you any rewards."

Felix's face sank into a cold and murderous look as he uttered in a dark and low tone, "What?"

A fireball appeared above his tail but was quickly doused out by some guards who had water buckets on standby for fire emergencies. Seeing that the fox-man was acting in a threatening manner towards the staff, the guards took him away in manacles towards the barracks to be judged.

"..." Liana looked at a co-worker beside her and asked, "Did I do something wrong?" A worried look on her face.

"No. He just wanted to exploit the system but realised he'd been found out. You'd have been in more trouble if you'd actually given him the reward."

"I see."

After another 2 hours, 7 more people came in to complain about things: 2 trying to cheat the system, 4 with valid claims, and 1 with an invalid claim. Apart from the ones trying to con, the rest of the customers left with satisfaction. Hejlikka arrived again and noted the work Liana had done.

"You've done well for your first time on this job. Especially since it was a night shift you took. Most people end up falling asleep or not paying enough attention for this shift. So, thank you for your hard work."

Liana smiled back at the female elf and stretched. "It's fine, Miss Hejlikka. I prefer working night shifts anyway, so it's no problem for me. How about you? Don't you usually work during the day?"

The female elf smiled wryly, "My boss changed my work schedule to night shifts because I complained about him being unprofessional and flirting with the receptionists...Me and my big mouth, huh?"

Liana giggled in amusement before smiling apologetically, "I'm sorry about that. It must be tough, having such a boss."

Hejlikka shrugged before blushing a little bit, "...He's my little brother..."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise before closing it and smiling wryly, "You've been working hard."

The female elf smiled at that, before saying, "Dawn will be arriving soon. I think you've done enough work for this evening. You can go back now."

"Okay. How about you? When does your shift end?" Liana asked as she got up from her chair and smoothed down her dress.

"It ends when the morning shift supervisor comes, which she did a few minutes ago." She said while staring at the dress covering Liana's thighs before looking at the young woman's face again.

"I see. Then, should we leave together?" She smiled warmly and innocently.

Gulping a little, Hejlikka nodded slowly before heading off to get her cloak. While waiting, Liana wrote up her report of her quest and handed it in to the receptionist for evaluation.

X

Breakfast (Closed)

Leaving the guild with Hejlikka, they both looked to the sky as they could see the sunrise peeking over the rooftops of nearby buildings.

"It's so beautiful, isn't it?" The female elf asked while pushing up her glasses and sneaking a glance at Liana with a light blush on her cheeks.

"Mm, I prefer the sunset, personally." Liana replied while thinking about what a sunrise meant for her: lethargy, fatigue, weak body.

"Oh, of course! The sunset is also very nice to look at!" She looked a little flustered before pushing up her glasses once more. "By the way, where do you live?"

Turning to her companion, Liana smiled and said, "The tavern. I rented a room there a few days ago and have been using it since. How about you?"

"Ah, I live a few streets away from the tavern. I used to live with my parents and brother but my parents have since gone through a portal gate to explore a different world and my brother wanted his own place so he could bring girls back. Tch! Such a stupid idiot!"

Liana giggled at Hejlikka's harsh words towards her flirt of a brother. Getting closer to the tavern - which was nearer than Hejlikka's house - the female elf paused before asking: "Is it okay if we have breakfast together? I didn't get much chance to eat anything last night and the tavern does good food." She blushed a little as she turned her head slightly away, looking shy.

"Sure! Although, I'm not that hungry so I'll eat later." Liana smiled gently before heading into the tavern.

Hearing her saying she wasn't that hungry yet, a thought flashed through her mind as she pulled on Liana's arm to stop her before saying, "Ah, actually, since you're not hungry yet, why not come to my place? I've still got some food stored and I can cook most stuff! Also," she fidgeted a bit before pushing her glasses up again, "if it's okay with you, I could let you rent one of the rooms in my house at a cheaper rate than the tavern!" She blushed hard after saying that.

Liana looked at her with surprise, before gently smiling and patting Hejlikka's hand as if to coax her into letting go of her arm. "Thank you for the offer but I doubt it would be worth much for you to get rent less than 10G, no?"

Letting go of her arm, the female elf smiled wryly as she realised how silly her offer was, before countering, "I think my place would be safer than the tavern. Who knows how many people go upstairs in there everyday? What if one of those stinky men see a pretty girl like you and decide to sneak into your room? It would be safer for you to be in a securely locked house, like my place."

Liana felt a little bewildered, as she had only met this female elf twice - with both meetings brief. She wondered why such a strict woman at work was suddenly acting meek and shy, yet clearly wanting her to go and live at her place. Wanting to know, she asked, "Why are you so eager for me to live with you? We barely know each other." She tilted her head in confusion as she tried to figure it out.

"..." Desperately trying to think of an excuse, she blurted out, "Because I don't like being alone in that house! It's big and empty. I thought you might make a good housemate since you seem like the kind of person who doesn't cause trouble, and you've shown diligence in your work...I also like you." She didn't utter the last sentence, but her heart was thumping hard as she thought it.

Smelling a sweeter smell coming off her companion, Liana's gold eyes reddened a little bit as she subconsciously licked her lips while looking at Hejlikka. Smiling in amusement, she responded, "Then how about this. Since you're so eager for me to live with you at least let me see the place and judge if I feel comfortable with being there first. Hmm?"

"Okay!" Smiling from pointy ear to pointy ear, Hejlikka led the way to her house with a spring in her step.

Upon reaching the residence, Liana opened her mouth in surprise at how large it was compared with the houses nearby. As the female elf was unlocking the door, the new-born vampire began examining the surroundings and seeing whether the area was peaceful or not. Once the door was opened, Hejlikka beckoned Liana in and apologised for the mess. Observing the inside of the house, there was no mess to be found as everything was clearly dusted very carefully and diligently on a regular basis - with no signs of rubbish or things lying around haphazardly.

Entering the kitchen area, Hejlikka asked, "Do you want a tour of the house now, or after we've eaten?"

Looking around the room, Liana smiled and said, "Whichever you feel more comfortable doing."

"Th-then I'll show you around first! This way!" The female elf pushed up her glasses as she went through a door to the side of the kitchen in haste. Liana followed behind and listened to her companion's explaining about each room. "This is what we call the living area; it's a place to sit down and relax, have conversation, do some recreational hobbies like writing, drawing, sewing, knitting, etc..."

Liana looked around and smiled, "It looks very relaxing."

Hejlikka blushed a little at that, before going through the door and heading into another room, "This was my brother's room. I know it looks empty but that means you would have plenty of space if you chose to live in here. I've already aired out the room so you don't have to worry about his stinky smell still being here!"

Liana giggled at that, before taking in the room and admiring how much larger it was than her tavern room. She walked around and opened the window shutters to look outside. It showed the street connected to the front of the building, giving a good view of anyone who might come to the house. Closing the shutters, she turned to look at her tour guide and smiled. Blushing again, Hejlikka guided her through the living room to another door that opened out to a set of stairs.

"The rest of the rooms are upstairs."

"I see."

Reaching the top, the female elf walked down a corridor and opened the second room, ignoring the first one. "Ah, the first room is my bedroom. This one was my parents'." She unlocked and opened the door, then motioned for Liana to enter. Following her guidance, she entered the room and was surprised at how much larger it was compared with the other rooms in the house. "There used to be three rooms up here, but my parents didn't see a use for the middle room and so knocked down the wall and made this room larger. Really! My parents are so over the top! It's too large! Think of the heating! Think of the..." Liana didn't hear the rest of Hejlikka's tirade due to laughing a lot. The female elf blushed in embarrassment before leaving the room.

"You don't really need to see my room, but you can if you want?"

Liana shook her head while smiling, "No need. Your room is your private space. I wouldn't wish to intrude on it."

"You wouldn't be intruding!" The female elf thought inside. "Well, if you say so..." She shrugged as she pushed up her glasses again as she headed down the stairs. Once they got back into the kitchen Hejlikka pushed her glasses up for the nth time and concluded, "With that, you've seen the whole house! What do you think?" She gazed meekly at her companion, a little nervous about her thoughts.

"Mm, it's definitely a nice house." The female's face lit up in happiness, "However, I need some time to think about it. I mean, how much would the rent be? What would the rules be for chores and such?"

"Ah...well I'd just go with the rate the tavern does for rent - if that's okay? As for chores, I tend to like cleaning so as long as you don't make too much of a mess, I don't mind."

"That seems a bit unfair, don't you think? After all, this is your house. At least let me help clean the ground floor and the kitchen after you've used it. It's the least I could do...if I choose to accept your offer."

"...If you insist...Then, how about some breakfast now?"

"I'm still not that hungry, but don't hold back on my account." Liana smiled gently before sitting down on a chair in the kitchen.

Spoiler: Very mild nsfw

Feeling famished after a whole night on her feet with no food, Hejlikka rolled up her sleeves and started taking out some ingredients from her larder. After a few minutes, she'd come up with what she was going to eat and began chopping hastily and nervously as she felt Liana's eyes watching her every move. The new-born in question was enjoying the pleasant aroma constantly wafting over from the busy elf. Licking her lips subconsciously, her eyes started turning a dull red as she imagined what she might taste like.

Unaware of what her companion was thinking, Hejlikka had her own thoughts about Liana - blushing as she thought about her vivid red lips and haughty attitude when they first met. Not paying attention to what she was doing as her mind drifted, her hand slipped and she sliced open her hand with the knife she was using. "AH!"

Smelling before seeing, Liana immediately got up and grabbed Hejlikka's hand before haughtily saying with glowing red eyes, "Such a silly and stupid girl, cutting yourself when doing the simplest of tasks~ Let me help clean this up for you~" She then brought the female elf's bleeding hand to her mouth and started licking it slowly while observing her prey's reactions.

Hearing Liana's harsh words, her body shivered in excitement before she witnessed the sight of Liana erotically (in her mind) licking her wound while looking at her. Feeling hot all over as she felt Liana's soft tongue going over her hand, she felt weak in the knees as she imagined that tongue somewhere else - her mind began to drift into a different direction not thinking about her current situation, nor the weirdness of Liana's eyes changing colour, her personality shifting, or her licking up her blood fervently.

Seeing that her prey wasn't resisting, Liana smirked as she brought her lips to the deepest part of the wound and began sucking up the sweet red nectar pulsating out of the hand. "Mmnh~" Feeling euphoric from the taste, Liana's fangs subconsciously grew and pierced the flesh deeply, making the wound bleed more profusely and openly.

"Ah..." Hejlikka barely reacted as she felt an ecstasy running through her body that she'd never felt before. The pain from being sucked hard from her wound, plus the sharp pain that followed from something she wasn't sure of, a strange pleasure came out from it that made her lick her lips and swallow in a bid to wet her dry throat. "Mmnh, it feels good~" Losing strength in her knees, the female elf began to collapse but was swiftly caught by Liana's free arm which had wrapped around her waist.

Regaining her senses from this action, Liana's eyes shifted back to gold and as she quickly removed her mouth from Hejlikka's hand in shock and surprise. Pulling out the nearest chair, she placed the female elf on it before looking around for a rag. Finding one, she tore it into a long strip and carefully, yet tightly, wrapped the rag around her companion's hand before tying it. Desperately trying to hold back the want she had to feed on more of her companion's blood, she examined her and asked, "Are you okay? That wound is pretty deep. You might need to go to the temple to have it healed."

Coming out of her euphoric daze at the question, Hejlikka looked at her hand and the rag that was quickly getting blood-soaked and she shook her head with a wry smile. "No need. I know a little bit of healing magic that my mother taught me a few decades ago." She then placed her hand over the wound and slowly began casting some magic to heal it.

"Want me to cook for you, since you lost a lot of blood?" Liana showed a concerned face, which made Hejlikka's heart flutter a little.

"Ah...please..." She blushed as she remembered the reason why she accidentally cut herself in the first place and lowered her head in shame.

Liana quickly cooked a simple dish, with some of the ingredients that were picked earlier by Hejlikka, and served it to the weak elf. Not wanting to attack her possible housemate out of blood lust, she excused herself from sitting with her for breakfast and left to return to the tavern.

Once she got back to her room, she locked her door, took off her dress, cleaned it, placed it on the bed post to dry, then went to bed. Thinking about whether it would be a good idea or not to take Hejlikka up on her offer, she fell asleep once noon arrived.

[OC: Liana with Hejlikka|Setting: Scribel City - Hejlikka's house, Tavern|Word Count: 2237]

Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun had set, Liana got dressed and washed her face - noting how her skin looked particularly more healthy-looking than it had a few days ago. She pondered over the 'meals' she'd had recently and attributed her body brimming full of vitality to that - licking her lips subconsciously as she recalled the exceptionally sweet flavour of the female elf she'd sipped a little on that morning. Coming back to her senses, she lightly ran her fingers through her hair to make it look neat again before leaving her room and locking the door.

Heading down the stairs towards the tavern bar area, she handed the rent money for that day before deciding to leave the area before she was overcome by the multitude of delicious smells of 'food' mixed in with sweat, urine, disgusting cooked food and alcohol. Exiting the tavern, Liana thought about what she should do for the night and smiled when she remembered how fun working in the customer service department was. She also recalled how Hejlikka had been relegated to the night shift and smiled wryly at the thought of possibly meeting the eccentric elf.

Reaching a decision, she made her way to the guild and told the staff she wished to help work in the Customer Service Department again. Getting a signed note from the receptionist, Liana headed to the CSD section and looked for the supervisor to inform them of her task. After a few minutes of looking, she eventually found a male elf coming out of the back office rooms with an arm wrapped around a woman's waist - whispering something in her ear with a smile on his familiar face. Seeing the woman blushing before nodding in affirmation to whatever the male elf had said, he released her from his arm and tapped her rear cheek before noticing Liana and smiling gently.

Walking up to her, he saw the note in her hand and smiled even more deeply before saying, "And who might your beautiful self be, my sweet~?" His eyes greedily looked up and down her body.

Smiling gently back, Liana responded, "I'm Liana. I came to do the customer service task." She held out the signed note to the male elf, "The task is still available, right?" She showed a look of worry as her gold eyes gazed at the man in front of her.

"Liana, huh? Such a pretty name for such a pretty thing. I'm Julrik, the man in charge of most of the people here, at your service my sweet~" He grabbed her hand and bowed, expertly kissing the back of it before releasing his grip.

"AH! Julrik! Get your hands off her! Stop flirting and get working!!!"

Hejlikka stormed towards them and made sure to stand in-between Liana and Julrik. Seeing the two together, Liana raised her brows as she noticed the resemblance between the two of them, although Hejlikka appeared to seem quite a few years older than him.

"Your brother, Miss Hejlikka?" She tilted her head as she noticed more and more resemblances between the two.

Hearing the question, Hejlikka smiled wryly before answering, "Yes...this is Julrik, my younger brother, and also our boss..."

Julrik smiled delightedly at that, "So you've heard of me, my sweet Liana~? I'm so happy~ Why don't we get to know each other more intimately over-- KUH!" He suddenly bent over as he rubbed his freshly jabbed ribs with a grimace.

"Pay him no mind. He's not even supposed to be working right now." Hejlikka guided Liana to an empty booth in the CSD before continuing, "Since you've already done this job before, I'll let you get straight to work. Also, I hope you'll be willing to leave together again..." A light blush crept onto her cheeks but was masked by the shadows made by the torches and candles in the room to notice.

"Sure!" Liana smiled gently back at the female elf.

Pushing her glasses up, Hejlikka happily smiled before her face turned grim and stern as she went up to her brother and dragged him away by his pointy ear, complaining about how unprofessional he was in the workplace and couldn't understand how he ended up getting promoted faster than her.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Getting a customer a few minutes after sitting down, Liana got into full swing with doing customer service work. Saying that, after the first customer not many other people came to the department for a long time. Since that was the case, she listened in on the conversations her colleagues were having while being idle from lack of customers. One pair talked about how boring the night shift was due to it usually being really slow since most people were already sleeping or had gone drinking. Another pair - two men - discussed how cute some of the receptionists were, with them even starting to rate them on sexiness or cuteness: Nene was given a 78/100 due to how cute her fox ears looked and how diligent she was in trying to help people; another receptionist called Konaha was rated 63/100 on account of how efficiently she evaluated reports but had a no nonsense style to her comments; some Imelda Carson - the half elf mentioned while working last night - was also mentioned, with her receiving an amazing 91/100 due to her having a large chest, provocative clothing and coquettish behaviour whenever they interacted with her; they even gave Hejlikka a rating...23/100...mostly because she was too strict and harsh with them but also because they found her an annoying busybody with no charming qualities except her nice looks. Those men made sure to whisper that last rating while casting fearful glances at the door in case the female elf came through.

As she was listening, she soon heard another group even move closer to one another and talked about how worrying the war in Gelderholm was. One of them mentioned how their cousin went to help but had gotten bitten by a snake and was in critical condition. Another person in the group talked about a strong adventurer called Felicia who was making great gains there - helping the locals fight against the hydra's subordinates and helping them gain a firmer foothold in the area.

After a while, several customers came and were dealt with by Liana without incident. It seemed that she was picked out due to her not talking with the other colleagues - instead sitting quietly at her booth with a gentle smile on her face. Once the end of the shift approached, Liana managed to deal with 13 customers: 3 were invalid complaints, 9 were valid ones to which she compensated them with appropriate measures, and 1 was a scammer trying to cheat the system with stolen goods from another adventurer - that one was dealt with by the guards due to the customer pulling out a dagger and jumping onto Liana's desk in anger from being discovered, which shocked a lot of the other workers who had been busy chatting away.

As the last customer left, Hejlikka came in and noticed the other workers slacking. She shouted at them for not doing what they were paid to do - threatening to reduce their salary for a poor work mentality - before she reached Liana and briefly smiled. "You've worked hard. Sorry that you had to pick up the slack from these incompetent fools." She glared at the two men who'd been sat rating the female workers all night, causing them to straighten their backs and turn stiff out of fear. She then turned to look at Liana and softened her gaze, "Dawn will be in a few minutes, your shift is over now."

"Okay." Liana smiled gently as she stretched out her sore muscles from sitting for so long with not much to do for the past several hours. Getting up from her seat, she went to the receptionist desk, wrote up her report and handed it in for evaluation.

"You ready?" Liana asked.

"Yes!" Hejlikka replied, happy to finally go home with her companion after working all night.

[OOC: Money before - 400G, Money after - 390G]

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Painful Memories (Closed)

Leaving the guild with Hejlikka, Liana walked with her down the street towards the tavern, seeing the sunrise like the day before.

"It never ceases to put my mind at ease when I see such a beautiful thing." The female elf said while glancing at her friend, admiring how her skin glowed in the light from the sunrise. Blushing a little as she realised she was beginning to stare, she turned her head quickly to look at the sunrise again, and pushed up her glasses to hide her embarrassment.

"Mm...I still prefer the sunset. Seeing the sunrise doesn't put my mind at ease..." she furrowed her brows a little as she felt her body getting more and more tired as the sun rose over the rooftops gradually.

Walking down the street as they were talking, Hejlikka showed surprise at Liana's words and couldn't help asking, "Why doesn't it put your mind at ease? If it's not too rude to ask, I mean..."

"...My temple back in my world had an early to bed, early to rise policy. We would wake up before dawn and purify ourselves in the God's Lake behind our temple..." She shuddered involuntarily as she recalled her past - a splitting headache forming as if she shouldn't remember her life before being reborn by her master. Ignoring the pain, she continued as best she could - her actions successfully convincing her work colleague about how awful the memory was, "We would wear nothing but our undergarment robes and soak in the cold lake water until the sun rose - be it in the Fire period, or in the Ice period." Her eyes began changing from the usual gold to a dim red as the pain increased.

"Wow, that's...really harsh." Hejlikka shuddered as she imagined what that would be like but then blushed a little as her mind began wondering what Liana would have looked like with wet undergarments clinging to her body - her chest area showing the signs of being cold...She coughed and pushed her glasses up in embarrassment as she put such thoughts aside, having realised she had started staring at her friend's chest.

"...Mm...it was to...help purge wicked thoughts and take in the God's divine essence..." Liana vaguely recalled that she actually enjoyed those moments because she got to be closer to their god - Lord Shé Shén. This moment passed abruptly as the pain intensified to an unbearable level, resulting in her holding her head and getting a nosebleed.

"AH! You're bleeding!" Hejlikka immediately got a handkerchief out and began dabbing at Liana's nose - not noticing her friend's detached and dimly glowing red eyes.

"...It's nothing to be concerned about. It'll pass." Liana pushed the female elf's hand away from her face and continued walking towards the tavern, not waiting for her work colleague to keep pace with her.

Shivering, while blushing, a little from being rebuffed, Hejlikka soon followed and caught up - subtly and carefully folding the bloody handkerchief and placing it in her cloak pocket. Reaching the tavern, Liana began entering without paying attention to her work colleague. Seeing this, Hejlikka didn't get the chance to ask to have breakfast together or about whether she'd thought more on living with her. Knowing that her friend didn't seem to be in the best of moods right now, she decided to hold off on discussing it and parted ways with a wry smile.

[OC: Liana with Hejlikka|Setting: Scribel City|Word Count: 572]

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Scribble City Guild Headquarters - Midnight (4)

Reaching a desk full of stacks of paper, the female elf pushed up her glasses and smiled at the teenage girl. "This will be your work space. I expect you to be diligent in your task until your shift ends - at dawn." She pointed at the stacks of paper, "These are all quest reports that need filing away into the correct categories. I expect them to be in the correct places! By the way, my name is Hejlikka and I am the supervisor of staff for the night shift. What's your name, little girl? I need to know for administration reasons."

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Scribble City Guild Headquarters - Midnight (5)

"Hello miss Hejlikka, My name is Letianna Orgalla, Pleased to meet you." I sat down and started checking the different categories and checking where to put each report "Miss I'll start now." I skimmed the quest reports and started placing them into different categories Woah, some of these are telling me it might be a bit dangerous outside the city.

Scribble City Guild Headquarters - Midnight (5)

Hejlikka's eyebrows twitched upon hearing the girl's name, before seeing the her reading through a report without being told what categories they needed to be put in. "Letianna Orgalla...was it? The same Letianna Orgalla who blatantly skipped out on her shift after only working 2 hours? I hope you won't slack on the job this time, otherwise I'll dock your pay!"

The female elf grabbed the report in Letianna's hands and pointed at several empty boxes behind the desk, "The boxes on the left are for reports marked as failed. I expect the levels to be in ascending order going from left to right. The boxes on your right are for reports marked as fully successful - same rules in terms of levels as before. The boxes right behind you are for the partially successful reports. Don't mess up!"

Hejlikka put down the report and left to deal with another troublesome worker she'd seen.

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Scribble City Guild Headquarters - Midnight (7)

My cheeks blushed a bit from being reminded of that Ah I'm getting too hasty, something about the cart before the horse "I won't mess it up miss!" I can't have my pay docked! Ah It'd be troublesome if that happened I started organizing the quest reports according to what Hejlikka's method and by the time I looked up it seemed that a few hours had already passed by How long have I been organizing quest reports? I was thinking of snacking on a ration but it was better to eat one a day to be frugal.

Scribbel City Guild Headquarters - Before Dawn (7)

Coming in to check on the progress of the teenage girl, Hejlikka saw her holding a ration in her hand. Storming over with another large stack of reports, she slammed them on the table and glared at the slack worker.

"No eating, drinking, or chatting while working! It's unprofessional! Especially when we're so understaffed!"

She then carried the filled boxes away to the Filing room before coming back with more empty boxes. Placing them down, she then rubbed the girl's head, "I will acknowledge you've worked hard so far, though. Don't disappoint me by slacking off in the last few hours!" She then stormed off, heading for the Customer Service Department to check how the workers were doing there.

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Scribbel City Guild Headquarters - Dawn (9)

Walking into the room to tell Letianna that her shift was over, Hejlikka smiled as she saw the girl desperately trying to keep her eyes open while reading through a report - the stacks of reports significantly smaller than before. Gently placing her hand on top of the report, the female elf pushed up her glasses with a gentle smile on her face:

"The sun is rising, your shift is over. You've redeemed yourself, Miss Orgalla. If you ever work here again, I will eagerly anticipate the good work ethic you've shown this evening. Finish up that report and you can go home!"

Going over to pick up a full box of filed reports, Hejlikka patted the girl's head as a reward for managing to stay awake, before heading to the Filing room. "Ahhhh, her hair is so soft~" She thought to herself as she walked away with a silly subconscious smile on her face.

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Scribbel City Guild Headquarters - Dawn (11)

"A place to sleep near here?" Hejlikka replied as she came back. "Hmm, there's the tavern which always seems to have some rooms available no matter when you go. The rent's cheap, too: only 10G a day with all meals included. If you don't want food with it then it's 5G a day. It's a really good bargain for those who have little to no money."

The female elf started leaving the room to collect her cloak before going home for the day, she then paused in thought before looking at the girl. "I could show you the way, if you want? I pass that way on the way home anyway."

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Scribbel City Guild Headquarters - Dawn (12)

"All meals included?" My eyes shined, the place before only let me use the room and a wooden bucket, this was an upgrade!

"Un! I'll follow you." The little excitement I had pushed my tired feet forward. Unconsciously I had extended a hand to hejlikka for her to guide me, I was a bit worried about getting separated along the way somehow.

Scribbel City Guild Headquarters - Dawn (13)

Seeing the report still on the desk and not filed into a box, Hejlikka pointed at it before stating in a firm tone, "Finish your work first!"

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Scribbel City Guild Headquarters - Dawn (15)

Putting her cloak on, Hejlikka held Letianna's hand and led the way to the tavern. "Ahhh, her hands are so soft, too!" She thought to herself as she blushed a little at how cute the teenager was.

After walking for a few minutes, they reached the tavern; the rising sun currently shining on its front.

"This is the place!" She reluctantly let go of the hand she'd been holding, "If you go in and talk to one of the staff, I'm sure they'll help you get a room. Oh, also make sure to show your guild card to them since that's how you can rent the room so cheaply." Hejlikka yawned as the tension from working the night shift loosened, making her fatigue finally catch up with her. "My house is a bit further, so I'll part ways here. Good luck with your future work, Miss Orgalla. The guild is always open for earnest workers to help!"

The female elf then turned away and left, lamenting over not getting to see Liana this time.

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Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun set, Liana got dressed and washed her face. Feeling hungry from not having a 'meal' for 2 days, the new-born vampire licked her lips as she pondered over whether to order a blue steak again, or to risk finding a live source to 'nibble' on. Not wanting to have to deal with Hejlikka for the third night in a row and possibly attack her for her truly delicious blood, Liana thought to look at the quest board and see if there was anything else she could do since she had the feeling Guard Captain Harrison would still be unwilling to let her work in the prison again.

Leaving her room and locking the door, she noticed what appeared to be a male elf kneeling in front of the door next to hers with some metal tools in his hands at the door lock.

"..."

"..."

They both looked at each other for a few seconds before the male elf smiled awkwardly and got up and scratched the back of his head, "Hahaha, I left my key with my girlfriend and it seems she locked the door behind her and fell asleep, so I couldn't get back in. I'd tell the staff, but I don't want to wake her up. Gods knows how wrathful she'd be if I interrupted her beauty sleep, hahaha..."

"...I see." Liana replied in a detached tone, not really caring about what he was saying due to the sweet scent wafting off him. "Are all elves tasty?" She thought to herself as she left the man and headed downstairs, walked through the already noisy tavern and left for the guild quest board.

Reading through the quests, she saw one that seemed interesting, plus it would give her the excuse of finding some 'food' along the way. Taking the quest off the board, she went got the report from the receptionist at the guild, read through it, took the room key and then quickly left before Hejlikka could see her.

Spoiler: Quest Report - mild gore

Not inspecting the room key for the moment, Liana thought to look for some adventurers she'd met while doing her customer service quests. Walking through the city streets, she found some of them and asked them how they were doing before subtly asking if they'd heard of a Level 3 adventurer called Claire since she'd left the guild before getting her reward from the receptionist. None of them seemed to have heard of her, and so she left it at that and said bye to them after asking them how their own quests had been going.

After walking around for a few hours with no results, she decided to inspect the key that Claire was found in possession of. Looking at it carefully, she noticed how it was very similar to her own tavern key. Thinking that she'd found a clue to grasp on, she made her way back to the tavern and looked for the least busy maid.

"You found this key on the side of the road? Let me check who it belongs to." The maid put down the empty drinks tray she'd been carrying, wiped her hands on her apron, and went over to the logbook to check who owned the key. Running her finger down the pages, she eventually stopped on a name and tapped it several times. "Ah, this belongs to Claire! Such a sweet girl and so talented at making potions."

"...Making potions? Is she an alchemist, then?" Liana asked in a detached tone as she desperately tried to hold off the instinct to pounce on the nearby obese human drinking heavily and feed on him.

The maid giggled at the question, "Hahaha! No, she's an adventurer. A talented one, too. She joined about a few weeks ago and is already Level 3 in the guild. In fact, just a few days ago she left to go foraging for herbs to make more potions. Oh! She also got a boyfriend recently: an elf, I believe."

"...Oh? Is he an adventurer, too?"

"Hmm, I don't think he is. He tends to prefer working with his tools, making various contraptions and trying to sell them in the market." The maid glanced around before leaning in and whispering, "If you ask me, I think she could do better. I hear he has a bad history with some not very nice people from a few decades ago."

"A few decades ago?" Liana slightly raised her eyebrows at that.

"Ah, don't you know? Elves can live for hundreds of years and age incredibly slowly after they reach their teens. Not to mention they all seem to be really good-looking, too. Ah~! I'm so jealous of Claire for getting such a good-looking boyfriend! Ah...but I wouldn't want someone with a questionable past." She looked a little embarrassed from her complaint.

"...I see. So, how did they end up meeting?" Liana tilted her head inquisitively, yet with a detached look on her face.

"Hmm, if I recall, they met while she was helping at the temple. He'd supposedly been stabbed by someone and she treated his wounds with her potions. Apparently it was love at first sight."

"...Apparently?"

"Well, I believe Claire really did fall for him, but him? I highly doubt it. The way I see it, she was a meal ticket for him. I mean, they even share the same room but she's the one who pays the rent and owns the key. Ah, come to think of it I saw him earlier going upstairs, but then leaving after a few minutes with a big sack on his shoulders. I wonder what that was about..."

"...Out of curiosity...is Claire's room next to mine?"

"Hmm? Let me check." She flipped through the pages to the most recent one and found Liana's name. "Yes. How did you know?" The maid looked up in surprise.

"...I think I saw the boyfriend using some tools to unlock the door just before I left to do some work..."

"EHH?!"

The maid then closed the book, took the key and headed upstairs - with Liana following close behind. As they reached the room, the door was unlocked when the maid tried the handle. She pushed the door open to see a ransacked room. The drawers in the dresser were left slightly open with the clothes half hanging out and in a mess, the chest that had been used for personal storage had the padlock open and lying on the floor with the contents mostly gone. The alchemist equipment that Claire usually used for making potions was on the floor - with broken vials and bent metal tools.

"...This...this...this is terrible! I knew he was a good-for-nothing!" The maid looked angry and was ready to storm off to tell the tavern owner, however Liana grabbed her arm to stop her.

"We don't know if it was him. He might have come back, found the door locked without Claire there and chose to wait inside for her. Then, once he opened the door, he saw this and fled with his own stuff in fear." She said in a detached tone.

"..." The maid didn't really think that was the case, but chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. "Okay...but I still need to report this to the owner so we can explain things when Claire gets back....Oh...poor Claire..." She started crying as she tried to tidy up the mess a bit.

Thinking about her quest, Liana asked where the boyfriend might be found, to which the maid said he usually hung around the market or the forge areas. Having another clue to go on, she asked for the name of the boyfriend - which was Karl Jakobsson - and then left the tavern.

Walking in the direction of the forge areas after seeing some soot-covered blacksmiths coming from a certain street, Liana looked for any signs of the male elf she'd seen earlier that night. After an hour of walking around all of the different smithies and other industrial buildings, Liana got a whiff of blood in the wind and followed where it came from. After following the scent for a few minutes, the new-born spotted some dark puddles of liquid on the ground trailing towards a dark alley with the puddles increasing in size the further away from her they were.

"..."

Looking around to see if there was anyone else in the area, Liana stepped into the alley to find a body lying in a pool of cold and drying blood. Feeling an ache in her throat - as well as her fangs involuntarily lengthening - she could see it was a male elf barely breathing. Creeping closer with great restraint over her hunger, she asked, "Are you Karl Jakobsson?"

Seeing the woman's glowing red eyes in the dark alley, the male elf was alarmed but thought there was no point in being scared since he felt he wouldn't survive the next few minutes anyway. Nodding his head with great difficulty, he recognised the woman once she got close enough, "You're...hah...that...ngh...tavern...hah...neigh...bour...?"

Liana didn't answer as she continued her questioning, "Are you Claire's boyfriend?"

Karl's eyes widened at the mention of his girlfriend, before tearing up, "...I was...I doubt...hah...she's alive...now..."

"What makes you think that?" Liana asked coldly - her fangs already digging into her lips and making a mess of them.

"...I don't...hah...deserve...good...things ngh...and hah...she was...the.........best thing...I hah...ever...had..." His breathing was getting more laboured as he struggled to speak; blood coming out of his mouth with every word he spoke.

Gulping hard with difficulty, Liana stuck to her task, "Who did this?"

"........................A flower...of metal...bright hah...as the sssssssun ngh....with thorns...full of...mal...ice.........................and roots hah...digging..........deep..........................." He passed away from his many stab wounds as well as blood loss.

Spoiler: Not reported

Not wanting to pass up a free 'meal', Liana knelt on the ground and greedily licked the blood like a starved animal. She then crawled towards Karl's open wounds and sucked the remaining red nectar before it dried up. Regaining her senses after a few minutes of sucking and swallowing, she released her mouth from the rapidly cooling body and wiped it on a dry patch of her prey's clothes. She then got up and patted down her clothes and legs to get rid of any dirt from when she was crawling.

She looked at Karl's corpse and pondered what to do next. Seeing as how she'd found out where Claire had lived - as well as that she had a boyfriend - and that she knew the tavern maid last saw her leaving the tavern saying she was going to collect some herbs for more potions. She then thought about how her boyfriend had died the same way that she had: multiple stab wounds, and that it was related to Karl's past affiliations most likely.

"A flower of metal as bright as the sun, with thorns full of malice and roots digging deep..." She muttered to herself as she recalled the male elf's final words, his answer for who did it. Not really knowing what to do about this supposed organisation, Liana decided to head back to the guild, making a mental note about where Karl's body was so it could be cleaned up by the city guards.

It was past dawn when she finally arrived at the guild, where she lethargically wrote her report and handed it in, her gold eyes looking weary once she finished writing. Wanting to go to sleep, as soon as the report was evaluated she hurried back to her tavern room - did her usual routine - then fell into a deep sleep.

Spoiler: Summary

• Asked around the city for info on Claire, but nobody knew her
• Found out she lived in the tavern
• Found out she had an elf boyfriend with a questionable past
• Found her room broken into and ransacked
• Found whereabouts of boyfriend
• Boyfriend was also stabbed like Claire and died shortly after being found
• Before dying, boyfriend gave enigmatic answer to who killed him: 'A flower of metal as bright as the sun, with thorns full of malice and roots digging deep.'

@Epsil
[OOC: Don't know if I did this right. I also didn't know if it was okay to incorporate a bit of the Golden Rose into this, or not...
Sorry, if I've messed things up!
>w<]

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A Night of Uncertainty (Closed)

Walking along the streets of Scribel City at night, Liana didn't know what to do as she struggled to comprehend what happened the night before. She remembered being tripped over while she was running away...but no more until she woke up when the sun set this evening.

"What happened?" She questioned internally, "Why was I aching all over? Did he...down there...?" She continued wandering down a street, not paying attention to where she was going as she hugged the wine bottle in her arms subconsciously.

She stopped as she realised her body's situation - her figure trembled as a wave of shame and lament crashed over her. She crouched on the ground and held her head - dropping the wine bottle in the process - as she felt remorse over losing something she considered most precious...something she had dreamed of gifting to her master every time she thought of him.

"Hey, pretty lady, are you all right?" A familiar, masculine voice sounded over her head. Looking up at the source, she noticed it was Julrik - Hejlikka's younger brother - with a bag over his shoulders.

Shrinking away from him as she recalled what Jasper had done, she turned her face away and replied while choking back the tears pooling in her eyes, "I'm fine...I just...need to rest for a bit, is all." She wrapped her arms around her crouched legs as she tried to smile at the male elf - albeit looking very forced and uncomfortable.

"...Right." Julrik saw the passersby staring at them and felt the situation was most definitely not fine. Thinking about how he'd been planning on bunking in the old family home to keep under his love rivals' radars, he remembered how his frigid sister seemed to have a positive opinion of the young woman and had even mentioned having invited her home once. Scratching his head, he said: "Look, I was heading over to Hejlikka's place just now after finishing work, wanna come with me and rest there? Then I might get to do things with her later, hehehe~"

Hearing the man mention Hejlikka's place, a heavy weight around her heart lifted slightly as she recalled her work colleague's earlier offer to live there. Since she was currently homeless, and she did not want to be anywhere near the tavern right now, she meekly nodded her head but didn't move to stand up.

Seeing her nod in agreement, Julrik smiled happily and quickly picked her up in his arms and lifted her into a princess carry.

"Ah!" Liana gasped as fear started creeping in from memories of Jasper wrapping his arms around her and dragging her into his room flashed in her mind.

"Easy now~" The male elf said in a placating tone as he noticed his companion freeze up and start shivering as soon as she was in his arms. "I'm just helping you get to the house since you needed a rest~"

Hearing his words, Liana calmed down a bit, but still retained a rigid posture. "My bottle..."

"Hmm~?"

"That bottle was a...gift from someone, I can't leave it behind." She muttered in a quiet tone that was barely audible.

Julrik looked down where Liana had been crouched and noticed a wine bottle lying on its side with some black liquid in it. Ensuring he had a good hold of the woman in his arms, he bent over and picked it up and placed it on her lap. "Here you go~"

"...Thank you..." She buried her face into his shoulder out of embarrassment of being stared at by the people on the street, but also to better smell the sweet scent coming from him.

"No problem~" Enjoying the sensation of the woman nuzzling him, he made his way to the house with a spring in his step.

Upon reaching the building, Julrik took out the key he always kept in case he ever needed to return to the family home and unlocked the door. He then nudged it open with his foot before entering and kicking the door closed. Still carrying Liana, he moved through the kitchen and headed for the living area before gently placing her on the sofa.

"Here we are~! Let me light up the candles so we can see better--"

"No need."

"Hmm?"

"I prefer being in the dark at the moment." Liana wrapped her arms under her legs as her knees were against her chest - the image of a frightened person in a defensive posture.

"...Okay~ I'll be in the kitchen if you need me. Oh, want me to cook anything while I'm there~?"

"I'm okay, Mr Julrik...I...ate not long ago..." She buried her head in her knees as she felt ashamed of how she came to acquire the blood in the wine bottle.

Seeing the woman wasn't in a good state of mind, Julrik knew better than to pry, and so went into the kitchen to make himself some food.

Alone in the living room, Liana thought about what she should do from now on. She knew she couldn't stay in the tavern, since Jasper was there and obviously had intentions on 'feeding' on her again. She involuntarily shivered at that thought before she turned her mind towards what she should do in terms of living in the city.

Ideally, she thought it would be safer for her to leave and travel to another place - away from the incubus - but then she felt she couldn't since she had to wait for her master to arrive. Remembering what Jasper had said about how her being under her master's compulsion meant he was still alive and intended on coming brought some relief to her. However, the fact that the demon had known she was under compulsion made her think about how it had protected her from his own attempts to control her and she involuntarily shuddered again. She instinctively knew that the man was dangerous. So...what should she do about living in the city?

"That frigid b*tch!"

"!?"

The sound of clattering could be heard from the kitchen which brought Liana out of her thoughts. Getting up and walking over, she saw the kitchen in a mess with scraps of badly chopped vegetables strewn all over the worktop. Noticing Liana was at the doorway observing the chaotic scene before her with surprise in her dull gold eyes, Julrik smiled wryly before running his fingers through his hair and waving his arms at the room.

"I don't usually do the cooking...and Hejlikka didn't leave any leftovers to warm up..." He looked a little embarrassed as he thought about how much face he'd lost just now.

Liana found the male elf amusing and couldn't help but giggle a little before smiling gently, "I know how to cook. If it's okay with you, I can salvage the ingredients and make you something."

"My lifesaver~! A goddess in the flesh descended down to save me from hunger~!" He knelt down and clasped his hands in front of him before raising them in the air towards Liana.

Giggling more at the elf's flamboyance, Liana smiled more and went to gather up the badly chopped vegetables and set about making a soup. Seeing the woman had perked up a bit from when he'd found her, he smiled before sitting in one of the chairs and watched her beautiful figure as she deftly dealt with the ingredients. Once the soup was ready, Julrik greedily wolfed it down and asked for seconds praising Liana's skills in cooking.

"I'm telling you," he slurped another spoonful of soup, "your cooking is better than my playmates'!"

"Oh? I thank you for the flattery." Liana smiled cheerfully - her mood completely lifted to her usual, original cheerful self from before she was turned into a vampire.

Seeing the young woman clearing up the now empty soup bowl, Julrik propositioned: "Hey, how about staying here for the night~?" Liana's hands halted briefly as that feeling of fear began inexplicably creeping in again. "I mean, I heard how Hejlikka offered you a room to live in a few days ago and, since it's so late at night, it would be safer for you to stay here than to go out there again. Who knows~? Maybe some miscreant will try and rob you, or worse force himself on you~?"

The sound of a bowl smashing onto the floor reverberated in the kitchen before the room fell awkwardly silent.

"..."

"..."

"...Hey...you weren't in the middle of the street like that because that happened...right?" Julrik showed a very concerned face while inwardly cursing himself for his previous words of jest.

"...You're wrong, Mr Julrik." Liana turned around with a strained smile, "No such miscreant forced himself on me while I was walking the streets tonight. I was just startled by the thought of that possibly happening, hence why I dropped the bowl." She gave a seemingly embarrassed smile that also seemed strained.

"...Oh. My apologies for putting such vivid imagery into your pretty little head, then. Also, don't worry about the bowl. You cooking that delicious meal for me is enough to pay for replacing it~" He winked at her before getting up from his seat and stretching while yawning. "Ah, it's pretty late now. I'm going to go sleep upstairs, you can take my old room on this floor. Hejlikka will be back in a few hours, so you won't have to wait long for her to arrive. Well, good night, pretty lady~" The male elf then left the kitchen and headed upstairs - most likely for what used to be his parents' room.

Finishing with the cleaning up, as well as gathering up the broken pieces of bowl, Liana headed back into the living room and sat down in the darkness. She stared at the wine bottle that contained Jasper's blood, unsure of what to do with it. On one hand, it made her feel exceptionally energised and fully satiated from hunger; on the other hand...it was Jasper's blood that he used as a tool of transaction to feed on her vitality...

Sitting in the darkness for the next few hours, Liana pondered over her future choices while staring at the bottle in fear and want.

With the sun halfway up the sky, Hejlikka entered the house with a few bags full of groceries and daily necessities. Entering the kitchen, she noticed nothing amiss except for a bowl no longer being there, and wondered if Julrik had decided to come over to do his usual laying low from love rivals. Thinking not much of it, she put the groceries away before entering the living room and stopping in shock with her mouth wide open. In front of her eyes was Liana, sleeping like a corpse, on the sofa with a wine bottle in her arms.

"Morrrrrrrrr.....ning~" Julrik greeted Hejlikka while yawning, lethargically entering the room from the stairs.

"Y-y-y-y-you! What did you do with Liana?!" Hejlikka whisper-shouted at her brother while pointing at her friend.

"Ah?" He turned to look at the sleeping beauty on the sofa and admired it as a smirk crept on his face before turning to his sister with a smug expression, "I invited her to spend the night with me here~"

Hejlikka slapped him on the cheek and dragged him into the kitchen by the ear.

"Ow! Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! It hurts! Stop it! Frigid b*tch, stop it, it hurts!"

Closing the door, the female elf let go of her brother, pushed her glasses up and crossed her arms with a stern expression, "Tell the truth! Why is Liana here?"

Rubbing his sore pointy ear and cheek, he languidly sat in a chair and lazily crossed his stretched out legs, "I found her crouched in the middle of the street last night looking out of sorts. Since I was heading here anyway, I invited her to come and rest here. I didn't want to pry, since she seemed afraid of being touched by me, but she reacted pretty badly when I jokingly mentioned the dangers of men on the streets for women." He shrugged as he reached behind him and took an apple from the freshly filled fruit bowl before taking a bite out of it.

"...Out of sorts? Being touched?" Hejlikka looked concerned as she subconsciously glanced at the closed living room door behind her. "Why didn't you take her to the tavern? She rents a room there."

Julrik shrugged again while taking another bite from the apple, "From what I could tell, the only possession on her person was that wine bottle. She also seemed to have come from the direction of the tavern when I saw her." He looked at his older sister and was surprised by how full of expression she was compared to her usual stern face. "Sis, you--"

"Did you do anything to her?" She glared at him with eyes full of suspicion.

"What do you take me for? A goblin in heat? I like to see myself as a gentleman towards women, thank you very much! I never go after an unwilling woman, nor a woman in a troubled state of mind...A woman suffering from a break-up, however--"

"Shut up, you hormones-on-legs!"

Julrik raised his hands up to show his surrender, while smirking. Seeing her good-for-nothing brother was keeping silent, Hejlikka pushed up her glasses as she turned more serious, "We should find out if she still has a room at the tavern, or not. If not, then we'll wait until she wakes up to see if she'd be willing to stay here or not. If she really has suffered from an...unfortunate situation, then I don't think it's a good idea for her to be on her own. What do you think?"

"If it means I get to see her pretty face whenever I sleep over here, I'm willing for her to stay~"

The female elf glared at him again while thinking to herself, "Truly a good-for-nothing who only thinks with his lower body!"

The two then discussed what they would each do during the day, allowing Liana to sleep on the sofa without disturbing her.

[OC: Liana with Julrik|Setting: Scribel City - Streets, Hejlikka's house|Word Count: 2343]

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Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun set, Liana saw she had fallen asleep on the sofa and had somehow acquired a patchwork blanket over her body. Sitting up, she noticed Hejlikka - resting her head on her crossed arms - fast asleep beside her. She looked to have dark circles under her eyes, a sign she'd been awake way past the time she should have gone to sleep. Remembering that she should have arrived early in the morning, Liana wondered why the female elf looked so tired when it was evening - as well as why she was sleeping next to her in the living room.

"..."

Not wanting to disturb the sleeping elf, Liana silently got off the sofa and looked around for the wine bottle. Finding it on the sofa, she carefully picked it up and checked that its contents hadn't been reduced while she'd been sleeping. Noting in her mind that the blood level was the same as before she fell asleep, she silently walked to the kitchen and carefully opened the bottle. Smelling the strong bitter scent wafting out of the opening, Liana subconsciously bit her lip in hesitation before shoving the bottle to her mouth and drinking down the rest of the contents.

"Mmnh..." Feeling her body brimming with a lot of energy, she licked her lips to catch any residual liquid and realised that the bitter taste wasn't as bad as the first time she drank it making her wonder if it was like how some human foods and drinks required repeated exposure in order to acquire a taste for it. "..." That thought made her a little concerned that she'd end up becoming addicted to the flavour if she kept drinking it, thus placing her more easily in the palm of Jasper's dangerous hands. Shuddering at the thought, she washed out the wine bottle a few times to ensure nothing got contaminated by the demon blood, she then left the house with the empty bottle; an idea formed in her mind from last night.

Walking down the street, Liana hastily went past the tavern and headed for the guild quest board. She knew she didn't want to work in the offices for a while. She had the feeling that Hejlikka would start asking lots of uncomfortable questions if they met and so determined that she would avoid her until she'd sorted out her feelings and emotions on certain things. With that in mind, as she was glancing through the numerous quests, she recalled how Julrik had complimented on her cooking when she saw a certain quest that caught her eye:

Cooking Rations
Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild Location: Scribel City Required Level: 1
Objectives: Visit the guild kitchens. Cook 40 satisfactory rations. The guild stockpiles on rations in case of emergency. Rations are foods that are easily preserved and can store for a long time. The Adventurer's Guild provides the ingredients, and there is an easy recipe to follow. One ration is one day's worth of food.
Rewards: Points: 40 EXP Money: 10 G Other: 5 rations After completing quest 3 times: Permission to use guild kitchens

Thinking about how there was no way office workers would be in the kitchens, Liana went to the guild receptionist to get a note and directions to the place before making her way there.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Entering the kitchen, Liana was surprised at how busy it was even though it was the evening. Seeing a man shouting at some nervous-looking teenagers who were making their work space an incredible mess, Liana wondered if he was one of the permanent chefs or not. As soon as that thought popped into her head, the man noticed her presence and went up to her with a stern expression filled with impatience:

"You here to make rations?" He asked while towering over Liana.

"Yes. Is there any space for me, sir?" She smiled gently, seemingly unfazed by the man's intimidating exterior.

"There's a work station at the back. Get to it! Why aren't you moving already?!" He shouted, looking angry.

"Ah, I was feeling overcome by your powerful presence. Don't mind me." Smiling as she headed for her work station, the chef scratched his chin while his eyes followed the newbie, unsure of what to make of her just yet.

Reaching her designated spot, she noticed a huge pile of fresh ingredients ready to be used in numerous boxes around the kitchen. Inspecting the equipment available, Liana walked to the ingredients and pondered over what would be a good idea for a ration. Looking around, she saw something she recognised from when she was at the temple. "Ngh!" Making a tiny bit of noise, Liana felt a twinge begin throbbing in her head. Gathering the ingredients, she hurried to her work station to start making the rations.

After a few hours, Liana brought forward a box filled with 60 rice crackers and showed them to the chef. Tasting one, the chef nodded that it was acceptable before taking the whole box to the ration storage room.

"Good work! Now get out of my sight!"

Gently smiling at the chef, Liana complied and immediately left.

Reaching the guild, she wrote up her report and handed it in for evaluation. She then hurriedly left as soon as the report was evaluated.

[OOC: Third of a wine bottle of Jasper's blood changed to - Empty wine bottle]

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Quest Report

Getting another signed note from a very tired receptionist, Liana hurried over to the kitchens again - still trying to avoid being seen by Hejlikka.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Entering the kitchen, it seemed a lot quieter than the early evening had been.

"Why are you back?"

"I wasn't feeling tired so thought to use my energy to help here." Liana replied while smiling with a gentleness that reached her gold eyes.

"I see. So why aren't your working?!" He shouted.

"Because I wanted to greet you before going, sir." She responded while giggling. "I'll see you when I've finished, then!" She hurried towards the ingredients while waving back at the gruff chef.

"Hmph!"

Gathering up the ingredients, she walked to one of the many free work stations and began her food prep. This time she'd decided to make use of the abundance of vegetables available and make pots of vegetable pate. She made sure to also prepare some chicken and liver pate, along with pork and liver pate for those that might want some protein in their ration.

A few hours later, Liana's cooking process had slowed after dawn passed but it didn't hinder her too much. Taking the first batch out of the cooling area, she called over the chef to get his opinion on it.

"Hmm, it tastes okay but how long will it keep? It looks quite wet..."

"The pate will let it last for a few weeks if stored in a cool place, and a few months if frozen." She smiled proudly as she answered.

"I see. Then I think it should be suitable as a ration."

"That's good to hear!" Liana's smile became brighter as she rushed to her work station to finish the last batch.

Just before noon, Liana very tiredly presented 120 small pots of pate to the chef; 40 vegetable pate pots, 40 chicken and liver pate pots, and 40 pork and liver pate pots. Looking nervously at the scrutinising chef, Liana worried that she'd maybe not made the portion sizes big enough - her dull gold eyes glancing at the rations and the chef.

"...It's acceptable! Now get out of my kitchen!"

"Yes, sir!" Liana responded while smiling brightly.

Writing her report and handing it in to the receptionist for evaluation, noon approached and Liana's body fell limp as her eyes closed and her face slammed hard into the desk before she collapsed onto the floor - dead to the world as she deeply slept in front of the desk.

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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Julrik
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- a male elf who works as the supervisor leader for the office workers, receptionists and customer service workers in the guild
- is very handsome
- is Hejlikka's younger brother
- likes women a lot, and flirts constantly with them while having many bed mates
- has earned the ire of a lot of men due to hogging the attention of women they like
- has received at least 7 challenges to duels from jealous rivals
- is competent at his job, though has a poor work ethic when it comes to women
- is very self-centred, almost to the point of narcissism
- prides himself on being a gentleman towards women, not wishing to force himself on them
- is a friend of Felicia's and has invited her to expensive restaurants and paid for her in the past, alas with no romantic results from her
- absolutely adores Felicia and wishes their relationship would progress into something more intimate


Reference:

Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun had set, Liana got dressed and washed her face - noting how her skin looked particularly more healthy-looking than it had a few days ago. She pondered over the 'meals' she'd had recently and attributed her body brimming full of vitality to that - licking her lips subconsciously as she recalled the exceptionally sweet flavour of the female elf she'd sipped a little on that morning. Coming back to her senses, she lightly ran her fingers through her hair to make it look neat again before leaving her room and locking the door.

Heading down the stairs towards the tavern bar area, she handed the rent money for that day before deciding to leave the area before she was overcome by the multitude of delicious smells of 'food' mixed in with sweat, urine, disgusting cooked food and alcohol. Exiting the tavern, Liana thought about what she should do for the night and smiled when she remembered how fun working in the customer service department was. She also recalled how Hejlikka had been relegated to the night shift and smiled wryly at the thought of possibly meeting the eccentric elf.

Reaching a decision, she made her way to the guild and told the staff she wished to help work in the Customer Service Department again. Getting a signed note from the receptionist, Liana headed to the CSD section and looked for the supervisor to inform them of her task. After a few minutes of looking, she eventually found a male elf coming out of the back office rooms with an arm wrapped around a woman's waist - whispering something in her ear with a smile on his familiar face. Seeing the woman blushing before nodding in affirmation to whatever the male elf had said, he released her from his arm and tapped her rear cheek before noticing Liana and smiling gently.

Walking up to her, he saw the note in her hand and smiled even more deeply before saying, "And who might your beautiful self be, my sweet~?" His eyes greedily looked up and down her body.

Smiling gently back, Liana responded, "I'm Liana. I came to do the customer service task." She held out the signed note to the male elf, "The task is still available, right?" She showed a look of worry as her gold eyes gazed at the man in front of her.

"Liana, huh? Such a pretty name for such a pretty thing. I'm Julrik, the man in charge of most of the people here, at your service my sweet~" He grabbed her hand and bowed, expertly kissing the back of it before releasing his grip.

"AH! Julrik! Get your hands off her! Stop flirting and get working!!!"

Hejlikka stormed towards them and made sure to stand in-between Liana and Julrik. Seeing the two together, Liana raised her brows as she noticed the resemblance between the two of them, although Hejlikka appeared to seem quite a few years older than him.

"Your brother, Miss Hejlikka?" She tilted her head as she noticed more and more resemblances between the two.

Hearing the question, Hejlikka smiled wryly before answering, "Yes...this is Julrik, my younger brother, and also our boss..."

Julrik smiled delightedly at that, "So you've heard of me, my sweet Liana~? I'm so happy~ Why don't we get to know each other more intimately over-- KUH!" He suddenly bent over as he rubbed his freshly jabbed ribs with a grimace.

"Pay him no mind. He's not even supposed to be working right now." Hejlikka guided Liana to an empty booth in the CSD before continuing, "Since you've already done this job before, I'll let you get straight to work. Also, I hope you'll be willing to leave together again..." A light blush crept onto her cheeks but was masked by the shadows made by the torches and candles in the room to notice.

"Sure!" Liana smiled gently back at the female elf.

Pushing her glasses up, Hejlikka happily smiled before her face turned grim and stern as she went up to her brother and dragged him away by his pointy ear, complaining about how unprofessional he was in the workplace and couldn't understand how he ended up getting promoted faster than her.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Getting a customer a few minutes after sitting down, Liana got into full swing with doing customer service work. Saying that, after the first customer not many other people came to the department for a long time. Since that was the case, she listened in on the conversations her colleagues were having while being idle from lack of customers. One pair talked about how boring the night shift was due to it usually being really slow since most people were already sleeping or had gone drinking. Another pair - two men - discussed how cute some of the receptionists were, with them even starting to rate them on sexiness or cuteness: Nene was given a 78/100 due to how cute her fox ears looked and how diligent she was in trying to help people; another receptionist called Konaha was rated 63/100 on account of how efficiently she evaluated reports but had a no nonsense style to her comments; some Imelda Carson - the half elf mentioned while working last night - was also mentioned, with her receiving an amazing 91/100 due to her having a large chest, provocative clothing and coquettish behaviour whenever they interacted with her; they even gave Hejlikka a rating...23/100...mostly because she was too strict and harsh with them but also because they found her an annoying busybody with no charming qualities except her nice looks. Those men made sure to whisper that last rating while casting fearful glances at the door in case the female elf came through.

As she was listening, she soon heard another group even move closer to one another and talked about how worrying the war in Gelderholm was. One of them mentioned how their cousin went to help but had gotten bitten by a snake and was in critical condition. Another person in the group talked about a strong adventurer called Felicia who was making great gains there - helping the locals fight against the hydra's subordinates and helping them gain a firmer foothold in the area.

After a while, several customers came and were dealt with by Liana without incident. It seemed that she was picked out due to her not talking with the other colleagues - instead sitting quietly at her booth with a gentle smile on her face. Once the end of the shift approached, Liana managed to deal with 13 customers: 3 were invalid complaints, 9 were valid ones to which she compensated them with appropriate measures, and 1 was a scammer trying to cheat the system with stolen goods from another adventurer - that one was dealt with by the guards due to the customer pulling out a dagger and jumping onto Liana's desk in anger from being discovered, which shocked a lot of the other workers who had been busy chatting away.

As the last customer left, Hejlikka came in and noticed the other workers slacking. She shouted at them for not doing what they were paid to do - threatening to reduce their salary for a poor work mentality - before she reached Liana and briefly smiled. "You've worked hard. Sorry that you had to pick up the slack from these incompetent fools." She glared at the two men who'd been sat rating the female workers all night, causing them to straighten their backs and turn stiff out of fear. She then turned to look at Liana and softened her gaze, "Dawn will be in a few minutes, your shift is over now."

"Okay." Liana smiled gently as she stretched out her sore muscles from sitting for so long with not much to do for the past several hours. Getting up from her seat, she went to the receptionist desk, wrote up her report and handed it in for evaluation.

"You ready?" Liana asked.

"Yes!" Hejlikka replied, happy to finally go home with her companion after working all night.

[OOC: Money before - 400G, Money after - 390G]

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A Night of Uncertainty (Closed)

Walking along the streets of Scribel City at night, Liana didn't know what to do as she struggled to comprehend what happened the night before. She remembered being tripped over while she was running away...but no more until she woke up when the sun set this evening.

"What happened?" She questioned internally, "Why was I aching all over? Did he...down there...?" She continued wandering down a street, not paying attention to where she was going as she hugged the wine bottle in her arms subconsciously.

She stopped as she realised her body's situation - her figure trembled as a wave of shame and lament crashed over her. She crouched on the ground and held her head - dropping the wine bottle in the process - as she felt remorse over losing something she considered most precious...something she had dreamed of gifting to her master every time she thought of him.

"Hey, pretty lady, are you all right?" A familiar, masculine voice sounded over her head. Looking up at the source, she noticed it was Julrik - Hejlikka's younger brother - with a bag over his shoulders.

Shrinking away from him as she recalled what Jasper had done, she turned her face away and replied while choking back the tears pooling in her eyes, "I'm fine...I just...need to rest for a bit, is all." She wrapped her arms around her crouched legs as she tried to smile at the male elf - albeit looking very forced and uncomfortable.

"...Right." Julrik saw the passersby staring at them and felt the situation was most definitely not fine. Thinking about how he'd been planning on bunking in the old family home to keep under his love rivals' radars, he remembered how his frigid sister seemed to have a positive opinion of the young woman and had even mentioned having invited her home once. Scratching his head, he said: "Look, I was heading over to Hejlikka's place just now after finishing work, wanna come with me and rest there? Then I might get to do things with her later, hehehe~"

Hearing the man mention Hejlikka's place, a heavy weight around her heart lifted slightly as she recalled her work colleague's earlier offer to live there. Since she was currently homeless, and she did not want to be anywhere near the tavern right now, she meekly nodded her head but didn't move to stand up.

Seeing her nod in agreement, Julrik smiled happily and quickly picked her up in his arms and lifted her into a princess carry.

"Ah!" Liana gasped as fear started creeping in from memories of Jasper wrapping his arms around her and dragging her into his room flashed in her mind.

"Easy now~" The male elf said in a placating tone as he noticed his companion freeze up and start shivering as soon as she was in his arms. "I'm just helping you get to the house since you needed a rest~"

Hearing his words, Liana calmed down a bit, but still retained a rigid posture. "My bottle..."

"Hmm~?"

"That bottle was a...gift from someone, I can't leave it behind." She muttered in a quiet tone that was barely audible.

Julrik looked down where Liana had been crouched and noticed a wine bottle lying on its side with some black liquid in it. Ensuring he had a good hold of the woman in his arms, he bent over and picked it up and placed it on her lap. "Here you go~"

"...Thank you..." She buried her face into his shoulder out of embarrassment of being stared at by the people on the street, but also to better smell the sweet scent coming from him.

"No problem~" Enjoying the sensation of the woman nuzzling him, he made his way to the house with a spring in his step.

Upon reaching the building, Julrik took out the key he always kept in case he ever needed to return to the family home and unlocked the door. He then nudged it open with his foot before entering and kicking the door closed. Still carrying Liana, he moved through the kitchen and headed for the living area before gently placing her on the sofa.

"Here we are~! Let me light up the candles so we can see better--"

"No need."

"Hmm?"

"I prefer being in the dark at the moment." Liana wrapped her arms under her legs as her knees were against her chest - the image of a frightened person in a defensive posture.

"...Okay~ I'll be in the kitchen if you need me. Oh, want me to cook anything while I'm there~?"

"I'm okay, Mr Julrik...I...ate not long ago..." She buried her head in her knees as she felt ashamed of how she came to acquire the blood in the wine bottle.

Seeing the woman wasn't in a good state of mind, Julrik knew better than to pry, and so went into the kitchen to make himself some food.

Alone in the living room, Liana thought about what she should do from now on. She knew she couldn't stay in the tavern, since Jasper was there and obviously had intentions on 'feeding' on her again. She involuntarily shivered at that thought before she turned her mind towards what she should do in terms of living in the city.

Ideally, she thought it would be safer for her to leave and travel to another place - away from the incubus - but then she felt she couldn't since she had to wait for her master to arrive. Remembering what Jasper had said about how her being under her master's compulsion meant he was still alive and intended on coming brought some relief to her. However, the fact that the demon had known she was under compulsion made her think about how it had protected her from his own attempts to control her and she involuntarily shuddered again. She instinctively knew that the man was dangerous. So...what should she do about living in the city?

"That frigid b*tch!"

"!?"

The sound of clattering could be heard from the kitchen which brought Liana out of her thoughts. Getting up and walking over, she saw the kitchen in a mess with scraps of badly chopped vegetables strewn all over the worktop. Noticing Liana was at the doorway observing the chaotic scene before her with surprise in her dull gold eyes, Julrik smiled wryly before running his fingers through his hair and waving his arms at the room.

"I don't usually do the cooking...and Hejlikka didn't leave any leftovers to warm up..." He looked a little embarrassed as he thought about how much face he'd lost just now.

Liana found the male elf amusing and couldn't help but giggle a little before smiling gently, "I know how to cook. If it's okay with you, I can salvage the ingredients and make you something."

"My lifesaver~! A goddess in the flesh descended down to save me from hunger~!" He knelt down and clasped his hands in front of him before raising them in the air towards Liana.

Giggling more at the elf's flamboyance, Liana smiled more and went to gather up the badly chopped vegetables and set about making a soup. Seeing the woman had perked up a bit from when he'd found her, he smiled before sitting in one of the chairs and watched her beautiful figure as she deftly dealt with the ingredients. Once the soup was ready, Julrik greedily wolfed it down and asked for seconds praising Liana's skills in cooking.

"I'm telling you," he slurped another spoonful of soup, "your cooking is better than my playmates'!"

"Oh? I thank you for the flattery." Liana smiled cheerfully - her mood completely lifted to her usual, original cheerful self from before she was turned into a vampire.

Seeing the young woman clearing up the now empty soup bowl, Julrik propositioned: "Hey, how about staying here for the night~?" Liana's hands halted briefly as that feeling of fear began inexplicably creeping in again. "I mean, I heard how Hejlikka offered you a room to live in a few days ago and, since it's so late at night, it would be safer for you to stay here than to go out there again. Who knows~? Maybe some miscreant will try and rob you, or worse force himself on you~?"

The sound of a bowl smashing onto the floor reverberated in the kitchen before the room fell awkwardly silent.

"..."

"..."

"...Hey...you weren't in the middle of the street like that because that happened...right?" Julrik showed a very concerned face while inwardly cursing himself for his previous words of jest.

"...You're wrong, Mr Julrik." Liana turned around with a strained smile, "No such miscreant forced himself on me while I was walking the streets tonight. I was just startled by the thought of that possibly happening, hence why I dropped the bowl." She gave a seemingly embarrassed smile that also seemed strained.

"...Oh. My apologies for putting such vivid imagery into your pretty little head, then. Also, don't worry about the bowl. You cooking that delicious meal for me is enough to pay for replacing it~" He winked at her before getting up from his seat and stretching while yawning. "Ah, it's pretty late now. I'm going to go sleep upstairs, you can take my old room on this floor. Hejlikka will be back in a few hours, so you won't have to wait long for her to arrive. Well, good night, pretty lady~" The male elf then left the kitchen and headed upstairs - most likely for what used to be his parents' room.

Finishing with the cleaning up, as well as gathering up the broken pieces of bowl, Liana headed back into the living room and sat down in the darkness. She stared at the wine bottle that contained Jasper's blood, unsure of what to do with it. On one hand, it made her feel exceptionally energised and fully satiated from hunger; on the other hand...it was Jasper's blood that he used as a tool of transaction to feed on her vitality...

Sitting in the darkness for the next few hours, Liana pondered over her future choices while staring at the bottle in fear and want.

With the sun halfway up the sky, Hejlikka entered the house with a few bags full of groceries and daily necessities. Entering the kitchen, she noticed nothing amiss except for a bowl no longer being there, and wondered if Julrik had decided to come over to do his usual laying low from love rivals. Thinking not much of it, she put the groceries away before entering the living room and stopping in shock with her mouth wide open. In front of her eyes was Liana, sleeping like a corpse, on the sofa with a wine bottle in her arms.

"Morrrrrrrrr.....ning~" Julrik greeted Hejlikka while yawning, lethargically entering the room from the stairs.

"Y-y-y-y-you! What did you do with Liana?!" Hejlikka whisper-shouted at her brother while pointing at her friend.

"Ah?" He turned to look at the sleeping beauty on the sofa and admired it as a smirk crept on his face before turning to his sister with a smug expression, "I invited her to spend the night with me here~"

Hejlikka slapped him on the cheek and dragged him into the kitchen by the ear.

"Ow! Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! It hurts! Stop it! Frigid b*tch, stop it, it hurts!"

Closing the door, the female elf let go of her brother, pushed her glasses up and crossed her arms with a stern expression, "Tell the truth! Why is Liana here?"

Rubbing his sore pointy ear and cheek, he languidly sat in a chair and lazily crossed his stretched out legs, "I found her crouched in the middle of the street last night looking out of sorts. Since I was heading here anyway, I invited her to come and rest here. I didn't want to pry, since she seemed afraid of being touched by me, but she reacted pretty badly when I jokingly mentioned the dangers of men on the streets for women." He shrugged as he reached behind him and took an apple from the freshly filled fruit bowl before taking a bite out of it.

"...Out of sorts? Being touched?" Hejlikka looked concerned as she subconsciously glanced at the closed living room door behind her. "Why didn't you take her to the tavern? She rents a room there."

Julrik shrugged again while taking another bite from the apple, "From what I could tell, the only possession on her person was that wine bottle. She also seemed to have come from the direction of the tavern when I saw her." He looked at his older sister and was surprised by how full of expression she was compared to her usual stern face. "Sis, you--"

"Did you do anything to her?" She glared at him with eyes full of suspicion.

"What do you take me for? A goblin in heat? I like to see myself as a gentleman towards women, thank you very much! I never go after an unwilling woman, nor a woman in a troubled state of mind...A woman suffering from a break-up, however--"

"Shut up, you hormones-on-legs!"

Julrik raised his hands up to show his surrender, while smirking. Seeing her good-for-nothing brother was keeping silent, Hejlikka pushed up her glasses as she turned more serious, "We should find out if she still has a room at the tavern, or not. If not, then we'll wait until she wakes up to see if she'd be willing to stay here or not. If she really has suffered from an...unfortunate situation, then I don't think it's a good idea for her to be on her own. What do you think?"

"If it means I get to see her pretty face whenever I sleep over here, I'm willing for her to stay~"

The female elf glared at him again while thinking to herself, "Truly a good-for-nothing who only thinks with his lower body!"

The two then discussed what they would each do during the day, allowing Liana to sleep on the sofa without disturbing her.

[OC: Liana with Julrik|Setting: Scribel City - Streets, Hejlikka's house|Word Count: 2343]

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Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun set, Liana saw she had fallen asleep on the sofa and had somehow acquired a patchwork blanket over her body. Sitting up, she noticed Hejlikka - resting her head on her crossed arms - fast asleep beside her. She looked to have dark circles under her eyes, a sign she'd been awake way past the time she should have gone to sleep. Remembering that she should have arrived early in the morning, Liana wondered why the female elf looked so tired when it was evening - as well as why she was sleeping next to her in the living room.

"..."

Not wanting to disturb the sleeping elf, Liana silently got off the sofa and looked around for the wine bottle. Finding it on the sofa, she carefully picked it up and checked that its contents hadn't been reduced while she'd been sleeping. Noting in her mind that the blood level was the same as before she fell asleep, she silently walked to the kitchen and carefully opened the bottle. Smelling the strong bitter scent wafting out of the opening, Liana subconsciously bit her lip in hesitation before shoving the bottle to her mouth and drinking down the rest of the contents.

"Mmnh..." Feeling her body brimming with a lot of energy, she licked her lips to catch any residual liquid and realised that the bitter taste wasn't as bad as the first time she drank it making her wonder if it was like how some human foods and drinks required repeated exposure in order to acquire a taste for it. "..." That thought made her a little concerned that she'd end up becoming addicted to the flavour if she kept drinking it, thus placing her more easily in the palm of Jasper's dangerous hands. Shuddering at the thought, she washed out the wine bottle a few times to ensure nothing got contaminated by the demon blood, she then left the house with the empty bottle; an idea formed in her mind from last night.

Walking down the street, Liana hastily went past the tavern and headed for the guild quest board. She knew she didn't want to work in the offices for a while. She had the feeling that Hejlikka would start asking lots of uncomfortable questions if they met and so determined that she would avoid her until she'd sorted out her feelings and emotions on certain things. With that in mind, as she was glancing through the numerous quests, she recalled how Julrik had complimented on her cooking when she saw a certain quest that caught her eye:

Cooking Rations
Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild Location: Scribel City Required Level: 1
Objectives: Visit the guild kitchens. Cook 40 satisfactory rations. The guild stockpiles on rations in case of emergency. Rations are foods that are easily preserved and can store for a long time. The Adventurer's Guild provides the ingredients, and there is an easy recipe to follow. One ration is one day's worth of food.
Rewards: Points: 40 EXP Money: 10 G Other: 5 rations After completing quest 3 times: Permission to use guild kitchens

Thinking about how there was no way office workers would be in the kitchens, Liana went to the guild receptionist to get a note and directions to the place before making her way there.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Entering the kitchen, Liana was surprised at how busy it was even though it was the evening. Seeing a man shouting at some nervous-looking teenagers who were making their work space an incredible mess, Liana wondered if he was one of the permanent chefs or not. As soon as that thought popped into her head, the man noticed her presence and went up to her with a stern expression filled with impatience:

"You here to make rations?" He asked while towering over Liana.

"Yes. Is there any space for me, sir?" She smiled gently, seemingly unfazed by the man's intimidating exterior.

"There's a work station at the back. Get to it! Why aren't you moving already?!" He shouted, looking angry.

"Ah, I was feeling overcome by your powerful presence. Don't mind me." Smiling as she headed for her work station, the chef scratched his chin while his eyes followed the newbie, unsure of what to make of her just yet.

Reaching her designated spot, she noticed a huge pile of fresh ingredients ready to be used in numerous boxes around the kitchen. Inspecting the equipment available, Liana walked to the ingredients and pondered over what would be a good idea for a ration. Looking around, she saw something she recognised from when she was at the temple. "Ngh!" Making a tiny bit of noise, Liana felt a twinge begin throbbing in her head. Gathering the ingredients, she hurried to her work station to start making the rations.

After a few hours, Liana brought forward a box filled with 60 rice crackers and showed them to the chef. Tasting one, the chef nodded that it was acceptable before taking the whole box to the ration storage room.

"Good work! Now get out of my sight!"

Gently smiling at the chef, Liana complied and immediately left.

Reaching the guild, she wrote up her report and handed it in for evaluation. She then hurriedly left as soon as the report was evaluated.

[OOC: Third of a wine bottle of Jasper's blood changed to - Empty wine bottle]

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Be my champion~!

Sponsor: Julrik, Supervisor Leader of AG Offices and Customer Service Department

Location: Scribel City and outskirts

Level: 5

Objectives

Can only defeat one per quest: Defeat David Fralden - a human who loves wielding a bo. Defeat Ku'Jahal - an orc who loves using a poleaxe. Defeat Eugene Sanders - a human wizard who has a penchant for lightning magic. Defeat Jakob Hilljkoff - an elf who is skilled with a bow and arrow. Defeat Boris Tinkler - a human who has some skill with a sword and shield. Defeat Henrik Jueller - an elf who knows a lot of plant-based spells (be careful of poison) Defeat Junji Ishikabe - a human who uses a katana, as well as a bow and arrow (optional) Don't kill them. (optional) Humiliate them.

I like women. I mean, what kind of man doesn't? Right? Women also really like me. They practically beg me to bed them with their coquettish eyes! Anyway, it seems some people are jealous of my popularity and have thus sent me seven challenges to duels! Since I am a man of intellect and the arts, and despise physical conflict, I have decided that I shall hire a champion to take my place! A word of warning, my dear defender of my handsome self, these men have all achieved E rank...I even gave them their badges myself when they passed... As such, I will leave this quest open for each challenger. Best of luck, my beloved champion~! Mwah~!

Rewards

Exp: 300(400)(500)

Money: 50G (75G)(100G)

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QUEST REPORT (APPRAISED)
Quest Report (36)
Name: Felicia El Freliti
Level: 8 (7180/7200)
Quest: Be my champion~!
Evaluation:

• Jakob surrendered
• Was super boring

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Spoiler: Report

Spoiler: Trip to Scribel+Julrik Acquaintance

For the first time in months, Felicia decided to take a trip back to Scribel. Although a little fed up with the dreary lifestyle in the mountains, where the pressure of war and death was ever present, the main reason she decided to head back was for Sable. It wasn't fair for her to be caged up all the time, she wanted her to be able to fly freely in the skies. There were some things she wanted to deal with back in the region anyway, as there had been recent rumours of rising gangs and organizations that she felt she should take a look at.

The wind rushed past invigoratingly as she rode atop Sable's back, flying freely in the clouds above Gelderholm. After playing around a bit and doing barrel rolls, the pair finally swerved down the mountains, towards the primarily grassland region that was Scribel. Although they were much faster flying through the air, they still had to camp in forests and the like for a few days before reaching the nostalgic city.

Scribel looked exactly the same as she remembered; quaint and peaceful, a stark contrast to Gelderholm. After spending half a day hunting with Sable and visiting Folke's family, she felt it was time to take a look at the newer quests in the tavern. After scanning through the guild-sponsored quests, and noting down the Slumber Jelly quest for later, a quest sponsored by an old acquaintance, the 'head' of the community service department here in Scribel, Julrik, caught her eye.

He's got himself in trouble once again huh. Felicia thought wryly as she remembered the friendly personality and fondness of women that fellow had. But, she did owe him a favour, and since no one had taken even one of the duels on his behalf, she decided the least she could do was help him out a bit. And before anyone gets any wild ideas, the favour she owed him was not promiscuous in any way, he simply took her to an expensive restaurant a while back. That was all. It's not like Felicia would have let him do anything anyway.

After scanning the list for an appropriate sparring partner, whilst deciding to abandon the optional reward of humiliating her opponent unless he deserved it, she randomly picked the elf archer since he didn't seem too hard to deal with. Naturally, he must have his ways to keep his distance from his opponents, but for an all rounder who prioritized swift melee attacks like herself she didn't think he'd be much trouble. Since he only recently achieved rank E, she had even less to worry about, as she was slowly approaching her rank D exam. Finalizing the quest application process, she leisurely spent the next few days relaxing in Scribel before her duel.

...

Donned in her usual leather armour and dark robes, Felicia stood with her blade unsheathed as she stared unwaveringly at her opponent. A tall elf wearing glasses glared vengefully back, his long angelic golden hair weaving through the evening breeze. His amber eyes blazed murkily with confusion, hatred and sorrow, and his bloodthirst seemed to falter as he looked at his opponent.

"..why do you defend him?" He hissed between gritted teeth.

"Because I owe him a favour." Felicia gazed back calmly, having already prepared herself for the mess of emotions her opponent would be in.

"He took the love of my life away from me! How can you stand on his side and not mine?!" He snapped, drawing his enchanted silverwood bow and aiming towards her head.

"Julrik does not steal, he takes what is not loyal and true." She responded icily with what she personally grew to know of the man. Although he may seem pushy and frivolous in his seduction, he knows when to not push any further. Afterall, that's why she wasn't assaulted that day in the restaurant despite being rather weak at that time.

Seemingly hitting his sore spot, he widened his eyes in rage and released the arrow, which was easily sidestepped by just stepping away.

"Why aren't you trying to kill me?" Felicia responded after a slight pause, severely doubting that all this rank E archer could do was send out a normal arrow.

"Hah.." He was once again shaken by her words, trembling before dropping his bow in exasperation. "I surrender. I haven't lost reason enough to kill everyone that gets in the way of my revenge. I just wanted to vent really." He sighed as his eyes wandered somewhere far away.

"Well you can vent right now, just without the killing part." Felicia offered, still just as ready for combat as she was when she first saw him. To be honest, she was a little miffed, she came here expecting a fun duel, not a heart to heart discussion!

"Haha, you're just like her, always wanting to get straight to the point without any dilly-dallying." He laughed wistfully as he moved his gaze towards her and away from the clouds. After a contemplative silence, he opened his mouth again.

"Say, would you be willing to go on a da-"
"Denied."

Mercilessly, she cut him off and walked away to make her report. She'd just have to unleash her frustrations when hunting with Sable later, damn, what a waste of her time...

(Ooc: written on phone sorry if code explodes)

A Letter of Gratitude (Closed)

Seeing Felicia after so long, Julrik's face beamed with happiness and admiration but didn't manage to speak to her before she left the building. Moving over to the receptionist, he took the evaluated report and read through it.

"Ah! Champion of my heart and life~!"

He then hurried to his private office and began writing a letter addressed to Felicia:

Spoiler: To the E-rank, Level 8 Adventurer, Lady Felicia El Freliti

Dear Miss Felicia El Freliti,

My goddess! My love! My inspirational muse!
I glanced upon your beautiful visage while at work and came to know of your most noble actions for my handsome self~!
Your ruby and sapphire eyes bewitched me as I shivered from my memory of how your frosty countenance burned my soul with adoration and love~!
I remember that wonderful night at that restaurant, ah how I wish we could have experienced more than the oral pleasures of the food~!
It brings a tear to my perfect eyes that you love me enough to defend my honour against those brutes with no class~!
Ah, how I've missed you these past months~!
How I've dreamed of your slender figure as you've no doubt conquered the hearts of many with your noble and just manner~!
How I still love you and wish to be with you after all of this time, ah~!
I truly cannot express my gratitude enough for what you have done, my sweet and sour jewel~!
Until we meet again, my love~!
Mwah~!

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Oh how I wish I could actually kiss you right now but, alas, it was not meant to be this time!

As he finished, he took out a laced handkerchief to dab at his bleeding nose, before kissing the envelope and handing it into the postal department.

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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Clive
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- a City Guard who often is relegated to being on Watch Duty
- is in a relationship with an apprentice chef called Adele, although it's currently in troubled waters
- gets attracted to most women and inadvertently ends up flirting with them or sexually harassing them without realising it
- got moved from doing Night Watch to Day Watch due to complaints from female adventurers he was paired with
- was seen in a possible future vision as leading a group of adventurers against an army of mind-controlled people riding slimes by adventurer Zorion

Reference:

Not feeling tired from the day in the sewers, Liana strolled around the city - feeling more energised the darker the sky became. As she strolled along, she heard a group of men dressed in uniformed armour mentioning about there being a lack of people to help keep watch through the night. Being the generous and kind person she was, Liana went up to them and smiled:

"You need some help keeping watch at night? If it's okay, I'm willing to. I'd be idling away, if not."

The three guards looked at her, then looked at each other, before the oldest looking one stepped forward.

"Doing the Night Watch isn't a spring breeze, you know? You have to watch out for monsters, vagabonds and criminals; sound the alarm if there's an attack; must stay awake all night and not leave your post for anything - even the toilet. Not to be rude, but you don't seem like the kind of girl who could do all of that."

He waved his hand at her, as if to move her away, before turning back to his companions and walking off. Feeling a little hurt at the guard's words, she pouted before catching up to him.

"I'm willing! I'm very willing! Didn't you say you needed someone? It's not as if I'll actually have to fight anyone, since I'll just sound the alarm. Or is it that you don't want to be one-upped by a woman?"

The guard blushed at Liana's last remark before hardening his face and waving at her again.

"Fine! You want to embarrass yourself? Then do it! Clive!"

"Yes sir!" The youngest looking of the guards straightened his posture as he saluted.

"I'll pair you with the little lady. Don't let her show you up!"

"Yes sir!"

With that, Clive guided Liana to their watch post and explained what to do for certain situations. Then night fell.

Spoiler: Quest Report - Verified

Standing at either end of the wall for their section, Clive and Liana were keeping watch on the outer city - looking out for any possible monster attacks. As the night went on, Clive began glancing at his companion while yawning his fatigue away.

"How are you not feeling tired? I hate doing the Night Watch. It's hard to see things, you can't drink any alcohol, it gets cold and you can't go home until dawn. It even messes with your sleeping schedule! My dear Adele at home! How she must be lonely without my body to keep her company!"

He actually started crying a little bit as he hugged his arms around himself. Liana's eyes glowed a dim reddish light from her gold irises - her face showing only a glimmer of emotion.

"...I actually think working at night is more relaxing for me. As for seeing things, I guess I just have better night vision than you."

"Eh? Really? Most girls I know feel scared of the night. Especially in this world. Ah, my family was sent over through the Gate by our Lord as a sign of good faith with the higher ups. My sweet Adele sneaked in with our group so she could be with me."

"...I see...Why are you standing so close to me?"

As they'd been talking, Clive had been slowly sidling up to her. Hearing her words, he paused and scratched the back of his head - a little embarrassed.

"I was feeling cold and was trying to get warm, he he he."

"...There's a fire on the other end for you to keep warm. Stick to your duties." Her eyes were cold as she moved away from him - always looking for any signs of unwanted activity.

"...You're right...I'll just...get back to my post, then..."

Just as he turned around to walk back, he felt his shoulder get pulled down and he fell on the floor. Looking around, he saw Liana crouched beside him while peering over the wall - an arrow was stuck and quivering on the wooden post that was right behind where Clive had just been standing. Seeing that, he gave a high-pitched scream before running away - leaving Liana on her own on the wall.

"..."

Moving to the wooden post, Liana rang the bell, alerting the rest of the guards to the goblins who had decided to attempt to raid the city with their grand total of 6...

After about 10 minutes, the goblins were subjugated and the guard captain reprimanded Clive for leaving his post.

"You lazy fool! You coward! You let such a meek girl show you up!"

"I'm sorry, Sir!"

Clive had tears in his eyes as he felt the shame and embarrassment of his actions. One of the other guards went up to him and patted him on the back while the guard captain walked up to Liana.

"Good job! At least you know how to ring a bell. I'll assign someone else to work the rest of the night with you, sending Clive was a poor choice." He sighed in exasperation. "Well, let's get back to our positions! The night won't watch itself!"

With that, everyone returned to their posts and resumed their work - Liana included. As the sun rose in the sky - signalling dawn - Liana's first Night Watch job ended with only the goblin skirmish and cowardly guard incident occurring.

Feeling more tired as the sun rose higher in the sky, Liana wrote up her report and handed it in to the place the guard captain directed her to so she could receive her payment.

@ohko

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Save my relationship!!!

Sponsor: City Guard, Clive

Location: Scribel City

Required Level: 1

Objectives

Successfully convince Adele that Clive isn't cheating on her. (optional) Make the relationship progress further than before.

My beloved! My Adele! She heard about me trying to get closer to some of the female guards while on Night Watch duty and she won't talk to me!!! I need someone to help me convince her she's the only one in my life!

Rewards

Exp: 20(30)

Money: 10G(20G)

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Find evidence of my cheating boyfriend!!!

Sponsor: Apprentice Chef, Adele

Location: Scribel City

Required Level: 1

Objectives

Find evidence of City Guard Clive cheating on his girlfriend with his female colleagues (optional) Punish the cheating scum

My scummy boyfriend has been constantly out of the house at night 'working' on the Night Watch duty! I've heard some of his colleagues joking about how my Clive was getting along really well with some female guards he was paired with on duty! I need someone to find evidence of his cheating acts at once!

Rewards

Exp: 20(30)

Money: 10G(20G)

Quest result
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Spoiler: Filed and evaluated

Well I saw an interesting quest about whether a city guard is cheating or not. And the best way to verify it is to get myself on night watch and see if he makes a move on me! Details about the night watch in a separate report.

The day of, I went to the captain in charge of night watch duty and requested to be paired up with Clive. The captain looked at me funny, muttered something about "weird tastes," but agreed. I want to make it clear though, that just because I eat many things other people don't view on food doesn't mean I have weird tastes. It's you all that have weird tastes!

Anyhow, night watch time came and we were standing there. There was a peaceful silence, while I stroked my cat Karyl. Karyl hissed at me menacingly and pounced away, but then came back a few minutes later for me to pet. She's always been a tsundere. While I was looking out for potential threats while playing with Karyl, Clive eventually interrupted the peaceful atmosphere and began talking to me. He started with general pleasantries, which I responded in kind.

Eventually, Clive started complaining about night watch, and how he can't do anything fun. He mentioned a lot about a certain Adele, who if I remember is the client. Like how at night how Adele... Well maybe I shouldn't put the details in the report...

Anyhow, after the passionate, if not disturbingly detailed, speech about Adele, he then asked me how I was feeling about this whole night watch business

I replied, "Well, its a job. Lot safer and more relaxing than going out hunting monsters. A good change of pace to do occasionally. Besides, I can actually be with Kyaru-chan all the time~☆"

"Kyaru-chan?"

I held up the cat in my arms in response, even though Karyl hissed at me and started struggling.

Clive asked, "Didn't you tell me that the cat is called Karyl?"

"Well, yes, but Kyaru-chan sounds so much cuter~☆"

"So you don't feel scared of the night or the scary monsters that come out?"

I looked at him, confused. "No? Or rather I welcome them. It's always nice when your dinner comes at you instead of having to chase after it."

Clive muttered, "What's up with the women these days... Anyways, if ever are scared, you can always rely on me!"

That last part accompanied by a wink constitutes attempted flirting right?

As I continued petting Karyl, Clive slowly but surely began to inch closer to me. I pretended to not notice and continued to watch the surroundings.

Eventually, he got close enough that I could feel him, so I had to ask, "What are you getting so close?"

"I was feeling cold and was trying to get warm," he laughed nervously.

"Ah, well let's move closer to the fire then."

After that, he was at a respectable distance for an hour or so, but then began getting close to me again.

He asked, "Can I hold the cat for a while?"

"Sure, if you don't mind potentially getting bitten and scratched at."

He came over and accidentally? fell on me in the attempts to grab the cat. As expected, Karyl did not appreciate being squished and clawed her way out between us. I had to patch him up on the spot to stop the bleeding.

Later we just spent the time talking about random things, until he started to subtly imply that he was free and kept subtly trying to invite me over for fun later. Yep, definitely guilty then.

And thus, I prepared my punishment. PecoPeco's extra spicy onigiri! I began to nom on it, and after eating about most of it, I casually asked if he wanted the rest.

He very enthusiastically agreed to it, muttering something about indirect kiss or something. He at the entire thing, swallowed it... and began screaming for water. Punishment, success~☆.

After guzzling down cold water, he asked me, "How in the blazes could you eat that without any problems?"

Acting innocent, I replied, "What do you mean, it was only slightly spicy~☆"

After that, he stopped trying to get so close to me.

Eventually, when the first slime came over, he excitedly told me to stand back while he'll handle the scary monster. I told him that that was my dinner and beat him to it.

When I picked up the slime, he panicked and yelled, "Drop that now! Do you know how corrosive they are!"

Without further ado, I proceeded to eat the slime. Yup, tasted just the same as last time. Delicious, slightly sweet, and very sour.

Clive gave me looked like I was some monster and gave me a wide berth after that. That was very inconsiderate of him. Those slimes are tasty! Hope he cherishes his relationship with Adele, since he isn't getting any girlfriends with that attitude. Except after I report his cheating I wonder what Adele would do...

By the time the spider came around, he was absolutely horrified when I proceeded to roast it over the fire, and when I offered him a bite, he just fled.

So yes indeed, Clive is a cheating scum, even though he does seem to like Adele. Adele, you might want to consider finding another person if polygamy is not to your tastes.

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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Harrison Bridger
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- a guard captain of the city guards who tends to work the night shifts
- is a stern man who is a little sexist towards women due to believing a woman shouldn't do dangerous work
- is strict with his subordinates and abhors those without discipline
- is a bit of a clean freak
- cares about his subordinates

Reference:

Clean our image!

Sponsor: Night Watch Guard Captain, Harrison

Location: City Guard Barracks, Scribel City

Required Level: 1-2

Objectives

Clean at least 10 City Guards' armour in a day. (optional) Clean the sleeping quarters in the barracks. (optional) Wash the bedding. (optional) Clean the weapons. (optional) Sharpen the dull weapons.

For the past few weeks I've noticed a severe lack of care over hygiene and cleanliness in the city guard barracks. I will not stand for such lack of discipline! Their armour is especially filthy, so clean it! Clean it all!

Rewards

Exp: 10(20)(30)(40)(50)

Money:10G(20G)(30G)(40G)(50G)

Miscellaneous: Improved relationship with Harrison and city guards.

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Leaving the guild, Liana saw the sky was getting darker faster after the sun had set 10 minutes earlier. Wanting to bask in the darkness of the night and calm herself down from the previous evening's assessments, she made her way towards the city guard barracks.

"You want to do the Night Watch again?" The Night Watch guard captain asked with a look of surprise.

"...Yes."

Seeing her cold and detached face, Harrison gave a brief nod and took out a clipboard with some names on.

"Let's see, I've got a group patrolling the streets, if you're okay with joining them? Although...you'll be the only woman..."

"...I'm fine with it."

"All right, head down that road and stick to the main roads. You'll catch up with them in a few minutes I imagine. Ah, here's my signed note to prove you're part of the team. Look for a guy named Gillian; he's the one leading them."

"...Okay."

Taking the note, Liana left the barracks, and headed for the group she'd been assigned to. Watching her leave, Harrison shook his head while sighing to himself, "Such a strange girl..."

Spoiler: Quest Report - verified

After catching up with the others, Liana handed her note to the loud man from earlier - Gillian.

"..." He stared at the note, then at Liana, before staring at the note again. "I knew the guards were understaffed, but to even need such a fragile-looking woman as you?" He sighed before motioning to his calm friend, "This is Nathaniel, keep close to him and you'll be safe."

He then introduced the others before resuming their patrol of the main streets of the city.

For a few hours nothing much happened, except for Gillian chasing after some pickpocket kids while yelling that they should be sleeping. When there was roughly 2 hours before dawn, the group encountered a group of drunk men fighting with swords and threatening the safety of other nearby civilians. Seeing the situation, Gillian told everyone except for Liana and Nathaniel to go over to resolve it then charged ahead while yelling loudly in anticipation for a good fight.

Watching the ensuing skirmish, Nathaniel turned to Liana and wryly smiled while saying, "We should report the situation to the Guard Captain in case arrests need to be made."

"...Okay."

"You stay here, I'll go back since I know lots of shortcuts."

"...Okay."

"Stay safe. I'll try and get back as soon as possible. Try to stay away from the fighting, or you might get caught up in it and get injured."

"...Okay."

Nathaniel waved and then began running back to the barracks, leaving Liana on her own - a solitary statue.

About a minute after he left, the drunk men suddenly changed and acted in sober unison against Gillian and his group. At this change, another 5 men appeared from the nearby alleys and attacked their group from behind.

"...Ah..."

Liana watched on in a detached way, not really feeling anything as her red eyes dimly glowed in the darkness.

Spoiler: Not reported

As she watched on, a man sneaked up behind her and wrapped an arm around her arms while the other held a knife to her neck.

"Hey, pretty lady. Be quiet and come with me and we'll have some fun~"

"...Okay"

Hearing Liana announce her compliance, the man gave a dirty grin as he dragged her into a nearby, dark alley. Upon reaching the end, he released her and shoved her into the wall; his hand gripping her slender wrists behind her. The man leaned in close to her ear and muttered in a low tone: "Be a good girl and I promise I'll not let the other guys taste you after I'm done~"

"...Okay." She replied in a detached tone.

Internally laughing at how lucky he was to catch such a woman, he sheathed his knife and started unfastening his trousers. However, in his moment of inattention towards his prey, Liana suddenly kicked him between his legs and scratched his hand with her hard and sharp nails.

"Wha--"

Before he could say anything, Liana had pushed him down to the ground, grabbed his hand and started licking his bleeding wounds. Her eyes glowed more brightly as blood lust took over her.

"Mmnh! So tasty! I want more!"

Looking at the man greedily, she felt her fangs grow out from pure instinct and she bit down on his wrist deeply.

"Aaargh!"

The man tried to get her off him, but only made his wrist tear, making the wound bleed more openly. Intoxicated by the scent beginning to permeate in the air, Liana used her other hand to tightly grab the man's throat and stop him from making sounds. Having his breathing cut off, the man could only make pained gurgling sounds as he felt his life ebbing away with every gulp from the beautiful, yet terrifying woman. Crying in fear for his life, he weakly struggled under Liana, but to no avail.

After a few minutes, the man had already lost consciousness from asphyxiation and blood loss. Having had her fill, Liana eventually stopped and found that the man was on the brink of death. Smiling in a haughty manner, she leaned in beside his ear and coquettishly said: "Thank you for the fun time~" Her red eyes then flashed with coldness as she snapped his neck, took his knife and slashed him all over before dragging his body behind some discarded wooden boxes that were rotting away from years of abandonment. Wiping the splashes of blood off her face and hands with the man's clothes, she then calmly walked back out of the alley and returned to the spot she was told to stay at.

The fighting had come to an end, with the assailants all knocked out by Gillian's men who were breathing heavily after a hard won fight. Turning to assess the surroundings, Gillian saw Liana standing in the middle of the street and waved her over.

"Where's Nathaniel?"

"He left to find Captain Harrison in case arrests needed to be made." She replied with a slight smile.

"That idiot! Stupid! He knows I can handle this kind of situation!" He kicked one of the unconscious men in annoyance before looking back at Liana. "Nothing happened while we were dealing with these idiots, did it?"

"No, nothing happened." Her smile deepened a bit as a trace of amusement flashed through her eyes before turning cold and detached again.

Staring at the woman's deep red lips, he coughed before continuing,"Well, at least something went right. I would've punched Nathaniel's lights out if you'd been targeted while he was away. So much for being a so called gentleman, ha!"

With that, Nathaniel returned with Harrison and some city guards who then clapped the unconscious men in manacles before dragging them to the barracks for questioning and possible processing to prison. As the group resumed their patrol, nothing else happened and so returned back tot he barracks once dawn came.

Liana entered the guild building and handed in her report to a receptionist; feeling more tired as the sun rose higher in the sky. Nevertheless, she felt a lot more energetic than she did the previous day. Going out for the night was certainly a good decision that reaped a lot of benefits.

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[Quest Submission]- verified

Feeling a little cranky from having stayed awake most of the day, Liana quickly went to the tavern to pay the rent for the room and board before she headed to the city guard barracks to vent on a Night Watch patrol. Upon reaching the location, she saw Guard Captain Harrison stepping out of a building with a frustrated look on his face. Moving closer to him, he noticed her presence and smiled wryly.

"You just keep coming back, don't you? This'll be your third night doing this, you know?"

"...I like the night."

He sighed as he took a clipboard from the back of his trousers and looked at it; glancing at the woman in front of him from time to time. "It seems you've gained a level in quest-taking. Level 2 now, right?"

"...Yes...does that mean I can't do Night Watch anymore?" She tilted her head with a detached look - her red eyes glowing dimly.

"No, you can still do that however I have more vacant spots for guarding the prison. It just so happens to require people who have done the Night Watch before and are at least Level 2 in the guild. With how unfazed you seem to be about things, I thought you'd fit right in for that kind job. What do you say? Fancy keeping the prisoners in check and not letting them escape?" He gave a smirk as he crossed his arms in provocation.

"...I can do it at night?"

"Of course! In fact, most of the vacancies are for the night since everyone would rather be with their families and sleep then."

"...I'll do it, then."

"Good! Here's a signed note. Show it to the guard currently working there; his shift should have ended a few hours ago but no one was willing to take on the next shift."

Taking the note, Liana nodded curtly before being told where the prison was.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Making her way down the well-lit stairs, she eventually entered a dimly lit room with a wooden table, some chairs and a pitcher of what smelled like mead and an empty tankard on top. Looking around, Liana couldn't see anyone else except an ajar door leading further into the prison. Going through it, she saw a corridor with barely any torches lighting it; several wooden doors with grilled openings at he top and a flap at the bottom were dotted on either side. Glancing through the door windows as she passed them, she could see shoddily dressed men similar to the ones who were arrested the night before. Thinking nothing of it, she continued down the corridor where another door was left ajar with stairs descending further into the depths of the prison.

After walking for a full 10 minutes - and going down 3 more flights of stairs and corridors - Liana eventually came across the guard whose shift she was relinquishing. He was poking a man in a lattice cage, suspended on a chain in the air, with a red hot iron poker. He had bags under his eyes as he was chatting absentmindedly to the unconscious man in the cage. As Liana approached he noticed the movement and pointed the poker towards her.

"Who's there? Why are you here?"

Holding the note, she waved it in front of her and raised her chin defiantly, "I've been sent by Harrison to do the night shift here."

Taking the note off her, he held the poker close to it so he could read it and he immediately dropped the poker, threw a ring of keys at Liana and ran up the stairs with a relieved smile on his face. As his figure disappeared from view his voice shouted out, "Be wary of the 7th floor and below prisoners! They're on death row!"

"..."

Looking at the ring of keys she had caught by reflex, she saw simple ones on one side and more complexly designed ones on the other. Remembering the guard's words, she completely disregarded his warning and headed further down in order to see the so-called dangerous criminals that required being hanged to repent for their crimes.

Reaching the 7th floor, she noticed a distinct change in the situation of the room from the upper floors. Several torture devices were dotted around the place with all of them covered in both new and old blood from many different people. Each cell was a lattice cage, where the stench that permeated the air was that of rotten flesh, blood, vomit, diarrhoea and urine. Several of the prisoners were unconscious with visible signs of aggravated and sustained torture. The ones who were awake were either shrinking into the corners furthest from Liana, or standing as close as possible while stretching their arms out to try and tempt her to let them out.

Not paying attention to any of their pleas, she instead circled around each cage to see if any of them were compromised. After spending 20 minutes inspecting each one thoroughly, she determined that the prisoners were not likely to escape and so headed down the other floors to check the security of those cells, too.

Once 2 hours had passed, Liana returned to the upper floors and checked on all of the cells on her way back to the resting room at the entrance to the prison - all while ensuring that every door for every staircase was locked as she left them. After sitting for an hour, she went back down to check on all of the prisoners and their cells

Spoiler: Not reported

and saw most of them sleeping.

Being unable to bear holding back her blood lust, she quickly unlocked one of the cages on death row and slipped inside before locking it again. Seeing the sleeping man lying uncomfortably on the stained floor with wounds on his back from whip lashes, Liana licked her lips in anticipation. Kneeling down beside him, she leaned forward and used her sharp nail to carefully open the barely healed wound. Her fangs subconsciously grew as she placed her lips on the marred skin and licked the fresh blood that was beginning to ooze out.

"Mmnh~" Groaning in pleasure as the familiar wave of ecstasy flowed through her body, she began sucking on the open wound more greedily.

At first, the man didn't notice what was happening, but he eventually woke up from the strange sensation on his back and realised that the woman from earlier had entered his cage and was licking sucking on his back.

"Wha--"

Before he could finish his sentence, Liana pushed his head into the ground, knocking him out again. Controlled by her desire to drink more of the delicious liquid, her fangs bit down hard on the man's neck - that also bore some wounds from torture - and she sucked from the open vein even faster than before. She could tell when he died because the blood started to change in flavour. Not liking it as much, she stopped and left the cell to search for some more tasty food. Licking her dyed red lips, she smiled euphorically as she entered another cell and repeated the process of her grand feasting. She was very careful, though, only choosing the prisoners who bore the most wounds on death row.

finding some prisoners had unfortunately passed away due to excessive blood loss from their torture wounds.

Returning back to the resting room, she checked on the prisoners throughout the night, feeling particularly energised compared with how she'd been during the day. Once dawn approached, Liana did one last round of checking before a guard came to relieve her shift.

"Anything happen?" He asked while replacing the pitcher of mead with a fresh one.

"Not really, other than some of the death row prisoners didn't survive their wounds. It was quite a gruesome sight..." Her gold eyes began tearing up as she thought about how cruel the torture methods of the prison were.

Feeling uncomfortable from seeing the young woman beginning to cry over the prisoners, the guard patted her on the shoulder and soothed with a: "There, there." Followed by him justifying how they were all exceptionally dangerous criminals who had raped both women and children, or murdered entire families, or committed arson destroying whole buildings. After a few minutes, Liana's tears stopped flowing and she gave a strained smile.

"Then, I hope the victims of such criminals can rest easy knowing that their attackers are being punished for their sins."

"Yes! I believe they will." He smiled, before asking for the keys so he could do his rounds.

After the guard left, Liana headed outside and reported on her shift to Harrison before being told she needed to submit it to the guild.

[OOC: Money before - 400G, Money after - 390G]

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Quest Report - verified

Reaching the barracks, Harrison took one look at her and shouted: "NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU WORK HERE AGAIN!" Seeing the surprised look on Liana's face, her gold eyes beginning to quiver, he softened his voice as he glanced around awkwardly, "I heard about how upset you were when Samson took over the morning shift...I'm giving you a break from doing that kind of thing so you don't damage your mental health." He gently patted her head before continuing, "Go do a job that doesn't let you see blood and gore tonight. Hey, I heard that the guild is understaffed in the customer service department, why not head there?" He gave as reassuring a smile as he could - although it ended up looking like a grimace due to him not being used to smiling like that.

"If you say so...I just thought I'd be able to console them and ease their passing into the next life if I was there..."

"No, I'm not letting you down there for a while. They're still getting rid of the bodies and sorting out the cells. Go." With that, he turned around and left her, heading to the prison to help deal with things there.

Pouting, Liana left the barracks and headed to the guild to see about this customer service job Harrison had mentioned.

Arriving at the guild, she mentioned to a receptionist about the job who then sent her with a signed note to the customer service department where a familiar looking female elf was reprimanding someone with a fresh black eye.

"--matter if he started it! We have guards here to help deal with such people! I'm docking your pay due to your poor interpersonal skills. Get out of my sight! Go work in the back and sort through the files!" She pointed an arm out towards the door leading into the filing department and pushed her glasses up.

"Yes ma'am!" The man with a black eye ran away in fear, not wanting to embarrass himself further and gain more of his superior's ire.

Turning around, Hejlikka saw Liana with a note in her hand, and a congenial smile on her face, and looked away awkwardly with a slight blush on her face.

"You're Miss Hejlikka, right? I took on the customer service quest and was told to come here for it. Here's the signed note." Liana smiled gently at the female elf as her gold eyes shone with warmth and kindness.

Taking the note from her, Hejlikka felt a bit disconcerted by the 180 degree change in attitude and personality but still retained her professionalism, "Ah, yes. Liana, right? Everything seems to be in order. It's good you arrived when you did since we've just had to remove an employee from the front lines." She led Liana towards an empty booth while detailing the kind of work she would need to do, expressly emphasising the part about not upsetting customers and being fair in evaluations of complaints.

"I see. I'll be sure to remember, Miss Hejlikka. Thank you for your explanation, it's much appreciated." She gave a small, delicate bow and smiled before sitting at the booth with her hands neatly folded on her lap.

"Yes...well...be sure to have successfully resolved at least 5 complaints! I'll be back in a few hours to see how you're doing."

"Okay! I'll be sure to try my best!" She smiled more enthusiastically, showing eagerness to do well on the job.

Satisfied with Liana's attitude - but still feeling a little off about it - the female elf went off to do other duties.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Sitting at the booth, waiting for someone to come, Liana observed what the other customer service people were doing in a bid to learn how to better deal with possible difficult people. Eventually, a burly man - with a very dark tan - strode in with a face full of anger. Sweeping his gaze over the booths, he saw that Liana's was free and so walked determinedly towards her. Seeing the man, she smiled gently.

"Hello, sir, is there a problem you wish to complain about?"

"Of course!" He replied in a gruff tone.

"I see, I'm sorry to hear that. What seems to be the problem?" She presented a saddened expression, which slightly tugged at the man's heartstrings.

"Ah...well I was on the Escort Duty quest - helping some merchants deliver their goods - only when I came back the receptionist refused to give me the reward claiming I had failed!" He slammed his fist on the desk, drawing attention from other customers and workers.

Liana seemed unfazed as she showed surprise on her face before gently stroking the man's hand, "Is your hand okay? Let me rub it better."

"Ah...thanks..." He blushed before shaking his head and putting on a firm expression again, "Never mind about that! Why was my quest deemed a failure?"

"Hmm, could you give me your name, level and rank so I can check the files, please?" Liana smiled gently again while signalling for someone to bring over the most recent evaluated reports.

"Bigsley Hardsen! Level 4! Unranked! Ah, but I swear I'll be Level 5 and ranked soon! This blasted quest would have helped me fulfil the requirements for that, tch!"

"I see, I see. Let me just check for you, Mr Hardsen."

A man came over and placed a large stack of evaluated reports yet to be filed on her desk and went off to return to the receptionist section. Going through the files, Liana eventually found the report in question and read through it diligently.

"Let's see..."

Bigsley started fidgeting as he waited for the beautiful and gentle woman to finish reading his report, rubbing his swelling hand that had hit the desk earlier. After a few minutes, Liana put down the report and smiled wryly, looking a little embarrassed before casting her gold eyes on the customer.

"I'm sorry. As much as I would like to help you get a reward, it seems you failed to mention in your report the name of the merchants you were escorting, as well as the goods they were delivering. It pains me to say this, but you also didn't ensure they wrote a note confirming that you succeeded in the task."

"..." Bigsley breathed in heavily, a burning rage simmering inside and ready to explode.

"However, I can see that this is easily rectifiable, although it may take you some time."

"Tell me!" The man slammed his hands on the desk to the point he was leaning close to Liana, as he was staring into her eyes.

Gently smiling at the man, Liana replied: "All you'll need to do is take back the report, return to those merchants, record their names and the goods they'd delivered, as well as get a signed note from them detailing and confirming your work. Then you'll simply have to come back and re-submit your report."

Bigsley looked at her sternly before standing straight again, lamenting a bit that the woman didn't rub his hands better after he'd slammed them down on her desk. "But the report was deemed a failure, won't you get in trouble for allowing me tor re-submit it?"

"This report has not been filed away yet, so I have deemed it as if you never having submitted the report. I hope that is all right with you?"

"Ah...sure. It's just a few hours of walking back and forth and getting their confirmation, not like anyone died."

"That's good, then." She smiled brightly at the acknowledgement of the solution provided. "Then, I wish you a pleasantly safe journey, as well as success the next time you submit your report."

"...Yes...of course..." Bigsley took the report with him and left, blushing all the way out of the building. Seeing the man leave, Liana called for someone to take the stack of reports away since other booths might need them.

After half an hour, a female elf came over with a sour look on her face. She saw Liana was available and headed in her direction. Noticing the elf approaching, Liana smiled at her as she greeted, "Hello, this is the customer service department, is there a problem you need help with?"

"Yes." The elf replied curtly.

"I see, and what seems to be the problem?"

"The receptionist marked my quest as partially successful and I found her reasoning unsatisfactory."

"Oh? I'm sorry to hear that. What part did you find unsatisfactory, if I may ask?" Liana showed a concerned look, evoking a sense of gratitude from the elf.

"She said she struggled to read my writing, thus deducted some of the reward because she needed to put on some glasses which she claimed made her look unfashionable and so wouldn't get a handsome adventurer to look her way if he came in while she was wearing them."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise at the reason for the quest being evaluated as partially successful.

"I am incredibly sorry to hear about that. Could you give me the name of the receptionist, as well as your own name, level, rank and the quest you undertook, please?"

"Of course. The receptionist was called Imelda Carson - a half-elf. My own name is Freja Haljssen, my Level is 6 and my rank is E. The quest I did was to be a personal bodyguard to city official and his family for a week. I shall refrain from naming them since the report already states it and I do not wish for prying ears to learn of their current predicament."

"I see. Thank you for being forthcoming with your answers. Let me have a look and see if there was anything else wrong with the report before I inform my superior about the receptionist. Ah, please take a seat while you wait."

"Sure."

The elf woman sat down as the man in charge of delivering quest reports came over again with a stack of reports waiting to be filed. Finding the correct report, Liana read through it before asking for someone to call Hejlikka over. Looking at Freja, Liana called her to come back.

"I've read through your report. Although the handwriting is not as elegant as some peoples' are, it's still legible. I see no problems with it and your employer also seemed to be happy with your services. It seems they've even sent for your services again. As for the receptionist, I need to ask my superior about that..."

With that, Hejlikka arrived with an impatient look on her face.

"Why did you call for me? I'm busy. Haven't you seen the large stack of...Freja, why are you here?" She noticed who the customer was and frowned in uncertainty.

Freja gave a nod of acknowledgement to Hejlikka before responding, "I'm complaining about how my report was evaluated."

The superior showed surprise on her face as she turned to Liana for an explanation, to which she complied: "It seems that receptionist Imelda Carson has unfairly evaluated Miss Haljissen's report, not giving her the full reward she deserves on account of the writing style forcing her to wear glasses and looking less attractive towards the male customer base. I called for you because I wasn't sure how to handle the receptionist or this case."

"That hussy! I'm so sorry about this, Freja. I'll go get the reward you weren't given and then will thoroughly punish that girl for her unprofessional behaviour!" Hejlikka then stormed off, came back after 30 seconds to place a bag of coins, to then storm off once again towards the receptionist section.

"Well, it seems that we have clarified the problem. Please allow me to add the missing experience onto your guild card, Miss Haljssen."

"Of course." She replied with a light smile on her face, making her seem a lot more beautiful than earlier.

"Then, if you have any further problems, don't hesitate to come here and our department will do our best to help resolve them." Liana gently smiled at the female elf, which made the customer smile even more.

"Thank you." She then left with a satisfied expression.

Hejlikka came back a few minutes later with an energetic look, like she'd let a load off her chest from venting/shouting, etc...

"Good work, Liana. You did right to call me over. If you need me for other cases, I'll help." She then left to deal with some other stuff.

A while later, a little girl came in crying and immediately ran over to Liana's free booth.

"Waaaaaah! Why can't I get a reward? Waaaaah!"

Seeing the girl crying non-stop, Liana got out of her seat and quickly went up to her, knelt down and hugged her while gently rubbing her head. "There, there. Sh-sh-sh. Why don't we sit over there and you can tell me about what happened?" She said in a soothing, placating tone.

The girl sniffed a few times before snuggling into Liana's chest and explaining what happened:
"I went on my first quest *sniff* and gathered lots and lots of pretty flowers for it *sniff. Only the mean old man said I failed my queeeeeeeest! Waaaaaah!"

"Oh? What was the quest that you did?"

"*sniff* It was called Healing Herbs *sniff*. Mummy told me that pretty flowers were full of goodness and would make anyone who saw them feel better *sniff*, so I picked up lots and lots! But the man said that none of them were healing herrrrrrrrrbs! Waaaaaaah!"

"I see, you poor thing. Such a mean man for telling you that. Do you have some of the flowers still with you? How about you let me have a look instead?" Liana smiled gently at the girl, her gold eyes making the girl feel warmth from them thus calming her down. The girl then gave her one of each flower before falling asleep from all of the crying she'd done.

Calling for the report - using the name on the girl's guild card - so she could go through it, Liana carefully inspected the flowers and recognised them all as ones her temple used to sometimes use when making healing poultices. Re-evaluating the report as a success, she then procured the rewards and gently woke the girl up.

"I've had a look at them and they all do indeed have healing effects. Your mummy was right and that old man was wrong. Here's your reward for completing your first quest." She smiled brightly at the girl as she handed the reward over.

"Ah! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

The girl jumped up from the chair and hugged Liana's waist in happiness and joy, before waving at her and running out with a smile on her face. Liana returned to her seat at the booth and had the reports cleared away once more.

An hour later a man with fox ears and tail came in and nonchalantly strolled over to Liana's booth.

"Good evening, sir! Is there a problem?" Liana opened with a gentle smile.

The man's tail swished and his fox ears twitched as he gently smiled back and said, "My quest was deemed a failure, even though I fulfilled all of the objectives set. I would like my full reward and re-evaluation of my report, please."

"Oh?" Liana looked surprised before asking, "For what reason did the receptionist give for deeming it a failure?"

"It was a silly reason that you don't need to know. However, my report really does fulfil the quest objectives so..." He smiled wryly, "...please give me my reward?"

"Well, can you please give me your name, level, rank and the title of the quest please? I need to verify the report and evaluation given by the receptionist."

The fox-man gritted his teeth briefly before smiling even more gently, "Of course~ My name is Felix Wiska, I am Level 2, Unranked and did the Charity Work quest."

"I see. Then, please, have a seat while I check the situation."

"...Of course..."

After a few minutes, Liana was given the report, along with a note attached with bold capital letters on it, 'FAKE REPORT! EXTORTION OF MONEY, FOOD AND GOODS! ON CITY GUARD WATCH-LIST'. Still smiling gently, Liana hid the note under the desk and carefully looked through the evaluation and report. She then called Felix over and smiled apologetically.

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do, Mr Wiska. You see, it seems that what you wrote in this report isn't what actually happened, and so...with regrets, I cannot give you any rewards."

Felix's face sank into a cold and murderous look as he uttered in a dark and low tone, "What?"

A fireball appeared above his tail but was quickly doused out by some guards who had water buckets on standby for fire emergencies. Seeing that the fox-man was acting in a threatening manner towards the staff, the guards took him away in manacles towards the barracks to be judged.

"..." Liana looked at a co-worker beside her and asked, "Did I do something wrong?" A worried look on her face.

"No. He just wanted to exploit the system but realised he'd been found out. You'd have been in more trouble if you'd actually given him the reward."

"I see."

After another 2 hours, 7 more people came in to complain about things: 2 trying to cheat the system, 4 with valid claims, and 1 with an invalid claim. Apart from the ones trying to con, the rest of the customers left with satisfaction. Hejlikka arrived again and noted the work Liana had done.

"You've done well for your first time on this job. Especially since it was a night shift you took. Most people end up falling asleep or not paying enough attention for this shift. So, thank you for your hard work."

Liana smiled back at the female elf and stretched. "It's fine, Miss Hejlikka. I prefer working night shifts anyway, so it's no problem for me. How about you? Don't you usually work during the day?"

The female elf smiled wryly, "My boss changed my work schedule to night shifts because I complained about him being unprofessional and flirting with the receptionists...Me and my big mouth, huh?"

Liana giggled in amusement before smiling apologetically, "I'm sorry about that. It must be tough, having such a boss."

Hejlikka shrugged before blushing a little bit, "...He's my little brother..."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise before closing it and smiling wryly, "You've been working hard."

The female elf smiled at that, before saying, "Dawn will be arriving soon. I think you've done enough work for this evening. You can go back now."

"Okay. How about you? When does your shift end?" Liana asked as she got up from her chair and smoothed down her dress.

"It ends when the morning shift supervisor comes, which she did a few minutes ago." She said while staring at the dress covering Liana's thighs before looking at the young woman's face again.

"I see. Then, should we leave together?" She smiled warmly and innocently.

Gulping a little, Hejlikka nodded slowly before heading off to get her cloak. While waiting, Liana wrote up her report of her quest and handed it in to the receptionist for evaluation.

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Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun set, Liana got dressed and washed her face. Feeling hungry from not having a 'meal' for 2 days, the new-born vampire licked her lips as she pondered over whether to order a blue steak again, or to risk finding a live source to 'nibble' on. Not wanting to have to deal with Hejlikka for the third night in a row and possibly attack her for her truly delicious blood, Liana thought to look at the quest board and see if there was anything else she could do since she had the feeling Guard Captain Harrison would still be unwilling to let her work in the prison again.

Leaving her room and locking the door, she noticed what appeared to be a male elf kneeling in front of the door next to hers with some metal tools in his hands at the door lock.

"..."

"..."

They both looked at each other for a few seconds before the male elf smiled awkwardly and got up and scratched the back of his head, "Hahaha, I left my key with my girlfriend and it seems she locked the door behind her and fell asleep, so I couldn't get back in. I'd tell the staff, but I don't want to wake her up. Gods knows how wrathful she'd be if I interrupted her beauty sleep, hahaha..."

"...I see." Liana replied in a detached tone, not really caring about what he was saying due to the sweet scent wafting off him. "Are all elves tasty?" She thought to herself as she left the man and headed downstairs, walked through the already noisy tavern and left for the guild quest board.

Reading through the quests, she saw one that seemed interesting, plus it would give her the excuse of finding some 'food' along the way. Taking the quest off the board, she went got the report from the receptionist at the guild, read through it, took the room key and then quickly left before Hejlikka could see her.

Spoiler: Quest Report - mild gore

Not inspecting the room key for the moment, Liana thought to look for some adventurers she'd met while doing her customer service quests. Walking through the city streets, she found some of them and asked them how they were doing before subtly asking if they'd heard of a Level 3 adventurer called Claire since she'd left the guild before getting her reward from the receptionist. None of them seemed to have heard of her, and so she left it at that and said bye to them after asking them how their own quests had been going.

After walking around for a few hours with no results, she decided to inspect the key that Claire was found in possession of. Looking at it carefully, she noticed how it was very similar to her own tavern key. Thinking that she'd found a clue to grasp on, she made her way back to the tavern and looked for the least busy maid.

"You found this key on the side of the road? Let me check who it belongs to." The maid put down the empty drinks tray she'd been carrying, wiped her hands on her apron, and went over to the logbook to check who owned the key. Running her finger down the pages, she eventually stopped on a name and tapped it several times. "Ah, this belongs to Claire! Such a sweet girl and so talented at making potions."

"...Making potions? Is she an alchemist, then?" Liana asked in a detached tone as she desperately tried to hold off the instinct to pounce on the nearby obese human drinking heavily and feed on him.

The maid giggled at the question, "Hahaha! No, she's an adventurer. A talented one, too. She joined about a few weeks ago and is already Level 3 in the guild. In fact, just a few days ago she left to go foraging for herbs to make more potions. Oh! She also got a boyfriend recently: an elf, I believe."

"...Oh? Is he an adventurer, too?"

"Hmm, I don't think he is. He tends to prefer working with his tools, making various contraptions and trying to sell them in the market." The maid glanced around before leaning in and whispering, "If you ask me, I think she could do better. I hear he has a bad history with some not very nice people from a few decades ago."

"A few decades ago?" Liana slightly raised her eyebrows at that.

"Ah, don't you know? Elves can live for hundreds of years and age incredibly slowly after they reach their teens. Not to mention they all seem to be really good-looking, too. Ah~! I'm so jealous of Claire for getting such a good-looking boyfriend! Ah...but I wouldn't want someone with a questionable past." She looked a little embarrassed from her complaint.

"...I see. So, how did they end up meeting?" Liana tilted her head inquisitively, yet with a detached look on her face.

"Hmm, if I recall, they met while she was helping at the temple. He'd supposedly been stabbed by someone and she treated his wounds with her potions. Apparently it was love at first sight."

"...Apparently?"

"Well, I believe Claire really did fall for him, but him? I highly doubt it. The way I see it, she was a meal ticket for him. I mean, they even share the same room but she's the one who pays the rent and owns the key. Ah, come to think of it I saw him earlier going upstairs, but then leaving after a few minutes with a big sack on his shoulders. I wonder what that was about..."

"...Out of curiosity...is Claire's room next to mine?"

"Hmm? Let me check." She flipped through the pages to the most recent one and found Liana's name. "Yes. How did you know?" The maid looked up in surprise.

"...I think I saw the boyfriend using some tools to unlock the door just before I left to do some work..."

"EHH?!"

The maid then closed the book, took the key and headed upstairs - with Liana following close behind. As they reached the room, the door was unlocked when the maid tried the handle. She pushed the door open to see a ransacked room. The drawers in the dresser were left slightly open with the clothes half hanging out and in a mess, the chest that had been used for personal storage had the padlock open and lying on the floor with the contents mostly gone. The alchemist equipment that Claire usually used for making potions was on the floor - with broken vials and bent metal tools.

"...This...this...this is terrible! I knew he was a good-for-nothing!" The maid looked angry and was ready to storm off to tell the tavern owner, however Liana grabbed her arm to stop her.

"We don't know if it was him. He might have come back, found the door locked without Claire there and chose to wait inside for her. Then, once he opened the door, he saw this and fled with his own stuff in fear." She said in a detached tone.

"..." The maid didn't really think that was the case, but chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. "Okay...but I still need to report this to the owner so we can explain things when Claire gets back....Oh...poor Claire..." She started crying as she tried to tidy up the mess a bit.

Thinking about her quest, Liana asked where the boyfriend might be found, to which the maid said he usually hung around the market or the forge areas. Having another clue to go on, she asked for the name of the boyfriend - which was Karl Jakobsson - and then left the tavern.

Walking in the direction of the forge areas after seeing some soot-covered blacksmiths coming from a certain street, Liana looked for any signs of the male elf she'd seen earlier that night. After an hour of walking around all of the different smithies and other industrial buildings, Liana got a whiff of blood in the wind and followed where it came from. After following the scent for a few minutes, the new-born spotted some dark puddles of liquid on the ground trailing towards a dark alley with the puddles increasing in size the further away from her they were.

"..."

Looking around to see if there was anyone else in the area, Liana stepped into the alley to find a body lying in a pool of cold and drying blood. Feeling an ache in her throat - as well as her fangs involuntarily lengthening - she could see it was a male elf barely breathing. Creeping closer with great restraint over her hunger, she asked, "Are you Karl Jakobsson?"

Seeing the woman's glowing red eyes in the dark alley, the male elf was alarmed but thought there was no point in being scared since he felt he wouldn't survive the next few minutes anyway. Nodding his head with great difficulty, he recognised the woman once she got close enough, "You're...hah...that...ngh...tavern...hah...neigh...bour...?"

Liana didn't answer as she continued her questioning, "Are you Claire's boyfriend?"

Karl's eyes widened at the mention of his girlfriend, before tearing up, "...I was...I doubt...hah...she's alive...now..."

"What makes you think that?" Liana asked coldly - her fangs already digging into her lips and making a mess of them.

"...I don't...hah...deserve...good...things ngh...and hah...she was...the.........best thing...I hah...ever...had..." His breathing was getting more laboured as he struggled to speak; blood coming out of his mouth with every word he spoke.

Gulping hard with difficulty, Liana stuck to her task, "Who did this?"

"........................A flower...of metal...bright hah...as the sssssssun ngh....with thorns...full of...mal...ice.........................and roots hah...digging..........deep..........................." He passed away from his many stab wounds as well as blood loss.

Spoiler: Not reported

Not wanting to pass up a free 'meal', Liana knelt on the ground and greedily licked the blood like a starved animal. She then crawled towards Karl's open wounds and sucked the remaining red nectar before it dried up. Regaining her senses after a few minutes of sucking and swallowing, she released her mouth from the rapidly cooling body and wiped it on a dry patch of her prey's clothes. She then got up and patted down her clothes and legs to get rid of any dirt from when she was crawling.

She looked at Karl's corpse and pondered what to do next. Seeing as how she'd found out where Claire had lived - as well as that she had a boyfriend - and that she knew the tavern maid last saw her leaving the tavern saying she was going to collect some herbs for more potions. She then thought about how her boyfriend had died the same way that she had: multiple stab wounds, and that it was related to Karl's past affiliations most likely.

"A flower of metal as bright as the sun, with thorns full of malice and roots digging deep..." She muttered to herself as she recalled the male elf's final words, his answer for who did it. Not really knowing what to do about this supposed organisation, Liana decided to head back to the guild, making a mental note about where Karl's body was so it could be cleaned up by the city guards.

It was past dawn when she finally arrived at the guild, where she lethargically wrote her report and handed it in, her gold eyes looking weary once she finished writing. Wanting to go to sleep, as soon as the report was evaluated she hurried back to her tavern room - did her usual routine - then fell into a deep sleep.

Spoiler: Summary

• Asked around the city for info on Claire, but nobody knew her
• Found out she lived in the tavern
• Found out she had an elf boyfriend with a questionable past
• Found her room broken into and ransacked
• Found whereabouts of boyfriend
• Boyfriend was also stabbed like Claire and died shortly after being found
• Before dying, boyfriend gave enigmatic answer to who killed him: 'A flower of metal as bright as the sun, with thorns full of malice and roots digging deep.'

@Epsil
[OOC: Don't know if I did this right. I also didn't know if it was okay to incorporate a bit of the Golden Rose into this, or not...
Sorry, if I've messed things up!
>w<]

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QUEST REPORT (APPRAISED)

Spoiler: Quest Details // Level 4 // City Guard Training

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City Guard Training
Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild Location: Scribel City Required Level: 4
Objectives: Report to the City Barracks. Spend one week getting trained. Work together with your team. Pass the final exam. (Optional: Party Quest) You want to be on the City Guard, huh? A hotshot like yourself might have done a lot of solo work before... But here you'll have learn how to work as a team. You'll be assigned to a team of four rookies (two pairs). Your entire team needs to work together to pass the final exam. Either you all pass or you all fail!
Rewards: Points: 250 EXP / person Money: 20 G / person Other: City Guard License

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"Hello."

Even though, Zorion was no longer voiceless, he had not shaken old his habit of silence, being silent was well suited when he was alone in the forest, but if this really does not help with social situations

On the table, Zorion places a report, [Training of City Guard Trainee Zorion Ortis. evaluated by Guard Captain Harrison Bridger

Spoiler: Character: Zorion // Level 4 // Report

This is an evaluation of trainee Zorion Ortis written by Guard Captain Harrison Bridger, designation 0649-1641-0065 of the Scribel City Guards.

Zorion is a Triton amongst 3 other rookies. A dwarf named Aymir Rockbreath, a tabaxi, Glow of the Sun , and finally a tiefling, Maeve Obrin.

The four of them are... lack of better word, weirdos. And Zorion is the weirdest amongst them. The Tritons I've known are chatty folk, always talking about their great accomplishment. How their people won a great war, its all golden age in their cities now, so on and so forth. And now they want to save the rest of us too.

But not Zorion, not a word.

Oh, and by the by, he can speak, I am sure of it. But it's like sometimes he forgets that he can, weird.

Which is fine, I am looking for a guard not a chatter box. Discipline is all I am after. I oft' work the late night, so I left the morning training to themselves. I had them do endurance training followed by sparring session amongst themselves. It was a test of sorts, to see how they'd fare without supervision.

The Triton, he seems like a most docile person, according the other guards in the training yard, Zorion followed my training regimen to the letter. He ran the laps, did the weight training, and challenged each of his cohorts to battle. His compatriot was less than eager to do the work, but none of them were too reticent in trouncing the triton in battle.

And boy, did they do that, Aymir and Sun, I could understand why Zorion would lose to them, one is sturdier and one is faster, But to Maeve, a woman. This trition is weak.

After the first day though, the four of them trained together in the morning. It was like after the three beat up the triton they bonded somehow.

Having learn what happened the first time he sparred, I got them all to learn the basics of all weapons, stances and strikes, defence and offence. The next day's afternoon, I asked them to learn what they wanted and get better at it. Maeve, Aymir and Sun stuck with things they were used to.. but this guy! This Triton... he was average at everything, not good, not bad, just bland!

On day three, when we had to move on to things about laws regulations and how to investigate crimes. His ability in a fight was still so decimal for a level 4 adventurer. I swear the combat sense of Maeve is a 100 times better and she a women, that's saying something.

I really had to get him to get better, so I took time off my night duties to give him some pointers, get him to specialise in a weapon or something, Or just give up and learn magic, for the gods sakes.

When I found him, he was talking to Maeve, or talked at by Maeve. They look all chummy, which is good camaraderie is a commendable development. But then, Maev ate a pear, and the look on his face, you'd have thought Maeve killed his best friend.

What is wrong with the boy?

Maeve asked what was wrong, I also wanted to know. Never got the answers from him.

Any which way, I got him to train with me, late into the night, he appreciated it, said it help him forget about the pear...

What does that even mean?!?

Ultimately, I accepted he was a very slow learner, good thing Triton will live to 200 aye? He'd have time to catch up. He always seemed so distracted, like he got better things to do. At the end of all the training II made him slightly better with a short spear and a shield. Very Triton like I thought.

Scenario 8-237-10, that was the one I drew from the lot, one of the easier scenarios, I choose it cause they have to lookout for Maeve after all. She is quite the stubborn lass, I'd have thought basic training would have made her quit by now. But hey, there are those women too.

The scenario was to defeat a clay golem in the yard, a level 7 battle entity.

The triton, was the vanguard, the fist of the golem knocked him straight off his feet. Sun's arrows imbued with magic dismember the golems arm, saved Zorion from a second strike. Aymir hammered cracked the golem's core a little bit, and out of nowhere Maeve and her rapier pierced the core, I admit it was pretty swish.

They did win and did work as a team, the triton will need to get better but even so he'd alright as a guard.

I guess that's all I have to say about that.

Just as with Aymir, Sun and even Maeve, I am also giving Zorion a gilt of parting, nothing special... given the state of my wages. But I gift to him a short spear and a shield.

And tell him to practice! Get better!

OOC don't know how well i did with the "a little sexist towards women " but I gave it a go.

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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Freja Haljissen
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- a female elf adventurer at level 6 and an E rank
- is diligent with her tasks
- has a no nonsense attitude towards her work
- has gained a stalker recently
- seems to be friends with Hejlikka

Reference:

Quest Report - verified

Reaching the barracks, Harrison took one look at her and shouted: "NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU WORK HERE AGAIN!" Seeing the surprised look on Liana's face, her gold eyes beginning to quiver, he softened his voice as he glanced around awkwardly, "I heard about how upset you were when Samson took over the morning shift...I'm giving you a break from doing that kind of thing so you don't damage your mental health." He gently patted her head before continuing, "Go do a job that doesn't let you see blood and gore tonight. Hey, I heard that the guild is understaffed in the customer service department, why not head there?" He gave as reassuring a smile as he could - although it ended up looking like a grimace due to him not being used to smiling like that.

"If you say so...I just thought I'd be able to console them and ease their passing into the next life if I was there..."

"No, I'm not letting you down there for a while. They're still getting rid of the bodies and sorting out the cells. Go." With that, he turned around and left her, heading to the prison to help deal with things there.

Pouting, Liana left the barracks and headed to the guild to see about this customer service job Harrison had mentioned.

Arriving at the guild, she mentioned to a receptionist about the job who then sent her with a signed note to the customer service department where a familiar looking female elf was reprimanding someone with a fresh black eye.

"--matter if he started it! We have guards here to help deal with such people! I'm docking your pay due to your poor interpersonal skills. Get out of my sight! Go work in the back and sort through the files!" She pointed an arm out towards the door leading into the filing department and pushed her glasses up.

"Yes ma'am!" The man with a black eye ran away in fear, not wanting to embarrass himself further and gain more of his superior's ire.

Turning around, Hejlikka saw Liana with a note in her hand, and a congenial smile on her face, and looked away awkwardly with a slight blush on her face.

"You're Miss Hejlikka, right? I took on the customer service quest and was told to come here for it. Here's the signed note." Liana smiled gently at the female elf as her gold eyes shone with warmth and kindness.

Taking the note from her, Hejlikka felt a bit disconcerted by the 180 degree change in attitude and personality but still retained her professionalism, "Ah, yes. Liana, right? Everything seems to be in order. It's good you arrived when you did since we've just had to remove an employee from the front lines." She led Liana towards an empty booth while detailing the kind of work she would need to do, expressly emphasising the part about not upsetting customers and being fair in evaluations of complaints.

"I see. I'll be sure to remember, Miss Hejlikka. Thank you for your explanation, it's much appreciated." She gave a small, delicate bow and smiled before sitting at the booth with her hands neatly folded on her lap.

"Yes...well...be sure to have successfully resolved at least 5 complaints! I'll be back in a few hours to see how you're doing."

"Okay! I'll be sure to try my best!" She smiled more enthusiastically, showing eagerness to do well on the job.

Satisfied with Liana's attitude - but still feeling a little off about it - the female elf went off to do other duties.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Sitting at the booth, waiting for someone to come, Liana observed what the other customer service people were doing in a bid to learn how to better deal with possible difficult people. Eventually, a burly man - with a very dark tan - strode in with a face full of anger. Sweeping his gaze over the booths, he saw that Liana's was free and so walked determinedly towards her. Seeing the man, she smiled gently.

"Hello, sir, is there a problem you wish to complain about?"

"Of course!" He replied in a gruff tone.

"I see, I'm sorry to hear that. What seems to be the problem?" She presented a saddened expression, which slightly tugged at the man's heartstrings.

"Ah...well I was on the Escort Duty quest - helping some merchants deliver their goods - only when I came back the receptionist refused to give me the reward claiming I had failed!" He slammed his fist on the desk, drawing attention from other customers and workers.

Liana seemed unfazed as she showed surprise on her face before gently stroking the man's hand, "Is your hand okay? Let me rub it better."

"Ah...thanks..." He blushed before shaking his head and putting on a firm expression again, "Never mind about that! Why was my quest deemed a failure?"

"Hmm, could you give me your name, level and rank so I can check the files, please?" Liana smiled gently again while signalling for someone to bring over the most recent evaluated reports.

"Bigsley Hardsen! Level 4! Unranked! Ah, but I swear I'll be Level 5 and ranked soon! This blasted quest would have helped me fulfil the requirements for that, tch!"

"I see, I see. Let me just check for you, Mr Hardsen."

A man came over and placed a large stack of evaluated reports yet to be filed on her desk and went off to return to the receptionist section. Going through the files, Liana eventually found the report in question and read through it diligently.

"Let's see..."

Bigsley started fidgeting as he waited for the beautiful and gentle woman to finish reading his report, rubbing his swelling hand that had hit the desk earlier. After a few minutes, Liana put down the report and smiled wryly, looking a little embarrassed before casting her gold eyes on the customer.

"I'm sorry. As much as I would like to help you get a reward, it seems you failed to mention in your report the name of the merchants you were escorting, as well as the goods they were delivering. It pains me to say this, but you also didn't ensure they wrote a note confirming that you succeeded in the task."

"..." Bigsley breathed in heavily, a burning rage simmering inside and ready to explode.

"However, I can see that this is easily rectifiable, although it may take you some time."

"Tell me!" The man slammed his hands on the desk to the point he was leaning close to Liana, as he was staring into her eyes.

Gently smiling at the man, Liana replied: "All you'll need to do is take back the report, return to those merchants, record their names and the goods they'd delivered, as well as get a signed note from them detailing and confirming your work. Then you'll simply have to come back and re-submit your report."

Bigsley looked at her sternly before standing straight again, lamenting a bit that the woman didn't rub his hands better after he'd slammed them down on her desk. "But the report was deemed a failure, won't you get in trouble for allowing me tor re-submit it?"

"This report has not been filed away yet, so I have deemed it as if you never having submitted the report. I hope that is all right with you?"

"Ah...sure. It's just a few hours of walking back and forth and getting their confirmation, not like anyone died."

"That's good, then." She smiled brightly at the acknowledgement of the solution provided. "Then, I wish you a pleasantly safe journey, as well as success the next time you submit your report."

"...Yes...of course..." Bigsley took the report with him and left, blushing all the way out of the building. Seeing the man leave, Liana called for someone to take the stack of reports away since other booths might need them.

After half an hour, a female elf came over with a sour look on her face. She saw Liana was available and headed in her direction. Noticing the elf approaching, Liana smiled at her as she greeted, "Hello, this is the customer service department, is there a problem you need help with?"

"Yes." The elf replied curtly.

"I see, and what seems to be the problem?"

"The receptionist marked my quest as partially successful and I found her reasoning unsatisfactory."

"Oh? I'm sorry to hear that. What part did you find unsatisfactory, if I may ask?" Liana showed a concerned look, evoking a sense of gratitude from the elf.

"She said she struggled to read my writing, thus deducted some of the reward because she needed to put on some glasses which she claimed made her look unfashionable and so wouldn't get a handsome adventurer to look her way if he came in while she was wearing them."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise at the reason for the quest being evaluated as partially successful.

"I am incredibly sorry to hear about that. Could you give me the name of the receptionist, as well as your own name, level, rank and the quest you undertook, please?"

"Of course. The receptionist was called Imelda Carson - a half-elf. My own name is Freja Haljssen, my Level is 6 and my rank is E. The quest I did was to be a personal bodyguard to city official and his family for a week. I shall refrain from naming them since the report already states it and I do not wish for prying ears to learn of their current predicament."

"I see. Thank you for being forthcoming with your answers. Let me have a look and see if there was anything else wrong with the report before I inform my superior about the receptionist. Ah, please take a seat while you wait."

"Sure."

The elf woman sat down as the man in charge of delivering quest reports came over again with a stack of reports waiting to be filed. Finding the correct report, Liana read through it before asking for someone to call Hejlikka over. Looking at Freja, Liana called her to come back.

"I've read through your report. Although the handwriting is not as elegant as some peoples' are, it's still legible. I see no problems with it and your employer also seemed to be happy with your services. It seems they've even sent for your services again. As for the receptionist, I need to ask my superior about that..."

With that, Hejlikka arrived with an impatient look on her face.

"Why did you call for me? I'm busy. Haven't you seen the large stack of...Freja, why are you here?" She noticed who the customer was and frowned in uncertainty.

Freja gave a nod of acknowledgement to Hejlikka before responding, "I'm complaining about how my report was evaluated."

The superior showed surprise on her face as she turned to Liana for an explanation, to which she complied: "It seems that receptionist Imelda Carson has unfairly evaluated Miss Haljissen's report, not giving her the full reward she deserves on account of the writing style forcing her to wear glasses and looking less attractive towards the male customer base. I called for you because I wasn't sure how to handle the receptionist or this case."

"That hussy! I'm so sorry about this, Freja. I'll go get the reward you weren't given and then will thoroughly punish that girl for her unprofessional behaviour!" Hejlikka then stormed off, came back after 30 seconds to place a bag of coins, to then storm off once again towards the receptionist section.

"Well, it seems that we have clarified the problem. Please allow me to add the missing experience onto your guild card, Miss Haljssen."

"Of course." She replied with a light smile on her face, making her seem a lot more beautiful than earlier.

"Then, if you have any further problems, don't hesitate to come here and our department will do our best to help resolve them." Liana gently smiled at the female elf, which made the customer smile even more.

"Thank you." She then left with a satisfied expression.

Hejlikka came back a few minutes later with an energetic look, like she'd let a load off her chest from venting/shouting, etc...

"Good work, Liana. You did right to call me over. If you need me for other cases, I'll help." She then left to deal with some other stuff.

A while later, a little girl came in crying and immediately ran over to Liana's free booth.

"Waaaaaah! Why can't I get a reward? Waaaaah!"

Seeing the girl crying non-stop, Liana got out of her seat and quickly went up to her, knelt down and hugged her while gently rubbing her head. "There, there. Sh-sh-sh. Why don't we sit over there and you can tell me about what happened?" She said in a soothing, placating tone.

The girl sniffed a few times before snuggling into Liana's chest and explaining what happened:
"I went on my first quest *sniff* and gathered lots and lots of pretty flowers for it *sniff. Only the mean old man said I failed my queeeeeeeest! Waaaaaah!"

"Oh? What was the quest that you did?"

"*sniff* It was called Healing Herbs *sniff*. Mummy told me that pretty flowers were full of goodness and would make anyone who saw them feel better *sniff*, so I picked up lots and lots! But the man said that none of them were healing herrrrrrrrrbs! Waaaaaaah!"

"I see, you poor thing. Such a mean man for telling you that. Do you have some of the flowers still with you? How about you let me have a look instead?" Liana smiled gently at the girl, her gold eyes making the girl feel warmth from them thus calming her down. The girl then gave her one of each flower before falling asleep from all of the crying she'd done.

Calling for the report - using the name on the girl's guild card - so she could go through it, Liana carefully inspected the flowers and recognised them all as ones her temple used to sometimes use when making healing poultices. Re-evaluating the report as a success, she then procured the rewards and gently woke the girl up.

"I've had a look at them and they all do indeed have healing effects. Your mummy was right and that old man was wrong. Here's your reward for completing your first quest." She smiled brightly at the girl as she handed the reward over.

"Ah! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

The girl jumped up from the chair and hugged Liana's waist in happiness and joy, before waving at her and running out with a smile on her face. Liana returned to her seat at the booth and had the reports cleared away once more.

An hour later a man with fox ears and tail came in and nonchalantly strolled over to Liana's booth.

"Good evening, sir! Is there a problem?" Liana opened with a gentle smile.

The man's tail swished and his fox ears twitched as he gently smiled back and said, "My quest was deemed a failure, even though I fulfilled all of the objectives set. I would like my full reward and re-evaluation of my report, please."

"Oh?" Liana looked surprised before asking, "For what reason did the receptionist give for deeming it a failure?"

"It was a silly reason that you don't need to know. However, my report really does fulfil the quest objectives so..." He smiled wryly, "...please give me my reward?"

"Well, can you please give me your name, level, rank and the title of the quest please? I need to verify the report and evaluation given by the receptionist."

The fox-man gritted his teeth briefly before smiling even more gently, "Of course~ My name is Felix Wiska, I am Level 2, Unranked and did the Charity Work quest."

"I see. Then, please, have a seat while I check the situation."

"...Of course..."

After a few minutes, Liana was given the report, along with a note attached with bold capital letters on it, 'FAKE REPORT! EXTORTION OF MONEY, FOOD AND GOODS! ON CITY GUARD WATCH-LIST'. Still smiling gently, Liana hid the note under the desk and carefully looked through the evaluation and report. She then called Felix over and smiled apologetically.

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do, Mr Wiska. You see, it seems that what you wrote in this report isn't what actually happened, and so...with regrets, I cannot give you any rewards."

Felix's face sank into a cold and murderous look as he uttered in a dark and low tone, "What?"

A fireball appeared above his tail but was quickly doused out by some guards who had water buckets on standby for fire emergencies. Seeing that the fox-man was acting in a threatening manner towards the staff, the guards took him away in manacles towards the barracks to be judged.

"..." Liana looked at a co-worker beside her and asked, "Did I do something wrong?" A worried look on her face.

"No. He just wanted to exploit the system but realised he'd been found out. You'd have been in more trouble if you'd actually given him the reward."

"I see."

After another 2 hours, 7 more people came in to complain about things: 2 trying to cheat the system, 4 with valid claims, and 1 with an invalid claim. Apart from the ones trying to con, the rest of the customers left with satisfaction. Hejlikka arrived again and noted the work Liana had done.

"You've done well for your first time on this job. Especially since it was a night shift you took. Most people end up falling asleep or not paying enough attention for this shift. So, thank you for your hard work."

Liana smiled back at the female elf and stretched. "It's fine, Miss Hejlikka. I prefer working night shifts anyway, so it's no problem for me. How about you? Don't you usually work during the day?"

The female elf smiled wryly, "My boss changed my work schedule to night shifts because I complained about him being unprofessional and flirting with the receptionists...Me and my big mouth, huh?"

Liana giggled in amusement before smiling apologetically, "I'm sorry about that. It must be tough, having such a boss."

Hejlikka shrugged before blushing a little bit, "...He's my little brother..."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise before closing it and smiling wryly, "You've been working hard."

The female elf smiled at that, before saying, "Dawn will be arriving soon. I think you've done enough work for this evening. You can go back now."

"Okay. How about you? When does your shift end?" Liana asked as she got up from her chair and smoothed down her dress.

"It ends when the morning shift supervisor comes, which she did a few minutes ago." She said while staring at the dress covering Liana's thighs before looking at the young woman's face again.

"I see. Then, should we leave together?" She smiled warmly and innocently.

Gulping a little, Hejlikka nodded slowly before heading off to get her cloak. While waiting, Liana wrote up her report of her quest and handed it in to the receptionist for evaluation.

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Investigate a Stalker

Sponsor: Freja Haljssen, adventurer

Location: Scribel City and outskirts

Level: 3

Objectives

Locate the stalker. Identify the stalker. (optional) Find out reason for their actions. (optional) Persuade the stalker to stop.

I keep to myself, most of the time. I take my job as an adventurer seriously... ...I seem to have acquired a stalker, though... Please investigate this matter.

Rewards

Exp: 150(200)

Money: 50G (75G)

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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Imelda Carson
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- a half-elf woman
- works as a receptionist in the guild
- is exceptionally vain and petty
- is highly flirtatious towards anything male with muscles, skills and good looks
- can get very jealous of other girls
- has a vicious heart towards her love rivals
- lets her emotions affect her work, often giving harsh evaluations to female adventurers

Reference:

Spoiler: Image of Imelda Carson

Quest Report - verified

Reaching the barracks, Harrison took one look at her and shouted: "NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU WORK HERE AGAIN!" Seeing the surprised look on Liana's face, her gold eyes beginning to quiver, he softened his voice as he glanced around awkwardly, "I heard about how upset you were when Samson took over the morning shift...I'm giving you a break from doing that kind of thing so you don't damage your mental health." He gently patted her head before continuing, "Go do a job that doesn't let you see blood and gore tonight. Hey, I heard that the guild is understaffed in the customer service department, why not head there?" He gave as reassuring a smile as he could - although it ended up looking like a grimace due to him not being used to smiling like that.

"If you say so...I just thought I'd be able to console them and ease their passing into the next life if I was there..."

"No, I'm not letting you down there for a while. They're still getting rid of the bodies and sorting out the cells. Go." With that, he turned around and left her, heading to the prison to help deal with things there.

Pouting, Liana left the barracks and headed to the guild to see about this customer service job Harrison had mentioned.

Arriving at the guild, she mentioned to a receptionist about the job who then sent her with a signed note to the customer service department where a familiar looking female elf was reprimanding someone with a fresh black eye.

"--matter if he started it! We have guards here to help deal with such people! I'm docking your pay due to your poor interpersonal skills. Get out of my sight! Go work in the back and sort through the files!" She pointed an arm out towards the door leading into the filing department and pushed her glasses up.

"Yes ma'am!" The man with a black eye ran away in fear, not wanting to embarrass himself further and gain more of his superior's ire.

Turning around, Hejlikka saw Liana with a note in her hand, and a congenial smile on her face, and looked away awkwardly with a slight blush on her face.

"You're Miss Hejlikka, right? I took on the customer service quest and was told to come here for it. Here's the signed note." Liana smiled gently at the female elf as her gold eyes shone with warmth and kindness.

Taking the note from her, Hejlikka felt a bit disconcerted by the 180 degree change in attitude and personality but still retained her professionalism, "Ah, yes. Liana, right? Everything seems to be in order. It's good you arrived when you did since we've just had to remove an employee from the front lines." She led Liana towards an empty booth while detailing the kind of work she would need to do, expressly emphasising the part about not upsetting customers and being fair in evaluations of complaints.

"I see. I'll be sure to remember, Miss Hejlikka. Thank you for your explanation, it's much appreciated." She gave a small, delicate bow and smiled before sitting at the booth with her hands neatly folded on her lap.

"Yes...well...be sure to have successfully resolved at least 5 complaints! I'll be back in a few hours to see how you're doing."

"Okay! I'll be sure to try my best!" She smiled more enthusiastically, showing eagerness to do well on the job.

Satisfied with Liana's attitude - but still feeling a little off about it - the female elf went off to do other duties.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Sitting at the booth, waiting for someone to come, Liana observed what the other customer service people were doing in a bid to learn how to better deal with possible difficult people. Eventually, a burly man - with a very dark tan - strode in with a face full of anger. Sweeping his gaze over the booths, he saw that Liana's was free and so walked determinedly towards her. Seeing the man, she smiled gently.

"Hello, sir, is there a problem you wish to complain about?"

"Of course!" He replied in a gruff tone.

"I see, I'm sorry to hear that. What seems to be the problem?" She presented a saddened expression, which slightly tugged at the man's heartstrings.

"Ah...well I was on the Escort Duty quest - helping some merchants deliver their goods - only when I came back the receptionist refused to give me the reward claiming I had failed!" He slammed his fist on the desk, drawing attention from other customers and workers.

Liana seemed unfazed as she showed surprise on her face before gently stroking the man's hand, "Is your hand okay? Let me rub it better."

"Ah...thanks..." He blushed before shaking his head and putting on a firm expression again, "Never mind about that! Why was my quest deemed a failure?"

"Hmm, could you give me your name, level and rank so I can check the files, please?" Liana smiled gently again while signalling for someone to bring over the most recent evaluated reports.

"Bigsley Hardsen! Level 4! Unranked! Ah, but I swear I'll be Level 5 and ranked soon! This blasted quest would have helped me fulfil the requirements for that, tch!"

"I see, I see. Let me just check for you, Mr Hardsen."

A man came over and placed a large stack of evaluated reports yet to be filed on her desk and went off to return to the receptionist section. Going through the files, Liana eventually found the report in question and read through it diligently.

"Let's see..."

Bigsley started fidgeting as he waited for the beautiful and gentle woman to finish reading his report, rubbing his swelling hand that had hit the desk earlier. After a few minutes, Liana put down the report and smiled wryly, looking a little embarrassed before casting her gold eyes on the customer.

"I'm sorry. As much as I would like to help you get a reward, it seems you failed to mention in your report the name of the merchants you were escorting, as well as the goods they were delivering. It pains me to say this, but you also didn't ensure they wrote a note confirming that you succeeded in the task."

"..." Bigsley breathed in heavily, a burning rage simmering inside and ready to explode.

"However, I can see that this is easily rectifiable, although it may take you some time."

"Tell me!" The man slammed his hands on the desk to the point he was leaning close to Liana, as he was staring into her eyes.

Gently smiling at the man, Liana replied: "All you'll need to do is take back the report, return to those merchants, record their names and the goods they'd delivered, as well as get a signed note from them detailing and confirming your work. Then you'll simply have to come back and re-submit your report."

Bigsley looked at her sternly before standing straight again, lamenting a bit that the woman didn't rub his hands better after he'd slammed them down on her desk. "But the report was deemed a failure, won't you get in trouble for allowing me tor re-submit it?"

"This report has not been filed away yet, so I have deemed it as if you never having submitted the report. I hope that is all right with you?"

"Ah...sure. It's just a few hours of walking back and forth and getting their confirmation, not like anyone died."

"That's good, then." She smiled brightly at the acknowledgement of the solution provided. "Then, I wish you a pleasantly safe journey, as well as success the next time you submit your report."

"...Yes...of course..." Bigsley took the report with him and left, blushing all the way out of the building. Seeing the man leave, Liana called for someone to take the stack of reports away since other booths might need them.

After half an hour, a female elf came over with a sour look on her face. She saw Liana was available and headed in her direction. Noticing the elf approaching, Liana smiled at her as she greeted, "Hello, this is the customer service department, is there a problem you need help with?"

"Yes." The elf replied curtly.

"I see, and what seems to be the problem?"

"The receptionist marked my quest as partially successful and I found her reasoning unsatisfactory."

"Oh? I'm sorry to hear that. What part did you find unsatisfactory, if I may ask?" Liana showed a concerned look, evoking a sense of gratitude from the elf.

"She said she struggled to read my writing, thus deducted some of the reward because she needed to put on some glasses which she claimed made her look unfashionable and so wouldn't get a handsome adventurer to look her way if he came in while she was wearing them."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise at the reason for the quest being evaluated as partially successful.

"I am incredibly sorry to hear about that. Could you give me the name of the receptionist, as well as your own name, level, rank and the quest you undertook, please?"

"Of course. The receptionist was called Imelda Carson - a half-elf. My own name is Freja Haljssen, my Level is 6 and my rank is E. The quest I did was to be a personal bodyguard to city official and his family for a week. I shall refrain from naming them since the report already states it and I do not wish for prying ears to learn of their current predicament."

"I see. Thank you for being forthcoming with your answers. Let me have a look and see if there was anything else wrong with the report before I inform my superior about the receptionist. Ah, please take a seat while you wait."

"Sure."

The elf woman sat down as the man in charge of delivering quest reports came over again with a stack of reports waiting to be filed. Finding the correct report, Liana read through it before asking for someone to call Hejlikka over. Looking at Freja, Liana called her to come back.

"I've read through your report. Although the handwriting is not as elegant as some peoples' are, it's still legible. I see no problems with it and your employer also seemed to be happy with your services. It seems they've even sent for your services again. As for the receptionist, I need to ask my superior about that..."

With that, Hejlikka arrived with an impatient look on her face.

"Why did you call for me? I'm busy. Haven't you seen the large stack of...Freja, why are you here?" She noticed who the customer was and frowned in uncertainty.

Freja gave a nod of acknowledgement to Hejlikka before responding, "I'm complaining about how my report was evaluated."

The superior showed surprise on her face as she turned to Liana for an explanation, to which she complied: "It seems that receptionist Imelda Carson has unfairly evaluated Miss Haljissen's report, not giving her the full reward she deserves on account of the writing style forcing her to wear glasses and looking less attractive towards the male customer base. I called for you because I wasn't sure how to handle the receptionist or this case."

"That hussy! I'm so sorry about this, Freja. I'll go get the reward you weren't given and then will thoroughly punish that girl for her unprofessional behaviour!" Hejlikka then stormed off, came back after 30 seconds to place a bag of coins, to then storm off once again towards the receptionist section.

"Well, it seems that we have clarified the problem. Please allow me to add the missing experience onto your guild card, Miss Haljssen."

"Of course." She replied with a light smile on her face, making her seem a lot more beautiful than earlier.

"Then, if you have any further problems, don't hesitate to come here and our department will do our best to help resolve them." Liana gently smiled at the female elf, which made the customer smile even more.

"Thank you." She then left with a satisfied expression.

Hejlikka came back a few minutes later with an energetic look, like she'd let a load off her chest from venting/shouting, etc...

"Good work, Liana. You did right to call me over. If you need me for other cases, I'll help." She then left to deal with some other stuff.

A while later, a little girl came in crying and immediately ran over to Liana's free booth.

"Waaaaaah! Why can't I get a reward? Waaaaah!"

Seeing the girl crying non-stop, Liana got out of her seat and quickly went up to her, knelt down and hugged her while gently rubbing her head. "There, there. Sh-sh-sh. Why don't we sit over there and you can tell me about what happened?" She said in a soothing, placating tone.

The girl sniffed a few times before snuggling into Liana's chest and explaining what happened:
"I went on my first quest *sniff* and gathered lots and lots of pretty flowers for it *sniff. Only the mean old man said I failed my queeeeeeeest! Waaaaaah!"

"Oh? What was the quest that you did?"

"*sniff* It was called Healing Herbs *sniff*. Mummy told me that pretty flowers were full of goodness and would make anyone who saw them feel better *sniff*, so I picked up lots and lots! But the man said that none of them were healing herrrrrrrrrbs! Waaaaaaah!"

"I see, you poor thing. Such a mean man for telling you that. Do you have some of the flowers still with you? How about you let me have a look instead?" Liana smiled gently at the girl, her gold eyes making the girl feel warmth from them thus calming her down. The girl then gave her one of each flower before falling asleep from all of the crying she'd done.

Calling for the report - using the name on the girl's guild card - so she could go through it, Liana carefully inspected the flowers and recognised them all as ones her temple used to sometimes use when making healing poultices. Re-evaluating the report as a success, she then procured the rewards and gently woke the girl up.

"I've had a look at them and they all do indeed have healing effects. Your mummy was right and that old man was wrong. Here's your reward for completing your first quest." She smiled brightly at the girl as she handed the reward over.

"Ah! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

The girl jumped up from the chair and hugged Liana's waist in happiness and joy, before waving at her and running out with a smile on her face. Liana returned to her seat at the booth and had the reports cleared away once more.

An hour later a man with fox ears and tail came in and nonchalantly strolled over to Liana's booth.

"Good evening, sir! Is there a problem?" Liana opened with a gentle smile.

The man's tail swished and his fox ears twitched as he gently smiled back and said, "My quest was deemed a failure, even though I fulfilled all of the objectives set. I would like my full reward and re-evaluation of my report, please."

"Oh?" Liana looked surprised before asking, "For what reason did the receptionist give for deeming it a failure?"

"It was a silly reason that you don't need to know. However, my report really does fulfil the quest objectives so..." He smiled wryly, "...please give me my reward?"

"Well, can you please give me your name, level, rank and the title of the quest please? I need to verify the report and evaluation given by the receptionist."

The fox-man gritted his teeth briefly before smiling even more gently, "Of course~ My name is Felix Wiska, I am Level 2, Unranked and did the Charity Work quest."

"I see. Then, please, have a seat while I check the situation."

"...Of course..."

After a few minutes, Liana was given the report, along with a note attached with bold capital letters on it, 'FAKE REPORT! EXTORTION OF MONEY, FOOD AND GOODS! ON CITY GUARD WATCH-LIST'. Still smiling gently, Liana hid the note under the desk and carefully looked through the evaluation and report. She then called Felix over and smiled apologetically.

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do, Mr Wiska. You see, it seems that what you wrote in this report isn't what actually happened, and so...with regrets, I cannot give you any rewards."

Felix's face sank into a cold and murderous look as he uttered in a dark and low tone, "What?"

A fireball appeared above his tail but was quickly doused out by some guards who had water buckets on standby for fire emergencies. Seeing that the fox-man was acting in a threatening manner towards the staff, the guards took him away in manacles towards the barracks to be judged.

"..." Liana looked at a co-worker beside her and asked, "Did I do something wrong?" A worried look on her face.

"No. He just wanted to exploit the system but realised he'd been found out. You'd have been in more trouble if you'd actually given him the reward."

"I see."

After another 2 hours, 7 more people came in to complain about things: 2 trying to cheat the system, 4 with valid claims, and 1 with an invalid claim. Apart from the ones trying to con, the rest of the customers left with satisfaction. Hejlikka arrived again and noted the work Liana had done.

"You've done well for your first time on this job. Especially since it was a night shift you took. Most people end up falling asleep or not paying enough attention for this shift. So, thank you for your hard work."

Liana smiled back at the female elf and stretched. "It's fine, Miss Hejlikka. I prefer working night shifts anyway, so it's no problem for me. How about you? Don't you usually work during the day?"

The female elf smiled wryly, "My boss changed my work schedule to night shifts because I complained about him being unprofessional and flirting with the receptionists...Me and my big mouth, huh?"

Liana giggled in amusement before smiling apologetically, "I'm sorry about that. It must be tough, having such a boss."

Hejlikka shrugged before blushing a little bit, "...He's my little brother..."

Liana opened her mouth in surprise before closing it and smiling wryly, "You've been working hard."

The female elf smiled at that, before saying, "Dawn will be arriving soon. I think you've done enough work for this evening. You can go back now."

"Okay. How about you? When does your shift end?" Liana asked as she got up from her chair and smoothed down her dress.

"It ends when the morning shift supervisor comes, which she did a few minutes ago." She said while staring at the dress covering Liana's thighs before looking at the young woman's face again.

"I see. Then, should we leave together?" She smiled warmly and innocently.

Gulping a little, Hejlikka nodded slowly before heading off to get her cloak. While waiting, Liana wrote up her report of her quest and handed it in to the receptionist for evaluation.

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Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun had set, Liana got dressed and washed her face - noting how her skin looked particularly more healthy-looking than it had a few days ago. She pondered over the 'meals' she'd had recently and attributed her body brimming full of vitality to that - licking her lips subconsciously as she recalled the exceptionally sweet flavour of the female elf she'd sipped a little on that morning. Coming back to her senses, she lightly ran her fingers through her hair to make it look neat again before leaving her room and locking the door.

Heading down the stairs towards the tavern bar area, she handed the rent money for that day before deciding to leave the area before she was overcome by the multitude of delicious smells of 'food' mixed in with sweat, urine, disgusting cooked food and alcohol. Exiting the tavern, Liana thought about what she should do for the night and smiled when she remembered how fun working in the customer service department was. She also recalled how Hejlikka had been relegated to the night shift and smiled wryly at the thought of possibly meeting the eccentric elf.

Reaching a decision, she made her way to the guild and told the staff she wished to help work in the Customer Service Department again. Getting a signed note from the receptionist, Liana headed to the CSD section and looked for the supervisor to inform them of her task. After a few minutes of looking, she eventually found a male elf coming out of the back office rooms with an arm wrapped around a woman's waist - whispering something in her ear with a smile on his familiar face. Seeing the woman blushing before nodding in affirmation to whatever the male elf had said, he released her from his arm and tapped her rear cheek before noticing Liana and smiling gently.

Walking up to her, he saw the note in her hand and smiled even more deeply before saying, "And who might your beautiful self be, my sweet~?" His eyes greedily looked up and down her body.

Smiling gently back, Liana responded, "I'm Liana. I came to do the customer service task." She held out the signed note to the male elf, "The task is still available, right?" She showed a look of worry as her gold eyes gazed at the man in front of her.

"Liana, huh? Such a pretty name for such a pretty thing. I'm Julrik, the man in charge of most of the people here, at your service my sweet~" He grabbed her hand and bowed, expertly kissing the back of it before releasing his grip.

"AH! Julrik! Get your hands off her! Stop flirting and get working!!!"

Hejlikka stormed towards them and made sure to stand in-between Liana and Julrik. Seeing the two together, Liana raised her brows as she noticed the resemblance between the two of them, although Hejlikka appeared to seem quite a few years older than him.

"Your brother, Miss Hejlikka?" She tilted her head as she noticed more and more resemblances between the two.

Hearing the question, Hejlikka smiled wryly before answering, "Yes...this is Julrik, my younger brother, and also our boss..."

Julrik smiled delightedly at that, "So you've heard of me, my sweet Liana~? I'm so happy~ Why don't we get to know each other more intimately over-- KUH!" He suddenly bent over as he rubbed his freshly jabbed ribs with a grimace.

"Pay him no mind. He's not even supposed to be working right now." Hejlikka guided Liana to an empty booth in the CSD before continuing, "Since you've already done this job before, I'll let you get straight to work. Also, I hope you'll be willing to leave together again..." A light blush crept onto her cheeks but was masked by the shadows made by the torches and candles in the room to notice.

"Sure!" Liana smiled gently back at the female elf.

Pushing her glasses up, Hejlikka happily smiled before her face turned grim and stern as she went up to her brother and dragged him away by his pointy ear, complaining about how unprofessional he was in the workplace and couldn't understand how he ended up getting promoted faster than her.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Getting a customer a few minutes after sitting down, Liana got into full swing with doing customer service work. Saying that, after the first customer not many other people came to the department for a long time. Since that was the case, she listened in on the conversations her colleagues were having while being idle from lack of customers. One pair talked about how boring the night shift was due to it usually being really slow since most people were already sleeping or had gone drinking. Another pair - two men - discussed how cute some of the receptionists were, with them even starting to rate them on sexiness or cuteness: Nene was given a 78/100 due to how cute her fox ears looked and how diligent she was in trying to help people; another receptionist called Konaha was rated 63/100 on account of how efficiently she evaluated reports but had a no nonsense style to her comments; some Imelda Carson - the half elf mentioned while working last night - was also mentioned, with her receiving an amazing 91/100 due to her having a large chest, provocative clothing and coquettish behaviour whenever they interacted with her; they even gave Hejlikka a rating...23/100...mostly because she was too strict and harsh with them but also because they found her an annoying busybody with no charming qualities except her nice looks. Those men made sure to whisper that last rating while casting fearful glances at the door in case the female elf came through.

As she was listening, she soon heard another group even move closer to one another and talked about how worrying the war in Gelderholm was. One of them mentioned how their cousin went to help but had gotten bitten by a snake and was in critical condition. Another person in the group talked about a strong adventurer called Felicia who was making great gains there - helping the locals fight against the hydra's subordinates and helping them gain a firmer foothold in the area.

After a while, several customers came and were dealt with by Liana without incident. It seemed that she was picked out due to her not talking with the other colleagues - instead sitting quietly at her booth with a gentle smile on her face. Once the end of the shift approached, Liana managed to deal with 13 customers: 3 were invalid complaints, 9 were valid ones to which she compensated them with appropriate measures, and 1 was a scammer trying to cheat the system with stolen goods from another adventurer - that one was dealt with by the guards due to the customer pulling out a dagger and jumping onto Liana's desk in anger from being discovered, which shocked a lot of the other workers who had been busy chatting away.

As the last customer left, Hejlikka came in and noticed the other workers slacking. She shouted at them for not doing what they were paid to do - threatening to reduce their salary for a poor work mentality - before she reached Liana and briefly smiled. "You've worked hard. Sorry that you had to pick up the slack from these incompetent fools." She glared at the two men who'd been sat rating the female workers all night, causing them to straighten their backs and turn stiff out of fear. She then turned to look at Liana and softened her gaze, "Dawn will be in a few minutes, your shift is over now."

"Okay." Liana smiled gently as she stretched out her sore muscles from sitting for so long with not much to do for the past several hours. Getting up from her seat, she went to the receptionist desk, wrote up her report and handed it in for evaluation.

"You ready?" Liana asked.

"Yes!" Hejlikka replied, happy to finally go home with her companion after working all night.

[OOC: Money before - 400G, Money after - 390G]

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Save my poor, pretty eyes~!

Sponsor: Imelda Carson, half-elf AG receptionist

Location: Scribel City

Level: 5

Objectives

Can only deal with one per quest: Cassandra - an elf slut who uses light magic Anastasia - an elf slut who uses lightning magic Sasha - an elf slut who uses fire magic Amalthia - a human slut who uses healing magic and a sword Jessica - a cat-eared slut who uses a whip Borscha - a half-orc slut who uses a greatsword Chantelle - a human slut who uses illusion magic through terrible singing (optional) Kill them (optional) Humiliate them (optional) Scar their faces (optional) Make them permanently disabled

So, like, there are these guys that I like and they, like, have shown their attraction to me. However, there are these, like, sluts who are claiming these guys are, like, their boyfriends, or something. These sluts are an eyesore so, like, make them stop wrapping themselves all over what I've put my eyes on! Ah, I should, like, tell you that these sluts have all reached E rank already so, like, good luck~! Also, keep this all, like, hush-hush won't you~? I'll give you a free kiss if you fully satisfy me~

Rewards

Exp: 300(400)(500)

Money: 50G (75G)(250G)

Miscellaneous: A kiss from Imelda

[OOC: First bracket reward is if 1 optional objective is done, second bracket reward if at least 3 optional objectives are done
Also, yikes!
Remember to add a warning if you make things gory]

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[Nahrenne]

Memo Title: Jasper
Memo Category: NPC
Content:
- an incubus demon
- has black blood
- has sharp gold horns on his head
- has a black, whip-like tail with a gold tuft at the end
- has bronze-coloured skin
- is very handsome
- feeds on the vitality of women through intimate/sexual acts - a literal sexual predator
- known to drink hard from late afternoon to evening
- has many friends
- lives in the tavern on the 3rd floor
- has created an informal contract with the new-born vampire, Liana, to feed on her in return for feeding her his blood
- doesn't seem to be an adventurer but has a job
- presents himself as a softie
- has a good relationship with the tavern maid Rosa, often giving her very generous tips

Reference:

A Night of Feasting (Closed)

Liana opened her eyes, as soon as the sun set, and arched her back as she stretched her languid body under the sheets. Getting out of bed, she walked over to her window and pulled back the curtains, admiring the view of the clouds coloured by the last of the sun. She subconsciously smiled as a sense of relief washed over her body and mind once the sky became completely dark. Getting dressed and washing her face, she left and locked her room and headed down the stairs to pay her rent - noticing that the door to the neighbouring room was firmly closed and locked.

Entering the tavern area, she saw that many people were already drinking away their hard-earned money. Going to the desk to pay her rent, a slightly inebriated man with two sharp gold horns on his head, a black whip-like tail with a gold tuft of hair at the end, and bronze-coloured skin stumbled over and almost bumped into her. A little startled by the man, she edged closer to the desk with a look of slight worry on her face. A maid came over once she'd finished serving some food to a nearby table and glanced at the horned man with annoyance.

"Jasper, eat something before drinking any more! You almost bumped into a tenant just now!"

"Ah?" Jasper looked at Liana and stumbled backwards in surprise, accidentally hitting the table behind him and knocking over the patrons' drinks which resulted in them hurling words of abuse towards him while complaining that he should watch where he's going. "Ah, sorry, sorry. I was just...surprised." He glanced at Liana and smiled before turning to the maid, "I'll take up your offer on the food, Rosa. Send it to my room since I don't want to be tempted to drink more for tonight." He threw a bag of money towards the maid before winking at Liana, then stumbled towards the stairs and climbed up them on his hands and knees - earning the laughter of his friends he'd abandoned.

Once the man was out of sight, Rosa sighed before smiling at Liana, "Sorry about that. Jasper tends to start drinking before the sun sets and drinks hard. Saying that, he's a big softie really so please don't pay him any mind. Anyway, what can I do for you? Are you here to extend your term of rent? Here to cancel? Or something else?"

"Ah, I came to change the type of service I'm paying for. I heard that not wanting food included reduces the rent by half...am I right about that?" Liana looked a little unsure when she asked that, worried that she had misunderstood.

The maid smiled and nodded, "Yes, you're right about that. Paying for just the room only costs you 5G a day. Want to change to that? I have to warn you, that means that any food you order will be at full price from now on, is that okay?"

"About that, I recently made friends with someone who offered to feed me and then I remembered about the rent choices and thought I should change it before I waste more money." She lied while smiling in embarrassment.

"I see. Then, please provide your name, key and guild card so I can properly record the changes in the logbook."

"Of course." Liana sincerely complied, providing all of the stuff she was asked to.

Spoiler: nsfw

After sorting out the new rent, Liana looked at the rowdy patrons and felt a headache forming from the noise and awful smell of cooked food. Not wanting to cause a scene by vomiting from nausea, she headed back to her room. However, upon reaching the third floor that her room was situated on, she felt her mouth get covered by a hand and a familiar black tail wrap around her arms while a bronze-coloured arm wrapped around her neck.

"Hey, sweetie, you look like you've been starved for a long time," Jasper whispered in her ear in a husky tone, "why don't you have a nice meal with me all. Night. Long~?" He lightly bit on her ear before dragging her towards his own room which was a few doors down from Liana's.

Unable to speak, and feeling a little scared of the situation, Liana didn't resist and allowed herself to be dragged/guided to Jasper's room. Upon entering the room, he quickly closed the door behind them and shoved her towards the bed. Coming to her senses, her fight or flight response finally kicked in and she immediately pushed herself up and ran for the door. Unfortunately, before she could open it, Jasper pushed his hand against it and trapped her between his two arms.

"Such a feisty little thing, aren't you~? You know that will only make me more hungry, right~?" He put his nose to her neck and heavily breathed in her scent, "Mmnh, you smell so full of vitality. You'll be the perfect meal for me, hahaha~" He twirled Liana around and fiercely kissed her, shoving his tongue deep inside.

"!?"

Liana was shocked by the man's actions, but before she could offer up proper resistance, she found her body getting weaker the longer the man probed around her mouth. With her knees turning slack, Jasper caught her and carried her to his bed with a smirk on his face, "Truly a high quality meal~" He slowly slid her dress up and pulled it over her head, admiring the view before there was a knock at the door. "Tch! She was faster than I thought she'd be." He muttered, before getting a rope hanging on his bed post and quickly gagged Liana's mouth with it before using the remaining rope to hastily tie her wrists together.

"Mmnh!?"

Opening the door, Jasper smiled sweetly at Rosa and thanked her for the bringing the food up, before saying his goodbyes and closing the door - locking it.

"Now, where were we, my sweet, delicious meal~?"

"Mmn-mmnh-mnhh!!!" Liana tried to say 'let me go!!!' but her voice was muffled too much by the rope in her mouth.

Jasper laughed as if amused, his eyes turning fully black as he neared her while licking his lips. "Struggling will only make it hurt, you know~? Just relax and we can both enjoy a truly passionate feast~" His voice was deep and magnetic, as if luring her very soul to listen to his words.

Liana shuddered in fear and repulsion as a splitting headache began to form. Thinking his compulsion had worked on his meal, Jasper smirked as he knelt on the bed and slowly began untying the rope around her wrists. As soon as her binds were loose she immediately swung her arms at him in an attempt to scratch in and run away.

The man hissed in pain as he felt Liana's sharp and hard nails dig deep into his bare chest, leaving gashes behind that were already leaking black blood. He smirked again as he tripped the new-born vampire with his long tail before wrapping it around her ankle and pulling her along the floor. "I see the kitty has some claws~" Jasper then put his weight on top of her, grasped her wrists with one hand and pushed them above her head. "Now it's my turn to leave some marks~"

He began kissing her neck and sucking on it, leaving tiny red marks behind. With every kiss, Liana's body shuddered in revulsion as her master's words reverberated through her mind that she could only love him and only obey him. As her headache increased, her eyes turned more red as her fangs grew and cut the rope in her mouth. With a surge of instinctual strength, she bit Jasper's exposed throat and began sucking his black blood in desperation.

"F*ck! A vampire!"

Releasing Liana with superhuman speed, Jasper pushed her away, not caring about the vampire's fangs ripping his flesh out. After a few seconds, the bleeding stopped and the flesh visibly healed - the scratch marks from earlier also already disappeared. Liana was in a crazed state of blood lust as her red eyes were glowing brightly, her long and sharp fangs covered in Jasper's black blood with it dripping down her mouth.

"Sh*t!" Jasper cursed out as he dodged Liana's lunge towards him and kicked her against the bed post. He then grew out long black claws on both hands and punctured the new-born vampire's chest and abdomen. Liana screamed in agony, swinging her hands at Jasper's own in a bid to make him pull his claws out of her. "Calm down!" He shouted in the same deep and magnetic voice, however this only made Liana shudder in even more pain and attack more violently.

"Sh*t! Is she under her sire's compulsion!? F*ck!"

He then twisted his claws inside her, making her scream before fainting from blood loss. Seeing her no longer moving like crazy, Jasper carefully pulled his claws out and placed his opponent on his blood-soaked bed. He rubbed his tattered hands and saw they were healing slower than his previous wounds, then he had a thought and glanced at the unconscious vampire. He leaned in and muttered by her ear:

"You feed me, I'll feed you~"

***​

When Liana woke up she felt exceptionally sore and lethargic, a dull ache between her legs that she had never felt before. Looking at her surroundings, she saw a naked Jasper watching her with a satisfied expression on his face - a wine bottle in his hand.

"Evening, little kitty~"

Liana's eyes widened as she tried to get up and attack him, only to find she couldn't move at all as if she'd been completely drained of all energy. Seeing her struggling to move, Jasper smirked in amusement before carefully lifting Liana up into a sitting position.

"Our feast yesterday was truly...exhilarating~ I've never eaten so much vitality before~ Vampires really are an exceptional delicacy." Liana listened, unsure of what the man wanted to say. "As such, I am positively brimming with energy now and have deemed you a wonderful food source. With that, I'm willing to cultivate you into the most delicious meal for any incubus to dine on~"

"Incubus?" Liana croaked out from her dry and cracking mouth.

"Yes, as in a demon who feeds on the vital energies of women through..." he glanced at her with a teasing smile, "intimate acts~"

"!?"

"As thanks for such a sumptuous meal I'm willing to provide you with food suitable for your kind." He waved the wine bottle in front of her, a black liquid sloshing inside. "This contains my energy-rich blood. As payment for our first transaction, an entire bottle should suffice for you~ I should make it clear, demon blood is quite strong for one as young as you, so don't drink it all in one go~" He opened the bottle and gently placed it to Liana's lips before lightly tilting it.

As soon as the black liquid flowed into her mouth, Liana's body felt energised as strength began to spread through her numb limbs. Grabbing the bottle, she began to greedily gulp down the black liquid - ignoring the bitter taste it gave as she realised the benefits of consuming it.

"Easy now, little kitty~" Jasper took the bottle away from her and looked at how there was only a third of the contents left. "You've got a big appetite~ Did your sire never teach you to eat in moderation~?"

"...Nothing..."

"Hmm~?"

"He has taught me nothing yet...he should be here...he said he'd be here..." She looked at the incubus with blood pooling in the corners of her eyes, "Why hasn't he arrived yet?"

Realising that she must be a freshly made new-born and that something must have happened to her sire, Jasper sighed.

"I'm sure he'll come. You're still under his compulsion, after all~" He saw the tears stop forming and felt relieved. He then got up, picked up Liana's dress and tossed it at her, along with some clean underwear. Feeling embarrassed about her current appearance, she hastily put the clothes on and got out of the clean bed.

"I once again must thank you for the exceptional meal you shared with me~" He moved to the door, unlocked it, then opened it. "Alas, I have tasks to perform tonight and so must ask you to leave for now~"

Liana moved towards the door, carrying the wine bottle in her arms, with some wariness towards the incubus. As soon as she passed through the doorway, she heard the man say: "Of course, since you have agreed to the terms of the contract through the imbibing of my blood, I'll be looking forward to our future...transactions when my needs require your sustenance~ Have a pleasant time, little kitty, and don't die before I get to taste you again~" He closed the door as soon as his uttered the last word - causing a chill to run down her back.

Not wanting to stay in the tavern anymore, Liana headed downstairs - bottle still in her arms - and cancelled her room, paying a fee of 10G. Handing her key in to the maid at the desk, she left the already full room to walk the streets of the city at night.

[OC: Liana with Jasper|Setting: Scribel City - Tavern|Word Count: 2209]
[OOC: Money before - 415G, Money after - 400G
Tavern Room Key removed from inventory
Third of a wine bottle of Jasper's blood added to inventory
Passive ability - enhanced strength realised]

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A Night of Uncertainty (Closed)

Walking along the streets of Scribel City at night, Liana didn't know what to do as she struggled to comprehend what happened the night before. She remembered being tripped over while she was running away...but no more until she woke up when the sun set this evening.

"What happened?" She questioned internally, "Why was I aching all over? Did he...down there...?" She continued wandering down a street, not paying attention to where she was going as she hugged the wine bottle in her arms subconsciously.

She stopped as she realised her body's situation - her figure trembled as a wave of shame and lament crashed over her. She crouched on the ground and held her head - dropping the wine bottle in the process - as she felt remorse over losing something she considered most precious...something she had dreamed of gifting to her master every time she thought of him.

"Hey, pretty lady, are you all right?" A familiar, masculine voice sounded over her head. Looking up at the source, she noticed it was Julrik - Hejlikka's younger brother - with a bag over his shoulders.

Shrinking away from him as she recalled what Jasper had done, she turned her face away and replied while choking back the tears pooling in her eyes, "I'm fine...I just...need to rest for a bit, is all." She wrapped her arms around her crouched legs as she tried to smile at the male elf - albeit looking very forced and uncomfortable.

"...Right." Julrik saw the passersby staring at them and felt the situation was most definitely not fine. Thinking about how he'd been planning on bunking in the old family home to keep under his love rivals' radars, he remembered how his frigid sister seemed to have a positive opinion of the young woman and had even mentioned having invited her home once. Scratching his head, he said: "Look, I was heading over to Hejlikka's place just now after finishing work, wanna come with me and rest there? Then I might get to do things with her later, hehehe~"

Hearing the man mention Hejlikka's place, a heavy weight around her heart lifted slightly as she recalled her work colleague's earlier offer to live there. Since she was currently homeless, and she did not want to be anywhere near the tavern right now, she meekly nodded her head but didn't move to stand up.

Seeing her nod in agreement, Julrik smiled happily and quickly picked her up in his arms and lifted her into a princess carry.

"Ah!" Liana gasped as fear started creeping in from memories of Jasper wrapping his arms around her and dragging her into his room flashed in her mind.

"Easy now~" The male elf said in a placating tone as he noticed his companion freeze up and start shivering as soon as she was in his arms. "I'm just helping you get to the house since you needed a rest~"

Hearing his words, Liana calmed down a bit, but still retained a rigid posture. "My bottle..."

"Hmm~?"

"That bottle was a...gift from someone, I can't leave it behind." She muttered in a quiet tone that was barely audible.

Julrik looked down where Liana had been crouched and noticed a wine bottle lying on its side with some black liquid in it. Ensuring he had a good hold of the woman in his arms, he bent over and picked it up and placed it on her lap. "Here you go~"

"...Thank you..." She buried her face into his shoulder out of embarrassment of being stared at by the people on the street, but also to better smell the sweet scent coming from him.

"No problem~" Enjoying the sensation of the woman nuzzling him, he made his way to the house with a spring in his step.

Upon reaching the building, Julrik took out the key he always kept in case he ever needed to return to the family home and unlocked the door. He then nudged it open with his foot before entering and kicking the door closed. Still carrying Liana, he moved through the kitchen and headed for the living area before gently placing her on the sofa.

"Here we are~! Let me light up the candles so we can see better--"

"No need."

"Hmm?"

"I prefer being in the dark at the moment." Liana wrapped her arms under her legs as her knees were against her chest - the image of a frightened person in a defensive posture.

"...Okay~ I'll be in the kitchen if you need me. Oh, want me to cook anything while I'm there~?"

"I'm okay, Mr Julrik...I...ate not long ago..." She buried her head in her knees as she felt ashamed of how she came to acquire the blood in the wine bottle.

Seeing the woman wasn't in a good state of mind, Julrik knew better than to pry, and so went into the kitchen to make himself some food.

Alone in the living room, Liana thought about what she should do from now on. She knew she couldn't stay in the tavern, since Jasper was there and obviously had intentions on 'feeding' on her again. She involuntarily shivered at that thought before she turned her mind towards what she should do in terms of living in the city.

Ideally, she thought it would be safer for her to leave and travel to another place - away from the incubus - but then she felt she couldn't since she had to wait for her master to arrive. Remembering what Jasper had said about how her being under her master's compulsion meant he was still alive and intended on coming brought some relief to her. However, the fact that the demon had known she was under compulsion made her think about how it had protected her from his own attempts to control her and she involuntarily shuddered again. She instinctively knew that the man was dangerous. So...what should she do about living in the city?

"That frigid b*tch!"

"!?"

The sound of clattering could be heard from the kitchen which brought Liana out of her thoughts. Getting up and walking over, she saw the kitchen in a mess with scraps of badly chopped vegetables strewn all over the worktop. Noticing Liana was at the doorway observing the chaotic scene before her with surprise in her dull gold eyes, Julrik smiled wryly before running his fingers through his hair and waving his arms at the room.

"I don't usually do the cooking...and Hejlikka didn't leave any leftovers to warm up..." He looked a little embarrassed as he thought about how much face he'd lost just now.

Liana found the male elf amusing and couldn't help but giggle a little before smiling gently, "I know how to cook. If it's okay with you, I can salvage the ingredients and make you something."

"My lifesaver~! A goddess in the flesh descended down to save me from hunger~!" He knelt down and clasped his hands in front of him before raising them in the air towards Liana.

Giggling more at the elf's flamboyance, Liana smiled more and went to gather up the badly chopped vegetables and set about making a soup. Seeing the woman had perked up a bit from when he'd found her, he smiled before sitting in one of the chairs and watched her beautiful figure as she deftly dealt with the ingredients. Once the soup was ready, Julrik greedily wolfed it down and asked for seconds praising Liana's skills in cooking.

"I'm telling you," he slurped another spoonful of soup, "your cooking is better than my playmates'!"

"Oh? I thank you for the flattery." Liana smiled cheerfully - her mood completely lifted to her usual, original cheerful self from before she was turned into a vampire.

Seeing the young woman clearing up the now empty soup bowl, Julrik propositioned: "Hey, how about staying here for the night~?" Liana's hands halted briefly as that feeling of fear began inexplicably creeping in again. "I mean, I heard how Hejlikka offered you a room to live in a few days ago and, since it's so late at night, it would be safer for you to stay here than to go out there again. Who knows~? Maybe some miscreant will try and rob you, or worse force himself on you~?"

The sound of a bowl smashing onto the floor reverberated in the kitchen before the room fell awkwardly silent.

"..."

"..."

"...Hey...you weren't in the middle of the street like that because that happened...right?" Julrik showed a very concerned face while inwardly cursing himself for his previous words of jest.

"...You're wrong, Mr Julrik." Liana turned around with a strained smile, "No such miscreant forced himself on me while I was walking the streets tonight. I was just startled by the thought of that possibly happening, hence why I dropped the bowl." She gave a seemingly embarrassed smile that also seemed strained.

"...Oh. My apologies for putting such vivid imagery into your pretty little head, then. Also, don't worry about the bowl. You cooking that delicious meal for me is enough to pay for replacing it~" He winked at her before getting up from his seat and stretching while yawning. "Ah, it's pretty late now. I'm going to go sleep upstairs, you can take my old room on this floor. Hejlikka will be back in a few hours, so you won't have to wait long for her to arrive. Well, good night, pretty lady~" The male elf then left the kitchen and headed upstairs - most likely for what used to be his parents' room.

Finishing with the cleaning up, as well as gathering up the broken pieces of bowl, Liana headed back into the living room and sat down in the darkness. She stared at the wine bottle that contained Jasper's blood, unsure of what to do with it. On one hand, it made her feel exceptionally energised and fully satiated from hunger; on the other hand...it was Jasper's blood that he used as a tool of transaction to feed on her vitality...

Sitting in the darkness for the next few hours, Liana pondered over her future choices while staring at the bottle in fear and want.

With the sun halfway up the sky, Hejlikka entered the house with a few bags full of groceries and daily necessities. Entering the kitchen, she noticed nothing amiss except for a bowl no longer being there, and wondered if Julrik had decided to come over to do his usual laying low from love rivals. Thinking not much of it, she put the groceries away before entering the living room and stopping in shock with her mouth wide open. In front of her eyes was Liana, sleeping like a corpse, on the sofa with a wine bottle in her arms.

"Morrrrrrrrr.....ning~" Julrik greeted Hejlikka while yawning, lethargically entering the room from the stairs.

"Y-y-y-y-you! What did you do with Liana?!" Hejlikka whisper-shouted at her brother while pointing at her friend.

"Ah?" He turned to look at the sleeping beauty on the sofa and admired it as a smirk crept on his face before turning to his sister with a smug expression, "I invited her to spend the night with me here~"

Hejlikka slapped him on the cheek and dragged him into the kitchen by the ear.

"Ow! Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! It hurts! Stop it! Frigid b*tch, stop it, it hurts!"

Closing the door, the female elf let go of her brother, pushed her glasses up and crossed her arms with a stern expression, "Tell the truth! Why is Liana here?"

Rubbing his sore pointy ear and cheek, he languidly sat in a chair and lazily crossed his stretched out legs, "I found her crouched in the middle of the street last night looking out of sorts. Since I was heading here anyway, I invited her to come and rest here. I didn't want to pry, since she seemed afraid of being touched by me, but she reacted pretty badly when I jokingly mentioned the dangers of men on the streets for women." He shrugged as he reached behind him and took an apple from the freshly filled fruit bowl before taking a bite out of it.

"...Out of sorts? Being touched?" Hejlikka looked concerned as she subconsciously glanced at the closed living room door behind her. "Why didn't you take her to the tavern? She rents a room there."

Julrik shrugged again while taking another bite from the apple, "From what I could tell, the only possession on her person was that wine bottle. She also seemed to have come from the direction of the tavern when I saw her." He looked at his older sister and was surprised by how full of expression she was compared to her usual stern face. "Sis, you--"

"Did you do anything to her?" She glared at him with eyes full of suspicion.

"What do you take me for? A goblin in heat? I like to see myself as a gentleman towards women, thank you very much! I never go after an unwilling woman, nor a woman in a troubled state of mind...A woman suffering from a break-up, however--"

"Shut up, you hormones-on-legs!"

Julrik raised his hands up to show his surrender, while smirking. Seeing her good-for-nothing brother was keeping silent, Hejlikka pushed up her glasses as she turned more serious, "We should find out if she still has a room at the tavern, or not. If not, then we'll wait until she wakes up to see if she'd be willing to stay here or not. If she really has suffered from an...unfortunate situation, then I don't think it's a good idea for her to be on her own. What do you think?"

"If it means I get to see her pretty face whenever I sleep over here, I'm willing for her to stay~"

The female elf glared at him again while thinking to herself, "Truly a good-for-nothing who only thinks with his lower body!"

The two then discussed what they would each do during the day, allowing Liana to sleep on the sofa without disturbing her.

[OC: Liana with Julrik|Setting: Scribel City - Streets, Hejlikka's house|Word Count: 2343]

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Quest Report - verified

Waking up as soon as the sun set, Liana saw she had fallen asleep on the sofa and had somehow acquired a patchwork blanket over her body. Sitting up, she noticed Hejlikka - resting her head on her crossed arms - fast asleep beside her. She looked to have dark circles under her eyes, a sign she'd been awake way past the time she should have gone to sleep. Remembering that she should have arrived early in the morning, Liana wondered why the female elf looked so tired when it was evening - as well as why she was sleeping next to her in the living room.

"..."

Not wanting to disturb the sleeping elf, Liana silently got off the sofa and looked around for the wine bottle. Finding it on the sofa, she carefully picked it up and checked that its contents hadn't been reduced while she'd been sleeping. Noting in her mind that the blood level was the same as before she fell asleep, she silently walked to the kitchen and carefully opened the bottle. Smelling the strong bitter scent wafting out of the opening, Liana subconsciously bit her lip in hesitation before shoving the bottle to her mouth and drinking down the rest of the contents.

"Mmnh..." Feeling her body brimming with a lot of energy, she licked her lips to catch any residual liquid and realised that the bitter taste wasn't as bad as the first time she drank it making her wonder if it was like how some human foods and drinks required repeated exposure in order to acquire a taste for it. "..." That thought made her a little concerned that she'd end up becoming addicted to the flavour if she kept drinking it, thus placing her more easily in the palm of Jasper's dangerous hands. Shuddering at the thought, she washed out the wine bottle a few times to ensure nothing got contaminated by the demon blood, she then left the house with the empty bottle; an idea formed in her mind from last night.

Walking down the street, Liana hastily went past the tavern and headed for the guild quest board. She knew she didn't want to work in the offices for a while. She had the feeling that Hejlikka would start asking lots of uncomfortable questions if they met and so determined that she would avoid her until she'd sorted out her feelings and emotions on certain things. With that in mind, as she was glancing through the numerous quests, she recalled how Julrik had complimented on her cooking when she saw a certain quest that caught her eye:

Cooking Rations
Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild Location: Scribel City Required Level: 1
Objectives: Visit the guild kitchens. Cook 40 satisfactory rations. The guild stockpiles on rations in case of emergency. Rations are foods that are easily preserved and can store for a long time. The Adventurer's Guild provides the ingredients, and there is an easy recipe to follow. One ration is one day's worth of food.
Rewards: Points: 40 EXP Money: 10 G Other: 5 rations After completing quest 3 times: Permission to use guild kitchens

Thinking about how there was no way office workers would be in the kitchens, Liana went to the guild receptionist to get a note and directions to the place before making her way there.

Spoiler: Quest Report

Entering the kitchen, Liana was surprised at how busy it was even though it was the evening. Seeing a man shouting at some nervous-looking teenagers who were making their work space an incredible mess, Liana wondered if he was one of the permanent chefs or not. As soon as that thought popped into her head, the man noticed her presence and went up to her with a stern expression filled with impatience:

"You here to make rations?" He asked while towering over Liana.

"Yes. Is there any space for me, sir?" She smiled gently, seemingly unfazed by the man's intimidating exterior.

"There's a work station at the back. Get to it! Why aren't you moving already?!" He shouted, looking angry.

"Ah, I was feeling overcome by your powerful presence. Don't mind me." Smiling as she headed for her work station, the chef scratched his chin while his eyes followed the newbie, unsure of what to make of her just yet.

Reaching her designated spot, she noticed a huge pile of fresh ingredients ready to be used in numerous boxes around the kitchen. Inspecting the equipment available, Liana walked to the ingredients and pondered over what would be a good idea for a ration. Looking around, she saw something she recognised from when she was at the temple. "Ngh!" Making a tiny bit of noise, Liana felt a twinge begin throbbing in her head. Gathering the ingredients, she hurried to her work station to start making the rations.

After a few hours, Liana brought forward a box filled with 60 rice crackers and showed them to the chef. Tasting one, the chef nodded that it was acceptable before taking the whole box to the ration storage room.

"Good work! Now get out of my sight!"

Gently smiling at the chef, Liana complied and immediately left.

Reaching the guild, she wrote up her report and handed it in for evaluation. She then hurriedly left as soon as the report was evaluated.

[OOC: Third of a wine bottle of Jasper's blood changed to - Empty wine bottle]

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[InsertName]

Memo Title: Float Fern

Memo Category: Herb/Fauna

Content: A new herb founded near the northern region of the the Sribel River's riverbed. No uses have been found for the new herb, however those wanting to harvest this herb, please take caution that only mana can harvest/touch this herb. If touched physically with anything (ex. Tools,weapons,net,etc) the object will start to float up into the air, as well as the herb itself. We have tested that the object if have touched the herb will float for approximiately 10~30 sec. Further uses are still being found out. If you wish to help us research this new herb please contact the Guilds local Alchemist.

~Founded by BigGreen

References: Quest Report from BigGreen

UNAPPRAISED APPRAISED

Spoiler: Quest Report

Me and Gobo awaken and start our new journey in this unexplored world today. We start out with a hearty prepared breakfast and set our sights towards the Adventurer's Guild. Upon arrival we noticed how empty the Guild was from yesterday, so I started asking around and learned that the Guild post's its new request all on the bulletin board bright and early in the morning. So most of the good and best rewarding our mostly taken by the adventurers and the less wanted by the one's that get to the Guild "Late". I was panicked by this and started searching for a request on the bulletin board immediately. However, to my expectations, I couldn't find anything near or close my Guild Level

Me an Gobo walked to a nearby table, to think about what we were going to do now. As we were sitting putting are minds together on what were to do, a lady Guild Receptionist saw our slumped stature and wanted to see what was wrong. We told her our problems and she gave a small chuckle. She explained to us that most Quest of our Level are given out from the Guild directly. From doing housework and office work, to doing a night shift of the guards. Me and Gobo thanked the lady and she helped us pick out a quest among from the Guild. The on that peeked my interest were "Healing Herbs".

"Ah this one Gobo!". I ask the Guild Receptionist about "Healing Herbs" and she explained that the herbs are used for healing potions, conjuction with slime cores. She also explained in almost comically serious voice on how to only pick twin flowers not the tri-flower, for those tri-flowered were poisonous. She told me that everyday a new adventurer like myself would get poisoned and rushed to the local alchemist to get a dosage of antidote. Me and Gobo thanked her for helping us and also asked for about 10 small bags we could use for the quest. She wondered why I wanted 10 bags since the request only wanted 5. I explained that, I too the BigGreen, am an alchemist and would like to experiment with these herbs as well. She kindly accepted my request and gave us 10 bags, in return I gave 5 gold.

We head out to the local market before we set out collecting herbs. Still the local people still look at us , the goblin and potted plant duo, confusedly. Hopefully in time we can get some recognition in the town to stop these kind of looks. Well we stopped by Cecila's Discount Grocery and picked up 3 loafs of bread and 1 pound of cheese for Gobo, costing a total of 8g. With these supplies now, all I needed was a good shovel to start collecting herbs. So me and Gobo set out for Genial General's General. Along the way we also saw a lot of peddlers along the way, selling food to homemade vials of slimes and such. May be one day I should start peddling my potions. We get to Genial General's General and I saw the shovel...and I also saw the price.

"Hmmmmm... 30 gold coins for a shovel". One of the store's staff noticed me looking at the shovels and decided to help me. I asked if I could just borrow the shovel for the day for 5g. He told me he couldn't make this decision and led me towards the owner for more help. The staff talked to the owner and and the owner looked at me. "Well I've never seen this kind of duo before, a goblin and a potted plant!". He told us his name Genial, we told him our situation about our quest from the guild to pick herbs and how I needed to shovel to do this. Genial in return thought for second and asked if it was the request for twin flowers, I said yes. "Yes, great!" he said. He explained to use that a new type of plant was appearing not to far where I would be going. Along the riverbed of town, near the so called Manastone, and he wanted me to pick one. In return I would get a new shovel and a favor from Genial himself, as he pronounced. I obviously accepted his condition and he handed Gobo a new shovel. Everything we needed was complete and we set out towards our first quest.

As we headed towards the city gate, a guard explained to us that a new goblin camp appeared and it seems even stronger then the last one they've had. We take note of this and I make sure Gobo is on alert at all times. Hopefully if we do encounter a goblin, may be Gobo can help us talk our way out, or at least escape. We finally get to the spot where twin flowers are located at. Gobo is quite tired, so I suggest he take a little break while I start sensing and looking for herbs with my Light magic. After a while I locate about 4 small bags of twin flowers and I tell Gobo to start digging out the herbs carefully, while I start cleaning and pruning the herbs. No one likes a dirty herb right? Well in time we collect 10 bags full of twin-flowers and I tell Gobo before we start looking for the new flower near the riverbed. That we should take our lunch break and rest for a bit. Gobo makes a little cheese sandwhich, and I use light to pick up a small handfull of water from the river. A good bit after our lunch end, we start looking for this new herb.

Well... this was quite and herb, something I sure have never seen. It was a floating and faintly shining plant along the river bed, just about head height of Gobo. I tell Gobo to try and collect one of the herbs, but when he touches the plant, Gobo started to float. I quickly use Light and grab towards a nearby tree and another to hold onto Gobo. Luckily our little predicament last only about 20 seconds, but the herb, that Gobo touched, unfortunately floats up into the air dissapearing from our sights. Gobo is quite afraid of touching the new herb again, so I had to think of a another way to collect the herb. It was little afternoon and I still haven't thought of anything yet. Gobo was drawing circles in the dirt and I sat on a nearby stone. "Circle... circle... YES a circle, goodjob Gobo". I form a Light bubble around the herb and it seems my and Gobo's idea was correct. It seems these herb don't react with mana as they do with physical objects. I have enough Light magic strength to carry 2 herbs with us, but we eventually set out back towards town.

"Yes...yessss Finally back to town". These herbs are just to heavy for me right now. Just a little bit more and we are done. I tell Gobo to go to Genial to drop off one of the herbs. When we get to Genial's store, I see him staring at the new herb I held with my Light and he was quite excited I was able to get one these. Before I could warn him about the floating, he touches one of the herbs. "Haha, so this is why they couldn't collect these". Some staff members eventually help and keep Genial grounded until the effects wear-off. Genial thanks me for the new type of herb and gives me a little card with his face on it saying "Favor from Genial, "THE GENIAL". "Thank you?" I write out, Gobo scratches his head confusedly. Well me and Gobo say our goodbye's and we start to walk towards the Adventurers Guild. As we enter we decided to see if we could find the same Guild Receptionist from last time, luckily we could. We turn in our 5 small bags of twin-flowers and also explain to her about the new herb we found while traveling the river bed. She said she had to talk with her superior and see what to do. Eventually she comes back with the Guilds Alchemist and the first thing Alchemist looks at is me."Well this must be the famous duo, of a Goblin and a Plant". He tells me to show him the herb and before another incident happens, I tell him about the floating properties of the herb. He calmly covers his hand with mana and picks up the herb successfully. The receptionist and alchemist goes into the backroom of the guild with herb, while me and Gobo wait. Eventually the receptionist comes back and tells us good news about how we were able to find a new herb for the guild. She also explained to me that I could name the new herb since I was the first one to discover it. " Big Greens First Herb" I said. The receptionist and Gobo gave me a weird look. "Ok,ok just name it Float Fern". The receptionist thanks me again for the contribution and we both eventually go back to the Guild Tavern.

We say our hello's to Pierre and pay our 10g for another day of room and board. I let Gobo eat his meal and I drink my water. We've finally done are first fulfilling quest and I'm quite proud of it. Gobo takes me to our room and places me on the window stand. Gobo on the other-hand crashes onto his pillow, falling asleep almost instantly. "Goodjob today Gobo" and I pull covers over my little Goblin. Are first real day in a new world.

-5g >> 10 small herb bags
-8g >> 3 loafs of bread and 1lb of cheese
-10g >> 1 day of Room and board
+5 small herb bags
+5 small herb bags filled with Twin Flowers
+1 Shovel
+ Favor card *Genial*

X Big Green & GOBO

TLDR: Me and Gobo go to the adventurers guild to look for quests. We eventually decided on Herb collecting and we went to go buy equipment for the day. Genial gave us a request in return we could get a shovel, we took it. We eventually collected our herbs and also collected Genial's request. We got back to town and turned in both our quests. Got back to the Tavern for a good rest with Gobo, looking forward to the next day.

 

[Vanus]

Memo title: Doctor and Doctor Stern.
Memo category: People
Content: Doctor and Doctor Stern are a married pair of doctors, one male and the other female, the male of the pair can read minds though he isn't all that good at it he is also the far more caring of the two and always seems to pick up injured strays whom the pair take care of at their home. Doctor Stern is a normal human other than his telepathy though he does come from a far more modern world than that of Tonia. The female doctor is some kind of abhuman though she personally will never say she is the far less trusting and suspicious of the two doctors and is far stronger in a fight compared to her husband she is also from another world. One of the two is an important member in a cabal of spies working within Scribel city.

References:

Adventurer's Guild - Adventurer's Guild - Reception Desk

Evaluation Report for Quest: Prison Guard Duty Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild Name: Randell Stephenson Method of completion: I am a paranoid person. If you're going to be a crafting adventurer, it pays to be paranoid. You have only what you prepare to fight with, so it is important to think of...

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Adventurer's Guild - Adventurer's Guild - Freestyle RP

Metamorphosis (Closed) The morning came, but Zorion did not want to move from the bed of straw, the quest was a crippling experience for him. The death of the trappers was on his hands. It was his choice to see the clearing; it was his choice that killed the men. Skilfully navigating the...

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[Generic.Archdemon]

Memo Title: Aymir Rockbreath
Memo Category: NPC, People, Adventurer
Content:

• Aymir is a dwarf, that became acquainted Zorion during training for his city guard licence.
• He wield a hammer.
• Guard Captain Harrison Bridger called the Dwarf sturdy.

Aymir Rockbreath
Gender​ Male​ Race​ Mountain Dwarf​ Level​ 4​ Age​ 93​ Class​ Fighter​ Money​ n/a​ Appearance​ Backstory​ Aymir hailed from Toktarra a mountain range in a land far away, perhaps worlds away from Tonia. In his youth had dreams to become a Battlemaster and join the Mithril Legion, an elite guard that defended his homeland. But in his journeys he had some how came to Tonia. Although his home land is no longer within reach he still have aspirations to become a great warrior.​ Skills​ Skill​ Description​ Two handed blunt weapon proficiency​ Aymir uses a two handed hammer and use it proficiently.​ Shattering Blow​ a blow that weakens the defence of a single foe​ Warrior's charge​ Charge towards enemy with momentum and speed​
Racial Attributes Traits Description Darkvision​ superior vision in dark and dim conditions​ Dwarven Resilience​ Slight Resilience to magic and poison​ Strength of a Mountain Dwarf​ Slightly stronger than common dwarves to hill dwarves​

References:

Adventurer's Guild - Adventurer's Guild - Reception Desk

Evaluation "fight poison with poison" aye? I see the locals witnesses have also corroborated most those events, but is a bit sketchy on what exactly you did... Well, I'd say no matter how gory... some of us receptionists appreciated ALLL the details... Regardless, whatever, I think... I...

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[Reciful]

Meme title: Horned Rabbits, Biome Feral wolf, Biome Forest boars, Twin headed snakes.

Memo Category: Wild life/Animals

Contents:

Horned rabbits

• Can be seen living in the grass lands & rivers outside of Scrible city or at the entrance of the Northern forest.
• Like to eat all kinds of insects.
• Natural enemies of slimes. They kill slime on sight no exceptions all slime , the reason for this is still unknown. (Slime tamer & slime pet owners is adviced to be cautious around them)
• The horns on their head is a Alchemical ingredients for potions,
• Aggressive in nature & agile
• Weak spot is their horns, & necks. If the horns is Destroyed the Rabbit will be paralysed due to extreme pain.
• Taming possible

Biome feral wolf

• Very territorial
• white, grey, dark grey, sliver blue in colors.
• Fluffy..... Very fluffy
• They don't eat meat, instead they Absorbing the forest Mana as their primary food source through their fluffy fur.
• This type of wolf is commonly found in the Biome forest, while no other places has reported sightings similar to this kind wolf outside Scrible yet.
• Their fur have a very rich magical properties & is a crafting material
• They are more active in day time than night time.
• No sighting of the Alpha Biome wolf yet, but people speculated it my be living deep inside the Biome forest. Rumors has it, that its the forest guardian of Biome forest.
• Taming possible

Biome Forest boar

• A Biome variant of a normal boars
• Has large tusks
• Brown, dark brown, dark grey, brown red in color
• They said this boar can grow up to 13 feet (a size of a average house)... Albeit that size is very rare. But if such size is sighted, please immediately report it to the guild, to be Subjugated due to its threat.
• It Fast despite its rather large size.
• Favorite attack is tackle at full speed.
• The meat of this boar is very high in protein & nutrition.... Also very tasty.
• Taming?.... Not possible...& Why pet a boar?

Twin Headed Snake

• has two heads.
• Lives in the Biome forest or abandoned house or buildings.
• Average in size
• Has purple color with a very distinguishable patterns on its scales
• Eats rats... Natural enemies of the sewer rats.
• Has a very poisonous venom... the antidote for its bite is hard to obtain, but can be cured by a healing spell or holy magic.
• Taming.... Possible...but why?

Reference

APPRAISED




Character: Reciful
Lvl: 3 (720/1200)
Class: Chaos Bringer
Race: Eldritch Abomination

Quest Name: hunting mission

Quest Report

Spoiler: Hunting Detail

Reciful shall Hunt... Not murder Okey!!

The guild says hunt some animals! They said make it Big!!... Maybe forest boars? Reciful once saw a flying pig while strolling at night..... Reciful think its not possible to hunt that at all~... The flying Pig Reciful saw at night one time is Colossal!!..... Reciful wish that boars & flying Pig is not related, cause Reciful will die if Reciful fight that flying pig at the moment!!!

Reciful went to the usual Northern forest!

Oh there are Forest fairies nearby.. Hello! Reciful here again!!... Ah!.... They run away~

Horned Rabbits spotted...way too small... pass~

Twin headed snake, poisonous for humans, no cure for it, unless by magic.... pass~

Oh! Biome feral wolfs! Looks cute & fluffy but always angry.... Pass... Ouch!! It bite me?!?...Youuu!!...RECIFUL SHALL MURDER YOU!!!... DIE!!! ... Hmph got murdered by countless tendrils! Ahaha

Oh there a Biome forest Boar! Reciful shall hunts you...eh.. why is it running towards Reciful?... Its not stopping?.... Its accelerating?.

*Bam*..Uuugh! it tackle Reciful right in the stomach!! Sending Reciful's little girl body flying in a meter!!

The Biome boar is preparing to do a rush attack again.

Youuuuu~ boar stop!! Reciful shall hunt you! So stand still!

*Bam*...unyaaaaa~!! Direct hit! Home run! Reciful was send flying for 2 meters this time~

The Boar will attack Reciful again, the boar suddenly run towards Reciful at full speed!

Reciful, then use [Shape shift skill] & transform Reciful arms back to Tendrils to form a Black Net!.... Trapping the boar as it runs towards Reciful.. boar catch! Then use the momentum of the Boars rash & swing it in a circle again & again accelerating in each loop!!..theeenn~ smash the boar in a nearby tree at full force!! Crushing its bones!!

Reciful Wins!!

Biome Feral Wolf (medium) × 1
Biome Forest Boar (large) × 1



Signed: Reciful 'the innocent malice'

 

[GM]

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[ohko]

Memo Title: Scribel City
Memo Category: Location
Content:

Scribel City is a frontier city in the Scribel Region. It is the headquarters of the Adventurer's Guild and the site of an Otherworld Gate that connects to other worlds.

History
It is unclear when Scribel City was first founded, and its age is unknown. Despite the fact that the Otherworld Gate was opened only a few years ago, the Scribel City Prison is reported to be quite old.

The area surrounding Scribel City is generally underdeveloped, and the bridge across the Scribel River was only recently completed. The people of Scribel City generally have a poor understanding of the surrounding geography and nations, which suggests that the current inhabitants of Scribel City have not been in the area for very long. Some foreigners encountered on the road have never heard of Scribel City, which indicates that the city was either recently established or has a weak influence on the continent. Scribel City is presumably relatively small.

A road linking Scribel City with Asteria Village in the west suggests that the city may have had some prior contact with western civilizations.

Administration
Scribel City has a government similar to a city-state. It is known to have a City Council that determines various affairs. The Adventurer's Guild is tightly involved with the government of Scribel City. In particular, the guild manages tax collection, public works, protection against monsters, and is known to negotiate diplomacy on behalf of the city.

Scribel City lacks a standing military. While there is a City Guard, security is supplemented with adventurers from the Adventurer's Guild.

Many government agencies in the city are notorious for being chronically understaffed and underpaid.

Geography
Scribel City is a walled city situated near the Scribel River and the North Scribel Forest. There is at least one gate in each cardinal direction, and the gates are monitored by city guardsmen.

Several districts have been reported inside the city:

• Market district
• Craftsmen district
• Residential district
• Noble district
• Red light district

Scribel City is also notable for the presence of:

• Adventurer's Guild Headquarters
• Adventurer's Guild Tavern
• The Otherworld Gate
• City Guard Barracks
• The Sewers
• At least one temple
• At least one orphanage

Demographics
Scribel City seems to be predominantly human, but it is also quite diverse. Many adventurers and Otherworlders are non-human. The Guildmaster for the Adventurer's Guild is a faun, and the bartender in the Adventurer's Guild Tavern is an orc.

Most individuals in Scribel City are presumably relatively weak, and the economic status of most individuals is fairly poor. The market in Scribel City is notable for selling poor quality goods, which perhaps reflects upon a relatively poor population. That said, "nobles" and other wealthy individuals have been mentioned in some quest reports.

Scribel City has a high number of orphans and disabled veterans, due to an excess number of adventurers and a high mortality rate. There is also substantial gang activity and reports of cultists.

There is an overwhelming number of slimes found in, near, and underneath Scribel City, although presumably they are not counted as part of the demographic census.

Economy
It is unclear what formulates the basis of Scribel City's economy. Scribel City has an excess of slimes (and slime cores) and healing herbs. A recent trade agreement with Gelderholm was established based on the export of healing herbs. It can be presumed that healing potions and other apothecary activities are one of the city's economic specialties.

Farming and adventuring are other self-evident features of Scribel City's economy.

The currency of Scribel City is the "G". It is disputed whether "G" stands for "gold" or for something more generic like "Guild Currency".

Culture
Scribel City seems to have a diverse culture thanks to the influx of many Otherworlders. One of the major temples in the city welcomes an enormous variety of religious faiths. The city appears to be relatively tolerant of various ethnicities, species, and races.

The city's moral alignment appears to lean "good" — as evidenced by a reasonable rule of law, support for charitable activities, and various quests that emphasize some amount of justice. Nonetheless, the diversity of the city's population also means that less savory individuals are also prevalent.

The technology level of Scribel City is mostly primitive/medieval. For reference, it is difficult to find a toothbrush to purchase in the city. There is a lack of steel weapons in the city market, which suggests that the local blacksmiths are not particularly good.

References
Note: This certainly isn't a comprehensive list... some of the content in this article I've recalled from memory of other player's posts

The setting is a frontier city called Scribel which is located in a brand new unexplored world called Tonia. In the center of the City of Scribel, there is a magical Gate that links to many other worlds. This gate was opened only a few years ago, bringing many pioneers to explore and settle a brand new universe. Traveling through the gate is very expensive, so don't count on going back to where you came from!The Adventurer's Guild is a mercenary employment agency that connects random people with random odd job openings. Since this is a fantasy universe, the surrounding setting is filled with monsters and other dangers. Currently, the governing body of Scribel has chosen to rely on adventurers to keep law and order rather than establishing a standing military (to save costs).

Still how did they get in? The lights while not the most helpful would at least help even the most brain dead worker spot them. And, even if they reached the gate the alarm would sound and they'd get filled with more arrows then a beggar in the noble district.

I followed him to the farm. We went out the west gate. We passed a lot of farm-looking buildings, but apparently his was a bit further. When we got there, it was all messy and stuff. I asked what he wanted me to do first, and he said he wanted to make sure there were no monsters first. That sounded fine to me, because honestly I was in a pretty bad mood. So, I went inside. He followed me, because he said he wanted to make sure I was actually working.

I really just wanted to let loose, so I took this one!
I went out the east gate (I know it's the right one because I asked the guards which gate it was! It only took me two tries to get the right gate), and I ran in a straight line! It was really nice and wide open, and I could see reallllly far. The grass was kind of tall, so I couldn't really see if there was stuff in it, but it felt really nice running with the wind in my face! I got bored of running in a straight line, so I decided to look around in the grass. It went all the way up to my waist!

Quest Report | Nyx (lvl. 1) | Filed

Nothing happened the entire night. Other than some wild animals, and some slimes that came a bit close to the wall, there were no disturbances - I made sure of it.

By the way, if the wall starts smelling a bit, it's because I left some rat poison there. Their squeaking was annoying, so I killed them all off. There might still be some bodies laying around.

Spoiler: Slime subjugation

Slime Subjugation
Sponsor: Scribel City Adventurer's Guild
Location: Scribel City
Required Level: 1
Objectives:

• Exterminate slimes in the City of Scribel.
• Bring back 10 slime cores.

Explanation:
Slimes are a pest in Scribel, and they end up in all sorts of weird places. While they aren’t exactly dangerous, they can slowly erode structures and damage buildings over time. They also spread diseases if they get into the sewers and pick up icky stuff. Slimes are bad! Eliminating them is a public health campaign!

Rewards:

• EXP: 75
• Money: 10G

Quest report:[FILLED]

Today, she decided to limit herself inside of the city, except the sewer. She took another slime subjugation quest and try on her hand whether she could find them in the residential area.

As it was, the residential area was mostly clean of the slimes. She went to each house and asked whether there was a slime infestation in their house. Some of the people inside, though, took offense to her saying that. For those men, it was because it was a slight against their manliness if they couldn't beat those things. For the women, it was because they were thought that they couldn't make their home clean, since it was trivial to keep those slimes away if they keep it clean. Finding no success, Lib moved to the other area.

As she went to the market district, she apparently found out that they have their own specialized slime disposal worker. Since there was a lot of waste produced by the market, the shop owner felt that paying 1G for 1 slime disposal was too high. Therefore, they offered this job to dispose of the slimes inside of their district. He also said that they barred adventurer from hunting the slime in this district too.

At the craftsmen district, At least she found some people who apparently had apprentice who was lazy to clean their place. Those craftsmen themselves usually consider those task not worth doing and offload them to their apprentice. Apparently, those slimes consume soot and smog from the forge they have, and sometimes clogged the forge. The slime variant in this place were considered beneficial as long as they don't block the air vent or something. Nevertheless, there must be a routine cleaning they must do. As those craftsmen allowed Lib to dispose of them, Lib was able to fulfill her quota of slime today.

One thing unique to the slime around here is that they may produce diamond inside of their body. Some of the craftsmen allowed one slime to build up the carbon content inside its body, and at some level of blackness, they popped up the slime. At their blackest, the durability of those slimes are really strong and their body become more round-shaped. At that point, The craftsmen cracked open the slime and look to see if a diamond formed inside. Pretty nifty side income, if she might said. One craftsman offered her to open a black one with her sword, yet no matter how hard she hit it, it was deflected.

As a side effect, they functioned like an air purifier, consuming carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. Really, She don't think those slimes were a pest there.

in the afternoon, she reported back her findings and the requested cores to the adventurer guild.

After briefly looking over the map and greeting each other at the northern gate of Scribel City, the party saddled up their horses and started heading towards the river. Well, in actuality there was only one horse that they rented from the guild, as Felicia was the only one that knew how to ride one. She was in charge of the reins of the horse whilst Vor sat behind her and Vicious chose to use her superhuman speed to keep up with them as they rode.

Arriving in a strange forest, I stumbled upon a large gate with a guardsman nearby. He quickly took notice of me due to my heavy making loud clanking noise as I approached him.

"Good day to you sir, may I inquire you in which land does this place lay on?"

"Done? alright, next I want you to make a note to the guard office, since we think this quest is in their jurisdiction. A report of theft from a house in the residential district marked it as the seventh house for this month. This report actually should go directly to the guard office, not to us. But since the issuer asked us directly and gave us the reward, we had to do it. I'll write the quest for now. So, make a note to the guard office and ask for their cooperation for this quest. Understand?"

The gate was still closed. The torch on the gate illuminating the area in front of the gate. She knocked on the gate and waited. After a moment, the gate opened. A gate guard, yawning and still looking sleepy, stood there.

She gave the gate guard her guild card. After inspecting it for a while, he let her inside.

Red Light District, the place of pleasure and underground business. I spent my gold and went into one of the brothels. With my pale makeup, I looked like a mature, mysterious type of client, that even the owner of the brothel would come out to escort. Using my sorcery, I managed to disguise my golden eye colour to the colour of the sea, clear blue without any impurity.

"Hmph!" He looked at his clipboard and read down the list of sentries and their locations, "Go to the North-East wall and help the guys over there keep watch!"

 

[Feathers95]

(Updating a memo)
Memo Title: The Lizardmen Settlements
Memo Category: Location
Content:
Southern Lizardmen Settlement - Taeruga Tribe
There have been reports of a lizardmen settlement across the lake in the swamp region South of Scribel City. Their village is fenced off and seems to thrive through hunting fish. The lizardmen themselves appear to have green/brown skin and a crocodile-like jaw.

These lizardmen appear to be well-versed in slime hunting, perhaps being a valuable potential ally against the incoming slime horde. There are four known members of the tribe that have been reported, Urqia and Shrez, who are the chieftain's sisters, Draz who is Urqia's son and Irnaz who is the vice-chieftain.

Alarmingly, it has been reported that the chieftain and vice-chieftain have gone missing:

'A while ago the chieftain went to talk to the Marashaw tribe, as he had done so many times before, often discussing territory and resources. But this time, when the chieftain went to the Marashaw settlement for the meeting, he and his party never returned.

The Marashaw, when questioned, denied any involvement with the chieftain's disappearance. Their tribe insisted that the slime horde was the cause and that there's nought to be done. The vice-chieftain went to investigate the disappearance, then he too disappeared.'

South-Eastern Lizardmen Settlement - Marashaw Tribe
South-East of Scribel City(two days away on foot) lies another slightly different lizardmen settlement. It has been reported that they have crude hut-like housing, are covered in traps and have cages full of humans, due to reportedly enjoying eating human meat. The skin of these particular lizardmen is purply-blue in colour and tough as leather. Their legs are reported to be strong. It was also said that the meat of these lizardmen's legs and their skin can be eaten and tastes like chicken...

References:

Spoiler: Quotes

Spoiler: Evaluated and Filed

Spoiler: Report

After I travelled the south for 2 days, I came across the swamp region and found some yellow trees. It seems these trees are not fully grown, they might start to grow when the swamp spread out. There are a lot of crabs, crayfish, and reptiles around here mostly normal size with the exception of a giant serpent I saw during the night. The swamp gets really foggy in the night and morning so be careful when camping there.

I found that most of the reptiles I saw do not use venom but either shred the prey apart or shallow it whole. Some of them got really interesting ability though, like shotting stream of water or shred skin to escape. I fought few creatures in the swamp, serpents' scales are pretty slippery while lizards got spiky and hard scales. I haven't fought crocodiles when I was there because my gut tells me to leave them alone for now.

Then I found a large lake nearly the size Scribel when I got out of the swamp, this probably where the other adventurer came here or another water source since I haven't go to the east or west yet. Across the lake, I spotted a structure like a fence and humanoid creatures with green or brown skin and crocodile-like jaw catch some fish from the lake, I assumed that those are lizardman. Since they may be hostile to us, I decided to not interrupt them and head back to town.

Spoiler: Evaluated & Filed

Character: Omni (Level 1) (EXP 0) (Money 0)
Quest: Exploration and Scouting

Hey hey. I am here to submit my quest report for the mission: [Exploration and Scouting].

Th-the quest description... I have it right here… Uwa the... paper is covered in…
ah~AH~its hard to read…
Hm?
Oh, don’t worry about the black stuff, it is just some of my blood…
There... there! You see written right there EX...PLOR...Aaaa ERrr.. yeah... it's all there... the description…

Anyway! There seem to be a bunch of big lizards that walk on two legs south... east-ish of there! About... two days walk? I think. Yeah, somewhere around there, don't sweat the small stuff! And I don’t know what kind of creatures they are either... BUT! They live in huts and got cages full of humans! Or a few humans...

Disgusting!!! Unlike me, they hunt and eat humans! And unlike me, they find human meat delicious and gets hungry just thinking about it! How gross! *Licks lips and swallows*

OH! And there are traps all around these walking lizards’ village! But don’t worry I disarmed a lot of them… by setting them off... by walking into them.

What? What do you mean my arm is missing…. OH MY GOD! My arm is gone!!!
..
.
Well…It will grow back… I think… It will..., right? Grow back? Will it grow back?
.....
….
…
..
.

ERm… anyway, I managed to capture one of the lizards, when a group of them were on their way back to the village! I sneaked up made a strange noise and when the lizard went to investigate and I kidna-

I-I subjugated it, So I can tell ya all about their physiology. If you are thinking about hunting them down, that is.

SO… their skin is purply blue and as tough as leather, but if you put it in a vat of oil and deep fry it, it gets all crispy and goes very well with some beer.

They have really strong legs, and... it tastes a lot like chicken, so a stirfry with scallion would make a really good meal. The breast part... well... is a bit stringy but if you throw it in a pot and slow cook it for.... five to eight hours, it will as tender as a puppy’s-

*cough*

Metaphoric speaking, of course, I have never... I would never eat puppies…
…
..

And here is the proof, a lump of lizard mea-

*quickly hides bloody lump of meat*

I mean... here is a necklace of the lizard person.

There you go!

.
Anyway, I hope this helps!

MoneymoneymoneyMONEY~~~♪ MONEY~♫

Spoiler: Evaluated & Filed

Quest Report (24)
Name: Felicia El Freliti
Level: 6 (3840/4200) (Rank E)
Quest: Diplomatic Mission to the Lizardmen
Evaluation:

• Was saved by the lizardmen after being swallowed up by a camouflaged carnivorous plant
• Gifted the lizardmen a crate of premium-quality salmun and some healing herbs
• Stayed with the Taeruga Tribe for a day to recover

**********

Spoiler: Report (A bit longer than usual)

As Felicia prepared to leave for her diplomatic mission, Sable suddenly appeared beside her, seemingly determined to accompany her this time. The little giant chick had grown quite a bit since she was born, having more prominent junior feathers that covered her body. Like always, Felicia was prepared to quickly shove her back inside, shutting the door and fleeing, but she hesitated a little this time. Afterall, she couldn't keep Sable cooped up in the tavern walls forever, even if she was worried for her safety. Perhaps... sometime soon she'd let her accompany her. But not this time, who knows what the lizardmen would do if she delivered fresh bird straight to their doorstep? With a sigh, she patted her little companion on the head before leaving.
***
As she made her way south, following the river downstream like she did when she was far less experienced than she is now, she carried gifts for the lizardmen provided by the guild. Since they were sighted hunting fish, the guild organized a crate of premium quality Salmun to be delivered, with some healing herbs, which she carried in her hands as she walked. After travelling for a day, she rested at the outpost on the outskirts of the swamp region(which she worked at for a month many quests ago), before setting off again early the next day.

Similar to how she remembered it, the place below the steep waterfall was filled with yellowed trees and tall carnivorous plants. Giant reeds and cattails also dotted the marshland, with the strangely-shaped slimes, dragon-like alligators and giant dragonflies with pincers that she remembered from before slinking in to and out of hiding. Since she had descended from the waterfall by cautiously climbing/hopping down some rocky terrain on the side, she could now see some of the other wildlife that was reported by others in this region. Small crabs, crayfish and lizards cautiously darted around on the ground, whilst giant snakes combed the area looking for prey. Additionally, there were some small-ish birds sitting on some of the lower branches of the yellowed trees watching the swampy waters for prey, but even from afar, Felicia could see that their talons were sharp enough to stab into the branches they were sitting in with ease.

Although she remembered this place being dangerous, she didn't think it was this bad. Unfortunately, to even reach the lizardmen past the lake she'd have to cross a small portion of this marshland to get to the eastern side of it. Things would be much easier if the bridge had been built, as she could just go round all of this, but unfortunately, it was still under construction. Still, she didn't think it'd be that bad crossing this narrow strip of wetlands, afterall, she could even see the other side from here. She should've ideally gotten herself some proper boots before coming here, but she wasn't too positive about stepping in the water either. Hence she just froze the water under her feet as she cautiously crept forward.

Due to her experience in hiding and ambushing, she was able to keep her footsteps quiet as she made her way across. Her eyes darted from left to right constantly, incredibly cautious of any movement within her vicinity. Fortunately, she seemed to be in the clear as she safely made it to the eastern side of the marshland. However, just as she stepped on dry land again, the ground opened up beneath her and swallowed her whole. Suddenly, she was bathed in digestive juices within some weird fleshy plant mouth. Realizing that she had been fooled by a carnivorous plant's disguise, she quickly summoned a fire spell to blast her way out of this mess.

But strangely, she couldn't. It was as if she couldn't access the mana within her at all. Panicking, she quickly attempted to draw her sword but it was too late. The digestive juice around her not only slowly eroded her body, but also sedated her and made her mind numb. As she struggled to stay awake, suddenly the plant was split open and she blacked out from the collision with the ground.

When she awoke, she found herself inside a small wooden hut, seemingly made with the wood from the yellowed trees around the swamp region. Her body was carefully cleaned and redressed in a simple over-sized brown robe, as her old garments and equipment lay on a table next to her. Just as she was lost in thought, she suddenly realized that a small scaly human with a crocodile jaw was peeking at her from the doorway. "Ma'Urqia the human's awake!" He called out as he noticed her looking at him, before walking over to her excitedly.

"Hey hey, where do you come from? How'd you get here? You almossst got eaten by that plant y'know? You're lucky my Da sssaved you, and that the Marashaw Tribe didn't get to you first! Otherwise, you'd already be eaten by now~!"

He spoke quickly with a strange accent, but his enthusiasm made Felicia unconsciously smile. She calmly answered his questions before another, bigger lizardwoman pushed him out of the way. "Draz ssstop bothering our guessst." She spoke calmly with a deep tone, causing the little boy to dejectedly leave the room. "You're lucky you're alive you know?" She began with what seemed to be a teasing smile on her face. "I know, I was careless."

"Mm, it'sss good that you underssstand that. Welcome to the Taeruga Tribe little one. Why where you wandering near these ssswampsss?"

She hissed whilst checking on her pulse, seemingly the one that had treated her. After explaining her purpose, and the meaning of the crate of Salmun the lizardmen had kindly retrieved alongside her body, the lizardwoman fell into thought for a moment before responding. "Mm, I sssee. I will relay your city's kind intentions to my brother, as he is our tribe'ss chieftain. Unfortunately, he has been out on a hunting trip for a few dayss so I know not when he will return. But pleasse resst here as long ass you need, jusst don't wander near the easst as the Marasshaw Tribe is located over there. They, unfortunately, hunt humanss and other racess like yoursself."

Her tone was calm and steady, hence it was hard to tell what kind of relations they had with the other tribe, and whether the race hunting was just a minor disagreement or a great conflict between them. Nonetheless, Felicia was immensely grateful for being saved, which she tried her best to repay during her time at the tribe's village. She often helped hunt alongside the other lizardmen, or helped with some of the new huts being built upon stilts. They told her that floods have recently begun happening every month or so, hence all new buildings had to be raised above the ground to avoid the worst of it. As much as she wanted to investigate further, especially about the Marashaw Tribe, after a day of rest and recovery, she chose to leave. She had much to report back to Scribel afterall. Hopefully, the tribe would send back a positive response!

Kindly, some of the lizardfolk escorted her to the outskirts of the swamp, teaching her some of the things to look out for if she returned, like the telltale signs of some of the various carnivorous plants that littered the land, or how to avoid the sight of the giant mantises. They were lovely folk, Felicia could only hope that the guild would have positive relations with them in the future.

QUEST REPORT ( APPRAISED)

Spoiler: Quest Details // Level 3 // Diplomatic Mission to the Lizardmen

Diplomatic Mission to the Lizardmen
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: South of Scribel
Required Level: 3
Objectives:

• Read this quest report.
• Make contact with the Lizardmen (?) and offer gifts (will be provided by the Guild).
• Determine if the Lizardmen are hostile and/or intelligent.
• Update: Sightings of hostile lizard people in the southeast (source)

Rewards:

• EXP: 280
• Money: 50G

Spoiler: Character: Zorion // Level 3 // Report

Report most urgent:

I have new for the guild with news both good and also troubling.

From a previous report, the Adventurer Felicia El Freliti have already made contact with the Southern lizardmen of Taeruga Tribe.

According to the report they appear to be of a friendly disposition. Since the slime horde is a threat to us all, and the proximity of which the lizardmen live to the horde, I thought it wise in this diplomatic mission to ascertain the stance the Taeruga tribe have on the slime menace.

Being allowed access to the guild resources I commissioned the creation of twelve fishing spears, although in my heart I still call them "Slime-slayers". Once I had the gift in hand I made my way to the south, I was able to approach the settlement with relative ease, owing a debt to Felicia's report. I knew to look out for camouflaged carnivorous plant. A feat I would be unlikely to accomplish if I did not gain the ability to talk to fruit.

What I did learn was that berries are amazingly chatty and honest, palm tree fruit however took a lot of cajoling before they'd tell you anything of use, and even then they still have a tendency to lie.

When I arrived at the settlement, I sough the audience of the chieftain, but strangely he was absent again; just as he was when Felicia visited. I asked to whom should I speak with in regards to gifts and diplomacy, The lizards folks simply shook their heads and shrugged,

Eventually I was brought into a hut and sat before a lizardwoman, Shrez. She could be the same lizardwoman that spoke with Felicia, or perhaps not, but certainly, Shrez was introduced as a sister to the chieftain.

The spears were accepted with awe, the metal prongs and carpentry finish was something only a city could managed, I mimed along with words of light to explain the effectiveness of the spear against slimes, how they simply tear the core from the slime's bodies.

But that information was one that the lizardfolk have had in hand as long as they'd been fishing. Still it gave us the opportunity to talk about the silmes and the threat they entailed.

"Burza.." The lizardwoman showed me a grey paste, " we cover our Ssspears with it"

I examined the paste and quickly recognised it as a soap likesubstance, I recalled the library entry that documented the silmes' intolerance to soap.

"Made from assh and palm oilsss." Soap, a variant of soap.

It would seem the lizardfolk do not need Scribel's help against the Slmes, it might even be the other way around, These lizardmen are uniquely well verse in Slime hunting.

It was then I wrote in the air,asking the question, "Is your tribe willing to help us end the Slime horde?"

Shrez was in thought, after a moment she sighed, "That is sssomething only my brother can deccided...and he issss out hunting, on a hunting trip..."

Hunting again...

"Could you, the Vice-chieftain, decided?"

"I am not the viccce-chieftain!" Shrez denied

"who is?"

"Irnax, he is not here..."

Something was not right. "Hunting, too?" I let the word hang in the air between us.

Shrex shook her head.

"My brother..." Shrez sighed more deeply this time. the pause was long, " My brother is missssing, the vice-chieftain has gone looking for him... now he is missing too"

I nodded, "where? the tell me the story"

And this is what I learned.

A while ago the chieftain went to talk to the Marasshaw tribe, he had done so many times before, often about territory and resources. But this time, when the chieftain went to the Marasshaw settlement for the meeting and his party never returned.

The Marasshaw when questioned denied any involvement with the chieftain's disappearance, Their tribe insisted that the slime horde was the cause and there's naught to be done. The vice-chieftain went to investigate the disappearance, then he too disappeared.

This is alarming news.

I told Shrez that we will put talk of alliance on hold for the moment and that I'd report this to the guild and so a quest to find the missing lizardmen can be created.

And here by ending my report.

OOC, I wonder, how do people want to resolve the Slime horde anyway...

 

[Feathers95]

Memo Title: Skyzite
Memo Category: Gemstone
Content:
A rare gemstone that can be found within the tallest peaks of the Gelderholm mountain range, deep within frozen caverns. The gem has a high affinity for the ice element and a minor affinity for air. Like its namesake, its colour vividly resembles that of the early morning sky.
References:

Spoiler: Quotes

QUEST REPORT (APPRAISED)
Quest Report (38)
Name: Felicia El Freliti
Level: 9 (7980/9000)
Quest: Moonlight Sceptre, First Part
Tags: @GDLiZy
Evaluation:

• Attached is a letter and a palm-sized Skyzite

**********
'Dear Mr/Ms Solet' Luna,

For your quest in sorcery staff-making, I have attached a palm-sized gemstone which was found whilst traversing the tallest peaks of the Gelderholm mountain range. More specifically, this gem, which I have nicknamed Skyzite due to its colour uncannily resembling that of the early noon skies, was found in a frozen cavern on one of the highest mountains, if you seek to potentially find more of it. Although I have to warn you, it seems quite rare and hard to find, as I only found a single very scarce vein within the entirety of the cavern.

Although I am not an ice elemental like yourself, an affinity for ice magic runs through my veins from my father's side, hence I can confidently say that this gem has a rather high affinity for the ice element. It is by no means the best gemstone I have ever seen with the ice affinity, but I would say a staff made with this gem could still be rendered useful even at higher levels. To say in your terms, I would say it has a relatively high-grade affection for the ice element. Additionally, Skyzite seems to have an affinity for air, although it is only a minor affection for the element.

On a separate note, if possible, could I see your staff when it is finished? Although we did have staves and wands back in my old world, my people preferred to use accessories to help channel their magic. Unfortunately, I sold a lot of my jewellery in order to escape through Tonia's gate when I was a bit younger, but I still have my jewel-encrusted hairclips if by any chance you are interested in taking a look at those in exchange for letting me see your sceptre.

Also, I'm not in a particular need for gold at the moment, hence could I ask for as many sealed-spell scrolls as possible? Or perhaps, could you teach me how to seal my own spells into a scroll? I will be leaving Scribel soon, and I worry for my friend who seems to be in a bit of a dangerous situation at the minute, hence I'd like to give one to him as an emergency safety measure.

Yours Sincerely,
Felicia El Freliti'

Evaluation

Dear Miss Felicia,

Regarding the Skyzite, the gem is indeed the most compatible if not perfect magical stone for my staff. Its affection for Ice Element is among the best I could ever hope to find, so don't worry about failing the objective. In fact, I'll give out extra rewards for your finding as it satisfied me greatly.

At first, I was going to increase monetary rewards. However, after reading your request, I had decided to add 2 additional scrolls to help you. These 3 scrolls contained my 2 Ice Magic Spells and 1 Holy Spell. However, due to their complicated and tedious creation process, I could not write down my strongest spells for you. So, although it contained my full-effort power, please do not overestimate their destructive capability. At best, they could critically injure E-ranked adventurers if they dared to face it head-on.

The last Holy Spell doesn't deal any significant damage, but it could create a field of sensory distortion in a storm of Light Element. Although not enough to win you a fight to the death against the impossible opponent, it might be a key to help you escape their pursuit. Please use it wisely.

Concerning the process of creating the scroll, I could teach you about it. Should we do it in person so that I could answer any technical questions? If you are busy and don't have the time, I'm fine with just sending letters as well. The process is easy to understand, but require a huge amount of mental stamina and valuable materials. The higher the quality the scroll is, the longer it could store the spell, and the better firepower the scroll could hold.

I'll let you know when I finished my sceptre. We could do a little exchange anytime!

May the Truth uncover you,
Solet' Luna

Rewards: 175 EXP, 50 G, 3 Magic Scrolls: 2 Ice Magic, 1 Holy Magic

 

[ohko]

Library bump from post #74 to #76.

Needs a lot of interpage linking that I'm not bothering to do right now... as well as links to subpages on each parent page.

If you have a Google Account, you can help clean up the site library here!

 

[Euka]

Memo Title: Female Prison Warden - Eliza Vansworth
Memo Category: NPC
Location: Scribel City Prison
Content:

- usually sits in an officers room
- tends to be loud and stern
- will speak in a commanding tone when on duty
- she is more focused on what she is doing

References:

Quickly, he guided me inside the building towards a room for the use of an officer. At center of the room was a woman in knightly figure and attire, she was sitting on simple whilst writing on a what seems to be a scroll on the desk between. She stops writing and takes a quick glance at me, motions the guard to leave and returns to what she was doing before.

Vysic made his way to the warden's office. As he opened the door, he was shown a rather lavish room. The room was lit by an iron chandelier which hung from the ceiling, there was a bookshelf full of various books, a wine cabinet and and in the centre was a beautifully crafted wooden table.\

"So. You here about the Key?"

The distracted Vysic snapped back to attention when he heard the voice. It was loud, strong and commanding. He looked up to see the source of the voice and came face to face with the warden herself. She had long red hair and an eye patch on her right eye.

Pic link in a quest report

 

[ohko]

Memo Title: Scribel Region
Memo Category: Location
Content:

Scribel is a region in the world of Tonia that includes the area surrounding Scribel City.

The biome is predominantly woodland and the climate is mostly temperate. Many forest-related monsters and wildlife can be found in the region, especially goblins, wolves, bandits, slimes, etc. The vast North Scribel Forest is the site of many quests for beginner adventurers headquartered in the Scribel area.

The Scribel River (name TBD) flows from north to south in the Scribel region. Scribel City is located near the river.

The western quadrant of Scribel is predominantly farmland. A road from Scribel City leads to Asteria Village in the west. Mountains border the northern rim of this corridor. Gem's Ravine is located somewhere in the mountains.

The eastern quadrant of Scribel is predominantly tall grassland/plains. The region seems to be relatively undeveloped. A quarry site is located in the east. Currently, the massive "slime hoard" is located somewhere in the east.

Traveling southwest leads to the ocean/beaches. One branch of the river dumps into the ocean. Following the river further south eventually leads to a waterfall and sudden cliff that drops into the Lowland/Swamp/Lake Region.

In the opposite direction, following the river upstream to the north eventually leads to the Badlands/Pirate/Spire Reef Region. Further upstream, the river splits, with one branch leading to the mountains and another branch leading to Spire Reef, a pirate port city.

References:
(too lazy to quote every post, but the following posts includes links to every reference... there are over 17 references compiled!)

Bumping:

Scribel is a region in the world of Tonia that includes the area surrounding Scribel City.
History
Little is known about the history of Scribel Region. The area is largely underdeveloped and rural.

Two major settlements in the Scribel region are Scribel City and Asteria Village.

The Otherworld Gate in Scribel City was established a few years ago. This presumably led to a burst of population growth that stimulated the local economy. Construction of the bridge across the Scribel River was only recently completed.

Geography
Climate
Scribel's climate is mostly temperate and otherwise unremarkable. The region receives regular rainfall.

It is unclear if there are seasons.

Biome
The biome is predominantly temperate woodland with minor aspects of grasslands and farmlands.

An abundance of wood, herbs, and natural materials can be found in the vast North Scribel Forest.

The Scribel River is a major landmark of the region that flows north-to-south. The course of the river is fairly complicated, with a number of forks, tributaries, and small creeks (e.g. Slimebreak Creek). A southwest branch of the river dumps into the ocean. The southern branch of the river leads to a waterfall and swamp region. The northwestern tributary leads to the mountains, including Gem's Ravine and the Gelderholm Region. The northeastern fork leads to the Spire Reef Region.

The western quadrant of Scribel is predominantly farmland. A road from Scribel City leads to Asteria Village in the west.

The eastern quadrant of Scribel is predominantly tall grassland/plains. The region seems to be relatively undeveloped. A quarry site is located in the east.

Flora
Scribel has flora typical for a temperate forest region.

Some specialized flora also found in the Scribel Region include:

• Healing herb
• Forest Blight
• Carn Flower
• Magic trees (rare)

Fauna
Scribel is home to many typical forest animals, such as wolves, bears, deer, etc.

Some specialized species also found in the Scribel Region include:

• Slime
• Giant Sewer Rat
• Goblin
• Dire Wolf
• Giant Spider
• Slumber Bee (rare)

Politics
The political structure of the Scribel Region is uncertain.

Scribel City is the main political entity in the area, and it functions like a city-state. It is unclear exactly how much of the surrounding area is claimed by the city as its own sovereign "territory."

It is also unknown if Asteria Village is politically affiliated with Scribel City. The political status of the surrounding small villages and hamlets is also undetermined. Presumably, the surrounding region is loosely affiliated in some sort of weak political union, but there is a lack of reports on this subject.

Economy
Scribel is fairly underdeveloped, and it is mainly wilderness and farmland. It does not seem to be particularly wealthy.

It can presumed that the economy is primarily driven by agriculture and a frontier woodland economy (e.g. hunting, gathering, trading furs). Scribel City has been known to trade Healing Herbs with other states.

Demographics
Humans appear to be the predominant race in Scribel. However, the region is also fairly diverse thanks to the presence of the Otherworld Gate.

Slimes and goblins are some of the most prevalent monsters in the region. Bandits are known to wander the roads.

Culture
Scribel seems to convey the atmosphere of a generic medieval fantasy.

The overall power level is fairly weak, and the area is fairly generic by the standards of a "starting area." Many new adventurers seem to adapt to the region well and are able to live comfortably despite a low standard of living. The mood in the local Adventurer's Tavern is frequently lighthearted and relaxed.

That said, Scribel City also seems to deal with issues of poverty, petty crime, orphans, disabled veterans, and frequent adventurer casualties.

Scribel City Exploration Initiative​

Follow the River
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: Near Scribel City
Required Level: 2
Objectives:

• Explore the river near Scribel City
• Update: Traveling downstream (south) seems to lead to a waterfall/marshland (source) (source)
• Update: Traveling downstream on a southwest river fork seems to lead to the ocean (source)
• Update: Traveling upstream (north) seems to lead to the port city of Spire Reef (source)
• Update: Traveling upstream (north) seems to lead to a badlands biome, followed by a fork in the river. The northwest branch leads to the mountains. The northeast branch leads to Spire Reef, a pirate city (source)
• Update: Slightly south of the city, there are several places suitable for building a bridge. Glowstone veins are here (source)
• Update: The northwest branch leads to Gem's Ravine and Bighorn Mountain, the site of the Rank E exam (source)

Description: Several adventurers spotted a river while on their quests (1) (2) (3). Where does it lead?
Rewards:

• EXP: 100
• Money: 30

Let's Go... East!
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: Near Scribel City
Required Level: 2
Objectives:

• Explore East of Scribel City
• Note: Slime hoard sighted in this direction.
• Update: Seems to be a large plain (source)
• Update: There is a rock formation suitable for a quarry (source)

Rewards:

• EXP: 100
• Money: 30

Let's Go... West!
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: Near Scribel City
Required Level: 2
Objectives:

• Explore West of Scribel City
• Update: Traveling west seems to be mostly farmland. And existing road leads to Asteria Village (source)

Rewards:

• EXP: 100
• Money: 30

Let's Go... South!
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: Near Scribel City
Required Level: 2
Objectives:

• Explore South of Scribel City
• Update: It seems to be large body of water? (source)
• Update: It seems to be a lake/swamp? (source) Is this the same as downstream of the river? (see above)
• Update: Another report in this region (source)
• Update: Potentially hostile lizard-people to the southeast (source)

Rewards:

• EXP: 100
• Money: 30

 

[ohko]

Memo Title: Twin Flower
Memo Category: Species > Plants
Content:

Twin Flowers are one of the most common variety of healing herbs that grow near Scribel City.

Description
The Twin Flower has been vaguely described as a small herb with two white flowers that come out of the top.

Little is known about the detailed biology of this plant.

Twin Flowers are easily mistaken with Tri-Flowers, which are poisonous. Adventurers also frequently mistake ordinary flowers for Twin Flowers, so it likely does not have a particularly remarkable appearance.

Distribution
Twin Flowers have been found in the Scribel Region. They are known to grow in the North Scribel Forest as well as in fields.

Properties
Twin Flowers, when used as a healing salve, are said to have a distinct smell.

Uses
Some adventurers have used Twin Flowers as the basis of a crude healing salve. Timmy's Adventurering Goods sells healing salves that are made out of crushed healing herbs mixed with beeswax.

Healing herbs and slime cores are reportedly used as ingredients in weak healing potions.

References

Quest Report:
Character: TREE (Level 1) (EXP 50) (Money 0)
Quest Healing Herbs
Sponsor: City of Scribel
Report: as i am about to leave the guild i see a notice on the board for going out of town to collect healing herbs. so i walk uo to the receptionist and ask what kind of herb that the would need
"certainly sir says as she looks at me you see will we need a lot of different type of healing herbs the one that is the most common is a small herbs that can be founds in Forrest to the north of town they look like a small flower with two white flower coming out of the tops. but make sure you only get the herbs with two flower if you get the ones that has 3 they are posionus. her is a bag for the herbs to go in.'
"thank you Mam i didn't event think i need something to put them in."
" that is ok sir now go and be safe and i hope to see you soon" she says as she wave goodbye.
i leave the guild and head toward the north gate out of town. so that i can go and collect the herbs for the guild. as i leave the town i see a lush landscape with a beautiful forest just slightly to the north east i start to walk that way.
as i enter the forest i see right away all the plants that are around me. thin i see a few of the twin flowers and tri-flower a little deeper into the forest. i spend the rest of the day staying i close as i can to the edge of the forest making sure that i dont get attack. As collect a few of the herbs to take back to town i get a round 20 of the twin headed flower and pick 10 or the tri-flower just to see if i can sell them back in town for some coins. as i was picking some of the tri-head flowers i put them in to my storage instead of the bag with the twin-flowers so that i dont contaminate the healing herbs after a few more hours i slowly make my way to to town a little tired and dirty

Quest Report:
Character: Ryzen [Level 1 (EXP 0)/Money: 0]
Quest: Healing Herbs
Report:
I needed to find a decently easy job that could net me some good coin when I stumbled upon this gathering quest. Since it was simply picking up some grass, this job was right up my alley.

After registering the quest at the reception, I headed out to the local apothecary. The notice didn't put any description for the herb at all; no picture or location whatsoever. Luckily the lady that managed the apothecary was kind enough to share some information regarding the healing herb since she uses it the most.

It was a special kind of herb that grows in the outer region of a forest that was north of here. Apparently there were multiple kinds of healing herbs growing in that part of the forest.

But since the quest was looking for healing grass, then I'll only pick up healing grass.

It took me the entire day to gather the healing herbs which was definitely difficult to distinguish from normal grass. Fortunately, the apothecary advised to look for a brighter green color and had a wisp of mana when [Mana Sense] was used. Nonetheless, it was still a tiresome task since I had to carefully pluck the grass with its roots still intact. Otherwise, the quality of the healing herb will reduce and the healing property would go down in efficiency.

Hopefully I get a bonus reward for going the extra mile...

Wrapped in bandages from head to toe with the faint smell of Twin Flowers forever emanating from my body, I wobbled on over to the Guild's Kitchen after applying for the quest. To be honest, for the sake of recovery it would probably be best to just take another day off, but my noble pride will not allow myself to just watch as my money gets stolen away!

I had an arrow lined with tri-flower poison notched on my bow, ready to be fired at a moment's notice.

Spoiler: Filed and Evaluated

Quest Report:
Character: Noel (Level 1) (EXP 95) (Money 23.25)
Quest: Healing Herb
Report:

Spoiler: Report

After a day of doing nothing but reading reports, I got bored and decided to take a simple task to kill it. Walking up to the quest board that still seems large, I began to look through the quests. Honestly, the only time I've been outside the walls of the town was when I first came to this world, and so I'm kinda curious about what's there so I guess I'll take a quest that is required outside.

Deciding that I eliminate all quests that don't fulfill that requirement and it left me with only two quests: Healing Herbs, and Exploration and Scouting. After contemplating for a while, I decided to go for the Healing Herb quest for 2 reasons, 1 was because I was interested in the Tri-flowers that I read about in the library and the second reason was that it seemed like the one where I'm guaranteed to succeed.

With that in mind, I quickly went to the counter to report my departure and to ask for a bag to carry the herbs in.

"Ello there mister~ I'd like to borrow a large bag for the Herb collection quest please~"

"Please wait a minute then, " the man said before ducking down behind the counter and pulling out a large brown bag, "here you go."

The bag reminded me of those potato sacks you see used in those sack racing things in those America shows. Now that I think of it those were quite weird... Well whatever, as I was about to turn and leave I remembered that I wanted to collect some Tri-flowers too.

"Oh right, excuse me sorry to bother you again~ But would it be possible for me to obtain a second bag please?"

"The guild will lend 1 bag to you free of charge for the Healing Herb quest but if you require another one then you may rent one out for 0.5G, or you could purchase 1 for your own personal use for 2G." The man explained to me in a polite tone.

Still 2G for a large bag... I'm not sure about the market price here but isn't that 2 days of living expense? Hmm, I guess it'd be useful in the long term though... Since 1 large bag can be sold for 2G, then if I were to get 2 large bags I can get 2G from the quest and maybe another 2 from the market... Well I mean I got an extra 20G from the guard who "donated" me his money and I do want to collect some Tri-flowers too~

"I'd like to purchase 1 large bag please!"

"Thank you for your patronage, " he said before once again ducking behind the counter and pulling out another large sack.

And with that, I set off.

The forest wasn't as far as I expected, it took just an hour walking to reach there. I remember there were reports stating the abundance of herbs in the forest that you can pick up a large bag even at the edge, but it seemed like with the rush of new adventurers, the edge had been picked clean of everything.

Seems like it was time to explore the depths~! I should have brought some sandwiches and then I could have had a picknick here or something.

While optimistic at first, after an hour of constant searching with no results, even I couldn't help but get a little upset. Seriously at this rate wouldn't the forest be bled dry before next year at this rate?!

Seems like I will have to accept failure for this quest, oh well, you win some you lose some I guess~ Wait no that sounds wrong...

Regardless, I decided that I'd just accept the failure of completion this time and head back home, but not before eating a quick snack.

Taking out one of my rations, the Milkless, Butterless, Eggless Cake, I took a bite out of it and honestly? It wasn't that bad, but then again compared to leftover moldy bread, most things wouldn't taste as bad in comparison.

Just when I was about to take a second bite of the food, it's when He appeared. Faster than lighting, Swifter than the wind, he shot down from a branch above and snatched my Cake from me.

He, or rather It, was a jet black snake with a horn on its head and 2 pairs of bat wings on its slender body. If this were at any other time, I would have gladly admired it from a distance while marveling at the wonders of this fantasy world. But now? Now I'm going to catch him, skin him alive and turn him into snake stew. You can insult me, beat me or even try to kill me and I'd be fine, I could take it saving revenge for later is something I can do, but take food from me and I will kill you regardless of the consequence.

"COME BACK HERE YOU F*CKER!!!!!!" I screamed as I quickly got up and dashed after its fleeting silhouette.

I'm not sure how much I ran, 30 minutes? An hour? I don't know but by the time I realized it, the sun was starting to set. Zipping left, then right, jumping over and sometimes ducking under, the damn snake seemed to be intent on getting me off its back but I wasn't gonna lose that easily.

After what seemed like another 10 minutes of running, I saw the snake dive underneath a fallen tree instead of flying over it. Guessing this was its den or something like that, I started to increase my speed to build up even more momentum before finally jumping and landing a jump kick on the log, causing it to roll away.

What appeared wasn't the snakes surprise attack as I expected, rather what was beneath the log was a hole filled with flowers. No, more like the place was somewhere the earth naturally caved in and the twin and tri-flowers just grew in abundance here.

After hesitating on whether to continue my search for the snake or to pick the flowers, I decided to pick the flowers. Quests take priority, but that didn't mean I'd give up on my revenge!

Honestly, the process of digging out the flowers with their roots intact wasn't hard at all, compared to the fields of cannabis that I had to tend back then, this was nothing. The annoying thing was differentiating them with my eyes, if I needed to use my ears then that's one thing but my eyes were average, the limited amount of light due to the setting sun didn't help either. In the end, by the time I finished the sun had fully set and the moon was high in the sky. Packing the twin-flowers in one bag and the tri-flowers in the other, I made my way out of the forest. Hopefully, the bathhouse is still open at these hours.

P.S. Found the Snake, It ate all my rations and is now sleeping in my bag. Is there a place I need to register it as a pet or can I just keep it there and call it emergency rations?

Holding onto the root of the Brightweed, Benji managed to pull himself out of the dirt. The creatures in the following sketches were nowhere to be seen, as if they had abruptly disappeared from sight. The sketches returned to its scenic form, and Benji was seen dusting the dirt off his body. The hole he once crawled through had caved itself inwards into a mound of earth. The Brightweed from before was gone too, nothing but normal grass in view. The sketches then show Benji checking through his inventory again. The final bag he held was not Brightweed, but half filled with dirt. The Brightweed root Benji held was just a piece from a stretching root from a nearby tree, in which Benji had broken off in the attempt to escape.

The final sketch of the scene showed Benji overlooking the small field and the mound of earth in the middle. The field seemed to be quiet, with a still, silent peace in its air, under the now evening sky.

The next, final few sketches is just Benji sucking it up and resorting to getting Twin-Flowers instead.

Attached:

• 5 bags of healing herbs (including one accidental tri-flower and a dozen stalks of brightweed among some normal grass)
• 5 leather books containing over 350 pages of quest reports in the form of detailed sketches
• a handkerchief bundling a collection of odd-looking pebbles (intentions of this to be determined by the evaluators)

UNAPPRAISED APPRAISED

Spoiler: Quest Report

Me and Gobo asked the Receptionist for the same task from yesterday. I also asked her about the Float Fern and if they had any new information about it. She said their was still nothing from the Guilds Alchemist and also there was a notice from the Guild that anyone harvesting the new herb Float Fern will be reprimanded. It look like the Guild was still weary of adventurers overpicking the new herb or may be the guild was just weary if the unknown Float Fern. Before we left the guild I also bought another 10 small herb bags from the receptionist for 5g. Well me and Gobo go off and acquire our supplies for this day. We got our same supplies from yesterday, 3 loafs of bread and 1 lb of cheese, a 8g total. We set out bright and early off to the Twin flower area.

While the walk to the area was uneventful, I still told Gobo to be weary of the local Goblin sighting I heard from the guards. We got the fields and eventually start forging for the Twin Flowers. I still have to remind Gobo on to not pick the Tri Flowered one's because they were the poisonous ones. Gobo and I finally picked our last bag of Twin Flowers and started having our afternoon lunch. We return to Scribel City little bit after and set off to the guild, to finish our quest. We turned in our 5 Small bags of herbs and start to go next door to the Guild tavern. We say our hello's to Pierre as usually, while paying for today's room and board 10g. Gobo finish's his dinner for today and so do I. Me and Gobo go back to our room and go to sleep.

-5g 10 small herb bags
-8g 3 loafs of bread 1lb of cheese
-10g Room and Board
+10 Small bags of Twin Flowers

X Big Green & Gobo

TLDR: Me and Gobo successfully went to go collect more herbs today. Nothing eventful happened.

We finally get to herb field and start foraging around. Gobo and I have gotten used to finding these type of healing herbs easily now. We got finished collecting our 5 small herb bags quickly and so we had a lot of extra time before lunch. I decided to collect a few bags of the Tri-Flowers, while we had extra time. Collecting this Tri-Flowers took a large timely amount because I couldn't let Gobo collect it, so I had too use my Light magic to slowly dig out each and every flower. Eventually I finished collecting about 5 bags full for Tri-Flower and we start to have our lunch near the riverbed.

UNAPPRAISED APPRAISED

Spoiler: Guild Report

~~~Me and Gobo scoured and searched the market area today, for slimes. We only found 3 near general store and 2 near the grocery store. After, we started asking nearby citizens if they had seen any nearby slimes that needed to by subjugated. Luckily we had a few people ask for our help and led us to their houses, we found our next slime's 4 this way. While collecting slimes cores, we started to notice that a few more slimes then usually were actual trying to get into the sewers. We successfully acquired 6 slime cores from waiting nearby the sewers entrance and waiting for slimes to come to us. It looks like something is going on with the sewers, hopefully you send someone to figure it out. Also hopefully it wouldn't be to consequence that I will be keeping the extra 5 slime cores for my own experiments.

End Report ~~~

Spoiler: Story Report

Me and Gobo wake up and go down the tavern to have ourselves breakfast. We have usually rowdy crowd of people, but it started feeling the norm, I guess. We eventually set off towards the Adventurers Guild, still deciding on what to choose today. I wouldn't want to go through what we went through near the Twin-Flower field again. Me and Gobo enter the Adventurer Guild and start searching for a quest and asking the receptionist for any help that she could give us. With the help of receptionist, we decided on to take the Slime Subjugation quest. It was easy enough for new adventure and it helped with new one's get acclimated to fighting monsters. The only thing we needed to do this quest now is a weapon for Gobo and asked the receptionist to mark our map where the local blacksmith was located at. With that we set-off to the local blacksmith, hopefully to find something for Gobo in return.

We get to the blacksmith and set our eyes on the new shiny weapons on sale. However we also see the prices of these new weapons, something we couldn't afford to buy with our current gold. We try to ask the staff if they had anything cheaper for sell, but unfortunately he told us they just melted down must of there chipped and broken weapons today and too try again later. Me and Gobo left saddened. I had to think of somewhere else where we could acquire Gobo a good piece of equipment for cheap."Hmm...Genial should know". We set off too Genial's store, in hopes that he could help us. Even may be today I had to use that favor card for something today.

"HAHA, the famous duo of Plant and Goblin, what do I owe on this arrival" Genial pronounces throughout the store. I tell of him our problem about Gobo needing a weapon for quest. We see Genial think for a second. "Ah! An easy problem for I the Genial!". He ask if I still had that favor card he gave to us, I answered yes. "Yes just for that favor card I could help you acquire a weapon. Even a Shield!" Genial explained. I answered as fast as I could with Light and let Gobo take out the Favor Card and give it Genial. We saw Genial take the card and go into the back of the store for a while. When he came out, he brought out a smaller then usual buckler with a very short sword carrying it. "Yes the finest should for our duo!". We gladly accepted the small buckler and sword, Gobo the most excited. "Thank you Genial" I wrote out. While Genial had to go too take care of something else, Gobo tried on it's new equipment. Gobo equipment was a perfect fit... almost too perfect? I asked a nearby staff member, on why Genial had a set of of very small shield and sword. The staff explained that Genial once had a failed sales pitch about smaller equipment and about how cheaper it would be to buy and maintain. The one's we had were some of the leftover product he had laying around. Gobo and I were gobsmacked. Well.... At least it fits Gobo fine I guess. Now that we have everything prepared, it was time to start our Slime Subjugation quest!

As were about to leave for Genial's store, a staff memeber got our attention and saw our conversation about our quest with Genial. He explain that a couple of slimes were making a problem for the store and asked if we could take of out it, I answered immediately that we could. The staff member led us towards the back of the building and there we saw 3 slimes just lodging around some boxes covered up. I tell the staff member to go back inside the store and Gobo to wait for me to grab the slime's attention with my Light Magic, so that Gobo could go for the finishing blow. Gobo places me on a nearby box and hides in wait. We being and I try to hit the closest slime as hard as I can with a Whip of Light I conjured up. As I imagined, my attack did to little nothing damage, but at least it got the attention of the slime. The first slime started crawling it's way towards me , just as I wanted. It was getting closer and closer to me, but near Gobo's hiding spot as well. Finally it was close enough, Gobo emerged from his hiding spot and stabbed toward the slime. The shocked slime couldn't react in-time and fell before it could retaliate. It was I and Gobo's first kill. Now we just had to do the same thing 2 more times.

We walk back to the store and show the staff member 3 cores we acquired from the slimes at the back. The staff member thanks us and we set off to find more slimes. I thought that since Genial had slimes may be some other stores had the same problems, so I started walking among the market street and talking to some of the store's staff member to see if they need any help with slimes. Cecila's store had 2 slime and we cleared those out easily, but that was the only store that had any problems. So it was off to look somewhere else for slime cores.

I decided to look around the residential area of the town, to see if any civilians have seen or need help with their slime problems. We walked too the big plaza of the residential area. We notice that people are still weary of Gobo and I, so I told Gobo to take out my Adventurer's Guild Card. I held my Guild Card with Light and also wrote in the air "Helping with slime trouble's. BigGreen&Gobo". We still didn't get any request from the civilians, but at least they weren't that weary from us now. "Hey, Mr. Plant!" a little girl shouted. I saw the little girl and wrote out if she needed any help with dealing with slimes. "Yes! My mommy has been trying to get rid of the slime in our house". I say to her that we could help and eventually she leads us to her house. Her mother's shock when she saw her daughter leading along a goblin holding a plant was quite something. The little girl and I eventually tell her mother that I am here to eliminate her slime problem. The mother leads me too her backyard, showing us a slime crawling just on the shingles of the house. She tells me she has no way to get it down and it has been up there all morning. I tell the mother and daughter to go back in the house and me and Gobo will take care of it. I tell Gobo to get into position and start hiding nearby. When I notice that Gobo is in place, I start to form a bubble of Light around the slime and try to drag it down from the roof. It was quite hard to just try to move the slime, but eventually it falls from the roof. Gobo easily attacks and finishes off the stunned slime and we acquire another slime core. We go back to the front of the house and show them the slime core. "Thank you both for the help and thankfully it wasn't a sewer slime" the mother sighed. We set off to the residential plaza again and try too see if we could help any citizens again. We still had troubles, but however thanks to a little girls enthusiasm about Mr.Plant and Gobo being good people. A few people finally came by about there slime troubles and we eventually acquired another 3 slime cores. We waited at the plaza a little bit longer, but it seemed that no one else needed help. So me and Gobo left to look elsewhere, we also thanked the little girl for the help and told her to get home safely.

I noticed that the people we helped with their slime trouble's always expressed their concerns about slimes about sewers. So I suggested to Gobo that we go and check near the entrance of the Sewers to see if we could get our last slime core near there. I check our map and eventually arrive at the sewer entrance. To our surprise we already see a slime trying to crawl into the sewer entrance. I tell Gobo to do our usual Slime Procedure and to let Gobo hide first. However this time, when I tried to get it's attention with my Light Whip. It didn't bother with me and kept it's slow crawl towards the sewer entrance. We needed a new plan to deal with slime. I told Gobo to get ready to Shield Bash the slime to stun it and then I would try to hold it down with my Light magic, so that Gobo could go for the finishing blow. "1...2...3 GO!". Gobo leapt from his hiding spot and bashed his shield against the slime. The slime got tossed and slammed against the nearby sewer entrance wall and I cast light to try and bind the slime as much as I could. Gobo quickly slashes and kills the slime successfully. "Good job Gobo". We finally have our 10 slime cores, but before our celebration we noticed another slime coming towards the sewer entrance. I guessed that we even though we finished the quest, we might as well deal with the problems. Also I remembered that receptionist talk about how twin-flowers and slime cores were a base of healing potions. I might as well pick a few up for myself and see if i could make something as well. Me and Gobo go with our #2 Slime combo and deal with another 5 slimes and acquire 5 more slime cores. We eventually don't see anymore slimes come towards the sewer entrance, so I decided to was time to return back to the Adventurer's Guild.

We get the Adventurer's Guild and turn in our quest successfully, we also explain the odd situation about the sewer entrance. The receptionist takes note of the strange occurrence and we leave for the Tavern. We finally get a time to rest and fill our stomachs. After dinner we pay Pierre for today's Room and Board and head up to our room. Gobo take's off his new equipment slowly, not wanting to mess it up more then today. I tell Gobo to take a good rest today because tomorrow we will try the Slime Subjugation again. Gobo is quite excited by this and quickly falls asleep on the bed. I look out the window and fall to asleep thinking about tomorrow's adventure.

X Big Green & Gobo

Spoiler: Todays Inventory

Today's Inventory
-Genial's Favor Card
+ 1 Very small buckler
+ 1 Very short sword

+ 5 Slime cores

-10g Room and Board

 

[ohko]

Memo Title: Tri-Flower
Memo Category: Species > Plants
Content:

The Tri-Flower is a variety of poisonous herb that grows near Scribel City.

Description
No formal description about the appearance of Tri-Flowers has been documented. They reportedly appear similar to Twin Flowers except for the fact that they have three flowers per plant.

Numerous adventurers have accidentally harvested Tri-Flowers when searching for Twin Flowers.

Distribution
Twin Flowers have been found in the Scribel Region. They are known to grow in the North Scribel Forest as well as in fields.

Properties
Tri-Flowers are reportedly toxic to touch. Many adventurers exercise caution when handling them, such as not touching them with their bare hands. Some adventurers store the plant in separate bags out of fear that Tri-Flowers would contaminate other herbs.

The potency of Tri-Flower poison is unclear.

Uses
Tri-Flowers have been used by adventurers as a potent poison. Some adventurers have coated blades and arrow tips with the toxin.

References

Quest Report:
Character: TREE (Level 1) (EXP 50) (Money 0)
Quest Healing Herbs
Sponsor: City of Scribel
Report: as i am about to leave the guild i see a notice on the board for going out of town to collect healing herbs. so i walk uo to the receptionist and ask what kind of herb that the would need
"certainly sir says as she looks at me you see will we need a lot of different type of healing herbs the one that is the most common is a small herbs that can be founds in Forrest to the north of town they look like a small flower with two white flower coming out of the tops. but make sure you only get the herbs with two flower if you get the ones that has 3 they are posionus. her is a bag for the herbs to go in.'
"thank you Mam i didn't event think i need something to put them in."
" that is ok sir now go and be safe and i hope to see you soon" she says as she wave goodbye.
i leave the guild and head toward the north gate out of town. so that i can go and collect the herbs for the guild. as i leave the town i see a lush landscape with a beautiful forest just slightly to the north east i start to walk that way.
as i enter the forest i see right away all the plants that are around me. thin i see a few of the twin flowers and tri-flower a little deeper into the forest. i spend the rest of the day staying i close as i can to the edge of the forest making sure that i dont get attack. As collect a few of the herbs to take back to town i get a round 20 of the twin headed flower and pick 10 or the tri-flower just to see if i can sell them back in town for some coins. as i was picking some of the tri-head flowers i put them in to my storage instead of the bag with the twin-flowers so that i dont contaminate the healing herbs after a few more hours i slowly make my way to to town a little tired and dirty

Quest Report:
Character: Ryzen [Level 1 (EXP 0)/Money: 0]
Quest: Healing Herbs
Report:
I needed to find a decently easy job that could net me some good coin when I stumbled upon this gathering quest. Since it was simply picking up some grass, this job was right up my alley.

After registering the quest at the reception, I headed out to the local apothecary. The notice didn't put any description for the herb at all; no picture or location whatsoever. Luckily the lady that managed the apothecary was kind enough to share some information regarding the healing herb since she uses it the most.

It was a special kind of herb that grows in the outer region of a forest that was north of here. Apparently there were multiple kinds of healing herbs growing in that part of the forest.

But since the quest was looking for healing grass, then I'll only pick up healing grass.

It took me the entire day to gather the healing herbs which was definitely difficult to distinguish from normal grass. Fortunately, the apothecary advised to look for a brighter green color and had a wisp of mana when [Mana Sense] was used. Nonetheless, it was still a tiresome task since I had to carefully pluck the grass with its roots still intact. Otherwise, the quality of the healing herb will reduce and the healing property would go down in efficiency.

Hopefully I get a bonus reward for going the extra mile...

Wrapped in bandages from head to toe with the faint smell of Twin Flowers forever emanating from my body, I wobbled on over to the Guild's Kitchen after applying for the quest. To be honest, for the sake of recovery it would probably be best to just take another day off, but my noble pride will not allow myself to just watch as my money gets stolen away!

I had an arrow lined with tri-flower poison notched on my bow, ready to be fired at a moment's notice.

Spoiler: Filed and Evaluated

Quest Report:
Character: Noel (Level 1) (EXP 95) (Money 23.25)
Quest: Healing Herb
Report:

Spoiler: Report

After a day of doing nothing but reading reports, I got bored and decided to take a simple task to kill it. Walking up to the quest board that still seems large, I began to look through the quests. Honestly, the only time I've been outside the walls of the town was when I first came to this world, and so I'm kinda curious about what's there so I guess I'll take a quest that is required outside.

Deciding that I eliminate all quests that don't fulfill that requirement and it left me with only two quests: Healing Herbs, and Exploration and Scouting. After contemplating for a while, I decided to go for the Healing Herb quest for 2 reasons, 1 was because I was interested in the Tri-flowers that I read about in the library and the second reason was that it seemed like the one where I'm guaranteed to succeed.

With that in mind, I quickly went to the counter to report my departure and to ask for a bag to carry the herbs in.

"Ello there mister~ I'd like to borrow a large bag for the Herb collection quest please~"

"Please wait a minute then, " the man said before ducking down behind the counter and pulling out a large brown bag, "here you go."

The bag reminded me of those potato sacks you see used in those sack racing things in those America shows. Now that I think of it those were quite weird... Well whatever, as I was about to turn and leave I remembered that I wanted to collect some Tri-flowers too.

"Oh right, excuse me sorry to bother you again~ But would it be possible for me to obtain a second bag please?"

"The guild will lend 1 bag to you free of charge for the Healing Herb quest but if you require another one then you may rent one out for 0.5G, or you could purchase 1 for your own personal use for 2G." The man explained to me in a polite tone.

Still 2G for a large bag... I'm not sure about the market price here but isn't that 2 days of living expense? Hmm, I guess it'd be useful in the long term though... Since 1 large bag can be sold for 2G, then if I were to get 2 large bags I can get 2G from the quest and maybe another 2 from the market... Well I mean I got an extra 20G from the guard who "donated" me his money and I do want to collect some Tri-flowers too~

"I'd like to purchase 1 large bag please!"

"Thank you for your patronage, " he said before once again ducking behind the counter and pulling out another large sack.

And with that, I set off.

The forest wasn't as far as I expected, it took just an hour walking to reach there. I remember there were reports stating the abundance of herbs in the forest that you can pick up a large bag even at the edge, but it seemed like with the rush of new adventurers, the edge had been picked clean of everything.

Seems like it was time to explore the depths~! I should have brought some sandwiches and then I could have had a picknick here or something.

While optimistic at first, after an hour of constant searching with no results, even I couldn't help but get a little upset. Seriously at this rate wouldn't the forest be bled dry before next year at this rate?!

Seems like I will have to accept failure for this quest, oh well, you win some you lose some I guess~ Wait no that sounds wrong...

Regardless, I decided that I'd just accept the failure of completion this time and head back home, but not before eating a quick snack.

Taking out one of my rations, the Milkless, Butterless, Eggless Cake, I took a bite out of it and honestly? It wasn't that bad, but then again compared to leftover moldy bread, most things wouldn't taste as bad in comparison.

Just when I was about to take a second bite of the food, it's when He appeared. Faster than lighting, Swifter than the wind, he shot down from a branch above and snatched my Cake from me.

He, or rather It, was a jet black snake with a horn on its head and 2 pairs of bat wings on its slender body. If this were at any other time, I would have gladly admired it from a distance while marveling at the wonders of this fantasy world. But now? Now I'm going to catch him, skin him alive and turn him into snake stew. You can insult me, beat me or even try to kill me and I'd be fine, I could take it saving revenge for later is something I can do, but take food from me and I will kill you regardless of the consequence.

"COME BACK HERE YOU F*CKER!!!!!!" I screamed as I quickly got up and dashed after its fleeting silhouette.

I'm not sure how much I ran, 30 minutes? An hour? I don't know but by the time I realized it, the sun was starting to set. Zipping left, then right, jumping over and sometimes ducking under, the damn snake seemed to be intent on getting me off its back but I wasn't gonna lose that easily.

After what seemed like another 10 minutes of running, I saw the snake dive underneath a fallen tree instead of flying over it. Guessing this was its den or something like that, I started to increase my speed to build up even more momentum before finally jumping and landing a jump kick on the log, causing it to roll away.

What appeared wasn't the snakes surprise attack as I expected, rather what was beneath the log was a hole filled with flowers. No, more like the place was somewhere the earth naturally caved in and the twin and tri-flowers just grew in abundance here.

After hesitating on whether to continue my search for the snake or to pick the flowers, I decided to pick the flowers. Quests take priority, but that didn't mean I'd give up on my revenge!

Honestly, the process of digging out the flowers with their roots intact wasn't hard at all, compared to the fields of cannabis that I had to tend back then, this was nothing. The annoying thing was differentiating them with my eyes, if I needed to use my ears then that's one thing but my eyes were average, the limited amount of light due to the setting sun didn't help either. In the end, by the time I finished the sun had fully set and the moon was high in the sky. Packing the twin-flowers in one bag and the tri-flowers in the other, I made my way out of the forest. Hopefully, the bathhouse is still open at these hours.

P.S. Found the Snake, It ate all my rations and is now sleeping in my bag. Is there a place I need to register it as a pet or can I just keep it there and call it emergency rations?

Holding onto the root of the Brightweed, Benji managed to pull himself out of the dirt. The creatures in the following sketches were nowhere to be seen, as if they had abruptly disappeared from sight. The sketches returned to its scenic form, and Benji was seen dusting the dirt off his body. The hole he once crawled through had caved itself inwards into a mound of earth. The Brightweed from before was gone too, nothing but normal grass in view. The sketches then show Benji checking through his inventory again. The final bag he held was not Brightweed, but half filled with dirt. The Brightweed root Benji held was just a piece from a stretching root from a nearby tree, in which Benji had broken off in the attempt to escape.

The final sketch of the scene showed Benji overlooking the small field and the mound of earth in the middle. The field seemed to be quiet, with a still, silent peace in its air, under the now evening sky.

The next, final few sketches is just Benji sucking it up and resorting to getting Twin-Flowers instead.

Attached:

• 5 bags of healing herbs (including one accidental tri-flower and a dozen stalks of brightweed among some normal grass)
• 5 leather books containing over 350 pages of quest reports in the form of detailed sketches
• a handkerchief bundling a collection of odd-looking pebbles (intentions of this to be determined by the evaluators)

UNAPPRAISED APPRAISED

Spoiler: Quest Report

Me and Gobo asked the Receptionist for the same task from yesterday. I also asked her about the Float Fern and if they had any new information about it. She said their was still nothing from the Guilds Alchemist and also there was a notice from the Guild that anyone harvesting the new herb Float Fern will be reprimanded. It look like the Guild was still weary of adventurers overpicking the new herb or may be the guild was just weary if the unknown Float Fern. Before we left the guild I also bought another 10 small herb bags from the receptionist for 5g. Well me and Gobo go off and acquire our supplies for this day. We got our same supplies from yesterday, 3 loafs of bread and 1 lb of cheese, a 8g total. We set out bright and early off to the Twin flower area.

While the walk to the area was uneventful, I still told Gobo to be weary of the local Goblin sighting I heard from the guards. We got the fields and eventually start forging for the Twin Flowers. I still have to remind Gobo on to not pick the Tri Flowered one's because they were the poisonous ones. Gobo and I finally picked our last bag of Twin Flowers and started having our afternoon lunch. We return to Scribel City little bit after and set off to the guild, to finish our quest. We turned in our 5 Small bags of herbs and start to go next door to the Guild tavern. We say our hello's to Pierre as usually, while paying for today's room and board 10g. Gobo finish's his dinner for today and so do I. Me and Gobo go back to our room and go to sleep.

-5g 10 small herb bags
-8g 3 loafs of bread 1lb of cheese
-10g Room and Board
+10 Small bags of Twin Flowers

X Big Green & Gobo

TLDR: Me and Gobo successfully went to go collect more herbs today. Nothing eventful happened.

We finally get to herb field and start foraging around. Gobo and I have gotten used to finding these type of healing herbs easily now. We got finished collecting our 5 small herb bags quickly and so we had a lot of extra time before lunch. I decided to collect a few bags of the Tri-Flowers, while we had extra time. Collecting this Tri-Flowers took a large timely amount because I couldn't let Gobo collect it, so I had too use my Light magic to slowly dig out each and every flower. Eventually I finished collecting about 5 bags full for Tri-Flower and we start to have our lunch near the riverbed.

UNAPPRAISED APPRAISED

Spoiler: Guild Report

~~~Me and Gobo scoured and searched the market area today, for slimes. We only found 3 near general store and 2 near the grocery store. After, we started asking nearby citizens if they had seen any nearby slimes that needed to by subjugated. Luckily we had a few people ask for our help and led us to their houses, we found our next slime's 4 this way. While collecting slimes cores, we started to notice that a few more slimes then usually were actual trying to get into the sewers. We successfully acquired 6 slime cores from waiting nearby the sewers entrance and waiting for slimes to come to us. It looks like something is going on with the sewers, hopefully you send someone to figure it out. Also hopefully it wouldn't be to consequence that I will be keeping the extra 5 slime cores for my own experiments.

End Report ~~~

Spoiler: Story Report

Me and Gobo wake up and go down the tavern to have ourselves breakfast. We have usually rowdy crowd of people, but it started feeling the norm, I guess. We eventually set off towards the Adventurers Guild, still deciding on what to choose today. I wouldn't want to go through what we went through near the Twin-Flower field again. Me and Gobo enter the Adventurer Guild and start searching for a quest and asking the receptionist for any help that she could give us. With the help of receptionist, we decided on to take the Slime Subjugation quest. It was easy enough for new adventure and it helped with new one's get acclimated to fighting monsters. The only thing we needed to do this quest now is a weapon for Gobo and asked the receptionist to mark our map where the local blacksmith was located at. With that we set-off to the local blacksmith, hopefully to find something for Gobo in return.

We get to the blacksmith and set our eyes on the new shiny weapons on sale. However we also see the prices of these new weapons, something we couldn't afford to buy with our current gold. We try to ask the staff if they had anything cheaper for sell, but unfortunately he told us they just melted down must of there chipped and broken weapons today and too try again later. Me and Gobo left saddened. I had to think of somewhere else where we could acquire Gobo a good piece of equipment for cheap."Hmm...Genial should know". We set off too Genial's store, in hopes that he could help us. Even may be today I had to use that favor card for something today.

"HAHA, the famous duo of Plant and Goblin, what do I owe on this arrival" Genial pronounces throughout the store. I tell of him our problem about Gobo needing a weapon for quest. We see Genial think for a second. "Ah! An easy problem for I the Genial!". He ask if I still had that favor card he gave to us, I answered yes. "Yes just for that favor card I could help you acquire a weapon. Even a Shield!" Genial explained. I answered as fast as I could with Light and let Gobo take out the Favor Card and give it Genial. We saw Genial take the card and go into the back of the store for a while. When he came out, he brought out a smaller then usual buckler with a very short sword carrying it. "Yes the finest should for our duo!". We gladly accepted the small buckler and sword, Gobo the most excited. "Thank you Genial" I wrote out. While Genial had to go too take care of something else, Gobo tried on it's new equipment. Gobo equipment was a perfect fit... almost too perfect? I asked a nearby staff member, on why Genial had a set of of very small shield and sword. The staff explained that Genial once had a failed sales pitch about smaller equipment and about how cheaper it would be to buy and maintain. The one's we had were some of the leftover product he had laying around. Gobo and I were gobsmacked. Well.... At least it fits Gobo fine I guess. Now that we have everything prepared, it was time to start our Slime Subjugation quest!

As were about to leave for Genial's store, a staff memeber got our attention and saw our conversation about our quest with Genial. He explain that a couple of slimes were making a problem for the store and asked if we could take of out it, I answered immediately that we could. The staff member led us towards the back of the building and there we saw 3 slimes just lodging around some boxes covered up. I tell the staff member to go back inside the store and Gobo to wait for me to grab the slime's attention with my Light Magic, so that Gobo could go for the finishing blow. Gobo places me on a nearby box and hides in wait. We being and I try to hit the closest slime as hard as I can with a Whip of Light I conjured up. As I imagined, my attack did to little nothing damage, but at least it got the attention of the slime. The first slime started crawling it's way towards me , just as I wanted. It was getting closer and closer to me, but near Gobo's hiding spot as well. Finally it was close enough, Gobo emerged from his hiding spot and stabbed toward the slime. The shocked slime couldn't react in-time and fell before it could retaliate. It was I and Gobo's first kill. Now we just had to do the same thing 2 more times.

We walk back to the store and show the staff member 3 cores we acquired from the slimes at the back. The staff member thanks us and we set off to find more slimes. I thought that since Genial had slimes may be some other stores had the same problems, so I started walking among the market street and talking to some of the store's staff member to see if they need any help with slimes. Cecila's store had 2 slime and we cleared those out easily, but that was the only store that had any problems. So it was off to look somewhere else for slime cores.

I decided to look around the residential area of the town, to see if any civilians have seen or need help with their slime problems. We walked too the big plaza of the residential area. We notice that people are still weary of Gobo and I, so I told Gobo to take out my Adventurer's Guild Card. I held my Guild Card with Light and also wrote in the air "Helping with slime trouble's. BigGreen&Gobo". We still didn't get any request from the civilians, but at least they weren't that weary from us now. "Hey, Mr. Plant!" a little girl shouted. I saw the little girl and wrote out if she needed any help with dealing with slimes. "Yes! My mommy has been trying to get rid of the slime in our house". I say to her that we could help and eventually she leads us to her house. Her mother's shock when she saw her daughter leading along a goblin holding a plant was quite something. The little girl and I eventually tell her mother that I am here to eliminate her slime problem. The mother leads me too her backyard, showing us a slime crawling just on the shingles of the house. She tells me she has no way to get it down and it has been up there all morning. I tell the mother and daughter to go back in the house and me and Gobo will take care of it. I tell Gobo to get into position and start hiding nearby. When I notice that Gobo is in place, I start to form a bubble of Light around the slime and try to drag it down from the roof. It was quite hard to just try to move the slime, but eventually it falls from the roof. Gobo easily attacks and finishes off the stunned slime and we acquire another slime core. We go back to the front of the house and show them the slime core. "Thank you both for the help and thankfully it wasn't a sewer slime" the mother sighed. We set off to the residential plaza again and try too see if we could help any citizens again. We still had troubles, but however thanks to a little girls enthusiasm about Mr.Plant and Gobo being good people. A few people finally came by about there slime troubles and we eventually acquired another 3 slime cores. We waited at the plaza a little bit longer, but it seemed that no one else needed help. So me and Gobo left to look elsewhere, we also thanked the little girl for the help and told her to get home safely.

I noticed that the people we helped with their slime trouble's always expressed their concerns about slimes about sewers. So I suggested to Gobo that we go and check near the entrance of the Sewers to see if we could get our last slime core near there. I check our map and eventually arrive at the sewer entrance. To our surprise we already see a slime trying to crawl into the sewer entrance. I tell Gobo to do our usual Slime Procedure and to let Gobo hide first. However this time, when I tried to get it's attention with my Light Whip. It didn't bother with me and kept it's slow crawl towards the sewer entrance. We needed a new plan to deal with slime. I told Gobo to get ready to Shield Bash the slime to stun it and then I would try to hold it down with my Light magic, so that Gobo could go for the finishing blow. "1...2...3 GO!". Gobo leapt from his hiding spot and bashed his shield against the slime. The slime got tossed and slammed against the nearby sewer entrance wall and I cast light to try and bind the slime as much as I could. Gobo quickly slashes and kills the slime successfully. "Good job Gobo". We finally have our 10 slime cores, but before our celebration we noticed another slime coming towards the sewer entrance. I guessed that we even though we finished the quest, we might as well deal with the problems. Also I remembered that receptionist talk about how twin-flowers and slime cores were a base of healing potions. I might as well pick a few up for myself and see if i could make something as well. Me and Gobo go with our #2 Slime combo and deal with another 5 slimes and acquire 5 more slime cores. We eventually don't see anymore slimes come towards the sewer entrance, so I decided to was time to return back to the Adventurer's Guild.

We get the Adventurer's Guild and turn in our quest successfully, we also explain the odd situation about the sewer entrance. The receptionist takes note of the strange occurrence and we leave for the Tavern. We finally get a time to rest and fill our stomachs. After dinner we pay Pierre for today's Room and Board and head up to our room. Gobo take's off his new equipment slowly, not wanting to mess it up more then today. I tell Gobo to take a good rest today because tomorrow we will try the Slime Subjugation again. Gobo is quite excited by this and quickly falls asleep on the bed. I look out the window and fall to asleep thinking about tomorrow's adventure.

X Big Green & Gobo

Spoiler: Todays Inventory

Today's Inventory
-Genial's Favor Card
+ 1 Very small buckler
+ 1 Very short sword

+ 5 Slime cores

-10g Room and Board