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Re: Ashley's Ranch (Tassadar)
Tass: "I mean, I feel like you have nothing to do with what I came out here for. So long as you fix the body swap shenanigans, I really don't mind spanking you until you find your master again."
RJ:: "No promises." She said, opening a gate, and walking through it, her form shimmering until it looked like it became an odd gas.
Tass: "Uhhh... Take them and lets go," Ashley said, gesturing towards the unconscious ghouls. Unless they were dead, then they just left.
RJ:: Regina and Gobbo looked at each other, before looking at Ashley, and making a brave leap of faith into the portal.
RJ:: Tojiko: "Whelp they're dead."
RJ:: Tojiko: "Or maybe they're not. They could be a lotta things."
Tass: "It's fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine"
RJ:: Upon reaching Valdis' mansion, they discovered that Gobbo and Regina were there, and they were covered in slime. "We fixed it." Regina said with a grin. "Gobbo has seen things." Gobbo said, her face pale.
Tass: "What did you see?" Ashley asked, curious. "And where's the.... Uhh.... Slimy maid girl?"
RJ:: "Lost her." Regina replied. "And we saw... stuff. Really, really odd stuff."
Tass: "Well, uhhh.... We took care of the ghouls, at least. Valdis around?"
RJ:: The bunny thing was in the window, staring at them. Then she started to slap her hand against the window. Over and over again. While staring.
RJ:: Tojiko pushed the door open. "It's open."
Tass: "Uhh.... Hi?"
RJ:: The little bunny thing came downstairs and then looked up at Ashley. "Can I... Eat?" she inquired, looking at the ghouls.
Tass: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... Can you... Go get Valdis for us?"
RJ:: She looked sad, before going upstairs. Valdis came down wearing skeleton pajamas. In the middle of the day. Hard to tell it was day though. "Ah, you were successful? I was certain you'd die."
RJ:: "Well, to fight ghouls and win is no easy feat. I commend you."
Tass: "There was a tentacle maid slime thing."
Tass: "She did weird stuff."
Tass: "Nice PJs."
RJ:: "Nice house break in."
Tass: "Thanks!"
Tass: "Your bunny thing wants to eat the ghouls. It's scary."
RJ:: "I didn't feed her today, that's why. Here's your reward." Ashley gets 1500 gil!
RJ:: "I didn't think you'd bring two, so I guess you can keep the other one."
Tass: "Uhhh.... Well, okay. Should we be worried about the slime maid thing? I think she's a masochist, and might do something dumb to try and find her master who she lost."
RJ:: "I haven't a damned clue of what you're talking about"
Tass: "Well alrighty then. Uhhh, lemme know if you need anything else. See you later Valdis!" And then Ashley left, taking a ghoul with her.
RJ:: And so Ashley left, dragging a ghoul along the ground on her face. It gave her time to examine the powerful creature.
RJ:: Ghoul: Grade C
Mamono Level: 600
Life: D 200
Power: B 400
Intelligence: D 200
Defense: B 400
Skill: C 300
Speed: C 300
Loyalty: A
Tech: C
Special Trait: For every 4 ranks into a skill, gain 1 rank into Crit for free.
Slaughter
Pow 33
B/-/-/E
Basic
Sever
Pow 67
B/D/-/B
Basic
RJ:: (cept loyalty isn't A, it's B)
Tass: Ashley would return home, and wait for the ghoul to wake up.... With assistance nearby of course, in the form of all of her combat ready mamono on standbye in case the undead creature proved uncooperative.
RJ:: Her mamonodex gives a tip: "Ghouls are fundamentally amazing at dealing with highly defensive mamono! Ghouls also double as a frightening power house!"
RJ:: "Beware though, they are their own weakness! A crit will quickly defeat them."
Tass: "Good to know...." Ashley muttered, anaylzing the data.
Tass: She may or may not have had it upside down.
RJ:: The ghoul later woke up. She growled, and lashed out, looking angry.
Tass: "Heyyy - gah! No! Bad!"
RJ:: The ghoul snapped, biting around as her mamono contained it.
Tass: "Hey hey hey hey... Calm down! Can't you even talk!"
RJ:: "Graagh! I won't be caged! I won't be enslaved! You will DIE! And I will DRINK YOUR BLOOD!"
RJ:: "Then you will become like ME"
Tass: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no thanks?" Ashley said, scratching the back of her head. "I'm... Not really looking to put you in a cage. That's not my thing. Do you see anyone else around here in bondage?"
RJ:: "If you hand me a MIRROR, I can see someone who is in bondage!"
Tass: "I mean, Valdis would have fed you to her bunny maid doll thing or experiment on you... And probably actually caged you. They're just here to make sure you don't do exactly what you just said you were gonna do, sooo.... Sort of proving the necessity of that precaution."
RJ:: "BUT I'M STILL CAGED! You can trust me, just let me touch your skin!"
Tass: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Tass: "Nope. Nope. Nope."
Tass: "Not until you calm down anyway."
RJ:: "I AM CALM."
Tass: "Nuh uh~"
RJ:: Ria stepped forth. "I got this."
RJ:: Magic moments later... The ghoul was looking drugged, building a very poorly made sand castle.
RJ:: "A bit of magical super therapy, and she's fine now." Ria nodded.
Tass: "Good job Ria! You're a million bucks!" Ashley said, glancing at the now pacified ghoul. "So... Does she have a name?"
RJ:: "Blurgh... Frozen peas..." The ghoul said.
Tass: "Frozen peas.... Freeze... Frieza! You're gonna be called Frieza!"
RJ:: "Uuuuugh..." the ghoul flopped over.
RJ:: "Aw, she's sleepy." Tiki said, holding both hands over her collarbone.
Tass: "Mmmmm, well, great work Ria. Now... Back to work!" (Ashley is going to upgrade the shop with some of the money she got. There's also any levels her friends acquired from ye adventure, that should be all of the upkeep stuff to worry about.)
RJ:: After completing that task for Valdis, Ashley later received an invitation from the necromancer to return to her house.
Tass: And so she would, wondering what Valdis wanted.
RJ:: "You have proven yourself useful to me. I want to talk." ~Valdis
Tass: "TALKING"
RJ:: Arriving at her home, Valdis invited Ashley to sit in the lounge, into a rather menacing but rather significantly comfortable black leather rocking chair, while Valdis sat in an equivalent chair across the room. "Tell me, what do you know of the entity of Death?"
Tass: "Entity? you mean like... There's something called death here? Big, spooky, skeleton with a scythe and a big cloak?"
Tass: "Did it get turned into a maid too?"
RJ:: "Everything but the scythe, you've got wrong."
RJ:: "She is the being that all souls that do not go to other deities go to when their bodies die. She's sort of the antithesis to what I represent."
Tass: "Oh.... Kay. So, what about 'em?"
RJ:: "I want to subjugate her, and use the souls long lost to further my ambitions."
Tass: "Dude, I'm rank D"
RJ:: "I did not tell you to fight a god, yet. But one day, you might be Rank A like me... Dude."
Tass: "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Well, uhhh.... I dunno, that sounds hard. And really dangerous. What do you want to do with the souls she has?"
RJ:: "Create more experiments. Imagine, recreating the great souls long lost to time, reinventing history, and learning from those whom we cannot speak to any more."
RJ:: "Basically, I want you to help me set up the required steps needed to break through the dimensional barrier between us and the gods, so that we may go into her world. The process will take countless years I estimate, giving you time to prepare."
Tass: "Wow.... Dude.... That's some dream!" Ashley said, amazed. "Well, uhhh, so long as you're not hurting anyone... But, like, if we do actually get there, couldn't you just like... Ask Death to talk to some of those old souls?"
RJ:: "She will probably seek to destroy me instantly. I'm sort of... On her wanted list."
Tass: "Oh.... Well, that's probably a bad plan that will totally result in disaster for everyone! Still, I doubt I could talk you out of it. And, like I said... So long as it isn't hurting good people, I'll help you out with stuff."
RJ:: "Fantastic. I'll keep in touch." she announced. "Oh, and I remembered after you left. Undead do not easily obey mortals. This will allow you to command that ghoul."
RJ:: Ashley acquired a very evil looking necromancer staff.
RJ:: "If you do not know how to weave, find someone who does and let them use this."
Tass: "Spooky.... One of my friends pacified her, but presumably this will help me command her and stuff when she's not around. Also... Could I bring her and maybe a few others around here? You seem to know like, magic stuff, and maybe they could learn something sometime."
RJ:: "Yes, but I will require payment. Then I can teach them a thing or two."
Tass: "Of course, I wouldn't want you to spend your time helping me for nothing. Thanks Valdis! Let me know if you need anything in particular, you know where to find me."
Tass: "Unless I get captured and end up being raped a lot," Ashley said, jokingly.
RJ:: "Never trust an orc..." Valdis' face grew dark when she said that.
RJ:: "Now I feel like going to visit Melpha on a hostile note. Good day."
Tass: "cya~"
Tass: And then, Ashley would stop off to check on her own growing orcish offspring to see how she was doing before returning to her ranch, ready to start the next week of training in preparation.
RJ:: Regina
Mamono Level: 404+12
Life: C 237+6
Power: A 435+10
Intelligence: B 288+8
Defense: E 34+2
Skill: C 224+6
Speed: D 124+4
RJ:: Gobbo
Mamono Level: 397+12
Life: D 132+4
Power: B 272+8
Intelligence: D 102+4
Defense: C 210+6
Skill: C 219+6
Speed: B 276+8
RJ:: Tojiko
Mamono Level: 452+12
Life: C 246+6
Power: C 162+6
Intelligence: B 396+8
Defense: E 80+2
Skill: C 231+6
Speed: E 54+2
RJ:: The orcs she found, were being a general eyesore still to the general population. "One orc is one thing, but it's when they bang those loud drums while I'm performing alchemy... Ugh! So distracting!"
RJ:: Says Ria
Tass: "I don't think they'll listen if I ask them to stop," Ashley replied, apologetically. Though, she did intend originally to go and visit the orc she'd birthed, who had been given the magic to grow rapidly like her other offspring.
RJ:: Ashley also got something in the mail before she went. (Link: http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread....mf.org/bbs/showthread.php?p=898360#post898360
Tass: "Huh....... An amusement park? We'll have to check it out sometime. But first, responsibilities!"
RJ:: Going to visit Queen, the woman would nod, bringing Ashley to a chamber where the orc baby turned into... A lumberjack. She was enjoying living in the woods and cutting down trees. "I have no idea why she took to this."
Tass: "Where did she get the axe?" Ashley asked, having named the orc Draegyn when she was born, from out of a book she'd read once.
RJ:: "She wanted her name to be Timber." Queen stated. "But I can go with yours. I can't tell which name I like less." Queen said flatly.
Tass: "Timber it is!" Ashley said, retconning it in her own mind. "So, uhhh.... I can go see her right?"
RJ:: "WATCH OUT MOMMEH!" cried the orc, as the fake tree fell towards her. Green leaved and wooden branches blocked the window as the illusion fell. "NOOOO! MOMMEH DED! WHYYY" Timber cried. "Her orcish intellect is the same though." Queen noted.
Tass: "Gah!" Ashley said, playing dead for a moment while hiding out of sight. Then she popped up, grinning, "Tadah! All fine!" She ignored Isabella's snide remark, and would play with Timber for a while before inquiring as to when the young orc would be ready to move onto the ranch.
RJ:: "She's ready. To be a lumberjack." Queen stated.
Tass: "Well, obviously~ But she has to LIVE somewhere while lumberjacking, right?"
RJ:: "I hope you have trees."
RJ:: She opened the door, and Timber collapsed on top of Ashley. "OH GAWD MOMMEH, I TAUGHT YOU WER DED!" Timber then cried profusely.
Tass: Ashley would pet Timber on the head, tsking. "Dawww, there there! Mommeh is fine! You'll just have to be more careful when you start chopping down REAL trees!"
RJ:: Suddenly, she had an identity crisis. "T-those wernt real!? WHAT!? BUT I AMASSED ENOUGH WOOD TO BUILD A VILLAGE"
RJ:: She tries to go back into the simulation.
Tass: "It's okay! It's okay! It was just practice! Now though.... You're ready for the REAL THING! The big leauges! A real challenge!" Ashley said, trying to spin it to excite and distract Timber.
RJ:: Timber still looked sad. "My trees were all fake..." She reached for her now non-existent axe. "IT WAS ALL A LIIIIEEEE"
RJ:: She fell to her knees dramatically and cried to the gods above.
RJ:: Queen. "Please, relocate elsewhere. Your disturbing the others that work here."
Tass: "Uhhh.... Shit.... Well, at least I know where she got the axe...." Ashley said, scratching the back of her head. Glancing at Queen, she reached down to comfort her daughter. "C'mon, lets go get you a real axe! One just like the one in the simulation! And real trees1"
RJ:: With a bit of comfort, Timber eventually cheered up when she saw more than just the same type of tree, inquiring about every kind she saw. Her excitement was renewed when she realized there were so many more trees in the world to completely destroy.
Tass: Ashley would explain as best she could, and internally opted to try and remind her to go and see Venice. If Timber had her way, the entire region might end up being deforested.
RJ:: A cockatrice appears, running at great speed to stop in front of Ashley. She gives a winged salute. "Y-y-y-your message delivery Venice service is here! I-I mean, your here is delivery message venice! A-a-a-ahh... W-w-what is your message?"
RJ:: (Link:
Tass: "Oh, hi! I was just going to send it via one of mine, but you're even more convenient! Here, lemme just..." Ashley scribbled out a letter, put in in an envelope, sealed it, and addressed it to Venice. Then, she handed it over. It read:
Tass: Dear Venice,
I hope you are doing well. Things are going well for me, I'm making a lot of headway and making all kinds of new friends! I've even started getting Valdis to like me! Anyway, I'll bore you with the details later, as I'm sure you're busy. I just wanted to know if there was anyone I could contact about maintaining landscaping on my property. I may have come into contact with someone with a propensity for cutting down trees, and I don't know if I'll be able to properly control them. You know me, I try to make people happy, so if there was someone that I could talk to to upkeep the woods around my ranch and maybe help me teach them a bit of restraint, I'd love to get in contact with them.
Otherwise, I'm making progress towards being confident that I can do the match to reach rank C, and trying to help as many people as I can in the meantime. As always, if you ever need anything from me, don't hesitate to ask. Don't hesitate to just stop in for a visit either!
-Love, Ashley.
RJ:: The cockatrice saluted and left. Five minutes later, she returned. "Y-y-y-y-y-your reply!"
RJ:: "That's great to hear! Could you take care of a dryad for me? She's growing too many of her leafy friends."
RJ:: ~Salutations, Venice
RJ:: Attached was a map.
Tass: "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay"
Tass: (Ashley acquires a new mission, presumably.)
RJ:: The Cockatrice wasn't sure how to respond to the joy. She looked like she wanted to leave.
Tass: "You can go."
Tass: "Here's a tip."
Tass: Ashley handed her ten gil.
RJ:: The cockatrice didn't accept. "Oh... I-It's fine, I get paid lots anyway!" she said, vanishing.
Tass: "Alright ladies! We've. Got. WORK TO DO!" Ashley declared, hands on hips as she surveyed her various mamono with a maniacal grin. "I've let Shizuku's troubles sit for too long! Avy, Fiddle, Sparkle, you're with me! The rest of you, better get ready! Once I'm done with this, we're going to do some training to get ready for an even harder challenge! Ria, can this be used to help control Frieza when you're not around?" She held up the staff she'd been given, making sure that it worked as she'd been told it would.
RJ:: Ria gave it a test. "Wow... This staff was made by someone who truly knew what they were doing. I don't even feel like it belongs in my hands."
Tass: "Excellent! Get the hang of it, you'll have to teach me the basics when I get back! On your down time of course~"
RJ:: Ria nodded, and went on her way, leaving Ashley to leave with her crew
Tass: "I mean, I feel like you have nothing to do with what I came out here for. So long as you fix the body swap shenanigans, I really don't mind spanking you until you find your master again."
RJ:: "No promises." She said, opening a gate, and walking through it, her form shimmering until it looked like it became an odd gas.
Tass: "Uhhh... Take them and lets go," Ashley said, gesturing towards the unconscious ghouls. Unless they were dead, then they just left.
RJ:: Regina and Gobbo looked at each other, before looking at Ashley, and making a brave leap of faith into the portal.
RJ:: Tojiko: "Whelp they're dead."
RJ:: Tojiko: "Or maybe they're not. They could be a lotta things."
Tass: "It's fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine"
RJ:: Upon reaching Valdis' mansion, they discovered that Gobbo and Regina were there, and they were covered in slime. "We fixed it." Regina said with a grin. "Gobbo has seen things." Gobbo said, her face pale.
Tass: "What did you see?" Ashley asked, curious. "And where's the.... Uhh.... Slimy maid girl?"
RJ:: "Lost her." Regina replied. "And we saw... stuff. Really, really odd stuff."
Tass: "Well, uhhh.... We took care of the ghouls, at least. Valdis around?"
RJ:: The bunny thing was in the window, staring at them. Then she started to slap her hand against the window. Over and over again. While staring.
RJ:: Tojiko pushed the door open. "It's open."
Tass: "Uhh.... Hi?"
RJ:: The little bunny thing came downstairs and then looked up at Ashley. "Can I... Eat?" she inquired, looking at the ghouls.
Tass: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... Can you... Go get Valdis for us?"
RJ:: She looked sad, before going upstairs. Valdis came down wearing skeleton pajamas. In the middle of the day. Hard to tell it was day though. "Ah, you were successful? I was certain you'd die."
RJ:: "Well, to fight ghouls and win is no easy feat. I commend you."
Tass: "There was a tentacle maid slime thing."
Tass: "She did weird stuff."
Tass: "Nice PJs."
RJ:: "Nice house break in."
Tass: "Thanks!"
Tass: "Your bunny thing wants to eat the ghouls. It's scary."
RJ:: "I didn't feed her today, that's why. Here's your reward." Ashley gets 1500 gil!
RJ:: "I didn't think you'd bring two, so I guess you can keep the other one."
Tass: "Uhhh.... Well, okay. Should we be worried about the slime maid thing? I think she's a masochist, and might do something dumb to try and find her master who she lost."
RJ:: "I haven't a damned clue of what you're talking about"
Tass: "Well alrighty then. Uhhh, lemme know if you need anything else. See you later Valdis!" And then Ashley left, taking a ghoul with her.
RJ:: And so Ashley left, dragging a ghoul along the ground on her face. It gave her time to examine the powerful creature.
RJ:: Ghoul: Grade C
Mamono Level: 600
Life: D 200
Power: B 400
Intelligence: D 200
Defense: B 400
Skill: C 300
Speed: C 300
Loyalty: A
Tech: C
Special Trait: For every 4 ranks into a skill, gain 1 rank into Crit for free.
Slaughter
Pow 33
B/-/-/E
Basic
Sever
Pow 67
B/D/-/B
Basic
RJ:: (cept loyalty isn't A, it's B)
Tass: Ashley would return home, and wait for the ghoul to wake up.... With assistance nearby of course, in the form of all of her combat ready mamono on standbye in case the undead creature proved uncooperative.
RJ:: Her mamonodex gives a tip: "Ghouls are fundamentally amazing at dealing with highly defensive mamono! Ghouls also double as a frightening power house!"
RJ:: "Beware though, they are their own weakness! A crit will quickly defeat them."
Tass: "Good to know...." Ashley muttered, anaylzing the data.
Tass: She may or may not have had it upside down.
RJ:: The ghoul later woke up. She growled, and lashed out, looking angry.
Tass: "Heyyy - gah! No! Bad!"
RJ:: The ghoul snapped, biting around as her mamono contained it.
Tass: "Hey hey hey hey... Calm down! Can't you even talk!"
RJ:: "Graagh! I won't be caged! I won't be enslaved! You will DIE! And I will DRINK YOUR BLOOD!"
RJ:: "Then you will become like ME"
Tass: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no thanks?" Ashley said, scratching the back of her head. "I'm... Not really looking to put you in a cage. That's not my thing. Do you see anyone else around here in bondage?"
RJ:: "If you hand me a MIRROR, I can see someone who is in bondage!"
Tass: "I mean, Valdis would have fed you to her bunny maid doll thing or experiment on you... And probably actually caged you. They're just here to make sure you don't do exactly what you just said you were gonna do, sooo.... Sort of proving the necessity of that precaution."
RJ:: "BUT I'M STILL CAGED! You can trust me, just let me touch your skin!"
Tass: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Tass: "Nope. Nope. Nope."
Tass: "Not until you calm down anyway."
RJ:: "I AM CALM."
Tass: "Nuh uh~"
RJ:: Ria stepped forth. "I got this."
RJ:: Magic moments later... The ghoul was looking drugged, building a very poorly made sand castle.
RJ:: "A bit of magical super therapy, and she's fine now." Ria nodded.
Tass: "Good job Ria! You're a million bucks!" Ashley said, glancing at the now pacified ghoul. "So... Does she have a name?"
RJ:: "Blurgh... Frozen peas..." The ghoul said.
Tass: "Frozen peas.... Freeze... Frieza! You're gonna be called Frieza!"
RJ:: "Uuuuugh..." the ghoul flopped over.
RJ:: "Aw, she's sleepy." Tiki said, holding both hands over her collarbone.
Tass: "Mmmmm, well, great work Ria. Now... Back to work!" (Ashley is going to upgrade the shop with some of the money she got. There's also any levels her friends acquired from ye adventure, that should be all of the upkeep stuff to worry about.)
RJ:: After completing that task for Valdis, Ashley later received an invitation from the necromancer to return to her house.
Tass: And so she would, wondering what Valdis wanted.
RJ:: "You have proven yourself useful to me. I want to talk." ~Valdis
Tass: "TALKING"
RJ:: Arriving at her home, Valdis invited Ashley to sit in the lounge, into a rather menacing but rather significantly comfortable black leather rocking chair, while Valdis sat in an equivalent chair across the room. "Tell me, what do you know of the entity of Death?"
Tass: "Entity? you mean like... There's something called death here? Big, spooky, skeleton with a scythe and a big cloak?"
Tass: "Did it get turned into a maid too?"
RJ:: "Everything but the scythe, you've got wrong."
RJ:: "She is the being that all souls that do not go to other deities go to when their bodies die. She's sort of the antithesis to what I represent."
Tass: "Oh.... Kay. So, what about 'em?"
RJ:: "I want to subjugate her, and use the souls long lost to further my ambitions."
Tass: "Dude, I'm rank D"
RJ:: "I did not tell you to fight a god, yet. But one day, you might be Rank A like me... Dude."
Tass: "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Well, uhhh.... I dunno, that sounds hard. And really dangerous. What do you want to do with the souls she has?"
RJ:: "Create more experiments. Imagine, recreating the great souls long lost to time, reinventing history, and learning from those whom we cannot speak to any more."
RJ:: "Basically, I want you to help me set up the required steps needed to break through the dimensional barrier between us and the gods, so that we may go into her world. The process will take countless years I estimate, giving you time to prepare."
Tass: "Wow.... Dude.... That's some dream!" Ashley said, amazed. "Well, uhhh, so long as you're not hurting anyone... But, like, if we do actually get there, couldn't you just like... Ask Death to talk to some of those old souls?"
RJ:: "She will probably seek to destroy me instantly. I'm sort of... On her wanted list."
Tass: "Oh.... Well, that's probably a bad plan that will totally result in disaster for everyone! Still, I doubt I could talk you out of it. And, like I said... So long as it isn't hurting good people, I'll help you out with stuff."
RJ:: "Fantastic. I'll keep in touch." she announced. "Oh, and I remembered after you left. Undead do not easily obey mortals. This will allow you to command that ghoul."
RJ:: Ashley acquired a very evil looking necromancer staff.
RJ:: "If you do not know how to weave, find someone who does and let them use this."
Tass: "Spooky.... One of my friends pacified her, but presumably this will help me command her and stuff when she's not around. Also... Could I bring her and maybe a few others around here? You seem to know like, magic stuff, and maybe they could learn something sometime."
RJ:: "Yes, but I will require payment. Then I can teach them a thing or two."
Tass: "Of course, I wouldn't want you to spend your time helping me for nothing. Thanks Valdis! Let me know if you need anything in particular, you know where to find me."
Tass: "Unless I get captured and end up being raped a lot," Ashley said, jokingly.
RJ:: "Never trust an orc..." Valdis' face grew dark when she said that.
RJ:: "Now I feel like going to visit Melpha on a hostile note. Good day."
Tass: "cya~"
Tass: And then, Ashley would stop off to check on her own growing orcish offspring to see how she was doing before returning to her ranch, ready to start the next week of training in preparation.
RJ:: Regina
Mamono Level: 404+12
Life: C 237+6
Power: A 435+10
Intelligence: B 288+8
Defense: E 34+2
Skill: C 224+6
Speed: D 124+4
RJ:: Gobbo
Mamono Level: 397+12
Life: D 132+4
Power: B 272+8
Intelligence: D 102+4
Defense: C 210+6
Skill: C 219+6
Speed: B 276+8
RJ:: Tojiko
Mamono Level: 452+12
Life: C 246+6
Power: C 162+6
Intelligence: B 396+8
Defense: E 80+2
Skill: C 231+6
Speed: E 54+2
RJ:: The orcs she found, were being a general eyesore still to the general population. "One orc is one thing, but it's when they bang those loud drums while I'm performing alchemy... Ugh! So distracting!"
RJ:: Says Ria
Tass: "I don't think they'll listen if I ask them to stop," Ashley replied, apologetically. Though, she did intend originally to go and visit the orc she'd birthed, who had been given the magic to grow rapidly like her other offspring.
RJ:: Ashley also got something in the mail before she went. (Link: http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread....mf.org/bbs/showthread.php?p=898360#post898360
Tass: "Huh....... An amusement park? We'll have to check it out sometime. But first, responsibilities!"
RJ:: Going to visit Queen, the woman would nod, bringing Ashley to a chamber where the orc baby turned into... A lumberjack. She was enjoying living in the woods and cutting down trees. "I have no idea why she took to this."
Tass: "Where did she get the axe?" Ashley asked, having named the orc Draegyn when she was born, from out of a book she'd read once.
RJ:: "She wanted her name to be Timber." Queen stated. "But I can go with yours. I can't tell which name I like less." Queen said flatly.
Tass: "Timber it is!" Ashley said, retconning it in her own mind. "So, uhhh.... I can go see her right?"
RJ:: "WATCH OUT MOMMEH!" cried the orc, as the fake tree fell towards her. Green leaved and wooden branches blocked the window as the illusion fell. "NOOOO! MOMMEH DED! WHYYY" Timber cried. "Her orcish intellect is the same though." Queen noted.
Tass: "Gah!" Ashley said, playing dead for a moment while hiding out of sight. Then she popped up, grinning, "Tadah! All fine!" She ignored Isabella's snide remark, and would play with Timber for a while before inquiring as to when the young orc would be ready to move onto the ranch.
RJ:: "She's ready. To be a lumberjack." Queen stated.
Tass: "Well, obviously~ But she has to LIVE somewhere while lumberjacking, right?"
RJ:: "I hope you have trees."
RJ:: She opened the door, and Timber collapsed on top of Ashley. "OH GAWD MOMMEH, I TAUGHT YOU WER DED!" Timber then cried profusely.
Tass: Ashley would pet Timber on the head, tsking. "Dawww, there there! Mommeh is fine! You'll just have to be more careful when you start chopping down REAL trees!"
RJ:: Suddenly, she had an identity crisis. "T-those wernt real!? WHAT!? BUT I AMASSED ENOUGH WOOD TO BUILD A VILLAGE"
RJ:: She tries to go back into the simulation.
Tass: "It's okay! It's okay! It was just practice! Now though.... You're ready for the REAL THING! The big leauges! A real challenge!" Ashley said, trying to spin it to excite and distract Timber.
RJ:: Timber still looked sad. "My trees were all fake..." She reached for her now non-existent axe. "IT WAS ALL A LIIIIEEEE"
RJ:: She fell to her knees dramatically and cried to the gods above.
RJ:: Queen. "Please, relocate elsewhere. Your disturbing the others that work here."
Tass: "Uhhh.... Shit.... Well, at least I know where she got the axe...." Ashley said, scratching the back of her head. Glancing at Queen, she reached down to comfort her daughter. "C'mon, lets go get you a real axe! One just like the one in the simulation! And real trees1"
RJ:: With a bit of comfort, Timber eventually cheered up when she saw more than just the same type of tree, inquiring about every kind she saw. Her excitement was renewed when she realized there were so many more trees in the world to completely destroy.
Tass: Ashley would explain as best she could, and internally opted to try and remind her to go and see Venice. If Timber had her way, the entire region might end up being deforested.
RJ:: A cockatrice appears, running at great speed to stop in front of Ashley. She gives a winged salute. "Y-y-y-your message delivery Venice service is here! I-I mean, your here is delivery message venice! A-a-a-ahh... W-w-what is your message?"
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Tass: "Oh, hi! I was just going to send it via one of mine, but you're even more convenient! Here, lemme just..." Ashley scribbled out a letter, put in in an envelope, sealed it, and addressed it to Venice. Then, she handed it over. It read:
Tass: Dear Venice,
I hope you are doing well. Things are going well for me, I'm making a lot of headway and making all kinds of new friends! I've even started getting Valdis to like me! Anyway, I'll bore you with the details later, as I'm sure you're busy. I just wanted to know if there was anyone I could contact about maintaining landscaping on my property. I may have come into contact with someone with a propensity for cutting down trees, and I don't know if I'll be able to properly control them. You know me, I try to make people happy, so if there was someone that I could talk to to upkeep the woods around my ranch and maybe help me teach them a bit of restraint, I'd love to get in contact with them.
Otherwise, I'm making progress towards being confident that I can do the match to reach rank C, and trying to help as many people as I can in the meantime. As always, if you ever need anything from me, don't hesitate to ask. Don't hesitate to just stop in for a visit either!
-Love, Ashley.
RJ:: The cockatrice saluted and left. Five minutes later, she returned. "Y-y-y-y-y-your reply!"
RJ:: "That's great to hear! Could you take care of a dryad for me? She's growing too many of her leafy friends."
RJ:: ~Salutations, Venice
RJ:: Attached was a map.
Tass: "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay"
Tass: (Ashley acquires a new mission, presumably.)
RJ:: The Cockatrice wasn't sure how to respond to the joy. She looked like she wanted to leave.
Tass: "You can go."
Tass: "Here's a tip."
Tass: Ashley handed her ten gil.
RJ:: The cockatrice didn't accept. "Oh... I-It's fine, I get paid lots anyway!" she said, vanishing.
Tass: "Alright ladies! We've. Got. WORK TO DO!" Ashley declared, hands on hips as she surveyed her various mamono with a maniacal grin. "I've let Shizuku's troubles sit for too long! Avy, Fiddle, Sparkle, you're with me! The rest of you, better get ready! Once I'm done with this, we're going to do some training to get ready for an even harder challenge! Ria, can this be used to help control Frieza when you're not around?" She held up the staff she'd been given, making sure that it worked as she'd been told it would.
RJ:: Ria gave it a test. "Wow... This staff was made by someone who truly knew what they were doing. I don't even feel like it belongs in my hands."
Tass: "Excellent! Get the hang of it, you'll have to teach me the basics when I get back! On your down time of course~"
RJ:: Ria nodded, and went on her way, leaving Ashley to leave with her crew