On the Road to Elspar [Book 1] (Dryad Mercenary Schoolgirl Quest)
- Thread starter Kei
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
- Location
- Nebraska
My guess is she has been waiting for Neianne to be there in person for maximum amusement.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Get her all dressed up in the dress and tell them while their at dinner pouring the dressing.
- Location
- Nebraska
I imagine she starts it off with something like "Neianne doesn't rip off anyone's dresses but her own".
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
I like this lake. Umi da or we riot.
RIOT
RIOT
Or we could just come back with the rest of the squad.
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Bully Neianne is fine as expected.
That philosophy depends on having the higher stopping point!
I want to see this duel.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
In defence of the class traitors, she's also pretty.
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- Location
- Austria
In defence of the class traitors, she's also pretty.
A matter of taste. I kind of find it hard to consider maniac who can fry me on a whim pretty, but if you are into abusive people feared by their own family, well I aint gonna kinkshame.
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Abuse is hot when performed by a smol person capable of energy attacks?
Anime can't lie!
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
Well if you put it that way. You're absolutely right. Neianne deserves better. Liz may be a bad match for our smol Dryad. Who do you think we should pick?
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- Location
- PA
Well, perhaps Azelea, what with also being a Dryad, able to ease the change in social status, a healer to Neianne's tank...
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
It is instructive, I think, to note how frequently the narration compares Elizabeth to a cat. This may go some way to understanding the appeal.
Mother Nyx
Mother of Elpis
- Location
- The Kei Klub
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Also, Lisa's family isn't afraid of her. That's not how that comes off. Her sisters actually seem to want her approval.
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Hm. A little from column A, a little from column B, I think? Anya and Diana seem more... aware of her than scared shitless or anything. Like, they seen to intrinsically know the difference between mercilessly-teasing-onee-sama (Anja just whines "Elizabeth!" when she starts quoting her embarrassing novels to Neianne) vs "she'll be pissed off if we don't shut up and listen."
In addition to Elizabeth being scary, someday she is also going to be the head of their house and hold a substantial sway over them, if they haven't married out by that point (how, precisely, that works with the all-lesbian-feudalism setting as of yet hasn't been clarified). She's in a position of notional authority over them in their family's hierarchy and when she's Viscountess, that quite possible stops being notional. There's more at play there than just simply the way she treats them.
That being said...
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Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
- Location
- Behind you~
That's what being a kept woman is like, Neianne.
Sure, she's had plenty of time to hear in between harvest gossip and fending off starstruck village girls.
I...y'know, she's not wrong.
Beep beep, insufficient patriotism detected, deploying correction tasers~
What a fancy way of saying NIMBY.
Ohhhhhhh snap, I felt that one from here.
*snickers* Oh my, down this conversation branch lies -danger-.
...you really are... XD
I assure you Elizabeth, the birds and squirrels were quite perturbed!
The elf girls, duh.
Elizabeth is clearly from the Azula school of Big Sistering.
Look, just don't harm the books in the course of the duel itself or else Yomiko will get angry!
But she's already also a Dark element mage, so wouldn't it be four elements?
*squints*
Elizabeth, are you...-bragging- about your desired girlfriend?
My off the cuff WAG is that if there's a logical explanation, it's because fire starts a destructive process that would take more energy than already invested to reverse.
To be fair Neianne, if you didn't want funny looks then maybe you shouldn't have specialist in assault shields as a weapon.
It can still be both!
Run far, run fast Neianne. (It's already too late.)
...but she can tear off gifted ones?
And if you want it to be reusable, there's this girl named Luvia who wears outfits with detachable sleeves. I'm sure that can be modified for all over!
*fleeees*
Also, let us take another moment to be SO jealous of smol girl who eats whatever she wants.
One day, teasing Neianne will be a national pastime.
*opens mouth*
*closes mouth*
No, too easy.
I thought the given explanation worked. Ice spells create ice magically. Ice, unless its exceptionally cold, does not cause more ice to form, though it may condense water
I... don't think the given explanation says what you think it does?
I might not be parsing it correctly, but it seems like ice magic is being seen as - to use a D&D analogy - a Transmutation or Conjuration spell rather than an Evocation spell, and thus "of course" it wears off; whereas you (and I) are inclined to see it as simply water naturally returning to that state once the outside influence keeping it frozen is removed.
Think I'd be very interested in seeing what happens if you, say, melt metal with a fire spell rather than burn something, and then dismiss the magic.
There's probably similar experiments that could be performed with lightning and manipulating charges, actually, which might tell us something about why Elizabeth isn't fond of the standard explanation.
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The explanation says the ice is either Transmuted from existing water/air, or Conjured as artificial ice. In both cases, you now have a 0 degree block of solid matter.
However, ice doesn't leach away heat that dramatically(mostly because even a small fire is much higher above room temperature than ice is below room temperature), if you want ice to spread you need to transmute/conjure it at -20 degrees or so to have any hope of leaving ice shards behind.
Hmm...maybe if you conjured snow and salt.
- Location
- Red Blood on Golden Shield
Soo... does the thread knows what secondary weapon does it want to pick?
I wonder what build is it aiming for...
I wonder what build is it aiming for...
- Location
- Nova Scotia
- Pronouns
- She/Her
All practicality and balance and I-will-not-be-voting aside, I am inordinately tickled by the image of Neianne sheepishly walking out with a second huge weapon. The reactions would be kind of amazing.
AnonymousRabbit
Rabbit Faced
Maybe a long knife. For emergencies.
cB557
voOOP
The practicality of a knife or knives that won't add too much carrying weight on after our already heavy greatsword, and will give us a backup option in engagements too close or cramped to comfortably use our greatsword does appeal to me.
Straight sword, some manner of polearm, a bow, or whichever was the magic option (tome, unless staff is like a mage staff? maybe both are magic?) are all probably more of my usual sort of preference, but they all seem a bit awkward paired with a greatsword.
Straight sword, some manner of polearm, a bow, or whichever was the magic option (tome, unless staff is like a mage staff? maybe both are magic?) are all probably more of my usual sort of preference, but they all seem a bit awkward paired with a greatsword.