So, can I everyone's silence a no to puzzles? Or have I just driven whatever audiance I had away with my shitty writing?
As you write distance onto the nameplate your vision fractures for a few seconds and then you're back in the derelict mansion. But something is... different as you look around you can't quite tell what it is. Then you realize, it wasn't the place that had changed it was your sight. Your vision is strange and tunneled as if you were seeing things through a looking glass.
As you get used to this strange change, you realize something. You now know what to do with the knowledge that was put into your brain by the tome in the library. You no longer need to perfect that teleport spell because...
you comprehend: here/there
here/there unique cantrip magic can minipulate space to connect things or seperate them
You wait until you've grown accustomed to your new vision. Then, with a flick of your wrist, there is a tearing noise and the same hole that brought you here opens to your dorm. You are tempted to leave, but places like these are supposed to be loaded with treasure and you might want and or need what is on offer. So, with a hum, you stroll down the hall occasionally opening doors to check the contents of the rooms behind them.
Most of them barely even have furniture and none of the rooms you've checked to this point have had any valuables. It's abundantly clear that however grand this place was, it has long since been looted of anything of conventional value. However there are parts that you haven't explored yet. Those parts areinaccessible even to your new powers as parts of the structure lay completely collapsed.
However, you do find something of value to you. There is a hollow sound from one floor panel like there's something underneath it. Planning to visit this place again at a later date and perhaps use it as a hide out, you opt not to ruin the floor by creating a portal to the spot below where you are now. There you find a basement completely cut off from the rest of the house. Unlike other rooms where things were clearly taken, this room is simply unfurnished except for the stand in the middle with a single item on it. It's her umbrella you're sure of it actually scratch that this seems more like a parasoll. You're honestly not sure.
Regardless of useless semantics, this employment is clearly for more than protecting against the weather. The shaft is topped by a surprisingly sharp fleur de lis making it an excellent tool for stabbing it's also supernaturally sturdy, overall this is a superb weapon and that isn't even the most important. The best part is the shaft itself. It's covered in runes of several kinds the majority of which you don't recognise. In other words it's both a bashing weapon, a stabbing weapon, and a wand. In addition it's so stylish, that most people wouldn't see past the vanity of the item to its more practical uses making it a concealable weapon. Needless to say you've struck gold.
(item get: purple lady's parasoll)
purple lady's parasoll: while this is somewhat tangential to your interests, it is in a rich purple that matches your eyes.
weapon type:bash/pierce/wand/concealable
double dice for all spell rolls
Certain that you have everything of use you leave the derelict mansion for now... As you pass through the threshold of your portal you re-enter the library. Except, for some reason, it doesn't feel so wrong to you anymore. It's as if what's happened in the last hour or so you'd passed some sort of initiation and become a part of this world. Regardless, when you turn to the book that gave you knowledge of here and there it is... different, to say the least. FIrst of all. it is several times smaller at least the size of a normal journal now if not slightly smaller. Second, it doesn't look nearly as old as it used to. Finally, there is now a leather strap keeping it closed, the clasp has a recognisable symbol on it: a stylized A in bright silver. Without a second thought you take it.
(Key item get: your spell book)
And with that you return to the mundane world. Or, get closer to it anyway, leaving the library still takes you back to a magical demiplane which is, technically, separated from the world that you consider mundane. Except, it isn't; not to you; not anymore at least.
Nobody seems to notice you as you walk down the stairs into the back into the shoujo building confirming your suspicion that only you can see them. However as you get down from the last step, people start staring. One woman in her 20's actually says "did she just teleport here? What a try hard!" Several people start laughing. Welp, there goes the air in your balloon. Before your social anxiety can push you out of the building and into a pile of blankets in your dorm, a hand snatches yours and you are pulled into an empty room. When you turn around to see who your savior is, who else do you see but Hot Head!
As she closes the door, she turns to you with a confused look on her face before suddenly doing that hand gesture where you put your fist in your hand to signify she's figured out what she was pondering and then greets you in a jovial manner "Hey, you're the girl what was watching my scrap with ice queen the other day right?" she doesn't wait for your answer before continuing "I'm Yolanna, pleased ta meet cha!" You don't often consider people in this manner but as you look at this bright girl maybe five years your junior you get this feeling like you're looking at something worth protecting... It takes you a few seconds to get out a greeting of your own "Anastasia,,,"
After that you talk about a number of things, one of which is the effect of emotion on magic as you'd intended. You are disappointed to learn that there really isn't much to it. The primary explanation that Yolanna herself was given is that when in a state of heightened emotion a mage can temporarily forget their mental limits. The idea that the idea of "this is as much as I can do" being the only thing holding you back from infinite power is laughable, but it is reasonable logic. The body knows instinctively to limit the output of muscles, otherwise they would be destroyed by the stress but there have been documented events where, in a crisis situation, those limits have been lifted. If the body and mind can function in such a way, it stands to reason that the soul and aetherial presence can function in a similar manner. There's even an adage for such things "as above, so below".
An hour later you part ways with another new friend you've made here. It'll be a shame when you move on.
what are you going to do tomorrow (choose four)
[] eat
[] introduce your friends to each other
[] introduce your friends to the things you've found
[] inspect your spell book for information
[] attend a seminar (write in)
[] investigate the library more seriously
[] sleep in
if shoujo what are the lessons based on
nanoha
madoka
fate/kaleid
or something more traditional like
sailor moon or one of
the pretty cures
I lied about pretty cure being anything like sailor moon.