[Monday, Spring 17, 14:45, 18C, Mostly Sunny, Southern breeze]

Freya looks over the team as they arrive. "I hope you're not getting into more trouble."

No ma'am!

Uh, hello Freya! We have returned from shopping. As you see we also acquired everything! Have you seen our cart?

"No I haven't, where did you last see it? We could alert the guards if you wish?" Freya looks concerned.

"We didn't lose it no, actually we got some great discounts" Ashley snickers to herself like a maniac.

"Well that's a relief," Freya says, "I feel like I'm missing some context here."

Alice looks to Ashley.

Hey, did you cause trouble with your summons without inviting me - again??

"No?" Ashley responds innocently, "but I got to see Yulya's wings and that was pretty cool. I don't know what we need a ladder for at this point, she can just fly a rope anywhere we need."

Ah right, Freya!
We need another room for tonight. And also pay for yesterday!
By the way, where's Elizabeth? I got a present for her!

[Freya accepts 2sp for the standard double room.]

Funds remaining:
10cp
11sp
90gp
8pp

"Oh surely, just take a seat and I'll arrange it. Liz is out tonight, this is her night off, but I could get it to her if you won't be here tomorrow morning, otherwise she'll be in tomorrow. Speaking of payment, just keep in mind we do charge for food here, some people tend to forget. So we have a new sign." She points to the standard menu on the wall.

1sp single room (sleeps up to 2)
2sp double room (sleeps up to 4) We can offer this for free because you registered today
2sp regular meal
4cp regular ale
5cp seasonal cider [Spring special blend while supplies last]
1sp regular wine
10gp fine bottle of wine

Washtub 5cp per night
Regular water free
Hot water 1cp per bucket
Soap 2cp
Kitchen available during off-hours when not in use or being cleaned
Ask your server for the entertainment schedule
...more details followed.

N-Nya there was a little trouble at the market Nya some fools tried to steal our goods Nya but guards came Nya and they were scared off Nya!

"Oh dear! Yes, our fair city has been growing lately, and the supplemental aid is running thin at the temple, I'm afraid some people are beginning to become desperate. The guards have increased their efforts but it's a big city."

We bought 2 nice mules Nya and we got a cart for a good price Nya! Ashley and Yulya went to sell our goods Nya and buy more Nya - oh here they come Nya what took you so long Nya?

"Oh! We did some sight seeing and we got to see the Tower of the Many Starred Cloak. That was so fancy! Oh my god it was even more insane inside, so many books."

Freya's eyes brightened, "Oh yes, I've seen it too, they just finished building it, I heard the old one was... less than impressive. If you ever want to reference their vast library, there's a bit of a process to get access but it's well worth it. You can apply once you're silver rank." She's a bit confused, "Did you get a tour?"

Ashley smirks, "Uh, we kinda didn't know anything, we just walked in. We saw Summer in there too she mentioned some kind of membership but no one said anything so we looked around."

"Oh I see, well follow the protocol in the future, I heard they had some royal guests today so you must have slipped in while they were distracted. I'm glad you got to see it. I'll prepare the documents for application to admission when you achieve your silver plates if you like, I'm afraid they only allow magic users however, there's a ward that prevents anyone else from entering."

Freya Nya can we use the kitchen after lunch Nya? We bought ingredients to cook rations Nya!

She glances toward the kitchen, "Yes, you have two hours before I need to start dinner, then again after 20:00 if you agree to clean up. I better get back to work. As you can see it's getting busy and it only goes up from here."



Adventurers are entering and seats are filling up slowly. Freya rushes around and then to the back desk, grabs a key and returns with the room 207 key.

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I got to see Yulya's wings and that was pretty cool

Huh, I didn't know she could fly at all? But I smell you were doing some extraordinary things without me!

Liz is out tonight, this is her night off, but I could get it to her if you won't be here tomorrow morning, otherwise she'll be in tomorrow

Alice nestles with the dung beetle in her Yukata pockets
No it is fine, I will give it to her tomorrow then!

you have two hours before I need to start dinner, then again after 20:00 if you agree to clean up.

Alright! You'll get the cleanest kitchen ever!
Then we should get to work, Cat! I wanna sleep too so we gotta finish this in time!

Alice goes back to the carriage and begins carrying ingredients into the kitchen

It is not that simple! ...and not to be used lightly.

Ashley kindly and cordially agrees with Yulya, understanding the sensitive nature of her abilities and their intricacies, and then pulls out her new book to begin the process of looking for a new spell.




Yulya attempts to hand Freya 4sp for two meals.

"Dear, dinner's not for three more hours, I'll collect it after your food arrives, I'll remember you wanted dinner."

No it is fine, I will give it to her tomorrow then!

Freya acknowledges the decision cordially.

See you later everyone Nya!

Freya waves to everyone then flits off to the next needier group and fulfills her roll as celebrity crush to everyone in the guild.

...

Just as dinner is being served, the guild is full of adventurers of all kinds and a bright light fills the room emanating from a white hole in spacetime about a meter from the ground, it expands rapidly, growing in a standing oval shape until it just touches the ground, at which point the blinding whiteness faded in arcs of blue and white lightning, as if discharging itself into the polished wooden floorboards.

As your eyes adjust to the now very comparably dim space, a woman wearing all white with eyes like torches slowly descends until her feet plant firmly. She seemed slightly off balance but steadies herself.

Suddenly she's gasping for air as if coming up from a deep dive and as she blinked her light emitting eyes her body emanates blue streamers like St. Elmo's fire. The arcs of blue discharge become weaker and fade. In this moment, not a peep was heard, everyone in the guild hall were hyper-focused on this singular being of light.

Freya rushes to her to help her stabilize as her aura slowly fades, again dissipating into the floor and her breathing calmed. She closes her eyes a moment and when she opens them they appear normal.

"Whew." She mustered and an eruption of cheers and murmurs echoed throughout the hall.

Freya takes her shoulder and elbow as she guides her to an empty chair. She seemed to be looking into her eyes and then offerd words of encouragement. The woman in white leather nodded to her unheard prompts and you could tell from Freya's lips she said, "are you sure?"

The woman looked exhausted but otherwise ok and she smiled at Freya then rubbed her eyes, nodding as she did.

Freya pats her on the back and then raised an arm to one of the gawking adventurers, motioning something to her and pointing to the table.

As the animated voices of the hall calm back to a low hum, with the occasional hearty laugh, several patrons have crowded the woman, smiling, patting and hugging her as they did. You could make out one of them saying, "what was it like this time?"

She spoke too softly and others crowded too close to hear her response but the group erupted in 'oohs' and 'ahhs' as if she'd said something profound.

The adventurer pushed her way through and offered a mug of water to the lady in white. She first took a tiny sip of the tankard, then coughed in a fit that almost spilled it. The crowd all watched her intently as she did and she remarked, "I'm ok, I'm ok."

She managed to take another sip and then gasped, "oh god, water, I missed you. I need food too."

Freya places a hand on her shoulder again, "darling, your body needs time to acclimate a little, give it half an hour and I'll bring you a little of everything, and don't drink too much too quickly."

"Thank you," She says, looking exhausted. "Also bring me wine when you can."

They give her space and she began speaking Elfish as she explained her ordeal, her hand gesticulations and her voice became more exaggerated and pronounced as she went, you could only hear bits and pieces of others repeating it in Common, but apparently she'd passed from an elemental inner plane of existence, specifically Air. She described it as a vast void of clouds and few points of respite from the tempest of winds and plasmatic lightning showers.

[There are many planes of existence in the lore, many outside the material plane do not require sustenance as you do not physically age, but as a result, when returning, the need for such is critical, you return completely devoid of anything in you and quickly need water and food or begin to suffer a wasting away of your material body, successively grow exhausted and will die within a day.]

[Please all make your comments and questions or actions about this or the rest of the night and we'll conclude in the next scene with sleep.]

Alice faintly hears cheers from the guild room but is too busy cooking with Cat. Time is sparse.
Alice swiftly cleans and chops up the ingredients for Cat to cook, eating any otherwise inedible leftovers. She places the well-cleaned dung beetle on a pile of fruit peel to feed
Sorry, big guy, Elizabeth's not here today so you'll have to spend the night with me!
Hey Cat, can you hear what's going on out there? Is there some performance or what?

[It's now understood that the money was for the stay, still it's usually paid the morning of checkout.]

With no one caring a lick about the event that took place, Ashley asked Freya what happened.

"What gives with the white chick?"

Freya explains that the woman who just arrived from the elemental plain of air is an Orichalcum plate elemental sorceress, since there's not been a world saving event in decades, also known as the curse of 19, adventurers who want to advance to level 20 must petition their gods directly, on their terms, in their realm. "This usually means... well, they need to sacrifice the flesh of their being and become something else. For a sorceress like me, if I ever achieve that rank and want to continue, and can't save the world of course, I would be given the option to become a fire elemental or even rarer, a demigoddess of the elemental plane: fire."



Ashley thought that she understood, in her case, she'd likely have to die and then haunt the mechathereal demigoddess, "Bah, not really interested."



"That's why many either stay at 19 or drive themselves crazy trying. There simply aren't any adamantium class adventurers and who could even afford to hire them? So anyway, Lelianna visited the plane of her goddess and was rejected in her proposal to keep her life and make the transition to level 20. She will need to decide if she would like to be something akin to an air elemental, but much more powerful, like how a powerful wizard may become a lich."

After dinner, Alice and Cat go back to cooking, Yulya and Ashley are free to go to sleep and Ashley does.

[Ashley paid for her own half-ration's worth of a meal for dinner for 1sp]

[The next scene involves sleeping, so do whatever else you want tonight and check in if there's anything else.]

[If Yulya and Cat ate a meal between them, that would be 2sp, then the room for two nights, another 4sp, so a total of 6sp, please confirm.]

Yulya also pays 1sp for dinner and watches the spectacle for a while until Cat returns to cooking



Give me your backpacks so I can hone blades and arrows while you cook!
Yulya carries everyones equipment up to the room and works on the weapons with Cats whetstone

Two silver are collected in all this night as Yulya and Cat shared a meal. The cooking went well making all that you intended.

In all Ashley spent two hours looking in her book and didn't find what she was looking for but the text was very dense and technical and she wasn't used to most of the symbols. She went up to bed first. [Ashley will learn an appropriate spell as long as she spends at least 8 hours searching and 8 hours learning the spell, it will be awarded at level 4. She will do this during downtime automatically as long as she has her book.]



Yulya followed her, and spent each hour honing 4 arrows for 6 hours. By the time Alice and Cat came to bed, Yulya had the piercing arrows honed and Cat's sword ready. She distributed half the arrows to each of Alice and Cat, along with the blunt arrows, roughly half of them, they had a full set ready to go.

[I have 10 blunt and 10 honed each for Cat and Alice, if you remember differently please correct me. Blunt arrows fly half as far on the high end but are still accurate on the low end.]

Come on, do you guys never break anything? There must be something in this kitchen! Don't make me break things to get my shards!

[Appropriate rolls]

Alice comes up with nothing in terms of shards, the plates are glazed stoneware, the tankards are enamel coated pewter, all the eatery are mild nickle steel, there's really no glass other than the windows of the guild, wine bottles and snifters.



As Freya finishes cleaning the tables she notices Alice looking in the kitchen.

"Whatever are you looking for dear?" She says as she wipes her brow after a hard night's running around.



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