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Awesome. It's all RP to read through and respond where you'd like.

Bonds might be interesting to try out. (Probably Raquel to start, if @Dmbrainiac wants.)

For NPCs, Piphany is making all sorts of impressions on Grace. But the mention of "rehab" shifted Grace’s impression of her favorably. (I think Piphany is not a fan of Grace though!)

This is stuff I will worry about after vacation. (Tomorrow to the 7th.)

Bonds don't exactly require permission to establish. Emotions can be mutual or one-sided (and thus very dramatic). Have a good vacation!

I think a mutual positive bond with Grace makes sense. :D

I want to level up now and choose my crafting subclass. How does this work? I do not mind having a bond with anyone, my character is friendly in general.

I put a little drop down in the Database about the layout & uses of the User Interface.

@Alepous You said you'd wanted your SubClass to be Blacksmith. Done. That'd be something he picked up during the Tutorial, I think.
Having Blacksmith as Fren's SubClass would give him these 3 Skills: Craft Item, Refine Materials, & Repair Item. These skills would be necessarily limited to things a Blacksmith could make or repair and fairly simple things at Fren's current level. The next Skill he would have available for the Blacksmith SubClass is Recipe Ledger; this skill has (10) ten Recipe slots available for items he can learn to make. Recipes can be learned at NPC Blacksmith shops (for a fee, of course) but are retained permanently thereafter. Some appropriate monsters can also drop rare Recipes...
There's undoubtedly a blacksmith in the village of Fren wants to stop by while some are bathing or pursuing other things before the evening meal.

Aaah, I thought I have to choose only one of the three. Ok. I wil visit the blacksmith if there is still day time.

Fren drinking his tea

[youtube]https://youtube.com/shorts/yqg767T_IsE?si=HN_YL28-z8fXZezM[/youtube]

SubClasses front load a lot of their main skills and leave the subsequent choices for expanding the range of those abilities. For Blacksmith, Item Recipes are the base expansion but at higher levels can choose to add Armorsmith or Sword Maker to further expand their repertoire.

My vacation spot was probably similar to Belle in some ways. Rural, lots of orange flowers in front of farm houses (tiger lilies), and even one moment in which my wife had Piphany’s reaction to the manure smell.

I grew up around farms, to the extent that most of my hayrides were to help an elderly farmer stack bails as they were catapulted (sometimes missing the wagon), so like Grace, the unpleasant odor wasn’t overwhelming.

Some AI fan art of Raquel and Grace together. :)

@witchdoctor I goofed an posted my GM post in your game. Not sure how I managed that. (I guess I closed the window on my own game instead of yours.)

Anyway, I can’t delete the post and Grace already talked a lot, so I will ask you to kindly delete the errant post. Sorry for the trouble!

Sure thing!

Anyone here ever hear of a comic about an MMO that’s about to shut down?I’m a teacher, and the comic is one of the optional assignments that comes with the reading program. I was thinking of it when Grace contemplated staying in the game world (but played it differently IC since it’s not a comic my character would’ve read).

Thanks for sharing the link to the comic. It's an interesting concept. I really enjoyed reading it. What did your students think of this reading assigment?

That's a pretty heavy burden to lay on someone. I'm pretty sure that counts as an existential crisis! It's also pretty applicable to the PC's current situation. Thanks for posting that up!

I haven’t actually used the story yet. I teach English as a Second Language, so when it comes to supplementary materials, I need to be mindful of proficiency levels.

I have three classes that should be able to handle it, so I might use it this Fall.

I'll have to read the comic myself when I am in a better headspace. Thanks for sharing.