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And lb7 beans have been announced! Daybit is the preorder bean

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Dragon of Echigo

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Demon King Nobunaga

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I mean. Let's just hope it stays at four, some Heroic spirits have a ton of different versions as I understand it.

Still, I appreciate the energy here, it's a very 'Highschooler working at a convenience store and questioning their life choices' vibe.

PRIESTESS ARIA: "What's there to question? Lady Suzuka loves it here."

SUZUKA GOZEN: "..."

SUZUKA GOZEN: "...huuu..."

SUZUKA GOZEN: "Yep! Love it~♡"

SALIERI: "...The amount of hostility behind that smile alone..."

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what other jobs are you responsible for, Lady Suzuka?

SUZUKA GOZEN: "Oh, I like, really don't have the time to get into the whole list. I don't really wanna, either. We'll just call it 'management' and leave it at that."

SUZUKA GOZEN: "But I, like… love it. Love this. Working for Tamamo. I mean, we all just love Tamamo here, don't we? We love her so much, there's four of her. Four. As if one wasn't enough."

TAMAMO ARIA: "It's so nice to have good help."

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Madame Fox, who is usually protecting you? Anyone we'd know?

PRIESTESS ARIA: "I don't think you know her… oh, maybe you'll meet, she's the best... I snuck out without her knowing, so she doesn't know I'm gone."

She paused, before swaying a bit in thought.

PRIESTESS ARIA: "But I guess the fact that she didn't catch me sneaking away means that she's actually pretty bad at her job… I should let the others know, she might need to be punished…"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "Ah… yay!"

There wasn't much… discussion after one of you offered to put her on your shoulders. It sort of just happened.

NERO: "Ugh."

KUKULKAN: "Off we go!"

With the PRIESTESS up there now, that somehow made her an even worse navigator as she seemed halfway to falling asleep on your shoulders.

Still, as directionless as it was, it was a nice walk.

At some point, you definitely realized that you were going in circles when following her instructions- and then less 'going in circles' and more just wandering aimlessly, before you reached a break in the trees when you started tuning the PRIESTESS out entirely. You had been walking for about 40 minutes at that point, and so it was nice that you managed to get somewhere.

It was an area of town leading up to a palace. You could see a path that split off, leading to a shrine, and people busting back and forth. The loudest presence was a young woman, with fluffy ears that idly flicked on the top of her head, and a tail that swished back and forth with an air of irritation.

She seemed to be surrounded by a group of people- some of them armed and ready for battle. She turned, looking back at you returning with the PRIESTESS. The expression on her face was… complicated. She mumbled something under her breath.

FOX MAIDEN: "Oh. She's alive."

The young woman, who seemed to be vulpine in a similar-yet-different way than the other foxes you had come across, cleared her throat and fixed her face as she approached, clapping her hands together.

FOX MAIDEN: "Omigosh. Thank goodness, you're alive! Jeez, Priestess! When you just up and disappeared without telling anyone, people assumed the worst! I was just putting together a search party!"

She bowed her head towards you.

FOX MAIDEN: "Thank you all… so much for bringing her back. If our beloved Priestess had gotten slaughtered by bandits or assassins in the woods-- perish the thought-- the Solar Cell would just be at a total loss without her, ahem, immense wisdom. But like, who woulda thought she'd run off like that?"

She gave the small girl a sidelong glance, resting her hands on her hips.

FOX MAIDEN: "I mean, considering how you always oversleep and barely leave your room anyways, it took forever before I realized you were gone! Before then I was totally just like 'well, she's probably just resting'- I mean, you snuck out right after I warned you tensions around the Solar Cell were high, so you instantly doing something so reckless right afterwards? Truly nobody could have seen coming considering you always listen to me."

PRIESTESS ARIA: "You're always looking out for me, Lady Suzuka. You're the best."

FOX MAIDEN: "Yeah, yeah. Well, considering that you're alive- which again, I'm like, soooo happy about- let's get you inside. I'm sure someone as small and usele-- as small and dainty as you would be exhausted after such an intensive day out. I mean, you walked a whole 20 minutes from the palace!"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "I am pretty tired… oh, I should introduce everyone. Lady Suzuka, these are the brave warriors that saved my life and fought off some assassins when you weren't doing your job right."

FOX MAIDEN: "...Uh-huh."

PRIESTESS ARIA: "Brave warriors, this is Suzuka Gozen. She's so sweet. She handles affairs around the Solar Cell, and around Sunbeam Row, and helps me out when I need it. She's like the head of my guard, and my chancellor, and my advisor, and… uhm, I can't remember, but she probably does other stuff."

SUZUKA GOZEN: "Yeah! I love having too many jobs and too little recognition. It's my fav thing ever, forreal!"

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Day 748: To the surprise of nobody (sit down, Odysseus), Kriemhild hit Bond 10 during the first night of MorganFest.

Was hoping for Karnamas, but I suppose this'll do as well.

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Congratulations on your new dragon rider!

She's more than happy to lend you Quetzalcoatlus for a ride if you just ask! Plus you can watch every good-aligned hero lose in duels to her too.

She could crush me and I would thank her - but that's because I trust Quetz to ensure I'd live through it all.

And may I present you with the combined buster/guts enhancement Queztalcoatl can bestow on anyone?

Sorry, I just love her and Siegfried so much I tended to run them both whenever I could.

Could the Quetzalcoatlus also help me find bones? Possible jokes aside, I think I would take up flying on one to distract me from anxiety.

Also sure!

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So, can you point out the path to take you home? We should probably get started before the assassins return.

PRIESTESS ARIA: "It's..."

She looked around with wide, blank eyes, spinning around a few times.

PRIESTESS ARIA: "..."

SALIERI: "Do you not know--"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "This way."

She started walking in... a direction.

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(whispering to Nero)

1. We don't want any tamamo fragments dying right now, best to try and keep her safe. Especially since we know Assassin is around now.

2. visiting the temple is on our to do list, we can check it out while helping.

3. Look at her 🥺🥺🥺 we gotta help 🥺🥺🥺 she's so small I don't even think she could pull out that sword she's carrying 🥺🥺🥺

"I was following you until the last one. Besides! I'm rather petite as well, she's not special. I mean, sure, my perfect frame would be more perfect if I was a tad taller... ugh, nevermind!"

"If she's a vixen like the others, then I'd be careful about fawning over her, lest you end up her supper."

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I like this one, she seems silly. Maybe we can adopt her too, we could set up playdates with the child!

KUKULKAN: "Oh, that sounds fun!"

SALIERI: "The last time you emphatically 'adopted' a child, Invader, you ran off and left us to do all of the work. Besides, we can't just take one of the Lair Servants."

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FRAN: "Uuhh!"

She waved goodbye as you headed out, having made the choice to leave the resting MORDRED in FRAN's care. Thus, you left the Point of Sealing.

Leaving it seemed easier than coming in. It also didn't seem to take as long. You walked upwards through the path, and while it was a bit of a trek, it didn't feel as heavy.

Eventually, you made it outside.

SALIERI: "Well, that was a busy…"

He looked up at the sky, brows raising slightly as the sun shone down through the trees. The feeling was understandable- it had felt like you had spent hours down there. Days, even.

SALIERI: "…Morning? Hm. We still have the rest of the day ahead of us."

KUKULKAN: "Ah- feel that breeze!"

It was nice being back in fresh air again. This place wasn't as bright or cheerful compared to the rest of Sunbeam Row, but it was a drastic departure from the oppressive atmosphere of the Point of Sealing.

NERO: "I feel like I can finally stretch again..."

NERO: "Hm? What's that sound?"

You heard some aggressive voices speaking through the brush.

Following the path towards commotion you heard off in the distance, you saw a scene off to the side, several assassins with their blades drawn, surrounding a young woman. You recognized her, vaguely. For one, she was a fox- one of the foxes, one of the entities that called themselves 'TAMAMO'.

Secondly, you had seen her briefly at SIGURD's banquet. The current acting Priestess, ARIA.

One of the assassins brandished a dagger.

ASSASSIN: "Really, are you a fool? A young lady as important as yourself, just wandering around in the wilderness. With all of the commotion that Saber is making, killing you will drive the tensions in the Solar Cell to a fever pitch! But-- uh, seriously, you didn't bring any guards or anything? You just came out here alone?"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "Well, you know what the say… if you haven't seen a person in three days, then you should pay careful attention to them… or something like that, right? And since everyone's attention is all over the place, I wanted to bring everyone back on track, so I decided to try and vanish for three days so that attention would come back to the Priestess and people would feel good again…"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "It's only been three hours… and it seems like people are looking closer to me if I'm being found like this by so many people… so I think I'm on the right track."

ASSASSIN: "I mean… I think that if you went missing for three days, people would look for you, but that isn't what that proverb means."

PRIESTESS ARIA: "Oh… so I shouldn't have wandered away from the Imperial Palace?"

ASSASSIN: "Well, of course not! Listen, young ladies aren't supposed to wander about like that. Especially not so close to the Point of Sealing, isn't this one of the most dangerous areas in the Solar Cell?"

There were some murmurs from the other assassins.

ASSASSIN: "A naive girl like yourself needs to at least have an entourage before you just blithely wander about."

ASSASSIN: "Right… there's a ton of dangerous stuff out here. You should get back home. Do you remember where it is?"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "I think so. Thank you very much, Lord Ninja."

She turned, beginning to wander away in the opposite direction, as the ASSASSIN's stood and watched. One of them stepped forward, nudging their leading Assassin on the arm.

ASSASSIN: "…Zayd."

The lead ASSASSIN watched the PRIESTESS walk, looked down at his knife, then back at the PRIESTESS, before suddenly shouting--

ASSASSIN: "Gah! W-Wait! You wait right there, girlie! Don't move a muscle!"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "I thought you said I could leave?"

ASSASSIN: "No, you can't leave! We're here to kill you!"

PRIESTESS ARIA: "You are…? Well that's rather scary… can you do it another time, when I'm more prepared?"

You... weren't really sure if this was an urgent situation or not.

KUKULKAN: "What… is happening over there? Should we go help?"

SALIERI: "I'm not entirely sure. I can't tell if she's in control of the situation, or if she's entirely lost the plot..."

NERO: "...Let's just observe for now."

One of the Assassins looked over, before nudging their leader on the arm again, as he looked over.

ASSASSIN: "Gah! She has reinforcements! Fine- we'll retreat... for now! But don't get too cocky, Priestess! And don't wander alone after dark, you could get hurt! I mean… uh, actually, you should do that! Ugh, my head hurts! Assassins, we're going!"

…And like that, they left, disappearing into the shadows.

The PRIESTESS looked over in your direction, before calmly toddling over. She moved without any real sense of worry or urgency, just ambling about like she had all the time in the world.

PRIESTESS ARIA: "…Hello there. Thank you kindly for saving my life, brave heroes."

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you've seen Shadow Servants that were summoned here become stable before? Can.. can you tell us about that?

FRAN: "Uuu-uuhh."

KUKULKAN: "She says there's not much to 'tell'. This place naturally summons Shadow Servants that usually are aimless, aggressive, and dangerous. Sometimes they get summoned a bit more stable, but still dangerous, like that Minotaur- so they need to be beaten ASAP. Sometimes they get summoned, are a bit more stable, but can integrate without causing trouble- like 'the tea lady'... whoever that is."

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Ad lib use with precaution

Don't worry, they're still alive

For Male Ritsuka: Here

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Day 747:

Holy hell, that is a lot. The amount of embers will definitely be going to Quetzalcoatl and Gorgon. Actually, how much regular event currency do I have-

Bruh.

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modern day paro?