>>921663
Well, Emils should tell Hoor that his new goal should be to help with rehab. Also should mollify him with the information that if this change is handled properly, could give her a real life.

>>921541
This. Hold on for now, no surprises.

to be fair a exosuit Emils could be a good rehab tool if necessary, providing intelligent responses to weak movement attempts while also making sure effort is made, ie not enough assist that Emils is doing the movement for her but, enough that she CAN do the movements.

>>921541
Yeah, do this.

Hold on until she says you can let go.

>>921552
I thought we agreed to not reveal that we're a slime? That seems to be the exact opposite!

>>921773
With Bea alone, maybe. With the boys here, too many people at once.

>>921798
agreed

I keep a hold over her hand, "Once you regain enough control, I'll let go."
I turn over to Hoor, "We left behind some ingredients behind in the kitchen. It should be enough for some lunch, but I am not sure how much. We haven't made ."

"Ah. Sure." Hoor takes Charls and leaves the room, looking worried at Bea on the bed, trying to smile.


"So Beatrice." I start once we're alone.
She looks at me, "It I would probably be a long time if you try to recover on your own."
She looks at me worriedly, and I slowly let go of my control over her mana.
"I can't stay by your side all the time, so you do have to get used to how this feels."

As I retract my control, her breathing quickens as she begins twitching, panicking.
"Whu-" she slurs, but she cuts off, coughing as I finally let go of enough mana to get her moving.
She pushes me over, and struggles off the bed, stumbling on her legs and falling onto the floor.
I continue sitting by the bedside and watch as she shakingly grabs the door and drags herself out.

>Wait
>Follow

>>922979
She has an independent streak alright. Follow but don't interfere. She can ask for your help if she needs it again.

follow

Leave. What else is there to do around here?

Ask if she is angry at you. If she doesn't answer "no" just leave.

>>922980
Yeah. She's acting impulsively, but that's fine as long as we're nearby.

>>922979
Follow.
She is probably feeling pretty terrible right now, so you need to stay with her the entire time.

Is there some way to make a high-quality recording of Flopsy-Bea for later use as humour?

>>922979
Follow

Wait until she's back.

>>922980
This.

Follow.
Monitor her breathing but allow her to continue struggling. Only intervene if her breath stops or becomes exceptionally rapid and shallow.

Encourage her progress and remind her that she safe. You won't let her come to harm.

>>922979
Follow. Offer her a hand, a shoulder and a faint smile - or steady her if she refuses aid, whenever she stumbles. Encourage her.

"You are... impressive."

...

is she panicking because she thinks you just crippled her? Or just... enthusiastic about getting stronger?

I think follow?

Ah Emils, you really need to work on your delivery. Also, this is something you should devote at least a few hours to. Every time you do this sort of thing you learn a great deal about mana and how to manipulate it. It also can't hurt to have a few natives that trust you and owe you.

Follow

I stand and leave the room, following the small hallway.
A trial of fluids on the floor leads into a door at the end of the hall.
I walk towards the door, ignoring the wet floor, and knock.
“Beatrice is that you?”
A muffled “go away” is heard behind the door.
“Are you okay.”
A silent pause, “no, could you ask Hoor here, and take Charls and leave please?”
“Okay.”

I retrace my way into the kitchen, where Hoor is preparing some sandwiches, with Charls already eating one.
“Emils? Is Bea okay?”
“Is said she is not okay. She went into the room at the end of the hallway and asked for your help, and for me and Charls to leave.”

Hoor raises a brow wondering, “the toilet?” before realizing something, “oh.” He sets the sandwich onto a plate, “here, this is yours, could you see yourselves out please?”
Hoor wipes his hands and hangs up his apon before walking out the door.
I grab the sandwich and Charls follows me out.
“I have to go back now,” he tells me as we return to the street, “see you in class.”
Charls waves and eats the last of his sandwich before walking off.

It seems to be close to sunset. I could do one more detour or go back home at this point.
>?

Go home. You should probably check your emergency egress routes, in case people come by asking questions after your recent feats. With nets.

>>923424
>trail of fluids
>Hoor raises a brow wondering, “the toilet?” before realizing something, “oh.”
Oh, because Bea’s muscles are weakened, the muscles necessary for “holding it in” were too weak to “hold it in” and that’s what was all over the floor.

Yeah, that must’ve been embarrassing for her.

>It seems to be close to sunset. I could do one more detour or go back home at this point.
I don’t know where else we could go, so I say that we go home to Victoria. We can be all excited and show her our new [Song] trick that we can do while casting magic!

Oh, and don’t forget to eat your sandwich! Make sure you use your mouth and don’t just absorb it through your hand!

Luckily Emils grew up in the wild (among other things) and doesn't feel shame, so Bea's embarrassment won't be too bad in the long run.

Go home, a lot has happened.

Escort Charls back and talk with Forrest.

Take a scenic route home and eat your sandwich as normal folks would. Make sure you aren't followed.

Perform an Acrobatic fucking pirouette
all the way back to your home

>>922979
follow. help her if she needs it. you are her proverbial safety net.

Since we already weird out everyone and humiliate Bea in front of a classmate she wasn't comfortable sharing this stuff with we should go one step further and weird Charls in the hope he will be to embarrassed to talk about what he saw.

Ask for a favour and lick his fingers.

>>923444
Too late to vote on that update. We’re currently voting on this update: >>923424 .

>>923424
>What do?
Eat sandwich and go home. Tell Victoria about how your day went, but maybe don't tell her about what you did to Bea.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't we agree on wanting to tell Victoria about Lust in the sewers? Did we ever get around to doing that? Or am I mistaken and we agreed to not tell Victoria about that?

Return to Victoria. It is time to bring her in the loop on Lust, though perhaps not on Slime until after the birthday party.

>>923470
Good idea.

Eh, she's not dumb, she knows something is up already so just let her be the one that asks the questions.

On the other hand, fuck being clandestine. Answer any questions she asks, and use the full array of our abilities in any situation where they are useful even if it's going to turn heads.

>>923470
Yeah, tell her about Lust, but wait until after the birthday party to tell her everything else.

>>923482
Drawing too much attention can be bad. Which is why we need to be selective on who we allow to see our abilities.

>>923482
As I recall there is a certain cultural ahhh... mistrust of shapeshifters to the point they were kinda eradicated.

of note, however, if we create a separate natural-form sentient slime persona that is unrelated to Emils that may gain acceptance.
Though if it were to get out that those two were the same entity it would likely cause problems.

>>923470
I don't see the point of telling her this, nor why it has to be right now. What exactly can Victoria do with the information about Lust? Nothing. Unless you want her to tell this to the prince and have them organize a slime extermination expedition.

>>923531
Not THAT part.
The part where Lust explained HOW the world is dying.
Victoria already knows Emils can talk with mana beasts. Explaining that she encountered an ancient mana beast in the sewers reveals no new information about Emils while still passing along critical and actionable intel.

I can see a reason to do it.

I don't feel Emils is ready for this, but at some point we have to start talking to the natives about what we know about the world and what's going to happen to them. This world does not have forever to live and it's not looking like they are just going to develop mana generation the way we need spontaneously before the mana runs out.

Inasmuch as we really have no direction on finding a solution, we seem to have no upper limit on how much emils can grow or honestly even what she can do, so I suggest lacking a better solution, we do what the old administrators did, we gather up what we can, save as many people as we figure we can manage, and blast off into space looking for a planet with mana producing lifeforms.

We aren't going to do that scrabbling in the dirt and doing guild jobs, and learning kid level magic at the local school. We are going to do that by contacting the aristocracy, convincing them this is in their best interests, and then squashing anyone who decides they aren't on board.

Now Emils isn't ready for this, Emils needs to learn how to use their power and they are doing so at amazing rate. They are what, a few weeks old? And suddenly the worlds foremost authority on mana (as far as the natives know anyway)?

So while lying to Victoria isn't the right move, holding off on telling her what's happening is going to hold off the inevitable questions about emils, which eventually will lead to her going back to her aristocratic friends and telling them, which will bring this confrontation to an immediate head. We want her on our side, so we need to be honest, but Emils is not ready to step in front of the power brokers of this world and tell them she's there to save the day.

>>923656
Convincing people to out Emils to the world at large as a dangerous being of untold power belongs in the disthread.

>>923655
Good point. Let’s do that.

>>923656
That's a fair point.

Victoria already has questions, and she's starting to look for answers. That's a soft time limit on how long before the issue gets forced, and if the issue DOES get forced then we won't be able to control how it plays out and our options are going to be severely limited.
The best way to prevent this is to make it so Victoria feels that finding out who and what Emils really is is less important than Emils continuing to act on her own.

To that end, we need to demonstrate two things to Victoria: Trust and utility.
Trust, in that Victoria knows Emils does not have an interest in posing a threat, will act in ways that benefit society, and is willing to cooperate on some level.
Utility, in that Victoria has some understanding of Emils having abilities which are unique and useful.

Basically, Victoria won't press Emils if Emils is too useful to fight and provides too much benefit to alienate.

Providing Victoria with extremely important information which she could never have obtained on her own demonstrates both.

>>923754
Agreed.

>>923655
>>923754
Yes to both of these.

>>923754
agreed x2/3

>>923754
I can agree to this i see the logic

>>926737
Err... everybody is saying to tell Victoria what we learned in the sewers, and not tell her what Emils is.

>>926737
We only said to tell Victoria about what we saw in the sewers. We never said anything about telling her that Emils is a Slime.