Lilith Game [Crossover/CCG Quest]

[Happerry]

[X] More Questions?
--- [X] Any way to tell if someone's been carded?
--- [X] What are heartstones?
--- [X] Heads up, the fairies didn't seem at all furtive about "collaring" their victims.


"Understandable.." You admit with a nod. "Though speaking of help, just to make sure, people can't just look at Mami and go 'oh hey someone who got carded or anything, right?"

Minori might still be resting her face in her hands, but she still manages to shake her head. "No. Not casually, at least. Sufficiently high quality active scanning effects might be able to, but if you've got someone to hit you with those anyway.."

Considering that for a moment, you have to shrug. It is true, after all, if people get suspicious enough to start actively waving sensory effects directly at you, they're probably going to find something...

"Alright then, that is a relief.. As fair warning however, the Fey.. weren't seeming to be treating the whole heartstone thing as anything unusual, so.. take that for whatever it means." Kojoro sighs. "Wonderful. Right, thanks for telling us.."

Smilling, you wave it off. "No worries.. I live here too after all. Though speaking of heartstones.. what are they, anyway?"

Mami stirs. "They looked.. Master, remember my anchor?"

You double take as you realize that those things do look a lot like the image on the Soul Anchor card, stylistically speaking. "Oh my."

Minori frowns. "While I don't know what that means, I can tell you that heartstone's are, as far as I know.. a crystallized bit of the 'donator's' soul. An important bit, that offers you.. much influence over whoever it is even if you don't know any control spells to key to it. They are.. not good news at all."

"I'll have to agree on that.." You say. "Well, I do hope this is taken care of soon, but.. Honestly, you two probably could use some more time together, and I want to get out of here before anyone else shows up. As such, I'll leave you two to share the bad news while I vanish like a ninja."

Kojoro nods, her hand going to hold her sisters. "..Yah.. And.. Thank you for getting me out and not keeping me.. We owe you.. So.. thank you again. If you need something.."

You nod. "I'll remember that, even if I hope I won't ever need it.." As Mami returns to being a card and you pocket her.

Leaving the room, and leaving the sisters to do.. whatever sisters do together after one almost gets kidnapped by the fey (And just in time as you see another supervisor type person heading in the direction of Minori's room..), you return to your room.

Now, what did you want to do next again.. Right, the Bottle Fey.

And so, after locking your door, you get the nine bottled very minor fairies and set them on your table.. You know, you could just card them all, you realise. They count as belonging to you right now, and you can probably just threaten them into not resisting.. But do you really want to do that?

[ ] No, you should talk to them. Willing allies/minions that aren't limited by your ability to summon them from the cards could be very useful.
- [ ] Topic?
[ ] Just card the lot of them, it'll be simpler.

 

[Happerry]

[X] No, you should talk to them. Willing allies/minions that aren't limited by your ability to summon them from the cards could be very useful.
-[X] Do you have TV and videogames? If they might get mischievous, see if you can at least get them interested in something that can keep them occupied that doesn't involve malevolent practical jokes on real people. Make small talk through the bottles while you play a videogame, maybe, and poll them for advice sometimes? Not that character choices have a whole lot of impact on branching stories or anything these days, of course.

Looking at the lesser fey, the blank card in your possession seems to pulse hungrily at the thought of carding. Your hand is already almost to your pocket before you catch yourself. No. Carding someone.. Some people just because you can.. You don't want to go down that path. That is the path of cheesy supervillainism and being horribly beaten up by heroes.

You'll take another path. To be precise.. Looking down at the fairy that all the other ones seem to be glancing at nervously, you ask.. "So, what are your names, anyway?"

The fairy seems to take a deep breath. Well, you think so. She's a bit small, so its hard to tell. "My name is Fara, Master." You raise an eyebrow. "Calling me master already? We haven't even talked about working.." Now she looks scared. "You're.. going to just dump us?"

Blinking, you shake your head. "No.. But really, the first time I met any fey was at the party I.. well, won you all at. I wanted to talk to you about what was going to happen, so it was a little surprising to have you go immediately for the M word."

She nods. "Well.. You did win us. And you're important enough, or powerful enough, that Lord Glitterpuff was willing to deal with you. Besides, if we did run away, where would we go? This isn't our native court, and we have no allies here... and from what it sounds like, the locals are pretty up in arms right now. You're human. You don't have minions yet, besides the scary blond. That's a good opportunity."

"Fair enough." You accept. "So, if you all did work for me, what would you actually do?"

Fara smiles. "Well, besides the fact that most ungifted mortals can't see, us, making us useful guards, watchers, scouts, spies, and messengers? We're also a source of fairy dust, several of us have skills as basic lab assistants, and since you seem to be new at this we do know basic lore about.. well most subjects. You'd be amazed at what people will gossip about when they can't see you.."

Grinning yourself, you nod. "All of that sounds quite useful, I must admit, but let's put that 'give advice' thing to the test. You see, here I have this top of the line gaming machine, and over here, I have this nice top of the line game. I shall now play the game, and you shall advise me in playing it. Sound good?"

After some glancing at each other and shrugging, they give their general agreement.

They.. well, they give sensible sounding advise.. but most of them seem to be running on some really strange misunderstandings of how games like this actually, well, work. Only Fara, and another fairy who calls herself Coda, seem to actually understand it.. And therefor are the only ones who give good advice Still, they're good at making you giggle, and none of them seem outright like idiots or suffer from any immediately obvious personality flaws, so.. well, good enough, you guess?

Of course, now that you've decided to let them out and not card them, you'll need to figure out some living arrangements.. for now you've just left a drawer open, with an old towel covering the bottem and some smaller cloths for blankets or whatever, but.. well, you'd be ashamed to have any minion living like that for long.

Afterwards though, looking at the clock.. wow, you spent almost all morning on this! It's pretty much noon. You really need to get around to talking to Junko and the other girl, whatever her name is, soon.. Picking up their heartstones, you give the hows a few moments of thought.

[ ] Give them the urge to come to you? Probably easily doable, but do you really want to have them show up at your place? The easiest on you over the short term though..
[ ] Meet them at the cafeteria. Everyone needs lunch, right? It'd be easy to give them the unbreakable impulse to meet you there..
[ ] But still, that would be using their heartstones to force them to do stuff. Much more polite to use said stones to go hunt them down yourselves, the manual way. Maybe the lesser fey could be useful for this? It might take you some time indeed though, and if they've got caught up in something..

And speaking of the lesser fey, should you take Fara (She seems to be the boss of the group), and maybe one or two more with you? It would let them get a better look at the campus, and they might prove useful, but do you really want to risk being seen with them? For that matter, is being seen with them a bad thing?
[ ] Take some with you.
[ ] Leave them behind.