<div class="floatright">(https://imgur.com/3ccms6L.jpg)</div>The bath was rather uneventful once Tialyn managed to control her urges.  It did feel good to get clean, and when she resummoned her garments they were as freshly laundered and clean as they had been when she'd been in the starting room.  Some bit of code Callie could only assume that said if she was clean, so was her gear.  After that and an obviously scripted goodbye from the bath house keeper, she set off in search of the necromancer trainer as well as a supply shop.  The town wasn't very large so it didn't take her very long to find either.  The small market place was nearby the bath and so she found the supplies she was searching for.  Of course as she was looking at the supplies it seemed that most vendors only had limited amounts of expensive food and drink.<br/><br/>Another mental prompt popped into her head and she instantly understood.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Characters do not need to eat or drink while in game.  Food and drink is available and will provide temporary buffs based on the quality of the food if a character wishes to consume them.  The most basic food, rations, provide a temporary bonus to health.  The most basic drink, water, provides a temporary bonus to magical ability.  Players should be on the look out for unique consumables that can grant an advantage in any difficult situation.  Inns offer a wide variety of consumable food and drink for those willing to spend their points, but special or unique consumables can be found in the world as well.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Of course, just like the redspeckled mushroom she'd found.  Still there were other supplies she could purchase, including cosmetic changes of outfits.  It seemed that most of these vendors had a large supply of basic items and a few more unique items, like the mushrooms, swamp vine braided rope, bottled froglok 'slime', and other things that would be in character for a town on the edge of a swamp or a desert.  In the end she decided to pick up some iron rations and flasks of water, which seemed very reasonable at one gold for five of each.  Trading away two points she was handed the rations and water which immediately dematerialized and went into her inventory.  Another gold for a basic lantern also seemed like a good purchase, especially since it seemed that the sun was beginning it's descent towards the horizon and she didn't know how dark night time would be in this world.<br/><br/>Once she had finished up with that, she moved along and found a small shop clearly marked with a flaming skull.  Instinctively she knew this was the shop she was looking for.  The amount of programming that went into this game to feed information to the players was astounding.  When it wanted to at least.  Apparently the Fireheart company wanted people to spend time out fighting, or fucking, and not mucking about in town too much.  Pushing past the door she was greeted by a man in a chin to floor black and blue cloak, festooned with gems and decorative chains.  "<strong>Greetings adventurer, you seek training in the arts of necromancy?"</strong>The automated script played even as Tialyn stepped through the door.<br/><br/><strong>"I can tell that you are not yet trained in the arts, so I can teach you only the most basic [<em>spells</em>] in my repertoire.  But with time you could learn to wield the most powerful spells that hold dominion over life and death itself.  Or if you have martial training, maybe you wish to learn how to become a [<em>shadow knight</em>] blending the disciplines of warfare and necromancy?   Or perhaps you simply heard that I am looking for adventurers to undertake a minor [<em>quest</em>] for me in exchange for a reward of coin or knowledge?  Of course if you simply need necromatic [<em>supplies</em>] like bone shards or candles, I sell those as well at a reasonable rate."</strong><br/><br/>The way certain words were said seemed to stick out in Tialyn's mind, as if this pre-scripted NPC would react with branching dialogue paths down certain routes.  She doubted that the supplies he would sell would do her any good at her current state of training, but the other options probably had some merit, and this was the first NPC she'd spoken to who'd mentioned a quest.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatright"><div align="center"><em>click to enlarge<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/EiCJ46W.jpg)<br/>Tialyn Luxora</em></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Character:</strong> Tialyn Luxora<br/><strong>RL Name:</strong> Callie Liddle<br/><strong>RL Age:</strong> 20<br/><br/><strong>Score:</strong> 104<br/><strong>Heat:</strong> 29<br/><strong>Hero/Whore:</strong> 0/4<br/><br/><strong>Mental Strength:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Mental Agility:</strong> 5<br/><strong>Mental Discipline:</strong> 2<br/><br/><strong>Items:</strong><br/>Speckled Red Mushrooms x1<br/>Iron Rations x5<br/>Water Flask x5<br/>Basic Lantern x1<br/><br/><strong>Advantages:</strong><br/>i) Intuition - Our heroine might not be book-smart, but she has a knack for figuring things out. ("This is the end that shoots bullets, right?") Beginners sometimes get lucky, after all...And sometimes, on the virtual battlefield, a good guess is better than all the knowledge in the world! <br/>ii) Attractive - No two ways about it...Our heroine's *hot*. She's not just a babe virtually, she's hot IRL too...Which makes her very popular indeed, on both fronts. (The fans seem to love it, and who can blame them?)<br/>iii) Minor Celebrity - Streamer - Callie already has built a decent following on her stream.nn page.  She's going to have a fan base that's going to cheer her on and try to help her in game as supporters instead of going in as an unknown.<br/><br/><strong>Flaws:</strong><br/>i) Vain - It's hard to be a streamer without being just a *bit* of an attention whore. And our girl has it *bad*. She just loves the adulation of her fans...And she's oh-so-willing to do what it takes to keep them interesting. (This isn't just showing off - She's more likely to take risks, even when they'd work against her.)<br/>ii) Trouble Magnet - It happens. If there's a one-in-a-million chance that something could go wrong...It *will*, and she'll probably be right at the heart of it. Things just keep getting drawn to her, one way or another. <br/>iii) Livestreaming - The world is watching her, not just in game, but also her real life as she goes through this lewd quest.  Any failures to her heat rating are going to more severe, as people are seeing that failure on two fronts. <br/><br/><strong>Fetishes:</strong><br/>i) The Gross / Ugly<br/>ii) The Undead<br/>iii) Goblinoids<br/></div></div>