Talking back was not a smart idea, especially when her ill timing and indecent behavior earned the mage's scorn already. Still, other than loom over her and stare judging through the eyeless mask, the mage did nothing.<br/><br/>Sera got dressed and her teacher walked her out of the bedroom.<br/>"Gather every book you have, we're taking them all back to the library. You just lost free reading privileges for a month. Then we're going to my sanctum where I will give you proper, educative readings to keep busy with." the whispered voice told the young redhead, not taking any excuses or defiance. The invisible servants already started bringing the books she currently had, starting with the smut novels that gave her the ideas and urges to play and experiment...<br/><br/>Once everything was gathered, Sera was carrying the big towering pile of books as well as a backpack full of them, so heavy she had trouble balancing them and had to be careful not to topple over. The mage activated the teleport circle and brought them both to the great library, with a large table before them, and then bookshelves going just as far as the eye would see in the uncertainly large space. Sera could only guess if this was some massive storage of humanity's knowledge where tomes were stored and saved from the cataclysm, or a demiplane the mage constructed to hoard knowledge. Either way, with the many volumes of lore and several romance novels unloaded from her person, the young woman watched as invisible caretakers started taking the books away one by one, to set them back in their place in the library.<br/><br/>Again, the mage activated the teleport circle, and the pair were transported into the private sanctum of the sorcerer supreme, a complex of many rooms and levels.<br/><br/>"Wait here, I will find the tomes for you." the spellcaster instructed, then disappeared up a stairway... meaning Sera was left alone in the mage's laboratory, with all sorts of magical experiments, a suspicious apparatus of many tubes, levers and buttons, and of course what she suspected to be a secret vault full of enchanted items!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">I have no specific layout planned for the mage's hideout, just that it is full off all kinds of magical stuff imaginable. The vault entrance is hidden and warded by some spells, but there's got to be a way past. If Sera gets in, she can take whatever she wants and hide it in her now empty backpack which functions as a bag of holding but has a significantly smaller storage volume than the usual such bags, since it was made to carry books and study equipment, not adventuring gear and weapons.<br/>Consider this "finding and opening the vault" skill challenge a collaborative storytelling bit. Feel free to describe the things Sera interacts with as you like. Pick a skill, spell, or course of action you'd like Sera to take every post and narrate her actions as well as her surroundings and thoughts on them. Then, in my post based on the set DCs and your roll result, I'll add to the scene and describe the results of the attempt, success or failure. Your goal is to get 6 successes before 3 failures. Each skill can only be attempted once, and failures might have consequences towards Sera.<br/></div></div>