Notail Simulator Beta (4/4)

"I'll take midnight! =3" You say taking the screeching not reptile in your hands.

"Ok! I'll take speedy then! =3" Your friend tosses speedy in his personal bag while putting the rejected 3 back in the sack and tying it close. You have a short talk and then he leaves.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 13 is rolled.

You're put on bed rest for the rest of the month. Every day S-class kids come to check out your arm and re-bandage it. Younger S-class kids watch the older ones do it so it always feels like an event when they do so.

At night an N-class notail comes in to attempt to check how you're doing mentally. They're not that good at it but you enjoy it when they read you stories from the book of the limbo until you fall asleep. The older N-classes seem very used to the pain, barely flinching when they make a mistake. Some of them even say that they deserve to get shocked when they mess up, it's only right.

The younger ones on the other hand aren't used to it. It gets really awkward when they cry. You'd always hope you wouldn't get any of the younger kids......

And then one day the N-classes stopped coming suddenly. You guess they just forgot about you. A [pushover] like you wasn't going to ask anyone to check why this happened.


You wound heals fine and you're back in action. Your caretakers were hoping you'd try swarming again, but the event caused you to become [cautious] and [easily startled]. Your caretakers are very disappointed because you're still quite wonderful, but you're gaining extremely bad habits and won't socialize.

You're starting to fail some of your quests only because you failed to understand what the quest was asking, and due to you becoming more and more shy you refuse to speak up or ask for help. You become upset every time someone says "You really don't know what this means?" as you wouldn't be asking for help if you knew!

Speaking of people treating you oddly, you noticed that none of the N-classes interact with you anymore. When you come to join them with limbo book reading they instead pack up and say they're going to the church.

And soon they just stopped doing readings outside the church at all.

You try reading the limbo book to yourself but it's not the same.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 14 is rolled.

You keep looting supplies and you're officially [tall]. Your friend is so upset because he's 2 years older than you and you're somehow taller now. You don't know what's in those extra rations but they somehow made you feel slightly faster too.

The next year goes by fairly okish. Yet again your caretakers keep informing you you're forming bad habits, and for the whole year you ignore their advice and explore on your own or with your only friend.

You're 6 now and are completely used to the village and your exploring means you know all the ins and outs of the village, well, except for the church you avoid cause you're still scared of the monster that's apparently in there.

You meet up with your friend today, it seems like he's packing for something. You ask him what he's doing and he holds up a little list with pictures of capture creatures.

"I'm going to hike to the lab a day early so I can make sure to get the capture creature I really want! =3" He says while hopping up and down.

"Oh! Yes today is the day you get your main capture creature. I can't wait till I'm 8 years old! =3"

"Yeah all my current capture creatures are nothing compared to what I'm going to get! Anyway I gotta rush if I want to make sure I'm first in line! =3"

Your friend puts on his bag and rushes out of the door with Speedy quickly rushing behind him.

You follow him too. You don't know what else to do.

When he notices you're following him he stops and turns around. There's something different about his stance right now.

"Same face you can't keep following me around all the time. =3"

You are instantly taken aback by this. You want to ask why but....[pushover]. Thankfully your friend explains anyway. He knows you really well and knows you'd want someone to explain.

"Same face...I....I was told about how the woods are. They're big and scary! There's monsters all over the place! They say it's very important to get friends to help you! =3"

You wring your hands a little. "But you're my friend. =3"

"I'm 8 years old and you're 6 years old. I'm going to be in the woods for 2 years before you get in! =3"

You never even considered that. In two more years your friend is going to be gone and you'll likely never see him again. You wish you could go into the woods with him.

"I have lots of friends now, and you're my best one, but you don't have friends. I don't want you to die. They showed us how kids died and most of them were kids who couldn't find anyone to stay with. One of the M-classes told me I should tell you to stop following me so much so you'll go talk to other kids. So there you go! I'm going now. =3"

Your friend takes a few steps away from you, sighs and stops.
"But if you want to come with me you can. =3"

You don't know what to do. You dearly want to follow your friend to this very important event for him, but maybe your caretakers are right, maybe you need to try branching out.....

But you really don't want to. You don't even know where to start.

Do you follow your friend, or do you stay, and if you stay what are you going to do?