Notail Simulator Beta (4/4)

You make up your plans for this year. You hope you're going to make it count.

You first decide to try your luck with your fellow E-classes. They might think a bit better of you because of your legendary capture creature, but you want to see if you can really make friends with them.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 9 is rolled.

The event is fairly awkward. They don't hate you, in fact many think you would be a good addition to their team, it's just that they keep labeling you as "dumb but strong, a good pack mule." You help them lug stuff around and they're grateful for it, but they don't let you get into the in-depth stuff. On the week long camping trip you and the E-classes in your year go on they have you help with dragging stuff around, building things and scaring off bigger beasts.

Everyone runs to you when they're in danger and the appreciation they give you for helping feels great.

But when it's time to forage for plants, build traps, and contribute plans you're either left behind totally or are only there to hold everyone's stuff. Anytime you ask to join in as soon as you show you need a little help with learning the E-classes pull the thing away from you and don't bother teaching you. They seem to assume you could just learn from watching others.

And......the other kids seem to be able to do that but not you. When you complain the leader of the group, and likely to be leader of your year, E-4 says-

"You're strong! You're the best at being strong! You will do the strong stuff. Trapper E-783 will make the traps cause she's the best at traps. Fisher E-99 will fish cause they're the best at fishing. You are STRONG, so you will do the tasks meant for STRONG people. If we want to survive everyone must do what they're best at. <:]"

"But what if I want to learn something new? =3"

"Then watch the other on your own time until you learn, then you can do it. Until then, you. Will. Be. Doing. The. Strong. Stuff. Understand? <:)"

You wanted to punch E-4 in the face for speaking to you slowly like you wouldn't be able to understand unless they did so. They were right up against you. Their face was inches from yours. They were much smaller than you and much weaker.....

But they had [Intimidation] on their side. No matter how [tall] you were, you felt tiny compared to E-4.

"Understood. =3"

"Good! I'm glad you understand. You'll be a BIG help if you join us in the woods, which you should. I mean I noticed you don't have any friends, and we could be your friends. <:)"

"Yeah.... =3"

The rest of the camping trip goes by amazingly. You guys are a great team. A proper E-class team. This is a team you could see yourself going through the woods with easily.

But even as they compliment you all the time for the tasks you complete, you know that you'll always be the muscle for this team. Maybe E-4 is right. You should be ok with using your talents that none of the others have.

But deep down you feel like there's something wrong with that.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 15 is rolled.

After your week outing with the E-classes you head over to hang out with the Z-classes. You really want to see Z-3894 and make sure he's ok. The Z-classes are quite excited to see you.

For the first time in your life other people are asking YOU for tips, instead of you having to ask others. Not only do the Z-classes love taking care of your legendary, even though they still don't trust you to keep it tame, they're also impressed by Midnight. They want to know your training techniques, what you feed Midnight, even how you groom him. They've never seen a gwech so active and useful as anything other than food storage before.

"Wow if I knew I could train a gwech to be like this I would have caught one before! *w0"

"Such rare colors too! Do you think the genes of this gwech will pass down easily or if it's a recessive trait? o)c"

"No one in town has a wild adult female that isn't related to Midnight. I mean inbreeding might give us way more chances to get the trait but genetic bottle necks, the bane capture creature breeding. We can't go down that route. TvT"

What the ever hating Neo's domain are they talking about, you don't know any of these terms or what kind of plans they're making for Midnight. You heard that Z-classes are really hard to decipher, and that like S-classes they're way more mature than the other classes at an earlier age, but you thought that was a joke.

Despite their odd conversations about capture creature genetics you get along with them and they're happy to explain most concepts to you. Except capture creature breeding.

They tell you you'll understand when you're older.

This is what an 8 year old told you.

You're 9.


You ask the Z-classes if they know where Z-3894 is and they point you to the V-class building, the one shared by the S-classes. You know this building well because that's where you go when you get hurt. You know Z-3894 being in that building could be extremely bad.


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Entering the building you watch as team of S-class kids have a delightful conversation with one of the caretakers over tea, and not 15 feet behind them is an older V-class wrestling an injured lizard that's bigger than her into submission, while the other V-classes chant "GUTS GUTS GUTS." The S-classes just walk around it. They don't even bother to pause for a second to look at it.

You have never seen a better representation of the relationship between S and V-classes in your life.

After asking around you finally find out where Z-3894 is. He's sitting in front of one of the recovery cages. When he sees you, he gets up. You're ready for him to yell at you.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 16 is rolled.

"Hi E-2739! I'm glad to see that you're ok! XwX"

"What? I should be the one saying that! Sorry about putting you and Birdy in harms way..... =3"

"It's ok! XwX"

Seeing Z-3894 being able to forgive you after you put him and his capture creature in danger makes you second guess people. Maybe you shouldn't be as [unforgiving] as you've been for the past few years.

"How is Birdy doing? =3"

Z-3894 looks at the cage.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 9 is rolled.

"Birdy is doing ok. Birdy got badly hurt, but they say Birdy is going to be back to full strength in 2 more months, that'll give me enough time to train her for the woods! XwX"

"That's good! The Z-classes have been helping me keep Slither's tamed. Slithers is going to be useful in the woods as long as I can keep them docile. =3"

"Yeah that's going to be hard but I'm sure you can do it! We'll be going into the woods at the same time. Hopefully we see each other in there, maybe we can team up time to time. XwX"

"Yeah that would be great! I was wondering if it was ok if I joined you and your friends into the woods. =3"

"Huh? Aren't you going to go in with the E-class swarm? XwX"

You think about that camping trip. Even though you didn't feel great about the way they refused to teach you anything, you did do amazingly in it and they did appreciate you......

"Uh, I just want to ask just in case I mess up and they don't want to let me in again. =3"

"Well I think my friends would be ok with you coming, they don't care that you're blessed seeing as I am as well, so if you want you can come! XwX"

"Thank you Z-3894! I'll tell you if I need to join. I hope Birdy heals up soon so you can start training! =3"

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 17 is rolled.

And with that you part. You visit the Z-classes and Z-3894 all the time, mainly to train and learn about capture creatures. You find yourself wishing you were born a Z-class, you feel you fit in with them more than your fellow E-classes.

This system where you have to be what you're born into was starting to get tiring to you. You've only seen G-classes complain about the class they were born into and that's only because they wanted to be "One of the special classes." Everyone else seemed so natural in their classes, was it just you who was an outlier or did people just keep their disappointment in not being in control of what their class letter was on the inside?

Maybe someone wrote the wrong letter on you and there's some Z or Lone-E out there who's feeling the same thing as you.

Either way, even though E-4 has been noticing you've been ditching camping swarms to go hang out with Z-classes they don't say anything other than "You know where you're supposed to belong. <:)"

You don't know if that was E-4 approving of you doing what you love, or a threat.


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You investigate your anomaly capture creature and finally find a notail willing to put on the face and it......does nothing.

This is an interesting development. It seems the faces aren't meant to be put on notails. Who in the world are they supposed to be placed on then?

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 12 is rolled.

Midnight is being trained just like before. There's really not much to it, Midnight is your best capture creature currently in terms of listening to you and your commands.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 3 is rolled.

On the other hand Slithers attempts multiple time to attack either you or others. Slithers nearly escapes one day and had a Z-class not used their bird capture creature to tie a rope around Slithers they would have surely gotten away. You can't let Slithers travel around with you in the village anymore. Slithers now has to stay with the Z-classes. They're still yours but you can only work with them in that area.

Most of the Z-classes aren't surprised. You're not a Z-class like them so while you're able to work with creatures like Midnight they don't expect you to ever have full control over Slithers.

Some gossip about how they're sure that Slithers is bound to break out of your control in the woods and gobble you up.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 18 is rolled.

This is your last year with your tutors. You're really starting to pickup on harder concepts now. They tell you it's not really harder concepts, more like concepts a 7 year old should know but hey you're catching up so that's nice.

Fortuna rolls a 20 sided die. A 7 is rolled.

By accident, at your last tutoring session you lash out at your tutors. Both of them are pretty done with you. While it was nice of them to tutor you, the reason they started doing this still annoyed you. On the other hand you've been awfully snippy at them for years, even when they weren't trying to pick at your brain for anomaly facts.

The last thing they said as they walked out the door was.

"Can't wait to pick at your brain some more one day. ;)"

"Yeah! With a knife this time and your actual brain! We're going to find out what makes you freaks tic and stop you from messing with anyone else with your blessings! >:)"

It's safe to say you ended this on the wrong foot.

One more day.

One more day until you head out into the woods. You make sure you have all of your stuff packed and that your creatures and yourself are in good health. Tomorrow there's going to be some big speech they do for every round, hand you some starting supplies, and then they'll let you free.

Along with the supplies they also allow you to get a new face if you want it. You don't know if you want a new face, most notails do get animal faces so it might help you fit in to have one too.

You look at the face your friend left you. You could just swap faces too.


The other thing you have to worry about is if you'll be joining E-4 and their group, or Z-3894 and his friends. While E-4 would be the safest choice, you feel more at home with Z-3894. You remember one of the caretakers saying the woods is about surviving, not making friends. It's about finding co-workers who are going to have your back and hold up their end with no complaints. If you just happen to like them that's a plus.

You're not sure if you want to follow that advice though. You could also always just go in alone and either stay alone or try to form a new group if need be too.