Notail Simulator Beta (4/4)

"Yeah, I want him to come. =3"

You get up, dead best friend in hand and walk to the Hawk kid before dumping Midnight onto his lap.

"You carry him. Murderer. =3"

You wanted to say more. You wanted to deck him in the face, maybe even in the mask right where he sat.

But you were so tired. You were only sleeping maybe an hour, two hours tops ago, and you're already so so tired. The I-classes help you on to the back of the Mix-Match and one rides on it as well. As the group heads north the I-classes allow you to stay on for the whole trip, while they swap places time to time to rest.

The Hawk kid is never allowed to rest on the two headed steed and has keep moving. When he lags behind due to being tired the I-classes liked to yell back at him

"You better not dilly dally! (;"
"We don't know if there's Hawk scouts around, and if there are we're pretty sure they would be looking for you, not us. :)"

He'd always quicken his pace right after.



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By the time night started to fall the group had reached the next square on the map and hopefully out of Hawk lands. Ahead was another expansive lake. This would be a good place to camp.

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

The I-classes had the Hawk kid go get items to build a fire with, considering that someone had looted their fire starting kit.

"Well Crane kid. :)"
"You can go ahead and prepare your capture creature. ;)"

For a moment you had no idea what they meant until it clicked that they were implying that you'd get Midnight ready to be cooked.

"................ok. =3"

Before you would start the event, you carefully put one of the floating faces on Midnight. The face doesn't attempt to return to its spot around you like it normally does. It seems the face reacts to animals, but it does nothing to Midnight.

He's still dead.




You would not befoul your lucky pocket knife and instead took out the knife you obtained from the Eagles.

You then skinned your long time pal like you skinned any other creature you killed. You just felt numb at this point. You weren't really thinking but just letting yourself go on autopilot.

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

The skinning goes better than normal and you obtain a gwech hide and a gwech skull. You could build yourself a cape out of the hide and a face out of the skull if you get out of the woods.

The fire is about done when you bring the usable meat over. You let them cook it while you head back to what remained of your pal. You don't really know what to do with it. This would be about the time you bring the body to a trash and just toss it in there like everyone else would do, but as you lack that you just start pulling leaves off the trees and then just dumping them on Midnight's corpse until he's completely covered.

You didn't know what else to do.

It made you feel slightly better.

Out of sight out of mind.

You head back to the fire, the meat was being carefully cooked as to not burn it.

"What were you doing back there? :)"
"Covering Midnight in leaves. =3"
"I think a creature could smell a dead gwech under leaves so that was a bit of a-"
"waste of time. :)(;"
"I didn't do it for that. =3"
"What did you do it for then? :)"
"I dunno. I felt like I couldn't leave Midnight like that. =3"
"That's a little-"
"-weird. :)(;"

Says the teens who can't stop finishing each other's sentences. You shrug at them both, it didn't matter now.

"...H-Hey what's with those faces around you? >=3"

How dare he talk to you.
How dare he decide you and him are on speaking level.

"I'm studying them. =3"

He seems instantly calmer when you talk back to him. Maybe he thinks you forgave him already but you didn't.

"Cool! What do they do? Do you know yet? >=3"

He moves his hand over to touch one of the faces but you grab his wrist and squeeze it without even thinking about it.

"Don't touch anything of mine ever again. =3"

He spends the rest of the night silent while you and the I-classes talk, completely ignoring him. You feel stronger due to eating Midnight's flesh and the I-classes give you a few tips on how to talk to people to get information you need, making you a better speaker.

You do realize you have become extremely possessive of your faces, and you're likely going to be possessive about your capture creatures for now on. You're liable to [Auto-Attack] if anyone puts even one finger on them.



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In the morning you head out to check around the lake for other notails or supplies. The I-classes go look for food considering their shared capture creature requires a lot of it.

You didn't tell Hawk kid to follow you but he does anyway as he assumed he was to assist you with anything you wanted. He lingers far back, close enough for him to not lose you but far enough that you would not become suddenly annoyed with him.

You find a small camp site by the lake but no one is there. You don't want to be rude but you investigate the area. Being highly [Observant] you're able to pick out small details that show that no one has been here for at least a few weeks. You decide that considering the owner of the campsite has been gone for so long that it's ok to loot items.

Fortuna rolls three 20 sided dices. A 14, 7, and 9 is rolled.

You loot one capture creature guide book on taming, one knife, and a few arrows but no bow.

"Hey there's a no....."
Hawk kid tries to talk to you but drifts off as he knows you have no desire to hear him talk. Instead he holds out the paper for you. You'd snatch it out of his hand if that wouldn't rip the paper.

You read the note.

Hey K-16,
I'm going to be heading to the west. Sorry for being so sudden about this! I got some info from one of the kids that for some reason there's a major legendary anomaly next to every lake! I don't know why every lake has an anomaly next to it but I want to see if I can find out. I also want to see what legendary anomaly is near this lake. Seeing as we know it's not to the north or east that means it's south or west, so I'm trying west first.

Should be back in a few days so just wait for me here, that or I'll be back before you're back from checking out that capture creature battle arena to the north east. >:)

- Q-670

Ps: I was able to get the locations of all the lakes from another kid in a trade, here's all the spots on the map they should be on! >:)

You update your map with this info. When you look up you're greeted by Hawk kid holding out another one he found.

This one is from K-16.



Hey Q-670 I got back from the delightful capture creature fights at the forest center, but you were not here when I got back. I read your note and waited but it's been 2 weeks Q-670, you should have been back now.

Hopefully you're alive and reading this note. Maybe you went to check one of the other lakes, but just in case I'm going to be to the west to try and find you. If I cannot I'll come back to camp and stay here for a bit.

If you're reading this note and the camp site is still here, then I am to the west. If you're reading this note and the campsite is gone then I'm going to be checking the other lakes for you.

If that happens ask everywhere you go if they've seen me and tell everyone you're name and which way you're going. That way maybe we'll be able to meet up again.

Hope you're safe and sound. ;)
- K-16




There doesn't seem to be any other notes and from the state of the camp K-16 never got back to the camp. It takes a few days to walk a square and it's at least been two weeks if not more, so K-16 should have been back by now.

The fact that you know these people makes it slightly unsettling that they disappeared, even if they implied they wanted to kill you.

"Uh....>=3"

Hawk kid points down, yet again not speaking as to avoid angering you.

It seems a wild capture creature has appeared! It clacks its fearsome claws at you! You jump back and quickly scan it.

You might have overreacted just a little bit. It's not the most impressive capture creature but......

This is K-16's capture creature. You suddenly remembered how it used to crawl under the tables and climb bookshelves while you were being tutored.

K-16 was a notail of high cleanliness, they cleaned their room without ever being forced to, and yet here their capture creature was covered in dirt and grime as if no one has cleaned it in.......

Weeks.

K-16 would never leave their capture creature behind.

You try to communicate with the braiab and get a basic response.

"DANGER. WEST. ████████"

The last word it tries to convey is either something you don't know, or it has no idea how to convey it. Hawk kid was listening to the braiab mentally as well and meekly says, as if talking quietly was going to make you less angry,

"W-We're not g-going west right.....cause I think what's to the west...you know....killed em..... >=3"
"......My plans were to go north. =3"

You look at the braiab as it flashes mental thoughts about west again. The capture creature clearly wanted you to find its owner.

But considering that both of them haven't come back you're not sure there's going to be anything left to find other than another death.

The braiab was small.

You could just take it and walk away.