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Other side of town is a breeze. I should have come here first. Or maybe the levels just make it that much easier. Either way, I change a light bulb, I pick up a carrot delivery, and I find a walled-in place on the far reaches of our territory that seems like some kind of wildlife preserve. Whatever it is, the guards are total snots to us and chase us off.

Level 10/11 now, and my quartz levels up for two characters. Neat. I'm going to have to look into actually configuring my choices intelligently soon. Right now I just have some of the magic-oriented orbments on Eliot and Alisa, and mostly passive stat bonuses on Rean and Laura. Hopefully I'll be able to unlock a few more lines now.

In town, I accidentally turn in the required quest before the optional and have a brief panic that it's going to advance without giving me the chance. Thankfully, it lets me proceed, and then before I enter the inn, there's a scuffle at the market which leads me to meeting Market Master Otto. (Sounds like a DJ name.) He rambles about the difficulties with Jusis's dad, Lord Albireo. Between tariffs and the guards shirking their duties, Laura looks like she wants to start snapping 2x4's with her bare hands.

Sara meets us outside and announces she's leaving to check in on Group B. Somehow she knows they're in trouble. Clearly they have orbal radios, but that kind of communication seems above the scope of what's available here, so I'm certainly curious about that. What I remember of the bracer guild in TitS, I think they had something like a telegraph, but there's no central place where that would obviously be set up here. OTOH, Mix Master Otto got all our tasks ready for us, so he must have been in communication with Sara. Either way, she takes off on the train, late in the evening, looking perfectly sober.

The group muses about how she must know a lot more than she puts on, and then waxes about the nature of Class VII. Rean asks why everyone else enrolled, and then dodges the question when it comes back to him. Laura approaches him after about his sword technique, accusing him of holding back. Turns out Rean studied an eastern style of swordsmanship, but claims he dropped out and he's simply not very good. Laura is massively disappointed, but she masks it by pushing her contempt onto Rean and saying she's going to go practice by herself and you go run along and do your reports with the others rather than sparring with me. Other than Eliot, who's completely transparent, each of our group members is keeping a part of themselves private. Rean is, honestly, the biggest mystery since he's the player character and therefore it's easy to overlook the way he dodges talking about his own past. At least Alisa and Laura have ambitions or personal lives that I can guess at, but I don't even know where to start with Rean, and I'm sure that's on purpose.

The day ends, and it will be time to start a new wave of quests tomorrow.

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