CH.279 The rmaid’s second banishnt
“... why are you here again?” I asked the rfolk girl, who had co to interrupt my picnic with Alice and Lua.
She was, at least I’m decently sure, the sa rfolk whom I helped return ho yesterday, so why is she back here?
Also, she looks even worse than she did yesterday. Yesterday, she was just dirty and disheveled, now she looks like she has been whipped or sothing, with visible bleeding wounds all over her body.
“... Cailie? Why are you here?” I asked again.
“I … I …”
“Brian, this isn’t the ti for that.” Lua interrupted. “Let heal her first.”
Lua quickly rushed to the water, not caring that her feet were getting wet.
“Get over here! We need to get her out of the water.” Lua called to .
I quickly snapped out of my crazy thoughts and did as ordered.
“Cailie, do you mind if I lift you?” I asked.
The girl didn’t verbally answer, but did nod her head a bit, so I took a hold of her and lifted her into my arms. I then used telekinesis to give her so additional support, so that her tail or head would be hanging limp.
“Alice, can you clear the blanket?” I asked, as we walked back to where our picnic blanket was set up.
Alice did as I asked, putting everything away in Storage. She even put the blanket there for a second, before bringing it back out, probably to instantly clean any breadcrumbs and other dirt from it.
I then brought out my water buffalo travel pelt and had Alice spread that on top of the blanket, just to add so softer, and more waterproof, material between the rfolk and the ground. I must have been smart when I actually bought a waterproof travel pelt.
I set Cailie down on the pelt, and let Lua do her thing. Maybe I should try to get a healing skill as well? Mana Healing should at least be possible. Sure I have my cards, but having a skill might be good as well.
As Lua was healing the girl, I began asking her so questions.
“Cailie, why are you back here? Didn’t you make it ho?” I do have an idea, but I’d really rather confirm it. I don’t want to jump to conclusions.
“Brian. Not now.” Lua interrupted my questioning.
“... no. I can… tell him.” Cailie said. “... I was … banished again.”
Yeah. I kind of guessed that part.
“They said… I didn’t do… my punishnt… because I got… help from you…” Cailie explained. “So they sent … here again…”
“... Brian, what did she say?” Alice asked.
I quickly told what Cailie told to Lua and Alice.
“... that still doesn’t explain these wounds.” Lua said, as she kept healing Cailie. “She didn’t have any last ti, right?”
“Not that I saw.” I responded, before I asked her about it. “Cailie, the wounds… how did those..?”
“... I … I got… beaten up… by my sister…” She answered.
… wow. So sibling rivalry right there. I don’t think whipping soone bloody is just beating them up. Also, how does a rmaid even use a whip? Wouldn’t one be extrely awkward to use under water? Are those even whip marks or are they sothing else?
“I see. I’m so sorry.” I told her. “... may I ask sothing. Why were you banished in the first place?” Admittedly, this was sothing I probably should have asked the first ti we t, but I didn’t think it was sothing that mattered at that ti. I didn’t need to know her story, I just needed Cailie to stop attacking fishern.
“... they said it is… because I’m useless. … because I hide away… and don’t earn my food.” Cailie admitted. “Coming here… and having to hunt… was supposed to teach how to be useful. … but instead… I cheated… so I was banished again.”
“I see.” So that’s the reason. Sounds… dumb, but also sothing that soone might do. “I suppose that ans I can’t just send you back again.” I told her. But still. Calling soone useless is just … well, actually I do that quite a lot with so of my cards, so I really have no right to say anything, but at least I can offer her an alternative. “Then, if they don’t want you, would you like to co with us?” I asked.
This had actually been sothing I considered the first ti I t Cailie in the dungeon, but I didn’t know if I could do it. She was still trapped by the dungeon and I just didn’t know enough about the slave dungeon system to do anything but play by the rules. But I did have Laura search the system for info about them, and that led to figuring out a few things. One of them being a way I can get people that are trapped in prison style slave dungeons free.
I did also figure out a few things about rfolk. So of the info ca from a book I analyzed in the Sawyer family library, back when I did that analysis raid on it.Happened in There were a few things I wanted to know, like do rfolk actually have to live in water and so on. The quick answer is no. But they do need to keep their skin relatively wet, because their skin dries out a lot faster than … surface beings. But there are no breathing issues, or otherwise. There was sothing about their gills weakening if they never swam, but as long as they swim a few tis a week, this shouldn’t be an issue. Yes. rfolk have both lungs and gills, so they can breathe either on land or in the water.
“... I … can’t … the dungeon … will just … summon back.” Cailie answered.
“Don’t worry. I can deal with that problem.” I told her.
“But… if I get monsters again… it will just… teleport back… and they will … banish again.”
“If we do it like we did last ti.” I told her. “But we don’t have to do it that way.”
“???” Cailie just looked at confused.
“I’ll show you.” I told her. “After Lua has healed you, let’s head into the dungeon.”
After the healing finished, Cailie was looking quite a bit better. Lua even used her water magic to wash away all the dirt and gri from her body, so I got a good look at her.
Her hair was black, with maybe just a hint of dark green mixed in. I thought it was just black previously, because the dirt and grim had hid all of the green. Her tail was also dark green in color.
I summoned myself a Amphibious Bugroth, while Alice summoned her MK-3. I also gave Lua and Ria a MK-3. Agunan can’t use my cards, well he can the ones that don’t have toploaders or sleeves, but he cannot use ones with those, so I asked him to stay here and protect the carriage. Sure he probably could just dive, but I'll leave him in charge of protecting our stuff.
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With our undersea rides here, the five of us headed into the undersea dungeon.
“It really is tiny…” Ria comnted, as we got out of our Bugroths.
“Yeah. Especially with four Bugroths in here. They do take up quite a bit of space.”
“And after going through that massive dungeon, any other would feel tiny.” Alice added. “I visited TinaWood with Mother, and even it felt so small.”
Yeah. I guess that would happen when just a single one of the large open floors of HoBase is larger than the entirety of TinaWood.
“... Brian, are you sure about this? Helping her again, I an.” Lua asked.
“Yeah. Why wouldn’t I be?”
“This isn’t our problem to solve.”
“... maybe not, but it’s not like this is sothing overly challenging to solve.” I reasoned. “And I hate seeing people who have no place to go.” I added in a quieter voice. “So I’d like to help Cailie find another place where she will be accepted, even if she has so flaws.”
Feeling like you belong is important. And a lot of the people around are the ones that made feel like I belong here when I just appeared in this world. Lua being one of the first humans… wait, she is a dhampir, so that doesn’t check out. Anyway, with Lua being one of the first humanoids I ran into, and Alice, well it was mostly her father but still, opening her ho to , it makes happy to think about that. Had the Watchman family been worse, or had Pri Rib tried to abuse or rob or sothing, there is a reasonable chance I could have turned evil and just began destroying the world or sothing. Well probably not, but I very well might have burned Alewatch to the ground.
So yeah. Because they helped find a place where I belong, I now feel like I should help Cailie find a place where she can belong. Even if this Nixie clan doesn’t want her, I’m sure there is a place out there for her.
“... why are you looking at like that? Do you think I’m naive or sothing?” I asked Lua.
“... no. I think it is comndable. Trying to help in that way.” Lua answered.
“Then you will help with this?”
“Isn’t that what it ans to be together? Or did you explain it to wrong?”
“No. But just because we are together, doesn’t an we agree on everything, so thank you.”
“Now just show how you will deal with this dungeon. Because that is the part that I don’t yet know.”
“Don’t worry. I did co up with a plan.”
I walked up to the core, where Cailie was waiting for .
“... Mister blessed…”
“Just call Brian, please.” I told Cailie. “Do you mind if I call you Cailie as well?”
“... I … that is fine. … Can you really… free ? Without sending back?”
“You are lucky Alice can’t understand you, or otherwise she’d give a snide comnt right about now.” I told the rmaid. Honestly, I’d have liked one. It proves that Alice knows .
But honestly speaking, this won’t take long. And there are a few ways I could do this.
First, I could … abuse authority. In this case, the authority I have as a Chaos God Dungeon founder. Because of that, I can bring any dungeon with a deceased dungeon founder under my control. But I don’t want to do that. Instead, I’ll go with the card route.
“Outstanding Dog Marron.” I quickly summoned my tribute puppy, before I activated the next card. “Enemy Controller. I tribute Marron to take temporary control of Dungeon 21_013.”
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This was in my opinion a lot better idea. With Enemy Controller, I can get temporary founder access to the dungeon core, so I can do what I want with it, and after I’m done, it will return to its usual state.
The card quickly did its thing, and a Sega Genesis style controller appeared in my hands. From it, a magical cord extended and connected to the dungeon core.
I used the controller to navigate the dungeon nu that opened before , and with it, I quickly released Cailie from her position as the dungeon master, without activating the teleport back function.
Like yesterday, Cailie’s dungeon master terminal snapped away from her arm, clanged on the floor and disappeared. But unlike last ti, the teleportation circle never appeared.
Then I added a little backdoor function to the dungeon, where whenever a new master is locked into here, the dungeon will send a notification to HoBase. I tried to add a way where I could remote watch this place from anywhere, but that was too much, so just the notification would have to do. If soone else gets trapped, I can just co and greet them, and see if they need my help.
After that, I returned everything I could back to how they were, except Cailie’s relationship with this dungeon of course. Just so if anyone tries to look through the dungeon, it will look like everything is fine.
Then I just hit Execute and I was done. Soon after that, my controller disappeared.
“... I’m not… going back?” Cailie was questioning.
“Nope. I told you so.”
“... I … I … thank you…”
“Sure. No problem.”
“... but … what do I do… now?”
“We have ti, so let’s find out, right?”
“... I … yes. I’ll… try.”
I brought Cailie to the inn with , while Illusionist Faceless Mage made an illusion to hide her. It might be a bit unethical, but better this way, as Cailie really shouldn’t even be here.
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