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Shiroe
Level 4 Tactician
Wabi-Sabi Insight - know allies' strengths and weaknesses
Cantrip - minor magical effects (Instant Bath)
Conjure Basic Rations - convert mana into food and drink
Ensnaring Terrain- grapples the legs of all units within the area of effect, preventing movement
(Unspent Ability Slot)

Niki
Level 3 Warrior
Shield Bash - stun and/or push back an enemy
Rushdown- run at full speed and attack a distant enemy
+Enhanced Strength
+Enhanced Durability
-Achilles Heel - left breast
-Achilles Heel - right breast

Eva Beela
Level 3 Mage
Keen Hearing
Cantrip - minor magical effects (Confetti Blast, Ominous Breeze)
Ghost Hand - manipulate objects at range
Magic Bolt - single-target ranged attack

Amara Tedrilui
Level 3 Cleric
Low-light Vision
~Gordian Knot - more powerful casting, but chance for caster to be distracted by mana grounding
Cantrip - minor magical effects (Moonlight Gown)
Minor Heal
Major Heal
Gale - ranged area of effect; pushes opponents back
Celestial Blast - damages undead within an area of effect

All three of the women seemed to hold their heads a little higher as they lugged the sacks of raw crab meat through the town. They were exhausted. They were sticky. They reeked of fish. But somehow, none of that seemed to matter, right now.

They were real Adventurers.

Besides, once they dropped off the meat at the warehouse in the back of the Adventurer's Guild, it was nothing a few Instant Baths couldn't fix.

Unfortunately, that left no mana for conjuring blueberry tea and muffins, at a time when everyone wanted to celebrate. So they ordered a pitcher of tea instead, and Shiroe began saving up his mana in the hopes of conjuring a single muffin for them to split. Niki had really been building a picture in Eva and Amara's minds of how good these muffins were.

"You should teach me that Instant Bath cantrip, Shiroe," Eva said. "Then you could stretch your mana further."

"Oh, yes," Amara purred, "Let us both learn it. Then we could all give each other baths whenever we needed."

Niki leaned back in her chair, annoyed at being left out. "Pfft. Big deal! We can already give each other baths without magic."

Shiroe considered a world in which every speck of dirt, rather than every cut or bruise, was an excuse for Amara to cast a spell.

"Tell you what, Amara. If you can go a day without using magic, I'll teach you a powerful spell. If you can go a week without using magic, I'll teach you a moderate spell. If you can go a month without using magic, I'll teach you something as weak as a cantrip."

Amara contemplated all the practice and partial casting that was required to learn a new spell by training. "Oh yes," she said, "that sounds simply wonderful. When shall we begin?"

"Not so fast," Eva said, "You have to go at least a day without using magic first."

"So?"

"So, at that rate, he could probably teach Niki the spell before he could teach you."

They all had a good laugh about that one.

"Oh, no. Niki's laughing again."

That made them all laugh even harder.

"Hey, don't expose me like that," Niki complained, still smiling.

"Did somebody say expose?" Eva got herself, with that one.

By the time the pitcher of tea came, the whole group was laughing hysterically. Laughing at themselves, at each other, at what they'd been through, and at what they'd overcome.

"What should we call our group? All the best groups have cool names."

"Crab Battlers!"

"The Cliff Toppers!"

"The river spirits."

"Absoterrarists!"

"Tivera Vera Good!"

"The hunters on the wind."

"Debauchery Tea Party," Shiroe said with a sigh.

All the girls turned and stared at him. He'd just been sitting there, silently, while they'd been hooting and hollering team names.

"Okay, that sounds way cooler than it has any right to."

"What's 'debauchery' mean?"

"Excessive indulgence in bodily pleasures."

"Oh. Well, obviously, we can't use that."

"Why not?"

"It's too confusing. Nobody will be able to tell which one of us we're talking about."

"That's the point of a group name, silly."

"Oh yeah! Let's do it!"

There was no way the women could have known about Shiroe's past history with that name. He had difficulty recalling all the details, himself. That two lifetimes ago, on Earth, in a video game called Eldar Online, he'd been part of a Guild with that name that had disbanded tragically. The way they'd come up with that name had been completely different on Earth, of course. But somehow, this crazy world had conspired to create a reality that fit the name more literally. Perhaps in letting his new friends use the name, he could pay tribute to the old friends he'd left behind.

"So be it," he said, finally.

"To the Debauchery Tea Party!"

They all clinked glasses.

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