Ask Blake about getting you on a work party: MISS.

Roll +DILIGENCE(+4) (+2 Diligence, +2 CHARM spell) to ENCOUNTER Blake and ask about a work party in the Weirding Woods.

⚀⚀ + 4 = 6, Miss.

You also lose your CHARM spell over Blake.

You approach Blake in the Beavertail Men's Necessary Room after you've finished your tea to ask him about who you should talk to about getting on a work party in the Weirding Woods. Standing next to him at the trough, he lets go with a fine stream while you fumble with your halfway-in-between-ness. Fortunately the ex-tea seems to go out the tube and not out between the folds.

Blake talks more about the Woods and the work parties until you press him again for who to talk to. His forehead furrows in a frown and he looks at you with irritation.

"I don't think I will," he says. "You're the one who started all the trouble, and a little poof of a Charm spell isn't going to get me on your good side."

Blake puts away his willy and leaves you standing at the trough, dribbling out the last of your tea.

Some days you're the bat, and some days you're the moth.

Well, you could still ask around, even without the Local Boy to put in a word for you.

You have 4 XP.

Traits: Ambition -1, Bravery +1, Cunning +1, Diligence +2.
Special: Rapid Gender Switching after sex or sleep. You're currently intersex, willow-slim, with reduced primary and secondary characteristics.

Possible Moves:

• Pursue Fauna Aspen. Roll +DILIGENCE(+2) to ENCOUNTER her and ask about her life as a forest person and her interest in the Weirding Woods.
• Start your classes. Sleep, roll for RAPID GENDER SWITCHING, and describe your first class.