Talk with Fauna, who is also interested in the Weirding Woods: +1 Forward

"House Misfit?" Fauna Aspen says as you walk the corridors of House Beavertail. Her hooves clack on the wooden floor. She shrugs her shoulders and her loosely-cut gold-trimmed brown robe ripples with her motion. Her eyes are large and wide-set, she has short horns above her forehead, and her ears are pointed with tufts. "I've heard us called that. Beavertail works harder on habit, where Leontes is more go-go attitude, Minerval more on weird spells and rituals, Draconis more on, oh, I don't know, seizing opportunities? So if you have some outstanding talent, you likely end up in a different house. But I'm a first-year like you, so all I know is what they've told us. Housemistress told us at induction that good habits, well, they don't make the world go round, but they take care of things and keep the world from flying apart."

You nod. "I'm still interested in seeing about the work parties Blake was telling us about," you say. "I'm curious about the Woods, and it looks like that's the way to get there as a first-year. Were you thinking about that too?"

Roll +DILIGENCE(+2) to ENCOUNTER Fauna and see if she's interested in the work parties and might tell you about where she came from.

⚅⚁ + 2 = 10.

On a 10+, she goes along with what you want, take +1 Forward.

"Very much so," Fauna says. "Walls, walls, walls, hard floors and big swishy robes. All the tedious parts of studying witchcraft are more tedious here, so if I can actually have an official reason to be out in the woods, I will."

"So what brought you to Boarbristle?" you say.

"Our village Witch Betsy Larch is an old classmate of Housemistress Beeblossom," Fauna says. "They were in House Draconis together, and Betsy talent-spotted me. We all take turns helping gather herbs and doing chores to help the Witch, and I was the only one with both interest and ability. But Great Pan, ALL the READING. Made my head ache, and now I even TALK like a book. All my yearmates would just laugh at me and go running and singing and dancing."

"Is that what life is like in your forest?" you ask.

"Well, there's that," Fauna says. "And then there's the Wild Hunt. And that's as much as I'll say."

From her expression, there's nothing happy to say about that.

"Let's go see the Tutor and see if we can get on a work party," you say.

Roll +DILIGENCE(+3) (+2 Diligence, +1 Forward) to ENCOUNTER the Tutor, Miss Hemstitch, and ask to join a working party in the Weirding Woods.

⚃⚀ + 3 = 8.

When you ENCOUNTER someone, on a 7-9, you have to convince them. Describe in character what you do to convince them, expend a FAVOR if you have one for a success with +1 Forward, or HAVE SEX with them and on a 7+, you get what you want. (You might also end up dealing with the Housemistress if the Tutor passes you along).