The Choice

Yulia feels a bit awkward just standing there in front of Alide as she listens to the voices. Alide grins, "Seems a lot of your guides are quite enamoured with my body and choice of outfit," Alide states grinning and Yulia glances at her.

"You can hear the voices?" she asks and Alide nods.

"Of course I can. You have a very... eclectic bunch of guides this time. Must be fun dealing with them all," she states with an amused grin and Yulia sighs.

"You're lucky the nightmare voice didn't seem to have anything to say this time," Yulia responds and Alide winces.

"Ooh just judging by that name that does not sound fun," she says sounding apologetic.

Yulia nods and then turns her attention to addressing the voices.

"Pretty beak lady..." she mutters, blushing slightly as she listens to the quite in depth advice from the nice voice. The Nice voice seems to think a slashing weapon would be best, but the other voices, with the exception of the voice that she remembered the mean voice had called Moonblack, seemed to want her to learn a new spell.

Moonblack seemed to be leaving it up to Yulia's own discretion. The one that claimed to be a voice in her head exclusively had also had a lot more to say and Yulia decides to address that first.

"I... Wasn't offended. I don't know how much of my... backstory you know or how much you know about the world I come from. I know only what you were told by the old man. You seem to be implying that there is some overall creator who controls my actions and created my world as well as its gods and this tower. That may be true, though I am not sure what you mean about me not remembering my childhood crush. I can't say I really had one since my early life was mostly difficult I didn't have much time to think about such things, but I suppose the closest would be an acolyte of the church who was training around the same time as me. If I remember correctly she became a Church Singer. I do remember thinking she was quite beautiful, graceful and... kind.." Yullia mutters starting to fiddle with her mask again as she thinks about this person. She then shakes her head.

"I will agree with the... er... Mean voice though. Now is not the time for philosophy. If there is a being controlling my actions then any act of rebellion would itself be an act controlled by this supposed creator. Therefore it's not worth attempting. The best thing I can do right now is simply continue forth to the best of my abilities," Yulia responds.

"Also I'm not a scantily Clad Whore," Alide cuts in loudly, "Whores get paid. I'm a slut. I do the things I do for fun," she explains.

Yulia seems slightly uncomfortable and fidgets nervously as Alide speaks and then once Alide is done she continues, "Also I took the whole pack of rations, but they're easily carried so... I didn't think it was a bad idea to bring them... Sorry," she responds to the mean voice who chastised her for grabbing more than she probably needed to from the supplies earlier.

Alide smiles, "Well seems that's taken care of, now the question comes down to how are you going to make use of my services," she states leaning forward over the desk as she waits for an answer.

"Well... The general consensus seems to be that I should get a spell. The voice in my head suggested an offensive spell and the mean voice suggested a utility spell, but the nice voice also suggested an offensive spell, so I guess I'll go with an offensive spell," she says weakly. Obviously not certain of her choice.

Alide nods and stands up from the desk, letting Yulia see her almost non-existent panties as well and Yulia noticeably tenses at the sight of them. Alide sashays seductively over to one of the shelves and stretches upwards, giving a tantalizing view of her completely uncovered, perfectly round and more than ample ass. She pulls a book off the top shelf and then returns to Yulia and hands over the book. The book is red, but the picture on the front is of a snowflake and the title of the book is Icicle.

"Now as someone who has mastered some forms of magic you must realize that learning even a simple spell can take days, well luckily for you the person who created this tower is very impatient, so while it will take a bit to master the spell, since it's not from a class of magic you're used to... That book will magically impart days worth of practice until you are at least capable of casting the spell correctly 100% of the time. Welcome to the world of efficiency," Alide explains.

Yulia seems shocked by this news and uncomfortable with how close Alide is to her now. She focuses on the book, taking it in her hands and examining it. She opens it and there's a sudden burst of magical energy. The book vanishes and Yulia stands there stock still for a few seconds before exhaling, "Woah... that was..." she shakes her head, "Th... Thank you, Miss Alide..." she says and Alide raises her hand and gently flicks the tip of Yulia's mask,

"Don't worry about thanking me. I'm looking forward to getting all sorts of repayment from you in the future," she says and then giggles and disappears, as does the rest of the room. In seconds the room is completely empty and Yulia shivers a bit before returning to the resting area and looking at the wooden door.

There's not much else to do now unless she wants to go back to the silver room for some reason. She shakes her head at that idea, she doesn't want to even think about the silver room anymore, so she supposes all that's left is the ominous room and whatever horrible trap awaits. She feels cold air start to flow around her hand as she channels some magic into it then lets it disperse the air warming up again quickly.

(Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Equipment: Ceramic Beaked Mask, Monastic Scapular, standard bra, Standard Panties, 5 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 2 syringes of poison, 3 syringes of adrenaline, 2 syringes of poison antidote, 1 sewing kit, 1 key, 1 vial of unknown liquid, 10 ft of trip wire, Makeshift wooden club, 10 days worth of rations, 4 two liter water jugs.

Spells known: Great Heal, Cure, Icicle.

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