@legitpancake amusingly we just confirmed it is not that story on discord. It is a unique short story not in the premium epub either.

Lina has significant experience fighting these low-ranking mazoku, but this would still have been a lot more risky if it was just Gourry and her. Mileena is especially noteworthy in how she can help others with their battles while fighting her own, something Lina herself struggles with at times.

@lightningleaf I believe it’s a completed series, so there won’t be another volume.

As Sigrun pulls a Kirito her victory is assured.

Volume 1 (Premium Edition): 5 Bonus short stories Lucy and Emily’s Crush Competition The Guild Receptionist Is a Heavy Drinker The Clerk at the Fujiyama Trading Company My First Trip to the Catgirl Cantina A Chat between a Goddess and Her Believer

part 2:
this dunce, trying to hide things from Ai Fa. All he needed to do was say the important part. "What'd Vina want?" -> "She wanted me to help her leave the forest's edge." Boom, done. But alas, he really is an idiot. He goes and does something even dumber right after. the cliche of "if you accidentally see a naked woman bathing, just keep staring until you get hit". Sigh. Very not a fan of this kind of comedy. Oh well.

Also... it almost seems like Ai Fa doesn't realize that she'd still be the hunter even if she married Asuta.

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So, aside from the above and it's subsequent fallout, this volume was fairly interesting as well, though less so. There were fewer points of cultural differences to cover here, and it mostly moved on to clan drama, which, while still interesting, is less so. I do have a point of concern, though, and that's the pacing. The entire volume only covered one meal. Didn't introduce much in the way of new things either. It felt like it could have been half a volume.

@mirage_gsm Just started the ‘Tolkander’ storyline, reading #1811 original series in dutch now.
And I presume the Venus base is indeed Arkonide in origin since they also got the Arkonide battleship from that base. What Rico’s origin is… we’ll see I guess.

@lisast That looks ominous.

Volume 11 (Premium Edition): A Chat between the Translator & Editor

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Volume 13 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story Vector Chronicle's Tears

@weasalopes - It does happen now and then. We got one more Mixed Bathing, and a fourth Her Majesty's Swarm. I'd given up on new Strongest Rearguard volumes but the sixth is coming out in March.

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@mortcs yeah, there never was a volume 2 in Japan but here's the web novel page: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n9188eg/

On the off chance you want to MTL what's left.

So I'm guessing Shusei is going to assert his identity and try to become emperor next volume, in order to get Rimi back. I feel really bad for her to be put in that position as that will officially make Shusei her enemy as long as she's with Shohi. If Shohi treats her well, it may give her the rest of the impetous she needs to discard the rest of her feelings for Shusei instead of just living with the pain.

The other awkward thing in the mix is that Shusei doesn't know that Rimi actually knows who he really is. I'm sure the fact that she knows will help her come up with creative ways to placate everyone. Or maybe she'll decide that she'll be with the emperor... whoever that emperor is, and help the plans once she knows he wants it. The story could go either way.

Also: Poor Yo, losing Rimi to the emperor... :-)

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That was early, the calendar shows it for tomorrow. Not that I mind of course...

@libri-liberorum said in RPG anecdotes inspired by Minmaxing TRPG:

I've never actually tried this one, but D&D had/has (it is a long time since I've played D&D) a "phantasmal force" spell, which would create illusiary objects/forces which could affect people as if they were real, so long as the person being affected didn't realise it was an illusion. Imagine a party on a path along a steep and winding gorge, trying to find a way to the other side. The mage convinces people to let her scout around the next corner. Behold! She finds a bridge! Everyone else crosses safely. Then the mage demands they throw her a rope: she can't cross the bridge because she knows it is an illusion.

Similar to this - For one of the megadungeon biomes my sister came up with, she had a concept called a "Daylight Fungus." It's an underground fungus that can decompose dead plants, with the ability to cast a Shadow Evocation of the Daylight spell. Shadow Evocation, like Phantasmal Force, is mostly illusion but only slightly real - creatures who don't believe the illusion take only a small portion of the effect.

Most plants are mindless, and so are immune to the illusion (and unable to gain any sustenance from it), but the Daylight Fungus cohabitate with all sorts of intelligent plant monsters, who know better than to look this particular gift horse in the mouth.