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“These are some quality pictures Nala,” Elric spoke over the line as he spoke with Nicole, she wore a headset keep the audio down and was watching a movie on her second monitor, Elric on the first seeing her face for the first time, “Of course you know I'm not giving you this many free enchants.”

“I know, I just figured 'why not,' I mean you've already seen my face, and I just really need someone else I can be honest with.”

Elric nods, “I've heard that the change can be pretty hard on a person.”

“I told you, I’m not transitioning!” she sighs, “It's way to complicated to explain over the phone but I'm not really like....this.” she motioned to her body.

Elric shrugged, “Look I don't know what your going through, I can only base things off of what I know, a friend of my cousin transitioned, I can relate to that. Whatever is your story I guess i'll learn over time.” he paused a moment smiling, “but you look cute in your new outfits.”

Nicole sighed, “Sometimes I just want to shout the truth to the world, get it over and done with.”

“They why don't you?”

'Right, hi America I’m a shapeshifter, but due to a string of events I've had to pose as a girl but I'm really a guy,' Nick sighs, “If only...There are maybe 10 people if that who GET it: Chuck, Kat, Teliko, Sarah, Nyoko, Toni, the Sanyos....” she trailed off and took a deep breath, “why does life have to be so complicated.”

“Because it's life.”

Nicole chuckles, “Too true.”

“Well I don't know if this will make you feel any better but you look cute in your new clothes.”

Nicole smiles, “Actually it does...” She stands up, stepping back to spin around to give Elric a full view, “It was Kat's idea but I had fun designing a look for the new me.”

“I still can't believe my gamer buddy is a celebrity.”

Nicole frowns as she sits back down, “I'm hardly a celebrity. I'm no actor, no director I just do makeup effects.”

“And you're top of your class. Ok so your no A-lister like Leno but your at least on the D-list. Face it girl, you're a celebrity.”

Nicole sighs, “I don't feel like it.”

Elric laughs, “Girl! I've seen the clips of your house, two level wrap around balconies, tinted bullet proof glass on both for total privacy. Two bodyguards and a cab service on call. You're a celebrity.”

“That's just to keep out the leaches.”

“The fact you got Paparazzi stalking you, of any amount means your a celebrity.”

“Corporate heads have leaches.”

“Girl they are also celebrities.”

Nicole sighs, “I guess...but I don't run in any of those people circles.”

“Have you tried?”

“N-No...”

“So my point still stands.” Elric laughs, “Girl you have made one big budget movie and a handful of commercials and you have an Oscar and Leno under your belt. You're a celebrity.”

“It was only a nominee, I never won!” she protests.

“And everyone says that was a rip off, especially after the live demo on Leno.”

“I'm fine with being nominated.” Nicole paused as her computer beeped, turning back o the video call app, “Oh hey it's Teliko...Looks like it's time to get in game and get this crazy plan in action.”

“You log first, that why Elric can retreat to your house right off the bat and get the enchants taken care of.”

“So have you thought about how you are going to get Galadriel her tattoo?”

“Actually I was hoping you could play her, I switched to a family account so my friend could duel log with me so people wouldn't be able to match Galadriel to Elric but he's busy.”

“Sure, I can pinch hit, just give me your login info.”

...Niela's house...

Niela yawned as she rolled out of bed, taking a moment to stretch before slipping into her armor and entering the main room and heading for the door, there was a small plaque by the door with an iron spike hanging by a chain, with a quick bit of scribbling she engraved something on the plaque before making her way to the kitchen and started gathering vegetables, water, meat, and seasons as she stoked a wood stove.

“Niela?” Galadriel entered first looking cautiously around the room, “You have to be here, you can't enter a personal cabin unless the owner is here.”

“I'm in the kitchen preparing a feast,” she called from the other room as the succubus took a seat, “The others will be here in a moment.”

“I wasn't sure what you told them, I hope there not going to bug me on Galadriel to enchant as Elric.”

“As far as they know you are two different people, and Elric is the every aloof and busy enchanter who is only going to stop by once everything is hammered out here.”

“So how are we going to handle everyone's enchants then...you know...”

“She knows what?” Barb entered, in her male form, next, “Niela?”

“She's making a feast for us.”

Niela stepped out of the kitchen a moment later with mugs for both girls, “I was just mentioning how I need to step out in a bit and she was worried how if I step out we're going to get these enchants all done since at some point she has to switch computers before her laptop dies. But it should be fine, she can go swap computers and set up with Elric later on my own after we give him the gold. No harm, no foul. Heck you can get your enchants done right after you switch soon as Elric is ready.”

Galadriel smiles, “Thanks Niela.”

Niela took a seat looking to Barb with a sigh, “Though, I'm having seconds thoughts about this plan...not sure how I feel about Niela being a 'Bunny.'”

Barbarous shrugged, "We will all have a ton of new class skills, so what if one of them is a bit...exotic...we're going to be swimming in gold."

Niela elbowed the barbarian playfully, "You don't even know what to do with one gold, let alone a pool's worth!"

"I'll find something!" Barb exclaimed. As a third girl entered and Niela returned to the kitchen.

The new girl was human and wore familiar robes, it took Niela and Barb a moment to figure out who it was and then they spoke in unison.

"REGIS?!"

She nodded, taking a moment to flash a pair of gold stud earrings, "A little enchanted jewelery and some Polymorph and I have a pair of 'Earrings of Femininity.'"

Barb smiled, Niela laughed, then vanished into the kitchen, but there was little time for banter before Teliko arrived.

"Is that our fifth?" Regis asked, looking to Galadriel.

Teliko looked to Barb first, a bit confused, Barb in turn chuckled, "It's Regis."

“Oh wow! I remember you from the dungeon! Thanks for helping us out!”

“My pleasure, sounded like fun even if our levels were all over the place and I wound up your anchor point.”

“So what's the best way to do this?” Niela called from the other room, “You can't enchant a negative stat so we really can't do the enchants until after we do the class training which itself takes a few days to finish so what...should I hold off on calling Elric till later?”

Regis nodded, “Probably best. We'll go into town, cross train what we can. I actually went around to each of the guilds to get more information for that.”

“And?” Niela said curiously as she brought out a mug for Teliko and Regis before vanishing back into the kitchen.
“My guess was right, a full team of 5 is discounted to 1 gold instead of one and a half each. And as a general rule 5 is what you need. However what the other guy didn't mention was there is a lesser discount at 2, it's sort of a master apprentice thing where if you go in with a sponsor/mentor you can get a lesser discount and a bit faster training so I made some notes in my quest journal but I wanted to make sure I understood everyone's training.”

“Ok.”

“So we are all doing Dancer? So we can form a proper troupe with that and use Teliko as our sponsor as well. This is going to be the quickest and cheapest option on the table for is and we'll get the group buff making us even more effective. Next up we have Barb as a wizard right?”

“Right!”

“Ok that's fine I can be your mentor for that. My sage is going to be tricky but as a Wizard I do get a bonus because they are similar schools. For You Teliko being an experienced Dancer will also make it easy to train as a Bard so you are in the same boat. But Dark Knight, considering your a paladin and the Dark Knight is supposed to be your evil half I'm hearing your training is going to take twice as long so you don't loose your Paladin's bond.”

“I figured as much,” Galadriel explains, “I hope you guys won't mind the wait.”

“Actually,” Niela muses from the other room, “That gives us a really great opertunity.”

“Oh?” the others all say together.

Niela steps out as she takes a seat, “gonna take a couple hours for the hen to cook...anyway if Galadriel has training while all of us are free it seems kinda perfect don't you see. Barb and Regis can flex their muscles as a Wizard duo, get some experience in under that. And Teliko, you're gonna love this. I just got contacted by Adronis Netro again, you know...the guy who sent us after that crown. He has a lead on the thieves. Seems like a great chance to finish off that quest line and return your little undead buddy back to rest.”

“Teliko has an undead buddy?” Galadriel says warily, “As a paladin I'm not sure I should be listening to this.”

“He's the Guardian of the family crown. He was supposed to stop the thieves but he didn't see them and attacked us. Teliko talked him down and got him to join us until we retrieve the crown, so he's actual good undead, he's a family guardian.”

“Yeah! You should see it I have an entire crypt of undead who look up to me!” Teliko smiled but it quickly faded, “Feel kinda bad I've been ignoring them.”

“Not much you could do without any leads.” Barb adds.

“And now we have one and a few days to pursue it.”

“So is that our plan,” Galadriel starts, “Get the class training out of the way. You guys do some quests while I finish up mine then we contact Elric and get the enchants done?”

“Sounds like it.” Regis muses, “We want to get going now or wait on Niela's cooking,” she said with a knowing smile.

“Obviously we should leave now and totally forget about the amazing feast the half-orc chef is preparing.”

Niela chuckles, “I'm only a rank 2 cook, it's nothing special.”

“Clearly you have unspent xp,” Galadriel chuckles, “Cause it tasks like a rank five cook?”

“You know Niela I do some fishing, just for fun, but next time I go Out I could bring back some fish for your stores if you like.”

“I'd love that!”

Teliko's eyes cross, “Fishing? Cooking? Are those class skills or something?”

“Hobbies really,” Barb explains.

“They are just a set of lesser skills you can take for minor bonuses like Tailoring to make some regular clothes, alchemy for potions, and so on.”

“There are some pretty good things you can make at the high end but it takes a lot of grinding to level them up to that level.” Niela adds, “I mean a real Rank 5 or Five Star cook can make a meal that has effects on par with some low level buff spells.”

“And a high end crafter can make gear almost as good at the PVP gear.” Galadriel adds.

“Though the materials get more and more obscure and hard to find for the high end gear.” Niela explains.

“Speaking of plans and hobbies I just wanted to make sure you guys were ok with me handling all our income from the dancing, I mean you girls have been doing all the work.”

“I think you've been doing a great job,” Niela comments. “See to have kept things well under control.”

Barb and Teliko both nod in agreement.

Regis gives a relived sigh, “That's great to hear,” then paused swallowing hard, “B-because I've been doing some research and was wondering if you girls wouldn't me me reinvesting our income into a few more side projects I think is going to pay out for us all in the end, for both the Dancing and our personal improvements.”

“I'm just here to team more with Niela, so whatever you guys want is fine with me.” Galadriel opens.

“Got my vote,” Niela adds, “If you can find someway to get me my old armor back I'll be happy enough, you got plans to go further even better.”

“Just do it.” Barb says, “I trust your judgment to make a better barbarian then I could ever pull of, I'm horrible with money. Hell my alt's have armor not fit for someone half their level! I such at this game's economy and gearing up.”

“I trust you Regis, you gut us this far.”

“Alright, thanks girls! I promise you won't regret it!”

Niela stood up heading back into the kitchen, “I think the bread should be ready, I can at least get you all a appetizer as we wait for the main dish.”
“Alright!”
“Sweet!”
“Bring on the eats!”
“Go Niela!”
alright it finnaly installed, let's play!
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