Raineh Daze

I Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game, But———?! (Now Accepting)

Thank you for that.

It's like people posting entire sections of dialogue in dark blue; I shouldn't need to highlight it or zoom in to read from a comfortable distance...

I Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game, But———?! (Now Accepting)

Can you please NOT make every mention of the word dark a dark purple. The entire site has a dark colour scheme!

Yes, full accessibility checks are probably overkill, but seriously, some contrast.

I Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game, But———?! (Now Accepting)

Elastasia

"Oh, I think I see him! Come on," Elastasia said, seeing said flash of white hair... and promptly grabbing Reginald's hand without giving him a say in the matter. She could apologise later, but right now, the girl needed someone tall and intimidating to help make a path through the crowd rather than being walked into by everyone too busy talking to notice her shortness. Sometimes, all the white hair was a dead giveaway, but...

"If you'd just stayed put, I would have found your right away," she admonished, helping the younger boy to his feet, "I may miss a lot of things, but I'm still your sister, and I was going to show you around."

Of all the people he had managed to run into, it was quite interesting that Terys had found the tutorial shopkeeper--someone that she was intimately familiar with, needing to make sure that she'd not strayed onto some already-completed route by accident (or even cataloguing how easy it was to wind up on some of them through unexpected means). The other had been similarly a background NPC back when this was a game, identifiable as the maid of the man she had just tugged through the crowd...

Not that she was actually just a maid, Elastasia averting her eyes as if Mella would add mind-reading to her list of talents. Which probably looked like avoiding her for another reason, but then again she was quite pretty (and having a thing for taller women also didn't help, even if that amounted to 'most people').

"Of course, I'm sorry for doubting you, Elly," Terys managed, now standing at his full height... still shorter than the heroine, but nowhere near that short. He turned, giving an overly-deep bow to the maid and the shopkeeper given the rank differences, "I'm terribly sorry for running into you; I wasn't looking where I was going at all!"

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Knight RP

Tyaethe

"I'm pretty sure the Velt Adventurers' Guild hasn't started taking assassination contracts," Tyaethe said, looking over the recovered items with some curiosity. One was a badge for the aforementioned guild--definitely not something that would usually be taking such contracts, and definitely not to take out royalty. Plus, if they had, she would have expected more than one nem assassin... no matter how sneaky she might end up being.

The other thing of interest was a note. "Oh, if she's carrying this, I'm pretty sure she's literate."

"'Fail and she dies'..." the paladin read out, tilting her head out of interest. Well, that was another wrinkle to it, it didn't look like their hired assassin was all that hired after all. Maybe if they could get her to write something, the handwriting could be compared? It would be a smart move to try and make it seem like you weren't responsible.

But with all the interest the even-tinier girl was displaying in Fanilly's pin, ah... how did it go? She'd used to say it a lot, and it was easier to remember things like that with Lilette around. "Why, yes; we're the Iron Roses. Defenders of the Kingdom, Slayers of Monsters, Saviours of the Weak, and Rescuers of Fair Maidens." Ah, even the way the elf buried her face in her hands hadn't changed. "Well, maybe that last part's just me. It used to be Elionne, Parvan, and me."

I Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game, But———?! (Now Accepting)

Two from ducal houses and Elastasia's next in line to a Marquisate. OTOH, if you go by age of title = rank (old French rules rather than English), she's right up there anyway. xD

I Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game, But———?! (Now Accepting)

Elastasia

Oh good, he'd slowed down. Excellent, she'd been having to practically jog to keep up and that was undignified and ridiculous. Stupid long-legged giants in a rush, they really didn't appreciate how much of an advantage those legs were in turning a brisk pace into an active workout for everyone else...

Maybe the best accident would be one that took advantage of that? Some sort of magical pit trap; it could be claimed that he was just in too much of a hurry to notice the hole in the ground or something before he fell in, how unfortunate that it happened to be full of deadly venomous snakes. But then she'd need to find a way to acquire snakes on-demand, otherwise it would just be Reginald standing around in the bottom of a pit until someone came along with a ladder.

The fact that he had replied took her a few seconds to catch up on as she followed along, thinking. "Um... it's possible, but that doesn't really narrow it down, because I don't think he'd be at all familiar with anywhere I could be in the academy, and there's so many possible places that it would take days to search them..."

It was a big place, there were plenty of out-of-the-way corners to sit and read, after all.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Knight RP

Tyaethe

"Well, I was sure someone was going to suggest torture, or get pointlessly violent," Tyaethe answered, reaching up to tap Sergio's arm as an example, "So I thought that tickling would be the easiest way to tell if she was going to respond. You don't do any harm you have to fix, it doesn't make it impossible to respond, and you get to see if they respond to physical sensation. Plus, I've met way more people who can ignore any amount of pain but will flinch at being tickled."

And it was kind of fun.

Of course, the revealed neck made it clear that shouting and demanding questions wasn't going to work. Hm, was this going to become a game of charades, or was their would-be assassin literate? The damage might be healable, but from everything she knew about healing magic (not that it was a huge amount, since it wasn't something a vampire really needed), fixing an old injury like that would be a laborious process if it was doable at all. Not great for getting an answer now.

Hm, some random noble was still standing by the captain. He'd been trying to say... oh, something about tongues or checking for teeth, which wasn't entirely a bad idea until this point, but he really wasn't necessary or contributing. "If you're going to stand around, you might as well bring the drinks over. No point letting the party food go to waste."

Urban Starlight Wonderland: Tokyo Stardust, a team-based magical girl RP!

Abigail

She might be surprised, and she might have jumped... but the bag still remained annoyingly out of reach, largely because with her arm locked in that position, it wasn't likely to come down unless she outright dropped it. Which would have simply bonked Ukiko on the head with a half-full bag of snacks, so maybe it was for the better that she hadn't dropped it on the ghostly girl.

"There's been a nasty Shade seen around the park," the blonde answered, finally lowering her arm to start manually disseminating the remainder of her goodies. Really, trying to take the entire bag... you'd just shake up all the drinks and crush the rest of the snacks with bottles, "It's been rather difficult to track down, so we'll need to do it as a group."

Since it had resisted being found by one person, Abigail suspected it was smart enough to run away. Finding a Shade was usually the easiest part of the job; although transforming your dog made it an even easier task, they were generally bad at the level of subtlety to avoid being picked up.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Knight RP

Tyaethe

"Have you learned to read minds in the past hundred years?" Tyaethe asked, looking over at Lilette with a half curious, half bored expression... and receiving a shake of the head. Well, that ruled out the easy path, unless there was some passing demon or something who could tell them all this nem's desires. Though then they'd likely only find out she really wanted to get out of here... and they'd have far more questions about what a demon was doing attending a royal ball.

Carefully positioning Lilette to block the princess off, the vampire stepped forward and crouched. Ah, it was nice to be the bigger party for once, without relying on a suit of armour to do it. So small, and she did wonder what sort of flavour nem blood had as a whole, it wasn't like they came round much to check... ah well, now wasn't the time.

Instead, with Renar holding the girl back, the paladin gave a thoughtful look... and then decided to start tickling her.

Someone was going to pointlessly suggest torture, so they might as well check if the assassin could even feel something first.

Urban Starlight Wonderland: Tokyo Stardust, a team-based magical girl RP!

Abigail

Handing out drinks wasn't such a demand on her attention that Abigail could miss the very loud, very pink girl coming in... and making a jump for the bag all by herself. There were many possible ways she could have defended her bag of snacks: she could have transformed, she could have dived to the side, or spun around, or...

Instead, she did the obvious thing when someone made a wild leap like that: lift it straight up, completely beyond reach. Honestly, even if she transformed, she would still be the tallest here, if not by much, trying to do something like that when she had so much of a height advantage was silly. She had nearly a foot or more on practically every girl she met.

Of course, Nico's wild grab for the bag wasn't entirely fruitless: Lucy decided to plod over, giving her hand a friendly lick.

"Now, now, Nico, there's enough for everyone," the blonde said, handing over, after a second of thought, some melon bread.