Beginning Class Selection
Isabella’s eyes opened, and the world of her soul looked a lot like the garden just outside. Neatly tended flower beds broken up by straight paths lined with benches, the intersections of which contained tables for tea parties, and several gazebos along the outer edge. She found herself standing just outside her favorite gazebo, and inside were...
2025-11-24 19:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Miss Lily, perhaps I could take that role?”
Junior pounced!
“Huh?”
Lily was shocked!
The Gods and Goddesses had been really fast with that one…
“Oh, right, you don’t know my qualifications. I graduated first in my class at Royal University, Charleston’s School of Business…”
Junior started giving his resume verbally!
He was talking r...
2025-11-22 21:29:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe job interviews were a big success!
There were a lot of people looking for work, especially people looking for first jobs!
Lily’s offer of ten dollars per half shift was super competitive!
But, before Lily could finish her interviews, the mayors returned!
George had a big grin on his face!
Lily saw that, and gave him a double thumbs up!
George gave her o...
2025-11-21 22:15:13 +0000 UTC View PostIsabella stormed through the entrance to her family’s manor, guards trailing behind her until the moment the gate shut. The moment it did, Tomás sprinted with a speed that would have surprised her, dashing ahead and into the manor.
But she was too angry to notice or care.
Who was James to tell her what Classes to pick? To call her a child? The sheer rudeness, especially in front ...
2025-11-21 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSally sighed.
She was proud of her daughter.
Really, she was!
Setting up two restaurants in their little village in as many weeks was really impressive.
And it was almost enough to cover their debts.
Not quite enough, but maybe…
She didn’t want to get her hopes up, but she had seen the line down at the city square herself.
Her daughter was a busines...
2025-11-20 22:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a storm rolling in. The light outside was dimming fast under the dark clouds, and a cacophony of shouts poured out of the Adventurer’s Guild and into the streets along with the lamplight spilling from the windows.
“Call up the Wolf’s Fang!”
“They’re out of town!”
“Then get The Scarlet Promise!”
“They’re on a self-development journey!” 2025-11-20 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It had been an annoyingly long process to gather information on the Aspirant Knight’s personal Smith.
For a long time, it hadn’t even been certain he was a Smith. Although he had certainly made a splash almost as soon as he passed through the city gates with the returning Knight.
House Sanchez had repeatedly been slighted by Knight Suero Paulo Cortez de Figueroa de la I...
2025-11-19 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDinner time…
Was even crazier than lunch time had been!
But, for Lily, she was able to take a step back and just look at what was going on.
It started as the market stalls closed.
Some stalls take longer to close than others do!
So the stalls that closed fastest…
Rushed to get in line and order their Lilyburgers!
At lunch time, a lot of the stall wo...
2025-11-19 18:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, Lily woke up bright and early.
It was going to be the first day her second location was open!
She said some quick morning prayers, and fed Mr. Cat some breakfast, and then they were off!
She met Hazel at the butcher’s shop like normal, but this morning Becky and Zoey were there, too!
Lily gave Hazel a key to the restaurant, and explained how things wo...
2025-11-18 20:52:20 +0000 UTC View PostNine months later.
The Assassin was fleeing for his life.
Everything had been going great for the last two years.
The work was easy, the pay was good, and his levels had increased steadily.
Signing up with the Horn Clan had been more profitable than he could have possibly imagined.
He had started small: eliminating mainly low-level investigators and guards...
2025-11-18 19:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA maid hurried to bring over a glass of water, and the blonde Knight’s retainer cleared his throat, and then for once his face went from red to normal, rather than the other way around as he looked at Isabella.
“Ahem, my apologies. However, I prefer not to talk about my Classes.”
Isabella arched an eyebrow. It seemed pointless to her to keep them a secret, given they were in...
2025-11-17 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAlice was a short young woman wearing a blue and white dress, and she had blonde hair and blue eyes. She gave everyone a small smile and a nod.
Becky.
Lily.
The ghosts.
And Mr. Cat.
...Huh?
Lily squinted her eyes.
Did Alice just nod to the ghosts?
Lily’s head whipped around to check the ghosts!
But they weren’t paying attention!
Th...
2025-11-17 18:32:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Hazel arrived at the butcher’s shop to meet Lily looking inordinately proud of herself.
She was practically beaming! She had a huge smile! She rivaled the early morning dawn in brightness!
“Miss Lily! Good morning! Guess what?”
“Good morning!” Lily said back. “What happened?”
“I woke up before my mom came to get me this morning! All on my ow...
2025-11-16 19:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Absolutely. I think Lilyburgers has real potential. I understand you’re having some minor cashflow problems right now, and you have other expenses you need to deal with…”
George said all this, and laced his fingers on his belly as he leaned back in his chair and looked at the little businesswoman in front of him, sipping on her lemonade through a straw.
“The question is, ...
2025-11-15 19:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostIsabella turned, and there was the blonde foreigner boy, James. He bowed gracefully, though with slightly imperfect form. She curtsied in response. “Good morning to you, too…” she paused, waiting for him to fill in a title or his class, but he remained mute. “...James,” she finished, slightly awkwardly. With her social obligations fulfilled, she turned back to the fountain.
“E...
2025-11-14 19:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, Lily,” the mayor said as they walked towards the green. “Normally in golf, players go in order of who is farthest from the hole. So this time, you should go first. I wanted to give you a good example last time, but now we’ll play a bit more normally.”
Now that he was aware of just how good at golf Lily was!
He had never imagined she’d be keeping up with him.
...
2025-11-14 18:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral weeks after Sarah created the Finder Class, and took it as her second, Brawler and Homemaker Helen finished wrapping up her business in the capital of Asufal and departed, just in time before the winter snows made travel difficult if not impossible, and returned to her home village in Mortimer Barony.
The leaders of Asufal breathed a great sigh of relief.
Sarah had ...
2025-11-13 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostUp in heaven, the Gods of Business and Golf were getting excited.
Yep, there’s a God of Golf!
Gods and Goddesses are born grow from peoples’ prayers!
Lots of people who do business and play golf do a lot of praying.
But it’s not just peoples’ prayers, it’s also that the people do business, and play golf.
The activity matters, to...
2025-11-13 18:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostThey got back inside, and Gertrude pulled out a binder from behind her desk.
“Okay, so what kind of work is it?” she asked.
Lily explained.
“It’s cooking and selling work! In the morning we get the ingredients, then we cook them up, then we sell them at lunch time and dinner time!”
That’s right, Lily and the ghosts had decided to sell at dinner time, too!
... 2025-11-12 19:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Smith had had, practically, a perfect day. He had managed to walk unescorted to the Enchanter’s Guild, attended a class on Enchanting, learned much, met the love of his life, made new friends who were also Enchanters, managed to walk home unescorted without incident, and had learned the proper way to court a woman of Isabella’s station.
The Enchantress’ day had been an exercise ...
2025-11-12 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t a complicated story. The mother had been shopping that morning, and looked away for just a moment, and then her son was gone. Nobody nearby had seen anything, the city guards were useless, and after an hour of looking, she had come to the Adventurer’s Guild to file an emergency request.
The boy had little to add, himself. He only remembered waking up in the dark, scared.
... 2025-11-11 19:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostLily woke up, and there were now three ghosts in her room!
Also, Mr. Cat was there too! He was curled up on top of her dresser, sleeping!
He was so cute!
A big ball of beautiful blue-grey fur!
Meanwhile…
The ghosts were glaring at each other!
On one side, there was Mac and Rich, the WcDonald brothers!
Inventors of the WcDonalds restaurant in another w...
2025-11-10 20:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostMagic power input. Input regulation. Runic invocation. Elemental conversion. Spell formation. Activation conditions. Termination conditions. Magic power output regulations. Safety circuits.
The rest of the day’s lesson was a whirlwind of unfamiliar terms as Enchanter Melinda made up for lost time, bringing the lecture to a stop precisely five minutes before the Guild closed for the day....
2025-11-10 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLily’s Papa sat stiffly in his chair, trying not to move his back. He nodded, backing up his wife’s explanation.
“That’s right, almost five thousand a month,” he said. “And there’s no way we can pay it, so we have to go to debtor’s prison.”
Whoa!
That escalated really quickly!
“Wait!” Lily cried out. “Why do you have to go to debtor’s prison?!...
2025-11-09 16:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the fourth day of running the cart, and Lily was getting the hang of things. Like the mister ghosts said, she practiced her customer service, trying to remember her customers’ names and what they liked to order.
The girl from yesterday, Hazel, came back too! She ordered a full set, and Mr. Cat managed to get a few french fries out of her!
“Sorry everyone! I ran out of foo...
2025-11-08 20:23:24 +0000 UTC View PostJames froze a moment, suddenly glad he was sitting behind everyone else. At least they weren’t all staring at him, just the teacher.
“Uh, it’s putting… magic… in an object, I think?”
The room was utterly silent for a moment, and James’ heart sank. But then Enchanter Melinda nodded.
“That’s a good answer—straight to the point,” she said. She turned and beg...
2025-11-07 19:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh!” Lily said. “The God of Death sent ghosts to tell me the recipe!”
Hazel looked down at the little girl with brown hair and bright blue eyes who was clearly lying.
“You know, if you wanted to keep it a secret, you could have just said so,” Hazel said.
She was just the slightest bit hurt!
“No, it’s true! Look!” Lily said, pointing at the ghosts of th...
2025-11-07 18:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt was sooooo good!
“Mmmmmm!”
The bun perfectly encapsulated the burst of savory flavors of the ground beef patty, the cheese, the ketchup, and the little bit of pickle!
It was a symphony of flavor! An orchestra of optimal nutrition!
Carbs, protein, fats… Unknown to the people of Appalashia, but perfectly balanced for human nutrition. If anything, it was a little p...
2025-11-07 18:46:14 +0000 UTC View PostBored, and her interest now piqued, Sarah walked at a somewhat fast pace in the direction of the crying child, still muffled and faint, and traced it to the line of carts waiting to exit the city gates. The noise was enough to overwhelm a child’s soft crying even at the best of times, between the street sellers, the guards directing traffic, and the horses’ hooves clopping and whinnying and...
2025-11-06 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe ghosts froze like an old VHS tape, flickering between frames.
Up in heaven, a klaxon siren, like for an air raid, started going off.
Weeeeeeeehhhhhhhh weeeeeeeehhhhhhhh…
It was an emergency!
“Who did this?!”
“Who hired that cat?!”
The Gods and Goddesses ran around in a panic!
Lord Hades and Lord Homer, the God of Literature, were ...
2025-11-06 16:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post