New Quests Available!

Really? Kyle thought. After I did all the Interface stuff, now is the time that you give me that notification? I'll deal with it before I leave, but I'm not going back immediately.

"Was there anything else that you needed to do?" asked Millie's dad.

"Not that I can think of. Is there anything that I can do to help the town in general, or to earn some coin?" Kyle asked. "I only recently arrived, and so I don't have any locally accepted currency."

"You could try the Adventurer's Guild," Millie's dad suggested. "They usually have some jobs available for people who can fight or hunt. I'll show you the way."

With that, they headed out. The Adventurer's Guild building was ostentatious, at least in comparison to the rest of the town. It had pillars in front with gold leafing near the top, a large set of double doors in the center, and white marble steps leading up to it. Kyle hated the incongruity instantly. He walked up to the door, noting the crest carved into the middle of the doors, a ring radiating like a sun, with a sword in the center. Taking a deep breath, Kyle walked inside.

"Welcome!" a woman called from behind a very large counter in the entrance hall. A streak of dark blue shot from her eyes, bounced off of Kyle and back to her before settling into a transparent, flat surface in front of the elf's eyes. "You must be new here. What can I do for you?"

Hmm, Kyle thought, considering what had just happened. Identify, maybe? "Did you just Identify me?" Kyle asked.

"Y-yes. It's just so hard to remember peoples names!" the woman said. "It also helps me figure out when someone is coming in to sign up or something." She looked a little embarrassed and perhaps a shade scared.

"Ok. I wondered what the skill you had just used was, since it had to be one I already had access to," Kyle responded. "Based on what I could see, it was most likely Identify."

Everyone stared. "What? You must have seen it too, you both have Mana Sight, right?"

"Mana Sight requires it's user to push mana through the skill to be activated," Millie's dad said. "And while that mana pattern is rather distinct..."

"That you had Mana Sight on is surprising," the elf at the front desk finished. "And borderline paranoid."

"Oh," Kyle said. "Well, as you said, I'm new to the area, and I don't have any currency to spend. I'm looking for a job to earn some with. Do you have anything fairly easy that I might be able to do?"

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"Um, let's see," she opened a drawer of some kind and began riffling through papers. "How good are you at defending yourself?"

"Fairly good?" Kyle responded. "I think that my definition is likely to be a fair bit different than yours. Why?"

"Most of the ongoing easy stuff, or just easy requests, are in the forest," the receptionist responded. "Sometimes there are dangerous animals that attack people."

"Ah," Kyle said, considering. "I think I can handle a couple of wild animals."

She continued looking through papers, then growled. "Sort!" The papers were struck by a cloud of white, and the papers were lifted, and spread themselves across the desk in orderly piles.

Skill Requirements Met!

Sort Available

Kyle rolled his eyes. Not a skill I think I would use often. Well, actually... "Does that work on like, ingredients or weapons?"

The receptionist started. "I don't know. I've never tried it on those. I don't see why it wouldn't, it might even work on mixed ingredients... Thank you!"

"...You're welcome? For what?"

"If this works, then I don't have to worry the next time I miscount my dry ingredients!" the elf said. "That will save so many meals, you have no idea."

"Miscount salt a lot or something?"

"You literally couldn't mess up more than I do," the woman agreed, looking at the piles. "Aha!" she picked up one pile of papers and handed it to Kyle. "This pile should be stuff you'll be able to do and be interested in."

"Identify works on plants, right?" Kyle asked.

"Of course!"

"Thank you. What's your name?"

"Lisa," the receptionist said. "Yours?"

"I'm Kyle," He said, taking the pile and began looking through it. "I'll see you later?"

"Looking forward to it," Lisa smirked.

"Wait, do I need to register or something?" Kyle asked.

"Wait, you don't have an ID from another branch or something?" Lisa said, shocked. "Then of course you need to register!" She opened other drawers and began pulling out more papers. "Here. Please fill out these forms, and then we can officially register you as an adventurer."

"Inventory," Kyle said, putting the initial stack into his new extra-dimensional space. "Um, do you have a pen, or something?"

"Oh, of course." Lisa opened another drawer, then handed Kyle a quill and filled inkwell with a cork in it. "Here you go."

It took a while for Kyle to get the hang of writing with a feather instead of a pen, and it kept running out of ink and dripping onto the papers when he dipped the quill in the inkwell. He got it done though, and was soon a member of the guild, and could get paid for the requests he had been given.

Skill Requirements Met!

Scribe Available

Another useless skill. Unless it is essentially printing, but I probably still won't use it. Kyle thought.

"Thank you very much, Lisa," Kyle said.

"I'll get this application processed while you're out." Lisa looked a little embarrassed from the gratitude.

Kyle waved to Lisa and Millie's dad and headed out of the building-

-just to run into a messenger running the other way. Kyle held the door open for the out of breath person, and followed him back in. This could be interesting.

"Oh good," gasped the messenger. "It's you, *gasp* Lisa. Gather the *gasp* adventurers, there's a *gasp* monster approaching *gasp* the gates."