By the time I woke up it was already early afternoon. I felt refreshed, but also slightly sticky. In game that never happened though characters did start looking dirty after a while. I also wished I owned an actual nightshirt because my dress had not been the most comfortable thing to sleep in. Fortunately most of the leadership of our guild had rooms with a bathroom attached. The warrior barracks and simple town houses did not have them. They would have to go to the public bath. Speaking of...there were no public toilets. Mine worked just fine, but in game there were no toilets anywhere except as decoration in guild built or private buildings. That was not good...what exactly would the servants in the palace do if nature called?

Anyway, first things first so...new clothing. Maybe Aurelie and I should take up tailoring again? Since our stats did fit we had had a phase during vacation when we were still at university together. When we played around with the skill tree it had grown to the upper mid stages quickly thanks to the high stats, but we had lost interest again soon. Now it looked like we might need to try our hand at it.

No NPC shop had sold nightgowns so far. Or nice underwear.

Either way, I took a shower in my new but familiar body and dressed myself in a light green robe. As for underwear, well, I wrapped my rather small chest with a long band of silk and put on a pair of very short silk shorts. I did have a nice collection of cloth and outer wear at least. The silk hotpants and chest wrap had been a joke, Aurelie and me had worn those on an in game halloween party when we were sixteen I think. I could not remember what we told people back then though...maybe we were supposed to be scantily dressed mummies?

Now it was okay underwear. For the day.

I actually decided to braid my golden hair since I had never thought of making a blow dryer. It would not be hard at all, any item and a weak soul...why not try it?

I grabbed one of the many decorative brushes, took out a minor soul stone, transferred the soul, shaped the power into a very weak lasting enchantment that could be switched on and off...and I had a blow dryer...brush...

So my hair was dry within a few minutes, but I still braided it. Why I wanted hair to my ankles as a game character was kind of a mystery by now, but I had set it to this length ten years ago and never gotten around to changing it. So I braided it and made a kind of crown around my head with it by wrapping it around and around several times, finally hiding the end somewhere in that crown. I looked like a high elven noble in the end. But I guess that was what I was supposed to be now?

During gameplay Aurelia, me and several others had collected a bunch of titles and territories in special quests though we gave management rights for everything to Guardian. It was all still my territory and the attached titles I had never bothered to read through were all there in my head. For how long have I been Queen of a bunch of nomads though? And duchess of some minor kingdom my guild took over completely later on...independent ruler for life in a trading city somewhere to the south too. There were quite a few. Most had been gifted to us girls in the guild leadership by others after Guardian got into roleplaying hardcore and complained about footsoldiers having kingdoms in our guild. 

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By the way, they had been given to us girls only because Donny shouted 'Haughty Queens are the best!' and 'Who wants to take orders from a muscle guy!'. Yes, they are a bunch of fun Idiots. 

Before those had all been quest rewards I never really cared about and I, like most high level players, had deactivated social titles after they started getting too long. A few people collected them and ran around with dozens of them floating above their heads as a joke for a while, but since people never bothered to pick out their actual name from the titles they gave up on it within a few weeks.

As I was supposed to be a Queen now I took out a tiara with a strong charisma enchantment and fastened it in front of the braids wrapped around my head.

Finally ready, I left my bath, firmly keeping the urgent toilet reform situation in mind. Maybe Aurelia would have an Idea.

Opening the Message system I sent a quick info request to Rattle, who asked me to go downstairs to the great hall. Which I did, passing quite a few servants hurrying from place to place with baskets and mops and linen. Apparently our palace needed some reorganisation aside from the need for toilets.

"Wait a moment!" I called out to one of servants passing by, an older northern human woman whose height was like mine while her shoulders were three times as wide. Outside a game her build suddenly became kind of intimidating. Even the servants around here could kill me easily if they got a good punch in! Maybe I should have invested in endurance, constitution or strength after all...

"How may this servant be of help?" Contrary to her looks she seemed like a...well, a meek maid. She kind of was one, after all. I really needed somebody to play guard for me soon though. At least to warn me so I could turn invisible in time!

I leaned forward slightly to ask because saying it out loud was kind of embarrassing. "What do the servants and soldiers do, if... if nature calls?"

"The head Butler designated certain rooms where chamberpots with cleaner slimes were positioned for this occasion earlier this morning. Please do not worry about such matters, my lady." Then she smiled at me like a matron would at an overly sensitive girl.

Both relieved and slightly disturbed I continued going downstairs, until I reached the great hall where most of the guild leaders were already gathered. Aurelia and Cassandra were still missing, but they would surely come soon. In the meantime I went to my seat at the quarter moon shaped table on the platform. Unlike in the game I did not jump on the tables that stood in semi circles around the platform though. I obediently took the passage over the midnight blue carpet, went halfway around the platform, took the four steps up and then sat down. From this platform I had an excellent view of the stage where the speakers were supposed to stand during a gathering.

So far we had not really used the stage, but...somehow I got the feeling that this would be the first time that we would. This afternoon nobody jumped over and tables. Well, except Donny who got told off soon after.

When I sat and had taken a cup of tea for myself I smiled at Rattle and Formless first, then at the others. Some smiled back, others nodded, but none of us spoke yet. We would wait until everyone was present. 

On the stage Guardian stood waiting, a round table with video crystals next to him. At the side several others were sitting on the bench. Apparently we had gathered quite a bit of info already.