@heimdal7 Yeah. Thankfully, the villainess (in the proper meaning of the term) shares the same lack of critical skills, on top of being lazy and spoiled as heck. She is a serious problem, but more in the terms of preventing her from escalating and defusing her without severe consequences.

She would be orders of magnitude worse a threat if she could apply herself to the task of honing her magical and social manipulation skills. Luckily, she seems largely incapable of looking beyond short-term convenience. She may have a gamer solipsism complex, but she lacks any notion of properly building up her RPG character. Min-maxing, level-grinding isekai MCs would laugh or weep at her waste of potential.

Asbert means well, but is likely going to need a sustained re-education effort by his strong-willed, no-nonsense wife, once Nicole drags him to the altar and likely becomes the power behind the throne.

Claire and Vik continue to enjoy excellent synch and seamless transition from adventuring companions to teen lovebirds and vice versa. Their battlefield is the ballroom, but they are still very much a Battle (and Ruling) Couple (one of the best kinds of romance).

The author keeps things G-rated, but I cannot believe they are not going to f**k like rabbits when those fade to black moments happen. I doubt premarital passion getting physical is going to be a problem for them. After all, one of their duties is to fill the royal household with children. Morever, in all likelihood existence of magic tends to improve the social status of women and make sexual morality less conservative (with partners that are a good eugenic fit) in premodern cultures.

As far as I can tell, Claire might well be a few months and a rampaging sister away from getting a ring on her finger and a princess' diadem on her head. Although for the life of me I cannot understand why they delayed making the engagement official. It just complicates things.

Yeah, they got embarassed by the funny teleporting accident, but it was unexpected, and Dion and Keith get caught in the mess. It kind of seemed they were going to have a threesome.

@Windsagio said in Min-Maxing My TRPG Build Vol. 5:

The "GM Tip" about executions (including the planners) makes it look pretty bad though.

Some of the GM Tips have been what I would call "general information" that is only tangentially related to recent events. I interpreted this Tip as being in this category, and relevant to both "what might have happened to Erich if he didn't have Agrippina to help" and "what will almost certainly happen to the captured assassins after they are interrogated."

Edit: The head schemer is far to slick for "the law" to trace it back to him. In my opinion, at least.

@kingpendragon said in Dahlia in Bloom Vol. 6 Discussion!:

And Tobias is forced to drink.

Well, nearly every named character in this series has had a drinking scene. It was about time for Tobias (who says the first line in the first book, and is the second character to be named) to have one.

Maybe...

Either that or he just needs a potion.

I'm leaning toward this, myself.

Well, there's always the attempt to wash a bad taste out of his mouth, and some of what's happened should surely leave him with that.

Note that demonkin are listed as a subset of mankind, whereas devils are considered the enemy of all mankind, which means "demon" and "devil" aren't the same thing.

@CutenCudlyToo It's been way more than a bathhouse ever since Fire blessing; I can see an onsen hotel in particular after Earth blessing. If you really want to get into the weeds, then it's been more than a bath ever since Darkness blessing.

Anyway, Unlimited Hotel works just as well for me as Unlimited Home. I primarily see the space more as a home (of the wealthy upper crust variety), especially given that Touya's the master of the household with a sizable harem living in it with him. Though, it's also true the last several books have had entire tangentially related tribes living in the space with him.

Mia's actions around Sion's confession (in particular her monologue about it prior to the action and in the last couple chapters) lead me to believe that Mia has finally come to terms with the idea that people who were her enemies in the prior timeline were only enemies because of circumstance, and in better times can actually be friends, good friends, and even fall in love with her. In the early times she always had this hangup that she needed to avoid those people so she wouldn't wind up dead again. And now she realizes she doesn't need to avoid them anymore because the things that caused them to hate her never happened. (and some of them never really hated her to begin with and were trapped into their actions).

@Geezer-Weasalopes tbh her Maid Adela got the reaction that probaly would be normal. To bad for her the others shes with atm is kinda taken in with Sumo to much which is quite funny how pur Villianess here did get 2 allies by just... beating them in Sumo

In today's (a few days ago.... god damn Factorio, I have tons of parts to read today) adventures of "European Fantasy" our Hero find his old cape that is mad for having being alone for all this time. We also meet Aura again, the lady who does not yet know that the men she's obsessed over is standing right in front of her.

And now Hiro has to meet the King... while the trial for a certain prince is in session, after the Archpriestess's missive was received... Next week will be interesting...

@custodes said in Fushi no Kami Vol. 7 Discussion!:

The Frontier will grow in power and the Centre will diminish in not enough a lifetime. And that dear children is how Ash and his two wives founded the new Empire....or so I hope how the story proceeds.

Search for the best, most skilled workers in central, recruit them, and slowly ween imports to central until they are weak and tactically overthrow central families, then pouring in relief supplies after the new government is installed. Doesn’t have to take generations and can be done with minimal loss of life.

And lots more parts to go.

I think Rosemary just let it be known to Leonhart that her feelings for him are quite a bit more adult than he might have realized.

Leonhart: I'm a scary guy sometimes, right?

Rosemary: Yeah. I'm kind of into it.

Leonhart: What?

Rosemary: What?

Seeing have to play the straight man role this time was just delicious

*sigh* Mother-in-law-to-be... please stop causing trouble for your father and daughter...

First part, must be Percy, still suffering from the effects of the poison. That last part is Satie/Percy/Kasim/Belgrieve immediately after Percy got hit with basically the full brunt of the poison. Oof, damn that sucks.

@GeorgeMTO I did say "some kind of resolution" and not "the resolution"... 😋

@piisfun said in Invincible Little Lady Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@saidahgilbert It is generally not a good idea to send replies for messages over a month old, as it leaves people confused.

@pcj said in Invincible Little Lady Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@piisfun or if you do, quote enough of it that we know what you're talking about.

While probably true, and a good idea, at least you can easily go back to the replied-to post by clicking on the tag with the arrow and username that’s next to the poster’s own name and membership-level tag. It just amounts to only a brief moment of confusion until doing so.

@George-Wang-a98vag7 that's definitely a posibility. We've had enough text explaining how the current heirs isn't up to the task, so it wouldn't surprise me that she'd try to use this as a proxy for why she'd be ideal as next head.

For us, on the outside, it wouldn't be a good look, but I suspect if she pulled it off it would be good for her chances.

All I have to say is it's no wonder Tama decided Rimi should be empress well before picking an emperor.

The thought process required to try to save the person who tried to kill you just because he's critical to the empire... she's definitely thinking like an empress.

Just dropped by to comment that Isana Higashira is best girl.

@TheGrimLich I could be mistaken, but I thought Travis had said that the only 3 "Blessed" that were in the 4th Company were him with his eyes, Edgar the "Battle Ogre", and the "All Seeing" Zoltan.

I feel like if he had this "Angel Puppet" person on hand, he would've waited for them to rejoin even if they had been part of one of his scouting teams since the puppets would make the assault that much easier. Also, from what he said, it's implied he was getting his info directly from Edgar, judging by the listed names. It seems like if he were directly part of the 4th, he might've been more leary of Rose already. After all, she held the main gate largely by herself, even if the Holy Order thought it was Lily casting the Grade 3 magic originally.

Poor Black. He's a frog in a well. 👀