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[peninhand]

[ Monika started the video feed on an impulse. She'd been spending hours trying to work up the courage to post the quest in text form, but to no avail. Best way was to get rid of it without thinking. ]

Hey everyone! So um, I'm here about that quest from Merlin. [Okay, she needed to clear a misconception first:] It's not like I need it or anything, but I kind of get completionist instincts when I see a time-limited quest reward. [There.] And besides it could theoretically be very useful if you had a crush on someone and didn't know how they'd react to your confession... If that spell worked on them, that'd mean they're also attracted to you, right? N-Not that I have anyone like that yet, but you never know... A-Ahaha...

[ Gosh. Why couldn't she have shut it up after she mentioned the completionist thing? ]

Um... Anyway, that's a pick up line first, right? [She cleared her throat.] Well, u-um... Are you an overdue book? Because you have fine written all over you!

[ With that said, she marked a pause and looked away, her face red as a tomato. That was the best she'd been able to come up with... Thankfully, her best was incredibly lame. Surprisingly, it was more embarrassing to say stuff like that to an open audience than to a single invisible player. ]

As for a line that'd work on me... When I look into your eyes, nothing exists for me anymore because I lose myself in them. [An agonizing pause. If lameness could kill, she'd be dead.] I-It's pretty good, right?

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[queenofminiskirts]

[No last name? Maybe it was how her world was.]

You can just call me Kaoru. [Since she'll be calling you Monika.] It is a pretty weird quest though, isn't it? I wonder what he was trying to accomplish with it?

[peninhand]

Mhm, very much so.

[ She had no idea either, but she could at least make an educated guess as to the origin of this particular spell he was "offering" them. ]

Merlin is half-incubus, at least if the legends are true. I imagine it may be related.

[queenofminiskirts]

I see, so he's a half-incubus?

[She says like she totally understands what that means.]

What's an incubus?

[She totally doesn't understand what that means.]

[peninhand]

Oh, um...

[ That's... A bit embarrassing to have to explain that. ]

Well, incubi are demons who prey on sleeping women to, um... [An awkward pause.] Engage in sexual activities with them? [An even more awkward pause?] They can also invade their dreams and do all sorts of weird stuff.

[ Please don't ask her how she knows that. She's never read any romances or horror novels involving handsome and devious incubi. Nope. Nothing to see there. ]

And they can have children with humans, too. That's how Merlin was born, according to the legends.

[queenofminiskirts]

So they're demons who are perverts. [That's what she understood anyway.] Maybe even stalkers?

Ah, wait. Maybe I shouldn't say that in public. That Merlin guy's pretty important, right?

[peninhand]

I mean, he's giving away spells for, well, you know...

[ An embarrassed laughter. Well, just look at the quest. ]

I don't think he's particularly worried about his reputation.

[queenofminiskirts]

You never know. Sometimes people who do perverted things take a lot of offense at being called a pervert.