Renfry and I sat and drank and talked with Dave for the next couple of hours before I headed to bed. While I would have loved to have stepped out of the safe room to find Blink, I knew that it was best to stay put and rest for another day. Then hopefully, we would have Irwin ready to start working on becoming our Cleric.

When I woke back up, everyone was back downstairs. We were all rested, and the other three looked like they were in a good mood. Renfry and I hadn’t fully figured out what we wanted to do since there was still too much up in the air. However, we knew the first thing was to get Irwin sorted.

As I sat down at the table, Irwin tried to stand. I reached out and pushed him back into his seat. “Sit; all three of you need to treat me like a normal person.”

I glanced over at Kasidy as she said softly. “Yesss my lord.” Then she winked.

I shook my head. “Not helping the new guy Kas! Now let’s get this covered quick and you two need to understand. Don’t go calling me, my lord or your lordship or any of that junk. We need to trust each other and deal with that as we are here. I get it if in public you need to fine. Just let’s not advertise who I am right now.”

Renfry smiled and nodded. “I have agreed already.”

I gave him a half smile. “I wasn’t talking to you. YOU stopped.”

Kasidy laughed and winked at me when I glared at her. “Oh yes your lordship I understand!”

Irwin looked confused and a little worried. Renfry laid his hand on his back and whispered something to him. Then the man nodded slowly and gave me a slight smile.

I sighed; I needed to figure out how to deal with these people now. On Earth, I was never a fan of crowds. Any more than five or six, and I was looking for ways to get out of the place. My trust in people wasn’t very high, and the caravan leaving Irwin didn’t help.

I rubbed my hands together and said. “Okay let’s get started. Irwin can you level your spells withing healing? Or do you need to truly be healing something?”

He looked like he was trying to find the right word to say for a moment and then said. “Your, Arniship. Arn. Chief? Can I call you Chief?”

I shook my head. “Nope and don’t call me Arniship.”

He swallowed hard and nodded. “Umm. So some of them I don’t need to heal but the healing spells I do.”

“So half of them?”

“Yes my… Yes.”

I sighed; that’s not what I wanted to hear, but…. “Okay, so how close to level 10 are you on your non-healing spells?”

“Still level one on each of them. I haven’t moved forward on them.”

“And why not? Have you just been sleeping?”

Irwin looked worried for a moment and then replied. “I have been reading the class book and I didn’t want to damage anything.”

I sighed and then nodded. “Okay so here is what we need to do. Kasidy, you need to practice your songs so that you are ready for when we face the lich. Irwin as long as you don’t cause damage to someone else you can attack the walls in here. Go into your room and blast them with your attack spells. Run your mana dry and then read the book. Keep doing that. Oh and take these drink them as soon as you bottom out your mana. Then do it again. We need you combat ready soon.”

I looked over at Renfry. “I am going to see if I can get the dungeon. I mean Tower to come off better armor for you. Something geared towards fighting undead since that’s are current foe. Do you have any skills you can practice in here?”

Renfry looked around. “Can I move stuff?”

I nodded. “Yeah sure.”

I turned to Dave. “Does the dungeon already have a copy of lancer armor?”

Dave shook his head. “Tower. Not that design.”

I rolled my eyes. “Right Tower. Can she make it at current level if we copied it?”

He shook his head. “No the leveling on the Tower’s store is all different but you need to be at the level before you can access it here.”

I nodded, understanding what he was telling me. Selling here, sure buying here... I would be better off in a dungeon. The Tower looked like it would give me some great perks and already had with my MP and HP boosts. But most of those perks would come through climbing the Tower, not being the nominal keeper that I am.

I started to get up and then paused and sat back down. “Irwin, while I am looking for things for Renfry I am going to look for you. Do you mind sharing your skill list so I can know what to look for.”

He smiled. “For most of my life I wouldn’t but with what you have done for me I am happy to.”

With that he shared his full status screen.

Current Experience: 300/2869859

Total Experience: 14348896

Level:47

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Name: Irwin son of Irwin of house Redacted

Race: Human

HP: 40

SP: 45

MP: 165

Defense: 1

Magical Defense: 1

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Titles

Healer of House Redacted of Westiral

+3 to all effective healing spell levels

Active ability Transfer: Can transfer damage from a member of House Redacted of Westiral to yourself at a ratio of 2 of their damage points for 1 of your health. Transfer poison, disease or curses from family member to self.

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Primary Class: Drunkard’s Son (35)

Secondary Class: Last Resort (12)

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Strength: 12

Dexterity: 10

Intelligence: 32

Willpower: 22

Vigor: 15

Vitality: 20

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Abilities

Party On (passive) 5 Raise inebriation 5 levels. Area effect 25 feet

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Primary Class

Father’s Drink 25

Covering up 35

Laundry 14

Cleaning 12

Stealth 14

Tracking 10

Fast talk 8

Primary class Active

Take a punch 1

Secondary Class

Reading 2

Trumpet calls 1

Script 1

Un-targeting 14

All or nothing 22

Secondary Active skills

Future Debt 3

Burn Health 3

Non class skills

Gardening 5

Fire starting 15

Cooking 6

Knife 4

Bar fighting 6

Swimming 1

Tree Climbing 3

Teamster 4

Cooperage 2

Spell/Level/Mana cost/ Cast time

Healing spells 6

Minor Healing touch 1/8/5 seconds

Healing 1/16/7 seconds

Cure Poison 1/4/2 seconds

Remove Venom 1/6/2 seconds

Fortify Vigor 1/8/4 seconds

Fortify Vitality 1/12/10 seconds

Spell/Level/Mana cost/ Cast time

Fire Spells 1

Flame Jet 1/8-Channeled/2 seconds

Spell/Level/Mana cost/ Cast time

Water Spells 1

Ice Touch 1/2-Channeled/1 seconds

Spell/Level/Mana cost/ Cast time

Earth Spells 1

Summon Earth Elemental 1/80/35 seconds

Spell/Level/Mana cost/ Cast time

Utility Spells 3

Magnify 1/6/2 seconds

Scrub 1/2/5 seconds

Sleep 1/1 per subject’s willpower/2 minimum 15/5 seconds

Spell/Level/Mana cost/ Cast time

War Spells 3

Flame Surge 8/100 minimum, channeled/30 seconds

Ferocity of the Tempest 16/73 minimum, channeled/45 seconds

Rage of Hail 4/all/160 seconds

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Faith

Redacted: Redacted

Fist fights and Fences: 27

I took a minute or two to read over everything. First, I would love to know more about all the spells, but the way the system worked just showed me what was shared. I would have to ask for more or research it on my own. Then there was the hard thing to accept. This world gave him a rough class.

I had already understood that people got child classes, but I didn’t understand what they were when Lannah first told me. His class directly revolved around his dad’s class of Drunkard. What was worse was the understanding of what I was looking at. Covering up was likely a lying skill of some type. The rest of the skills were to support a drunk dad and get him home.

I was at least happy to see that he wasn’t using Take a Punch. But that just might have been that he wasn’t turning it on. I would need to talk with him some and see if there was anything I could do to help. Likely only lend an ear, and he might would rather talk with Renfry than me. After all, I am a noble and his boss.

I did need to ask him about some of his skills, though. “Irwin, there are two skills that I would like to know more about: All or Nothing and Un-targeting.”

Irwin nodded. “All Or Nothing is the most important skill of the class. It lets me push everything I have into a spell. Even if I don’t have enough to activate the spell I can force it through now that I know the triggers for it. It’s not nearly as strong done that way but it is how I learned. If I have the mana for it then it uses all the mana I have. As for Un-targeting it removes the friend or foe part of a spell. Making it so it targets everyone.”

I nodded slowly. “Okay, so the Un-targeting. Can you learn to retarget them? Or unlearn that skill?”

He shook his head slowly. “Classes have things about them that aren’t part of the status screen and my war spells area always connected to my class. Unless I can replace that class which because it is an expert class means that I have to do a ton of work.”

I nodded slowly. “Okay well I am going to find some equipment while the rest of you work. Irwin, get the spells that you can up to level 10. We need you able to help support. Once it’s just your healing spells we can step out of the safe room and work on those too.”

With that, I headed back to the guest room. I needed to stay in the safe room, but I didn’t want everyone to see me crafting. While I was trusting these guys with a lot of stuff, I still wasn’t fully open to sharing everything. The Necklace of Cores was the big thing I didn’t want to share.

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