err, darn auto-corrupt. That's supposed to be 'Yay, you're back!'
By wingnut2292 -
On Jon's mother and Mikey return home
For story purposes Lakeview Academy offers like a dozen different language courses.
By Gooose -
On Pentagrams Aren't Funny When You're the One Stuck Inside
Couple of things here - I figured it would be easier to still use the original pronouns - Mark he/him and Stephanie she/her even though they are both now Juliette ( a college - aged version of Julia, and Stephanie doesn't know it's Mark) and Stephen. Hope it's not too unclear.
By B5 -
On IOC Free Wardrobe: New Faces
Lunchlady Enid Parkes and school nurse Dawn Carrington first appeared in the Transformation Guns branch. Enid Parkes has since appeared in the Wishing Coins branch. Both of them are well-meaning, friendly people normally. Enid Parkes genuinely wishes to do the best she can with what resources the cafeteria has to offer and Nurse Carrington is devoted to helping people. I thought it made sense to bring them in at this point, since we hadn't really heard of what the cafeteria staff were doing during this crisis, and of course Athena's injury required the attention of a nurse.
By Christine L. -
Decided to have a brief flashback to what else was going on during Jasmine's first night as a Djinn. As we see, while the girl's had their sleepover, the elder Galenos women had some fun of their own, whilst a few dark clouds gather on the horizon
By Gooose -
I couldn't think of a better thing to call it. But I tried to make mine distinctive.
By The Guest -
On Day 2 Ends in the Gibson Household
“Prime Version” love it. Love the direction you’ve run with this as well
By MightyMrJ -
On Day 2 Ends in the Gibson Household
That picture looks a lot like Katarina Klaes from My Next Life as a Villainess. Which is a fun show about a girl who gets isekai'd into the life of her favorite game's villainess, and tries to avoid the various terrible fates that befell the villainess in the original game's multiple endings. It's all the more fun that she ends up changing the game's storyline without even realizing it at certain points.
By Christine L. -
My favorite part of this story might be coming up with different exclamations for the different magical creatures. Bark on a Tree! for Dryads, Shards and Shells! for Dragons (From Eggs), By My Mothers' Magic! for Djinn, that sort of thing.
By Gooose -
On Daydreaming Through Roll Call
Thanks, it’s bee n hard to find a balance for the changes, want to keep bringing more in, but the more subtle ones are my favourites. Im planning on building towards to a massive get together, but I kinda pictured this first one to just be Jon, Laura, Lucy, and Sarah
By MightyMrJ -
Thanks, it’s bee n hard to find a balance for the changes, want to keep bringing more in, but the more subtle ones are my favourites. Im planning on building towards to a massive get together, but I kinda pictured this first one to just be Jon, Laura, Lucy, and Sarah
By MightyMrJ -
After seeing a wish for a 'super hot sports car' in the Barter Stone branch, I thought "Oh, I've just GOT to use that wish with the Literal Stone." Since it didn't quite fit in with the existing storyline where Jon gets stuck in the school wall, I thought the best place for it would be where Jon's outside at the front porch, where the unexpected results of the wish taken too literally would be noticed right away.
By Christine L. -
When I created Mr Hargreeves for Nametags, I didn't foresee him becoming a recurring character, I think I based him off of a teacher from Grange Hill, a kids TV show from the 80s, and that character was, indeed, a hard ass, so well done, you continue to delight me with this
By Great Sage -
On Jasmine Might be a Little Clumsy
For only $10,000, this is an insane demand. Especially since it wasn't in the original plan.
By Bunnie -
$10,000 would hardly be enough to demand something like this. Maybe $500,000 or more. A real life changing amount of money for someone.
By Bunnie -
On Mom informs Jon about an offer
Decided to keep this mostly focused on the new Fiona's POV, but I might hop back for a chapter to establish what's going on with the other four briefly.
By Gooose -
This could alternatively be titled, Three magical girls accidentally end up in a romantic comedy.
By Gooose -
On Does this Count as a Meet Cute?
Oh yes!!! I loved this chapter. You've been doing a really nice job into making their slow transition and you nailed Sarah's changes in this one. All the gang gathered together in the hot tub? In their swimming outfits and all those hormones running? Nice. Lucy and Laura conversations, as well as Jon and Sarah's will be interesting, especially about their newfound lust. Will Biff and Molly "slow-bully" Simon and Zoe? I got a feeling that things will heat up and this night will be a memorable night for many of them. Really looking forward to Laura/John, Lucy/Sarah and Molly/Biff hot action, and curious about how Zoe will deal with Athena, now that she is becoming more attached to Simon. Thanks for writing.
By Bruna -
There might be a problem when new Jon finds the stone, I anticipate shenanigans
By Great Sage -
This is a branch where I have some fun ideas that are all fairly far into the story, so I feel like I'm having to get through a lot of set up to get there. Debating employing a few timeskips, or focusing exclusively on Jon's POV to get there quicker.
By Gooose -
Djinn allow for romantic partners of any sort, including more than one, which is helped by their alternative magical reproductive system. Later in life, Jasmine could literally blend her magical essence with both Sarah and Karyn, creating a child from all three mothers. Older Djinn are also quite proficient with minor perception altering magic, allowing her to potentially make people not think it odd that she's married to two women if they one day get married. That's actually something Djinn have done historically to make them working in masculine fields or being married to women seem unremarkable. So it won't be a problem as far as Jasmine's family is concerned, have yet to decide about Dryads and Dragons, but probably all three races will be cool with polygamy. I'm thinking for Dragonnewts it's much more of a class thing, IE are any potential suitors sufficiently wealthy to be a good match.
By Gooose -
This is showing a lot of promise. There are multiple directions the story could go from here. We could end up with all the rifts between the 3 girls ended or become even wider through competition and secrets coming out unexpectedly. Have you decided yet if one or more of the magical races represented allow for multiple life partners?
By Lucus Rose -
I like the similes of Sunshine and Mound of gold, as used by the two secretly supernatural girls towards Jasmine, it absolutely captures the essence of hat is their most primarily necessary thing - Dragons need gold, Plants need Sunshine, and this delicious Triangle of jealousy and desire, it could only get better if Tiffany was a succubus, deliberately stoking these fires for her sick delight LOL
By Great Sage -
Well played! This is such a treat.
By Great Sage -
Decided to go with a version of the idea suggested by Lucus Rose on the last chapter, with the added wrinkle that Karyn and Sarah are both magical but don't know Jasmine is and vice versa. We'll see Sarah's POV next, but suffice to say she's also quite into Jasmine, just a good deal more Tsundere about it. Eventually all three girls will end up as a polycule. Might go back and do a branch with the original idea of human Karyn and Kitsune Yuki somewhere down the line.
By Gooose -
What I'm wondering is, do other magical creatures exist in this setting? And if so, are any of them among the other members of the cast? I think it'd be interesting going off what Asteria said a few chapters ago, about Jon potentially being turned into a fairy or succubus.
By Zorak -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
Go for it Sage, I tried to make the initial branch of this a good jumping off point to turn Jon into a variety of magical creatures. Going the multi-route with Karyn and Sarah could definitely be neat, but at this point I'm leaning towards Yuki and Jasmine getting together. That said, Jasmine being the oblivious Archie to Karyn and Sarah's Betty and Veronica is a fun idea.
By Gooose -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
While Karyn is an expected pairing, perhaps switching Karyn's and Sarah's dislike for each other to stem from a competition over an attraction to Jasmine would open up more plot possibilities. Particularly if Sarah was also trying to hide this from her circle to maintain her position at school and her parents who wouldn't approve for whatever reasons you decided to come up with.
By Lucus Rose -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
This is incredible! I'm loving it so far, which of course, guarantees you will run out of juice now and never add another episode to it LOL, I'm tempted to branch off of this but have Jon be descended from the Tuatha De Danaan instead of Djinni .
By Great Sage -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
Hmm, I am seriously considering having Athena be an actual witch in this branch since we've established magic being a thing beyond the stone already. I'm unsure if she'll be Zoe's best friend in this reality; that is to say, I don't know if being a Djinn, having a second mother and big sister, not having Roger in her life, etc. would alter Zoe enough that she's not a goth in the first place. I'm also playing with the idea of at least one Lakeview student also secretly being a magical creature of some kind, although not a djinn, lots to think about
By Gooose -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
Here's a knock-on effect for you: imagine how Athena DeVries, the super occult goth and occasionally an actual witch, is going to react when she finds out her best friend's entire family is actually genies in disguise...
By Matisguy -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
Hmm. Have you thought about a minority character? Melony Tyne, Janelle Carter... Could always have your dimension gender bend an existing FB male character or pull from a branch that introduced others. You might get more replies on Discord for questions like these, too.
By ZamZam -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
Any opinions on a pairing for Jasmine in this branch? I feel like Karyn is the obvious answer, and I'm not opposed to going in that direction, but I'm also open to other options. Jasmine's new nature could easily have a knock on effect of changing her relationships with various people.
By Gooose -
On Getting Ready for the Sleepover
Hehe, may have gone a bit nuts with it in this branch, but hopefully people found it fun.
By Gooose -
So much worldbuilding. I applaud it, my man!
By Matisguy -
Fair enough, I'll add that in the next chapter as she gets a better look at herself. That chapter had a planned description of the genie version of Linda too, so that's easy enough to add in. Jon will also have a human passing form without the blue skin.
By Gooose -
Interesting idea. However, I think it'd be good to have a written description of Jon's new form, instead of relying on a picture.That way, if the picture doesn't appear for whatever reason, we still know what the genie looks like.
By Christine L. -
Ugh, sometimes I feel my reach exceeds my grasp with this branch, doing five simultaneous swaps. Mostly I've been bouncing between the Alyssa/Jon stuff and the other four, but to a degree I kinda wish I'd done this branch as just those two swapping.
By Gooose -
Current plan is for Jon to switch with Fiona, Leonard with Elaina, Karyn with Mr. McMillan, Kyla with Susan and Lily with Stu.
By Gooose -
Ah no they do! I just didn’t make it clear. What I meant is they don’t remember what was going on in their new lives. I’ll revise it to make that clearer.
By Chompy -
On Another item in the junk pile
I personally don't like the fact that they don't remember their former lives, but this is a brilliant concept with a lot of potential!
By Perri -
On Another item in the junk pile
Loved this episode!
Looks like between Gladys' stunning weight loss and the confrontation between Nadine and Sarah, the school's population is going to have a lot to talk about and gossip about between classes. And so much mystery here. What is this new church and the Cotierettes all about? We'll have to wait and see.
A good start to a potentially interesting storyline.
By Christine L. -
I mean, it isn't the direction I would have taken but it's cool, I had no intentions of getting involved with the crazy world of Bible bashers be my guest and have fun, I will be watching to see how this works out.
By Great Sage -
Love where you’re going with this
By MightyMrJ -
No other students, so basically any adult in Lakeview. Hopefully a few different types of people.
By Gooose -
On Youth Citizen Interchange Exchange
Does it have any restriction on who can swap?
By TGAlmeida -
On Youth Citizen Interchange Exchange
I have a few ideas already, but I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for who to pair with the students.
By Gooose -
On Youth Citizen Interchange Exchange
Thanks Mira, I will try to write more, I have the whole thing mapped out in my head up to a point, I have maybe two other girls I want to change Jon into as well, but I will have to think about this a bit more, do you have any suggestions?
By Great Sage -
On Name Tags: The Tiffification continues
Wow, this has been a roller coaster Sage. Honestly loving it. :D Keep em coming!
By Mira -
On Name Tags: The Tiffification continues
It's back at last!
By Matisguy -
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