Penelope Draco is a culinary student and Craftsman/Chef mentored by Donna Chang. Her friendship with Liberty brings cooking ambitions into contact with dangerous quests and the search for unusual ingredients. She also approaches Lyra for adventures suited to crafting, seeking a path that connects her practical skills with the wider AlterNet.
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The Nexus Academy
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Stellar TutorSource date: 2024-09-30Original writing prompt] Every 500 years, the dragon who founded the Academy arrives to choose a student to tutor directly. You are the weakest mage on record and she has chosen you
Toku-high: Game On
Donna Chang selects first-year culinary student Penelope for mentorship, and Penelope accepts. Penelope discusses her limited magic and her interest in helping her family’s restaurant.
Resource. Resourceful.Source date: 2024-10-12Original writing promptDungeons, while dangerous, can produce ludicrous sums of natural resources to exploit. You work for a company that does exactly that
Toku-high: Game On
Donna’s apprentice Penelope seeks Red Shatterpepper in a dungeon but finds her new-school friend Liberty serving as its boss. Unable to defeat Liberty and harvest the crystals, she asks Liberty to bring some after her shift. No successful collection or delivery is shown.
Boss. Strategy.Source date: 2025-04-28Original writing promptDungeons, complete with Dungeon Bosses, appeared all over the world, each with signage stating that you had to be "an adventurer" to "journey into their depths", otherwise they "wouldn't be as nice or sporting". A lot of rich special interest groups had to find out the hard way what that meant
Toku-high: Game On
Penelope and Liberty volunteer for Lyra’s adventure demonstration, learn why onboarding scenarios are staged and agree to try another.
Crafting. Liberated.Source date: 2025-05-04Original writing promptEveryone thought the apocalypse would happen due to anything from nuclear disaster to zombie virus. So imagine everyone’s surprise when the apocalypse is triggered by a meteor landing on earth, releasing an alien virus that causes plants to mutate into man-eating, triffid-like monsters
Toku-high: Game On
Penelope and Liberty give Lyra feedback on the triffid event. Penelope wants ingredients and recipes; Lyra promises to consider crafting support, not a completed redesign.
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Content note: Student self-doubt and recollected feelings of family neglect (discussed, non-graphic).
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2024-09-30
Original writing prompt] Every 500 years, the dragon who founded the Academy arrives to choose a student to tutor directly. You are the weakest mage on record and she has chosen you
Content note: Fantasy/game-like combat, flame attacks and poisoning attempt involving teenage characters (depicted, non-graphic). Death/kill language is used casually; no death or lasting injury is depicted.
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2024-10-12
Original writing promptDungeons, while dangerous, can produce ludicrous sums of natural resources to exploit. You work for a company that does exactly that
Content note: Combat and death: earlier entrant deaths are recounted non-graphically; a dragon-boss defeat is depicted briefly. Teenagers take part in the depicted fantasy combat.
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2025-04-28
Original writing promptDungeons, complete with Dungeon Bosses, appeared all over the world, each with signage stating that you had to be "an adventurer" to "journey into their depths", otherwise they "wouldn't be as nice or sporting". A lot of rich special interest groups had to find out the hard way what that meant
Content note: Apocalypse and hostile plant monsters (prompt premise and discussion); fantasy combat and plant-creature deaths (depicted, non-graphic).
Appearance / communication · Toku-high: Game On
Source date: 2025-05-04
Original writing promptEveryone thought the apocalypse would happen due to anything from nuclear disaster to zombie virus. So imagine everyone’s surprise when the apocalypse is triggered by a meteor landing on earth, releasing an alien virus that causes plants to mutate into man-eating, triffid-like monsters
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