Well, if they ever happen to adventure across any more kobolds, he could use some of their candles. He has some clients in Stormwind that purchase certain specialty potions that use the candle wax as one of their ingredients. He can certainly make it worth their time.

Huh, okay, she'll keep that in mind. Is kobold candle wax alchemically special in some way? 

Yes it is, for reasons that are unfortunately much too complex for a layperson to comprehend.

Fair enough. 

Once they're done with this nice social lunch, it's probably time to go liquidate stray loot. Is turning random objects into tiny accumulable quantities of coinage as easy here as her non-paladin self has always wished it would be in real life? 

The general store is not very picky, yeah. Soon her pockets are jingling with the sweet sweet clink of 2s38c.

Eeeeee. 

Honestly, for this she will pretty much happily forgive the absence of every other gamelike feature. (Fingers crossed for spirit healers, though.) 

Does Brother Sammuel have any exciting new things to teach her now that she's had a little bit of real combat? 

Yes! She is now ready to learn how to channel the Holy Light into persistent auras called seals. The first one she'll learn is called the Seal of Command. While active, it imbues her weapon with the power of the Light, increasing the damage she can do with each swing.

Well that is incredibly cool and she is really excited abwaaaaaait a second. 

"Um," says Theriel. "This is gonna sound like a really stupid question, bear with me, I got concussed yesterday, can you remind me who the King is." 

Varian Wrynn, of course.

"Of course," she echoes distantly.

On the bright side, this means she probably has multiple years to get her bearings before N'Zoth is all up in her business. On the less bright side, she now kind of feels like if she doesn't figure out how to save Theramore it'll be her fault.

Right. Well. She won't be saving anybody with two silver pieces and one spell, no matter how funny a joke she could make about paladins, hammers, and nails. 

What other seals does she get, and is it straightforward to swap between them? 

It'll be some time yet before she's ready to learn more seals. However, she can learn how to unleash the stored energy of a seal into a Judgment.

Judgment is Theriel's very favorite thing. This will probably be obvious from how, the instant she has the cycle of storing energy and releasing it again down, she spends a solid forty-five minutes jumping up and down excitedly and practicing it on training dummies. 

Commendable enthusiasm, but she's also definitely going to run herself into mana exhaustion. This will cause both her Judgment to fail and the "glow" of the seal to wink out.

Whoops. 

The novel sensation of being out of a resource she wasn't previously conscious of having is interesting for about five seconds, but after that it's just kind of unpleasant. 

How quickly does it recover? 

Fairly slowly, but faster if she sits down to have a drink.

Theriel is extremely unthrilled about this but she supposes it is a valuable lesson. 

After she's recovered, if there's no other new things, she's going to spend the rest of the afternoon practicing at a much more sedate pace, trying to etch a sustainable rhythm into her muscle memory.

She can figure that out. It's probably more slowly paced than she'd like, featuring quite a lot of just hitting the dummy without any extra fancy stuff.

Yeah, that is not nearly as exciting. She'd be having a much harder time focusing on this if there were much in the way of tempting, easy alternatives. 

As it is, though, "mostly pell work but with the occasional burst of Light" can at least occupy her hands while she contemplates what on Earth Azeroth she is going to do. The game-present-day she was ready to deal with, sort of, she knows what all is going on there, but her knowledge of the plot of classic World of Warcraft is approximately "Varian may or may not be missing and also there are desert bugs?" and this seems unlikely to do anyone much good. She might have to go to Ahn'Qiraj anyway to obtain real-life reputation points? So that ... literally anybody will listen to her about various impending dooms? But then first she definitely needs to get way better at adventuring, she got concussed by a kobold yesterday. 

Man, she's not even sure she knows what order all the impending dooms go in. There are so many. 

Eventually, sometime in the evening, she gets irretrievably bored of fighting a stationary object, runs laps around Goldshire until she's tired of that too, and collapses disgruntled and slightly sore back in an armchair in the inn. "I'm bored," she complains to Farley. 

"That's a shame, lass," he says, idly polishing a glass. "Have you considered going on an adventure?"

Can she ... can she just do that? 

Well, come to think of it, she doesn't have a job that's expecting her to show up in the morning, does she, or a mortgage to pay or a house that'll fall apart if left unattended, or even any objects to keep track of other than what she's wearing and carrying in her backpack. Nothing is actually stopping her from just going out and doing stuff without having been assigned a Quest(TM) first. 

... actually, she did get assigned a Quest(TM), didn't she. The alchemist gave her one at lunch. She just didn't write it down and promptly forgot. 

"Fabulous plan," she tells Farley brightly, and gets right back up again. 

Does the general store sell, by chance, tiny notebooks? She doesn't need anything fancy like an inscriptionist would need, just, like, the basic ability to pin things down before they disappear into the void possibly never to be seen again. 

It does! They cost 2s50c.

Gosh dang it. 

Welp. Time to go find out if it's possible with new and improved combat skills to remove the wax from a kobold without killing it. 

It's probably going to be dark by the time she gets to a place that is reasonably likely to contain at least one kobold. But maybe their candles will make them easier to find.

Here's hoping! 

In the event that she is able to locate a kobold in this manner...

... what if, perhaps, she walks up to it, looming out of the dark and all, and informs it that she is the Thing From The Void here to eat it, but she will let it go if it hands over its candle as tribute? That's why they have those, right? 

It shrieks "YOU NO TAKE CANDLE" at the top of its lungs and starts flailing wildly.