"-Ooh, magic by proxy? How do familiars... Work? How does the kaiju thing work, I just remembered that...?"

"Kaiju thing you must spend up to rank five, no intermediate amounts. If you are a wulong you can turn into a big ol' serpentine dragon, if you are an oread or mimi you can be a zooarch, twelve story high version of your foxiness. - must pick one even if you are a wulong/mimi or a wulong/oread, unless you buy twice. Luxals aren't beasty enough to do this."

"I can always go for kaiju thing later. Hmm... Luxmimi or wumimi... I'd lose my twelve bonus points if I don't have luxal in there..."

"You can replace the bronze requirement with another thing."

"...I don't think 'wulong bones' would count? It loses a lot of the appeal if it's a real vulnerability, the bones thing is a hack."

"Wulongs have a tail! Horns! Colorful blood, looks like yours is to be this burnt umber color."

"Hmm perhaps. What about oreads or mimis? ...Fur?"

"Oreads do not have to have fur all the time, though you would notice if you stopped like you would notice holding your breath. Mimis do not get to do this, they have however much fur always. Risky if you do not have enough Firecalling to be proof against singeing though."

"Can I be a wuluxmimi? Three?"

"Yes! Buy hybridize twice. You will certainly be a sight."

"Shiny! Hmm. Hmm! I do really want the nice rezzes. And also I really want to have metal bones, it's just... Awesome. 'Bout how long does it take to rank up my elementalisms a bit if I drop down the ones I raised above one?"

"Depends. Every time you turn in practice for points, the next time it will be more practice for less points. So, a long time if you want to be getting the bulk discount. A week per point at the first exchange rate if you practice hard, twice that if you do not practice too hard."

"Is Arcadia safe?"

"Not as battened down as Hawthorne or gardened as Lunabella. Students do not drop like flies, and of course the ones doing the risky things are the ones getting snapped up by the risky things most often."

"But pretty low odds of being eaten by a grue on the way to class?"

"Yes, that would be very much a surprise if you are not going to grue handling class."

"I'm definitely thinking Arcadia? And I think I can lower my immediate elemental power in order to get the shiny stuff charge method and the two really nice rezzes. -Can I get multiple charge methods?"

"You get charge methods of all your specieses!"

"Oh, yeah, wuluxmimi urges rising further. Probably lux affinities? ...Is this viable pointswise?"

"Yes, luxal affinities and going with metallurgy for the elementalism heavy hitting is doing you good there."

"I think my next step is to write out all the stuff on both this plan and the other one that was just Luxal, and compare..."

"Do you have paper or need borrowings?"

"Hmm? Oh, I wanna type it all out on my phone, so just... A couple minutes here..."

At length, she has things sorted out.

"Okay, I do like this one better. The triple species one. But like I said, I gotta sleep on it before pulling the trigger."

"Absolutely. I will be in the same places tomorrow."