Laundry Skill Gained! Laundry Speed 5% Faster, 10% Chance of Removing Stains

This day is now very much not like others, considering the glowing grey… rectangle thing? Also, she can read the words on it. That doesn’t make them make any sense, but she can definitely read now.

If she pays attention, she can notice that she has a sort of ingrained knowledge of effectively washing clothes. Not a lot, but she knows how to clean expensive silks without damaging them, now, in addition to her normal knowledge.

Well that's strange. Can she touch the weird glowing rectangle?

Her hand… hits something, faces a bit a resistance, and then goes through it. One of the other kids is giving her a weird look, presumably because she’s sticking her hand in the air.

Well that's something. For the moment she'll just ignore the box maybe it will go away on its own. For the moment there's laundry to do.

There is indeed! Ignoring it does not seem to make it go away, unfortunately.

Laundry Skill Leveled Up! 1 —> 2 Laundry Speed 5% Faster, 15% Chance of Removing Stains

And now there are two floating rectangles! Does this laundry have any stains, perhaps?

Apparently this is her life now, if strange questions were an okay thing to ask she might ask someone about this but she's learned that adults don't like those. Questions about how to do chores better are fine, questions about why the world is the way it is are not.

There are some stains, she'll do her best to apply her newfound knowledge to removing the stain on this tunic.

Well, some of them are removable, according to her newfound knowledge! Unfortunately, most of them require more specialized tools than “basic soap” and “a river.”

Oddly, when she gets to one that, according to said knowledge, is impossible to remove, it just disappears as soon as she puts it under the water to wash the soap off.

She startles at that and rubs at the spot a couple times to confirm it's really gone. And then she continues like nothing happened. Eventually all the laundry will be done.

Yep! The boxes will stick in her vision if she walks away, but if she tries to look past them, they’ll turn translucent.

Nobody appears to be paying enough attention to notice disappearing stains, thankfully.

She whispers "please go away" at the mysterious boxes after walking away doesn't work.

That actually does make then disappear! 

At the midday meal, she overhears two adults talking about heavy rains causing flooding on the Zergru River.

Hopefully the flooding won't damage their lands. They're a fair distance from the river. She moves on to help with checking the crops for pests.

And after a few minutes of that, the glowing rectangles return! Or, rectangle singular, this time.

Farming Skill Gained! 1% Faster Growing Speed, 5% Chance of Double Harvests. Claiming Land Feature Unlocked!

The crops are undamaged, thankfully!

Maybe she doesn't have to whisper, she tries wishing this new one away and goes back to weeding. She can worry about whatever a land claiming feature is when she's alone.

That also makes it go away! Unfortunately, another one just appears.

Farming Subskill Weeding Gained! 3% Less Weeds on claimed land. Go to Skills for an explanation on subskills!

There sure are a lot of these boxes. It seems like they're mostly making her better at chores though... she doesn't think that's bad. She hasn't heard any stories of the dragon touched doing something like this. She wishes this one away too.

Thinking them away continues to work just fine! 

Well there's that at least, she'll finish her field work, help with the evening meal and finally get some time to herself.

The boxes continue!

Cooking Skill Gained! 5% More Damage With Knives, Food Based Buffs and Debuffs Last 5% Longer when food is personally cooked.

There seem to be blurry words over the food, and when she squints at them, they resolve into more rectangles.

Pot of Soup: 50% more Health Regeneration for 8 Hours

Loaf Bread: Cut to Craft Bread Slices

Even more boxes.... great. She wishes these away too. Once she's alone she tries to summon one of the boxes.

The boxes over the food will not go away! The best she can do is make them blurry again. 

Trying to summon one of the previous boxes gets her an odd sensation, as if the boxes are confused, before getting a new box with the words Previous Notifications at the top. Below it are the previous rectangles.

The boxes over food not going away is distressing.

Boxes appearing when she wants is good for once. She tries wishing them away and then wishing again using this new magic phrase previous notifications.

It goes away and come back just as she hoped!

It's consistent at least. Now one of these notifications told her to go to Skills... She tries thinking that word really hard at the boxes.

Indeed, a new rectangle appears!

Skill Menu:

Welcome to your skill menu! Skills will increase your ability to do various actions by providing bonuses and additional knowledge. Skills will level up by using the skills in question. More complex tasks will increase skills more. As you level up your skills, leveling gets slower and more difficult. Gain skills by doing various actions, reading books, learning from a mentor, or completing quests!

Subskills are skills that are attached to other skills. For instance, the Embroidery Skill might be a subskill of Sewing. A subskill can’t have a higher level than its related main skill, but practicing it will earn experience for both skills. Additionally, bonuses will apply from both applicable skills and subskills.

Your Skills:

Cooking 1: 5% More Damage With Knives, Food Based Buffs and Debuffs Last 5% Longer when food is personally cooked.

Farming 1: 1% Faster Growing Speed, 5% Chance of Double Harvests.

- Weeding 1: 3% Less Weeds on claimed land. 

Laundry 2: 5% Faster, 15% Chance of Removing Stains