The novices give Lime their names one by one and he finds them in the registry—there are enough people from all over the world registered with Eden that he doesn't have trouble with names that don't use the standard Rune-Midgard common alphabet like Natalya's (Наталья) and Taharqi's (𓇿𓉔𓃭𓈎)—to make their registration with Eden official. He needs to cast a specific spell with the Eden badge (which is an oval pink gem gilded with silver) to register their personal magical signatures, but that's also pretty quick and in short order they're all done.

All, that is, except for...

"That was awful. Oh, gods, that was horrible."

"...what happened?"

"I don't want to talk about it. Can I register now, please?"

"Of course."

So he does that, looking haunted throughout the entire process.

"Very well, then, you're all registered! The bounty boards are that way," and he points at a wall to his left that is almost entirely covered by a cork board with a myriad postings, "and they follow a rough power expectation from left to right. You can also find bounty boards in all major cities on this continent as well as in the Academy you just came from. Bounty listings include a minimum and a maximum ranking that you have and can be to take them, but most of the listings you will find on this lounge do not have a minimum ranking requirement. You can talk to my colleagues Yann and Joo Garam over there to ask about any bounties or claim their rewards, or you can be directed to the people who posted the bounties themselves. Bounties outside our lounges will typically ask that you talk to their posters directly but since they need to be registered with Eden to be allowed to post to one of our boards you can always come back here if you need help with anything.

"Now I encourage you to go look at the bounties and maybe find your first one, or to talk to other adventurers here if there's anything more you're curious about or if you just want to get to know some people."

Oh Taharqi absolutely wants to do that, whee networking excuse him he's gone now.

"Okay but seriously what happened?"

"No, I am not thinking about this anymore, let's find bounties, come on!"

Yeah that sounds good, they can go find some bounties.

There are so many bounties Vallynn doesn't even know where to start, so he starts somewhere random.

The Prontera Guard is looking for a hero! YOU are this hero!

If you are looking to save the people of Prontera from the perils of vermin-carried disease then the Prontera Culvert Vermin Eradication Initiative is where you'll

Next.

Lunatic Infestation

The rainbow carrot farm is looking for an intrepid adventurer to help with the infestation of lunatics in

Next.

Help Cull The Population Of Thara Frogs

Just how many of these are pest control? Is he being too precious or self-centered? He guesses if there are dangerous, uh, thief bugs or whatever in the Prontera culvert then that should probably be dealt with but he'd have expected there to be, you know, people who work specifically with pest control who do this? Hiring Eden adventurers for that seems like overkill.

Unfortunately it does seem like the vast majority of these are pest control of some kind, with variously competent layers of pretending to be otherwise.

"Spoiled for choice, huh."

"Thor's hairy ballsack."

He grins. "Miss me?"

"I'm gonna need to install a bell on you, holy fuck."

"Alph doesn't have a monopoly on being silent and deadly."

"Fucking rogues, man. ...where even is Alph, actually, I don't think I saw him... leave with anyone, after we registered? Is this a stupid question, was that exactly how he wanted it."