>>20645072

You are Valnikov Kharn, the current Warmaster of the 9th Incubator. You've just begun your day giving the Warmaster of the 14th Incubator a toe-curling orgasm. She was very happy about it, smiling that very beautiful smile she should really show more often. You could barely recognize her from the huffy young woman in the rather flashy crimson dress from last night, loudly lecturing anyone who would even dare strike up conversation with her.

In fact, she had been so annoying that you had almost passed on the chance to introduce yourself to her, even with your well-known fetish with blondes. You were still quite sore over Tomoe Mami, back then, and all you wanted to do was maybe drink a little bit and just laze around in bed. Malal had to literally drag you from your sulking chair to where Nero was, and told the blonde young woman that you had a few views of your own regarding the proliferance of fraternization of Magical Girls between Officios.

The rest, as they say, is history. And Malal was right, it did make you feel a little better. And Nero was a nice girl, all in all. She even tasted right.

You should thank Malal for this, like you should thank her for a lot of other things. A whole lot of other things that she had gone beyond simply being an aide for.

You're not sure where you would be without your aide--no, your friend.

Wherever it was, it would be in a very bad place.

>>20645077

With that said, you are now currently transformed. Which means that your hands - and your feet, up to mid-thigh - are now living black fleshmetal. Yes, fleshmetal is not a real word, but it's metal, it's sharp, and you can feel everything through them, as if they were skin instead of...well, metal.

Your legs are the same spindly structures, elegant in their own right, with certain pointy things jutting out at the knee and toes. Your hands, well, they look like they belong on some giant metal skeleton model, as that's what they are: oversized steel simulacra of the human skeletal hand, all black, and the tips forming into brutal claws.

You've wondered how your wish could have possibly been interpreted into giving you these sort of armored appendages, but they are as useful as they are...appealing, so you do not wonder so much, anymore.

It's only ironic that your normal limbs, out of transformation, actually look much more horrible. Here, at least they realize that it is simply due to your costume, but your hands and feet when you're normal, well...they are not exactly standard issue.

You clap your brutally-clawed hands against your cheeks. Stop, you murmur to yourself. This is no time to be bothered by trivialities. Work must be done. Professionalism. You are a professional.

You carefully button up your black greatcoat - a present you inherited from your father, from his days in the army - the Warmaster skull epaulettes glinting from the garment's padded shoulders. The Warmaster's cap comes on last, and you carefully pull it down so that the visor is barely obscuring your eyes while not making a mess out of your hair. Nobody wants a Warmaster with a bad case of hat hair.

>>20645083

You glance back at Nero, and she is still sleeping the sleep of the blessed, entangled in the satin sheets of your bed. Nothing wrong with that, of course - your policy is to let whoever it was you've been fooling around with to stay as long as they like, until they find it in themselves to leave. No driving them out and telling them not to call you, you'll call them - that's just bad comedy. Your father raised you better than that.

You turn back to look at yourself in the mirror, before nodding at yourself. You're ready as you can be.

What do you do?

[]Check inventory.
[]Go out and find Malal to get the drudgery of the day started. Work, work.

>>20645088
>Decu, your magical moon hours get longer every month. It gives me a sad.

>[x]Check inventory
Paperwork is a million-headed hydra. The only countermeasure is procrastination.

>>20645088
[x]Check inventory.

>>20645088

>[x]Check inventory.

Can't be very productive if our inventory is full. Things'll be spilling out all over the place, making a mess everywhere, everyone will be looking, and that's no good for a Warmaster.

>>20645088
>[x]Check inventory.
And enjoy the view for a little while longer.

Yo, Deculture. I just wanted to thank you, I'm sick as a dog and for the last few days I've pretty much only had this quest as entertainment.

Thank you for running it!

>>20645088
Let's get on with the drudgery of work… after a quick check of the inventory.

>>20645160
> Things'll be spilling out all over the place, making a mess everywhere, everyone will be looking, and that's no good for a Warmaster.
Especially if said "things" are a long, thin, cylindrical pasta of Italian origin.

>>20645088
[x]Check inventory.

We must check ze inventory. Although it will no doubt be full of mementos of past conquests. Or violence.

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I spent time condensing the previous threads in to just deculture posts and the most essential anon replies and the file is too large.

Man Nero is a bro for Kharn
Dragging her out of depression and her sulking chair to score a girl

I feel even worse that Murderface probably lead to her death now

>>20645227

Dude's probably written hundreds of thousands of words by now.

We give him shit for being slow, but he writes a lot.

>>20645088
[X] Check Inventory

Wow, Malal is such a bro... Sucks that Murderface probably killed her.

What in the hell happened to cause Kharn to like Chiaki so much? Was it saving her life? Does Kharn think she deserves every bad thing that happened to her? Was it the soul gem tongueplay?

>>20645227
I think people just have weak internets. I've been jogging through Kiri's archive since it went up, and it's fine.

Also, i noticed a few interesting things on my archive dive. They can wait until the end of the thread, though.

>>20645227
You could always make it into a flash game, that's what they did with Ruby quest way back when. It wasn't a game obviously, more like a power point with the OP's posts shown beneath the pictures he drew. It was quite good I think.

Not sure MGNQ would translate that well into one of those though.

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>>20645160 >>20645127 >>20645115

You take this time to check your inventory.

You don't carry a lot with you, and some of the stuff you have you're already wearing. You have your Warmaster cap, which proves your station to anyone in the Officio, and thus your authority over them (it also helps protect your scalp and eyes from the hot sun, a good plus).

You have Skulltaker, your Magical Girl weapon, a very long, very huge and very noisy chainblade that you like to spend long nights maintaining. You have recently replaced its chainteeth, so it is in fine working order.

You also have your smartphone, which you only use to make calls to Malal to - and the remaining handful of Jolly Rancher candies that one of the Officio Warmasters stationed in America had given you. Finally, you have twenty of the wondrously sour things left, and you will be sad when you finally run out of them.

Hmm. What's this strange frilly scrap of cloth in your inventory, here?

[]Investigate it.
[]Leave it alone, you have work to do! This is no time to be funning around!

>>20645298
Seems like skulls aren't the only thing Kharn collects.

>>20645298
Oh dear, is that Nero's?

>[x] Investigate it.

>>20645298
We have had enough experience with Kharn's attitude towards business to know what to do. Hell, Chiaki inherited it and is making her way to be the same position.

Don't act out of character guys, it's obviously Investigate it

>>20645298

>[x]Leave it alone, you have work to do! This is no time to be funning around!

We are mucking about. There's collateral damage to be mitigated, an unnamed MG who caused said collateral damage to be judged, and other Important Warmaster Stuff. We can deal with this at a later time.

>>20645298
[x] eat a candy with huge claws. a delightful image.

......

[x]Leave it alone, you have work to do! This is no time to be funning around!

Yea, leave it alone.

>>20645298
Investigate it! And if it's a lost item, put up a public notice!

Investigate. Goes without saying. So long as we don't do anything ridiculous like wearing them on our head, of course.

>>20645298
>[x]Eat a jolly rancher
They're tiny, they won't spoil breakfast, and then

>[x]Investigate frilly cloth
We still have 10 minutes left.

>>20645298

Enough lewdness, let's get on with our tedious, soul-crushingly boring work.

>>20645298
Investigate
Do eeeeeet

>>20645298
[X]Leave it alone, you have work to do! This is no time to be funning around!

Eat a candy, get to work.

>>20645298
> That yukkuri

Oh god... I don't even know what to feel any more. I could very much imagine that this is what Kharn sees when she takes a skull.

"There you are, my little friend! I have freed you from the ugly thing below you. Let us go and take it easy together!"

Oh... That makes Kharn a bit more cute and a bit more sad...

>>20645298
[x] Investigate it.

[x] Investigate it.

Also, what's up with the yukkuri? Don't tell me we have one in our inventory.
Besides, Kharn doesn't have Chiaki's hammerspace to store one.

You know, if Kharn knew what happened to Proper Madoka Timeline Mami, I'm sure her interest would plummet.

>>20645298
[X]Leave it alone, you have work to do! This is no time to be funning around!

I think we know what they are.

>>20645357
I can totlly see it, "meet the pyro" style.

if you don't know what I'm talking about, check:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I

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>>20645345
We aren't Homura!

Wait, come to think of it, why do I constantly see Homura depicted with panties on her head?

Frilly scrap of cloth is obviously unimportant. I'm sure ir wont be missed.

Time to deal with work!

>>20645392
Because the default assumption is that the ability to stop time will eventually turn anyone into a colossal pervert.

Being able to reverse time and obviate all consequences of your actions can really only make it worse.

>>20645392
Homura's tendancy to suddenly appear near Madoka throughout the series was interpreted by some fans as obsessive stalking, which then naturally progressed to "Homura steals Madoka's panties and wears them on her head".

I mean, wouldn't you do the same if you could get away with it?

>>20645392

Joke on Homura's stalkerish behavior. It got exaggerated in fanart by Japan, to the point that Homura stealing Madoka's panties and wearing them became a fanart meme.

>>20645392
Perverse fan interpretation of her timestop abilities coupled with her dedication to Madoka.

>>20645404
>>20645410
>>20645411
>>20645414
>4 replies in 3 minutes, detail exactly the same lewd explanation.

I am impressed.

>>20645348 >>20645334 >>20645309

You take one of the Jolly Rancher candies and unwrap it carefully, before popping the delightful piece of sour goodness in your mouth. It is as sour as you like it, wonderfully so, and you close your eyes momentarily as an involuntary shiver goes down your spine. Sure, you think the American Warmaster was quite the uncivilized, boorish young woman, but she had certainly taken your heart with these things! You should remember to have Malal look for these things. You do not know what you would do if you run out of them, and because of this, you only have nineteen left.

Letting the treat dissolve slowly on your tongue, you finally make to investigate the frilly piece of cloth. It comes out of your inventory rather reluctantly, as if it caught on something. It finally comes away, unfolding as it does so - and it's a white, silky number, embroidered with a rather vulgar amount of lace. And almost see-through material.

...

Oh. OH. Right. This is Nero's. You...you made a point of pocketing it at the heat of the moment, after you yourself pulled them off of her. You're not sure how you forgot, as certain portions of her skirt were also transparent to the point that anyone who came within ten paces of her could see every detail of it.

They do things strangely in that part of the country, you suppose.

What do you do with it?

[]Keep it and proceed as normal.
[]Return it. She may have a hard time walking out of here without it.

>>20645442
Return it. We have no need for such clutter.

>>20645442
[X]Keep it and proceed as normal.

We'll have something to remember her by, and she'll have a lack of something to remember us for the rest of the day.

Besides returning it will take valuable work time.

[x] Keep it and proceed as normal.
Time for work!

>>20645442
[X]Return it. She may have a hard time walking out of here without it.

Just leave it somewhere for her to find them, that's the polite thing to do.

>Then breakfast

>>20645442
>[X]Return it.
Let's keep things professional here. Can't have another Incubator's Warmaster walking around in a slinky, diaphanous little number without her panties on, goods bared for all the world to see...

Erm-hm, yes. Return them. Yes.

>>20645442
>[x]Place frilly undergarments somewhere Nero will find them, then give in to the call of bureaucracy and go to work.
It wouldn't do to be boorish about such things.

Keep it and proceed. Maybe it will teach her to wear opaque skirts with her transparent underwear.

Italy is weird.

>>20645442
>[x] Keep it and proceed as normal.
Souvenir. Besides, we've got work to do.

>>20645442

>[X]Return it. She may have a hard time walking out of here without it.

You just KNOW that if we keep it, someone will find it on us. Better be safe than sorry.

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>>20645442
[X] Keep it. She may have a hard time walking out of here without it.

Because that's how HedoKharn rolls.

>>20645442
Keep it
We take mementos of all our victories

>>20645298

[x] Check frilly cloth.

Given we're Kharn of all people, we can probably identify the owner by scent at this rate.

>>20645442
[x]Keep it and proceed as normal.

>>20645442
[x] Return it. She may have a hard time walking out of here without it.

We must be classy warmaster. We can always offer to take them back later.

>>20645442
Keep it and proceed as normal.
Go check on Girl A.

>>20645442
>[x]Keep it and proceed as normal.
It's a trophy no one had to die for. Which is the most rare kind of a trophy, for you at least.

>>20645486
And what if they do? We're Warmaster, we're the boss (except Incubators, who don't care about that stuff.)

>>20645523
Kharn's tastes are far from a secret by now

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>>20645392
Because Fandom depicts her as a pervert with a Maduca-Obsession.

Where did that Kirino avatarfag go? Haven't seen him in the last few threads.

>>20645577
Howsabouts we not press the 'induce shitstorm' button, friend?

>>20645577
...You had to ruin a perfectly fine thread, didn`t you? Fuck you.

>>20645577
No clue but I do miss him.

>>20645577
Most likely in the OreImo shitstorm over on /a/

>>20645298

...is that an Angry Marines cap?

>>20645442

>[x]Return it. She may have a hard time walking out of here without it.

Kharn is a class act. They leave when they want to, no need for us to make it harder or awkward for them.

>>20645625
Well, specifically it's one Commissar Fucklaws Commissar Cap, demonstrating that he is a member of the Imperial Commissariat.

>>20645442
[X]Keep them

i am imagining Kharn not being deterred by Mami's rejection and trying to get in to her panties only to be blocked by 'soon to be' Murderface.

>shamelessly requesting someone draw this.

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>>20645442
[x] Place Cap on your head.
[x] Place Pantsu under cap

While it isn`t exactly a skull, it can still work as a mojo to lay our hand on Mami`s Mamis.

>>20645298
So anyone ale to translate the Russian so I can be sure it says what I think it says?

>>20645701
I don't know what it says, but I'm just going to assume it involves doing something easy. Most likely taking.

>>20645701
This is making me really irritated, as I'm Russian, but I've been so long removed from my country that I fucking forget how.
You don't know this pain, man.

>>20645487 >>20645476 >>20645452

You decide to keep the frilly pair of undergarment as a trophy. Your very first one - you've only recently come upon the idea, after overhearing a blue-haired Eversor explain the used underwear market to an utterly confused (and soon very embarrassed) red-haired Eversor. You didn't catch their names, but you've seen them hanging around with Tomoe Mami. But yes, a trophy collection of your conquests sounds like a good idea, and where better to start than Nero?

You make a note to tell Malal that she should inform the Fourteenth Incubator's Warmaster of this honor.

...Perhaps when she's safely back in Italy, of course.

Walking over and giving the still-somnolent Nero a farewell peck on the cheek, it's then that you finally walk out of your room, closing the door carefully behind you. As always, there are two guards posted near your door, quiet and taciturn. Wearing the same Culexus gear as your aide, down to the skullish helm, the padded gloves, the armored shoulderpads and boots.

"Warmaster." Both of them utter through the vox units of their helmets, the speakers distorting their voices enough that they actually sound exactly the same, from their pronounciations to the digitized edge of their words.

You nod at them, before glancing around. Normally, your aide should have been waiting outside your room, ambushing you with her tablet as soon as you stepped out. The hallway seems to be devoid of Malal now, however.

What do you do?

[]Ask the guards if they've seen Malal.
[]Ask them about their uniforms.
[]Ask them if one of THEM is Malal. Seriously, they look the same...

>>20645676
We could also offer them to Girl A as a token of friendship.
Mami seemed close to her, right? So winning her is a step in the right direction.

Ask if one of them is Malal jokingly then walk towards breakfast and the promise of boring things for the day.

Or make a detour towards that girl first, she seems like she could brighten up proceedings greatly

>>20645717
>[]Ask them if one of THEM is Malal. Seriously, they look the same...

Then we get Malal to paint a red stripe on her skull helmet so we can tell her apart.

>>20645717
>[x]Ask the guards if they've seen Malal.

If one of them WAS Malal, she'd have ambushed us, probably. And even if one of them is, she'll probably just laugh at us. And we can take that from her.

>>20645717
>Implying we can't tell Malal from the other culexus from dem hips

>>20645711
Yup, 'take it easy' indeed.

>>20645717
[X]Ask the guards if they've seen Malal.

>>20645717
>[x]Ask them if one of THEM is Malal. Seriously, they look the same...
>[x]Then ask the guards if they've seen Malal.

"Neither of you is comrade Malal, yes? This seems like a prank she would play..."

>>20645759

This.

>>20645754
"Take skulls easy~"

>>20645717
>[X]Ask them if one of THEM is Malal. Seriously, they look the same...

>>20645717
[x]Ask them if one of THEM is Malal. Seriously, they look the same...

>>20645717
[x] Ask them about Malal.
We should recognize our assistant by now, even if they all look the same.

>>20645759
Seconding. Or thirding, as it were.

>>20645717
[x]Ask the guards if they've seen Malal.

"Can`t you at least paint numbers on your helmets so people have a way to differentiate between you..?"

>>20645717
[X] Order the Culexi to remove their helmets

Only Malal had the sass to refuse the order, and we can tell her by her face (Or scent) when she removes the helmet. If neither is Malal, then ask where she is.

>unity ndemphys
Alright captcha, we'll explore Malal's delicious phys later.

>>20645793
We will see if it is fit for 'unity', yes?

>>20645793
That probably ends in jolly rancher-laced chunks being blown.

The suits let them focus and control their blank-ness. Without it, everyone around gets the full effect.

>>20645819
I bet Kharn could handle it.
Sayaka and Mami only blew chunks because of the combination of the witches barrier and then the sudden culexus

I don't understand why you people want to have the culexus remove their helmets. They wear them for a reason.

You might think that you're being kind to them by "accepting" them for who they are, but the fact is everyone will get violently ill. Your good intentions will do nothing but make everyone dislike them even more. Leave it be.

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>>20645717
Are you suggesting Deculture, that Kyuubey has an army of Akiras ?
This guy
this motherfucking guy

>>20645717
[x]Ask the guards if they've seen Malal.

>>20645858

I'll buy THREE.

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>>20645971
I'll take eight.

>>20646001
I'll take all of them.

>>20645858
>>20646001
>>20646018

Go ahead, take them. I'll just take a delicious Kharn.

Takoyaki and sex on a skull throne.

>>20645765 >>20645759 >>20645737

Both Culexus glance at each other for a moment, and it's then that look up at you, seemingly in confusion. "N-no, Warmaster, neither of us is Malal." The one to your right says, shaking her head briefly. "I am Alpharius, Culexus rank."

Alpharius. Hnh. Well, this is the first time you've had Culexus guarding you, so this is also the first time you're encountering them - besides Malal, that is. You commit the name to memory, and you glance towards the one at the left, asking her for her name.

"U-um." The other Culexus seems to be flustered at you asking her name. "I am Alpharius as well, Warmaster. I am not Miss Malal. Although, I did see her heading towards her own room, she seemed quite distressed about something--ah! Here she is now, Warmaster!"

And so she is. Your aide and friend, Malal, attired in the same Culexus gear as the two guards you've been talking to, makes her way out of her own room - which is beside yours, her being your aide and everything. She closes and locks her door rather fastidiously, as if loathe to take any chances of anyone getting in - and it's then that she waves at you, tablet in hand, before approaching.

"Getting to know your door guards for a change, Kharn?" Your hear the smile in your friend's voice despite the vox-corruption. "That's new. Usually you're much too busy trying to sleep with them." The Culexus at the left seems to fidget at this. "And no, before you ask, none of them are blonde. As far as I know. So hands off."

How do you respond?

>>20645851
As Warmaster, it's our duty to be hardcore enough to ignore two helmetless Culexus standing right in front of us.

>>20646060
Malal, any way we could convince you to paint the scalp of your skull yellow? it's hard to tell y'all apart sometimes

>>20646060
Ah but dear Malal how shall we know if I don't find out?
Anyway let us collect breakfast then go see this girl, I have a feeling that seeing her shall make what is to come next more amusing than otherwise

>>20646060
"Ha ha, I'm not nearly as picky as you think I am you know. Luckily for these two I've already had breakfast. Now, lets go and have something to eat. I have work to do."

>>20646060
"Hmm, well if they leave the masks on I can just pretend, can I not?"

>>20646060
You are the only Culexus in my life, Malal.

>>20646060

On to breakfast and then go see Girl A.

>>20646060
"Perhaps they are not. But, what about you?"

>>20646101
This

>>20646060
"There is only one way to find out for certain, my friend. But I will postpone my normal behaviour. I have heard that you are feeling distress! I can't have my own right arm feeling less than the best! Please, tell your old friend Kharn."

If she's feeling bad, it's our duty to help her while she's alive

>>20646060
No silly Culexis
I'm Alpharius

>>20646135
...I didn't see that in the response. Good eye.

If she's got something distressing her, it doesn't bode well for us. Especially if she does the paperwork.

>>20646135
Good point, seconding this.

Although I'm worried we won't get to have breakfast at this rate.

>>20646060
"Ah, so you lay claim to them then. Good! I shall respect your hunt and not interfere."

Wink at the poor door guards, and then to work.

>>20646175
Best possible answer.

>>20646135
This.

Malal route gogogo

>>20646175
SECOND!

>>20646175

This.

>>20646135
Kharn has good senses to pick things like this up. Malal is our friend; we do not treat that title lightly. We should help out when we can.

>>20646135
Going to go with this.

>>20646135
I'm going with this.

Sayaka explaining used panties to Kyouko, like in the audio drama, is the highlight of the thread so far for me.

Ask Malal what is distressing her.

>>20646135
This. Can't ignore Malal.

>Captcha: envnths wife
No, Inglip, I don't think we're going to marry Malal after these events.

>>20646310
>Sayaka explaining used panties to Kyouko, like in the audio drama, is the highlight of the thread so far for me.
Hahaha, I'm glad I wasn't the only one who caught that.

Take out marker.

Mark a simple X on Malal's head.

Proceed casually

>>20646135

"...What? Distress? I'm not--how did you...?" If anything, Malal seems taken aback by your sudden concern of her, and she glances at the two Culexus you've been chatting with. The one that had mentioned Malal's distress fidgets again, and you hear muted clicks issuing between them - a faint audio sign that they are conversing on a private vox channel. After a few moments, the Culexus hangs her head down, her shoulders shaking slightly, and she steps back timidly, as if wanting to resume her post and at the same time take herself out of the conversation.

...Of course, you didn't hear what they were talking about, but you feel that you may have gotten the flustered Culexus in trouble with Malal, a bit.

"You, back to your post." Your aide snaps at the other Culexus, who is quick enough to obey. It seems that Malal runs a tight ship, at least when other Culexus as concerned - you've never seen her act this way towards Eversors or Vindicares, anyway.

It's then that she lets out a sigh, before beckoning you towards her. You approach, and you fall into lockstep with your aide as the both of you make your way to the floor's solitary dining section - where your breakfast should be waiting for you.
She starts talking as soon as the other Culexus are out of earshot.

"I'm flattered that you're worried about me, but there's nothing wrong. Just some personal issues I have to deal with, nothing that should affect my work." The skull on her helm is grinning, completely at odds with her seeming mood. "If you're noticing it, though, then I apologize."

[1/2]

>>20646361

You wave her apology off. Not all of us can wake up with a personal blonde goddess in our beds, after all.

"...Yes. Unfortunately." The smile is back in her voice, before it disappears again. "How are things with you, though? Did you check today? Is it improving?"

Malal seems to be talking about the corruption.

How do you respond?

>>20646368
its.... Fine for the moment. I think I still have several years before I encounter any major problems

>>20646337
>not drawing a smiley face on her mask, and frowney face on everyone else's
>>20646368
"We both know that it does not get better. Only slightly less worse."

>>20646368

I checked, but it's depressing to dwell on it so early in the morning. Ask me again in the evening. Let's get to work.

>>20646368
Alas, serious times. No, it is not, but Kharn has a long way left to go. There is still time for a solution to be found, and many skulls to be taken in the meantime.

>>20646427
I'm putting my vote in for this one.

>>20646361

draw smiley face on her helmet, she obviously needs cheering up.

>>20646368
"It is at a stalemate, at the moment. I can feel myself resisting the influence. It is, as they say, a good pain.

What is not a good pain, however, is you thinking that my concern extends only as far as work. I am not all about business; you know that more than anyone. Come, tell me your worries!"

>>20646368
Don't worry.
I'll survive at least until the end of the flashback.

>>20646474
Bad anon, no metagaming!

>>20646474
>meta as fuck
By the way - would marking her helmet with yellow stripe make her pass for blonde?

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>>20646457
>>20646400

No, that would be silly.

We should however get her pic related instead. It will look cute AND less frowney that way.

>>20646503
>ofcourse.gif

>>20646503
>>20646457
Why do people keep trying to doodle on our friend?

She already has to wear a skull hat to keep people from throwing up from her mere existence, we can leave her with some shred of dignity that at least her helm is pretty metal.

>>20646514
Better not, that will remind her of Mami even more.

>>20646526
so we can tell her apart from the others

>>20646544
Normal people use rank insignia for that. You know.

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>>20646537

>>20646526

It's just fa/tg/uys being "lolsrandom". Pay it no mind unless they start it during an important event where "lolsrandom" would really fuck things up.

>>20646552
We're the goddamn warmaster. A smiley face is hereby declared to be the rank insignia for warmaster's aide

>>20646582
…works for me.

>>20646582

A grinning skull wearing a jester's cap.

>>20646368
The corruption is the same as always, not going away but not overwhelming me

I am serious though, if you have any problems tell me. There may not be many that I truly consider friends but those that are I will look after in whatever way possible

Malal is hard gay for Kharn

>>20646706

Every MG is yuri for Kharn. She has the female equivalent of GAR (whatever that would be called).

>>20646747
a kitchen?

>>20646747
She's most likely a retired mahjong pro.

>>20646427

"..." Your aide is silent as you tell her your thoughts, and it's a moment before she breaks the quiet between the both of you. "Kyuubey will find a cure, and soon enough. I hear he's actually devoting a lot of resources into finding one, including the R&D base in Siberia."

Huh. He's doing that? Well...Kyuubey may be more considerate to you than you thought. And here you were, thinking that the Incubator was all about dollars, cents and grief seeds.

In a rare breach of decorum between Warmaster and aide, Malal reaches out to grasp your fleshmetal hand, giving it a squeeze.

Of course, she doesn't do exactly much squeezing, since your hand is all but metal shaped like bone, but the thought was there.

"Dammit, Kharn, that was supposed to be a comforting gesture. How can I be comforting when you've got all that weird shit on your hands? And legs?"

You blithely snap that she does not exactly present a picture of empathy, with her face covered by a grinning skull helm, and being covered from head to toe in black body armor. Her squeezing your hand with a padded glove does not help, not at all.

Your combined laughter carries all the way to the dining section.

Yes, the both of you have problems. Both Warmaster and aide.

But sometimes, you just can't help but laugh at how much the Universe deemed fit to throw at your direction.

Sometimes, laughter is how you cope.

Other times, it's murdering. And skulls.

[1/2]

>>20646850

Breakfast resumes in the quiet dining section. It is simple, but it is private; a circular white table with a comfortable, cushioned seat curving around it, so that others can dine with you if necessary. You tuck in to greasy western food with an alarming gusto; you suppose that Nero did take a lot out of you last night. Might as well carb up for the day.

You offer Malal some of your food in mid-chew, she politely refuses as she continues to consult her tablet.

"Let's get your itinerary out of the way while you eat," Malal says as she swipes one glove-encased finger across the surface of her tablet, before tapping at a specific spot and then sliding the device, face up, towards you. "You have ten outstanding appointments today. I've taken the liberty of marking out the most important ones - those being your meeting with the Third Incubator's Warmaster this afternoon, and your judgment of Girl A in the Silent Room, this morning."

You glance down at the tablet screen. The ones that had gone unmarked are the things you normally skip. These events being motivational speeches by the Human Resource department of the company (where you are also invited to speak in, an abhorrent thing you will never do), sparring duels that you've been challenged into (that you've always turned down, there's no point now that you're Warmaster) and other things you'd really not spend the day doing.

"Now, do you have any questions about your appointments, Kharn?" Malal takes back the tablet, looking up at you - and you see your face reflected on her helmet's visor. You frown at yourself, before delicately picking off a bit of bacon from your cheek.

What do you ask about?

[]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.
[]Ask about your meeting with the Third Warmaster.

>>20647021
Ask about Girl A's judgement, we don't really care about the other warmaster or their dead people but someone like that is interesting

>>20647021
>[]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.

Elaborate on the shenanigans she has ensued.

>>20647021
Ask about Girl A. Warmaster can wait until we're done with her.

>>20647021
>[x] Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.
It's the earlier appointment, anyway.

[x]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.

>>20647021
>[x]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.

This is sooner and thus more pressing, and more than that, Mami is involved.

>>20647021

[X] Ask about Girl A's judgment

We can take care of that first then get the details about the Third Warmaster meeting later.

>>20647021
[x] Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.
This seems more dire.

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>>20647021

as curious as I'm sure we are about the 3rd's warmaster I believe this 'girl A' sounds like a charming young lady and we should induct her into our chilly metal embrace as soon as possible, even if she doesn't seem like the type to drink we should give her a chance, she may surprise us.

>>20647021
They're both related, ask what this enthusiastic creature actually did, anyway.

>>20647021
[x]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.

Unless of course we're also sleeping with the third warmaster. Then we might at least want to touch up on that.

>>20647021
Ask Malal if Girl A is a friend of Tomoe Mami.

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>>20647021
[x]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.

Ask if its going to be all behind closed doors or if the trail will be hold in "public".
Public meaning, that there are others Mahou Shoujo`s from our Corp allowed.

>>20647078
We already know Mami likes her.

>>20647071
We're not sleeping with her; Kharn doesn't seem to come back to the same bed twice. We're meeting with her because Girl A, our underling, slew a few squads of her Eversors for no particular reason.

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>>20647064

>>20647064

We`ve already met Girl A when she was to be terminated after her rescue and Mami was defending her cause.

>>20647078
..Did you even read the last thread?

>>20647105
There was a good reason. one of them said the word moralfag. thus their slaughter was justified

>>20647021
[x]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.
Also, we should hold a battle royale to decide which one of our challengers gets to duel us.
And then interrupt it and kick all of their asses at once.

>>20647126
I like the way you think.

>>20647126
I can see it now

some sort of arena

combatants engaged in elegant, honorable duels to decide who will be allowed to fight the warmaster, who is watching the fights

Suddenly a cry from the warmaster's seat:
"I"M BOOOOOREEEDDD"

Followed by battle

>>20647115
To be fair, according to the flashback, we spent less time paying the slightest bit of attention to her than we did raping Mami in our imagination.

And form the sounds of it we only spared her to get into Mami's pants.

I think Kharn should probably practice her footwork.

Just saying.

>>20647205
To be fair it wasn't the only reason but it was a very large part of it.
The other reason was we like people who can kill that well

>>20647204

less black more brown!

>>20647234

I believe that should be the other way around......

>>20647115
Did you? We know she defended her. We don't know anything else about their relationship (and anything Mami could have said about her, we didn't hear, our thoughts were on more important stuff at that moment.)

Oh god...Mami is turning into the Mikuru rapetoy.

>>20647021
[x]Ask about Girl A's judgment proceedings.
[x]Ask about your meeting with the Third Warmaster.

Do both.

Yeah exposition!

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>>20647285
Yeah. And they`ve held hands throughout the process. You don`t do that to someone who is not your friend, your family, or who you don`t give a single fuck about.

>>20647151
Where's a writefag when you need him?

>>20647287

Only if Mami wouldn't crack us upside the head if we actually tried anything. She has too solid of a personality to put up with much BS.

>>20647042 >>20647035 >>20647028

"Of course." Malal swipes and taps and swipes some more at her tablet. "Girl A was rescued six months ago from the Barrier of a Witch identified as Charlotte. Tomoe Mami and Miki Sayaka were the first to respond to her rescue; Alpha Squad was sent along with Kure Kirika to back them up after.

"She woke up after being comatose for three weeks, and has been in the custody of Mami Tomoe ever since. Upon interrogation, we've discovered that she does not know where she is, where she's from and how she got there; she doesn't even know her name or any memory of her own past. She has been confirmed to be a Magical Girl, and her ability seems to be a perfect Time Stop - it freezes time momentarily around her, leaving her targets vulnerable to her attacks. She also seems to have some capacity regarding firearm generation."

Another swipe. "After two months of rehabilitation, she was temporarily approved for probationary service, with the stipulation that she cannot accept assignments unless Mami Tomoe is with her. Her performance isn't exactly anything to write home about, but she's proven to be quite obedient to Mami's commands, and is very handy with all sorts of firearms."

"And you're judging her for this, Kharn. Happened just two days ago."

One more tap, and it's then that Malal turns the tablet to face you. You squint at the device's blank screen, and blink as it comes alive with the video playback of what looks to be grainy CCTV footage of...a wide office area in some sort of building.

[1/2]

>>20647376

You see unfamiliar Magical Girls - three squads of them, with seven girls per squad - noisily march towards the camera, weapons drawn, faces tight with determination. It's then that they stop in their tracks as a girl with long black hair, braided into two thick ponytails, materializes right in front of them, impeding their progress. Girl A. Words are exchanged harshly, and one of the squad leaders move forward to push the girl out of the way.

You didn't even see Girl A move before the squad leader suddenly jerks back before crumpling to the ground, most of her face reduced to gore. As if someone from off screen had taken her.

It happens again. And again. And again. Girl A somehow disappearing out of frame, only to return back to where she was - and a new victim would fall to the ground, lifeless, with some horrific exit wound sprouting from her body, as if they had suddenly just decided to die. No last words, no moments of tearful goodbyes, nothing.

Those who try and attack Girl A seem to overshoot her by completely meters, and they barely have time to register their disbelief before their hands explode, leaving them without hands to get a grip with. Their faces exploding in a bloody shower would be next, or a hole tunneling itself right through their torsos. Without warning or preamble.

The video recording ends with Girl A taking up one of the discarded weapons from the bloodbath around her - a worn bat with its striking tip full of steel nails - and then suddenly braining the last surviving Magical Girl there, someone who seemed to have been begging Girl A for her life on her knees. Her skull cracks at the first hit, then pops like a ripe melon at the second. The corpse flopping to the floor, still twitching - before falling motionless as her murderer crushes her soul gem underfoot.

[2/3]

>>20647398

The video ends after that, and Malal turns her tablet back to her.

"Well, that's the gist of it, mainly. Murder of twenty-one allied Eversors in one mission. Obviously premeditated, as she first murdered their bodies, and then destroyed their Soul Gems immediately after. Can't get much more premeditated than that." Malal lets out a pained sigh. "The Third Incubator wants her head on a platter and her Soul Gem crushed to powder. Kyuubey is undecided, but he's letting you make the decision."

Your aide sighs. "Such a shame, really. Perfect Time-Stop. You don't see that kind of gimmick around, not anymore."

How do you respond?

>>20647398

I miss you already, Murderface. I miss you already.

>>20647415
>>20647398
Well, shit that was pretty cold
what was her defence?

>>20647415
Do we know what they were talking about? What's her version of the story?

And what does she mean with "not anymore"?

>>20647415
Where was Mami throughout this? Or was this Girl A's first solo assignment out of probationary service?

And has Girl A said anything about why she killed 21 allied Magical Girls?
Unless she has a damn good reason, she's unreliable and a danger to her allies, and needs to be retired.

>>20647415
Offer her up as a sacrifice? Waste such a beautiful weapon as her? Utter foolishness.

What we need, is to find her trigger and her safety. And if she lacks either, to... add what's missing

>>20647415
The evidence is pretty damning, but I still need to know what was said and to talk to Girl A about her motivations.

>>20647415
did she offer any explanation for the fight?

>>20647415

Whistle in an appreciative manner at the carnage and ask if Girl A has given any statements or reasons.

>>20647436
>>And what does she mean with "not anymore"?

Probably that the Officio hasn't had any wish grant "Perfect Time Stop" as a power in a long time. Closest is Kirika and all she has is Time-Slow

>>20647415
The main questions here seem to be:

1. What was their mission?
2. Where was Mami?
3. What has Girl A said since this incident?

Also some details about the 3 squads could be useful, who was leading them, what they were lie ect ect.

>>20647313
Part of it is that Mami has a savior complex where because she didn't save her parents as well she constantly is trying to save everyone else and she forms attachments to people on need like that.

Especially when she meets someone like murderface

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>>20647415
"What`s her version?"

>>20647415
"Do we know anything about the conversation just before the fight? What were her orders?"

Get me whatever you can on those girls, their mission and why Girl A was in that area.

Also find out where Tomoe Mami was during this. I want to see what is missing here before into have a little chat with her

>>20647398

>a girl with long black hair, braided into two thick ponytails

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Perhaps she regressed to that force of habit with her amnesia.

>>20647505
We're assuming the girl in the video and the girl in the cell are the same person.

When time travel is involved, that never a guarantee. We must explore all possibilities before we start discounting anything, and then what ever remains, no matter how improbably, must be the case.

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>>20647505

Or since she's been shacking up with Mami, maybe Mami thought she'd look cuter like that?

So here's a question, this seems pretty cut-and-dry, so why is the Incubator leaving this to us? Is there a stake in this we don't know about officially?

>>20647527
Why is Homu so cute in those clothes?

>>20647527
In that case, we must make friends with this girl! Have her wingman for us. Only then can we obtain the ultimate pancake waifu!

>>20647541
Employees that can slaughter a score of mahou shoujos - even going so far as to take the time to toy with them - without breaking a sweat have a certain innate value?

>>20647565
Yes, but the point is even in spite (or because) of that, the case against her appears open and shut. The fact that it's in question at all is itself worth investigating.

>>20647541
For starters Kyuubey doesn't particularly care about other incubators, he is testing Kharn to see how she handles a situation like this since he always keeps testing the girls in various ways.
Also Murderfaces power is both rare and extremely useful, she demonstrated the ability to wipe out three full teams of meguca without even getting touched.

That sort of power isn't something you casually flush when you have a chance at controlling it

>>20647415

Talk to Girl A; find out her side of the story. Then find out where Mami was in all of this.

>>20647581
It is absolutely open and shut. Murderface totally murdered their faces off. That happened.

The only questions here are what sentence are we going to pass, and as >>20647588 suggests, it probably shouldn't be the one that this would normally merit, and what we tell the other mutant if we decide not to kill her.

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>>20647588

That's definitely the Kyuubey we know...

>>20647588
>when you have a chance at controlling it

well, more like a chance at 'steering in a general direction and hope nothing too important becomes collateral damage' in this case

>>20647633
And this where we claim to kill Girl A. But all that really happens is we cut hair short and give her a new name. Murderface.

I totally told everyone that if Homura's timestop was working perfectly, she'd be unstoppable against other MG's.

Good thing Pinky's frightened all of us into not abusing it.

>>20647659

"You're saying you killed Girl A"

"Yes"

"And you recruited a new girl with the same face and powerset."

"Yes."

"And who also happens to have the same face, I might add."

"She has shorter hair."

"Ah, yes, shorter hair. THAT makes all the difference."

[x]"What's her side of the story?"

>>20647588
That is still a method of controlling it, note retry precisely but it controls it

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>>20647679

>>20647679
Sounds good.

>>20647697
*not very

Fucking autocorrect

>>20647679

YES! YES!

>>20647446 >>20647436 >>20647429

You thoughtfully crunch on another strip of bacon, before you ask the obvious questions, first. What was the joint operation all about? Where was Mami while this was happening? And finally, what did Girl A say in her defense?

"If I'm reading the dossier correctly, the joint operation was a purging. An entire building, fifty floors, approximately two thousand souls. One of the yakuza groups that the Third Incubator had been working with, but suddenly turned around and kidnapped a few of his girls, trying to hold them for ransom. The Third Incubator's a bit of a sensitive type, so he asked us for help in the purge. Kyuubey sent one squad to help, and that one is Tomoe Mami's."

A tap on her tablet, and Malal continues. "Tomoe Mami was exactly one floor up when this happened. The Third had instructed his three Eversor teams to let our squad get first run of each floor. That resulted in one of ours getting put in the hospital, but she'll be fine." The contempt is clear on your aide's voice. "In her statement, Mami says that she didn't see Girl A make for the lower floor until it was too late. Girl A literally disappeared from under her nose."

You shake your head at this. Ah, the poor angel. To be beleagued by such troublesome companions.

"As for Girl A's defense?" Malal shrugs. "That's what you're going to find out in a little bit, right? Although I did hear in her initial interrogation that she only did it because she heard one of the Eversor Squad Leaders call Mami a...a really bad word. And that after the operation, she'll share Mami with her squad."

You smile at this.

It seems that chivalry is not dead. It just takes other forms.

What do you do? Your breakfast is all but done.

>>20647398
>>20647415
While reading about" Girl A murdering the shit out of everyone" this played on my playlist.
Disturbing music for a disturbing video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCG8JimbFM

>>20647755
She's our aide and friend beside. Get her take on Girl A.

Get a bum's rush on the other matter after that.

>>20647776
This.

We should get Malal's opinion on Girl A.

>>20647755
Offer Malal some food again and then go see our interesting new friend after we finish up.
I think that we will find much in common with her

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>>20647755
>"Although I did hear in her initial interrogation that she only did it because she heard one of the Eversor Squad Leaders call Mami a...a really bad word. And that after the operation, she'll share Mami with her squad."

Okay, Guys. Case over. Seems it was a clear case of mass suicide.

>>20647755
Get Malal's professional opinion of Girl A. Can she be salvaged?
Also, what about the political situation between QB and the Third?
It's one thing for QB to play his games, but I doubt even he would risk open warfare with another Incubator. Even if he won, he'd be weakened and other Incubators might take advantage of that.

>>20647807
Pretty much this.

>>20647755
>Called Mami a really bad word
>Said she'd share her with the rest of her squad

Well that explains a little. It's conceivable that Girl A, having no apparent memory of any previous social interaction, thought this was a real threat and took it seriously, acting accordingly.

Well there's nothing else to do but go and deal with her directly.

Kharn probably would of done the same thing if she's heard someone say that about Mami.

>>20647807
Case closed, give Girl A a stack of pancakes.

>>20647807
Suicide by Murderface.

Dock a portion of Girl A's pay, give it back as a reward for keeping mami safe for us

>>20647755
Go put the Fear of Kharn into the nameless one.

I would say see if she can be salvaged and collect her skull if she can't, but...

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>>20647755
..Holy shit! It all falls into place now. The other Incubator whose squads got murdered by Chiaki is Jyubey. The Saints-girl in Mami`s Apartment probably witched out while she wanted to get revenge for her fallen comrades.

Though it doesn`t explain why the witch called her Homura.

>>20647896
Uh.
No.

"Jyu" is 10 in moonrune. Jyubei is the Tenth Incubator. These crass eversors belonged to the Third.

>>20647896

I thought Kyubey was surprised by the physical description of Jyubey? I at least I don't remember Kyubey referring to Jyubey by a number, something that seems to be the case with very other "official" incubator.

In any case, get Malal's opinion on Girl A and then move to the schedule.

>>29647921
Who would be Sanbei

>>20647755
>she heard one of the Eversor Squad Leaders call Mami a...a really bad word. And that after the operation, she'll share Mami with her squad."

Well, either this was just a bad joke made in the /wrong/ company or this was a double cross.

'Magical Girls' getting kidnapped by some chump gangsters? Calling in a team from a rival incubator instead of just slaughtering the fuckers themselves?

This whole thing sounds fishy!

Nothing else for it. We'll just have to speak to GirlA and get the details from her.

>>20647995
This is a good point. It does sound like a doublecross. Sending in our squad first while having three of his own?

>>20647807

>>20647807
>>20647850
> Threaten Mami
>In front of Murderface

The dumb fucks never even realized they'd just put the noose around their own necks.

>>20647995

you present a compelling argument.

>>20648052
Maybe. But this was before Murderface's rise to fame.
Right now, she's just a nobody, her combat skills are mediocre, and it's only because of her Time-Stop that she has any value.

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Also, Malal is turning out pretty nice. It's a shame she's dead.

I wonder how she and Girl A got along? If Pinky saw fit to bring her up when berating Chiaki on her choice of friends, they must've actually hit it off pretty well once this incident and the whole 'vomit inducing presence' thing got sorted out.

Murderface brutally kills a bunch of people and in the future half the officio wants to get into her panties. What the hell?

>>20648079
Yep, that's why they never saw it coming. They had no idea the kind of mistake they were making.

>>20647995
Yeah, sending in Mamis squad alone when they had three squads just sitting there.

Classic double cross set up. Send them into the meat-grinder then swoop in and finish off whatever is left.

>>20648123
Lethality is catnip for magical girls.

>>20648123
Obviously there's something more going on behind the scenes.

>>20648123

Apparently MGs get off on brutal, bloody murder. Everyone wants into Kharn's panties, too.

>>20648123

Mami is well liked in the Officio. It probably got out that she did it in defense of her honor. Throw in Midori's doujins, which probably started to come out shortly after this incident, and you have the image of a chivalrous dark heroine.

>>20648143

To add, a 'chivalrous and troubled dark heroine' just waiting for the right girl to bring her around.

>>20648143
I now want to read Midori's doujins of Murderface.

>>20648184
We already read one.

>>20648079
But what if this incident sparked her rise to fame?

>>20648226
We need to read all.

For... science.

>>20648242
Yeah, that's already happening. Midori said she was going to get the set for us.

>>20647995

You have a good point there.

>>20648242
I think we are working on that since Midori said she would give us copies.

And we need to give pinky a copy just so we can use the "figure out the tongue thing" line

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>>20648235
>fame
*cough*
Infamy might be a better term for this...

>>20648266

Anon, can you imagine the horror if she does figure it out?

What then, anon?

What then?!

>>20648266

We're also getting Midori to autograph Pinky's copies for her. Then Pinky can't say Chiaki never gave her anything.

>>20648279
magical adventures

>>20648279
We're going to die anyway.

This is the best way to do it.

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>>20648279
>>20648292
Death by swirly tongue thing? I am of divided opinions on this