Fuck that I'm a Battle Arena Toshinden

I'm on time for once. Fuck yeah.

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You watch the countryside roll past for awhile, thinking of the mysterious Skull Girl who took your title and gave you a month to win it back. Powerful in-fighter, but slow and with shorter reach than you. You have a month to think it over, and next tie you're going to be prepared and with both of your sticks. It's going to be a cakewalk.

Eventually watching the countryside loses its appeal. You're a little sleepy, but you also have a paper you bought at the station.

>take a nap while you have the chance
>read the paper and see if last night's fight got a mention

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>>21166213

Your polygons aren't blocky enough.

>mfw the Gameboy port for that was surprisingly good

>>21166237
Read the paper. Maby they've made some progress on the 'mass window shattering' mystery that was all over the news last night

>read the paper and see if last night's fight got a mention

While I know Eskrima is supposed to translate decently well to barehanded/single weapon fighting I think we need to come up with something special for those situations.

>>21166271
Probably just some Mad Gear punks thinking they were hot shit.

>read the paper and see if last night's fight got a mention

Definitely read the paper. Also, Eskrima does have barehanded methods, but they're for advanced students. You gotta get through more weapon stuff to get to them. Eskrima's pretty good about fighting with just one weapon, though, lots of focus on not letting your free hand go to waste.

>>21166313
Working on assumptions here, btw. I'm guessing we're not at Stick Master level quite yet. And if we're gonna do unarmed seminars to round ourselves up I'd rather see Anon mix in other styles. Maybe Gai Tendo can help with that mixing and matching stuff.

>>21166284
Then perhaps it would be time to look into Muay Thai as a backup style. Is there any Muay Thai master who isn't full Sagat?

>>21166365
Aren't we going to be training with some Kyokugenryu people shortly? That seems to be a logical choice if possible.

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You decide to read the paper. Last night's events were pretty dramatic, maybe you finally moved out of the sports section.

Most of the front page is actually dominated by Governor Haggar. After disappearing for two weeks he returned with claims that he was fighting an interdimensional war against a planet-eating demigod, immediately followed by announcing his candidacy for President. Naturally the press went apeshit.

Below that is a mention of a mysterious rash of vandalism across the city attributed to Neo Mad Gear. Mostly smashing windows and setting off car alarms. The karate hobos have been out in force pacifying Mad Gear remnants, in response the city has doubled the budget for leaving fully cooked turkeys lying around.

Every once in awhile you wonder what it would be like to live in a normal city. Maybe one where the mayor just does paperwork and the police just solve crimes.

At the bottom of the front page you finally get a mention. A brief article outlining the masked performance in the King of Fighters match, the mysterious Skull Fighter and the championship passing. It's not flattering, but it could have been worse. At least they got the weapon right this time.

When you're done reading you lower the paper. You jump a bit - the man in the pink gi who's been shadowing your fights is sitting across from you.

"Sup?" he asks.

>"Nothing. 'sup with you?"
>"Why are you following me?"
>Attack!

>>21166427
>"Nothing. 'sup with you?"

Being agressive against Dan is a sin that should not be tolerated.

>"Nothing. 'sup with you?"

He's probably just some weird fan or something. If we play it cool maybe he'll just go away.

>"Nothing. 'sup with you?"

INB4 Dan became a total badass in the years since the games.

>"Why are you following me?"

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>>21166427
>After disappearing for two weeks he returned with claims that he was fighting an interdimensional war against a planet-eating demigod, immediately followed by announcing his candidacy for President.

MAYOR
OF
EARTH

Anyway.

>"Nothing. 'sup with you?"

"Nothing. 'sup with you?" you ask. You decide to play it cool. The pink gi is usually a Saikyoryu thing. In your experience he's either going to be hilariously weak or that one in a thousand badass who lends credibility to the rest of the style. Probably better to find out before you start trouble.

"Just watching the dumbest motherfucker I've ever seen. Kinda surprised you even know how to read.

>Laugh it off.
>RAP BATTLE
>NORMAL PUNCHING BATTLE

>>21166530
Laugh it off. Chances are good this guy is a joke we could take with one hand behind our back and there's no need to go causing a scene.

>>21166530
>Laugh it off.
"Well have I entertained you? You've been following me for quite some time now."

>Laugh it off.

Rolled 14

>>21166539
>"Well have I entertained you? You've been following me for quite some time now."

Do this one

>>21166530
I want to go for folding the paper, putting it down, cross our arms, cock an eyebrow and go "Pardon?". Alternatively, a sardonic remark.

>>21166539
This guy's got it.

>Laugh it off.

You laugh a little, calmly fold the paper and set it aside. Now there's nothing between you and the man in the pink gi.

"Okay, you've had your fun. I think you should get going, I'd like to relax a bit before we arrive at the station."

"You've been relaxing too much lately, pal," he says. He's got a weird intensity, everything a little overenunciated. As he leans forward you can also smell that there's something rancid about his breath. This entire encounter is starting to wear on your nerves.

"Look-" you start.

"No, you look!" he interrupts. "Do you know how long I spent shadowing Boss Honda? Two months following him, watching him fight off challengers, cataloging his every technique? I was almost ready to take him on, and I was going to absolutely wreck his shit, then you show up."

"That's not my - "

"So then I start to follow you, learn the ins and outs of your style. Eskrima, right? Take some notes on you, take some notes on your fight with that Earl Gray guy. Then what do you think happens? You lose the title!"

>So challenge the girl.
>Not my problem.
>Come back in a month, I'll beat you down then.

>>21166626

You go study the girl. When we're done beating eachother up, you can challenge whoever wins. Simple, huh?

>>21166626
>So challenge the girl.
"It's not my fault you don't have the balls to just fight someone. Go take on the girl before she loses the title to someone else."

>>21166626
Come back in a month. I should have the title back by then.

>>21166641
>"It's not my fault you don't have the balls to just fight someone. Go take on the girl before she loses the title to someone else."

I like it

>Come back in a month, I'll beat you down then.
more than enough time to get the title back.

>Come back in a month, I'll beat you down then.

"Not my fault you don't want to fight the girl," you say. "Go find her and follow her around for a bit. Have yourself a grand old time." You pick the paper back up. May as well read the comics, even if it means you face the living hell that is the Marmaduke universe. Maybe this weirdo will take the cue to leave.

"I can't!" he says, snatching the paper from your hands. "A woman - I can't - she's - I can't touch her. It has to be you. It has to be you!"

This is getting pretty weird, actually.

>Break him psychologically.
>Break him physically.

>>21166727
>Break him psychologically.

...are we sitting across a pink-gi Yamcha here? Either way, I do believe a gentleman should be able to break this person without breaking their face.

>>21166727
>>Break him psychologically.

A gentleman doesn't need to resort to violence to get the job done.

>Break him psychologically.

Dude's coming off a wee bit creepy now.

>>21166727
Well, I'll do my best to get back the title so you can beat me, I guess. Wish me luck.

>>21166727
>Break him psychologically.
"You do realize there's more than one female fighter in this universe right? Even if you do get the title, you'll just lose it to the next pretty face if you can't fight a girl."

>>21166745
>>21166763
>>21166766
Why do we have to break him at all? Just say, okay, I should probably have the title back in a month.

>>21166781
Because it's funny and he won't go away.

>>21166365
The de facto "Muay Thai Trinity" in CvS is Sagat, Joe Higashi and King. King probably doesn't fight as much nowadays what with running a business (she owns a bar and club with Duck King in Southtown), but I imagine she's still in shape and throws out a few hooligans herself if they make a scene in her club.
>>21166411
We're learning Kyokugen conditioning, not Kyokugen-ryuu itself. It's a notoriously difficult and taxing style for the unprepared.

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Time to end this as gentlemanly as possible.

"Listen," you say, trying your best to sound polite. Gentlemanly, you think. Unlimited Gentleman Works level of gentleman, an endless field of bow ties and cravats. "You know that Skull Fighter isn't the only woman in the martial arts world, right? What are you going to do when that other woman fighter Belle comes back? What about the thousands of other women out there who are strong enough to compete on this level? Are you going to refuse to fight all of them? Part of being a World Warrior is taking all challengers. You refuse to fight even once and it's over, you lose the title on the spot."

"W-well..." he says, suddenly sweating profusely.

"And for another thing, you could have challenged me anytime. You've been following me, you must know where I buy my paper, where I get my groceries? You know my friend Pete owns a dojo, you could have come there and challenged me while I was working out." He's starting to sweat harder. "When were you going to challenge Boss Honda? Did you have a time set out? How long were you scouting him out? Do you ever intend to fight someone, or do you just intend to tell yourself all about the great Street Fighter that you're going to be any second now?"

You actually feel a little bad at how quickly he shoots out of his seat and stumbles to the door. "Hey, wait," you say. May as well throw him a bit of a bone. "I'm going to win the title back in one month. In one month and one day I'll be waiting to fight you at 10th Avenue Dojo."

You don't look back to see his reaction. In one month and a day you may as well see if he shows up. Worst case scenario you and Karate Joe can hang out and watch a movie or something.

>>21166848
>We're learning Kyokugen conditioning, not Kyokugen-ryuu itself. It's a notoriously difficult and taxing style for the unprepared.

I know that. We're already going through the conditioning so if we're going to learn something to supplement what we have it seemed like an easy choice and a good opportunity.

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>>21166876

You don't see the man in the pink gi for the rest of the trip. An hour later the train finally pulls in at Southtown Station and you disembark. All the arrangements for this were made through Pete and some mysterious guy Pete knows, but someone from Kyokugen is supposed to be here to meet you. You scan the (curiously empty) train station, but there's only a few stray karate hobos and a huge man in a gi hoisting a trash can over his head.

Wait.

What?

>Dodge?
>Knock it out of midair?
>Tank it?

>>21166953
I'm personally keen on having an audience with King herself and learn at least some basic Muay Thai from her, after which we'll have some nice wine and enjoy the night.
Eagle is Anon's primary inspiration, but King is a close second.

>>21166957
>Dodge
Don't do more than you have to.

>>21166957
Strike it just so you can it's directory, not make a dent on it.

>>21166957
Is he actually throwing the can at us, or is he lifting it for weight training? This is an important distinction.

>Knock it out of midair?
Fuck you trash can!

>>21166970
Truthfully I don't really care a great deal about what all he learns despite what I like myself. I see it more as him trying to, ultimately, follow the Way of the Gentleman.

>>21166998

He's holding it in the classic Donkey Kong Barrel-Throw position. Growing up watching the karate hobo/Mad Gear brawls in Metro City you're pretty sure he's gonna toss it.

>>21166957
DODGE

>>21167002
Then we must learn some boxing, but that comes later. For now

>>21166957
Knock it out of the air

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You've seen this a hundred times before. Tossing trash cans at people is street fighting 101 in Metro City. You reach behind you and pull out the sticks - never more than your arm's length away ever since the King of Fighters debacle - and power the two of them in a wide swing. They connect with the trash can with enough impact that your palms actually sting. As the trash can lands you adopt a ready stance, waiting for your opponent's next move.

"Hahahaha, awesome!" the huge guy roars, walking over to you. "Sorry, but I wanted to see the skills of this street fighter everyone's talking about." He throws an arm around your shoulder and leans in.

"Say, you met our rep, right? What'd you think of her? Cute?"

>>21167129
The skull was pretty cute.

>>21167002
>>21167052

Actually, I totally just found what we should be aiming for.

http://artofmanliness.com/2009/01/05/bartitsu-gentlemen/

All we gotta go is modify the cane fighting to fit with eskrima sticks and we're golden.

>>21167129
"Yeah. Real...charmer.
"...Wait, people talk about me? Here? In Southtown?"
>>21167152
But we don't use a cane.

>>21167166
We don't use a cane YET.

>>21167166
A cane is basically a big stick. if we can get one that can split into two, than even better.

>>21167166
>But we don't use a cane.

>>21167152
All we gotta go is modify the cane fighting to fit with eskrima sticks and we're golden.

Reading is a most gentlemanly activity

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>>21167173
>>21167186
>>21167187
So something like this?

>>21167228
So our base style is escrima.
If we attach the sticks together (and they somehow telescope out into a proper sized cane/bo staff), then we can fight with various staff techniques. Plus we can get tricky, like detaching the staff into sticks mid-combo.
If we're unarmed, we use muay thai/sticky hands/some other style.

"...yeah, a real charmer," you say. "Beat me unconscious on my feet. I'm An -"

"Yeah, my daughter's a bruiser," he says. Oh, you think. So it's gonna be like that. "I'm Tatsuya, by the way. I'll be overseeing your training for the next month."

"No Skull Girl?" you ask.

"Pumpkin? Nah, she's sticking around Metro City to help clean up the Mad Gear problem. Her technique's getting kind of stale, thought she could use some practice out in the real world."

"Ah, that's...that makes sense," you say. So you traded in one terrifying giant for another. At least this one doesn't have Karate Joe's unique funk.

"Hey, don't worry about it. You're gonna see her in a month when you see if you can win your title back," Tatsuya says. "In the meantime, we've gotta get you in shape! Your training's gonna start now."

"Yeah?" you ask.

"Yeah. I'm gonna pick up that garbage can again and you're gonna try to make it to the car before I can tag you with it."

"That sounds...wait, how do I know which is your car?"

"Part of the training! You've got til three. Ooooone...."

>behind you is the train, ahead of you is a small sad newstand that sells some magazines and junk food. there's a fence that separates this area from the parking lot. off to the side is a small building that you have to pass through to get in or out

>what will you do?

>>21167361
Knock the garbage can as far from him as possible - if not outright grab it and take it with us - and hightail it through that building.

>>21167361
I think this is one of those things that works better in the background, and you should have maybe switched to the girl or to another subquest. Then again, you did so yesterday soi you may want to avoid it getting stale or something.
Anyway, try to lose him at the building.

>>21167361

Be crazy, knock the trashcan away from his hands before dashing to the parking lot fence.

>>21167361
Take the trashcan from him and start running. He can't throw it at us if we have it.

>>21166981
Bribe the karate hobos with junk food.

>>21167361
Bat the can away, then vault the fence into the parking lot. Look for any vehicle that has obvious ads for a Kyokugen dojo, since they're ALWAYS advertising for new students.

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>>21167435

We won't be playing through most of the training, mostly because once it settles into a routine there's not a lot of variance and I don't feel like having you guys roll once a day to do 500 knuckle pushups. As to what will happen, it's a seeeecreeeeeeet.

>by which i mean your idea is a good one and we'll be switching between short training vignettes and other stuff happening in the setting. thanks anon!

>Southtown, the second toughest city in America and number one recipient of orbital laser strikes on the east coast
Man, the NESTS Saga was all kinds of ridiculous. It's the same saga that ended with Igniz trying to perform a colony drop on the Earth before Team Ikari saved the day (and your team).

Just to give you an idea of how ridiculous the NESTS Saga was, NESTS fired a killsat, and King was in the way of the beam. Takuma intercedes and DEFLECTS THE KILLSAT BEAM WITH A SINGLE HAOH SHI GOU KEN, saving King.

I like >>21167430, except we should instead head to the parking lot and run down the aisles touching each car with a hand.

We'll definitely get his car that way, assuming he hasn't parked in some fucking insane location.

You slip under Tatsuya's arm and dive for the trash can. He's right behind you - terrifyingly fast - but you crash into it and roll to your feet, garbage can clutched to your chest. No sense trying to wrangle this through a hallway, you make a dash for the fence.

This actually buys you a second - Tatsuya was headed to the gate. While he's stopping himself and changing direction you slam the can upside down and use it to vault over, barely breaking stride. You wind up another powerful golf-style swing between two iron bars of the fence, sending the can flying. Hopefully that buys you another few seconds. You dash into the parking lot.

There aren't many cars there, but you have a feeling that you'd still be able to identify Tatsuya's car. The thing is slathered in hand-painted advertisements for Kyokugen-Ryu karate, including a six-foot long banner hanging from the radio antenna. Now is it unlocked?

A moment later a trash can - the same one, all too familiar now - falls from the sky, bashing in the car's windshield. You hear a powerful kiai and an impact a second later.

You really hope he didn't just jump the fence on his own. You're not sure you can handle that.

>try the door?
>dive through the windshield! he's created an opening!
>turn and face Tatsuya

>>21167690

Door first, if that doesn't work, turn to face him.

>dive through the windshield! he's created an opening!
No time. Gotta move.

>>21167721
dive through the windshield!

>>21167690
>Dive through the windshield! He's created an opening!
NASCAR the shit out of this.
"Do you even have insurance for that?!"

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You start to prepare a sweet Dukes of Hazzard slide right into the car, but the trash can actually fills the hole pretty well. You run to the passenger side and pull the handle - locked. Peering into the car you see the other side is locked.

You also see that Tatsuya locked his keys in the car.

"Well done!" he shouts. "Not exactly what I had in mind, but I can't fault your spirit."

"You kind of...your own car..." you say.

"Yeah, I was aiming for you. My mistake. But hey, I was wondering which window I'd have to break to get back in, this just kind of settles it!" He laughs uproariously at his own joke as he pulls the trash can out. You think about whether or not to mention you've got a AAA membership, nobody had to smash anything. You have a feeling Tatsuya wouldn't approve of any plan without smashing.

"Quite a car, eh? Ellie painted the hood for me. He indicates a tableau that's...actually, that's pretty awesome. "The founders of the art, almost all retired now. You can see me on the driver's side door, I painted that one myself."

Tatsuya's self-portrait is simultaneously much more primitive and much more alarming. He seems to see himself as the Incredible Hulk in a karate gi.

"Welp, looks like that's that for now," he says once he's got the inside unlocked. "Sweep the broken glass out and we'll head back to the dojo."

And this was only the beginning of your cursed training.

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That's it for Anon today, gotta rustle up some dinner. If the thread's still around/anyone's still here when I get back I'll probably run a short Skull Girl or Boss Honda quest.

>>21167986
The board meetings between the Garcia Financial Clique and the Masters Foundation must be a lot of fun to watch.

I wonder how grown up Yuri is, even though she's only two years younger than Mai.

>>21167986
It's time for a montage?

>>21168070

Seriously? Is Mai unusually young or is Yuri older than she looks? Probably both. I'm also not quite sure if we're running with the KoF continuity or the version where Art of Fighting took place in the 70s.

>>21168090

A few side stories, we'll probably just drop in to see Anon being tormented by Tatsuya.

...I really hope that doing a SFQ without any fighting didn't run off the audience, come to think of it.

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>>21167152

>>21168054
It takes a pretty good while for thread to fully fall off /tg/. And I'll be keep the tab open for a few hours in case you decide to continue a bit.

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You are Ellie, a Kyokugen practitioner turned loose in Metro City. Your father is unsatisfied with your progress as of the last few weeks and gave you the assignment to not come home until you've beaten up roughly a hundred Mad Gear punks. To help you out he said he'd make sure you have some of the best help Metro City has to offer.

This is how you've come to sit on Pete's couch, sandwiched between Belle (a kickboxing fighter you met just a few days ago) and Karate Joe (an enormous karate hobo you knocked out yesterday.)

Pete is sitting in an easy chair, his hair awkwardly slicked down, wearing an old suit jacket over his gi. He's smiling as amiably as he can in your general direction, as Belle in particular.

"So, what exactly is your plan for training here? Just punch every Mad Gear member you find, or...?"

>Punch the first hundred I see.
>Punch their leader and whoever happens to be standing near him.
>Start somewhere in the west part of the city, wander my way east, punching everything I see.

>Punch their leader and whoever happens to be standing near him.

I like the top-down approach.

>>21169062

Start with the leader. Say something cool about cutting off the head of a snake while you're at it.

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"Start with the leader. If you cut the head off a serpent the body will come after me and I can punch them all." That one kind of got away from you.

"Oookay," Pete says. "Well, rumor has it Mad Gear changed hands recently to some new guy. Don't know where his headquarters are, but if you grab one of his lieutenants they can probably point you in the right direction."

"Sounds good," you say, standing to your feet. "You know where any of these lieutenants are or should I just grab punks off the street until one tells me?"

"W-wait, wait," Pete says, holding out a hand. "You know that you're not actually beating them out of the gang, right? When they heal up they just go right back. You don't really have any authority to arrest anyone."

>Doesn't matter. My goal is to beat them up, not to clean up the city.
>I'll knock a bunch of them out and throw them in a pile where the police can find 'em.
>Okay, where's the nearest police academy?

>>21169173
>>I'll knock a bunch of them out and throw them in a pile where the police can find 'em.
Duh.

>>21169173

Leave them where the cops can find them. If they don't get picked up after that it's not our fault.

>I'll knock a bunch of them out and throw them in a pile where the police can find 'em.

The police academy thing, as funny as it could be, just seems like a waste of time.

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>>21169173
>>Okay, where's the nearest police academy?
Let's grab a cop. Coincidentaly, this is the man in charge of combat training.

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"I'll leave 'em where the cops can find 'em," you say. "These lieutenants, where's the nearest one?"

Pete looks like he's going to protest again but thinks better of it. "...there's an old arcade on 8th avenue, it's only a few blocks from here. The owner is Mad Gear, usually a bunch of them can be found hanging around. Especially this time of night."

"Thanks. Karate Joe, Belle, you wanna take a walk?"

The giant shrugs. He's got no particular place to be. Belle seems hesitant.

"Is this really safe? I mean, if we get in over our heads we're gonna be..."

"I'll be there!" Pete interjects. "Watching you. Your back. I'll be watching your backsiiii your back. You won't be in any danger!"

This is the worst thing you've ever seen. You should head out and hit people for awhile just so Pete can't talk anymore.

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It's a crisp night out when you get outside. You're walking in the lead, trying to ignore Pete's continuous stream of patter. Belle must have done something awful in a past life to deserve this.

Ahead of you you see a wild Tryhard Coolguy on the corner. He's sporting a black eye that threatens to cover his face, but he's still got the unmistakable look of a guy trying too hard to look like a thug. Time to shake him down for some info.

>post an image or such for the Mad Gear lieutenant, along with a 1d100 dice roll

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>>21169345

This guy.

Rolled 26

>>21169345
Too busy to go looking for a decent pic so I'll just give a roll for whatever.

Rolled 89

>>21169407

Forgot roll.

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Rolled 52

>>21169345

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Rolled 98

>>21169345

>>21169460

What.

...I gotta think of a name for this guy.

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Rolled 96

>>21169497
The Tromboner. Yes, I realize it's not a trombone but it's all he could get.

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>>21169460
Heh.

Just to let you know, SFM, I'm going to be playing a gentleman brawler monk in my next Pathfinder game because of you. Keep up the good work.

>>21169497
Tuba Tom.

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>>21168177
Yuri, at least as far as the KoF timeline is concerned, is older than she looks, I figure. They do like to play up the "Ryo's adorably cute baby sister" angle a bit. To give an example, Yuri's special intro against Ryo in CvS2 has her challenging him with
>"Onii-chan! Shoubucchi!" ("Big bro! Let's do it to it!")
The actual word is just "shoubu," but Yuri sticks the "-cchi" suffix to the end.
Why? Just to sound cute.
It's unsurprising, then, to see Ryo facepalm immediately afterwards.

>>21169497
Sgt. Charlie Tubanta

May or may not be a Guile analogue that's on an undercover op.

If that's a no-go, then I dunno. Go with whatever.

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The Tryhard Coolguy notices you heading towards him and tries to put his best swagger on. It's almost as bad as Pete's.

"Hey girl, sup with you?" he says, trying his best alluring look.

"You Mad Gear?" you ask.

"Yeah girl, baddest in the streets." He points to his black eye. "Got this in a gang brawl with five guys. Beat 'em down something fierce."

You punch him in the good eye. Guy goes down like a bowling pin.

"Who's the lieutenant?" you ask. He crawls away from you on the ground, holding a hand up to his new black eye. "Is this going to be one of those theme gang things? Like he's a football player and everyone wears football gear? That sorta thing?"

"Tuba Tom!" he says. "Former Green Beret, expert in noise weaponry! You're fucked, you wandered into the wrong neighborhood! You don't know who you're messing with!"

"Yeah I do," you say. "Cal the cops."

"The fuck am I doing what yo-"

"Call the cops," you say again. "Don't make me repeat myself again." The Coolguy thinks it over for a second, then scrambles to his feet and takes off running. 99 to go, you think to yourself. You turn the trio following you. Belle has her arms wrapped around herself and is trying her hardest not to look at Pete. Pete looks a little embarrassed as he stares at his feet. You're not even sure Karate Joe remembers why you're here.

"Alright, looks like we're fighting army-themed musicians. We're going to..."

>what tactics are you going to give your troops?

>>21169517

I'm flattered! I'm not sure if this custom class I pulled off of /tg/ awhile back is any use, but I still like it.

>>21169497
FUBAR Tuba, a dishonorably charged trumpeter (he kept playing till the wee hours in the night, you see) with PSTD.

>>21169579
Stay in a pack and steamroll any Neo Mad Gear in front of us. Sooner or later, the footsoldiers will realize someone's tearing up their turf, and they'll send reinforcements. The lieutenant will have to answer sooner or later.

If the lieutenant were >>21169506, this'd probably be less silly. Then again, it's the Mad Gear; they'll take anyone they can get.

>>21169629
Also make sure we spread the word that Tuba Tom sucks at playing the tuba.

>>21169654
"Next time you see Tuba Tom, tell him he's fifth seat, at best."

>>21169579

Take the lead, punch out anyone and everyone who's close. Have Belle and Karate Joe last down projectile spam, Pete can fill in as needed.

>>21169579
Get earplugs. Or cotton to fill our your earholes. I have no idea how military noise weaponry works but I know ruptured eardrums are extremely unfun. It'll make communicating harder, but no one will have to hear Pete anymore.

"I'm going up front, I've got a quota to hit," you say. Hah. Hit. You kinda wish you'd meant for that pun to happen. "Belle and Joe, throw fireballs for suppression. Pete, help them out until I get swarmed and then keep them off my back."

Karate Joe nods and starts stretching his neck. Belle looks nervous but determined, raising her hands into a kickboxer's stance. Pete looks longingly at Belle for a moment then nods.

"By the way, does anyone know if they mean noise weaponry as in, I don't know, that note that makes you shit yourself, or something that makes you deaf, or does he just hit you with the tuba?" Nobody knows. Fuck, you should have pressed that Tryhard Coolguy for more info. Fuck it. You'll just have to hope you pass a CVS or something on the way there so you can pick up some earplugs.

You can make out shapes emerging from the shadows, men walking out of the alleys and into the street, half of them in sleeveless denim jackets and half in army surplus material. Time to get to work.

>roll 1d50
>also, I don't really have any art for Belle. Anyone got an image of a redhaired woman in a tux, or anything else that might work?

Rolled 36

>>21169735

Rollin'.

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Rolled 10

>>21169735
I'd post images of Vanessa, since she's kinda(?) in a suit, but that might not work since
1. Vanessa's character gimmick was being a mature older woman (and a single mom, to boot), and
2. she already exists.
I'll keep an eye out in my picture folders.

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>>21169735
>>21169774
Here's someone cosplaying as Mature, if that's close enough.

>>21169774

Vanessa actually is one of my favorite KoF characters. I'm kind of liberal about repurposing character art for new characters (since I can't draw worth a damn) but she doesn't quite fit the pseudo-King look that the anon who came up with Belle described? I'll keep an eye out, maybe Belle only does the tux look for official KoF events.

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>>21169781
Some rule 63 Iori, to boot. I'd make a Miss X joke here if I could.

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>>21169808
Hey, I think she's neat too, and I've actually tried to learn her a fair bit. She's competent, motherly, knows what she's doing, smart, an ace boxer, AND smoking hot.
Maybe use this, since it's a close-enough shot of her face to be negligible, plus her, ehm, "getup" can be interpreted however.

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Rolled 36

>>21169735
>redhead in a suit
How's this?

>>21169879
Yeah, that'll probably do it.

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Rolled 48

>>21169735
There- that cripple girl from Katawa Shoujo, but she doesn't have arms.

>>21169899

It gets silly fast. You knock out 48 Mad Gear members, half of them yourself once Belle and Karate Joe soften them up. Still counts toward your total, the way you see it. 75 to go.

Mad Gear tends to attract individually weak fighters at the lowest level, so few take more than a hit or two to knock out. They occasionally try to get fancy - hit you from two sides, four or five appearing at once, a particularly big guy grabbing you while his buddies attack - but as long as you stay calm you move through them like a knife through butter. The silly part comes from the instrument theme. Half a dozen trumpets, one trombone, even a few lead pipes that were repainted to look like clarinets. You actually take a nasty hit to the shoulder from one of the pipes before Pete knocked the pipe-wielder out. If dad wanted you to learn to remember to guard then mission accomplished.

Two blocks later you were in front of the arcade. Glaring neon, retro arcade cabinets. If you had more time to play videogames when you were a kid you get the impression you might know some of them.

"Alright, anyone have a good one-liner for when we kick the door down?" you ask.

>gimme a one-liner and who comes up with it

>>21169925
>Ellie: Tell me where Tuba Tom is, or I will Frogger the SHIT out of all of you.

>>21169925
We're here to kick ass and play arcade games and we're all out of quarters! -Belle

I really couldn't resist.

>>21169925
Shit's on, like Donkey Kong!

>>21169925

"Game over!" - Karate Joe

>>21169925
>Pete: Hey! Your mother plays the vuvuzela!
>Karate Joe: Hell, she plays my vuvuzela every night.

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>>21170008

>Karate Joe
"You must defeat Shen Long to stand a chance!"

>>21170030
Too cliche. Plus, Ryu'd probably stomp Joe for pretending to have the Shoryuuken.

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>>21169967
>>21169980
>>21169991
>>21170003

Everyone nods. You guess that whoever says it first gets it. You turn and give the front door the kind of kick you only see in action movies.

Standing inside, surprised, it a man in full military uniform holding a tuba. A few Mad Gear members are lounging around playing old arcade games, they seem as shocked as anyone else. Probably they didn't hear about everyone outside getting their asses kicked.

Everyone yells their line at the same time.

"What?" Tuba Tom says. "I couldn't make any of that out."

Hell with it, you think. "Get the minions!" you yell, making a beeline for Tuba Tom.

>It's on! Roll 2d10 for karate!

Rolled 4, 6 = 10

>>21170058
That worked well.

Rolled 4, 7 = 11

>>21170058
I'd love it if >>21170008 happens.

Rolled 10, 9 = 19

>>21170058
>"Get the minions!" you yell, making a beeline for Tuba Tom.

I can't stop hearing Flight of the Bumblebee now. Damn it all.

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>>21170097

Prepare yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-NVMsj6lXA

>>21170115
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-NVMsj6lXA
Huh. That was surprisingly okay.

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>>21170097

Tuba Tom raises the tuba to his lips. You're not completely sure you want to know what will happen, so you give it the same solution you give everything else in this stupid town.

The best part is when you punch his face his head snaps back and hits the tuba. That makes his head snap forward so you can punch him in the face again.

He takes a wild swing at you - with the tuba, of all things - and it actually hits you on the head. Tuba attack is one of the few things that Kyokugen Karate isn't prepared for, apparently. You can't decide if it's worth working up a kata for.

Tuba Tom is stumbling backwards now, pressing his lips to the mouthpiece.

>roll 1d20 for dodge

Rolled 17

>>21170219
We need to break that tuba. The mouth piece or something.

Rolled 2

>>21170219
Pretty sure it's not worth a kata.

Rolled 8

>>21170219
I don't care about our dodge, I only want Tuba Tom to cause some damage

>>21170239
>>21170252
Why'd you guys have to drag down my roll?

Rolled 9

>>21170219

>>21170258
He's not taking averages.

Rolled 5

>>21170258
Let's try and bring it back up

Rolled 18

>>21170258
High roll or nat 1/20/100 are taken.

You might want a reminder of that in the OP, SFM.

Rolled 18

>>21170258
BECAUSE I WANT TUBA TOM TO DO SOME DAMAGE.

I'M LOOKIN FOR A 1!

>>21170270

For now I'm just taking the highest. I've found taking the average roll just drags everything towards the middle. Every once in awhile I'll take first roll/random number roll if it's something where I think the chances of failure should be higher. And I'll take critical fails if I think it's funny and/or dramatic.

>>21170311
SHIT

>>21170304

>I'll put something about it in the opening of the next thread. For now the system tends towards changing every few rolls so that things stay fresh, but something is slowly being hammered out.

>also sorry for the delay, some people came in and I had to hide my powerlevel for a few minutes.

>>21170239

You hop straight back. Last time you heard about someone using a sonic weapon it was a sphere, something where anyone within ten feet or so was hit. No way you're getting nailed with that.

Turns out it was a tuba chi cannon. It blasts you straight in the chest, knocking the wind out of you. Tuba Tom laughs wildly and stomps forward. He starts playing an oompah tune, chi blasts firing from his tuba every third or so note as he stomps his way toward you. Most miss wildly, one or two you have to bother blocking as you come to your feet.

Now you're actually kind of mad.

>Charge in! Karate!
>Dodge, get Karate Joe's attention and let them have a beam war
>Find your own instrument, fight fire with fire

>>21170605
>Find your own instrument, fight fire with fire
I'll bet Ellie plays a mean flute. Still, this is pretty ridiculous.

>>21170605
>taking the 2 over 2 18's & a 17
All of my 'Nigga what?'s.

>Dodge, get Karate Joe's attention and let them have a beam war
We've been given no indication she can fire anything chi-related.

>>21170605
Dodge, get Karate Joe's attention and let them have a beam war

If there's anything Karate Joe is good at, it's overpowering, Strike Freedom beamspam that'd make Sagat weep. Let's take advantage of it.

>>21170605

Find flute. Make magic happen.

You bob and weave, letting these barrel-sized bursts of chi slip harmlessly past.

"Karate Joe!" you yell, looking for where he is among the chaos. He's being mobbed by half a dozen Mad Gear members clinging to his arms and legs, trying to shake them off by slamming against the wall. Belle is holding her own by putting her back to a wall and throwing chi attack after chi attack, but she's working her way to Karate Joe. That leaves...

"Pete!" you yell. He turns from the Mad Gear member he's fighting - another army guy, this one dual-wielding flutes as eskrima weapons. This is perfect, actually. You took three years of flute as a junior high requirement. "Get me a flute!"

Pete turns and throws one of his spectral punches straight into the Mad Gear fighter's face. His pickup game is pure spaghetti, but the man's a solid fighter. He grabs one off the floor and throws it to you. You catch it and run in..

Thing about it is, you remember as you duck a tuba blast, junior high sucked. You were taller than the boys your age, stronger than the girls. You were coming into your own as a combat machine just as your stupid teenage hormones were making every day seem like the end of the world.

You swing the flute into Tuba Joe's head so hard the flute bends at a thirty degree angle.

>>21170825

It's lights out with the first hit. Just to be safe you swing the flute another five or six times. That stupid chi tuba blast really hurt.

You look around as Tuba Tom falls to his knees. Pete and Belle are working together to finish the last few Mad Gears in their half. Karate Joe is breathing heavily next to a hole in the wall. Presumably the rest of the Mad Gear gang are somewhere on the other side of the hole.

Suddenly you remember you were supposed to be here for detective work. One look at Tuba Tom is enough to tell you he's not waking up anytime soon.

>roll 1d100 for searching him for clues

Rolled 40

>>21170927
Snooping around.

Rolled 100

>>21170927
>Suddenly you remember you were supposed to be here for detective work.
Is that what she's calling it? Okay. Only about 75 more "interviews" to go.

Rolled 70

>>21170927
Here's hoping for something nice. Also, and this is just a suggestion here, would she dunk his head in one of the arcade's toilets to wake him up if the search turns up jack? Talk of bad junoir high made me think of that.

>>21170960
Hah! If only I had this kind of luck while we were in control of Anon.

Still can't believe I killed the fight with those double 1's.

>>21170979
Thanks, really.

>>21170960

You pat Tuba Tom down. You turn up a matchbook (you decide to check out the bar), a receipt for a sporting goods store (probably a front, he doesn't have any sporting gear) and...a letter?

You open it and read it to your crew as they gather around you.

"Tuba Tom,

Your gimmick is stupid but you're the only person willing to work Karate Joe's neighborhood. I don't know if you're suicidal or you just like fighting insane karate giants, but either way good for you.

If you need me (please don't) you can reach me in my penthouse suite at 1080 Main St. We're on the 20th floor, the door code to get in is 189. Seriously, please never need me."

"This has to be a trap," Belle says.

"I dunno. Mad Gear's actually kinda incompetent," Pete says. "Wait, there's something else in the envelope. It's...a signed headshot of the gang boss? You're fucking kidding me."

>roll 1d100 and give me a picture of the boss!

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Rolled 46

>>21171106

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Rolled 90

>>21171106
>dem results
Ha! I like you.

This is sans cleaver of course.

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Rolled 71

>>21171106
Mad Gear ain't smart. They need someone to be smart for them.

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>>21170979

The odds were stacked against you in that fight pretty hard. I wouldn't feel too bad about it. I kinda like the drama of training to win your title back, too.

>>21171170
On second thought, save that dude for another time. I'm liking the anarchist feel in >>21171149. Neo Mad Gear has almost nothing going for it, and it'd make sense if this revival is led by some guy who just wants some chaos.

>>21171183
So do I. I just hate that it was my roll that caused it.

>>21171149

The photo is of a postapocalyptic-looking punk. You think his helmet might almost be as cool as yours.

You're going to have to absolutely destroy him.

"Well, looks like we're done here," Pete says. "Should we call the cops?"

"Sure," you say. You feel exhausted. No individual fighter was enough to challenge you, but in the adrenaline and strain are starting to wear at you. You could use a good night's sleep. There's one thing you want to do first, though.

Ten minutes later (with Karate Joe's help) you and your comrades are lined up next to a heap of unconscious Mad Gear gangsters. Your phone is propped up on the counter, the timer working its way to ten.

"Say cheese?" Pete asks. Pete and Belle give their biggest, cheesiest smiles as Karate Joe throws his (smelly) arms around everyone.

"Nah," you reply, keeping a poker face. Still, as a concession you throw a peace sign up just as the photo snaps.

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>>21171357

Aaaaaand that's it for Skull Girl subquest for the night. Thanks for playing! We'll be back tomorrow! With 100% more Boss Honda!

>>21171383
Good thread man. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Getting money I'm owed, this AND Strike Witches 89? Hot damn it's going to be good.

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One of the Mad Gear hideouts should be full of these guys. Look at that hair.

Rolled 65

>>21171675

I dunno, it feels like japanese yankee delinquents could very well be their own gang. Led by Skullgirls brother and all.

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>>21166193
I gotta say, I don't pay attention to quests. But this, this is full of ultimate K.O. win

Archived.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/21166193/

>>21170681

I just reread the thread and realized I asked for 1d20 there and not 2d10, so that wasn't actually a critical fail. Shit. Sorry about that, guys. Next time we get terrible rolls on something plot-related remind me of this and you get a free pass.

>>21172838

That was me forgetting to turn my name back on.

Did I accidentally summon Infinite Spaghetti Works?

We seriously need some drawfaggotry of the characters for this quest. I've been thinkin of a design for Boss Honda, specifically I thought he should have a leather vest with a big insignia on the back depicting a sunrise over Okinawa and the inscription THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN around it. I dunno how Asian he should look, is he an Asian redneck or just a redneck?

>>21175102
You could start here, though the results will only look okayish, nothing spectacular.
http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-3-lab/
Then give them to an actual dragfag, to work on poses, perspective, gestures and such.

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When do we fight the murder-karate hobo?

Damn it... I got a new pic of DAN but it looks like we won't be seeing him any more...

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>>21177383
Oh well. Here it is if he ever returns..

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Pretty fighters never lose
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2012/oct/17/cosplay-new-york-comic-con-featuring-m-bison-dan-she-hulk-
chun-li-captain-america-dr-doom-and-more/

>>21169879

Is that Christina Hendricks? No wonder Pete spaghettis so hard.