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"It's like this," he says. He takes out one of the pages of the file and flips it over, drawing on the back. "There are four zones of combat - more, really, but let's keep it simple. Infighting, punching, kicking and projectile range." He draws a crude stick figure version of you and separates each zone with a line. "Right now you're strongest at punching range and you've got a solid answer to projectile range. That's two of the four down. The other two are your big problem."

"Can I fix it?" you ask.

"Well..I have a solution, but you're going to have to ask your new teachers yourself. First, which do you think you should work on first, throwing range or kicking range?

>Throwing range
>Kicking range

>>21386930
>>Throwing range
Saturn throw!

>kicking range
for infighting we have the saturn throw and a headbutt if necessary.

>>21386930

Kicking range needs work first.

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>>21386930
>Kicking range
We'll worry about infighting by playing the drums until we come up with a more solid answer.

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"Should probably work on my kicking game first," you say.

"Probably smart," Tatsuya says. "You can get by with your one throw for now, but I don't think I've ever seen you throw a kick. Belle's going to be by soon, we can ask if she wants to teach you then."

>Be Ellie
>Be Boss Honda

>>21387236
>>Be Ellie

>>21387236
>>Be Boss Honda

>>be Ellie

>>21387236
Be Ellie. Last I checked Honda was on a train to crazy chi-battle central... Is he always going to end up taking the option we don't, I wonder?

You are Ellie, Kyokugen fighter and leader of your KOF team. You're walking to the dojo with Belle after meeting her for lunch.

"The Southern Belles. Cause I'm Belle," she says.

"The Face Destroyers," you say.

"The Suffergettes. It sounds like suffragettes, but it gets across that we'll make them suffer."

"This is going nowhere," you say. "Okay, how about band names? Did you ever have like a good band name that you never got to use?"

"I already said 'em all," Belle says, half dejected. "How about you?"

>Any good team names?

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>>21387432

>forgetting Ellie's traditional opener image

>>21387432
The Rabid Wolverines.

>>21387441
The Crush Gals

They are really some kind of multicultural hodgepodge. Damn, if you guys had taken the yoga instructor I could push for Hiranyagarbha, the name of the Cosmic Egg from which the cosmos emerge in hindu religion.

Fuck that, Yoga instructor pops behind them and offers this name, only to be ignored.

>>21387432
Team Hell hath no fury.

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"The Wolverines," you say.

"What, like in Red Dawn?" Belle asks.

This is going nowhere. Maybe Moira will have an idea.

As you enter the dojo you find your father and Anon (dressed in an old-timey bowtie and suspenders as always) poring over some stick-figure drawing of dad's. His face brightens as he sees you.

"Pumpkin! And you brought Belle, too. Perfect, I have a favor to ask you."

"What is it?" you ask, crossing your arms.

"Seems Anon here sucks at kicking. Belle, you're a kickboxer, you wanna show him the ropes?"

"We're getting ready for our first official match as a team," you say. "I'm not sure if..."

"Sure," Belle says. "But he has to call me Master. Also do whatever I say for the training period."

"It's only for a week or two," Anon says.

"It's only for a week or two, Master," Belle corrects. "Now give me a hundred pushups."

You're not sure if this was a good idea for anyone involved.

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You are Boss Honda, sumo warrior, karate hobo, former wielder of the Satsui no Hadou. After riding the rails as close to the Idaho border as they run you hitched a ride and then another, both times with long-distance truckers just thankful to have someone to talk to. Now you're finally being dropped off a mere ten miles from the Idaho border, straight in the middle of a renfair filled with historical reenactors and karate hobos. Something about all this is off.

>enjoy the fair
>see if you can join the larger mass of karate hobos on their journey
>ask around, see if anyone's seen the old man

>>21387674
>>ask around, see if anyone's seen the old man
Must make amends!

>>21387674
Ask around see if anyone seen the Old Man

>>21387674
>see if you can join the larger mass of karate hobos on their journey

Karate Hobos dont only eat birds, they are like birds. Always flocking together. If someone knows were to find the old man its them.

>>21387674
Ask around for the Old Man, then see if you can join them on their journey.

btw, does he HAVE a name for the old man? 'cause asking around for "the old man karate hobo" in a cloud of karate hobos is gonna yield a million results.

>>21387674
Nah, enjoy the fair. It's what Karate Hobo man would have wanted, maybe. Just kick back and relax and enjoy life.

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You stop the first karate hobo that passes that looks friendly. "Looking for an old man. Maybe in his seventies," you say. "Seen him?"

"You got a name for this old guy?" he asks.

"Er...no. He's the only karate hobo I've ever seen in his seventies, though," you say. "Maybe eighties. It's hard to tell."

"Haven't seen him," he says, pulling away from you. "Maybe ask around some more."

You decide to ask some of the rougher-looking karate hobos, the ones who look like they've been in the game for a bit. A few of them have heard of the old man or met him before, but none know exactly where he is. Not until the fifth person you ask.

"Boise," he says. "Kid, if you're looking for the old man you're in for a world of trouble. Who you traveling with?"

>Planned on traveling alone. Faster that way.
>Hoping to join one of these large groups. They seem to know what's up.

>>21387771
>>Planned on traveling alone. Faster that way.

>>21387771
What happened with Railyard Bull?

>>21387771
>>Hoping to join one of these large groups. They seem to know what's up.

Like i said before. Karate Hobos = Birds.

>>21387784

Pretty easy fight where Boss Honda blasted him off the train. He's fought so many of the things now that they're more of a pest than a proper fight.

>>21387771
>>Planned on traveling alone. Faster that way.
Hobos that travels in packs never matters. We must do this solo.

>>21387794
Like a grandmaster playing a moron. It's not a fight, it's masturbation.
Planning on going alone, faster that way. Though open to suggestions.

>>21387826
I dunno, the hobos in Tokyo Godfathers traveled in a group of three, and they were pretty awesome.

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"Thought I'd travel alone," you say. He laughs a hoarse laugh.

"Through the Wasteland? What is this, your first time here? The chi storms alone will cut you down, the wandering feral Bulls, the men who've gone down the dark side, the drag-"

Your ears burn red. "Maybe I'll find one of these larger groups, then?" you interrupt. Travel with them for safety?"

"Nah, nah, that's no better," he says. "Buncha scared rabbits that'll take off running at the first sign of trouble, they ain't never gonna make it to Boise. Look, I think I can give you a solution." He points at an inn down the road. "Go in there and ask for Joe. He's looking for a man with the guts to go all the way on this journey."

>>21387893
Let's meet this Joe fella

>>21387893
Hehe. And so we meet Karate Joe again. I think.

>>21387893
>go to the inn
>find group/partner/whatever to seek Boise (adventure)
This is adventuring 101.

>>21387893
>Boss Honda
>Karate Joe
>Team-Up
Man, we gotta find out what this karate hobo exodus is about. Is there some intense threat they've got to put down? Is it some kind of stand-alone tournament for the best of beamspammers? Is it training, or do they just have better turkey in that direction at this time of year?

>>21387917
the answer lies in the heart of battle

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You are Anon, world warrior. You've been Belle's apprentice for about ten minutes now and it already sucks almost as bad as when you were Tatsuya's. You're in the dojo while she tries to evaluate what you've got and what you need to learn. Mostly in the form of being disappointed.

"I figured you'd be more flexible," she says, leaning against your back. You're sitting on the floor, arms stretched out leaning forward. You think you remember taking a test along these lines in grade school. "Seriously, try touching your toes."

"I am trying," you say. Ellie (standing against a wall) shakes her head disapprovingly.

"Okay, so your flexibility's pretty bad," Belle says once she gives up on shoving you. "There are three pillars we have to work on. Flexibility first, so that you actually have the reach to do what you need to do. Second, leg strength. Your kicks need to have some power behind them. Finally we'll work on your technique. I don't think we have time for anything more complicated than a front snap kick as a ranged push and then a right roundhouse kick for power. Basic, but they're fundamentals for a reason."

"That sounds...fine," you say.

"That sounds fine Master," she corrects. "Now let's start properly stretching you. Ellie, grab his left leg, I'll grab his right."

>>21387956
Fuck this will hurt

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You are Boss Honda, karate hobo.

The inn is dark and poorly lit, bustling with a mix of roguish types and karate hobos. A waitress in period garb asks where you'd like to be seated with a sunny smile.

"I'm looking for Joe," you say. Her face falls.

"He's in a private booth in the back," she says. "If you'll follow me please."

She leads you to a shadowy corner of the tavern. The biggest karate hobo you've ever seen is there, along with a woman in karate hobo garb, one of the few you've seen.

"Joe?" you ask.

"Karate Joe," he says. "What's it to you?"

>Some mysterious guy said to meet you all in an inn.
>Boss Honda. I heard you're going to Boise.
>Just a wandering karate hobo who thought he'd pay his respects.

>>21387956
If I may, I think a push kick would work better than a snap kick. Snap kick's...kinda not good for much, you can get your toes really messed up as well. A push kick would be better as a ranged push, and is in fact used for that and measuring distance in Muay Thai competitions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpj7O0Et28&feature=relmfu

That's a push kick. It's similar to the snap kick but different. Same guy has a front kick vid if you want to compare.

>>21388007
>Boss Honda. I heard you're going to Boise

Karate Joe is the pimpest of all Karate Hobos

>>21387976
Training montage music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjaBGAfWGSU&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dFGcejbTQ

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>>21388016

Sounds solid. I'm not as familiar with Muay Thai terminology, I was thinking more along what the term for a similar kick in karate would be. (Which I'm also less familiar with than eskrima.)

>>21388007
>Boss Honda. I heard you're going to Boise. I heard you're the man to talk to.

>>21388007
>Boss Honda. I heard you're going to Boise.
Karate Joe gets all the hobitches. Bitchbos? I'm gonna stop thinking about this now.

>>21386930
What's this about midrange? Don't we use sticks?

"The name's Boss Honda," you say. "Heard you're going to Boise."

"Everyone's going to Boise," the giant says. "What've you got to offer the party?"

The party?

"I...I'm a pretty good beatboxer?" you say.

"No, I mean, what role do you fill? You tough, you a good attacker, what?"

>I'm pretty tough. Solid defense.
>Chi blasts.
>I can do the worm.

>>21388102
>I'm pretty tough. Solid defense.
>Chi blasts.
>I can do the worm.

He is nothing if not multitalented.

>>21388102
>Can do the worm
With the typical sumo body, that would be impressive. Anyway, solid defense, don't know if getting rid of the Dark Energy means we can't spam lazorbeams anymore.

>>21388130
this.

>>21388130
>>I can do the worm.

>>21388102

Defense, offence, look at me, I'm a sumo wrestler. In the world of scrawny fighters I'm a battleship.

And I can do the worm.

>All of the above

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"Pretty good at chi blasts," you say.

"We all are. We're karate hobos," Joe says. "What else you got?"

"I'm tough. Look at me, I'm built like a battleship compared to most of these guys." You throw a hand out to indicate the rest of the tavern. Some of them are relatively fit, some of them have the build of a fighter, most seem kinda scrawny. Karate hobo life really isn't for everyone. "Plus I can do the worm like nobody's business."

"It's not that kind of party," the woman says. "Haven't you ever played an RPG?"

"A what now?"

"Explain it later," Joe says. "If we're bringing this guy along I wanna see just how tough he is."

>Go outside
>Don't fight this guy.
>An RP whatnow?

>>21388208
>An RP whatnow?
Is Idaho really that dangerous or is it just LARP central? Is there a difference?

>>21388208

RP whatnow? Then fight.

>>21388208

Go outside. Fight then be friends.

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>>21388208
Just so you know, I don't play FATAL. I don't *roll* that way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLeWkTSMQuc

I think I might've found Anon's special roundhouse kick, for when we get better at them. No one really expects to get kicked like that at that range, that's mostly knee territory and a solid blow to the back of the head is pretty rattling.

>>21388208
>Go outside
Might as well get the befriending over with.

"RP whatnow?" you ask.

"Roleplaying game. Dungeons and Dragons, that sort of thing?" she says. She rubs her temples. "Look, basic balance says that we need a tough guy, a blasty guy and a healy guy. I can heal, Joe here has more raw blasting energy than anyone I've ever seen, we need a tough guy to take some damage for us. We had one, but the guy ran off."

"Oh, like those kinds of games?" You vaguely remember playing one or another of the Final Fantasy games when they came out. "I never got why they couldn't all be good at everything. That's what I try for."

"But some people are better at one thing than others, so we may as well come together to form a more powerful fighting unit. Things are going to get pretty crazy out there," she says.

"Enough talk. I wanna see how tough this guy is," Joe says. "Anyone standing behind him?"

"No, I don'- WAIT!" she says.

Joe blasts you.

>roll 1d20 for defense roll

Rolled 3

>>21388321

Please don't fail horribly.

Rolled 1

>>21388321
Let's go

Rolled 12

>>21388321
please don't betray us now dice rolls

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>>21388321

>captcha eating your images
>2012

>>21388334
>1d2

Rolled 1

>>21388321

This won't end well.

Rolled 18

>>21388334
>>21388331
Okay, we have to get rid of these fucking things

Rolled 20

>>21388321
Come on Sumo Strong.
>>21388334
>1d2
...

Rolled 15

>>21388334
You sir are dum. You don't DESERVE a "b"

Rolled 7

>>21388321
Like a rock!

>>21388352
we got a crit and a fail

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>>21388262
We don't need kicks when we got Sticks. Behold, the next move, the Crazy Meerkat!

Rolled 8

H-h-here I go

Rolled 18

>>21388340
Welp. Thanks for noticing.

Rolled 6

>>21388321

Rolled 20

>>21388348
>>21388352
At least they cancel.

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>>21388352
>>21388378
2/2 nat 20s. Goddamn I'm good. And to think I started out with double nat 1s and lost us that first fight with Ellie.

>>21388378
We can stop rolling now

Rolled 8

>>21388361
That's the thing, no one really expects us to pull off something like that, and an unexpected blow to the back of the head is pretty fucking horrible. I don't think many people expected that Saturn Launch we did on Boss Honda, either. And we'd hugged beforehand, so they might not think much of it even now.

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>>21388348
>>21388352

>one crit fail
>one crit success

You try to throw out a blast to counter, only barely managing to mount the chi in your hands before Joe's beamspam connects. In a flash of blinding white light you find yourself blown clear through the wall into the alley. Your ears are ringing a little as you try to sit up.

"Joe, I told you," the woman is saying. "This is the last tavern in the entire city that will even let you in and you do this!"

"Nah," a voice says from above you. As your vision clears you see Joe's face leering at you from inches away. "Did you see the way he focused chi in his arms to block my strike? We got our guy. We're goin' to Idaho."

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>>21388433

You are Anon, street fighter. You're in possibly the worst pain you've ever gone through.

"Alright, I think we've manhandled the poor guy long enough," Belle says. "You're done stretching out for now."

"Thanks, master," you say.

"Hey, you hear that?" Belle asks Ellie. "He said it on his own this time. This is gonna be awesome."

"If it's alright with you, I think I'm going to go lie down for awhile," you say. This pain is something entirely new to you. You kinda hate it.

"No way. We're working three things every session, remember? Time for number two. We need to build up your leg strength. Time to go run five miles."

"Yes, master," you say. Easier to just do it than argue. You ran this much all the time under Tatsuya's care, this'll be no problem. You take a step toward the door.

"Waaaait," she says. "You're gonna carry me piggyback."

"Wait," you say.

"What?" Ellie says.

"Giddyup, pony," Belle says. As she hops onto your back she starts singing the bass opening of Pony.

>let's check out what's going on with Boss Honda

>>21388501
I think Belle likes being in a dominant situation.

You are Boss Honda, party tank, karate hobo, sumo wrestler, formerly evil. You're starting to think you may be wearing too many hats, all things considered.

"The map indicates the border crossing is only a mile from here," the woman says, walking at the head of your group. You walk along the flat plains of Montana, mountains looming in the distance. It's a sunny day, if a little brisk. Actually a pretty nice day for a walk so far. "If we defeat the Guardians we can get some horses here. It's going to be tough, but it will save us a lot of valuable time."

"Sounds alright," Joe says. "So we stick Honda up front to take their attacks, you pump him full of healing chi, I hang back and blast 'em?"

"More or less," she says. "We could get more complicated if we had a fourth, but this is going to be enough for now."

In the distance you can see what she must have been referring to - a low building, with a horse pen beside it.

"Why don't we blast it from here?" you ask.

"Not how these things are done," Joe says. "How are you at fighting groups?"

>ask what all this is about
>ask what's actually in Idaho
>ask why everyone's going to Boise

>>21388378
I shall mourn you, o' fruitless nat 20. The thing(s) you could have accomplish were you not ignored at your prime and denied the chance to shine.

>ask why everyone's going to Boise

Rolled 20

>>21388576

Honestly, do all three. We're not there yet and you ARE going to be eating punches in the face (or worse) for these people. Least they could do is answer three questions.

>>21388576
>>ask what's actually in Idaho
Why is there a sudden migration?

>>21388612

Didn't catch that third. Add it to the other saved up nat 20 in the bank.

>>21388627
Sweet. That brings up to...what? 2 nat 20s & 1 crit fail avoidance?

>>21388695

We used the "avoid crit fail" in the match with Boss Honda if I'm not mistaken. That's two natural crit 20s, though."

"So what's in Idaho?" you ask. "What's got everyone heading out that way?"

"You've come all this way and you don't even know?" the woman asks. "You have to be kidding."

"Chi," Joe says. "Enormous amounts of it. Ridiculous. They say there's a man in the center of it all, one of the first karate hobos meditating. These chi storms are all his doing, he's so strong he doesn't even know it's happening. A lot of karate hobos come here looking to get in on that power, just wind up making things worse."

"Howso?" you ask.

"Throw around a lot of chi, start manipulating it. Things can get kinda weird when this much raw power is just floating around," Joe says.

"Why are you two heading in?" you say.

"Wanna see if it's true, if there's really a guy," Joe says.

"I was hoping for some sort of enlightenment," the woman says. "I was hoping that this much chi in one place could aid me in this quest."

"HALT" one of the bulls is saying. "YOU ARE ENTERING THE FORBIDDEN ZONE."

"You ready, kid?" Joe asks.

>try to negotiate
>stand back and blast
>charge in, let Joe and the woman do the blasting

>>21388695
We used up the failure avoidance, actually.

>>21388722
...The bull? Oh goddamnit, this is going to go terribly. Try to negotiate while charging.

>>21388722
>try to negotiate
We're all peaceable, friendly backwoods folks. At least Boss is.

>>21388722
>charge in, let Joe and the woman do the blasting

>YOU ARE ENTERING THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
Oh god. This is going to be like the Zone in Stalker isn't it? Crazy chi-filled creatures roaming around, ready to ruin your shit, everywhere?

>>21388722
>>charge in, let Joe and the woman do the blasting

>>21388722
So the bulls are like the Guards of the SF world?

Charge in

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>>21388762
"Blowout soon, fellow hobo."
"Oh yeah? When?"
"KIKOUSHOU!"

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"We mean you no harm," you try to say.

"NONE MUST ENTER THE FORBIDDEN ZONE," one of the bulls says.

"NO TICKET NO ENTER," the other yells. They both charge in.

"Get in front!" Joe yells. You move in, charging an energy blast. Two beamspam-level blasts fire over your shoulders and hit the two bulls, only to prompt more of them to swarm out of the building. More than you think you can take on your own.

"Stay up front and soak up hits!" Joe yells. "We're gonna get through this!"

>Be Anon
>Be Ellie

>>21388870
>>Be Anon

>>21388870
Be Ellie

>>21388870
Let's play as Anon. Gotta make sure we're doing our best to prepare for that next match.

>>21388870
>Be Anon
We must have calves of steel by now.

>>21388870
>Be Anon
Can't help but think Belle's enjoying this a bit too much.

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You are Anon, street fighter. You've just managed a five-mile run with Belle on your back, giggling all the while. This training sucks.

"Alright, now let's work on some kicking drills," she says as soon as you're inside. She lets go of your back and climbs down. Ellie is waiting for her with some strike pads and that eternally detached look on her face. You wonder sometimes if she practices it. "We're going to start with the right roundhouse kick at about waist height. Either a thousand kicks or until you get it right, whichever comes last."

>scream internally
>be Boss Honda

>>21388975
>>scream internally

>>21388975
No wonder she gets along with Ellie and Tatsuya so well. We should have done the Mad Gear thing, or the prison tournament that one guy came up with!

>>21388975
>Scream internally

>Be boss honda

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>>21388975

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>>21388975
>scream internally

>>21389012
Oh I dunno. I'm kinda enjoying this. Belle's fun.

>>21388975
>>scream internally

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>>21388975

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You are Boss Honda, fresh from punching out a few dozens Railyard Bulls. You are ninety-five percent sure dragons aren't real.

Doesn't change what you're seeing.

"SO YOU WOULD DESTROY MY MINIONS," it rumbles, the size of a house, its voice booming inside your mind. "MY MINIONS ARE MINE. ALL TREASURE IN THIS WORLD IS MINE. IF YOU WOULD TAKE SOME FROM ME I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CLAIM THE FAIREST OF YOU TO REPLENISH MY HOARD."

"No!" the woman yells.

"Never!" Joe yells, pulling his hands back for a chi strike.

"IT IS INEVITABLE. THE POWER YOU NOW POSSESS IS NOTHING TO ME." It reaches out a scaly claw and...grabs Joe?

Joe?

"IF YOU SO DESIRE, YOU MAY COME TO ME IN BOISE, IDAHO," it intones, rising on great leathery wings. "BUT KNOW THAT YOU COME TO YOUR OWN DOOM!" With that it flaps its wings, rising into the dusk, Joe cursing and ineffectually firing beamspam after beamspam into its flank.

"That was...what," she says.

"...have dragons been real my entire life and nobody told me!?" you ask.

"No, it's just this state. Too much chi, too many LARPers. A karate hobo migration and a renfair hit a city at the same time. This much chi starts to bend reality, take physical form. What we just saw is a mass delusion in physical form," she says. "Doesn't make it any less dangerous, though."

>go in the ranch and try to get supplies
>take a horse, ride right away
>go home. just ignore all of this and go home.

>>21389050
Belle gets her jollies off to the strangest things. Ninjas, nuns, domination (well, that last one comes to a lot of people). I'd taken her to be a helpless girly romantic all this time.

>>21389078
>>go in the ranch and try to get supplies
We gotta get ready to save Joe.

>>21389050
I'm loving it. I'm just saying, in retrospect, had we known what Belle would do to us, putting together a gang of vicious, barely literate thugs would probably have seemed less hazardous.

Also, kinda surprised Pete didn't take this excuse to come to Southtown and bug Belle.

>>21389100
Maybe Belle takes her kicks very seriously. This is coming from the zoning professional, though.

>>21389083

I don't see it as her being dominant as much as having a childish joy at getting to boss someone around. She doesn't train quite this hard herself, she's just stepping it up a level for Anon because she was told she only has a week to teach him.

Belle's bedroom habits are a mystery at this point, to be discovered by whoever she successfully woos.

>>21389078
We need dragon slaying supplies.
>Boss Honda is going to be a Formerly Evil Sumo Wrestling Karate Hobo Dragon Slayer
We live in interesting times.

>>21389078
>go in the ranch and try to get supplies

>>21389050
She's somewhat entertaining, yeah. Have a feeling we're never going to understand her though.

>>21389078
>Go in the ranch and try to get supplies

Also get the name of the girl

>>21389116
So she's just indulging her inner kid, then. Fair enough.

>>21389116
>whoever she successfully woos.

Ironically, I think Pete's her best choice.

>>21389156
She almost got Moira

You're gonna need supplies. May as well see if there's a canteen or something in the ranch house. Hopefully there won't be a nest of Bulls just waiting for you to rustle them.

"So what's your name, anyway?" you ask the woman.

"I thought karate hobos weren't supposed to ask that," she said.

"Normally no, but I think we're getting into a weird situation," you say. "The rules are gonna have to change."

"My name is..."

>Wait, what's her name? Roll 1d100 and give a name

Rolled 65

>>21389172
Maria

Rolled 81

>>21389172
Claudia

Rolled 10

Jolene

Rolled 47

>>21389172
Jenna

Rolled 93

Kiera

Rolled 90

Rebecca Lane.

Rolled 76

>>21389172
Julia

"Kiera," she says. "You?"

"Billy." You push open the door, expecting...something other than an old-timey shop with an old man behind the counter.

"Come in," the man says. "I have a gift for you. It's dangerous out there, after all."

"....thanks," you say. "Did you see the dragon?"

"I see lots of things," the old man says. "Listen, we don't have a lot of time, I have other customers to take care of."

You suddenly realize Kiera isn't near you. For that matter you don't recognize the landscape outside the window.

"Where did - "

"She's making her own choice," he says. "Shut up and make a choice already."

On the table in front of you are a rusty sword, a battered shield and a weathered helm.

>the sword
>the shield
>the helm
>ask what happens when you choose an item

>>21389156
no we'll have belle/moira
godwillsit.jpg

Rolled 8

>>21389299
Helmet!

Rolled 9

>>21389299

Do those things, like... represent something? What do they mean?

>>21389299

HELMET

Flying headbutt is our signaure move, after all. Now we can do a NORDIC FLYING HEADBUTT with a horned helmet!

Rolled 71

shield

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>>21389299
>ask what happens when you choose an item
If he dodges the question,
>the helm
Our Flying Headbutt will become the thing of legends.

You guys DO remember we have the Flying Headbutt, right?

Rolled 15

>>21389299
a helm must be Ki or something

If we want to be the tank we should pick the Shield

Rolled 35

>>21389299
>the shield
Be the Juggernaut? Be the Juggernaut.

Rolled 43

shield

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>>21389299

The Helm. "Look I do a lot of fighting with my face. Mind If I break open those vases. I'm looking for a snack, or money"

>>21389299
Take the shield. We are the party tank after all.

>>21389322

It's a choice image like the island thing, this is just happening in a Quest.

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>>21388870
God damn this took a while, but I really, really needed to procrastinate and create an old 8 bit rpg scene.

>>21389391
Too bad you need an electron microscope to see it.

>>21389391

How about ten times larger?

>>21389299
If we choose helm, will it make us go blind and acquire 3 helpers who can cast magic?

"Shield," you say after thinking it over.

"Crazy strong defense it is," he says. "You gotta reach out and touch it though, I ain't got all day."

You reach out and touch it like the old man says. For a moment you feel a wave of cold rush over your body, then it disappears. When you snap out of it the old man is gone and you're back outside of the ranch.

"Did you just have to choose between a staff, a pair of glasses and a dirty rock?" Kiera asks.

"I had some knight shit," you say.

"Huh. Well...let's steal some horses and get to rescuing Joe," she says. "Lead on, Sir Honda."

As you saddle a horse and point it west, you think that you like the sound of that.

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That's it for now, dinner ain't gonna cook itself. May be back in a little bit for a continuation of Anon's (further) cursed training.

>>21389556
Awesome thread

King Honda is the best sidequest

>>21389556

Thought of this quest when I saw this pic:

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>>21389556
Now I'm replaying Final Fight thanks to all that talk about Metro City.

>>21389812

A worthy cause!

>>21389772

I love that comic. We really need to get more of Hagar's campaign in this quest.

>>21389758

Thanks! I was actually just thinking I may have gone too far with Honda's sidequest this time.

Rolled 75

>>21389973
Nah, not yet. You gonna be continuing tonight?

>>21389973
>Thanks! I was actually just thinking I may have gone too far with Honda's sidequest this time.

Stranger things have happened in the mystical lands of Facepunchia, we'll be fine.

>>21389973
After wolverine mountain, I think it'll be fine.

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>>21390112

Probably, albeit at a bit slower pace. I'm wanting to start nanowrimo and I'm pretty behind.

>>21390471
>nanowrimo
I've come to hate that solely due to the fact that every story/quest I seem to read is done by someone who participates.

>>21390544

I give it two days before I have to make the hard decision between Assassin's Creed 3 and my Nanowrimo quota and choose Assassin's Creed.

>>21390818
Had a similar problem last year myself. Video games won there.

>>21390471
regardless you should probably archive this

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You are Anon, street fighter and world warrior. It's been three days since your training under Belle has begun. You're growing used to running five miles a day with someone on your back, the thousands upon thousands of kicks you're supposed to throw, even to the horrible pains of stretching out enough to do these kicks. You're starting to feel optimistic about your chances.

Belle securely attached to your back, you pause for a second at the underpass that marks roughly two point five miles away from the dojo. In typical Southtown fashion it's been tagged with a few different gang signs and it smells like a hobo peed there. Charming.

"Hey, Anon," Belle says. "Why is it you're putting up with this?"

"Up with what?"

"Up with what master," she corrects. "And I mean all this. All of Tatsuya's crazy training, every dumb thing I come up with for you to do, all of it. Why?

>Wait, I could have refused?
>To get stronger. To win.
>It's kinda fun.
>[Write-in]

>>21391313
To become stronger, to win.

>>21391313
"Because you guys are the best fighters I know that aren't Karate Hobos. They're much harder to find."

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>>21391313
>[Write-in]
"I feel like there's a point to be made, a point lost in recent years. Ryu, Retsu, Sagat, Chun-Li. Even your King of Fighters legends: Terry, Ryo, Kim, Kyo. Those guys are who they are for a reason. It's why they're legends. People these days forget what made them great, what made them immortal.

"I'm gonna make them remember."

>>21391313
>>It's kinda fun.

>Wait, I could have refused?
>To get stronger. To win.
>It's kinda fun.
ALL OF THEM.

But, seriously, this: >>21391442
He already told his handler about wanting to bring class back to the fights.

>>21391570
It hearkens back to the very first post of the quest: Anon was watching a fight in the bar, and he thought modern fighting was bullshit, that they don't make 'em like they used to.

>>21391442
I'd like to add "I'm gonna make them remember. I'd do almost anything for that", but otherwise I support this. Maybe throw in a reference to the fun. We fight in suspenders and a bowtie, we're not too sane.

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"I dunno. You guys are some pretty strong fighters," you say. "I've got my whole thing about wanting to bring class back to the fighting world, and I gotta win if I wanna do that."

"I guess I can respect that," she says.

"Besides, it's kinda fun hanging out with you guys. Back in Metro City I only really hung out with Pete."

"What, a classy gent like you didn't have friends?" she asks, half-mocking. "No eeeelegant tea parties?"

"Nah, I mean, there were people I knew, lotta people I got along with. Coworkers, people I went to school with, all that." There's a pause. "But nobody that I felt like I had a real connection with but Pete. I guess that's the actual biggest change in my life since I entered the fighting world." Belle is quiet for a moment.

"I think a lot of people in this whole game are like that," she says. "There's a certain personality type you need to have to be a fighter. Not a martial artist or a teacher or just someone who wants to defend themselves, but a fighter." She almost sounds wistful. "Hey, you're not running. And call me jefe."

"Yes, jefe," you say, starting to run back the way you came.

>Ask her why she's teaching you.
>Ask what's going on with her and Ellie anyway.
>Ask what made her start fighting in the first place.
>[WRITE-IN]

>>21391685
>Ask what made her start fighting in the first place.

We tell our story, now she tells us hers.

>>21391685
>Ask her why she's teaching you.
>Ask what's going on with her and Ellie anyway.
>Ask what made her start fighting in the first place.

I am a greedy sumbitch hungry for information.

>>21391685
>Ask her why she's teaching you.
>Ask what made her start fighting in the first place.
Mix these two. What she does with Ellie outside the KoF team is her business (BUT NOT FOR LONG A HUR HUR HUR).

>>21391727
>What she does with Ellie outside the KoF team
I figured that was what it was asking about. As far as I remember Anon isn't aware they formed a team.

>>21391685
>Ask her why she's teaching you.
>Ask what's going on with her and Ellie anyway.
>Ask what made her start fighting in the first place.

EXPOSITION! I DEMAND EXPOSITION!

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>>21391772

Tatsuya told him about it awhile back when they were just shooting the shit.

>>21391797
Did he tell Anon about the nunfight?

>>21391797
Ah. Should just drop that bit from >>21391725 then.

>>21391809
>mfw Anon accidentally bumps into Moira and she instinctually counterthrows him.

>>21391821
"I'm so, so sorry. I thought you were one of those gangbangers."
"DOES A GANGBANGER WEAR SUSPENDERS AND A TIE?"
"You'd be surprised."

"How about you?" you ask. "What got you into fighting?"

"King was kinda my role model when I was a teenager," she said. "Did my hair like her, learned to kickbox, all that jazz. Turned out I liked it. Did Real Bout for a bit to support myself through college, though I'd try moving up to the big leagues."

"Huh. That why you had the tux the first time I saw you?" you ask.

"Yeah. Probably going to stop wearing it when I fight, though. I only tried it the once and it just made me slow and clumsy. Besides, I have to forge my own identity, not do that whole Marlene Dietrich slash King thing."

You think on that for a bit. Your color scheme is different and the lines are a little more modern, but otherwise your outfit is kinda derivative. Maybe you should look into making it your own a little bit more.

"How about this whole training me thing?" you ask.

"It's fun, mostly," she says. "Besides, teaching someone else is a good way to make you look at what you're doing. Tatsuya knew what he was doing when he asked me to teach you, it's improved my technique a lot. He's been trying to stealth-mentor the entire team without pissing off Ellie."

"Ha." You're quiet for a bit. Gotta catch your breath. "You know, I like it when you talk like this."

"Whaaat? I talk all the time. And call me oyabun," she says.

"You talk a lot, but it's about stuff that doesn't matter to you," you say. "This is the first time I've heard you say this much about something that's close to you."

"...ha. You're a perceptive son of a bitch," she says. "Get jogging, pony, we're gonna be late for the bit where you kick a strike pad two thousand times."

"Yes, oyabun," you say, putting some more speed into it.

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A text message wakes you up from the blissful rest of Tatsuya's couch the next morning.

"Can't make it today. Got a replacement for you. Don't call your new teacher boss, I am boss."

"That's...a thing," you say, drifting back to sleep.

Ten minutes later Ellie wakes you up by kicking the couch hard enough to jolt you awake.

"Hey. I'm your new sensei or whatever. Wake up."

>Ask her to teach you Kyokugen-ryu.
>Pat your back and say "hop on."
>Tell her we can both just sleep in and tell Belle we trained.

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Thread still in progress? Fuck yeah, finally caught it.

>>21392142
>Pat your back and say "hop on."
She'll probably level us in the face, and it'll be oh-so-worth it.

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>>21392142
>Pat your back and say "hop on."
Can't be slacking. This is legwork week right?
>Ask her to teach you Kyokugen-ryu.
We should ask her about this during the run.

>>21392142
>Tell her we can both just sleep in and tell Belle we trained.

Or, more accurately, cover your face with one hand, swat at her with the other, whilst making sounds that vaguely resemble the phrases "Piss off" and "I'm sleeping."

>Pat your back and say "hop on"

I'd love to skip but we seriously need practice. And maybe this will make her blush.

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>>21392198
Teaching us Kyokugen might be a bit of a death wish right now. The conditioning itself was hellacious. Plus, we've got less than a month, and "learning Kyokugen-ryuu" and "being rested for the first match" don't reasonably share the same month.

>>21392259
We don't have to learn it all in one go and it's unrealistic to expect to. Regardless we need something solid to fall back on for when we're sans stick. Yes I am aware some eskrima translates to unarmed fighting but I mean something designed that way.

>>21392259
IDEA: We can ask her to teach us something about leg kicks to compliment our roundhouse and push kicks. Or ask her if she has some kind of simple but effective kick to teach us. Karate is pretty good about it's kicks, and since Kyokugen is hardcore full contact, they should have something nice. Calling this "learning Kyokugen" is exxagerating but it's a start.

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"Lemme sleep," you say. "We can just tell her we ran."

"Nope. We - wait." Both of your phones beep at the same time. She reads hers and blushes. Yours says PIGGYBACK IS MANDATORY. From Belle.

"Welp," you say.

Ten minutes later you're engaged in the most tense and awkward workout of your life.

"I hate this," Ellie says. She digs her heels into you a little bit for emphasis.

"Usually it's not this awkward," you say. You grit your teeth and run on. If you're fast you can get this over with early. If you're even faster your heart might explode and end everything faster.

At the same underpass you stop, catch your breath for a moment and turn. If you're going to talk this may as well be the moment.

>Are there any other students at this school? How do you guys stay open?
>You've been practicing karate your entire life. Do you actually like it?
>Please stop kicking me.

>>21392608
A little of everything, honestly.
"Save the kicks for when we get back to the dojo, please. Speaking of..."

>>21392608
>Please stop kicking me.
>Are there any other students at this school? How do you guys stay open?

I imagine, with the personality she's shown so far, Ellie wouldn't be doing martial arts if she didn't like it.

>>21392608
>>You've been practicing karate your entire life. Do you actually like it?
Her education obviously predisposes her to such. But it's a good way to start a conversation and catch a breath.

>>21392608
Do they actually have students? or is tatsuya just so threatening that they dont shut him down?

>>21392665
Kyokugen is notorious for its poor student retention rate.

>>21392675
Tossing people out of helicopters will do that to you.

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>>21392692
That was an UNSUBSTANTIATED RUMOR perpetuated by that Kasumi Todoh girl.

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>>21392715
Yes yes. I'm sure it was all supposition and hearsay. Not a scrap of evidence around.

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"Could you stop digging your heels into me?" you ask.

"No," she says. "It's how I stay on." Belle never had to, but you decide not to say anything about it.

"Do you like doing all this? Fighting, all that?" you ask.

"Yeah," she says. Doesn't seem like she's going to elaborate.

"Like, since you were a kid? This is all you've wanted to do?"

"It's not all I've wanted to do, but I like it. I liked spending time with my dad learning it," she says. "Besides, we don't have enough students to keep the school open without it."

"Even with the Kyokugen name?" you ask.

"Especially with. Kyokugen's always had a hard time toning itself down for children to practice it, so we don't have the comfortable income of teaching kids. Adults who want to learn the style usually can't afford to pay much, and the dropout rate is atrocious. Dad and I have been taking turns cleaning up in Real Bout and the like since I was fifteen." She rests her head against your back for a moment. "I actually kinda envy Pete for that. Keeping a dojo up and running the way he does is harder than it looks. He's a kinda crappy fighter, but he's a first-rate teacher."

>Say something encouraging?
>[Write-in]

>>21392803
Shit. Uh...I got nothing.

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>>21392803
"what other stuff have you wanted to do."
>Brace for Ballet

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>>21392861
?*
>I feel the OCD overtaking me!

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>>21392803
"Considering you're among the few people in the world who have stuck with the legendary Kyokugen-ryuu Karate, that's a feat in itself. These guys who walk into any old McDojo expecting an easy black belt are schlubs. I'm telling you, somewhere out there is someone who will stick with the program, who will learn the whole way through, and who will earn that Kyokugen black belt. As long as you keep those doors open, that one guy or girl will walk through and validate everything your school does and stand for. Keep the doors open, and everything will be worth it."

>>21392803

"If I get this Kick from your style working once I get on the circuit I'll be sure to plug your Dojo with my foot in Erich's symmetrical face"

>>21392803
Hey, the Kyokugen style isn't for everybody. One day, an ambitious bastard shows up with his gang of cronies bent on world domination, you step up and start messing his shit. Somebody has gotta be there. Until then, you keep doing what you do and lay low, not letting the sheep know wolves are amongst it's kin.

>>21392895
It's not really gonna be much of a plug if he's just using a kick from it. If he actually learned at least the basics of the style however...

What's Pete fighting style again?
TKD?

>>21393018
It's...something.

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>>21393018

A less-brutal variant of karate. He trains with Kyokugen now and again (which is how he knows Tatsuya), but doesn't stick with the style. Probably teaches the children shotokan and the adult classes kyokushin.

>>21393024
I mean shit,He is an great teacher,an theoretically a great bussinessman, we know his fundamentals are on fucking point as we can see when he manhandled Belle with basic strikes.
He only lost to MASH Wolf because he got distracted by Belle.

>>21393063
Makes sense.

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"You stuck it out with a pretty brutal art. I think you can do basically anything you want to do," you say. "If it helps I could plug you guys? Say I train with you and all before my next fight?"

"Isn't that why you beat up that Dom Fry guy so bad?" she asks. "Besides, I don't want anyone out there thinking Kyokugen needs to use sticks to beat people up."

"Okay, how about I learn some? Someone might manage to disarm me."

This actually makes her laugh. "You work hard, but I don't think you could pull it off. Not in, what, three weeks? Not a chance."

"Maybe some kicks?" you ask.

"Yeah, sure, I'll try helping your kick technique," she says. "Belle said you gotta practice a thousand kicks today anyway, I'll give you some pointers."

---

The next morning your phone wakes you again. Today's message from Belle says she's going to be late, but it's okay because she arranged an interim teacher again. You smile a little. That was the closest thing to a normal conversation you've had with Ellie since she beat you half to death back in the King of Fighters match, especially after practice when you watched an old Fei Long movie together to make fun of the cheesy fake parts.

"Good to see you're so happy," Tatsuya says. "We'd better get going now, I'm a lot heavier than I look."

Your smile disappears pretty fast.

>>21393063
This made me wonder if Tatsuya could - if he's even capable that is - teach something less brutal than Kyokugen to pay the bills but still offer it to those interested.

>>21393219
get to running

>>21393251
Surely you mean 'away from'?

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>>21393219
>"Good to see you're so happy," Tatsuya says. "We'd better get going now, I'm a lot heavier than I look."
Oh god.

That's it for tonight, for real this time. Thanks for reading!

>>21393230

Maybe we can bring that up to him. See if he even knows any other style of karate, or if maybe he could work with Pete for awhile to learn Kyokushin.

>>21393219
*siiiiigh*

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>>21393290
Alrighty then. Great thread. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's. Have some Whip in parting.

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>>21393332

None tomorrow, I'm afraid, work stuck me with an earlier shift than usual. I may try to make a thread Saturday if anyone's around then, but no guarantees.

>>21393346
Gaaaaaaahokay. I'll be watching for one Saturday then. I'm sure there will be enough people around in case you do pop up.

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>>21393290
The main issue with teaching Kyokugen is that to retain the inherent art and keep Kyokugen what it is, you can't really tone it down. I mean, from my recollection, there's mutiple different variants of Kyokugen (though I'm not sure if they still run with that train of thought or just call the whole shebang Kyokugen).

Yuri knows the Rai'oh style (the "weakest" style for a lady like her).
Ryo knows the Ko'oh style (all around).
Robert knows the Ryugeki style (focus on kicks, has some weaknesses).
Marco/Khusnood knows the Hienshippu style (all around strong style).
I forget the exact name for Takuma's style (I think it's Hienshippu as well), but it's the most potent variant.

The point is, you can't really tone down Kyokugen and still call it Kyokugen.

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>>21393375
You could concievably, however, come up with a kiddie's Kyokugen and slowly shift into the more brutal style as they get older and tougher. You start low-key, earn their trust, build up a strong foundation and a loyalty to the Kyokugen name by promising them Ultimate Karate Badassery, then you gradually introduce them to the real deal. Before they know it, they're punching out bears.

>>21393440
I love how Marco's intro in Garou: Mark of the Wolves was him jump side kicking a karate bear that he most likely trained in the gut before they turn around and bow at each other. Marco runs Kyokugen's Brazil branch.