>>21635951

Well, no time to dwell about your former habits. You give the rack in front of you a cursory glance, before reaching in and pulling out a wooden bat. It's a bit on the used side, but it's nice and heavy. Balanced. It'd be perfect if had some decent spikes and nails on the business end, maybe some barbed wire wrap-around - but you can't have everything, you suppose.

You'll just have to make do. Besides, this is just training, right? Not a brawl.

You turn around, and see that Kharn had already chosen her own weapon. In fact, she's already putting herself through the paces with it.

A staff. One and a half meters of lacquered wood, the many dents and scratches on the surface betraying just how much it's been used. And even with her claws, long, oversized and clawed they were - the dark-haired woman looked quite at home with the harmless-looking implement. Spinning it, twirling it, making it dance in her grasp in graceful, martial movements.

You find yourself entranced by the display. Enchanted, almost. It was one thing to see her go about in a mundane fashion with her obvious eccentricities, but to see her now, moving through rudimentary stances and forms, obviously in her own element...

You swallow the painful truth with a dry throat. This is going to hurt. This is going to hurt bad.

Kharn finishes her warm-up with a flourish, and she turns to look at you, barely even breathing hard. Hell, you don't think she even broke a sweat with that, even if she'd been spinning the staff fast enough that it blurred.

"Murderface, have you picked your weapon already?" She notices the bat in your hand, and her face lights up.

"Ahaha, vintage Murderface! You have always been partial with that, even though you detest the sport it is used in." Kharn grins at you. "Well, would you like to begin now, or do you want to make it more interesting?"

[1/2]

>>21635981

Interesting how? Right now you're just interested in keeping all your limbs intact for the duration of the session, since you have the sneaking suspicion you'll be needing them after this.

"Ah, with a bet, you know. Stakes! Wagers! Who wins gets something from the loser! A bit of gambling to spice up the practice! If not, eh, it gets boring really quickly." Kharn explains, resting the staff on her shoulders. "It is customary here, you know, to bet something precious to you." Her grin grows wider, and for a moment you feel like a piece of meat being ogled by a ravenous predator.

How do you respond?

>>21635987
"Sure, i'd hate to bore you. But... i don't remember what is and isn't precious to me, so why don't you pick the bet?"

>>21635987
"I bet my virginity."

>>21635987

Give a resigned grin, and ask just exactly what she expects someone who can barely even remember her own name to have to lose?

>>21635987
But we can't even recall what's precious to us.

On the other hand, what would Kharn bet? Tell her that we don't want to wager on her boyfriend or whatever.

>>21635987
"Loser calls the Boss to tell him about my memory shit."

>>21635987
"What is precious to me?

I win you give me a list of names I've used, you win I'll keep any comments about your tongue to a minimum. Because boy am I glad you aren't using that as a weapon today, you could probably tie me up with that thing."

>>21635987

"But what do we have to bet with? You don't look like your care about money? Clothes?" give a cuckle "I doubt I was that type of girl. Secrets? I don't have any that I can remember."

>>21635951
"Silly question. I don't have anything to bet. Anything I owned, I don't know about it. Anything I knew, completely gone.

And frankly, if you're going to say something cute like my virginity, then I think you're out of luck, given how I think I used to be a chronic alcoholic. Not much room for purity there, y'know?"

>>21635987

"How about you be happy that I don't bludgeon your head into a paste if I win and leave it at that?"

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"I don't remember anything I could bet."

>>21635987

"How about if I win you never speak again,cause seriously, your fucking annoying! And hell if you win I'll promise not to murder you in your sleep, sound good?"

"Nobody bets on the losing horse. No game." Swing the bat a few times to see, if it lays good in the hand.

>>21635987

we don't remember what is and what isn't precious to us.

don't even think about getting the people we presumably care about involved in this bet.

>>21635987

"Oh fo fucks sake, lay off the creepy sex offender look, your unsavoury as it is you dont need to put extra effort into it! Now we gonna pummel each other like the pair of psychotic schoolchildren that we are or am I gonna have to listen to more of your pathetic attempts at 'witty' banter."

While speaking get into a ready stance and prepare to bust some of this bitches kneecaps.

>>21635987
"Sure, I'll bet you whatever you like that you'll win, scissorhands."

>>21636103
>>21636138
>>21636171
lol 2grim4dark faggets

>>21635987
"Sure, i'd hate to bore you. But... i don't remember what is and isn't precious to me, so why don't you pick the bet?"

Sounds reasonable.

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>>21636171
>>21636138

You're funny.

>>21636186

Yes because letting the psychotic scissorhanded freak decide what we will put p for grabs in a bet we are likely to lose is a great idea.
How about no and we just try and break this bat over her head without dying?

>>21636171
>>21636138
>>21636103

How about no.

>>21636036
Voting for this

>>21636208

How about yes?

I don't remember anything precious to me that I could bet
I guess I could bet whatever I have in my pockets instead though if you want

>>21636222
No sounds good.

She's been friendly for 'as long as we've known her', and she's obviously a more practiced melee fighter. There's no reason at all to suddenly become weirdly antagonistic towards her.

>>21636233
>suddenly MiGs
>an entire wing of them
"Huh. Guess you lucked out."

>>21635987
[meta]
Do we recall how out shield-storage works?
Because if we do, we might as well bet "the first thing that pops out"
>inb4: it's MiG
[/meta]

>>21636233

"I'll raise you a candy wrapper, 10 cents and a receipt from three months ago for your halfpacket of chewing gum and pocket lint."

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>>21636009 >>21636029 >>21636033

"Ah, yes, there is that, isn't it? Very unfortunate, Murderface's memory." If this put a crimp in whatever she's planning, Kharn didn't show it, merely smiling all the more. For a moment you're reminded of a great and ancient predator, skulking in the depths, baring its teeth as it corners its prey, preparing to feast on flesh spiced with adrenalin and fear. What you're trying to get at, here, is that your training partner is smiling wide enough for you to get goosebumps.

It's then that she steps towards you, crossing the distance between the both of you in two slow, loping strides. Each step making the plates of her metal legs clank together in sharp, yet muted cadence. "Then I will pick. And do not worry, it will not be something silly like your virginity or anything like that. And no, they will not involve other people." She nods towards Midori, a smirk on her face. "That is just in poor taste, I am thinking."

Well, that's fine, you tell her, as you give the bat a few practice swings, with one hand, then two. You were about to tell her not to bet Souji, because, you know, you're not that kind of girl.

"Yes, yes, of course." Kharn taps her lips with a clawed fingertip, seemingly deep in thought as she looks down at you - before smiling again. "Ah, I know. If Murderface wins, then I will give you that package that a mutual friend of ours has asked me to give you, before she passed away. She is Malal, and I spent much of yesterday telling you about her."

...Malal, huh? Well. Isn't it a bit unreasonable, to bet something that you were meant to be given in the first place?

[1/2]

>>21636253
>Do we recall how out shield-storage works?

She remembered clearly that she was a magical girl when she woke up. I would assume that the knowledge includes her unique powerset.

Also, remember Girl A. She was using her powers normally even when she was amnesiac.

>>21636263

"Maybe. But, ah, I was told to only give it when you really needed it. You do not look like you need it now, so I am holding onto it before that time comes. This will just speed up the process."

Fair enough. What about her, then? What if she wins, as if that isn't already the forgone conclusion?

"If I win," Kharn seems to take quite the delight in drawing her words out, "...then you will owe me a favor. And it is a favor that, when I ask, you cannot refuse. You will carry it out, immediately, without fail."

She holds out her clawed hand to you.

"It is a deal, then, Murderface?"

How do you respond?

>>21636273
>Trust her with your life, but no more
Not sure if I like this bet.

>>21636273
Shake on it.

"You are the weirdest faery. Any rules?"

>>21636273
As long as the is not for bad mojo sure.

>>21636273
"No."
Unconditional favours are entirely out of the question. Give her a bop on the head to punctuate this.
Offer this >>21636036 instead.

>>21636273

>any one favor
>betrayer

You would hate to feel unsporting, and besides, what could possibly go wrong? It's not like we were told not to trust her, after all. Of course we'll take the bet.

Great idea Kharn. I'm sure Murderface will REMEMBER this when the time comes.

>>21636307
Good point. "Deal."

There's no way this can end badly!
>Take the bet. Prepare your anus.
We're going to have to win somehow.

>>21636273
"You're asking me to owe you a favor. One I can't refuse of unspecified magnitude for something that ought to be in my possession anyways. I'm amnesiac and have no clue if I can trust you, no matter how many times you say I can. The odds for this fight are severely stacked against me as you know how I fight and I haven't the slightest clue about how you fight aside from presumably extremely well.

In short, hell no. Besides, I'd probably forget that I owe you a favor."

>>21636273
>How do you respond?
Give how reliable my memory is, I'd rather make it something that can be sorted out now. I'm obviously not very good with long-term planning.

>>21636302

Aye, somehow we dont seem the type to give people that kind of power over ourselves.
Especially not in return for a package that has unknown value.
Thats like betting the condo, the sports car and the yacht for what might be in the "mystery box".

>>21636273

that seems... kind of fishy.

its a pretty unfair deal if you ask me, there is no telling what she might ask for or when.

could be she wants us to dress up in horrible frilly clothing and dance the hockeypockey when we get back to the officio or something much darker.

there are limits.

>>21636344
Considering how our current self-knowledge consists mostly of 'gets amnesia', it's a bit closer to betting a mystery box against a mystery box.

>>21636273
>How do you respond?
How about I let you have a go on my wheel of fortune instead? Whatever pops out, it's yours.

Uh, guys, remember we're dealing with magic and shit here, it's quite possible that when she says we can't refuse her, SHE MEANS IT.

>>21636360
Meguca magic is a bit more restrained than that.

Sure, take the bet. If the favor is something awful, it's not like she has any way to enforce it

>>21636367
And you know exactly what Kharn's magical powers are? You know, with absolute certainty, that she possesses no magical means to enforce her demand?

No bet scissorfingers, either make it something we settle now or throw in something alittle more substantial.

>>21636360
>>21636381

Yah, we are not betting a favour we have no control or out clause for.
Thats just inviting drama where we have to do something we dont want.

>>21636273
Deal
We can trust Kharn for this since her request will probably be kill her before her ability to hold back the witchification runs out or something

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>>21636357

>>21636381
Well, meguca get one or two powers, one related to their wish and one to their weapon, and we've seen her do tracking and flaming murderswords.

So, she can use her magic death sword to make us do things she wants, but other than that, yeah I'm sure.

>>21636409
>We can trust The Betrayer
nothing can possibly go wrong

"....I'd rather not. Either he favor is something I would help you with anyway and in that case you dont need me to owe you a favor or its something I will disagree with and I wont simply give you the power to force me to do something I dont want. No bet Kharn, how about yo win and I treat you to lunch or something? Manicure maybe?"

>>21636435
>Manicure maybe?"
Haircut, anon, you should have offered her a haircut...

Short answer "No."
Long answer "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo."

>>21636273
I figure there are good odds she will just use the favor to make us do something ridiculous, so even if we lose, we win. Mostly.

Still, we will flash her this look like we hate everything she stands for. Our Murderface.
"You're on."

>>21636421
Who so far has never shown any leanings towards actual betrayal and has repeatedly put herself in harms way in the past and since we got here to help her

Also current Chiaki doesn't know that Kharn is called the betrayer

Rolled 1

>>21636273

"A unconditional favour kharn? You do like to play for high stakes."

I am really, really unsure about this.

...

I am going to let he dice function that I have never used to decide my vote.

1 = refuse
2 = accept

>>21636273
"Heh, hahaha, oh wow, that's funny.

Seriously, unconditional favor. No way am I doing that on a fight I'm going to lose."

>>21636454

Maybe, but I get on a back foot when anyone asks me to owe them an open ended no backout favor.
Either we would be willing to help or not.
At least I want the ability to stop her from ordering us to murder/torture/harm someone we may not want to, if for nothing else but to keep our ass out of to much trouble.

Entire crowd is dildos today, wow.

Come on guys. Live a little.

Rolled 2

>>21636462

"how about we save that for when we play with the real toys?"

>>21636489
I'm sorry, I've been binging Katawa Yandere and its instilled a healthy sense of paranoia in me.

Those goddamn bad ends, man.

>>21636489
Honestly, at this point it would really be better to play it safe.
We are already in enough shit as is, no need to make it worse.

>Welcome to MGNQ
>You must be at least this paranoid to enter.jpg

>>21636273

"Well I guess im going to have to break convention then, no bet. Guess Im just boring that way."

>>21636489

At least we are not /a/
They go crazy when anything remotely hinting at a bad end shows up.

>>21636486
Maybe but so far the only basis we have to refuse her request is that we don't remember anything right now. This is the same as the shield where we were told to take it easy on it and everyone instantly acted like we were going to be bad ended the moment we touched the damn thing

>>21636489

Jumping into a pit of vipers is not living a little.
Its suicidal even if by some twist of fate you survive.

[x] "I'd rather bet my virginity."

Unconditional favor? Nope.

>>21636531
She's trying to get revenge for the tongue thing, not trying to kill us. We have no indicator that she even wishes us harm. Even metaknowledge doesn't indicate she wishes us harm.

Maybe we should just play Cry In Bed Quaking In Fear Quest.

>>21636273
"That idea is dildos"

>>21636550

And we want to let her get this revenge however contrived and silly it may turn out to be why?
She's already likely to have a fun time smackign us around in a couple of minutes I see no reason to let her put us in a tutu and dance the macarena for her enjoyment.

Its not being scared its just not making a fools bet.

>>21636550
Sounds like what people want tonight

>>21636555
Well now that REALLY won't end well.

>>21636555

Im sure Murderface has one somewhere, could we bet that?

>>21636586

I don't know, it has....potential

An unconditional favor for something we'll get eventually anyway? Pfft. If we win, she owes us a favor just like we would if she did. No cheating us of our money, Kharn.

Throw in a kiss and its a bet.

>>21636703
Given that Kharn is obviously one of few rare people that can turn french kissing into deepthroat....

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>>21636290 >>21636294 >>21636306 >>21636317

That's not too bad, you figure. You reach for her hand, but squint up at her just before you touch her. Just to be clear, you grumble, she's not going to make you do anything silly or humiliating as a favor, right? Nothing incriminating or illegal or anything exciting like that?

Kharn blinks at this, as if surprised. "It is...strange of you to be so cautious and specify like that, Murderface, but I assure you, I will not make you do anything you would not do otherwise. This is just something to make sure that you do go through with it, to...ah, reassure myself that I can count on my very good friend when the time comes."

It's here that she smiles, not grinning with mischief, but rather a genuine, if awkward smile, as if trying to comfort you. "Come on, surely you trust me, eh?"

As far as you can throw her. But you don't voice that one out, instead narrowing your eyes at her instead, before giving her a small nod. You reach forward and clasp your fingers around her wrist instead of her fingers, and she does the same.

"The pact has been made, and let both parties honor it should fortune favor them." Kharn murmurs underneath her breath, and it's then that she cackles as you part, stepping back from each other, putting distance between the both of you.

Wonderful. You feel like you've just made a deal with the Devil.

>>21636735

You give the bat a couple more practice swings as you watch Kharn show off once more, staff whistling bluntly through the air as she gives it another casual twirl. It's then that she levels it at you like a spear, pointing the end at your throat, and then - almost dismissively - at your stomach.

"I will enjoy this, I will be honest." You glimpse her smiling again - but it is not a smile. It is more like a snarl, drawing lips back from perfect white teeth. "Hanegawa! If you please!"

Midori nearly drops her phone at that, but steps forward to the edge of the canvas mat, nodding. She looks at you, then at Kharn, and raises a hand.

"R-Ready...! Set...!"

All of a sudden, you feel like a car. A RACE car.

[]Go for the offensive.
[]Be defensive.
[]Cheat.

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>>21636735
>we agreed
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>21636743
[x] CHEAT LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER

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>>21636735
Shes gonna ask us to kill her isn't she?

>>21636743
[X]Cheat.

Playing fair is for losers, fools and Canadians. We're none of these things.

>>21636743
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE, WAR, AND POKEMON BATTLES

>[x]Cheat cheat cheat like a bitch

>>21636761
Also yeah, this is what my immediate thought was, too.

[x]Go for the offensive.

When all you've got is a baseball bat...

>>21636743

Okay, so, she has reach on us as well as a double weapon. Frankly speaking, our baseball bat could maybe knock her staff back some if... you know, we were any good at beating people senseless with melee implements. Kharn, on the other hand, is a trained melee specialist.

So while we could learn a few pointers from her melee techqni--

[X] CHEAT

>>21636735

What? The deal guys won?
Well whatever. There was a reasion why I used a dice roll to decide my vote.

>>21636743

>[x]Offensive

She is not going to expect us to go on the offensive, and cheating would be tipping our hand too early.

>>21636743
>[x]Cheat.
SUMMMMMON THE MIGs!
>[x]Go for the offensive.

>>21636743
winners don't cheat
that's because when you cheat and win, it's called playing smart
>[x] CHEAT LIKE LOKI

Offensive.

No cheating just yet.

>>21636743
OFFENSE!

>>21636743

we have a shield strapped to our wrist right?

we can chance a little bit of offense and use it to block whatever we can.

if we were to, how would we be able to cheat in this situation?

>>21636814
>Homu's buckler
>blocking anything
>anyone blocking something being swung by Kharn

>>21636827
SHIELD ABSORB ANY WEAPON SHE USES.
THROW THEM BACK AT HER

>>21636829

what else would we try to use it for? we don't remember how it works exactly.

Wait a fucking minute.

Can we stop time after the mindwipe?

[]Go for the offensive.

Meh, should have voted to bet virginity, or a dildo.

>>21636863
We don't even know we have timestop.
Presumably this is what [x]cheat means.

>>21636863

probably can, question is do we remember that we can do that?

How many of many of you guys actually understand the situation?
[X]Offensive

>>21636863
>>21636882

She remembers she's a magical girl. Girl A was also amnesiac and she was stopping time effortlessly in her first mission.

Chiaki should be able to do so as well.

Offensive. Cheat slightly. No MIGs just yet.

>>21636891
Girl A also had several months of training under Mami before she deployed on her first mission. This presumable including such hilarious antics as: discovering she could, indeed, stop time; discovering the gunspace inside her shield; and identifying the difficulties inherent in running about a battlefield scattered with bullet casings while wearing hills and pantyhose.

>>21636887
I understand where you're coming from I think, but 'get smacked around like a redheaded stepchild' is only training in a certain sense. Even if we had our memory, we are not close-combat specialists.

Using other options aside from the obvious ones does not negate the point of training.

>>21636904
>hills
heels*
I don't know how I did that. Might be time for bed.

>>21636907
Betting favours always leads to something terrible. Always and without fail.

This is life and death matter now.

I would go defensive. We don;t know how good we are and Kharn is clearly quite an expert at this kind of combat. Hang back at try and get as feel of how she fights first.

Cheating is fine if the need arises, but it's probably best we don't do anything that involves trying to use our shield to do it.

>>21636904
She has since then forgotten everything again and retained all of her skills so obviously she doesn't forget everything about her powers

When she was in the hospital before Mami trained her at all she pulled a gun out of her shield and turned coobie into a cream facial for Sayaka remember

[x] Yank Kharn's spats down, then *CENSORED* and use her tongue to *CENSORED*.

>>21636743
>[x] offense

>>21636964

Muscle memory.

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>>21636757 >>21636765 >>21636766 >>21636784

You decide to cheat.

You spring forward, pre-empting Midori's final cry that would start this battle. Clearly, you do not consider this little training exercise the friendly match that it is - you have to win, especially with the stakes involved. Survival was no longer the baseline objective, here - Kharn had made it quite obvious that this would not end without either of you getting your share of bruises. You don't particularly care about the package, either - whatever it was, you would eventually get it.

You're just not comfortable with giving Kharn that favor, even if she did do her best to reassure you.

That kind of promise isn't made without someone looking for a permanent way out.

You cross the distance between you and Kharn in mere moments, your full-out dash turning into a lunge at the final step - and you grit your teeth at her expression of mock surprise as you bring the bat down in a traitorous one-handed swing. Pinning your hopes on knocking the weapon out of her hands before she could step back to get you in range of the staff's striking ends. This close, she wouldn't be able to bring it to bear, much less defend herself--

The harsh clack of colliding wood sends a sharp jolt up your arm as Kharn easily parries it, her claws sliding across the wooden shaft with an almost unnatural smoothness. A cackle leaves her lips, loud and insulting, as she brings the other end in a blurring, vicious return stroke that you manage to duck under with pure stupid luck than anything else.

Cursing her name, her family and everything that she stood for, you step forward again and bring the bat into a wild two-handed swing that would've murdered any watermelon it might have crushed into - and this one Kharn jumps away from, getting a surprised gasp from her and giving you a moment to breathe.

You use that moment to tell yourself just how stupid everything is.

[1/2]

>>21637181
This is the moment when we realize that Chiaki is even more out of shape than Lelouche Lamperouge.
We're fucked.
Unless we're going to get RIDICULOUSLY good at cheating

>>21636743
>She looks at you, then at Kharn, and raises a hand.
>"R-Ready...! Set...!"

>Midori the grid girl
DRAWFAGS
DRAAAWFAAAGS

>>21637201

Looks like we have left ourselves open here.

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>>21637201
Uh
Timestop is pretty much the most broken thing ever.
Pic related.

>>21637181

She attacks first, this time, her staff sizzling through the air, point first - you manage to sidestep the lightning-fast thrust, but not before it brushes across your side, briefly digging and reminding you of forgotten injuries. The unwelcome pain is enough to make your eyes water, but you comfort yourself in the fact that yes, this was part of your plan.

You step forward, right into the overextended stab - and trap the staff underneath your arm, cinching it to you like a couched lance. With her weapon caught and yours already whistling towards the side of her head, you manage to flash her a weak grin as you anticipate your victory.

The world suddenly spinning, end over end, the ground leaving your feet flailing and kicking, could not have been timed more hilariously to remind you that life is not fair. Having your own ruse being used against you, your own grip on your opponent's weapon used to lift you into the air and then slam you into back into the floor with a crushing, bone-jarring thud - could not have been more apt in reminding you that cheatyfaces never prosper, and girls with black steel knifey shit on their arms and legs always win to go home and fuck the prom queen.

Painfully trying to pull breath back into your lungs, you somehow manage to get your feet back under you, still dazed, still stunned. Still wondering what the fuck just hit you.

For what it was worth, you saw it coming.

[2'3]

>>21637231
As somebody else already noticed, we may not be aware of time-stopping ability

We're not going all-out. Why are we not going all-out?

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGMYwn_NzbI
>proposed, not entirely serious music track

>>21637249
We ARE going all out, as far as we are currently aware.
This is why MOST OF US DECULTURE PLEASE LEARN TO COUNT were against taking the bet; we knew that, without timestop and guns, we didn't stand a chance.

>>21637264
choo, choo

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>>21637274
Here it comes.

>>21637181
>>21637236

>cursing Kharn
>Chiaki, calm down

sure we need to win and the chances of that happening are not so favorable but are outbursts like that really necessary?

>>21637301
Murderface does not work like that.

>>21637285
>night train

To Mundo Fine I presume.

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

>>21637236

So we took a few hits. We expected that. Honestly, we shouldn't have even taken that bet. But you know, that's fine too. What we *can't* stand though, is losing. Something, and we're not sure what, makes us feel like we've lost too much already.

And we hate that.

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>>21637301
There's a reason 'Murderface' stuck. Beyond Kharn /insisting/, I mean.

Also, you made me think of this.

>>21637236

A slap. Open-handed. A wide, flat palm of black metal, coming up from hip level to the corner of your jaw, slamming into your face with momentous force. Like it had been shot from a rifle. You did not even have time to blink before the room itself went completely white one moment, before going black the next. You feel yourself bounce off something hard, and fall on something harder.

A moment more, and the world finally snaps back into painful existence. The first thought that comes into your shock-blunted mind is wondering if you've lost your glasses, or lost all sensation from your face, as you can't feel anything there anymore. Well, besides the pain, of course. Can't forget that.

Flat on your back, you crack open one eye - and you catch a glimpse of Kharn smiling down at you, the end of the staff aimed at your throat.

"Almost decent," The clawed woman cackles, her voice muffled to your still-ringing ears. "Actually, no, that is very unfair. Very competent, Murderface. Treachery still comes easily to you, I love that! It reminds me of the old you, before all this amnesia nonsense!"

She pulls away the staff, and offers the hand she'd nearly torn your face off with. You manage to take it after the first few failed attempts in reaching at its double-images. With contemptuous ease does she pull you back up to your feet, and you catch a whiff of her unperfumed scent; reminiscent of fresh blood, almost tangy, with the earthy tone of sweat.

[3/4]

>>21637301
Imagine a badass on motorcycle. He's cool as shit and all.
Then that badass is invited for some ice-skating even though he has no prior experience with ice-skating.
Now look at that badass cursing and spitting venom as he flails helplessly on the ice.
It's something like that

>>21637353

You grasp at her hands, stopping her from shoving your face into her chest, because, you know, that would be embarrassing yourself more than you already have.

"Ahaha! Stop acting, Murderface! I did not hit you that hard!" Kharn chuckles indulgently, before presssing what looks to be your glasses into your hand. "Ah, here, they have fallen off earlier. Put them on again, and we can settle this best two out of three, yes?" She grins. "And you pick the weaponry, this time! Anything here, you can use - including those."

She gestures towards the rack at the center of the training floor.

Your bat, lonely and abandoned, rolls dejectedly to the edge of the canvas.

How do you respond?

>>21637368
MiGs at 20 paces.

>>21637368
Pick some real gun this time.

Glare at her and say that she should've knocked us out while she still had a chance

>>21637368

Ask if she has any guns we could use.

>>21637368

Bat-kun. Forever alone.

>>21637368
Poor bat. Its spirit cries out for homeruns. It begs to be used.

We are not of a mind to use things for sentimental reasons, however. We guns nao if at all possible.

Uh, guys, the rack in the centre of the room holds the Golden Weapons.
>>21637368
Well, Kharn has claws. Let's use Gauntlets.

>>21637384
>>21637397

Nah, no guns.
This is still training session

>>21637416
ohshi- that's right. That just screams of bad idea.

Chainaxes. Chainaxes chainaxes chainaxes.

>>21637417
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear over the sound of rushing blood

>>21637353
Anything not-golden.

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>>21637368
Funnytime.

Is.

Over.

[x]Use whatever our Shield poops out.
Hopefully a Bazooka or a Flamethrower
If we cheat, we should cheat like a motherfucker.

>>21637368

>golden weapons?

should we go for a gun or some other projectile weapon?
i don't think it matters to Kharn if we use a gun or not, she would probably wipe the floor with us regardless.

it does not necessarily have to be a golden one.

if there are only golden guns around i think we should go for the DEagle because we would probably feel most accustomed to it, a familiar sensation accompanied by a slight sense of dread.

we could also try fiddling with our shield and see what happens.

>>21637368
No golden anything's!!

>>21637439
itsuka kimi ga
hitomi ni tomosu
ai no hikari ga
toki wo koete

I vote for Murderface choice

So much gold that we shit Kinzos. Also, so much not giving a fuck that we shit Kinzos.

All the gold.

Chainaxes.

>>21637455

She doesn't know they're bad. She forgot.

Besides, the whole point of the procedure was to be able to use them normally.

Anyhow, let's go with guns.

>>21637432
>>21637455
But we just underwent an operation for the golden weapon problem. Why don't we test it out?

Remember anon, we got the procedure to starve off the corruption. There is likely less chance of MADNESS with golden weapon now.

We need to learn some time. Why not now.

I am still in support of migs

>>21637425
Dude, this is the entire reason for the last... how many threads have we spent in this base? The WHOLE IDEA of us coming to this shithole was so that we could reverse the corruption caused by the Golden Weapons, and prevent it spreading while using them.
Maybe you should stop spitting out fucking stupid ideas and actually stop and think for a change.
>>21637439
We don't know what our shield does.
>>21637445
Metagame harder.

>>21637463
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAme1GnVgh8&feature=related

I like this version best.

>>21637471
Whoa dude. Calm down. This is like the safest possible environment to go FoFA in because Kharn can whip our asses, AND the point of the training is to LEARN TO USE THEM.

Goddamn dude.

(chainaxes)

>>21637466
>>21637469
>>21637470
>>21637471

Because Pinky kalimaing our heart right before the operation, waking up only a few hours after the operation and recurring dreams of mass slaughter.

>how many threads have we spent in this base? The WHOLE IDEA of us coming to this shithole was so that we could reverse the corruption caused by the Golden Weapons, and prevent it spreading while using them.
To be perfectly fair, that knowledge is also meta

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>>21637368
It's kirika all over again. We're gonna get destroyed in melee.
We need a good full-auto combat shotgun or a fucking autocannon.

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>>21637439

this. Trust the trusty shield.

>>21637501

Sure, why not? Whatever the shield provides.

>>21637439

Seconding.

>Rack Shield

>MiG falls out

>>21637495
AA-12 loaded with Frag-12s? Or maybe Dragon's Breath shells.

>>21637491
>attempting to make an in-character choice to forward the plot is metagaming
You know what
I'm out
Enjoy your stupid decisions with poor reasoning faggots.

TOPGUN her ass.

This is close combat training.

>[x]goes the shield have any close combat weapons?
golf club

If that is too metagame then:

>[x]pick up bat.

>>21637368
We already, in-character, got a bad feeling from the Golden weapons. And while this is the safest place to test using them, this isn't necessarily the safest time, since I'd rather check to see if they cause any increase in corruption when used on, say, a practice dummy.

So go for guns this time.

>>21637521
Good! Get out and stay out!

We could always just ask Kharn what is the deal with the Golden Weapons. Does she just have bad taste or what?

>>21637521
You are condradicting yourself
So fucking hard

Use melee gold weapon. Preferably the gauntlets

>>21637521
so mad

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>>21637521
>Call people out on metagaming
>Get told that you are actually using meta knowledge too
>WUBUBUBUBUBU I WONT DISCUSS THAT WITH YOU!

Yeah, nah, no one will miss you.

So how does Migs work in close combat in a cramped room?

Voting for DEAGLE. I wonder if our voice from the past will be in it.

[x] Golden Deagle

I can see that his is going to go well...

the again, something from our shield does count as "anything here"

>>21637368
Weren't we told that we're a Vindicare, when Midori was reteaching us the ranks?
That could push us towards the Golden DEagle.
But the first time this Chiaki saw the Golden Weapons, she already knew she didn't like them.
It'd be nice to have the shield working, but we don't know about its functions, so we can't just get a gun from it.

[x] Wooden Sword

>>21637526
>>21637368

Anyway changing vote to
>[x]gold gauntlets

[x] Golden anything.

i'd like to try the gauntlets, though.

Do we need to cast Deculture summoning?

>>21637471
Actually coming to this base was so that the corruption is slowed down enough that we cause them, they will corrupt us, they will kill us but now coobie will have more time to prepare his exterminatus for us

Also we have no idea if we know what our shield does or not, we have lost our memory before and remembered what it did ( first thread, flashback ) and we don't know whether this time is different or not

>>21637491
We don't knowif it was failed due to pinky or not, until we do we can't make any solid decisions about the risks

As much as I hate to say it this is the best time to try our weapons of delicious corruption because there will be measures in place to prevent us from causing too much harm if we do go FoFA

>>21638085
might

>>21638085
Hasn't quite been two hours, so probably not.

[X] Guns. Preferably BB guns. We cannot into melee unless we time stop.

[X] Try and use our meguca powers, whatever they are.

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>>21638085

>>21637384 >>21637416 >>21637445 >>21637465

You take a moment to will everything to stop spinning - you'll be the last to admit it, but Kharn really rocked you there, and you doubt you'd be able to take more of that before passing out completely. You should have known she'd have some way of countering that, and your mistake only serves to anger you further.

Gritting your teeth against the pain - and brimming frustration - you force your eyes open just as you push Kharn away, roughly. You shove your glasses back on just as you growl to her that she should've knocked you out when she had the chance, to.

"Oh, come on, do not being so sore, Murderface! It is just first round!" Even without looking, you could hear the smile, the GRIN in Kharn's voice, and you hear her clanking footsteps as she follows your unsteady gait forward. "Do not be so mad! Maybe, sure, I could have let you down a bit more gently, but that is bigger insult to you if I did, I think." She clicks her tongue at you, as if trying to goad you on. "That is true, do not give me your lying silence. Now, come on, pick something else to try and kill me with!"

If she would just shut up for a second, then you'd be able to, you snap at her, before glancing around. The weapons in the racks you've approached...well, they certainly don't look practical. Most of them are hilariously oversized, built for someone nearly six feet tall and had a grip size that could choke a gorilla one-handedly. A bit more irritating is the fact that there doesn't seem to be any firearms around - of course, you wouldn't really use one in training like this, but the option would have been nice.

You turn around finally, shaking your head - the motion nearly making bile rise up your throat, Kharn's little slap haunting you still - and it's then that your gaze stops at the rack at the very center of the training hall. Four golden weapons, arrayed neatly.

[1/2]

>>21638155

Well, three weapons, really, now that you look at them a bit more closely, and a pair of golden fashion accessories.

A Desert Eagle, twin chainaxes(Kharn-sized, of course), an unsheathed katana, and...what looks to be twin bangles, the thick type that clasps loosely around your wrists. You've no idea what those do in particular.

All of them gold, and giving you quite the sense of foreboding.

"Ah, going immediately for them, eh?" Kharn comes up beside you, and you don't even have to turn to see that she's smiling, even now. "I cannot say I blame you. As garish and unpractical as they are, for people like us, they are the only choice, yes?" She reaches out with a clawed hand, and gently places it on the handle of one of the oversized chainaxes.

"I killed many people with this one, during my tenure as Warmaster. Witches, Magical Girls...everything." She looks down at the twin weapons with a wistful expression, almost longing, before withdrawing her hand. "Both of them are yours now, of course. Just as all the others are." The russian gestures to the gun, and the sword. "These I took from you during the procedure, if you will forgive me for taking the liberty to. I found them in your inventory, a strange thing. But it is always strange whenever these are involved."

It's then that she pats your shoulder, in an almost encouraging fashion. "Well, go on then, Murderface. Pick your weapon, and I will make sure that before this day ends, you will be able to kill many people with it." Kharn smiles, before blinking, and pointing to the bangles. "Oh, before I forget! Those bangles, they are not very useless, even though they look like so. They turn into, er, gauntlets, I think is the word. Very large ones, good for smashing things."

Well. That sounds handy.

Which one do you take from the rack?

[]The Desert Eagle.
[]The Twin Chainaxes.
[]The Sword.
[]The Bangles.

>[X]The Desert Eagle.

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>>21638167
[x] Deagle and Sword

Kommissar Time!

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>>21638167
>[x]The Bangles.
Look pimpin'!

Besides, we always use the Desert Eagle, let's try something new.

>>21638167

>[x] THE ONLY WINNING OPTION IS NOT TO PLAY!

>>21638167
>[x]Chainaxes or
>[x]Bangles

Kind of interested to see if we can hear from Gloves Meguca in the latter case, and Malal in the former.

>>21638191
this

>>21638167
>[x]The Bangles.

Or any other melee weapon really

>>21638167

[x]The Bangles.

Keeps hands free for more guns, can't solve every problem with a Deagle bullet.

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>>21638167
My inner metagamer wants to say Bangles.

But everything else says go for the gun and sword.
So let's grab them and get this party started, consequences be damned.

>>21638167
Gauntlets
We know how to use the deagle and we have had experience with the katana.
Chain axes are more Kharn's style so let's go for the remaining option.

Plus we can wear them and turn them on / off hopefully so we have it as an ace in the hole

>>21638167

[X] The Bangles.

>>21638167
Bangles. Do it.

>>21638167
Gun and sword. We Commissar noW

>>21638167

Let's go for the bangles and be the STR to Kharn's BRS.

New weapon specialisation (in the process of being) unlocked?

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>>21638222
>>21638221
>>21638209
>>21638200

Oh hey, we are a Master of Ranged Combat so lets just disregard that and go for the Weapon we dont have ANY proficiency with.

>>21638222
Fuck you, yes we can.

[X] Sword and DEagle.

Let's see if Kirika has anything to say to us.

>>21638266
>Implying we aren't going to get railroaded into losing to Kharn regardless of our choice.

>>21638275

Bit frustrating, but yeah. That's how it's going to go down, regardless of choice.

Go for the bangles/gauntlets. This is supposed to be training session after all, and the hand to hand weapons are (as far as we know) more likely to render unconscious than kill.

I guess the katakana is also an option in that regard, as I double a blade would be able to get through Kharn's limbs.

[x] The Desert Eagle

Maybe Murderface will hear Chiaki's voice.

>>21638167
[X]gun + sword = win

>>21638167
Sword and Gun.

Maybe holding on to something familiar will make us remember something of our lost memory.

>>21638266
>Non-lethal sparring
>With a firearm

bangels is the best choice

>>21638343
Probably the "go crazy and murder everything" parts more than anything but worth a try

>>21638306
>implying we won't be demolished
>implying we could kill her

>>21638266
We are in a training session. Remind me. What do you do during training? Learn to use things? Nah. That can't be it, can it?

>>21638275
>Implying we could beat Kharn in CQC without timestop.

Cry more, bitch nigga.

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>>21638368
>Training Session
>Choose the weapon you know and improve your skills with it further against a difficult foe
>Choose something you dont know shit about and flail around with it for a bit

You must be a troll, I refuse to believe that there is someone THAT retarded in this thread.

Vote for gun+sword

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Sorry everyone, but I'll have to cut this short, something came up D: I'll make up for it with an extra-long thread this Thursday! As always, I'll pick the most picked option to start off the next thread!

Thank you for your participation again, feedback is always great!

>>21638434
That's not a bad point, but it also doesn't seem like this is the ideal situation in which to do firearms training in...any sense.

I don't see any reason not to try and pick up some CQC ability. Also Kirika's sword turned us in to BEARFUCKER just by picking it up, who's to say we won't get instant competence with whatever golden weapon we choose as a jumping-off point?

If we're going to use bangles why don't we also put our panties on our head and charge to our deaths while screaming LEEROY JENKINS

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>>21638479

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>>21638488
No. The flesh of fallen pancakes.

>>21638488
That's ridiculous. How would Chiaki even know who that is?

So much autism in these threads now.

>>21638483
The funny thing is the gun and the sword do less damage than the bangles.

>>21638542
It's a fanfiction quest based on a magical girl anime. What exactly were you expecting?

>>21638542

There's always been autism, there was just less reason to autist early on.

>>21638542
>>21638542
Now?

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>>21638542
The true question is:

How autistic does one have to be to read something he doesn`t like only to complain about it?

>>21638479

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Magical%20Girl%20Noir%20Quest

it is up, goodnight.

>>21638609
About as autistic as half the people who read every other quest thread on tg just to bitch about things

>>21638609
0/10
Nice try though.

>>21638609
answer:not. Autism has nothing to do with reading comprehension.

Man, I wonder what the other Golden Weapons are.

> vote to make a bet in the first place
> vote to owe Kharn an unspecified future favor
> vote to use the golden weapons, which were already called out last thread as being full of bad vibes even to the amnesiac protagonist
... what happened to you, /tg/?

[x] The only winning move is not to play. Concede.
Better to owe Kharn a favor than to let those things get a hold on us.

>>21639412

Grimderp chucklefucks outvoting the players with half a functional brain happened. Been that way since about thread 5 or so.

>>21639752
Not everyone that disagrees with you is grimderp.

Sage for this thread, by all rights, should be dead.

>>21639929

So you have another word that describes "lolsorandumb kill-them-all DERAIL"-types better than "grimderp"? Okay, let's see it.

I posted this in the last thread way too late for anyone to see, so here it is again. I think it may be important.

There are 20 golden weapons.
There are 20 Incubators.

Does anyone else think this is too convenient for coincidence?

>>21640217

I agree. It is suspicious.

>>21638167
[x]The Bangles.
I'd prefer that we hadn't even agreed to the bet in the first place, but too late now, and I doubt that Kharn will let us concede.

>Sword and Deagle

One of the whole points of going through this procedure was to see if we can wield the golden weapons without being corrupted by them. Reward does not come without great risk, motherfuckers, so let's fucking do this. Next time.