>>25109115

It's a good thing, then, that Kumatora's all but read your mind even before you told her to - the Eversor making a beeline to your old haunt. The nameless bar owned and staffed by a man who never seemed to smile at anything. Scowling was all he did, besides making drinks and taking money for said drinks.

He did give you the barest hint of a nod when you stepped through the doors, Kumatora following you close behind. He even gestured at the cap on your head, reaching up with a large, calloused hand and pointing with a calloused index finger at his massive afro.

...Maybe he wants you to take it off. You're indoors, after all. You do so as soon as you get to the bar, planting your ass on one of the creaky, well-worn stools and setting the headgear on the counter. Your Eversor companion takes her seat with some difficulty beside you - almost falling off after a few tries, but managing it after a while.

"Sorry about that, sempai," Kumatora murmurs sheepishly, cheeks pinking in embarrasment. "It's, er, kind of my first time."

Of course it is. You're pretty sure she's underage, too.

"Y-yeah." The black-haired girl nods. "Is...I'm not going to get kicked out of here for it, right, sempai?"

Nah. Not really. Charles doesn't give a fuck. Never did. The surly bartender grunts at the mention of his name, and you order your usual - double whiskey, leave the bottle. He serves you this with his usual professional speed. He then nods towards Kumatora, who all but pales at the sudden attention.

You tell her, after a few moments of awkward silence, that he's asking about her order. What she wants to drink. ...Yes, it'll be your treat.

"Uh. Um. Straw...strawberry milk?" Kumatora squeaks, reduced to a trembling schoolgirl underneath Charles' glare. "If...if it's on the menu--"

[1/2]

>>25109122

There's a thunderous report of a solid glass tumbler being slammed right onto the wooden counter, right in front of your young companion and making her very nearly fall off her stool. Pink, frothy milk fills it from a perspiring, misting carton, wielded by a calloused hand that could easily crush your skull.

"...They serve strawberry milk here, sempai?" Kumatora clambers back onto her stool, staring warily at Charles' retreating back, as the bartender went to attend to another customer at the far end of the counter. Looks like one of them courier sorts, getting a drink in before another delivery, or something.

He even serves ice cream shakes too, if you ask nicely.

"That's...uh..." The Eversor shakes her head, twintails wagging. "...Um. Well. Cheers, sempai!" she holds out her glass to yours. "Congrats on being Warmaster! If...even if it looks kind of a big hassle!"

You blink at this, before returning her enthusiastic grin with a small smile of your own. Your own glass, half-filled with whiskey, clinking against hers.

Kumatora takes a huge gulp from her glass of strawberry milk, and you knock back yours at the same time. Relishing the nostalgic burn against your throat, the smoky sting against your tongue, and the heat that settles warmly in your chest and stomach as the whiskey claws its way down your throat. You exhale warmly at this, closing your eyes momentarily to savor it - and you open your eyes to see Kumatora gazing deep into her own glass, completely unaware of her strawberry milk mustache.

"...That was something, though, sempai. Earlier, I mean." Kumatora says suddenly, just as you pour yourself more whiskey. "I was this close to jumping out and going into crowd control mode! Surrounding the Warmaster like that...Miss Sayaka'd started cutting off heads if she saw what they tried to pull earlier!"

[2/3]

>>25109125

You very nearly snort whiskey out of your nose as the image of Sayaka killing someone just to defend you flashes in your mind. It's...almost hilarious in its impossibility. You recover quickly enough, and you remind the Eversor that they were still civilians. Officio rules - no civilians as much as possible, unless they turn out to be combatants or Magical Girls-in-hiding. Besides, they were just idols. Even Misaka could have taken care of them.

"That's not the point, sempai!" Kumatora takes another swig from her glass, getting a bigger milk mustache as a result. "You're Warmaster now! You've got the hat! The nerve of them, sempai, trying to strongarm you into leaving! It's not like it's sempai's fault you don't like that girl anyway!"

You find yourself smiling at this. You notice, over Kumatora's shoulder, that someone seems to have left a package on one of the stools. Somewhat of a sizeable box, large enough to contain a bowling ball or something spherical, wrapped completely in masking tape.

...Courier must have left it for Charles. Strange way to deliver something, you decide. You call the bartender's attention to it, and he seems to blink in surprise before walking towards the package itself.

Anyway, you turn back to the Eversor. How do you respond?

[]You heard everything, huh?
[]Right. Not my fault.
[]Point out her mustache, and tell her to keep it quiet.
[]There's something strange about that box...

>>25109115

>No Pinky

Why, deculture, why

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>>25109127
>[X]You heard everything, huh?
>[X]Point out her mustache, and tell her to keep it quiet.
>[X]There's something strange about that box...

>>25109127
[X]Thassa bomb.

Paranoia mode go.

>>25109127

>[]You heard everything, huh?

Need to contact the Officio.

Get the PR/Blackmail machine running to bury the event.

Even purging a tabloid that doesn't want to play nice is not out of the question

>>25109127
>[x]You heard everything, huh?

Kumatora please. I did not terrible, right?

What would Mami say?

Please be honest

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Every time, as soon as I wake up.
MGNQ is my morning coffee

>[x] there is something strange about that box

>>25109127
[x]There's something strange about that box...
TIMESTOP
OPEN BOX
BOMBS CAN'T EXPLODE IF TIME IS STOPPED
also hi pinky wanna get drunk and cry on your shoulder?

>>25109197
>BOMBS CAN'T EXPLODE IF TIME IS STOPPED
smart

>>25109127
There's something strange about the box
You heard it all huh?

>>25109127
>[] Timestop. Check box. Ask Pinky if that's a present for us.

Threadly reminder that the updated Ebook can be found at http://pastebin.com/kbGzcbDb

Also, I don't want to bring it up in another thread, but would you guys prefer having the Wendy Cooldown and Prose Magia in a separate Ebook, or should I keep it as-is? I'm only asking again because I have no idea what the majority of people who read the ebook version would prefer.

>>25109127
>[X] STOP. TEMPORAL TIME.

We need to talk to pinky anyway.

[X]There's something strange about that box...

WARMASTER MODE, ALL DAY ERRY DAY

>>25109197
this man knows what's up

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Ask for a coffee

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>>25109127
Keep talking but keep an eye on the box.
We'll talk with pinky later, checking a box and putting others at risk isn't worth the time stop for now,

>>25109212
if you're okay with making 2 versions, keep them separate. if not, no problem with keeping them as is.

>>25109212
Keep it
They aren't big enough or bad enough to warrant splitting them up for

Maybe put a link to skip them or something if it is that big an issue

I wonder whose head is in that box.

>[X]You heard everything, huh?

>>25109261
I can name only 1 magical girl who lost her head. The Prophet succeeded.

>>25109115
>>25109122
>>25109125
>>25109127

>[]There's something strange about that box...

WHATS IN THE BOX!? WHATS IN THE FUCKING BOX!?

>mfw the most awful thing the people in this thread can imagine is in the box is just a bomb

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>>25109289
Forgot mah pic.

We'll open the box, we know it's full of precious booty!

>>25109273
THEY CAN'T TAKE HER HEAD IF WE TAKE HER LIFE FIRST

WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THAT HEAD OURSELVES

IN SECRET

IN SAFETY

NO MAMI FOR NO ONE BUT OURSELVES

>>25109127
>[]There's something strange about that box...

Time stop and open it.

Come on guys this isn't hard. Leave your gushing for later.

>>25109273
But Mami is in the Officio right now. How are you supposed to take her head if she is surrounded by tons of Mecguas.

>>25109313

Not her maidenhead.

>>25109313
>MAMI-SAN CHIAKI JUST DUMPED ME WHAT DO I DO PLEASE COME
>okay

>>25109212
I'd say have them separate. It'll be easier to read through them that way, in my opinion.

>>25109127
[X]You heard everything, huh?
Get some damage control on it.

At the moment we're too lounging to be bothered about stuff. Being blown up wouldn't be too bad for a bit.

>>25109313
Silly anon, that's a doppelganger. Why do you think she was acting so flirty?

>>25109212
Another vote for separate from me

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I´m kind of confused. Did we ask someone to investigate about a Meguca with some sort of prophetic abilities?

>>25109343

Think we haven't gotten around to that yet.

>>25109355
That an ou best clue currently is Misaka's rambling

>>25109127

Yay, I managed to catch the thread just before my 3 hour long exam starts. Anyway.

>[x]Point out her mustache, and tell her to keep it quiet.

"The last thing I want is some talk about 'catching the warmaster on the rebound'"

While the box could be mami's head, it would be... poor form to kill of a character that everybody cares about without much of a way for players to stop it.

Anyways off to last minute cram session.

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>>25109115
>Getting ready to go to bed
>Hey, I've got a bright idea, I'll check /tg/ one last time
>MGNQ

God fucking damn it I have important shit to do, I needed that sleep.

>>25109369
Deculture isn't that shit a writer to pull such a thing either

>>25109369
>it would be... poor form to kill of a character that everybody cares about without much of a way for players to stop it
Like Mirai?

>>25109441
We had every chance to save her and the overwhelming retard response was "fuck you"

>>25109289
Mami's severed head.

>>25109441
Did anyone even really care about Mirai? She was someone that was a liability/enemy pawn at worst, and "friend of a friend" at best.

Bonus points only, really.

>>25109441
Remind me who that is again?

>>25109445

I wish I could still hate people to death for this.

>>25109464

Eh, I would have liked to save Midori's friend, but I honestly expected more death and consequences from how awful the confrontation with RibbonHomu went.

Decu let us off easy for that.

>>25109466
Friend of Midori.

>>25109470
So many things to hate people to death over. Almost all of them, for some reason, surrounding Iori.

>>25109483
Fucking this.

Some other DM would instantly kill everyone else and make Chiaki awaken in the middle of the burning Siberia

>>25109127
>[]Point out her mustache, and tell her to keep it quiet.
I don't know, the box just seems like a red herring to me for some reason.
>>25109212
I'll wait until the end of the thread until calling this, although I don't think many more will voice an opinion on the matter.

>>25109504
Yeah, at the very least I suspected that Midori would die.

We should quickly ask Kumatora what she can do, just encase (when) the box contains something nasty.

>>25109504
Yeah. We were lucky Midori, Misaka and everyone didn't get toasted except Kharn, who Chiaki wakes up to being tortured by her or something.

>>25109520
>a red herring to me for some reason.
When it turns out to contain a fusion bomb I'm so going to call you out on it.

>>25109522
>Midori would die
She kinda did.

>>25109127
>[X]Point out her mustache, and tell her to keep it quiet.
>[X]There's something strange about that box...

It's Iori's severed head.

>>25109537
She was killed but did not die.

We're talking about people dying when they are killed

>>25109537
Yes but then she got better.

>>25109541
It's Chiaki's severed head.

>>25109441
It was established that she was totally saveable, it's just that she ended up not being so because the players thought an illusionist ex-pacifist could pull a 300 and Chiaki her way through a horde of monsters and an evil Ribbon Homura, so Mirai had to be expended to save Midori.

Also Mirai wasn't nearly as loved as Mami, just to Midori.

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>>25109541
>It's Iori's severed head.

And nothing of value was lost.

>>25109127
OH MY GOD JC A BOMB

>>25109553
It's Deculture's severed head
ghostwriter

>>25109550

To be fair, getting a Magical Girl to stay dead is kinda hard considering that Decu has mentioned such things as Soul Gem surgery and whatnot.

Seriously doubt that Souji is the only nerd turned Soul Gem scientist running around.

>>25109158 >>25109169 >>25109196 >>25109197

"Well, um, it was hard not to overhear, sempai, the car was parked fairly close to the shop and all," Kumatora replies. "B-but I wasn't eavesdropping intentionally, sempai! I wasn't trying to pry, but when I saw the conversation getting tense and the other girls standing up and walking towards you, I had to make sure nothing bad was going to happen!"

You knock back the double you've poured for yourself, before smiling at Kumatora as you tip the bottle of Kong for another. Well, you appreciate the Eversor's concern for your safety - and she didn't need to apologize for overhearing, anyway - but if it's not too much, you'd like for her to keep everything she heard to herself. Nothing to be said about this to anyone - not to her friends, not to Sayaka, and certainly not to Mami or Kyuubey. Or Kyoko, you add, who isn't so much as a gossip as she is a voluntary wellspring of information, telling everyone everything they asked with an open face and a cheerful grin.

"Right, sempai. You can count on me, my lips are sealed!" Kumatora salutes you, and you can't help but find her enthusiasm infectious.

Of course, you dampen it some by pointing out that besides her lips being sealed, they're also sporting the impressive strawberry milk mustache. This she covers with a hand, going red in embarrassment before laughing about it a moment later, and then wiping it off with the sleeve of her jacket.

You tell her to finish her drink - you're not looking to get plastered here, and the drink you poured should be your last - when Charles suddenly comes forward and places the box he'd received on the counter in front of you.

...The box has your name on it. Murderface. Written on the strip of masking tape securing the thing shut.

[1/2]

>>25109127
[x]If Flesh of the Fallen Angels is what we do when we just want to damn the universe and kill fucking everything, then this is Flesh of the Fallen Shadowruns.

We've built enough bombs in our time to have a sixth sense of them by now, surely. Let's damn the results and investigate that thing, possibly using Timestop.

>>25109558
Not the point.

If the head is Iori's then somebody can work awfully fast which is pretty fucking bad.
Timestop beats superspeed but superspeed beats Mami's (for example).

If the speed is not the case then that means that Iori was killed before our meeting but then, who was Iori?
The concert suddenly seems even more like a bad idea

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>>25109577

It seems it's for you. Which is...weird, considering that you're not expecting anything. You certainly don't list Charles' bar as your mailing address, that gets handled by Logistics back at Headquarters.

"Oh, a package, sempai?" Kumatora states the obvious, finishing off her strawberry milk and wiping her lips clean again. "Who's it from? What's inside?"

The shield clamped on your right arm clicking faster, louder. More insistently.

Yet, only audible to you, from how Charles and Kumatora seem to be sticking around rather than booking it. You lift it up carefully with both hands - it's hefty, but whatever seems to be inside is rolling around. ...The bottom seems to be slightly damp, despite being covered completely in masking tape.

The fuck is in this box?

[]Open the box.
[]Dispose of the box immediately.
[]Stop time, and open the box.

>>25109577
>Our name on it
>Who knows to deliver a package for us to a fucking bar at random
Oh shit this can't be good.

Inside the box is Pinky's head

>>25109596
[]Stop time, and open the box.

>>25109596
>[X]Stop time, and open the box.

Decu...

>>25109596
>[]Stop time, and open the box.
Like it was said earlier.

Fuck is it really a head?

>>25109596
>[x]Stop time, and open the box.
There's no way someone could have invented a time stop proof bomb right?

>>25109596
[x]Stop time, and open the box.
No need for Kumatora to see.

>>25109597
No don't worry man, according to >>25109520
it's just a red herring!

>>25109596
>...The bottom seems to be slightly damp
Awwwwwww who's head It is?

Also
>[x]timestop
If gore, then close It again and deliver to officio.
If a bomb, fuck I don't know

>>25109596
>[x]Stop time, and open the box.

>>25109596
[]Stop time, and open the box.
Clearly the only way forward.

>>25109599
No, it's /tg/'s head

[X]Stop time, and open the box.

>>25109596
>[]Stop time, and open the box.

because why the fuck not?

>>25109596
I'm calling Wendy's head!

>>25109596
Stop time.
Open the box
Ask Pinky what the fuck is going on

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>>25109611
>>25109610
>>25109608
>>25109606
>>25109604
>>25109601
>>25109600

>>25109596
Okay, if it's addressed to us I'll panic and think it's a bomb. It it was addressed to Charles I wasn't going to go paranoia, ho!
>[]Stop time, and open the box.

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>>25109596
>Sounds round
>Bottom of box is damp
No no no no surely this is Kharn somehow sending us the panties back somehow despite us only sendng that package today, yes, that's it, ahahahahahahafuck

>>25109596
It's a watermelon wet with dew! Time for summer fun!

>>25109596
>[X]Stop time, and open the box.

>>25109596
Okay, we need to get on top of this, and get ahead of whoever sending us cryptic packages.

>[x] ZA WARUDO

>[X]Stop time, and open the box.

Please let it be Sayaka's head

>>25109629
That's Kharn's head.

>>25109639
>Sayaka

No, it's Malal's head.

>>25109621
>What's going on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmqwbZa6_w

Have to post this.

>>25109609
Not the first, and certainly not the last time I'll ever be wrong.

>>25109639
Its Mami's. We are clearly to late to save her.

>>25109596
>[x]Stop time, and open the box.

This is going to suck, bigtime.

i love you decu. i hope u know that.

>>25109596
Maybe it only sounds round because it's a bowl with spaghetti in it, containing all the spaghetti we've accumulated from us being weird around our officio ladies and Iori.

>>25109658
>It's Mami's mammis.

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>>25109596
>[]Stop time, and open the box.

If... if it was a head and the box was damp, we'd already be smelling the blood. Right guys? R-right?

How about that

Let;s NOT open the box.

It'd become a shroedinger's head!

[x]Stop time, and open the box.

>>25109670
Not necessarily

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Maybe it's just a hat.

Call QB. Ask if anyone's gone missing. Try and find out whose head it is wothout actually opening it.

>[x] Stop time. Open box.
I believe that here we got some human parts inside

>>25109656
It's okay, sorry for railing on you. It's only because you namefag. I, and many of us here, have probably made more than a few potentially fatal suggestions throughout the course of MGNQ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRJcxMe1zWY

>>25109671
>Go back to officio with the sealed box
>Try and figure out who's missing
>Nobody
>Weeks pass
>Box starts to smell
>Really, really smell
>It's fucking rank
>Mami find it
>Opens it up
>Inside is the severed, partially rotting head of
Kyuubey

>[X]Stop time, and open the box.
Get on the floor, do the dinosOH GOD WHY IS THERE BLOOD EVERYWHERE

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>my face when the most reasonable explaination for someone sending a package to us at the exact moment we go into a random bar is the kind of feat you might need to be able to see the future to do
Like, say, if someone was a motherfucking PROPHET

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>>25109706
Goddamit your right. MGNQ is suffering.

>>25109706
To be fair until yesterday to everybody concerned if you wanted to get something to Murderface you checked this bar first, last and about a dozen times in between
We did spend a shitload of time in here when not on the job or comatose

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>>25109596
>The bottom seems to be slightly damp, despite being covered completely in masking tape.

Oh shit son, looks like its time for healing!

>>25109212
is there anyway to put chapters into the PDF for each arc and or thread # along with the different stories or will that be too much work.

Don't bother opening the box. Find out who this Prophet is and shoot them in the fucking face.

>>25109722
But we already know who the Prophet is.

It's Misaka

I'd like to ask now since i managed to catch the thread before i go to sleep, are the end of thread write-fags in private conference with decu and know some going ons that they base their stuff on or is it all their own with the only influence being what goes on in thread that decu can choose to make canon or not?

>>25109743
I don't know about prose Magica but the wendy cooldown parts are definitely canon

I think both do keep in contact with Decu to run it all by him first

>>25109725
No anon, we are the Prophet.

>>25109720
I know the .mobi versions have chapters set on them, I didn't know the PDF didn't have them set.
Hold on while I try to fix this.

>>25109762
And then /tg/ committed Sudoku to save Mami.

>>25109743
They are both canon yes.
>inb4 it's not a head

>>25109743
I thought Decu wrote those?

>>25109596
[x]
Open the box.

oh god i just got home.

it's a head isn't it!?

>>25109813
The situation is heading that way, yes

>>25109819
>puns already

Why do we always end up going that route? All these puns are gonna do my head in.

>>25109819
We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves, it might be broken bottle of Kong. Or a blood soaked bomb.

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C'mon, guys. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.

>>25109834

no need to loose your head anon it's just a box right?

I just realised. Losing a head isn't fatal, this could be a ransom note for whoever this is.

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>>25109725

>>25109885
Right, but it also means their soul gem is held hostage.

>>25109916
It's better than the alternative.

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>>25109843

>>25109852
>>25109843

It's a head of lettuce inside that was dampening the bottom of the box because it was freshly washed.

A note attached to the bottom of the lettuce says "I have kidnapped Tomoe Mami, and demand blahblabhblah by time o'clock or she dies.

Are you Happy Decu? You've made the readers devolve into LSD-tier conspiracy theories.

Congratulations.

>>25109933
ADACHIIIII

nyan nyan

>>25109813
Or a present from Kharn / the rabbits on becoming warmaster
Because their tastes generally run to bloodthirsty and bloodthirstier
And booze, women and other great things

>>25109947
He is probably ecstatic

>>25109947
>>25109963
Decu feasts on shadowruns and washes them down with tears.

>>25109958
>It's an ornamental bottle of genuine Russian 80-proof vodka
>The courier damaged it during delivery

The upside of this is, we'll still get a severed head at the end of it.

>>25109720
Ah, okay. Now that I know how, yes, I can do that.

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>>25109971

>>25109947
For conspiracy theories, this is pretty tame.
And really, we asked Wendy Cooldown for help but didn't tell QB that someone will be going after one of his most useful and invested in Meguca's?
We really need to get on that.

>>25109600 >>25109601 >>25109604 >>25109608

You grab the rim of your Shield and push it an entire ninety degrees. The clicking gears grinding, screeching in protest, before finally crashing together in a sharp report of metal locking against metal. The 'eyes' of the shield sliding open, revealing two blood-red crimson gems, both glowing a hellish light in unison as time stops its inexorable passage for you.

It's strange, this ability of yours. As far back as you can remember, you never really thought much about it - until it slowly dawned on you, by Kyuubey's own musings and Kharn's overwillingness to show you off to other Officios, that what you had was something unique. Most girls received magical weaponry upon contracting, a tool imbued with the magic of their wish. Some of them received abilities usually thought of as something fantastical or impossible - such as the ability to regenerate grievous injury in mere seconds, or be able to pull a sword from a standard-issue cake with standard-issue icing (candles optional). But whatever you wished for, it seems, got you something unique. Something that no other Incubator could create, no matter what wish they granted.

...Of course, your being able to bend time over a barrel and have your way with it isn't exactly all peaches and cream. Not after Pinky started showing up whenever you used it. You remember that you used to have no trouble with it at all. In fact, you remember leaving it on for days at a time, using it to disappear and hide from everyone when things got a bit too...annoying. A bit too uncomfortable. Sure, one or few times Kyoko had to rush you to headquarters because of how dark your soul gem got after these excursions, but they never seemed to hurt besides that.

But now...well. You try not to use it too much.

Simply because you don't really feel like facing down a giggly eldritchian goddess with a smile too full of teeth and hair the color of pink cotton candy every single time you do.

[1/2]

>>25109980

that was made for just Kharn in mind wasn't it

>>25110005

DAMNIT DECU WHAT'S IN THE BOX

>>25110005

The world flickers crimson as soon as your shield locks into position, before its colors bleed away, leaving everything cast in dull shades of gray, black and white. To your side, Kumatora, frozen in stasis, continues to look down at the box in front of you. Charles, though, seems to have gone - and in his place is Pinky. Hugging the box to her chest, resting her chin on its surface. A cheeky grin curling her lips, baring rows of sharp, pointy teeth.

"Oh, hello, Homura-chan! So glad you can join my little game of What's In The Box!" She chirps, all sunshine and daisies and botched autopsies. "But before we begin, can you tell the rest of the viewers how it feels to stomp someone's feelings into the ground? You seem to be the resident expert in that particular field, if I'm any judge!"

It's then that her voice turns into a cruel mimicry of the brown-haired idol you left in tears back in that coffee shop.

"Friends!...It's okay to be friends with Chiaki-san! Look at me, I'm an idol and I'm being moe, boo hoo hoo!" It's then that she narrows her sunless eyes at you. "I fucking told you to forget about that slut, Homura-san! WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO ME?!"

How do you respond?

>>25110022
Inside the box is...
A round, slightly damp box.

>>25110025
What's in the boxxxxxxx? COME ON MAN TELL ME!

>>25110025
"You were watching, weren't you? I broke it off with her. That's what the whole point of the coffee date was. What's in the box, Pinky."

Also goddamn every single one of you who voted for time stop before checking the box. I don't think it was a stupid choice.

But goddamn you.

>>25110025
"I still have to be civil to employers. Also, it's nice to see you again. This isn't a present from you, is it?"

>>25110029
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmqwbZa6_w

Like this.

>>25110025
You already stole my heart. What else do you want?

>>25110025
[x]"That's strange, Pinky. I thought you liked seeing me suffer. Besides, if I didn't play nice with her that... stupid... girl... would probably do something like contracting and then she'd be even more of a bother."
Pinky's like an old friend, she knows how to stab us in the front like a pro.

>>25110025
"It feels like shit. But she's better off without me.
I was planning on getting drunk and crying on your shoulder but now I'm concerned about the box."

>>25110025
WHAT'S IN THE FUCKING BOX?!

>>25110025
"I broke it off with her, like you saw. If my memory goes away, then sure I'll forget her, but I'll also forget you. Besides, it's my job and she's a client.
"Now, what's in the box?"

>>"Friends!...It's okay to be friends with Chiaki-san! Look at me, I'm an idol and I'm being moe, boo hoo hoo!" It's then that she narrows her sunless eyes at you. "I fucking told you to forget about that slut, Homura-san! WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO ME?!"

"Because I'm a monster who likes to shatter people's feelings. Do you even listen to yourself anymore?

>>25110025

she's gone, I listened to you, like a good girlfriend. please tell me what's in the box.

>>25110025
I'M TRYING, IN CASE YOU'RE BLIND.

JESUS, GIRL.

And to think I was considering being nice to you today

>>25110025
I thought you would be happy Madoka
After all I told her I wasn't interested so that means there is less on my mind other than you and why you are hiding here between time

>>25110025

I believe the last time you spoke of her, you told me that she is an idol, not my waifu. I have done my utmost to ensure that this is the case, in a typically hamfisted and thoughtless way. I'm sorry that I misinterpreted your advice as encouraging me to ensure that she would know that I'm not romantically interested in her, rather than ignoring her completely.

>>25110043

>this

>>25110025

"I broke it off with her, didn't I?" deadpan "Isn't that what you wanted anyway, so what's the problem?"

>she probably wanted it faster, well tough cookie.

>>25110038

i don't see the problem.

>>25110025
"I did just crush her heart, you know. Don't worry, the way things are going she's going to get taken down by crossfire when I have the kneecap this Ruri bitch at this upcoming concert.

"...so... what's in the box?"

>>25110038
We were worried it would be a bomb and we'd all die.

Less talk more box.

>>25110025
>WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO ME?!

"I did, damn you. I let her down, didn't I? That's what you wanted, wasn't it? I already feel like shit, so what more do you want from me, Pinky?"

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>>25110005

"Why are you even upset this time? It`s not like you have something to be jealous about since I shoot her down.

I was even thinking of letting you meet some of my friends tonight, since you must feel awfully lonely in here, Madoka.

This however goes down the drain should this box contain anyone`s bodyparts. Because it would really make me hate you."

[x] Homu. As. Fuck.

>>25110086
>>25110089
Yeah, like, I understand why people voted for timestop and it was a reasonable choice.

But now I'm going to sit here going 'WHAT'S IN THE FUCKING BOX DECULTURE' for the next forty minutes without getting anything else done.

>>25110025
"Its still Matsuda, and I did. Can we get this hate fuck over with so I can have my box now?"

>>25110097

you and everyone else, keep it together man!

>>25110025

"Easy for you to say. Whether you like it or not, I still answer to people who employ me. In any case, I thought you would be happy I felt it best for us to open your gift together...it IS your gift, right?"

>>25110107
>inb4 chikuwa without the box being opened

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>>25110097
>inb4 Decu has to leave and then next thread is next week.

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>>25110130
Naw man. Come on. He wouldn`t do that.

Right, Decu? You.. you wouldn`t do that, right?

>>25110025
'... I missed you too, Pinky'

>>25110025
"Weren't you listening? I only met with her today to let her down gently. As much as you might of wanted me to be rough and kneecap her to get the point across, the last person I did that to is now your rival, and I'd rather not take that chance again."

>>25110150
Being MGNQ is suffering

>>25110025
"I let her down easy so she wouldn't do something stupid and end up being a huge pain in the ass, I fail to see the problem. Now whats in the box Pinky? The anticipation is killing me."

>>25110180
*rather not take the chance of that happening again.

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>>25110005
>or be able to pull a sword from a standard-issue cake with standard-issue icing (candles optional).
We've already been over this.

>>25110150
We're full Shadowrun now, nigga.

>>25110005
>>25110025

"I did. I shot her down just a while ago and I feel like crap so I damn hope you're happy. Now, tell me, what's inside the box?"

>>25110025
>Are you trying to be that daft or does it come natural? I just told her she doesn't have a chance. Besides, who gave you the exlusive rights to me?

>Its time you started telling me what happened because Im growing rather tired of this game.

>>25110130
That's what's in the box.
A chikuwa.

>>25109212
Separate.

>>25110093
i like this one

>>25110093
Seconding this.

>>25110297
>Pinky takes away the box so we don't hate her
>We never find out what was in it
>Ever
>All we know is it's body parts of some kind

The Mystery Box shall remain, forever... a mystery.

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So it's Iori's head, right?

I'm putting my money on Iori's head being in the box.

Like 85% sure that Iori's head is what is in the box.

>>25110328
Just check everyone we know still has most of their important bits still attached once we get back to the office.

>>25110249

>somebody used my image

YAY

really need to get to drawing that up on my tablet...

>>25110328

For some reason, this post suddenly made me think of Steel Ball Run.

Let's go collect the Saint's body parts!

...If any girl has a power like D4C, I quit.

>>25110283

FUCK YOU

it's too early!

>>25110334
It's obviously Iori's dick

>>25110337
If we can get back in one piece, Pinky's awfully pissed at the moment.

>>25110356
I like you.

>>25110025
>WHY AREN'T YOU LISTENING TO ME?!
Because your advice is either cryptic or downright nonsensical. Start making sense by telling me who died to make that box. Then we'll talk.

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>>25110062
>our face when

[x] Lick soul gem.
Our soul gem.

>>25110409

this is no time for masturbation!

>>25110418
It's the perfect time. After all, there's already something rolling around in Chiaki's wet box.

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>>25110425
Oooooooooh, fuck you

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>>25110425
You are terrible.

>>25110418

There's ALWAYS TIME!

Now, if you said there was a better use of our time, well...no, still not seeing it...

>>25110438
>>25110471
Thank you, we're here all night.

>>25110025
Not in the mood. What's in the box?

>>25110425
Carlooooos!

>>25110538
What do you think the chances are that it isn't a head?

>>25110025
Take a drink. "Jealousy is an ugly emotion. It suits you."

>>25110561
Toss a coin. Either heads or tails

>>25110561
One in three.
Two in three says it's some other limb.

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>>25110025

>>25110561

about 1/3 I'm still hoping its a head of cabbage

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>>25110425
It can`t be helped.

>>25110561
Even money says it's a different organ. Like a heart.

>>25110577

You're the best.

>>25110585
Sauce?

>>25110577

nice.

>>25110561
Honestly, you'd be surprised how small you can squish up an entire body if you dont mind breaking bits of it.

>>25110029 >>25110033 >>25110057 >>25110054 >>25110093

"Well, I don't like you talking to her!" Pinky snarls at you, sharpened teeth snapping together, as if biting off every word she spits out. "No more talking to idols, especially her!" It's then that she pouts, here. "Uuu...if I'd only known that you'd have an idol fetish just by one making eyes at you after you saved her, I wouldn't have even lifted a finger to help you out of Midorin's illusion! Stupid Madoka-chan! STUPID HOMURA-CHAN!"

Yes. she should learn how to stop those annoying impulses of being a decent person. It gets in the way of what you're obsessively gunning for. You're working on that yourself, really. It must be really tough for someone batshit insane like her to struggle with morals. You can tell - it's not helping her complexion much.

"What?" Pinky blinks at this, before narrowing her eyes. "What...what did you say? Are you...are you making fun of ME, Homura-chan?"

You ignore the disturbing way that the world around you suddenly seems to darken the slightest bit, a dull roar rumbling in your ears as the ground under your feet starts to shiver. You're just puzzled, after all - what's gotten her upset THIS time? It's not like her to be jealous since you shot Iori down. That's what she wanted, isn't it? And to think you were going to introduce her to some of your new friends tonight, what with her being lonely and all. It all goes down the drain, however, if what's inside the box is the one thing that it shouldn't be.

Because that would be bad. And you wouldn't be able to be friends anymore.

"But that's not--" Pinky starts, frowning still, yet her pure-black eyes flickering in uncertainty for a split second. "It's not MY box, Homura-chan! I didn't put it together for you!"

Really. Can she still say that, if it turns out that this was sent by someone using a Golden Weapon? She'd still be responsible for that.

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>>25110617

>>25110617
Awww fuck it's a head. She knows it's a head and now she's gonna try to stop us looking in the box because we threatened her.

Fucking Pinky.

>>25110617
It IS a head, isn't it?
And it's going to cock up whatever plans we had and make this entire week a fucking disaster.

>>25110642
>Fucking Pinky
She's only looking out for us, don't hate her for that.

>>25110617


"...Hah! That's impossible!" Pinky has the gall to scoff here, waving a clawed hand as if to brush your accusation away. "Everyone I've chosen isn't as crass as this, Homura-chan! Kilgore, maybe, but not everyone else!..." It's then that she blinks again, tilting her head to the side and scratching at a cheek with an index finger.

"Well, er, Kirika-chan was sort of nuts to begin with--but ah, you already took care of the both of them, anyway! The rest are...alright, alright, maybe it's possible for one or two of them, but it's really not their style to-"

...You're not too sure how to feel about that. But whatever. You're here to open the goddamn box and see what's inside.

"Eh, are you really sure, Homura-chan?" It's here that Pinky's smile turns sly. "You should just quit while you're ahead, you know~"

Shaking your head at the pun - you expected more from her, really - it's then that you plant one heeled foot onto a nearby stool, tugging the combat knife strapped to your ankle free of its sheath. You take the box from Pinky's grasp - the crazed goddess with the bleeding eyes sulking still, mouth upturned in a pouty frown - and begin to carefully slice open the tape securing the top shut. There's a lot of it, but your knife's sharp enough to--

The smell is faint, but you pick up on it immediately, setting off warning alarms in your head. You saw through the tape faster, quicker, more urgently - and the scent gets stronger the more you unseal the damn thing. It's blood, that much is certain. Tangy copper, with a faint edge of rust. Old blood, spiced with the subtle sweetness of fresh decay.

You finally manage to cut away the rest of the tape, and you stab the combat knife into the counter. The bladed weapon turning gray the moment you let go of it, both your hands now tearing the lid free.

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>>25110617
Fuccccckkkkkk...

It's a head. Possible two.

>>25110617
Then who did? If you want me, truly want me, stop fucking around and give it to me straight.

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>>25110665
>>25110642
>>25110656

Welp folks, brace yourselves.

>>25110665

>You should just quit while you're ahead

fffffffffff

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>>25110668
We're so on the edge of our fucking seat we're trying to respond even before the choice comes up, and I can't blame us.

>>25110665

What greets you - besides the stench of death, of blood, of skin and flesh and bone torn open - is the back of a severed head. Female. Young. Possibly a magical girl, you can't say for sure.

Its hair a thick, soft, yellow blonde. Two pigtails, teased into gentle spiralling curls. A brass flower brooch, stained with blood, secures one of them in place.

. . .

How do you react?

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>>25110665

F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 !

>>25110656
And then we put up a special mission for the officio. Manhunt : Whoever the fuck beheaded our friend/colleague (If it's some random person then we'll do it solo until we find out it's a golden weapon user)

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>>25110665
The anticipation is killing me

>>25110691
"...Who did this?"

>>25110691
PROPHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

>>25110691
Pick it up and turn it over
Check for a soul gem

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>>25110691
Panic.

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>>25110691
Oh God.

>>25110691
Who's face.

If Mami, pull the gun and shoot Pinky in the face

>>25110691
Close the box. Start time. Phone Mami.

We may have to take a raincheck on that idol job. Because it might be war time.

>>25110691
Turn it around and hope for the best
Someone is just fucking with us and will die for this joke.

>>25110691

CHECK THE FACE.

FUUUUUUU

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>>25110691
Everything dies.

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>>25110691
FFF-

>>25110691

TURN IT OVER WHO OH GOD WHO IS IT!!!!!!?

>>25110691

Keep calm, turn head around. Then proceed to flip out.

>>25110691
Close the lid
resume time
call Mami

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>>25110691
Make this fucking face

>>25110691
check if brooch is soulgem
check if face is mami
gently
oh god i was right it really was a doppelganger

>>25110691
Well, fuck.

>>25110721
This, we have to make sure.

>>25110691
"...Fix it.

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT."

>>25110691

Snap so hard we go right back to cold and unfeeling.

>possible magical girl

turn the head over, we have to make sure if it is Mami or not.

>probably is but YOU NEVER KNOW!

also is there a soul gem included?

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>>25110691

[x] Witch out.

>>25110691
>How do you react?
we dont react because we dont know who it is

goddamnit decu stop drawing it out and show us the face

>>25110691

"This... is a bad joke, isn't it? A really bad joke. I'm going to kill whoever thought this was funny."

Check the face.

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Ooops, we should return that to the office quickly.

>>25110691
Turn the head around and check the face.
"If this is Mami, then we aren't friends anymore, Pinky."

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>>25110691
Flip the fuck out.

>>25110691
Check the brooch. Is it intact?

We didn't leave Mami that long ago. This can't be right. It.. It isn't her, is it.

"Who did this." Flat and so very upset.

>>25110691

NO

NO NO NO

NOO!!!

>>25110691
Save our fury for the one responsible. Right now just calmly check to see if it's a Soulgem, and if it is, demand to know who did this, and do not take no for an answer.

Rank, officio, and civilia casualties be damned, if it's mami we're blasting them into orbit.

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>>25110707
Actually on second thought I'm going to bump the happening-o-meter to 'you can't stop it'.

Anyway check the identity, it could be someone else. Then GET AFTER THE COURIER whilst we're still in time freeze

>>25110691
Drop the fucking box.
Sock Pinky in the fucking face. Assuming we haven't been ripped in half by that, straddle her and empty a clip into her.
FUCK EVERYTHING TO THE FUCKING MOON

>>25110691
Well, somebodies getting murdered for this.

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>>25110691
Remain calm.

Turn over head.

If not Mami, be furious in a professional sort of way. Who am I kidding, its fucking Mami.

If Mami, RAMPAGE TIME.

>>25110691
>[] Take the head out. Check face. If Mami: Shoot Pinky's ear off. Undo the timestop, call the officio. Enter DEFCON 5 (or 1 whichever was the OH SHIT one). New priority 1 mission: Manhunt.

>>25110764
We don't know it was a golden weapon user.

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>>25110775

>>25110774
If it's Mami then Unlimited Nuclear Missile Works is go.

>>25110775
Shouldn't the colors of "It hasn't even begun" and "You didn't listen" be swapped?

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>>25110691

[x] Vomit
[x] Check face
[x] If Mami, give in to the Despair.

>>25110691
"Motherfucker."
unstop time and nobody leaves the bar. Shit has gotten serious.

>>25110691
Hmm, as much as it sounds like Mami, I wonder if it being in the Time Stop is fucking with our perception of the contents of the box. It wouldn't be the first time we've seen something that actually isn't there during time stop.

>>25110691
If this is Mami, there will be blood, and war. A long war.

>>25110802
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>>25110740
Order in the court!

Find that courier. Unfreeze time and ask Charles for details of his looks if we have to. We find him, we have a lead.

>Ignore the pink bitch
>Call Mami
>Fail to connect
>Call QB
>DEFCON -1 YOU FURRY MOTHERFUCKER
>Mobilize [s]1000[/s] 999 magical girls.
>SEARCH AND DESTROY
>SEARCH AND DESTROY
>SEARCH AND DESTROY
>SEARCH AND DESTROY
>SEARCH AND DESTROY

>>25110705
This.

>>25110814
lol, we unfreeze time and its just a hunk of lettuce

"'Everyone I've chosen isn't as crass as this,' huh?"
then >>25110774

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>>25110775
Personally, I think It's Too Late is more appropriate.

>>25110691
Check the brooch for a Soulgem, and then check the face to see who it was.

We need to keep our rage and despair in check; we can't kill whoever did this if we Witch out too soon.

>>25110829
We should call Mami, Kyouko, Sayaka (in that order). If one of them picks up, we'll know what happened.

>>25110814
It's probably just someone else made to look like Mami. A torn off face would complete it.

>>25110848
If we level the city we can.

>>25110691

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

>>25110691
CHECK THE FACE