>>28430432

He turns to Ekaterina, leaning down briefly to brush some of her stringy, filth-matted hair away from her face. Murmuring something underneath his breath, he pushes the hypogun against the side of her neck and administers the tranquilizer, a quiet hiss sounding from the device. Ekaterina's entire form trembles weakly at this, before letting out a feeble whimper - sounding that much more vulnerable, seemingly afraid to sink back into the nightmares that the chemicals drowned her in.

Souji stands up with a muttered oath, before tossing you his shotgun. "I'll distract them for you, then. Try not to hit me, alright?"

You catch the shotgun easily with one hand. ...You're no Vindicare, but you're a good shot when you need to be.

"No guarantees still, right?" The brown-haired young man laughs hollowly, before shaking his head. "Right. Okay. Let's do this." And then... "God forgive me."

...Well. Nothing wrong with asking for forgiveness, you think.

Just that it may take more than just saying sorry.

But at least he's starting. Square one isn't much, but it's a start.

You feel another smile tug at the corner of your lips.

...She'll probably be at the very first square, too. But at the very least, she'll be using the loaded dice you'll be palming into her hand very soon.

[1/2]

>>28430440

You take cover behind the wall just adjacent to the entrance the moment they step through - the ajar door hiding you from immediate view. You kill your vox speakers and hold your breath as you allow for them to enter - both your gloved hands gripping your borrowed SAIGA tighter, your index finger placing a feather-light touch on the trigger.

Five. No, six of them in all. Hired goons, alright, thickly-muscled and sporting enough tattoos to make any decent public bath close for the night. Lots of hardware, too, unnecessarily-large firearms worn more to intimidate than for actual use. ...One of them is actually waving around a diamond-encrusted Desert Eagle. That's...you'd have laughed if you weren't so focused at the moment.

"Hey, dickweed!" One of them roars at Souji, who's doing a very commendable job looking like an angry nerd that's just been told that his internet time is up. "It's time. Ma'am Strauss wants this bitch up in the arena. Time for her to do her thing with the claws and shit."

"I figured as much," Souji spits, here. "She activated her damn implants again, by remote. Almost took my head off when I was just checking for her wounds. Didn't you tell her how fucking dangerous that is?"

The first goon laughs, and his fellows are quick to join in. "Check out dickweed here, thinks he can give ME orders!" He shakes his scarred face, the grin turning his features even more unsightly. "Look, kid, so long as Ma'am Strauss pays us, we don't give a shit what else she does. Now prep her for action." It's here that he growls. "Wait a minute, is she supposed to still be sleeping like that? She's usually tryin' to rip those chains apart right now, isn't she?"

"I had to tranquilize her, of course! She wasn't chained down at the time, for fuck's sake." Souji shakes his head. "Give me a moment, let me get the adrenaline..."

He glances at you for the slightest fraction of a second, before nodding.

[2/3]

>>28430445

The both of you move in tandem - you, kicking the door shut and locking it with a moment's thought, while Souji dives into cover, pulling a remote from the inside of his coat. There's a defeaning metal crash as Ekaterina's cage slams back down around her - and another snap as the lights go off.

"WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!" The goon is shouting now, evidently the leader, while his mates panic all the same. "DICKWEED, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"

"Something I should've done a long time ago, fuckface," The young man snarls in the darkness. "Now! Kill them now!"

Right. People need to die.

"Preysight," You breathe into your vox-speakers. Your visor immediately blanking out, before coming alive again as a vision of grainy blue smeared with clumps of red, yellow and greens standing around, panicking, aiming their firearms at nothing.

How do you kill them?

[]Shotgun. It'll be loud and give your position away, but at least it'll be quick.
[]Crowbar. A bit slower and definitely messier, but there's little more chance for them to pinpoint your position.

>>28430451
[x]Shotgun. It'll be loud and give your position away, but at least it'll be quick.
Fuck subtlety.

HOLY SHIT ONE HOUR FLEW BY QUICK

>>28430451
[x]Shotgun. It'll be loud and give your position away, but at least it'll be quick.
Six people? Armed in close quarters? We need to get them down now before we get shot, and blowing them away work just fine.

>>28430451
>[X]Shotgun. It'll be loud and give your position away, but at least it'll be quick.
We kind of want them to know our position. Kyubey'll be a dick about it, but he can always stitch our limbs back on later. Souji doesn't have that option.

>>28430451
[x]Shotgun. It'll be loud and give your position away, but at least it'll be quick.

Let's just make sure Souji doesn't get shot.

>>28430451
[X] shotgun

>>28430451

[x]Shotgun. It'll be loud and give your position away, but at least it'll be quick.

Use what's left of any of them as meat shields if we have to.

>>28430451
>[ x ]Shotgun.
Make it quick and efficient.

>>28430451
[x] Shotgun. We kill these bastards. No subtlety, just force.

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>>28430451
So who's up for diamond-studding this motherfucker?

>>28430458
>>28430479
>>28430486
>>28430515
>>28430520
>>28430525
>>28430539
>>28430542
At last, something /tg/ can agree on unilaterally!

Crowbars are for taking down individuals and self defense, not for room-clearing!

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>>28430451
>>28430445
>>28430440
>>28430432

Here's a question, what else does Malal use her crowbar for, apart from breaking people? It's not a great ranged item (unless you can throw it pretty decently, and then only once).

Mind you, a crowbar could probably be handy in quite a few scenarios, opening doors, crates, people...

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>>28430451
[x]Use Both.

>>28430617
She looks like she's getting off on the violence.

That makes me love her more.

>>28430623
WE HAVE TWO HANDS

WE HAVE TWO WEAPONS

IT MAKES SENSE

>>28430618
making permanent graffity on walls.

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>>28430617
>Dat smirk
>Dat expression
>Dat everything

>>28430617
Pretty neat.
Now draw the broken, violated mess that is Ekaterina.

>>28430645
We also have two unarmoured allied noncombatants in the room and a shotgun meant to be wielded with both hands.

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>>28430451
[x]Set Puke-Powers to Max
[x]Use it on augmented Kharn

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the epitome of Modern Meguca Warfare: Weaponized Kharn vomiting at sub-sonic speed.

>>28430445
>diamond-encrusted Desert Eagle
Chiaki needs it for dual wielding with the golden one.

>>28430671

Enhanced meguca strength

>>28430617
Jesus

>>28430451
>"Preysight,"
Predator Vision?

>>28430671
Plus Malal is like, 14. And we WANT them to know where we are. I figure at least two clean shots, and anywhere between 2-3 casualties per blast.

If we step into the middle of them, we stand a decent chance of causing friendly fire incidents, while drawing their fire away from Ekaterina and Souji

>>28430451
>>28430617

Malal is the best alternate-Universe Madoka, seriously.

>>28430692
That is true, but there's also the fact that we need two hands to pump it.

>>28430681
What is WRONG with you?

this is ameowsing

>>28430692
Does not equate to being able to aim worth a damn with a high-recoil weapon meant to be fired with two hands using night-vision goggles in the dark where everyone's a blob and you're also wielding a crowbar trying to hit people while lining up your shots.

There's a time and place to be showing off, and Malal isn't the showy girl, is she? She's all about the efficiency in fighting.

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>>28430646
>“I mean, I’m not sure yet. It’s probably easier to get Matsuda angry first, if you want to make her do something. That’s what Mari-chan’s working on right now…”
>There's a spy who's been 'working' on us
>Which implies that we've met them
>They've been attempting to both get us angry, and sleep with us
>There is precisely one person we've been in contact with who has tried to do both of these

> One's actually fiddling with his phone, and the other's flirting with a Magical Girl, her green hair done up in twintails.
>She's singing now, doing a little dance in front of the appreciative guards while singing some sort of annoying J-PoP song.
>Just as she's about to belt out the chorus, all the color drains in her face - and instead of a beautiful mezzo-soprano, a wave of today's breakfast erupts out of her mouth and splatters all over her chuckling audience.
>Green haired magical girl with twintails
>Attempting to sneak into the facility where Kharn is being held
>Tries to get past the guards
>By singing
>She's rather good, and singing J-Pop
WHY HELLO THERE RURI

HOWS THE SUPER SPY BUSINESS WORKING OUT FOR YA

>>28430712
You dont pump a Saiga, unless im misremembering it horribly.

>>28430712
>Pump
>Saiga

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>>28430728
oh fuck

the shadowrunners were right

>>28430712
Saigas are semiauto shotguns. No need to pump.

It's basically an AK47 rebuilt to fire shotgun rounds.

>>28430728
...And then we made her puke her guts out.

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>>28430728
>Spy
>Hiding where nobody would suspect
>In plain sight as a fucking idol
Well fuck

>>28430728
The ruri right now might be the proto-ruri

>>28430728
.....damn, just...well played, ruri.

Was the whole thing just a test to see what we can be manipulated to do?

I feel bad about going to sleep now.

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>>28430728
...

How long ago was that Ruri corpse found again?

...Five years ago?

>>28430819
>She deliberately timed it so we'd get there just as she and Iori were moaning
Yes.

hey NECO, will there be any profiles tonight?

>>28430832
Maaaaybe.

>>28430844
You're no fun

>>28430819
>"... and that's how I convinced her to sleep on the couch!"
>"Are you fucking serious right now."
>"Y-yes?"
>"Goddamnit."

>>28430855
I will tell you that Souji still doesn't get one.

Right now. I actually really like him and I hope he doesn't die if he shows up again.

>>28430728
Oh fuck.

Thats how she knew about the Iori rape.

What happens if a girl goes to make a contract and then wishes to become a boy?

>>28430867
What if he dies in this one?

>>28430889
But then who was Siberia?

>>28430883
They get the magical dragon dildo.

>>28430897
Alien cyborg Callidus from the future?

>>28430883
Then Kyuubey grumbles because the delicious emotional trauma energy would be as potent when he eventually witches out, but it'd just mean we have a magical boy like Erio.

>>28430904
REAL MGNQ SPOILERS: Souji was also Ruri the whole time.

So is Mami.

Green hair is the danger.

>>28430823
>"Well, there was that one time where a dead body was found that looked exactly like her, right when she was holding a concert. Found only a few miles from the concert grounds. They say it was some sort of cosplayer that got killed on the way to the concert, but the conspiracy theorists think an alien killed Ruri and took her place. That was forgotten about quickly, because she was right there, and a family quickly identified the corpse as a missing daughter."
>...Well. That's something to take note of. You also note that that particular bit of information isn't on Mami's file.
>"Well, of course. You don't get to know about that unless you've been a big fan of her for a long time, and I've been one since she came into the scene!" Sayaka says this with no small amount of pride. If you could only capture this moment, to show her how much of a nerd she's being currently.
According to Sayaka, a 'long time' ago.

>>28430728
Also, shit. Deepthroat is a magical girl too.

According to Neco's files, she's the ONLY ONE out of FIVE siblings who hasn't contracted.

Isn't that a LITTLE BIT SUSPICIOUS?

>>28430883
Incubator goes 'B-but that's forbidden!' and the universe implodes.

>>28430915
I meant wouldn't, fucking autocorrect didn't correct my typo the right way.

>>28430883
Witches out instantly.

Witch is a tentacle monster.

>>28430883
They become Makoto

>>28430883
Nothing, the wish is not valid

>>28430847
Yeah outside of Santa Destroy, not Varrigan City. And it was less than 5 years ago, Sayaka said it was 2 years ago right as Ruri was getting into the "whole solo Idol thing". Before then Ruri was a part of the Sugar Angels who were nothing more than a run of the mill Idol group in Japan.

Calm yo' shadowruns.

>>28430970
>Yeah outside of Santa Destroy, not Varrigan City.
>Spy Officio
>Sticking to just one city
>Implying she's not just here for Kharn

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>>28430919

welp.

>>28430728
you see this shit is why we are always shadowrunning all the god damn time, we are always right.

>>28430458 >>28430479 >>28430486 >>28430515

You disengage the shotgun's safety and rack the slide, before stepping forward out of your cover.

Seven rounds, six idiots. More than enough, and you've got the element of surprise, here.

Your first shot is an instant kill. The discharge flare blooms in your vision, an angry white-hot blast fringed with angry reds and yellows, briefly lighting up the dark blue world replacing the darkness around you - and the first goon takes it directly in the face. He topples on his back bonelessly, the upper half of his skull sheared away, the firearm gripped in his hands falling to the floor in a useless clatter.

"One down," You bark into the room, your helmet's vox-speakers amplifying it into a deafening bellow. "Let's dance, motherfuckers."

"What the...KILL THE FUCKER! WHOEVER THE FUCK IT IS, KILL 'EM!" The leader roars, and gunfire, loud and blinding, is sent screaming at your direction. Each muzzle flare lighting up the room, strobing in the harshest way - and you take advantage of the split-second intervals of darkness to move away, take cover, and get into another vantage point. Get into another prime killing position.

And once you do, you pull the trigger. Again, and again, and again.

Announcing every kill you make through your vox - making the leader spit curses at you, and his lackeys beg for mercy.

Killing. You've never relished it. Oh, you have the knack for it, you're not going to deny that - but you like fighting more. You like brawling better, a contest of imposing your own will against someone else's. You've made great friends by meeting people and beating the living shit out of them. Win or lose, there'd be a closeness to the both of you now that not even sex probably could emulate. ...Well, no, you're not too sure. You've never done that before anyway.

[1/2]

>>28431003
>Win or lose, there'd be a closeness to the both of you now that not even sex probably could emulate. ...Well, no, you're not too sure. You've never done that before anyway.
PURE MAIDEN STATUS CONFIRMED

>>28431003

...You don't like killing, is what you're getting at here. You know you have to do it and you're good at it, but it's not something you take too much joy from in doing.

These idiots, however... Maybe you're having much more fun than you admit right now.

Or maybe you just needed to vent, after you saw what they did to Ekaterina.

Hnh. It's not like anyone will care in the end, anyway.

All that matters is the main objective.

She still needs to live for you to put her through much more pain, after all.

You save the leader for the last. With his goons all dead - and him trying desperately to find his way back to the exit - you send him crumpling to the ground with a contemptuous kick to the back of his knees. Preventing him from getting up with a booted foot to his chest.

"Who the fuck are you? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" The leader's face, a ruddy smear of red and yellow in your preysight, is screaming up at you in a frothing, impotent rage. He doesn't even stop as you press the smoking mouth of your gun against his forehead. "YOU KILLED MY FUCKING TEAM, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU--"

"No one," You murmur into your vox, before pulling the trigger one last time. The struggling body underneath your foot growing still and slack even before the resultant stain of muzzle flash had faded from your vision.

There's a sharp silence, one that always follows after murder - and it's Souji's voice, hesitant and wary, that breaks it.

"Lady?" He ventures, here. "Is...is everything okay? Are those guys--"

"Get the lights." You cut him off. "We won't have much time before they're missed."

Souji does so, light flooding back into the darkened room. Your visor resetting back into its normal mode just in time to see the young man throw up at the sight of a corpse that's missing most of its face.

You glance around the room, looking at your handiwork.

[2/3]

>>28431015

...It's like another person did it. Not the pink-haired girl hiding inside her black biker getup, but something else entirely.

A monster, maybe. One that doesn't have sharp metal shit for hands and legs, but just a complete and utter disregard for others' lives, much less her own.

The horrifying thing about that is you're not sure which one is worse.

"Jesus. They're..." Souji chokes, here. "Just like that...? They were fine just a few minutes ago, even that asshole who keeps calling me like a dickweed, and now they're just..." He turns a deeper shade of green before heaving again. Emptying his stomach in loud, wet slaps on the floor.

"Is this what you do? Is this what Magical Girls like you do?" He spits at you in between heaves.

How do you respond?

>>28431039
[x] "When we need to."

>>28431039
[x] "What? You thought it was all rainbows and sparkledust?"

>>28431039
[X] "When we need to. What, you thought it was all rainbows and sparkledust? We're glorified assassins. Now come on, we don't have much time before the come to investigate the noise."

>>28431039
"No. Normally, I use the crowbar."

Seriously though, with the horrible things he's already complicit in doing, he really doesn't have the right to say that.

>>28431039
[x]Sometimes there's glowy lights and shit and then everything's nice and hunky dory. Sometimes you end up with our little friends here all over the walls. Now get it together and let's go!

>>28431039
yeah, pretty much. dont have to enjoy it, but it must be done. look at the bundle of steel and psychosis that YOU helped augment back there-does it look like it the face of mercy?

>>28431039
"If it makes you feel any better, there aren't a lot of Magical Girls like me."

>>28431039
[X] "With the horrible shit you're already complicit in, you think you have the right to say that? I don't enjoy it, to be honest, but sometimes it has to be done."

"Now lets move, before more come."

>>28431039
[x]"For someone who works with Magical Girls you are surprisingly naive. There is nothing more inhumane than Magical Girls."

>>28430995
Was some of this in the write ups? I haven't read them. Are they considered "canon" in the MGNQ universe?

>>28431093
Ooh. I like this one.

Seconded.

>>28431097
Pretty much all of the writeups are canon.

>>28431039
[x] No, some do it a bit cleaner, some drag it out. Not a lot of options with a shotgun though.

>>28431097
Last threads writeup dealt with the Twentieth Officio, the spy guys. They were discussing 'escape from Sex Gulag', in which you - as a blonde - have to escape from Kharn's bedroom with your virginity intact.

The subject of her successor came up, and 'Mari' was mentioned.

>>28431039
"No. My assignment usually involve fishing in a lake or taking bird photos around countryside."

>>28431039

[x]this
>>28431075

>>28431107
Even the lewd ones?

>>28431121
Especially the lewd ones anon.

>>28431107
can someone give me a collection or pastebin of writeups? ive read what i think are all of them, but a collected version would be excellent

>>28431121
Okay pretty much all of the writeups posted in threads are canon. There.

>>28431107
Well I guess I have something to brush up on before the next thread. You damn cat. I love you NECO and not just for being a cute.

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>>28431144
NECO is not for loving.

>>28431139
http://pastebin.com/kbGzcbDb

Nubum collects all of them in a separate pastebin from the normal MGNQ one! Otherwise they're on varying pastebins per writer.

Mine has a couple too, nyahaha~

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>>28431144
>>28431151
This lewd picture I have says otherwise.

>>28431154
er, I meant ebook, not pastebin

>>28431039
[x] "At least it was quick. I didn't drag it out over months of torture, disfigurement, and violation. I turned them into corpses, not monsters.
What right do you have to complain?"

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>>28431039
Magic. Magic never changes.

>>28431158
Are those air intakes on her head

>>28431151
A cat is fine too, anon.

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>>28431215
You tell me.

>>28431219
Of course.
But not for loving.
Just for use.

>>28431231
Loving use.

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>>28431039
>>28431003
>>28431015
I-is this moe...?

>>28431266
Yes.

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>>28431219
>>28431231
>>28431239

Well if you say so..

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>>28431266
Yes.

>>28431266

Damn, that brutal.

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>>28431266
Absolutely.

>>28431266
That's not a saiga

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>>28431266

>>28431299
I didnt want to mention it

>>28431272
I had a dream like that, once. But there was more dismemberment.

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>>28431266
No.

Everyone inside all of the officios needs to end up dead by the end of the story, otherwise it's like letting everyone at the Nuremberg trials go off the hook without any punishments.

I trust Decu will be able to handle that.

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>>28431266
Wrong guuuuun

>>28431266
im sorry, its excellent, but that calf/thigh ratio is tipping my OCD

>>28431266
Yes, definition of moe.

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>>28431266

Dan-chan, Dan-chan, please give us more of this!

>>28431318
I kinda hope the do another one but forget the magazine because it wasn't in your pic.

>>28431318
I don't know shit about guns.

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>>28431266

>>28431339
pls

>>28431339
Neither do I, but googling 'saiga shotgun' requires no effort.

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>>28431272
>Cat
>Penis
>Lewd angle

JAPAAAAAAAAAAAN!

>>28431321
Ugh, yeah, I'll spend more time drawing it right next time. Also next time i'll sleep early instead of staying up late.

>>28431348

Why does it always have to be this way, anon? Isn't it enough that we're getting awesome artwork from Dan?

>>28431358
YOU'LL SLEEP WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
DRAW BABY KHARN

>>28431299
>>28431318
>>28431348
>autism

>>28431363
get gud@paint scrub

>>28431363
Nitpicking is mandatory.
There is no escape.

>>28431371
It matters

>>28431266
That look on Malal's face dose strange and amazing thing to me.

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>>28431371

>>28431326
But with long hair Chiaki, right? Right??

>>28431376
Not even in the slightest.

>>28431328
I was the non-Dan Kim livedrawer from last thread and did this, awawawa.

>>28431389
get /k/ fgt

>>28431396
pls
we still love you

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>>28431396
Yeh you did.

>>28431396
I recognize those awas.

SHOW YOURSELF

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>>28431266
aaaaaaaaah

>>28431224
Yes, they are.

>>28431411
"Souji, you realize that gun isn't even loaded, right?"

"...y-yeah, I was...was just testing you!"

>>28431412
Never!
>>28431402
T-thanks.

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>>28431387
Long hair version best version.

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>>28431510
Malal is displeased.

>>28431510
>no magazine
I called it.

>>28431510
>a stare that can kill
Most likely literally.

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>>28431080 >>28431087 >>28431093

For someone who works with Magical Girls, he's surprisingly naive, you tell him. There's nothing more inhumane than Magical Girls.

"Y-yeah, but I thought..." Souji averts his eyes away from the corpse, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. "I mean, I--"

You point towards Ekaterina in her cage. Look, you tell him. Look at the bundle of steel and hate and psychosis that he himself helped augment. Does that look like the face of mercy, of rainbows and sparkles and everything nice? Does that give him any right to judge you?

"No, I wasn't--" The young man tries, but you shake your head and toss him back his shotgun. Whatever he wanted to say, you didn't want to hear it. Not right now. You all need to get ready to get out of here as soon as possible. Like you said, there's not much time before the people you've just killed are missed.

"Ah. Y-yeah. Right. I'll go and get Kat ready, then." He moves away before you could reply, very nearly tripping over one of the corpses. You shake your head again, before glancing down at the leader you've just killed.

You make to reach for his diamond-encrusted Desert Eagle. It's gaudy as hell, but you might need a gun later. Something you can use with one hand, or at least try to.

Just as you slip it into your inventory, it's here that your codec rings again. Xiaomei. You immediately answer it.

"Malal!" Xiaomei all but screams your name the moment the connection is established, and you wince, here. "Malal, have to hurry! You cannot dilly-dally like this any more, cannot move so slow! Must need to go right now!"

What? Okay, she needs to slow down, you don't understand--

"Evacuation site is compromised! Fulton extraction is not possible now! Varrigan City Tower crawling with hostiles, evac plane cannot get close to it!"

[1/2]

>>28430924
>According to Neco's files, she's the ONLY ONE out of FIVE siblings who hasn't contracted.
Four our of Five siblings fall into a pit
The fifth finally avoids the trap
SUSPICIOUS

>>28431545
It's hard to fall in a pit that's full of bodies. You can just walk over it.

>>28431543

...Shit. Well, what now, then? Do you have any other options? You can't fight an entire city. Well, you can, but there's no real guarantee you'll get out alive, much less Ekaterina and Souji.

"Only one! Go back down Red Line Highway, go straight to the docks!

The docks? That's...that's on the other end of the fucking city. What's there?

"Thirteenth Officio flagship, the Rafflesia! Fran is already there, and she says she will be your evac instead!"

What? Fran? But isn't the Thirteenth part of all this? Aren't they the reason why you had to rescue Ekaterina in the first place--

"Just trust Fran! I know her, she is good person deep inside!" The brown-haired girl glares at you. "Well, maybe a bit crazy, but in funny way at least!"

How do you react?

[]No. Get me another evac. I still don't trust them.
[]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

>>28431555
[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.
OI YOU GROTS. WE BE LOOTIN A BATTLESHIP.

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>>28431555

>[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

Trust in Fran.

Believe in Fran.

>>28431555
[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

>>28431555
[X] Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk. But try to get me another evac, I'm not sure I trust them. Fran's good, sure, but the others...

>>28431555
>[X]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

FRAN FINE THE NANNY!

>>28431555
[X ]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

>>28431555
awww shit. i dont like having fran anywhere near a ship. unless she's been given gills

>>28431543
Nooooo, I knew Fulton was too good to be true!
>>28431555
[x] Help Madaraki with the ousting, that way we can assure our own protection and make it more likely that the 13th aren't evil.

>>28431555
[X]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

>>28431555
[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.
We did need to give Fran back her assistant. And she has the facilities to perform the operation on Ekaterina.
And showing Strauss' betrayal of the Thirteenth's oaths beyond reproach should help solidify Fran's position.

>>28431555
>[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.

>>28430728
i dun geddit

Ruri was the idol in this flashback? What's that supposed to mean? She was the real one and got murdered which explains the Ruri lookalike corpse we heard about so our Ruri was a fake?

Ya'll Shadowrunning niggas don't be making any sense.

>>28431555
>[X]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.
But try and prep another tertiary evac. I don't trust them, and it's going to be hell to make this rendevous.

>>28431585
Well, she could always have been telling the truth about it.

It really was just a cosplayer.

>>28431555
>[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.
Better than ending as a flaming wreck falling from the sky.

>>28431555
DO IT, BELIEVE IN THE FRAN THAT BELIEVES IN YOU

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Going to bed. Requesting someone else draw the rest of the scenes cakeplsthx.

>>28431589
>>28431565
Nthing tertiary evac. Fran's plan could always fuck up somewhere, then we'd have to evac her too.

>>28431594
Telling the truth about what? Which Ruri may have been a cosplayer?

I'm retarded.

>>28431599
Thanks, Dan! Despite the weird autistic nitpicking!

>>28431599

Cake you Dan Kim.

May you be showered in Butts

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>>28431604
>nitpicking
>weird
>on /tg/
That shit's business as usual.

>>28431603
Dead cosplayer was just a dead cosplayer.

>>28431599
we better get a baby kharn by the end of the flashback, dan
there will be consequences otherwise

>>28431555
[x]...Fine. Get me a way to contact her. We need to talk.
Fran best choice.

>>28431599
Awwww, oh well, thanks for drawing!

>>28431611
Oh. Thanks.

>>28431585
>Ruri was the idol in this flashback? What's that supposed to mean? She was the real one and got murdered which explains the Ruri lookalike corpse we heard about so our Ruri was a fake?
The girl that showed up in the flashback is the same girl we were bodyguarding.

Now whether this means that she killed the real Ruri and took her place, or if the dead 'Ruri' is just a red herring? Not enough information. If the cosplayer was dead five years ago, then it'd be 100% spyswitch. But since it was two years ago, things get murky...

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>>28431555

>>28431673
>Voting period is meower
For what reason was voting period one who make sound of cat?

>>28431688
Because it's funny. And variety is the spice of "end of voting" signs.

>>28431688
NECO from the future wrote the message and sent it to the current NECO. That is the only explanation I can think of.

>>28431642
when did Kharn become warmaster/famous enough to have a simulation tailored to match her sexual advances?

five years is actually way too early, but 2 years does seem a little late...

>>28431725
...Um.

That writeup? Featuring the simulation?

Happened after we became Warmaster.

Which is why they mentioned us at all.

>>28431741
Why would they roll that simulation then? It's not like Kharn would betray Souji, right? And it's not like she matters right now.

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>>28431562 >>28431563 >>28431564 >>28431565

"Already ahead of you. Have Fran already waiting on other frequency - patching her through now, okay?"

Right. But just in case this also ends ass-upwards, you want Xiaomei to look for an alternative. Doesn't matter if it's a long shot, just that there's one if you need it.

"Hah, even in situations like this, you like to make sure, huh? Okay, okay. No guarantees, but will try best." Her portrait winks out, replaced with a grainier one of the strange doctor you chastised earlier during her lunch.

Madaraki Fran looks nervous, but at the same time relieved. "Aaaaahhh, Miss Malal!" She beams, here. "T-thank goodness! I waaas worried when Xiaomei-chan asked me to hold, I thought you were going to refuse..."

Well, you're not in the business of refusing a helping hand when it's offered, so no.

"Ahh, that's a very good attitude to have, Miss Malal!" The blonde doctor clasps both her hands in front of her, clearly pleased. "Now, um, just really quickly, we're docked near Pier 4 of the Varrigan City docks, just at the tail end of the Red Line Highway. We already have staff who are ready to raise the ganggramp and raise anchor at the last minute, and we've loaded the cannons to fire on anyone who may come chasing, and there will be--"

Wait. What? Cannons?

"Of couuurse, Miss Malal," Fran blinks at you. "Our Rafflesia is still a battleship, of course. A fully functioning one! The difference is what we load into the cannons, hee-heeeee!"

Ugh. That giggle. It's cute, but it's also scary.

How do you respond?

>>28431747
For the same reason any simulator would have something like "Fight this famous old magical girl!" in it or something. Just because it'd be a cool test.

>>28431748
understood. souji, what do we need to do to transport her? Fran, what do you put in the cannons?

Say this while getting moving, gotta go fast

>>28431748
[x] "...Whatever works. Just have me a way out of here."

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>>28431748

"Right. We'll head there at once.

Can your battleship provide long range support fire if I need it?"

>>28431748
[x] There will not be any...friendly-fire, will there?

>>28431747
1. As a challenge for their 'Warmaster'
2. As a training tool
3. As porn

>>28431748
>[x] ...just wait for my signal and try not to fry me together with the pursuit teams. I'm heading out son.

>>28431747
The sim is probably pretty old.

They had one online for Matsuda within... how long as it been since we became Warmaster, a couple of weeks tops?

>>28431775
>son
Soon, but whatever works.

>>28431777
They don't have one for Matsuda yet. They're working on gathering the data.

If they DID have one for Matsuda, it would actually be for Murderface, since they'd have most of the data from back then. Which'd mean the sim would be hilariously inaccurate.

>>28431748
[x] "Well alright then."

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>>28431747
>It's not like Kharn would betray Souji, right?
Y-yeah, she'd never do that, right?

She'd never just up and abandon him, right?

R-right?

>>28431748
"Good to know you've got decorations and noise makers on hand. I'm bringing the party to you."

>>28431748
>The difference is what we load into the cannons,
"WHAT do you load in the cannons?

If I ask for fire support, I'm not going to get a rain of mutant starfish or something, am I?"

>>28431747
>Implying that Kharn and Souji don't have an open relationship

>>28431810
>implying Souji had any say in the matter

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>>28431808
>not wanting a rain of mutant starfish
Starfish are brutal.

>>28431816
Yes, he did. She really loves him.

>>28431817
Oh, I'd use it.

I just want to be sure it's aimed at the right target.

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>>28431748
>2034
>battleships
Shiggy? Diggy.

>>28431725

Kharn became warmaster about 3 years ago and already had her reputation in the middle of her second year as warmaster where we got the flashback and abdicated after that year.

That's a pretty crazy 2+ year-term

>>28431802
Well to be fair, at this point it seems more one-sided (reasonable considering Kharn's state) from Suji's side. Ekaterina-chan is crying out for Malal and not him, after all.

>>28431808

[x]

>>28431817
i think mutant dolphins would be worse though, especially if they can move on land.

>>28431847
What about flying sharks?

>>28431840
I'm not talking about back then, I mean now in the backwater hole in Siberia she is living in together with him.
I wonder if their kids would have little metal hands and arms and scary eyes too or if they'd take after the father.

>>28431840
I keep telling you people, it was Souji x Malal until Malal bit it, then Souji and Kharn got together out of mutual grief...

>>28431836
Outdated military tech finding it's way into private hands isn't that strange.

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>>28431748
still have her profile

>>28431850
see, sharks can bite, but dolphins are goddamn rapists even without mutations

>>28431853
>implying Kharn is able to have kids

>>28431864
I deny this because
>Souji x Malal
uuuuuuuuuugh
And also seems completely baseless.

>>28431868
Hope you can use it as a crutch when your kneecaps abandon you.

>>28431748
[x] "Whatever. Just be ready."
"Souji, you got a car?"
We might have to boost one.

>>28431803
All my yes.

>>28431882
can we steal the nitro charges from the bike?

>>28431866
>2034
>using a battleship
HOLY FUCK I'LL SHIGGY YOUR DIGGY YOU MAD CUNT
First of all, you couldn't be more fucking obvious if you tried. Second, macguyvering an aircraft carrier out of a container freighter is both more effective, less obvious and way more useful.

This battleship I'll bet is an Iowa-class just because they're like the only ones halfway in usable condition nowadays, which means they're fucking murdergiants of the seas. This would break my immersion to pieces if it wasn't obvious by now that the Officios get a free pass on everything simply because they're officios and can asspull Incubators manipulating the media- both in-universe and by the author.

>>28431870
They can also hit hard enough to break bones... The better to torment their game.

>>28431897
>implying it isn't magic
>implying they have to explain shit

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>>28431903
I have a counterargument.

>>28431897
>13th officio
>using Murrican boats
>not Bismarks
13th is nazis.

>>28431873
Yes. Many little Kharn and Souji babbies that crawl around on the two while they cuddle in bed. And Kharn is really really gentle with them with her giant claw hands and she always giggle swhen they climb in between her massive boobies.

>>28431897
>I'm obvious about something
...What? I thought I was responding to someone saying it wasn't believable that battleships were even still in use in the future.

>>28431897
>Magical girl setting
>Shadowrun-like setting involving sci-fi aliens controlling corporations with their own armies and there are laser katanas
And one of them owning a battleship of unknown designation and origin is where you draw the line of believability?

>>28431971
>its like he doesn't understand this is not just a stupid popular quest but odds are likely other boards are participating in it, such as /k/

>>28431971
I came here for the noir, of shifting through bars and back alleys with nothing but a gun and no hope to Chiaki's name. SOmewhere along things started taking off.

>>28431999
welp, you've trolled the thread in 3 2 1

>>28431999
Yeah, somewhere around thread 2...

>>28432026
>implying it didn't regularily pendlum back
Grimdark Midori witch barrier adventures best threads of my life

>>28431999
>SOmewhere along things started taking off.
We got promoted.
Kind of killed the whole Meguca Runner schtick if instead of being the Runner you become Chief of Police. Or Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Tyrell Corporation, would be more apt.

>>28432056
>Grimdark Midori witch barrier adventures best threads of my life
Up until "Get fucked". That was a complete failure.

>>28432111
it's only a matter of time before they "demand our badge" and we're back in the gutter.

>>28432134
Implying crazy Homu would have let us argue with her
Homu never takes arguments, Homu has a place she wants to go and she will go there.

>>28432134
That was samefagging retards and I regret missing it.
The one thread out of this whole damn quest that I've missed and a pack of idiots ruined everything.

>>28432147
>crazy Homu
I want to meet the one from the mirror and see what happens. Maybe introduce her to Pinky.

>>28432134

I still regret not being there to vote against it.

>>28432134
Get Fucked was in character

>>28432147
>implying the sensible plan was to negotiate
It wasn't. The sensible plan from the preceding thread was to take advantage of the fact that Callidus can cloak, and basically play the part of Predator and shank the familiars in their kidneys while Armored Homu and Murderface Homu took on Ribbon Homu.

>>28432164
No, being careful would have been in-character. Being SMART would have been in-character.
'Get fucked' was complete stupidity.

>>28432164
No it wasn't, nor was the blind charge into the middle of the enemy. It goes against everything that Midori does as a Callidus, which is plan carefully and think things through before committing to an action, which is has been said in-character before.

>>28432168
I still wonder how well that would go. Golden weapons make people easier to hit, but harder to kill. Could Midori oneshot golden weapon wielding familiars with a plain dagger? If she can't, she may have been better off just hiding and keeping Moemura and Chiaki alive.

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>>28431266
See attached for saiga. Also, they would have come apart a little differently after all of that. Look up the way Death looked after suck starting his shotgun.

>>28431411
Needs a magazine and a charging handle. See: Saigas.

>>28432184
>>28432191
but Midori was pissed

>>28432164
Even though Midori's not the brightest tactician around, she still knows her strengths and weaknesses, and Get Fucked was not playing to her strengths at all.

>>28432164
Being mad at Kharn, bitchslapping and verbally wrecking her was in Character. "Get fucked" wasnt.

Midori`s best Barrier Moments were when she used Persuasion.

>>28432222
But she's not retarded.

>>28432238
How do you know?

>>28432210
>>28432220
Welcome to an hour ago where all this just got explained, now we're arguing about how dumb "Get fucked" was.

>>28432248
For the thousandth time.

So how goes the height chart?

>>28432208
Probably not one-shot. But remember that Malal and Mirai were also helping in the fight.
Midori could have helped finish off familiars, or distract them with a knife so that Mirai or Malal could take them down.

>>28432244
Because when we first met her, the only thing stopping her from suceeding was intervention from Pinky, and who the hell can account for that?

>>28432255

Hat-chan's at work.

I'd say shes a little busy now.

>>28431836
A 16" shell doesn't get any smaller, nor carry any less explosive as time goes on. Fuckers would be atomized just the same regardless.

>>28432222
>>28432244

She stopped Chiaki from splattering her all over the Silent Room.
She stopped Chiaki from going full Kirika.
She stopped Pinky from eating her face at least 3 times.
She stopped Moemura from acting stupid.
She stopped BlackrockChiaki from eating her face.
She stopped Kharn from being retarded.

Just by well-placed Hugs and the right words.

>>28432255

Hat-chan has been stuck on Sayaka for a while now

>>28432278
>Midori uses Hug
>It's super effective!

>>28432278
Midori is best Magical Girl.

Which possibly explains the moment of functional retardation when confronted with something genuinely evil, thinking about it.

>>28432278
Hugs are the most powerful force in all of MGNQ. Golden hugs when

>>28432314
Well we DO have the Gauntlets...

>>28432314

Midori's Golden Weapon

>>28432269

Wait

Hat's a she?

>>28432318
I want to go hang out inside the gauntlets again.
that girl is 2cute.

>>28432326

opinions on this vary.

>>28432326
Hahaha!

>>28432326

Yes?

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>>28432326
>Thinking he can figure out the genders of moonpeople just like that

>>28432336
Yuu is best good girl.

>>28432336
We'll need to do so in order to have her help with Kirika, who we're going to need for Oriko.

>>28432326
Hat is short for Nicehatguy, people just think he's a girl because of his handwriting.

>>28432326
Hat-chan is whatever we want her to be until her gender is confirmed. Thus, many of us choose to view her as Moemura in a hat.

>>28432356
But then what about Misaka?

>>28432359
wonder if the flashback was designed so that we'd forget all the things we'd have to do to get best ending for Oriko

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>>28432336
>2cute
She wants the Kharntounge

>>28432371
I'm sorry, but I think Decu confirmed that Yuu is goodest girl.

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>>28432374
The best ending for Oriko is execution nya~

>>28432380
>Yuu is goodest girl.
But isn't Yuu a boy?

>>28432359
Yuu's still resting. She's not going to be involved in the Oriko battle.

At this point it's a tossup between Kirika's sword and Kharn's Murderaxes. The Murderaxes are the obvious one if we just want to kill Oriko. But Oriko's could be what we need to finally get Kirika onside.

>>28432402

yes

>>28432399
OrikoxAmber OTP

>>28432404
I said Yuu will help with Kirika, not Oriko.

>>28432371
Misaka best armorer, and for Murdurface that's better

>>28431808
>"WHAT do you load in the cannons?
Well, knowing Fran it probably wouldn't be lethal, just a bit messed up.
Take jellyfish with burning lashes, cross it with spider with paralysing venom, so it moves at good speed both in sea and on land and can punish&disable people without killing them. Give it long enough fangs to pierce even tough clothes and either wings or way of spreading it's body like a parachute for landing from air. It doesn't have central nervous system, so it can keep moving even after getting cut in half. Load them in membrane by about three hundreds a shell so they can effectivelly spread over half a square mile on landing. They are really tiny and pretty much transparent.

>>28432402
Mahou Shounen pls go and stay go.

>>28432410
I said kill her, not torture her until she begs for death.

>>28432371
We must pray that they never meet, lest Highlander/ rap battle shenanigans ensue.

>>28432399
Cat knows what's up.

>>28432452
Clearly, Yuu is best close-range girl and Misaka is best long-range girl. Their abilities complement each other, and together they make Best Team.

>>28432452
>rap battle
>between Yuu and Misaka
This would be adorable and I want to see it.
The only way it will happen is if Misaka dies wielding a golden weapon.
Fuck.