Character Sheet: http://pastebin.com/Vq2twQDNTwitter Account: https://twitter.com/Artemis_QMArchive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Eclipsed+moonInterlude: Lady in RedYou move slowly through the aisle, a building indifference to the exchange ahead. Laying the magazines out before the convenience you stare ahead, waiting for the inevitable. He turns from the small tv he has propped up beside the counter to begin scanning your purchases. His face twists in confusion and surprise; first looking up at you and then back down at the varying nude and swimsuit magazines among your selection.You stare right back at him, the mask of indifference not giving in the slightest. Drawing your wallet you pay and leave in without betraying a single emotion, single bagging the illicit pages. It's getting to be late in the afternoon, and this mask needs to hold just a little longer.-The long steps of the cemetery are familiar You come here with some frequency, usually for work. Against the close packed stones you are the drifting carnations down the river of life, red for blood and white for death omens. You arrive, and he's waiting. The sleeves of his baggy sweater are rolled up and he's cleaning the marker, along with prayer and spell you watched him learn many years ago. As he turns and sees your approach, he smiles and sets the ladle down.No words, not yet. Three cups of sake poured. One for him. One for you. One for the dead. You unpack the bag of assorted girly magazines and lay them at the base of the grave marker. The man offers a low whistle, breaking the previously deafening silence.1/2
>>302911552/2“He would have liked that spread,”The mask breaks. Not anger. Not sadness. Not joy. Not peace. Just laughter. As you end, you lift the sake cup and shoot the man a sidelong glance while you remain facing the grave.“How was your visit today?”“It was good, and informative,”You stumble bringing the cup to your lips. When he's like this it is never good news.“She's seen it then,” you sip, “How much did she understand?”“Not the truth of things...but her grasp of the calling was clear,”He drinks. You stand together in silence as the sun sits at it's apex above you.“Then it was all for nothing. Yuchiro...I'm sorry you had to endure this separation. I thought if-”“-that if you changed the circumstances, you could change her fate. I know, darling. I know,”Your knees shake. Your shoulders give. Screaming at the empty cemetery you fall. The sake cup shatters on the stones below, but he catches you.“I'm not the only one who had to endure.” he whispers, calmly and sadly.He's kneeling low, you are leaning into him. For the first time in months you kiss your husband. It breaks, and there is a brightness in his eyes you haven't seen in years. You brush the hair from his eyes as his hand snakes behind your neck, weaving and drawing his fingers through your own black mane.“So, since we're so close to it now, and it's all left to their hands...can I come home to the two of you?” he pleads with stoic determination, “Can I be there for my family until the end?”End interlude
>>30291173You are Mikage Chiba, 2nd Year High School Student. You stare at your phone in equal parts shock and then frustration. The picture and message of the besieged girl whom you befriended through a joke account on Lurk was in fact someone you knew. In the dark of your room, her blue eyes and hair cast their color across your ceiling as your screen burns brightly. Ahira Mizuno, daughter of Sailor Mercury. You can see a light burning on her forehead, something only a select few people would be able to see. A symbol of destiny, a sign she was in imminent peril, and a calling to her own power.…you now feel perfectly fine upgrading this day to the longest day of your life.You know Ami never told her daughter about her tenure as Sailor Mercury. If that symbol was on the girl's head now...it at least meant Luna's warning spells would be activated and she'd be on the scene shortly. These guys...they're only at Juuban West District Junior High because you used their uniform for your escapist escapades, and Ahira asked for your help. What do you do.>Go alone>Don't go>Go, alert Koyomi that shit is going down and she needs to make with the sparkly>Go, tell mom>write in
>>30291173So that's why you quoted Terminator at the beginning of the first thread.I like it.>>30291205Go. Maybe tell Mom, maybe alone, but Go. Quickly.
>>30291205>Go alone
>>30291205>Go, tell momLet's be responsible about this.
>>30291205>>Go, alert Koyomi that shit is going down and she needs to make with the sparkly>>Go, tell momMom can contact Mrs. Mizuno while Koyomi can handle the things at the school, while we sneak in and rescue our friend.
>>30291414>>30291480>>30291355vs>>30291391>>30291355Writing.
>>30291205>>Go, tell mom>>Go, alert Koyomi that shit is going down and she needs to make with the sparkly.I see no reason why we shouldn't alert Sailor Moon and Ex-Sailor Moon. Doing otherwise seems stupid.
>>30291205>Go, alert Koyomi that shit is going down and she needs to make with the sparkly>>Go, tell mom
>>30291627Because we could stealth. This could be the next step in our meta-game plan to become SailorBatman.
All this scenario has really taught me is that we need to get an actual sword, pronto. Not this silly pocket knife business.
>>30291838I agree with this, but Stealth + Backup seems optimal hereNo reason we're going to rush the fuck into this alone with no backup if we get caught.
>>30291849We should get a laser-sword.
>>30291901"We need broad-swords for deeds such as these."
>>30291838I think the idea here is if these people are 'corrupted' we can't purify them anyway because we can't use healing escalation And as we can tell from the first time we did it: We're not exactly 'OK' with killing people.
>>30291996And neither is Batman.
>>30291205You practically fly down the stairs and back into the kitchen, your mother turns her head and looks over her shoulder from the dishes she is wrist deep in cleaning in the confines of the sink. Brandishing your phone with a wild and manic worry you ignore the screams at the periphery of your senses, telling your not to involve yourself with that world, not to deal in the struggle between right and wrong. No, you have someone who was a friend twice over in your life in danger. You aren't running away.~Aiha's power is waking up and evil psychics are at her school trying to kidnap her~You let your breath catch up to you, yes you might be a little exasperated but it hasn't slowed you down. Your mother's eyes widen and turn serious as she draws her hands from the running water, grabs the hand towel that was draped upon her shoulder and strides toward you and the land line phone hanging from the wall.“Koyomi has your old Compact, dial her on the way while I call Ami and-” she pauses and looks at you, “that is if you're going”Her eyes search you for...something. Yeah, you get it. She's worried about you, especially after what happened here a few minutes ago.~Aiha is a friend, she asked me for help. I'm getting her out of the line of fire while Sailor Moon does the heavy lifting~Her expression softens, pride wells for a moment in her eyes before it turns serious again and she picks up the phone. You're already at the door, trading slippers for sneakers and trying to figure out the best way to Juuban West District Junior High.>Are you going as you are or in disguise? If Disguise, then who?&>Direct by main roads, 10 minutes, will bring you by police street kiosks and you're playing hooky. Risk of delay. Requires Endurance Test.>Side streets, 15 minutes. Requires Endurance Test, minimum risk of delays.>Roof hop, 6 minutes, requires 2 MP worth of Jump, Acrobatics test DC 20, and Endurance Test.
>>30292206>>Are you going as you are or in disguise? If Disguise, then who?>Go as our disguise with that school uniform. Really make it work for us for once.Don't know about the traveling and will let others discuss that.
>>30291901We need a vibro-blade
Rolled 1>>30292206>10 minutesPic related.Roof hop.
>>30292206>Are you going as you are or in disguise? If Disguise, then who?Dark capes, black hoodCall ourselves 'Eclipse'.
>>30292338All you had to do was roll the fucking dice CJ
Weapons later, voting now would be helpful.There are 2 matters of contention on this vote. Travel and disguise.
>>30292206>Roof hop, 6 minutes, requires 2 MP worth of Jump, Acrobatics test DC 20, and Endurance Test.WORK THOSE LEGS, NINJA-IN-TRAINING, YOU WILL NEED THEM
>>30292327We deserve a chainsword.
>>30292451This, let us be the "Tuxedo Mask".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbdDhDDgMg
Rolled 15>>30292489Disguise, red-eye.Roof Hop.
>>30292451Yes!!!
>>30292206Roof Hopping wins, 2 MP spent.Disguise Dark style Moon Light Knight, Eclipse, 1 Mp Spent.Roll 2d20, add no modifiers. best of three.First Roll Acrobatics test, Modifier I will add after roll is +15Second Roll is Endurance, Modifier +2, DC 10
Rolled 11, 3 = 14>>30292628I'M A NINJA
Rolled 2, 20 = 22>>30292628
Rolled 11, 9 = 20>>30292451I like it!>>30292510I prefer the theme of a prodigal son (daughter)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d30OSJkt7Dc>>30292628Rollin
Rolled 11, 3 = 14>>30292451>>30292628Eclipse is a Bishonen guy. Konomi falls for him hard. Doesn't realize he is really her sister.
>>30292677>>30292686>>30292691Writing.
>>30292677>>30292686>>30292691So does that mean we go with 2, 20, or do we get the best in each category for 11, 20?
>>30292732best in each category
>>30292732I think it was best of the 3 rolls. And given that the two rolls were for separate stuff i think we passed both.
>>30292628>Agility Active test: 1 Degree of Success, 1 minute shaved off journey>Endurance Save test: 2 Degrees of Success.You take off, out of the front door like a bullet, not bothering to close it behind you. You haven't even cleared the front step before you surge your internal stock of magical energy and bind a portion of it around and through your legs. Kicking off twice, first from the porch, then from the wall, you find yourself leaping between countless tiles and shingles. You aren't even a block from home when you tighten your grip on the disguise pen picture yourself wrapped in a dark hood and cloak. Intimidation will be key here, looking scary and magic might help. Your mental inversion of one of your father's old identities takes form around you, billowing and whipping wildly in the wind around you.Phone still in hand, you dial the old contact number from memory. You're halfway to your goal when Koyomi's voice finally answers in a conspiratorial tone.“Mikage! What's going on? You never call me on the Compact, is everything okay. I heard you didn't show up at scho-”~West District Junior High NOW! Aiha is in trouble~The line closes almost immediately. She has the longer run, so it's going to be up to you to get Aiha out of there, and possibly buy time for the students already loaded into the van. Your enemies are armed with Cattle prods and potentially dangerous psychic powers. You have a knife, only one usable offensive spell. Halfway through the journey you reinvest your magic into your legs and leap further than you remember doing before. Maybe this outfit with the wind at it's back helped? Doesn't matter, you make it in record time.The school rooftop comes into clear view. From your vantage point you see Aiha standing flush behind the rooftop Elevator engine box with a fire extinguisher held close and tight like a club. The school gates below are watched by two of the men in cheap suits.>Where do you land?&>What do you do/say?
>>30293146Maybe try to land in front of her in a way that she can tell we totally have not come up from the building.Maybe say something to the effect that we Moon Light Knight, Eclipse received a message that a young maiden needed our help and we rushed over asap.
>>30293146"I'm here to rescue you."Right in front of her.
Artemis, I swear you hate letting me sleep.Yay!
>>30293325Don't worry, one day I'll change my avatar, keep the name, and run Wild Wild Quest, and then you can sleep all you want...unless you're into that sort of thing.
>>30293146Fuck yeah, we're crazy as hell, Dante would be pleased with us.I hope we fight like this too
>>30293146>land directly in front of her>Search and Rescue, at your service
>>30293406Wild Wild West?I may never sleep.>>30293146Drawn between distraction or escape.We see a place we might be able to jump-carry her to safely?
>>30293484>>30293305>>30293283>>30293410Give me a Charisma test with modifier, 1d20+6(Charisma Bonus + Persuasion Training)
Rolled 17 + 6>>30293520
Rolled 13 + 2>>30293520DC is the frightened young Ms Mizuno's reaction roll.
>>30293520As always, I ask you guys for the best of 3 rolls, Crits are wild.
Rolled 11 + 6>>30293283Considering that she contacted the Red-Eyed Beast for help and a red-eyed stranger just dropped from the air to help her, I'd imagine she'd make the connection even if she wasn't a budding psychic.>>30293520Rescue Time Go, indeed.
>>30293590Given we're using the magic pen it is possible that we don't appear to have red eyes.
>>30293558Looks like we passed, NOBODY ELSE ROLL.
>>30293684Best. Of. 3.Those are my rules of rolls.
Rolled 10 + 6>>30293520
>>30293725Do nat 1's auto fail a roll?Saying stuff like "crits are wild" got me a little paranoid. I've followed Cosgrove quests too much to not fear the 1
>>30293590If she weren't.
>>30293795Probably detrimental. But more succeeding rolls seem to work in our favor as well.
>>30293795Crits are wild means that they superseed other rolls. You need to pass the DC in 3 rolls and not crit fail. Crit fails don't carry a specific extra weight, but they probably represent the maximum number of degrees of failure you could probably pull.They aren't game enders.Same goes for twenties. A twenty probably nets your the maximum possible number of degrees of success.
>>30293977SO crits and critfails are both wild. What happens if roll 1 is a crit and 2 is a critfail?
>>30293819Sorry, the use of "weren't" is only correct when it is used with 2nd person singular and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person plural subjects. I was referring to her in the third person singular.
>>30294008Third roll is the tie breaker for success/fail?
>>30293146Feeling the outfit fills your mind with the faintest idea of the person who should wear it. Right now you aren't Mikage Chiba, and you certainly aren't Sailor Moon. You're a knight, and as you land directly in front of Aiha, landing in a low crouch and dropping to one knee and resting your arm across it. Yeah, you're a classy badass. Your cloak pools on the tarmac around you as you look up to meet the girl's initially frightened but hopeful face.~A friend said you were in need of rescue. I am Eclipse, rescuer of distressed maidens~She mutely sets the fire extinguisher down before her brow furrows in concentration.<There's one on the roof with us> echoes inside of your head.It felt kinda like getting a weak ice cream headache, which is simultaneously cool and terrifying at the same time. If these guys are more experienced and know how to weaponize moves like that...What do you do? You have about a minute left on your most recent casting of Jump.>Locate and engage the hostile on the roof>Get her off campus, where? A nearby roof or street level?>Write in
>>30294121>>Get her off campus, where? A nearby roof or street level?Nearby roof, preferably in the same direction that Koyomi will be coming from.Secure the damsel, then we can return try for the rest. There's more students in a van somewhere.
>>302940081's are cancelled out by 20s & vice versa.On Degrees of Failure, if you beat a DC or fail to meet a DC by a factor of 5, that is a degree of success or failure, it incurs penalty or boon to the outcome, as earlier witnessed in your Actively Taken Agility check, shaving precious minute off your transit.
>>30294121>>Get her off campus, where? A nearby roof or street level?We stated that Koyomi would be doing the heavy lifting, leave her to it. Only engage if confronted.
>>30294015You got that backwards. Those are the only times it's (debatably) incorrect.
>>30294121Get her out of there. Take the closest roof, then move to street level and run as quickly as you can in any direction for at least a mile.
>>30294371>>30294248>>30294226Writing
>>30294523Rising to your feet, you lift the younger girl in your arms and turn back the way you came. She is initially shocked, letting out a yelp, but moves with you in unspoken understanding and loops her arms around your neck. With the last of your magics you hurtle across the divide and back to a rooftop off of the walled campus of Juuban West District Junior High, however before you land you are struck by a sense of unease.Rolling across the lower shingled, tucking Aiha Mizuno protectively beneath you, you see a man in a one of the 200 yen black suits standing on the ledge of the building looking down at you. He wears sunglasses, has a short cropped mohawk, and there is an extended cattle prod in his right hand.Aiha tenses.<He's alerted the others, he's building up to use his power>You are two stories below this man and 45 feet over. You know there are at least two other men waiting on ground level near where you are.>Run?>Fight?>Cast a spell?>Get Mad?>Write in.
>>30294810Fight or cast a spell. Be defensive about it. We just need to keep ourselves and our friend relatively unhurt until reinforcements show up. How long have we got on that?
Anyone have any ideas? I want to run, but we do have the kids in the other cars to worry about. At least we do know we just have to holdout until reinforcements get there.
>>30294810Run, get Aiha out of his line of sight first.
>>30294895I would have said run, but I don't think we could have gotten away, especially carrying our rescued maiden.
>>30291155General Reminder, Character Sheet is linked in top of Quest.
>>30294919>>30294810Yeah, we're going to need to fight, and fight defensively. Haven't gotten a chance to look over our stat sheet so can't hash out a plan, but we need to be sure we can defend our maiden and stay standing until Sailor moon gets here.
>>30294810Is there any cover that Aiha can get to on her own?
>>30294810>Get Aiha out of immediate danger.>Ready knife and prepare for defensive combat
>>30294325Might want to examine the very first sentence of your image.
>>30294810>>30294972Get out the knife, and keep our back to a wall. We want them to not want to attack us, and we don't want to be taken by surprise. Save the scream for an emergency backup.Would we be able to fake a hostage situation? They do need her alive for her psychic powers, but I'm not sure we know that IC.
>>30294988Residential Rooftops do not have very tall chimnies in this neighborhood.
>>30295096That is a possible tactic.
>>30295112Alright, we need to get her clear first.After that, I suggest we bound in and try drawing their attention away from her. and see if we can locate that van.
>>30295080It's saying to use 'were,' which differs from the indicative 'was,' when you use first or third person singular. Check their examples. Aside from which, Purdue and UC Denver are probably better sources than Wikipedia anyway.
>>30294890>>30294972>>30295096vs>>30294911>>30295059>>30295182Even split along similar ideas.Final Destination. 10 minutes. Link this post with only the number, no comments. Commented posts will be ignored in final destination.1 >Fight Defensively to buy time.2 >Flee by one of the available means to get Aiha away and to regroup
>>30295163I don't like it, but let's keep that in mind as a last resort. First though, back to the wall.
>>30295288Excuse me, but >>30295096and >>30294890were both me. I was trying to expand and go into detail, not trying to vote again. Sorry.
Ask what powers they have.Run for now forcing them to chase us. Either a) find a defensive location and wait for sailor assistance, or b) alternate attack and flight taking them down as they catch up.Personally i prefer A.
>>30295331Ah, then>>30295288FINAL DESTINATION WITHDRAWNAndWRITING
>>302952882
Rolled 8>>30295351This is too exposed. Before the other guy can do anything you get down from the rooftop on the far side from the school and begin running once your reach ground level. Behind and above you is a peel of thunder, rattling windows and sill gardens alike. Aiha swings from your grasp and begins running alongside you, her features on the edge of panic and confusion. You need to loose these guys.Roll me 2d20.1st is for Stealth, DC the above roll. I will add the +2 Modifier2nd is for Endurance, DC 10, I will add the +2 ModifierBest of first three rolls.
Rolled 6, 4 = 10>>30295499
>>30295519My rolls suck tonight. Hope somebody else does better.
Rolled 12, 6 = 18>>30295499
Rolled 13, 11 = 24>>30295499
>>30295572Problem, masked men?
>>30295572>Stealth has a whole degree of successWe're so stealthy, we lost ourselves. Roll a new character.
>>30295572>>30295557>>30295519Stealth Active: 1 degree of successEndurance: SuccessYou keep to the alley ways and backyards, ducking under awnings when you can. Aiha seems to be getting a little winded by you're still going strong. After catching sight of the trio from behind a fence going the wrong way, you break for the canal road toward the center of the ward and catch a glimpse of white, blue, and trailing blonde above you in mid leap heading toward the school.The glyph on Aiha's forehead begins flickering.>Get her attention, how?>Keep moving.
>>30295665>Keep moving.Also "her" refers to Koy, right?
>>30295665>>Get her attention, how?What might be some consequences of texting her?
>>30295690She misses her landing.
>>30295700And lands face-first in a pile of shaving cream.
>>30295665Could we perhaps princess carry Aiha-chan again and leap up to the roof.
>>30295665Text: "Aiha Safe".We don't want to do anything flashy for attention because we're trying to be stealthy. Thankfully, cell phones exist.>>30295747When making quest postsUse your witOr the thread willGo to shaving creamBurma shave
Rolled 18, 7 = 25>>30295665Look like we've lost them for them moment, pull Aiha behind cover, raise a finger for her to be quiet.Then leap up and over to where the baddie trio were headed, if possible to land in their midst.Unleash the scream and launch away.That should get the Sailor's attention and disrupt them.After that we can try to locate the van while she does the 'heavy lifting', possibly without seeing us.
>>30295766No, we're trying to be stealthy with her, and we've got dudes searching for us not only mundane-ly, but also psychically.If they're being savvy they're going to alert the Police to a "kidnapping" and then monitor a police radio, getting local forces to do their work for them. Hopefully they're not that savvy though.
>>30295766Would require additional casting of Jump
>>30295790>Hopefully they're not that savvy though.Well they weren't until you said that.
>>30295820Relax bro the DM's characters aren't the same thing as the DM.
>>30295665Keep stealthing. Around the time you think she's gotten to the school, send her a text.
>>30295845>>30295767>>30295690Writing
Rolled 10>>30295886I throw a dice for no reason.
Rolled 8 + 1>>30295975
>>30296022I feel slightly amused at my non-accomplishment.
Rolled 6 + 1>>30296022Again.
At this rate, our sister might figure out that we're doing things.Then again, maybe we can pass it off as Aiha letting us know she was clear via text and us passing it along.Perhaps suggest to Aiha to let your 'mutual friend' the Red-Eyed Beast, know you are clear, and maybe to not mention you to anyone.
>>30296049I have rolled 1 die uselessly, and this was enough for me.Are you some kind of roll addict?
>>30296061Did we not tell Mom that we were going to save Aiha? Isn't that what we said?
>>30296095I don't think she passed it on to our sister. Or at least how we were going to do it.
Rolled 2, 12 = 14>>30296077Once you drop you just can't stop.I wish i could stop.
Rolled 20, 5, 1, 11, 8, 14, 16, 1, 5, 6, 1, 3, 4, 6 = 101>>30296135Oh god. It's everywhere.
>>30296115Aye.And while mom might be a terrible liar, our sister is probably just as bad as she is at noticing.I think she'll go along with it, the childish 'fun' of keeping our involvement secretive while still going out and helping people and our sister.Hell, a little mother-daughter conspiracy to draw us closer after holding her away from us for so long.
Rolled 2, 20, 2, 3, 16, 2, 7, 20, 4, 17, 8, 9, 8, 17 = 135>>30296189Not to mention, we can be MoonBatman.
>>30296189Besides, like the sheet says, we're more of a loner, and going by overheard visions, they'll be forming a team.
Rolled 20, 9, 10, 5, 7, 18, 1, 11, 15, 8, 14, 18, 15, 7, 10, 11, 9, 10, 9, 11, 6, 16, 6, 4, 9 = 259>>30296178
>>30296248>>30296251Batmind?>>30296264Might be getting out of hand there..
>>30295886You watch Koyomi sail overhead and onward, you are certain she doesn't see you. Which is just as well. You are dressed rather suspect at the moment. Mizuno looks on in awe as the Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice careens towards her school and likely toward the assailants. She flinches, clutching her head as the flickering of her Mercury glyph intensifies. Running your arm under her shoulder, you help her while keeping otherwise out of sight, taking out your phone to shoot a quick text to your baby sister's Sailor Compact.-Aiha safe. Bad guys have powers-After you've put a bit more distance between the two of your and the conflict, you help Aiha down on a bench near the park. You remember this, what she's going through. The first awakenings of your power, its struggling for a functioning outlet and conduit.“Good job getting her clear,”You turn to the familiar voice, it's out of breath and a bit haggard. Luna lands lightly upon the bench next to the still confused and increasingly frightened girl.“TALKING CAT!” she exclaims, scrambling down the length of the bench toward you.1/2
Rolled 8, 7, 13, 9, 5, 13, 15, 11, 12, 12, 5, 4, 17, 12, 20, 9, 10, 1, 4, 5, 9, 6, 5, 12, 3 + 2340 = 2567>>30296292Apparently it'll only roll 25d20 anyway. I'll take ten on the rest.
>>30296303FRIENDLY CAT
>>30296251I think we're the key to those visions thoughThose visions are if we never intervened and just let the five do their thing and let fate take it's course. The one thing it doesn't take into account is us messing with things behind the scenes, because it likely hasn't predicted us doing that yet.
>>302963032/2~It's okay, she's a friend~Aiha looks up and into your eyes. She trusts you and the tensions seems to leave her, though she still turns uneasily to regard the moon cat until a spark of recognition crosses her face.“Wait...I know you,” she verbally stumbles in wonder, “The cat that was always around Doctor Chiba's clinic when I was little,”“I'll explain later, we don't have much time!” Luna barks as she leaps into a magically assisted back flip.With a reality bending POP, a silver and blue wand drops from thin air. It floats at eye level before Aiha. Steady light shines from the glyph on her head and the wand, they match. Tentatively she reaches out for it.“I don't understand,”You know what Luna is going to tell her next. There is the sound of an explosion in the distance behind you. You're worried about your sister. These guys aren't just thugs. They're psychics. You didn't believe in them until fifteen minutes ago, but now a bunch are fighting your baby sister. She shouldn't be alone, but should you say something to Aiha, does she know what she's getting into?>Say nothing, let her take the Wand.>Preempt Luna's instruction. Give her the Instruction “Say Mercury Power Make Up”>Give her a soft warning before Luna says anything. “If you take that, your life will never be the same. Are you ready for that?”>Stop her (agility test required)>Convince her not to take it. (Persuasion test required)>Write In.
>>30296327>The one thing it doesn't take into account is us messing with things behind the scenesSo we're playing the wild card with the power to fuck fate. Nice.
Rolled 18, 16, 6, 9, 8, 16, 13, 7, 10, 4, 8, 6, 9, 3, 12, 14, 11, 2, 20, 11, 2, 12, 12, 12, 17 + 25420 = 25678>>30296316Last one from me tonight. I swear.
>>30296332>Let her make her own decisions. Not our call to make.
>>30296327Exactly.
>>30296332Well Aiha, here's your options.#1: you gain the power to protect your friends and family from bad guys, but then get the responsibility of fighting the bad guys.#2: you don't gain power but don't have responsibilityPick either, but stick to whichever path you choose.This isn't really the type of thing you can just regret and change your mind about later mumble mumble
>>30296095>>30296115You called Koyomi to tell her Aiha was in danger.Your mom called Ami Mizuno to give her the heads up.
>>30296332>Give her a soft warning before Luna says anything. “If you take that, your life will never be the same. Are you ready for that?”
>>30296332>>30296409Quote Spider-man. Just do it. You know it's going to happen eventually. We might as well do it now.
>>30296409I like this, let's go with this
>>30296332>>Give her a soft warning before Luna says anything. “If you take that, your life will never be the same. Are you ready for that?”"You can be a protector, which is both wonderful and terrible. A blessing and a curse, as it were.I think you're smart enough to understand. -I'll lean you to it."Then take off to help protect our sister, because it seems we've made our own choice.
Rolled 13, 3 = 16>>30296409This.... mumble...
>>30296413Easy to explain away as knowing each other through the internet and recognizing the trouble.The thing to try and keep on the down-low will be our active role on things, of which only mom knows we ran out there to help.
>>30296575It's like Ventrilo but it's for mmrhhmm hrrrmbl hrmmml rrmmhhrrr mr.
>>30296510>>30296409It's even the right color.
>>30296455>>30296446>>30296438>>30296409>>30296510>>30296575Writing
>>30296699~Hold, Aiha Mizuno. If you take that wand, your life will never be the same. It will grant you great power, the power to protect those you care about and yourself, but it comes with equally great responsibility that you can't turn your back o-mnnble mumble mmmmmm~Okay, you went a little over dramatic with that...but the girl needs to know what she's getting into. And while you didn't quite sound as cool as you'd hoped...because you are a damn hypocrite...you think she understood the message. Birth right or no. Princess of a broken line or not, Aiha deserved the warning. And you gave it to her.All it does is steel determination in her eyes.“I'll remember that, Eclipse,” she smiles.Luna catches your eye and mouths to you, with a quirked kitty eyebrow 'Eclipse?' you shrug it off.She takes the wand in hand and raises it high.“MERCURY POWER, MAKE UP!”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnsyGs1olpsHuh...so that's what it looks like from the outside. Hotaru always showed up on the scene already in outfit when she was training you.When it's finished, Aiha – no – Sailor Mercury looks off toward her school and steps foreward in confidence with fists clenched.“Sailor Moon came to save my school. Eclipse, I can't let her do it alone!”>Stay Quiet>Affirmative response?>Negative response?>Then it's your fight now, I am no longer bound to your rescue. I wish you luck, fair princess.>Then I am done rescuing a maiden, and will follow into battle a soldier>Write in
>>30296877I thnk Dad would be proud.>Then it's your fight now, I am no longer bound to your rescue. I wish you luck, fair princess.>Keep in the Shadows and only participate if need be.That being said Mamoru didn't actively start participating for a while.
>>30296877>Affirmative response?Go getum, Cowgirl?Or something to that effect.
>>30297044I like this one.
>>30296877"Go. I'll locate the van and get the others out."Give Luna a gesture to keep quiet and a conspiratorial wink when Mercury isn't looking then leap off to find the other students that were taken.
Rolled 8, 19 = 27>>30296877We cant let her go alone, she is the enemy's primary target, our only friend for the most part, and untrained.> do what you must, i will be right there to help you if you need it.
>>30297093>>30297076>>30297044>>30297057>>30297114Writing
>>30297194You cross your arms and nod~Then it's your fight now, Sailor Mercury, I am no longer bound to your rescue. I wish you luck, fair princess~She seems taken aback as you turn and begin walking back in the direction of the school. Oh man, you're not even looking at her but you can hear the incoming embarrassed blush.“Wait, Princess? I don't understand?”...yup, called it.“All in good time, but we have to hurry to help Sailor Moon,” Luna cries out as she bounds forward.She looks to you again, uncertain. Is she disappointed you aren't charging back into the fray? Does she want answers about your connection to @RedEyedBeast? You need to get her head back in the game.~Go. I'll locate the van and get the others out~Her eyes widen and she smiles.“Thank you, Eclipse”She resolves herself and nods. Falling into a runners starting position, she lowers her head and steadies her breathing. You hear the distance roar of crashing waves when she snaps her head up and explodes into motion. Her eyes are flush with blue light and the space where she had planted her feat has two newly earned pot holes from the force of her initial acceleration.Something tells you, you chuckle at the literal interpretation of this cliché, that these won't be your mama's Sailor Scouts.End Episode 05
Guys I have an ideaLet's go back and STEAL one of those cattle prods, sure seems like a better weapon than what WE were thinking of using, and it's stealthy too!
Thank you for running Artemis
>>30297399>Something tells you, you chuckle at the literal interpretation of this cliché, that these won't be your mama's Sailor Scouts.Did you feel even the least bit guilty writing that?
>>30297446Yes, Yes I did.That doesn't make it any better...also, I'm crashing.
>>30297463Good night artemis, and thank you for running
>>30297463Thanks man, it's been fun!My sleep begs for mercy.
No interlude tonight, just started typing one and my vision started blurring.Post your questions, discuss events here and from the archive to your pleasure.If the thread is still up, I'll try to answer questions in the morn.So, good night guys. Next time will be...next time.I can't into time right now. Need sleep.
>>30297488Also, update the arhcive.and which Interlude would you like next>Pediatrics>Back in the Saddle>I'm too young to be this old!>The man called...Shingo (Chorus: Shiiiiiiingoooooo)
>>30297409STICK WITH THE PROD, MIKAGE
>>30297535Aw, I was still curious about some of the options from last selection.For some reason 'Pediatrics' stands out to me out of this set.
>>30297554Prod with the prodJust in case though, we're Sailor Sensei
>>30297409We'll see what's at the van, maybe scope it out for clues too.
>>30297657Yes, clues!We could do legwork and investigation into things for the Scouts and offer them researched advice!Master Detective Support Knight!Also, it is amazing how many search results you get for Sailor Moon and Batman.
>>30297757I like it, it will give me plenty of opportunities to make parallels to Deus Ex as well.
When Artemis returns, we should find out how learning magic or developing a path works.Opening up that Earth/Moon relationship path seems like a solid idea.Maybe some stealth/defense magic along those lines.
>>30297861More trouble trying to find images that pair those two things, it seems.Though trying to get a hold of something like Ami's scanner/analyzer computer could be a big help, both in clue hunting and in helping the Scouts in general.I'd imagine Aiha might have dibs on the original, but perhaps she'll wish to rely on her extra-sensory abilities more.Won't hurt to inquire about that or similar.
>>30296189>>30296877Luna looks like she saw through it pretty fast, darn cat, but for the best to bring her in on trying to keep Eclipse out of the limelight. Luna is much more experienced at secrets and cover stories, after all.
>>30298048Path is basically an available possibility of magic open to you.When the time comes to Level Up, you'll be given a number of slots to invest into learning more spells along a level dependent chain once I finish the list.You'll be able to learn magic from others and from objects in game. Some magical objects will contain the ability to cast certain spells or will have their own MP stores for you to draw on.Examples of such items include the Crescent Wand and the Tranquility Flute.
>>30298981Luna is familiar with the disguise Pen, being as it is one of the tools she crafted for the original Sailor Moon. She can easily recognize her own work.
I gotta say, the cattle prod seems.. inelegant.In the long run, we need to find a more appropriate implement for Eclipse to thwart foes.I wonder if we could pick up the Rose tricks of our father's. Maybe pink, maybe black and/or goldA proper dagger seems like it would be appropriate as well, particularly if we could develop a quiet stun-magic to go with.Interesting thing to consider as well, what with psychic goings-on and all, our father was said to have psychic abilities as well. The existence of the Moonlight Knight as his subconscious psychic avatar being the biggest example in the anime, along with close telepathy and hinted-at things, and a number of abilities stated in the manga.Perhaps Aiha isn't the only one who should consider looking into fostering psychic ability, considering that we are now aware such things are real.
Ha, excellent timing it seems. Good morning.
So, next thread (come the weekend) will open with Interlude: Pediatrics
>>30300814I am now picturing:>~Eclipse La Shadow Bomber!~This amuses me.
>>30300814>looking into fostering psychic abilityWonder if developing a stronger mind could help with our dream problems, draw a better border between her dreamscape and ours.
>>30300856See ya then, take care.
Remember all, you can still pose questions to the Quest's Twitter at @Artemis_QMI'll also post paste bins for level up options there. You guys managed to avoid direct combat this session, but will be you able to so next time?Alright, I gotta go to my folks' place and move some furniture. Later, all.
Also, I mucked up my age chart earlier. Rin is a first year Junior High Student, Aiha is a Second year Junior High Student.And Venus remains where she is, because the inspiring work for this quest started her as much younger than the others.
So furniture moving is dependent on the guys coming to take it away showing up between posted hours, so I'm just chilling her while helping out with some chores my folks are having trouble with thanks to the inevitable march of time.I will effectively be free for a while on and off more more Q & A.Some clarifications: base line psychic powers will be feat based similar to Call of Cthullu D20, but will open path to a Psychic Spell path.Spell paths are the lists you can learn spells from as you gain levels. Your spells known per level is based on an advancing chart. As of now, since gaining back Scream, you have filled all of your available 1st level slots. Note that the spell descriptions are also heavily simplified. Jump, for example, expands your movement options beyond just the +10 bonus.As you gain more spells from one path or another, it will open more paths and open new Character Features (you don't have any yet) which are pretty much D20 style class features, and pending your spell selection you may get many Character Features.Every level you will gain 7 points to invest in existing or new Trainings. Besides what you already have, other Trainings include Perception, assorted craft skills, thievery, Melee combat, and Marksmanship, too name a few. You can have a max number of points invested in a training equal to your level.Transformed States, like Senshi, gain a number of bonus Trainings, spells, and other features, which explains not just their magic power but their otherwise enhanced competency when transformed.How you have access to so much magic power when not in a transformed state is actually unusual, with only Hotaru possessing similar access thanks to her canon healing powers...but it hasn't actually come up yet because you never mentioned it or even noticed it as anything different before.
>>30302864I've been wondering about our relationship with hotaru...she wound up as HER best friend, so what does that say about US?Obviously she was willing to train us, but i can't help but wonder if part of our inferiority complex is Hotaru's fault.On a related note, we must have been absolutely beast as SM.Also thanks for running, this quest fills me with warmth and nostalgia. If I were a youma I would be dust.
>>30303481Yes, Mikage was a Beast as Sailor Moon, and even after mom handed down the Imperium Silver Crystal for her his season power up, she started actively not tapping into it's MP, Spells Known, & Metamagic properties because she was worried it would make things too easy...before the last 72 hours if her tenure she was a real action junkie.
>>30303647*mid season power up
>>30303481The matter of Tomoe Sensei is a bit complicated. Because Usa was her best friend, she actively was very cold and impersonal with Mikage, afraid that if she acted too familiar that it would stunt the growth of girl who was another version of her beloved friend and put her at risk in the field. She treated her relationship with Mikage the way Setsuna used to treat her relationship with the original scouts.Funnily enough, the rift between Mikage and Usa didn't start until after Mikage learned the truth about her actual relationship with her around when she was 10. She'd been having her mysterious dreams for a long time, but didn't know about them being Usa's until after the girl learned her time displace sister's true history.That was the start of her resentment.When she was little, she liked the dreams of beautiful places she was shown.Hotaru didn't help matters
So I just went through the archive and read all the threads.Shit. We're the generation's Tuxedo Mask.
>>30304410General curiosity for you, anon, as one who has just archive binged this weekend start to the Quest , how did you like Mikage so far, and did you like my rendition of a 34 year old Usagi?
>>30302864Interesting.When we realize that our ability is a bit unusual,we'll have to investigate that a bit, or at least chat with Luna. I would wager that our combined heritage is related, but it isn't like we're going to ask *HER* about that so we can't compare notes. (Kinda sad since it doesn't seem that Chibiusa shares Mikages hostility, but I can't blame Mikage for feeling cross with the situation either. Something she'll just have to work through, I suppose.)>>30303647Kinda awesome. I can see why we've had to distract ourselves with arcades and elaborate disguise-ruses during our 'time off'.>>30303818That has got to be quite a headtrip, finding out your sister is you, your dreams aren't yours, and the person that's showing you the ropes is friend with her but keeps a wall of ice up with you.On top of Chibiusa's presence making you the middle-child that gets to have the normal jealousy of the oldest and youngest seeming to receive more of your mother's attention.Even if w were introspective enough to recognize that as a normal middle-child perception, we'd get to be angry because we're supposed to be the First-child damnit.Doesn't help that mom and her probably are closer than most, being a daughter and someone that has shared trauma and battle with.>>30304410It does seem like we've gone that route, which is kinda cool.
>>30304558I like her. She seems like an actual person instead of a 2D character. And I liked the way you did Usagi, pretty much exactly like I imagined her if she had the weight of years helping mature her. Also, I really like your writing style. A+. My only hope is that Mikage gets to kick some monsters ass without any transformation stuff. I've always liked, in multi-generation shows/manga/etc, when the new kids get in deep shit and one of the older characters steps in and drag them out by curbstomping the monster of the week. I blame Tommy Oliver for that.
>>30304749Which is kinda how we're head, I think.Also, Tommy Oliver is the coolest thing to come out of Power Rangers.Pic is most awesome picture I could find with both things together.
Also, raising certain combinations of Trainings above factors of 5 might unlock a few Character Feature Packages. Also, some Trainings will be story locked until you can obtain them by meeting prerequisites.I am also working out the Training Synergy Bonus Chart...You know what, let me give you a glance at two currently locked Trainings:Thievery- helps unlock the Sneak Attack feature Package. Used for sleight of hand, picking locks, & etcLucidity - Allows one to function through haze of fear, drugs, illusions, or dreams (combination of Lucid Dreaming and Autohypnosis)Remember, most of this is cribbed and altered from d20, and when it comes to 3.5 era, I am somehow a human encyclopedia for the core system...it frustrates me.
>>30305074Would help if I attached the pic.
>>30305138A common blunder, worry not.
>>30305132Will there be Trainings or something involving 'holy shit she just punched him and he flew ten meters'?
>>30305138>>30305074>>30304749Heh, funny you should mention sword flutes.Anyway, thank you for the praise, I know things started out with accusations and complaints of Grimderp and Trauma, but I had hopes to use lightened versions of those concepts to portray a character I thought would have been really interesting to see in action. Now with all of your help, we get to see where she goes together.
>>30305376Oh, I love it. Mikage is a very well done case of light PTSD, which makes sense, and it's all well written over all. Again, A+.
>>30305334That will be a combo of features and ability checks and attempting d20 style combat maneuvers
>>30305482By 'punch dude ten meters' I meant like raw super human ability. Strength, endurance, reflexes, etc.
>>30305563That will require some buff spells or tapping/fusing with a power source, or something else.
>>30305727Alright, gentlemen. Our first goal (once we get into our role) is to find power source to fuse with so we can go Superman on the bad guys....honestly, Hancock is more of an accurate analogy.
>>30305376>Heh, funny you should mention sword flutes.I cannot express how much I have been harboring that desire since it was mentioned.I felt like saying it aloud would scare the possibility away.
>>30305831All depends on if you willing take the flute back when offered and what choices you make.
>>30305824I think we're leaning more toward going Batman on them.Sneak around with some tricks up our sleeve, learn things, wreck their stuff, rescue the girls etc.Which isn't to say that I am adverse to beating down a baddie through the use of enhanced strength or enhanced martial arts, just that we might be a bit more subtle about it than Hancock.
>>30306005I feel like I'm looking at a DM with a poker face when you say that.Admittedly, if it is a freaking sword-flute, I personally would have a hard time resisting,Mikage might be a little repulsed based on its *History* though...and I might be somewhat suspicious of the origin as well.But on the other hand, sword-flute.
>>30306329I mean when the flute itself is offered back to Mikage. Naru Osaka left it with Usagi.
>>30306902Aye.
>>30300814We should get a whip.And a rapier.
>>30307760Forgot my pic.
>>30307760Hm, rapier with out outfit make me think of this.
>>30308218That works too. We are, technically a princess after all.
My darling Luna is having dinner with her mentor and then they're coming back here to take over the TV and marathon a couple of bollywood movies. This means right now I'm working on laundry...and while I do that...I am contemplating the insanity of running a sixth day in the row....I am a madman.A madman in a felt white hat with cat ears and a moon crest on it bought ages ago when I was but a weebish teen...untouched for years until I ran this quest.sage to let this thread fall.Know that Artemis will make sure you Sleep No More.
>>30310281Okay then, cat in the hat.
>>30310281My lack of sleep weeps.
>>30310281Woo! I archived binged earlier and now there's ANOTHER one coming? Yesss.
>>30310281I'll follow along while I can. Tell your darling wife I said hello. We have to go to that sushi place again!
Rolled 1rolling for fail fuckers~
>>30310790You know, even though I'm happily engaged and have plans for a wedding in spring, it's still weird to think of people on /tg/ as having like... significant others.
>>30312941 Episode 06 live
