Character Sheet: http://pastebin.com/Vq2twQDNTwitter Account: https://twitter.com/Artemis_QMArchive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Eclipsed+moonPediatrics InterludeYou wince as the doctor shines the LED into your eye, his inspection is quick and methodical. His droopy eyes and cheeks remind you of a bulldog. He is now Bulldog Sensei. He turns to your caretaker and manager. The first is, as always, professional and still. A quiet and no nonsense nurse maid who reports to your mother every detail of your day while attending to your every need and going out of her way to denying your every want, Sofia-swan. She's a swan because she likes to wear a white scarf and dark eyeshadow. The second is wringing his hands in worry. Your manager, Sugao Saito is a nervous wreck at the thought of you being injured. He doesn't get a nickname, because you said so. You see tears welling up in his eyes before Bulldog Sensei even starts talking. You swear that he carries on and blubbers like a little girl, you would know because you are and expert on little girls. Life experience is tantamount to expertise!“She doesn't have a concussion, the scaffolding just just grazed her but probably spun her hard enough to throw off her equilibrium,” he isn't even telling you that you're okay. Bulldog Sensei is a terrible doctor. You should know, you used to bee seen by the bestest most cool doctor ever.Puffing your cheeks in annoyance at being ignored you cross your arms and wait for Saito's inevitable wail of relief.“Oh thank goodness,” he dabs his eyes with a garish handkerchief.1/?
>>303129412/?Saito DOTES on you. You can never tell if it's an act or if he really is so effeminate and silly, though you've seen him chatting up women at press events and getting slapped. Then again you've seen guys slap him too at press events. Actually, you pretty sure a lot of people slap him. However for all his eccentricities and his manic mannerisms, he is the best damn manager in this market. Your mommy nabbed him out of a really big idol group project reality show to manage your career.“Soooooo, does that mean I can finish my video single now?” you wonder aloud, deflating your frustrations and pulling hard on your bright eyes and smile. They are great weapons, your most disarming attention getters until you get older. Mommy says mastering them is part of your pathway to becoming a goddess of love. When you grow up, your star is going to shine as brightly as mommy's. Just like her, people all over the world are going to love you.“I would take it easy for the rest of today actually,” Bulldog Sensei goes and kills your hope. You love the song you wrote, but you've been shooting the video ALL WEEK. You thought it would be fun, but it was BOOOOOOORING.The director talked down to you. The producer talked down to you. The DP had in and out of makeup tests for all of the first day. And the PA's all but ignored you. Argh, the Recording studio was more fun than this, Cool-Man was an awesome audio engineer.“Just as well, it is almost time for my lady's scheduled lessons,” Sofia-swan deadpans.Oh joy. Your lessons.Minutes later, you are walking down the hallway toward the meeting room you had co opted for your tutoring sessions. Stupid child labor laws for the film and music industry. You're talent, not labor. Okay, sometimes it's labor to be under those lights. You could have been done all of this yesterday if you didn't keep stopping to take breaks you didn't need.“Saito,”
>>303129973/?“Yes!” he pulls away from his cellphone and down at the you. You're walking angrily with your arms straight and at your side, fists balled.“Go to the craft services and get me an apple, some salmon roe, and rice crackers,” if you act mad and get pushy, people actually do things for you. You know that only really works here, when you're being a star. Its fun ordering people around...but it's lonely. Sometimes you just want to run around the playground or go on early morning bike rides. Maybe next year you'll slow down your career plans and spend more time at school with your friends...not that you've been back in Japan long enough to have many friends.Saito is gone before you turn around to talk to Sofia-swan.“I don't like Bulldog Sensei, or any of the doctors I've had to see since coming to Japan!” no...maybe you won't go back to school full time. You want to burn brightly, so you need to prioritize time. Even if you're alone, you'll be loved by as many people as your music can reach, “I want Bunny Sensei!” You level an accusatory finger at her.“She sold her practice several years ago, shortly after you and your mother moved back to California,”
>>303130504/?“Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, no way!” Bunny Sensei was awesome. She was your most favorite doctor ever. Your nickname for her was even just her name. She had hair that fell off her head like long floppy bunny ears. She was always smiley and warm and mommy was old friends with her and told you that you could give her a hug and she gave awesome soft hugs.That's depressing. Oh well, time for boring lessons. As you get to the meeting room, you see that Sofia-swan had the hanging anatomy dummy.“Aw, this was on the lesson plan today. Do I really need to?”“Your mother was explicit that this be part of your curriculum. Now, let us begin with a review of last week,” she goes over to the white board and begins wiping away the dry erase markings, “Demonstrate the location and pressure needed to make use of the Philtrum break pressure point,”Interlude End, Quest Begin
>>30313080You are Mikage Chiba, age 15 2nd year highschool student. Today you played hooky from school, had a nervous break down, told a talking cat how you murdered your best friend's dad after the secret was forced out, and you then raced to save another friend from being kidnapped by thuggish psychics in cheap suits. Disguising yourself like an inverted pallet swap of one of your dad's old split personalities.Yeah. Your life is complicated. Did you mention you used to be Sailor Moon? And now your little sister is Sailor Moon. And the friend you just rescued while incognito is now the new Sailor Mercury, likely because her mother was the original....this has been the longest day of your life.And on top of it all, you just promised Aiha Mizuno (the new Sailor Mercury) that you would rescue her class mates who were loaded into a van to have psychic experiments done to them.A Hero's job is.No, you aren't a hero.You are helping a friend.So, how are you going to do this.>Sneak back onto campus while Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury distract the bulk of the bad guys?>Run in openly on the ground level.>Cast Jump and roof hop again.>Get Mad (Human Experiments, they're unlikely to survive, yeah, that's a personal trigger after you saw THAT PLACE)>Write in.
>>30313098What does Get Mad do? I'm super interested in it, as the guy who was asking about superhuman ass kicking. I'm leaning towards>Cast Jump and roof hop again.Because dramatic entrances are a must.
>>30313098>No, you aren't a hero.I'm not a hero.I'm not a saviour.Forget what you know.I'm just a man whose CircumstancesWere beyond his control.
>>30313098Sneak back into campus.Sneak everywhere, always.Never stop sneaking.
>>30313241What does Get Mad do? Why that is an excellent question.An excellent question which I am not willing to answer at present.
>>30313241I'm guessing it does something bad, but cool, but also bad.Sort of like turning into the Hulk. We can kick more ass, but we'll lose our sneaky, and it won't help our emotional wall.
>>30313352>>30313400I... gotta change my option to Get Mad.>Get Mad>Get Really Mad
>>30313438Which vote was your vote. If you're changing a vote make sure you include a link saying "This is a vote I'm changing"
>>30313080Learning pressure points? Curious and interesting.>>30313098>>Cast Jump and roof hop again.Rooftop Ninja Hopping in best hero travel method. Besides, speed could be important here, either to the captives or to getting back to see how the Scouts are doing afterward.
>>30313098I think we should save get mad for something a little more personal.> jump
>>30313508Please note, Pediatrics replaced the Ceste La Vie interlude, as the subsequent following events.
>>30313438>>30313502This one >>30313241
>>30313438I would suggest against doing that just now, maybe if we find them doing things to the students we are rescuing, but we should keep our cool until we find them.
>>30313502Voting Period is over. Retrieving towels from the dryer and then writing.
>>30313098>>Cast Jump and roof hop again.
>>30313670>Jump Cast, MP 5/11>Give me best of 3 of 2d20>First roll is Acrobatics, I will add the +15 Modifier after the fact. DC is 25>Second Roll is endurance, DC is 12. I will add the +2 modifier after the fact.
Rolled 16, 5 = 21>>30313963
Rolled 14, 5 = 19>>30313963
>>30313963Why am I so great?
Rolled 11, 19 = 30>>30313963Why am I so misspelled?
Rolled 18, 1 = 19>>30313963
Rolled 10, 11 = 21>>30313963So we need two tens, at least.
>>30314010>>30314036>>30314047Then we have a degree of success on each?
>>30314036>>30314018>>30314010Acrobatic Action: 31. 1 degree of successEndurance Reaction: 21, 1 degree of successWriting
>>30314036Thank you for rescuing our endurance roll.
Rolled 7, 9 = 16>>30314120With exercise, clean living, and oats, you too can have excellent endurance!
>>30314099>Unstoppable and arriving in the speed of time.It has been a long time since you tapped into this much magical energy in a day, and you hate to admit that the rush and electric feeling piercing your beating heart gives you a rush. You're high on it as you again take to the rooftops with speed and force. You've been pushing yourself hard since you left the house, but you haven't lost step or run out of breath. Maybe all your hard work all those early mornings is paying off. This becomes a justification, never skip leg day on your work out schedule.In no time at all you're back at the school, the van beneath you and with no one in the cockpit or around the vehicle as you slam onto the roof. The nearby service entrance swings open and a suited man in dark sunglasses runs out, slamming the heavy door behind him before running toward the van. Just a few seconds later and you would have had to chase a van down the street.He sees you. You see him.Combat Has been Joined.>Enemy Initiative: (Intellect + Agility) 3>Your Initiative: (intellect + Agility) 4>Enemy is 45 feat away from you.What do you do>Close distance in charge and Melee. Unarmed or Knife?>Ranged attack and tactical movement? Throw knife or other? How do you move.>Close distance and spell?>write in.
>>30314435Combat Notaton:In landing a hit against an enemy's AC, if you have degrees of success they can be used in multiple ways.EX: you can bid 1 degree to force an opposed roll to try and trip them as a free action. Or force an opposed roll to knock them back or try another combat manuever.Or, pending your weapon, you can spend them to do additional vitality damage, or if the weapon denotes it, deal damage against wounds directly for an exchange rate to be set by the weapon.Sound good?
Rolled 7, 8 = 15>>30314435> write inCan magic be used to start a van without A key?Because driving off with thier van would be hilarious, and a nice break from running.If not> close into melee.
>>30314566Please note your available spells on the character sheet.
>>30314435Leap at him, give appropriate mysterious one-liner, cast Scream.Lead in with that stun attack and we should have a better time taking him down in melee.
>>30314435>>Close distance in charge and Melee. Unarmed or Knife?Use the knife.
>>30314435>Close distance in charge and Melee. KNIFE.
>>30314561Stab him in the balls, and speak French at him.
>>30314673Oops, that should have been a reply to >>30314435
Rolled 7, 14 = 21>>30314435Scream time.>>30314673>>30314634>>30314626We gots magic, yo.
>>30314712That picture looks dirty. When do we get dirty magic?
>>30314566>>30314626>>30314634>>30314673vs>>30314606>>30314712Writing. Voting closed at 15 minute mark
>>30314712But not a whole lot of MP right now.
>>30314741Charging an opponent at the start of combat. They have yet to act and are Flat Footed with no armor or passive defenses.Roll 1d20+6 (Charge bonus, Agility, and balance of knife) against AC 10For charging you will take a -2 penalty to AC until your next turn
Rolled 3, 2 = 5>>30314768Still have 2 left, and a magical stun would bring the fight to a close faster than stabbing.Also, stabbing. Suspect emotional wall damage soon.
>>30314807>Innocent QM in a felt Artemis hat
Rolled 3 + 6>>30314798
Rolled 6 + 6>>30314798Degree of success toward disabling opponent?
Rolled 19 + 6>>30314798
>>30314807Also, only dice rolls linking the request of the dice rolls will count.
>>30314807I want to save them for a quick getaway if it becomes necessary.>>30314844Thank you based Anon.
>>30314844>>30314841>>303148363 Degrees of success, how will you spend them. Maneuver or damage? You can trade 1 degree for 2 vitality damage on the knife or 1 for 1 on wounds.
>>30314887Oh wait, silly me. Your attack is threat to crit. Roll me a confirmation roll.1d20+6 vs AC 10. Degrees of Success will stack onto your original roll for successful crits.
Rolled 3 + 6>>30314836>>30314841Shit...>>30314844Yay!>>30314835Indeed.
Rolled 19 + 6>>30314916
Rolled 2 + 6>>30314916Crit? Nice.>>30314887Trade two for maneuver? Go for a disabling strike, ankle tendons etc.
Rolled 14>>30314916
Rolled 14 + 6>>30314916Rollin' out..>>30314952Good work.
Rolled 1 + 4>>30315004>>30314965>>30314952Critical ConfirmedYou have 6 degrees of success and your melee damage applies directly to your opponent's wounds.Please tell me how you wish to spend your Degrees of success, link this post with your vote, but feel free to discuss the matter amongst yourselves first. Also, I am rolling your damage before degrees are added now.
>>30315062Hm, if we're doing this in a d20 sort of way, can we trade a degree of success for non-lethal damage?
>>30315123Transform our pile of success into a knock-out strike with the knife as more of a fistload?
>>30315123There is just damage. Blunt force trauma needs to hit 2X max wounds to kill someone outright. Slashing, Piercing, and Ballistics cause ongoing bleed if they drop someone to max wounds unless they are treated.
So we just stabbed a guy to death. Great.
>>30315226>>30315062Hm, guess back to trying to disable/hamper them.Achilles, hamstring, whatever is handy.
>>30315182The attack roll was already made with the knife. Degrees of success cannot be used to outright alter the nature of the attack, just add on top of it. Unless there are feats on the list for that kinda thing when level up happens. Hmm...something to think on.
>>30315356Wounds equal Endurance. Human average is 10 Wounds. You must give an opponent max their wound value to drop them unconscious and 2x their wound value to kill them
>>30315356If I understand it right, that isn't the case, but we are doing at least 5 points direct to his Wound count.For scale, we can take 15 wounds.But we have 6 degrees of success that we could spend to affect that, potentially increasing that damage, or other efftects.
>>30315453But he's also bleeding, so his wounds will increase over time, right?
Rolled 16 - 4Two Valid votes for Hamstringing.Degrees of Success are now penalties on all his physical rolls until he is treated.Your opponent takes 5 damage.Rolling his turn and writing.
>>30315494Wounds only continue bleeding on your current weapon if you reach max wounds.
>>30315453>>30315410So we could trade our six degrees to make that 11 and drop him unconscious in one serious blow?>>30315502Think there's only one at the moment.
>>30315605IF the tough for the psychic bullies only has average Wounds, so probably not.
>>30315502>You hit your opponent for 5 wounds.>you have hamstrung him for -6 to all rolls.>He narrowly misses you in an attack on his turn.You spring off of the roof of the van before he can draw his weapon. Rushing into him, your momentum carries you past his virtually nonexistent defenses, slamming the pommel of your handle into his wrist, hearing a sickening crack as you draw the blade across his chest, leaving a bloody gash and the bottom of his tie fluttering to the asphalt, before slamming your elbow into his other wrist.Bleeding. Human. You cut him and he bleeds. For a moment you were afraid he wouldn't bleed. No, this is real. This is real and it makes you feel alive.He struggles to draw his cattle prod and swings wide, narrowly missing the masked tip of your nose with the sparking prongs on the end of the shaft.>It is your turn.>Action?
>>30315605Drop him unconscious, which activates >>30315523Which could cause him to bleed to death. Which is all academic anyway, since this guy could be a /fit/izen with 20 wounds or a pushover with five.
>>30315691Try to disarm him.I get the feeling we're going to be accumulating some stress this thread.
>>30315691Stab the prod hand.
>>30315691Go after his weapon hand, get the weapon away from him
>>30315941>>30315775>>30315738
It is wonderful when people agree.
Rolled 16 - 4>>30315738>>30315775>>30315941>>30315972Okay your turn is an opposed test, give me 1d20+4Your DC is the opposed roll
Rolled 5 + 4>>30316228
Rolled 2 + 4>>30316228Not bad, crippled asshole, not bad.We're better though.
Rolled 8 + 4>>30316228
>>30316283>>30316270>>30316258Ugh.
Rolled 12 + 4>>30316228
>>30316283>>30316270>>30316258Tense.Rolling against your AC of 15, 3 Enemy MP spent.Then Writing
>>30316258>>30316270>>30316283"Oh dear, it seems like something is holding you back"
Rolled 19 + 3>>30316339forgot the word dice
>>30316413Mother of God.
>>30316339Wow that was close.>>30316413Wow is that gonna hurt.
>>30316339My god.
>>30316413
>>30316413Did this just turn into a story about Sailor Moon's daughter getting raped (possibly followed by mind-controlled)?
>>30316560Welcome to evil magical girl quest. are you bad enough to murder your entire family while mind controlled?
>>30316413>Rookie Mikage has been Mind Controlled
if we can be downed by a random mook getting one good roll we were not long for this world anyways.
Rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15>>30316413>You narrowly meet the DC to disarm your opponent.>Your opponent conjures a point in space of intense heat.>Your opponent successfully thrusts that point of compressed heat into your chest with 1 degree of success.>Opponent trades degree of success for burning point for 2 wounds.>Burning point deals 3d6 damage to vitality.>Opponent takes ½ damage dealt to you due to unstable chemically induced Pyrokenetics With a flourish your knife falls back toward his armed hand, striking the shaft of his weapon instead. With a resounding clang the two of you lock your weapons against one another for a tense moment until you shift your center of gravity and leverage it out of his hand and away. He appears wide open, but he isn't worried about being disarmed. Creases form on his forehead, and his skin reddens for a moment before there is a a searing heat pressing into your chest, burning a tiny hole into your cloak and shirt, before the point sinks into your skin, vaporizing and cauterizing a few centimeters as it dissipates.It hurts like a bitch but it looks like doing so hurt him too.>Actions?
>>30316560>>30316594>>30316625It was rolled against our AC, not our Will, so I think we can presume it was a damaging special attack of some sort, rather than mind control.Fortunately he hasn't rolled to confirm, so at least 19 isn't a critical threat on the spell.
>>30316679I'm saying the AC roll was to hot us, after he knocks us unconscious he's going to rape us, and then we'll wake up in the mind-control chamber. I've been reading too much online mind-control erotica.
>>30316675Sweep the leg. Knock him prone.
>>30316715Well, we're here to make sure that doesn't happen to anyone, and that includes us!
Rolled 8 - 4>>30316733Only Vote. Writing. Kicking his legs out from under him.Roll me 1d20+12 dc is above roll. Best of 3 to knock this guy prone.
Rolled 18 + 12>>30317136
Rolled 20 + 12>>30317136On it..
>>30317147>>30317159Welp.
Rolled 2 + 12>>30317159Glorious.
Rolled 9 + 12>>30317136
>>30317171>>303171593 Degrees of success.
Oh yeah, your legs are suffused with magical energy what lets you jump like you can squat a semi truck, that lasts for another 2 minutes or so.
Artemis, why are you doing this to yourself? Six threads in a row?
>>303171954 vs 32, wouldn't that be 8 degrees then? Not counting crit.>>30317221Sweet, we'll have to remember that trick in the future.
>>30317147>>30317159>>30317171How do you want to spend your 5 degrees of success. You can trade them for 1 for 2 for Vitality Damage, or 1 for 1 for Wounds, all from his impact with the ground.
>>30317221Sooo let me get this straight. We got a Critical to kick the legs out from someone we already hamstringed while our legs are super powered. Hahahahahahahaaa. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy too.
>>30317233I know the guy in real life. He gets really excited for stuff and can ignore such things as moderation or sleep. I'm surprised his wife hasn't reigned him in yet to be honest.
>>30317264all into wounds. kill the fucker
>>3031726032-4=2828/5=5.x5 Degrees.
>>30317314HELL NO.
>>30317314No fucking wayWe've been through this before, we aren't going back, just give him something to think about for a few days.
>>30317314NOT THIS.DO NOT KILL HIM. >>30317264Vitality.
>>30317264Art, how much is our base damage here?With those degrees and the crit, I'm thinking we could get some solid leg breaks in.
>>30317264Vitality.
>>30317390You are performing a Trip. Normally there is no base damage involved in a trip attempt, only those accrued through degrees of success.>>30317359>>30317353>>30317334>>30317392Writing.
>>30317264Is the kick doing any damage to him already, like straight to wounds like our last crit?If no, I'd say into wounds. If yes, I'd say into more disablement. This guy isn't going to be walking around for awhile.
>>30317485Hm, my refresh seems to be lagging behind.
>>30317329>>30317264Does the crit double the successes, or was that only for the knife crit?
>>30317638The crit adds the degree of success for a new roll on to our degrees of success.
>>30317638only weapons have crit ranges. Combat maneuvers instigated on their own do not.>Opponent successfully tripped prone with 5 degrees of success thanks to your ENERGY LEGS>5 degrees of success traded for 10 damage to Vitality.>Opponent has 4 Vitality, Vitality 0 reached. Opponent is fatigued.>Spill over damage to Vitality accrued as wounds. Opponent Wounds now 13 out of Max 13.>Opponent Unconscious, stable.>Opponent had 12 Vitality, Lvl 2 thug. Vitality Dice were 2d10+2. Endurance was 13, Wounds 13.>Opponent took 4 points of Vitality Damage while fleeing Combined offense of Sailor Moon and Mercury before engaging Eclipse.>Sailor Scouts are more than mortal, get max vitality dice.>Learning through fighting is fun.Your legs still burn with power, and they've been comparatively still for too long. Dropping low, you sweep with your right leg, catching your foe behind the knee and powering forward. Already off balance from your earlier strikes, he spins midair like a rag doll before landing face first with a thud. His skin remains hot to the touch, and he is breathing, but he is unconscious.That'll teach the fucker to burn you in the boob.Argh, you can feel it, it still hurts like fucking hell.You momentarily consider kicking him in the gut repeatedly for that. Stupid cheating psychics and their cheating brain fire. Even after you soak yourself in healing magic that is going to be tender.>Search Unconscous man.>Enter School>The Van, THE KIDS!>Magician, heal thyself.>Write in
>>30317699>Search Unconscous man.Acquire ID at the very least.pocket money wouldn't hurt
>>30317699Search man, get van key, clues.
>>30317699>>The Van, THE KIDS!
>>30317699Step 1: Loot the body.Step 2: Acquire van full of children.Step 3: ???Step 4: Profit.
>>30317699>Search Unconscous man>The Van, THE KIDS!
>>30317699>The Van, THE KIDS!Priorities, mother fucker!
>>30317798>step 3: gain followers for our information network
>>30317798>>30317699Loot the Van! Maybe we'll find some kids!
>>30317699>Search unconscious manStick with the prod, MikageThen>The Van, THE KIDS!Eye on the prize, Mikage
>>30317699>The Van, THE KIDS!
>>30317743>>30317753>>30317798>>30317808>>30317959>>30317940Writing>>30317967>>30317812>>30317754
>>30317959Given our enhanced kicks, I feel less need to worry about a prod now.
>>30318067You search the downed foe quickly and easily. His cheap suit only has a total of 4 open pockets, they didn't even cut the waist pockets open after they were bought. There is a simple wallet with 900 yen and at least 6 contrary identifications for innocuous things like safety inspection, crime scene investigation, drivers license, and others. There is of course the cattle prod, 3 zip ties, a pack of playing cards, A ring of keys including one with a logo matching the van's BMW symbol, a white magnetic keycard on a retractable nylon cord, a nice Italian belt in contrast to the cheap suit, a Folex wrist watch, and 3 oddly labeled and empty Epipens. (Fire, Hunter, Radio).>What do you take, other than the van keys, because you take the fuck out of those.Marching over to the van, you unlock the back panel door and swing it wide. Inside, with canvas bags over their heads and zip ties on their wrists are 4 girls and two boys, all clad in the deep blue uniforms of Juuban West District Junior High. The front of the van is separated from the back by a mesh covered metal grate. The students turn to face the sudden sound and light, likely unable to see much other than the shifting intensity through the thick and coarse fabric.>Cut them free ~Everything is going to be okay~>Ask Questions. What questions?>write in
>>30318404I'm glad someone made edits for the quest but this picture desperately needs a complete redraw, mere editing isn't going to fix it at this point.
Also, I hope my own realizations about the applications of the degree of success system have pleased the anon who wanted to hit people with the force of a mac truck, because I realized, Oh yeah, THIS ACTUALLY CAN DO THAT SUPER EASY! HAHAHAHAHA MINE IS AN EVIL LAUGH
>>30318404Take some of the fake ID. We can use Disguise Pen to match them. Cattle prod and Epipens to puzzle over later. Cut them free. "Are you all okay? Is this everyone they grabbed?"
>>30318404Take everything except the belt, and any of the IDs that have photos.Cut the zip ties. Leave the bags.
>>30318404Take:Wallet (and everything in it).ProdCardsKeysKeycardEpipensCut the kids free. Ask if they're hurt.
>>30318404>Take:Zip Ties, Keycard, Playing cards, and the Epipens>Cut them free ~Everything is going to be okay~>Ask if anyone is hurt
>>30318535The keycard could be important (Like it was in pokemon).And come on, we're taking the fucking van keys. We just won a free car. We're not leaving it behind.
>>30318404I'm not sure to cut them free now or later, hmm. We do need to ask questions though but I think the police will do plenty of that for us.Would we know what we would need to take in order to magically identify them?
C'mon guys. We're playing the stealth character, we make major use of the disguise pen, and there are a bunch of fake IDs available. I understand leaving some behind for the cops to find (in a 'extra bit of prosecution to throw at them on top of kidnapping' way), but some of these could be REALLY useful for us.
>>30318404>What do you take, other than the van keys, because you take the fuck out of those.Keycard, zip ties. Don't really have a way to analyize the epipen.. wait, we do know some smart people. Yeah, grab the epipens too. Hopefully the other three will have something for the authorities to look into.The cards too, those seem out of place.>Cut them free ~Everything is going to be okay~>Ask Questions. What questions?Is everyone alright, is anyone hurt?What did they want with you? Why you?>>30318510I never claimed to be any good, I'll call it fair for an amateur effort at a visual reference for some future drawfriend to use.
>>30318634It's probably stolen, just saying
>>30318535>>30318537>>30318578>>30318601>>30318715Writing
>>30318738So we shouldn't feel guilty about stealing it back.It's not even stealing if they weren't the rightful owners. We're liberating it. And/Or commandeering it.
>>30318634Japan, there is no way we can hide a van unnoticed.Let the authorities go all CSI on it and see if they can trace it to anything. We happen to know they are looking to work with the Scouts anyway..
>>30318802Disguise pen.
>>30318802>We happen to know they are looking to work with the Scouts anyway..>our father is the person selected to the government's negotiator>we probably end up being the main one that actually meets with him covertly>in a take off of one of his old costumes.>ofw
>>30318961I don't think we've found a way to use the disguise pen to make a van disappear.
>>30319097>Okay, if I click the pen against the van and think of the, Holy fucking shit, it's the mystery machine!This would not actually work with the disguise pen in your possession
>>30319097Van Dandy. Everybody will think he's just a really cool dude who never says anything.
>>30318786You shook the man you utterly annihilated down for everything of worth, taking special notation of his electronic key card and the spent Epipens. These are important, and you imagine that the others of his little group might be outfitted similarly. However, the most important thing now is to get these kids out of here before any more of those thugs show up. You vaguely remember Aiha mentioning they seemed like they might have different powers...and that once guy made that thundering sound with what ever his power was. You admit you were paying no attention to him and just trying to run away.~Everything is going to be okay~ you intone to the frightened and captive students. You take the closest girl's hands and with a flick of your knife destroy the zip ties binding her wrists. The skin beneath is irritated and red. Those monsters, you hope Mercury and Moon give the others as good as you gave yours. Odd, you haven't heard any more explosions...As you free their hands they remove the bags from their heads and see you and the man splayed out on the floor by the service door into the school building. You are flushed in awed thanks, and a few notice the tiny burn hole in your shirt along with the smell of burnt flesh, the boys wincing in pain at the thought, the girls gasping at what you did to save them.~Is this everyone~ ~Are any of you hurt~ ~Do you know why they grabbed you?~1/2
>>303193342/2Each question met with quiet and cautious answers as they climb out of the windowless panel van.They don't know if anyone else was taken anywhere. One boy says they had talked about grabbing Mizuno-san, but she doesn't appear to be here. They all have some light bruising from rough hands or cattle prod shocks, and most of their wrists are a little raw from the zip ties. Each of them were grabbed after them man with the Mowhawk shined a weird light in their eyes and then made some of the other men play a memory card game and guessing game with them. They were each escorted our roughly, but everyone else, even the teachers seemed to be in a daze.Actions?>Leave, your part is done. These kids can get help easily.>Head into the school, try to find a sign of your Sister and Aiha, it's too quiet.>Call Koyomi's Compact.>Write in
>>30319393>Head into the school, try to find a sign of your Sister and Aiha, it's too quiet.Hey, gotta make sure their alright after all, what with all the explosions and it being Aiha's first fight as a scout
>>30319393>>Head into the school, try to find a sign of your Sister and Aiha, it's too quiet.Head in stealthily. Study the guy we caught, do we think we could impersonate him if we tried?
>>30319393Stealth inside.
Operators gotta operate>>30319577>>30319521>>30319508Writing
>>30319715Give me a Stealth Test, 1d20+2DC 12,Best of 3
Rolled 8 + 2>>30319744
Rolled 7 + 2>>30319744
Rolled 5 + 2>>30319744
>>30319744Rolling, hoping for anything but a nat 1
>>30319816>>30319812>>30319762Great.Just great.
>>30319816>>30319812>>30319762Youch.Sneaky Precaution time?
>>30319834We do get to re-roll sneaky once per thread. If you guys think this is bad enough for that.
>>30319834Wait up, we can re-roll failed stealth checks, right?
>>30319834>>30319846>>30319853>>30319865Yes, yes you can.Sneaky Precaution is Activated for Episode 06.
>>30319853Well, if we fail now, that makes sneaking up on them any further rather difficult.I'd say it is time.
Reroll that beautiful 1d20+2DC 12Sneaky Precaution
Rolled 18 + 2>>30319913>>30319943Com'on good rolls..
>>30319972Oh thank you so much mysterious masked man.
Rolled 18 + 2>>30319943
>>30319972That's what I'm talking 'bout.
>>30320006>>30319972WE ARE THE NIGHT
Rolled 16 + 2>>30319943
>>30320072>>30320126bad news: We saw it and it will probably countNice try though
>>30320126>>30320072>>30320126I'm not even sure there are crit failures here, it's based on degrees of success. Which is why deleting that was a terrible idea.
Rolled 11 + 4>>30319972>>30320006>>30320072Rolled 1 + 2>>30319943It is almost scary how many people on the internet have combined Batman with Sailor Moon in some way. It is too easy to find these images.No. Deleting. Valid. Rolls.1 Degree of Failure.
>>30320172Hold up, wait, that 1 degree of failure discounts the 2 degrees of success?
>>30320201Rolls of 1 superseed other rolls. This was established before, that even though they are not critical failures, rolling a 1 and a 20 were wild.
>>30320201Yeah. Crits seem nice when they happen in our favor, but really suck when the odds of getting a negative critical between three rolls comes up.
>>30320231Sorry, I wasn't familiar with the established rolling system.
>>30320257No worries. And as always, a roll of 1 isn't the end of the world.
>>30320362It does feel really bad to be the one torpedoing two really good rerolls.Kind of a panic reaction, diving for the delete.Sorry.
>>30320172>Stealth Check Failed, 1 Degree of Failure. You notice you've been spotted and are not caught flat footed by enemy attack.>Lightening is hurled in your general direction, PC wins in the event of a tie roll as established with the disarm test. You narrowly avoid getting your face eaten by REAL LIGHTENINGLeaving the students to their freedom, you steal away back into the school through the service door, totally not forgetting to step over Mr. 'I like my breast filets fried' and totally not grinding your heel into the base of his spine as you don't do so. Inside you progress cautiously, sticking close to walls, ducking low as you pass windowed doors, but have yet to come into contact with anyone. Fluorescent lights and all manner of electronics you find throughout the place are flickering incessantly. Hearing a slow building hum, you find the source of the disturbance and the missing student body.Arrayed around what looks to be the gymnasium are the students and faculty. They seem to be surrounding a dome of rippling water in the center of the room. You notice that standing inside the dome are Sailor Mercury, her arms raised high with her face contorting in concentration, and Sailor Moon kneeling down cradling- LUNA! You see two of the thugs from earlier splayed across a table and with his but stuck in the raised basketball hoop of the room respectively. The Mowhawk stands at the front of the room on a raised platform, his arm extended up, drawing an arc of lightening from a broken ceiling lamp. He is bleeding, and a little unsteady on his legs.1/2
>>303206292/3It fills the room with an almost painful version of the hum you heard earlier. All the lights are flickering, some of the other devices and fixtures of the room are sparking. The rows of tables arranged throughout the space and the high cardboard and foam core standees makes you believe there is some kind of science fair about, the collapsible bleachers motor sputtering and whirring uselessly in the pale light of the energy arc.The bastard, he somehow has afflicted everyone in the building and his holding them hostage against Moon and Mercury. If Mercury uses her powers, he probably has enough of a built up charge to seriously hurt or kill everyone in the room.Wait, while taking in the scene he catches sight of you, you pull your head back from your vantage point in the door way just in time to see a white and blue flash lance into the wall on the far end of the hallway, arcs flying off into the metal locker lined place blasting open some and leaving scorch marks on others.The Hum continuesYour opponent has lost line of sight, you hear him, talking at a casual volume over every loud speaker in the building.“So, you came back?” okay, he sounds smug, “I don't know who you are or what your game is, but I've got Sailor Fucking Moon and the first member of her bitch brigade at my mercy. Shiiiiit, I'm hot stuff, and I'll be watching each door for you, buddy”
>>30320659Yeah, dick. Well guess what. Places with electronic motorized things the size of those bleachers can't use water in the sprinklers, they have to use insulated carbon foam. You had a tangle with a burning cat man basket ball player at the YMCA back when you were Sailor Moon, now you just have to find a way to trip it. Hmm...no, that might make him go berserk and try to attack the hostages before Moon and Mercury can go back on the offensive.>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn on the foam.>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn off the power.>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn off the power and turn it back on real quick to try and short him out.>Put hood on a broom and try to fake him out, or some other tactical plot of your own design.>Enter the Gymnasium with your hands raised, try to talk him down, you are actually really good at talking.>Call Koyomi to find out what's going on in the Dome, this might reveal you to her as Eclipse...if she even knows who that is yet.>Call Mom.>Write In
>>30320582as long as you can realize your misstep, understand that no player is at fault for poor rolls,and not delete posts with rolls valid under the system, thus risking a skewing or unintentional breaking of the rules of the game, then you remain welcome here as any other person who enjoys the story and likes to roll dice.Don't panic and don't feel bad.
QUICK NOTE>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn off the power and turn it back on real quick to try and short him out.This will probably kill him, let's not do that.
>>30320681Here's a thought: Maybe we should try to ground himHe's using the schools power system, right?Find something like a flagpole that extends deep into the ground, put the school's power into it. It should suck it right out of him if a breaker doesn't trip first.
>>30320960Am I the only one left or did everyone leave after the crit fail?Come on guys, brainstorm!
>>30320960Many Japanese municipalities have rules that public and certain kinds of private buildings have to have a ground wire to help prevent electrical fires. I think.Most public school systems to in fact have a ground. He is using super powers to siphon his power off the grid and release it independent of the system as an offensive attack.
>>30321153Oh, so he's acting as a magnetic charger. So grounding him won't work.Cycling the power probably wouldn't short him out either. And cutting off the power will probably just make him weaker but not completely wreck him. So cutting off power is probably the best decision. Unless we want to try sniping at him after we cut off power
>>30321252>>30321153Actually, here's another crazy idea: what if we cut off power AND turned on the foam?
Everyone seems to be distracted by HABBENINGS across the board, there are several, or may have jumped shipped because of the 1, or just fell asleep or had to go.Either way, this thread is To Be Continued.Vote on Interlude, whenever you guys get to it. I'll check back in the morn if this is still here. We'll pick up with the same vote. Either way, I am le tired and I was hoping to get one more update out, but this kinda stopped>Ancient Aliens>Crate Escape>"LAMAZE DOESN'T WORK FOR CATS">Enter Sandman
>>30321310Also, if you see posts have been made after this point, be bro tier and update the sup tg archive.
>>30321330Once you up the thread to suptg, it updates automatically until the thread gets pruned.
Thanks for the threadWhen you wake up, can you give us a better description of how he is charging himself or the wiring layout of the school? Because that seems key to us making a decision here.Or at least answer if we can mess with his electric field somehow
>>30321310Enter Sandman
>>30321310
>>30321310Fell asleep in my case, my lack of sleep couldn't hold out any longer with work in the morning.I'm gonna say "LAMAZE DOESN'T WORK FOR CATS", because I need to confirm/deny my shadowruns from earlier thread.
>>30321403He is standing 20 feet under and ten feet over from a busted gymnasium hanging ceiling lamp. He is charging himself by accurately dispersing loose electrons to his other hand and creating an intense negative charge in the raised hand, effectively polarizing his body and being a living self ground. The high charge of the sparking and arcing exposed wires is, through great difficulty through only partially conductive air, discharging like a lightning bolt to a rod, creating what would normally be an instantaneous completed circuit. He is using his current ability of Electrokenesis to forcefully sustain that circuit for some MP per minute, giving him a number of dischargable d6's worth of Lightning as a point to point attack that can hit a number of additional targets along it's arc as degrees of success on a successful hit. This power can critical on a confirmed 20.
>>30320681Carbon foam, awesome for electrical fires and places with a lot of exposed electronics, like motorized extending bleachers.>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn on the foam.>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn off the power.Hit both.Then dash back at best speed. Re-up on Leaping if need be.If there is a PA mic at maintenance, consider distracting speech.And now, to work! (slightly late ack)
>>30320681>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn off the power.>Try and find the Maintenance room to turn on the foam.Seconding do both
On my commute, snow delay on light rail made me miss my regional express, bored out of my gourd for the next 30 minutes before I go off to be late for work. Continue Q & A available. Before you ask your questions, I'm gonna ask some of mine.How are you liking things so far? Do you have any critiques?Which one of you guys is the person who ships Mikage with Sasha from Cherno Alpha Quest? I must know for REASONS!
Since the moment is past, I will tell you something cool.One of these middle school science faire projects, the one you would have gotten flavor text for if you had succeeded your stealth check and gotten into the room, it was a common experiment.Take a white flower and grow or keep it after cutting in food coloring suffused water. His experiment was figuring which color or chemical factor of the color or other environmental stimuli affected how fast the flowers gained the hue.It was an extensive experiment, and he had on display with foam core backing a vase full of a bouquet of all the colors he used.Kid is rich as fuck, and tries to be smooth. The base of the project were white roses.
>>30324466Well, since everyone is probably asleep or at work, I'll just let everyone know I'll be in the periphery of this QTG if anyone has any more questions once this falls off the board. General reminder that I'm going to be waiting for the weekend or another snow day before I run again, so I will have time to write up some more interludes, and maybe get in touch with one of you if you are a draw friend of exceptional talent...down the line I would like some sequential art in either your own stylized style or in mimicry of the Original Manga of a short scene. The scene in nature is incredibly laced with spoilers...so if you are willing to gives the hand, I apologize profusely for the ruining of the surprise.And I apologize for pandering for help in this as I feel my own drawing kinda sucks and won't do this dramatic justice.
Man, I've got sheets to write, mostly because I've come up with Aiha's and Rin's Big Damn Perks.Also I have the two new perks you guys are just a touch shy of earning for Mikage.Also, I look forward to you guys stumbling onto her waiting Big Damn Perk, it has been right there, just out of sight since the first thread.
Here's a thing. I'll probably do the next one tonight, if anybody wants.
Good afternoon, home from the worklands and only mildly delirious.>>30327697>since the first thread.Hm, sounds like I might have overlooked something. This require re-reading.
>>30328072Ah, handy rereading material.Perhaps related to our bonus to ranged attacks and crackerjack House of the Dead skills?
>>30330332It is not related to the mundane perk of Good Aim. It is something...else.
>>30331004Space Dandy perk?
>>30331117Wut? Hm.That does make me think of our prolific use of the Disguise Pen and alternate identities, perhaps a Big Damn Perk regarding our mastery of such?
>>30331117You don't get persona specific perks until you spend a more time behind the mask in game, and that first requires you to earn "becoming the mask" perk too.Though which Dandy Perk? Keep in mind I'm behind on the show, so I'll have to marathon. Though I know that there is a comedic social perk you can earn if Mikage developed the same appreciations of another SUFFERING magical girl on this board.
>>30331227Perhaps something that would help us to hide a van full of children?
>>30331315The van is no longer full of Junior High Students.
>>30331573That can be rectified.
>>30331315That's probably more on the scale of a spell, rather than a perk.Besides, we don't need a van. Even if we could put it anywhere.We need to be able to transform a pink vespa into a ninja motorcycle when needed
Working on a reference sheet to wave at drawfriends. Still in progress, but seems to be coming together alright, I think.
>>30332223Hm, larger than I realized.Full length I was planning might be too large..What is the size limit now, anyway?
>>30332223We never said otherwise, but were we going to try fiddling with hair/eye color in the Eclipse guise?Figure shortening and keeping mostly tucked away, at least. Personally I'm ok with just that, magic in setting seems to go a long way in keeping simple color similarities from giving us away.Thoughts?
Hmmm...your talk of developing your Heroic identity and obtaining a bike amuses and pleases me. As such I will share the names of the normal perks that Mikage is just about to gain. Arriving in the Speed of Time&Ultimate Tsukino Constitution Also, I have a Dan Dee & the Girls Omake waiting in the wings to type up later. It involves a Vespa & the following line by someone other than Mikage "I was expecting something...I dunno, bigger?"...why can't I stop thinking of things to write. My notepad is over flowing with outlines and in case this happens this happens trees
>>30333147>the normal perks[...]Heh, we were seriously pulling out the rolls for those two. Ain't no stoppin' an eclipse, eh?>My notepad is over flowing with outlines and in case this happens this happens treesYay!
>>30333147The QM thinks of everything and is really good at BSing when he doesn'tI wish more quests had a maniac like you running them.
I don't think of everything, per say.I just don't stop thinking about character relationships and the characters.
>>30336503I wish I had the motivation you did to run my own quest I commend you for sticking with it thus far
>>30336781You can do it, just have to find your inspiration and run with it.Tricky part is seeing who joins in.
..Why do I find myself wondering how much the Red-Eyed Beast persona resembles this with a tan and younger..?
>>30337894Yeah, this bad boy had a slow start, but now seven days and six threads later it looks like I have a solid player base that likes contributing and has brought this quest toward directions what I didn't immediately expect.Also, I remain happy that my modifications to the d20 combat system, held together with scotch tape, sun brittled twine, and assorted sticky artificial fluids including dried soda pop worked marvelously.Though I gotta say, for the combat, the dice roll against you drew more of a response than the actual description of HAVING THE EQUIVALENT TO A MOLTEN HOT PIECE OF REBAR JABBED INTO YOUR CHEST.That right there is a disfiguring wound in situations where you don't have access to super natural healing. That is a quarter inch wide, 4 centimeter deep cauterized bore into her chest.Sure you dropped the guy with extreme prejudice, but as soon as you learned that it wasn't mid control, you were all "s'cool."Actually, that is something I like about Vitality/wounds. Vitality is using up energy to avoid actual harm, and wounds allow for better expression of the actual damage taken instead of swing and a hit. Takes a slight abstract out of the traditional hp system nicely.I hope no one is offended by my planning to do a perspective shift next thread, as it will give you a glimpse of a unique tactical situation.Shoot, I'm very tired and ramblely...I should stop that.
>>30338384Miki has the Tan. Beast is a pale girl with Sadako hair and a medical mask. That persona kinda weaponizes creepy. Meanwhile Miki is who Mikage is when she wants to feel wanted, feel like a shallow girl without a care. Best part of that persona, most of the crowd she hangs out with are also escapist masks, except they put effort into their ganguro appearances and fashion. But all of them hit the fashion district on the weekends to be seen and be someone else...I put way to much effort into planning Red Eyes and Miki.
>>30338617That just means we'll have to get mileage using them through this quest.
>>30338496>Shoot, I'm very tired and ramblely...I should stop that.Nah, tired and rambley is a good place to be.I think my brain lives there now after this week.>>30338617Though tired brain may occasionally glitch and mentally combine two personas. Derp.
>>30338384>>30338723>>30338617Guess I meant Miki then.Somehow took Miki's style and applied Red-Eye's rep to it in my head somehow.I'll have a technician come down and debug my head later.
>>30338895Additionally my brain decided that to be scary the 'ganguro beast' must run around like rowdy gang person beating punks down and threatening people.Effectively, by brain glitched and conjured a whole different persona than either of them.My brain is a strange place.
>>30332223Suggested palette source, btw.
>>30338496Heh, yeah, people were all panicking when they put 'psychic attack' and being hit together. I was the one noting it was against AC so we could probably chill.Considering what they were afraid of, horrible burning pain and injury was pretty good in comparison.
>>30336503>>30336781I wish I had that much motivation to do anything, really. I was going to kill myself on Valentine's Day, but didn't want to go out to buy a gun because it was too cold.
Nifty, though mind control powers, as witnessed in the gymnasium, are a thing to contend with when it comes to Psychic villains.Idle curiosity, what do you guys think their deal is so far? With the kidnapping and the Epipens?
>>30339703Mind-control injections? Maybe they didn't have enough juice for everybody there?Or the guy is allergic to bees, and needs to appease them by sacrificing young people.
>>30339664Hey now, you gotta be alive for life to get better.Leaving like that leaves everything on the down note. Can't have that.
>>30339703Being as I have no idea what an epipen is meant to be, I'm'a just assume they're involved in baby eating or sex trafficking. Good reasons to kill or castrate the lot of them.Though you do seem to be running a theme of preparing for the Time to Come, which is cool if we start seeing non-possessed masterminds like pic related.
>>30339703Seems an interesting lead-in that hints at more going on.Investigation will be required.
>>30339817It's a pen-shaped method of injecting oneself with epinephrine. It's carried by people with severe allergies in case of emergency.
>>30339871And these things looked like single dose Epipens, but the three on the guy you fought were labeled Fire, Hunter, and Radio.
>>30339901Maybe that's what was inside them?
>>30339817Brand name for easy to use auto-injector.Basically a more easy-to-use quick injection device.Baddies are packing their mind-power-drugs in them.Which also implies a limited duration.
Additional curiosity, what did you guys think of the Interlude Episode 06 opened with?
>>30340038Fun, and introducing us a bit to Venus' personality and some of the people around here.She should totally go find her old doctor.
Hrm, I think I've spent almost all my post-work time fiddling with images.Heh, at least it feels like I've been productive.I gotta crash though.Here Artemis, you can have this one.Have a good night!
>>30340038Now we've met all the new Inners. Asteroid senshi time?
>>30340642There is a possibility
>>30340642Might be looking in on Hotaru, she and Ami would be the likely people to have examine the mental drugs.
>>30340878>now think about outer senshi>ponder Haruka and Michiru>research a bit>research a bit more>find that Haruka's foreign status that allowed her a full drivers license in Japan at a young age would also allow her to marry a same-sex Japanese national overseas after 2009 and be recognized as married in Japan.>am amused and pleased by this.Seriously though, I should be asleep.
>>30341306>magical lesbian babies>it's a boy
>>30341567
>>30339901Well the epipen thing fits in with a slightly disturbing human augmentation theme.Presumably these guys are injecting powers into themselves.I imagine for non-pc statted scrubs this is pretty rough and limited.Cole in the gym is probably in possession of better stats and can thus handle harsher changes like electricity and mind control. Might even last longer for him as well.It would be nice to cross reference what the various student captives had in common. High test scores? Athletic ability? Etc...But what really worries me is WHY?I mean super powers are cool and all, but unless this is happening nation wide its a bit of a paltry scrub move.One school? Either the people they grabbed have exceptional potential, or the source of the problem is local and familiar with that school.Also some disturbing similarities to that one night... Makes it seem like an extinction level villain is right around the corner and everyone is scrambling to level up or bug out.
>>30343648Judging from the tests and who else they sought, they were looking for students with psychic talent.On the creepier end, it could be that psychics are an ingredient in the drugs.Or they want then for other nefarious reasons.Something big enough or strange enough to have the government to go looking for Sailor Moon's help is afoot. Could be related. I imagine that mass kidnappings through mind control would cause a stir all on its own.
>>30343648>>30345461Look at you guys, being Genre Savvy. Oh I'm going to meet and break your expectations as we go about this shared journey.Extinction, oh if o-Actually, jumping back a second.Interlude for next thread is chosen and will be written in advance.One that didn't make the cut, crate escape, was about my namesake.And I'm too young to be old is about Usagi's parents. All three of these characters will show up soon.
>>30345618However next thread starts with 3 short interludes AND a bonus that was going to be written either way.Previews!Ancient Aliens >"He'll brief you on the archeological findings, Mr. Chiba" "oh, I'm so excited! Not to meet you, Mr. Negotiator, I just love giving this slide show and people ACTUALLY taking it seriously"Enter Sandman >"Then tomorrow night, and every night, my love, until I can again walk by your side beyond this memory of Elysion"LAMAZE DOESN'T WORK FOR CATS >"no no no, this wasn't even supposed to, I couldn't. I couldn't. She'd be more alone than Dianna; the last if us,"And bonusFinancier of the Foundry>"Yes, Master. The Shadow will fall," you tremble through the oath he gave you to use as his farewell. For all the backing he has provided, for the next decade you'll be able to work, and the wonders you have seen since beginning this project; you can't help but fear the man. You fear him, and his willingness to foster your near schizophrenic artistry. Lifting the needle to your neck, you silence those fears. You have to get ready for the blank canvases to be delivered today.
>>30345818>Financier of the Foundry [...]Well, that's worrisome.
>>30345818>Mr. NegotiatorThis is now the car he must drive for work.
>>30347799Mamoru owns a simple black Lincoln Town Car, difficult to drive in Japan, but anything that isn't is way too tiny.Despite his earnings as a Lawyer, Mediator, and Negotiator versed in international & business law, and Usagi's former income as a physician and her occasional freelance consultant work since leaving her practice (which she still technically owns, but whatever) the Chiba's try to live modestly; if comfortably; and well under their means.Usagi really is uncomfortable with the idea of being some snooty rich woman, Serenity was the Princess, not her...and after averting the disaster that would kill billions and lock the earth in Stasis while her power healed it and would have eventually brought about Crystal Tokyo...Usagi has little desire to become Neo Queen Serenity.She doesn't want to rule, despite possessing the power subjegate the earth if she chose. Despite already having the adoration of millions. Despite everything, she doesn't want that power.A nice feature that defines her against many of her enemies. They became powerful and sought power to take something from others. She grew powerful protecting others.Also, if Usagi's status as a MD confuses some of you, I will refer you to a scene from Scrubs that I can't find online where Christopher Turk explains that while he was a C student as a kid, he buckled down and became a great surgeon.How she managed this while raising 3 children with a Husband who frequently had to travel internationally for the entry level work of his career is still anyone's guess.
>>30348013>How she managed this while raising 3 children with a Husband who frequently had to travel internationally for the entry level work of his career is still anyone's guess.I imagine that having Luna, a network of friends, and her "oldest" having aged and matured a bit by the time she was really in charge of her all probably helped.Apparently I'll be home today. My car is completely stuck in place.Judging from the tone of my boss, I am deadly concerned I'll be spending a lot more time at home in the near-future.
>>30348511Nailed it.One of the Reasons that Luna can adopt her human form more easily now.Small children don't always listen to talking cats.Just ask Sakamoto.
For reference, what continuity are we working with here? Feels like the anime mainly (then again, I am more familiar with that, so maybe that's just my impression), but you mentioned Ryo being the Ami's 'silver-medal', which makes me think additional continuity might be afoot.
>>30349536Anime Continuity. Though I admit to one or two things lifted from elsewhere for the present of the quest. For example, young Venus's manager was her Mother's Manager in the Live Action series for 2004. Sunken Submersible of German construction and design.
>>30348013>Despite everything, she doesn't want that power.The fool.
>>30352304Lust for power is merely a sign of an absence of love in your life.Also, I amused to come across a Sailor Moon mod for Doom 2 while searching for an image.Demons defeated are purified back into people.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liGzOolu8Nk
>>30353769I have what I have.The question is, who's going to come and take it?
>>30353822Look, Victor Von Doom has my deep and abiding love, so he's good to go.When it comes to her power, Sailor Moon is more about protecting people than ruling them, but I believe she possesses a similar amount of determination as Doom when it comes to her goal of protecting the people, even to the point of ruling if she absolutely has to, such as with Crystal Tokyo. She also wouldn't forget to keep people a safe distance from the battlefield, unlike Doom in that image. That battle disrupted the Earth's orbit and destroyed civilization and set back the clock on knowledge and technology. Damnit, Doom, you -always- let ultimate power go to your head and screw something up. Learn from Sailor Moon, don't reveal in your power so much, geeze....When I got up the morning, I never suspected that I would be comparing Doctor Doom and Sailor Moon to each other.
>>30355057*revel*this morningI cannot into words.
>>30355057>safe distance from the battlefield,He was fighting the Celestials. I'm not sure anyplace in the universe was safe. These guys are on par with the Watchers.
Just letting all if you know, the mechanics of the transformation system, not that it matters to Mikage, work nicely. Now to continue to have a rough idea of how they work until I can sit and type it out.Good things happen while I wait for AAA to jump my car.If this were the weekend, I could accuse the Curse.
>>30357321Seems we're having similar car luck today.One day I should get AAA.
>>30357689Going to replace the Battery on Saturday, this will have a cascading effect on when I can run. Namely it won't be in the morning.
>>30358113Alas, I'll be back on my regular schedule by then, assuming no more snow storms, so I'll mainly be around for the late night bits on the weekends. Though I'll try to peek in when no one is looking.
>>30355057Really puts fandom into perspective
>>30362282Comparing Doom and Moon puts fandom in perspective?What kind?
>>30364529Doom is always the villain even when writ noblelyMoon, when a future tyrant being happiness to all is still a hero.High school girls are given way to many moral liberties by society while also having too many of their rights and freedoms culturally suppressedAlso. Doom and Moon rhyme. Though I am unaware. If Victor has any maritime titles.
>>30364529I'd imagine how interesting it is to compare and contrast characters who don't normally come up together in conversation.
> crystalline substance embedded in someone's eye makes them evil!Thank god that isn't familiar in the least! Let us all take a monent to praise the JSDF for thier fine containment protocols and excellent pattern recognition.Because nothing like this has ever happened before, ever.
>>30369393They, the JSDF Task Force, didn't know about the crystal in his eye until they found Umino's off the books laboratory and saw his recordings and found the body at said lab. Which was just a few weeks ago after he had been missing for an odd 2 years as of a few days ago.They know shit is up, and want desperately to know whether or not the third Sailor moon took care of whoever killed Umino & turned his corpse into a crystalline AI.If yes, then they have long term important stuff to discuss with whoever the Senshi send. They believe they can no longer sit on the periphery.If no. Then they want in on the operation in some fashion, be kept in the loop, and brace for whatever new supernatural threat looms around the corner.Also, Aiha sheet sans Transformed State inbound today.
>>30369789Bah! Science.... you know what happens when you mess with science?Bad things.Next morning you wake up, staring at your daughter.... FROM THE FUTURE.Oh yeah.And your cat is TALKING.And people have had thier bodies SWITCHED.And people are having CRAZY fire induced HALLUCINATIONS.And a character from your favorite VIDEO GAME is REAL and visits you all the time because your FRIENDS.Man science will mess you up every time.You should play it safe and trust Magic.
>>30366885Well, there a reason for that.In the future of Doomworld, ALL crimes are punished with swift and merciless death.Whereas Serenity will refuse to kill you if she believes there is even a glimmer of good within you, even if you just killed everyone she loves in front of her with the rest of the universe soon to follow.Love & Justice vs Death & Order.One of those will get painted as a hero, and as hope.The other gets you painted as a villain, or Judge Dredd.>>30369789Hm. So he already had a secret lab prior to the accident. Interesting.It will be interesting once Mikage is filled in on those events more. The whole 'he was already dead' thing completely changes what happened that night. She didn't fail and kill him, she made a promise that was too late before any of it began.Though from her description, I'm not sure how certain I am of whether the crystal was destroyed or was blown out. And the whole question of what it was and where it came from. Or whether or not it merged with the broken Tranquility Flute's inner workings..
Aiha Sheet is in the PasteAiha Mizuno: http://pastebin.com/Ge9StPF6
>>30370291 I explicitly said he was dead before his research was used to make monsters in the Interlude with Moon & Naru, I think
>>30369789Also you earn a grudging fist-shake and smile for accessing my youthful shadowruns of trying to figure out why Melvin turned evil, back when they were only hinting at the Professor and Umino was the only character with glasses like that.. i was all like 'how did he get an awesome lab?' 'why is he doing this? did he figure out something with the scouts and snap?'You know, it occurs to me that I never question him have assistants/henchmen in this line of thought. They just went along with having a lab and being evilish.
>>30370450Even down to having something up with one eye...Did you have those shadowruns too?>>30370424Indeed you did, to Usagi in the interlude of before we started eavesdropping. No one has told Mikage anything yet.
>>30370450Umino Pursued Physics and Engineering in school, however having witness actual Magic with the Scouts living in his town, he eventually branched off into a minor in studying Mythology and cultural superstitions. Eventually, he began developing some of the first theories on how the Sailor Senshi, Youma, and their foes worked. His earliest theories and his Doctoral Thesis were of course entirely flawed as too the actual nature of magic, but it contained some ground breaking views that have contributed into ongoing string theory research. He was approached by the JSDF & International Coalition Task force to help conduct research on paranormal events, record data, and eventually started a program he was told to keep off the books...and boy did he take it off the books.To this point. The Crystal replaced his mind, nervous system, and vascular system. The other enhancements to his body was the project he was working on. And it works, but the important research was long gone by the time the task force finally found the lab.
>>30370388Any comments or questions on the Aiha Sheet?
>>30370525Damn, Umino still confirmed for one of my favorite characters. Always did like that guy, and I've played and NPCed a few characters similar to the future-him you describe.Shame we can't meet him now.>The Crystal replaced his mind, nervous system, and vascular system.Figured as such from the descriptions. Also sounds nano-tech-y. Which raises interesting thoughts.>The other enhancements to his body was the project he was working on. And it works, but the important research was long gone by the time the task force finally found the lab.Oh. Oh dear.Well, this is what we get for leaving a lab full of secret research lay around for a year and a half.Replace murder/failure guilt with out-shit-what-did-I let-fester guilt. ..Well, will certainly encourage a proactive stance on our part.>>30370577Sorry, got distracted with Umino thoughts.I'll grab some caffiene and give it a perusing.
>>30370577Deep sea salvage?
>>30370667Salvaging the remains of sunken submersibles of German design and construction, I'd imagine.
>>30370667 The name is a joke. Take a moment. You are on 4chan, this is a Sailor Moon Quest, its 2012/2013. Think of what terminology we use frequently that coincides with the outdated name of a type of nautical vessel.
>>30370577>>30370450Interesting, did Ancient Millennium appear for free or did someone teach it to her without explaining the origin?I had assumed Mikage had simply been taught by her parents and Luna.
>>30370753Free on Awakening.
>>30370664 To be fair, that research was taken and gone well before you found the lab. The monster making research was a different tract along the same starting base with WILDY different results. Also, Not Umino called himself Magician. He had all of Umino's memories and knowledge, but none of his emotions...those emotions and direction or lack there of were someone else's.
>>30370734To be honest I didn't get it until the second time you used that joke, and tried to figure it out. Read a couple fascinating articles about actual u-boat incidents before I came back around and remembered /u/. First time visiting that I can recall.. there is a lot of hand-holding and hugs there.
>>30370760Neat.
Also I commend everyone for making Aiha think of you like some super gallant knight in the shadows. She is ten shades of confused; and she'll address it after life and death struggle is done and over with.
>>30370577Hm, Mind Reading cost is such that I would typically hesitate strongly on ever using it outside of dire need. Which is probably the intent.She's looking to be a great person to talk to, and after that runner's start I'm pleased to see Athletics on there.She's going to be a great person for the Scouts to have on their team.
>>30370954Indeed, though Mindreading will become more cost effective as she gains levels, but as of now, its not something she can do all the time.Though if she passes out from it, or a combination of it and over extending her MP, her flavor text for falling unconscious will include a nose bleed.
>>30371078Also.Because it is funny.And true.
>>30370866A confusion we hope to foster and continue!Bat-vanish go!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W23cISTzF_4
>>30371271Wrong kind of Confusion, but gosh darn it, I'll allow it.
>>30372108Sir, I'm picking something up on sonar..
>>30372551Keep below periscope depth and begin silent running.
Well gents and ladies, it was a fun thread that kicked on the board some three days after it initially ended. For more you can always chat me up @Artemis_QM on twitter.
>>30373596Silent running, aye-aye.>>30373998Been fun man.Been awhile since I followed a thread past the image limit too.
Sailing steady, with six thread between us and the botton..
Going fast now!1 to go!Goodbye Episode 6!
>>303747100.Love and Justice forever.Seeya next thread.
