1/a lotEclipsed Moon Quest Episode 08Sheets and Info: pastebin.com/u/phantomcrossingTwitter Account: https://twitter.com/Artemis_QMArchive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Eclipsed+moon I believe in Heroes InterludeThe lights flood the early evening sky, casting the shadows of the Metropolitan Government building across the clouds, silhouetted against the piercing and visible columns of light reaching for the unattainable heights of heaven. The chatter of reporters, the flash of cameras, and the solid red lights of shouldered video cameras spread like a seas from the podium as a neatly dressed JSDF officer takes the mic. Flanking her on the platform a number of men and women. Japanese and foreign. Known international and domestic players of varying levels; scientists, crackpots, military personnel, and famed diplomats.One reporter familiar with western media to see the wild haired “Ancient Aliens” guy standing up there with so many respectable people. This reporter is quick, and snaps a long lenses close up of the American Educated crazy man speaking to a rather uncomfortable looking Mamoru Chiba; a man prized and feared by many nations and the Zaibatsu.Pausing, the reporter can only imagine what could possibly make the unflappable negotiator nervous enough to adjust his collar in front of a crowd. Pivoting, he focuses in on the woman at the center of the stage.Her green uniform is for the most part standard issue JSDF Dress. Smart jacket and straight cropped skirt, immaculately pressed tie. What stands out is that her rank insignia is replaced with a symbol he's never seen before, and she is wearing a blue United Nations beret on top of her short and thin cut, but still crinkled and wavy, dark red hair.
>>304551542/?“Good evening. My name is Captain Naru Osaka of the JSDF Paranormal Task Force and participant in the United Nations Paranormal Incident Think Tank and Joint Task Force. Thank you all for making the time to attend this press conference despite the short notice. Your efforts to help spread what we have to share with you today will always be appreciated as we go forward.” she is crisp and practiced. She betrays no emotion despite the welling pain and nervousness shaking her heart.When she saw Mamoru Chiba exit Chou-san's plane, she couldn't help but smile at how nervous he was. The outright shock on his face when she whispered to him that she had spoken to Usagi about the press conference earlier and planned to make an entrance just made him look all the more nervous. It's fun, letting people know you are aware of their big secrets.Certainly better than heavy secrets of one's own.“And now, go forward we must. It is no secret that the last 20 or so years in Tokyo have been particularly turbulent with certain revelations and evidence of impossible happenings, unusual powers, wide scale dreams about a familiar year of events that never was, recorded proof of an entire city being put to sleep that it's children nearly be stolen in the night, and brief periods of frequent inhuman monster attack...but this turbulence also carried something else with them, something on a fair wind for all mankind.” she breathes deeply here and screws her eyes shut for a brief moment, collecting herself and gathering strength.“Again, my name is Captain Naru Osaka of the Paranormal Task Force, and I believe in heroes”-Four stand in black fluttering loose cloth held tight and close by points of chromatic trim and bow on a nearby building across the way. A fifth stands to the back of the group, her outfit a backless and flowing gown of black, whipping in the winds of the skyscraper. Winds she hoped would be the fair winds her dear friend spoke of now.
>>304551893/too much“Are you sure there's more than what she told you earlier, Moon?” says the tall brunette, leaning over the ledge with her forearm resting across her knee for balance; eyes scanning the crowd for any sign of threat.“Never mind if she's sure. With the information already provided it would be irresponsible not to show up. Think of the panic it could cause, and the confidence it would build in the party responsible. They would think they could act with impunity,” the blue haired woman scolds, perhaps too forcefully, the tall brunette from across the way, “Besides...they went after my daughter. I don't care if they want our help or not. I'm getting involved,”There is a tension between them; something long ended but perhaps not entirely resolved.Shrinking back, the brunette raises her hands in defense, “Calm down, Mercury, I know how you feel. If someone had targeted one of mine...” she drops from her apologetic body language and clenches a fist while the rest of her tenses. The ledge developing cracks from the pressure beneath her boot.“I still don't see what all the fuss is about,” the one with voluminous blonde hair stretches an arm above her head with upper arm pulled by the other, “I mean, for once the government is on the scent and trail of the kind of shit we used to deal with. If the new Mercury is already up, isn't it only a matter of time and choice before it's the rest of our kids' problems too?”The raven haired woman clad in red trim turns from facing the silent woman in the gown.“You've changed your tune since last time? I thought you didn't want to pass down the mantle of Sailor Venus,” her voice is steady but relaxed. It would take years of knowing the woman to notice the mirth that has been all but absent since shortly after the birth of her child.
>>304552054/WHY“Oh, what's this Mars?” luckily the blonde with the orange trim did have years of familiarity. “Is that a smile? Oh my goodness. Don't tell me,” there are hearts and stars shining in her eyes. The twinkling soul of the goddess of love, “Someone's finally getting laid again! Oh, to be able to have passion back in your spinsterly separation...though I guess without a divorce it is technically adultry; however if it is fueled and inspired by love I can only give you my approval as a friend!”Giving the raven haired woman a thumbs up while posing in ridiculous fashion, the blonde gives a wink and a giggle.“Venus,” Mars growls, “I swear to whatever minor gods are listening in this forsaken place that when I get the chance I am goi-”“That's enough.” Finality. Poise. Nobility. Loyalty. Friendship. Love. All things like this sound as she speaks.She turns, black train billowing out behind her along with her twin long tails of golden hair in the wind that she had ultimately decided was a fair one. She steps forward, through the gathering of her friends, sisters, and comrades.“Oh Naru-chan,” she smiles down through the night air, “I believe in heroes too.”She takes a deep breath as she hears the plea for aid. The request made to the original Sailor Moon or any of her successors that would respond to the call for cooperation and assistance. The cameras flash, the reporters shout. Naru Osaka far below is still amid the growing chaos.“Jupiter,” the Moon asks firmly, “Lights”-
>>304552315/it doesn't stop, help meDown among the throng of reporters, cameramen, and other onlookers there is sudden silence in the dark. Blue arcs of light had appeared almost everywhere and all the wired sources of light shut themselves off. There is something falling from the sky, a bright yellow ball of radiance trailing ribbons of light covered in shifting hearts. Men and woman scatter to the periphery where JSDF security raise their arms and prime their weapons in proper measure.Impact. Steam rushes out as a column of flame shoots into the sky, split and broken by the crash of lighting, the thunder so close it could have shaken the bones of those nearby...but it did not.It is dark again. Slowly the lights return. Many are pivoted and focused upon the shroud of fog that is rapidly clearing. Standing there are five.At their center, she stands. As enough of her cover fades and eyes and recording devices alike capture the countenance the world over is familiar with, but could never truly remember or describe, the hush hastens into gasps and cries as the five stride forward; mists clinging and trailing from their form and dress.“I'm sorry for keeping everyone waiting for so long. How can we be of help,” she smiles and hearts earlier wracked with fear are balmed.End I believe in Heroes Interlude.
>>304552466/fuuuuuuuuuuuuuYou are Mikage Chiba, Second Year High School Student, age 15, and formerly the third Sailor Moon. Right now, you're in the guest washroom of Aiha Mizuno's family home. It is with great annoyance your decide that guest washroom is uncomfortably small; you suppose the Mizuno's don't often have guests for Aiha & her father's condition.Pulling your shirt down, you tense. Yeah, even a few hours after magically mending your injury there is still a faint blemish that has left that entire side of your chest incredibly tender. You decide to hit a pharmacy on the way home to pick up some burn cream and scar gel. If there is one thing you miss it's the fringe benefits of not having lasting scars from injuries sustained while you were a Senshi. Sure a wound that could have killed you would probably leave a reminder...but your Regalia seemed to take care of the small stuff.No. You don't miss it. This, even if you want to let it fade naturally, is a trophy. It's a victory for you as Mikage...for your as Eclipse against the bad guys. Proof you are a good sister and a great friend, even if the others don't get to know about it right now.You wash your hands for the sake of appearances and sound before returning to the living room where Aiha continues to have her existential crisis, rewinding the scene as it plays out and playing it again on the DVR playback function. This freakout is getting to be adorable, and Koyomi is gently patting her shoulder and trying to be comforting. Poor thing, she's so flustered her hair is in disarray and her eyes are getting a touch red.>So, what's it like to have your peaceful worldview shattered. We grew up with it, so, you know...it * WAS * our normal.>I'd bet you'd also be surprised to know your mother and father probably had sex before you came along too. (tease her).>Say nothing & Sit down on the anti couch of pure discomfort and hate.>Write In.
>>304552607/7Also: Level Up to Level 4Mikage has 8 or so Training Points to spend on Trainings, both existing or new. Her cap in any one training is currently 4.Mikage has no new feat slots this level.Mikage has opened 3 Spell slots of 2nd level. What spells from her available paths would you like to learn? You also have the option of forgetting one spell you already know and replacing it with another of an equal level.You also have the power to select two of your basic statistics and raise each of them by 1.Vote on your level up choices and your action. I'm going to shower & have to go run a few short errands so you'll have time to discuss things before I get back in just about an hour or so.
>>30455260(We've had a peaceful worldview shattered too, damn *her*)"Having your worldview shattered can be hard, I know, but at least this isn't so bad. Your mom was a hero. All of them were. Most didn't tell the kids either, so don't feel singled out.Welcome to a strange new reality, with talking cats and heroes.. and monsters... *sigh* I also know why she'd want to keep you out of it. *cast glance at Koyomi* ..but don't let me bring you down. Koyomi can probably fill you in better."Then excuse ourself to check on Luna.Then realize someone should call Artemis.
>>30455265I'm going in for replacing Tiara Magic with Force ScreenControl Darkness and ShadowsLesser RestorationMoonlight
>>30455265Skill increases:Acrobatics by 1 (maxed)Stealth by 4 (maxed)Streetwise by 3
>>30455265For the statistic increase, I'd say Agility and Will now, then Agility and Endurance next time we up.
>>30455450May want to work in Insight, we're confirmed for Sensitive perk now, and we keep getting strange feeling about things- like the one that lead to that station.
>>30455524I hate choosing between things that I like.
>>30455524Arcobatics 1Stealth 4Streetwise 1, that's plus 4 total with attributeInsight 2, that's plus 4 total if we increase will or int is already +2?
>everyone agrees on being a ninja>debate how they gather infoHey, what about the hitting-things part?I need more Jump kicks in my life.
>>30455650For our current needs our jump kicking ability is enoughI think next level up we can focus on it though
>>30455260> Say nothing & Sit down on the anti couch of pure discomfort and hate.
>>30455260>tease herJust lightly, she needs something to take her mind off it
>>30455380Ack, good point.Can the compact call him direct somehow, or do we need to wait for Venus' mom to get off the tv?
>>30455260>I'd bet you'd also be surprised to know your mother and father probably had sex before you came along too. (tease her).>>30455265Replace Tiara magic with something stealthy.
>>30455380>WORDSNot a bad idea though.Let's do that but end with the teasing to bring it off the down note.
>>30455265Ultimately, we need to pick 8 training areas and try to focus on them.So Stealth, Acrobatics, Deceive, Persuade, Melee, Ranged. That's six.How about Perception? and is Lucidity locked still with the Sensitive perk? We need dream walls.
>>30455154for a moment i though that the guys in that pic were sort of angels from NGE.
>>30455759Liking the Force Screen for better defense for ourselves, and those in our arms, and gets our foot in the door of the psychic path.Long duration too.Shadow control should help with sneaking as well, when needed.
>>30455380>>30455748>>30455827>>30455733>>30455759>Pic related.We get a lot of use out of that expression in our conversation tree decisions.
>>30455550Alright, how about:Acrobatics by 1 (maxed)Stealth by 4 (maxed)Streetwise by 2Insight by 1Gives us a solid Streetwise, while starting to explore Insight.>>30455828Shit, I forgot about Perception. *pulls hair out*And you forgot Intimidate.
>>30455969She's not studying in that pic. She's trying to write a love letter.
>>30456037Eah, works either way.
>>30455380>>30455926>>30455827So replace my "don't let me bring you down" with gentle teasing so as to not bring her down?I'm ok with this.
What do we like more?Perception>Look, listen, search, find. Intellect based.Good for noticing details, detecting enemy stealth.Streetwise>Get the word on the street. Navigate the city. Find people who don't want to be found. Uses Charisma and Intellect. If you want to crack a few skulls you can use Might too...but it might cost you.Make use of our contacts and personas to find out information around town. Good for tracking down things as well.Insight>Sensing motivations, understanding others, getting weird feelings, trusting your gut. Often Will or Intellect.Detect lies, better use our Sensitivity, and otherwise discerning things.I like 'em all, but like >>30455828notes we shouldn't spread ourselves too thin.
Back, wearing the hat, counting, thinking, enjoying a late breakfast, and writing.From the look of things you want prod her in a friendly manner to take her mind off of HABBENINGS and put her at ease.roll me a Persuasion, 1d20+6. Your DC is this reaction roll.Also, what seems to be the consensus on the Level Up?
Rolled 10>>30456419I did not fill in that dice field correctly.
Rolled 8 + 6>>30456419
Rolled 14 + 6>>30456419They see me rollin' they hatin'.
>>30456419No one has really argued much on the spells or statistics.Looks like some debate regarding three of the training points.Every loves stealth and ninja flips.
Rolled 8 + 6>>30456512I always forget that it hates capital D.
>>30456512I know I truly want us to be a mistress of shadow.
>>30456541>>30456512I wouldn't mind us going back to full senshi if the character naturally grows back in that direction but I quite like the idea of being ninja support / pinch hitter until that situation comes up and is resolvedWe can even go towards tue rose theme our father used to try and distract more attention away from our self with ninja skills if we go that way
>>30456477>>30456492>>30456525Success, 2 Degrees of Success.Also:From the Look of things, You guys want to Upgrade Agility & Will. Is this correct?You want to Swap out Tiara Magic and Learn Force Screen? Is this correct?For Training you want to increase:Acrobatics by 1Stealth by 4and you need more time to agree on how to spend the last 3 points?Also, Lucidity remains locked until you have had some in game explanations or training.
Rolled 14 + 6>>30456419Force Screen, lose Tiara MagicControl Darkness and ShadowsLesser RestorationMoonlightAgility +1Will +1Stealth +4Acrobatics +1and ???We have 3 Training points to go.I think we want to put them into one of the 'discovering things' skills, or all of them, or two of them.
>>30456525All magical girls hate the D. It's a rule now. I regret nothing
>>30456419Agree all that is fine.Let's 2 streetwise and 1 perception. On the last 3 points.
>>30456609But...if they hated the D they wouldn't have had kids.
>>30456594I would keep tiara !agic but I think I am alone in that
>>30456609I'm sure there has to be some that enjoy the D.I regret even less!
>>30456635Insight is pretty useful though, and we already get little flashes now.
>>30456594Sounds about right.Let's break it down, with no training, and typical statistic's bonus:Perception +2Insight +2Streetwise +3I'd say go ahead with a point into each for now, and next level see which one we liked more.
>>30456729Then we have a +3, +3, +4 spread.Hm, looking at that picture makes me wonder about getting an item to help with Perception.Then we'd could go +2 Insight, +1 Streetwise, and have those at +4 each total.
>>30456635This was supposed to reply to >>30456594 - I blame my phone. I'd like to change and support >>30456729For sake of consensus
>>30456774I'm not sure glasses would go with our outfit.
>>30456774I'm sure we could work something out. Maybe a HUD like Ami used, or instead of visual we boost hearing and other senses to operate in the dark!
Ack>>30456905meant reply to >>30456849
I demand that we take Magic Rose. Or, at least, Dark Bolt and refluff it as Dark Rose.We are wearing dad's mantel, we have to damn well honor it.
>>30456982Take magic rose and just manifest it as dark roseOr maybe change rose colour based on who we are helping that day
>>30456774Bump the two we probably can't boost with gear up to 4 and look for gear to help perception?Sound good, actually.
Artemis, I think you might want to set a fresh vote the the following, since it looks like we're all leaning toward splinting the points up a bit.A: Perception +1, Insight +1, Streewise +1 (3/3/4 total)B: Perception +1, Insight +0, Streewise +2 (3/2/5)C: Perception +0, Insight +2, Streewise +1 (2/4/4)>>30457008Roses sold separately, unless Artemis tweaks it further.
>>304565941/?~Having your worldview shattered can be hard, I know, but at least this isn't so bad. Your mom was a hero. All of them were. Most didn't tell the kids either, so don't feel singled out. Welcome to a strange new reality, with talking cats and heroes... and monsters...~ you sigh here and arc your back to realign your spine, even after getting up and moving around that demon from sofa hell still has sway over you, ~I also know why she'd want to keep you out of it,~You lock eyes with your younger sister for a brief second. Her voice seems to be caught in her throat, struggling to find a way to freedom. What could she want to say to you now, you wonder. This is probably the longest time she's spent in your direct, if otherwise quiet, company in quite a long time. Your musings on the young Moon's thoughts are cut, you're focusing on the girl having her One Seventh Life crisis. That one is looking at you through a shocked haze of disbelief and stress. Your words thus far seem like a beacon drawing her home, to be able to make sense of all of this. Relatively certain you've hooked her on that path, you make one final pull to land your catch.~Though, from the way you're reacting, I'd bet you'd also be surprised to know your folks had sex before you came along too,~ you stick your tongue out for emphasis though there is a buzzing in the back of your mind as you can almost taste her shock. Psychic girl's thinking loudly, broadcasting her emotions, ~...but don't let me bring you down. Koyomi can probably fill you in better on all of this~You give a tired giggle and flop onto the floor in front of the thing that provides no comfort and only suffering, snatching a throw pillow from that hell to prop against your back and it's frame. Aiha seems calmer, and pauses the screen, at the replayed point where the five Sailor Senshi emerged from mist.
>>304571142/?“Okay. That gives me some perspective. Thanks, truly,” she smiles and leans back in a sigh against that which must certainly consume the souls of dust bunnies and exalt in their dying terrors, the tension leaving her.How the hell can she find that monstrosity comfortable?“Its no problem, Aiha-chan!” Koyomi finds her bubbly self again with your contact broken and flops back into the cushion next to the blue haired girl, “And we make a pretty great team, don't we. Though I still have no idea who that man in black was...” her vibrancy trails off, “He helped fight the psychic, but who was he?”“He actually rescued me from Mohawk when he had me cornered on the roof,” Aiha blushes, “He got us away from those men and too Luna, gave me some advice before I took my transformation wand. Eclipse, Eclipse is a good man and a friend, your sis-”You look over your shoulder immediately and sharply, eyes cutting off Aiha mid word. Yeah, that'll remind her that when someone says they'd rather not talk about something, and it's you, then you'd rather not talk about something.“Eclipse?” Usagi falls quiet.Aiha turns to the blonde girl curiously, her fear from your death glare dying off.“The guy I've been fighting, the rock thief. He kept saying something about ushering in an eclipse. That the Shadow would fall on everything I stood for,” Koyomi has the rare serious look on her face, kinda the way mom get's when she goes full royal. For some reason it is incredibly nerve wracking to see you mom go full royal.“Luna seemed to trust him,” Aiha offers. Damn straight the cat trusts you. You're secret keeping buddies. She's keeping the not so secret secret that you are a murderer. You're keeping the kind of important secret from the world that she can talk.For now that seems to be enough for your little sister. The blonde girl turns back toward the television and crosses her hands behind her back, elbows up in the air.
>>304571533/4“So, recognize anyone else up there other than your mom?” Koyomi follows your example and teases in a sing song voice.Aiha leans forward, seemingly forcing herself just a bit to see through the disguise fields of the other Planetary Senshi.“Well, Moon is definitely Chiba-Sensei. I didn't need her face to come into focus to know THAT,” she snaps back a little at the tease with a giggle before falling back into thought. “And Jupiter is, wait, Kino-san! ...really? She just goes off and names her business after her old super hero career and no one bats an eye?!”You glance up with a wry smile, ~It's magic. Doesn't have to explain shit~Aiha deflates in her shock and goes back to her concentration.“That's the Priestess at the Hikawa Shrine. I know her daughter, Rin,” she affirms before diving into the last one, “And Sailor Venus is-wait, no way!”She reels back and pitches forward, searching through the small stack of recent magazines on the coffee table to lift up an international film magazine. Proudly on the cover is Minako Aino in make up and costume for her recent tour de force performance in a movie about the Japanese Internment Camps in the American West during the second World War. Aiha glances between the screen and the magazine at least six times before falling back into the hungry spine tooth maw of the couch.
>>30457173“Minako Aino...mom is friends with her and I've seen her with the others at the cafe...I never.” yeah, this is fun, “And she named her daughter Venus. They may have been super heroes, but all it would take is one, ONE bad guy with the power to see through the outer edges of the disguise field to screw all of us over!”~Look at it this way, at least your parents named their Cram School 'Hermes Educational'. That's some more effort than Jupiter or Venus~“Mikage-neechan,” Koyomi whines while wringing her pigtails, “Don't make her feel worse!”Oh Aino-san. How is it that you're always good for a laugh.~Argh, Minako! We should probably get in touch with Artemis. He's going to want to know about this!~>Figure out how to get in touch with Artemis. How? Minako is still at the Metropolitan Complex.>Let it be, he can be told later.>Leave to tend to it yourself.>Leave for the night as you're out of fucks to give now.>Write in.
>>30457153Yay being a red herring~
>>30457190Aiha does have a point. All they needed was an enemy strong enough against magic, or void to magic entirely, and they and their families would be fucked.
>>30457232
>>30457190>Figure out how to get in touch with Artemis, see if Luna is conscious yet and ask her if she is. If not ask see if we ever did mark down whichever false account he was using to keep an eye on us via social media
>>30457190>Figure out how to get in touch>Tend to it yourselfLet the girls chat without you, and get away from it for a bit.Do we know where Minako stays when in town?
>>30457256In defense of them there they are 14-16 year old girls. Anyone between the ages of 13 and 22 kind of gets a pass for being a little stupid/insane. The adults have no defense.Also, I am disappoint that we couldn't have brought the masquerade down. IT was so wonderful in PPQ.
>>30457256To be fair, they were kids.At least kids are growing up faster these days.I mean, we wouldn't fall for that.. right?Inb4 Ninja Paintball Tournament "We'd totally be awesome at that"
>>30457289Ami was supposedly a geniusAnd the others aside from Usagi weren't exactly meant to be dunces eitherAnd really with how often they fell into simple traps like that even being teenagers stops giving them a pass, even Shaggy and Scooby doo started getting genre savvy after a while and they were stoned 24/7
>>30457263Yeah, this. Figure out how to get in touch with Artemis. We may be cool, socially grouchy loner, but we should hang with our sister and Friend.
>>30456646Science marches on.
>>30457076If it comes up, I'll vote C on that, btw.
>>30457076I'm down with C, and getting some kind of ninjabat sensor widget. Or taking more perception next level if we can't.
>>30457317Well OBVIOUSLY, it was a cunning plan to spring the trap and try to turn it back on the attackers by seemingly walking into it obliviously.
So, was that +2 to street wise and +1 to perception or was it +1 to Streetwise, Perception & Insight?Final check as I cobble this sheet together.
>>30457076I can get behind that.Final Destination Vote, link only this post with A, B, or C directly under the post link. No Comments.A: Perception +1, Insight +1, Streewise +1 (3/3/4 total)B: Perception +1, Insight +0, Streewise +2 (3/2/5)C: Perception +0, Insight +2, Streewise +1 (2/4/4)
>>30457490C.
>>30457232Or anybody that can put two and two together.
>>30457490C
>>30457490A
>>30457503Two and two seems to be trick, they've got statues of them and still fuzzy on the details.
Excuse my ignorance, as my memories of this series gets fuzzy after almost two decades of having watched it:What is it with the black suits the old Scouts are using? They look evil, or like evil clones of themselves.If Mikage is the THIRD Sailor Moon, who was the Second? Chibi-Usa?Did pic related happen?
>>30457585They look elegant and classy in black. 5 in black, billowing outfits. You can't weir a Seifuku forever...though lord knows Pluto tries....mist
>>30457531>>30457511>>30457502>>30457528And C wins
No one wanted perform: flute?My heart is crushed.
>>30457585Usagi>Chibausa>Mikage>KoyomiThough as far as the world knows there have been three, the pink haired ones considered to be same one.DAMN *HER*At least if I recall correctly.
>>30457723>blinks>looks at the sheetWell shit, I didn't even notice it wasn't on there. Thought we played the flute already.
>>30457723Yes...yes you do know how to play the Flute. You have been training hard your whole life in fact...but for some reason you haven't been able to bring yourself to play in quite a while, let alone look at the instruments.To say nothing of hearing one.
>>30457756>>30457723We must correct this wrong.
>>30457756Maybe flute is the locked skill since we used to play but stopped after stabbing monster brains of of the living corpse of our friend's dad?
>>30457777We must work to over come this!
>>30457263>>30457274>>30457322Writing
>>30457777>>30457784>some reason>using our flute in a percieved homicideYeah, that'll do it.
>>30457813I really wonder how long it is going to take for for an adult to tell her the parts she doesn't know.Poor kid.
>>30457728That clears up things.
>>304578051/2After some hurried discussion and an explanation to Aiha about Artemis being like Luna, and the father of her adorable fuzzball kitten, the three of you dismiss the idea of calling Aino-san's compact. She's still at the Metropolitan Complex and there is no way she'd be able to break away to find or tell him, let alone take a phone call. You muse that Artemis probably follows you on Lurk, as he makes it his business to keep secretive tabs on EVERYONE, but you have no idea which following account it his and if you posted something public and vague about your cat having a surprise kitten; then there would be no guarantee that he would get the message promptly. It is finally your little sister who offers the sanest option.“Well, I didn't know Aino-san was back in the country yet...but, Venus has a song that's been on the radio and the album launch is tomorrow in Akihabra!” Koyomi says excitedly, “She's bound to be home at the Aino Estate for sure!”~Yeah, but that still doesn't excuse us calling her home number and asking her maid to speak with the cat~“Actually, it makes a bit of sense,” Aiha says quietly, “Celebrities are always bombastic and crazy. And considering that this Artemis is a talking cat...from the moon...Aino san probably has instructions left to her staff to allow him to receive calls,”~That sounds crazy enough to work~You pull out your cellphone, you've got a couple of Lurk messages from @ivandragowasright. You'll read them later. You find the emergency land line number for Aino's home, you've got multiple contact numbers for all of the Senshi at your mother's insistence. You've never gotten around the scrubbing them from your phone, just in case. You switch to speaker mode as Koyomi and Aiha loom over either side of you from atop the fires of Couch Doom.Ring~Ring~Click~
I wonder how the quartet are doing in this timeline.Imagine the amazons are adults now too.
>>30457960Well... the BEST DAD EVER is still on a business trip smoothing over the fact that mom is an alien. So its gonna hafta wait.
>>304580792/2“Good evening, you have reached the private line of the Aino residence. The lady of the house is absent this evening, how may I direct your call?~Hi, this is Mikage Chiba~ “And Koyomi!” ~And we're calling to sp-~There is a click and a crash as another voice enters the conversation.“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH” it cries happily and speaks faster than even your baby sister can while hopped up on red bull and coffee, “Chibi-Bunny-Chans! I was just thinking about Bunny-Sensei earlier today! Oh MY GOSH, have you seen the news! Its all over! The original Sailor Senshi are in Tokyo! Its so exciting! Did you know my mommy named me after Sailor Venus, Sailor V. I bet you she's her favorite. She says I'm named after the Greek Goddess of love, but I know better. She's got a secret room full of old Sailor V merch!”If you had been holding this phone to your ear, you would probably go deaf.“I think I will leave you to the young mistress,” Sofia says before her part in the conversation goes dead with a click.“So, Bunny-Chans!” Venus chirps over your phone, “What's up!”>uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh>Our cat Luna had a Kitten, and we're sure it's Artemis's. Is he around?>Can you put Artemis on the phone?>Can you bring Artemis over to the Mizuno house, we're here and Luna just had a kitten.>Uh...bye.>Write in.Alsohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dT_6bUbzE
>>30458079>@ivandragowasrightInteresting handle.
>>30458141>uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhThat is my initial response to this barrage.
Rolled 10 + 6>>30458141I feel like we should need to roll something to be able to manufacture a response as fast as that hyper-infodump hits.
>>30458141>Our cat Luna had a Kitten, and we're sure it's Artemis's. Is he around?Lets not assume she knows artemis can talk.
>>30458271>Rolled 16>FailureUhhhhhhhh..I put DC vs Venus-Words at 20.
>>30458141> Our cat Luna had a Kitten, and we're pretty sure it's Artemis' s. Is he around?
Err, do we have an explanation for why our cats could manage to get together from across town or worse?..Though for some reason, I don't think Venus would question it.>Moment of concern that it isn't Artemis'..
>>30458186>>30458327>>30458381>>30458296Tie, combining and writing.
>>30458389Of course I know how they can manage to safely and intelligently traverse the distances needed.
>>30458442~uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh~ your brain has shorted out. There is just way too much energy in that little girl. You fear, YOU FEAR, for your little sister's sanity once Venus become Sailor Venus. More than that, you fear for the forces of evil. Kid probably has enough energy to beam spam Crescent Beam until the monster is a smoking pile of detrius.You can practically hear here rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet humming a little song while she waits for your response. She must be used to people being overwhelmed by her energy. The song too, you think you've heard it. Catchy nasty little ear worm that grates on your senses. Sure it's sugar and sweet, and when you aren't locking yourself in your room you can enjoy that kind of thing, but from the nine year old dynamo on the other end of the line it's just too much.~Our Cat, Luna, had a kitten. We're pretty sure it's Artemis's. Is he around?~The excited gasp is immediate, “I'M COMING OVER!” you hear the swoosh and tension of a corded phone dropping and being left off of the hook and the pattering of slippers on expensive sounding floors. After a moment of the three of you sitting in stunned silence, slower footsteps return and someone fiddles with the receiver.“Where do you live again?” she sounds embarrassed.“Oh, we aren't home. We're at a friend's house,”“Hello, Aino-san. This is Aiha Mizuno. Luna and the kitten are here with us. My address is-”>stick around for the arrival of Venus>No, you do not have the energy left to deal with that kid, you're going home. Just...no.>Says something.>Do something
>>30458627>>No, you do not have the energy left to deal with that kid, you're going home. Just...no.Ecli...I mean Mikage has had way too much shit to deal with today. Time to go home and lie face down on the bed.
>>30458389Actual cats can travel long distances to get to their owners or to other cats.
>>30458627>stick around for the arrival of VenusGotta check if she has the symbol.
>>30458627>>No, you do not have the energy left to deal with that kid, you're going home. Just...no.
>>30458627Ugh, I don't want to, be someone is going to have to help run interference for Luna and Artemis to have a little privacy.Never thought we'd being doing the protector gig for those two.
>>30458627>Do somethingstay until the kid comes over. then hide in a cardboard box and sneak away
>>30458627Wait for Venus- do remind her to bring Artemis.Weather the initial barrage, then play the 'distant older kid' card to back out of conversation."Luna and the kitten need some rest, why don't you three chat here, with that sofa, and I'll take them up to Ahia's room to rest, I'll keep an eye on them for you. Artemis might as well come up too, let him sniff at them in peace, yeah?"
>>30458627>stick around for the arrival of Venus.
>>30458803>>30458748Eclipse, defender of the entire sailor crew!
>>30458880I am bad with clicking today.Meant to link to:>>30458729>>30458803
>>30458826>>30458803>>30458729>>30458687>>30458658>>30458688Wow, okay. Didn't expect that, though it's still in character. Mikage is getting comfortable.Writing and dipping cheddar ruffles potato chips in McD's habanero ranch. I am sure nothing bad can come of this.
>>30458141I am going to have to dig up my old hard drive.I know my old moonie stuff is on there, downloaded over weeks at a time via WinMX on a 56k modem.There is more music I want to hear and I can't find it on the tubes off-hand.
>>30458926Habanero ranch too much, going too be a bit.drinking a gallon of milk
>>30458926Less comfortable and more like we owe Luna one, and are willing to face horrible terrible things like hyper-active children to see our duty through.Fighting psionic goons will be more pleasant.
>>30459099... you -dare- imply that The Shining Soldier Of Love and Beauty Whose Glory Blinds Evil With Its Loveliness is in any way less than perfect?What does that say about your sense of taste you horrible kitten hating droopy blob?
>>30459253Not at all, just that we aren't prepared for such loveliness and energy.
>>30458958Oh god does that drive make a lot of noise. Like a cross between a vacuum cleaner and a jet engine.That can't be a healthy sound.
>>30459347Back it up, back it up on a flash drive before it dies.
>>30459347111 GB, Drive Name: "Biggy" 'cause it was so big.As I recall, at $200 it was a steal at the time. Seriously, it sound like a power drill, I better find those files fast...Groovy, looks like it's all here.>>30459464After being one for a bit it has gone down to more reasonable sounds, Loud-ish, but I think that much was normal.Must have needed to loosen up after not beting connected to anything for at least a couple years now.Found the particular song I'd been thinking of too.Wow, Created: Sunday, July 23, 2000, 3:57:18 AMTime certainly goes.My mp3s are older that the new scouts.
>>304589261/?As you close your phone you look toward Aiha and Koyomi and shudder.“Just like that. It should be close to her bed time. She isn't really coming over, is she?” Aiha wonders aloud.“I wonder if she'll come in a limo. Ooooo, or a car service! Wait, Aiha, can your roof support a helicopter?”“What, n-n-no,” and Aiha is right back to being embarrassed, “Who would let a child land a helicopter on the roof. Even if she's a few Wards over, we live in the same city!”“...but Aiha-chan,” Koyomi sniffles before bursting into smiles, “If she brought Artemis here by helicopter it would be soooooooo romantic!”You tune the two out and snatch up the remote, pressing resume live instead of play. The Sailor Senshi entered the building a while ago now, the news is replaying every angle they can find. Wondering where dad is, you spot him behind Osaka-san on the platform talking to some guy with crazy hair. He looks dapper but incredibly uncomfortable. Huh, you turn the volume up, looks like they're taking a focus on the Task Force's diplomatic team and they're focusing on your father now.There is a lovely series of shots of Osaka-san allowing dad to be the first to great the Senshi, as the Diplomatic Lead on behalf of the United Nations and the Sovereign nation of Japan. He stands midway down the short series of steps from the courtyard to the platform and stands opposite the forward stepped and regal looking Sailor Moon. He offers her a hand up the steps and walks with her in formal grace into the Metropolitan Complex, followed closely by the Sailor Senshi and the present members of the Task Force. As the door starts to close behind them, there is a brief glimpse of Sailor Moon tilting her head to rest it against your father's shoulder.
>>30459878...your mother is a love sick puppy whenever he is away. The media are going wild with it. Noting that your father is a supposedly happily married man with children. An old group photo is brought up and you cringe. Four years ago, when you first moved into the house. Where the hell did they get that? Did they pull it off mom's Facebook?Yeah, yeah they did. Wow, you and Koyomi were adorable. Dad always looks good even in his casual black turtleneck and blazer. Mom, oh if she wasn't just rocking it on international TV in what has to be the ultimate expression of a little black dress she would be utterly mortified. Frilled blouse was fine. Straight matching skirt just past the knees was fine. Her Doctor's coat, which she was always wearing around with pride if she could help it back then (just to rub it in some choice faces) was fine. The only thing that you imagine your mother would later be embarrassed by was her then... more motherly figure.“Watch out, Mrs. Chiba, looks like you may have some competition,” comments a rather bombastic and chatty newsman.Aiha starts laughing and falls back into the upholstery of unending evil. Its good she's opening up, she's starting to remind you more of the @PrincessCram you're used to interacting with online.Huh, right, Lurk.You flip your phone open to check your messages from @ivandragowasright. You're friends with this fellow over a shared liking of exercise and a couple of comics. He's okay, though you think he doesn't quite like the book you both gush over for the same reasons. Hero Destroyer Rena is an American comic about Super Heroes and Villains in this weird slightly timeless last bastion of humanity on a ruined earth...at least that's what you've inferred from the book over the course of it's run.
>>304599073/3You really get the character of Sparkle...rather Magical Girl Sparkle. There's shard pain there, you understand what it's like to lose your innocence in such a terrible way, and the pain of being a magical girl. At least you could escape it, while Sparkle soldiers through it. There is a willpower you respect and recognize in her struggle, you see a bit of yourself in those experiences...and hell, now you've got a lasting scar too.Yeah, he's gushing about what's happening on TV. He's jealous you're in Japan to get the news in real time without a delay. Thinks it is so amazing that the real old school magical girl bad-asses have returned; even though he doesn't really like the first or fourth as much as the second and third.Wow, he just hasn't been stopping. You pause though reading the message about the first and the fourth, shooting a casual glance over to your sister that she doesn't notice. You type back in a message asking why he liked the second and third more.@ivandragowasright: Because @RedEyedBeast, 1 & 4 have red white blue. USA color. 2 & 3 Pink White, good magical girl coulour pallet. I like it better. Also, bad experiences with blondes.Ah, you'd find that kind of sweet if he wasn't also talking about * HER *.There is a sudden and staccato ringing of the doorbell. All three of you know what's coming. Aiha resigns herself to answering the door. You look at your sister, she smiles and nods.>Hide and only intervene to help Luna>Wait here and prepare to greet Venus>Write in>Write in>Say something?>Something else?>Respond to @ivandragowasright
>>30459756I'm going to be on a nostalgia trip for awhile.Geeze, I've got an eclectic collection of stuff on here..Oh, right quest.
>>30459953>Hide and only intervene to help Luna
>>30459953Prepare to work on deflecting Venus onto the girls after the initial stampede and retreat with the cats into another room.
>>30459953>Wait here and prepare to greet VenusWe're gonna get glomped, are we.
>>30459981So many gigabytes of AMVs.. man, the age before fast internet and streaming.>>30460267Yes, yes we are. The things we do for cats.
>>30460005>>30460129>>30460267>>30460350Writing
...also, I've laid quite a number of extreme shadowruns that I've seen no comment on yet between the Financier Interlude and the majority of this thread.Was I too subtle?
My wife, has just asked me "How do these people play all day with you. Don't they have jobs or lives?"
>>30460846>Don't they have jobs or lives?in between classes
>>30460922Damn straight
>>30460846Stayed home from work sick today, but I normally post during breaks and lunch.
>>30460567I think most things were obvious, outside of the brickshitting ramifications of:>enemy can remove and command shadows to the detriment of the host>the shadow of the earth shall fall on the moonThat Jewel Thief defeated Helios and is doing that to _him_ before he is missed is also a serious concern, but that was right there.Naru Osaka has Heavy Secrets.>>30460846Off today, though I'm about to head out for a bit for food shopping.
>>30460846Cellphone at work. I am horrible sinner.
>>30460955.................WAITWait just a damn minute.He _PHYSICALLY_ had Helios there.
>>30460400You lean against the front of that which you will not sit on and resign yourself to fate. You hope Luna can appreciate this later when she and the Kitten wake up.As Aiha opens the door, the blur of blonde energy shoots into the room and sails toward the couch. The mass of excited energy drops the terrified white mau as it homes in on the safest impact target, your younger sister upon the lumpy slopes of the dreaded couch lands.Your sister, to your comfort, is braced, and receives the tackle hug with open arms; falling into the bouncy soft, yet still uneven and comfort breaking, surface of the couch. Venus and Koyomi giggle like old friends, even though you are certain they haven't actually seen each other in a few years.“BLONDEY-BUNNY-CHAN!” Venus cries all smiles and sugar into your sister before flopping off of her and somehow bouncing over the edge of the couch and into your lap.She lands in a thud, wrapping her arms around your shoulders with a force you didn't quite expect from a girl so small.Roll Perception: 1d20+2, DC 18“PINKY-BUNNY-CHAN!” she presses into the crook of your neck before hopping off of you in an acrobatic feat that boggles your mind, despite your experiences. The girl then levels a finger across the room at Aiha. “I know you! Our mommies are friends! I declare you Blues-chan!”Aiha appears as a deer in headlights in the door way. Standing with her is the woman you assumed answered the Aino's phone. Venus isn't done yet, it appears.“Sofia-Swan! Go retrieve Pizza! This is now a Girls Party, and a party needs pizza!”“Young miss, I am afraid I cannot leave you so entirely alone as to go purchase a pizza for you,”Venus chews her finger for a moment in thought, the rest of the room is still too dumbfounded to react, aside from your sister who is still laughing in a relaxed posture.“Oh...then can you go to the car and call Saito-san and make him handle it,”1/?
>>30461181>>30461181
>>304612532/2“Of course, young miss.”The older woman in the scarf takes Aiha's hand off of the door, apologizes and says she will be back shortly. Aiha nods, dumbly, perhaps experiencing shock from the no doubt loudest thoughts she had ever sensed nearby in the entirety of her life. Perhaps after meeting two of her future co-heroes she was beginning to have second thoughts about being a magical girl. The door closed, Venus makes ready to dive toward Venus, Artemis, and the yet named Kitten.Acting quickly you rise and lay a hand on Venus's shoulder.~Hold on now, Venus-chan~ familiarity is the key to getting kids not to run rampant on everything, ~Why not give the little family a chance to catch up before smothering them with attention. I'll take them into the kitchen while you catch up with Blonde-bunny and get to know Blues-Chan~Venus crosses her arms and nods in what she must think is a very mature and adult expression.“That's a really good idea,” she smiles conspiritorialy, “Never let it be said that the Pinky-Bunny has ever led me wrong!” she turns on the ball of her foot, goes to the door, belatedly takes off her sneakers, and drags the still shell shocked Aiha to the couch to sit with the now only giggling Koyomi.Carefully you scoop up the groggily waking Luna & Kitten in the box, gently shhing her so she doesn't blindly talk in front of the young Venus. Artemis, for his silence, looks at you with the reverence of a worshiper to a goddess as he follows you beyond the swinging hinged door into the kitchen.You set the box down on the table as Artemis climbs up and rubs against Luna's neck before nuzzling the top of the kitten's head with tears welling in his eyes.>Leave them alone, venture back into the other room.>Leave them alone, go home out the back door.>Leave them alone, catch your breath in the bathroom or another room of the house.>Stay and chat with them, about what?>Stay and stay quiet.>Write in.
Rolled 6 + 2>>30461253>Roll Perception: 1d20+2, DC 18
>>30461280>>30461181Ah, there it is. The sweet smell of burning synapses.
Rolled 17 + 2>>30461253
Rolled 11 + 2>>30461296Nod to them, move over to the doorway where you can notice anyone coming, or interrupt them before they walk in and hear/see anything."I'll keep a look-out for you tw- three."
>>30461296>Leave them alone, catch your breath in the bathroom.
>>30461181I gotta admit, I am a bit fuzzy on things with Helios, tried asking a thread or so ago but no one answered.What's the deal with him and Elysium now?
>>30461181Son. Of. A. Bitch.
>>30461296>>30461460I can no longer resist using this image. Sorry if you planned to Arty.We shall be the kitty-defense force, standing brave against intrusion!..Maybe give the kitten a hug when we can.Seems more like we're her guardian, this way around.
>>30461593Then I failed to use the image.
>>30461303>>30461372>>30461460Passed, No degrees of success.>>30461460>>30461593>>30461470Writing.
>>30461521Metaphysical dream stuff, he couldn't come back to the physical world and could only give Usa pleasant dreams.
Heading out for a bit, take your time writing!
>>304618441/2You nod to them, Luna's voice weak and Artemis's hushed as they speak with one another. You walk over and scratch the still sleeping kitten behind the ears, it bats at nothing reflexively and adorably. Seriously, you want to take this little fuzz ball ho- Oh...oh yeah. You are taking the littlest fuzz ball home, aren't you. That IS where Luna lives; and as you look down at the sleeping fluffy, you remember that in her, whatever her name winds up being, you will find a lifelong friend and confidant, on both of your terms and not dictated by the relationship of * THEM *.~I'll keep a look-out for you tw- three.~ Artemis is in tears while Luna gives a tired smile.“Thank you, Mikage-chan. I thought you didn't like us anymore,” Artemis blubbers, burying his face in Luna's fuzzy side.You turn to hover around the door, and watch back into the living room.~No...I don't hate you guys. Just, I just didn't like the reminder that there was no such thing as a normal life in this family.~The white Mau's tears dry and he looks at you with a certain solemnity. He bows his head before turning and returning to his whispers with his lover and the mother of his child, and she in turn whispered to her lover and the sire of her child.You watch through the crack back into the living room, drawn to the energetic and bouncing sleight built child keeping Aiha and Koyomi on their toes. The Swan woman has returned and is poised carefully by the door, scribing something with a stylus upon a tablet computer of some kind.Its during this time that you tune Artemis and Luna out entirely and focus on something you noticed earlier when Venus landed in your lap. It takes a second to confirm, but after a moment, you are certain. The girl is wearing a wig. Its not so out of the ordinary, she is a budding pop star, probably has a cultivated appearance and a means to drop it easily, but something doesn't sit entirely right with you.
>>304623792/2Her mother is a natural and reincarnated blonde, and her divorced and absentee father is a foreigner...so why would her public persona be a blonde wig. Thinking back, you remember that her hair had been a different shade of blonde years ago when Aino-san would bring her to mom's clinic for her check ups and colds.The Swan woman opens the door after pausing, and lets a garishly dressed man in a green brocade jacket and frilled collar and sleeves into the house. He carries pizza and his voice practically sings in falsetto. This must be the Saito-san she was referring to. Who was he? A butler? It didn't matter, he brought Pizza and despite how much you've had today you can't help but keep out the gnawing sensation of hunger.~I'm gonna brave the storm. Next one in is probably going to be Venus. Brace yourselves~ you say to the cats, who give you weak and strong nods respectively.>Time skip to the end of the night, walking home with Koyomi, Luna, and Kitten. Are you talking or being silent?>Play the impromptu pizza party through. What do you want to say/do. Who do you want to talk to?>Write In.
>>30462419Maybe play it out a little. Might benefit us to give the impression of being more reserved and responsible to Venus' handlers, more likely to trust us if Venus needs a cover story at some point if/after she activates. Seems Swan wouldn't trust her unattended, that could be problematic without someone she thinks is responsible along.
>>30462419>>Time skip to the end of the night, walking home with Koyomi, Luna, and Kitten. Are you talking or being silent?Keeping quiet, its been a long day.
>>30462732>>30463086Final Destination10 Minutes. No comments. 1 or 2 directly under the quote post number1>Play it out, responsible young adult, blah blah2>Time Skip, Keeping Quiet, it's been a long day, an eight thread long Long day.10 minutes on the clock!
>>30463326...10 minutes off the clock.
Rolled 2>>30463549Huh...okay then, for right now then until people get back for the next vote I'm rolling it on this un-moving deadlock.Then I'm writing
>>30463587Okay then. Writing.
>>30462112-and back. Food and groceries acquired.
>>30463587>>30463638>18:15>18:17Dang, almost caught it.Where'd everyone else go?
>>30463683They were just here.Writing the next part and then while the vote is up for it I'm working on Rin's Character sheet.
>>30463683I need to find Sailor Pluto so I can put in my vote for Swan impressing and hanging out.
>>30463326>The Time is now 18:14 EST1?.. Did it work?Well, keeping quiet and reserved actually could serve for seeming responsible as well, we just have to sit upright instead of sulk. We can fake that, right?
Now for pizza while you type.
>>30463914Ah ha! With the aid of the song info, I finally located a decent YouTude version, which I now share with you all.Knight of Tuxedo, from Sailor Moon Music Fantasy:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2kxwUOIVs
>>304636111/2The impromptu pizza party is a blur. You are able to keep yourself together and act the part of the responsible young adult in front of Venus's Nursemaid and Manager. It ends with Venus and her entourage leaving with a big wave after the girl spent at least thirty more minutes gushing over the sleeping kitten. Aiha set up cleaning rather manically afterward; her father was proctoring practice exams at the Cram School late tonight, and who knows how late her mother would be out. She imagines they wouldn't have a problem with her actually having friends over, but Venus's chaperones were completely unexpected as were the several greasy pizza boxes; the left overs of which currently formed the comfy warm stack that served as Koyomi's base for carrying the pilfered box containing mother and child.When Venus commands her manager to show up somewhere with Pizza; that man, Sugao Saitou, doesn't do things halfway. Aiha would probably be wrapping slices in foil well into the night at the rate she was going when you left...even with the dent that you, Venus, Koyomi put into the pile; a demolishing storm. You know why you were so hungry, it was deserved. You sigh, at the thought of becoming like your mother and the other two. The inevitable march of biology over free will, no, it wasn't that. You worked hard when you didn't need to, and if you're going to be pushing yourself this much then you'll have to work just as hard to curb whatever your appetite throws at you.That wonderful mantra you developed earlier today rings back in your ears, Never Skip Leg Day.“Mikage-neechan” hmm? What's with this girl? Can't she understand the joys of a comfortable silence.
>>304642512/2~mmm?~ your kinda worn out and full of Pizza, too full to form a cogent sentence at the moment. Maybe the pepperoni will give you your own weird dreams tonight instead of hers.Hey, wait. Did you just think about * HER * without your customary rising bubble of anger and bile? * HER *...nope, still there, all is well. Jeeze you're tired, slipping up like that.“Earlier, when you thought Luna was injured...” ah, you see where she's going. Her eyes search your own for some kind of understanding. She must miss you, and you did tell mom you'd try to stop running...that you'd come home, “Sister, can you still do magic?”>Nod, accepting. Say something?>Nod, aggressive. Say something?>Lie to her. What do you say?>Don't acknowledge the question, close off and walk ahead of her.>Don't acknowledge the question, keep walking with her.>write in
>>30464196Neat
>>30464275>Write In: Whether I can or not that doesn't change how I feel about things now. Just let it go.
>>30464275>Nod, accepting.Yea, a little.
>>30464275>Nod, aggressive. Say something?and say >>30464333
>>30464295Yeah, had been a favorite track, it and Moon Revenge were regulars on my 'cutting edge' 8 MB mp3 player on my walk to work.Was frustrated that it was in my head during this quest but I couldn't find it on the tubes.>>30464275>Jeeze you're tired, slipping up like that.*snort*>Don't acknowledge the question, keep walking with her.>>30464333Actually, that works too.Ultimately, we don't want to be too mean to her, but also don't want to let on about too much.
>>30464275>>Nod, accepting.
>>30464333I say go with this so we don't let on anything to Koyomi.
>>30464546>>30464480>>30464468>>30464333Compositing and writing.
>>30464602You want to deny it. You want to tell her the truth. You want her to leave the subject alone, you'd been having a good enough time tonight without talking about things since you initially got back to Aiha's.You nod, perhaps forcefully and with too much aggression. Your tongue clicks and you find the words you can say through the haze of pizza and the exhaustion of your day.~Whether I can or not that doesn't change how I feel about things now. Just let it go~Her eyes water, but she seems to accept it and you walk side by side through the pedestrian walks of the ward in companionable silence. At the door, her school bag is waiting. You imagine one of her classmates, probably Kanari Kino, dropped it off for her. She smiles, pulls out a folder, and hands you your take home assignments and missed notes for the day. Joy of joys...the one drawback to playing hookey, still having homework.Bidding your sister good night as she sets the box of sleeping moon cats down before launching into the kitchen to store her delicious pizzas with too many toppings, you stride upstairs.When you're in the hallway, the same sensation of earlier calls to you, but this time much more clearly. As you pass it by, the study door falls into hyper focus, looming beside you like a tower gate. There are voices. One drowns out the others.<Princess, please answer our call...we don't have much time>What do you do.>Go into the study.>Go into your room.>Write in.
>>30464938>Go into the study.
>>30464938>>Go into your room.We have only been helping when we were really needed. Let the new princess handle it.
>>30464938Listen, covertly peek in.
Hey, cooking a bit of dinner.So, discuss implications while you continue voting. Counting and writing will take a bit of time to get too.
>>30465026Depending on what it is, we might call her in, but might as well snoop it when were right there...It seem like someone calling for help.
They may be referring to any of the females living in this house, not just Mikage.
>Go Get Sister.Come on, she's actual princess. Then>Go Into Study
Between the 'Loyal Beyond Death' interlude name, today's logo, and the ghost of stone image.. I'm thinking we're toeing manga territory here.Which is cool by me.
>>30465315We're both princesses, or they could be refering to mom if they aren't up to date.
>>30465388Yeah, but we're trying to be normal again. I mean, for all we know the creepy door-voice could be wanting her. Ahem, sorry, *HER* and not us.
>>30465499We trying to appear normal while secretly dressing up and trying to help the scouts out to, sating our need to help while keeping a buffer of normalcy around ourself.Spying of strange things seems an appropriate response.>>30465330My discovery of this comic while searching for Shitennou stones amuses me.
>>30457585>pic relatedIt wouldn't matter. Fucking asteroids the size of my apartment can have senshi.
>>30465805Usagi might still tease though.
You know, I wonder if Jupiter gets teased because she should have such a big family, what with those 60-some odd moons orbiting her.
Home Made Chicken Teriyaki Stir Fry mother fuckers. I am goddamn domestic up in this bitch. Served with Ginger Rice.4 more minutes until I serve and then get back to counting and writing.
>>30464938>>Go into your room.Voting fuck off just to be contrary. Answering that call is exactly what got us our severe mental trauma to begin with.
>>30464984>>30464987>>30465139>>30466315>>30465026>>30465088>>30465315Voting Closed. Writing.
>>30465805>asteroids the size of my apartment>CeresSo your apartment is roughly the size of France?
>>30466185If Pluto has a Senshi, so should Eris, Sedna and others.
>>30466910Guess it really depends how powerful their kingdoms were.
>>304664541/2You can hear, as though from across a canyon, your sister in the kitchen singing some inane song in broken English about the pizza hut chain and a number of other fast food establishments. You tune her out, and reach out for the door. It shrinks back to a normal and manageable size as you find the handle and turn. Pushing into the study, it feels unusually cold. Whatever is going on...what ever it is that you ignored earlier, it's calling to you. It is asking for your help.As much as you want to shut the door and run into your room...As much as you want to yell down to your little sister and maker her deal with this...You think back to the plate of mixed curry and rice.A bland and normal life and the decadence and pitfalls of thick spicy sweet sauce once mixed are near impossible to separate. You steel yourself with that enlightenment and push past your fear and desire to run away. You nearly gutted a man who spit fire from his brain. You out thought some kind of psychic electrical dynamo, then stabbed him and punched him to surrender.You. Mikage Chiba. Risking your damn life because others needed you, and not because it was even your duty.You close the door behind you, its odd...you're alone in the study.A passing cloud lets the moonlight in from outside. The light strikes the clear glass box in the center of your father's desk; each of the four uncut stones glint differently in the dark, and then they flash. You are no longer alone in the room. They are four, translucent phantoms pantomiming life.
>>30466881Is it time to make fun of France again already? How time flies.
>>304669472/2Dressed in gray military looking uniforms they are scattered around you. The one with short blonde hair inspecting your mother's bookshelf. The one with long and flowing reddish brown hair stares out the window and up at the stars. The one with shoulder length light blonde hair tied into a pony tail sits on the edge of the desk, legs crossed in effeminate gesture despite impish but masculine features. The fourth sits at your father's desk, long silver hair flowing down his back. Unlike the others, he wears a cape.They notice you at once. The two standing turn toward you. Unseating himself from the desk with a kick the one with the ponytail smiles. Rising from his seat, the one with the silver hair strides THROUGH the desk. When they all four stand before you, they drop to one knee and bow their heads. It is the silver haired man who raises his eyes to meet you first.<Princess. Thank you for answering our prayers>Good fucking gods. Your house is haunted.It is haunted by ghosts who bow their heads to you.>GHOSTS!>Who are you?>What's going on!>Why are you in my father's study?>Prayers?
>>30466928And they were based on those planets, I presume? Terraformation and FTL sure were things back then.
>>30466972>>Who are you?>>What's going on!Most reasonable questions
>>30466972>GHOSTS!Nothing good ever came from ghosts. Ever.Get the fuck out of the room.
>>30466972Can we roll anything to know about them and the stones, or did dad and mom stay quiet about them?
>>30466972>>What's going on!
>>30466972>Who are you?>What's going on!Much as it would be amusing to nope the fuck out, we're too experienced at this shit to freak out that easily.
>>30466972>>Why are you in my father's study?
>>30467045They only gave bare basics about early days. You don't know who these guys are on sight.
>>30466972"I have not eaten enough pizza or curry to deal with this shit. Who are you people and why am -I- your princess?"
>>30466972>The fuck are you?>The fuck are you doing here>the fuck is going on?>the fuck did you get your hair so pretty?
>>30467092Alright then.."Who are you, why are you in my father's study?"Calmly slide hand to where the knife is hidden.
>>30467138We should ask about the pretty hair, yes.
>>30467138I lol'd.
>>30467138>the fuck did you get your hair so pretty?not so much on the freakout, but yes ask how they got their hair like that.
>>30457585I can't recall if I've mentioned it in these threads, but there's a really subtle backstory moment in canon that is relevant to this. At the beginning of the anime, there is a narration whilst talking about the Silver Millenium and showing the planets. Pluto is displayed as a gas giant, which many people put down as an astronomical screw-up, but the narration starts talking about an enemy coming in from the outer side of the solar system causing massive devstation along the way. The director of the anime was often pretty good about slipping in subtle stuff like that, though he seemed to prefer using it to make various LGBT jokes.Also, anyone else notice this? Chibi-Usa used to get called Spore. Spores breed parthenogenetically (I believe?). There are now two Chibi-Usa here, in a manner of speaking.
>>30467168>>30467158>>30467138Fine, we'll ask about the hair too.
Snerk.Imagine them teaching us magical earth magic hair secrets.I am amused.Eah, there has been enough stress in her day, might as well little of the family nonchalance through.
>>30467171>LGBT jokesIn a show for little girls?
>>30467345Japan has different standards regarding such things.Funnier, better standards.
>>30467014>>30467061>>30467053>>30467033>>30467082>>30467140>>30467134>>30467138>>30467158>>30467161>>30467168>>30467276Counting, writing.
>>30467345Sailor Moon's age intended age demographic is a bit lower if you're used to the dubbed versions, where they cut out anything that resembles maturity and insert those stupid 'sailor moon says' bits. Plus, subtle. I'd post the picture of one of Usagi's English tests, but I don't have it.
>>30467533"save the scolding for the bed"during the first fight scene of Sailor Moon Stars from Uranus to Neptune.
~After Ten Thousand Hours in MSPAINT, I am finally FREE!~>>30467956>>>/hr/2056504
>>30467393Princess. Princess? PRINCESS!You feel the well of anger boiling within you. Who are these translucent chuckle fucks who think they can just walk around your father's, YOUR FATHER'S, study so casually. You snap at them, you lash out verbally as the tirade spills from your lips.~The fuck are you?~<Princess, we a-> they seem taken aback by your brashness and rage, you cut him the fuck off.~I wasn't fucking finished. The fuck are you doing here~~The FUCK is going one?!~~The fuck did you get your hair so pretty?!~They stare at you, dumbly. Yeah, you can be pretty damn stunning when you put some effort into it. Effort being a verbal evisceration or simply putting your face on...which you suck at...which is why you stole mom's disguise pen years back in the first place. Before they have the chance to respond you finish.~I have not eaten enough pizza or curry to deal with this shit. So WHO are you people and why am -I- your princess? ...spit it out!~The one with the long white hair stands, brushing the immaculate locks behind his shoulder. The one in the pony tail gives him a worried side glance. The one with the brown red hair is unreadable. The one with the short blonde hair is...amused?<I am Kunzite, leader of the Four Heavnly Kings. The Shintennou. Sworn to the service of Prince Endymion of Elysion>You stand ramrod straight as you look up into his eyes, feet planted and hands on your hips. Your knuckles clenched white. You have hard the name before...your father's friends in his past life. The one's who were corrupted by Queen Beryl; the one's who died fighting for that woman.<We are here because your father retrieved our remnants, that he could remember us. That we could continue to advise our Prince from this involuntary purgatory to make amends for betraying him...even if it was beyond out will.>
>>30468046How much tighter can you clench your fists. They aren't calling you Princess because of the moon...that's all anyone ever called you princess for...they're calling your Princess of the Earth beneath your feet. Your day begins to catch up to you and you feel the slightest bit week.<We have sensed strange things in the past few days, and we have come to a realization that we must speak to the next firstborn heir of our master's kingdom both before he returns...and before IT comes for us><Child of the Earth and Moon, we beg you to hear us out. To hear our warning of the danger to come and to prevent us from again being used as a weapon against the line we swore in death never to again betray>The room is quiet. You can't quite find you breath. What the hell is going on.<He cheats> chirps the affeminate one with the pony tail.<When he lived he lavished oils and treatments upon it daily. I myself took care to brush it 600 times in the morning and 800 times at night...and, on top of all that, he woud infuse it with minor magics to get just the right amount of body>You aren't sure if you should laugh or cry at that.>What do you need of me?>What is coming for my family?>How can you betray us...you're...like...rock ghosts?>What in the blueberry muffin fuck is wrong with today!>Write in
>>30468074>How can you betray us...you're...like...rock ghosts?>And uh.... what magics specifically?
>>30468074>what in the blueberry muffin fuck is wrong with today? Okay so what is coming for my family and why am I the one you called? There are three others in this family who are far more suited to this and who didn't give up being magical alreadyWent to sleep, woke up and you are still running, That takes dedication artemis
>>30468074*drops to knees* I just wanted to be normal! Is that too fucking much to ask with this family?! *rubs face* You know what, fine! Fine! I'll help you. I'm no longer Sailor Moon, I'm no hero. I'll do what I can but it will be done from the shadows, and you will be damn well happy with that!I think she would understand the gravity of this but also be at the end of her tether given everything up to now was one day.
>>30468074>What in the blueberry muffin fuck is wrong with today!>My subjects will not be forced to betray their princess and king, what do you need of me!>...So, what magic exactly? And like, any special oils like lavender, or did he just go with a basic mixture?
>>30468074>What magics specifically?Pause.>Wait, IT, IT what?>How can you betray us...you're...like...rock ghosts?
>>30468074>>What is coming for my family?
>>30468160>>30468194Maybe a mix of these too. Like she freaks out at first but is then able to get her shit together and be professional/royal about it.
>>30468074>How can you betray us...you're...like...rock ghosts?>...So, what magic exactly? And like, any special oils like lavender, or did he just go with a basic mixture?Oh god they're going to sign us up for free credit card offers aren't they
>>30468074My vote for thoughts behind the scenes:No one ever called *HER* Princess of the Earth.. and they aren't calling out to *her* as the firstborn heir either.This.. this is almost alright.
>>30468237>>30468258Oooh add this to the other linked one!
>>30468258Yeah, this is what I was kinda thinking. They're talking to her at a level of weirdshitery she -wants- to be talked to by.
>>30468258You got a good point, bro. And really, if Wiseman was gonna corrupt Mikage, her issues with *HER* are exactly what he, or any other villain of that sort would use. It would almost be too easy.But I have the feeling we can trust these guys. Rocks. Whatever.>>30468074>What do you need of me?>Why me and not Koyomi? Why me and not...?
>>30468274Now we are the word barragers!
>>30468408We'll have to chat with Luna after this...We are never getting to sleep tonight.And neither is our character.
Rin Kumada Character Sheet.Seriously who wears a Miko's outfit with that short a skirt?
>>30468504http://pastebin.com/d0LUxunTforgot the link
>>30468504Kids these days.Though I think all of the scouts have exceptionally long legs that make skirts look even shorter.
>>30468504I do have to say I like how their Sailor identities have, if only slightly, changed hair colors that make it a little more difficult to identify them outside of uniform.
>>30468274>>30468275>>30468408Thanks.Seemed important to put that out there.
>>30468504Someone with legs like that who rightfully wants to show them off>>30468558I thought it was meant to be more a tint from their powers as a side effect than any direct attempt at disguise
>>30468127>>30468194>>30468249>>30468155>>30468160>>30468177>>30468237>>30468274>>30468258>>30468275>>30468408>>30468456>>30468500>>30468625Break Down and then Regal because you ARE the first born. They have acknowledged you, and to find out what's going on.Writing.
>>30468672Dropped my trip.Was telling a magical girl about parental responsibility.
>>30468533If I could just remember the details of Another Story, maybe Russian would make more sense. Why Russian?And for that matter, could there be chunks of Another Story floating around like *HER*? There might be people in this world whose situation is even more fucked up than ours.
>>30468504>>30468533>Stack of 25 Ofuda>First thing I thing ofHey, I'm sure we could do that too..
>>304686721/?Its too much...it's finally too much. Your knees buckle and you drop to the floor.~I just wanted to be normal!~ you scream at them. Your voice cracking and going immediately raw. ~Is that too fucking much to ask with this family?!~ You push your hair back and rub the tears from your eyes before they can even fall. ~You know what, fine! Fine! I'll help you. I'm no longer Sailor Moon, I'm no hero. I'll do what I can but it will be done from the shadows, and you will be damn well happy with that!~>Stress Increases by 1.You pitch forward, slamming your first into the ground, carpet digging into your knees.~What in the blueberry muffin fuck is wrong with today!~Princess. Princess! PRINCESS! PRINCESS!? ALWAYS THE FUCKING MOON PRI-...no. They're not calling you the Princess of the Moon. They aren't calling you the Small Lady. Not an heir of Serenity. In your whole life, you don't think anyone has ever called you the Princess of the Earth...let alone * HER *They called out to you as first born. Not * HER *. They called for you. Knights of a dead kingdom you hadn't given much thought to...with the part the moon has played thus far in your life.Your breathing steadies. You force yourself up. The phantoms are there, they help right you.~How can you betray us...you're like...ghost rocks~The one with short hair laughs.<We felt it. A false resurrection of familiar energy, twice in the past few days, and a failed attempt that we couldn't see for the truth of it until we felt these almost two years ago,>The one with the wavy red hair lays a hand on your shoulder while looking out the window.<I have seen it in the stars, whatever is performing these profanities will come for us next. They will raise us in bound servitude, and turn us loose against this house as Queen Beryl forced of us twice before,> there is a melancholy in his eyes. Regret. Pain.
>>304691462/2~What do you need of me, that you can't ask of my father or my sister~ you feel drained, but it is a passing weakness, your eyes screw tightly and open with resolve and regained strength.<We need you to do what your father will not do, what we must do to protect him and the rest of your family> says Kunzite as Zoicite leans into him, suddenly sad despite his joking nature.<We need you to allow us to die>>write in
>>30469205>... Couldn't I just like, resurrect you first?
>>30469205Is this a thing we can actually do? Last time we killed someone, it damaged us so hard that we turned away from the call for years. Sure, we don't know these guys well at all, but they're the first people ever to put us before *HER*. It would be wrong to let them get exploited, but isn't there some other way?Putting aside the meta-knowledge that they'd totally reincarnate and we'd see them again in 15 years or possibly way sooner.
>>30469205Oh fuck no. I've had enough of ki-<waitaminute>Almost two years ago? ..Look you better tell me more, I'll be damned if I do anything hasty.<again. probably literally too>We need to know what this threat is, and what options there are to protect us- including you -from it.
>>30466991Ancient. Aliens.
>>30469229>>30469324These
>>30469512
>>30469229This.
>>30469205If we know it's coming, there must be something else we can do. What is this thing anyway?
>>30469538...Actually that is true. They're technically moon alien souls reborn into the bodies of humans.
So I'm playing my ancient anime music folders on shuffle, and one of the songs I'm nodding to and thinking, hey maybe we can use this as like her BMG theme.. let's see what it is..>I have no face for this>followed by a bemused smirk>look up song on youtube to share my bemusement at my mind linking this to ushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8xNUwDjOgA
>>30469229this.... is an entirely logical train of thought. We should at least ask
>>30469589But only one is a moon alien.
>>30469229>>30469532>>30469560>>30469621>>30469320>>30469324>>30469532>>30469572Writing
>>30469512It wasn't engineered, it mutated and evolved as the root grew deeper.
>>30469820This never would have happened if he'd worn the tin-foil hat like he was supposed to.
>>30469695Let them die? They're already dead. They want you to kill them. No...no...nononononononononononononono NO! You aren't going to kill again. Just because you killed once, doesn't mean you have to still be a murderer now.+1 Stress, Total Stress 2.~... Couldn't I just like, resurrect you first?~The one with short blonde hair lets out a huff.<See. I told you she is still a child. We cannot expect her to give us our peace><That's enough, Jaedite> intones the one with brown read hair.<No, Nephrite> Jaedite growls, <If she can't understand the nature of our->It is the effeminate one in the pony tale who crosses the distance between them and lands a resounding slap across his face. There stare at one another for a tense moment before Jaedite looks down and away, perhaps in shame.<SHOW SOME RESPECT! This is Endymion's daughter. Think of your oaths. THINK OF THE PAIN IN OUR HEARTS WHEN BERYL MADE US...><Zoicite...forgive me, I lost myself>Zoicite seems on the verge of hyperventilating. Kunzite lays a calming hand upon his shoulder. The smaller man falls into the platinum blonde's embrace as he looks at you through somber eyes.1/2
>>304701142/2<We are long dead...and long compromised. Our power was granted through the direct contact with the Earth. If we are resurrected by any means, we become an exploitable liability against you, easily turned to the will of whomever is collecting other great warriors and members of the Elysion Court> he closes his eyes and rests his cheek upon Zoisite's head. <And the lingering pathways left in us by thousands of years wrapped in Beryl's power. Our lives were already given, in repentance to our lord or sacrificed against him by one who would do him harm.>The Shintennou fall silent.<We desire to fight. We desire to protect Endymion's line. To protect his love like we were prevented from doing so long ago in the twilight of the Silver Millennium. As we are, we cannot. By allowing us to die, we ask something else of you...we ask you to let us be the spark that awakens your lineage. To empower you down the path of your own soul, and to find vessels whom you trust. Those who you would trust with the power of the Shintennou to protect the Earth and all you hold dear>>Write in.
You know what? I have a mental image of Makoto's daughter inheriting the mantle of Jupiter and the son inheriting their mother's skillsets.And then Eclipse takes him on as a Batman-type sidekick.
>>30470142>"You're asking an anti-social girl with PTSD to use your souls to recruit more people to fight.>Fuck, do we have a specific deadline or is it just SOON?"
>>30470172And I'm ninja'd by a plot post that talks about us starting up our own team of empowered people. Huh.
>>30470142>"Just how exactly do i kill a rock?"
>>30470142"If this is needed, how come you didn't ask my dad to do it?"
>>30469820Which raises the question of exactly what stage it's at while he's standing next to our dad.Would it be less wild or more in a universe where he's definitively right?
>>30470142>>30470336This.
>>30470142We must accept this mission. We know royal mode, right? We know that the duty of a ruler is to her subjects, and that these are the only ones who have ever called to us instead of *HER*. Even if it breaks our heart now, even if we would never dream of dragging others into this life, it would hurt more to have to fight them, and it would hurt our family as well. Even Mother and Father wouldn't want the Shitennou alive if it meant they were forced to kill them again.
>>30470142>"You realize i'm trying to not drag more people into this life, right?"
>>30470206>>30470451>>30470296>>30470336>>30470397>>30470418Combining, Writing.
>>30470206Certainly the right mindset.>>30470142Approach Jaedite."Then help me understand. Help me understand your nature and the nature of the threat."Look around at them."What is this about collecting great warriors and and members of the Court? Why is your contact with the Earth a threat? "Cross arms."Wanting to fight, wanting to protect.. these are things I understand. It took awhile for me to make my way back after I took a life, I not going into any of this half-cocked."Royal stature time.
>>30470142"Isn't that technically resurrecting you?"
>>30470498>>30470542Aw, can I make it into the combo too?And darn you for bringing the cool Shitennou in like this. I'm going to have feels now.
>>30467533I watched the Latin American dub, which is, if I recall, quite faithful to the original.Except for Usagi's name, which was still 'Serena'.>>30467645Also "I won't forgive you for disturbing the love of an (old?) man for a child"
>>30470418The same mother that wouldn't kill people that murder her friends and loved ones in front of her?No, she will not approve.
>>30470693We're not doing this for her approval. We're doing it because it needs to be done, for all of our sakes.
>>30470820Dangerous talk.
>>30470849It's the life we've lived. For Mother, there was always a reset button waiting at the end of the road. She could always use the Crystal to get back everything she lost.We learned a different lesson, when we faced the shell of a man who was devoured so thoroughly that after the darkness was cleansed there was nothing to bring back. Never again.
>>304704981/2~You realize I'm trying to not drag more people into this life, right?~It is Kunzite who responds. Jaedite remains silent. Nephrite approaches the window and looks up into the stars.<If a few do not rise as champions, then it will become the lives of all men and women who call this Earth their home,>You walk forward, sitting in one of the chairs arrayed on the far side of your father's desk, laying your hands upon his name plate, fingers tracing the Kanji. Is this the weight of the crown? Is this the responsibility of ruler-ship?~If this is needed,~ your eyes are gaining focus and your voice rises in an accussatory confidence, ~how come you didn't ask my dad to do it?~They are silent. The voice sounds from behind you, Nephrite doesn't turn from the window. Even here close to the city you can see the starts arrayed in their beautiful cosmic dance.<In the stars, I have seen what will happen if we walk any of the paths that would branch from that discussion...it will end with one of us running him through> he is saddened. He averts his gaze from the stars.~What. One or all of you turn traitor again and betray us?~<One of the five of us in this room> Jaedite deadpans.As the implications of his words hit you, your anger flares and you rise in a huff, slamming the nameplate hard upon the stained wood.~LIKE HELL I WOULD~<You are not yourself> whispers Zoicite, <It's not so hard to imagine, only able to watch your actions through your own eyes>It wells, anger and fear in a festering boil deep inside your gut. You want to stomp over to her and scream, SCREAM, scream at him that you would never hurt your father. You would never hurt your family. You would never hurt the people you care about. You wouldn't you wouldn't you wouldn't YOU WOULDN'T!<The stars, however, suggest to me an option not considered,>
>>30470979We learned we can fail, that we can break a promise. Doesn't mean we have to accept that.
>>304711372/2Everyone turns to Nephrite, he remains still.<You could take the burden of our power and hold it inside yourself. It puts you at the most risk, as we would handedly survive in our mineral state if you were to fall. I believe you could adapt to the strain in time, and if there are those you meet who would fight, and whom you trust...you could entrust our still living power to guide them without risk of our number being controlled, or if you think you find a significantly cleansing means of resurrection, than by all means feel free to turn a Lazarus>The four turn. Looking to you, their Princess. Yes. You are their Princess. A Princess of Earth. You cannot deny this, you cannot claim the normality you seek.>Agree to allow them death, let them spark your Earth Power and find their successors.>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.>No, you can't do this. You can't believe leaving will mark the death of your family, so you will and prove them wrong.>Write in
>>30471137>get to last line.>SWATkats theme starts playingWell, that's auspicious.
>>30471180>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.hey sweet backup advisors.And hair-care tips.
>>30471197I'm magical with timing like that.
>>30471180>>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.I think I perfer this idea the most
>>30471180>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.And just for my amusement>So with all this talk of the stars and global devestation... are we fighting cthulhu?
>>30471180>Agree to allow them death, let them spark your Earth Power and find their successors.We've got enough burdens already. We may not like it, but we can't allow ourselves to half-ass this.
>>30471137>One of the five of us in this roomOh shit.>>30471180>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.
>>30471228We must not forget the hair care tips, even in this most serious of times.
>>30471254Well, all that the senshi do would fall under space cqc
>>30471254>are we fighting cthulhu?"Nonono, we're talking about a completely different amount of power. ""Oh, good.""More like Nyarlathotep."
>>30471330If we keep going with that kind of logic, we're going to end up participating in a Moon Princess Contest.
>>30471377>>30471254"no no, just those termites infesting yuggoth""The Mi-Go?""No the thing they're running from"
>>30471180>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.It won't be easy, it might not even be just considering the lives they've cost, but it is the one we'd feel best about.
Rolled 20>>30471180>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successor for them to teach or if you will return them to life. All my yes.
>>30471180>>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.
>>30471377"I was under the impression he was Earth""Oh he was, that's why he can still effect us"
>>30471450Plateau of Leng totally gets brought up in the Manga, and what is Chaos if not...
>>30471254"oh no, the stars won't be right for at LEAST another ten years or so. you got time">>30471471All I have is an image of a tentacley niles in a sailor senshi outfit and I cannot stop laughing
>>30471180"Help me understand. Help me understand your nature and the nature of the threat."Look around at them."What is this about collecting great warriors and and members of the Court? Why is your contact with the Earth a threat? "Cross arms."Wanting to fight, wanting to protect.. these are things I understand. It took awhile for me to make my way back after I took a life, and I'm going to take the path that I can live with, even if it kills me."Ultimately I think:>Agree to carry their burden, and decide for yourself if you will find their successors for them to teach or if you will return them to life.Is that choice, but I wants some answers first.
Whelp. It's pretty clear which choice has this one in the bag. We're going to become our own worst enemy. And I, for one, intend to enjoy every minute of it.
>>30471541I'm glad folk took my suggestion to up our Will...We're going to want to keep doing that.
>>30471228>>30471230>>30471254>>30471302>>30471330>>30471420>>30471432>>30471442>>30471534Writing.
>>30471541I thought that was the point
Rolled 7, 19, 2, 3 = 31>>30471594Roll me 4d20.I will add a Modifier of + 2 to each of them after the fact. Each DC is my own 4d20 Rolls above.You are saving for half on 3d6 Emotional Wall Damage per die.
Rolled 9, 18, 1, 11 = 39>>30471659
>>30471659Best of 3. 1's and 20's wild.
Good luck totem~
Rolled 19, 8, 9, 18 = 54>>30471659I'd say we've lost on that second one.Also, we seem to have hit the bump limit.
Rolled 7, 12, 2, 4 = 25>>30471659
Rolled 6, 3, 20, 18 = 47>>30471659
Rolled 9, 19, 2, 8 = 38>>30471659>dat 19oh for fuck's sake Jaedite
>>30471673Ah, rolls wild but not auto fail. A good feeling as that passes
Rolled 19, 4, 8, 1 = 32>>30471659Oof, someone is a rough transition>>30471685*pats your good luck totem*
>>30471673>>30471717So if we get those plus 2's... that means we succeeded on all three right?
>>30471696Yeah, we been in autosage for a while now. I feel fewer inhibitions about posting all sorts of naughty things.
>>30471673>>30471696>>30471697Nice work team.
>>30471706>>30471742why are we assuming that that one is Jaedite?
>>30471800Still better than half-way up, probably still be here in the morning at weekday speeds.
>>30471834Heh, didn't even think of it when I used that image, be he is the one that is seeming a little raw emotionally at the moment.
Rolled 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 1 = 16>>30471659Half saved. instead of 12d6, you take 6d6 Emotional Wall damage, reduced by your number of successes.
>>30472017wow... that's some low rolls
>>30472017I believe that you have 3 degrees of success in total.Emotional Wall damage taken is 13.
>>30472017Could've gone worse.Guess our emotional wall is feeling more flexible after all the shaking it has had today.
>>30471910Well, there goes all that porn I was going to post. Here's Accelerator as a little girl.
>>30472065Worse part is, after everything that happens tonight, when we finally get to bed, I have a feeling our dreams aren't going to be restful either.Some serious shit has gone down on our shared dreamscape.. and we may have more minds along for the ride, oh god.
>>30472185There's a party in our head, and everyone's invited!
>>30472070Yeah, going to want to stay worksafe.Though even worksafe can be.. interesting.
>>304720171/?~Help me understand. Help me understand your nature and the nature of the threat~<We are the dead> he intones, <Our concept of self was rent assunder by Beryl and Metallia. It is a damage to our souls that keeps us from being whole, but allows us to act even in the dormancy of death>~What is this about collecting great warriors and and members of the Court? Why is your contact with the Earth a threat?~Zoicite reponds.<Whomever is doing this has mastery of Earth power enough to raise our bretheren...that means master enough to turn us even without Beryl's scars. The only safety is to hide in true death or within your blood as Nephrite suggests>You cross your arms, resolve finding a steady beat in your veins.~Wanting to fight, wanting to protect... these are things I understand. It took awhile for me to make my way back after I took a life, and I'm going to take the path that I can live with, even if it kills me.~<A noble sentiment.> Jaedite smiles. <Worthy of an heir to Elysion>There it is. You find it. You can handle risk. You can handle the fight. This is yours, this will be your burden. You WON'T be a killer again.~I'll do it. I'll carry your burdens and then decide for myself to find your successors or return you to life~The four nod. And one by one they fade. Zoicite, before she goes, embraces Kunzite and kisses him deeply.<Just in case, my love,> he smiles, and Kunzite returns it.<Have faith in our liege. Have the faith her father has in her>After Zoicite fades, Kunzite approaches the desk, and lifts the stones from the glass box. Turnign to you, he extends his hand above you own. Opening his palm, the four pieces of earth tumble into your grip, and in a blinding light, they are gone.And you are rocked with pain in your skull. Layered and hidden within your own psyche are four distinct voices and souls. Their power courses through you, scorching the carpet at your feat as your body becomes white hot for a short second.
>>304724652/2Your clothing singed, but in one piece as the heat fades, you stumble out of the study. The weight of the day finally catching up to you. Landing hard upon your bed, you twist the blanket from under you in a corkscrew cocoon around you small frame as your heart beats tightly in your chest.Today is over...but you know, as the energy wells and bubbles inside you, that it is only the beginning.Last thoughts, as the world grows dark around you...tonight, will YOU dream?-The late night air whips at her hair, wild and unkempt. Even though it is Spring, the weather has been far too cold, too cold even for the uniform you took liberties with when sewing. Your long red pants and heavy white sleeves flap in the wind, as you stare across the rooftops at the fading light in the window you have been watching.Your name is Kumada Rin. You are a Miko, as much as you aren't quite sure you want to be, and you have just bore witness to a critical juncture to your future.This option. This choice had not appeared to you in your visions of the sacred fire. None of the futures visions you feared saw anything like this happening, and whether or not it is for good or evil in which the balance is tipped by this choice, you will see it through.In just 3 days, you will become Sailor Mars. You will be the last of Koyomi's Court to awaken those powers. Will that too change? You aren't sure.What you are sure of...is that maybe now, maybe with Mikage's help. You will be able to stop your vision.You will be able to stop the tears you and the other scouts would otherwise shed if they are to be victorious and save their Earth.By Mikage's hand, maybe you can dry those tears...or even prevent them from being shed. Tearing your eyes from the now darkened glass of the Chiba family home, you walk slowly, climbing down the ivy ladder on one of her neighbor's house. With great care as not to awaken their dog.Episode 08 END
>>30472498Thanks for that last twist, you magnificent bastard.
>>30472498Question. No Prompt.>Champion>Archmage>Guardian>Marshall>Heirophant>TricksterChoose. No explanation. Choose and perish.I will check it later.Update the archives. It is my time for sleep. See all y'all next week.
>>30472498>note to self: Rin is sneaky too.Glad to see our earlier hope to be a factor that fate hasn't accounted for is looking good.We may have to repair the carpet.Or claim simple ignorance. After all, you were all out that day.
>>30472640Guardian
>>30472640>Guardian
>>30472640Champion
Drawn between Champion and Trickster.Much like Mikage herself, I imagine.Fight vs Skills.
>>30472640>Trickster
>>30472640>>30472498And now Key of Twilight is playing.Fitting end credits.
>>30472649The burned carpet is probably the least of it. How long do you think it'll take for somebody to notice Dad's magic rocks are missing?Hell Luna might be able to spot the change in us on sight.
>>30472640Trickster.
>>30472640>GuardianHope she fares better than the other guardians.
>>30472784Eh, compared to the shadowruns we been sticking our fingers into all day (literally, on both sides of the fourth wall), those are small potatoes.
>>30472640Wish I knew what bonuses Marshall gave.. does having people inside you count as a team to lead?
Rolled 2>>30472710
>>30473271Trickster it is.
Watch all this voting get applied to an opponent.
>>30473323Was there ever any other reason the QM would paraphrase Gozer the Destructor?"Death is but a door. Time is but a window." would be equally bad news.
>>30472640>>>MarshallEither its a typo and we'll get a lawman, or its not a type and we'll get a Supreme Court Justice ghost. I am fine with either option.
>>30473379>lawmanOr an american football player, or a military commander.
>>30473495so many possibilities! Isn't it exciting?
Guys, hey, hey guys.Nephrite and Naru together again as soldiers of justice, earth style.Just gonna leave that there.
>>30473825>Recruiting adults for a mahou shoujo fightSeriously now. Nobody old enough to have a daughter Mikage's age has any business getting drafted into a magical girl squad.I do agree that Naru's daughter would be the perfect candidate to receive Nephrite's powers, however.
>>30473928Unless that adult packs firearms.
>>30472640>TricksterIt's how Dante is able to teleport, you know.
>>30473962That's a good way to get their episode banned in the US.
>>30473962>20XX>bringing a gun to a spellfight
>>30473928>Nobody old enough to have a daughter Mikage's age has any business getting drafted into a magical girl squad.Clow Reed was bajillions of years old, and set up magical girl fights for basically his own amusement. I forget where I was going with that, but Clow was a badass.
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>>30472640Urgh this choiceHave to say Trickster first Heirophant second
>>30473962For some reason, Revy comes to mind. This thought reminds me of a Black Lagoon short where she is a magical girl who uses guns instead of, well, magic.I am all for recruiting magical girl Revy.
