>>30553240
2/?

You try not to smile. Everything is fine as far as you're concerned.

"Come closer or speak up, I think I might have become concussed in the vortex,"

Bowing his head before approaching, you lay a flat palm into his chest as soon as he is within your arm's reach. You snicker, he had his torch held behind his back; ready to strike. Of course the one with the eyes saw through you.

Carefully, you draw out his Dream Mirror, your...no...his gift to the beast that it may continue to live as though a man. Raising your index finger, you reveal your fangs and prick the digit. With a flick, black blood falls on his mirror. It sinks through the surface and clouds the interior. He has stood frozen, struggling to move; seeing and hearing perfectly fine. You quite like his fear.

Leaning in close, you whisper to the mirror.

"Forget this exchange and carry on as you have. Forget what you see that makes you suspicious of me, and wait form my word that you may remember and obey"

The glass sinks back into his torso and his eyes gloss over. Slowly he leaves the room.

Sucking on your bleeding finger, you smile. The taste is dull and wracks of longing and unfulfilled desire. The weakest resentments of Helios cut free from him and given form and will to act. You are his Unbound Shadow...and there need to be more of you.

Spitting the blood forward into a billowing cloud, you swipe at it, claws borne new on your hand. Severed and slivered into streaking comets of your own darkness, you levy your commands.

"Find the turbulent dreams. Find them and foster their fears, their hatred, their worry. Tell me of them when they wake and we shall pass their names to my masters," you smile as you lean back into your twisting throne of iron. You like it far more than the marble. "Then there shall be more shadows cut loose, more inhibitions and pain set free. The Shadow Will fall!"

>>30553255
3/?

-

You lack it. Agency. You lack it. Heart. If you cut the darkness whole cloth from a person, then they have not the balance they need to function. They have left you in the dark. They have cut your darkness from you.

You shouldn't be able to think or move, but you are not truly human. You are glad that you were able to break the golden crystal in time, keep it beyond these men. You would hate them, but you've forgotten how.

Usa...sweet Usa, you miss her. You think of your love and find the strength to pull against the black thorn vines holding you here. No, you are not strong enough yet, but you will have it in time. And as always, you have hope.

Maybe you'll sleep a bit. Yes, that does sound nice.

I wonder if you'll dream?

End Crying Dream Interlude

>>30553277
4/?

You cannot observe. Your universe is dark and quiet as you drift in the infinite dark of your own mind. There is something, something pushing at the edges of your temple...your safe place. No matter what, you've been like iron in the face of the guilt. All you could do was deny and force it back. If everything was normal, then you couldn't be a killer. You could be a normal girl.

It's the Principal's office. She doesn't understand. She commends your marks and tests scores, calls you the antithesis of your own mother, whose memory continues to haunt what were once the halcyon days of her career. She won't approve your request for independent study unless she has an actual reason.

It starts as a tremble in your fingers. Slowly it becomes the shaking of your shoulders. There is an echo in your skull, you don't want to think about it yet it rages out. Before you realize it you're screaming the lie you've been trying so hard to convince yourself of. You can't stand being around people anymore, not since the Junior High graduation ceremony. Not since you saw that thing with Kairi's face unravel it's body and try to tear you in half.

No...that's not entirely a lie. When Final Act fell upon the converted Athletic Field, it stopped your heart. You had been playing with several other students from the music club when she arrived. Center of attention, you couldn't transform right away. Too many people got hurt. Only you blamed yourself, because in the aftermath many of your peers had chosen to blame Kairi.

The Principal does not know this. All she knows is that she has a traumatized second quarter freshman in her office about to hyper ventilate and scrambling for pills she isn't supposed to have on campus without leaving them with the nurse. Weakly you tell her to go to hell as your knees give out, you can't wait that long if you need them.

>>30553296
5/?

She's helping you up. She asks you to give her, and this school, one more year before you try to become a shut in and wash away every friendship you've ever had. It is meek, but you relent, and you will hold her to that.

-

She's standing there. Your big sister, in the kitchen with her friends. You know they were out late, but you don't care. Maybe if you're good an sneaky you can hear about the monster they fought or the people they had saved.

Palla asks her if she's going back to that place to see if she can grab some intel on this Red Alice lady, and what her actual goals are besides mining key mystical ley lines with her story book monsters.

Your big sister is the coolest when she's being in charge. She tells her that going to the future would probably be useless since she'd already looked ahead at the disasters they were supposed to face on the road to Crystal Tokyo happening...and aside from * that * disaster, there wasn't supposed to be anything else like this.

Future...what is big sister talking about?

She isn't sure things are going to be the same now. Sure her time is stable...but coming back here when she was little changed things...She points out that she was born in the twentieth century instead of the thirtieth now...but it hasn't effected her original future. Maybe they've been split into different lines entirely only connected by her use of the Chronos Cherry Way.

Its a lie. Right? Big sister Usa is... you? No, they have to know you're listening and playing a joke.

Your sister says they should all head home, she's going to get some sleep and see what Helios thinks.

How does she know about Helios. Your secret dreams. The kind face whose words seem so far away, but you feel a radiant love from him as he holds you and runs his fingers through your...long hair. Her long hair.

If she is you, have you been having her dreams? Is Helios NOT yours.

She's you. She's you...she's taking everything that was supposed to be yours.

NO!

>>30553322
6/?

-

Its been two months...you haven't been able to talk to Kairi for more than a few seconds. The guilt crushes you down. No one else is sitting with her at lunch. Everyone has been afraid of her. They fear her, fear that monster she had been, the creature that she was forced into being.

You want to sit with her...you want her not to be alone...but you are afraid. Not of her. You are afraid of what she'd think of you if she knew. If she knew you had failed her. If she knew you had...

-

White in all directions, you land softly on the pristine surface, light comes from nowhere but you cast five shadows arrayed around you in a star.

Princess, WATCH OUT!

Turning in time to see it, you brace yourself as a wave of shadows over takes you. It pours through you and then condenses far off on the other side, forming five distinct shapes.

They are all tall and beautiful like * HER *...but each is different...and each is yourself. Hair cut short in the Ceremonial Armor of Prince Endymion. In the dress of the Dark Lady with whipping pigtails. In a black and red tuxedo with cane held aloft. Wearing heavy armor and baring a black standard. Dressed in a plain black dress with a silver tiara upon her brow. Clad in spikes and shadow, blood seeping from twisting wounds caused by her arraignment. And a last in a smart black and grey uniform, hair covered in a black and silver helm.

It is the dark lady who steps forward s the others vanish. She smiles at you serenely.

>>30553356
7/?

Princess, you must run! You can't let her into this form of you yet!

And so you do. You run long and hard until you forget yourself and fade into the white world around you. Your anger and guilt drain away. You have faded in this moment, but a piece of you remains. You will watch a while as a memory stands up against a nightmare.

You are Mikage Chiba, 3rd Year Junior High School Student, and the Champion of Love and Justice: Sailor Moon. This place is strange, and you certainly have no idea how you got here.

“My my, this is how you counter me? A memory of a better us...its funny. I don't think of you as me at my best,” she is tall, she looks like your sister...but she isn't. She is you. None of this makes any sense.

>Say Something.
>Ask her something.
>Transform.
>Evasive actions!
>Write in.

>>30553382
>Ask her something
What is this place? What's happening?

>>30553524
Seems a good enough action I guess. I am getting a little confused by all these changes in perspective.

>>30553382
>>30553524
>Evasive actions!
>Ask her something.
Quip and dive for cover!
Or dive for cover while asking!

>>30553702
I think that is the idea here. Not counting the Interlude.
Memories and nightmares jumbled together.

>>30553524
>>30553702

>>30553707

Writing

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>>30553356
>It is the Dark Lady who steps forward as the others vanish.
Choose and perish indeed.

>>30553382
Holy balls. There goes tonight's chances of being productive.

>>30554070
At the risk of sounding dumb, what does that make the seventh of them?

Arty only gave us the six choices.

>>30553356
*peers* I believe that is 6 distinct forms though, rather than 5, and with good reason.

>>30554262
Eh? Did I miscount somewhere?

>>30553943

Minor Delay, back in a minute.

>>30554318
>Eh? Did I miscount somewhere?
Prince Endymion, Dark Lady, Tuxedo, Heavy Armor, Silver Tiara, Torture victim and Grey Uniform. Seven

>>30554395
Interesting, and if you count Mikage Sailor Moon then that is 8 different forms present.

>>30554395
Could be that the odd one out is the interloper.
Or variations on a path.

>>30554395

Champion, Trickster, Heirophant, Guardian, Archemage, ????, Marshal

>>30554641
This result is both reasonable and satisfactory. :)

>>30554641
Dang, got a couple switched up. Figured prince for Leader, which cascaded into other differences.
Had my ??? in the right place though.

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>>30554325

(Side note, The one in Endymion's armor is you with a crew cut)

~What is this place?! What's happening?~ you set one foot back, prepared to spring at a moments notice. This, none of this feels right.

“Oh? She doesn't know? Of course you don't...” she sighs and saunters over toward you. “I suppose I could tell you...but I'm not sure it's something your fragile psyche could truly understand, small lady. Your dark reflection smiles, her incisors are elongated and sharp.

>Dark Lady has made a social combat roll against you: Jab.
>Roll 1d20, you are flat footed against this attack. This attack is the first roll made above.
>Dark Lady has engaged you in Social Combat.
>Current Character Sheet: http://pastebin.com/8wPk6KSM
>Initiative
>Dark Lady (10)
>14 Year old Mikage Chiba (5)

She doesn't give you chance to respond.

“Then again, it isn't exactly something I would expect you to understand. So young, how I envy those halcyon days,” she ignores you and rambles, but there is a sharpness to her eyes.

>Dark Lady is being Vague.

It is your turn.

>Say Something?
>Attempt a Social Manuever
>Do Something?
>Write In.

Rolled 15 + 1

>>30554889

Sorry that took so long, I couldn't find my Social Combat system. I misplaced it on my hard disk.

Take the time to brainstorm before you vote and look over Her Past character sheet so you know what's going on...ah hell, I forgot the Dice Roll.

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Rolled 12

>>30554889
Oh dear, our first real Social Combat.

>>30554922
Looks like you added those rules to the paste bin as well, this shall require study.
http://pastebin.com/6YhePSGH

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>>30555094

Thank you for linking them, because I totally forgot.

>>30555094

Remember, be creative. Have words, and don't forget that at any point, you can always go "fuck it" and slap your opponent right in their face.

Rolled 10

>>30555094
Well, our strong area is Charisma, and we have training in Persuade, Deceive, and Intimidate.

I'd say we be Evasive for the moment while we gather our bearings (both in and out of character).

"Uh huh.." This lady be crazy, best not to take what she says too seriously.
"I'm sure you do, Miss tall-er dark and creepy."
She if she says anything useful or just more creepifying.

Rolled 19

>>30554889
>witty retort

"I guess can I understand that. I mean, that must have been a long time ago, right grandma?"

>>30555094
>>30555300
>>30555504

Oh snap!

19 vs 16. Dark Lady's Jab failed.

Final Destination vote. Normal post rules, but 5 minutes on the clock this time.

1 for Evasive
2 for Witty Retort

>>30555547
2

>>30555547
2

Gotta back the guy who rolled better since I have no idea what the hell is going on

>>30555547
2

>>30555588
it was a defensive roll though ;_;

>>30555094 was a bro and posted the social combat rules, they help a lot

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>>30555547
Guess we don't take long to gather our bearings after all.
I'll back the retort vote then.

Rolled 17 + 9

>>30555576
>>30555588
>>30555595

Counting. Roll your witty Retort.

1d20+5

DC is the above roll.

Do we need to look into an Insult Training, or is that covered by something?

Rolled 3 + 5

>>30555710

Rolled 1 + 5

>>30555710

Rolled 18 + 5

>>30555710

>>30555728
Welp.

>>30555710

Notation, you presently have access to using Planet Power Surge. Forgot to express that in the character sheet.

>>30555724
Your existing trainings cover most things, Insight can be used defensively. So can Deceive. Persuasion Deceive and Intimidate can be used offensively.

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Rolled 18 + 5

>>30555710
vs 26, ouch.
Dark Lady doesn't take our crap.

Rolled 5 + 5

>>30555710

>>30555725
>>30555742
>>30555728

...there there.

Writing

>>30555728
Oof, do we want to spend a surge to make that less painful?

Rolled 10 + 5

>>30555792
Nah. Unless we got a 20 we wouldn't have beaten that anyway.

>>30555792
>That was just your offense. Degrees of failure don't really have anywhere to go in this part of the system yet. Much like how degrees of success don't have anywhere to go on positive reaction rolls in this system yet.

>>30555749
It's on there, at the beginning of the Senshi section.

I say we give it a shot here, with a good roll that will shave a margin of failure off.

>>30555819
by this system I mean Social Combat

>>30555819
Oh yeah, feel like we're still on the defensive.
Nevermind.

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Rolled 7 + 3

>>30555771

This woman. You, you guess, aren't giving yourself any ground...argh, and you thought the whole bullshit temporal duplicate thing with Usa was complicated. Why are you even dreaming about his...does this have something to do with Magician. Is another one of his Acts attacking you in your sleep.

Magician is long defeated Princess.

More time has passed than you think.

There is a buzz in the back of your head, like two voice you can't quite make out. Oh well, she wants to be catty, well two can play at that game, and what you lack in claws you make up for in a bunny hop.

~I guess can I understand that. I mean, that must have been a long time ago, right grandma?~

Her eyes hold their neutral pattern, not flickering or blinking in the slightest. She leans in close, smile spreading. You thought you sounded cool, but your words bounced off of her.

“hmmm...going after my age, are you child?” she questions, “I do believe you're projecting. It's such a shame you can't carry yourself with more confidence...well I guess you can't, scrawny little thing,”

>Dark Lady attempts...did I seriously not list a Charisma based offensive move? Changing that right now.
>Dark Lady attempts to be Catty while still being vague. 1D20+charisma+persuasion-Vague

>Roll 1d20 + 3 for Reaction

>Actions?
>Words?
>Write in
> This bitch is getting on your nerves

>>30555216
MDV: Fist is an option? Sweet.

>>30556152

Right now there is nothing keeping things in social combat besides the two of you not hauling off and blasting each other with super powers.

You don't know what's going on here. What you do know is a bunch of badass older version of yourself just showed up, and one of them decided to play school yard passive aggressive bitch rather than start something directly.

Also she looks like you/usa. That alone grinds your gears.

"are you going to tell me what the hell is going on? or are you going to just keep being vague and pointlessly bitchy?"

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Rolled 2 + 3

>>30556193
Just the phase 'yoUsa' could grate us.

>>30556115
>did I seriously not list a Charisma based offensive move?
Yup. Left a lost of chin scratching as to what to do.

>Retort.
"Projecting nothing, I'm not the one overcompensating with sheer fabric and so much leg you might as well not have a skirt. Geeze, how desperate are you?"

Rolled 19 + 3

>>30556115
>catty

"I guess we can't all be as passive aggressive bitchy as you. Are you going to tell me anything or not?"

>>30556193
Well, it's nice to have that path open, even if I don't feel the time is right just now.

>>30556304
>22
Yay!

>>30556300
>>30556304
Yeah, give her the old verbal one-two.

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Rolled 18 + 3

>>30556115
Rollin'

Rolled 11 + 8

>>30556221
>>30556304
>>30556335
combined >>30556300

5 vs 22, her Catty fails.

Roll your Catty in response.

1d20+8 (3 for persuasion, 3 for charisma, 2 because that's snappy and merits a bonus)

Current roll is her defense. You guys are head to head.

Rolled 4 + 8

>>30556430

Rolled 10 + 8

>>30556430

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>>30556115
I think you're all forgetting one very important thing about our character.
She speaks French.
Let's yell something at her in French, something strange and insulting like, "You fuck tractors!"

Rolled 10 + 8

>>30556430

Rolled 12 + 8

>>30556430

>>30556460
>>30556485

Off by 1.

>>30556547
At least it was a solid swing.
Her defense is strong it seems.

>>30556463
If we do this, I'd want to do it in a subtle and clever manner. But I'm not sure it would be in character for our younger self.

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>>30556450
>>30556460
>>30556485

I guess I should ask if you would like to spend a Planet Power on Surge?

>>30556463
Creative and lovely idea, anon.

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>>30556594
>I guess I should ask if you would like to spend a Planet Power on Surge?
YES!

Rolled 4 + 8

>>30556594
fuck it, do it

>>30556594
Considering the edge she has on us otherwise, we should take any shot we can to tip the scales.

>>30556594
Sure lets do it.

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>>30556685
>>30556714
>>30556685
>>30556732

Okay, Planet Power Spent, roll 1d8 Surge die to enhance your total. First roll is the only one that counts. No best of.

>Considering the edge she has on us otherwise, we should take any shot we can to tip the scales.

Its cute...you think the trickster has played their hand.

Rolled 6

>>30556805

Rolled 8

>>30556805

>>30556823

Writing.

>>30556805
She doesn't need to, she's trouncing us without even beating us with the big guns.

>>30556930

but anon, you just drew first metaphorical blood...and kinda implied she was a slut.

>>30556946
and she is you

>>30556973
Maybe she's HER. Maybe the implications aren't far off.

>>30556946
More about her being desperate. Needs to dress slutty to draw attention.
Insult fights with yourself are a dangerous minefield.

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>d20 research continues..
>oh.. oh dear

>>30554641
>spikes, blood, shadow, and twisting wounds
I don't think I want to know what divinity this is a Herald of.

>shadowruns in-terrify

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>>30556929

1/2

Oh, she is trying very very hard to get under your skin. She may be some kind of older and more villainously dressed version of you, but you are something she'll never be...again. A girl in Junior High School.

~Projecting nothing, I'm not the one overcompensating with sheer fabric and so much leg you might as well not have a skirt. Geeze, how desperate are you? ~ You are proud of what you just insinuated...even if she is supposed to be an older you...did you just slut shame yourself? Doesn't matter. Her eyes dilate just a touch. You found a crack in her defenses and it's time to break through.

~I guess we can't all be as passively aggressive bitchy as you. Are you going to tell me anything or not?~

Your question is confident and earnest. Your insult is biting and juvenile. Her eyes hold a mad and manic glimmer as she smiles, showing perhaps far to many teeth.

>Dark Lady takes 1 point of Emotional Wall Damage.
>67/68
>Congratulations, you drew first blood.
>The field of endless white changes, it's yours.

The plane shimmers around the two of you, transforming into an oversized and exaggerated caricature of your mother's garden. Vibrant verdant and calming to you, somehow taking a piece of the rug out from under the volatile vexing vixen veering toward you.

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>>30557220

2/2

I'm being alliterative...I'm happy I grew out of that.

Oh come now, Princess. I think it's cute, I'm sure such ticks used to drive the boys wild about you.

Excuse me, used to?

What I think Zoicite is inferring is that you've become an anti social recluse who only serves as a body in a seat at school.

There it is, the buzzing again. More voices.

“Hmph,” she sashays beside you and leans in closely, you tense, but she isn't being overtly hostile...yet.

“Do you really want the answers to your question?” she asks seriously and directly.

>Dark Lady is holding her Action.

You're certain there is something behind this, some play against you that you haven't seen. What if all of this is a distraction...what if they others are off somewhere else doing something sinister. How much damage could so many of you get into?

>Yes, quite stalling.
>No, I'm rather enjoying our game. You're a worthy opponent.
>Write in.
> What the hell is she anyway.

>>30557238
>DANGER! DANGER MIKAGE CHIBA!
Catty creepy older you-ish thing is being too nice after that.
Evasive action, brace for sneak attack and lies!

Eye hear suspiciously and move away from her.

>>30557238
AMBER ALERT

>>30557238
> What the hell is she anyway.

>>30557309
Tack a 'What the hell are you?' on there for good measure.

>>30557349
>>30557337

>>30557349
>>30557332
>>30557309

Writing.

>>30557238
> What the hell is she anyway.
Neo Black Lady has too much wall for us to achieve anything significant in this illusion. Our generals are here. Let's use them.

>>30557332
>AMBER ALERT
Dark Mikage is pedobearing her younger self?

>>30557610
I think she'd be more of a cougar.

>>30557549
So we use gay men who are fabulous enough to fit in JJBA to beat catty slutty older alternate self?

I like it

>>30557659
I think we and the generals are watching a memory of our past self battle an intruding threat.
Our ability to aid us might be limited.

..Though it is gets hairy, I fully support the team busting in to pull an Eclipse on ourself.

Our pronouns may get a bit twisted up as we go though.

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Rolled 10 + 29

>>30557535

It's subtle but you step away from her, eying her cautiously. Something isn't right here, and you feel the pulse of the memory of the Silver Imperium Crystal close to your chest.

This woman's body language is relaxed. She smiles with mirth in her eyes and something lances out from within them. Tension seizes you as you understand her underlying hostility, the latent killing intent. For whatever reason, she is letting you feel it now; she wants you to know what is to come next before.

>Dark Lady expends Mythic Power.
>Activates Enhanced Version of Vanishing Move.
>Active for 6 rounds.

She vanishes before your eyes, however the killing intent remains thick around you.

>roll 1d20+2 as perception against the above roll.

This isn't good. Should you transform? She never told you what's going on!

What the hell is she anyway?

There is that buzzing again, it sounds...familiar?

I feeling it, Princess Mikage. She is born of you, of your negative emotions. A shadow meant to grow and split off from you; leaving you an incomplete entity whilst it roams and spreads further discord and rends further shadows from the living. She is indicative of your hatred, your doubt, your guilt. Perhaps each of those we saw earlier as a different foci of your negative feelings.

Yes, I see it now too. That wave that washed through you, something is trying to foster the growth of this thing.

> Transform
> Find cover and try to buy time.
> Write in
> HEY! YOUNG ME! I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU!

>>30557779
> HEY! YOUNG ME! I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU!

Rolled 15 + 2

>>30557779

>>30557799
sorry, forgot my roll

>>30557779
>> HEY! YOUNG ME! I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU!

>>30557779
> HEY! YOUNG ME! I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU!
People who are allowed to make us fight ourself: Nobody. Nobody is allowed to do that.
We need to clue our young self in on the message, stop whatever's boosting our shadow, and reintegrate them both.

Rolled 16 + 2

>>30557779
>> Transform
>> Find cover and try to buy time.
>> Write in
>> HEY! YOUNG ME! I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU!
ALL THE THINGS

Dive to the side, transform, try not to panic.
Present us, we should encourage ourself, she's/we're gonna need it.

Rolled 16 + 2

>>30557917
Oof, integrating with our shadow, that is gonna be rough.
It is a fitting form for our darkness, looking like *HER-.. no.. her.. dark side.
..why do I feel like we'll have a harder time accepting that our 'older sister' isn't the worst than we will accepting our other failure?

>>30557799
>>30557834
>>30557917
>>30557965

Writing.

18 vs 39

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>>30557779
>Activates Enhanced Version of Vanishing Move.
>research..
Shit.

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>>30558113

HEY! YOUNG ME! I HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL YOU!

The buzzing is words this time, like someone screaming into a fan blade. Just how many of you are in here right now?

Doesn't matter, you dive for the cover of the stylized dream scape rose bushes and lay your hand on the brooch holding your memory of the Imperium Silver Crystal. You pull the flute out from the case that has always been hanging at your side...but it feels heavy, and wet. For some reason you see that even the gold is covered in slick black.

Oh god...I wasn't expecting to see tha-

No time. <I'm listening, quickly!>

She is us, she is part of us...of me. Your my memory of me at my best...she's a dark part of us. Our negative emotions given form. You're the Sailor me. You can do this. She's negative emotion, so you can fuck her shit up, once you can find her that is.

<Oh, I know I've got this>

~MOON CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjp5_tGEnKg

Combat initiated.

>Dark Lady casts Darkness

It is your turn. You are shrouded in total darkness, you aren't sure for how far around.

Sailor Moon, You have a Move Action, A standard Action, & A Free Action.
Mikage Chiba, you are immaterial, and your sight is limited to what Sailor Moon can see. You have control of your Dark Companions ability.

Sailor Moon
>Move
>Try to pinpoint your foe.
>Use a Senshi Power of some kind?
>Activate a feat or power?
>Hold actions? What trigger.

Mikage Chiba
>How do you position your 4 extra shadows. They can each move 30 feet a round and impose multiple -2 penalties on enemies they are adjacent too. This is an untyped bonus that stacks.

>>30558297

TRICKSTER

but in all seriousness, you guys got this.

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>>30558300
>Darkness, meet Light.

Lunar Light Bean time.

Planet Power Enhanced.

>>30558300
Sailor Moon: use your power to cause a flash of light focused behind you so you don't blind yourself

Mikage: position the shadows within 1m of Sailor moon at diagonals from her

>>30558405
Tactical Expressions are in 5 ft squares. You occupy a 5 foot square and are surrounded immediately by 8 empty squares from which you can be attacked in melee.

Which spell are you suggesting.

>>30558300
have the Shitennou take position 5 feet out around ours Sailor self to back her up from whichever direction we need to strike. Should have a -4 from most angles in melee at least. Prehaps some brief warning of attack.

Alright guys, Its been pointed out to me that I may be coming across as a bit condescending. I don't mean to be if I am coming across that way and I apologize if that is the case. I'm just a strange combination of giddy, excitable, and tired. Spent almost as much time on my commute as I spent at work today...but that doesn't excuse anything.

I'm brewing some more coffee and reigning myself in. You deserve better than that, but its what I can do.

>>30558442
So one directly behind her, directly to each side, and one to each side and one to the front I think.

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>>30558321
>you guys got this.
I accept that courage! I, who believe in you who believes in me, will not let you down!

We should try to get Light Bean and Nimbus of Light running at the same time. Both Planetary enhanced.

>>30558525
Odd, didn't notice issues myself.

>>30558532
Aye, thinking the same pattern but an extra 5' step out for better coverage.

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>>30558584
Alright then, let's do this.

Sailor Action
>>30558609
>>30558405
>>30558397

Immaterial Action
>>30558405
>>30558454
>>30558532
>>30558609

Casting Lunar Light Beam & cross guard positioning the Shintennou.

>3 MP Spent
>Lunar Light Beam Cast
>You cannot see the light from within the Darkness.
>Melee attack roll made against your ac.
>Your AC is 18 with Moon Regalia, flat footed 13. Touch 15.
>You are currently flat footed as you cannot see and your attacker is invisible.
>You have Damage Soak 6

Rolled 12 + 9

>>30558922

And my mistake on the dice.

Planet Power Spent to enhance Lunar Light.

>>30558922
Cross-counter.
Strike in direction of the blow?

Rolled 6 + 5

>>30558942
Rolling base damage Damage.

Next post rolls Sneak Attack

Rolled 1, 2 = 3

>>30559028
Sneak attack

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>>30559046
You prepare your light and munitions. You need to lay waste to this version of you, and you should have the power to do it. Invoking the gem within your Tiara, you coalesce your magical power into it; energizing it with Lunar Light, you just need an opening to let the energy fly, you just need to know where she is.

Shintennou, Defensive Positions!

The four voices sound in your head as you feel them spread around you to cover melee range. You're not sure what kind of attack that woman will bring against you...but if she's trying to hide you in darkness while already invisible, you expect her to get close and personal like she tried before.

With a shudder you remember her fangs before you feel a rush of pressure coming toward your back shoulder. You lean forward just enough for the point of a thin foil to fly past you, that was close, but now you've an ideas where she is.

>Close shave, Sailor Moon takes 14 Vitality Damage.

You spin on your heel and face where you foe is. You are effectively blind in this magical darkness even with the charge of Lunar Light Beam radiating from your brow.

Sailor Moon, you have a move, a standard and a free action.
>Spend your move action to move in one direction out of this darkness before or after you attack or cast a spell?
>Stay where you are or 5 foot adjust.
>Attack Blindly with Tranquility Flute (50% miss chance on top of roll to hit)
>Cast Nimbus of Light
>Cast Faerie Fire here to catch her and negate her invisibility.
>Let Fly with Lunar Light Beam (50% miss chance on top of roll to hit)
>Spend Planet Power to use Distant Barrage to fire both Lunar Light Beams (50% miss chance on top of roll to hit)
>Spend Planet Power for Extra Standard Action (you can still only cast one spell a round, but using charged spell effects remains their own action.
>Write in.

Mikage
>Have Shintennou Hold Position?
>Surround Dark Lady's position of attack?
>Write in
>Say Something?

>>30559310
>Spend your move action to move in one direction out of this darkness before or after you attack or cast a spell?

Before. Straight ahead is fine.

Leave the Shintennou as they are, have them keep pace with her.

>>30559418

You have a move action and a standard action. You can still cast most of your spells or unleash your lunar light.
And if you want as a free action you can grant yourself an additional standard action
And if you want as a swift action, you can grant yourself an extra ranged attack this round.

Serious question

Have you given us enough information to know where she is at the moment?

>>30559310
>>Cast Faerie Fire here to catch her and negate her invisibility.
If we light her up, go for the Extra Standard action and fire a beam.

(Shouldn't we have 3 rays, or is based on character level rather than tier level?)

>>30559509
We know what direction the blow came from, beyond that, nothing.

>>30559549
Should tack Power on that one too. Blinding chance.

>>30559586
Is it worth using our limited resources for only a chance to land a debuff?

>>30559609
Area effect, if we have her location well enough to have a have standard concealment issues swinging where she should be, area effect is dead to rights.

>>30559509
You know the direction the blow came of, so you know what 5 foot square she occupies. It is adjacent on a diagonal from where you were standing, between two of your dark companions.

You know where you can direct several kinds of attacks against her AC with a 50% miss chance, and you know where you can lay 1 area of effect spell that you know.

>>30559609
Dont think so. I'd like to have an idea of where she is so we can land something like a pp nimbus on her. Aren't we at like 2 PP left now?

Lets just go with fairie fire and the beams for the moment and see how that goes.

>>30559645
How do you know it's area effect.

>>30559660
What is our current PP Arty?

>>30559676
You are using the Past Version Sheet.

She has More PP
brb
Bathroom

>>30559609
Unless you mean the roll off. Yeah, dice are involved, but it is a huge boon if it works.

>>30559676
9/11 at the moment. This is Sailor Mikage of the past, not our less powered present.

>>30559660
I think you need to start putting tiles on a grid because trying to explain a grid based map layout in text form is unsettling to me.

>>30559688
>5-ft.-radius burst

Per the fairie fire description from on the character sheet.

>>30559688
Because I read the character sheet?

>>30559688
From the paste bin in OP:
http://pastebin.com/8wPk6KSM

>>30559727
>>30559729
Speaking of which

>Lighten Darkness and Shadow: Normal shadows are suppressed within the area, making it impossible to hide within them or use abilities such as the shadowdancer's shadow jump ability. Magical darkness no longer provides concealment, and the area can now be illuminated by any light source.

Why aren't we doing this?

>>30559715
Ok then, I'll guess take back what I said in >>30559676 then. Lets PP Fairie Fire her, then move and use beams.

>>30559763
Wrong character.

>>30559763
Can we? I didn't think Eclipse Mikage could directly influence the proceedings like that

>>30559770
I wonder if we can Distant Barrage on top of Extra Action.

>>30559780
>>30559793
Mechanically I see why it doesn't, logically I don't see why it wouldn't

>>30559719
If it's not too much trouble, I think this anon's got a point.

>>30559310
> light her up with fairy fire
> move directly away from her, hopefully out of the darkness

> have the two shadows adjacent to our foe attack, then move to resume guard position.

We sgould avoid attacking with the corrupted flute until we know wtf is up with the black ooze

_____________________
I I I DCI DL I
_____________________
I I DC I SM I DC I
_____________________
I I I DCI I
_____________________
I I I I I

SM - Sailor Moon
DC- Dark Comapnion
DL- Where you know Dark Lady is currently

Each Square is five feat, there are more squares in every direction. DL is the center point of a 5 square radius effect of Magical Darkness.

>>30559926
Fuck, that looked better in the fill out field.

>>30559899
Me again.
> free action
Talk. Social combat roll?
Heh why so angry me? Slinky black dress, nice figure, so much power... and it still wasn't enough was it? Must feel bad to be so... alone. Maybe you dont have to be alone... ever consider that?

>>30559899
Dark Companions cannot attack, being adjacent to an opponent gives that opponent a -2 Penalty on AC and Reaction Tests. Dark Companions are immaterial concentrated illusions whose untyped penalties stack.

So, the consensus is Cast Planet Powered Faerie Fire as a standard action
Move 30 feet directly away.
Spend Planet Power for an extra standard action to Lay into her with Lunar Light Beam as a free action.
Swift Action Planet Power Distant Barrage for your second shot (past Mikage is still lvl 3).
And perhaps some banter?

>>30559952
Check. Sorry for the misunderstanding, and thanks for running my childhood memories as a quest. Seriously this is making work bearable.

>>30560003
I've heard I've hit people's positive and negative nostalgia buttons.

Someone in QTG accused me of Tumblrizing Sailor Moon. I was a bit confused.

>>30560000
>Move 30 feet directly away.

Explain how you've interpreted this, 30 feet as in to the edge of the grid where we can't be back-attacked? Because 30 feet in any direction puts us waaaay far away from her current position.

>>30560027
>Tumblrizing
This is a word now? News to me.

>>30560033
The grid is larger than I have drawn. It was a quick and dirty sketch of the immediate area without consuming much time. Assume the dream scape is infinite space.

>>30560033
Also, your Lunar Light Beam is a ranged attack.

>>30560000
>>30559946
These are good.

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>>30559926
Something like this, then?

>>30560065
Okay,

Then person who made that recommendation: explain why we want to run away from her when we just found out per position

I can see moving to get away from the DCs but if we know where she is, why not go on the offensive?

>>30560000
Pretty much, I dont care how far we actually go, so long as we get 5 ft outside the darkness

>>30560118
Well, ideally I'd like to get her surrounded by our generals and then Alpha Strike the bitch, but I can't into the crunch so I'm not sure how to go about that.

>>30560118
Actually, I gotta agree, with the Fire going down, might as well stay in range

>>30560140
Hold it, isn't the darkness technically everywhere at this point? Should we assume it has an end?

>>30560118
Aren't we taking penalties for standing here? The Darkness is debuffing our AC right?

Leaving the dark and negating her invisibility puts us back to even footing. Or such was my thinking.

>>30560185
I'm operating under the idea that it's probably about the same size as the range for Eclipse's control shadows move.

>>30560190
No, though we might have Attacks of opportunity.
Our Dark Companions are debuffing her.

>>30560118

The DC's are your's to command. They are the immediate representation of your hosting of the Shintennou

>>30560155
The DC's can move as a free mental action on your part and can move at your speed within 120 feet of you. Surrounding Dark Lady with them is trivial.


>>30560190

Final Destination:

1. Use Move action to exit darkness after you Faerie Fire
2. Stay your ground and light her up.

>>30560216
Artemis, can you clarify the range of this or is that something for us to find out?

>>30560118
50% miss chance in darkness
>>30560027
I dont do tumblr or anything like that, so i dnt have a frame of reference. But from what ive seen QTG hates on quests quite a bit. Take the useful criticism and ignore the rest. Because if you dont run a sailor moon quest, who will?

>>30560245
2

>>30560245
>1

>>30560257
20ft radius centered on Dark Lady.

Once her invisibility is lifted, the darkness will only grant her a 20% miss chance.

>>30560259
>50% miss chance in darkness

So are we operating under the assumption that she CAN'T just cast darkness again and put us back in the same position we were in before?

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>>30560245
>1
The last thing we need is to miss our alpha strike.

>>30560290

Senshi enhancement, she will be potentially dazzled, and potentially blinded for 1 round.

>>30560245
1

>>30560300

Final destination votes are not counted if they contain comment. Pictures are fine. You still have time to recast.

>>30560245
1
Instruct DCs to surround her.
Beam spam.

>>30560245
Actually it sounds like having the DC surround her would be the best idea then.

>>30560245
1

>>30560300
We'll still have the 20%, our opponent is in the darkness, but at least we'll but out of it.

Actually, wouldn't she have the 20% against us too in the darkness?

>>30560384
>>30560319
>>30560283

>>30560273

Writing.

>>30560404
Your enemy possess the ability to see in both Mundane and Magical Darkness, being a creature of darkness.

>>30560404
>Actually, wouldn't she have the 20% against us too in the darkness?
Good point.

>>30560384
Retracted.

>>30560424
>Your enemy possess the ability to see in both Mundane and Magical Darkness, being a creature of darkness.

Dang.

>>30560426
Unretracted.

I think we came to the conclusion to make this move in the clumsiest, most round-about way possible.

When it's really just "light her on fire, run from the fire".

>>30560424

Roll me 1d20+4, Best of 3, 1's and 20's wild.
Must beat the above DC.

Rolled 19 + 4

>>30560501

Rolled 12 - 6

>>30560501
DAMNIT DICE, GET IT TOGETHER, YOU'RE DRUNK

Rolled 17 + 4

>>30560501

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Rolled 3 + 4

>>30560501
Beam spam go!

>>30560514
>>30560534
>>30560538
Is this two degrees of success or three?

>>30560553
6 vs 23
3
Almost 4.
..Surge?

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>>30560538
so. out of curiosity. since this seems vaguely dark by the name. does this quest have anything in common with on a clear day you can see forever? not necissarily in the same world, but does it have a similar tone and setting?

Rolled 33, 22 = 55

>>30560514
>>30560534
>>30560538

23 vs 6. You have 3 Degrees of success that you can spend to increase the duration of her Blindness or deal damage to her Emotional Wall at a rate of 1 for 3, or directly to her Composure for 1 for 1.

You may now roll me 2d20 for your two beam spams whilst I roll your 2 miss chances. If you are under 80, you hit despite the partial concealment.

Rolled 12, 5 = 17

>>30560620
increase her blind duration

>>30560599
Not quite the world being dark, but definitely dark foes at least.
Characters inspired by a professional looking mockup of character info for the new show that everyone thought was real at one point.

Rolled 3, 11 = 14

>>30560620
I say 9 points of damage to her emotional wall, but what do i know?

>>30560620

The Bonus to hit for your first Beam is +10 to hit, and 2d6+4 Damage.

Due to Rapid Barage, your second beam is +14 and overcomes any soak or resistance. Also 2d6+4 damage.

>>30560667
Her emotional wall is damn tanky. She's at 67/68 HP on it. Are we really going to deal 58 more EW damage in this fight?

Rolled 19, 3 = 22

>>30560620
I'll vote the blind.

Anyone else interested in using Surge and trying to roll 3 or higher on a d8 for another margin?

>>30560715

Being blinded makes her flat footed and incurs an additional -2 AC penalty.

I need one more beam spam roll.

And then I need best of three Persuasion Test as a free action. 1d20+6

>>30560715
There's no guarantee that her Stamina isn't equally tanky, but we'll be in a better position to judge once we've hit her, I guess.

>>30560735
I'd be ok with it.

Rolled 7 + 6

>>30560737
Persuasion go!

Rolled 2, 4, 6, 6 = 18

>>30560679

Rolling Beam 1 and 2 Damage

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Rolled 7 + 6

>>30560754
Groovy.

>>30560737
Rollin'

>>30560777

Also, Between Beam 1 & 2 you have 7 degrees of success. Can be spent 1 for 3 Vitality, 1 for 3 Emotional wall, or 1 for 2 Wounds or Composure. Please tell me how you would like to spend them.

>>30560803
Composure!

Rolled 3

>>30560754
Well, that's two of us at least.

Rolled 18 + 6

>>30560737
Love & Justice!

>>30560662
is it confirmed for being fake now?

I have a feeling this encounter is going so well that either

A) Beating her is a trap and makes things worse for us later
or
B) We're only hurting ourselves by doing this

Either way I see no good things coming from completely demolishing her like we're doing

Rolled 4 - 2

>>30560862
>>30560782
>>30560768

Rolling Reaction test to your persuasion

>>30560894
Oh those were confirmed fake ages ago

>>30560803
Lets hit her wounds with them.

Rolled 14 + 6

>>30560845
Well, if he takes it, I'd say put the extra success into Composure as well, that would make it 14+1. Which is at least a match for our own stress threshold.

>>30560894
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=37899184
Still awesome though.

>>30560907
Aye, thus my thoughts that going for the mental damage would be better, try to reintegrate with our weakened dark side.

Rolled 15, 3 = 18

>>30560907
I see us conquering our darker selves, proving that we too possess the light necessary to be a savior.
I say we award our success to composure. 10 points is nothing to sneeze at

>>30560944
7 Degrees, so that's 14. Which is even less to sneeze at.

Applying 7 degrees f success to Composure.

14 Composure accumulated.

Writing.

>>30560979
Art, we'd been talking about Surging the Faerie Fire result for a bit now, want in on that? Could net extra point of Composure.

Rolled 3

>>30561020
One more Surge Spent.

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Alas, I must crash, need to be up to ready for work in four hours.
Good luck all.

Listen to the folks talking about making peace with ourself while our darkside is weakened.

When we have time, someone please ask the Shitennou about information on other Earth-linked items/people/places/stuff of interest and/or power so we can try to track them down and see what they've already captured and what we can secure for ourselves.

Fun fact: Tuxedo Mask was introduced as a cat burglar stealing gemstones. (Later revealed that he was looking for the Silver Millennium Crystal).

Artemis, thanks for the quest man.

>>30561090
>3
Woo!

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>>30561103
I hear ya. I ain't gotta work in the morning, but fuck it's late and I'm tired.

Hope charge: Someone is fighting for you. So long as you remember, you are never alone.

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>>30560979
Heh why so angry me? Slinky black dress, nice figure, so much power... and it still wasn't enough was it? Must feel bad to be so... alone. Maybe you dont have to be alone... ever consider that?

>>30561369
>Dark Companions move adjacent to Dark Lady.
>Dark Lady now has a -8 Penalty to her Armor Class & to Reaction Tests.
>Sailor Moon casts Faerie Fire. Expends 2 Planet Power & 1 MP
>Dark Lady is now blind, AC Penalty is now -10, and she is flat footed. Total AC 9.
>Dark Lady takes 1 Composure damage.
>Sailor Moon moves 30 Feat away and out of the darkness.
>Both Beams pass 20% Miss Chance from partial concealment.
>Beam 1 totals 29. 4 Degrees of success. Can be spent 1 for 3 Vitality, 1 for 3 Emotional wall, or 1 for 2 Wounds or Composure.
>Beam 2 totals 24 to hit. 3 Degrees of Success. Can be spent as listed above. This attack ignores Soak.
>Dark Lady Vulnerability to Light Exploited. Double Damage from Light Spells and effects.
>Beam 1 deals 10x2 Damage. After Soak: 18 Damage to Vitality
>Beam 2 deals 16x2 Damage. Ignores Soak: 32 Damage to Vitality
>Dark Lady takes total of 50 Vitality. She only has 18 Vitality left.
>Degrees of Success applied to Composure. 15/14 Composure achieved!
>Sailor Moon scolds Dark Lady, offers redemption. 24 vs 2. 4 degrees of success.

You are Sailor Moon, and you bare the Imperium Silver Crystal upon your chest.

I was Sailor Moon...and I could save everyone but one person...then until Yesterday I stopped giving a damn about my world.

It was an outlet. It was a means to vent your anger. It made you feel closer to your mother. It gave you a chance to prove you could do things on your own, that you were better than your older sister.

>>30561386
I shut myself off. I couldn't deal with it. I killed a man...could I ever have saved him? I broke a promise to my friend...I grew cold. I lost that connection I finally thought I had with my mom. I lost that hope that I could be better than Usa. I didn't want the world anymore...so I locked myself away and tried to only care about myself. I didn't want the warmth from the world around me. I didn't want forgiveness. I wanted to be alone, because I thought I didn't deserve forgiveness.

The point of your finger tip shines in gathering purple and pink before spreading in a burst of pyrotechnique glory you can feel even in the choking dark. Your other. The dark you screams and you can almost see her reaching for her eyes as she writhes in the clinging fire.

You take three quick jumps back and you are out of the darkness, through the muted shield you can see the flame wreathed shape of the woman, still holding her face, the bladed weapon clattering to the ground uselessly. Your fingers press against your tiara as your body vibrates with channeled planetary power.

~LUNAR LIGHT BEAM~

It lances forward, landing true upon her and breaking into a blast of sparkling light, it could be over now but you are quick on the draw and another surge of energy and agency overtakes you.

~LUNAR LIGHT BEAM ATTACK~

This one also lands true. She is wracked and writhes in pain and seeming anguish. The darkness around her evaporates, she becomes fully visible. Falling, she curls on the ground between the shadowy phantoms of the Shintennou, each baring only the barest semblance to their true forms as they stand as dark and imposing phantoms.

~Heh why so angry, me? Slinky black dress, nice figure, so much power... and it still wasn't enough was it? Must feel bad to be so... alone. Maybe you dont have to be alone... ever consider that?~

I don't know if she's talking to me or her by the end of it.

>>30561400
She sobs, her eyes are vacant and her pupils seem muted within the red sheen. Her wails are lonely. The dark was her safety, that she could see in... just like me

She looks like you, if you were older. She looks like Usa.

I thought...I thought seeing Usa suffer or in pain would make me feel better. I thought there would be a satisfaction in it. This is not Usa, this is a part of me I needed to face. I...I don't want to make her suffer. I've been angry. I've been angry. I've been sad. I've hated everyone for being able to move forward. I hated her and I hated myself.

The you on the floor calms down, but is still shaking.

“In the dark I was safe. If no one could see me, no one could hurt me. If no one could see me, no one could see what I had done. No one could help me. I didn't deserve help. I failed. I FAILED.”

Is she screaming that, or am I?

“Do you mean it? Can I come back? Can I trust them? They weren't lying, were they?”

~No. I don't think they were~
No. I don't think they were

You materialize, you shadows recollect around you as you walk toward yourself. Sailor Moon and Mikage Chiba approaching the broken Shadow yet Born.

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>>30561419
She lays her hands on her face gently. Your own steps to approach her grow weary.

“The dark has never been like this before...it was always the world around me, armor, a shell to keep everything away. This darkness...I don't like it. It's really been like this, but now that its inside me; I made myself a prison,”

~It's okay~
~It's okay~

“please...”

~forgive me~
~forgive me~
“forgive me”

>Attack, remove her from misery. She cannot defend herself.
>Restoration, wipe her sins and existence within you clean.
>Moon Healing Escalation, mean her wounds, and your own, become whole.
>Embrace both of them.
>Write In.

>>30561469
>>Embrace both of them.

>>30561469
>Moon Healing Escalation, mean her wounds, and your own, become whole.

>>30561469
>>Embrace both of them.

We are scarred, yes, but through our diversity we will draw strength, the darkness will no longer be our prison, now it will be a tool for us to wield in defense of those we love. (what's a avatar of Earth without a little darkness, eh?)

>>30561469
>>Embrace both of them.

I've always been a big fan of "darkness isn't inherently evil"

>>30561469
Thats the bad thing about hiding in the shadows... sooner or later the shadows leave and you have to face the light. But always remember, no matter what i will be right there with you. And i will be fighting as hard as i can to make sure that you are never alone again. Because I love you, even if you have been a little bad.
> embrace them

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>>30561586

Writing

>>30561669
>>30561582
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>>30561592
We have just gone maximum curry.

>>30561788
You just know those pebble jerks are going to tell dad about this, too.

>>30561816
Oh hey Mamoru-san how was y ou r trip?
Thats nice. Us? Oh were fine. Yeah your daughter decided to redeem our souls no biggie. Oh and she emerged victorious from the beginning of her own existential crisis whatever...
Oh and your houshold hair product budget just tripled hope your not mad dear.

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>>30561702

~That's the bad thing about hiding in the shadows... sooner or later the shadows leave and you have to face the light. But always remember, no matter what i will be right there with you. And i will be fighting as hard as i can to make sure that you are never alone again. Because I love you, even if you have been a little bad.~

You wrap your arm around the darkness you've been feeding for so long. She continues to sob into the crook. The other pulls the Transformed Sailor Moon into the embrace, you wraps her arms around both of you tightly. You remain there for a long while, for a moment loosing track of the space around you. It never existed. You are mutely. Sailor Moon lays the brooch on your chest, it fades from the Silver Imperium crystal into a circular crystal within a gemstone. It is blinding. This is you. This is your power. This is your soul. Your Star Seed. The Dark Lady continues to cry lightly, but they have become sobs of thanks. You feel her lips part, and fangs sink into your neck until she fades into you.

The center of your Star Seed swirls with a black pattern, the edges of the facets become clear even within the blinding radiance. The shadows cast against your light grow deeper.

You can see it, the you wrapped in painful shadows, tearing into her flesh. The light washes your countenance from the twisted and tortured things. It explodes into a cloud of mist and flees. The other versions of yourself that had appeared earlier are all as statues, at least for now.

~Silver, Gold, and Obsidian~ you whisper as you clutch the light to your chest.

It fills you with warmth, regret, happiness, and sadness.

The dream world falls away.

>>30562012
You sit up in your room, coil of blankets falling away as you rise from your bed. Its a shock that even though he lights are off, you can see perfectly. Still unsteady, you stumble to the bathroom and splash water on your face. As your eyes clear of the grogginess that you are unaccustomed to, the changes strike you.

You immediately notice the black circle on your forehead, with the outlining golden crescent beneath it. Everything else though...

The difference isn't subtle, your longer hair has deepened in it's pink hue. Your skin is a touch paler than it had been, and the slightly charred remnants of your clothing are a bit shorter, parts of them looser and others a bit snugger, you've gained at least 3 inches in height.

Starring at yourself, you go slack jawed; an that is when the most unexpected surprise strikes you. You have fangs.

Closing your mouth, you choose to disbelieve that last detail. Opening it again, closer to the mirror to inspect your teeth in fine detail, you find no such sharpened incisors.

That's a relief. The rest of these changes were going to be hard enough to explain. Its probably the last then you need to explain unnaturally pointed tee-

Oh...hey. There they are again.

And they're gone.

…

Back.

Apparently you have retractable fangs.

…

<Oh come now, it's not that bad> remarks Jaedite as his swirling phantom manifests besides you as the rest of the Shintennou fill the room.

…

You leave the bathroom in a Daze and wander downstairs. It's early. 3 am early.

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>>30562021
There in the living room with, sitting with a cup of tea is your father; probably jet lagged. He appears in serious thought...perhaps related to what he's been told about you by your mother or the JSDF and UN Task Force. Perhaps about the crisis they were having.

He turns to face you and drops the cup in shock. The phantoms surrounding you vanish...ominously.

You imagine your eyes presently have a shell shocked depth at the moment, staring onward and forever through any obstacle.

“Mikage?”

>Morning father.
>Didn't mean to startle you, bad dreams.
>Want to compare days?
>I'm making breakfast.
>I don't want to talk about it now.
>Hug your daddy.
>Nope
>Write in

>>30562025
>Want to compare days?

>>30562025
Stare at dropped cup for a meaningful second.
"I'll go get the paper towels."

>>30562025
>Didn't mean to startle you, bad dreams.
>Want to compare days?

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Writing

>>30562176
Aww i wanted to pop excitement fangs ina huge grin while hugging our based dad.

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>>30562176
Your father looks rather shocked to see you, especially as you are.

You look at the spill. Numb to it, annoyed.

~I'll get a paper towel~ you sigh.

You cast a glance back over your shoulder.

~Want to compare days?~

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 09 END

Interlude vote for next time.

>Blood calls to Blood
>If he dies, he dies
>Roast of the Sansei
>Advanced Robotics
>Garden Tour
>Miracle of Science
>A Corpse Laden Throne
>The Gates beckon
>Trident Concerto

Good night, players.

I hope you had a good time. Sorry the fighting took so long.

>>30562276
Not a problem, thanks for the thread

Good night!

>>30562276
>Blood calls to Blood

Good night Arty, thanks for running!

>>30562276
>>>Miracle of Science

>>30562276
> the gates beckon

>>30562276
>If he dies, he dies

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>>30561419
FEELS

>>30562012
>at least for now
Dundunduuun.

>>30562021
Well that was unexpected.
That should be interesting.
We merged with more than just our own bad vibes, I suppose. The enhancement given our shadow to give it power and life came along for the ride.

>>30562025
No one voted for the daddy's girl to go on a hug-tackle?
For shame.
At least with him being away it might not be as strange that you seem a little different.
Well have to keep to our slouching posture and maybe some make-up around the girls.
>forehead crest
Oh, shit. Er.. Well have to see if we can will that away too.
>thinking we can hide any of this
I'm sure we'll think of something. Maybe an Earth widget? Or a shadow trick? Or Enhance Magic Items and the Disguise Pen?

>>30562276
Well, hopefully we can learn more about what is going on behind the scenes.
I still think it is important to try to keep us as much secret as possible. Go unnoticed by prophesies, enemies that may have pieced the Scouts' identity protection, scouts themselves, and whoever might be watching them.. Choose the Destiny to be the wildcard Fate never planned on.

>deciding between Interludes
..
Fudge.

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>>30562276
>>A Corpse Laden Throne
Some many choices today, but I am curious about the corpses for the corpse throne.

Followed by my curiosity about Advanced Robotics..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwO9PSe-uG4
..Shit, after rewatching that, I might have to bump that to my first choice if at all related.

Then there is Pluto and Neptune and finding out more about @ivandragowasright... Darn you choices!

Yes, damn my choices.

They being you agony, agony and suffer I use as a fuel for my NEFARIOUS DEVICES!

Like this evil can opener. It is like a can opener...but EVIL!

...

...

Just don't ask me how.

Man, Mikage getting a bit taller has altered something for the better and for hilarious purpose.

Serious Updates need to be made to your sheet now that I am awake.

However shower and laundry are a priority.

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So, I'm arround for Q&A until between noon & 1pm EST.

>>30565189
Is the forehead logo a permanent thing? Are we going need to use magic or wear a bandana or something to hide it?