>>33514996
>Are you feeling okay?
Then
>Do you know what that thing that attacked me was?

>>33514996
>>Are you feeling okay?
>How do you know about magic?

>>33514996
>Are you feeling okay?
>are you like me?
>how old are you really?
>What happened when you were young?

>>33514996
>Are you feeling okay?
FIRST QUESTION, Obviously. Then
>Do you know what that thing that attacked me was?
>What happened when you were young?

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Also I'm going to mention this now for anyone who doesn't know:

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>>33514996
>Are you feeling okay?
>How do you know about magic?

>>33514996
>Are you feeling okay?
then
>What happened when you were young?

>>33514996
>Umm...I think I'd like to know all you can tell me about magic and the strange stuff that's been happening...

>>33515138
If we're going to ask that, at least bring up how we transformed first.

>Are you feeling okay? (obvious)

>What happened when you were young?
>Do you know what that thing that attacked me was?
>Writing!

>>33515338
Oh boy, time for answers and mother-daughter bonding! Hopefully.

>>33515352
Does sending her into another crying fit count as mother-daughter bonding?

>>33515390
Maaaaybe? Let's hope!

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"Um. Are you okay? You really worried me back there."
No joke, that was the first time that I had seen her distraught or genuinely sad.
She squeezes my hand harder, "I'm fine, really. As long as I'm here with you, I'll be fine."

Then she puts her other hand to her forehead, "Oh, I'm suddenly beginning to realize how I broke down like that in front of your friends. I'm really sorry for embarrassing you."
"No, please, it's fine, Mom." I'm not going to let her feel guilty because we asked the wrong question.
I continue, "I don't want you to feel guilty because we put you in a bad mood."

[1/?]

>>33515859
She doesn't know that we broke down several times today. Haha.

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>>33515859
She loosens her grip on my hand some.
"It's just that," she pauses mid-sentence, this seems to be the same thought she was trying to express before she broke down at the dinner table.
"It's just that I wanted you to be able to live your life the way you wanted, without magic, without danger, without distress." She turns her head and looks down at me.
"I wanted you to have a safe place in your life to call your own."

I stop and think about what that means for a minute, I remember someone else telling me the same thing.
"Mom," I begin, "What happened when you were young?"

I can see that look of shame and sadness distorting her face again, she is able to hold back the tears this time.
"When I was young, that was so long ago, I barely remember many things about it." She tightens her grip on my hand.

"Then why is it so sad?" I ask,
I really shouldn't push my luck with her stable mood, but...
"Did someone hurt you?"

[2/?]

>>33516247
>Press the question further
Sorry mom, but we have to know this.

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>>33515971
She winces, and her face softens a bit.
No no no, Please don't start crying again.

She finally finds the courage to respond,
"No, it's not that, the only person who ever hurt me was myself."
What does she mean by that?
"Life is determined by the conditions you were born in, and the people who have made a place for you in their own lives."

She stops for a few solemn moments,
"It's why I wanted you to have the place that I never had."

I can feel her hand trembling on top of my own.

>Press the question further
>Change topics
>Interject another question

>>33516319
>>Press the question further
Is this about school being a place to make friends? Because I made friends, that happen to be magic. Is that a problem? Did I make the wrong friends?

>>33516319
>Interject another question
The "Do you know what that thing that attacked me was?" question

>>33516319
>Press the question further
Mom is still being cryptic even now, huh.
I'm never gonna remember her name.

>>33516356
I should have clarified, that's the 'change topic' choice.

>>33516319
>Press the question further
>Okay...what about the thing that attacked me, can you tell me something about that?

>>33516319

>Press the question further
It came after us and there is nothing anyone can do about that, So we need to know what is going on and how to deal with it.

>>33516378
Her name is in most of the filenames of this thread: Izumi.

This helps for a lot of characters.

>Press the question further
Attack talk later. Mom talk now.
>>33516348
Yes, ask if we did something wrong by making friends with them.

>>33516385
ah, then
>Change Topic

>>33516348
Yeah, let's ask about this.

>Talk some more about Mom sadness (but not much more)
>That thing we saw this morning

If good, then

>writing

>>33516319
>>Press the question further
What actually happened in the past? It sounds like she lost and was forced into her current state.

>>33516465
>>33516348
Oh right, and this too

>writing after a short break

>>33516513
Looking forward to it!

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The place that she never had.

"Is this about school being a place to make friends? I made some friends!"
Her hand tightens slightly
"Did I make the wrong friends?"
Her hand tightens again

Mom interrupts, "No, I don't want you to ever think that. I'm very happy with your friends, and I am so thankful that you've found them."

She continues, "When you mentioned being attacked on your way to school, it felt like I had completely failed you as a mother. Like the one goal that I had, to keep you safe in your own world, had been completely shattered."

I can feel her hand loosen around mine slightly. One of the flowers in the garden sheds a small pedal.

"Which is why, even though I'm having problems expressing it." She pauses, "I am so happy that you have found friends who have the strength to do what I can't."
"I don't really know what it means to use magic to protect, I can only remember using it to hurt."

I think she's crying again, much more softly this time than the last.

[1/?]

Slight break

>>33517091
It's like she wants us to hug!

>>33517118
>Break mid-update
Suffering

>>33517198
I've never stopped wanting to hug her.

>>33517254
Me neither, me neither.

>>33517091
She should be happy that we used the card to protect someone, then. Yay!

I think we should mention the second attack and us transforming before getting into who sent the things. The black card would make a good transition.

>>33517091
>"I don't really know what it means to use magic to protect, I can only remember using it to hurt."
That's not true at all! She used it to protect card-lady!


>She interrupts the crying, "I wanted to give you a part of me that I had been saving for a long time. That your mother had saved for me for a long time."
>She continues through the sobs, "I don't want it anymore, I've held on to it for too long. Living like this, in this place, is not living at all. I want to give this gift to someone who still has something to live for."
>"It's yours now, please take good care of it, Masami, right? Is that the name you've chosen for yourself?"

>>33517394
We should talk to mom about her, but I'm not sure when is a good idea. Immediately? In its place in chronological re-telling of our day? After asking her out about her pas?

>>33517453
I think we've gotten as much about her past as we're going to tonight. I don't think any of us want another exposition dump like we got from the Ryouta.

>>33517510
If it's got crying and hugging I don't mind...
We should definitely bring up card lady though.

Back

>Writing

>>33518330
Warm waiting!

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>>33517091
I put my arms around her waist and tug, she doesn't get to be sad when she's around me.

Mom's stiff posture loosens up some, slowly she leans her head onto mine, her once firm grip on my hand becoming only a light touch.

"Um. The rest of my day was good, other than that." I need to brighten the mood some

"I met some of the student council, got a tour of the school, and, uh"
What else happened to me today that did not involve magic nonsense
"I helped solve a mystery involving stolen props from the theatre!"
Yes, perfect.

She doesn't say anything, she merely rests her head against mine and enjoys the company that we're sharing.
Maybe I should ask how her day was?

She interrupts that thought
"Can you tell me about the thing that attacked this morning?"

>Tell her everything
>Gradually mention that you fought it twice, then about the transformation
>Tell her about the card, and then the transformation.
>Just tell her that a monster attacked, nothing more

>>33519081
>Gradually mention that you fought it twice, then about the transformation
I like this, get the monster attacks done with then talk about the card.

>>33519081
>Gradually mention that you fought it twice, then about the transformation
>Tell her everything

>>33519081
>>Gradually mention that you fought it twice, then about the transformation

>>33519081
Ah! I was just about to wonder if you were kill, OP

>Tell her everything

Brocookie, that thing was crazy and we're a magical girl or something.
We don't get to not tell mum what happened.

>>33519081
>Gradually mention that you fought it twice, then about the transformation

>>33519081
>Tell her everything
She needs to know.

>>33519081
>Tell her everything
No holding back from mom. Maybe we can cure her annoying crypticness through leading by example.

>Start with talking about fighting it twice, and then about the transformation
>But tell her everything about it, leave no detail out

Sound good?

>writing

>>33519327
Yep, gotta relay it all.

>>33519081
>>Gradually mention that you fought it twice, then about the transformation

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I need to let her know everything about it, but I can't tell her too much in such a short time, she may be frightened.

"This morning, on the way to school, it confronted me. It wasn't looking for a fight, it wanted me to come with him."

She perks her head up at this,
"It wanted you to go with him? To where?"
"He told me, that I needed to go back to Fortune, that there was someone there that wanted to meet me."

Her hands are now wringing against each other.

Now they have both balled into a fist.

"I didn't think-" she suddenly stops herself mid-sentence, I'm not sure why.

[1/?]

>>33519788
Rub her back or grab her hands or something to calm her down, we should tell her everything that happened before getting answers. It just makes things jumbled.

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>>33519788
I feel like mommy's gonna kill 'daddy'

>>33520039
Good riddance, but we still gotta stop her. No more killing!

>>33520048
Now we're thinking like a magical girl!

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>>33519788
"Who was this person, anyway? Was he driving an SUV? Did you report him to the school?" She asks

Wait, she doesn't know it wasn't human?

"It wasn't a person, it was a monster. It tried to attack Aiko and I later when we were in the school theatre, but."
She cuts me off, "I thought you said the boy destroyed it?"
I finish my thought, "But it isn't human, it was something that had possessed a set of armor from the theatre. When the boy destroyed it, it just came back for another set of armor."

She looks really worried now,
"Are you sure it wasn't just a really quick person wearing the armor?"
"Yes, Mom, I'm certain. When it came back a second time, I defeated it."

She looks wide-eyed at me. Before suddenly tugging me into a hug.
"Please, please don't ever do something like that again. What if it really did want to hurt you? What would have happened? Would you have been taken away from me??!"

Uh oh, she's crying again.

>>33520081
Awww mom, you gotta get a little bit of a grip until we finish the story!

>>33520081
I'm starting to seriously wonder how Mom got through the years it took for us to show up without killing herself.

>>33520081
Mom please, you're the adult here. You're not supposed to cry more than your child.

>>33520081
Mom is 2cute.

>>33520174
I figure she had a goal (maybe it was us, maybe something else) to work towards to stave off depression, and nobody to worry about save herself. Might be enough.

>>33520307
As long as she doesn't do it when shit is actually in the process of fan-hitting, but keeps it to family moments, I find it endearing.

>>33520081
Mom needs to stop crying. Fo' real, she's bringing me down.

Also, she's probably dehydrated at this point. Can we get her some water?

>>33520339
Weren't we crying when shit was hitting the fan? I don't think she can be counted on when she isn't using magic to get a confidence boost, just like us.

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>>33520081
"It's fine Mom, really. It's fine, I'm fine, see?"

This isn't helping her any.

"Look, when I destroyed it, I found what was controlling its body, it's a card. Just like the one you gave to me."
I'm barely able to slide my hand out of her vice grip and into my pocket, where I take out the black-marked card and present it to her.

Mom keeps her hold on me for a few more minutes before letting go to inspect the card.

The card is fumbled with inquisitively, rotating it around onto its side and examining the black mark across it. She rubs her fingers on it, tries polishing it on her clothes, with nothing happening. The black mark is still there.

She tries concentrating on it for a minute, the edges of the card glow with the same energy that she showed me before, but the black mark quickly devours any kind of power that she puts into it.

Her hands give up, she rests the card on her lap,
"This is definitely one of Fortune's cards, maybe even a card that I helped make. Yet, I've never seen a card used in this way. I have no idea how it would even function by itself like this. It's like a hollow, empty shell of the cards that I've used before. I can't even feel the presence of anything inside."

She holds it up to the light, even the light that should shine through the card is completely swallowed whole by the black stain in the center of it.

>Ask about the cards some more
>Tell her about the transformation
>Other

>>33520374
Sure, but we are still a kid.
I fully expect mom's protective instincts to take over in case of a fight.

>>33520415
>Ask about the cards some more

>>33520415
>Tell her about the transformation
All about it.

>>33520415
>>Tell her about the transformation

>>33520415
>Tell her about the transformation

We've skirted around that enough. And talking about card-lady leads into asking about the cards.

>>33520444
Mom is barely more than a kid, between trauma, no socialization with friends, and being way too into her job.

>>33520415
>Ask about the cards some more
maybe bring the subject to our card, who was inside and our transformation later

>>33520415
>>Tell her about the transformation

Aiko being attacked, glowy card, the conversation we had, how it felt, and how the monster was dealt with by Aiko. All of it.

>>33520477
Eh, I think it's too soon to say for sure how childlike/mature she is. Besides, it varies by situation - she seems to handle emotional stuff like this kinda bad, but she was incredibly patient with us in thread one, hardly child-like.

>>33520415
Ask her about when we called her workplace and got told she didn't work there.

>>33520415
>>Tell her about the transformation

>>33520415
Seconding
>>33520530
>this

That was freakin' weird.

>>33520515
>she was incredibly patient with us in thread one
That was before we had really characterized Masami, and thus the woman she was cloned from.

Okay, so

>ask (very briefly) another question about the card
>ask why Fortune didn't have her in the company phonebook
>Tell her about the transformation

>writing!

>>33520638
Tell her about the transformation in detail, definitely. Especially our convo with card lady.

>>33520638
You're really good about reconciling votes. It's a nice change from whatever has the most votes winning no compromises.

>>33520614
I see were you're coming from but disagree on your conclusion: that was when we started characterizing Masami, but I don't see any reason why what happened in that thread would be defunct just because we didn't finish there. Admittedly both we and mom feel very different right now, but still.

>>33520687
Thanks! It's something I really want to focus on because I don't like winner-take-all systems, either.

>still writing!

>>33520723
I get the feeling that the issue now is that she's feeling exposed - via us - and helpless, whereas in thread one she was in control and actively doing something.

>>33520804
Yeah, that's my thinking. Staying calm and collected was the smart thing, and she wasn't as invested in us yet either. I could also easily imagine her as someone with a good grip on her emotions in a professional setting, but open in private.

>>33520848
>she wasn't as invested in us yet either
She had nine months to get invested. The rest of your post is great, but I don't think lack of investment was what caused that.

>>33520921
There's a difference between knowing you're getting a daughter, and actually meeting her. I fully expect the weight and simple reality of the situation had not yet hit home for her at the time we were crawling around in the roof and chatting.

>>33520969
Also, that was probably freakin' adorable.

>>33521195
Hmmm, well from her position I expect it was, or at least would be if she wasn't terrified we'd continue distrusting her strongly.

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"Mom, what do you mean by not feeling anything inside?"
"It's really difficult to explain how the cards are made, but the cards themselves are supposed to contain an audible sense of affection. This is completely different, it's like it doesn't even exist, yet, I'm holding it."

She hands the card back to me, I'll ask one more thing about it.
"The card seemed to be able to merge with flat surfaces, the face in the mirror at the office, the face that was chasing me around, it was like it could melt right into the ground. How did it do that?"
Her mind wanders for a minute before she responds, "I really don't know, unless I know how the card was made. Even then it's iffy if I would be able to."

Great, neither of us know how it works.

"I tried calling you about it at your office, but the secretary said she didn't know you."
"Didn't know me?"
She snaps her fingers,
"Oh! Right, when contacting people on a certain floor, if you don't know their extension, then they play dumb, because those floors are kind of a secret to begin with." She says, smiling a little.

I'm glad she takes pride in her work, but does it really have to be so difficult and convoluted?

Maybe she knows how the other card she gave me works. I should ask her about that.

[1/?]

Uh oh, Super Hero time just started, let's see if I can juggle both at the same time!

>>33521302
I wouldn't blame you in the slightest if you wanted to devote your full attention to SHT. I know it's what I'm doing.

>>33521244
>Sorry kid, but I can't let you talk to your mom who you obviously know works here because what she does is a secret.

That is the SHADIEST THING.

>>33521393
Not really. If they were really their parent's kid, they'd know the secret password.

>>33521422
Just needing the password is what's shady, though.

There's obviously some gnarly shit going down at Fortune, and it's like they're TRYING to be suspicious as hell about it.

>>33521520
Uh, yeah? They research magic. Most people do not know about magic. I don't see anything shady about them keeping the magic research floor and people who work on it secret.

The fact that Mom doesn't know anything about the black cards definitely is shady as fuck, though.

>>33521563
Can we just agree that this whole deal is super-shady?

Like, 'don't bother sitting under a tree because you're already in the shade' shady.

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>I'm still writing, I swear

Uh oh, it's the melonbowl fallout episode, can I really miss this?

Why is Micchy such a shit?

>>33521833
D'awwww

>>33521893
Multitask

>>33521893
Depends on if you know enough moon to follow it properly.

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>>33521244
"Um. Mom. I want to talk about HOW I defeated that monster."
Her face looks slightly more worried, but not by much.

"You see, I-"
She cuts me off, "Did you use the card I gave you?"
She shows a hint of worry, mixed with some sorrow in her eyes.
I try to explain, but I'm suddenly at a loss for words.

We sit in silence for a few minutes. Watching the butterflies and bees in the garden. They hop from flower to flower, dancing across the petals and the leaves.

Mom breaks the silence between us,
"What did she say?"

>Pick any that you want to say

>What did who say?
>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own
>That she would always love you
>I don't really remember or what it meant, but it felt really frilly by the time I left.

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>>33522220
>She was lending me her place until I found my own

"She was nice, but I got the sense...she wasn't sad to leave? She must have been there a long time..."

>>33522220
>That she would always love you
>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own

>>33522220
>>That she would always love you
She told me to protect you, and I will.

>>33522220
>That she would always love you
>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own
>I don't really remember what it meant, but it felt really frilly by the time I left.

Was she mom's sister? Girlfriend? Cousin? Mother? Daughter?
We must know!

>>33522275
This

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Also not related.

But this guy, man

This fuckin' guy.

>>33522220
>That she would always love you

>>33522220
>>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own
>>That she would always love you
>That she would trade the whole world to hug you one more time

>>33522220
>>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own
>>That she would always love you
Brace for tears. So many tears.

>>33522220
this: >>33522313

>>33522220
>>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own
>>That she would always love you

>>33522313
Oooh, I like the added part here. Mom's probably cried out already anyway, right? Who am I kidding.

So

>That she was lending me her place to stay for a while, until I found my own
>That she would always love you
>That she would trade the whole world to hug you one more time

>Also everything was frilly and soft

Sound good?

If so,
>writing!

>>33522479
yup

>>33522479
Sure!

>>33522479
If we don't show her the outfit, this will be an abject failure.

Just sayin'

>>33522479
Ask her name too. She couldn't remember. Said it was Just and we named her Haruko.

Still here, sorry for the delay

>writing still

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I sit back and think intently on this.

I don't know who Haruka was, or where she came from, or how she knew Mom. What I do know is that she was a very kind, gentle person who held more love for Mom than I could possibly imagine.

I need to tell her gently that she's gone, and that they may never meet again.
Well, if they want to be cryptic toward me, maybe I can do the same to them.

"She told me," I stop for a minute, it's hard to come up words on teh fly like this.
"She told me that she was going to lend me her place to stay." I pause for a minute to gauge her reaction so far, she's..smiling?
"She told me that she wouldn't be needing it anymore, so I could use it until I found a place of my own."

I still don't know what that means entirely. I hope Mom knows what it means.

[1/?]

>>33523833
Sadness incoming?

>>33523833
>I need to tell her gently that she's gone, and that they may never meet again.
Not if we have anything to say about it.

>>33523833
Too cliffhanger. Leaving us hanging is a breach of human rights!

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>>33523833
"She also told me, that she would always love you, and that she would always love both of us. And that, she would give the whole world to hug you one last time."

She looks down, and then back at me, her smile is a very light
"I think- " She hesitates, "I think this is how she would have wanted it."
"I haven't really visited her in a very long time, I didn't even know how she was still hanging on. She hasn't really talked to me much the past few years."

She continues, her eyes are welling up, but her smile remains strong,
"She was always like my best friend that I hadn't spoken to in a long time. If I saw her again, I'm not even sure what I could say. In a way, I'm really glad you were the one who met her last."

A tear begins to roll down her face, her smile is still strong.

I need to ask something important,
"When she left, I promised that I would see her again, do you think it's possible that I ever will?"

She leans back, and looks thoughtfullt up at the ceiling. She's still smiling, even though the tears are continuing to roll down her face slowly.

Great, now I feel it happening to me, too.

[2/?]

>>33524283
Mom is a terrible friend. Good to know.

>>33524283
Crying session in full force!

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>>33524283
"Of course. I have no doubt in my mind that you can. She's only lending you her place to stay. There will come a time when you'll have to give it back to her." She says, hope welling in her eyes.

My arms wrap around her again, I can't tell if she's being truthful, or if she's simply made peace with her friend, or if this is something that she has accepted as being inevitable long ago.

I keep hearing that phrase, 'finding my own place'. I don't know what it means at all. I kind of want to ask, but this is already awkward enough.

She interrupts my train of thought,
"Why don't you show me the place that you're borrowing from her?"

I stand up, walk out away from the doorway a few paces. Then I hold the card, her card, in my hand.

I picture in my mind the soft, warm embrace that I felt when I said goodbye to her, the crying, the words of encouragement, and how I promised to meet her again someday.

Slowly, the light from her card embraces me again.

[3/?]

>>33524653
Oh boy, transformation time!

>>33524653
>"Why don't you show me the place that you're borrowing rom her?"
This is the most something way to ask to see someone's henshin I've ever heard.

>>33524708
Adorable?

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>>33524653
What?
Oh come on
No stop
NO STOP THAT TICKLES,
This is ridiculous, NOW MOM IS DOING IT, TOO.

She walks around me, poking and prodding the buttons and the ribbons, she adjusts the collar on my outfit, straightens the shoulders out to better fit my form, now she's buttoning some of the buttons.

She reaches down and PULLS UP MY SHIRT, SERIOUSLY, MOM QUIT IT, to adjust my dress. I practically punch the fabric back down to my midriff.
"MOM!"

"You look so good like this! Though it doesn't really fit you very well, she was more filled out around the ches-"
"That's enough!"
"Also your socks are crooked, I think the entirety of your underwear is off-angle."
You better not flip my skirt to fix it.
"Here, raise your arms in the air an I'll adjust your bra-"
"MOM I'M FINE"

SERIOUSLY, WHY DOES EVERYONE DO THIS?

>Okay that's enough
>Back to the topic at hand!
>Might as well let her fix my outfit now
>Talk to her about some of this?!

>>33524786
>Get advice on how to wear the outfit well
Seriously now. Then
>Talk to her about some of this?!

>>33524786
This is going to be so damn awkward when the enemies start doing it.

>>33524786
Hahahah

>>Might as well let her fix my outfit now
>>Talk to her about some of this?!
Tell her about the Ryouta infodump.

>>33524786
>>Back to the topic at hand!
>>Might as well let her fix my outfit now
We can definitly do both, maybe fxing the outfit calms her down enough to ask some more questions.

>>33524786
>Might as well let her fix my outfit now
>Back to the topic at hand!

>>33524786
I had to stop and reread that for a second there.
I've been reading to much erp.

>>33524786
>Might as well let her fix my outfit now

Make embarrassed grumbling sounds.

>>33524817
Also adorable. But maybe the enemies will be more male/agender and thus less likely to have the urge.

>>33524786
>>Might as well let her fix my outfit now
>>Talk to her about some of this?!
Calming frills.

>>33524817
We're going to be so cute that they'll all want to take us home.

>>33524817
It's the ultimate defense against dark magical girls

>>33524900
Mom won't let them. Neither will Aiko or Mae for that matter.

>>33524900
But they already do

>>33524928
We'll combine the ultimate defense with the ultimate offense: Befriending.

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>>33525014

Okay so

>Might as well let her fix my outfit now
>Also some light complaining and grumbling
>Then back to the topic at hand!

also I'm noticing that I'm slowing down a whole lot, so I'll try to make my next post the last one of the night.

>>33525014
>>33525113
Truly the ultimate power

>>33525312
Alright, I gotta go sleep now anyway. Thanks for running!

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>>33524786
"Mom! what are you doing now?"
"Your sleeves aren't aligned right, so I'm having to really fix these ribbons to match your arms, they just look baggy now."

I audibly grumple a bit, armed outstretched, pout.

"Why do you have to lose yourself every time I get a new outfit of some kind, Mom? "
"Because they make you look so cute, I want you to be the most adorable that you can be, no matter what you're wearing."

And I walked right into that one.

I stand perfectly still as she adjusts, ties, unties, readjusts, and tries to even out the wrinkles in my outfit as best as possible.

Eventually, she steps back
"All done! You look amazing!"
"...Thanks Mom."
I don't want to admit it, but I am really happy that she cares enough to do these little things for me that I can't do myself.

She giggles, "You're blushing."
"I AM NOT!" I immediately snap back, this only makes her laugh even harder.

Is there anything I can do that isn't cute to her?

"Um, so anyway. About how I beat that monster. I was wearing this outfit, when suddenly, he reached over to me and just, disintegrated."
"Oh?" Mom says, she looks kind of confused by my wording, "Did you do anything to cause that?"

"No, no I really didn't, it was more like the light just ate him."

She stand there looking dumbfounded. The garden still sings with the buzzing of bees, chirping of birds, and the clicking of insects.

She doesn't seem to be coming to a conclusion just yet, instead looking thoughtful as we gaze around the garden.

Is there anyone who knows how this stuff works?

Thread End.

>>33526017
Apparently not!
Thanks for running!

Okay, sorry about not getting the day done. I'm really feeling myself getting tired now.

I'm bordering Princess Guard levels of being trapped in days that never end, but at the same time, this is an emotional day that I think deserves more proper attention than I can give it right now.

Questions about the card and how all of it relates to Masami will resume next thread, which will hopefully finish up the day and maybe even get a head start on tomorrow!

Until I get too tired to type, Q&A.

Of course, also the magic question, How was it?

>>33526057
thanks for running!

>>33526057
So, if I recall correctly, we are going to be able to 'name' that card we have right?

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>>33526109
Of course

Maybe very soon, too!

Also, archived in case I fall asleep before I do. Anyone who wants to follow can still find me at
http://twitter.com/QM_CardHeart

>>33526017
>>33526057
Thanks for running!

It's cute.
Cute, and boring.
Yet still I follow.

I don't even know what I think, OP.

Maybe try to skip some conversations- recaps especially- in the future?

Like, instead of writing out explaining what happened, giving an option for the way we describe it and the person's general reaction?

I'm worried we're never going to get anywhere, Captain.

>>33526057
Thanks for running!

>>33526175
>Cute, and boring.
>Maybe try to skip some conversations- recaps especially- in the future?

Would you believe, that when I started thread 1, I wanted it to be an action-oriented quest?

It's really slow and boring, and I know that it's mostly my fault for keeping it that way. I'm hoping to escape the rut soon as we get some familiarity with the world and enter the really crazy stuff that I can hopefully introduce without inducing pacing whiplash to all of you.

I'm tempted to not even finish this day proper and instead skip to the next day, because I'm not entirely sure how many more threads of this snail pace that I string you all along for.

Once again, thank you for putting up with it for as long as you all have. I'm sorry that we're 10 threads in and only have 2 cards, 1 of yet isn't usable at the moment.

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>>33526057
Thanks for running.

>>33526242
Well, I'm enjoying it, though I will admit this does feel like the set up arc, just don't go too crazy.
Anyway, thank you for running.

>>33526242
At least we are a magical girl now, it only took 7 threads.

Also, thanks for providing our dose of crying schoolgirls.

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>>33526242
And if anyone has any ideas to improve the pacing, I'm willing to experiment at this point because I said the same thing, I believe three or four threads ago, and still haven't escaped the conversation barrage we're in.

I may swap to doing paraphrasing of events instead of step-by-step conversations with characters, even though I've never had a strong flavor for them in some quests that I read due to some of them not keeping a fair frame of reference for the player when they do that skip.

Originally I was wanting to have it where 1 day = 1 thread = 1 episode. Then I could finish by thread 49. Right now it barely feels like I've left the introduction arc, so I've been trying to think of ways to get things moving without passing on a sense of skipping important events to you, the players.

I'm also worried that if I do big changes of pace now, the players that enjoy the slow, laid-back pace that it's going right now may feel like I've sold them out for simply enjoying magical girl SoL.

What do you, the players, think of that? I'm doing this for myself because I enjoy Magical Girls, but at the same time, I recognize that it's not going to go anywhere unless I give it a jump-start. Especially with the story I had in mind that was originally going to span multiple quests!

>>33526341
well, a lot of the thread is us voting for what we say is the obvious choice. While you don't have to go completely railroad, you could probably have more expanded conversations than blow by blow us voting for our next comment.

I'd like if this sped up a bit.

>>33526341
>the players that enjoy the slow, laid-back pace that it's going right now may feel like I've sold them out for simply enjoying magical girl SoL.
I don't mind if you speed up by summarizing events. Even though I like slow-paced things, this speed is simply too slow.

>>33526242
As long as we're actually going somewhere, I'm peachy.

I just know that it's hard to tell if it's okay to skip things or not sometimes.

I'd be more concerned about giving the characters whiplash, though, if I were you.

Here we are being all sappy and stuff, I'm kinda doubting we can get down to business and shoot stuff with lasers or whatever when the time comes.

>Captcha: judges ereywom

If we do have a Dark Magical Girl rival-person, I hope she doesn't like hitting cute little girls or somesuch.

>>33526341
I doubt the anyone will mind if the balance of Magical Girl and SoL tilts a bit more towards the Magical Girl side than it is now.

Also,
>49 threads
That sounds like a bad idea. Upping the pace a little and strapping a rocket to the pace are two entirely different things.

>>33526341
Drawn out or not but conversations like this are important. It might help if mom would be a bit more straightforward with the exposition, even though the crying and hugging was cute, it did interrupt the actual purpose of the conversation.
You definitly need a clearer focus on what each conversation needs to contain in information.
Otherwise I think we will get a better pace once we have gotten our explanation on how stuff basically works and can get to the active Episode/Monsterfight.

>>33526414
I'll keep that in mind

>>33526403
>I doubt the anyone will mind if the balance of Magical Girl and SoL tilts a bit more towards the Magical Girl side than it is now.

Same, maybe I'll do a quick finish-up of this day and hop right to the next day next thread, then.

>>33526398
Agreed.

>>33526396
I think everyone feels that way right now.

Sorry for the slow pace everyone, I'll definitely make steps to improve it from here on out. Thank you for your input.

>>33526341
Nothing wrong with some world and character building. The pace can pick up safely afterwards. Mood whiplash when fighting can be seen as being partially possessed by the cards.

>>33526480
>Same, maybe I'll do a quick finish-up of this day and hop right to the next day next thread, then.
I suppose so. All I can think of to ask about is magic lessons and WHY FORTUNE TARGETTING KIDS, and judging from her reaction to the black card I'm not expecting her to know anything about the latter.

>>33526341
i don't mind the current pacing, and i'm patiently waiting for some major HAPPENING

>>33526490
>Nothing wrong with some world and character building.
I've been dwelling on it a bit thick, I hope most of my players don't run away before I can correct this!

>>33526529
>I suppose so.

It won't be that quick, but what I was thinking is skipping right to something I wanted to happen in this garden instead of dwelling here much longer. Originally the garden was going to be loaded with flavor text, but I can wait to do that during another visit to the garden.

Skipping to the next day and finding new trouble may answer those other questions!

>>33526531
And I thank each and every one of you for being so patient with me on this.

>>33526607
>I've been dwelling on it a bit thick, I hope most of my players don't run away before I can correct this!
The thing is, this isn't bad pacing for a story! If we weren't being prompted for decisions and reading as you write, it would feel much faster for everyone.

But we are, so something's gotta give.

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>>33526759
That was my feeling on it, that it was an experimental way to run the quest where I take every important decision at the player's discretion and take every possible choice into account in my write-up.

But, a bit of a QM to player heart to heart here: What I'm worried that I'm doing right now is revealing too much at once which has resulted in an extremely boring train of exposition without anything to put it in context. There is currently lots of explanation, but not very much context, because the last 3-4 threads were talking and not much doing. I haven't created any context for these plot points at all.

So I'm worried later, when the action starts and everything I've said so far starts to make some kind of sense in context, the context it's in will be reduced, because no one is going to remember these threads down to the letter, and the content in them isn't going to be as powerful without the context that the story will hopefully bring.

I know this is super-meta for a QM to be talking about, but it's something that I really feel that I haven't done the best of job in doing. And I don't want it to seriously damage player's enjoyment of the story later when all of this is put into context, if I even do that part correctly, and all the disjointed hints I'm dropping make sense in hindsight.

>>33526889
Trust your players, OP. They're more tolerant than I ever expected. As long as you have the context somewhere, and you can answer 'why' afterwards, then it's fine.

hell, my players went through two plots/plans in one update the other day, and they didn't so much as bat an eyelash at my 'big reveal', even though I hadn't gotten to do all of the hinting and foreshadowing I wanted to do. As long as you can explain, it's fine.

>>33526889
>typos in the first thread
>feeling of aimlessness
>this post
Well, this is probably the biggest turnaround in my opinion of a QM ever.

>>33526889
I see it as you investing time into developing the other characters we will be associating with in your story. Nothing wrong with extra speculation fuel provided the context happens.

I want to know why Mom doesn't know jack shit about anything despite being a magic researcher.

What the hell was she studying?

>>33526983
>As long as you have the context somewhere, and you can answer 'why' afterwards, then it's fine.

I'm going to find out for myself, so I certainly hope so!

>>33527024
Thank you!

>>33527199
My concern past this point is doing the context correctly, hopefully I'll get practice for doing so next thread.

Anyway, I'm off to bed, thank you everyone for your input!

>>33527341
Only what fortune allowed her to study.

>>33527453
But she's one of the bosses of Fortune!!