>>34163574

You feel nervous, the back of your chair sits on the edge of a deep chasm. She can’t know how anxious you are to get away from this spot. The yawning expanse inhales and exhales slowly, as though alive, warm breath and looming hunger condense against your spine as sweat. It knows. It knows you and your secrets, and it will have you.

There isn't any further into the table you could lean. You sit so closely to Mikage, how is there even a table between you?

“It midway through our first year of Junior High, I was still rough around the edges and she had just transferred into our school,” you reminisce and carefully sip your drink.

Tilting back, you pray this doesn't affect the brittle ground behind you.

~That’s right, you were a bit of a tomboy and a delinquent back then,~ she smirks and pulls a cut ring of strawberry from her drink with a straw.

“Yeah, and unluckily for her she was eating lunch at my favorite spot on the roof. I started shit and it persisted for about a week,” you regret, “home was hard...and this was after my dad gave up looking for my mother. They found her car in Aokigahara the previous year, but we never found her,”

The memory shines in the pit behind you. Twisting wood, filtered columns of sunlight through dense foliage. Walking beside father and other family members. Flashlights coming to life as the sun set.

“So I drove away my friends,” you sigh and sip your tea, “I drove people away from me and the places I spent time in. She wouldn't budge, Keiko, we got into a fights about it until I found her behind the phys ed equipment shed.”

~I think I remember after you two stopped fighting. You grew out your hair, but still smoked in the bathroom and got into fights with other kids,~ she muses.

>>34163644

“She was hugging her knees and talking to herself. Repeating that she didn’t want to hurt anyone, or that she didn’t want to feel so worthless. She had one of the biology class’s scalpels...she’d thrown it into the shed wall, and she was bleeding from a nick on the edge of her wrist,”

The pink haired girl is quiet. Her eyes look through you with a certain sadness.

~So you sat with her,~ she doesn’t ask, its more certain than that.

Rising beneath a wave from the pit are the leviathan memories. The defining moment when you and Keiko became friends. You stop witnessing it as a projection.

“Come on, you aren’t worthless,” you force a smile, because you don’t want to see someone give up on themselves like mom did. Taking out a handkerchief you tie it around her wrist, “You’re one of the only fun one here, everyone else just ignores me or gets out of my way,”

Time moves. You listen to her problems, her confession about the voice. She listens to you about your mother. You help each other, she becomes someone you hang out with. Though you remain athletic and involved in track and field, you start getting interested in fashion and wear something other than old t-shirts when not at school. She gives you confidence and home gets brighter; the energy is infectious, dad isn’t as sad. If Keiko hadn’t tried to help you out of your own shell for listening to her, you would have never found Ganguro fashion.

~Tell me more about her,~ she asks as she takes a prim bite from the softball sized strawberry in her hand.

Red juice and pulp slide down her fingers, the fragrant scent of strawberries invades your being. Its so close, you can almost taste the sweet red as it pools on the table and in her palm.

>>34163658

“She’s easy to like,” you smile, “Most people do, that’s how she got so popular. When we got to highschool, everyone wanted to be her friend, but she was mi- my friend first. She pulled me up beside her, and I joined the fashion circle in part because I was a bit jealous of all the attention she got,”

Pouring yourself more green tea from the iron pot, you wonder if it tastes the same outside of this dream. Not to say that it tastes wrong...just different.

“And when she needed it,” you sip while wistfully remembering, “I listened to her. About the voice and things she couldn’t tell anyone else,”

You look into your empty cup, the leaves form a malevolent face.

“She’s been hurting her for so long,” you resolve, “I want to save her,”

Mikage stands and bumps into the table. This little act knocks you over the edge and into the gaping maw of the pit. She watches from above, not at you but at the sea of blue and green dominating the sky in a progressing wave.

The water crashes down around you once the mouth of the pit is a distant pinprick of light. You’ve returned, if momentarily, to your own dream. Before Mikage pulled you to her vanity.

From here you see the outline of the boat above, you jumped into the water, Keiko is somewhere below, getting dragged into the depths. You sink as well, fast, but she is just out of reach. Sunlight refracts and reflects across the surface as it is broken. Straight blonde tresses spread out amid the strange dance of gravity and buoyancy in the water. She dove in after you, her eyes momentarily frantic to find sight of you as the makeup melts off of your face. She swims to you, toward the current that’s caught you and Keiko.

Keiko sinks deeper, her black hair becoming invisible against the darkness of the sea. So close, you're so close as your fingers brush against hers.

>>34163705

There is no purchase to be found. You are afraid as she screams to you, bubbles rising in a flurry around your struggling body. There isn’t enough air as your lungs burn.

Above, Miki reaches for you, makeup running from her face revealing a faceless pale plane that reaches and calls out for you all the same. As much as you’ve known this beautiful girl who tells you not to feel guilty about the things you say, she’s always been empty to you beyond the makeup. You’ve never seen the person behind. Who is she?

Below, Keiko struggles against the darkness. The sea giving way to a twisting forest floor and eerie glowing smile taking over her face as pieces of her skin flake away to reveal a woman you’ve never seen. The portions of your friend’s expression that remain are fearful. The pieces of the woman behind your friend’s fracturing face are triumphant.

Above or below. Stuck between you can’t breath. There is air in the forest below. There is air beyond the surf above. Water rushes past your lips, and you begin to drown. Keiko is always falling toward the forest, even if you reach her, she might get lost there. Another lost soul in the shadow of mount Fuji.

A tug at your waist rips you from the water. You can breath as you are surrounded by racks of clothing and before Mikage Chiba and a vanity. She says something, you can only make out the word ‘California’.

You are again walking beside Miki against the sunny tableau of the beach. Before you a black window grows in size at your approach.

“How do we get across it?”

Interlude End

>>34163749

Quest Start
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUYUG14MYmU

Behind you is a warm glass window, floating in mid air. Sunlight streams and dies through this plane as the sunny dream beyond it sets into a waiting canvas for your to paint upon your return. Before you are the ruins from another age, dark skies, and cold winds.

A mountain here has unfolded into a lotus of black metal, its stem a woman clad in a red dress. Her hair is green, her skin is grey, and her eyes burn with searing hatred. She cackles in victory, commanding the sky to storm to rage and jagged crags to erupt from the earth. Her eyes narrow as they catch the warmth that has invaded her darkened demesne.

You are Mikage Chiba, a girl with many faces to hide behind. Now you hide behind the painted face of a girl named Miki, your fashionable ganguro guise. After today though, you may no longer treat it as a guise or a shield but as something you do. Something Mikage Chiba does and enjoys. The implications of doing that, taking away one of your shields from the world, frighten you.

It frightens you perhaps a bit more than the beast before you, slowly turning her perception toward you and the friend who stands beside you, Midori Mori under her fashionable alias as Jade.

Together you stand in the outer edge of the dream of Midori’s friend, Keiko Sugimoto. Keiko has lived her entire life under the unfortunate circumstance of being the reincarnation of a mad sorceress from thousands of years ago, who less than twenty years ago took over the existence of her previous incarnation and tried to conquer the world in the name of a cosmic horror named Metallia.

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>>34163799

Your mother stopped her.

Now you are going to try and stop this sorceress, Beryl, and free Keiko from a past she has had thrust upon her.

You do not see Keiko anywhere.

The towering and monstrous form of Beryl slowly turns to face you from the center of this dreamscape. Your nostrils flare the the enticing scent of the shadowy taint that has given her power enough to become a threat. Shadowy taint that you can free her of to sate the gnawing hunger born of accepting your own inner darkness.

>Grab Jade and hide before she sees you, there is plenty of cover amid these ruins
>Stand your ground, let her see you. Let her know what is coming.
>Write in

>>34163828
>>Grab Jade and hide before she sees you, there is plenty of cover amid these ruins
Its increasingly our idiom.

Only one person here can make a difference facing Beryl and she's not here yet. No point in tipping our hand early.

>>34163828
>Stand your ground, let her see you. Let her know what is coming.

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>>34163828
I'd suggest powering through and charging for Keiko.

But if we get deadlocked, I suppose hide for the moment so we can get closer.

>>34164148
You have not yet seen Keiko.

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>>34163828
>Grab Jade and hide.
We don't look like a threat yet and we need to reach Keiko.

I need a stealth check

>>34164293
That wasn't supposed to post yet, hold on.

Best of 3, 1d20+8. 1s and 20s wild.

Rolled 2 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>34164322

Opposed perception.

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Rolled 7 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>34164293
>>34164322
>This is a stealth mission, Miki.

Rolled 14 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>34164322

Come onnnn /tg/ dice!

Rolled 6 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>34164322
I'm only getting a box called 'Options'. Let's see if this works..

>>34164566
Apparently this change happened three days ago.
Shows how much I use it.

Success

22 vs 7

3 degrees of succes

Writing

Was delayed. Back and tacking away on the keyboard.

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On a random note, is it strange that I picture Hell March as Sasha's Theme, or just very appropriate?

Grabbing Jade’s arm you drag her forward and down, finding cover amid the valley of ruins below. You are absolutely certain that the giant Beryl did not catch sight of you as you look to see sweeping beams of light pass over head. They settle for a moment on where you came from before dashing about erratically side by side.

There is booming laughter, debris and rubble shifts as dust and minute crumbles fall through your own and your friend’s hair. Jade tenses.

“I know you’re here, somewhere,” the voice sounds and rolls through the corridors of collapsed stone and crystal.

Pulling your friend back beneath an overhang of crumbling marble as you catch sight of whipping tendrils of green hair above, you narrowly avoid being caught by the beams as they sweep through the rubble, great fingertips falling over the tip and holding tight a moment before releasing and moving on. Continued sounds and cracks echo for a bit longer.

“I see your doorway,” her deep voice is laced with a sarcastic saccharine glaze, “What do you think you can accomplish here, moon brat? Your sister wields the Imperium Crystal, you’ve come unarmed. Once we’re finished here, all I will need to do is sidle up alongside her on the way to school tomorrow morning. She won’t have the chance to transform, before she knows it I’ll sink my cla-”

She drones on with petty threats of violence and reprisal. They rebound and reverberate through entirety of this place. Jade seethes in anger.

>>34166322
“That’s her,” she whispers, “She’s the one who’s been hurting her, all this time?”

“She’s only been awake recently,” you calm your own breathing, “She, like, was probably just scattered memories of her past lives before. The darkness that is totally ruining my free time and infecting people into releasing their own little id monsters made her totally split off from Keiko,”

“No, she was talking back to something. You saw it in my dreams, right?”

“Yeah, that was wicked weird. Were we having that conversation at the glass or before. I’m not sure I’ve got things in the right order,” you muse before smiling, “I bet that she kept a piece of Metalia with her all this time, that’s what she was arguing with,”

“Okay. Now that we’ve established that, what do we do?” she hisses, “I don’t see Keiko anywhere and she’s like thirty stories tall,”

>We find Keiko first.
>We talk to her in the open.
>We talk to her from behind cover.
>Frontal Assault.
>Time for a Sneak attack
>Write in

>>34166344
>>Time for a Sneak attack

>>34166344
>We find Keiko first.

>>34166344
>>We find Keiko first.
Its her head, she's gotta be in here someplace.

Splitting up might be an idea, though. Beryl seems to be focussed on us.

>>34166322
She thinks she knows things eh? We'll show her a thing or five..

>>34166344
We find Keiko first.
It's important that we help her stand up against this.

>>34166512
If we're splitting up, lend Jade the Shroud of the Eclipse shroud to give her a fighting chance to avoid detection

>>34166620
Someone else's dreamscape is too unpredicable, we should stay together, for both our sakes. We know strange stuff better, she knows Keiko better.

>>34166655
I'm thinking that Jade might have a better chance to find and help Keiko if we pull distraction duty.

>>34166620
I'd rather not split up. Midori's never done this whole dreamscape thing before, sending her off by herself is probably asking for trouble.

>>34166753
Can't ague with the numbers.

Rolled 15 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

Sticking together.

Alright, give me an Insight test 1d20+6

If the above roll totals in more than 10, you gain a +2 bonus from Keiko helping out.

Rolled 16 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>34166864

Rolled 1 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>34166864

>>34166864
Didn't ask for best of three, so just the first roll here right?

>>34166918
Dïïïïïceeeeeeeeee

Rolled 18 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>34166864

>>34166942
Always the best of 3, >>34166942
1s and 20s wild, I repeat those as friendly reminders if I remember to.

>>34166971
Ah well, still like a 9 with Keiko helping, not super bad.

Hopefully Midori is a better guide to Keiko than we are.

We could use Planet Power

That's kind of what we should consider considering who we're fighting and where we are

Is that a call for Planet Power I hear?

The sweet siren call of expending the store of power within yourself and your three remaining Heavenly Kings?

>>34166864
>Keiko helping out
Or was that Midori?
If that's the case, maybe she made her roll and we failed to aid her?

>>34167273
A good point, but as long as she thinks she's got the upper hand we're probably goos

>>34167376

I said what I said. Midori is following your disassociated lead on this.

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>>34167440
[wheedling decreases]

>>34167508
No need to be sad, anon. No need at all.

Still waiting on answers to the call of Planet Power.

>Yes
>No
>Burrito

>>34167549
We got 3 left, right?

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>>34167549
Burrito.
Neither strongly for or against, personally.
I do love burrito though.

>>34167621

8 of your own, 3 from the Shintennou

>>34167621
8/9 personal, 3/3 from Shitennou.

>>34167682
>>34167697

then, is there any reason not to right now?

>>34167549

>Yes

But I must know, what would voting for burrito do? Tell me your secrets, QM.

Rolled 5 (1d6)

Spending Planet Power

dice+1d6

>>34167718
Not really, should be back tomorrow, so wouldn't really hurt.
We need them for this encounter, the midnight meeting, and node investigating. So don't want to go tooo nuts.

14 vs DC 10

No degrees of success.

Writing

>>34167369
Of course! Nothing could go wrong with that here.

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~Then we go find Keiko, of course~ you sigh and wait for the lights to pass overhead before you motion for Midori to follow you, ~If things are going to be set right, Keiko needs a hand in in...or she’s the source...or something,~

Shes rises to follow you through the corridors of rubble and off white columns. After a while you notice fragments of the sky are fallen amid the ruins, visions of the earth from the moon and the opposite in shattered pieces littering the world. After a while, you hear Beryl’s incessant jabs and goads grow distant.

You feel an odd and distant sobbing reverberating through your skull. Its faint, and distant. Focusing your energies, you release a minor pulse of your planetary energy. It tracks across the expanse below until you know vaguely where to run. Grasping Jade’s hand you break out into a run. Sweeping beams of light race across the sky as the Queen laughs.

Breaking down the warped door of a side turned building, you find a bedroom of nightmare pink and looming, terrifying, dolls upon the shelves. There in the corner, pressed against the headboard, is Keiko Sugimoto. Mascara runs down her cheeks and she looks up at your abrupt entrance.

Tears are replaced with with hope.

“Midori! Miki?” she asks questioningly.

>Write in

>>34168585
Hells yes girlfriend, we are here to help you bust that memory's face right in.

>>34168585
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lRTpfyK8uM

Time for rousing words, Bolster!
Bubbly Miki powers, activate!

>>34168585
"My name is Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you."
Ok, probably not that.

Reassure her, get her on her feet, and get ready for throw down.

I'm unsure how to translate into Mikinese though.

Looks like you are going for the bolster. Would you like this bolster to be backed by Deception or by Diplomacy?

Looks like you are going for the bolster. Would you like this bolster to be backed by Deception or by Diplomacy? >>34169284

This was me forgot my trip.

>>34169317
Diplomancy.

>>34169317
While we are awesome at deception, this calls for diplomacy.

>>34169317
Deception.
Getting sick of /tg/ always diplomancing.

>>34169317
Diplomancy. Keiko's not who we're trying to deceive.

>>34169461
We lie on a constant basis.
But there isn't much way for a lie to help bolster her that won't prove a weakness later.
It's a trap option here.

Diplomacy it is. Is there any information you wish to specifically use here as ammunition for the bolster?

Please note I now ask for this roll of 1d20+10 versus the above roll

>>34169461
We're going to be lying about who we are initially, then start pulling out the surprise ammo once Beryl's underestimating us. But this isn't that part.

>>34169566
Thinking about it ya I can kind of see that.

Rolled 17 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>34169642

The die didn't roll for some reason or another.

Curious.

Rolled 1 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>34169642
No strong feelings. Well, none that'll help us right now. Bloodlust is basically always on for me, but that's not a suggestion.

Rollin dem bones.

Rolled 10 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>34169683
Time to fail?

>>34169710
That's it. I quit dice forever.

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>>34169642
>>34169683
Remind her about deciding who she doesn't want to be, give her the Sailor V shirt we brought along for this purpose.
Also, gonna say Planet Power on this one right away. Need all the margin we can get.

Rolled 10 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>34169683
>>34169776
Whoops, forgot my roll.

>>34169751
Well, we've got ammo and Planet Power. So there's that.
Also maybe he won't count it because it links to the one without his roll?

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Rolled 9 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>34169683

Did I hear a call for Planet Power again?

Also, I'm throwing a bone that works thematically well for the scene.

Technically, the basic function of your remaining heavenly kings will be super helpful.

Also

>>34169858
The 1 stands, as it is linking to my post requesting the roll.

>>34169897
That.. is not remotely the image I selected.

>>34169897
That is some Patriotic steak, friend.

>>34169939
True, and that is an image I have, but nowhere near the one I clicked on. Very odd.

>>34169900
Yes! And the Shirt ammo.

Still waiting on more yays or nay's on Planet Power? Believe it or not you are still in this game.

Ah ha, found guide to Miki Speak. Use Buffy speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CykvMePYyNA
Yes, that should do fine.

>>34170164
Fire the Planet Power and full speed ahead!

>>34169710
Hey guys what's go- GOD FUCKING DAMMNIT.

>>34170164
Yay.

>>34170303
Don't panic, it's probably under control!

Nevermind the everything on fire.

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>>34170164

Rolled 5 (1d6)

SPENDING PLANET POWER

Miki: 11+5 Planet Power
Keiko: 21-6 Shintennou Shadow Companions

16 vs 15

EDGED OUT

Rolled 6 + 4 (1d8 + 4)

don't mind this.

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>>34170501
How about the Sailor V shirt?
I mean, this is what we brought it for.

>>34170619
Look at those numbers again and do math. I am excited in your favor.

>>34170619
The Sailor V t-shirt is your ammunition for this bolster, and is the reason it is a d8.

>>34170702
You said not to mind that!

>>34170744
Yes, and you don't need to mind it because it was quite good.

>>34170501
>Shintennou Shadow Companions
She has WHAT

>>34170813
Those are our shadow companions giving her a -6 to her roll.

>>34170839
Thank fuck.

>>34170668
Ah yes, sorry, I forgot that 'ammo' translated to 'damage' not bonuses on the roll. My derp.

~Hell yeah girlfriend!~ you stride across the nightmare of cotton candy clouds and unicorn figurines while drawing the vintage Sailor V t shirt ~You think I’d up and abandon you after giving you that totes relevant advice on choosing who you don’t want to be?~

Your shadow splits and fractures as three figures appear on the bed surrounding Keiko. Jade gasps a bit and Keiko looks at them in frightened surprise. Already, you feel their presence wear away at her resistance to your still coming words and want for help.

“I know you,” she shakes as her eyes fall upon Jadeite, “I killed you,” she whispers in guilt.

Jadeite, for his part, is stern and unflinching. His arms are crossed and he turns away from her. Kunzite stares down at her with something akin to pity. Zoisite with a restrained sadness as he leans into the white haired general’s side.

~No being a gloomy gus. They’re here to help, and SO am I!~ you declare as you thrust the T-shirt into her arms, ~Now get up off of that bed and get into this armor, we’re going to kick your bad memory’s face in,~

>Keiko Sugimoto restored to Max Emotional Wall

Jade shakes herself from her surprise and joins the crowd around Keiko. The makeup slides away from her face as she closes in on her friend and she is again Midori.

“Its okay, Keiko,” she smiles as her friend wipes the streaking black makeup from beneath her eyes with new resolve, “You asked her here to help. We came in together,”

“Wait, Mik-”

~Oh no,~ you stand back and huff, ~That is my awesome reveal and we are not jumping that gun just yet. So, lets talk tactics!~

The two girls share a look, Keiko confused while Midori just nods and sighs. The three heavenly kings seem mildly exasperated and sigh.

>>34171435

“Yeah, the wicked witch will find us before too long…it just feels like we can’t hide forever,” Midori shivers as she places a comforting hand on Keiko’s shoulder.

>We’re going to beat and or magic Beryl’s oversized face in.
>You going to tear her down, make her believe she has no power here, we’ve got your back.
>We’re going to strengthen you against her. You trust me, right? HAHA, finally.
>We’re going to do what teenage girls do to crazy old hags, show her up.
>Write in

>>34171463
>>We’re going to do what teenage girls do to crazy old hags, show her up.
>>We’re going to strengthen you against her. You trust me, right? HAHA, finally.
Both of these, in this order. Because we make wicked robust peachy plans, and they totally work.

>>34171463
>>We’re going to do what teenage girls do to crazy old hags, show her up.
Miki gotta miki

>>34171435
Gonna understand and forgive the shit outta that bitch

>>34171463
No need to hide now, time to stand up and show that hag that she has no power here, now or ever.
Keiko, you are totes stronger than her or any phantom darkness she tries to slather on like concealer for her weakness.
YOU are the strong one here, and it is time she stepped off.

Looks like its time to show that bitch up.

>>34165901
I've gone from Hell March videos to Girl und Panzer AMVs to a documentary on rebuilding a Panther tank.

~Then we aren’t hiding, girls,~ you smile slyly, ~We’re taking it to the streets. We’re going to show your darkness that she’s out of date,~

“What does that even mean,” Keiko grouses as she opens the fluffy pajama top to trade it for the t-shirt you’ve brought her.

~We’re going to beat her with words and showing her you are stronger than your fear,~ chuckle and pull a finger across your lips to test your gloss and color.

“Isn’t she giant and a sorceress?” Midori muses, “Aren’t we past words?”

~If she could have, she would have just started blasting the hell out of this place,~ you correct, ~She’s put way too much energy into trying to goad me into attempting violence. She probably needs aggressive force to open her own floodgates back at us, so we turn that back on her and make her expose her own weakness. Remember, I’ve like done dream stuff before,~

“How many times?” Keiko asks.

~Twice. I beat the crap out of the dark side of a boy who broke my heart and forgave my own grief and guilt. Super cathartic,~ you assure.

“That doesn’t sound like crazy talk at all,” Midori nods firmly and become momentarily pensive. There is something else she wants to say, but holds off, something you feel may be important. Something to push later, “but what the hell. Lets go insult a dark sorceress who destroyed the ea-”

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>>34173228
So, by the power of math, Eclipse = Panther tank.

>>34173302

~Technically that Metallia. This whole thing is just super complicated,~

The three of you rise, and the Shintennou fade back into your shadow as you head to the side turned door. Beyond is the now twisting world of ruin. The sky is almost gone as the far edges of this mismatched landscape fold upward and close around the top. Beryl remains at the lotus center, eyes frantically searching the forming inverted sphere.

You are unphased. Keiko is resolved. Midori is finding her footing.

>Ignore Beryl and talk amongst yourselves, about what?
>Call Beryl out, get her attention. What do you say? (engage in social combat)
>Ugh, this is annoying, lets just nuke her. (magic or mundane?)
>Ugh, this is annoying, this should hasten things. Om nom Keiko.
>write in

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>>34173336
OOOO! I can play this game too!

Wait. I'm not asleep.

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>>34173337
>>Ignore Beryl and talk amongst yourselves, about what?
Nothing pisses off villains like being ignored. Topics, in no particular order: boys, sweets, and fashion.

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>>34173337
>>Ignore Beryl and talk amongst yourselves, about what?
Our armor is impervious to her bitchiness.

Talk about Keiko, and how strong she has been. How Beryl was an jealous outlet for a angry fragment, Metallia, of larger darkness, Chaos. Both defeated, both sent on their way. This spiteful memory has nothing backing it but impotent anger and borrowed shadow.

>>34173413
>>34173558
Could combine in a random dizty teenager sort of way. Just make sure the Beryl bit are talking as if she isn't even there.

Beryl herself likely doesn't have a clue how thoroughly dealt with her patron is.

..Or we could save that as surprise ammo once Beryl is engaged..

Actually, I like the ammo idea more, let's get that loaded in the barrels and ready to go, but just talk about normal stuff for the moment, baffle Beryl with Miki's BS until we hit her with the hard stuff later.

>>34173703
Which is to say, let's lead with >>34173413

Save >>34173558
for taking her down a peg.

>>34171435
>“I killed you,”
English really doesn't have thebtenses to deal with reincarnation

>>34173805
English has a Past Future and a Future Past, among other temporal oddities. I'm sure we could come up with something.

>>34173805
Funnily enough, I think Japanese does.

Old joke from college from friends doing well in Japanese. "Use this form if you are a peasant talking to the emperor. Use this form if you are talking to a ghost. Use this form if you are the ghost talking to the living,"

Oh, writing.

Looks like you're throwing the power of Slice of Life and ignoring someone.

>>34173949
Now we shall form a ruling triumvirate.
Everything shall be peachy.

>>34173949
>the power of Slice of Life
Welp, "Life is about living."

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>>34173949
Remember, the strongest ship is friendship.

>>34173302
>“That doesn’t sound like crazy talk at all,”
The time for fashionable skepticism was BEFORE we were in Keiko's dream.

>>34174716
I figured she was just agreeing with our brilliance.
If not, we just just assume that in-characterly.

>>34174922
Eh, we did take down evil NTR Brony all by our lonesome. We've earned more than a little cockiness.

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>>34175068
How did I find Rule 63 when I wasn't searching for Rule 63? Why is it so perfect?

>>34174951
To be fair, we where never really NTR'd, it just felt like we were, which is only almost as bad.
The other parties had no idea about it..

>>34175146
MADNESS.

>>34175152
Self-NTR is worst NTR.

This kind of thibg is what I mean about English not having the tenses for this quest.

I guess she's sort of our pre-incarnation.

>>34175220
Well, alternate timeline us from the distant future that didn't happen.
Altincarnation?

>>34175220
Temporal-altincarnation

>>34175288
Meant to respond at >>34175270

>>34175146

That was the episode where he was turned into a woman and got to experience all the harassment women have to deal with.

Turning your back to the suddenly looming and laughing features of Beryl. Keiko and Midori look to be bracing themselves while looking forward. With a quick gesture you draw their attention. You feel the pressure of screaming behind you, baiting words and empty threats.

You can’t hear them, because you’ve chosen for them to be unimportant.

~So, like, I need your opinions on some problems I’m having,~ you admit to the girls.

Wait, really? Yes, open up about this. Its a good thing.

“Um, Miki, what about-” Keiko begins to ask before being cut off before Midori.

“You know, Keiko-chan, problems are only as big as you make them,” she says with a sudden and knowing smile, “You were saying, Miki?”

~I’m having some boy trouble,~ you grouse.

Wait, what?

“Wait, what?” Keiko and Midori say in unison.

~There’s a guy I like...totally for superficial reasons even though he’s actually super nice. Except my BFF outside of the group wants to try and ask him out,~ you cross your arms and mock cry, ~And she totally needs this more than I do. Then earlier today I met another guy who is SUPER fucking cute. He’s got the perfect complexion to be a Center Guy. Only he is totally someone I know online and we have a ton of stuff in common...but he didn’t meet me when I was me and I’m kinda apprehensive about the whole thing,~

Midori stares at you a moment in certain shock.

“To be clear. The first two you were talking about were Kairi and Gai, right?” Keiko ventures.

~No dropping the curtain early,~ you fret, ~...and yeah,~

“I’m sorry, I’m still trying to wrap my head around you having boy trouble and being Miki,” Midori rubs her right temple.

>>34175346
“Full disclosure, I was going to ask Gai out to try and goad the two of your into action without ruining your friendship over a guy. Didn’t think you’d want that to come between you now that you two made up,” Keiko admits with a pout, “but if we’re talking about this I think you should let her go for it,”

“What about this other guy,” Midori wonders while shifting her posture into something more relaxed, “You said he had the look for being a center guy? And what do you mean you weren’t you? Were you Miki instead of, well, you?”

~No. Totally different me. I was ditching Keiko’s PIT detail and put on one of my other faces,~

“How many do you have?” Keiko wonders.

~Like...half a dozen,~ you say meekly.

This...this is how you deal with this?

“Are they all as involved as Miki?” Midori asks.

~I’m right here. You don’t have to talk about me while I’m right here,~

“Right, sorry. So, center guy?” Midori apologizes.

~Totally perfect. Super pale blonde hair, dark complexion, super athletic,~ you hmmm in a certain squeal as though you’ve found the perfect flavor of ice cream, ~and he has a motorcycle and is so exotic,~

“A motorcycle?” Keiko perks up, “How old is this guy,”

~About our age. He’s Russian and I think he has an international license,~ you muse about your troubles, ~but I’m worried about all the family stuff I’ve got going on right now. Should I even be thinking about relationships right now,~

“If you think you want it, go for it,” Midori says, “Seriously Miki, this doubt isn’t like you at all,”

“I’m kind of jealous. I can’t actually date anyone anymore. They get too intimidated by my fan club. Its so frustrating,” Keiko grouses, “Not that I’ll do anything crazy with being jealous,”

Dr Dan Streetmentioner, come back. Sll is forgiven

>>34175354

You giggle.

Midori giggles.

“Oh no. Keiko has gone mad with jealousy!” Midori laughs, “And absolutely nothing bad will come of it. You don’t need that kind of attention. None of those guys were good enough for you anyway,”

>Keep conversation on Target, press Keiko for dating advice.
>Change conversation direction, which direction do you take things?
>Check on Beryl.
>Write in

>>34175376
>>Keep conversation on Target, press Keiko for dating advice.
This is going to be the best dream ever.

>>34175376
>>Keep conversation on Target, press Keiko for dating advice
>>34175393
Well, for us, anyway

Writing

>>34175376
Hm.. Well, we're sharp enough to remember what Jadeite said, and Midori has caught herself a few times..

>Keep conversation on Target, press Keiko for dating advice.
>Change conversation direction,
"And then I have this other friend that's totally into someone, but isn't sure of themself.. I think anyway. Maybe they are worried about their friendship, or worried about what others would think.. I haven't really gotten a chance to talk to them about it.. what advice might you suggest I pass on?"

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>>34175581
>>34175565
Dangnabbit, how long does it take me to type stuff?
I am of failure.

>>34175581
If possible, that would be good to point out.

>>34175633
Well, that's two at least, maybe he'll work it in.

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~Seriously, What do I even do. Do I just ask him out. I’m worried I might come across as being too forward,~

“I’ve never really asked anyone out, Miki,” Keiko laughs, “I’m always the asked,”

~Exactly. How have guys asked you out? Better yet, how have you let a guy know you were interested before he asked you out?~

“I…” she hesitates, “I thought I was waiting for someone else. I wasn’t really paying attention to them. I just gave them a chance if they asked,”

~Its okay,~

Midori turns to look past you and narrows her eyes.

“Everyone believes in you, Keiko,” she smiles softly, “You’re the idol of our school. Please don’t give into those doubts,”

~Hey, girls,~ you find something else to focus on, you feel the perfect time to push on Midori’s lingering issues, ~I have this other friend that's totally into someone, but isn't sure of themselves. I think anyway. Maybe they are worried about their friendship, or worried about what others would think. I haven't really gotten a chance to talk to them about it; should I meddle or what should I do,~

You look Midori dead in the eye.

“Maybe nothing,” Keiko sighs, “or you should tell her what we’ve told you. GO FOR IT. Maybe it doesn’t work, maybe it does, maybe just the experience is worth it,”

She smiles.

Midori blushes.

The shadow cast over the three of you has long receded. Beryl’s distant shouts have stopped sounding.

>Egg Midori on into opening up to Keiko.
>Keep talking, about what?
>Its Time to face Beryl.
>Write in

>>34176137
>Its Time to face Beryl.
I think we've taken this as far as we reasonably can without changing to a less interesting mundane topic. Let's remind our friends that the emotions they have right now are the keys that will give them power over Beryl, and head out to bust the Ghost of Christmas Past.

>>34176137
Start the group moving in Beryl's direction.
Take it slow, keep talking.
Maybe try to goad Midori a bit, but don't force it.

>>34176341
>>34176327
>>34176137
Almost go time. Let's mosey.

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>>34176506

Writing

>>34176535
Yep.

we are irrelevanting beryl to death, if there is a more fiting way to take her down i don't know what it is.

You raise a hand and conversation comes to a halt. Behind you the lotus blossom has sealed back into a mountain. In the distance you can feel Beryl’s presence, the pulsing feat of dark energy within her and Keiko, diminished by your ministrations thus far.

A certain detached seriousness takes hold as Mikage bleeds through Miki and your true self is known. A brief flare of embarrassment crosses your cheeks when you realize you admitted to your attraction to Gai and of your more immediate attraction to Sasha. There are busy times ahead, you can’t afford to entertain dreams of romance.

~Lets go,~ you say quietly, ~She doesn’t want to fight anymore. That’s the perfect time to do this,~

The three of you step forward with equal parts apprehensive and solemn purpose. You progress through the ruins side by side until you arrive at the mountain’s base. A massive mawed gate waits, open.

“Don’t go that way,” a voice calls out behind you, “It isn’t safe,”

All of you turn to see a woman in a sequined red military uniform. Her hair is wavy and auburn, held aloft in a flame like pattern by a wreathing of red material. She wears a half cape and wields a long blade. She moves with moderate injury, and her appearance is otherwise speckled with dust and superficial tears. A ring with a green glowing stone sits upon her hand.

Here she has elected to do without her outfit’s mask.

Kairi Osaka. Your Nephrite Knight.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 32 End

Omage in the morning

Interlude vote

>Catalyze
>Moonstruck
>Deterrent
>Full?

How was tonight's thread?

>>34176898
>>Moonstruck

>>34176978
Felt a little slow, but the results were solid, in both the dramatic and comedic senses.

>>34176898
Huh, what's going on here.
Admittedly, walking in her front door would be the height of foolish, but Kairi looks like see's seen a fair bit of trouble.
Suggested action for next time is dropping Miki and going to her.

Hm..
>Deterrent

>>34176978
Excellent! Any chance we'll see more this weekend? Anxious to find out what's going on.

>>34177044
Sunday Sunday Sunday

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>>34177065
YAY!

>>34177044
>Admittedly, walking in her front door would be the height of foolish, but Kairi looks like see's seen a fair bit of trouble.

Yeah, I really think we should have taken her with us.

Thanks for the thread, Artemis

>>34177222
Well, with he mom out there we couldn't have brought her directly. Wish we thought of arranging to call her into the dream before we slept though.

>>34177290
So now to take a guess

What the fuck happened while we were gone?

I'm thinking jewel thief.

>>34177290
Sneaking around her mom would be easy.

The hard part would be for her to sleep, assuming she got attacked somehow, and then defending her inside her own dream or having to get back to her house in time.

>>34177324
That or getting into this dream was much harder from without a direct link and Beryl has defenses up, and/or she went in there looking for us first.

>>34179173
or Beryl got quieter because she was up to something.

Nephrite is no longer "protected" anymore, and she found "him" and brought him "here" to use as a weapon?

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Not fully awake, enjoying the speculation, fun times.

Writing comedic aside.

>>34181346
Awwwwwww yeaaaaaa

OMAKE

Its getting late as you drag new photographs into your project. A number of things just became declassified, so you’ve wasted no time incorporating them as evidence into your next proposed public speaking tour. For all the wonderful things you’ve been able to accomplish and witness as part of the think tank, nothing truly gives you greater pleasure than performing these speaking tours with your slide show.

Spreading the word and now available proof of the Ancient Astronaut theory. It creases a smile on your face as you look at the photography kept secret during the Mars Rover missions. The ruins amid red sand, the uncovered relief whose discovery later brought you into the project.

Since getting involved, you haven’t really had a chance to speak with any of the Senshi alone. Certainly you were present for the first meeting, but more important topics took center stage. Maybe you’ll get the chance after the briefing in a few days.

Hmmm, you’re all finished here, but as always there is more work to do. Rising from the borrowed cubicle you save your work to the remote server and trudge into the kitchenette. If you’re going to be heading to your lodgings this late you at least need some coffee.

When you come into the space, you aren’t alone. She’s there. The woman you’ve been trying to talk to all week. Normally she’s surrounded by printers and PIT scientists trading numbers and calculating telemetry. Lately she’s been coordinating with Commander Maru on her part in the briefing. Well, couldn’t hurt to ask.

“Good evening, Miss Mercury,” you smile and grab a styrofoam cup.

“Oh, good evening Mr. Tsoukolas,” she smiles behind the clear blue visor, “What’s keeping you here so late?”

>>34182509

“Just acquiring declassified photos for my next lecture tour and finishing my preparations for the briefing,” you explain, “How is everything with Project Foothold?”

“”Its coming along, though I’ve had to account for extra equipment after my colleague was discovered injured,” she laments while carefully adding cream and sugar to her cup, “Which photo sets have been declassified?”

“The Mars Rover exploration of the Palace Ruins,” you explain pouring the bitter black from the pot, “Though I still don’t have all the relevant information to add to the lecture about what they mean,”

“Well, I suppose those questions will be answered during the briefing; if you’d like I can provide some data and history we wouldn’t mind getting out,” she taps a button on the side of her visor as she takes her first sip, “Though I am particularly curious what you’ve extrapolated on that data alone as far as the Ancient Astronaut theory is concerned,”

“I’ve put together a few preliminary theories. Several already put to rest by things you and your Princess said in the opening negotiations,” you admit with some degree of embarrassment.

“I would still like to hear them,” she admits, “though it may be a bit late to get into things tonight. I would truly enjoy hearing them and your perspectives before the briefing gives you any new data, though. Perhaps you’d like to join my family for dinner tomorrow night and discuss things?”

“Doesn’t that risk your civilian identity?” your curiosity and concern pique.

“Well, my husband has developed a particular proficiency for bending perception. I assure you that you’ll remember nothing compromising,”

“That’s less than reassuring,” you admit nervously, “Perhaps I don’t have to intrude on a family dinner,”

“Oh, my husband and I both find your work quite interesting. I assure you it’ll be no trouble and have no lasting impact or side effects,”

And that was the Comedic Aside.

So. Still waiting on more votes for next thread's interlude.

And since I'm not doing much today, how about another NPC Q&A session?

Which Four Characters would you like to question this time?

Please note, some characters remain locked out of access...for reasons.

Either way. have at it.

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>>34182585
What characters are locked?
Also thanks for the omake!

>>34182779
That'll only come up if they are suggested.

>>34182541
>I assure you it’ll be no trouble and have no lasting impact or side effects,
Heh.

>>34182585
Help me coffee, I must think things!

>>34182585
How about Hiddenite?

We have 1 suggested for the panel. Lets fill out the rest?

I'm going to grab a shower and make lunch whilst you guys suggest.

>>34183882
Food, that is a good idea. Come along Coffee, we should get some food to go with you.

>>34182585
Does Diana count as two people?

>>34184439

Young Diana and Future Diana are separate characters.

>>34184486
Darn. I think it'd be hilarious to see how they interact. But in the interest of getting intelligible answers, I guess I'll ask for Future Diana.

Alright, that's half a panel.

At the going rate, the panel will have to wait until after next thread.

>>34185271
As much as I'd like to get things moving, I am also reluctant to samefag.

>>34184286
Alright Food, Coffee, let's do some thinking.

>>34184558
Let's see, how about Naru and.. gimmie a sec..

>>34185361
Oho, wonderful. At this rate, we might not have any actual Sailor Senshi, though. Gentlemen and ladies, is that a desirable outcome?

>>34185271
>>34185361
Let's see, we've have Hiddenite, Diana, Naru suggested. So, baddie, otherself Guardian, and a mom of a dear friend. Bad, good, plz don't hate, and.. him, guys come up in next I think. Gai, Sasha, Yoshi, the arcade guy whose name escapes me off-hand.

>>34185404
Well, we have a guardian on the list.
If we bring a Senshi, maybe one of the Outers?
Though I suspect Pluto is off the table.

>>34185490
Yeah, she knows too much and might still be in critical condition. It would be like trying to summon the Kukla.

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>>34185515
Haruka perhaps?

>>34185361
I wonder how much Naru would actually tell us.

Jewel Thief, PIT Mom, Future Spacecat, Uranus then?

>>34185457
Though an all-dude panel could be amusing some time.

>>34185712
And that shall be the panel after next thread.

>>34185790
This amuses me.

>>34185897
>>34185790
Wait, did you mean the all-dude panel as the next after this one, or did you mean this one is going to be after the next thread now?

>>34186126

Jewel Thief, Naru Osaka, Diana, and Haruka

>>34184517
>I think it'd be hilarious to see how they interact.
hopefully better than us and out own post-preincarnation.

>>34176898
>Moonstruck

>>34186466
It's not like Diana has a dream boyfriend who's going to NTR her in her dreams. Besides, Future Di should know now that they'll share dream space occasionally, and that'll have her prepared to show the kid a good time.

>>34188419
On the other hand, they are cats

>>34190738
It's not like I'm denying that, but with their innate powers, nobody would be alive by now if they thought or acted like normal cats.

>>34190796
>cats with opposable thumbs
Terrifying

>>34190842
Thank goodness that Moon Cats are super far from real cats.

>>34192205
Truth.

>>34192205
I like to think they've just evolved far enough to understand the concept of enlightened self interest