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About four years ago, my mother's car got attacked by some kind of superpowered freak. It put my mother in a coma for a good while, and she's been hospitalized ever since.

Now you'd THINK that the cops would be interested in pursuing someone who would and CAN punch cars into oblivion, but pretty everyone I told about what happened laughed in my face.

The only person who actually DID believe me is a girl I met in the park the night after the accident... and thanks to her, now I have my own powers.

While I was out at the grocery store, I got a sudden Synapse. After a bit of investigating, I found that the person who triggered it was Irene, a minion of the evil organization that Lorelei warned me about.

I decided to tail her once she left the grocery store in hopes that she'd lead meto wherever it is that her organization is based in this city, but she ended up getting attacked out of nowhere by some kid with a Branch that lets him control stone.

Dumbass that I am, I couldn't just let someone get ambushed and not do anything so I blew my cover and took on the kid myself. Got through the battle without so much as a scratch, too... but then another Branch user ambushed -me- and did something to the air so that I could barely breathe.

After picking up the Branch holder kid who I just knocked out, this guys flew off and left me here to try and do something about the now-unconscious Irene.

I swear, some days it really doesn't pay to do the right thing.


>Thread archive:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=false+dendrite+quest

>Branches known thus far:
http://pastebin.com/UnmnKtn3

>Twitter:
https://twitter.com/QM_Archelon

>Ask.fm:
http://ask.fm/Maou_Zenigame
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Even after that asshole who screwed with the air flies off, it takes a good while for me to catch my breath to the point where I'm able to reliably stand up on my own. And the fact that I'm trying to support Irene on my back doesn't help matters any, she's way heavier than she looks.

maybe it's it's because of the huge boobs

C'mon, man. Now really isn't the time to be making cracks about that...

because they're pressing against your back?

That's part of it, but- DAMMIT, just shut up already!

After taking a few seconds to lament the fact that my best friend also happens to be a voice in my head that seems to be going through puberty or something, I hop up so that Irene's resting higher up on my back and try and get my footing. My head's still spinning some, and the oxygen deprivation or whatever the hell that guy caused still has me really woozy. But still, I think I'm well enough to get Irene somewhere safe at least. Evil minion or not, I'm not about to just leave an unconscious girl to her fate in a bad neighborhood like this.

For many, MANY reasons, there's no way in hell I'm carrying her all the way back to my uncle's house. But I think there's a park somewhere around here... maybe I can bring her there and see to her until she wakes up.

.....................damn it, another Synapse.


>ditch irene and try to run
>try and carry her out of here
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>>35186377
>try and carry her out of here
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>>35186377
>try and carry her out of here
what kind of hero would leave a big breasted girl in a dangerous place?
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>>35186377
>try and carry her out of here
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>>35186377
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO WE HAVE MURDEROUS AFTERMATHS TO DEAL WITH
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>>35186515
That is for part 2 of FD. I want to see IT'S HAPPENING! in PG.
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>>35186377
>try and carry her out of here
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>>35186377
>try and carry her out of here
Couldn't really call himself a hero if he just dropped her.
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>>35186377
>try and carry her out of here

Oh, come on, can't a guy go out in the city and pick up girls anymore?
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>writing
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I could always just dump Irene here and get away. Whoever this is is probably like that Eric kid and is just after Irene... but I couldn't really call myself a hero id I did that. Even though it would be the easiest thing in the world.

No, I need to get Irene out of this too... but the first step to doing that is to calm down. Calm down and assess the situation. There's footsteps coming from the east, and they're coming this way, I can be pretty sure that that's whoever just set off this Synapse.

...or it could be that flying guy come to finish us off, but I'd really like to not entertain THAT possibility right now.


>[1/?]
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>>35187302

So the headaches keep coming if you leave and come back 5 minutes later?
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>>35187386
from my understanding of the synapses, you get one if somebody enters your range. And I'm guessing if you step out and back in it triggers one.

Would be a really mean way to annoy someone.
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>>35187448

Well, you also get them yourself.

Though now I wonder - if your Branch power included immunity to pain, would you feel the headaches?
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>>35187302

The sidewalk's in ruins thanks to Eric's snake trick, so I should try and take the street... no, people around here drive crazy and I don't want to get hit by a car. No, I should go in the grass. That's it. Go in the grass and find my way to the park and hope that Irene wakes up sooner rather than later so I don't have to worry about her.

And so, I adjust my hands so that I have a firm hold of Irene, turn around, and run as fast as I can with this heavy girl on my back. Or at least I -try- to run, but I'm still feeling the effects of that oxygen deprivation so the best I can manage is a hurried stumbling pace.

I must look so retarded right now...


>[2/?]
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>>35187472
>Well, you also get them yourself.
Different people have different ranges, so unless both parties just happened to have identical detection ranges only one of them would get constant pings from the other dancing in and out of his range repeatedly.
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>>35187560
>I adjust my hands so that I have a firm hold of Irene

2lewd
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>>35187472
>Well, you also get them yourself.
That's only if they enter YOUR range not if you enter THEIRS.

IE Irene's is 1ft and Charlotte's is City wide. If Irene steps into Charlotte's range Irene wouldn't sense anything but Charlotte would get a synapse.
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>>35186764
Why did I laugh.
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>>35187560
>[3/3]

As I move along in my own crappy pace, I hear the footsteps of whoever caused that Synapse increase in speed as they get closer to us. From the heartbeat, it sounds like a guy in his mid-20s... I think. And then he reaches the area where the fight took place and I hear his heartrate go insane.

"IRENE!!!!"

That voice... damn, it's that guy who was with her earlier today. And from the sound of his footsteps, he's just broken into a sprint.


>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
>keep trying to get to the park and then make myself scarce
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>>35187693
>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
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>>35187693
>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
maybe guide the guy to her while you GTFO too, that'll be both good for them and a nice diversion
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>>35187693

>keep trying to get to the park and then make myself scarce
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>>35187741

Why not. But didn't he see us?
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>>35187693
>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
Sounds like he knows her. We'll leave her in his career and disappear, like the mysterious mystery man of mystery we are.
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>>35187693
>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
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>>35187693
>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't

If he catches us carrying her things are going to get awkward. He'll probably assume we're kidnapping her and attack us before we get a word in edgewise.
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>>35187693
"oh, you know this woman? Well, here you go."
Hand her off then leave.
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Rolled 7, 10, 10 = 27 (3d10)

>>35187693
>>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
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>>35187763
well he's a branch user, him breaking into a sprint would be because he just detected irene/us
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>>35187693
>ditch irene here, he's going to catch me if I don't
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>>35187741

This.
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>>35187693
>keep trying to get to the park and then make myself scarce
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Making character pictures for the second chapter of the main quest, and it's taking all of my willpower to keep from making every female character that shows up wearing gothic lolita stuff.

I have a problem.


>writing
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>>35187961

So we'll be fighting vampires?
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>>35187961
Share them for the fun of it.
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>>35187961
>New characters

I am happy I held off on carving whatever I end up carving.

P.S. Armored heart is a contender.
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>>35187961
>not making the male characters wear cute GL stuff too
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>>35188036
We can dress up what is left of the mafia, now that we have access to Charlotte's sewing.
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>>35188231
Not anymore after we won that battle and Teresa will be a dear and execute him.
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>>35188231
>what is left of the mafia

Are we talking literally? Having a stuffed werewolf with a dress in our living room sounds baller as fuck.

Plus we get to keep the clothes she tore apart during her transformation.
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>>35188273
>>35188297
I said what was left of them.

FBI can be the lower half of a mannequin if his torso isn't still around.
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>>35187990
>So we'll be fighting vampires?
Anything is possible.

>>35187992
>Share them for the fun of it.
That would be spoilers!

>>35188028
>I am happy I held off on carving whatever I end up carving.
>P.S. Armored heart is a contender.
Still need to finish drawing the rest of that design... I know how I want it to look, but putting it down on paper is a different matter entirely.
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>>35188332
>I know how I want it to look, but putting it down on paper is a different matter entirely.

I have the same problem.
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>>35188332

What's the color scheme besides blue?
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>>35188332
So armored heart is basically a Terror Knight from TO LUCT?
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Damn, I think he sees me... both his heartrate and footsteps just doubled in speed.

"IRENE!" the man screams. "Put her down, you bastard!!"

Yup, he definitely sees me.

those two are on the same side so you don't have to feel bad about ditching her now

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, not to mention that my lungs are on fire and I don't think I'll be able to get very far while carrying Irene like this. Far be it from me to keep on playing babysitter for the minions of an evil organization to begin with... but how do I go about doing this? I mean, it has to look like I'm trying to kidnap her from his perspective, and I'd really prefer not to make enemies out of these Tree of Life guys until after those two psycho brothers are taken care of.

because they're after the book too?

Yeah, and I'm not about to let them get their hands on it. I'm going to take it from that divine whatever guy and give it to Lorelei, and that's that.

engagement book


>drop her here and run
>try and talk to the guy
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>>35188486
>>try and talk to the guy
Josh did nothing wrong.
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>>35188486
>drop her here and run
>try and talk to the guy

Why not both? We have the power to do that.

Something like "Was trying to help this time. Honest!"
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>>35188528
this, but with sound effects
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>>35188486
>try and talk to the guy
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>>>try and talk to the guy

"How about a thanks for saving your girlfriend?"
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>>35188486
>engagement book

Awww. But does Lorelei sees Josh just as a little kid she raised that is cutely asking her for marriage?
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>>35188486
>>try and talk to the guy

Dude...this is not what it looks like. Swear on me mum.
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>>35188528
>Running like a bitch.

We have nothing to run from.
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>>35188486
>try and talk to the guy
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>>35188637

He's angry at us, the situation makes us look like a bad guy, we're still tired from the fight, and we don't know his Branch.

Sure, nothing to run from.
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>>35188692
Not sure we'll be able to run fast enough, being so out-of-breath as we are.
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>>35188721

If we drop Irene he'll probably look after her first.
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>>35188692
We did nothing wrong and if he doesn't agree he can go fuck himself. Stand strong don't bend over from him.
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>writing
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>>35188736
And makes us look guilty.
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Here's a thought: since we and Irene are in basically the same spot, his synapses for both of us will have triggered at the same time. Which means if we play dumb, he won't know for sure we have a Branch.

Though we also need to modulate our voice a little.
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"I'm stopping!" I shout as I give in to my body's desire to stop moving so fast. "I'm stopping, alright?"

I turn back, and that guy's still charging right for us at top speed.

he looks like he wants to kill you

"Th... this is just a misunderstanding, alright?" I call out. "This kid attacked her and I came out to help, then a second guy showed up and did something to the air so she fainted. I was just trying to get her to safety when you showed up, I didn't know if you were gonna turn out to be a third attacker."
"My ass, this is a misunderstanding," he growls as he finally reaches us.


>[1/?]
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>>35188953

Save us, Irene.
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>>35188953
Well now he is the one who is in the wrong.

I'd probably do the same thing.
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>>35188953

"See?" I say as I turn around and crouch down a bit so that he can get a clear views of Irene. "She's just unconscious."
"Irene..." with a sigh of relief, he takes her off my back and props her up on his shoulder. "...dammit, I keep telling you not to be so damned careless..."

Gently, he taps his free hand against Irene's face a few times.

"...you," he glares at me. "What did you do to her, why the hell won't she wake up!?"
"It wasn't me," I say, holding my hands up in an effort to be as nonthreatening as possible. "I think that she fainted from oxygen depr...

...suddenly, I feel really lightheaded.

WHUMP


>[2/?]
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>>35189160
Oh great. We killed him.
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>>35189160
At first I thought this must mean the air controller was back otherwise he wouldn't have fainted. Then I remembered that most people don't asphyxiate themselves several times a day, so it would hit them less.
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>>35189229
>less
I mean more.
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>>35189160

Come on, poison again?

>we wake up in that one cell along with CC and Charlotte
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>>35189160

wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up

"Ngh..."

joshua!

What happened, my head's killing me...

i don't know, that guy did something to you so that you fainted. and i guess i ended up fainting too

Dammit, what's the point in having you around if you can't act as my backup when stuff like this happens?

>[3/?]
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>>35189249
>what are you doing here?"
>"archelon must have lost his notes again"
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>>35189249
Not sure if joking or stupid.
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>>35189307
Bit of both
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>>35189272

We should have run.
Now it's interrogation time.
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>>35189272


When I open my eyes, the first thing I notice is the stained-glass windows. The second thing I notice is that my hands are tied together- wait, scratch that. My entire body's tied to a chair or something, I can't move at all.

And my goggles are off... shit, that means that my face is exposed.

it doesn't really mask your identity, you know

Shut the hell up, yes it does.


>[4/?]
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>>35189426

Is everyone going to die again?
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>>35189426
>[5/5]


"Lloyd!" I hear Irene call out. "He's awake!"
"Great, now we can get some answers from this kid," I hear Lloyd say as he approaches from somewhere outside my immediate field of vision.

A few seconds later, both Irene and Lloys walk out where I can see them clearly.

"I'm really sorry about this," Irene sighs, "but Lloys wouldn't listen when I told him that you saved me from that kid... just answer his questions and we'll let you go, okay?"


>how do you respond?
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>>35189522
Why the hell would you listen to me if you don't even listen to her?
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>>35189522
What is it with Irene and being utterly unable to convince her male colleagues of anything.
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>>35189522
"If Lloyd doesn't trust you to tell him what happened, I dunno why me telling him a second time is going to help."
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>>35189522
This >>35189547
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>>35189522

"Whatever."
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>>35189522

"You need to be more assertive. Seriously."

Plus
>>35189538
>>35189547
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>>35189522

"Untie me first then we talk. By the way how do you fell?"
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>>35189522
Man, ya'all have to work on your public outreach strategies. Tying people to chairs and performing basement interrogations on them after they've fulfilled their civic obligations is kinda...ungrateful.
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This is only reinforcing my theory that Irene is essentially a hapless low-level PR rep who doesn't know she's actually working for super villains.

Poor Irene.
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>>35189644

It's okay, we'll save her.
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>>35189644
She doesn't even have a Branch, just naturally good at eating things.
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>>35189677

And at kicking dogs. Don't forget that.
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>>35189684
How could we possibly forget about BITCH BEATER?
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>>35189644
>>35189668
Well, as a hero of justice we should correct such an injustice no?
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>>35189697
>tfw Irene will never dropkick Luiza
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>>35189708
This is the future we chose.
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>>35188377
>What's the color scheme besides blue?
dark blue/dark purple/black

>>35188402
>So armored heart is basically a Terror Knight from TO LUCT?
Not quite, though I do see the resemblance.


>writing
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"Yeah, whatever," I say, rolling my eyes. "If Lloyd doesn't trust you to tell him what happened, I dunno why me telling him a second time would help any,"
"I said the same thing to him, but he's being really insistent," Irene sighs.
"Maybe you should be more assertive," I reply. "Because tying someone to a chair and pulling some kind of basement interrogation crap on them after they've just helped your friends out is kind of ungrateful."

tell me about it

"Eheh," Irene smiles like she's embarrassed or something. "My position in our organization's kind of precarious, so I don't want to push my luck by pushing my authority too much..."
"Huh?" Lloyd stares at her. "What do you mean 'precarious?' Katrine's your sister, and-"
"And she hates me and would take any chance she could to throw me out," she replies, shaking her head.
"Yeah right, you're like an essential field agent," he sighs. "Without you, we'd be-" he cuts himself off midsentence and slowly turns back to face me. "Nice job in changing the subject, but you're not getting out of here that easily."

well at least you learned something about their members kind of


>[1/?]
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>>35190129
>"And she hates me and would take any chance she could to throw me out,"

More suffering!

Other!Josh is growing in me.
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>>35190129
So she's the leaders sis, and she's important to the organization; even though tsundere nee-chan will never admit it.
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>>35190129
>"Without you, we'd be-
unable to hide our overwhelming evilness"?

I mean, near as I can tell Irene doesn't actually do anything irreplaceable, unless she's got some absurd utility trump card associated with her power that hasn't been hinted at. Unless she's "essential" due to nothing more than a lack of manpower I think he's just saying that.
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>>35190188

>David and Gabrielle
>Leo and Antonio
>Irene and Katrine

I'm starting to wonder whether Branches are genetics or it's simply that Branch people somehow find a way to turn people they are close to.

Or if these are just for additional drama.
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>>35190222
Her power is being able to converse with other humans without spazzing out and attacking them. In her organization this is considered a rare and valuable ability.
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>>35190222

arch said he'd choose either Charlotte or Irene's ability among those that have been introduced so far. Forest Witch being pretty OP and polyvalent, I assume Dragon's Tooth is cool on its own.

Plus her Branch isn't an Elemental one, so she gets an ultimate ability at full bloom.
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>>35190226
Irene was turned by a gardener, so it's not unlikely that the gardener also turned er sister. Or maybe her sister was the gardener.
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>>35190226
>I'm starting to wonder whether Branches are genetics
Since so many of the folks with powers we've met are gay...
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....and I'm out. Have fun you guys.
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>>35190129

"To start off with," Lloyd says, "you're gonna tell us what your Branch is."
"That's kind of a big request," I shrug.
"He's 'that which brings harmony to all things,'" Irene says, crossing her arms.
"And that is..." Lloyd turns to her.
"Song of Unison," she shrugs. "You really should learn what the titles of the Elemental Branches are, Lloyd."

so much for that secret, but it's not like i can't do the same thing

"I guess I can't hide any secrets from That Which Devours," I say to Irene, repeating the stuff that the voice in my head is telling me. "Kind of a scary title, that... a lot more so than That Which Shares Pain," I turn to Lloyd and show him my best defiant smirk.


>[2/?]
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>>35190382

If they can hear the expressions Branches use to identify each other, why the hell do Branch Holders come up with additional names? Just remember the goddamn expressions.

Why bother learning what "Song of Unison" do instead of what "that which brings harmony to all things" do?
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>>35190436
'that which brings harmony to all things' doesn't quite roll off the tongue. Slang is used for a reason.
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>>35190382
>[3/3]

"That's enough screwing around, Joshua Schweitzer," Lloyd says, glaring at me.
"Wha-" I start to panic. "How the hell do you know-"
"Your wallet," he says as he holds it up to show to me. "I helped myself to it while I you were out.

really? you actually went out with your id on you!?

I was just out SHOPPING, remember!? I know better to do that while I'm out on patrol!

"So Joshua," Lloyd continues, "how exactly did you end up with that Branch of yours?"


>tell the truth
>make something up
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>>35190587
Magic.
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>>35190587
>tell the truth

Don't tell her name, though. Not yet.
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>make something up

"One day when I was a kid......."
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>>35190610
>Betraying our waifu.
>Ever!

That is worse then being a liar.
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>>35190587
A leprechaun did it.
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>>35190587
>make something up
Just the part about [redacted]. Keep the fib as close to reality. Change [redacted]'s gender too, just to be safe.
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Is there actually anything stopping him from just breaking the ropes? It seems like something he could do pretty easily.
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>>35190656
Oh I like this one.
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>>35190587
>blatantly bullshit your ass off
I had lost an axe in a pool one day, when the Lady of the Lake stepped forth to bequeath unto me Mjollnir, and said to me, "Yer a wizard, Joshua!"
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>>35190601
>>35190656
One of these, we aint giving him shit
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>>35190587
>Spew bullshit until he starts to get fed up.
>Tell him that maybe he should get to the incident with the asshole brothers.
We're not going to give this schmuck our whole life's story. Get to the point.
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>>35190587
>tell the sorta kinda truth

"I was attacked by someone in a park at night and after that I had magic powers."

Its suggests a Gardener without suggesting that we actually KNOW said Gardener.

It's basically the "a Wizard did it" excuse with a thin layer of truth to make it believable.
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Looks like making something up won, but there's a bit of contention as to how to go about it.

>tell the almost truth
>blatantly make something up
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>>35190789
>tell the almost truth
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>>35190789
>blatantly make something up
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>>35190789
>tell the almost truth
Say we were attacked one night and after that we've had powers
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>>35190789

>tell the almost truth

>>35190739 is basically close to what I want.
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>>35190702
>>35190656
>>35190601
How about this.

"Well one day I was on my way to the store to get my eighth tube of oatmeal so I could fend off the chupacabras, when I saw a stork delivering a baby. And you know I hate storks! So I chased it down planning to ambush it after the baby had been delivered, because you can't surprise a stork while it is siphoning off power from the baby, Then I noticed the color red on a stop sign, and as everyone knows the government uses the color red to spy on you, so I made a detour. Then BAMB! A chupacabra as I had forgoten to get my eighth tube of oatmeal. And that is the story of how I became a macho shoujo.
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>blatantly make something up
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>>35190789
>>blatantly make something up
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>>35190789
Leave it at "A wizard did it." because that's actually exactly what happened, only irreverent.
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>>35190789
>blatantly make something up

or atleast start with "Magic."
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>blatantly make something up
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>>35190822
This is not Hollow Quest Redux and the MC is not Risa. Jury is still out on whether or not Archelon is crazy.
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>>35190822
That's a terrible idea, but I completely lost my shit at "macho shoujo". Bravo, anon.
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>>35190789
>blatantly make something up

>>35190822
>MFW macho shoujo
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>>35190893
I haven't even touched that quest, But now I might have to.
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>>35190910
I stole it from a dream I had which is roughly what Madoka would have been like if I was Madoka and QB was Randy Savage.
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>writing
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>>35190789

"Well you see when two people love each other very much...."
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>>35190928
Dude. Azure Earth is clearly and honestly insane. Like, he writes the best insanity I've ever read. But at the same time, he's literally a saint of patience and restraint. My fellow Questers literally bad ended themselves four times and he's bailed us out each time and rolled with ever single punch, shitstorm, and fuckfest we've thrown his way, even when 500 replies in a 1,000 reply thread was pure shitstorming. I don't know how he does it.
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>>35191065
>I don't know how he does it.

Shitstorms and bitching are his fetish.
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"Well," I begin, "one day I was on my way to the store to get my eighth tube of oatmeal so I could fend off the chupacabras, when I saw a stork delivering a baby. And you know I hate storks! So I chased it down planning to ambush it after the baby had been delivered, because you can't surprise a stork while it is sipho-"

POW

A sharp pain fills the entire right side of my face, it takes a few moments to realize what had happened- Lloyd punched me in the face.

serves you right for acting like a jackass while tied up

Unfortunately for him, there's a little thing that I used my Branch for that I've trained up for so long that it's pretty much become a reflex- when I'm hit by pretty much anything, my body retaliates on the object that with a nice resonant blast of sound. Depending on how hard I'm hit and where I'm hit, it can range from anywhere from an unpleasant tingling sensation to someone breaking their hand entirely. And it looks like my new friend Lloyd got it pretty bad...

"Ffffff..." Lloyd grits his teeth as he clutches his hand.
"Umm, Lloyd?" Irene looks at him with concern. "I know that he was baiting you there, but that's what happens when you-"
"No," he shakes his head. "-I- didn't do this," he takes a deep breath and turns to me. "No, -he- did this."

GOD DAMN IT WHAT THE HELL CHRIST MY HAND

As I grit my teeth and try to bear through the sudden pain in my hand, Lloyd starts laughing.


>[1/?]
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>>35191136
Lloyd's just a huge douche ain't he?
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>>35191136
Arch included my suggestion.
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>>35191136
Hmm, I wonder how Forest Witch would interact with Lloyd's power if she ordered something to hurt him.
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>>35191136
Meh, Lloyd is still the one with a broken, or at least injured, hand. Worth it.
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I wonder if Lloyd can also share pleasure.
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>>35191136

As I grit my teeth and try to bear through the sudden pain in my hand, Lloyd starts laughing.

"Traumatic Reflection," Lloyd laughs. "That's the name of my Branch, since just knowing its title clearly didn't help you any. And with it, I can transfer injuries from one living thing to another. Anything you do to me gets reflected back on you. Anything you do to -Irene- gets reflected back on you. So why don't you behave, okay?"

if it hurts that bad, you could always tag out

No, I can handle this. I just need to stop screwing around, that's all. Show them that I was just being polite by staying in this chair and putting up with their crap.


>[2/?]
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>>35191296

Aww, how will CC kill him then?
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>>35191321
I interpret it as him being able to transfer any form of physical harm between others, so no.
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>>35191296
>Anything you do to -Irene- gets reflected back on you.
"So does that mean if save her from a unnecessarily violent superpowered asshole a second time your Branch is gonna let me go?"
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>>35191336
...if he actually transferred Irene's oxygen deprivation to us earlier to make us pass out, then that's a pretty bullshit power right there.
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>>35191296
>"So how do you do anal?"
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>>35191296
Note to self, if we ever get into a fight with Lloyd target him first and do enough damage to instantly kill him. Build up enough of a shockwave to pulp him with Josh, or turn his head to ash with CC.

Can't go for half measures, and injuring his allies would give him wounds to reflect.
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>>35191359

unless there's a limit/loophole to his power, he's pretty much invincible as it is.
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>>35191366
I like you.
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>>35191296
>Anything you do to me gets reflected back on you.
I know there's definitely a relevant Oglaf comic to post here. Anyone actually have it to hand?
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>>35191398

Can't post it on a blue board.

http://oglaf.com/shield-maiden/
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>>35191366
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>>35191333
Hit him hard enough that he doesn't have time to trigger his power.

Unless his power also includes causality reversal, then if we vaporize his brain he won't be able to do shit, due to not having a brain.
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>>35191296

Channelling the sound of Lloyd's laughter into the wood of my chair, I trap it inside until the chair itself starts to rumble... and then I tap it with my wrist. As the chair shatters, I rise to my feet and slip the ropes from around my body and toss them aside.

"You know..." I growl as I clench my hurting hand, "I could have broken out of there at any point. I was just humoring you since I wanted to try and convince you that I'm not some kind of bad guy. But saving Irene from that little psycho who tried to kill her clearly wasn't enough, I've decided that you can go screw yourself," I say, snatching my wallet out of his hand. "And I'm pretty sure that if I did enough damage to take you out in one shot, you wouldn't even get a chance to use that BS power of yours, so don't try me."

nice

tell him what's what

no fear, no pain

except for your hand

Shut up.


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>>35191359
>>35191375
I mean, if he just carries around a bunch of cyanide capsules, eating and transferring them at any sign of trouble, sure. Something tells me he isn't quite that well-prepared.
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>>35191408
>>35191406
I wish I thought of that before I hit the post button.

For some reason I never remember that oglaf is actually pornographic. It just goes straight to the comedy directory of my brain.
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>>35191447
>yfw he chloroforms a random bystander and we fall unconscious instead
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>[4/4]

"Oh yeah?" Lloyd adjusts his sunglasses. "Just try me and we'll see if-OW!"
"That's enough, Lloyd," Irene says as she grabs his wrist and squeezes it. "I went along with this because you did have a point, but now you've taken it way too far."
"Let me go, Irene!" Lloyd shouts.
"No."

While Lloyd struggles to break free of his partner's grip, Irene turns to me while ignoring him completely.

"Joshua, thank you for coming to the rescue back there," Irene says with a warm smile. "And that was you who was talking to us back at that wrecked building, right?"


>yeah, it was
>screw both of you, I'm done playing friendly
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>>35191489
I wonder how he determines who he's transferring the injuries to, if it is at all based on line of sight then CC should be able to fuck with it. Either by blinding him or not actually being where he thinks he sees her.

Though Theresa probably is the best suited for taking him out, she can't be targeted and can wait until he's alone if she wants to be sure.
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>>35191545
>yeah, it was
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>>35191545
>yeah, it was

"I kind of acted like a jerk back then, but I had no reason to trust you."
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>>35191545
>yeah, it was
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>>35191545
>yeah, it was

Try to determine the building's structure, and locate an exit, as well as what walls we could smash through for an expedient retreat.

Get enough sound charged up to explode Lloyd's skull, with a high degree of overkill, just in case.
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I know that this was a short thread, but I have stuff to do in the morning so this is is it..I've missed writing both Irene and Joshua, so this was a nice change of pace.

The next thread will be on Monday night, and I'll be running Princess Guard.


And now for a short question time.
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>>35191545
>yeah, it was
"Given the red carpet your pal rolled out I guess you can see why I was trying to be cautious."
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>>35191611

Cheers.

So next PGQ thread open with everyone's reaction to Reinhold and Luciana goofing off, right?

Are these capturing scenarios going to be a regular thing in FDQ?
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>>35191611
Will next thread start with a reaction run-down along the lines of the thread after the duel?
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>>35191647
>So next PGQ thread open with everyone's reaction to Reinhold and Luciana goofing off, right?
Yup.

>Are these capturing scenarios going to be a regular thing in FDQ?
Nope. And as Joshua showed, he could have walked out of there at any time anyways.

>>35191666
>Will next thread start with a reaction run-down along the lines of the thread after the duel?
Not quite to that level, what happened wasn't all that big of a deal.


And now I sleep. Thanks for playing!
For further questioning:
http://ask.fm/account/questions
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>>35191730
>what happened wasn't all that big of a deal.
I disagree
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>>35191545
>Yes.
"You, I like. You, I wouldn't mind meeting again...maybe. But him I'll break unless there's a good reason for it. And Lloyd," Turn to him, "I can break every bone in your body and turn your brain to jelly. Don't tempt me."



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