>>35757433

Quest Start

No one can see you.

No one can see you.

No one can see you.

Someone is coming?

In the cover of shrubberies and the protective cloaks of invisibility and your enhanced disguise field, you scrambled away from your landing place when you first fled from the world crashing down around you. As you gave into your panic and anxiety, everything fell away. Your vision is tunneling as the world around you collapsed into darkness, navigating beneath property lining hedges by desperate and clawing touch and instinct.

No one can see you.

No one can see you.

Must get away.

Someone is coming.

You must get away.

Its getting to be too much, on instinct your hand is searching inside your jacket pocket for your pills, you find something else instead. A familiar pen.


Your name is Mikage Chiba, for whatever value your name has for your right now.

>Continue giving in to panic
>Get away from yourself, be someone else. (Will test to make specific choice, failure will mean random)
>Try and compose yourself on your own (Will test)
>Get to your pills (Will test)
>Just stay where you are
>Call out for help
>Write in

>>35757487
>Get to your pills (Will test)
This is why we carry them.

>>35757487
>Continue giving in to panic

>>35757487
>Continue giving in to panic

>>35757487
>Get to your pills (Will test)
we had fun last thread, but Mikage really would want the panic to go away, not lose herself in it.

>>35757487
>Get away from yourself, be someone else. (Will test to make specific choice, failure will mean random)
Relapse into changing again.

Artemis, you mentioned on twitter that you were making a d20 roll chart for panicking, with various conditions on it, including panicked and confused. Don't suppose we get to see what's on that chart?

>>35757487
Hmm.. Can I convince you >>35757720
To swap to >>35757799
That way we have a majority away from the pills??

>>35757890
I guess?
>>35757720
Swapping to
>Get away from yourself, be someone else. (Will test to make specific choice, failure will mean random)

>>35757487
>>35757688 Receding this vote Swapping to

>Get away from yourself, be someone else. (Will test to make specific choice, failure will mean random)

For shits and giggles Dan.

Counting and writing

>>35757487
>>Get to your pills (Will test)

>>35757813
Nope.

>>35757991
I figured.

>>35758017
It's much more fun this way!

Ooh yay! Thread!

Okay, it looks like you want to get away from yourself and be someone else. Intentionally you want to be Dan.

But you need to succeed a will test DC 20.

Give me 1d20+6, best of 3.

Otherwise I roll on a chart of your identities.

Rolled 6 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>35758056
This is going to fail, but oh well. rolling.

Rolled 18 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>35758056

Rolled 6 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>35758081
It'll be Fiiiiine.

Rolled 5 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>35758056

24 vs 20. Successs. You've got Dan, writing

>>35758102
With >>35758086, yeah, we're Dan. No one's going to buy that we're not Mikage for a second though. Good execution, bad idea. If the Senshi and Sasha do buy this, I'll eat my hat.

>>35758056

>>35758150
Gatta put the dice+1d20 in the subject/email field.

>>35758143
Either they buy it.. and it's funny... Worse they think Dan did something to Mikage! or they don't and it's traumatic!

>>35758186
I would be fine with the second option. That's my kind of comedy: misunderstanding leads to shenanigans. Two hats if that happens.

>>35757433
Yeah yeah yeah! Eclipsed moon time!

You need to get away, and this Pen is your doorway. Your eyes shoot wide as you choke back a panicked sob and grip the pen tightly with both hands. Everything is too much right now, its too much. This is the worst attack you’ve had in months and YOU can’t weather it. Someone needs to play this cool, someone needs to get you out of this.

Miki could have gotten you out of this...but you’re Miki now. She isn’t somewhere you can run away to. However, you know someone who is cool. Someone who is smooth, someone who’s gotten you out of tight spots before. This needs a liar’s touch.

The Beast isn’t a liar. Daphne is shy and suited for calmer circumstance. Mimi-chan would be stumbly and confused and has no rack of comics to hide behind. However, there is someone left. Someone new. Someone who hasn’t let you down yet.

Dan.

Doesn't Mikage have a perfect lie ability, or am I misremembering?

>>35758831
Yes, she does.

>>35758803
Gripped tightly in the endless black, your thumbs jam down on the crystal red button on the back of the pen as your mind focuses on the hair and the jacket. The magic envelopes you, thanks to your natural talent at using magic subtly, in a soundless and lightless sheet. Your hair shortens and turns jet black, the workout clothes are replaced by jeans, a t-shirt, and a nice jacket. The black hair slicks back into a fine pompadour.

Oh yeah, baby! The world changes from black to shadowed green in an instant. You are deep in a thicket of hedges up against some kind of retention wall. Man, what a drag. You know where you are close to, and what’s going on. Huh, voice, somebody’s coming.

“Mikage-chan!” Aiha Mizuno’s voice rings nearby as you hear the weight of a body pushing through branches and the thick coverage of green.

Hmmm, the girl who can see the unseen. Other voices call out, even Sasha’s. Of course your sister would rope him into looking. Ah well, the damage control for that isn’t your problem anyway, but you need a to figure out what’s what.

>Can’t disappear, no problem, just be naturally agile. (Stealth test, baby)
>Pretend to be searching for something, and crawl toward the voices. What? (Your cat, your phone, misplaced keys?)(Sometimes a man’s gotta tell a lie)
>Feign sleep, or actually sleep. Its still too early to be up.
>Fess up to Aiha, quietly that you’re in the driver’s seat while Mikage deals with her panic attack.
>Write in

>>35758831
>>35758864

It costs planet power to use.

>>35758866
>Pretend to be searching for something, and crawl toward the voices. What? (Your cat, your phone, misplaced keys?)(Sometimes a man’s gotta tell a lie)
Phone. We don't have a ride, yet.

>>35758892
Oh, dis gon b gud.

What is the most ridiculous Dan lie we can tell?

>>35758866
this:
>Fess up to Aiha, quietly that you’re in the driver’s seat while Mikage deals with her panic attack.
or
>Feign sleep, or actually sleep. Its still too early to be up.

>>35758866
>Feign sleep, or actually sleep. Its still too early to be up.

Clearly we're sleeping off our wild night. we went with the flow and the flow left us in a shrubbery

>>35758866
>Pretend to be searching for something, and crawl toward the voices. What? (Your cat, your phone, misplaced keys?)(Sometimes a man’s gotta tell a lie)

>>35758922
Cat stole our phone? Got thrown off the back of a harley by some angry biker chick.. just said her pipes were looking a little old...

>>35758922

I dunno, but at some point we need to put Little Diana in a red hat and start arguing with a Rhoomba that she's riding.

>>35758866
>Feign sleep, or actually sleep. Its still too early to be up.

>>35758967
All right.. I laughed... you should keep that name.

>>35758866
>>Feign sleep, or actually sleep. Its still too early to be up.

>>35758866
Feign sleep, or actually sleep. Its still too early to be up.

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As the guy who likes to plan ahead, did our plan for today (which I saved) get axed by Mikage's panic attack or are we just taking a delay on execution and/or editing it on account of pic related?

>>35759175
No idea what that plan was... had like 3 mid terms.

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Counting and Writing

>>35759199
To-do list
1. Naru, Kairi's mom. for last night debrief.
2. Jade/Midori and Keiko, for follow up and possible General.
3. Setsuna* assume 3 PM, during Senshi-PIT meeting, for answering questions about things.
4. Rin and Aiha, for Red Eyes, Visions, briefing learning.
5. Sasha, for Potential General recruitment and possibly introduce Mikage.

I'd be fine with reworking this, given what Mikage just went through. Still have Setsuna talk as essential. Testing PIT security later is optional.

>>35759254
I'm good for all but 5. Really uncomfortable with the idea of slapping a general on him and trying to date him.... that shit's just messy.

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>>35759206
>mfw

Snoozing, counting and writing.

>>35759254
>be Dan
>Naru at top of "to-do" list
well, I laughed.

>>35759291
I agree with the dating portion, but Mikage knows that Sasha is carrying half of something magical. this needs to be investigated, and he could be a potential general. I'm not saying we go 'hey, you're my new boyfriend, I'm conscripting you for a war', but Mikage talking to Sasha about well, everything that's gone on, with Red Eyes and now Koyomi. We don't have to do it today, but all of above will need to happen at some point, and until we get told otherwise, I'm assuming we have a time limit to do it all.

>>35759476
Yes, I see why that would be the case. You know what, let's show up at Naru's place and say we want to 'report what we saw last night', and proceed to tell her what happened while hitting on her. The mental image alone is making my cry tears of laughter.

>>35759476
Indeed... need to see what that fine lady is up to. MILF

Hey folks checking in from my GMing.
Can't do much myself until much later, but thought I'd point out that we have Dimension Slide if we wanted to get some distance that someone that sees invisible couldn't see/follow.

>>35759541
Ah thanks for the heads up. Good luck with your Campaign.

>>35759477
>Sasha is carrying half of something magical

You keep saying this, but can you tell me where we noticed that? As far as I can tell, we don't know any such thing.

>>35759654
The big dream fight. Hang on, I'll get the specific thread, just a sec.

>>35759705
Did WE notice it.. or did we see it in meta?

>>35759721
Artemis all but gave Sasha being a general away awhile ago with a censored in-progress pic. the magic thing I'm still looking up.

>>35759770
I caught that, and I read in the character sheet where he has >1/4 Fragment of ????

But I've been looking through the archives and I can't find where Mikage knows he has a suspicious magical item.

>>35759842
pretty sure it was the Hospital girl fight, still digging.

>>35757487

>Get to your pills (Will test)

>>35760199
Waaaay too late friend.

>>35759842
I don't think she does... until shown proof I'mana go with we don't

>>35760229

Auto-update broke. My bad.

>>35760269
No prob. Happens.

>>35760269
That's why I regularly hit the refresh button.

>>35760248
Ok, I need help here. I know we helped save some girl in a hospital, but I can't for the life of me remember what thread that was. What thread was that?

>>35760351
You might be mixing up quests.

Well now, its still way too early to care about anything. Falling back from your knees, you brush through the green and brace against the wall with a yawn and lift your arms behind your head. Its comfortable, and who would disturb a guy sleeping behind a hedge, no one. That’s who. They’ll find you and pass on over you while searching for their actual goal. It is brilliant. You are brilliant.

Actually, its kind of comfortable.

You really didn’t get enough sleep last night, by your own metric anyway.

…

Zzzzzzzzz

-

You walk about in an oversized closet, man why do chicks stockpile so many clothes. Its like they, man you don’t even know. Hey, wait a minute, this entire rack is just blue middle school uniforms. This entire rack is empty. Kinda weird. Hey, sweaters? Walking through the assorted maze of girls clothes, you happen upon a rack of your own t shirts and jeans...not a lot of variety, frankly.

“Your majesty,” an amused and familiar voice calls out behind you.

Spinning around, part way between embarrassed or in shock, you splay your hands wide and hold them up defensively. Arrayed around a nearby vanity covered in wigs and kits of makeup are three figures in grey. One of them has a cape.

“Oh, hey guys,” you wave to Zoisite, Kunzite, and Jadeite, “What are you doing here?”


“We’ve been waiting for you,” Kunzite says evenly, “And we’ve always been here,”

“I must say it is a nice wardrobe selection,” Zoisite muses.

“Agreed, plenty of options,” Jadeite agrees.

“Sooooo...whats good?” you stretch trying to find a topic of conversation, man this is boring.

“We were wondering if you had any plan of action should you be discovered in the waking world,” Kunzite sighs.

>Waking world? What?
>Sure I have a plan, sleep through it.
>Sure I have a plan, (whats the plan?)
>No, not really.
>Write in

>>35760501
No, I think I found what I was thinking of.

>>35760351
>>35760501
No, that was you guys,

>>35760351
We fought the bear, and pulled the golden cystal out of Azusa Mugen in like thread 20.

We did not find out the whereabouts of the rest of the golden crystal at the time, though the bear seemed to be a clue.

Someone please correct me if I'm missing something here.

>>35760512
>Sure I have a plan, sleep through it.

>>35760512
>Waking world? What?

>>35760512
>Sure I have a plan, (whats the plan?)
lie like a motherfucker.
>>35760535
Yes, that was it. So No, Mikage knows nothing about Sasha being magical. Mikage's talk with him is just her secrecy and 'masks'. Now for a general candidate, Mikage might look Azusa up.

>>35760351
Wasn't that Sasha though?

>>35760588
Though we did think we saw a little girl in the raging end of the shadow bear, I'm not imaging it am I?

>>35760512
>Waking world? What?

>>35760512
>Waking world? What?

Dan is the man

>>35760597
I was thinking Thread 20, but if you think we really did meet Sasha in the dream world, when was that? As for the identity of the bear itself, meta-wise, I thought it was Sasha's bear influenced by Azusa's dream.
>>35760607
no, that was not imagined, but the girl and the bear were separate entities, both with their own spawned shadows we drained.

>>35760666
Nah I think Sasha was the one who found the shard and did all that business and we had nothing to do with it... but it's been awhile and I'm in too many quest threads to dig through and find out now.

>>35760684
but, the ending of Tuxedo Bear quest... fuck you're right. I need to re-read everything, and no time to do so. For now, Mikage doesn't know Sahsa is magical... unless Artemis corrects us.
Also, this is why I stick with just one quest at a time. one is hard enough to participate in.

>>35760785
I dono.. I apparently remembered it better than you did :) I have to propagate ideas of a certain nature.

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>>35760836
>mfw

>>35760887
I'm in all your quests. Posting things that appear innocent.

>>35760836
Ok, upon rereading the ending of TBQ, it looks like Tuxedo Bear is BOTH Sasha and his bear. we're both right.
>>35760906
the key word is 'appear'.

>>35760512
>>Sure I have a plan, sleep through it.
Haha, fuck being awake! We avoid all questions by sleeping like a brick wall!

>>35760961

"It falls to its knees as the mists dissipate. As the last of the viscous black slips past your lips you see the bear explode around it's raging core. Standing there in not but black sludge is a wiry muscled short figure. Bowl cut light hair contrasting their darker skin. It bellows in rage, eyes white and without pupils, before it is gone in a flash of light. Returning somewhere far off."

>>35760991
True, but how about:
"You are being kicked in your side. It is a familiar sensation, though this time is certainly more gentle than it normally is.

You are a bear sitting on a large mat of torn fabric, hay, and items of your own collection. Beside you is a large bowl of fruit, berries, and a leg of venison. There is a tattered wool blanket, ripped and torn to your liking, half draped on top of you. Someone is next to you yammering on excitedly.

You are curled around a bottle in your paws. YAY! Bottle!

You rise to a seated position in the covers and offer a flourish, a bow of your head, and a good morning.

"Roarurghroarrng" you say, impeccably.

The figure, whom you must look down at even while sitting, stares up at you in a mixture of confusion, worry, and then anger. It is Small/Loud! And he has brought you a steak! He drops it at your feet before storming out of your den in the midst of shouting words you do not understand, because you are a bear.

However, beneath his frustration you feel something. Pride, excitement, happiness, and a general desire for celebration.

Well, he brought you steak, and you have delicious bottle. You will celebrate while he is angry, and maybe he can feel your enjoyment. Odd, you have never thought so complexly befo-

Oh, Steak! Omnomnom."
looks like both to me.

Writng

>>35761041
I'm pretty sure that just means his bear has the other half.

Not him

>>35761244
So.. what you're saying is... we need to fight a bear.

Sold.

>>35761286
No we make the horse fight the bear.

>>35761244
>>35761286
it's one or the other. Better yet: we fight both, just to be sure. suplex a bear AND punch out Mini-Drago in the same fight!

>>35761330
Horse? That guy.. who is dating that horrible creature that is our "older" sister?

>>35761351
Yes.

>>35761339
Okay, how about King of the Ring for the crystal half

>>35761377
No? It's our crystal... period. The King thing isn't a boon either. It's a burden.

>>35761351
Now now Gnash, we made nice nice with Usa. You may not like her, but Mikage does, so be polite.
>>35761377
three way brawl? sounds fun. good way to clear the air with Sasha and Mikage.

>>35761400
She can't hear me. She's a vicious little life stealer. Hi my existence was ruined so I've come to supplant yours! Deal with it!

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>>35761395
>The King thing isn't a boon either. It's a burden.
by king, you mean the whole earth heir thing? I can definitely see mikage having that view, but I thought you wanted the Magical Justice League?
and, it being ours is debatable. It belonged to Helios, so it is dependent on the whole 'heir issue'.
>>35761433
>mfw
... where did you get even half that shit, man? None of that's true. At all.

>>35761482
First thing. Maybe I misinterpreted but I think he's saying give him one of the kings from inside the rocks... as trade for the magical maguffen.

Second thing
She left her existence because everything went to shit and she was sent back in time.

She lives with Usagi is treated as Mikage's older sister etc etc. All the horrible issues Mikage had that set her on this spiral can be attributed to Usa's trip to the past.

>>35761553

Much like with Azusa, does he even know he has the shard?

>>35761553
1. No, I didn't get that impression.
2. A. Usa had to go back in time, no arguing that, as it is solid canon. B. you would identifying her to the world as Mikage's alt-time self? Nah, Older sister best sums it up. C. the issues of Helios and the dreams we can agree were Usa's fault. The rest of the issues can be attributed to a combination of Hotaru's emotional detatchment and Mikage's unwillingness to connect with those who offered her help. D. sounds like you're looking for a scapegoat/punching bag for your own feelings. I wonder...

>>35761697
She's Usagi's first daughter... in alternate timeline.

She comes back in time. First daughter can no longer be named Usa. She is named Mikage.

In short I feel righteous hatred who have essentially played a major role in dicking up Mikage's life.

Mikage and Usa are the same person. Straight up... they look identical.

>Sounds like you're....
Going a little off the deep end there Freud back it in.


>>35761597
Nah I think he's got no idea... especially because it looks like the bear has it.

>>35761766
>Going a little off the deep end there Freud back it in.
Funny, I was about to say the same for your 'righteous hatred', towards a fictional character; who not only has played at best a SECONDARY role in Mikage's problems, but has proved time and again that she expresses great remorse for the trauma she caused her sister. Finally, Mikage accepted that apologie and reconciled with Usa. Simply put, your accusations have little to no merit.

>>35761482
>and, it being ours is debatable. It belonged to Helios, so it is dependent on the whole 'heir issue'

Did it actually belong to him, or was it just his duty to guard it?

If he's just supposed to guard it, we are technically higher in the Elysion Kingdom chain of command than him, so we could probably make the call to guard it ourselves.

>>35761868
Righteous hatred in the context of playing a game. We're all participating in a campaign here we just happen to share the same character sheet.

Mikage can reconcile with Usa but it still won't convince me that she hasn't been a significant factor in screwing up her life.

My deep end back it up Freud was based on the fact that you're extending your analysis and shit towards another player.

I don't drone on about how you're pulling undergrad psychology, flip flop left and right, play the white knight right until you think it's "funny" etc etc.

In short I'm playing the game and having fun... and enjoy shouting BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT MIKAGE! I like the story and Mikage and I get energized over it.

However if you think I'm actually having serious emotional trauma over this you... are a bit deluded.


>>35761915
Hell I thought Mikage's father was the Heir which would transfer to his daughter...

“Waking world? What?” You wonder what they’re on about. If your problems are going on in the waking world then...where are you?

Looking about to and fro, you realize you don’t quite remember how you got here. That’s kind of weird.

“It means, quite simply,” explains Jadeite as he motions around the two of you, “That you have been but sleeping here, and these visions did appear,”

“Man, its cute quoting Shakespeare...but come on, speak plainly man,” you groan.

“You’re dreaming,” Zoisite rolls his eyes and gives a mirthful laugh.

“That's pretty simple...so I fell asleep,” you muse and hold your chin, “So does that mean I can do stuff around here in my mind?”

“You aren’t quite so apt at maintaining your will over this place,” you here explained by Zoisite, “but you are welcome to try. Not like we have any authority. We’re just visiting, and this isn’t really your dream. We just kind of pulled you out of it to chat here in your core,”

There is the subtle buzzing at the base of your skull, like thinking suddenly took on a weird bit of static interference, you get glimpses of your dream on the surface. A warm beach, a cold drink, wings, and…

Something beautiful, but you can’t quite put your finger on it.

Ah well. You’ll get there eventually.

“We are concerned about your primary mental state, and the presence of you and the other splinters of your personality,” Kunzite offers, “Is there anything we can help you resolve? Anything you’d like to talk about in here, in the safety of your own mind?”

Huh, that’s a thoughtful offer.

>Nah, I’m good.
>Well, hey Jadeite! How do you feel about apprenticing Midori?
>I guess I wanted to thank you for those Haircare tips. They kinda rock.
>Actually, (insert personal concern about sanity and well being here)
>What is that buzzing?
>Write in

>>35762073
>Well, hey Jadeite! How do you feel about apprenticing Midori?

>>35762073
>What is that buzzing?
Hell is that... talk is great and all but.. is something try to get into her head?

>>35762073

>Well, hey Jadeite! How do you feel about apprenticing Midori?
>I guess I wanted to thank you for those Haircare tips. They kinda rock.
>What is that buzzing?

>>35761915
To my understanding, Helios rules the last remnants of the old Earth Kingdom, hidden within a pocket dimension/the dream world. True, with both Usagi and Mamoru's bloodlines Mikage does have the authority to that call. However, I do not believe she wants to do so. She got back into the vigilante gig for the sole reason of supporting the people who are precious to her. Beyond that, I think Mikage's avoidance of anything magical would still hold sway.
>>35761993
Even in this post, I have difficulty telling where your opinions end and your assumption of Mikage's begin. That's why I find the beheading comments... unnerving. I have no way of telling if you ar ejust shouting it to be funny, if you out of character think that way, or if you believe Mikage should think that way. I too am having fun and getting energized over the story. No, I dont think you have emotional trauma over this, I just think your OTT statements lack the facts needed to be taken as character mindset and policy.
>>35762073
seconding this>>35762125.

>>35762073
>>Actually, (insert personal concern about sanity and well being here)
"Give it to me straight, guys: Am I nuts? On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is crazy awesome and 10 is just dangerously fucking batshit."

>>35762073
>Well, hey Jadeite! How do you feel about apprenticing Midori?
>I guess I wanted to thank you for those Haircare tips. They kinda rock.
>Wait, What is that buzzing?

>>35762143
That answer is probably a solid eight... eight anda half.

>>35762180
Hm... that might be a little too high even for Dan or Red Eyes. If we get that for an answer, we might want to reign it in to around... six.

>>35762180
Nah, it's more like a 5-6. Mikage is improving....

>>35762216
That's the thing you have to include Dan and Red eyes and those.. other ones that have no screen time.. into one package.

>>35762236
We need to get those girls on camera.

>>35762232
She's asleep in a bush hidden as a full grown man.

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>>35762073
>Well, hey Jadeite! How do you feel about apprenticing Midori?
>I guess I wanted to thank you for those Haircare tips. They kinda rock.
>What is that buzzing?
pic related

>>35762247
Yes. For... reasons.

>>35762254
Ok, Was improving. Hopefully
>>35762276
if those reasons are the reasons I think your reasoning, then I too am reasoning the reasons that you are reasoning. Count me in. Pervy too, probably.

>>35762308
derp. that first one should be: Hopefully she will will keep improving.

Counting

“Well, there may be a few things *I* think I could resolve right about now,” you muse and rub your chin, sitting in a beanbag chair that wasn’t there a second ago.

“Excellent,” Kunzite smiles, crosses his arms, and takes a particularly as he closes his eyes in a firm nod.

“Well,” you muse before flicking your finger forward and pointing at the General with the shortest hair, “hey Jadeite! How do you feel about apprenticing Midori?”

Kunzite jerks and his eye twitches, a mild frustration that he then chooses to let slip away. Zoisite laughs at his lover’s frustrations.

Jadeite regards you, cooly.

“She has potential, and she is capable of perceiving me,” he muse, “There are other personal similarities that I have noticed in our brief interactions, Princess. I think she would be an ideal apprentice,”

“Well that’s good,” you hum to yourself.

“Anything else you wanted to talk about?” Kunzite lays his hands on his hips.

“I guess I wanted to thank you for those haircare tips,” you run a hand through your hair, “They kinda rock, you muse and smile,”

Zoisite laughs a bit more and lays a supportive hand on the thoroughly defeated Knight Marshal of the Four Kings.

“Well, I guess that’s everything...hey, what’s that buzzing?”

>>35763129


Its like a strange static buzzing, and you readily hone in on it. Your eyes slip back into your proper dream, and you witness the phantom slip of a blue haired girl observing your dreams as Dan. You’re laying there, in a zipped sleeveless hoodie, trunks, and shades, in a lounge chair with a strip of Zinc down your nose being fanned by...well that’s weird and psychologically questionable.

Yeah...you’re being fanned by Daphne, a more cleaned up version of the beast, and Mimi-chan. There is nothing freudian about this in the least...okay maybe it means you’re a bit narcissistic and all of your assorted personas are a bit self serving, but really. Who isn’t these days?

>Distract Aiha from trying to go deeper, try to make something happen...what?
>Try to tackle Aiha out of your mind, mentally.
>Try and trick Aiha out of your mind, you’re trixie, aren’t you? How?
>Tell her that if she takes a picture it’ll last longer. Engage her, how?
>Write in

>>35763149
>Try and trick Aiha out of your mind, you’re trixie, aren’t you? How?
Well, we take advantage of our personas serving us and imply that we're just some perverted guy having dreams about perverted things. Aiha won't stick around too long then.

>>35763149
>Try and trick Aiha out of your mind, you’re trixie, aren’t you? How?

Flirt with her! Try to include her in the Freudian shenanigans! She'll duck and run. Clearly we just place all the attractive girls we see here!

>>35763202
I like the way you think.

>>35763149
>>35763202
>>35763204
Seconding

>>35763149
>Try and trick Aiha out of your mind, you’re trixie, aren’t you? How?
these: >>35763202, >>35763204
Yes Im agreeing with Gnash.

>>35763149
>>Try and trick Aiha out of your mind, you’re trixie, aren’t you? How?
Clearly, she's here to participate in the harem dream! Come here, lady, feel these manly pecs!

>>35763149
include Fire's vote of >>35763277 in mine.

Countin-

Wait...this is pretty unanimous.

Okay then.

Do you guys want to make this test to trick her to leave with Persuasion, Intimidate, or Deception?

>>35763476
Which are we best at Deception?

>Deception

but I'm going to look at the pastbin.

Can we use perfect lie here actually? This seems like a great spot for it.

>>35763497
This is a situation in which Perfect lie would be applicable

>>35763521
Perfect! Let's use that.

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>>35763521

>>35763521
And there was much rejoicing.
And much more maniacal laughter.

>>35763611
I don't know who the Senshi will be more out off by: Red Eyes or Dan. Either way, We Win, unless Mikage loses.

>>35763683
I don't see any reason why Mikage would fail at something this hilarious.

Okay, writing

>>35763704
sorry, I meant to say 'more PUT off by'
and I think you know EXACTLY what I mean by Mikage losing.

>>35763749
No way she would join in. We're Dan.. not eclipse!

Writing delay, discuss something. I may be a few moments.

>>35763772
0.0 Ok, apparently you don't. I'm taking about potential long-term consequences for this. We just got done clearing with our little sister that we're not a danger to those around us, andher friends still think we are. They'll not take this well if they connect Dan to Mikage.

What were you thinking of, having Mikage 'service' Dan?

>>35763829
Uhh.. No. I thought it was Ahia bashful maybe interacting is what you were implying and I said that'd only happen if we where eclipse...

Strange.. so you're saying.. things may not be good.. if.. They find out Mikage is Dan? I never would have suspected that.

>>35763829
It was the direction indicated by the flow. Dan knows better than to push against the flow.

>>35763882
I am restraining my impulses to scream right now. As the guy who wants emotional drama, I'd thought you would have picked that up. It is only because of the sheer amount of brain-breaking NOPE Aiha will hopefully react with, that lets me OK this.
>>35763884
That we can agree with. Let's hope Aiha promptly scoots after contact.

>>35763985
I... was being sarcastic and planned this from the start. Choices that appear innocent remember?

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>>35764012
>mfw I got played.

>>35764029
Artemis rarely let's things to too poorly. But I try.

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>>35764064
for once, Bravo. I can see even the best case scenario having disastrous consequences... but it'll be hilarious to watch it all burn. Why can't the two of us do more crazy shit like this?

back and writing

>>35763558
>We use perfect lie to convince Aiha that Dan is just an average, guy having a perverted dream.
>Lie: "That blue-haired chick is SO fine. Let's tune this dream to smexy times! Hey, why are you leaving?"
>This is all forgotten until ages later when Aiha finds out Dan's (and Eclipse's) identity, and the Perfect Lie turns out to still be in effect.
>Between this and her crush on Eclipse, Aiha begins a campaign to seduce.

>>35764107
The exact circumstances were not entirely my doing. But the general result is what I wanted.

Sure! All you have to do is agree with my votes. Granted this is a bit on the light hearted side of things.. but I'm hoping things will get more conflicting and dark.

>>35764128
and thus begins the story of how Luna's worst nightmares came true. :)
>>35764142
You vote for more light hearted stuff, I'll back you up.

>>35764189
See that's the thing. This was about as dark as I could get it.

I was all for continuing to panic.. hoping she would flee at high speed and start one or two of the scouts on a chase to catch her. Big emotional blow out lots of feels had.

However Pills was starting to take the lead.. so I had to compromise and follow/garner support for this.

>>35764243
well, compromise IS the cornerstone of a successful democracy...

>>35764282
We're playing the heir to a throne. Democracy a Shit.

>>35764294
You might, but Mikage isn't. Wants nothing to do with Magic, only got back in reluctantly, remember?

You aren’t too keen on Aiha poking around in your mind. There is plenty of important stuff your other really wants to say to the girl, but this isn’t the time or context to take it away. Drawing up energy from your starseed, you present to the girl an uncomfortable dishonesty.

“Hey,” you look over to her phantom from the lounge chair and slide your shades down your zinc smeared nose, “Don’t think I’ve seen you around here, cutie. Have you come to join the party?”


Gotta watch out for sunburn, you know.

“P-P-Party?” Aiha asks suddenly, “You can see me?”

“How could I miss you?” you rock your shoulders to some unheard song and level an accusatory finger at her and wink a particularly perverted grin, “When I never miss any hot girl that enters my sights,”

Your fan team add to the illusion, posing around you provocatively and also making eyes at the younger girl. Her blush is total, as is the psionic backlash this seems to cause whenever she gets emotionally overloaded. She turns away from you and slips out of your dreams, a touch mad and majorly embarrassed. You click your tongue.

“Yeah, sometimes when a kid tries to hone in on a more grown up seen, all you gotta do to get them out of your hair is to remind them of how grown up things can be,” you ease back down into your chair and exalt in the resumed attentions of your fan team, “Man, I’m pretty,”

As you let your eyes sink closed, you feel a sharp pain as something digs into the soft bits where your shoulders meet your neck. Sitting up with a yelp you find pale white arms attempting to pin and possibly eviscerate you.

“Miki’s gone home where I can’t reach her, and until we slip back home, you are now my least favorite roommate,” the Red Eyed Beast growls at you, her hair in its more natural state of disarray. Daphne looks at her own state of dress in disapproval and Mimi tries to cover her extensive exposure up with her arms as she blushes.

>>35764539
Nearby, under the shade of an umbrella, you catch sight of a girl with long and trailing pink hair hugging her knees to her chest, rocking slowly. She’s getting to where she needs to be. You did well buying her time, and then bringing her somewhere that time gets eaten up faster, thus speeding her recovery from this latest attack.

You’d feel more proud of yourself if the Beast wasn’t trying to simultaneously throttle you and jam the palm leaf fan down your throat.

The entire tableau of beachside violence is rocked and falls away as you are dragged back into the physical world. A small hand is shaking your shoulder, your eyes slide open against your better judgement and you find yourself faced with an annoyed blond haired brown skinned pipsqueak. Oh, its Sasha.

He looks sopping wet, and did you happen to notice he looked annoyed? Yeah, you did. It was worth mentioning twice because he doesn’t seem very happy in the least.

“Oi, Dan,” he questions kinda grumpily, “What the hell are you doing here?”

Argh, thinking on your feet through the haze of sleep. Way to put a man on the spot.

>Write in

>>35764576
"Uuuuh... Where am I? Better question... you think maybe you could give me a ride?"

>>35764576
Felt like taking a nap. Sup?

>>35764605
Gnash, If you make it so we get a ride to Naru's I will second you vote AND post a pic of me eating a hat.

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>>35764658
*your

>>35764658
Nap to Naru's I don't know if that's possible but if he can give us a ride we can head in that general direction.

>>35764653
This one.

>>35764576
Official vote: seconding these: >>35764653
>>35764685

>>35764685
Ride to Naru's... nap.. I'm tired. I blame Fire senators post I was reading it while typing.

>>35764688
Hell have you been! Mr. I have other engagements such as life!

>>35764576
>>35764605
>>35764653
Seconding

>>35764701
Twas game night. Kicking peoples ass at Catan and Monopoly and possibly losing friends.

>>35764737
Best friends dad flipped over the kitchen table and stormed out of the house because I convinced his wife to sell me the boardwalk. Awkward night.

>>35764757
Haha. Ever played Monopoly with real money?

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>>35764701
>tired
>implying you aren't doing pic related.
your college-fu is weak Gnash.
>>35764757
Could be worse. They could have been playing Mari Party.
>>35764771
Actually, that IS worse than Mario Party.

>>35764790
Only twice god help me. It was a long term game with loans, interest rates and some nasty backroom dealing.

>>35764771
Nah only poker. I do not have enough cash to throw around for that.

Well actually... we where debating trading in USD for random third world country money so we could play with real cash.

>>35764790
Nah no papers due yet. Calm weak. I've got one or two more before I have to write another handful of papers.

Mostly just reading an ungodly number of cases and a few books on philosophy.

>>35764836
Mostly appointments and reading for me. To the surprise of my peers, I ENJOY reading.
>>35764833
Yeah. Not the best for making friends.

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>>35764836
This was full on holy shit levels of monopoly. I think we divided everything by 5. So the 500s were 100s, the 100s were 20s, the 50s were 10s, the 20s were 5s(one of two exceptions), the 10s were 2s, 5s were 1s, and the 1s were quarters(Other exception), I didn't put into the pot I was invited, ended up walking away with enough money to put a down payment on my car and a few less friends.
(Mfw I got asked to do it a 3rd time)

>>35764943
Ah okay I could play with someone else's money. Ask me to shuffle my own into the game though...

>>35764961
Yeah, there was like $5,000 dollars floating around in that game.

>>35764576
Simple honesty "I was sleeping man, who's gonna bother a guy here?"

>>35764984
Jesus. Yeah that's enough to make enemies.

I cannot leave you guys alone, I take an evening to focus on a campaign and nothing but bedlam breaks out between you all.

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>>35764943
1. at that point, it's not Monopoly, it's Limited Investment.
2. Not putting anything in the pot, then cleaning them out? yeah, dey mad.
3. Why not just invest in the stock market? Oh, right, zero consumer confidence. At least the money's going to people you know.
>>35764984
0.0 I could pay for an entire year of college with that.
>>35765025
I blame Gnash.

>>35765025
It could have been better... but we just didn't have the votes.

Counting, writing

>>35764943
Monopoly is the destroyer of friendships even without real money.

>>35765039
>>35765041
I'll blame both, mainly because I had to start skimming to catchup when it was just the two of you going back and forth.

>>35765116
I readily accept any and all blame offered.

>>35765116
Mikage had a panic attack.
Instead of taking her pills the vote swung to hide as Dan.
Once discovered Ahia was tricked into thinking Dan was a perv.
Sasha is now asking us what the hell we're doing here.

>>35765217
Indeed.

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>>35765011
Here, let me add it all up exactly.....Ok I was off by about $2000. There was $3080 floating around, and I walked about with about $1500 of it. Again, over the course of an entire summer and it payed for the down payment on my car.

Fools. They didn't know that I grew up playing monopoly with my Dad, who spent 20 years in finance, Wall Street and Banking; my Grand Mother whose a realtor, and my paternal Uncle whose an investor.

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>>35765508
You, you Shark you. And they kept bring you back? I applaud you, good sir.

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~bu? Huh? Oh, hey. I just felt like taking a nap,~ you regard your friend,~Sup?~

“I get that you were napping, but why are you napping here?” he grumbles and releases your shoulder.

~I dunno? Where am I anyway? Hey! I don’t suppose you could give me a ride to the otherside of town?~ you rise up amid the shrubbery and knock into a few branches. You can hear the nearby calls for Mikage in most directions.

He regards you calmly and shakes his head.

“I’m out on a run, my bike isn’t even parked in this ward,” he explains, “You’re in the hedges of someone’s yard. Do you live here?”

You hum a bit and inspect your surroundings, poking your head out of the green brush to inspect the property. Returning to the dense cover of the green you regard the small teen with a nod.

~Nope,~ you conclude with a relaxed posture and muse, ~Huh, its daylight out. I wonder how long I’ve been asleep,~

Sasha seems frustrated and his eye twitches a bit. He mumbles something about jesters under his breath and shakes his head.

~Say, do you live here?~

“No?”

~Then why are you poking around in these bushes?~ you wonder aloud, ~And what’s with all those girls out there looking for a Mikage?~

His eyes shoot askance and he seems...frustrated and embarrassed.

“Apparently a girl prone to panic attacks just ran off from her friends,” he snaps back at you, “Not that its any of my or your business what they’re doing,”

>The business of girls in trouble IS my business ugh...I’m awake I swear. Wait, that’s counter productive to our actual goals!
>Well, alright then. I’ve got places to be if it's tomorrow already.
>Oh ho? What’s this? Sasha is there something you’re embarrassed about? I guess it wouldn’t hurt to press and see what he thinks of us. Do you think he thinks we’re crazy? Oh man I hope he doesn’t think we’re crazy.
>Write in

>>35765603
>The business of girls in trouble IS my business
Inner voice? What inner voice? We've got a call to answer here!

>>35765603
>>The business of girls in trouble IS my business ugh...I’m awake I swear. Wait, that’s counter productive to our actual goals!

I... I want to vote differently but this amuses me greatly.

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>>35765542
Oh did they. Like two times, I said no after the third time.

>>35765603
>Oh ho? What’s this? Sasha is there something you’re embarrassed about?
Gnash can't be trusted.

>>35765603
>Well, alright then. I’ve got places to be if it's tomorrow already.

Keep it cool. Mikage chose Dan so she could get away to recover.

>>35765603
>>The business of girls in trouble IS my business, there something you’re embarrassed about?

>>35765603
>>The business of girls in trouble IS my business ugh...I’m awake I swear. Wait, that’s counter productive to our actual goals!

Get a description and help out.

>>35765603
seconding this: >>35765644

>>35765603
This is fine.>>35765644

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>>35765655
This seems like a bad idea.

>>35765603
> Help the girls find you
Dandy helps girls no matter their problem.

>>35765603
>>The business of girls in trouble IS my business, there something you’re embarrassed about?
OK, time to this crazy train back on track people.

>>35765627
Gnash, if you switch your vote to >>35765644
I will post a pic of me eating Two hats, with ketchup.

>>35765696
Better would be Dan's zen-like advice that if the girl does not seek to be found, then not found is where she wants to be. Pursue when she seeks to be found.

>>35765714
I'm not opposed to that option.. but I'd rather not see you eating hats.

>>35765720
OH. Oh, that's good. Zen advice from Dan sounds pretty amazing. Include this if you can Arty.>>35765603

>>35765727
Fine. What pic DO you want me to post as a bribe/compensation?

>>35765727
They could be the products of hat shaped candy molds, or novelty bread loaf silicon molds to make hat looking breaks on which to put ketchup and other sammich constructibles?

Counting and then writing

>>35765603
Arty, changing my vote to >>35765644 + >>35765720
>>35765749
I could work with that. It'll take longer, but I can do that.

>>35765746
I.. don't need one? Artemis is already handling me, drawing the request I had for relevant art.

>>35765749
That's.. far too elaborate..

>>35765627 swapped for >>35765697

>>35765784
Thank you Gnash. What I had in mind was a before shot of two baseball caps with a little of ketchup on them, then an after shot of me taking a bite out of them. I wouldn't have actually eaten them, for obvious reasons.

>>35765813
Yeah I'm good. However any and all monetary donations are always accepted.

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>>35765824
>you know I'm a college student
>implying I have money

Rolled 7 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

Give me a Social Steal attempt.

1d20+2 vs the above. Best of 3. 1s and 20s wild

Rolled 2 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35765863

Rolled 18 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35765863
rolling.
>>35765868
that was close.

Rolled 17 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35765863
HEART OF THE CARDS

Rolled 16 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35765863

>>35765872
You've done well tonight Apprentice.

>>35765876
well, Heart of the Dice, but it worked.
>>35765912
*bows deeply* Thank you, Sensei. You honor me with your praise.

>>35765924
Do not be fooled. The dice have no hearts.

>>35766028
well, they do, they are just very fickle and ever changing ones. like a certain Blue Bird I know...

Thanks for the thread Artemis but I've got to sleep. Good luck guys.

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QM's asleep post cats

~The business of girls in trouble IS my business,~ you explain with a confident smirk.

He groans.

~Then again,~ you muse, ~something has you embarrassed about the situation. And not just about finding a friend passed out like a bum. What’s got you so defensive that you’re denying its your business when you’re helping?~

“No. If you think I’m embarrassed, what makes you think I”ll talk about it?” he growls in frustration.

~Come on man, its better to have someone who can cover for you in awkward social situations than not,~ you cross your arms, ~That’s just what friends do,~

He regards you a moment and makes a flippant gesture.

“Fine, because you’re clearly sticking around and probably going to find out from the gabby blonde anyway,” he grouses and is generally grumpy, “I know the girl who ran off...well, I guess I don’t know her as well as I thought, and her dunce of a blonde little sister of that girl accused me of going on a date and…”

He pauses to massage his temples.

“And maybe it was a date, I guess. I thought it was friendly but...whatever. She had a panic attack, or so her friends claim, because she didn’t want me to recognize her yet and…”

~And?~

“And it feels like I’ve stepped into something contrived and insane, and I don’t know what I’m doing if I can’t just punch a problem away or fix it,” he leads you out of the hedges.

~Is she cute? Was it a fun date,~ you rib him with your elbow in the hopes of egging him on to bragging.

“Yeah it was fun,” he shrugs, “And the best fight I’ve had in a while,”

~Dodging the question is unbecoming, man,~ you sigh and shake your head.

>>35766332
“Okay. Fine. I thought she was cute,” he hisses at you in a whisper as you approach the other girls looking up and down the street and makes a beeline for Kairi, “hey, Osaka-san,”

“Yes,” she looks up from peering down a sewer grate...because lets face it she knows Mikage Chiba isn’t above running through sewer tunnels.

She regards you a moment and then her eyes shoot quickly to the side as if in focus with another conversation. Her eyes return to you and are laughing while her face otherwise maintains composure. Great, Nephrite is totally not being a good bro right now. Outing us to Kairi like that.

“No luck on Mikage,” you jerks a thumb at you, “but I found this joker asleep in the hedge. His name is Dan and he’s a friend. Says he wanted to help,”

“Dan, is it?” she says carefully and probably holding back her laughter for the sake of Sasha’s presence, “I’m Kairi Osaka, thank you for offering to help,”

You wonder why she has to rub it in, and ultimately you realize you might be projecting. Kanari is walking over, she might have something to say to Kairi or she wants to interrogate the new guy on the scene.

~Yeah, the name’s Dan D,~ you smile, ~and how can I help you out a cute girl in distress,~

“We’ll. We’re looking for our friend. She had a panic attack and ran off...and we have NO idea where she went,” you really drops the emphasis on the no as she stares at you and she seemed to blush slightly when you used the word cute.

~Bummer. Well, I’ll try to help you find her, but sometimes if someone doesn’t want to be found then its where they need to be. Don’t worry though, I’m sure once she’s ready to be found, we’ll find her,~ you muse and wink at her and snap your fingers into a cool point for your own emphasis.

Kanari just kind of stares at you, uncertain if the words that came out of your mouth were crazy or simplistic enough to be genius.

>>35766343
“Right,” she sighs.

“Oi, don’t just go trying to run your game,” Sasha chides, “There’s a girl missing,”

“Yes,” Kairi agrees in hollow reframe, “Yes there is,”

~What, I’m not running a game or a flirt. You said the missing girl was cute, ergo cute girl in distress,~

Of course we have to stealth tell our best friend a guy thinks we’re cute in the most annoying and contrived way possible instead of directly telling her in secret with telepathy.

Kairi regards this exchange with a sudden coldness.

~Not that I wouldn’t flirt with a cute girl like yourself under fairer circumstances,~ you smile and gesticulate with your hands between the three of you, ~Just teasing my buddy here. Though rest assured I still think you are very pretty and have a gorgeous butt,~

Huh, that line makes Kairi go rigid. You feel an aura of impending fear and doom. Its pretty out of place so you brush it off.

Are you trying to get her to refill emotional cup? We just drained her again!

“You are quick to act overly familiar with others, aren’t you,” Sahsa grumbles, “Of course I land in Japan and just make weird friends,”

~I’m not weird,~ you bite back, ~I happen to think I’m cool and charming,~

“Well, we all have our opinions,” Kairi sighs and seems to be glaring daggers at you.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 51
END

Interlude Vote
>Sense and Senseless Ability
>Official Business
>Dust and the Rust

>>35766343
You feel a disturbance in the pronouns, you.

>>35766356
>Sense and Senseless Ability

>>35766356
>Sense and Senseless Ability
Right thanks for running.. I gatta crash waaay to late for me.

>>35766332
>it feels like I’ve stepped into something contrived and insane
Welcome to 4chan Sasha, you must be new here. In all seriousness I find that bit of meta-humor hilarious.
>>35766356
>Though rest assured I still think you are very pretty and have a gorgeous butt

HAHAHA! Well, I think we found out where Mikage's lust went. Can't wait to hit on Naru.

All in all, Good Thread Artemis.Interlude vote: >Sense and Senseless Ability

>>35766356
Oh, we done stepped on a mine. This gonna be fuuuuuun.

>Sense and Senseless Ability

>>35766356
>>Sense and Senseless Ability

>>35766379
It's late

>>35766356
>Official Business
Oh dear, we may have pissed Kairi off....again.

>>35766415
So next thread tomorrow or next week?

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>>35766416
wait until she finds out we groped her mom's butt and flirt with her some more. pic related.

>Oh God, I'm turning into Gash and I'm liking it...

General thread feedback?

>>35766446
I don't think we groped Naru, just bumped into her and conplimented.

>>35766496
Even with the repercussions to come, Fun thread. Same time Next week?

>>35766506
well, we definitely felt her ass, then proceeded to flirt with her about it.

>>35766496
Not too much to say, I missed most of the thead.

I think that the choice to go with Dan was the correct one. I also have some mild shadowruns considering from what we know of Mikage's run as Sailor Moon and stuff happening before that, that perhaps Dan might actually be the first split personality, since not only does he apparently contain Mikage's lust, but also her ability to go with the flow, which seems to be lacking for what we've seen of her tenure as Sailor Moon.

Just realized something we forgot: In looking back through the early threads for the Dan D/Naru encounter, Mikage figured out that Rin saw The Night. We haven't dealt with this plot point, to my knowledge.

>>35766496
Generally amused. Thanks for the quest.

>>35766496
Good times. Sorry I missed a chunk of it.

>>35766356
>Dust and the Rust

Huh, we're still up.

I'll see about an Omake in a bit.

>>35769074
Yay!

I'm thinking, even if we do reveal to Sasha that Dan is us (which'd be ....interesting), we still don't have to show him Mikage. Secret Identities are totally third date material.
...So if we wanna recruit him, we'd better organise our next date!

>>35769074
Good deal. Last thread... I would have referred blind panic for awhile longer... but I believe Dan was a great choice in the end.

Delicious possible trauma. Koyomi thought she was fine! They talked, spent the night together... she was okay. Mikage was even being social! Now she's... she's gone.

>>35769209
Hey I'm actually your girlfriend and I've stressed out all these girls to stand right here like a dick.

Also anyone you have ever met in japan might be me...

Kunzite is exhausted with our behavior.
Sasha finds our behavior exhausting.

COINCIDENCE?

>>35769713
Yes. They are both dicks.

>>35769806
In this instance I think it's just Kunzite that's the dick.

>>35770106
The peril of being in a leadership position, being the designated dick.

>>35770139
He should probably be more understanding. At the moment his liege is a young girl who's having a panic attack and a fragment of her psyche has taken the helm. He's literally not all their either.

So his disgust while directed at, "Dan" is really at Mikage whether he realizes it or not.. because Dan is just a fragment of her.

>>35770213
It was meant to be less disgust and more "Comedic Frustration"

OMAKE


Much to your dismay, you can’t get the comforter and all the sheets into the washing machine at the same time. Despite having the space for something bigger, you and your wife opted to get an efficiency tower washer and dryer. Oh well. Leaving the comforter in the basket, you back out of the laundry room and close the door, only to bump into your daughter.

“Oh, hey dad,” she smiles...with a netted bag of clothes slung across her shoulder, “Morning!”

A concern consumes you, you’re relatively sure Usako would much rather leave the girls in the dark about her morning panic as it related to yesterday evening. Luckily, you’ve got this. As you turn to face her, you raise your hand to cover the stain on your cheek that has been resistant to coming out.

“Morning honey. You’re up early,” you smile.

“Jet lag,” she rolls her eyes, “And I’m not the only one. Mikage, Kairi, and Koyomi are already up, heard the older ones trying to convince the baby to join them in a morning run. Is your face okay?”

“I’d rather not explain if its all the same,” you admit, “Would you like me to throw your things in the wash next, I’m running a few loads,”

>>35770338

“Great. I need to de-fur most of socks and panties,” she complains and shoves the laundry bag into your arms, “Big Diana is teaching Diana bad habits. The kitten actually tore up a few of my things in her sleep and together they shed exponentially,”

Your arms reflexively wrap around the bag, exposing the deep orange stain on your cheek. Usa stares at you for a moment before she starts into an embarrassed laugh before sucking in air and near holding her breath to keep the amusement in check.

“Is, is that?” she points at the mark while trying to contain her laughter.

“Please don’t, honey,” you sigh.

Her mind is already on fire, looking over your shoulder into the slightly ajar laundry room door. Amusement is etched across her features.

“Mom didn’t wash out Mikage’s tanning oil, didn’t she?!” she seems downright giddy.

“No…” you admit in mild defeat, “She didn’t. It ran in her sleep and changed color,”

Your eldest child adopts a very feline smile and turns about in a short sprint.

“I have got to see this,”

Damn it…

>>35770246
Dammit man it doesn't work if you clear up the confusion.

>>35770357
Doesn't it now?

>>35770351
Wait, the oil changed colour? Do you mean it changed the colour of the sheets and stuff by staining?

>>35770565
Or it ran and stained the sheets. And Usagi.

Amusement and good morning everyone!

>>35770565
>deep orange
It's gone past California and reached the Jersey Shore.

>>35770771
So does that mean Usagi is now an blonde oompa loompa?

While this is still up, I should note that I'm running again on Monday.

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>>35771274
Probably.

Answer to question of whether pale skin comes with that transformation soon.
Mainly through whether she still goes to the meeting herself.

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Trying to go back through and sort through side conversations I missed while I wasn't here yesterday.

>>35762139
Helios was the guardian of the Golden Crystal, holding it for the Earth until the rulers of the Moon thought the Earth ready for it, and the caretaker of Dream/Memory of Elysium, a cultural time-capsule of the Earth Kingdom the survive the ages.

>>35761766
She wasn't named that just because Usa was here. Usa's name is Usagi, she gets called Usa in the past to avoid confusion with her mother, but in the future her mother is known more as Serenity, so naming a child after what was your name was a nice thing then. Basically, Mikage is Mikage because Usagi is Usagi. Rather than Usa/Usagi and Serenity.

>>35761993
We've mostly reconciled with her. While she was a factor in things, most of it was in our own head. Mikage compared herself to her and thought of everyone else as if they were as well, whereas there seems to have been only one person that had any trouble keeping the two separate (and that person badly overcompensated to try to avoid showing that). The dream thing we kept secret and she had no idea. Never saw any Malice, outside of how we treated her for the last seven years or so.

>>35760684
>>35760785
Sasha isn't magical as far as anyone knows, in or out of game.
Only thing we know out of character is that Boris seems to share a dream-mirror with Sasha, and that in response to the shadow dream attacks it seems that the bear protected Sasha from being faced with a shadow-fight of his own. Somehow, likely involving the crystal half she had and her tuxedo mask teddy bear, that bear was linked into Azusa's dream as well and helped defend her from Dark Helios' attempt to get her/crystal.
Boris was woken up and Tuxedo Bear had to go, not long after team pink-hair arrived, finished saving her and got the golden crystal half out of her.
After some discussion with Fashion Circle folks, Mikage may suspect Azusa is that girl.
Which does bear checking on.

>>35772549
Though why specifically Boris/Sasha got tagged in could be an interesting question.
Could be a simple as the closest match in the dreamscape when Azusa needed Tuxedo Bear to protect her. Could be their affinity for Earth. Could be something deeper, either with Sasha/Boris or something in those half-shrouded memories to suggest an unremembered connection between them and Azusa.

>>35770338
>>35770351
You know just how to make my day Artemis.
>>35772549
>>35772595
thank you for your clarifying anon. Thing is, since Mikage saw the person was in the shadow bear, would she think that was Sasha or not? But, yes, Mikage needs to chat with Azusa.

>>35772595

Should we reach out to Moe about Azusa.

>>35773706
>Moe
Who?

>>35773724
Moe Ueda, the lifting girl from the fashion circle.

>>35773753
Thanks, now remind me how she might know Azusa?

>>35773793
Her main friend and Moe's nurse sister was taking care of her as well.
She'd been visiting sick friend and asking her about it revealed timing of mysterious onset or illness and recovery, along with bear dream that reminded us of the circumstances faced by the girl we helped dreamside.

>>35773929
Got it, and yes, that would be an excellent first step.

Anyone else feel like Mikage must have done a lot of independent study on dreams and trying to control them during her quest to avoid dreaming? She has been surprisingly savvy to dream mechanics.

Maybe that and/or early-life training via Usa's experiences, much like Diana and Big Di on human-form taking.

>>35774715

In backstory, Mikage pursued more external means of dream stuff than internal.