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>Who are we?
Tia, a crazy murder machine who happens to be the Lunar Mate of our main character, Maka. During an operation (gone horribly wrong) to destroy a Lintha demon-ship called the Murdering Heart, you intercepted an enemy secondary fleet on your way, and carried a ship with you to use as a drop bomb. However, Maka couldn't get out of the way in time, and you accidentally hit her as well when you tossed it down on the Lintha flagship.
NOW SHE'S DEAD AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAAAAAAAAAAAAAULT

>Solar? Zenith? I don't know Exalted...
This quest is as newbie-friendly as possible, and I want it to work as a newbie's intro to Exalted. If you have ANY question, ask in thread. For the setting, google "1d4chan exalted".

>Archive?
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Solar%20Quest

>System?
Dicepool-like system. When performing an action, everyone rolls 1d10 when posting. the first X rolls are considered, where X is equal to attribute + ability. Yes, this means that the more people are posting, the stronger Maka is, up to a limit of her attribute + ability.

>XP?
Attributes cost [current score x5] xp. Abilities cost [current score x3] xp, except Zenith costing [(current score x3) -1]. Charms cost 10 xp, except for Zenith-based charms (related to charisma and physical/mental fortitude) which cost 8 xp. At the end of every "session" (thread) you will be presented with a list of possible acquisitions.

>Twitter?
@exaltedfag

>Any questions?
http://ask.fm/Exaltedfag

>>36115596
>Shove the thing aside, keep digging.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36115596
>Shove the thing aside, keep digging.

And by shove I mean punch in half.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36115596
>Vent out your anger on this monster.
Also
>Cunning Hunter's Spear
let's get rid of this thing so we can get back to more important things.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36115596
>Vent out your anger on this monster.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36115596

>>36115697 here switching to

>Vent out your anger on this monster.

Also voting to activate cunning hunter's spear and golden tiger stance.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36115596
>Vent out your anger on this monster
KILL MAIM BURN but in moderation. use its blood to put out Zaan
also, >NOW SHE'S DEAD

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36115596
>Vent out your anger on this monster.
Activate
Cunning Hunter's Spear
Lunar Silver Reconfiguration

Rolled 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 = 29 (5d10)

>>36115783
I think the idea of lunar silver reconfiguration is a one time expense to change our sword into a more useful tool.

So if we want to use it we need to have some consensus on what to change it into.

>>36115663
>NOW SHE'S DEAD AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAAAAAAAAAAAAAULT
Well at least we're taking it well

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36115596

>Shove the thing aside, keep digging.

Kraken form!
We need tentacles! All the tentacles!

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36115596
>>Vent out your anger on this monster.

BLOOD AND THUNDER

>>36115596
>Vent out your anger on this monster.

Maim burn kill?

>>36115596
>Vent out your anger on this monster.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36115596

>Shove the thing aside, keep digging.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36115596

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Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36115596
>>All is lost. Give in to despair, explode the ship, sink with it.
Welp, we dun goofed. Time to commit Sudoku

You grab the tentacle wrapped around your throat with both hands.

"...it's your fault! If you hadn't got in the way, Maka would have got out of the way in time! If you hadn't distracted her, she would've seen it coming!" You scream in the tentacle mass' non-existent face. "IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!

Physical + war = 4 5 7 2 10 7 3 6 2 5 = 4 successes.

Your strength fails you. Your fingers slide on the tentacle's slippery surface and can't find a grabbing point, and the limb slaps back around your neck, clenching painfully.
[HEALTH: 5/8]

Your vision begins to go black as air and blood flows are cut out. You hear your spine cracking distressingly, and the tentacle lifts you by the neck, up in the sky above the monster and the pile of rubble.

Further away from where Maka's body might lie.

Desperately you struggle to grasp the limb squeezing the life out of you and wrench yourself free...

>Roundhouse kick the tentacle
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free
>Shift shape into a small animal to escape
>Cry

(Suggestion: you have no charms active right now. Consider activating some. Look over the character sheet to decide.)

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116070
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free
Deadly beastman transformation sounds like just the thing for RIP AND TEAR.

>>36116070
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free

How does Relentless Lunar Fury work? Is it the same cost as Deadly Beastman Transformation

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36116117
Forgot Dice

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116070
>>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free
RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS

[ACTIVATE LIGHTNING-FLASH MIGHT]
[ACTIVATE GOLDEN TIGER STANCE]

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36116070

>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free

Activate charms!
[Deadly beastman transformation]
[Lightning-Flash might]
[Cunning Hunter's spear]

Bad stuff is going to happen if we lose here.
RIP AND TEAR!

>>36116117
yes. same cost, same effect, but it doesn't entail shapeshifting.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36116070
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free

Activate Deadly Beastman Transformation, Cunning Hunter's Spear, Golden Tiger Stance
AND Shell-Shattering Atemi.

Fuck this bitch tentacle, maximum combat power is go.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116070
>>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free

Lightnign-flash might plz

>>36116070
>>Roundhouse kick the tentacle
Golden Tiger Stance

A question with 'Scene', is that a single combat, a whole thread, or a series of combat (e.g. fighting a single lintha or an entire shipful)

>>36116128
Alright then add to >>36116117
Relentless Lunar Fury
Cunning Hunter's Spear
Shell-Shattering Atemi
Lightning-Flash Might

>>36116129
nigga, we dont NEED all that shit right now

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36116154
It's scene-long nigga We might as well pop it now and have it active the whole time while we RIP AND TEAR these bitch-nigga lintha.

>>36116146
It varies. There's no hard and fast rule for this. Multiple fights can be the same scene if they're one after another without a breather or a delay between them.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116154

We do. We are at the boss.

Not to mention that everyone else is knocked out.

>>36116154
Yes we fucking do, we've got essence to burn and shit to tear AND GET OUR MAKA BACK

I'll second whatever charms people want to activate

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116070
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free

seconding every charm people have voted for

>>36116070
I'll second >>36116125 & >>36116151

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116193
forgot mah dice

>>36116117
>>36116146
>>36116151
Roll your dice anons

Does EF not stop suicidal or OoC actions? Because fight boss without any charms when you've got full essence is very close to suicidal and I'd expect Tia to be smart enough to know this

Rolled 4 (1d10)

Turn on Dice people, we'll need the extra ones for the charms we're activating.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116070
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free
>>36116125
Seconding those

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36116215
>Does EF not stop suicidal or OoC actions?
No
> and I'd expect Tia to be smart enough to know this
You're expecting Tia to think straight while Maka is buried under a pile of ruble?

Rolled 4 (1d10)

dice

Rolled 5 (1d10)

Shit the dice are fucking us over right from the gate today.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36116070

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116236
Yep, quick someone go sacrifice a goat

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36116236
I wonder what happens if all the Exalted die

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116070
>Focus on grabbing it and tearing yourself free
So many 1s...

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116070
>Cry
It's like some higher, randomized power wants to keep us away from Maka

>>36116256
It turns into an Underworld Campaign with all the ghosts of our Exalted banding together to try to fight the Deathlords, of course

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You have no idea why you were taking this so lightly.

This thing was fighting Maka, and it was winning. And you underestimated it.

...Of course, Maka is not as good at murdering things as you, so you sometimes tend to underestimate her too.

She'not exactly a fragile little flower needing to be protected, but...

What the hell are you thinking? Of course she is. And this mess happened because you half-assed it.

Not anymore.

[DEADLY BEASTMAN TRANSFORMATION]
[LIGHTNING-FLASH MIGHT]
[GOLDEN TIGER STANCE]
[ESSENCE: 2/7]

Physical + War + GTS = 1 2 5 9 10 7 8 1 1 5 4 3 = 5 successes

You grab the tentacle squeezing your neck and rip it off casually in a shower of dark gore, dropping yourself down on the deck. Which cracks under your suddenly-increased weight, as bone and chitin plates grow over you in thick layers, covering you with your powerful natural war-armor.

Skullopener must've dropped somewhere around here while you were distraught. You see it lying on the other side of the writhing monster, stuck in the deck point-first.

The monster emits an inarticulate scream. It sounded a bit like a voice asking "who are you?", but it could have just been your imagination.

>Run around the monster to the sword.
>Run through the monster to the sword.
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Focus on moving the monster aside in case Maka is trapped under it.

Combined with
>Silently
>Answer the question
>Make a grand introduction

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Silently
Fuck the admiral. Let her die in ignorance.

>>36116424
>Run through the monster to the sword.

>Silently

No dramatics, just get to the point.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Run through the monster to the sword.

>>36116424
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.

>Silently
As she said, why answer someone that's going to be dead soon

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116424
>>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.

>Silently

She doesn't get even the SLIGHTEST satisfaction in this brutalizing.

Activate
[Shell-Shattering Atemi]

We leave NOTHING to chance with her. She get's to eat every bit of hurt we put her through.

>>36116424
>>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
REMOVE HENTAI

>Silently

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Silently

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116435
>>36116439
>>36116443
>>36116448


Instead of it being silently let's give her a nice ironic echo.

"I don't make introductions to the dead"

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116424
>>Focus on moving the monster aside in case Maka is trapped under it.
>Combined with
>>Silently

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Focus on moving the monster aside in case Maka is trapped under it.
>Make a grand introduction

>>36116435
>>36116439
>>36116443
>>36116448
>>36116451
>>36116453
>Silently
>Kamen Rider
What is going on here?

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Run through the monster to the sword.
>Silently

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Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116424

>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Silently

Cold and brutal

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Silently

use [Shell-Shattering Atemi]

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Focus on moving the monster aside in case Maka is trapped under it.
>Silently

>>36116424
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Make a grand introduction

>>36116459
I don't know, it's like they hate fun.

>>36116435
>>36116439
>>36116443
>>36116451
>>36116453
>>36116466
guys, please consider activating shell-shattering Atemi. It lasts the entire scene and makes us do more damage

>>36116459
>Silently
>Kamen Rider
>What is going on here?

Serious Tia is serious.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116479
>activating shell-shattering Atemi
This

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36116459
>What is going on here?
I don't know what you mean

>>36116479
I'll add it to >>36116459

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116424
>>36116479
Yeah, let's turn that on, fuck this tentacled mass, Silk is the only one we let tentacuddle Maka

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116443
adding [Shell-Shattering Atemi] to my vote

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116424
secomding >>36116448

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116424
>Run through the monster to the sword.
>Silently

>make a grand introduction
>I AM TIA, LUNAR MATE AND PALADIN OF MAKA'S GLORIOUS TITS

[SHELL-SHATTERING ATEMI]
[ESSENCE 1/7]

Your Anima exploding in light around you, burning even brighter, you advance towards the wriggling monstrosity of a Lintha demon. Each step crushes the deck under your feet.

With another gurgling noise, horrid and filthy, the anemone-like beast lunges at you with three more tentacles, aiming to straight-up impale you.

Physical + War + GTS = 7 3 7 4 5 5 6 7 7 8 3 6 = 5 successes

From the mass, you see a human head, a female head with a flat, expressionless gaze, roll up and come on top, crooked to one side. Its eyes turn to you a second before the tentacles strike

You sidestep the first, deftly, and it grazes your chitin armor with a rasping noise, slamming on the ship's shattered deck and digging a vicious trench through it.

The second meets your arm batting it aside. The force of the impact is tremendous, and you feel your armor cracking under the stress.

The third takes you straight in the middle of the chest. The plates hold and the sharp point doesn't penetrate, but the shock knocks the air out of you, probably cracks a couple ribs. You feel pain.

[HEALTH: 4/8]

(Cont.)

>>36116424
>Jump into the tentacles and start pulling things out.
>Make a grand introduction

This pain is nothing. You grab that appendage with both arms, your fingers sinking deep in the reddish flesh, piercing the skin. You pull it back and to the side, with all your strength, and you suddenly feel it giving way as it comes loose, ripped from the main body.

Without letting it go, you lift it up over your head,and slam it down on the head, hard. It disappears under the mass of flesh. The impact digs a shallow crater under you both, sinking you a few centimeters deeper into the shattered deck of the living ship.

There is some movement to the side. it's the bloodsoaked guy from before. He looks like he jumped into a bonfire. He's running up, around the monster.

You don't care. Black blood covers the deck, making it slippery.

The monster, more than half of its pseudopods lost, starts slithering away from you and towards the parapet. You see one of Maka's arms peeking out from under the rubble in its wake, bent at a disturbing angle. Non-lunars shouldn't bend that way.

>Help Maka
>Pursue the monster
>Grab your sword
>Confront the blood-covered stranger
>(other?)

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>Pursue the monster


Is the captain a demon or just a powerful demon-blooded?

>>36116690
>Help Maka
Our Waifu

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Like there's a choice

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Pursue the monster
finish it now, then we can help Maka

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116700
Why do I always forget the dice?

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116690
>>Help Maka
CHECK ON OUR WAIFU

AND HER GIRLS

>pursue the monster

FINISH IT

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

>>36116699
More likely demon, its not completly impossible to be a really really powerful akuma, but its rather unlikely.

Guys, Karas can help Maka. We need to kill the admiral or it will come back and fuck things up again!

>pursue the monster

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36116700
>>36116701
>>36116707
>>36116708
>>36116711
>>36116712
we don't even know first aid, how are we supposed to help her? Kill the monster so Zaan can help her.
If we let the captain get away I guarantee she'll come back and fight us again, only then we'll be low on Essence. Finish her while our combat charms are still active

>>36116690
>Grab your sword
>Pursue the monster

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Pursue the monster

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116728
All we need to do is check on her and then get Zaan and Karas to guard her and take care of her while we finish business.

But having Tia just straight up ignore a badly wounded maka to chase a target doesn't really make sense.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Confront the blood-covered stranger
Have him check on Maka while we
>Grab your sword
&
>Pursue the monster

>>36116690
>Grab your sword
>Pursue the monster

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116690
>>Pursue the monster
>>Grab your sword
RISE

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36116690
>>Pursue the monster

>>36116728
Medicine/First Aid falls under the Wisdom ability tree, which we have 3 dots in.
Even if we didn't, Exalted can do stuff like that untrained just because they are so awesome

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116743
>All we need to do is check on her and then get Zaan and Karas to guard her and take care of her while we finish business.
Do you really think the monster won't get away in the time it takes us to do it?
And it makes sense or it wouldn't be offered as an option.

I'd say it's better for Maka's health to finish the captain than to personally take care of her. I think learning to suppress her instinct to do what Maka really needs could be good for Tia, too.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36116690
>>Pursue the monster
Basic DRABCD triage: Remove danger from the area before attempting resucitation

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36116690
Seconding >>36116760

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36116690

>>36116707
Here, Changing to
>(other?)
Yelling to Zaan to heal Maka while we
>Grab your sword
>Pursue the monster

Also since we're gonna be armed again

Activate [Cunning Hunter's Spear]

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Pursue the monster
killing her will probably break the pirates' moral

>>36116728
>we don't even know first aid
>Lunar
>Doesn't know first aid
We got 3 dots in the relevant stat. Tia can do first aid.

I would like to think you are at least a little emberassed to samefag this obviously.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36116690
>>Pursue the monster

It's like the attack on the fae castle where Tia had to fight her instincts to run back to Maka, only this time people are actually taking the retarded option

>>36116813
"People are voting for stuff I don't like! Mist be samefagging!"

>>36116820
The last time, Maka wasn't at 0 health and dying.

>>36116828
Are you seriously pretending one guy starts complaining, and all of a sudden a whole bunch of votes in his favor shows up isn't obvious samefagging? Come on anon.

>>36116828

There ARE more votes than unique posters, according to the tracker.

But then again, the tracker is an unreliable shit.

>>36116844
Its actually only unreliable in sofar that it counts more people than are actually in the thread, because it counts unique IPs having made posts over the entire run.

>>36116841
By the same logic, you could accuse the initial glut of >Help votes to be samefagging.

Works both ways.

>>36116844
I'm only counting 21 votes and it shows 22 unique posters

>>36116849
Why would people start out with samefagging? That doesn't even make sense.

>>36116844
There are 21 votes and 21 unique posts.
Does it count the OP in the tracker. If it does we have at least on samefag

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

Just got here, not samefagging. Is this tracker a 4chanx thing?

>>36116851
>>36116857
There were less unique posters in the count when he made that post.

>>36116832
Anyone who has actually learned the most basic First Aid will tell you that the very first thing you do in assessing any emergency or triage situation is to remove the person from danger, or remove the danger from the person.

In this case, the most reliable method of doing that is to kill Admiral Tentaclerape.

>>36116860
>unique poster counter doesn't increase as he posts
>claims he just got here

>>36116860
I don't use any alterations and it shows up for me too.

>>36116865
The Admiral already removes itself, currently the greatest danger to Maka is bleeding out or getting hit by more falling rubble.

>>36116690
>>Pursue the monster

Pack of Dumbasses.

>>36116872
I was here at the start of the thread, I was late for the current vote

>>36116876
the greatest danger to Maka is the admiral coming back to finish us with a bunch of minions to kill us while we're all low on Essence and Health and busy taking care of Maka

>>36116860
No, look at the bottom right corner, you'll see four number.
1st is number of replies to the topic
2nd is number of images
3rd is number of unique IPs that have posted in the thread
4th is what page the thread is on.
If the number of votes exceeds the number of unique IPs, we have samefagging going on.

As unreliable as the tracker is, its pretty telling if you look at it while posts come in.

>>36116876
As long as it's in the immediate area, it's a threat. Regardless of it's immediate relative vector.

>>36116899
Except currently the ship is falling apart, and we have no idea what might come into Makas proximity while we hunt down the admiral, its not going to wait for us.

>>36116892
only for the first vote in the thread, tough

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Pursue the monster

>>36116891
When did moot add that? I didn't even realize we had four numbers now

>>36116905
>Except currently the ship is falling apart,

No it isn't?

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36116905
No the debris is from tia throwing a boat at the combatants last thread.

The Murdering Heart is practically undamaged

>>36116890
No, the greatest danger to maka is more demons coming down to finish her off while we are gone.

>another Exalted Quest threas

By Maka's Divine and Blessed, this is a wonderful day.

Now I just need the rest of the week to not be shit.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36116912
The dice gods disapprove of you trying to get Tia to leave Maka's side when she finally found her

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Help Maka

>>36116905
>>36116922

Karas is moving behind the admiral to cut it off.

It is presently sandwiched between Tia and Karas with Maka still in the immediate area.

No reinforcements will be getting close enough to get at Maka without us being in a position to stop them before we kill this tentaclemonster once and for all.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36116690
>>Help Maka

>>36116928
Great Curse go away

>>36116916
A couple days ago

>>36116936
There is a giant hole right above Maka Tia came through, they can literally just jump on her.

>>36116931
>>36116937
>
>>
that samefagging

>>36116946
>Giant hole

That's the sky, you nimrod. They're on the top deck of the demon ship.

>>36116938
What are you on?

>>36116947
The counter increased for the first one though, and the other one was probably >>36116923
for which the count had also increased.
Stop trying so hard.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116690
Anonymous 11/12/14(Wed)21:05:21 No.36116737▶
>>36116690
>Grab your sword
>Pursue the monster

>>36116955
How exactly is being on deck where she can be reached from all sides any better?

>>36116955
>there is nothing on deck of a ship people can jump down from
Okay.

>>36116966
Because we are right on top of her you fucking nitwit, and need to get closer to her to engage the admiral:
>You see one of Maka's arms peeking out from under the rubble in its wake
>In it's wake

By engaging the Admiral we are immediately safeguarding Maka's location.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36116966
Nobody has to worry about anyone dropping onto her is how.

>>36116975
Nop, the option is to pursue the admiral, which can me we will leave Makas position if we don't catch up fast enough.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36116690
>Pursue the monster

>>36116986
You can stop now, the vote is long over.

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For a moment, you're incredibly torn.

The monster is wheeling away, about to pitch itself in the ocean. You could still try and follow it later, but it would be certainly a lot harder.

You could end it here and now. But... Maka's hand, jutting out of the wrecked ruins of the deck at that supremely awkward angle, like a miniature broken tree from a shattered wasteland...

It lasts one second, but it feels like forever. You can't tear your eyes off it.

"MAKA!"

The voice makes you turn around. The man covered in blood, having noticed the arm, has turned round and is running up to you.

That decides it. You grab your blade and wrench it out of the deck, and in the same motion bring it down on the man, aiming at splitting him from head to toe vertically.

Physical + Dawn = 1 5 8 4 5 5 5 6 8 2 7 7 = 4 successes

Reacting with amazing speed, the man rolls to the side, narrowly avoiding your blow.

"Wh- WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" He stands back up, bringing up his balled up fists in a guarding position.

"I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU TOUCH MAKA!" You snarl, lifting Skullopener back up and trying to put it through his chest.

"WHO THE HECK ARE YOU, YOU MONSTER?!" He screams back, catching the tip of the blade in his hands and shoving it aside, drawing blood and cutting his palms. "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO TO MAKA?"

"IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, LINTHA!"

Lintha? This guy is a Lintha! You knew it! You pull your sword's blade out of his hands, drawing an arc of blood through the air, And dodge a lightning-fast jab following it.

You're about to segue with another attack, when you see a golden castemark flashing on his forehead. The revelation astonishes you.

The Lintha have a Solar fighting on their side?!

(cont.)

>>36117000
This is going splendidly

>>36117000
The players and the characters are prefect matches for each other. They're both screaming retards.

>>36117000
and that is why Maka's mental problems aren't something we should encourage, but something we should try and work against.
But no, you guys are all "OMG she's totally crazy after us, best waifu, she's perfect"

>>36117017
>>36117028

I fail to see how she is supposed to know he isn't a enemy. It would be a pretty huge gamble to make.

>>36117028
>Maka's mental problems
shit
Tia's mental problems, I mean

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117017
>>36117016
I'll bet this wouldn't have happened if we'd introduced ourselves.

But then the admiral would have used Maka as a shield or leverage against us.

sigh

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117000
Goddamnit Tia...

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36117000
Tia, Karas, you fucking morons.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117000
And this, kids, is why you put points in Mental

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36117000
Fuck's sake Tia, he cares about Maka so just go kill the Admiral already

>>36117050
She actually has superhuman intelligence, she's just very protective on this enemy ship, while surrounded by a unknown amount of enemies, and her mate being a single hit away from death. Its not at all a unreasonable reaction from her, given that absolutely nothing indicates he is on her side.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117000
Why'd we confront Karas, there were like 3 votes for it?

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117063
It's a failure of communication.

We never said who we were so all Karas knows is that we're some Kamen Rider monster that's just swung a sword at him.

>>36117063
because Tia is crazy

Bwwahaha, this is hilariously aweful.

>>36117063
Because we ran to Maka and so did he, we were inevitably going to meet. The characters still act in-character on their own.
If we would have pursued the admiral, we might have not seem him go to Maka.

That hesitation costs you dearly: the corrupt Solar slaps Skullopener out of your hands and nails you with a kick to the face. You stagger, blinded for a second, and he seizes the opportunity to pounce on you. You both hit the ground and roll around, in a vicious grapple.

"TIA! STOP! FOR FUCK'S SAKE. HE'S WITH US."

Normally, words shouldn't be able to stop you. You don't think you're even in condition to hear them right now, actually. But two things about those words block you in your tracks, and, as a result, you lower your guard just enough to let the Solar's hands slip around your much-mistreated throat.

First of all, those words were charged with Essence. Something that brought them searing at the top of your mind. Something that didn't let you ignore them.

And secondly, that was Mikahil's voice.

>Lift your arms up and stop
>Rip this guy's head off nonetheless
>Rip his arms out and beat him to death with them
>Put your fingers inside his eye sockets and pull apart
>Headbutt through his skull
>LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING
>oh god maka

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117071
well I wouldn't have thought 4 successes was such a fail

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka
>Lift your arms up and stop

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka
Focus guys.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka

>>36117081
>>Lift your arms up and stop
Definitely this, and not >LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENING, no matter how hilarious it would be

>>36117081
>oh god maka

>>36117083
be glad it was only 4 successes and not more, or we would have hurt Karas

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117081
>Put your fingers inside his eye sockets and pull apart

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka

MAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36117081
>Put your fingers inside his eye sockets and pull apart
>Rip his arms out and beat him to death with them
I'm going to be that guy now, because someone has to.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36117081
>Lift your arms up and stop
>After the Admiral, Mikahil is here he can care for Maka but she won't be safe until the Admiral is dead.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117081
>>oh god maka

We blubbering now.

>>36117083
rolling successes wouldn't matter since it's a communication problem from us NOT saying anything.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117081
>Lift your arms up and stop
>oh god maka

>>36117081
>LA LA LA MAKAAAAAAAAAAA

>>36117078
>If we would have pursued the admiral, we might have not seem him go to Maka.
>proof that Maka samefaggers ruined everything

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36117107
fuck off anon

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36117081
>>oh god maka

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117081
>Lift your arms up and stop
>oh god maka
>oh god the Admiral, pursue it

>>36117112
Not really, he doesn't know who we are in the first place, so introducing us wouldn't have necessarily have made him not attack us.

>>36117117
Look at the successes counted, the vote ended long before there could have been any samefagging.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka
part of me thinks this is EF punishing us for the obvious samefagging

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36117081
>Lift your arms up and stop
>oh god maka

>>36117130
>Look at the successes counted, the vote ended long before there could have been any samefagging.
he stopped counting dice because we had no more dice left, not because he started writing

>>36117142
He alwas counts votes for 15minutes, if I remember right.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka
>oh god im cumming
>oh god
>oh god maka

>>36117000
>Physical + Dawn
shouldn't this be Physical + War?

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117081
>oh god maka
I love how no one complains about Karas not pursuing the Admiral. But Tia is the crazy one.

>>36117150
More like Physical + Whore, amirite

>>36117153
No-one wants to admit that they're just as dumb as Karas

>>36117150
Why would it be War? We aren't commanding any armies or constructing any corpse ramps.

>>36117167
>War
Look at the charsheet, its War for Lunars.
For some reason.

>>36117167
Do you see a Dawn stat on the charsheet? No?

War is to lunar's as dawn is to solars

>>36117163
I think Karas is going to have to lift his game. As it stands, he's a fucking ADHD gooftroop who's more of a liability than an asset because of his aggressive inability to think.

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A spike of energy, anger, hopelessness and adrenaline so high that it almost feels like it should pop your head off like a balloon rushes through you.

You wrench the solar's hands off you, probably snapping them in the process, then lift him up and toss him aside.

Your eyes slide back into focus.

The blood-soaked solar is lying on the ground next to you, very nearly passed out.

Mikahil is hoisting himself up on the deck, soaked in filthy water, looking like he just swimmed over to the Murdering Heart's side and climbed up the ship with his own hands and feet - which are covered in cuts and blood. His castemark is burning.

To the side, the anemone-like monster, trailing blood like s ruptured tank, is crawling up the parapet, about to pitch itself overboard and into the ocean.

Maka is still buried in rubble under you.

>Maka comes first.
>The monster comes first.

>>36117081
Why exactly does he stop Tia, while this guy he doesn't know is about to choke her?

>>36117187
Thats High Valor characters for you.

>>36117194

>Maka comes first.

Priorities. Who cares about some dumb monster when there's waifu to be saved

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.

>>36117081
>Lift your arms up and stop

>oh god maka

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.
>Toss Mikhail to Maka
If more of the Gloria are swimming in there we can't let it get away,

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117194
>>The monster comes first.

There's been no mention of any other lintha in the immediate vicinity and zaan and mikahil are here.

Let's hunt some squid.

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Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.
It's what Maka surely wants.

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36117194
>"Can someone else deal with that thing? I'm going to help Maka!"

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.
It hurt Maka. Fuck it up.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.
Murder that bitch for hurting our poor, sweet Maka.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.
where's Zaan?

>You wrench the solar's hands off you, probably snapping them in the process, then lift him up and toss him aside.
Oops.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.

what a giant waste of time. Thanks, Maka samefags

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117209
>>36117212
>>36117213
>>36117236
>>36117242
>>36117243
>Almost die
>Dice start working

>>36117253
You realise that vote won because of the string of Maka votes before there even was any other vote?
So please, contain your butthurt.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117194
>Mikahil get her off this ship and take care of her
>The monster comes first.

>>36117263
>For a moment, you're incredibly torn.
seems to indicate to me that it was a very close vote

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117194
>"Mikahil, Zaan! Help Maka!"
>The monster comes first.

>>36117272
Yes it was, and the majority of the Maka votes where right at the beginning.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.

SCREAM at mikhail do dig out Maka NOW

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36117194
>The monster comes first.
Kill. It. Dead.

>>36117258
Sidereal plot maybe?

>>36117272

I haven't counted it, but its just as possible the other votes were actually more, and it was just really close so EF had the character act according to their nature. We had that kind of thing before.
You know when.


>>36117283
>>36117289
Good god, guys, just stop! Don't ruin this for us.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117295
we're fine man. We have a shitload of successes even without those two.

>>36117303
I wasn't being serious, but I'm glad to see you put your dice to the task.

dese dice, mang

>>36117295
...I'm sorry ;_;

>>36117195
>this guy he doesn't know
You must have missed a few threads.

You'll never make it to the parapet in time. You have only one way to hit it. Mikahil is spouting some garbage about the Solar being Maka's brother behind you. Bizarre, interesting, but hardly useful information now.

You stomp your foot on the ground, letting the shockwave lift loose debris from the ground by a few centimeters. Lifting your foot back up, you hook it under your daiklave and kick up, grabbing it while it's spinning in the air.

The other loose bits of debris have just fallen back down on the floor as you spin Skullopener around in a grand gesture and feed it the last of your Essence.

This is the first time you try this trick in an actual fight. No space for mistakes.

[LUNAR SILVER RECONFIGURATION]
[ESSENCE: 0/8]

The magical metal of Skullopener's blade rearranges itself, flowing like quicksilver before returning to solid form in the shape of a long javelin with a broad, triangular point.

Physical + War + LSR = 3 10 7 10 2 4 10 9 9 9 = 10 +1 = 11 successes.

(cont.)

>>36117368
>You must have missed a few threads.
I don't remember he knew Karas before he showed up on the Gloria?

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117388
That's when they met, Mikahil already knows him and knows he's with Maka

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117368
>Physical + War + LSR = 3 10 7 10 2 4 10 9 9 9 = 10 +1 = 11 successes.
BY THE UNCONQUERED SUN'S FOUR BLAZING ARMPITS, THAT IS AN UNREASONABLE NUMBER OF SUCCESSES.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117368
>No space for mistakes.
>11 successes.
ho boy

The javelin leaves your throwing arm, sail across the air, and stab into the monster just as it leaps to its safety into the dark ocean below, nailing the humanlike head in the left eyeball.

The javelin plunges all the way through the monster's fleshy mass and stops there. All the transferred kinetic energy, quite simply, causes it to take flight, following the same flat, straight trajectory of your weapon, without any appreciable deviation or loss of momentum.

To everyone looking at the scene from the side, however, it just looks like the anemone-monster simply vanishing. One moment it's there, the next one it's gone entirely.

You glance aside. The burned, wrecked mess that is poor Zaan is slowly pulling Maka out of the rubble. She looks like a bloody ragdoll. You can't even imagine how many bones must be broken in a human body for it to flop around like that. Your heart cries in distress for a moment, but then you see her chest moving slightly and an eye blinking open.

She's alive. Thank Luna and Sol she's alive. She's safe. She's in good hands.

On the opposite side, you can see the wounded Solar's utterly astonished look on his face as he stares at you. His mouth is half-open in amazement.

You can't resist. You remove your war-armor's helm, turn to him, and flash a winning smile, as you give a tug at the hair-thin Moonsilver wire spool unwinding frenetically in your hand. The monster, flying high in the sky, explodes in a firework of gore as you turn the javelin in a star of jutting blades and pull it back, through its flesh and momentum, and flying back to you.

A few seconds later, Skullopener slams into the deck, so hard it causes the enormous demon-ship to bob left and right.

"By the way, I'm fucking your sister." You politely inform him.

(cont.)

>>36117395
He has met him, but I obviously meant "knowing him well enough to trust him while he's choking your ally".

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>>36117407
>"By the way, I'm fucking your sister." You politely inform him.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117412
Maka told him all he needs to know.

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>>36117407
>"By the way, I'm fucking your sister."

>>36117412
Maka said she trusted him

That's good enough for Mikhail I guess.

>>36117407
>"By the way, I'm fucking your sister." You politely inform him.

If we meet Makas mother and sister, there is a good chance she will fuck them too.

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Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117407
>"By the way, I'm fucking your sister." You politely inform him.

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>36117407
I can just imagine Maka returning to Gem and introducing her family to the people or something at a large gathering and Tia just goes "I'm fucking your queen." and then walks off to get food.

>>36117407
>"By the way, I'm fucking your sister."
And so have over a hundred random mortals. Its nothing special Tia. She isn't exactly choosy.

>>36117407
I feel like a pic of Maka going No Fighting would get a lot of use between these two

>>36117451
Then after a few drinks, Tia shows off her dong collection and suggests surfing on boulders off a hill

>>36117459
I'm actually curious how he will react to that bit, business as usual in the family?

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>36117486
I actually get the idea from EF's bit about the kind of guy Karas was growing up that he never really got experienced in this sort of thing.

I'm gonna call it now, he's gonna get all flustered and red faced.

>>36117481
Reaction to Tia's sharkpenis is "Jawesome!"

>>36117500
>Solar
>not experienced with sex
Unpossible.

>>36117500
That would be amazing, if he would refuse to acknowledge what a slut his sister is and be convinced she is pure as driven snow and its only that Lunar that makes her so lewd.

>implying Karas, Maka's brother, doesn't know sex or his sister's lecherous personality
>implying she didn't experiment with him a little

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117510
>Unpossible.
The fuck are you talking about? An exalt totally focused on, say, fighting is just as socially awkward as anyone else. Not all Solars try to be at least decent at everything, like Maka is.

>>36117529
>The fuck are you talking about? An exalt totally focused on, say, fighting is just as socially awkward as anyone else. Not all Solars try to be at least decent at everything, like Maka is.
Point. For all his good looks, Karas might end up being as dense as a harem comedy MC.

>>36117541

Oh gods, please no. Not another dense motherfucker. Goddamnit, I'd accept him being gay or something, but not denseness.

Why can't Karas be a cool sisterfucker instead?

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117551
I just want him to be a bro bro we can rely on, but sometimes have to hold him back because he's very headstrong, but he's always there for us.

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You lost count of mow many times you passed out in the last hour.

You're almost hoping that you'll wake up and find out that you're dead. It would give you time to rest, at least. It would be a good excuse to get out of this stupid situation. Of the shame of having to take responsibility for the wrecked mess this operation has become. Of the hassle of actually having bones and nerve endings and the ability to feel pain.

With a mental sigh (mostly because you're too broken to manage to take a physical one), you open your eyes once more, regardless of how much you don't want to.

The sky is clear, for once. The fog has dispersed. It's raining.

...Alright, it's blood. It's raining blood. And the sky is clear.

Zaan is going over your wounds once more, with a resigned face. Even though he looks like he needs first aid almost as much as, if not more than, yourself. You hear the crunching thuds of shattered bones being set straight. It should be painful, but your senses are too dull to register that.

Mikahil is huddled over in a corner, softly crying tears of frustration. Five Tails is patting his head in an effort to cheer him up.

Next to you, Tia and Karas are having a slapfight, screaming at each other.

On the other side of the deck, Amata, drenched from head to toe in filthy water, stands with her arms folded, looking at the entire scene with a half-smile. She meets your gaze.

"Don't you love when a plan comes together this nicely, Maka?"

The rain stops. It takes you a handful of seconds more to manage to talk.

>...The Gloria?
>...The fleet?
>...Everyone alive?
>...Stop these two clowns.
>...Take over this ship.
>...Sink this ship.
>...Loot this ship.
>(Other)

>>36117551
I bet his entire life was a string of telling his sister about nice girls he met, only to find said girl bend over the table by his sister next dinner, because they took it as recommendation, until he just gave up on having a sex live.
Being Karas was suffering.

>>36117551
>sisterfucker
Hopefully not.

>>36117570

>...The Gloria?
>...The fleet?
>...Everyone alive?

THEN

>...Loot this ship.

>>36117570
>>...Loot this ship.
Then burn it, I really don't want to look at it anymore

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...The fleet?
>Stop it you two, come over and kiss me Tia.
>...Sink this ship.
>...Loot this ship.

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...Loot this ship.
We need a treasury.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117570

Seconding >>36117579

>>36117459
The difference is: Maka fucked those people, not the other way around.
Tia is the only one who managed to fuck Maka.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...Stop these two clowns.

>...Loot this ship.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...Take over this ship.

Rolled 8 (1d10)

>>36117570

>Mikahil is huddled over in a corner, softly crying tears of frustration. Five Tails is patting his head in an effort to cheer him up.

>Next to you, Tia and Karas are having a slapfight, screaming at each other.

Oh god my sides i'm dying

This is the best circle ever

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?

I blame Karas for making this a giant clusterfuck

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117570
>Next to you, Tia and Karas are having a slapfight, screaming at each other.
Best family ever.

>...Everyone alive?
>...Loot and then sink this ship.

>>36117570
>...The Gloria?
>...The fleet?
>...Everyone alive?

>>36117570
>loot this ship

>>36117571

That's both sad and funny and I can't help but want it.

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117570
>>36117584
This if we can, though preferably loot before sinking the ship

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117604
Fuck forgot my dice

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...The fleet?
>...Sink this ship.

>>36117571
I imagine Karas is a huge monogamy fag and looks for a stable relationship and enduring romance before sex. Only to get NTRd by his family all the time because they think sharing is caring.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...Loot this ship.

>Mikahil is huddled over in a corner, softly crying tears of frustration.
I was scared that someone died first, but he's just crying over his boat, I hope

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...The fleet?
>...The Gloria?
>...Stop these two clowns.
>...Loot this ship.
>...Sink this ship.
In this order, I know about voting for EVERYTHING, but I want to set a priority and I assume we'll get to ask about the rest after this first one.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117571
At least he'll always have his Lunar mate.

On a side note, it's annoying to almost not roll my dice because I keep forgetting that the new system resets the option field.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36117570
I bet this is why Maka prefers talking to people

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117627
>but he's just crying over his boat
If he is, then all the mortals on that boat are dead too.

Rolled 6 (1d10)

>>36117627
Well it was Val's boat

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36117570
>>...Everyone alive?
>>...Stop these two clowns.
>>...Take over this ship.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117636
It stays on if you use 4chanX

>>36117636
>At least he'll always have his Lunar mate.
Just wait, his Lunar mate is male, and has a solar bond of 1 or so.

>>36117636
>At least he'll always have his Lunar mate.
maybe they're just bro's without any romantic subtext or his Lunar mate even hates him

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117570
>(Other)
"... I'm so sorry for this for this absolute clusterfuck. I take full responsibility."

>>36117636
>his lunar mate is from the golden widow society

>>36117657
>>36117665
>>36117674
Being Karas is suffering.

>>36117667
>"... I'm so sorry for this for this absolute clusterfuck. I take full responsibility."
It's our bro that mruined it, dude. We had a plan and he just Leeroy Jenkinsed it

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>36117570
>...Everyone alive?
>...Stop these two clowns.
>...Loot this ship.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>36117680
Actually we fucked the plan up by just following him instead of sticking to the plan, so it is our responsibility.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>36117680
Fuckin' Dawn Castes man.

>>36117693
we couldn't let him die just to save the plan

>>36117696
Less Dawn Caste, more Karas being a dumbass and us being an overprotective big sister.

>>36117677
Clearly we need to matchmake Karas with a nice Husbando.