>>36314701

Quest Start

A heavy sport fencing foil sheath grinds exposed metal, plastic, and glass from a modified bluetooth controlled digital camera hidden in the toe of a cheap sneaker positioned between your feet. That camera had a fell purpose, to catch a photograph of your underwear when you rose from your seat on the now moderately crowded train. Anger boils through you and distracts you from your earlier woe and worry.

The owner of the camera is a young man, though older than you and likely not in high school, in a high collared jacket, large sunglasses, and ballcap. Together these accessories hide enough of him to make describing him in any meaningful way to a Transit Officer all the more difficult. Frankly, you don’t want to escalate the situation to that. Well, you want to escalate it, just not in the direction that involves police.

The owner of the sheathed fencing foil is a young woman, about your age, with deep and bright pink hair done up in a high ponytail. She wears a green plaid skirt and a red long sleeved waist jacket over a white shirt, the girls uniform at the prestigious Infinity Academy, and sports a perennial happy smile. Her name is Momoko Nakajima, a former classmate of your’s from junior high school.

You are Mikage Chiba, second year high school student age 15 and the mysterious hero known as Eclipse. You support the fourth Sailor Moon who is also your baby sister and her contemporary Sailor Senshi while incognito from the shadows with bolstering speeches, thrown daggers and roses, and an extensive amount of legwork to gather the necessary intel to perform those first two. A year and a half ago you were Sailor Moon, but circumstances of grief and believed moral failing brought you to abandon the identity previously worn by your older sister and mother.

>>36314771

On either side of you are Kairi Osaka and Midori Mori. Kairi is your best friend, whom you have known since early childhood, though estranged during a period of mutual grief you have reconnected and she has become one of your magical retainers the Nephrite Knight. Midori is similarly empowered by you to as the Jadeite Knight; until recently she was an antagonistic classmate of yours who didn’t realize you were the bubbly and catty member of a Ganguro fashion circle she participates in, whom she thought of as a close friend.

Nakajima-san has leveled at the ungentlemanly fellow an extremely soft veiled threat of publicly exposing his action to the rail passengers who have not yet already taken notice of the situation. Kairi and Midori have taken notice in the wake of the sound of breaking glass, and as they realize what they are seeing are growing justly agitated and irate. You have such loyal knights.

Just seconds earlier you had noticed this man setting up to take his intended upskirt photo, but before you could do anything about it, Momoko Nakajima slammed a piece of her athletic equipment down into the shoe mounted aperture of his camera.

This fellow seems to be unphased by her threat, and might be about to react angrily.

>Attempt to cause this man immediate bodily harm. (Varies) How?
>Become incensed [Rage]. Where do you assign your adrenaline? (Standard action)
>Cast a spell. (Varies)
>Invoke No one of Consequence (Swift action)
>Invoke another special ability (varies)
>Threaten the man. (Full round action) What do you say or do to indicate this?
>Convince him to turn himself in. (Full round action) What do you say or do to indicate this?
>Scream that a pervert tried to take an upskirt, get attention on him. (Free action)
>Ignore man, greet Nakajima-san. (Free action) What do you say?
>Leave it to the others, see how this plays out.
>Leave it to Momoko Nakajima, stay the wrath of Midori and Kairi, see how this plays out.
>Write in

>>36314794
>Leave it to the others, see how this plays out.

>>36314794
>Scream that a pervert tried to take an upskirt, get attention on him. (Free action)
>Attempt to cause this man immediate bodily harm. (Varies) How?
Pow right in the kisser.

Alternatively if we've got anything heavy on us. Throw it at his face... Shoe might work! Don't suppose Mikage is the carry a brick in your purse type.

>>36314794
>>36315158
Seconding

>>36314794
>Write in
Identify every piece of electronics equipment he is wearing and subtly ensure he limps away with nothing intact.

>>36314794
>Invoke No one of Consequence (Swift action)
>Attempt to cause this man immediate bodily harm. (Varies) How?
I want to beat on him, but it would probably be best if the crowd didn't recognize us specifically afterwards.

>>36314794
>>36315158
>>36315427
I support the no one of consequence as well.

>>36315376
If we can manage this while still kicking his shit, I'm all for it.

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Alright, I need a melee roll.

dice+1d20+8 vs Flat Footed Armor Class 12

Best of 3. 1s and 20s wild.

Rolled 18 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36315760
And away we go.

Rolled 12 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36315760

Rolled 2 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36315760

Rolled 2 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

>>36315760

Rolled 3 + 3 (1d4 + 3)

26 vs 12, 2 degrees of success.

How would you like to use them?

You have Sneak attack 3d6 on this damage roll. Do you want to spend them against enemy vitality or spend them 1 die to 1 pt of wounds?

>>36315887
On his equipment.

>>36315887
Wounds.

>>36315887
1 die to 1 pt of wounds?

This can knock him out eventually right?

If so this.

Scribing

I is home now, will catch up shortly.

I'm on time!

>>36315887
Vitality

Hm. Looks like a curb stomp in progress.

My kind of scene.

>>36316342
I am caught up.
I almost feel sorry for the guy.
Almost.

I'm still gonna wince.
'cause there is only one appropriate unarmed strike to a man that goes straight to wounds and long lasting pain in this situation.

>>36316821
He asked for it.

Rolled 3 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

rolling this vs DC 16

>>36316872
The only way it would have been better is if Momoko didn't interfere.

>>36316872
Really, he should count himself lucky it's an unarmed strike. As I recall, we put some points into CQC not long ago.

>>36316872
Which is why it is only almost.

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With anger balling into one of your hands, you shoot up from your seat and scream out as you unleash your exceptionally righteous fury.

“PERVERT,” you shriek in accusation as your knuckles crack against his jaw.

>6 Vitality Damage done to target.
>4 Wounds accumulated by target

The sheath pinning his oversized shoe to the floor holds him while his chin jerks up and a few teeth fly out of his mouth along with thin trails of blood. His head bobs back down as his sunglasses fall askew on his face.

“Upskirts!” you growl as he seems to steady himself, “TAKING UPSKIRTS OF HIGHSCHOOL GIRLS ON THE TRAIN!,”

He tries to jerk away from you, but is pinned in place by Nakajima-san’s secured weapon. After his initial pull, he begins to trip and fall. Still smiling, Nakajima turns to you with her smile not faltering. Surprise spreads across her face, as though she hadn’t seen you before. Likewise when she realizes Kairi and Midori are with you.

People around the train have turned to look at this scene. They see the man on the ground and the broken electronics hanging out of his shoe and a few people look aghast. Too many appear indifferent and trying very hard not to notice.

“Chiba-san?” she beams as she hefts her sheathed sport weapon across her shouler, “Oh my goodness, I haven’t seen you since graduation. How have you been? Osaka-san, Mori-san, hello to you too. I didn’t see you before,”

The prone man clutches his face and begins struggling to his feet.

>Kick him while he’s down (rising from prone provokes an attack of opportunity)
>Ignore him, converse with Nakajima. How do you respond what do you say?
>Intimidate him into surrender or fleeing. Which one and what do you say?
>Write in

>>36317140
>Kick him while he’s down (rising from prone provokes an attack of opportunity)

>>36317140
>Kick him while he’s down (rising from prone provokes an attack of opportunity)

>>36317140
>>Kick him while he’s down (rising from prone provokes an attack of opportunity)
Live without honor, die without honor. Our teacher was the solar system's greatest executioner.

>>36317140
>Kick him while he’s down (rising from prone provokes an attack of opportunity)

>>36317219
Owe her a kicking.

>>36317219
And we are most likely going to run into her soon.

>>36317140
Kick him while he's down, in the nuts.
While otherwise ignoring him and chatting with Nakajima.
"How have you been?"

>>36317246
No worries. We're not doing anything to him that she wouldn't do.

>>36317140
>>36317254
Yeah, I like this. If this Momoko has any Masako inside of her, she'll enjoy the casual violence as well.

>>36317281
We probably are, actually. She's a fair bit more hidebound than we are.

>>36317281
I don't think so. This is pretty un-Japanese and Hotaru has a classical demeanor

>>36317140
I like his Earth logo'd shirt. We should get one.

>>36317254
Thirded for controlling the rage and having a nice chat.

Writing

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Roll me a 1d20+11 vs prone ac 8

>>36317296
We can also complain about her trying to kill steal.

Rolled 2 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>36317430

Rolled 6 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>36317430
Nutcracker.

Rolled 14 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>36317430

>>36317430

Rolled 13 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

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>>36317430
>>36317463
Successes toward incapacitation?

Writing after I finish recording some voice over for a friend's masquerade skit

>>36317558
Successes toward castration.

>>36317587
Eh, a step too far for me.

Back. Rolling damage

3 Degrees of success, how do you spend them?

3 sneak attack dice? Roll them or trade them for wounds?

Sorry, problems with some elder nerds bitching about being cheated by problems with another con I staff.

Also, I think I was being offered as the sacrificial lamb of being the next president of a dying con that I love...but I don't wanna.

Rolled 3 + 3 (1d3 + 3)

>>36318581
What does castration count as? I wanna bust him so hard he starts singing soprano.

>>36318581
Far as I understand it Trading them for wounds will do more damage overall.

So! Wounds!

>>36318581
I'm unsure of the mechanical effects that we could go with for the successes, staggered and in pain though.

>>36318630
No.

>>36318657
I could also get behind this if it's a called shot to the beanbag. Regardless of what some people here may think, it's entirely fitting retribution.

>>36318581
Wounds again.

I already was leaning toward writing the strike as a nutshot. Unless tehre are objections. Wounds!

I dont think we can castrate. Dan would never forgives us.

>>36318759
As laid back as Dan is, I'm sure he knows there are some things you don't do to a lady.

>>36318804
Yeah, but there are equally some things you don't do to a dude.

I suspect the part of us that is Dan is impressed with this dudes style.

No castration, please. That would mean we would have to touch him.

>>36318848
He crossed the line first, Anon. What happens afterwards is on him.

Ignoring Nakajima’s friendly words, you’re still seeing red. Taking a step forward you aggressively strike with your shoed foot down beneath the cover of his longer coat and hear a satisfied yelp as you slam into your intended target, lifting him slightly. On the incoming strike you feel pressure against the line of his inner thigh, perhaps tearing skin through the weak fabric of his cheap slacks.


> 6 vitality damage dealt. Total dealt: 12
> 4 wounds accumulated. Total wounds: 8
> 1 leftover success, not enough to deal another wound, sunk into Vitality. Totalt dealt: 13.

“And you have the gall to call yourself a man?” you spit as he collapses forward onto the floor with nary another word but coughing further blood.


A few folks on the train continue to ignore what just happened. A few men and women offer silent thanks and nods of approval to you and looks of disapproval to the man.

Instead of fleeing, this time he has the good sense to stay down and curl into a ball.

Nakajima gives a whistle and a low and nervous laugh. Kairi and Midori stare at you in wide eyed shock. They seem to have frozen in shock at you sudden direct, and effective, violence while in mid rise to come to your defense.

“So...hi,” Momoko Nakajima chirps as you continue to stare down the cowed fiend who tried to take illicit photos of you, “What are you girls doing around here?”

>>36319060

And maybe its the parts of yourself you reclaimed when Miki came home, but you feel positively insulted that he was going for something so...boring. Upskirt photos without context? Even for a perv that does this stuff without permission it must be like playing the lottery. A sadistic ass who was stupid and uncreative. Let him have whatever fate will give him lying in a pool of his own shame here on this train.

“Actually we were on our way to meet a friend,” Kairi explains stepping out of comfort zone and being social...perhaps she’s still in shock at your outburst, “They said they were having an entrance interview at Infinity Academy and we were going to meet them at the gate,”

“An entrance interview?” Nakajima wonders aloud, trying to ignore the squirming mess you turn away from with a huff, “This late in the term?”

“As I understand it, he’s an international transfer,” Midori smiles and looks about nervously as at least one of the commuters is on their phone keeping a close watch on the situation.

“Oh, well if your friend is getting an entrance interview than he’ll likely be enrolled,” she smiles before turning to you, “Oh, Chiba-san, I think I saw your older sister this morning,”

>Continue to be grumpy, but engage.
>Ignore her, enjoy your anger.
>Ask after her about where she was saw Usa.
>Greet her.
>Ask her something else
>Finish him, even though he is no longer a threat
>Write in

>>36319073
>Finish him, even though he is no longer a threat
heh heh

>>36318907
Eh, punishment is fine, but that gets into too-disproportionate territory.

>>36319073
>Greet her.
>Ask after her about where she saw Usa.

And this might be a bad idea, but:
>Ask her if she's like to tag along on our adventure!

>>36319073
>Greet her.

>>36319073
>Ignore her, enjoy your anger.
>Finish him, even though he is no longer a threat

>>36319073
Greet her, ask about seeing Usa.

>>36319073
>Greet her.

>>36319073
>Ignore her, enjoy your anger.
>Finish him, even though he is no longer a threat

>>36319073
>>Greet her.
>>Ask her something else
How have you been?
Proceed to ignore the man as he is beneath our notice now.

>>36319073
>>Greet her.
>>Wanna come with?
As much as I'd like to coup de grace the fucknut, I respect Momoko too much for that. Well, actually, I respect Masako too much for that. Let's be a good girl now.

Counting and writing

>>36319191
We could have destroyed him. You were pudhing for it... why stop now?

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>>36319191

Being friendly seems to be the pervading first throught then.

>>36319254
He's finicky doesn't flop as much as scholar though.

Either way he's coughing up blood so objective accomplished.

What I find interesting is that instead of having a sort of panic attack... Mikage went nigh bersek. Implications.

>>36319269
Damn... I don't think I'll ever get tired of that.

>>36319254
If not for Momoko being here, I'd still be pushing. For her sake, I'm willing to call this mission accomplished.

>>36319352
We choose aggression. Rage is a great distractor from panic.

>>36319398
Bleed over from redeyes maybe?

>>36319397
But now he may be a reoccurring character or monster.

>>36319430
Only if he really likes pain, Gnash. If he's smart, he'll disappear and move to Alaska or something.

>>36319430
Then he shall become a recurring punching (bean)bag.

>>36319073
>Greet her.
>Ask after her about where she was saw Usa.

>>36319514
>If he's smart.

Sure he's got some tech know how. However.. However in the grand scheme of things how bright is the guy who rigs cameras to his feet to take indecent photos?

He could be a coward but I expect petty revenge. No one of consequence came up after he saw Mikage.

Perfect monster material.

>>36319525
One can only hope.

Taking a steadying breath, you turn to face Nakajima-san and put your best face forward, putting the ugliness hopefully behind you.

~Good afternoon, Nakajima-san, its been too long,~ you say with a smile.

“Ah, it really has. I haven’t seen any of you since graduation,” she begins and then worriedly catches herself and looks a bit embarrassed, “-I mean! Oh, I’m sorry if its a sore subject. I mean it must have been so hard for all three of you,”

Midori looks away from her, a nervous and embarrassed worry on her face. Kairi looks like...well...Kairi, that creeping self doubt you know she has welling back up to play tricks on her. As much as you enjoy the calm sweet flavor of her issues regarding that day, it probably isn’t good for her in the long term to just keep snacking on her feelings.

“Actually, Nakajima-san,” Kairi begins weakly but looks up with resolve, “I wanted to thank you for distracting me from Mikage-chan that day. If you hadn’t gotten my attention, I might have done something I couldn’t have lived with,”

“Oh, come on, Osaka-san. The only person you should be thank is the third Sailor Moon,” she beams in response, “She showed up so quickly after you dropped Chiba-san,” she turns back to you, “I just took a stupid risk and probably almost got you hurt worse. Sailor Moon would have probably done something cool like catch you in a backflip!”

“I didn’t drop her,” Kairi waves off, “That thing wasn’t me...I’d rather not reminisce about it,”

“Neither would I,” Midori groans while glancing over to you as the train lurches to a stop, “I’m perfectly happy pretending that day never happened,”

>>36320082

“Oh my gosh,” the pink haired swords woman balks, “I didn’t mean to...I mean,” she takes a shallow breath and smiles with an a slight edge of embarrassment, “So, I uh...yeah. Chiba-san, I was saying before how I saw your sister this morning. I was at the hospital visiting a friend,”


Several passengers disembark when the doors open, a few just slide further away from your group and the downed fellow without disembarking. A delay light shines on the announcement dot matrix above the door, instructing to please wait for officer response.

~Yeah, she’s back in the country for some family stuff that’s going on,~ you shrug, ~though out of curiosity what was she up to?~

“Well she was speaking to Director Tomoe and... another patient, I think,” she seems to strain thinking about the third person and doesn’t notice your twitch at your sensei of, previously unknown, mass destruction.

~Huh,~ you muse.

“What are you doing out of class now, anyway?” Midori inquires with a concerned edge, “Our school got closed because of a monster attack. What’s your excuse?”

“Oh, just some point trials for placement in a fencing tourney,” she boasts with an edge of pride, “My club did really good, its got me super excited for the regionals. I’m actually on the way back to school right now. Even though I have a full days pass I figured I might as well try and catch the end of the day and see the rest of my friends,”

Your downed target, now ignored by your chatter, tries to right himself and slowly make his way to the far wall of the car. Collecting his teeth along the way, he carefully sits himself down and tries to compose himself while poignantly looking away from your group.

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>>36320104

~Well, since we’re already going to the same place, mind if we walk with you?”~ you ask Nakajima plainly.

“Oh, I’d really like that,” she smiles, “Maybe I can show you and my prospective new peer the grounds while everything is still open for club activities,”

~Oh, I wouldn’t want to be a bother,~ you would rather this not turn into a huge gathering of people.

Though it wouldn’t be the worst thing that could happen. You know, having a life.

The car doors reopen and a man in a blue jacketed uniform, white gloves, and a proper blue hat enters the car.

“Excuse me,” he says loudly and politely as he surveys the car and takes notice of the obviously bloodied man and the broken electronics hanging out his shoe, “I received a report about a disturbance?”

>Ignore these proceedings and encourage the others to do the same.
>Ignore these proceedings and let the others do as they will.
>Point an accusatory finger at the man.
>Ask the officer about pressing charges against public harassment
>Write in

>>36320137
>Ignore these proceedings and encourage the others to do the same.

I find myself surprisingly neutral on this one.

>>36320137
>Ignore these proceedings and let the others do as they will.

>>36320137
>Point an accusatory finger at the man.

>>36320137
I want to point accusingly and such, but I have a feeling we could get into an annoying bit of trouble over knocking his teeth out and all.

Guess just ignore for now.

Might consider trying to scary voice into his mind to urge confession, but that might be a bit much.

>>36320137
>>Point an accusatory finger at the man.
This should suffice. We got more important shit to do now.

>>36320137
>Point an accusatory finger at the man.

Ack. Set an alarm for an hour later than I should wake up and it tells me that time is six hours from now.

>>36320309
Set it while you were tired? I've had similar problems.

>>36320309
Every day, man. I would get so much more done if I didn't have to sleep so damn much.

Sleep well. Good luck with your tomorrow.

Counting and writing

You point an upset and accusatory finger at the bloodied man. The officer approaches him and the two have a few words. Ultimately he asks the injured man to collect the loose and broken pieces of tech that seem to go with the broken interior of his overly large shoe and follow him off the train to see about getting him patched up at the local police substation and asking a few questions regarding his presently damaged device.

He gives you an angry look, but you return it impassively and coldly. He complies with the officer and in a fe moments the train in on the move again.

“I really can’t stand people who do stuff like that,” Nakajima clicks her tongue before returning to her shining eyed vigor and enthusiasm, “Its just not nice. Anyway it really wouldn’t be a bother to show you around,”

>Relent, let her take you on a tour...a bit of normalcy might give you an excuse to sneak off to have your meeting with Sasha alone in a mostly empty school.
>Express that you’ll be pressed for time and were hoping to take her new school mate somewhere off campus to celebrate.
>Curtly say you’ve seen enough of Infinity Academy. You used to do tutoring sessions with Tomoe-sensei, which you loathe to admit.
>Write in

>>36320559
>Relent, let her take you on a tour...a bit of normalcy might give you an excuse to sneak off to have your meeting with Sasha alone in a mostly empty school.

>>36320559
>Relent, let her take you on a tour...a bit of normalcy might give you an excuse to sneak off to have your meeting with Sasha alone in a mostly empty school.

>>36320559
>Express that you’ll be pressed for time and were hoping to take her new school mate somewhere off campus to celebrate.

>>36320559
>Express that you’ll be pressed for time and were hoping to take her new school mate somewhere off campus to celebrate

>>36320559
>Express that you’ll be pressed for time and were hoping to take her new school mate somewhere off campus to celebrate.

>>36320559
>>Express that you’ll be pressed for time and were hoping to take her new school mate somewhere off campus to celebrate.
We do have quite a lot on our list of things to do, I think. And sticking around Mugen Gakuen is a good way to get stuck talking to Hotaru... and come to think of it, we know entirely too much about her relationship with Usa and we're pretty sure Usa was riding the pony in her room when we left... yeah. Best to avoid that.

>>36320663
Hotaru is nothing but bad vibes and stress. Any arguments or conversations with her should probably be hashed out privately. Running into her with friends would be.. awkward.

>>36319254
Because he's going to be important later.

No co-incidences.

>>36320703
Ueah. I'm worried aboutit now.

>>36320720
Yeah* sorry phone.

>>36320736
De nada. That is a place where we have all been.

Counting and writing

>>36320703
>>36320720
Clearly we'll see him again. As one of the scouts boyfriends. For maximum heartbreak V-Chan or Koyomi. For maximum difficulty in persuasion Jupiter.

>>36320804
This worries me on several levels.

Watching the shorter man and the officer continue down the platform as you pull out of the station, you mull over Momoko Nakajima’s offer. You are already extremely familiar with the layout of the Infinity Academy, but that isn’t the excuse you give.

~Even if you say we aren’t a bother, we are pressed for time. We were planning on taking your new schoolmate off campus somewhere to celebrate,~ you explain with a slight pout.

“Oh...well, celebrations are cool and all,” she finds her feet particularly interesting, “Anyway, I guess I was a little insistent,”

“A little, you haven’t even met him yet,” Kairi rolls her eyes, feeling a bit better about the conversation.

“Oh?” Nakajima quirks an eyebrow as Midori seems mildly aghast at Kairi’s reveal, “You’re meeting a guy?” she turns to you with a sly grin, “Is this another famous Mikage Chiba crush?”

~No,~ you bite back and explain as you come to the next local stop, ~I haven’t really had any crushes since middle school,~

“Oh no,” she laments in response, “Does this mean the rumors about you are true?”

~What rumors?~

“The Princess of No,” she says conspiratorially, “That you became some kind of ogre that shuns, well, everything,”

You take a calming breath. The train rolls to life again, the next stop is the one you’ve all been waiting for.

“That’s a bit of a sore subject,” Midori waves.

>So, how about that tourney.
>Its not unfounded, but I’m trying to get away from it.
>Don’t protest, but express annoyance at the nickname and the crush accusations.
>Protest as much as you can to the very notion of having a crush.
>Write in

>>36321246
~That's exactly what happened. I don't exactly like talking about it.~

>POKEMONING IS HABBENING

>>36321246
>>So, how about that tourney.
Good old Maneuver Alpha.

>>36321246
>Don’t protest, but express annoyance at the nickname and the crush accusations.

>>36321246
>>Don’t protest, but express annoyance at the nickname and the crush accusations.

>>36321246
>>36321300
Yeah, deflect.

I kind of don't want to deflect, but I see Momoko as the jerk friend who is way more successful than you are after a similar amount of time and starting in a similar place.

That jerk friend who doesn't realize that everything they say reminds you of your problems.

>>36321360
I see her as the old friend we haven't seen in a while, who unknown to us is secretly a ninja.

>>36321398
>What if Momoko is secretly retaining her magic powers?

Counting and writing

Well now, looks like we have a final destination vote to conduct. I'll give you guys 3 minutes to get yourself ready, and then I'll post the FD vote.

Fingers on the refresh button, friends.

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FINAL DESTINATION

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1 So how about that tourney (Deflect)
2 Don't protest, but express annoyance -etc

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Writing

~So, how about that tourney,~ you ask nonchalantly and in a perfectly reasonable tone.

“I keep stepping into these uncomfortable subjects,” she laments as she seems to realize her misstep, “I’m sorry, I don’t usually do this,”

You continue to look at her expectantly.

“Its okay,” Kairi smiles, “Its not like we can ignore everything from the last year, right?”

You and Midori give a sharp nod before you turn your gaze back to Nakajima, letting your feigned curiosity to her tournament placing guide you.

Momoko Nakajima begins nervously, but picks up in speed and excited timbre as she describes her fights and assessments during the course of this mornings placement proceedings. Frankly everything she says about brackets and the like goes over your head. You were never much one for organization and structure in your violence, be it for entertainment or for sport.

Around her explanation of the unusual technical point she scored in her second assessment match, the train comes to the stop across the street from the Infinity Academy. With a slow gait, the four of you circle the property fence and observe the well kept gardens of the campus beyond. After this long walk and the extremely overly energetic explanation of her placement in the actual tourney, which you still aren’t sure you’ve understood, you pass through the fence’s archway and cross the beautifully maintained grounds of the Infinity Academy.

>>36321799

Its pleasant, not like Mom or Gai’s places of invested power, but supernaturally pleasant all the same, not at all like you remembered it when you were younger. Shortly, after passing assorted students enjoying after class recreation and possible club activities on the grounds, your assemblage of four eventually comes across the doorway into the central academic and administrative building.

A lump forms in your throat, along with a sensation of imminent foreboarding.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 57
End

Interlude Vote
>Literally, who?
>Cognitive dissonance
>Behold the Wizard

>>36321809
>Cognitive dissonance

Also, general query, what do you guys think of some of the characters so far introduced into my quest?

>>36321809
>Cognitive dissonance

>>36321809
>Literally, who?

Thanks for the thread, Artemis

>>36321826
I like them, I don't think you have a character that I don't like. Even the villains.

Momoko is more bubbly here, but I like that. I want that in Momoko.

>>36321809
>Behold the Wizard

>>36321809
>>Behold the Wizard

>>36321809
>>Behold the Wizard
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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>>36321809
>>Cognitive dissonance

>>36321826
Been enjoying the characters.

>>36321903
Probably because she has a reason to be so excited, seeing people she hasn't seen since a very traumatic event.

>>36324254
The apologeticness of her repeatedly bumping into the elephant in their shared history amuses me.

>>36324403
It is quiet endearing and indicative of her to keep tripping on this

>>36321826
Mikage has a lot of interesting people to interact with. I'm particularly loving crossover Momoko.

>>36327004
Wait, does Mikage know about Boris? In terms of being able to ask without raising suspicions regarding Dan.

>>36327248
I seem to recall that Sasha mentioned him.

But I can't recall if he ever used the bear's name, or whether MIkage was pretending to be someone else at the time.

>>36327287
So when we see him, one of our first orders of business is to ask about seeing his bear. And getting away from Mugen before we risk seeing Horaru...wait, shouldn5 she be on the way for the meeting?

So, looks like we have a tie on the interlude vote.

>>36321809

>Cognitive dissonance

Also, sorry the thread was so short last night.

>>36332574
>5 hours
>short
I realize you're not judging based on time, but please don't think that this is anything you need to apologize about.

>>36332574
Length has never been a good indication of a fun thread

>>36332905
>>36333784
Then fun was had? Excellent.

So much SoL in this quest. So different from thread 1

>>36329786
I wonder if Boris is showing symptoms like Azusa did.

Heck maybe we can use the golden crystal to give him a human form. He's already got a dream mirror.

There's a code I can't read and a word I can't remember...something like a captcha but harder to solve.

I can't see enough of it to understand, but the words are at the edge of my lips.

I don't belong here...but something is coming. Something is wrong.

It's all coming to an end.

Maybe if you can find the words, it will be a new beginning instead.

Now I just need to remember what the now voted upon Interlude was supposed to be about...I was so wiped out last night...I may have wrote it on the back of a receipt.

>>36339624
Hmmm. I'm pretty sure you said you'd do all three. Yep, that sounds right.

...And also give us a pony.

>>36339624
To be honest, I didn't feel really strong about guessing what any of them were when I voted.

>Literally who? - this is maybe a Keiko thing? Sailor Sol and all that?

Behold the Wizard made me laugh when I saw it, so that's what I picked.

I don't have the slightest guess what Cognitive dissonance is going to be.

>>36340417
No no

We tried having a horse once, it didn't work, let's not do it again.

>>36341697

Only because it wasn't actually our horse. We just dreamed at the same wavelength as the girl who fed him sugar cubes.

>>36341731
Not our weirdest euphemism.

>>36341731
We're into teddy bears now though.