>>40859929
Quest Start

You are Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old, and you just suffered an unintentionally rude awakening. Last night, after excessive and convoluted intrigue and violence, you slept over the house of your young friend Aiha Mizuno. This girl had recently confided in you and another friend her own struggles with personal identity as your shared your convoluted and confusing issues with her as well.

Awoken from fleeting dreams, that now seem vague and far away, you find that the nightgown clad girl has fallen out of her bed and landed atop you and the sleeping mat you put out last night. Much like when you saw her sleeping at Rin’s, she is twisted in the sheets hanging off of her bed and her arms are sprawled out wide. Carelessly in her slumber, she drools on your shoulder.

With a sigh, you ruffle the girl’s tousled blue hair. You’ve a busy day ahead, after you fetch Rin Kumada, the three of you are embarking on a ghost hunt for a young woman who had previously been haunting you after you retrieved fragments of the golden crystal from a friend’s trained bear.

Such is your life, because not long ago you were the third young woman to carry the mantle of Sailor Moon, Champion of Love and Justice. Magical protector of the world after your mother and elder sister, your younger sister carries the name now. Aiha is among your little sister’s court as the new Sailor Mercury. Rin serves alongside her as the new Sailor Mars.

>Wake her up, how? You have a plethora of options.
>Let her sleep, extract yourself from down here.
>Go back to sleep
>Go back to sleep, put her in her own bed
>Write in

>>40859957
>Let her sleep, extract yourself from down here.

>>40859929
Being an active participant in best dad ever, I really want to read up on and participate in this quest.
But good god that's a big number.

>>40860157
That's the other Artemis. There are two QMs who use the handle Artemis. I was here first, not the different trip codes.

If you want to archive binge, feel free. I just wanted to make sure you weren't confused about who is what and who is who.

>>40860222
*note the different trip codes.

>>40860222
Huh.
That is pretty damned confusing.
Anyways, I'll be in the archives if you need me.

>>40860258
It is, but what are you going to do. I've only run Eclipsed Moon Quests and a few short things for something else that is entirely (not entirely) unrelated.

Have fun on the archive binge. I am sorry how a large part of the over plot requires a PHD in Sailor Moon, but the good news is I set things up in a way that people can go in blind and get the gist of things.

>>40860320
That's good, I've only got a bachelor's in sailor moon.
Focused too hard on DBZ in my impressionable youth.

>>40860457
Well, that one is a long long long course load. So many credits for a very fine tuned formula and base concept. Really hammers it home.

Okay, writing

>>40859957
>Go back to sleep

Aiha a cute.

>>40859957
>>Go back to sleep, put her in her own bed
Let us spare her the spaghetti for an accident.

Extracting yourself from beneath the smaller girl, you marvel at how heavily she sleeps. She is mostly undisturbed by your careful movements, but you believe that you could have thrown her off of yourself and she would have continued to sleep. Amused by this, you straighten your pajamas and get out a fresh set of clothes and your toothbrush.

Heading to the bathroom you take a quick shower and get dressed for the day. It will be a busy one, to be sure, and you do have so much else to work on besides that. Hunting down a wayward spirit is something magical girls like the two you’ll be working with today should have no trouble with, though you aren’t entirely sure of what this ghost girl can do. Taking a quick shower, you prepare to face this day and it’s challenges.

Your change of clothes is far less stylish than the new outfit you wore yesterday. Simple shorts, sneakers, and a darker T-shirt. You’ll wear the jacket from yesterday to be sure, it is starting to get a little brisk out. After you finish with these preparations, you do your best to dry off your long hair, and make a startling discovery.

It grew again in the night, were it not for the tangle it had made of itself on the floor, you might have tripped over it walking to the bathroom. Over the past several days you have become accustomed to wearing it down, but you rethink that.

>Leave it down, throw it over your shoulders so you don’t trip
>Super tight coil buns return to your use
>Braid it
>Write in

That taken care of, you head back to the room and retrieve your now fully charged phone. It would do to make arrangements with Rin on where to meet. As you enter the room, you find Aiha slowly stirring and confused to be on the floor.

>Call Rin
>Text Rin
>Make morning conversation with Aiha, about what?
>Tell her to hurry up, sleep is for the dead...well, not today you guess
>Wait out here for her to get ready
>Write in

>>40861683
>Braid it
and
>Text Rin

>>40861683
>Braid it
Freaking long ass hair.

>Text Rin

>>40861683
>Super tight coil buns return to your use

>Text Rin

Noms and writing

Looks like braids and a text to Rin.

Heavy single braid of that much hair? Practically a weapon.

As long as the hair is all that grew. Pulling off the Eclipse disguise is difficult enough.

>>40862550
What's wrong with her developing assets!

The only thing I'm wondering about is if the hair growth is limited to just one area.

As a side note if this magical hair keeps popping up regularly we could totally start donating it to cancer patients.

Maybe one in particular. Hint.

>>40862621
How many cancer patients would want pink hair?

It takes time to separate and weave your hair into a properly tight braid. You layer it repeatedly to try and take as much length out of it as you can. When done, it still falls just below your waist. The weight difference is noticeable, the way it hangs in one direction and has a pulling as it takes a pendulous motion.

You are momentarily amused how you could probably hurt someone if you spun around.

~Nice,~ you smile enjoy watching the sway back and forth of your heavy braid.

~

“Uah?” Aiha moans as she pulls at the sheets tethering her to the bed beside her.

~Morning,~ you chirp from the doorway and enter enough to grab your phone.

Aiha continues to groan, untangles herself from her sheets and stumbles toward the door and probably the bathroom. The passive buzz of telepathy pricks at your senses as she passes you out of the room, she sleepily waves at you.

Opening your phone, you shoot a quick message to Rin to say that you’re up and ask about meeting for your ghostly adventure.

She responds quickly asking after where you want to meet up, as she is up and ready.

>Meet at the Shrine
>Have her come to the Mizuno House
>Meet her somewhere for breakfast, where?
>Meet her where you want to start the search, where?
>Write in

>>40863118
>Have her come to the Mizuno House

>>40863118
>Meet her somewhere for breakfast, where?
Jupiter Cafe

>>40863118
>>40863210
Second.

Writing

>>40862921
...you know, funnily enough, hair is magically significant.

>>40865362
All the more reason to destroy any cut hair. Material Links are no laughing matter.

>>40865477
O-okay... I guess Venus can just.. not have pink hair.

I figured she'd be adorable with it.

Suggesting the Jupiter Cafe over text to Rin, you gather your things and put them in your bag. You’ll leave it here and pick it up after everything is done. Aiha gets herself together, and is clad in a long skirt and sweater over a button down blouse, together the two of you head out, saying goodbye to her father.

Ryo Mizuno bids you girls have a good day, giving his daughter a hug. There is the brief and dense buzz of telepathic inflexion between the two of them, which is probably commonplace. For all her turmoil yesterday, she leaves her father with a smile. Its probably an important point of commonality between them now, shared and expansive psionic abilities. He bids you a goodbye and wishes you luck today, though he leaves you with a cryptic warning.

“Chiba-san,” he says seriously, “Don’t be offended by another’s pride,”

~Huh?~ you ask him confused.

“Don’t worry,” the thin man smiles, “You’ll get it later,”

“Dad,” Aiha scolds her father, “Don’t drop cryptic warnings on my friends!”

“Sorry honey,” he laughs nervously as he opens the door to retrieve a newspaper from the front step as it's being delivered.

“So, where are we heading?” Aiha asks after you once the two of you are out the door.

~Jupiter Cafe to meet Rin over breakfast and start our search,~ you nod to her and smile broadly.

You are thinking strongly about getting Auntie Makoto’s panca- oh. Right. Well you guess you’ll get Kanari’s or Thiago-Tio’s pancakes for breakfast.

“Okay,” Aiha smiles and falls in step beside you, “We’ll fuel up and figure out our first move! I’m really sorry about my dad,”

~Its not problem,~ you shrug, ~Though it was just a bit...weird?~

“Yeah, he can be weird sometime,” she sighs.

>>40865612
It doesn’t take long for the two of you to reach the cafe. Upon entry you are greeted by a familiar young man in an apron and holding a pad. The cafe isn’t quite so busy yet this morning, but there are a few others seated and enjoying their meals or coffee. It is a sunday, so the lack of a line for coffee to go is understandable.

“Welcome to the Jupiter Cafe, oh. Good morning Mizuno-san, Chiba-san,” Koito smiles.

“Morning Kino-san,” Aiha smiles.

~Morning,~ you say with a smile of your own.

“Ah, morning girls,” his father calls from behind the counter.

~Morning Thiago-tio,~ you turn to the older man.

“Aha!” he cheers, “So you remembered this time,”

~Hard to forget after last time I was here,~

“Alright then,” he smiles and jokes to your embarrassment, “Koito, seat the girls. And Chiba-san, when she gets back, don’t slap my daughter,”

Getting seated for three, it isn’t long before Rin joins the two of you. Koito brings out coffees quickly for all of you. He took the time to draw something in the foam. The dark haired priestess got a raven in her cup. The blue haired psychic gets a sail boat. In your cup is a drawing of a cloud covered crescent moon.

Boy’s got talent.

As you enjoy your coffee and wait for your food orders, it appears neither girl is in the mood to talk planing yet as they start to chat.

>So, anywhere you want to bring the breakfast conversation.

>>40865636
>Sail boat
Well if that's not a signal I don't know what is.

>Flirt with Aiha.

>>40865636
>Allude to freaky dream.

>>40865671
Aiha's too young for us.

>>40865751
No she's not?

>>40865636
>Allude to freaky dream.

Flirting with with her will make Rin jealous.

...wait, was that an argument for or against?

>>40865838
Well if it's for are you voting for it or not?

>>40865877
I'm not, but anyone else can if they want. I'm neutral about it.

>>40865636
No flirting. But yeah, comment on dreams. Talking about dreams with a prophetic priestess and a high caliber psi should be fun.
Cross reference with Helios to make it a complete study.

Writing

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~So,~ you lift your cup and blow on the steaming froth, sending the clouds across the moon in distorted streaks before you take your first sip of sweetened and milky caffeine, ~I had a weird dream last night,~


“A weird dream?” Rin asks as Aiha’s eyes go wide and she sets her own coffee down.

~Yeah,~ you can’t say you remember much of it, ~Not much of it stuck around, but I remember talking to people, or watching people, or people talking to me. Aiha, you were there. I think in a classroom, and so was I again,~

“That’s really weird,” she wonders, “Was I eating lunch?”

~Y-yes,~ you start shocked and then mock scold her, ~Were you taking a peek in my head?~

“What, no,” she raises her hands defensively, “I remember talking to you in a classroom in my dream,”

~Was it fruit, with juices and syrup just falling out of the bento?~ you query through narrowed and dubious eyes as one fine detail becomes again clear to you, ~Did you pick up a tiny Kairi holding a peach and pass her to evil me?~

Rin looks between the two of you and then suddenly finds her coffee very interesting.

“Oh, no,” Aiha laughs nervously, “It was omelet and rice. We were talking about school festivals,”

~Huh,~ you answer, ~Weird. Say, Rin, do you have any priestly insight to what any of that means?~

The dark haired girl blinks, and then thinks a moment. When she finally speaks, it doesn’t seem like she has analyzed something but more like she has reached a decision.

“No,” she says simply, “Anything else?”

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>>40867872
You relate to them what little you remember of your conversations with the faceless and then bare skulled Damned, after providing Rin a touch of context, you refrain from explaining the moments faintly related to your discovery of a clone of your father’s past life mother as it seems like the biggest thing you can remember that needs contextualization. Later you’ll query Helios or your father about that. Aiha twitches a bit at the described kissing of the skeletal face.

“The damned can’t really escape. He’s forced to talk to you because you forced a confrontation with him. Its about being in a position of power, being in control because you don’t want anything out of control with anything in regard to misplaced feelings from the person you were projecting onto him,” Aiha interjects while Rin is still thinking, she finishes with a rather self confident dragon her coffee.

“I was just going to suggest you were projecting your feelings because he reminded you of the other guy,” Rin shrugs, “Also, I was going to guess you liked chains?”

“What have I walked into,” Koito interrupts in a calm and flat voice as he sets a small stack of pancakes in front of you, a crepe in front of Aiha, and french toast in front of Rin, “Here you go girls,”

~I’m not sure,~ you laugh.

“Thank you Kino-san,” Rin chirps.

Aiha puffs her cheeks briefly and digs into her crepe. As Koito stands there, you see out the front window of the store as a familiar vespa comes to a stop outside of the shop and Kanari Kino arrives home and removes her helmet.

>Stay on the subject of dreams
>Try to get Aiha to open up about herself to one of her friends
>Move on to Ghost planning, any suggestions where to search or what to do?
>Prepare to greet Kanari
>Nom nom nom
>Write in

>>40867913
>Move on to Ghost planning, any suggestions where to search or what to do?
>Nom nom nom

>>40867913
>Try to get Aiha to open up about herself to one of her friends
>Nom nom nom

>>40867913
>Move on to Ghost planning, any suggestions where to search or what to do?
>Prepare to greet Kanari
and most importantly
>Nom nom nom

>>40867913
Greet lil Jupiter, eat noms.

>>40867913
>Prepare to greet Kanari
Best girl. But it'll never happen.

>>40867913
>Prepare to greet Kanari

She doesn't like us, so we should try to be pleasant.

Writing

~Hi Kanari,~ you wave broadly as the girl enters her family’s cafe.

Rin and Aiha perk up, facing away from the door they turn to see their friend enter. Koito sighs, perhaps bracing himself for whatever interaction is about to happen between you and his sister. Kanari herself is surprised at first, the way you’ve tied your hair has changed your immediate profile.

Her eyes narrow when she recognizes you, and then she sighs. She says something very short in Portuguese to her father, the cadence of which you recognize as a customary ‘hi daddy’. Stowing her helmet behind the counter, she says the delivery was done and passes some cash to her father who files it into the register.

Work done, you and the girls following her movements since she entered, she approaches your table as Koito smiles and goes to tend to some of the other customers.

“What are you guys all doing here so early,” she nods to Aiha and Rin before shooting a guarded glance to you, “You aren’t dragging them into some kind of trouble, are you?”

~What? No,~ you say and pour some syrup onto your pancakes.

“Mikage needs our help hunting down a ghost,” Rin chirps excitedly.

Kanari stares at her, then at you, then at her again.

“The one you said was creeping around her hospital bed?” Kanari ventures skeptically.

“Yup,” she nods.

“Because you can see dead people and Aiha can see thing that aren’t there?”

“Don’t say it like that,” Rin pouts and cuts into her french toast.

“Well, yes,” Aiha nods and sets down her silverware as you take a slice out of your stack and take a large bite, “It a curious thing and we don’t exactly have any specific leads on the enemy to pursue,”

Kanari looks at the assembled lot of you, and then turns and calls out to her dad.

“I need take the rest of the day off, dad,” she explains, “I want to make sure my friends don’t get attacked by a Ouija board,”

>>40870129

Thiago, as you’ve come to expect of him, laughs deeply and loudly and responds to his daughter’s request and statement with some words you don’t understand. You surmise that he grants her request, as she grabs a loose chair and pulls it up to your table.

~Just inviting yourself along?~ you question.

“Well, you’re making the effort to be friendly,” she grouses at you, “Maybe I should too. Besides I gotta watch out for these two,”

“Kanari, be nice,” Aiha scolds her with a slight amount of laughter, “We’re all on the same side,”

“Maybe so,” you flinch under Kanari’s stare and then strengthen your posture in defiance as you continue to enjoy your pancakes, “especially if someone has gotten their head out of their ass and back in the game,”

As the girls catch up from yesterday and talk, you weigh upon what to do next. You’ve a few ideas what courses of actions to suggest, but the matter of the ghost isn’t the only thing on your mind.

>Suggest a few ideas on how to conduct your search
>Urge Aiha to open up about herself to her friends so far assembled
>Ignore world, finish pancakes
>Something seems off about Rin this morning, is she okay?
>Be snippy with Kanari
>Write in

>>40870162
>Something seems off about Rin this morning, is she okay?

>>40870162
>Something seems off about Rin this morning, is she okay?
also
>finish pancakes

>>40870162
>Drop kick Kanari

>>40870162
>Suggest a few ideas on how to conduct your search
Probably need to explain Boris and Sasha at some point, since they will likely be related. to the ghost.
>Something seems off about Rin this morning, is she okay?
We're supposed to be the off one on this team, what's up?

>>40870286
I cannot support this action. Though I pictured a chibi scribble thought bubble of it and was amused.

>>40870286
Did you not listen to the former Youma General? We need to step lightly today.

>>40870367
>>40870312
It'd... be a great bonding experience or something.. put the fear of Mikage into her!

She's always been a bitch. And I don't think it's Tsun' Tsun.

>>40870162
>Ignore world, finish pancakes
CONSUME DELICIOUS PANCAKES!!! All else can wait.

>>40870424
We already beat the $#!& out of her in the early episodes. She doesn't need a refresher course

>>40870514
Clearly she does!

>>40870514
>>40870424
She is allowed not to like us, but she seems to be behaving in a civil manner

And she is defacto bestie for our imouto, to whom she is not a bitch.

>>40870553
She has a strange respect/angry mix going on for us.

>>40870627
And thanks to my chinese cartoons I've been assured that if we knock her around enough we'll be besties as well.

>>40870719
Oh geeze. I just realized we've managed a situation where Sasha and Kanari shall meat again.

>>40870854
Meet. Bah.

>>40870854
Sasha x Kanari?

>>40870627
I’m guessing that she’s the person whose pride we shouldn’t be offended by?

>>40870938
She'd have to get Borris on board.

>>40870984
Maybe Rin, Maybe Kanari, maybe someone we will be meeting later today.

>>40870984
oddly enough, why does it feel like Kanari is swallowing her pride right now?

>>40870938
Until now I hadn't thought of it, but they might be a good match.

>>40870984
>>40871021
I feel like I've forgotten something.

Writing

>>40871062
The mind is usually one of the first things to go.

>>40871046
Because she's talking to us, which is something she doesn't even want to do.

>>40871090
Really though, I think I've forgotten what is being referenced, and that concerns me.

>>40871966
Ryo's warning not to be offended by someone's pride today.

He is Aiha's dad and a psychic whose bread and butter is predicting the future.

As someone who runs a cram school, he probably uses that power to proctor exams.

>>40870162
Metaphorical terrain were going to, kanaris gonna be the one needing watched out for, I think

~Rin-chan,~ you offer to the youngest girl present amidst your conversation, ~are you alright?~

She pauses in her consumption of her breakfast and looks over at you as Kanari and Aiha joke about something that happened yesterday, you think a snow cone is mentioned to the blue haired girl’s embarrassment. Its nice to see this side of Kanari, the side of her free from anger.

“Oh,” she murmurs, “Yeah, just had a strange vision in the fire last night,”

~A strange vision?~ you query over your syrup soaking pancakes, ~What about?~

“Silk,” she says evenly, “Silk threads, and a cocoon. It split open through the fire and things crawled out of it. I didn’t really sleep well,”

~What kind of things?~ you venture and lean over your pancakes toward the girl, ~Butterflies and moths?~

“No,” she hesitates and shivers, “Spiders,”

Spiders?

“I hate spiders,” she sighs and cuts a large piece of her powdered sugar topped french toast.

~Well, not all spiders are bad,~ you offer her fears an attempted balm.

“What about spiders” Kanari perks up and starts to rise from her chair, “I’ll grab a broom and shoo them outside,”
“Just a fire reading from last night,” Rin calms her down, “No spiders here,”

~Nothing to worry about,~ you offer and take another sip of your coffee, followed quickly by a bite of pancake.

>Make suggestions for where to search
>Encourage Aiha to open up or come out
>Well, she is being nice, try to talk to Kanari about something, what?
>Write in

>>40872844
>Make suggestions for where to search

>>40872844
>Make suggestions for where to search

>>40872918
>fire
best place for a reading like that

>>40872844
>~Nothing to worry about,~ you offer
>shakes Mikage
Come on, you're more savvy than that. We've trusted her visions so far, why brush off this one.
Let the team know.

Now if we could just think about that flash at the picnic yesterday too..

>>40873071
It was meant in reference to her sweeping some out the door. I was planning on side dialogue in the next update to the effect of weird stuff on the horizon.

>>40872844
With Rin & Aiha here, we could possibly split up, cover twice the ground...

>>40873071
the problem is we dont actually know that. It's technically OOC knowledge.

>>40873129
I don't refer to OOC knowledge at all.
We've been raised on the stories of the original senshi, and we know she's a future seeing priestess, and that we have some psychic ability.

>>40872844
>Make suggestions for where to search
I guess we should start at the hospital.

>>40873244
I second this.

Writing momentarily, double checking the archive for something.

>>40873659
God that took too long, found what I needed, writing after a quick drink and midnight snack.

“Nothing to worry about?” Kanari scoffs,”Gotta keep bugs that nest out of the dining area. At least inside. Its okay on the roof garden,”

~I mean it isn’t anything to worry about right now,~ you sigh, ~Rin had a fire reading about spiders, and I had a weird vision yesterday about silk and chittering,~

“Silk and chittering?” Rin asks in slight revulsion.

The black haired priestess looks down at her plate and contemplates if she will be able to finish it or not.

Aiha pauses, her small crepe and fruit already finished.

~Yeah,~ you shrug, ~Midori and I were bracing a door against something in my school, ~Silk and chittering, sounds like spiders or caterpillars. Sounds in line with your reading, Rin,~

“So the next enemy will be a spider monster?” Aiha wonders aloud and holds her chin, “I could do some research on the kind of natural special abilities spiders possess that could translate into monstrous magical powers,”

“I could make sure to wear my boots for the next few days,” Kanari jokes.

~Well if you’re doing research you should start with American manga,~ you nod, ~but that’s for later. I think we should scope out the hospital first today. It was the last place Rin saw her,~

“American manga? How does that- oh,” Aiha realizes, “I hardly think the messenger of hell would offer an adequate base as far as he entire possible spread of arachnid abilities,”

~Suit yourself,~ you hum and finish off your coffee.

“The hospital is a good place to start,” Rin offers, “but from a divining perspective we may want to try where you first encountered the spirit manifested at the tower,”

>>40875213


~Not quite where it first woke up,~ you sigh, ~It was at a veterinary clinic,~

“So, we can hit the hospital first or this clinic,” Aiha wonders.

“Why did it wake up at a veterinary clinic,” Kanari asks with a certain restlessness, “Hell, why are you even being haunted in the first place? What are we even doing once we find the ghost,”

She raises a valid question. Its not an easy answer.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 88
End

Interlude Vote
>Bored Bunny
>Explanations and half truths
>Through these eyes

>>40875289
>Bored Bunny

>>40875289
>Through these eyes

>>40875213
>American manga? How does that- oh,” Aiha realizes, “I hardly think the messenger of hell would offer an adequate base as far as he entire possible spread of arachnid abilities,”
"Does whatever a spider can"

>>40875289
Chat with it, find out what's up.
Think we promised to help her too, if memory serves.

>Bored Bunny

>>40875361
Aiha putting that +1 in pop culture to work, I see.

>>40875289
>Explanations and half truths

Thanks for the thread, guys. Its always a pleasure running for you.

And I hope the anon who came here thinking I was the other Artemis has an enjoyable time with the archive binge.

>>40875436
Not him.. but that's.. a lot of reading.

Not as rocky a road as some other quests. But good lord that's a lot of threads.

>>40875289
Thanks for the thread Artemis.

>>Through these eyes

>>40875436
Thanks for runnin', it has been fun.

>>40875469
I'd like to think we are new person friendly at least.

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>>40875469
Only twelve shy of hitting triple digits!

>>40875469
archive binges are a fun way to spend a weekend.

>>40875363
Lot of things going on with that ghost.lot of things. Things what may involve Sasha.

>>40875289
>Explanations and half truths

Sounds important.

...what the hell.

Three way tie, this time I'll write all three.

Here is a small synopsis of what you'll be getting.

Bored Bunny
>Koyomi is bored and restless on a Sunday morning, begins plotting on matters of the heart.

Half truths and explanations
>Someone has to explain to their mother why they didn't come home last night, while keeping an a seemingly uncharacteristic double life hidden.

Through these Eyes
>A hazy and distorted transmission broadcast from an unknown location brings a cruel smile to the face of a dangerous post human who appreciates the full impact and value of the secret he uncovered.

>>40880064
Through these Eyes

>>40880663
You worried about that one, too?

>>40880064
Hm. Wonder who has picked up a double life.

And that last one is rather worrying.

Koyomi, ease our worries.

>>40880064
>brings a cruel smile to the face of a dangerous post human
Man, I really hope that isn't the Miracle Child.

>>40881468
Anyone else recall a description of dead Umino have a hole out the side of his face? I recall being concerned about something along those lines. Could be the core of Magician survived.
Then there is still the lingering question of just where that crystal was from and who has access to that.

Sailor Moon villains are like ogres.
Layers, man.

>>40881860
What could the transmission be though? What could bring a smile to a bad guy's face?

>>40882683
Could be the thing Magician was trying to prepare us for.
Still not so sure Magician was working for the same people that scavenged his tech, and possibly caused his existence.

>>40883427
>his tech
Well, that brings a chilling thought to mind, if we go down this crafting path, we might be capable of working with similar things.

>>40883427
Really hope this isn't a super massive villain fake out. I mean, it's viable and there is precedent, but it would just feel odd.

>>40885027
I've always assumed there was someone over Tim Curry, he knows too much.

>>40886003
>>40885027
Though that might be referencing a completely different threat. QM does seem to be planning multiple seasons worth of material.

>>40885027
We have suspicions OOC about one person that's likely high up with the Enemy, but we know jack overall and even less IC.
Not enough to be "faked out" on anything.

>>40886003
Who could be above Tim Curry? Death Phantom?

>>40888399
My theory would be something tied to the Old Kingdom, and likely tied to the severe corruption infecting the Queen's bones, and likely related to her ultimate demise and how these bones survived.
So I'm guessing it is something new to us, but very old.

>>40888808
Or another fragment of Metallia. Raw and not influenced by possessing Beryl.

>>40888944
Huh, it does sound a bit like Metallia's shitck the first time around.

>>40890085
It's an interesting Shadowrun.

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>>40890696
and a terrifying shadow

>>40881860
Surprised we haven't seen more weapons like that crystal thing.

Unless the thing Kalunite had was similar?

>>40893698
Lost technology, perhaps?

Hey, we should ask where the Generals killed Kal and try to figure out where that it in modern times.
Ten bucks says the former capital of Elysium turns out to be roughly where Juuban is. That area has been way too important to villains from that era in every arc.

>>40896552
Actually, for the purposes of this quest, I had always thought that old Elysion would have been somewhere in the vicinity of a pangean super continent near the mediteranian/middle east.

>>40896655
Well it would go with one of his outfits.
There goes $10.

>>40896761
Did anyone take you up on the net!

>>40896552
You know, In Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, it transpires that a transcription error in one of the lost dialogues of Plato places Atlantis in the Pacific.

>>40897051
I assume it goes to Artemis since I just put it up right away instead of asking to bet it.

>>40899565
That hardly seems fair. Keep your money, anon.

>>40898885
This super ancient world probably had significantly different geology.

>>40901068
Bah, I went into 2nd & Charles to see if I could spend $10 on something Sailor Moon and walked out with $40 in comics instead.

>>40902604
While I will claim no responsibility for your impulse buys, I will chortle.

What did you get? Anything noteworthy?

>>40898885
Oh Lucasarts, you used to do things other than star wars.

>>40902604
Any Sailor Moon stuff?

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>>40903214
Some things caught my eye. Only managed to crack one open for a moment before work and find out the Marvel Multiverse has been a bit destroyed. Fun.

>>40907422
They had a Moon Stick replica for $70, but I don't plan on springing for it.

>>40908463
That which is has been save by God Doom, responsibility and regret weigh upon him heavily. However, both the one and true Richards and the Richards whose heart is black have reawakened upon Battle World, maybe together Doom and Richards can put back that which was torn asunder.

Before the Ultimate Mr. Fantastic and Namor's Cabal destroy what the Beyonders Could not.

I love me some Crisis scale events. I have fully enjoyed the lead up to Secret War. Have fun getting caught up.

>>40910363
I suspect I will only be scratching the surface. But I couldn't resist those titles.

>>40910363
Weren't you trying to organize a quest crisis?

>>40912338
It is important to run things you enjoy.

Is anyone else worried that we're going on a hunt for a certain russian's sister's ghost without telling said russian? Kinda feel like that isn't going to end well.

>>40913212
We don't know who she is yet. Though we certainly suspect a connection to Sasha and/or Boris. I think the next step coming up was explaining that to our scooby gang.

>>40913212
Actually, I think we were bracing for the inevitable meeting between Kanari and Sasha again.

>>40912338
No comment

>>40911071
have fun with it

>>40912704
Yes it is anon, yes it is.

>>40913212
>>40913486
>>40915529
heh.

>>40913486
I guess nobody's flat out told us who she is, but I think we're pretty damn sure.

>>40919567
Well, only hint I am aware of IC is avoidance if family talk from Sasha at one point and the bigger but more vague fact that the ghost hangs out with Boris & Sasha.

>>40921654
What about the ghost bear we fought in Azusa's dream? Didn't we realize a connection later?

>>40922357
Not that so much as the story of Tuxedo Boris from the girl later on, which was what lead us to meet Boris in the first place to check for Golden Crystal.
Ghost was upset when we removed pieces from Sasha and Boris, it had given it a bit more something when they were present and had wanted them back, so it was following us after that and we could see it after some things at the towaer and had said we couldn't give it back but would help out or something along those lines.
Then we bit off more than we could chew and when a little crazy and woke up a few days later.

>>40922998
Ah.

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We can only hope for a true hero's return to save us all.

>>40924565
Not going to lie, that would be the biggest Mental Blue Screen of Death moment for Mikage to see that happen.

Just, perfect break down of her ability to process events in front of her.

>>40924565
Fancy.

>>40924565
I'd forgotten about that. I don't know how, but I had, and I wasn't braced for the image.

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>>40929295
Never forget.

>>40930144
Why haven't we made more shops of this?

>>40931127
I've had less free time since then. I should get back into it, just got to get around people getting too demanding with my time.

>>40932196
Some days, everyone is a time vampire.

>>40933874
Need time stakes

>>40934915
Stakes carved from time to kill time vampires? That's just weird. You don't kill normal vampires with stakes made of blood, you use wood.

Now, what is to time as wood is to blood?

>>40934915
And the holy symbol of Kronos.

>>40936093
manga

Okay >>40932196, you heard >>40937725 so go and roll up your Japanese comics into a cone and hope you get a sharp point.

>>40936093
Well, blood can fertilize the roots of tree the grows the wood.
So what can time fertilize?

>>40937725
Well, if we say creative effort, that could work.

>>40938091
So, the easiest thing to make time vampire killing stakes from would be scrimshaw?

>>40939494
Perhap beat them with a phat beat.

>>40941482
nothing kills time quite like manga, and manga is printed on? pulped wood.

>>40942999
What if it's a psuedo noir or pulp style story in Manga format?

>>40943100
if it kills time then it should kill time vampires.

>>40943132
Needs to be something that kills people to. Similar to regular stake.

>>40943769
This is becoming silly, and I don't want it to stop

>>40944674
If time vampires can be fought with creative efforts and this tangent is a time vampire in the form of a creative effort how can it be stopped?

>>40943769
>>40945445
roll up the manga into a cone and hammer it into the heart with the spine of a trade paperback,

>>40945562
GAH. That is how you'd kill ME. Who would do that to a poor defenseless book?

>>40945445
Well now that's just getting recursive, and-

...son of a fucking bitch. We can't kill the Time Vampire with Comics because Comics are also Time Vampires.

Multiversity. Was this planned?

>>40946194
No book is defenseless, read Ultraa Comics #1.

>>40946194
>That is how you'd kill ME.
I am going to take that as a confession that you're a time vampire.

>>40947649
Quick, how do we stop him?

>>40948196
>>40947649
We need to throw Keiko at him. Quick, someone post the pictures, picture's of our quest's Sailor Sol.

Sunlight hurts vampires, right?

>>40949863
I will gladly accept these offerings.

This is why I love you guys.

Next thread tomorrow night.

>>40952757
Yay! QM time is most delicious.

>>40953484
Sorry chronophage, I've got a lot of nothing to be busy doing until then.

>>40951489
Careful, they may be burnt offerings.

>>40955371
Delicious.

>>40949863
We need more pictures of characters.

>>40945445
We need something that doesn't feed it.
Quick-
Mikage & Flash Gordon vs Ming the Merciless & Thanos

>>40961106
Well, we could wait for quest related draw streams/threads? Throw money at the quest related drawfriends who take commissions? Even the lewd ones, especially the lewd ones.

>>40964981
Don't really feel the need for lewds. Cute is great, suggestive is fine, but we got a whole internet of other lewds to call upon. Things we can post here would be more fun.

>>40966021
The lewd drawfags are talented. I never said the work should be lewd. Polite sage

>>40966143
Ah, then we are in full agreement.

If we see an arc with time vampires, I'm blaming all of you. Including me.

"There was a time, in the era of great kings, when the Earth and the Moon were at war.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OCPhmoZgz8