>>44003175

Quest Start

Closing the book and stacking it neatly on the side table of the quite comfortable chair, you rise and stretch your spine. While your tension is quite relieved by an exceptional amount of reading, you did still have other things to do today, even if not as the you who you are right now. There is still the matter of speaking with Nui Takeda regarding whatever it is she wanted to speak with you about, and your intentions of speaking with Tomoe-sensei at Infinity Academy.

You are normally Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old, formerly you were the third woman to be the magical champion of love and justice known as Sailor Moon after your mother and elder sister. Now your younger sister, Koyomi, serves as Sailor Moon; and you support her and her court of Sailor Guardians as the mysterious hero known as Eclipse.

To protect them and aid them you have your own burgeoning court of allies and supporters, but for reasons even you aren’t entirely clear on you continue to hide the truth from your younger sister that you’re the one supporting her against enemies tied to the past of your complicated family.

Presently you are in a guise, and are presently not Mikage. To cope with certain traumas, Mikage Chiba delved too deeply into using a magical disguise pen and crafted personalities to inhabit other than her own. They have taken certain independence, you have taken certain independence.

And recently, Mikage has been resolving the issues at the root of each persona and healing the wounds within herself. In the process properly reincorporating those personas into the whole of herself. Only one has made that journey so far, and another stubbornly resists the final pull, while yourself and a few of the others remain entirely unresolved.

>>44003198

While you will not resist coming home when you are finally beckoned, you will still enjoy the time you get to come out all the same. Though the next things you have to tend to aren’t really in your personal wheelhouse of activity.

You are called Daphne, and you are perhaps the most normal facet of Mikage Chiba’s fractured psyche. Posing as an exchange student from france, you while your time away when Mikage wants to be calm or relaxed outside of herself. Simply reading or enjoying warm drinks or calming music, you live the kind of simple life when you come out that she thought she was denied. You added the foreigner angle because even while she wanted to relax, she still felt like an outsider.

Complex, oui.

However it isn’t quite your place to question yourself of judge.

Your time in the bookshop finished, you find that it has grown later in the day. Perhaps two or three in the afternoon by now.

>You can go see Tomoe-sensei now as Daphne
>Go see Tomoe-sensei as yourself
>You need to go speak with Nui Takeda, as yourself
>You need to go speak with Nui Takeda, put on your ganguro face
>You’ve grown a bit peckish, enjoy the dubious bento Koyomi made you
>Write in

>>44003213
>You can go see Tomoe-sensei now as Daphne

>>44003213
>You’ve grown a bit peckish, enjoy the dubious bento Koyomi made you
We are still Tsukino even when we are someone else.

>>44003442
Indeed. The French are well known for their gourmands.

>>44003680
but is she really french?

>>44003754
The French accent is adorable so I'm going with yes.

Okay, lets count things up.

Combining and writing.

How are all of you today?

>>44004063
Hungry, but that's mostly because it's near dinnertime.

>>44004063
Missed the vote, support the combo.
Working, a bit sore. Considering ditching friends and just resting when work ends.

All the time you have spent reading has made you quite peckish, thanking Monsieur Nagato for letting you browse you head out of the small used bookshop and find a bench in the public park near Infinity Academy. Unwrapping the bento your younger sister crafted for you so enthusiastically this morning, you are quite pleasantly surprised to find a simple bento of rice, hamburger, pickled vegetables, and cherry tomatoes.

It isn’t of the artisanal quality your father usually prepares, but the portion is generous and actually looks far better than the bentos your mother would make when she could wake up early enough to make one.

Pondering a moment before digging in, you wonder why the presentation within the bento is so much less enthralling than her Omurice ketchup drawing this morning. Ah! That must be it, she couldn’t reliably draw on this in sauce. It is quite well that she made sure to pack it generously, no?

~Tres Bien,~ you smile to yourself after the first few tentative bites and then quickly but cleanly finish the meal.

As dubious as you were to the quality of your sister’s cooking earlier, she really has improved. Perhaps the two of you can try baking together soon!

Returning the emptied bento to your person, you make your way to the nearby campus of Infinity Academy. Dominated by the central towering skyscraper, the expanded campus is connected to the rest of the city by elevated walkways over the open water channels and roads. Taking out your phone, you shoot Tomoe-sensei a short text message about possibly meeting her in the very near future.

Taking the polite time to warn her that you aren’t yourself right now, you note that you are perhaps the polar opposite of your more infamous and aggressive persona. She agreed to meet with you in quick reply, with instructions to meet her in the campus’s secret laboratory and a forewarning that her father is working with her on the assortment of ongoing projects within the lab today.

>>44004909
You know that the elder Professor Tomoe is versed in the matters of both the existence of the Senshi, their identities, certain alien sciences, and the nature of magic from his extended possession over a decade ago before you were even born.

Settling into a casual walk, you go into the academy grounds and find your way to the elevator. Setting the secret floor of the lab, you descend beneath the skyscraper of Infinity Academy.

The elevator opens to you, revealing the dark haired woman who you had come here to see. Her violet eyes spark at your appearance. Your disguised shoulder length red hair, dark sweater, and topped with a sensible beret.

You don’t cut the profile to which she is usually familiar with, as far as you are concerned.

>How do you greet Tomoe Sensei?

>>44004931
Greet her in French

Writing.

~Salut,~ you smile and step out of the elevator and wrap her into a hug before you continue a full greeting and introduction in french.

Her response, also in french, catches you the slightest bit off guard. It is simple and curt as she breaks the hug and looks you over, switching back into your native tongue, she invites you to follow her to the main laboratory.

Since last you were here, the explosion of slime that had left the lab in ruin was no more and it's been returned to its pristine state.

Against the far wall of the lab, you see the tall white haired figure of her father flitting about the shuttered tube containing the long dead Queen of Elysion.

“So, Daphne,” Tomoe-sensei says quite evenly, “What did you come to see me for today?”

>I have the shadow stone I told you about
>I would like to run those tests you requested on my “Shadow Phage” abilities
>I wanted to talk about the training of my sister and the others
>I wanted to resume some measure of training or study under you
>I came to see my kind of Grandmother
>I just wanted to say hi
>Write in

Wait, Tomoe knows Daphne?

>>44006018
>I have the shadow stone I told you about
>I would like to run those tests you requested on my “Shadow Phage” abilities

>>44006092
Oh she did introduction. Did intro include being Mikage? Guess so, would fit intetaction with ghost. Daphne has no patience for our games with identities.

>>44006018
Shadow stone and training- ours and theirs

>>44006092
Tomoe knows that we were coming in disguise. The lab is most likely closed to everyone not in the know about its existence.

>>44006018
>I have the shadow stone I told you about
>I would like to run those tests you requested on my “Shadow Phage” abilities
>I wanted to talk about the training of my sister and the others

Writing, possible dinner break.

Definitely dinner break.

Back.

~Well,~ you say in an idle and casual tone as you take a seat on a stool along one of the lab tables and draw out the darkened rock given to you by one of the enemy, ~I did say I was bringing this to you when I got around to it, did I not?~

Handing her the cloth wrapped stone, she inspects it carefully.

“I’ll run a battery of tests on it when I get the chance,” she explains curiously, “I suspect it will have similar composition to parts of the other sample you’d brought us,”

~Other sample?~ you ask while glancing over to where her father is working diligently taking readings and adjusting devices over by the shuttered tank in realization, ~Ah yes, how are things progressing with the other sample?~

“Troubling,” she sighs and pulls up a small roller stool next to your own, “We’ve detected unexpected spikes in brainwave activity,”

~Sacre bleu,~ you gasp, ~I thought Grand-mere was inert,~

Taken aback by your outburst, Tomoe-sensei steadies herself with a short chuckle.

“Well, it might have something to do with her tendencies toward regeneration,” she muses, “Or the assorted stimuli she’s been exposed to since you found her...whichever reason for it happening it may turn out to be, if she begins waking she will become dangerous,”

~How so?~

“Like yourself and your father, I suspect she is possessed of certain psychometric abilities. Should her mind become active, even without knowledge or full awareness, I fear she could be a danger to the city,”

~And that means…~

“And that means we lose her as a sample if the pattern of activity spikes accelerates,” interrupts the tall and slim built white haired man as he adjusts his glasses and approaches the two of you, “She must be sealed away, destroyed, or purified,”

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>>44008019

Professor Tomoe stands before yourself and Tomoe-sensei. The tired but stern tone of his voice stretches between the two of you along with the implications.

~We can’t just kill her,~ you tense defensively, as you feel your true self wring with upset deep within, ~We simply cannot,~

“I am inclined to agree,” Tomoe-sensei lays a hand on your shoulder to comfort your noticeable distress, “Sealing her would be cruel, and likely cause greater danger down the line. Our only hope is a purification, though I am uncertain that Koyomi’s power is strong for this task,”

>I may possess power enough
>Koyomi and I together may do it
>Koyomi has a special power...but the risk would be great
>Keep this to yourself

~Moving away from something so dire,~ you excuse yourself between the two of them, ~I was wondering if we could also discuss matters pertaining to the training of the girls and the study of my own phage abilities,~

“Well, I had intended on asking after the girls for some training Sunday Morning,” Tomoe-sensei explains, “If you would approve of such or perhaps help me in the task? As for the study of your abilities, I would like to obtain one of the lesser enemy footsoldiers for the task, and someone without that infection as well,”

~Oh, I can easily get a friend. Acquiring a shadow may be a touch difficult thought,~

>Consent to Tomoe-sensei’s training, but abstain from asking to come
>Consent to training, but you’ll be there with bells on
>Deny this training, though you’ve patched things between you, you do not think she should
>Write in

>>44008042
>Koyomi and I together may do it
>Consent to training, but you’ll be there with bells on

>>44008042
>Koyomi and I together may do it
>Consent to training, but you’ll be there with bells on

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Writing

~Koyomi and I may be able to do it together,~ you muse and push your faux red hair back over one of your ears, ~Between the silver crystal and one of the healing powers I have cultivated,~

“For a second I thought you were going to offer to drink the corruption whole,” Professor Tomoe says with an exasperated yet tension breaking sigh as he steps away from the two of you and returns to the tank, opening the shutters and shining a penlight through the glass, perhaps measuring ocular dilation.

You suppress a giggle.

~Yes, I am a bit of a glutton,~ you pause your laugh and return your attention to Tomoe-sensei, ~I fear I am given to my mother’s tendencies these days,~

“I’m sure it’s just a phase for you,” she offers in comfort and then lowers her eyes sadly, “Usa had similar frustrations with herself around your age,”

An annoyed noise dies in your throat, you come to her wearing a different face and still you find ways to remind your sensei mournfully of Usa. Quickly, you change the subject.

~Merci, Tomoe-sensei, I did not mean to make you sad. Perhaps onto the brighter news, I think it would do quite well for you to start training the girls,~ you beam as you sit primly, ~And I would love to be there, with bells on in fact,~

“Thank you, Mikage,” she smiles at you warmly for agreeing to her training the younger girls and offering to do it by her side, and you blink.

~Oh, no Tomoe-sensei,~ you sigh and correct her, ~Daphne,~

There is an audible groan from the other side of the lab as the elder Tomoe pockets something and lifts a sealable specimen container. He approaches the two of you and hands off the specimen container to his daughter and kneels down to meet your eyes.

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>>44009098

“You know, it may be prudent to take some brain scans of you when in your different personas,” he explains, “Myself and Hotaru both have experience with crowded minds and may be able to-”

~Non,~ you say simply and sternly not shrinking back from him, ~I am sorting matters out quite well on my own,~

“Yes, father, I think this is mostly something for her to tend to as she feels comfortable, much like the Golden Crystal,” Tomoe-sensei backs you up, which gives you a small and happy swell of pride.

“Very well, then if you’ll excuse me,” her father rises and relaxes his posture and heads for the door of the secret laboratory, “I think I’ve run everything I can run today, rather I’ve run everything I can run in the lab so I think I’ll run on a treadmill in the campus gym for a bit,”

His joke given, the older man pauses in the door frame with a mirthful chuckle.

“Because it's a running gag, you see,”

“FATHER!” Tomoe-sensei shouts after him in annoyance and embarrassment.

He leaves with a laugh, and your sensei sighs as she closes the dark stone into the sealable container before turning back to you.

“We can have you and Koyomi try a purification together after training on Sunday,” she muses after your earlier idea, “That way myself and the other Sailor Senshi can be here if something goes wrong,”

Chatting with Tomoe-sensei a bit longer in the guise of Daphne, you realize if it gets much later you won’t have time to speak with Nui Takeda or anyone else you had in mind to speak to today.

>It’s time to get changed and go meet Nui
>You want to speak with Tomoe-sensei more, though not in the lab
>It's time to get changed, and there was actually someone else you wanted to meet
>It is much later than you expected, maybe you should go home and just call Nui?
>Write in

>>44009129
>It’s time to get changed and go meet Nui

>>44009129
>It’s time to get changed and go meet Nui

Writing momentarily.

~Please, Tomoe-sensei, if you’ll excuse me there are some other matters I must tend to today,~ you politly rise to excuse yourself.

“Oh, certainly,” she perks up and looks at her wrist watch, “Huh, I seem to have lost track of time. I’ll myself have a few appointments above,”

~Would it be alright if I changed in the locker room down here,~ you query, ~I have need of a mirror for my preparations,~

“Of course,”

Moments later you stand before a full length mirror in the secret laboratory’s secret locker room. The Tomoe’s spared no expense, it would seem, in preparing this facility. You’ve been told that it is modeled after the original blueprints used by the Germatoid Entity that had possessed Professor Tomoe for years of his life, though you have also been told that this rendition of the construction is far less visually sinister than the original.

This in mind, you drop your current disguise as Daphne and return to yourself. As with every time you make this transition, you feel genuinely relaxed from the time you spent as the more reserved and polite girl. Still, you’ve got shit to do today. You need to meet up with Nui Takeda, Tiny Teal of your Ganguro Fashion Circle, and see what she was so keen on talking about the other day.

A pang hits you as you fiddle about with mundane makeup and your disguise pen to craft an outfit you own and the familiar appearance of your ganguro pseudonym. Going back to a conversation you had with your mother the night you brought this facet of yourself home, you decide to leave your hair in its natural state, and let it fall free and pink.

Thanks to the disguise pen, it won’t drag on the ground. Seriously, you should probably take care of this with a haircut or something when everything is done.

As you finish the last of your touches, short shorts and tight top, you realize that the girl looking back at you in the mirror isn’t...it isn’t Miki. The person staring back at you is...you.

>>44010158

~Damn it,~ you growl at the pang of guilt, true this is the first time you’ve really been Miki since you ushered that fractured piece of yourself home. It makes you a touch nostalgic for the time when this matter was out of your hands.

Well, these are your hands now, your pink manicured and perfectly spray tanned hands.

And damn if you don’t make those hands look good.

Striding out of the secret portions of the lab and through the proper elevator, you text Teal about where you should meet. A stray thought strikes you about Moe Ueda, she does go to Infinity Academy and you could probably chew her out about outing you…

>Meet Nui somewhere back in Juuban
>Meet Nui somewhere close to Infinity Academy
>Meet her Somewhere else
>Write in

&

>Text Moe-chan to join you
>Locate Moe-chan and drag her with you
>Eh, she probably has her own thing going today
>Write in

>>44010178
>Meet Nui somewhere close to Infinity Academy
>Text Moe-chan to join you

>>44010178
>>Locate Moe-chan and drag her with you
>Meet Nui somewhere back in Juuban

I have awakened from my post-work coma.

>>44010178
>Meet Nui somewhere back in Juuban
>Eh, she probably has her own thing going today

>>44010411
How was work?

>>44010178
>Meet Nui somewhere close to Infinity Academy
>Text Moe-chan to join you

>>44003175
>A white sword made of stone.
Hm. ..I got nothing, but it seems important.

>>44004500
Friends ditched, and food eaten.

>>44004909
The food was good. Be afraid!

>>44008042
>>44009129
I like Tomoe the Elder.

>>44008199
>>44008282
>you’ll be there with bells on
Heh, I'm kinda liking the trend of Daphne poking holes in us avoiding things.

>>44010581
Most annoying person was a lingering customer message from the previous day, but was uncommonly irritable about them.

I see I arrived in time to cast my vote as part of the council. Mayhap we shall yet have a tie breaker for Moe.

Calling it here.

Huh, looks like Moe is getting a text.

However where oh where are they going.

Queue up for a final destination in just a moment.

When the Final Destination vote goes live, reply to it with just the number of your choice. No punctuation, comment, line breaks, greentext, or what have you. And it must be within four minutes of the first vote in response to the final destination. Failure to follow these rules will result in the vote in question being void.

QUEUE UP for an UPCOMING FD

Final Destination.

Rules already gone over.

1 In Juuban - benefit home turf and well known places
2 Near Infinity Academy - benefit strong arts & entertainment district surrounding academy

>>44010891
1

>>44010891
2

Rolled 2 (1d2)

and called.

>>44010917
>>44010965
...

Dice will guide us.

>>44011011
Is good. had I realized sooner that the destination had tied. likely would have changed to the Academy area.
In hindsight, less chance for Nui to see anyone from school and worry about discovery. Maybe us too, but magic buffers that pretty well.

Resolving to have your meeting out here in the active district surrounding Infinity Academy, you send Nui the text, to which she responds immediately saying that she can be there by four thirty or so in the afternoon. To your surprise, it is already a quarter to four.

Sighing, you figure you might as well also see if you can get Moe-chan to come out. Shooting the power lifting and teddy bear backpack enthusiast, though as separate interests, a message you wait a touch longer for her reply as you walk across the campus. Drawing more than a few stares for your downright scandalous appearance, no doubt inspiring jealous knives of words to form on the tongues of some and jealous want in the eyes of others.

That supposition makes you feel, good. You want their eyes. You want their barbs.

You.

Not just a you to take attention in your stead, but you.

It feels good as you take a confident posture and slow your gait.

You cannot help but feel emboldened by the stares as you stride off of campus and settle on a place to meet, Little cafes and juice bars are common enough to come by in this area, though after that surprisingly nice boxed lunch your little sister made for you there is an undeniable pull on your sweet tooth.

Deciding to indulge it, as you’ve done frequently in these past few weeks, you head to a little pastry and dessert place with outside dining. If only to be seen as you are now, enjoying a pastry, and soaking up more jealousy.

Might as well, besides Tomoe-sensei this ravenousness you’ve been experiencing was just a phase for Usa. That it most likely is the same for you, considering you are the same person save for differing life experiences, makes you less inclined to resist it. To your knowledge your big sister wasn’t the exercise addict you are, therefore you can more than readily afford to do this.

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>>44011811

Getting an ice cream float and a lovely stacked chocolate torte, you wait for your friends to arrive. You instructed Moe-chan to arrive around four thirty, so the two of you won’t be waiting long alone for Teal.

True to your plan, you polish off your overly sweetened and cream foaming beverage just as the two of them arrive. Both are done up as you expected, Moe-chan usually going around with the style casually, Nui probably took great care to sneak out of her home without her parents discovering “Teal”.

~Moe-chan, Teal-chan!~ you wave them both down from your slight vantage point in the cafe balcony, ~Like, up here!~

They pause when they see you, no doubt they feel like they’re seeing you for the first time. Without your usual wig they are probably adjusting to the moment of cognitive dissonance. Teal especially given the disbelief of this revelation.

Walking up the cafe’s half flight of outdoor stairs, the perfectly miniature and now heavily tanned student council president just kind of stares blankly at you.

“I don’t know how I never saw it before?” she asks no one.

>How do you greet your friends?

&

>Let’s order more deserts and hang out
>Nui-chan, what did you want to talk to me about?
>Mooooooooooe-chan, how could you out me to Nui!
>Write in

>>44011838
>>Mooooooooooe-chan, how could you out me to Nui!

>>44011838
>Mooooooooooe-chan, how could you out me to Nui!
>Nui-chan, what did you want to talk to me about?

Writing.

Fusion

Probably last post of the night.

Springing up from your seat, you close in on Moe-chan as Teal continues to look at you slightly dumbfounded. Coming up to the well toned girl, who looks at you nervously, you lay hands on her bare shoulders and look at her with scolding yet pleading eyes.

~Moooooooooooe-chan~ you plead before you scold, ~How could you out me to Teal like that?~

This shakes Teal from her momentary confusion as Moe Ueda stutters and struggles through some kind of response.

“I didn’t mean too,” the usually confident and brash power lifter complains beneath your glare, “I was texting and I mixed up on writing,”

“You remember me telling you I sussed it out of her after that,” Teal chimes in and takes a seat.

~but, like,she needed to know I was upset,~ you playfully stick your tongue out at your fascinatingly tiny glorious ganguro revolutionary leader, ~I’ve already totally forgiven her in my heart,~

“What? Then why are you totally trying to make me feel bad?” said forgiven girl questions.

Strong arms lift you up as Moe-chan looks up at you with a pout on her face, she walks you back over to your chair and sets you down in front of it.

~Because I still owed it to you,~ you verbally ply as the two sit down and pick up menus.

Moe definitely isn’t enthused by all the sweets and pastries, but Teal seems very receptive to them.

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>>44013141
~Anyway, Teal, you had something you wanted to um talk to me about at school the other day?~ you question your impeccably miniscule student council president who you could probably hide from sight if you stretched out a singular leg warmer for your size.

Okay, maybe that would be a stretch-

Damn Tomoe-sensei’s dad for putting puns in the back of your mind.

The bob cut blonde sighs and sets down her menu.

“I confronted Endo-kun about his secret,” she confesses, “And he said he was in a band. He said they had a gig this weekend and rather than explain it he’d show me,”

Daigo Endo, you’re pretty sure he is in a band. Yoshi’s band.

Wait.

“You’ve been talking to Sakurada-san again, right?” she questions, “I’d bet anything that Yoshi Sakurada is in this band with Endo-kun. Miki, I need your help. Please help me figure out just what Endo is doing he seems so embarrassed about and...could you come with me to the show?”

For the love of…

“For moral support,” she adds, “Moe-chan, would you be interested in this?”

Suddenly you want another drink...decidedly not an ice cream float as you consider all the possible ways you could burn stress by making the chocolate torte in front of you dissapear.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 113
End

Interlude vote:
Flowers in Bloom
Seen within flame
Fell Child

Crap, I am really out of it today. Feel asleep again and it's a bit early for me to conk out that hard.

>>44011838
>>44011884
>>44011930
>>44012561
Sounds good. Probably would have voted how can you out me plus deserts.

Ooh, and the last went up as I type, readin' time.

>>44013161
>Seen within flame

>>44013161
>Suddenly you want another drink
Muhaha.

Now if we can avoid panicking like at the concert when we think about things all coming together at one place.

>Flowers in Bloom
Hopefully she's feeling better now.

>>44013161
>Seen within flame

>>44013161
>Fell Child
pleasedontbethemiraclechild

>Flowers in bloom
Great to see you back, Arty.

>Flowers in bloom

I think this is the only one I don't know what it is, so I'll pick that one.