>>45839055

Quest Start

“We are risen from below to take your petty pop melodies and drag them through the crucible of hellfire,” he is clad in a black straight jacket, unfastened as the restraints hang at his side, he points with his free hand into the crowd, “that only what is metal remains,”

Bass and Drum, beneath the ministrations of the Ogre on the raised platform behind him and the Devil on his side, descend in a snarling speed and fury. The Damned throws his white hair back as he drops the guitar strap over his shoulders and returns the microphone to the stand in front of him. Distorted and dissonant synth sounds as the Witch plays their fingers across plastic mimicry of ivory keys, leaning forward to give the crowd a view of something that isn’t actually there and licking their lips suggestively.

The guitar joins the choreographed fray as at first The Damned turns away from the microphone, the familiar frame of something you must have heard once on the radio takes form but through a different filter of hard edges and woe. Introductory melody reaching certain crescendo, he whips back around while still playing and sings like the rasping cry of death into the crowd.

Their set opens with a fairly recent Nami Amuro song, there’s a certain dissonance between the lyrics and the presentation but you imagine that’s the point. Everyone seems to like it.

Your ability to see in the dark affords you perfect details of the crowd around you, even if all they can see for certain right now is the stage and the crowd space in front of it. You know at least one person who didn’t expect to see you here tonight did, but he shouldn’t be too surprised. He saw Midori and Keiko here together, and it is a matter of public rumor that you hung out backstage at this band’s last show.

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>>45839083

Thanks to your time in the mosh pit, you’ve worked off the certain amount of anxious and violent energy. At least enough to get your bearings. You know that in the crowd there are people who probably want a moment of your time despite the raucous din of the show.

You were warned that one of the former Primroses, Niji, who has been fangirling over you particularly hard wanted to chat with you. She’ll probably wait a bit, more than likely she’s exhausted herself in the mosh pit and you caught sight of fellow former Primrose Ringo helping her out of the broken fray. Saori Umeki seems to be sticking to Kairi’s side for now, but you know she has questions she wants to ask this version of you for her investigations. Up on the Balcony; you know Kalunite waits for some contact from you unless he’s assumed you’ll be reaching out to the number he gave you, and that amazingly aggravating woman Hisako Ito is watching the show and you.

Presently; you are not Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old and formerly the third woman to carry the title of Sailor Moon. In these loud but distant moments you are The Red Eyed Beast, mysterious delinquent nightmare of Juuban district.

>Find a place to watch the show while hidden, to be undisturbed
>Find a comfortable place to watch the Damned’s set, where people can find you
>Know what, back into the pit, that was fun
>You should probably try to talk to (insert person here)
>Telepathically touch base with your allies in the field
>You wonder how Nui is reacting to all of this? Go eavesdrop.
>Write in

(first vote open for about thirty minutes after first cast vote, subsequent voting windows after updates will be 15 minutes from the first cast vote)

>>45839117
>You wonder how Nui is reacting to all of this? Go eavesdrop.

>>45839117
>Find a comfortable place to watch the Damned's set, where people can find you.

My contribution, before I pass out for the night

>>45839055
Wow, he really is looking for talent.
No idea that he's potentially taking a dragon by the tail.

Also learning that the enemy is collecting specific emotions, likely for corruption and processing for specific uses.

>>45839117
If we haven't already, do we tend to leave it up, drop Conceal Thoughts. Want that up an running once we do say hi to Kal.
For the moment though, let's
>Find a place to watch the show while hidden, to be undisturbed
Give Yoshi's other life our proper attention, maybe people watch from our hidden spot see how people react to him and his group.

>>45839117
>Find a place to watch the show while hidden, to be undisturbed

Ah, back. Vote over, I am freshly showered and energized. Gonna grab some breakfast and throw some clothes in the washer and get to writing.

How is everyone this morning? You know what's fun, X-Wing is fun. Some younger friends convinced me it was a good time sink and I picked up a core set and I got to try a one on one game and then watched a four player 2 on 2 200pt each battle.

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Alright, writing.

>>45839821
Doing alright.
I've heard X-Wing is pretty cool. Seems to be receiving decent support from the company as well. I've still got miniatures from the failed space battles game that came before it around.

>>45840477
I like the way the game is structured, and the pilot system.

I admit, I'll be picking up one ship solely because of Shadows of the Empire. Gotta get the Dash Rendar pilot Card for the YT freighter.

>>45840539
It think the pilots and the larger figures really helped that one gain traction, more personality to it.

You came here tonight to watch The Damned, Yoshi, to get a better idea of who he is now and what he does. Attention to his double life, so it is far better for you if you were undisturbed during this leg of the show. Briefly you consider eavesdropping on Nui Takeda, just to bask amused in her reaction to Endo-kun being on stage as Ogre, but think better of it.

Nor do you want to deal with everyone who wants to talk to you right now on top of that.

Slipping, invisibly, over to a table in dark corner of the first floor venue you settle in and watch the stage. There are many eyes on you here, especially with that bastard Kalunite about, so you fortify your mind with almost no expenditure of magical energy.

Experiencing a certain clarity from your mosh pit exertions, you think it will be nice to relax for a bit.

Actually, your exult in the feeling of minor bruising and sore muscles from the violent dance now resumed at the foot of the stage. That and the throes of the music, despite its frenetic nature, is oddly therapeutic. Yoshi plays with clarity and intensity, in perfect synchronicity with his band on stage. Belting lyrics and moving across the stage, he is rarely still as the probably choreographed routine mocks the video for the song.

Their first bit comes to an end as there is an obvious key change.

“This one is new and fresh,” The Damned cranes his neck before the mic stand in an awkward way to make his movements seem unnatural as the preamble and familiar melody of the song takes shape, “So we’ll make it rot together, because if that’s life, this is death,”

The squirt’s solo, what you brought her to meet The Damned last weekend for in the first place before things spiraled out of the control. Thinking about it, without embarrassment, your remember the jolt of pain when you punched the mirror and slapped him across the face. How that further stung MIkage when she spoke to Yoshi on the roof of the school after…

>>45840991

It's a good cover. Varied speed and intensity and turning the breaks in the song to guitar and then drum solos.

C'est la vie cried out in a damning voice, is brought to a close as your eyes drift among the crowd. Nui Takeda is of course entranced in disbelief at Endo-kun’s blue figure on stage, the friends who came with her watching and of course Moe-chan is sticking close to Sasha’s side as she watches from the standing table with the others. The smaller boy, for his part, is watching the show but occasionally sweeping the room with a turn of his head; no doubt looking for you.

You outright can’t see Saori Umeki, nor Midori now for some reason as you catch sight of Keiko and Kairi conferring on the other side of the hall. And the two Primroses are trying to get bottled water near the back of the hall.

What catches your attention as you people watch and their cover of Venus-chan’s song comes to an end and they shift into a cover of a song by Korean pop boy band Tohoshinki, is that woman you engaged with earlier. Hisako Ito, @repostyankee on Lurk, is alive as she enters the moshpit.

She thrashes as The Damned and his band rock. You drift back to watching the stage as this song progresses and Yoshi steps back while still singing as the bassist and pianist play while going through recognizably choreographed steps from this song’s video. Standing keyboard abandoned for a keytar still providing the synth undertone that remains evocative of the pop source material.

As that song comes to an end, their tempo and straight run through their set pauses as The Damned comes back to the fore of the stage.

“We’ve run names you know through the pain and blood of hell, but it's not all we’ll give you tonight in our escape from the pit,” gravel and hatred stewed voice reverberates through the hall, though you detect the barest hint of hesitation, “Now it’s one of our own make, Grey Hare, mocking your world’s pop,”

>>45840991

They all explode back into song as one when he finishes the introduction. You’ve heard that their original songs are structured like pop songs they’ve made into metal. The subject of this song by tone of the screamed lyrics against harsh beat and devastating bass seems like a boy band ballad. Instruments are angry, but you imagine the lyrics are the somber or sad thing Venus-chan was talking to The Damned alone about…

It’s title gives you pause as you shift in your seat. Grey Hair? Its english, the rest of the lyrics are not. Wait, regretful? Sad? Boyband ballad?

...grey...hare? Rabbit? There’s something hidden in here, those feelings he talked to the young idol about. His feelings about how the two of you...stopped. How you stopped.

>Even if you’re the beast, Mikage might feel embarrassed to have heard this
>Stay and listen, you owe it that
>You need to be close to the stage, walk into the mosh pit to listen
>You need to be close to the stage, fight into the mosh pit to listen
>write in

&

>That this song exists pisses you off
>That this song exists, touches you
>That this song exists, makes you feel giddy
>That this song exists, makes you sad
>That this song exists, makes you sad for him
>Write in

>>45841049
>You need to be close to the stage, fight into the mosh pit to listen


>That this song exists, makes you sad for him

>>45841049
>Stay and listen, you owe it that
>That this song exists, makes you sad for him

>>45841049
>>Stay and listen, you owe it that

>>That this song exists, touches you
He took his sadness & hurt and made it into a guise of rage & pain.
I think we can relate to that idea.

>>45841049
>You need to be close to the stage, fight into the mosh pit to listen
>That this song exists, touches you

Oh how the tables have turned.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33087853/#p33090478

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Leaving this open a touch longer, then we'll see if we have to final destination

>>45841195
>>45841381
I'll join the mosh pit crew, might as well let him see us enjoy the song (and simplify the vote-split)

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Rolled 14 + 22 (1d20 + 22)

Alright, give me dice+2d20 best of 3. Normal rules.

First die is for the mosh pitting and is +17
Second die is a will reaction test, +7 because you're feeling things. More than one thing, because you are human.

Rolled 13, 8 = 21 (2d20)

>>45841613

Rolled 13, 18 = 31 (2d20)

>>45841613

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Rolled 5, 4 = 9 (2d20)

>>45841613
This Pit is rough.

Rolled 6, 4, 3, 2, 2 = 17 (5d6)

Alright.

>>45841613
>30 v 36
This might seem like an odd thing to want to spend a surge on, but I feel like we could listen better with less elbows in or face.

Do I hear a call for Surge?

y/n

>>45841872
Meh, sure let's do it.

>>45841301
Blast from the past.
We should pinch Koyomi's cheeks again sometime.

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>>45841872
y

>>45841914
Training is in game day after tomorrow.

Rolled 3 (1d8)

SURGE then

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>>45841945
We shall train them well.

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>>45842034
Still helps, is the nice thing about using a margin system.

This song, his feelings, they touch you past the forward presentation of metal and death. He took his feelings and hid them behind violence and rage, you can relate to that. His sadness...Yoshi’s sadness because of you.

His song is structured around a metaphor, about a boy who cared for a girl who was a vibrant rabbit, until one day she became hurt and turned to gray. Kicking away or silent, the thrashing panic to be alone. The boy could not help the rabbit heal its wounds despite its efforts, so sadly he left it to its pain after it in no uncertain terms made it known it did not want him around by biting his hand.

You never actually bit his hand, but you remember the moment he may be describing.

You, no, Mikage never bit his hand. These walls...damn them. These feelings…

You dive into listening to this and throw yourself from the shadows back into the fray of the mosh pit. Needing to be close, but needing to hit something because you are so overcome. Because this song makes you, both as Mikage and as the Beast, feel closer to Yoshi. Closer to understanding his heart, and your own guilt and sadness for him over the way things ended between you.

As you enter into the violence, you quietly choke back your upset. When he told you that he still feels now like he did back then, that weighs on you.

Whatever. If you were Mikage right now you’d probably cry. You’re the Red Eyed Beast and you aren’t going to cry over this. His feelings reached you, you who doesn’t give a fuck. You who is anger and rage and creepiness and everything you have worked so hard to be. And he made you feel.

You need to hit something and to be hit. So into the thrashing mosh pit you go.

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>>45842277

Eyes on the stage, you tank your hits and give them back with even ferocity. The mob of the pit doesn’t overtake you as much as the music does. You dance to it, let how it makes you feel flow into your violence. Hisako Ito sees you in the pit, but does not herself engage you. She dances near you, but is more concerned with getting hit and hitting into the rest of the crowd.

It is a long song; and when it comes to it’s end the boy cannot move on. So he’ll watch the rabbit, until he knows it can leap again and be happy in the world. Even if he believes it won’t let him or anyone else close again.

Their last two songs for the set are far shorter, and you work off your feelings quite easily among the violence. All told their set as headliners was maybe about an hour.

The mosh pit ends, the escapees from hell bid their goodbye. There is still a night to be had before they return to the pit, to rise up again tomorrow night.

>You need to see Yoshi, backstage, now
>Show is gonna start winding down with the end of the set, and you owe someone a fight
>While the room is still buzzing, you need to talk to someone. Who? About what?
>You need some air, to the smoker’s alley
>You need a drink, to the bar upstairs
>Kalunite…
>Write in

>>45842301
>Show is gonna start winding down with the end of the set, and you owe someone a fight

>>45842301
>You need to see Yoshi, backstage, now

>>45842301
Let's see, we've got three main notes to hit tonight:
Kal
The Damned
@repostyankee

I'd say try touching base with Kal first, coy but agree to hear more. Those Scout are getting more troublesome.

Then quietly see Yoshi and offer to sneak him out to watch the fight.

Throw some healing in somewhere, then fight!

Leaving the vote open a touch longer before I call it.

Mostly because the turn around for last update was so quick.

>>45842866
I'm gonna switch my vote from >>45842480 to
>>45842612

Writing.

Rolled 17, 2, 14, 7, 17, 14 = 71 (6d20)

And seeing how Ito did in the pit

Rolled 2, 6, 4, 1, 1, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 5, 3 = 44 (15d6)

>>45843258
...so, for your fight with her she'll have 11 vitality.

>>45843278
You make it sound as if she's trying to make us have an easier time attempting to smash her face in.

>>45843356
I have a feeling she'll still give us what-for.

>>45843356
She saw you having fun in the mosh pit, she decided she did too.

It isn't her fault that you have maxed hit dice and bonus hit points.

This is a tough update, mostly because I have to write the way out of some of the between encounters and figure out which can't be so easily avoided without your own action.

Still pursuing the overarching multi stage vote, but I guess we'll have a short pause. Next update almost up.

He looks down at you where you stand breathing heavily and tired at the foot of the stage. Even behind burning eyes, he sees something in you that prevents him from being anxious or upset. Stone faced, at least, he removes his guitar strap from his shoulder and retreats into the dark with his band mates, Ogre howling to the crowd one last time with arms and drumsticks wide.

You’ll give him a chance to breath after the show while you tend to your own brief business.

“That was a blast,” comments a voice beside you, the laughing and hungry sounding bark of Hisako Ito, “So, you ready to do this thing?”

“I need a few minutes,” you explain with a ragged shrug, your breathing isn’t much better than her own as you give her a sinister smile, “Gotta talk to a few people. Wait for me in the smoker’s alley and I’ll be out there to hand your ass back to you,”

“Kinky,” she shrugs and pops her back with a wide stretch, this completely doesn’t embarrass you, “Take your time, I gotta catch my breath still,”

“Tch, whatever grandma,” you tease her as you head over toward the stairs to the balcony of the hall.

“Hey, you’re gonna eat those words,” she happily calls back at your retreating form, pulling and resecuring her long and white hair back.

Strange woman, you kind of like her. However there are other matters that weigh on your ability to like and dislike things. Walking up the stairs, you spy Midori and Saori Umeki talking at the bar. They’re drinking from glasses instead of bottles so you imagine Midori has a fake ID. The sunken girl notices you and starts to move away from the Bar as you drift to the VIP seating area.

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>>45844063

Midori, thankfully, grabs the girl’s shoulder and says something to keep her at the bar.

You’re quite thankful for this as you cross into the comfortably arranged area and had toward the Ellis Media manager. He sets down a glass and smiles at you.

“Ah, it's good to see you again,” he smiles with a certain lethargic drawl, “Since you never called, I assumed they had gotten to you,”

“Yeah, well those Senshi are getting to be more troublesome,” you scoff and cross your arms as you look down at where he’s seated, “Say I was willing to listen to you, what next?”

He leans back in the bench couch along the edge of the balcony guardrail in the VIP section. His arms spread as does the width of his smile.

“Next, I introduce you to the...let’s call them the right people,” he muses, “Come back here tomorrow morning and there will be a limo waiting for you. It’ll take you somewhere to meet with they and myself and if you like the offer then we can go from there,”

Kalunite is casual, uncaring. As calm as he is, it still irks you that he got so much stronger somehow.

Still…you’ll play this coyly.

“Whatever, I’ll be there or I won’t,” you huff and turn away from him, “Don’t hold your breath,”

“I honestly don’t need to,” he nods at your departure.

You still need to speak with Yoshi.

>>45844086

As you head down the stairs of the still bustling venue, you find both Niji and Sasha talking at the bottom. You’re a bit surprised not to see Moe-chan in his immediate area, but that might be fore the best. She was jealous after seeing Mikage riding behind him on his bike, how does she feel about his friendship with the Beast...who she’s doesn’t know is Mikage.

Maybe you should punch Moe-chan. It’d be like punching Miki, but she’s strong and can take it.

No, that won’t get you anywhere.

“Hey,” Sasha calls up the stairs as you are halfway through your descent.

Niji, at his words, turns to face you and offers you a broad smile and a thumbs up.

“Hey, Beast-chan!” it grinds on your sensibilities and you are reminded that you still want to teach her a lesson...but it’s a lesson that you know she doesn’t deserve.

Being stuck between yourself and yourself is a suffering.

To say nothing of how complicated things are between you and all the people you have feelings for and have feelings for you. The small brown blonde’s presence is a distinct reminder of that difficulty.

>Say hi, but excuse yourself because people are waiting on you just yet
>Brush them both off
>Brush one of them off, who
>Take time to lay into Niji
>See what’s up with Sasha
>Talk to Niji
>Write in

>>45844108
>See what’s up with Sasha
Hey I went and picked a fight some old hag that used to be hot sh*t, wanna watch?

>>45844108
>>Say hi, but excuse yourself because people are waiting on you just yet

>>45844108
>Write in
Tease them both.
Are these stairs in a stairwell, classic make out spot.

Writing, because screw it, I can combine all this.

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“Hey,” you nod to the two of them and note the open air of the stairs to the balcony, “You know, this place doesn’t have a stairwell, a terrible place to go if the two of you are ditching your dates to make out,”

Your joke is delivered dryly as you come to the bottom of the stairs and shift a bit to the side to be out of the way of the foot traffic. Niji balks immediately at the idea you presented, that she’s on a date with the bigger country girl and denies it poignantly. Sasha just shrugs his shoulders, offering a chuckle.

“Ha, guess you saw me Ueda-san,” the boxer reasons, “We go to the same school, she’s become one of my work out buddies,”

“Really now, Sashy? Workout buddies,” you shake your head.

“No, really. She’s an amazing power lifter,” he explains calmly and not falling for your bait, “Just wanted to see how you were, and I was a little curious what you were doing here?”

“What? You didn’t know!” Niji says excitedly to the boy before turning to you, “She was totally at their last concert. It was the day you dropped in on me while I was running laps, right?”

She’s still treating you lightly. Well, you owe it to your burgeoning respect toward the other girl not to just wreck her shit.

“It’s a long story, can’t get into it right now because I gotta go talk to someone about...some old business, but,” you ignore Niji as you explain things briefly to Sasha, “afterwards I’ve gone and picked a fight with an old hag who used to be hot shit, want to watch?”

“Yeah, sure.” he pauses and glances out at the crowd before looking back to you, “Who?”

“Hisako Ito, @repostyankee,” he stares at you, eyes wide, before his eyes settle and he crosses his arms with a smug grin.

“That sounds pretty good,” he nods, “Where’s the fight?”

>>45845177

“Smokers alley, in a bit,” you whisper to him with wide and manic anticipation to the exciting specific violence, hand blocking your mouth in pale hopes that Niji doesn’t quite hear.

For all the good that will do.

Bidding no goodbyes, you set back off toward the backstage. Allowed through thanks to your pass, you quickly head downstairs and toward the green room you know to be dedicated privately to the four members of The Unrepentant Damned.

Throwing the door wide, four pairs of eyes turn to face you. Red Devil, Black Witch, Ogre, and Nui Takeda. The Damned sits calm, not reacting to the open door. You reason he knows you would be coming. That song of his sticks to you, even as the beast. It isn’t pity you feel for him, to an extent its responsibility. This is all so confusing.

Wait, Nui’s back here? Well, Daigo Endo did invite her. Looks like your arrival interrupted a discussion between the two of them.

>Uh, Damned, can we talk in private
>Just go in and ask him to come see your fight
>Go in there...and be emotional...goddamnit how is it getting to you?
>You want to talk to him about that song first
>Tease Witch and Devil about interrupting them earlier
>Write in

>>45845205
>Tease Witch and Devil about interrupting them earlier

>>45845205
Didn't Nui come as Teal, or similar?

>>45845205
>Tease Ogre & Teal, referencing interrupting Witch and Devil earlier.

>Telepathically thank him for the show and invite him to the fight
Do we think he'd need help sneaking out without a crowd?

Combining, because if you aren't going to scare people you're going to be snarky apparently.

Writing.

>>45845623
Scary is fine too. If we can go in spooky and tease bluntly.

As they watch you, you immediately fade from sight to the shock of everyone paying particular attention as you tweak the shadows in the room to give it a contrasted atmosphere of impending fear before you slam the door shut behind you and reappear to the gasping of the crossdressers and the squealing shock of Nui Takeda.

Oh...the squealing pitch wasn’t Nui. It was Endo-kun, who is now ineffectual trying to hide behind Nui. He’s the size of a bus, how is he so skittish?

“Oh, another couple?” you ask dangerously of the shocked blueberry and perfectly miniature bedazzle happy blonde before turning your eyes to your earlier targets and throatily laughing.

It could be mistaken at a distance as a snarl. You fade back into sight between the two of them, to the Ogre’s reeling.

“Guess what they say is true,” you leer teasingly and smugly at the Devil and the Witch, “Opposites attract,”

You know full well that Nui Takeda and Diago Endo will probably be embarrassed by such an insinuation. Regardless of your teasing you already know they aren’t a couple. From what you gathered last time you saw this band, the Ogre has a reputation as more than a bit of a shameless womanizer. So much time in the circle and you also know that Nui, despite her cutesy appearance and segregated traditional family life, is a man eater with an eye for the slim and hard cut.

Besides, they spend so much time working together on the student council. If they were a thing that was going to happen it would have already happened. For the added hilarity just last week Nui was convinced that the sensitive giant was running guns for the Yakuza.

“Oh, we aren’t opposites, spooky doll,” The Devil ventures with a velvet smoothness to her faux masculine tone, “We’re a wonderful complimentary set, if you’d like to further explore what you saw earlier furt-”

>>45846867

“Devil,” The Damned tersely commands from the back of the room, “down,”

“Well you’re no fun,” she tilts her stylish and corsage sporting hat down over her eyes and flattens her press on pencil moustache.

“Just as well, darling,” the witch sighs and falls back into the couch, crossing his legs carefully as he adjusts the side hang of his bangs in a very feminine manner maintaining his guise, “She doesn’t seem to be in a playful mood,”

-Oh, I am,- you snicker over a telepathic communique to Yoshi, as Nui storms toward you with her fists balled, -I’ve found a new playmate for that mood, we’re having a friendly street fight out in the smokers alley. I wanted to know if you wanted to watch?-

“We are having a private conversation,” she stares up at you and crosses her arms as only someone used to being in charge can do, “And I don’t appreciate your flippant and tastely spooky bullshit interrupting us,”

-Didn’t get enough of that in the mosh pit?- he asks, carefully.

You feel he is avoiding something, is nervous about something. He’s quite plainly wondering how you have reacted to that song. Even if he watched you in the audience and in the pit to the end of the set, he’s a mess of worry, nervous and anxious.

Not that you’d admit it right now, but you…

“She’s here for me,” he explains from behind the rising Ogre as he takes off his wig and straight jacket and throws on a simple black hoodie, “I don’t factor much into your conversation, and she and I have something private to talk about,”

-Let’s go,- he’s curious about what you’ve gotten into and wants to diffuse this...whatever landmine you’ve managed to trip with Nui.

>>45846886

He passes his silent bandmates toward the door, opening it for the two of you, Nui seems mildly shocked by the exchange. The Devil and Witch seem curious. Ogre, he’s just confused and concerned.

Following The disguised enough damned out of the green room, closing the door behind you, you catch sound of one last exchange within from Nui’s shocked voice.

“Wait, are the two of them…” she is probably asking Endo-kun about the two of you.

If she pieced together that Yoshi is the Damned, she’ll probably be incensed on Mikage’s behalf that the Red Eyed Beast is making some kind of move on him. Are you?

Doesn’t matter. The two of you walk side by side up the stairs to the backstage of the hall above to take the long way around to the sectioned off alley.

>Walk to the scene of your fight with Yoshi quietly
>You have questions for him, about that song. What?
>Tease him, ask him if who you are now is what he expected of his grayed rabbit
>You want to tell him about something else...what?
>His hand is just hanging there at his side…
>Write in

&

>Maintain spooky bitch front
>You can be a little more casual, like...yourself. You feel more like yourself
>Awkward teenage mode, engage
>You are the picture of confidence, I mean, about the fight. Yeah.
>Write in

>>45846910
>Write in
"Time to see one of the ways the rabbit leaps."

>?
I'm drawn between Spooky Confidence and More Like Self Awkwardness.

>>45846910
>>You have questions for him, about that song. What?
Let him know Mikage is getting better. Though third person might still concern him.
>>Maintain spooky bitch front
>>You can be a little more casual, like...yourself. You feel more like yourself
The Beast, but some more Mikage coming through.

Leaving this open a touch longer.

>>45847639
>>45847209
I was drawn anyway, so >>45847516
can work.

If we can work in a clever leaping/fighting comment, that would be nice.

Writing, sorry had to sort something. Let's get this rolling.

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“So, about your song?” you begin a bit calmer than you’ve been all night, relaxing the voice you’ve revelled in amid gravel and fear, that isn’t the kind of voice to talk about this sort of thing with.

“Hmm?” he asks as he adjusts his hood slightly to look across at you.

“She’s getting better,” you explain, “I mean, Mikage...she, I’m getting better,”

“Is there that much of a difference?”

You don’t quite answer, whipping ahead and growling a bit. Uncomfortable with the question you reign yourself in, and catch out of the corner of your eye the concern spreading beneath the skull on black makeup adorning his face.

It’s a short walk and the two of you are surprisingly unmolested through the venue hall as people remain milling about as the MC thanks anyone for coming out to the show as recorded music plays lightly behind him. Merch tables at the back hock CDs and shirts, people still hang around and laugh and talk and...generally just be.

Ducking down the main stairwell, the two of you edge toward the smoker’s alley. Exiting through the door waits Hisako Ito, ready and leaning with a smile against the far wall of the closed off alleyway between buildings. She seems a touch impatient, but smiles broadly now that you’re here. Flowers, not made up, stands with her.

“Don’t mind that I’m about to hop into this?” you as him over your shoulder.

He doesn’t respond, is he debating about how to talk you out of this or why he’s just observing at your request?

>>45849458

Besides your opponent, the regular assortment of smokers seemed to have cleared out from the alleyway. Sasha is already here, Moe-chan close beside him and shooting you a combined look of awe and lip biting contempt. Saori Umeki has managed her way here, though looking a bit unsteady on her feet, even sickly, as she balances her hands on either side of a trashcan. Niji and Ringo are also here, the smaller girl bouncing on her heels and seemingly about to take off in flight in excitement. Her more down to earth companion offering her a blunt and forcible saying of ‘down girl,’.

Not the small matter you were expecting. Even a few other concert goers who you don’t recognize seem to be here to witness the fight.

Sasha eyes your extra companion curiously.

It’s odd, you see no signs of Keiko, Midori, or Kairi. Surely they would know this is going down if even Saori managed to find out about this. That train of thought is cut short as she pitches forward and vomits into the opened trashcan and groans.

Oh...well she was at the bar with Midori.

“I knew you’d come,” she smiles in a friendly, if predatory manner.

You are reminded in this moment that you are the rabbit leaping into the path of a wolf. Much like a rabbit you have speed and a wicked kick, however you are not only a rabbit. She is haggard much like you are...but she’s just a normal person.

>You cured yourself back to peak on the way back over
>You just gave yourself a once healed edge after the mosh pit
>You aren’t healing before this, you were both in the pit
>Write in

&

>How do you respond to her before this starts?

>>45849492
>You aren’t healing before this, you were both in the pit

>How do you respond to her before this starts?
Something about the mosh pit only increasing our desire to break her face.

>>45849492
>>You just gave yourself a once healed edge after the mosh pit
>>How do you respond to her before this starts?
>“I knew you’d come,” she smiles in a friendly, if predatory manner.
Is that because we said we'd be here? I hope you didn't forget that already.

I can combine what you say, but I'll leave this open a touch longer to decide on the matter of healing.

>>45849492
>You aren’t healing before this, you were both in the pit
>How do you respond to her before this starts?
Less talk, more fight.

Alright.

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“Well isn’t that because I said I’d be here?” you question mockingly while strolling into the alley with a hand on your hip as you leave your fangs out for effect, “I hope you didn’t forget that already?”

“Pfft, as if I could forget the lead up to this,” she snickers and strides forward as well, closing the distance between you, “Though I’ve been stood up enough to be happy you showed,”

The audience disappears to your periphery as you can’t help but smile. This, this fight is going to be something special. Both of you are coming into this a bit battered, but that makes it better. You could have mended your fatigue completely, but you want this to be raw. She does too, you imagine.

“Well then, that lead up in the mosh pit only made me want to break your face more,” she hasn’t done anything to actually deserve your enmity other than flirt with you, but she wants this fight and you want it just as much.

“I’ll just put it back together if you do,” she comes to a pause with maybe fifteen feet of empty space between you and runs a finger along the scar beneath and beside her eye as her pupils dilate in anticipation, “I’m a damn work of kintsugi already,”

“Less talk, more fight!” you demand as she seems to relax where she stands, though smiling all the same.

Combat engaged. Initiative order
>Red Eyed Beast
>Winter Wolf

It is your turn.
Neither you nor your opponent are flat footed.
You have a Move Action, a Standard Action, a Swift/Immediate action, and free actions witin reason.

>Move and attack
>Charge and attack
>Cast a spell
>Use a power
>Attempt a combat maneuver
>Write in

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>>45850322
>Charge and attack
With our brash attitude and impatience, she probably expects us to just charge in.
I say we give her just that on the opening. Feed that perception and maybe get in a good opening hit. Get trickier on the followup.

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and because I like feeling clever after you made that break her face remark, Kintsugi is a philosophy of repair for pottery originating in japan about mending breaks with a metallic clay that appears gold (hens the kint in the front of the word) the practice is a longer word but its about the idea that even something damaged is more beautiful for it because it has history.

>>45850488
HAHA! Someone got it

>>45850322
>Cast a spell
Jump. We are, after all, a rabbit. The fact that it gives us more kicking power is good too.

>>45850322
>Move and attack

>>45850540
I suppose, I think we had that up during the Sasha fight, and was likely our only gimmick as Red Eyes before we brought more toys to the table.

Looks like you're casting a spell.

give me a will reaction test. Dice+1d20+7 best of three.

DC I'm not telling you until its time.

Rolled 4 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>45851305

Rolled 20 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>45851305

Rolled 9 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>45851305

You take a deep breath and stare her down, you’re going to show this wolf how a bunny leaps, and kicks. Gathering your magical energies, you focus them into your legs. They thrum and pulse with that familiar powerful feeling. Girded against the rest of the fight you hold your position.

>Red Eyed Beast casts Jump

Expecting her to explode into action, you are disappointed as she merely shifts from her relaxed posture into a lower martial stance. There is a certain kinetic energy to her, but she continues to...wait for you...until you notice a certain sharpness of her eyes.

She’s looking right at you, smiling. You aren’t sure what it is, but she remains in place.

>Hisako Ito changes her stance
>Hisako Ito uses a feature, it was resisted.

The moment is oddly tense, as you become tertiarily aware of the surrounding audience again. Cheers for you coming from your one girl track and cheer squad while Ito is cheered on by Flowers.

“Would someone just do something!” groggily and sloppily cries Saori Umeki from the sidelines as she extracts her head from the trashcan and returns to a more upright posture, “oooh, that was a bad idea,”

And immediately dunks her head back down.

It is now your turn.

You have a move action, a standard action, a swift/immediate action, and free actions within reason

>What do you do?

>>45851569
Jump and Kick

>>45851569
>>Charge and attack

>>45851569
>Move and attack

Jump kick is pretty much a charge, is that okay with you guys?

Before we got to rolling?

>>45851617
I think we want to avoid being too overt with magic yet. Legs are loaded for solid kicks, but jumping might look a bit much. Besides, I'd like to test her straight up first.

>>45851569
Move+Action: Charge attack, get that skirmish in there.
Free: Grin like a cheerful lunatic.

Rolled 19 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

Alright, before you can make your attack roll, I need an opposed might test.

dice+1d20+1

Rolled 11 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>45851845
Oh dear.

Rolled 9 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>45851845

Well at least after whatever this is we won't feel the need to pull our punches.

Rolled 14 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>45851845
>>45851961
Feeling silly for not being pro jump now.

Rolled 17 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>45851845

22 vs 15.

Alright then, writing.

Rolled 16 + 18 (1d20 + 18)

Remember those times in Hellsing when Alucard had a fight he thought he could really let loose for?
I feel like we're on the cusp of a moment like that.

Rolled 8 (1d8)

Rolled 2, 1, 3 = 6 (3d6)

>>45852177

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Legs pumping with supernatural power you explode into motion against her. Closing the distance between the two of you, you grin like a maniac and twist midair to bring a punishing round house to her side, however she leans into your attack.

Your assault is actually broken by the way she leans in, her hand and body twisting around you she her hand loops around your waist and pulls you. She turns, leading you by your own momentum away from her, and far off your original trajectory.

>Counter Charge maneuver expended

What the hell? Was that some kind of Judo move?

Your smile doesn’t falter as she falls upon you. Her movements are quite in line with the descriptive nickname assigned to her. Predatory, swift, cunning, and savage. A wolf.

Her lunge is a single clenched fist, foot falling flat right in front of you as her entire weight follows through into a punch to your gut. It’s all you can do to try to only get winged by the hit, but you take the hit to your stomach all the same. It hurts, and you’re winded by it.

>Rapid Wolf Strike & Punishing Stance used. Improved Unarmed strike. 3 degrees of success bid against your wounds. 17 Vitality damage taken.

She grins just as widely as you do, this is fun for her. She’s excited, though it seems more like a nostalgic joy to her. Its shifts to something lewd. Though this attack has left her wide open for your imminent reprisal...though the way she harries you just this close makes finding solid footwork difficult.

>You are within a Bulwark of Defense, you count as being in difficult terrain.

“Not bad for a grandma, huh?” she bites, joyfully.

Its your turn

>You have a move action, a standard action, a swift/immediate action, and free actions within reason

>>45852379
Controlled Rage, Agility Boost.
Trip maneuver.

Let's see how that plays out for her.

Rolled 2 + 14 (1d20 + 14)

Give me dice+1d20+...

lets see, 17 base, 19 after rage, and after leg boos that's-

dice+1d20+39 for this trip attempt. best of 3 versus above.

>>45852694
>>45852379
Well that'll limit some casting, but that boost could help in close quarters. At least divine source is Supernatural if it comes to that.
Trip sounds like a good move, limit her mobility and possibly open up for some sneak attack damage.

ALso, I guess,

How will you bid your degrees of success? Before you know the total?

Vitality? Hamstring? Wounds? Bid now, before you know!

Rolled 20 + 39 (1d20 + 39)

>>45852985
Fung fu fighting.

>>45853018
Hamstring is a favorite move.

Rolled 14 + 39 (1d20 + 39)

>>45852985

Rolled 19 + 30 (1d20 + 30)

>>45852985
>>45853018
>>45853041
Well there wasn't a roll yet when I was typing that.
>>45853025
Inc 1..

Rolled 11, 13 = 24 (2d20)

two wild singing attacks against your ac, at penalty because she's prone and hamstrung.

so...her modifiers against your AC 16 are +2/+2

Tenacity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Gxxm0HAYE

As you recoil from the quip and cough up something from your throat due to the force of impact, you are angry. You went into this wild, but you aren’t going to let her get under your skin any further than she already is. Focusing your anger, you guide it into your joints and limbs as you feel yourself become more fluid.

>Controlled Rage, Agility, activated.

Dropping low on your hands, you sweep with both your legs to knock this smug bitch down to your level. By which you mean with her face down on the floor.

Leaving nothing to change, your legs surge with focused anger and supernatural potential as you handedly knock her feet out from under her. She isn’t expecting your sudden drop, nor the sweep, as it catches her legs out from under her with their side by side force.

The follow through position after that punch she threw left her easily off balance to this assault, toppling she throws her arms up at the coming street beneath her.

She hits the ground hard, scraped and bruised but not seriously hurt. Her movements are obviously pained and struggled now as that impact disoriented her. Lashing out, not bothering to pull herself up, she swings at you for a wide miss before slipping back to her side. A second lashing out follows, leaving her even more open and exposed, as she kicks at you wildly. It almost clips you, but it isn’t close enough for you to even bother wasting energy on avoiding it.

>>45853461

She’s still smiling, and laughing. You notice a coppery taste in the back of your mouth from that hit that did connect earlier...but between her scrapes on the ground she was the first one to bleed. Seething in your own joyful anger, you exult in knocking her down so hard.

“No, not bad at all,” you acknowledge her earlier quip.

“Ito-san!” Flowers calls out from the wall and steps forward, only to be held back by...Midori? When did she get here?

Sasha, Moe-chan, and Ringo watch the fight in quiet appraisal. Niji watches wincing in imagined pain but still excited. Saori slowly slides down with her back against the far wall. Yoshi, you can’t read his expression.

Not that it matters, it's hard to concentrate on anything while you are brimming and roiling with anger. With the dull ache in our gut.

It’s your turn

>You have a move action, a standard action, a swift/immediate action, & free actions in reason
>Ask if she’s done, does she concede?
>Spit blood on her, tell her she’s done
>Write in

>>45853480
You have a move action, a standard action, a swift/immediate action, & free actions in reason
One last punch for the road. Then just leave by fading through the shadows.

>>45853480
Drop the hammer on her.

give me dice+1d20+17 vs ac 11 and bid your successes before you know.

>>45853480
>Ask if she’s done, does she concede?
We good, or you want to keep tearin' it up?

If she wants to keep going, bring on the stomp and keep the party rolling until we need to heal her to get her up.

Rolled 3 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>45853480
This: >>45853729

>>45853700
I'd say hamstring or nothing at all. Don't want to leave her too bad, will a cure cover hamstringing?

Rolled 10 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>45853700
Is this still in? Votescape seems to have shifted.

Rolled 12 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>45853700
Dislocate something.

Combination, though still give me my third roll.

Alright, rollling some things off screen and writing.

Rolled 13 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>45853729

>>45853874
When it comes time for curing, the question of whether mythic effects are in for the divine source spells comes up, since that could double the amount healed.

Normally it would be your first instinct to keep going, even though your opponent is down. Anger boils inside of you and it begs you to keep on your singular focus of making her hurt back for hurting you. Repaying her kindness with your own special and tender administration of pain.

However, it isn’t just your own instinct. You see her in the shadows, closing in on you. Watching you. Accepting you. Accepting yourself.

Mikage Chiba.

“We good?” you quiry with a turn of your head, “Or do you want to keep tearing it up?”

“Don’t get cold feet on me now,” she hisses through heavy breath and softening eyes, “I thought we were having fun?”

Yeah, yeah you are.

You punch her across her face.

>You deal 16 vitality damage. 5 spill over to wounds. Hamstring 8 upgraded to hamstring 11.

She spits, bleary eyed and gasping for air. She’s tired. Out of juice. She stops trying to keep herself up and just flops onto her back after bouncing back from the impact and splays her arms and legs. Her nose and mouth bleeding, a break in the skin along her cheek just under her existing scar from your fist.

“Yes,” she cries out in joy and laughter, “That was good. Fast, but good,”

This fight is over.

It was a good fight.

You laugh, and look out at the shadows where you saw yourself for the briefest instant. The you who was watching is gone; but you feel she’s close. Very very close.

>Help her up
>Leave her there, she seems comfortable
>Write in

&

>Cure her with a spell
>Don’t heal her
>Use heal bomb
>write in

>>45854226
>Leave her there, she seems comfortable
>Write in
Head toward the shadows that we saw ourselves in and fade out. Telepathically tell everyone present that you had fun while fading away, then secretly find an advantageous spot that would let you talk to your knights or to one of your prospects for knighthood.
>Don’t heal her

>>45854226
>>Help her up
&
I'd been planning on using a cure, but given her response I don't what to do too much. I think she is going to carry those bruises like a trophy.
Could we focus a light cure on the hamstring and anything serious?

>>45854226
>Help her up
Only sporting after a good fight.

Rather like >>45854416
on the healing, if we can do a minimal amount, that would be alright, otherwise stick with no healing.
Follow up with exit as in >>45854409
but contact Yoshi. He wants to talk and if this invite was for getting to know each other, let's follow through on that.

Writing

You lean down and grab both of her arms. With a struggling pull you get her on her feet just as your anger runs out and a certain fatigue takes you. She stumbles a bit, into you with a punch drunk chortle that turns into a tired hug.

“Whoah, lightheaded,” she complains, “Not sure if it's the mosh pit or a concussion,”

No one hugs the Red Eyed Beast! Well, she gave an awesome fight. You channel your healing magic into her with an awkward pat on the back, not to revitalize her or tend the physical damage on her face, but just to clear up her sluggish and uncoordinated movements.

She was proud of her scar. Proud of having pieced herself back together physically and bearing the marks of past conflict. Kintsugi, more beautiful for having had history and character. It does you a small swell of pride to think you’ve made her more beautiful by her own metric.

Well, even with the scar she was still absolutely gorgeous. You wonder how your additions to her collection will look once she’s healed up.

“Well, don’t be concussed,” you explain as you disengage the still disoriented woman and walk toward the shadows you thought you saw yourself in but moments ago.

Too many eyes are on you. Too many expectations and curiosities.

-I had fun,- you explain, oddly succinct and even for your tone as the beast, probably because of the quiet.

Or because the beast is at the periphery now. Waiting to say her peace to you as the walls come down.

You vanish from sight, to the amazement of a few of the normal folks. Flowers helping Ito-san after the latter gets her bearings back, the girl you beat senseless telling your green haired friend that she needs all the drinks. Midori helping Umeki-san up as you quietly touch base with her via your telepathy about what happened with Kalunite.

>>45855038

-We can worry about the whole car set up tomorrow,- she lays one of the sickened girl’s arms over her shoulders and helps her up, -Was this brawl entirely necessary?-

Moe-chan is clearly uncomfortable and asks Sasha if they can leave, pulling him toward the door to which he relents. The two of them came together afterall. He shoots your knight marshall a questioning look, to which she nods in affirmation before she leers off into the dark hoping to be leering at you but being off by about ten feet.

-Give everyone a minute to disperse,- you tell Yoshi, -then we can talk,-

Shifting your focus back to Midori, -Probably not, but I needed it. Kalunite is stronger, I’m worried about tomorrow,-

She nods, and helps the awkward girl out of the alley way as you direct Yoshi into the dark shadows of the alleyway. The venue isn’t close to clearing out, and things are still active even without the bands on stage anymore.

He follows your instructions until he stands in front of you, inches away from your invisible presence. Even beneath his makeup, his face is creased in concern and worry. Standing behind him, like a shadow in the night to your eyes, is your mirror.

You see the Red Eyed Beast behind the body, holding her tongue with great effort.

She, you, are still wired from the fight. Wired, yet fatigued and hurting.

>stay faded
>become visible

&

>You want to say something to Yoshi, what?
>You want to ask something of Yoshi, what?
>Be quiet, let him ask questions
>He’s so close…
>write in

>>45855059
Another moment of being drawn.
Main thought being:
>become visible
&
Ask him to ask what's been weighing on him.


2
But I do have a side thought of staying faded for a moment while Red takes one more run with impulse and pushes Mikage toward >He’s so close…

Thoughts?

>>45855059
>Moe-chan is clearly uncomfortable
With a fight? That bodes ill for time with best Russian and Sasha.
>>45855216
Well, she is the least restricted. Sure poke 2 with a stick, see where that thought train leads then appear and see what is cracking His mask.
With expression like that, wwe'll slap him if he goes nothing or claim biting his tongue.

writing

“Go for it,” the phantom of yourself is beside you, whispering in your eart, “He’s so close...he still feels like back then. Damn the consequences and everything else, because he’s right there,”

Though you are still invisible, you feel that he’s nervous and almost anxious for whatever it is you’re going to do next. Does he expect you to talk? Does he have questions?

No. It’s just like in the song, he’s waiting and watching to see how you are. Maybe even now he’s uncertain of your intentions, regardless of whether you are sporting pink or black hair.

“Remember me when you tap into that anger,” she whispers again while his eyes search through the place you stand, “And remember that sometimes it's okay to just not give a fuck,”

Her grave voice lingers in your ear, the borders between you almost full deteriorating as you feel the swelled extreme of your regrets, your anger, and in this one moment as a force that is surely in your own mind pushes the small of your back and sends your translucent form into Yoshi.

“And enjoy yourself,” the voice fades.


...and he’s so close…

Still high on adrenaline from the fight, but with the creeping weakness of how tired you are, something gives as you fall into him. Pushed likely by the last effort of your most open form of self as her separate sliver of consciousness nestles itself back within your soul.

Bracing against his chest, gathering fistfulls of of the fabric of his short term disguise hoody, you pull yourself closer into him. He tenses, saying nothing yet in shock as you lean forward.

Lean forward and catch his lips.

>>45855652
No doubt smearing his stage makeup and getting white and black as a gray molting across your lips and cheeks.

It isn’t forceful, but it's wanting. Not lascivious, nor is it chaste. Lonely and sad as you sob into his mouth and renew the kiss after but drawing back in a gasp for breath as you fade into sight.

At first, he goes rigid with shock. You brace against that fearing the worst after he saw you like this. Saw you as violence incarnate, reveling in literal bloodsport. Remembering how he saw you crazed and talking to yourself in the dressing room before you slapped him with the back of a bloodied hand. It's a moment of fear, of rejection.

Have you shown him too much of yourself? Even if this is something you want, that you missed for so long, have you already closed this door to yourself?

As his body relaxes against your own, and he leans back into the kiss without a word or sound you have your answer. Hands rising and looping around your back and pulling you into him as you release his hooded sweater and your arms rise and fold behind his neck.

Everything he’s seen of you, and he’s without fear. Every door you’ve opened to him, every question you haven’t been able to answer. Everything.

You had to give his song an ending, that the rabbit returned to its full vibrancy.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 123
End

>>45855666
Nice.

Thanks for the thread, /tg/

I expect there to be commentary and fallout once some more of you wake up or notice the thread now in conclusion.

>>45855666
>>45855652
This feels hopeful.
Wrote fast too. Tapped into some good material.

>>45855779
Thanks for running!
There was a reason I fished for support on that thought, should be an interesting ride.

>>45855409
>best Russian and Sasha.
"and"?

I have a question, I'm a new reader and I haven't read everything, but is Mikage actually ganguro or is that just her "Mask"?

>>45856064
That is a diffivmcult question to answer

>>45855992
Yes, and?

>>45856064
She does support the fashion movement, and the fragment of her that was focused on that has been the first to return.

>>45856064
>>45858069
Miki was one of her masks, she held her need for somewhat positive attention, her ability to accept being seen and desired, along with the capability to love and accept love that Mikage locked away from herself while she was hiding from herself & fracturing.
This was the face that let her have friends and a social life.
Miki's best friend from this period being Jade/Midori, who was also one of Mikage's chief bullies at school as herself.

>>45858232
Miki was the first to reintegrate with Mikage, opening her up to accepting her family and growing circle of friends more.

Gotta say, I'm surprised to see /tg/ going for a guy in any context. Especially in a Sailor Moon quest.

>>45855992
>>45858036
Boris and Small Loud.

>>45858298
Should be in for a bit of a ride, since there are two different guys that there is interest in. Besides that battle, some are looking toward "the long game" and going harem, the size of which seems to be between "plus Kairi" and "large enough to need Saori to help keep track of it".

>>45858544
Well, considering our older sister's own romantic relationships, I think Mikage definitely has the capacity to do something like that.

Though honestly I hope this is the quest that will go beyond harem (everyone into protagonist) and reach the ascended level of polyamorous romance grid (everyone into protagonist and other members of group). Usually /tg/ is petrified of sharing or foreign dick in general, but given the circumstances I hope the dark spectre of NTR can be banished.

>>45858760
Personally, I'd be happier playing out matching up other cast together than trying to put them all on Mikage. While she is our main focus point, we do steer some of the other cast from time to time.

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>>45858886
Though, now that I think about it, if Gai+Kairi works out, I could imagine Estra being ok with her being a sometimes +1 to whatever Mikage is up to as long as love is there for them.
Not sure humans would handle that as well.

>>45858886
I'm fine with that too, but when we do do that, is it so wrong to also want to at least reach "fuckbuddy" level with them?

Speaking of the pairing the cast, are Nui and Daigo going to be a thing? It feels like Teal and Ogre are gonna go off so fast they'll blueshift.

Finally waking late. Got to do some cleaning around the house. Watch recordings of Black Sails & Venture Bros. Eat & rehydrate. And then maybe write Yoshi perspective from the Green Room to that dark corner of the alley.

How did everyone like Red Eyes going down fighting?

>>45859674
Felt kind of fast, but at the same time it's been a long time coming.

>>45858971
You know who I still want to see in romance/fuckbuddy, Best Girl.

>>45859718
Also unfortunately this quest remains pretty opaque to any new readers.

Maybe consider updating the pastebin entries for where characters are at now with a brief summary? Honestly I feel like that's something even current readers could use.

Silly bunny, you're supposed to fight evil by moonlight and then win love by daylight.

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>>45859452

>>45859788
Mikage likes to mix it up a bit.
She's a bit mixed up too.

>>45859779
We had a cast recap not too long ago, I think. Can't remember exactly. But we're happy to answer questions!

>>45859674
I like both last harrahs on her own, the hard fast fight with someone else that enjoys it and the push to Mikage on the way in. Imagine we'll still feel a lot of her now, just like how Miki's been showing through since her return.

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>>45859452
Is Nui going to amend her mentioned and alluded to man eater practices with Daigo who is also used to sleeping around, because she thinks what they have is special, and in the process blue ball him?

>>45859857
Okay for this thread specifically: Who are these people, why are they here, and what are the goals the players want to achieve with these people in this location?

Like if someone just started participating and all they had was
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What kind of conclusions can they make? I at least had the benefit of remembering that the Damned was once Mikage's boyfriend before she broke and he went goth, so I could guess that the ultimate purpose was to facilitate a reconciliation between Mikage and the Damned, as well as Mikage and the Red Eyed Beast.

But if I didn't know that? It's just a description of some goth metal concert run by the most pretentious people in Japan.

>>45860023
>Okay for this thread specifically: Who are these people, why are they here, and what are the goals the players want to achieve with these people in this location?
Like to me, at least the top two questions are needed for any quest who wants new players, as well as at least a vague broad-strokes description of what the MC's been doing so far, if anons want to be consistent.

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>>45858264
Thanks for answering, but those really don't mean anything to me. Like I kind of understand the answer, but it needs to be dumbed down a bit.

>>45860016
Teal & the Blue Ogre
Blueshift.

>>45860112
It seems heavy recaps are frowned upon, or so seemed to be the case back when I ran. He does do a light recap of you we are and what the current character is up to at the start.

>>45860023
This night in particular was heavy on characters, it think every non-enemy except the original cast, the new scouts, and the Crown Arcade attendants were here.

I'll see what I can do before my commute ends.

>>45860171
The dumbed down at this point is just:
She is part of a ganguro fashion revival group.
The rest is background at this point.

>>45860244
Not a heavy recap, just one post. Fuck, just one paragraph even. Like I don't know, I guess I feel like if you're going to invite people to just drop by on twitter, you should provide a welcoming experience. Even TV shows sometimes provide recaps of pertinent information and those aren't interactive.

>>45860293
Like I know for me at least, the reason why I don't want to participate is that everything seems so delicate all the time I don't feel like it's SAFE to vote for anything for fear that I might tip the scales and break something, because a lot of the time I don't know what the stakes are, what we're best at, what's best FOR us, etc. Like why would I vote on an issue I'm not properly informed in, when voting poorly can have dire consequences?

I'm pretty sure at least one other person would feel the same way, and that'd almost double the amount of particpants.

>>45860352
I can provide a current recap paragraph next thread.

Curious to the player perspective story so far, myself.

>>45860530
That was something fun that Hollow Quest Redux had once, where instead of AzureEarth recapping the story, he had the players do it, with rewards for more accuracy.

Might not work for this quest though, in which the players don't seem to want to talk to each other much until the quest is over.

>>45860244
Let's see:
Ringo and Niji are here to enjoy concert. Niji is also developing into a Red Eyed Beast Fangirl. Ringo is tough girl that tries to seem tough. They are here to have a good time.

Teal invited the fashion circle as morale support for heading into a strange venue to watch the secret life of Ogre she sussed out of him after much trouble.

Umeki is here because she is bound and determined to figure out what is going on with she doesn't know what through bumbling, surprisingly canny wild speculation, and determination.

Sasha was invited out by the teddy bear backpacking powerlifter of the fashion group. He seems to think it was just to be friendly, while Moe seems to be interesred in him and may feel jealousy toward both Red Eyes and Mikage.

While Midori and Keiko might have been here anyway at Teal's invite, Kairi is likely only here because we were worried trouble would break out.

Kal the Talent Agent, aka Kalunite the Shadow Animated Undead Construct of Royal Guardsman from ancient Earth Kingdom, has been using the concerts to collect emotional energies for ???. Turns out he is collecting new talent for energy collection instead this night.

The Damned & his bandmates are a group that metalizes and mocks popular songs. Blue Ogre and The Damned are also secret identities of classmates at the High School. The Damned, aka Yoshi, was once close to Mikage before she cut herself off from the world for reasons he didn't know. He figured out Beast being Mikage after interacting with both.

>>45860560
Okay that's a good explanation of why they're here, as well as what they want (as far as we know) and for half of them got a decent enough "who".

>>45860352
I will agree, I often feel like there are more people reading than voting.

>>45860556
We seem to be spread across timezones and work times, but I do enjoy talking when I can. But for now work time catch ya'll later.

>>45860651
Have a good shift at work.

I cannot help but imagine that Midori got Saori drunk to keep her off our backs but it inadvertantly lead her to be barfing in the alley. Also, I wonder what drunk Saori was like before she got pukey?

So, bit of a delay on that Yoshi interlude.

>>45860556
That was a fun thread of HQR...oh how I miss it.

Home, grabbing a shower, and then working on that interlude. Also I want to thank you his who read along but feel overwhelmed on the participation front. Coming into this quest at this point cannot be easy and going forward I want to give you guys more of a helping hand getting into things.

Also, how was the Hisako fight?

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>>45858760
That path only seemed to work in Maiden White. A Mahou Shonen TG magical girl quest that starte on /d/, moved here, and then moved to anonkun.
The free love is strong in that one.

>>45864607
As she said, fast but good.

>>45866679
Good, almost done with the interlude.

Interlude: Through the eyes of the Damned

“She’s here for me,” you explain from behind Daigo as he rises from his crouch behind Takeda-san, removing your wig and jacket you grab for your simple black zip up hoodie, “I don’t factor much into your conversation, and she and I have something private to talk about,”

That should placate Takeda-san from her self righteous official fury toward being interrupted, you imagine Mikage doesn’t want to argue with or harm the student council president. Or at least you hope she doesn’t. Across the green room, back to the door she watches you with those familiar but piercing red eyes.

This is about learning who both of you have become since…

Well, you reason she said what she was inviting you to see was a friendly street fight. As you zip up your hoody her voice echoes in your mind.

-Let’s go,-

Why does she want you to see her fighting? What is Mikage after now that she heard that song. Whatever happens, you pass by your band mates, and the stunned Nui Takeda, to open the hallway door for you and the Beast none of them know is Mikage. As the two of you are in the hall, as the door closes, a question reaches your ears from within.

“Wait, are the two of them…” Nui Takeda’s voice settles on your own and the Beast’s ears.

What are the two of you? You have no idea.

That woman knows who you are, whatever Daigo tells her now may only make things difficult as far as keeping your secret. How will it affect the secret of the girl walking beside you. Stealing a glance at her, she seems uncertain for a moment before speaking.

“So, about your song?” She sounds more like herself, calmed and without the edge you expect of this face.

Rather, she sounds like she did when she became suddenly calm after hitting you in the face last week. When it seemed she suddenly woke from madness.

“Hmm?” You adjust your hood to get a more clear look at her.

>>45869415
As your eyes briefly meet, she shifts uncomfortably and seems to abandon her question, speaking instead in the voice that goes with the paled face she’s wearing. Or, is this an answer to your lyrics?

“She’s getting better,” it’s a stiff declaration, though the matter of referring to herself in the third person gives you immediate pause, “I mean, Mikage...she, I’m getting better,”

“Is there that much of a difference?” something more to wonder about her, about how far she hurt and fell because she felt betrayed and terrified to see her best friend turned into a monster.

To nearly be murdered in front of almost everyone you knew by the warped hands of someone you trust. Did the strange power that she has now start with that encounter or did it happen later.

The Red Eyed Beast has been active far longer than the public has been aware of these new monster attacks opposed by Sailor New Moon, so what is the connection? How does she know the things she accuses of your manager?

What really happened to her.

She doesn’t answer, instead she growls and turns ahead to walk off some unseen worry or fury out of her system and toward an anxious excitement. Likely for her fight. She was always so active and excitable when you knew her, you’re reminded of that in her desire to fight.

It’s a short, and quiet between the two of you, walk in which you manage to move unmolested through the venue hall. Attendees mill about as the MC thanks anyone for coming out to the show, house music of a decidedly rock and metal bent plays lightly behind him.

>>45869442
Ducking down the main stairwell, the two of you edge toward the smoker’s alley. Through that door waits the woman with white hair you watched ebb and flow against Mikage in the mosh pit, ready and leaning with a smile against the far wall of the closed off alleyway between buildings. She is lean and seems hungry to the fight the Beast seems so excited about, she stands with a girl you don’t recognize, with rather extreme and thick proportions and green hair.

“Don’t mind that I’m about to hop into this?” She glances back at you with a smile, growling voice trying for a joke.

You are too lost in thought to respond, as you try to take in the rest of the audience of this fight.

Sasha is here, and shoots your mysterious presence with Mikage a glance, with a woman you don’t recognize, she seems to be looking angrily and in wonder at the woman Mikage has given herself to being. Saori Umeki from your class is also here, she seems sickened as she grips a trashcan. You suspect she has been drinking. There are two other women there you do not recognize either, but one of them seems on the verge of cheering for the combatant whose corner you came to sit behind.

The Red Eyed Beast and the other woman trade posturing comments and exchanges, there is a decidedly flirtatious tone to that woman’s voice until the fight starts. It isn’t immediate, they watch each other for a moment in silence before Mikage explodes into action only to be flung away from her target.

Your jaw clenches as she takes a powerful strike from that woman to the stomach, everyone nearly jumps with a start at the perceived force of the impact. She surges through the pain of the hit and roars into anger as she sweeps her opponent to the ground with a hard thud.

“Ito-san!” That woman with green hair cries out only to be stopped from charging the field by another of your unexpected classmates, Midori Mori.

She’s become friends with Mikage...does she know?

>>45869464
The woman with white hair flails back at the Beast ineffectual with two wide swings. The Red Eyed Beast offers quarter.

“We good?” To you she sounds far more like Mikage than the Beast in this act, “Or do you want to keep tearing it up?”

“Don’t get cold feet on me now,” she hisses as she breathes heavily from their burst of combative assertion, “I thought we were having fun?”

Mikage obliges and crosses the woman, Ito-san’s, face with a quick and strong hook that lays her out flat onto the ground. Both of them smiling.


“Yes,” the defeated cries out in joy and laughter, “That was good. Fast, but good,”

The woman you followed out to this brawl kneels down and offers her disoriented and defeated opponent a hand up.

More words are exchanged, and you watch as the defeated unsteadily hugs Mikage. To your surprise, she hugs her back and part as friends as she momentarily complains about being light headed.

The Beast, Mikage, releases her and turns toward the darkness of the alleyway. Vanishing from sight before she even reaches the dark as everyone jumps to the projected thoughts you know to be from her.

-I had fun,- her voice is almost quiet in these thoughts.

After a quiet moment, as the others leave the alleyway you hear instruction to follow her into the dark. A few of the others spare you a glance as they leave the smoker’s alley. When it is mostly cleared out, you follow her mental directions to follow after.

Eventually she tells you where to stop, uncertainty clear in her mental voice.

Who has she become? Who have you become? It sticks to you as you think back upon the song, amazed and still reeling quietly to yourself that she has let you back in. That she is acting like herself, even if sometimes she acts like this.

That isn’t a bad thing, you do something similar with your music. How far she seems to separate for her...what did she call it that time in the dressing room? Mask?

>>45869496
It is clear she is at odds with herself in that schism. Shifting so suddenly between crazed madness and sanity. To be honest it should scare you.

Maybe it does, but fear has never really weighed on you.

And even if you were frightened it shouldn’t matter, she’s let you back in. All you’ve wanted for so long is the opportunity to help her, even as she kept you at bay. Even as she acted like she hated you. Like everyone hated her.

These musings suddenly fall flat as you feel unseen hands in the dark grab at the chest of your hooded sweater, a weight presses against your body as you tense in shock before a pressure leans into your lips. A warmth, parted lips.

Wanting, as she slowly fades back into sight with her eyes closed ahead of you. A kiss. She’s kissing you. Its pleading, lonely, and perhaps desperately searching in you for some kind of affirmation or comfort.

It is no innocent kiss, and neither is it something dangerously erotic. You are shocked, and uncertain.

She isn’t who she was, but neither are you. She could be incredibly dangerous, but even after you saw her in savage brutality you know she likely has no want to cause actual harm to others. She could be offering exactly what you were once too uncertain to act upon, and letting you give her the comfort and hope that she once denied both of you.

Mikage starts to pull back, her own uncertainty at your response building.

It’s no contest. Blowing past that uncertainty you lean back into her, for weal or woe you will accept this kiss and return it as your arms rise and loop around her back to pull her back into you. Her arms lock behind your neck tightening this embrace in the dark.

Wherever it may yet lead.

Interlude End

>>45869517
He's a good kid, I like him.

>>45870379
good enough for route lock?

>>45858886
Who would you pair

>>45870962
At least enough to call them a couple for now.
It'll be cute seeing how well they adjust to each other.

I get the impression that if we hadn't activated Jump, the fight would have been much harder.

>>45871809
Kairi is probably going to understanding about things once this gets out, but what about Sasha. We gotta talk to him on Sunday.

>>45871643
I think Gai could be a great influence on Kairi, and if they didn't pan out romantically he seems like the sort that could still be a friend.

I feel Moe might need to hone her fighting spirit to have a shot at Sasha, and poor Sasha seems to be largely oblivious to the women, and probably men too, circling him like sharks. I rather like the chemistry of his interactions with Kanari. Probably the only other person with that kind of spirit.

It looks like Purple is well on the way to happening.

Not sure if the other Thunder Twin and current Littlest Bunny are a lock. Curious how the mysterious ancient-earth-shadow-boy plays into things.

>>45871982
We rolled well enough that was set, she likely would have gotten those last two hits in, but we still had a deeper reserve of health.

As for Sasha, we've only really offered him work and made him uncomfortable with some closeness, but I imagine he'll have questions.

>>45872263
>mfw you went for jump instead of trying to get the spoopy drop on her with vanishing move.
>mfw my opportunity for a tense combat reveal of Hunter's Sense didn't happen.
>mfw it didn't last long enough to show off my maneuver refresh at the cost of Vit, EW, Com, MP, & or Wound burn.
>MFW I have no face

Gotta step up how I plan for Mikage's direct encounters.

>>45872743
At least our clever plan to charge her just like we predicted she would expect us to do worked.

Also, on the matter of things. I have another major debate about next thread.

Mainly because I don't know where to start it.

Should we pursue the rest of this night in social chicanery? Should we open with the following morning? Where will that morning begin?

...wait, actually I have a good beat on how to start next thread. And its with a bit of recap and then asking you guys where we get the ball rolling from.

I really like the dramatic finality on this day that the kiss represents, but this isn't a TV show or a book or what have you. It is a quest.

And you guys should decide if we're jumping forward or not. And if so, where that somewhere implies.

Because I have great potential scenes in any direction.

>>45872743
The mosh pit damage is what really abbreviated the fight. It was a fun abbreviation though.

>>45873046
Fair point, though I hope you guys get to see Hisako again, especially when she's in casual mode and not riding a show high.

Remember, between herself and Hanako, she's the responsible roommate.

>>45853333
Still have that damn song stuck in my head.
It worked though.
Best I hoped for was disrupting the stance and maybe get a AoO in as she got up. Forgot how beat we both were.

>>45873036
Probably would want to pick up near where things left off. Unless they call a break there, since I feel like neither one will know what to say for a bit. Loss for words and all. But imagine something should be said. Or something?

I leave for 1 internet free drunken hellbender of a 1st weekend if spring break, recover from the resultant hangover, and this happens. Nice to see Mikage finally stop pussyfooting around and kiss the poor sap, not so nice to see we did fuck all with Kalunite. Maybe with all this romance stuff done we can get back to all the shadowruns.

>>45874099
We did meet with Kal, we can't stay out too late, we've got a busy morning of holy crap are we in deep something. He's taking us to meet associates.

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>>45874223
Ahem.

>>45874348
For us, or is it our trap for them?

>>45874099
Lucky, I still have to wait a week for spring break.

>>45874348
Their chief recruiting method is monster making and enslavement.
Of course it is a trap.

>>45874775
>>45874348
The bigger question is how do we plan to escape the trap? We need some plans.

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>>45865040
Like, two other quests have been in universe media. I would bet that Harem End Coach Saori Umeki reads Maiden White, for the plot.

>>45875351
It could be the verge of endgame.

I've been thinking of attempting a recap as I understand it, but I'm not sure if I should try it now or wait until the latest thread.

>>45875664
With the individual Neo Shintenou registering as requiring team effort to take on, we'll need more stops to pull out.
I am crazy enough to think it possible though.

>>45877117
I'll put on a Daphne hat and see what I can come up with.

>>45877117
Really want team Koyomi to face one.

>>45876823
Go for it! Whether thread is still here or not. You can always repost it next time.

>>45876823
Anon, I welcome any attempted summary.

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>Kal Unite, Talent Agent and Management, Ellis Media. Its a gray card with an oddly white watermark, a strangely familiar silhouette that you cannot place.
>-Kalunite of the Elysion Royal Guard,- Kunzite finishes in sleight disbelief, -He died by my possessed hand during the fall,-
>Ellis Unlimited Adachi City Corporate Center: Under Construction
>the bowels of the under construction Ellis building in Adachi City
>You don’t know much about Ellis Unlimited other than their involvement in heavy supernatural research and cooperative actions with both Japan’s local Paranormal Incident Task Force and the international Paranormal Incident Thinktank.
>Ellis personnel are among the international PIT representatives and operatives that went up with your mother. With all the original senshi.
>“Eclipse, this is Jonathan Ward Chau. He is the property owner and a cooperating interest in the Paranormal Incident Thinktank, now what exactly did you see down there?”
>“Excuse me, ladies,” stands the striking figure of Dr. Chau as he holds some kind of biohazard container, “but could I trouble you for my sample back?”
>>sample is a corruption fossilized piece of an ancient person, unlikely to have been found by itself, and very potent.
>“My name is Kal,” you offer her your business card, “From Ellis Media,”

>>45879266
Next you'll be telling us that Koyomi's bunny hair dealies have a weird name and that their true purpose is sinister.

>>45879381
Odango Covers.
Why the cover-up?
Why the deception about what lies beneath?

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>>45879462
It's all connected.

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>>45879266
But hopefully we can look at what we know and see the larger web before us.

And keep that in mind as we move forward with plans for the morning.

>>45879527
Stranger yet that a boarding of Ellis activities would look very similar.

>>45879541
What's also fun is imagining Saori's board, with a photo of Mikage in place of the governor article.

>>45879782
Saori's would feature things we could not show on a worksafe board.

>>45879912
and hilariously off their rocker satanic panic articles from america in the 80's 90's "Satanic Witch Cults and their Lesbian Orgies"

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>>45878230
Hate to leave Yoshi hanging, but I think we'll have get on planning and circling our wagons. The increase to our opponents' power and the short timeframe until the meet turns the pressure up on this operation.

We need plans for tracking and trailing the vehicle. We'll need swift stealth for visual tailing and lookouts spread around the area (Our Knights). We need someone with the equipment and skill to track it should teleportation or a dimensional pocket be employed (Aiha). A diviner to supplement other tracking methods (Rin). And if it turns to a fight, we'll need every ounce of firepower we can bring to bear without alerting Ellis/PIT (Eclipse & Scouts).

Communication lines have to be opened.
Suggest meeting be called to our hideout.

As noted, Ellis Unlimited/Media has to be involved to some extent, and we know they have deep fingers in allied groups. Care must be taken.

Quietly contact Asteroid Senshi, alert them to distrust of Ellis personnel/connections. Find out how well they could quietly make it over if needed.

>>45880518
Ha! Probably leading her to harrass the Primroses' school more.

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>>45880527
Next question will end up being how deep down this rabbit hole do we try to leap.
The risk/reward graph arcs steeply on this operation.
Part of me likes the gamble.

>>45879030
>>45878240
Alright so
the main character is Mikage Chiba, second daughter of Usagi and Mamoru. Though depending on your perspective, she's "technically" their first once, specifically she's Chibi-Usa from this timeline where for reasons I don't remember Sailor Moon decided 'nah' on the whole Neo Crystal Tokyo thing, which despite knowing the characters in charge are genuinely good people, I've always found vaguely sinister.

But regardless, that alone would be hard enough to live up to, except that Chibi-Usa *stuck around* this timeline, it's like if in DBZ Future Trunks just kept showing up and demonstrating how much cooler he was than main timeline Trunks, except at least he had an excuse since his timeline was apocalyptic garbage.

However, Mikage either didn't have a problem with that, or was able to repress it until *the incident* occured. To be specific, while acting as Sailor Moon one of the enemies she fought was a scientist who was the husband of one of Usagi's non-magical friends and father of one of Mikage's friends. Or more accurately, she fought his corpse which had been transmuted into a silicon-based entity and thus could not be magically healed. So she drove a magic flute through its skull. Understandably, this was very upsetting. Mikage quit being Sailor Moon, was unable to deal with being around her family because she found herself unlovable, all her issues with her older sister came to the forefront, and she began to develop an intolerance for all magic. All magic except for the Disguise Pen, which she overused in an attempt to be someone who didn't hate herself, and eventually more or less became full blown dissociative identity disorder. These splinter fragments included the fun-loving ganguro Miki, terrifying goth street fighter the Red Eyed Beast, a male yankee punk of some kind, and probably more. Mikage spent like a year or so alternating between feeling sorry for herself and shutting out all help and being other people.

>>45880868
At some point before(?) the quest starts, Mikage's younger sister, who doesn't have to deal with being the alternate self of anyone and thus taking up the same slot in the astral plane, became the newest Sailor Moon but hadn't really done much yet. While being another person at an arcade, Mikage overheard one of the grown up Senshi talking to their child about bad things a-comin' on the horizon. Mikage is able to gather the fortitude to want to protect her younger sister, but lacks the will to do so as herself. So instead, she follows in her father's footsteps and assumes the alter-ego of Eclipse. However the key difference is instead of being really underpowered and essentially being a cheerleader for the Senshi, Mikage is a lot more competent than them and seems to do the real legwork?

Eventually the daughters of the other Senshi get their own magical destiny and join the team though I don't really remember their names or their personalities (Kid Mercury displays unethical use of telepathy and finds out pretty much all Mikage's stuff early on, Kid Venus is a starlet who seems kind of spoiled but also has terminal(?) cancer, Kid Jupiter is actually twins and the twin brother doesn't have magic, I don't really remember anything about Kid Mars). Oh and one thing I did forget was that Sailor Saturn now grown up served as kind of a mentor to Mikage who Mikage felt she couldn't live up to and everything was kind of weird because Saturn was Chibi-Usa's girlfriend.

Ignoring all that though, Mikage helped her sister and the other new senshi, which helped herself heal as a person. Along the way some stuff happened, like one of her friends turning out to be the reincarnation of Beryl the first main boss of Sailor Moon. Instead of going evil, she instead became Sailor Sol which at first I didn't get but a quick google reminded me that Metalia came from the sun, so I guess the friiend is also Metalia's reincarnation in a way?

....what did you guys do to poor Kairi.

>>45881050
In any case, Mikage also somehow got the souls of Beryls' rock-themed generals in her head, and is supposed to get them new bodies, but still hasn't gotten around to all of them yet?

I think she also met the main timeline's version of people from Chibi-Usa's timeline and the main enemy is this timeline's Death Phantom, but I'm really not to clear on that.

I know that at some point she inherited her father's true power of the Golden Crystal and became the Guardian of the Earth, and got a really snazzy white and gold outift with a cape and everything, and also encountered Prince Endymion's mother who's been in suspended animation for thousands of years? So in addition to present incarnations of characters from an alternate future/present, there's also new versions of very old characters.

I remember that at some point, Mikage's darkness powers (she could drain evil/negative emotions like a vampire, and one of her friends developed a quasi-unhealthy dependency on it) developed their own personality which eventually turned out not to be that evil and instead really helped Mikage grow as a person, however at some point the Heartless attacked, Mikage tried to feed, but this wasn't any ordinary darkness, this was ADVANCED darkness, and she wound up going kind of berserk in front of everyone, and as a result Chibi-Usa needed to return to her timeline for a while. This was really bad because for unrelated reasons the original Sailor Senshi (maybe just the Inner ones?) needed to leave Earth for the planets (and the Moon) they're supposed to be in charge of otherwise they'll go evil?

Also the reason for the Heartless being a thing was because the QM was working on a multi-quest crossover which sounds like it could work, especially with like cross-thread linking but predictably fell through. The only thing I really remember from it is Henrietta the Foul/Fowl, which I still believe to be a home-run character concept.

>>45881214
And right now it seems like Mikage isn't keeping any secrets from her family, all her splinters have rejoined the self, and she's making progress romantically (though there's a lot of people into her, and that she's into and that's not even including what players want) and I THINK this quest is nearing the endgame despite me not really having a clue of who the bad guy is, what they want, and how Mikage and the new Sailor Senshi plan to stand in their way.

>>45881214
>>45881050
>>45881214
>It was New Mars talking to her father who was in the know.
>New Mercury didn't unethically use telepathy, she unethically used her ability to see invisible things.
>New Mars is the one who has been power spamming divination to know shit she shouldn't with a near unethical bent and its implied doing so is making her a bit paranoid and looney until she struck up her friendship with new mercury.
>This timeline's version of the people Death Phantom/Wiseman manipulated into being the Black Moon clan have been encountered. Death Phantom himself has not yet been encountered, but I have repeatably teased outside of story posts for "next season"
>Endymion's mother isn't in suspended animation, the bad guys were growing a clone body with previously no brain activity over bones calcified and fossilized and crystalized by pure EVIL/CHAOS(c) though now something is waking up and that has Hotaru disturbed and prompted her to have an ethical debate
>Original Senshi/Space Mommies went to the old Planet Palaces because Pluto's palace had somehow been attacked by the enemy and they needed to secure the others and stage retaliation to secure Pluto and the physical manifestation of the gates of time.
>Mikage took back in the two big splinters. Mimi, Daphne, and Dan D are still at large.
>Henrietta the Fowl, Wise Witch of Winds has appeared in my Anonkun Quest "Witch's Magical Fetish Quest" under my use there of my old "namefag" handle of The Commuter from before I became a QM and got myself a tripcode. I think I'm an annoying QM, but there was a time during the endlessly entertaining shitshow that was QTG that I was apparently considered the least annoying "namefag".
>"Witch's Magical Fetish Quest" is a bait name and it is specifically tagged "not smut". While still running it (plans to continue) it tricked a handful of readers to come in expecting lewd and fap bait but instead found only comfy.
>I am a hack & shill

>>45881425
Those notations and corrections out of the way, I greatly enjoyed your synopsis of things so far.

And yes, that crossover did fall through, though mostly because I stopped pushing it with my co conspirators because of some issues I had falling apart IRL.

>>45881425
Oh right, I completely forgot about Witch's Magical Fetish Quest and that you brought Henrietta back, and that it was indeed a very comfy quest despite it seeming like an incoming conflict with old school Fae of the Winter Court. Probably because you haven't run it since September.

Still don't really get why Mamoru and Usagi are so much less ambitious than their alternate future counterparts, or what Chibi-Usa's main problem is despite having a timeline where she's princess of everything. But I guess I'll figure that out when I finally get to re-reading the quest.

>>45879475
The metal tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Their true purpose is sinister.

>>45881134
Nothing, yet.

>>45881560
Are they torturing you, MAG?

>>45881473
>And yes, that crossover did fall through, though mostly because I stopped pushing it with my co conspirators because of some issues I had falling apart IRL.
Yeah, I remember that too but it seemed too rude (even by 4chan standards) to include.

So... you doing okay now? On a scale of 1 to XS?

>>45881539
Crystal Tokyo came about after a mini ice age, where they could not stop the disaster but they could preserve and wake part of the world as a semi immortal paradise, this time around and armed with such foreknowledge, Usagi chose to save everyone rather than becoming queen. Chibi-Usa like staying in the past because here she gets to feel human. Sure she's loved by her family in that future, but she's lonely. She in truth as noted by the series grew up in this time line, has friends here she cares about, and while here doesn't shoulder the burden of the looming throne.

>>45881620
Officially divorced, recovered from my surgery, staying with my folks and helping them get ready for a move to another state/packing/prepping the house for sale once their own recoveries finish, still looking for new work, being more social with existing friends and making new ones, saving money, after some months of distance able to make good on agreement with now Ex-Wife to still be friends, no longer troubled by the break up itself but still trying to define myself and figure out what comes next, generally confident about my future and amazed by how much personal support I've gotten from all sides, friends ten years my junior from a LARP I've started running with have talked me into X-Wing. So...on a scale of 1-XS, and using the grading scale of Game Informer, I think I'm doing about 7

>>45881668
Oh right, I forgot that this is also primarily based on the anime continuity (but borrows from the musicals and stuff when necessary)
>>45881732
Well that's nice to hear, and thank you for sharing.

>>45881134
From the look of things, nothing she isn't already prepared for.
“Except, thinking about it I thought back to something I thought before,” she admits, “When you were explaining yourself that night, the time I was sitting on the stairs listening as you told your mother the truth of things,” she’s slow her, introspective, “I thought I understood your hurt better than anyone and realized something. I chose at that point that I would do anything for you as…”

She screws her eyes shut a moment and meets your own in the dark.

“...as you would for me,” she concludes and takes a deep breath while trying to smile, “So, between us...if it’s you, and if you wanted to, I would,”

She turns her neck.

“I’m still uncertain, afraid, and apprehensive,” she says while unbuttoning the the collar of her blouse to expose the best place to bite, “and I know I still have an interest in Ginja-san, and that you still have things to sort out with Sasha and Sakurada-san and your feelings between them...but if you wanted me,”

She closes the distance between you and lays a hand on the back of your head to guide you to your requested meal. This close you can feel her anxious heartbeat, perhaps anxious yourself.

“If you wanted me I would be yours,”

>>45881214
Also, I gotta dig up the Henrietta pic I requested a while back. It was good.

In general during more streams/quest related draw threads I need to makes requests or commissions of characters without significant art elements.

Just to have.

Midori, Keiko, Koito, Saori, Yoshi, and others. Mostly the OCs for the quest proper.

>>45881539
How comfy?

>>45880641
>>45880527
What else do you suggest?

>>45881605
Only with the tormenting of best girl. I mean come on guys, I leave for 2 threads.

>>45883955
I'm still just surprised /tg/ moved on a guy

>>45883955
It's just a kiss, don't abandon ship!

>>45883955
I don't recall tormenting Saori. She does that herself.

>>45886055
Really well, too. She practices an elevated art.

So, I think I'm going to work on the big revised cast list tonight rather than work on anymore interludes or comedic asides.

With this in mind, besides the varied manner in which I have described them how do some of the cast without reliable associated imagery appear in the theater of your mind?

Open question, there are no wrong answers. Well, if they're intentionally wrong on your part as some kind of bait then they are wrong I guess...There are no wrong answers in good faith! Yeah, that is the ticket.

>>45888849
Check that, I'll start on that list after I finish my sheet for Curse of Strahd.

I need to quire food or braincells. Then attempt more planning thoughts and decribing of the peoples.

My minds eye wants to put green hair on everyone.

Listed all the names I could think of, leaving out a few one off characters. Okay more than a few.

80. 80 characters.

...everyone, and especially review anon, I'm sorry.

...son of a bitch I forgot the rest of Yoshi's band and Malefic Black.

...86. Okay, adding those names and then cursing the tasks of writing descriptions.

>>45891946
Cast is why I love this quest man.
Don't sweat.

>>45891946
Personally, I like a large cast.

It would be annoying to keep running into the same ten people everywhere we go.

>>45891985
>>45892150
Well, while I have you here if you fine anons have brain cells or food stuffs acquired, might I get more on my question posed over yonder >>45888849

Also I appreciate that you enjoy my ensemble cast. Funny story, I do my best GMing when I have to manage groups of eight or more.

>>45892257
Mikage and Kairi, off the top of my head, strike me as “Two broken people, on a quest to put themselves back together”.

>>45881732
isn't 7 a specifically deceptive number on the Game Informer metric?
>>45881620
What happened to XS?

>>45893301
Sick all the time, had to have part of her lungs removed.

>>45890787
Fooding has happened though taking a stab at descriptions may need to wait for some rest too.
At least I can see more than green hair on everyone now.

>>45880868
While Art addressed some things, I note that Mikage's relationship with Usa went cold back when she overhear her talking and realized that the nice dreams and the guy in them were not her own.
Internalizing that particular issue and further ones once she found out exactly who Usa was, that wad the unstable foundation a whole host of bad motivation driving young Mikage came from. Which would eventually lead to her fall and shattering following the final battle with The Magician.

I should be asleep. I have a busy day of photography and filming tomorrow but I'm still awake writing these character synopses

>>45894662
Its alright, we've got thirty replies left and I'm sure you guys can keep us afloat until the morrow when you'll doubtlessly have your vigor and mental propensity restored to full!

http://pastebin.com/ffncGyEW

incomplete paste because fuck its a long list and I need sleep now. Worked my way up from the bottom until I just hit a wall on some unimportant person who has a tendency to fade into the background.

>>45895942
Sleep by ood I'll look then too

>>45896711
Wise.

>>45896711
By ood? How nice.

>>45897988
>>45896711
>>45897645
Is good. Fat fingered the folk out of that

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>>45898341
Honestly I had not noticed.

Though if I in turn fat fingered this post, an image that makes no sense to the context will show up.

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>>45898917
Do they even sleep?
Or should I be sleeping by one?
Or is it like a designer sleep experience "Sleep by Ood"?

>>45899018
I would assume a designer telepathically assisted experience as the Ood branch out and offer their naturally restored skill in trade on the interplanetary level after their emancipation.

>>45898917
Ha! Close one. This was right next to an esoteric Gyanko drawing saved from a red board in my folder. That fat finger slip could have been disasterous.

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>>45888849
Well, Daphne appear somewhere between Tomoe in a beret and Coco in my mind.

Dan D is straight forward enough, Starlights-grade Space Dandy.

Moe, girl with well defined biceps and cute teddy bears and teddy bead backpacks. Not tall, but not short. Hair brown? Mind wants to picture green but I believe that was the case.

Ringo. Broad shouldered tough girl, black hair. Not unattractive, but unlikely to bother with makeup.

Niji. Slim, shorter than Ringo. Energetic.

Yeon. Black hair college age everyman, Korean. Nice guy. Decent looking enough for littlest bunny to swoon over.

Midori is a brunette, I think. Though a think Jade wore green hair?

Just rough impressions off the top of my head with no fact checking.

>>45881214
Incident at the tower was, when failing to close the dimensional tear and being exposed to countless realities, she (ie the players) chose to focus on her Hunger as her unique aspect to center herself. Rolls went poorly and her hunger was amplified crazily and she lost it for a bit.
Usa tried to close the mess we left but it weakened her existance in this timeline and had to return home to stabilize again.

in a weird holding pattern at work, and probably not gonna be able to do more work on the character list until later tonight.

Any thoughts on it so far?

>>45900069
Interesting perspectives. Thanks anon!

>>45894662
I mean, look how into Pegasus Chibi-Usa as in SS. Now you have kid Mikage having pleasant and borderline romance wonderful dreams along the same bent without knowing she isn't actually a participant. That shit will fuck you up.

>>45900069
I keep imagining Keiko with a bow in her hair.

>>45900136
That was a fun failure.

>>45906172
Well, it certainly had interesting and tragic repercussions.

>>45906172
>>45908022
Still ponder the alternate reality where I didn't miss that vote and successfully put forward "Eclipse" as our unique aspect to focus on.

>>45908331
Well you'd be mired in fewer negative repercussions, that's for damn sure.

>>45908331
Though all that aside I love the way you guys have taken Mikage and hope you enjoy things as we head toward exposition and plot.

Just got out of session 1 of Curse of Strahd and it was a damn good time. Gonna sit down for some dinner, head home, and write make descriptions for that list.

>>45908331
Heroism!

>>45910682
Aye.

>>45909705
The Domain of Dread is a terrifying place. How's the new entry into it?

>>45911546
Apparently written with consul from the writers of the original adventure, with new twists and additional sandbox content for the adventure. Our first session went well enough, and I look forward to joining the table game at the store for the rest of the season because I am having damned good fun as a Human Courtier Warlock played as a Barrister in the service of a...firm of sorts after entering a bargain of employ with a senior partner. Very exclusive, and a structured tier hierarchy of course. Wound up as party face right quick and we're having a grand old time getting our feet wet on the shores of Barovia. GM had the mysterious and spooky atmosphere down pat.

didn't get far, did some of the new one's during the day. Feel free in the witching hours to come talk about things you would like to see added from the character descriptions I have done so far.

http://pastebin.com/ffncGyEW

So? What should we do in regard to Yoshi, presently? Not long term, but right now when we get back in the swing of things.

>>45913439
Thank him whole heartedly for a wonderful evening.

>>45914931
Yes.

>>45913439
I have this weird feel that there is still trouble lurking, not sure how to proceed.

>>45917683
The DRUGS not that Mikage has any inclination to know presently.

>be reading through feats looking for something else
>glance at Mythic Leadership
>pause, look at it fully
>>If you are of the 5th or greater mythic tier, your 10 highest level followers are also 1stmythic tier.
>raise brow
>glance at our friends and allies
>look toward Artemis, brow still raised in question