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>>676446
One faces off against a squad led by Mirai, another against one led by Kai. The third targets a group of soldiers led by Rukia, who's taken up defense of the southern wall of the Ninth Division's barracks. All three Sternritter feel like they're in the neighborhood of a Captain, and worse you can tell that they're each holding back even vaster amounts of power. Absent for the moment are your arrancar friends, and it seems Rangiku is busily escorting her cousin and his friends through the bustling streets towards the Senkaimon. As for Bambietta, she's suppressing her reiatsu... but you think she's either in or on top of the home you share with your daughter. It makes a certain amount of sense, as among other things that location overlooks the brig where her fellow Sternritter are being held. She could be doing a lot of things, but moving around isn't one of them.

Good, you think to yourself as Rangiku and her group near the Senkaimon. This isn't their fight.

“There!” Yoruichi calls out, pointing to a group of black-clad figures crouching near a stone wall. “Some of mine.”

When she comes to a halt next to the Onmitsu, she's suddenly all business. “Report.”

“Three attacking groups numbering around twenty-five each, sent ahead of a much stronger commander.” The Onmitsu officer who's speaking shakes his head slightly, either in disbelief at the situation in general or his own ability to gather such intelligence and survive.

Your wife presses. “Reserves?”

“One large force of forty or so, at least that we know of.”

The man's voice is grim. Surely he must know how absurdly strong each individual quincy is compared to the average unseated shinigami. “Recommend immediate intervention.”

“Don't need to tell me,” Yoruichi nods curtly before pointing at what seems to be a member of the Onmitsu's communications unit. “Two of you stay with comms over here. File a contact report and spread what intel we have. Rest of you on me, we're hitting their reserves.”

“You thinking they're securing a lane for reinforcements?” you ask.

Yoruichi nods in agreement. “Don't wanna chance it. Would you?”

“Not with my unit or any other.”

“Good hunting then, Captain, see you soon. Where are you heading from here?”

>To gather Halibel and Starrk, coordinate a counteroffensive.
>To back up Kai. He's been in and out of the hospital lately.
>To back up Mirai. Her Bankai's only good for a few shots.
>To back up Rukia. She's the only one without Bankai at all.
>To check on the Brig. Call me paranoid.
>Other?

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>>676451
For those of you who have followed me over from /tg/, welcome back! And for those who may just be joining us, a few general points about what to expect:

Dice rolls will be called for at my discretion, typically when an action with a chance of failure is chosen. These are almost always 3d10, best of three against a set DC. If two of the 3d10 pass the DC, for example
>7,7,1 against DC 7
the roll is considered a success. If three of the 3d10 pass it's a critical success. If the best roll of the first three only has one pass it's a failure, pray that you don't have a trio of rolls with no passes.

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And of course, write-ins and questions are always welcome. Now, let the games commence!

>>676451
>>To gather Halibel and Starrk, coordinate a counteroffensive.

>>676451
>>To gather Halibel and Starrk, coordinate a counteroffensive.

>>676451
>To gather Halibel and Starrk, coordinate a counteroffensive.
>Other?
Request an Onmitsu to establish secure comms with Rangiku. Can't overlook the brig.

I get a feeling this is a distraction for a major movement though. It's just that I can't pin it to one specific target yet.

>>676451
>To check on the Brig. Call me paranoid.
something tells me that the 3 are a legitimate threat, yet they're a diversion of sorts.
>Check-up on Bambi, her position as overwatch may give insight on the attacker's ID.

>>676451
>To back up Rukia. She's the only one without Bankai at all.
Damn wish we had fortified the place like it was suggested a few threads ago

>>676451
>To gather Halibel and Starrk, coordinate a counteroffensive.
I trust all our commandos, and Bambietta overlooking the brig is pretty much the perfect test for her. Harsh, maybe, but this is war.

>>676451
>Replace Kai and send him to gather Halibel and Starrk, as he's been in and out of the hospital lately.

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>>676454
Trusting the commandos wins out. Rolling for one of them.

It's Rukia

>>676518
Good work Rukia.

And I got a question. Are the Royal Guards still hanging around Seireitei?

In which case, I think they're likely targets by an Aizen led main offensive (with the objective of getting their Oken). Or they're already circumventing and are going straight for the Soul King.

>>676518
Noice

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>>676518
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YyMEfinH4
“You allowed your own subordinates to die just so that you could assess my strength!?” Rukia demands, visibly shaking from anger despite her cold, controlled tone. Her opponent, a large man with a mustache protruding from under his facemask.

“DO NOT BELITTLE THE SACRIFICE OF SUCH FINE SOLDIERS!” the man in the mask roars. “THEY DIED SO THAT I, THE SUPERSTAR MASK DE MASCULINE, COULD INDENTIFY YOU AS THE VILLAIN IN CHARGE OF THIS BAND OF SHINIGAMI RABBLE!”

She stares at him in utter disbelief even as a tiny man brings out a bell from behind the Sternritter and rings it. The look on her face betrays the fact that she has no idea what's happening right now, and when she glances at one of her fireteam the man can only shrug.

“STAR EAGLE KICK!”

With a roar the Sternritter slams his knee into Rukia's chest. It doesn't take much effort, as her chest only comes up to his waist or so anyway, and the impact knocks the wind from her lungs all at once. Her eyes widen in shock as she's sent hurtling through the wall of the T-intersection where she had her subordinates ambush the quincy.

Even as she struggles to her feet, shifting the rubble that's collapsed around her, her squad raise their own weapons and close in ranks to protect her.

“You'll have to go through us, you masked freak!” one of them shouts.

“That can be arranged!

>>676547
>>676547
GODDAMMIT YOU GERMAN LUCHADOR

>>676547
Although I wonder what happens to him if we manage to unmask him?

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>>676547
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGkZsuFILU
“I see you defeated my subordinates... and left them alive. There's no greater insult than to leave the job half-done.”

The looming figure of a dark-skinned Sternritter with an almost ape-like face finally approaches Mirai from out of the shadows. The much smaller officer waves subtly at her own squad's survivors, motioning for them to withdraw. But much to her surprise he attacks not the shinigami, but one of the fallen quincy, stepping down on his neck and producing an audible crunch of shattering vertebrae.

“I must confess, I will probably enjoy hurting you after such a display.” Mirai draws her sword, holding it in a mid-height guard stance pointed straight at the Sternritter's face.

The bestial man throws a punch that sends Mirai sliding backwards from the force, though her guard holds. “Jerome Guiazbatt: also known as the Roar!”

“Mirai, Ninth Division Third Seat.”

With a slowly quickening series of rotations to build momentum, she releases her zanpakuto. “And this is Sesshoseki.”

>>676554
NO PROPER LUCHADOR LEASVES HOME WITHOUT A SPARE MASKE

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>>676556
“Someone fucked up,” you tell your wife with a frown. “If I'm gonna defend on three fronts I'll need Halibel and Starrk on board.”

“Hurry,” Yoruichi advises you, and you immediately understand why: the battle is going well enough for your side, in that the quincy foot soldiers are taking better than they can give you. But the Sternritter won't remain patient for long.

You run as quickly as you can, darting through corridors and across courtyards to reach your own home. Instead of greeting Bambietta, who glances down at you in obvious confusion you crash through the wall headfirst, not wanting to waste time with the door, and smash your way through the floor into the basement to open the portal.

“We're under attack!” you shout the second you cross over into your friends' home. “Sternritter! I don't think we can hold out long!”

“No reinforcements from the Gotei 13?” Apacci asks in obvious surprise, bolting upright and grabbing her zanpakuto from a nearby table. Apparently they'd been sitting around having some sort of after-dinner social event, because they're all here and none of them are ready to fight.

“Too spread out, Sternritter are too strong!” you tell her. “I've got faith in my Commandos to hold out until help arrives, but they're outmatched. They can't do it forever.”

“Then we have no choice,” Halibel agrees calmly, retrieving her own sword. “We shall render what assistance we can.”

“You three, go with Halibel,” Starrk orders, pointing vaguely at Apacci, Sung-Sun, and Mila Rose. “Lilynette, where's your sword?”

“Ummm,” the little arrancar mutters, glancing around the room. “I... that is... don't... know?”

Starrk's gloved hand smacks into his forehead with an audible slap. “Good lord, Lilynette. Just try not to swallow your own tongue or anything? Please? For me?”

“Hey!” she protests, kicking her partner in the face with a flying leap. “Don't be an asshole!”

“NO TIME!” you shout, snatching her from the air by her ear and tossing her out the door. “Less arguing more running!”

By the time you cross back over into the Seireitei it's already become clear how outmatched your Commandos really are against Sternritter. Rukia is in bad shape, having apparently taken a hard hit early in her fight. Kai is holding his own, but you get the distinct impression his opponent's toying with him. Or perhaps stalling for time, depending on how his ability works. Mirai's fighting well enough in Bankai, but her opponent's not dead. So that means it must be a bad matchup for her, probably someone much larger than an average person with speed to go with it.

You notice Starrk glancing in her direction, his eyes narrowed ever so slightly.
>1/2

>>676597
>Head to Rukia. She needs the help immediately, and Byakuya will kill you if she dies.
>Head to Mirai. Her abilities may not be working on her opponent.
>Head to Kai. Any opponent who could toy with him for this long shouldn't be underestimated.

>>676600
>Head to Rukia. She needs the help immediately, and Byakuya will kill you if she dies.
Is our Arrancar allies in charge of plugging the defenses on the rest of the fronts?

>>676600
>>Head to Mirai. Her abilities may not be working on her opponent. And Mirai can pair up with either Rukia or Kai.

>>676611
Exactly. IC, if you missed it, Riku would be getting the impression that Starrk would kind of like to go help one person in particular.

>>676600
>>676611
I rather thought that this was an instruction to Starrk. Though if it isn't it probably makes no real difference.

>>676597
>Head to Rukia. She needs the help immediately, and Byakuya will kill you if she dies.
Starrk has Mirai...

>>676619
In HER direction, anon. He's glancing towards where Mirai is fighting.

>>676600
>>Head to Rukia. She needs the help immediately, and Byakuya will kill you if she dies.

>>676600
>Head to Rukia
>GET OUR COMMUNICATIONS LINE SET UP ASAP
I get the feeling Starrk's taken a shine to Mirai and her exotic mongolian outfit....I ship it.

>>676600
>>Head to Rukia. She needs the help immediately, and Byakuya will kill you if she dies.

>>676623
Huh. I evidently need to read more carefully.
In which case replace previous >>676612 with
We Head to Rukia.
Starrk heads to Mirai.
Mirai, Kai and possibly Rukia can double or triple team the last Sternritter. Depending or Rukia's condition.
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>writing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScrLWu6XBEU
Kai pants heavily. It's almost unbelievable how strong this quincy turned out to be, even going so far as to shatter Kamitinbe's shield with a single punch. Right along the... right along... oh.

“Seems like you finally figured it out!” the creep sneers. His teeth, his hair, his gangly limbs, that bug-like visor: none of it seems natural. Like he's been put together by a child with no grasp of anatomy and then left to starve for a month or two. “That's the power of the Underbelly, to find the weakness in anything!”

“You've just been stringin' me along,” Kai grumbles. “Watin' to figure out where ta hit me, werentcha?”

“That's right, Third-Seat. Too bad you didn't figure it out sooner...”

Kai interrupts. “So if I use a technique you haven't studied yer fucked?”

“What are you implying?”

“Good shit then,” Kai grins as wild masses of red-colored reiatsu swirl around him. “Don't tell my Captain you saw this, I've been savin' it fer a special occasion... but if yer dead, you can't tell nobody anyway, can you!?”

“Bankai: Kamitinbe nu Yā Ishigaki!”

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>>676659
“How does it feel to be crushed by such overwhelming power!?”

Mirai stares down her enemy defiantly, despite her numerous bruises, swollen eye, and stance skewed by a clearly broken leg. The bow held low in her hand reverts back into the shape of a stone-studded kanabō, and she takes it up in her left hand to leave her right arm dangling uselessly at her side. “To heal your own throat even after taking a direct hit from Seisha Hicchū...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G1EJ716AlQ

“Seems like you're havin' a tough time.”

The woman snorts derisively as Starrk approaches her from around a nearby corner, almost at a stroll, with Lilynette in tow. “Were you just being lazy or dramatic?”

“Just observing.” Starrk motions for Lilynette to pass a roll of bandages and splints to Mirai, who steps aside and crashes down to the ground.

“Who's the asshole?” Guizbatt demands angrily.

Mirai ignores him, instead tending to her own wounds as she speaks. “I seem to be running out of energy, Starrk. This Sternritter is a bad matchup for me.”

“I said who's the asshole!?”

Starrk sighs dramatically, also doing his best to ignore the shouts of the Roar. “Then I guess I've got no other choice. I can't stand loudmouths... but this guy's literally been assaulting a pretty young woman in a dark alley. And that's something I can't just ignore, either.”

“Did you just try to flirt with me? Now of all times?”

“Who knows.”

>>676679
Stark pls you smooth coyote..... I ship you and Mirai now.

>>676659
Kai you magnificent son of a bitch. Damn that was satisfying.

>>676679
Starrk? And Mirai? And Lilynette, technically?

I am surprisingly okay with this, and will ship it!

> All these guys using bankai
> Against Nazi Quincy
Man Ninth is about to get their shit stolen. Props on a Mexican and a black guy for doing it. Aidan is making his forces great again.

>>676679
Welp, this is happening now.

>>676716
you mean a german mexican and a german african. which is strange because nazis are usually all about dat aryan thing.

>>676679
To your infinite relief Kai seems to be holding his own again after releasing Bankai, and should still be alive by the time his backup arrives. Starrk on the other hand had far less ground to cover, and seems to be just about ready to swoop in and sweep Mirai off her proverbial feet... if he doesn't choke on any of his own dramatic one-liners. Which knowing him.

You give him a 50/50 chance.

Rukia's not doing too hot. Her entire squad is either dead or unconscious, and her own pure white zanpakuto has been snapped in half about a foot above the habaki. It makes you sad to see that, it's always been one of your favorite zanpakuto not because of its power but rather its appearance. Her enemy is a large man in a white coat with a stupid-looking luchador mask on, with the image of a star splashed across his eyes and nose.

“SAY YOUR PRAYERS, SHINIGAMI!”

The force of the blow is enough to slide you back about an inch on your feet, and just one fist requires you to block with both your forearms. If that punch had landed on Rukia, in the condition she's in, there's a chance she'd never stand up again.

“AND WHO MIGHT THIS NEW CHALLENGER BE!?” the man roars. Damn, can he ever NOT shout? Or is that just how he talks?

“Ninth Division Captain, Kusajishi Riku,” you snarl, drawing Tenkotsuki from her sheath as your enemy backs off and assumes a fanciful stance. “You've been killing my soldiers. I'll give you this one chance to surrender before I kill you for it.”

“Captain,” Rukia protests from behind blood-soaked lips, “this man happily sacrificed his own subordinates. He cannot be reasoned...”

At that moment she coughs up a load of blood, probably from the results of a shattered rib penetrating one of her lungs based on how the bright-red liquid bubbles and froths.

“Calm down, Rukia,” you insist grimly. “You've suffered an injury to a lung. As soon as I kill him I can get you medical attention.”

You turn your attention back to your foe. “But I want to hear it from him.”

“NONSENSE! MASK DE MASCULINE, THE SUPERSTAR, WOULD NEVER BACK DOWN IN THE FACE OF EVIL![/e]”

The man strikes a dramatic pose, tossing off his coat and revealing what must be a set of twenty-pack abs, with star-shaped pasties over his nipples and a flashy belt with a star on its wide buckle. You can hear both Tenkotsuki and Rosa retching in disgust, and you almost do the same, covering your mouth with the back of your left hand. “Okay, now I can kill him with no doubts.”

>>676746
still messed up with da formatting queen. shall we turn this into a drinking game of sorts?

>>676758
Go for it. Your life is in your own hands.

Still getting used to it. I figure if I'm stuck here I might as well.

>>676758
>>676782
Pick a difficulty

Easy: Drink per formatting mistake
Normal: Drink per misformatted sentence
Hard: Per misformatted word
Alcoholic: Misformatted character

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>>676746
The man's next punch is incredibly powerful, and you have to match that power somehow or you're going to end up the same way Rukia did. You know one fast way to close that gap in an instant.

“Shunkō!” you roar, raising an arm to block the punch before it can connect with your cheek. With your right arm still free you swing Tenkotsuki's edge upwards at your shocked opponent, leaving a shallow gash across his stomach. His blut takes most of the lethal sharpness out of the swing, but it's still enough to give him pause.

“Such a difference in only two seats?” Mask booms, looking down at you disapprovingly.
Truly I have found WICKEDNESS worthy of my strength.”

“You look great!” a nasally voice cheers from somewhere nearby, “you can win, Mask! Beat this evildoer down with the power of the SUPERSTAR!”

What the fuck is even going on anymore, you ask yourself as a fist comes flying at you: much faster this time, and no doubt with much greater force behind it as well. The blow batters through your defense like an iron-shod ram, and knocks you clean off your feet. Your ears ring as you crash through a wall, and you hear the fat little blob of a man cheer again.

The correlation is pretty obvious.

“Is that awful cheering making him more powerful?” Tenkotsuki muses, coming to the same conclusion as you.

“It would seem so,” Rosa agrees, still obviously disgusted at your opponent's conduct. “Let's hurry up and kill this fuck, I don't care if he's a quincy or not. He's not 'one of us' either way.”

PICK ONE
>Release Tenkotsuki, ease into the battle.
>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa.
ALSO,
>Get close with Mask, you doubt he's gonna let you get the distance for kido.
>Take a mixed combat approach, get some shots in across all ranges.
>Try and nail Mask with a cero, see if hollow reiatsu fucks him up worse.
>Focus purely on the cheering squad.

>mfw the fuckers upstairs crank their shit British rock up to 11

>>676809
>>Try and nail Mask with a cero, see if hollow reiatsu fucks him up worse.

>>676809
>>Release Tenkotsuki, ease into the battle.
>>Try and nail Mask with a cero, see if hollow reiatsu fucks him up worse.

>>676809
That face is also very apt for Riku's expression looking at the german luchador.
as for options, If possible,
>Use shunko to UnMask the Mask's face. If he's following the rules of Mexican wrestling like those shows you saw on TV, then that should make him kill himself in shame.
if not, then
>Focus purely on the cheering squad.

>>676809
>>Release Tenkotsuki and Rosa.
>>Focus purely on the cheering squad.

Do we receive debuffs instead if the cheering midget boos us for playing into the role of a heel?

For those of you who haven't picked between releasing one sword and two, please do so. It's technically a separate decision.

>>676809
>Release Rosa only.

I'll give five more minutes for tiebreaks.

>>676883
slow thread today....

>>676902
For real. Slowest I've seen since the move. I REALLY hate to choose a strategy based on a coin toss, but it may soon come to that.

>>676911
might need tho shill in /qst/ generals to gather some more audience. I'll go do that.

>>676809
>Release Tenkotsuki, ease into the battle.
>Focus purely on the cheering squad.

>>676809
>Release Tenkotsuki, ease into the battle.
>Take a mixed combat approach, get some shots in across all ranges.

>>676930
CHEERING SQUAD IT IS.

Roll me some 3d10s, DC is 8. Hitting a 7 will get you a partial success.

Rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4 (3d10)

>>676940

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>>676940
“So, the cavalry's here! You ladies are a sight for sore eyes.”

Apacci glances down at Kai, who lies exhausted and slumped against a wall created by the release of his own Bankai. He's in bad shape, but she reasons it could probably be worse. His opponent is clearly Captain-class in terms of his spiritual power, and unlike Mirai Kai sometimes struggles to hit above his proverbial weight. All he can really do is delay, when it comes right down to it.

Shortly after she arrives, the arrancar is joined first by Mila Rose, then by Sung-Sun. Finally Halibel, who was in no particular hurry, steps calmly onto the scene. Unlike the others her eyes are fixed firmly not on the fallen shinigami but their assailant.

“Just relax, we've got this,” Apacci smirks, before glaring at the quincy before her. “Sure is an ugly son of a bitch.”

“Rude.” Halibel shuts her eyes in contemplation. “Do not underestimate him.”

“Understood!” the Tres Bestias agree in unison, each grabbing one arm in hand. “Quimera Parca!”

Rolled 2, 10, 2 = 14 (3d10)

>>676940

Rolled 2, 9, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>676940
LUCHA

Rolled 1, 1, 4 = 6 (3d10)

>>676940

Rolled 3, 9, 3 = 15 (3d10)

>>676940

>>676940
>>676950
>>676951
Impressive!

Rolled 4, 6, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>676940

That went poorly.

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>>676948
“Starrk! Let's just do it already!” Lilynette emerges suddenly from the rubble pile she's been hiding under, bruised and dirtied but otherwise unhurt.

The Roar can't hide his surprise. “That brat's still alive?”

“Fine,” Starrk sighs. “Come here then.”

“Kay!” With a cheer and a sonido, the green-haired firecracker joins her partner at his side The two make an odd sight, an older, stubbly-chinned man towering over a girl who doesn't look a day over thirteen.

“Are you sure you wanna bring a weakling like that back into the fight? She's gonna die.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJ-GRwTubo

Starrk rests his hand gently atop Lilynette's head. “Just shut your mouth for once and watch.”

“Kick about, Los Lobos!”

Jerome Guizbatt's eyes widen as a light surrounds the pair, and Lilynette Gingerback suddenly disappears in a powerful flash. Smoke surrounds the spot where they were standing, and the Sternritter recoils as if expecting a surprise assault. But no attack comes. Instead when the smoke clears, a lone figure is sitting patiently on an invisible platform of aligned reishi, seeming to float in the air. His clothes have changed, and a bony eyepatch covers one of the gunslinger's eyes. He rises to his feet, hands coming to rest on the handles of his pistols as they rest in their holsters.

The Roar smirks, delight at the development clear in his expression.

“You arrancar and your release forms... that gun doesn't just shoot cero, I'd imagine?”

“Wrong. Cero are all these pistols of mine shoot, because that's all they need to shoot.”

The arrancar gunman draws his weapons and takes aim. “Let's go... Starrk.”

>>676944
>>676950
>>676951
DAMMIT. FUCK THE LUCHA. HE'S THROWN US OFF OUR GROVE SO HARD. WE'RE USED TO CRAZY SHIT, BUT NOT THIS BARA HARDCORE GAY SHIT WITH THE MASKED BODYBUILDER AND THE BLOB OF HIS GAY FANBASE.

>>676944
>>676950
>>676951
qst dice suck.

Also this seems especially difficult.

>>676944
all I feel is shame

>>676944
>>676950
>>676951

Fail it is then...

>>676973
I'm guessing the roll was to see if we managed to notice the cheerleader muliplying and just kill the cheerleader outright.

>>676944
>>676950
>>676951
That was an almost perfect display of a our sacred number 2 on multiple occasions.

Yoruichiiiiiiiiiii save ussssssssssssss

I will settle for Soi Fon at this rate

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>>677013

>>677022
I'm not sure even Yorubutts will save us now, but good effort

>>676974
Doubly so since you didn't vote for any option before the roll.

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>>676970
You draw both of your swords, calling each by name and relishing in the power of their combined release. For just a moment, that is: you have something far more important to do right now. That fat little cheerleader the 'Superstar' has brought with him is an obvious liability now that his other infantry are dead, and all you need to do is exploit it quickly enough and hard enough to kill him before the Sternritter he serves realizes what happened.

To that end you use hirenkyaku to charge him, only to take a blast in the left side of your gut that fills your whole body with a searing pain. A downward glance reveals a star-shaped hole burned through your body, with a little blood dripping from the edges to stain your haori with its color.

“You had a ranged attack...” you gasp, feeling a warm, copper-tinted trickle from the corner of your mouth. “You... masked fuck!”

“That should have killed you,” the man in the mask wonders aloud. “I must have made a mistake. BUT WORRY NOT, EVIL DOER! I SHALL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN!”

He takes aim a second time with his hands in front of him, and fires a bright blast of reiatsu at you that you manage to dodge, leaving a few splatters of blood along the ground where you moved. It seems the strain of such movements damaged the seared edges, causing them to open up just a little. But as grim as it seems, your blut should be able to handle an injury like this. It's not immediately lethal at least.

“QUIT DODGING SCUM!”

“No!” you retort, ducking under a double-foot flying kick aimed in your direction. Thankfully his technique mostly consists of amateurish moves, like those of a 'pro' wrestler.

“Come on!” the fat man shouts again with renewed vigor. “Put her away, Mask! Put her away!”

>Try attacking the fat cheerleader again. It was a good idea.
>Focus on healing your wound, so that you can give Mask your all.
>These guys are morons... maybe try a subtle, long-term plan?
>Release Bankai, end this bullshit now.
>Try to disengage and hit Mask with a cero tirador.
>Other?

>>677045
>Unmask him. He must feel the SHAME.

>>677045
>Try attacking the fat cheerleader again. It was a good idea.

>>677045
>These guys are morons... maybe try a subtle, long-term plan?

>>677045
>>These guys are morons... maybe try a subtle, long-term plan?
It seems a bit meta, but getting mask to shoot fat boy seems like a good idea.

>>677045
>Try to disengage and hit Mask with a cero tirador.

>>677045
>Try attacking the fat cheerleader again. It was a good idea.
Fuck this!

>>677045
>Focus on healing your wound, so that you can give Mask your all.
>These guys are morons... maybe try a subtle, long-term plan?

>>677045
>Try to disengage and hit Mask with a cero tirador.
>Other? "Let's go Riku! Mask Guy sucks!"

>>677045
>>Try attacking the fat cheerleader again. It was a good idea.

We need a loud-mouth Shinigami to trade barbs with the fat cheerleader so he'd be too occupied to cheer mask dude on.

>>677045
>Release Bankai, end this bullshit now.
Fuck it and just kill him

>>677083
Rukia would work if she wasn't in the process of suffocating to death. Maybe Renji'll show up?

>>677083
Apacci would be the perfect pick, but alas, she's dealing with someone else.

>>677083
>>677098
No one else is thinking of Soi-fon's fatmanserveant?

>>677106
actually that's not a bad idea.

It seems like we're at an impass here.

>>677096
>>677098
>>677106
I just realized Kenny would be the perfect match-up for this situation. He'd relish in playing the heel, and he even has his own cheerleader to support him and drown out her counterpart.

Okay, I'm gonna go for a clever synthesis approach. DC 7, best of three.

Rolled 10, 1, 1 = 12 (3d10)

>>677137
Here's to hoping.

Rolled 4, 3, 6 = 13 (3d10)

>>677137

Rolled 7, 9, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>677137

Rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9 (3d10)

>>677137
>>677143
SAVED

>>677143
Saved it anon. Good job.

>>677143
Thank The Gods!!!

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>>677137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGdpJ9sfdVw
“No way!”

Mila Rose and Sung-Sun stare in horror as the quincy easily dismantles their creation, taking each constituent part and casting it aside as easily as a child might dismantle a toy. And he does it with a smile on his face.

“Didn't that poor reaper tell you?” the Nanana sneers. “The power of The Underbelly lets me find weak spots. Wherever each of your contributions meet...”

“Is a seam,” Apacci growls, sparing a glance at Kai. He was in rough shape when they found him, and was in no condition to recap his fight with this quincy bastard, but in hindsight she wished she'd have at least asked. “Damn. We were careless.”

“This was your idea, Apacci!”

“No, I'm pretty sure it was yours Mila Rose.”

“What the fuck does it matter!?” Apacci snaps, grasping the hilt of her sword with her one remaining hand. “Both of you back the fuck off for now.”

“We're not backing down to let you hog all the glory!” the others shout in unison.

“Enough,” Halibel insists quietly, her pronouncement serving to silence the others. She calmly draws her broad sword from its sheath across her shoulders, and the space within its blade fills with a yellow light. “The three of you were weakened by that technique. I will fight in your stead.”

“Mistress Halibel,” Mila Rose begins to protest, only to be silenced by Apacci's hand.

“Of course, ma'am. If that's your order I'll follow it, even if I don't like it.”

“It's not an order,” Halibel sighs. “It's a request.”

“Then we definitely can't refuse.”

>>677146
>>677149
>>677150
Clearly the trick was butt-appreciation.
More seriously, let's hope the dice have some mercy from now on.

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>>677143
>writing

>>677153
Time for token black guy to job to caramel shark.

>>677169
Awwwright time for the good shit!

>>677174
Does a shitload of boiling water even have a weakpoint?

But I'm concerned, these Sternritter aren't total chumps (except for maybe the Roar) and they've neither stolen any bankais nor used Vollstandig.

>>677200
Have they even had the opportunity to steal someone's bankai yet? It's been a while since I read the archives.

>>677283
I mean, Kai and Mirai just used theirs and Mirai atleast was able to cancel out of hers back into shikai.

Where'd those bankai-stealing things come from anyway, I don't recall there being a scientist Sternritter.

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>>677169
An idea crosses your mind. Maybe you were too obvious about it the first time, the big one must be expecting that sort of attack on his designated cheering section. After all he knows the most about his own powers. So there's one trick that might play into that.

With a roar of your own you fling Tenkotsuki's sheath at the Masked luchador as hard as you can, sending it spinning towards him. He raises his arm to block it, and it bounces off the bulging muscles of his arm to embed itself deeply into a wall well behind the two remaining quincy.

“NICE TRY...” the Superstar begins to boom an insult at you, only to find that you've slung Kobara no Tachi's sheath at his cheering section while he had his arm raised. With a single hirenkyaku the Superstar blocks this attack as well, leading the fat little man to cheer wildly at his savior as the sheath bounces off his arm yet again. This time its spin is opposite, causing it to embed itself more or less opposite Tenkotsuki's sheath.

“SUCH USLESS ATTACKS!” he laughs defiantly, “TRULY DESPERATE NOW AREN'T YOU, VILLAIN!?”

“Shut your stupid luchador face!” you shout back at him, aiming a horizontal slash across his face as you charge him. The Superstar leans back casually, ducking under the swipe with a grin on his face... until your fingertips brush the edge of his mask. Your momentum rips it clean off his head, revealing his face for the first time.

He's balding on top, with obvious lines around his eyes and bushy eyebrows. Not ugly per se, but if you were to render a verdict 'as a woman' it'd be 'underwhelming'.

“Hey, if you're a luchador,” you grin cheekily, waving the mask at him, “doesn't that mean you have to forfeit now?”

It takes a second for him to realize his mask is gone, before it's replaced again: this time with a 'mask' of wrath.

“YOU SHINIGAMI WHORE!” he roars, having lost any semblance of self-control he might have had left. “I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A VILLAIN OR NOT, I'M GONNA KILL YOU! I'LL MURDER THE SHIT OUT OF YOU FOR THIS INSULT!”

“Do it, Mask!” the fat man cheers, seemingly oblivious to the context. “Murder the shit out of her! Go Mask!”

This may have been a mistake[/], you think to yourself as the Superstar replaces his mask. Your seven spectral tails wave behind you in uncertainty.

“I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE I'M USING THIS TO KILL A MERE SHINIGAMI, BUT SO BE IT! IF IT ENDS WITH YOU AS A CORPSE I CAN LIVE WITH IT!”
>1/2

>>677295
In canon they were given by Yhwach, iirc. Who isn't so much a thing here. I won't say that Medallions don't exist in this setting, but ooc it should make sense that they'd be less common at best.

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>>677299
Drink.

>>677304
That makes sense.

Also, was the long term plan for ripping off his mask? I figured it was to get a shot at the fat guy since attacking the fat guy and long term plan were in the lead.

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>>677313
Time to get fucked up.

>>677321
ripping off his mask puts him on tilt so while it does up the difficulty, it makes it easier for us to use feints and misdirection on him as his mask of "Wrath" leaves him blind to such trickery.

>>677328
Ah, I get it now.

Hopefully we don't roll bad when he does use his Vollstandig then.

>>677328
But we already had a DC8 just to hit James.

Also, this doesn't really seem subtle OR long-term.

>>677343
It might be if we have back-up sneaking up on him and his cheerleader.

>>677343
We've just got to keep using tricks then. The DC when we do will be lower.

>>677359
>>677356
>>677343
Our next move to put him on even more tilt would be to use the cheerleader as the meatshield.

>>677366
Or use some sort of blinding/deafening kido so that he gets the timing wrong on his cheering and throws the synergy off.

>>677379
the moment the wrestler attacks/kills his cheerleader, his subordinates/fans will now view him as the heel.

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>>677299
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTtnfYS-Ws
His appearance changes.

Behind him is a sheet of burning light, wrapped around his neck as if it were a cape with two wing-like crests at the edges of his sternum. Behind his head is a star like the one on his replacement mask. This must be his Vollständig. And his speed...

The weight of his blows exceeds your peak physical strength, and his speed finally rivals your own. You're still a little faster even with your lingering wound, but not by enough to truly use it to your advantage anymore. He dances around you, swinging in with powerful haymakers that you're hard-pressed to dodge. Full contact from one of those could be a problem for you, and he's not letting up.

“WHAT'S WRONG!?” he crows.

“Nothing,” you reply, slamming your foot into his knee while he's distracted by his own attempts to turn your head and upper body into paste. He loses his balance, and a slash of Tenkotsuki and Rosa's combined blade rips a deep gouge in his chest. The look of agony on his face as his own reiatsu erupts within the channel of the wound and throws him off you is almost uncomfortably satisfying. It also gives you another chance to attack his little cheerleader.

“You can do it, Mask!” the fat man parrots again. “Murder the shit out of her!”

“WILL DO, JAMES!” comes a roar that nearly stops you in your tracks. You turn in time to raise your blade, parrying a powerful double-handed axe strike that causes your knees to give out from under you. The blow cracks stone and bone, spreading pain all though your legs as muscles strain and at least one bone in your left leg cracks. Had you not been a little quicker you may have died just there.

“How are you alive!?” you demand in an agitated growl, straining against the overwhelming force. “That slash should have killed you!”

“I WILL NEVER DIE SO LONG AS I HAVE ONE VOICE TO CHEER ME ON!”

This may change the plan. If even a fatal blow will just heal anyway, what's the point of inflicting them like this?

>Continue to engage him for now, you still stand a chance like this if you can avoid taking any more hits like that first one.
>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.
>It may be a little early, but you and Tenkotsuki could try and spring your trap a little earlier than intended. Separate these two for good.
>Other?

>>677403
>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.

>>677403
>Well if you put it that way.....
>Get James Between you and the Mask, make the wrestler attack his cheerleader.

>>677403
>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.
Time to stop playing his game and start playing ours. We're a well rounded fighter but our greatest power has always been our spells and our ability to deploy them in creative ways

>>677403
>>Continue to engage him for now, you still stand a chance like this if you can avoid taking any more hits like that first one.
Even if he isn't being attentive, he'll still notice the trick if we don't distract him.

Would we get a bonus to DC if we suggest a particular way of doing it? I'm thinking we focus on dodging. Make him think he's winning. That'll keep him distracted and keep us from getting any more broken bones.

>>677403
>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.

>>677403
>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.
At what point would we need to go bankai?

>>677403
>Continue to engage him for now, you still stand a chance like this if you can avoid taking any more hits like that first one.

>>677403
>It may be a little early, but you and Tenkotsuki could try and spring your trap a little earlier than intended. Separate these two for good.

>>677403
>>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.

>>677403
>>Disengage, turn it into a battle of kidō. Play harder to your own strengths rather than bothering to distract him any more.

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>spellcasting clearly wins
3d10, DC is a modest 6

>meanwhile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWnoJhBNF8
“Starrk, when are you gonna stop gettin' beat up by this jerk!?”

Starrk lies in a crater, bruised and battered but still ready to fight. He glares up at the Sternritter, who smirks down at him confidently from on high. “Fighting a guy like him is tiring, you know. He just doesn't shut up.”

“Then we're gonna have to kill him!” Lilynette's voice counters from the pistol in his right hand. “Just use that! Most of the Division's evacuated anyway!”

“What is that girl talking about, hollow?” Jerome Guizbatt sneers. “What technique could you possibly be hiding this late in the fight?”

“It's as I told you, these pistols of mine only shoot cero...”

“And your point is!?” the quincy interrupts with a shout. “Quit talking bullshit already, if you've got another trick let's see it!”

“... you didn't let me finish. What I've been meaning to ask you is this: since when were you under the impression there was only one kind of cero?”

Jerome's expression gradually changes to one of dawning comprehension, then disbelief. And that's as far as he gets before the still-reclining arrancar raises his pistols. After a quick glance to reassure himself that Mirai isn't too close, he locks eyes with his victim.

“Gran Rey Metralleta.”

Rolled 10, 5, 2 = 17 (3d10)

>>677504
Ayyyy less do it

Rolled 4, 1, 3 = 8 (3d10)

>>677504
DICE

Rolled 10, 4, 8 = 22 (3d10)

>>677504
Confusing roll is confusing.

Rolled 6, 10, 6 = 22 (3d10)

>>677504
Roger!

>>677519
phew.

>>677519

Clutch anon to save the day~~~

>>677519
Man, the last roll always saves it.

>>677519
Thank you Anon and

>>677520

DAMN IT TOO LATE!

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>>677519
SAVED
>>677520
SHIT NIGGER WHERE WERE YOU

Actually is Tenkotsuki helping us? Do we get a fourth roll here?

>>677530
>>677533
I have multiple quests to post in! It was just 20 seconds!

>>677543
20 to many....

thought it was best of 4?

>>677562
it's best of 3. the additional dice roll is only under certain circumstances where someone outside of us is providing assistance.

>>677542
Tenkotsuki is helping, but not in a way that grants an extra die. It's pretty much basic Shikai stuff. It's where she's cooperating independently, or when another character is cooperating closely with Riku, that they get an extra die.

When you spring the trap, for example, I intend to give you an extra die.

>>677577

Hang on, do you mean an extra die to each roll where we roll 3 sets of 4d10, or 4 sets of 3d10?

>>677592
4 sets of 3d10.

>>677592
the latter. usually we roll 3 sets of 3d10, but the extra influence will allow us to roll 4 sets of 3d10 or 5 sets of 3d10

>>677577
See >>677600
It becomes best of 4 rolls. I misspoke.

Now I really need to get to work.

>>677601
Those circumstances only happen when there's an influence from a god/goddess, ain't it? Like the time Inari and Artemis manifested.

Oh shit, speaking of deities, is it likely that Aizen got a fix on Mimihagi first, which is why this attack is being thrown our way?

>>677626
Yes, most likely. But other captains are faffing about. We got Captain TB in the freezer so he should be fine until we recover Mimihagi or find a divine organ replacement.

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>>677504
You glance in the direction of Starrk's fight as it reaches a climax: you can practically feel the spatial distortions from here as dozens of Gran Rey ceros collide, shearing the poor quincy apart bit by bit. Even though he seems to try his best to resist, with a roar you can hear from where you stand, it ends in an instant. His spiritual pressure suddenly drops as something cuts through both his attacks and the oncoming ceros, and the blasts subsequently obliterate his body.

Nothing remains of him.

As for Halibel's fight, that too is well in hand. The full weight of her released reiatsu is even more intense than you remember it, and unlike with Kai her opponent seems to be making no headway. It'll be over soon.

>Meanwhile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eab7kgg8I3I
“You can't keep up with it, can you?” Halibel asks as walls of water swirl wildly around her, hissing and popping in places as if brought just to the boiling point and moving sluggishly as other areas seem to be freezing over.

A badly-battered quincy glares at her, anger obvious in the eye visible behind his shattered visor. “What have you done!?”

“By continually varying the temperature and density, I've rendered your observations meaningless.”

She holds her arm-blade high, and to Nanana's horror his limbs are quickly encased in increasingly thing coatings of reiatsu-infused ice. She watches as he struggles against her power... another meaningless effort. Were he not so desperate to kill her, she might have been able to feel some sympathy for her enemy. But this man has earned nothing from her heart but disgust, and Halibel's eyes for one rare moment betray neither remorse nor compassion.

“Goodbye, nameless quincy.”

She brings her blade down, and the roiling waters under her command surge forward in an unstoppable wave of raw power. “Cascada.”

His scream is drowned out by the onrushing tide that crushes his body, and knocks over several blocks worth of older buildings outside the walls of the Ninth Division. When she's done with him, the corpse of Halibel's enemy is hardly even recognizable as having belonged to a human.
>1/2

>>677650
>When she's done with him, the corpse of Halibel's enemy is hardly even recognizable as having belonged to a human

Hardcore.

>>677657
That's actually a known side effect of fluvial transportation of a body. In addition to the crushing power of Cascada, a body that's run across the ground by a surge of water bounces off of obstructions hard enough to start tearing chunks off like sandpaper.

I've heard it described as having "had the corners sanded", because it usually starts on the nose, chin, and extremities.

>>677657
You can say that again

>>677666
Huh, thats pretty brutal

>>677666
Shit man that's even worse than I thought. I just figured being frozen and boiled and frozen all over again fucked his body up. Damn. I'm never going white water rafting now.

>>677666
that's water erosion to the extreme. Sharktits can literally grind her opponents down to the marrow with water.
>>677677
Metal as fuck man.

>>677666
>>677677
those trip 6s, it's a sign of satan's approval.

>>677694
>fluvial transportation
Damn I didn't even notice.

>>677650
on the downside, Aizen now has a better understanding of Starrk and Haribel's capabilities.

>>677677
>>677680
>>677688
It sounds horrible, but it's... actually yeah, it's not good. It's just not as bad as it sounds in most cases. Nanana was also boiled though, all his bones were broken, and THEN he had his "corners sanded". So he's super dead.

>back to writing

>>677699
>>677694

Oops I guess I should make sure to unhighlight stuff.

>>677705
And this was from Halibel, who's one of the most collected and calm of Riku's arrancar buddies, too.

I mean, she's not the most calm because I assume that Starrk is super zen while sleeping.

>>677700
Until they get their second releases

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>>677650
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoMrkPLBuCs
You take advantage of the moment where Mask is simply standing slack-jawed at the abrupt deaths of his two compatriots, backpedaling with hirenkyaku and taking aim. You hear a hasty chant in your mind before you unleash the spell.

“Sajō Sabaku!” you shout, a series of glowing chains erupting from your hands as you attempt to ensnare the distracted Sternritter. Unfortunately, 'James' as he's apparently called, alerts his master to the threat in time.

“You have to dodge it, Mask!” he shouts, pumping his fists in the air as Mask obliges him. “Dodge it! Dodge it!”

Your face splits in a wicked grin. “Hadō 63: Raikōhō!”

The blast of lightning strikes Mask dead on, as he has nowhere to run between the chains of your Sajō Sabaku, which then close in around him like so many coiling snakes. His arms are pinned at his side even as his abdominal wall regenerates from the force of the blast, and you begin chanting again. Tenkotsuki maintains your bakudō, and you can feel waves of powerful, dense reiatsu swelling all around you. The very earth beneath your feet seems to shudder at its release.

“Seeping crest of turbidity, arrogant vessel of lunacy! Seethe and deny, grow numb and flicker, disrupting sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness!”

The deep, nearly black violet pyre encloses Mask completely. Deeply engraved in its surface appear to be geometric patterns you've never seen before when using this spell, perhaps due to your wrath or the desparation of the situation but just as likely due to some unknown circumstance.

But those details hardly matter.

“HADŌ 90: KUROHITSUGI!”

Reality warps and screams under the force exerted by Kurohitsugi. Even your own spell is destroyed utterly within it, but as James continues to cheer you have no doubt that Mask survived. Even this was no more than a setback. A painful, likely infuriating setback.

>Follow up, continue to test the limits of Mask's regeneration until he starts to run low on reiatsu.
>Attack James during this moment of weakness, you may never have a better chance to strike him down.
>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.
>Other?

>>677781
>>Attack James during this moment of weakness, you may never have a better chance to strike him down.

>>677781
>>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.

>>677781
>>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all
Queen already said we'd get best of 4, so this must be good.

>>677781
>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.

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>>677781
>>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.

>>677781
>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.

>>677781
>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.
End it you say? I'm intrigued.

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>>677809
>her sword is actually a "flowing water type with the ability to create illusions"
>kicks Aizen's ass with it
OH GOD THE IRONY

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>>677819
I know =)

>>677781
>Attack James during this moment of weakness, you may never have a better chance to strike him down.

If we blow it, I don't think we'll get another attempt at our plan.

>>677781
>>Complete the long game with Tenkotsuki. It may be a bit harder to pull off, but it'll end this once and for all.

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>>677825

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>>677825
Jesus

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>>677846
A helpful reminder as well, for those who may have forgotten, Halibel's stronger than canon because more of her mask was sealed.

>writing

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>>677853
>>677846
>>677858

>>677858
>come for the PLOT

>stay for the cheesecake

>>677858
Please Queen. My blood pressure can't take this.

>>677869
I think I'm going to die.

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>>677858
Sorry, almost forgot I needed a dice roll. 3d10, best of FOUR, DC 7.

Posting new Yoruichi from pixiv as an apology.

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>>677858
>>677874
You asked for it

Rolled 6, 6, 5 = 17 (3d10)

>>677888
CAT TATS GUIDE ME!

Rolled 9, 6, 6 = 21 (3d10)

>>677888
Queen pls.

Rolled 3, 6, 5 = 14 (3d10)

>>677888

Rolled 10, 3, 10 = 23 (3d10)

>>677888
Maybe I can redeem myself for the shameful display last roll!

Rolled 1, 10, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>677888

Rolled 3, 2, 1 = 6 (3d10)

>>677888

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>>677895
Why

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>>677897
REDEMPTION IS AT HAND ANON.

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>>677897
Clutch.
>writing

>>677897
It's always the last roll. Always.

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>>677897
Thanks! Have a shark.

Looks like Aizen's down seven sternritter (four of which could actually fight against him). And that's assuming that he got all twenty-six to join his side, instead of having to destroy some of them for not obeying (also assuming that he didn't absorb Crazy Hand and Gerald for more power)

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>>677888
With a wild charge you rush James, beheading him with a single stroke of Tenkotsuki's blade that causes the two ends of his severed neck to literally explode as his blood ignites.

“JAMES! KEEP IT UP YOU BASTARD!”

“You can do it, Mask!” the severed head cheers, seemingly unfazed as James's body attempts to re-mount it. “Go, Superstar!”

You were counting on this reaction, and he's played straight into your hand.

“Tenkotsuki,” you tell your sword. “Get ready to do it on my mark, you may have less than a second to work with. That okay?”

“Who do you believe you are working with, my dear Riku?”

“That's good,” you nod, speaking aloud as Mask rushes you... and you raise your energy in your special form of shunkō. The collision sends you flying through the air uncontrollably, but the transfer of your ability is near instantaneous. Your own body regains its sensation and you correct your course, aiming straight for James while the Superstar is still trying to figure out how you robbed him of all his physical sensation. Pain floods your body as you begin to feel the damage that blow did to you, muscles strain and tear, but you keep going.

“NOW!” you roar to Tenkotsuki, just before your foot makes contact with James's newly reattached head. It nearly rips right off, and several vertebrae do shatter from the force, but most of it transfers the way you intended. James is lifted from the ground and sent sprawling, right past where you embedded your two sheaths in the walls.

There's a short incantation in your head.

“My right hand is the stone that bridges worlds, my left hand is the blade binding reality. The black-haired shepherd is hung from a chair. Stratus clouds gather, and I strike down the Ibis.”

“Keikaigi!” you shout, and with almost impossible speed Tenkotsuki connects the two sheaths and draws open a void between dimensions running between them large enough for James to pass through.

“Thank God!” he shouts, to your puzzlement, before the garganta snaps shut.

Mask stops dead in his tracks.

“James?” he asks, his voice momentarily faltering. “WHAT DID YOU DO!?”

“I knocked him through into the dangai,” you smirk. “Who knows when or where he'll reemerge, but regardless of that you can't hear him now, can you? You're all by yourself, after all that setup. And now I'm going to kill you.”
>1/2

>>677979
where's dat cheeky Riku grin? that was so clever of you.

>>677979
>“Thank God!” he shouts, to your puzzlement, before the garganta snaps shut.
Huh.

>>677979
im confus

>>677991
>>677993

I guess he didn't like Mask as much as he let on.

>>677991
my guess is that James got sick and tired of the Mask's bullshit after one millenia of being the luchador's bitchboy one-man-fanclub.

>>677993
We don't have time to figure out how to kill James, so the only solution is to send him somewhere else.

>>677991
He really, REALLY hated Mark. He doesn't have to cheer anymore. He's free.

>>677979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2aM5btBLVU
“MEN!” he tries and fails to command his fallen quincy footsoldiers. “MEN! GET UP AND CHEER! I COMMAND YOU! I AM A STERNRITTER, AND I COMMAND YOU TO CHEER FOR ME!”

“It's no use,” you hiss. “You sacrificed them, remember? They can't help you now, because you chose to send them needlessly to their deaths. You, the commander responsible for ensuring they either lived or at very least died for good reason. You have only yourself to blame for your fate.”

He searches around frantically. His fellow Sternritter are dead. Their soldiers have mostly died with them. His fat little cheerleader is lost in the dangai, far beyond being able to help him now. For once it's a fair fight between him and you, no bullshit regeneration, no invincibility, no powers bequeathed upon him by sycophants or subordinates. He's thrown away every advantage he had, betrayed the sacred bonds of trust... and he's terrified.

“I don't care if you're a quincy. I don't care if you've hurt me. But for that sin alone you've earned a villan's death.”

His eyes widen in horror. The self-proclaimed masked hero takes an instinctive step back as you loom above him, the majesty of your reishi tails and overpowering reiatsu cowing him despite his advantage in size. For all his muscles, for all his delusions of righteousness, he has fallen to this point.

“... spare me...”

>Run away. Run away and never return.
>I'll spare your life, but I'm also stripping you of your powers. You don't deserve them.
>No.

>>677997
Oh, when you find out the truth...

>>678007
>>No
It's only fair he dies with his friends.

>>678007
>>No. I'll stripping you of your powers, and then you can die a dog's death.

>>677997
I don't know, I'm pretty sure James is the REAL Sternritter with "S", considering that's the name Yhwach used when he acknwoledged his death.

>>678007
>No

>>678007
>*whisper in his ear*
>It's time to reap what seeds you've sown.
>No.

>>678007
>>I'll spare your life, but I'm also stripping you of your powers. You don't deserve them.
We're not doing it for him. Bambietta deserves at least one survivor from this mess

>>678007
>No.

>>678007
>No.

>>678007
>I'll spare your life, but I'm also stripping you of your powers. You don't deserve them.
I don''t know, he's garbage but he might also have additional info on Aizen since the other Quincy are dead.

>>678007
>>No.
>no mercy for the Merciless, no respite for the traitor, face you death with the dignity of a Sternritter, or die like a dog.

>>678007
>I'll spare your life, but I'm also stripping you of your powers. You don't deserve them.

>>678007
>>No.

>>678022
I don't think Bambietta wants him. Besides, there's always James.

>>678007
>>>No.
Time to make the world a better place.

>>678007
>No.

>>678007
>pic related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYqCi6o5r5I

>>678007
>No.

>>678010
It's Weird Time Shit, isn't it.

>>678007
>No.

I think he's dead, Jim.

Man what's going on. The tread's updated on the main page but won't when I'm in thread.

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>>678055
>writing

>>678082
Now it is. What the hell was that?

>>678081
Blue board, anon

BLUE BOARD

>>678081
B&

>>678090
Weird shit happens on this board sometimes. Bugs and shit.

>>678115
Man this is annoying. Now I'm gonna have to go between the main page and the board just to make sure it's not fucking up.

Y'know, we do still have his mask. I'll bet Yoruichi can lay hands on it and tell us if we missed anything important about his powers, or at least if the mask was relevant.

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>>678115
You take a moment to ponder the question. Perhaps you should show mercy despite how vile and absolutely untrustworthy this man is. Maybe he's not worth killing. Maybe...

“No. You have made all of the decisions to get to this point, and now it is time for you to reap what you have sown..”

And with that pronouncement, you slice his head cleanly off his shoulders. You retrieve your sheaths and return your blades to them, and tuck them into your sash right where they should be.

You pull off your haori and let it hang about your waist, examining the state of your wounds and your clothing. There's quite a bit of blood caked to your sōshiraiken uniform, but there's not much you can do about that short of taking it off. It feels so uncomfortable that you actually take that measure, like peeling off a giant scab, leaving the black garment on the ground. Or at least what's left of it.

“How are you holding up, Kuchiki?” you ask, kneeling over your Commando.

She blinks a few times, struggling to hold herself up to speak to you. “I have been better, ma'am. How are Mirai and Nikko?”

“They're fine,” you assure her. “Halibel and Starrk backed them up. Losses were stiff, but nothing we haven't endured before. Let's just get you put back together.”

“You're wounded, Captain,” she observes, ignoring the fact that one of her lungs has collapsed.

“I'll be fine,” you continue, rather annoyed at her continually fussing over everything but her own wounds.

>dice+3d10, higher is better
>best of three

Rolled 4, 6, 8 = 18 (3d10)

>>678169

Rolled 3, 9, 5 = 17 (3d10)

>>678169

Rolled 8, 2, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>678169
SATAN

Rolled 6, 7, 3 = 16 (3d10)

>>678169
Tiem to sense the damage

Rolled 1, 10, 4 = 15 (3d10)

>>678169
Wait are we naked now?

Rolled 9, 4, 5 = 18 (3d10)

>>678169
Healslut is a go!

>>678181
we still have our haori, so we're wearing it like a trenchcoat flasher.

>>678181
No. Riku wears a rather plain bra under her uniform, as most female shinigami do. And only the rather skimpy top is gone, her hakama are still unstained by blood and her haori is wrapped around her waist.

>captcha is a gloriously restored P-51
Unf.

>>678178
At least we aren't going to critfail.

>>678194
do we still have Okita's sash or did we give it to Shimigami!Okita ?

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>>677731
get a load of this heresy. It's even canon.

>>678211
Tits are way too small. Must be someone else.

>>678200
We kept it

>>678177
DC6 huh? Mediocre!

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>>678194
From behind, you feel the horrible sensation of a hand being thrust through your open wound, with caramel-brown fingertips protruding from your stomach. You can hear Rukia gasp in shock, which becomes a coughing fit.

“Figured it'd be over quicker this way,” Yoruichi admits rather sheepishly as she withdraws her hand from your body. Relief washes through you as the wound and the surrounding tissue go blissfully numb. “I gave you a partial dose. You'd be pissed if you passed out now, am I wrong?”

“No, you're not wrong,” you admit, turning to face your wife with a peck on her cheek. “How'd it go?”

“Easy pickings,” she shrugs. “Three captives, the rest fought to the death. I felt your fight and figured you could use a hand.”

“Not one through my gut,” you chuckle. “We really need to work on your bedside manner.”

“I could have brought Unohana.”

You shudder involuntarily. “You were excellent, my lovely and charming wife,” you tell her in a mechanical tone. “Your gentle nursing would get me through any illness, or physical injury, with minimal mental and emotional strain.”

“Better!”

Yoruichi kneels by Rukia. “Can you swallow this?”

“Is it medicine?” your Commando asks. Yoruichi nods, and she takes the pill. Though she struggles, Rukia manages to swallow it. Her eyes immediately grow unfocused, and her body relaxes.

“She needs to be moved,” Yoruichi declares, looking you up and down, “and you're not in a condition to help her. I'll carry her.”

“Thanks,” you nod. “Really, you've made a huge difference even just doing this for me.”

“Sorry I couldn't get here sooner,” she replies somberly.

“I'm sure I can find a way for you to make it up to me.”

>>678244
And I need to take a short break. If I fall asleep before getting back to you, I'll run tomorrow evening for some amount of time. I can't do SoZ tomorrow night because i have no idea how much time I can afford to spend on it.

>>678244
>You shudder involuntarily. “You were excellent, my lovely and charming wife,” you tell her in a mechanical tone. “Your gentle nursing would get me through any illness, or physical injury, with minimal mental and emotional strain.”
Dohohohoho!

>>678262
See you later Queen. Thanks for running.

>>678244
Well Rukia knows what's up now. Unless that pill fucks up her memory. And she will blab. As if it wasn't obvious already. Everyone has to know by now, right?

>>678244
>Yoruichi kneels by Rukia. “Can you swallow this?”

Phrasing!

>>678276
I think I read that doujin.

>>678271
I'm pretty sure she already knew.

>>678271
Yoruichi has basically gotten to the point where she doesn't even care about it as a matter of "privacy" anymore. She just doesn't give a shit if anyone knows, because she's tired of pretending for the purpose of keeping up that appearance.

So she's never going to tell anyone, but she's largely stopped hiding it either.

Also I nearly dozed off just now brushing my teeth. I'll be back same time tomorrow night to continue, as this situation's not over yet.