well clearly i found a good time to check if this was on.

>>818836
You could just follow twitter. It makes it at lot easier.

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>>818826
Atop a high breezy walkway in the Seireitei a figure slinks through the shadows, hooded and cloaked in a dark fabric. He reaches the end of the path, which dumps him into a courtyard atop a wide stone foundation lifted well above the buildings spread across the surrounding plains. A viewpoint, from which an officer or group of shinigami could see the Seireitei from above,

With a warning scream, a red arc of energy slices through the stone floor of the platform and narrowly misses cleaving the cloaked man's arm off as he sidesteps.

“Missed me!” the man taunts his assailant as they cross blades. “I'd have thought my aim would've been better than that.”

“My bad,” his mirror image apologizes as their swords clash a second time, then push off one another to gain some distance in a clattering of wooden clogs. “I underestimated my own speed!”

“Bakudō 63: Sajō Sabaku!”
“Bakudō 63: Sajō Sabaku!”

Both Kisukes extend their left arms and send a trio of golden kidō chains surging forward to meet between them, shattering like glowing glass as they collide and negate one another. As the one in the coat shades his eyes against the falling shards of energy his attacker steps behind him, raising his straight sword and bringing it down across his opponent's back.

The cloaked Kisuke proceeds to pop like a balloon, and the one without the cloak becomes the victim of an immediate counterattack as the cloaked Kisuke places his left hand against the spine of Benihime's blade.

“Ōkasen!”

The uncloaked Kisuke takes the arc of energy in the neck, and he too pops like a balloon.

“As expected, I'm brilliant!” the Kisuke in the cloak commends his counterpart as he reappears with his left arm outstretched.

“Hadō 88: Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō!”

The cloaked Kisuke doesn't move out of the way. “Bakudō 81: Dankū!”

In the resulting explosion the cloaked man makes his move, attacking from directly behind with a powerful straight thrust of his zanpakuto. But the man simply raises his hand and takes the point straight in his palm, where it embeds itself before coming to a stop.

The Kisuke in the cloak's eyes widen as his own zanpakuto is illuminated with reiatsu that is undeniably his own... but at the same time isn't his, and won't respond to his will.

“Ōkasen!”
>2/3

>>818848
i find it easier just to check every saturday. it's worked for me so far.

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>>818857
You are Kusajishi Riku, Captain of the Seireitei Court Guard's Ninth Division, and you've just killed two reigai who were sent to assassinate you. The reigai of Lieutenant Abarai didn't stand much of a chance, but Kuchiki Byakuya's copy gave you a much harder time. In his self-destructive drive to complete his mission of killing you he ended up sacrificing his own arm and eventually his life, leaving you with a savagely lacerated left shoulder despite the fact that you escaped more serious harm.

That arm isn't especially useful when it's been that badly wounded, so you set about the task of healing it.

“That Senbonzakura's a nasty piece of work,” Rosa comments as you feel her reiatsu flowing through the same blood that oozes from the wounds. “There's so many individual cuts laid on top of each other it's more like he took a belt sander to you.”

“Can you heal it?”

There's a mental sigh. “Yeah, but it'll take time and energy and I'm sure there's a lotta shit you wanna do. So I'm gonna do a superficial fix for now... if you can find a medic to do the rest that'd be best.”

“Got it.”

You can feel two other fights as you sheath your blade for now: Yoruichi is fighting against Kenpachi, and they're both putting out a lot of reiatsu. But you can't help but frown as you realize she's failed to take him out stealthily, which means the dumb bastard's got much better senses than you anticipated. Then there's Kisuke, who seems to be fighting himself. You're not actually one hundred percent sure which one is which, or which one is even doing better at the moment... which is kind of terrifying.

Extending your arm, you contact Rangiku, Apacci, Tia, and Starrk with Tenteikura. “I've taken out Byakuya's reigai. Put the Division on full alert, and keep an eye on things here... these two were sent to kill me in particular, so I wouldn't put it past their companions to try some real underhanded shit.”

“Where do you plan to go from here?” Rangiku replies. “Help with one of the other fights or go on the offense?”

>I'm going underground, press whatever advantage we still have.
>I'm helping Yoruichi, then we'll see from there.
>Kisuke could probably use my help, and I could use his.
>Other?

>>818896
>>Kisuke could probably use my help, and I could use his.

>>818896
>I'm going underground, press whatever advantage we still have.

>>818896
>I'm going underground, press whatever advantage we still have.

>>818896
>KIsuke could probably use my help, and I could use his.
Can't wait for the "He's the fake, kill him, no, HE'S the fake, kill him" gag.

>>818896
>>I'm helping Yoruichi, then we'll see from there.

i feel like we would be a liability in kisuke's fight

>>818896
>I'm going underground, press whatever advantage we still have.

>>818943
Alright, give me a 3d10 roll for this.
Best of 3, DC is 20. No bonus for a critical.

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

>>818950

Rolled 7, 8, 5 = 20 (3d10)

>>818896
>I'm going underground, press whatever advantage we still have.
Cut off any possible reinforcements on the way, since it would be iffy to distinguish which Hats is which.

Maybe our Kisuke should have his decapitated head buddy with him at all times now?

>>818950
Alright, rolling I guess.

>>818950
No reason to link there, just forgot to clear the quick reply field.

Rolled 10, 1, 6 = 17 (3d10)

>>818950
Well we got it already but rolling anyway.

Rolled 7, 3, 10 = 20 (3d10)

>>818950

>>818954
once again, by the skin of our teeth. Dammit the dice have made things difficult.

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>>818962
>>818959
Double trouble.

>>818962
Well a DC 20 is not that easy to beat. That was a well above average roll after all.

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“I'm going underground,” you declare, checking your sash and pockets to make sure that some very important items are with you: your waterproof map, the suppressed carbine Kisuke made for you and its ammunition, and a compass. That's about all you figure you need. “I'm gonna press any advantage we've got left.”

“And what do we do about Captain Urahara and Yoruichi?” Rangiku asks.

You shrug, despite knowing nobody can see you do it. “They can handle themselves, they're grown-ass adults.”

Looking at the map you spot the closest entrance to the underground and determine to go down through there, and given Kisuke and Hanatarō's warnings of fragile passages you shoulder your carbine. It's not totally clear how well this will work, but you'll give it a shot.

“Tenkotsuki? Shed some light on this,” you request as you gaze into the mouth of the tunnel, which slants downward into the earth at a fairly shallow angle. The ceiling isn't high enough to stand, but you can move along at a fair pace hunched over.

Tenkotsuki's reply is immediate as she manifests a small, warm light behind your head. “Easily, my dear. I will adjust its intensity and warmth to provide you the best clarity.”

As you progress down the slope the passage eventually reaches a larger channel, with a cold, slow-flowing watercourse in the center and a narrow walkway on either side. Looking down you can't tell how deep the water actually is as Tenkotsuki's light glitters off the surface. Thankfully, based on the smell, this seems to be a channel for fresh water rather than sewage... small blessing there.

Looking at the map confirms your initial suspicion that this passage leads back to the surface upstream, while downstream leads further under the Seireitei. So you set off with your carbine low but at the ready, glancing about yourself every so often just to make sure nothing has managed to sneak up on you as you jog. After a few minutes you begin to sense two things: what feels like a hollow's reiatsu in the distance, down a passage that slopes downward and to your left. It's a little hard to assess accurately, as if something is dampening your sixth sense. Ahead of you on the other hand is a sound of some sort: it could either be falling water, or a slow-moving piece of machinery.

The map isn't particularly helpful in this regard, as it's not totally clear what the left passage might connect to and no machinery or topography is listed on the passage ahead of you.

>Head for the machinery. Or waterfall. Or whatever it is.
>Head towards the hollows and the dampened reiatsu.
>Other?

>>819018
>Head for the machinery. Or waterfall. Or whatever it is

>>819018
>Head for the machinery. Or waterfall. Or whatever it is.

>>819018
>Head towards the hollows and the dampened reiatsu.
Yin and Yang?

>>819018
>Head for the machinery. Or waterfall. Or whatever it is.

>>819018
>Head towards the hollows and the dampened reiatsu.
I wanna see some /k/ommando hollows

>>819018
>Head for the machinery. Or waterfall. Or whatever it is.
Don't really have anything to say here. Be extra careful to make sure none of the hollows sneak up on Riku?

>>819018
>>Head towards the hollows and the dampened reiatsu.

>dice+3d10, DC 14, Crit 20

Rolled 4, 2, 5 = 11 (3d10)

>>819063
inb4 20 exactly

Rolled 9, 10, 1 = 20 (3d10)

>>819063

Rolled 2, 10, 7 = 19 (3d10)

>>819063

Rolled 5, 3, 10 = 18 (3d10)

>>819063
Suppose it is a waterfall or a mechanism for the water, can we just flood the area and have Tia freeze it all, no fuss?

>>819067
You called it m8.
>>819070

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>>819070
>in after 20 exactly

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>>819070
Called it. I'm a wizard.

>>819076
The fuck is that menos in the back looking up at?

I mean, the two in front are looking at each other like "This nigga dumb as hell man, blind and using binoculars." but what is the one in the back doing? Even the other one in the back is looking at it all confused and shit.

>>819076
>>819078
I completely forgot, 2 is Riku's lucky number. All these 20's are a sign.

>>819076
>tozen is blind
>still uses binoculars.
wat.

>>819070
Agh that fucking 1! AGAIN!

>>819089
At least the new rules are working in our favor.

>>819076
Two 20 on two rolls, most be my lucky day

>>819087
It was from a gag segment. That's literally the joke, he supposedly observed the health of the gillians down in the Forest of Menos under Aizen's reign.
>still writing

>>819121
Taking a sharp left you run down the hallway, which slopes gently away from the main passage. Your senses feel even more dampened by whatever is causing this problem, and you still have a tough time figuring out how many hollows there are this way or how strong they might be. In fact you're so absorbed in trying to solve this question that you don't notice the floor opening up in front of you until you're mid stride.

“Riku!” Tenkotsuki barks. “Look...”

Instead of slowing down you kick off your back foot as hard as you can, propelling yourself across the darkened chasm and into the mouth of a tunnel on the far side. Your shoes slide across the smooth stone as you come to a stop, then edge carefully back towards the darkness you've vaulted through.

“... that went much better than expected.”

“The hell is this?” you ask aloud, shining a light down into the hole. You can see the bottom, some thirty meters below, where there's a thin layer of rubble and dust. Looking back up the hole extends much further into the darkness.

“It reeks of death down there,” Rosa observes, her tone one of pure disgust. “Dead hollows, fear, suffering... and no small amount of it.”

You've heard rumors of this from Yoruichi, about how the shinigami and nobles of the Seireitei used to throw condemned criminals into holes lined with seki stone and make them fight hollows to the death. This must've been one of those places, a long time ago, before it was paved over when that sort of cruelty fell out of vogue.

“This wasn't listed on the map,” you muse, glancing down at a segment of your map that must've been updated incorrectly after the hole was covered up. Someone must've just forgotten to update the old charts centuries ago, and nobody's been down here to check it since then. “If I'd tripped that might've been bad.”

“According to the map this passage leads to a cistern,” Tenkotsuki muses. “Who can say what else we may encounter?”

>Head back to the main passageway, investigate the machinery and/or waterfall?
>Head further this way to the cistern?
>Return to the surface, verify where precisely you are.
>Other?

>>819142
>Other

Could we kido blast the hole to kill the hollows down there?

>>819142
>>Head back to the main passageway, investigate the machinery and/or waterfall?

>>819142
Other:
>update that map
>start posting sticky notes along the walls/floor/ceilings indicating any potential hazards

>>819152
There are no hollows down there. It just "reeks of hollows and death", in the same sense that if a cat pees on your furniture it'll ALWAYS smell like cat piss.

>>819142
>Head further this way to the cistern?

>>819142
>Head back to the main passageway, investigate the machinery and/or waterfall?
>Other?
Mark it down for later to see if there are still any active seki stones around here. Never know when we might need one.

>>819142
>Head back to the main passageway, investigate the machinery and/or waterfall?

>>819157
Are we turning the sewers into the Occurrence Border?

>>819142
>>Head back to the main passageway, investigate the machinery and/or waterfall?

>>819142
>>Head further this way to the cistern?

>>819167
yes. Gotta keep the current folks who live above the sewer alive whenever they try and explore what's below.

>>819166
I'll vote for marking it on the map.

>>819166
Seki stones have an intrinsic property of saying fuck you to reiatsu, they don't ever lose potency. And it'd be damn near impossible to collect a sample after it's been worked: most shinigami have no idea how seki stone structures were even constructed to begin with.

>>819186

So Tatsuki and Orihime probably have the best chance of extracting something valuable, via conceptual bullshit. I mean they KINDA use reiatsu for their abilities, but if anything could avoid the fuck-you reiatsu effects, they could.

>3d10, Modest DC of 14
>critical of 21

Rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16 (3d10)

>>819210

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

>>819210

Rolled 10, 10, 4 = 24 (3d10)

>>819210
I'm pushing my luck, but I'm calling an exact 20 again.

>>819218
well, I'm glad you were wrong

>>819218
CRIT! We rollin now

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>>819218
Well, everything went better than expected.

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>>819237
i like this new rolling system.

>>819237
Prepare for critville

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>>819218
May sharktits bless your future rolls!

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>>819237
You glance down at the map, and the fact that the document you were really counting on to guide you was so glaringly outdated pisses you off to no end. You resolve to fix it.

“You do not have a pen, dear,” Tenkotsuki observes.

Instead of losing hope you charge a cero and blast a hole in the ground high above , letting in a little extra light. “There, I can go back later and mark this down.”

“Quite extreme, but effective.”

Using Hainawa as insurance, you launch yourself back across the gap and head back up the passageway the way you came. It doesn't take all that long to rejoin the main waterway you left previously, and you continue towards the source of the noise. It takes a while, and the noise grows increasingly intense as you go. Louder and louder, until you're almost going insane from the monotony of it all... and then you stop.

There's a large chamber ahead of you that the water is flowing into, at least by the sound of it and the way the water is moving, and you have Tenkotsuki lower the light to where it's barely outlining the surrounding pathway.

“There's something up ahead,” you tell Tenkotsuki silently. “I don't know what it is, but I doubt it's friendly.”

When you approach the corner you sink into a low crouch, readying your carbine, and dart around the corner to draw a bead on...

“Yoruichi?” you ask as a blade is pressed suddenly against your neck.

“Riku?” your wife's voice answers as Tenkotsuki raises the light. It certainly seems to be her alright, and her reiatsu feels familiar despite being suppressed. She quickly sheaths her sword “Shit, it really was you. How long was that passage?”

“I take it you beat Kenpachi?” you ask. “What's got you so spooked? You must've known it was me.”

“You'd think that,” she replies. “But this place is fucking with my senses. I think it's this chamber, take a look.”

Glancing down you can see that both your theories were right: the water empties into a spinning blade, like that of a turbine. It moves kind of slowly, but it looks like it's probably a power generator of some sort. Beyond the blades are dim red lights, like emergency lights, that illuminate the chamber beneath the turbine.

“The electricity this thing generates may be throwing me off,” your wife guesses thoughtfully. “Not totally sure why, might have to do with Raijūsenkō... Kisuke's really the one who'd know for sure.”
>1/2

>>819339
“That makes some sense,” you frown. “Lots of animals are sensitive to electromagnetic fields, and your sword really does harness your own nerves for electricity... so I guess that's a real thing that could happen?”

Yoruichi looks down with you, watching the blade slowly spin. “So, you wanna go down there?”

“Well, if you came from that direction,” you muse, glancing over her shoulder at the passageway she took to get here and wondering yourself how far you've come yourself. “Only way forward is down, I guess?”

>Destroy the turbine, then jump through?
>Time your jump to pass between the blades?
>Search for an alternative path?
>Other?

If this feels slow at times I'm randomly generating the passageways as we go from a list of possibilities I've pre-made.

>>819400
>Other: Look for a control room panel of sorts.

>>819400
>Search for an alternative path?
Don't worry Queen, speed is fine!

>>819400
>>Time your jump to pass between the blades?

>>819400
>Other?
>If the reigai actually come down around here, they've probably got some way of turning the turbine off or a way to circumvent it. Take a quick look and see if you spot anything.

Unless the reigai don't pass through here at all, there's gotta be an easy way SOMEWHERE. Granted, it may be on the other side, but maybe not.

>>819400
>Destroy the turbine, then jump through?
If the electricity is distracting Yoru's senses, shutting it down at least knocks one annoyance outta the way.

>>819400
i forget, did we kill our clones?

>>819466
They dead, though it's an open question whether another could have been made of either one.

>>819400
>Search for an alternative path?

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>3d10, DC 18. No Crit.

>>819494

Rolled 9, 5, 2 = 16 (3d10)

>>819494

Why wouldn't the reigai just have a bunch of the captains that aren't total shit running around. Like three Rikus? Why even bother with the jobbers? Let the clones fight to the death to see which the true one is after all this shit is over. Then make the jobbers if you want to.

Rolled 3, 2, 10 = 15 (3d10)

>>819494

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

>>819494

>>819506
Thank god

>>819506
Juuuuuuust made it!

>>819494
>Cute Yoruichi
You gotta stop doing this to me, man.

>>819506
Skin of our teeth.

Rolled 2, 4, 8 = 14 (3d10)

>>819494

>>819506
god dam again by our teeth!

>>819513
>You gotta stop doing this to me, man.
No.
>writing

>>819494
The success was clearly reliant on her cute tail.

>>819494
Wow, I haven't caught a thread love in nearly twenty of them!

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>>819513
>You gotta stop doing this to me, man.
Mmm, No.

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Best Cat is Best after all.

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>>819541
Looking around the room you try your hardest to find a way to shut the turbine off: it'd piss Kisuke off to no end if you just destroyed it, and it may actually be powering something important up in the Seireitei. Finally you look up and spot what seems to be a circuit breaker not within the duct of the turbine but high above it, set within a recessed well in the chamber's ceiling.

“I've got a solution to your little problem,” you tell her, aiming down the short sight base at the metal box. “Let's see how this works.”

A single cough greets your ears, and there's a gentle kick as the trigger breaks. The shot easily penetrates the protective metal casing of the circuit breaker and incinerates much of the wiring inside it, causing something to go catastrophically wrong in the whole system. A hum in the background you'd hardly realized was there immediately ceases, leaving the room quieter as the turbine blade slowly spins down to a stop. The water still splashes loudly against the metal, though the whole thing seems to be locked down.

Yoruichi raises her eyebrows, sniffs at the air, then smiles. “Much better, thanks. Shall we?”

Dropping down onto the blade and glancing over the edge reveals a long but not troublesome drop, and so the two of you simply fall through the air and land in a crouch on hard stone. The water here spreads out across a much wider chamber in a shallow pool that splashes as it's disturbed.

“No reiatsu down here,” Yoruichi observes, glancing down another long passageway that heads down a gentle slope for as long as you can see. And she's right, you can't feel anything that way.

“It could just be that they're hidden behind a barrier, or in a seki stone chamber,” you observe.

“Or we're down here chasing the same wild goose,” Yoruichi sighs. “They may have used the same passages above to canvass the whole area, and we may be going further and further in the wrong direction.”

>You're right, luring them out worked well. We can repeat the process.
>I think we can regroup, see what Kisuke's found, and try again.
>I'm going to keep going this way. They're down here someplace.
>Other?

>>819605
Also, heading out for a quick bite to eat. Feel free to use the extra time to deliberate: and remember, coming down here there was ALWAYS the possibility that you'd take a wrong turn and find nothing.

>>819605
>>I think we can regroup, see what Kisuke's found, and try again.

>>819605
>I think we can regroup, see what Kisuke's found, and try again.
Guess we're done going through Yoru's damp cave.

>>819605
>>I think we can regroup, see what Kisuke's found, and try again.

>>819605
>I'm going to keep going this way. They're down here someplace.

>>819605
>You're right, luring them out worked well. We can repeat the process.
Then shoot the fake in the back

>>819642
Well, testing to see if she is fake is an idea. It was weird to me that she just wants to lure them out, Yoru would know that wouldn't work. I don't know if she is though, she stopped when she could have killed Riku. It goes against the no hesitation thing. I suppose that could've been fixed, but then there would be no way to tell the fake from the real thing.

>>819605
>>Other: Check Yoruichi to see if she's a clone.

>>819605
>>819663
Yeah, I'll change my vote for checking. Anybody have an idea what the best way to do it would be?

>>819684
I doubt they can copy the divine essence

>>819684
weren't they something something impulse control?

>>819704
clones can't hold back. But that's the first generation of clones. second generation of clones seem to act more arrogant than usual if clone Renji and Clone Byakuya are to go by...

>>819704
It was always simplified to being unable to hesitate. It's why fake Riku and Yoruichi argued so much when real Riku and Yoruichi fought them.

>>819713
Are they second gen? I don't remember fake Byakuya or Renji getting killed.

>finally back, writing

>I think we can regroup, see what Kisuke's found, and try again.

>>819752
Give me a 1d4 roll, taking the second one.

Rolled 3 (1d4)

>>819759

Rolled 4 (1d4)

>>819759
2?

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>>819763
That's not good. That's not good at all.

>>819763
Well it's a number.

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>>819763
>not our magic number
>number of death

Rolled 4, 3, 9, 2 = 18 (4d10)

>>819763
That's... not great for you. Like at all.

Don't mind my roll, but give me a 3d10. Best of four, DC is 16 and a crit is 20.

Rolled 5, 6, 10 = 21 (3d10)

>>819777
Gee, thanks.

Rolled 5, 1, 5 = 11 (3d10)

>>819777

Rolled 1, 9, 8 = 18 (3d10)

>>819777

Rolled 1, 4, 5 = 10 (3d10)

>>819777
The dice are trying, you have to give them that.

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

>>819777

>>819784
Easy life

>>819792
Other for getting the worst roll possible just before that, yeah I suppose.

Okay. So this is a thing.

Give me a final round of 3d10. Best of three, no crit, but a DC of 24. Failure here isn't the end of the world, it's more to determine the pace and tone of an upcoming event.

>inb4 they made another Retsu

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

>>819827
Shit is happening and it worries me.

Rolled 7, 6, 6 = 19 (3d10)

>>819827

Rolled 8, 6, 5 = 19 (3d10)

>>819827

Rolled 6, 1, 3 = 10 (3d10)

>>819827

Rolled 3, 2, 2 = 7 (3d10)

>>819827

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>>819836

>>819837
>>819841

Hey...hey we got doubles...that's good....right?

Right?

>>819848
you cursed us with a slugfest in the trench tunnels with that abomination of a d4!

>>819856
Oh shit.
>>819763
>>819836
It's in order. 4, 3, 2, 1

>>819836

Okay, three, two, one let's jam.

I go afk for a few minutes and this is what happens. Goddamit annons!

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>>819886
Blame the dice gods. At least it's not 100% bad.

>>819886
at least we critted the first set of rolls, so we aren't completely boned. just mostly

>>819893
>>819894
I know, I know. I'm just joking with you guys, relax, have a beer and buckle down. Its gonna be a wild ride.

>>819925
But I don't like rides where I'm not in control!

>>819937
You just gotta let it go

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>>819937
But you're never in control anon. It's just a illusion you convince yourself of in the face of the vastness and unknowability of the universe. A meteor could hit the planet tomorrow. Yellowstone could go off. Some random gangster could murder you to get initiated into a gang of ghetto rats. Just let it all go.

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>>819862
“You're right,” you sigh, and Yoruichi visibly relaxes when she hears you say those two words. “We're just fumbling around down here. Let's go back.

You form a platform of reishi beneath your feet and carry yourself and your wife upwards and back through the turbine duct, before taking off running back along the corridor. About halfway back, taking a conservative pace, you feel something that horrifies you: bursts of familiar reiatsu, intensely powerful, seeping through the rocks. It's hard to even figure out what's going on, but there's a massive battle under way back on your own Division's grounds.

Your heart skips a beat as you recognize one of the presences.

“Riku!” Yoruichi shouts after you as you do what you've only ever done once before, and use shunpō in conjunction with hirenkyaku. The strain on your body is obscene, but you don't give a damn about yourself right now.

It's when you reemerge and crash headlong through several walls to reach the barracks that your worst fears are realized.

Starrk, Tia, Bambietta... all of the strongest fighters among your list of close friends and allies are badly battered. Starrk's arm is horrifically burned, Halibel seems like she's taken an explosion or two to her face that have left cracks in her bony armor, and Bambi looks like a drowned rat that's only just managed to stand up. You can tell there are broken bones all throughout her body, even from here. Across from them stand copies of Gin, Suì Fēng, Mayuri, and Rangiku... though they're all in rough shape as well from the looks of it, they seem to have given better than they've gotten.

Then you see it: a green-haired man in a ridiculous robe, like that of a Heian courtesan, wielding a ridiculous two-headed halberd.

And his foot is on your daughter's neck.

“Ah, how lovely of you to join us, Captain!” the man greets you in a disgustingly professional tone. “I was just asking your daughter here what she did with an associate of mine, whom you've met. She refused to tell me of course, but given the situation...”

He gives his foot a small turn, adding pressure on his already wounded victim.

Your anger... you never stood a chance of holding it back. It practically burns your skin, pouring out of you from every pore as your entire body shakes.

“So tell me,” the dead man drones on, oblivious to the moment when your rage finally shattered any control over your body. Tenkotsuki and Rosa as well, their outrage resonating with your own and going totally out of control.

“Bankai!” you roar. “Higeki no Ōjo!”
>1/?

>>819862
You asked for another after we crit, you are evil and you know it.

>>819971
>“Bankai!” you roar. “Higeki no Ōjo!”
Oh dear

>>819973
They were all for totally different things, which should be fairly obvious as they come up during the update. The last one was for Riku maintaining any semblance of control.

>>819971
Shit, even Harribel and Stark is battered? jesus wtf

This is a whole load of bullshit.

>>819984
Thankfully our Bankai supresses external skills and attacks instead of being like the old man, or we would have killed even our allies.

>>819986
i'm gonna go with this either being an illusion or them all being regai, because the group here could give Aizen a run for his money

>>820012
silly anon, RIku's bankai negates all illusion bullshit.

>>820012
The big thing that pegs this as a trap isn't even power, it's abilities. The people they have 'captured' all hard-counter the 'victors' abilities. The exceptions Starrk and Sui Feng, who are just bullshit and underwhelming in a real fight, respectively

>>820048
I'd argue that regai-Rangiku doesn't really have a counter, but she doesn't need one. Her abilities are used best when she personally holds back, which regai specifically cannot do

>>820067
which it becomes Byakuya's zenbonsakura.

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>>819971
And before anyone else present can react, Rangiku is out from under the man's foot. You set her down gently several hundred meters away, before slicing a deep gash into your palm and covering her wounds in your own blood.

“Thanks,” she mutters. “I got careless when that copy of Gin showed up... I'm sorry.”

“I know you can't help it,” you reassure her quietly. “And there's nothing you can do about that now. So let me handle things from here.”

“Got it,” she coughs. “Not like I could do much to help right now anyway.”

“Shut up and rest.”

“Yes, ma'am.”

With a step just as quick, you return to the scene of the battle. The Captain reigai eye you warily as the stupid-looking man who was hurting your daughter chuckles to himself.

“Well, now that you're done being sentimental...”

“Shut your fucking mouth, dead man,” you growl, your voice echoing menacingly.

“Making threats just makes you sound weak,” the reigai of Little Bee observes, raising her shikai over her shoulder.

“This is bad,” reigai-Gin replies. “We should consider a full tactical withdrawal.”

“You mean retreat?” Mayuri's copy asks.

“Absolutely,” Rangiku's copy agrees with a terrified glance at the copy of your son. “I've been copied with enough memories to know that staying here is...”

“No,” the dead man replies sternly. “We will not retreat. I am tired of having to constantly tiptoe around this freak of nature, and now I have a chance to kill her. Today is a good day.”

It's only now that Yoruichi, who has only been using shunpō, catches up. Her eyes widen as she immediately understands the situation. Then her expression hardens.

“I want in,” she hisses. “We kill them together.”

>Absolutely.
>They're mine.
>*inarticulate screams of rage, attack*
>Other?

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>>820080
>*inarticulate screams of rage, attack*

>>820080
>Absolutely.
>Release Kobara no tachi

>>820080
>Absolutely.

>>820080
>>Absolutely.

>>820080
>>Absolutely.

>>820080
>>Absolutely.

>>820080
>Absolutely.
>"Raze: Kobara no Tachi

>>820092
>>820102
You're already in full release.

>>820109
Shhh, let them lack reading comprehension. It's okay. Accept it, King.

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>>820080
>Absolutely.

>>820109
Full power then.

>>820109
how many tails do we have now? 9?

>>820140
Probably 8?

>>820140
Still seven. When you hit nine, trust me: you'll absolutely know it.

>>820080
>>*inarticulate screams of rage, attack*

Rolled 9, 2, 8, 4 = 23 (4d10)

>>820150
>3d10, DC 16, Crit 22
Crits will be a bit harder through this fight because of the inarticulate rage.

Rolled 2, 7, 8 = 17 (3d10)

>>820150
In a "we can actually survive fighting Yamamoto without Yhwatch bulllshit now" way or "we're literally god now" way?

>>820163
Dead guy should've listened to Riku's kids.

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

>>820163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0mNgk9tLcs

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>>820163
And Yoruichi just critted.

>>819971
>Riku when she finds out what's happening
https://youtu.be/nCOxVaQQrbk?t=39s

Rolled 8, 3, 1 = 12 (3d10)

>>820163

Rolled 6, 8, 8 = 22 (3d10)

>>820163

Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d10)

>>820163

>>820169
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Czc_XZ90zc

>>820170
you just cockblocked me out of giving Riku a Crit anon.

>>820172
Aww, c'mon. The dice still want to fuck us.

All 3 of us did. He's not the only one that pushed you out.

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>>820168
Best. Cat

>>820187
>>820194
Oops, forgot to link your post. It's the second part of mine.

So co-op battles aren't Bo4? Shit, I always thought they were.

>>820202
It might? I just assume that if Queen doesn't specify, it's best of 3.

I'm feeling kind of insane. RTExtra Life is running a 24 hour charity stream for a children's hospital, and I'm almost contemplating running until they're done.

>>820273
yesssss

>>820273
How long until they are? If it's for more than 10 or 12 more hours I'll have some serious trouble getting to the end. It's nearly 7pm here.

I'd totally be up for it though. Do you have enough material written?

>>820291
I'm largely improvising is one problem. The other is that they're going for another fourteen hours or something.

The other other problem is I'm not comfortable hyping up a donation drive I'm not a part of, even if it IS for a good cause. It just feels cheap, which is why I'm just considering it.

>>820310
pls queen, no. I want more sane QMing.

>>820310
Crazed QMing is welcomed here.

>>820317
Fair play.

But still, sentiment still stands. Go out there, do something nice for someone even if it's not personal. The world needs more of that.
>back to writing

>>820310
If you really want to you can just write a bunch of omakes with ideas we think up. I can't imagine you'd keep your typical writing quality after 14 more hours of QMing. It could be fun.

>>820310
“Of course,” you reply in a deceptively calm tone. “I wouldn't deny you this. Tia, Starrk?”

Halibel in particular seems a little surprised at your use of her first name in the middle of a fight, as if you were having a polite conversation over tea. “Yes?”

“If you see an opening exploit it. But please leave the heavy lifting to Yoruichi and me, our powers are well-suited to fighting in concert like this.”

You look to your wife as she twirls one of her swords. “Ready?”

She nods, sending the blade spinning high above her. “Purr, Raijūsenkō!”

The familiar static buzz washes over your skin as blinding light envelops Yoruichi's body, concentrating on her forearms and feet and giving her a slightly feline, feral appearance. It's begun.

Without speaking to one another you launch your attack, and you're shocked to find that the dead man can somehow keep up with you... but only just. It's more like Ichigo's speed, where he's able to keep himself from being killed outright, but it's his shikai that seems to make things worse. Each time he spins the halberd heads he opens a small portal through the dangai and reappears elsewhere. Stuff like this it seems are a weakness to your shinreiryoku's effect: he's manipulating space in the same way that garganta or Negacion would, which means his abilities rely on a different reality altogether.

But you've got him on the back foot, and the whole fight is occurring at a speed and in such close quarters that it's hard for them to engage. Suì Fēng actually earns Yoruichi's foot to her teeth for trying.

“You done fucked up!” Yoruichi shouts as her fist collides with the center of the spinning halberd, which abruptly reverses directions.

The dead man grins wickedly as the reversal of the situation completely reverses as the spin does. From a portal formed between the halberd heads comes a cluster of powerful ice spikes... Hyōrinmaru? The reiatsu seems to fit, and although Yoruichi manages to dodge or parry all of the spikes it's a worrying development. Because his shikai relies on dimensional shenanigans he can essentially avoid the most hindering side effect of your Bankai.

Though a pattern is emerging, and Yoruichi's quick to seize upon it.

“What!?” The dead man's eyes widen as chains of electricity bind his blades in place, and instead of trying to sneak a sword strike in there when he could turn his waist you opt for something different.

You punch him in the face.
>1/?

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>>820367
>You punch him in the face.

>>820367
>You punch him in the face.
I want more of this delicious no-holds-barred beatdown.

>>820367
The force of the blow damn near breaks his neck, though he only just manages to lean back and roll with the force a little. It sends him reeling and breaks him free from Raijūsenkō, and he crashes through a nearby wall.

Suì Fēng in the mean time has been busy preparing.

“Bankai: Jakuhō Raikōben!”

Even as the dust settles from the release a golden, shining missile lances towards you with simply insane speed... only to divert from its intended arc. It narrowly misses you as Yoruichi pulls it off course, having used Urahara's two teleportation gadgets to help her loop electric arcs around the missile and reposition herself. With a roar of exertion she swings the missile in a wide arc until it comes almost full circle, slamming right into Mayuri's gut. The reigai's eyes go wide as the missile pushes him skyward until it explodes against the protective dome high above the Seireitei.

“One down,” Yoruichi purrs happily, even as an explosion blows away an afterimage left by Suì Fēng's Utsusemi.

“Damn,” Bambi hisses angrily. “Bitch is stupid fast...”

>Clean up these “Captains” with Yoruichi.
>Clean up these “Captains” with everyone.
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.
>Other?

>>820411
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.
He's a tricky fucker.

>>820411
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

>>820411
>>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

>>820411
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

>>820411
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.
Get the captain cloner.

>>820411
>>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

>>820411
>>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

Why is it that every time someone says "Naw, we do this now, I ain't scared" they end up realizing they have made a grave mistake? Should have listened to your knockoffs.

I forget this guy's name, even, I just remember how stupid he looks.

>>820451
doesn't matter, he's going to be ded anyways.
But if I were to give a damn, it's because they forgot the reason why they were cautious in the first place.

>>820451
>I forget this guy's name
To give you an idea of the sheer rage at work, so has Riku.

>>820411
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

>>820411
Other: go into that super compressed form of shunko, beat the fucker (literally) senseless.

>>820476
Be Riku ineviably beats him to death, can we call him "that guy with stupid hair and clothes" at least once?

Just so he knows how little he actually matters.

>>820518
>Be
Before

>writing

>>820518
or simply beat him senseless, break his sword, and then drag his ass to the central 46/Royal Guard giving absolutely no fucks about protocol.

>>820411
>Focus on the dead man. He has to pay.

>>820542
I'm for just killing him. Knowing how the C46 operates, and what should have ended up happening with Aizen, it'll go wrong somehow.

Plus not caring about protocol at all would to be to just kill him.

So is anyone wondering when the dark ones are going to be showing up? We already know they were exiled due to the Central 46 omake, and the weird Sena seems to indicate that they are involved in this arc in some fashion.

>>820531
Sorry, got ahead of my self for a moment.
>3d10, DC 18, Crit 24
Best of four

Rolled 6, 1, 1 = 8 (3d10)

>>820579

Rolled 7, 5, 8 = 20 (3d10)

>>820579
Jobbering commence.

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

>>820579

Rolled 4, 10, 2 = 16 (3d10)

>>820579

>>820587
you were the only one that saved us from Jobbing so hard anon.

>>820583
>>820589

How...?

>>820587

Good thing this Anon was around.

>>820587
Well, another 20.

I still say they're a sign since it's so similar to Riku's lucky number.

>>820594
dice gods anon. they all want to fuck us in the ass.

>>820603
But Riku's ass is for cat only, don't they have any decency?

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>>820611
>And Yoruichi was the one who critted
Well would you look at that.

>>820624
Yoru asserts her claim over the upstart dice huh.

>>820624
>that picture

I've seen enough porn to know she has a dick just off screen.

>>820653
In fact she does not, but it is NSFW fanart of canon Yoruichi's reveal that she was a woman.

>>820661
Can I have sauce then?
No google this isn't a fucking cartoon.

>>820667
It's probably on one of the boorus, this isn't like a Pixiv image or anything.

>>820712
Oh alright. Easier to find than I expected.

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Thankfully your friends take the copies of your children off your hands, focusing on them so that you don't have to. This not only spares you the discomfort of having to kill two people who by some measures are Gin and Rangiku, but gives you an opening.

The dead man is just struggling to his feet when you and Yoruichi fall on him, forcing him to blink in and out of the Seireitei's spacetime frantically to avoid your furious assault. And unlike your usual approach, which would only serve to provide him with a chance to copy and presumably return your best attacks, you stick to physical attacks from unexpected angles. Swaying, almost drunken steps cause him to react to attacks that never come, your feet tracing subtle circles here and there across the open training ground of the Ninth Division. Yoruichi does the same, staggered against your own steps in an unpredictable and erratic dance.

“I tire of this!” the dead man shouts in anger, clearly upset that his stolen powers aren't enough to put you down. He rotates his weapon once more, forming a powerful Cascada within the circular garganta formed by his zanpakuto.

You shout to your wife as you each slam a palm into the ground. “Now! Renkan Seppa Sen!”

A massive expanse of Ninth Division's turf reduces itself to sand in an instant, geysers of earth shooting from the ground and throwing the dead man off balance. As powerful as the waters of Tiburon are the sheer amount of earth that's been sent into the air takes a lot of power out of the technique. But he rallies quickly, casting a bakudō that momentarily pins Yoruichi in place until you use a silent hirenkyaku and surprise him with a slash across the back. He staggers forward... until a second dead man takes the weapon out of his hands.

“A clone?” you growl, realizing that he used the sand as a distraction to substitute some sort of reiagai clone of himself. “That won't be enough to save you, dead man.”

To illustrate the point, he's forced to raise his zanpakuto to produce another copied attack to drive Yoruichi off: this time a cero copied from Starrk. Thankfully he didn't use Gran Rey Metralleta, or else Yoruichi might've been in trouble.

“Close, too close!” she grins, eyes practically shining with malice. “I'll have to step my game up!”

“Raioken!” she roars, throwing a series of completely unchained punches as the dead man spins his weapon in a desperate attempt to copy all of them. “Let's see what your limit is!”

Using the opportunity you nearly slice his head off, and he's forced to stop copying Yoruichi's attacks. He takes two or three rapid-fire punches before he can escape, and you can see blood drip from his mouth from the internal injuries. His breathing comes heavily as he glares at you.

>Create an opportunity for Yoruichi to show what a real “copycat” can do.
>Continue beating him to death, this is strangely satisfying.
>Try to get Yoruichi to set you up for a kill.
>Other?

>>820758
>Continue beating him to death, this is strangely satisfying.

>>820758
>Create an opportunity for Yoruichi to show what a real “copycat” can do.
Yoru cheerleading squad seems to be what the dice want this time around, so.

>>820758
>>Try to get Yoruichi to set you up for a kill.

>>820758
>Create an opportunity for Yoruichi to show what a real “copycat” can do.

Also, making a Ganju technique actually useful is pretty hilarious.

>>820758
>>Create an opportunity for Yoruichi to show what a real “copycat” can do.
>Continue beating him to death, this is strangely satisfying.

>>820758
>>820776
I like this idea. Give her an opportunity by beating the shit out of him. But if we can't do both
>Continue beating him to death, this is strangely satisfying.

>>820758
>Other:Break the dead man's hands. He can't spin his stupid sword if his hands are broken.

>>820758
>Try to get Yoruichi to set you up for a kill

As thematic as her copy cat supremacy could be, I think Riku's sheer wrath in this situation would maybe make her want to be kill greedy.

>>820805
>writing something kind of synthesis-ish
3d10, DC 17, Crit 21, best of four

Rolled 10, 1, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>820865

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

>>820865

Rolled 1, 5, 4 = 10 (3d10)

>>820865

Rolled 7, 1, 4 = 12 (3d10)

>>820865
Uh oh...

>>820869
>>820870
>>820871

We need a hero!

>>820875

And we didn't get one...

But why

>>820869
>>820870
>>820871
>>820875

I think Mad World would be appropriate here.

Rolled 3, 5, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>820878
Jobbering is fun.

Rolled 7, 9, 8 = 24 (3d10)

>>820865
for fucks sake! why

>>820890
Only like 3 rolls too late.

Also the only roll that even passed, for what it's worth.

I liked the old system, We could at least pass harder dcs on that one, Miht not crit as much but at least we passed.

>>820890
We will lose an arm won't we? At this rate we should kearn a technique to regrow them.

>>820919
Eh, I like this system. Sure we got fucked on this one, but at least it's not so dependent on always getting ridiculously good rolls to crit. We actually have a chance now.

>>820865
You know how you need to finish this. You wrap the two-headed zanpakuto in kidō chains and give Yoruichi an opportunity to use her Bankai, which changes form dramatically. A guandao, its heavy, ornate blade coated in a thin layer of blood-red frost. You know this blade from legend.

The Lěng Yàn jù.

But as Yoruichi moves in for the kill, something unexpected happens: the dead man gets so desperate, he releases his hold on his zanpakuto. Your chains go slack, and he raises his hand even as Yoruichi winds her massive blade up over her shoulder. Her eyes widen in surprise as he makes another desperate move and opens a portal: right in Yoruichi's side. The portal is unstable, and collapses almost immediately, but the spatial distortion is so violent that it tears through your wife's side like her body was made of paper.

Her own strike nearly severs the dead man's arm as it carves out a gash near the base of his neck, but somehow the man is still standing. Yoruichi on the other hand is left keeling, bleeding freely from her side and from the corners of her mouth. She embeds the heavy pommel of the guandao in the ground next to her, trying clearly to force herself back to her feet after the surprise attack.

>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.
>Focus on killing the dead man above all else.
>Other?

>>820944
>>Focus on killing the dead man above all else.
If she dies from one bad roll then why are we even rolling, she'll be fine

>>820944
>Focus on killing the dead man above all else.
Binding kidou for his hands with a ranged, Tenko assisted one to finish him off. Don't let him get a bead on us both.

>>820944
Could we get Rosa or Tenkotsuki to finish off now-undoubtedly-dead man? Or has the manifesting zanpakto thing faded out in the background? If so
>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.
if not
>Focus on killing the dead man above all else.
It would be a bit ridiculous for her to die from one regular failure.

>>820964
It's an important choice in shaping who Riku wants to be in this "fused form".

You can make arguments for and against, but please don't mistake this for something you can be blase about.

>>820944
>Tend to Yoruichi now

>>820964
>>820978
Don't get cocky. Portals are famous for ignoring damage resistance.

>>820944
>>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.

>>820980
That made me think, how long does it take for Riku to leave Bankai? I was thinking it would be pretty quick, but I could be wrong.

>>820944
>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.

>>820978
>>820986
Rosa CANNOT split. That's what happens when both swords are in full release, and has been since the first time that was even a thing.

I say this because I don't want you to vote for things that are literally impossible.

>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.

>>821000
>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.

>>821003
fine~ mom...

>>820944
>Tend to Yoruichi now. Family first.

>>821003
I knew I remembered something about Rosa not being able to do it all the time. Sorry, I just didn't want to go surf the archive to make sure. So Tenkotsuki can't do it either?