>>2727668
>Powerful fighters often have a “haymaker” technique, one capable of obscene effect on target but which normally takes too much time. Help Halibel set hers up.

>>2727668
>>You can tell Halibel is a powerful striker, it would be best to try and create openings that would allow her to land a blow more easily.
This seems the most adaptable and aggressive plan to me. It's constantly harrying Gerard in order to give Halibel free shots.

>>2727668
>You can tell Halibel is a powerful striker, it would be best to try and create openings that would allow her to land a blow more easily.
Save the finisher for the finishing

>>2727668
>You can tell Halibel is a powerful striker, it would be best to try and create openings that would allow her to land a blow more easily.

>>2727668
>>Powerful fighters often have a “haymaker” technique, one capable of obscene effect on target but which normally takes too much time. Help Halibel set hers up.

>>2727668
>you can tell halibel is a powerful striker

>>2727668
>Powerful fighters often have a “haymaker” technique, one capable of obscene effect on target but which normally takes too much time. Help Halibel set hers up.

>>2727668
>You can tell Halibel is a powerful striker, it would be best to try and create openings that would allow her to land a blow more easily.

Queen? you there?

>>2728012
Yeah, I'm doing this as a slow, all-week session. I really don't have a single day-long chunk of time free for the rest of the month.

>3d10, DC 18, critical 24
>best of three

Rolled 1, 7, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>2728924
yikes. an 18 for a DC.

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

>>2728924

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>>2728936

Rolled 3, 7, 5 = 15 (3d10)

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>>2728924
You may not know very well what Tia Halibel is capable of, but then again she might say the same of you. For most of the last hundred years neither of you never knew about the other, and never had a chance to fight together or against each other. So both of you are coming into this blind.

So it's only fair to show her yours in exchange, right?

You square up your stance, holding Kamishini no Yari's point straight out from your chest with both your hands on its hilt.

“Butō.”

Your zanpakuto explodes forwards, far faster than the speed of sound, and strikes against Gerard's shield. He only managed to raise it in time because you gave him plenty of warning that an attack was coming when you took that silly form.

He's only managing to peek out from behind his shield when you follow up with a renewed assault.

“That was...”

“Butō Renjin.”

This time hundreds of individual thrusts rain down on Gerard's shield, leaving deep scratches across its surface. There's no time for him to change his stance even for an instant, because while each individual thrust may not be able to penetrate the barrier you both know that it would skewer his thick hide if that shield were to lower at any point during your assault. So instead he chooses to weather it.

Which gives Halibel the opening you wanted.

She falls on him from above, her arm-blade charged with a powerfully concentrated yellow cero that lines its edge, and releases the blast down into Gerard.

The attack sends him crashing to the ground a second time, and for good measure you aim a few final shots with Kamishini no Yari down into the crumbling block where he falls.

“What a monster,” Halibel muses even before the dust clears.

When it does, you can see that the wounds you left in Gerard's torso are already healing rapidly, as is the arm Halibel nearly severed with her own strike.

“And he hasn't even tapped his full power yet,” you realize. “Yikes.”

“So that is your zanpakuto...” Halibel spares you a glance, seemingly deep in thought. Even now she's considering her options.

>See what Halibel comes up with in terms of a plan.
>Maybe use some kidō this time, pin Gerard in place for a more powerful hit.
>Try getting close now that Gerard knows how dangerous that is. Serve as a distraction.
>Other?

>>2728990
>>Maybe use some kidō this time, pin Gerard in place for a more powerful hit.

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>>2728990
>See what Halibel comes up with in terms of a plan.
Trust in shark

>>2728990
>>See what Halibel comes up with in terms of a plan.
I'm interested in seeing what she'll come up with.

>See what Halibel comes up with in terms of a plan.

>>2728990
>Try getting close now that Gerard knows how dangerous that is. Serve as a distraction.

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>3d10, best of 4

Rolled 2, 3, 8 = 13 (3d10)

>>2729456
Force of a great typhoon, etc. etc.

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

>>2729456

Rolled 1, 4, 8 = 13 (3d10)

>>2729456

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

>>2729456

Rolled 9, 6, 1 = 16 (3d10)

>>2729456

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

>>2729456

>>2729456
It seems to you that Halibel is coming up with a plan of her own, and you're not one to deny an ally who has something clearly in mind. Instead it's become your role to determine as quickly as you can what she needs you to do.

After a few more moments, Halibel seems to come to a conclusion.

“I need time,” she tells you succinctly.

So it's her 'haymaker' then.

>Keep the space open for now, just focus on keeping Gerard from attacking Halibel directly.
>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.
>Get close, try as hard as you can to actually kill Gerard or at least to maim him.
>Other?

>>2730359
>>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.

>>2730359
>>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.
Keep him busy, keep him distracted. Then hit him with the fucking Titanic.

>>2730359
>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.

>>2730359
>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.

>>2730359
>Get close, try as hard as you can to actually kill Gerard or at least to maim him.

The best diversion is when it isn't

>>2730359
>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.

>>2730359
>>Get close, try as hard as you can to keep him engaged and unable to disengage.

>3d10, DC 18, critical 24
>best of three

Rolled 9, 3, 2 = 14 (3d10)

>>2732148

Rolled 10, 7, 8 = 25 (3d10)

>>2732148

Rolled 8, 2, 9 = 19 (3d10)

>>2732148

>>2732187
Nice. I'll probably have to abandon ship to get Claymore underway, but I'll get around to this Monday at the latest.

>>2732187
Wow, Gin is really on top of his game today, and halibel is a beast as usual

>>2732349
You decide that the best plan would be to close in, to occupy the Sternritter and to keep him occupied. Which means relying on perhaps your favorite aspect of your zanpakuto. It isn't hard for an opponent who sees your Bankai in action to realize that it extends and retracts with mind-numbing speed... in fact you'd say you actually prefer that Gerard knows that much. Because as lethal and effective as that speed makes Kamishini no Yari, that isn't your favorite part about it. No, it's far more intriguing to consider what that knowledge does to people.

Riku probably noticed it early on: that when someone is allowed to reason their way through it and conclude that allowing Kamishini no Yari's tip to be aimed at them for even an instant would be fatal, avoiding that scenario would become their sole focus. That's why you've trained hard to improve your kenjutsu skills, so that you can better take advantage of that psychological response.

It's exactly that sort of mind game you want to play right now, having already established in Gerard's mind the danger of your extraordinarily fast zanpakuto by using Butō.

“What's wrong?” you ask him, swinging Kamishini no Yari with almost gleeful abandon, focusing on fairly broad, sweeping blows along the diagonal lines. “You seem a bit nervous.”

“Hah!” Gerard snorts. “As if one such as yourself could ever frighten me, a blessed warrior gifted with speed, strength, and courage to dwarf even your precious Captains!”

“Oh?” you muse, tightening up your swings a little as the Sternritter's drawn sword clashes and pushes against your own zanpakuto. “Then tell me, why are you so obsessed with the prise de fer?”

“Excuse me?”

“A classic envelopment,” you clarify, “meant to force my blade out of line. Classic western technique, moving out of sixth to engage them completing a circle. You've tried for it three times now.”

“So tell me, why is a “blessed warrior” such as yourself so afraid of my sword?”

Gerard glares at you, almost insulted that you would dare call out his defensive focus. “What do you mean to imply, Ichimaru?”

“I thought I was fairly clear,” you respond, taking a step back and moving as if you establish a line with Kamishini no Yari.

In an instant Gerard dashes in to close the gap, a slapping parry aiming to push your point back out of alignment. Instead his sword finds nothing but air, your own blade having dipped under his hilt for an instant.

“Butō.”

A glancing blow just under his ribs draws blood, but you're also forced to duck low to keep Gerard's counterattack from taking your head off.
>1/2

>>2738207
Thankfully you don't have to dodge a second time, as a powerful shot of scalding-hot water narrowly misses Gerard's body.

Your sword meets his again before he has a chance to retaliate. “Sorry for the interruption. I know that was quite rude... where were we?”

After a few more exchanges, a second jet of hot water cracks the pavement far below you as Halibel narrowly misses again.

And a third miss after that, one which actually hits the river downtown.

What is she doing, exactly?

It takes you maybe another minute and a half of close combat with Gerard to realize what Halibel is up to... as you can start to feel warm air from the city streets below rising into the clouds above... she's trying to change the weather? Yes, that makes some sense. If she inundates the entire battlefield with water her zanpakuto will be capable of stupendous power, since she'll have a lot more resources to work with naturally.

>Try and draw the battle towards the river. With that much water it should jump-start Halibel's strategy without Gerard noticing.
>If you were to add some ice crystals to the clouds above, maybe using Hyōga Seiran, you could seed them and make it rain.
>Halibel has this under control, your job is to make sure that Gerard just doesn't look up and notice the clouds overhead.
>Other?

>>2738223
>>Try and draw the battle towards the river. With that much water it should jump-start Halibel's strategy without Gerard noticing.
This is good. Conserving energy is good. I remember that one guy saying Aizen's strategy was to have everyone expend a shit ton of energy before having some of the Quincy take advantage of it.

>>2738223
>>Halibel has this under control, your job is to make sure that Gerard just doesn't look up and notice the clouds overhead.

>>2738223
>>If you were to add some ice crystals to the clouds above, maybe using Hyōga Seiran, you could seed them and make it rain.

>>2738223
>Halibel has this under control, your job is to make sure that Gerard just doesn't look up and notice the clouds overhead.

>>2738223
>Halibel has this under control, your job is to make sure that Gerard just doesn't look up and notice the clouds overhead.

>>2738223
>Halibel has this under control, your job is to make sure that Gerard just doesn't look up and notice the clouds overhead.

>3d10, dc 19, critical 24

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

>>2738992

Rolled 10, 6, 9 = 25 (3d10)

>>2738992

Rolled 3, 2, 6 = 11 (3d10)

>>2738992

Rolled 7, 7, 7 = 21 (3d10)

>>2738992
>>2738999
Nice crit

>>2738992
>>2738999
Will write this some time during the day, when I get the chance.

>>2739023
You seem more active in the claymore thread, if you want to take a break from this it's better than slogging along king.

>>2739328
I was trying to divide things into before and after noon, since I had a scene in Claymore I wanted to do all in one go. SSQ will get a few updates too through the afternoon.

Rolled 5, 7, 8, 6 = 26 (4d10)

>>2739536
Speaking of which...

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>>2739556
Halibel's plan is actually a solid one, very simple and even subtle. There's no way that Gerard is even considering the long-term effect of so much rising heat on the atmosphere with such immediate threats. So you figure that it's best to leave Halibel to it rather than trying to help and running the risk of drawing Gerard's attention to what she's up to.

Several shots of boiling-hot La Gota crash down into the fake Karakura town as you stick dangerously close to Gerard, helped by the fact that he so quickly re-engages you after having to dodge the incoming strikes from Halibel's zanpakuto.

“Quite the combination,” he compliments you, no doubt believing that you're using the occasional attacks from Halibel to open up some distance... a misunderstanding you hurry to perpetuate with a blind thrust through a column of water.

The distance is great enough that Gerard has ample time to parry it, and he almost manages to take a chunk out of your shoulder in retaliation as you withdraw Kamishini no Yari so that you can raise it against his incoming blade.

“But it isn't quite enough.”

Suddenly changing pace, Gerard slams his heel into your chest, knocking you back through the air. Your eyes widen in surprise... you hadn't anticipated that he'd open up the range like this out of the blue.

But then you see why: he manifests an oversized spiritual bow in one hand, using the other to draw back a column of light as big around as his arm.

So he can fight at range... clever girl.

You instinctively release Kamishini no Yari into it, splitting the blast around the point of your own sword which loses forward momentum as the two attacks meet head-on. Then you hear it, the familiar faint rushing sound of a hirenkyaku: he means to shoot you from behind with an attack just like the one you barely managed to break up an instant ago.

Forewarned, you strain to pull off an utsusemi just in the nick of time.

As your empty haori falls singed through the air behind you, you hear Halibel's response.

“Cascada Hirviendo.”
>1/2

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>>2739751
The powerful surge of water doesn't even compare to the previous attacks... when you assumed that Halibel had ample raw power at her disposal you never imagined something like this.

This is insane.

The force of the torrent all but wipes out the remains of the city below, for easily a mile around the point of impact in all directions. Eventually the boiling water disperses into the air like fog blowing away in the morning sun.

The amount of water vapor in the air darkens the sky, feeding into the existing clouds just as you assumed it would.

You catch your falling haori, still surprised.

“Spare me,” a scalded Gerard intones, now looking remarkably like a half-boiled lobster and having lost his red cape and shield. “Are you through? Because if you don't have anything more, I suppose it's my turn.”

He raises his sword, bearing down on Halibel with remarkable speed. But if he expected a response from her... he doesn't get it.

“Rikujōkōrō.”

Gerard stops short, your bakudō pinning him in place as you begin to add the incantation. It looks as if he plans to break free through sheer force, at least at first. But then quite suddenly he pauses, realizing that something has changed.

It's raining.

“What is this?” he demands, narrowing his eyes.

“It was difficult,” you hear Halibel reply over your own incantation. “Hirviendo isn't normally strong enough to affect the whole atmosphere, so I had to do it one attack at a time.”

“You've been changing the weather?” Gerard finally realizes.

“Yes,” Halibel admits as lightning flashes overhead, the rain lashing down harder now. “The rising heat and moisture has given me a limitless source of water for my attacks.”

“Lágrimas del Cielo.”
>2/3

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>>2739866
You are Tia Halibel, and your plan has succeeded.

Using the rising moisture column created by your successive attacks, you've managed to spawn a powerful thunderstorm over the fake Karakura town. All that water... all yours to use as you see fit. Thanks to Ichimaru Gin's skillful assistance this move has taken your opponent completely by surprise.

Now, it comes down to a decision of how to leverage your powerful new position against Gerard Valkyrie. The man has only just managed to break the bakudō Gin placed on him to give buy you the last few seconds needed to complete your setup.

This battle is now yours to win or lose.

>Use Helada to freeze your attacks, progressively layering Gerard in thick ice.
>Use Hirviendo to superheat all of your attacks, burning his flesh and fueling the storm.
>If you can guide a lightning strike into Gerard that would work wonders.
>Other?

>>2739878
>>If you can guide a lightning strike into Gerard that would work wonders.

>>2739878
Question: can you describe the T-storm in more detail? Is it slowly spinning and stationary? or is the storm a moving wall with a cold/warm-front?

>>2739893
At the moment it's a mostly stationary air-mass storm, heavy precipitation, quite large for a simple single-cell storm. It has the potential depending on how you choose to fight and how Gerard responds to develop into a supercell.

>>2739907
could we a downburst?

>>2739909
You could a lot of things, but in order to increase the power of the storm you'll need to both feed it with a strong convective current and get it rotating.

You know, like how a thunderstorm works.

>>2739878
>Use Hirviendo to superheat all of your attacks, burning his flesh and fueling the storm.
>other: See if you can put some spin into the storm. Create some optimal conditions for a Tornado.
Who wants to make a Supercell or a miniature cyclone or heck a landformed Hurricane?
>>2739907
Thanks for the clarification.
>>2739909
That would mean changing the storm and making it lose power.

>>2739916
There's potential for something there if we a downburst, but it's probably better to go with something more straightforward

>>2739878
>If you can guide a lightning strike into Gerard that would work wonders.

>>2739878
>>Use Helada to freeze your attacks, progressively layering Gerard in thick ice.
Damage and freezing him in place? Sign me up. It'll hopefully make him an easy target for Gin as well.

>>2739878
>hirviendo
Our storm needs fuel. Start with hot attacks to get more moisture. We can freeze his burnt/scalded flesh with hail or freezing rain later. Right now the storm is our biggest power amplifier so we need to make it stronger.

>>2739878
>>Use Hirviendo to superheat all of your attacks, burning his flesh and fueling the storm.

>>2739916
>>2739878
re-arranging my vote and locking it in.
>other: See if you can launch Gerard upwards into the storm cloud itself.
>Use Hirviendo to superheat all of your attacks, burning his flesh and fueling the storm.

>>2739878
>>2740003
I support it

>>2739878
>Use Hirviendo to superheat all of your attacks, burning his flesh and fueling the storm.

>3d10, best of three on this one
>will continue tomorrow

>>2739878
>>If you can guide a lightning strike into Gerard that would work wonders.

Rolled 2, 7, 3 = 12 (3d10)

>>2740537

Rolled 6, 2, 8 = 16 (3d10)

>>2740537

Rolled 1, 5, 6 = 12 (3d10)

>>2740537
let the bullshit commence

Rolled 1, 8, 2 = 11 (3d10)

Ree, where are the good rolls?

>>2740565
Sleeping. Y'all should've waited for the morning.

Guys, hear me out: Sharknado
Yay or nay?

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>>2740537
You have to consider your situation carefully now... the thunderstorm you worked hard to create has materialized, but if you don't manage it carefully it may not last forever. In fact if you draw too much moisture from it too quickly you may weaken the storm or eventually kill it off entirely.

So you decide to continue as you have been, relying on hirviendo to keep feeding warm air into the storm cell to gradually increase its power. With enough help, you may even get it to the point where it starts to spawn tornadoes.

Using Tiburón as the focus point, you compress water from the rain around your blade... from about 14 or 15 pounds per square inch, the average pressure of water at sea level, to what you'd estimate is about forty pounds per square inch. Which doesn't really add all that much in terms of physical impact: it's only the equivalent of diving a few dozen feet underwater, and doesn't add to the actual mass of the water you're using in your attack. What it does allow you to do is increase its temperature with hirviendo well past its usual boiling point at sea level.

Then you drop that superheated water onto Gerard Valkyrie's head.

“Cascada Hirvienda.”

The amount of water you hit the quincy with is enough that you can probably fill an olympic swimming pool with it, all of it pressurized and heated beyond boiling-hot then slung downwards like a waterfall.

A normal human would be totally obliterated, but Gerard Valkyrie is far from being a normal human. He does not manage to dodge your attack, but somehow survives it anyway.

That's when you notice it.

When the water is finished rushing away from its impact point, rapidly evaporating and circulating high into the air at your direction, you catch sight of Gerard standing where he fell... and his body is definitely larger than it was before you hit him with that attack.

“He's growing?” you realize aloud.

That is a strange ability. You wonder what its limits are.

>Hit him again, check to ensure that what you thought you noticed is actually true while further building the storm.
>Try to close in and engage with Tiburón's blade, discern whether this is a response to heat or to physical damage.
>No messing around. Use Segunda Etapa to heat the rainwater to a supercritical state, kill him with a single strike.
>Other?

>>2741983
>No messing around. Use Segunda Etapa to heat the rainwater to a supercritical state, kill him with a single strike.

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>>2741944
>Sharknado Yay or nay?
Yes

>>2741983
>>No messing around. Use Segunda Etapa to heat the rainwater to a supercritical state, kill him with a single strike.

>>2741983
>No messing around. Use Segunda Etapa to heat the rainwater to a supercritical state, kill him with a single strike.

>>2741983
>No messing around. Use Segunda Etapa to heat the rainwater to a supercritical state, kill him with a single strike.
>other: use the runoff rainwater/groundwater that's pooling around your feet for the move instead of rainwater. That way you'll still fuel the storm instead of weakening it.

>>2741983
>>Hit him again, check to ensure that what you thought you noticed is actually true while further building the storm.

>>2741983
>Try to close in and engage with Tiburón's blade, discern whether this is a response to heat or to physical damage.

>>2741983
>>No messing around. Use Segunda Etapa to heat the rainwater to a supercritical state, kill him with a single strike.

>3d10, DC 18, critical 22
>best of three

Rolled 5, 1, 6 = 12 (3d10)

>>2742662

Rolled 6, 6, 8 = 20 (3d10)

>>2742662

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

>>2742662

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

>>2742712
Nice job.

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>>2742712
The hero we need

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>>2742662
You decide that the best way to put an end to whatever Gerard is doing to himself is to finish this in a single blow, thereby depriving him of a chance for further shenanigans.

“Segunda Etapa.”

For the second time you release the peak of your power, feeling your entire body as it subtly changes to accommodate your new power.

“So that is a second state of release,” Gerard muses, raising his sword and preparing to defend against your inevitable attack. “Consider me impressed, arrancar.”

“I can't remember,” you counter, rapidly compressing rainwater as it falls around you and adding more water to it from your own zanpakuto, “showing you anything impressive yet.”

The water heats up... with your Segunda Etapa the most dangerous aspect of your attack is how densely you can compress this water. Not only does it cut like a blade and strike like a hammer, but at this density you can heat it to the temperature of a candle flame. In this state the super-compressed water will act more like a gas with mass before dissipating in a cloud of scalding steam.

“Cascada: Lanza de Niebla.”

This cascada is different from when it's water, even heated and pressurized water. It moves far faster, and when it hits Gerard's body he immediately howls in pain. His body may be hardened by his Blut, but that won't help him against a compressed and heated gas. It flows like a liquid, and it hits with the density of a solid, but at this temperature it can also impregnate a solid like steam.

Essentially, your attack is weaponized dry-cleaning: the steamy cascada crashes against him like a power hammer and begins to burn away the outer layers of his skin as the steam slips deep into the flesh and strips it away. It's hard to know whether a comparison to a flamethrower or a belt sander is more appropriate when the effect is essentially a combination of the two.

But to your dismay, even this attack hasn't killed Gerard. Far from it.

“How is this possible?” you demand quietly. “You take the damage first and then your body reacts. That should have been more than sufficient to kill you.”

Gerard, now the size of a small skyscraper, simply laughs at your assertion.

“All the calculations in the world are meaningless in the face of a miracle!”

So... is he claiming that is his power?

“What is impossible, but which happens anyway...” you mutter.

“No,” Gerard asserts. “Mine is a sword that manifests the hopes of those around me! The collective wishes of humanity... that is what I manifest as the Miracle!”
>1/2

>>2743519
“A holy warrior who has been blessed by God with everything!” Gerard continues to boast. “A living conduit to bring hope to the battlefield!”

“A braggart and a fool,” you counter.

“What was that?” he demands.

“In battle, one does not create hope,” you explain sternly. “Your 'miracles' are intended only to bring despair to your enemies. That is far from the same as bringing hope.”

“And what do...”

“I am a hollow,” you interrupt him. “Coping with my own despair is my natural state, so do not presume to lecture me on its nature.”

>There must be some way to bind his movements, or at least to put him in a position where someone else, Gin maybe, could kill him.
>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.
>Most things expand when they get warmer and contract when they get cooler.
>Other?

>>2743540
>>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.

>>2743540
>Most things expand when they get warmer and contract when they get cooler.

>>2743540
>>>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.

This one works on assumption he works like a standard quincy and not powered by bullshit.
It's worth a shot.

>>2743540
>>2743540
>other: Make "contact" with his gargantuan body to steal the reishi/reiatsu from him and use it to fuel the storm. Use Hit&Run tactics.
>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.

>>2743540
>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.

>>2743540
>>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.

>>2743540
>>He must be drawing in reishi and reiatsu from his surroundings to increase his size. If you loosen his control over that his size may decrease.

So where is Askin and the rest of the battlefield participants amidst this giant Thunderstorm created by Tia?
What are their reactions to the sudden Thunderstorm warning over Fake K-town?

>>2744399
Watching, mostly. It hasn't been long since Rangiku and Bambi fought Wonderweiss and Shunsui and Lille are gone by now.

>>2744418
were they drenched by the heavy rain? That storm is as big as K-town.
Also, individual reactions pls?

>3d10, DC 19, critical 23
>best of three

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

Dice.

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

>>2745204

Rolled 3, 6, 8 = 17 (3d10)

>>2745204
Here we go.

>>2745218
This one doesn't count, one more

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

>>2745204

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>>2745204
It stands to reason that as a quincy, Gerard's power relies on drawing in reishi from the surroundings whenever he takes damage... it seems a fairly safe assumption, based on what you know. In order to proceed with that you need to get much closer to Gerard.

“You may have a point,” Gerard admits as you close the distance with him.

“Your experience with despair is relevant,” he continues as his giant first meets with your raised blade. “Because fighting me like this is hopeless.”

The power of his blow is exactly what you'd expected, but his speed is far greater than you imagined... unlike Captain Komamura his speed doesn't seem to scale appropriately with his bulk. Instead he's just as fast as he is in this size as he was at his regular size, meaning that the massive blow sends you careening through the side of a building and deep into the street beyond that.

Monstrous.

You can't fight this monster at close range. That's become clear to you now that you've felt the bone-shattering force behind that single simple blow: no opponent present on this battlefield will be able to do much more than dodge him, especially since he will simply use any damage he takes to increase his size and power. But as you lie in the crater of your own making your thoughts turn towards the question of how you can actually use that knowledge... and unfortunately, there's only one real way that you can think of to achieve the ends you're aiming for.

The rain falls a little harder...
>1/2

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>>2745335
You are Loly Aivirrne, the 33rd arrancar created by Lord Aizen and his personal aide.

This battlefield is a dangerous one for you, and yet you insisted on coming here anyway and Lord Aizen graciously allowed you to. The reason it's dangerous is that there are so many Captains, Espada, and Sternritter are fighting desperate battles all around you, and even one stray shot could potentially cripple or kill a lower-ranked arrancar.

You weren't totally aware of that when you decided to come here to get revenge for Menoly, but it probably wouldn't have made much difference.

That brown-skinned bitch of an arrancar is busy again... how dare she fight against Lord Aizen, and against her own kind? The remaining Captains are engaged as well, as are the traitor quincy bitch and all the lower-ranked shinigami... all except for a small group clustered well away from the center of the action.

“Those are the ones who...” you begin, realizing that these must be the ones keeping Lord Aizen and his shinigami associate Amagai frozen in time. If you were to kill those shinigami, Lord Aizen would be free... and he would be impressed with you.

Unfortunately, figuring out how to get to Menoly from here will have to wait, as will getting revenge for her suffering at the hands of the enemy. This takes priority.

You use your sonido carefully, trying to stick to the very real ruins of the very fake town to avoid being spotted and keeping your reiatsu as calm and low as possible.

But when you can finally see the dark-haired Captain who must be responsible for that sealing spell, a familiar voice snaps you out of your concentration.

“What do you think you're doing here, Loly?”

“Wha... Menoly?” you realize, turning to spot your friend as she stares down from the top of a nearby traffic sign. “What do you mean what am I doing here, what are you doing here?”

“What does it look like I'm doing?” she counters.

“It looks like you're getting ready to do the same thing I'm doing,” you guess. “So come on, if we work together...”

“That's not what I'm here doing,” Menoly insists quietly. “Loly... you're lucky I was the one who ran into you. Please, just walk away... lay low until this all blows over and I'll come find you.”

… what?
>2/3

>sudden POV switch
well this is unexpected.

>>2745378
“What do you mean?” you demand. “You can't mean you're helping these bastards... they imprisoned you!”

“They've been kinder than me than anyone was under Aizen,” she admits. “And even if all they did was interrogate me, at least they'd be acknowledging me.”

“Aizen does acknowledge us,” you point out.

“He abandoned me!” Menoly snaps back. “You wonder why there are so many arrancar fighting with the Ninth Division, it's because Aizen is the one enslaving us and throwing our lives away!”

“We owe him!” you fire back angrily. “That's why we serve him!”

“Halibel owes Captain Kusajishi too,” Menoly counters angry. “But they're actually friends, Loly! Have you ever seen Aizen cook for one of the Espada? And do you think if one of us needed help he'd lift a finger?”

“He freed us from...”

“Was that for us, or for himself?” Menoly demands. “Because I think we both know the answer.”

>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.
>If you really feel that way then we're enemies.
>Call for backup.
>Other?

>>2745433
>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.
well this is new. we play as an enemy.

>>2745433
>>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.

>>2745433
>>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.

>>2745433
>If you really feel that way then we're enemies.

>>2745433
Call for backup from whom?

>>2745442
>>2745433
switching to
>call for backup
mainly because I wanna see Menoly in action.

>>2745433
>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.

>>2745433
>>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.

>>2745433
>>Other?
"We're Hollows, Menoly. Arrancars! Kindness and friendship isn't a luxury we can afford. Only strength matters. And Aizen has that."

>>If you really feel that way then we're enemies.

>>2745433
>Step aside, Menoly. I don't want to fight you.

>3d10, best of three

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

>>2745890

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

>>2745890

Rolled 8, 7, 10 = 25 (3d10)

>>2745890

why are we rolling for Loly? and why is rolling high a good thing? Queen. what madness did you pull on us?

>>2745935
Since when were you under the impression that we were rolling for highest of three? Best for whom? Will we ever know?

>>2745890
“We're hollows, Menoly,” you remind her. “We don't do kindness or friendship, all that matters is strength!”

“We were friends way before we met Aizen!” she shouts back at you. “Or was that all a lie?”

The look in her eye... the hurt in her voice... you know that those things are real. How did it come to this? When was it she was turned against you?

“We're still friends, Menoly,” you insist. “I don't want to fight you... but that Captain behind you, she has to die.”

“No, she doesn't,” Menoly counters firmly, raising her fists. “I'm sorry Loly, but I've given this a lot of thought. I'm not going to change my mind.”

“Flow, Savia.”

Her hair becomes translucent and crystalline, and her arms are covered in sticky sap. She's serious about fighting you, then... well, if that's how she wants to do this then you have a resurreccion for her as well.

“Poison, Escolopendra!”

You lash out with one of your wickedly sharp limbs, and to your shock Menoly dodges instantly so that you only end up carving a deep gash into the ground where she stood. She glances over her shoulder, noting that the damage is very “clean”: there's none of your acidic poison pooling there.

“You didn't use your poison,” she observes.

She counters with a volley of amber spikes, which you calmly block with one of your arms before counterattacking.

… what's the point of all this?

>Attack with your poison. If you're going to do this take it seriously.
>Attack with bala. Keep a distance, and avoid using your tentacles.
>This... feels like a good compromise. Keep fighting like this.
>Other?

>>2746205
>>This... feels like a good compromise. Keep fighting like this.

>>2746205
>Attack with cero, i bet i can knock her out with one good hit!

>>2746205
>Cero is the answer. I'll just aim for the captain instead of her.

>>2746205
>>Attack with bala. Keep a distance, and avoid using your tentacles.

>>2746205
>Attack with bala. Keep a distance, and avoid using your tentacles.

>>2746205
>This... feels like a good compromise. Keep fighting like this.

>>2746205
>Do you really think they can beat him? That anyone can? It's taking all this just to slow him down, while they what, pick off his soldiers? He doesn't need us, he doesn't -need- anyone. All we're doing is expediting things for him because he decided we could be more useful to him alive than dead, it's either that or try and hide and hope he doesn't care enough to find you after everything is settled, or be crushed before him. That's all there is, for people like us.

I feel like this is the root for why the arrancar would serve Aizen so readily, but I'm not sure if Loly is really wise enough to articulate it.

>3d10, best of three
>dc 16, critical 20

Rolled 4, 5, 4 = 13 (3d10)

>>2747487

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

>>2747487

Rolled 10, 3, 6 = 19 (3d10)

>>2747487

>>2747487
This... this feels... right somehow.

You feel like you could end this in one blow if you used your poison, but that would mean melting all of Menoly's limbs off. Even if she's your enemy right now you don't feel like you could do that to her... she's just confused. She's just confused which side she should be on. When this is all over you'll give her part credit for freeing Aizen and he'll let her come back, you're sure of it.

Lashing at her again with your tentacles, you smash more of her spikes out of the air and crash hard against her arms.

“What are you trying to do!?” you demand, dismayed at how you're effortlessly battering Menoly around. “I'm way stronger than you are, you know that. You can't even land an attack!”

She grunts as another swing of your tentacles smashes her through a low brick wall, which crumbles for a few seconds as she disappears behind it. Not content to let her hide you swipe your limbs through it, cutting the whole wall down to knee height in a matter of seconds.

“Peekaboo,” you can't help but joke. “So, are we going to stop playing around here and kill this Captain together, or what?”

“You're not going anywhere,” Menoly insists.

“Then you asked for this,” you frown, swinging your arms at her once more.

At least... that's what should have happened.

“My arms...” you realize, spying the translucent golden sheen between their many bony joints. Then you glance at the back side of the wall and see that Menoly has coated the entire surface with that liquid that covers her lower arms. You dragged your tentacles through the wall...

“I figured you'd get impatient,” Menoly tells you. "I've been targeting your joints the whole time... this just sped things up."

From the beginning? So those spikes she's been firing, that you've been blocking... she meant for you to block them?

“You think this will stop me?” you demand, already straining against the amber that's solidified in Escolopendra's joints.

“No,” your friend admits, charging a cero. “I just needed those extra arms out of the way.”

She... she wouldn't... right?
>3d10, best of four

Rolled 7, 9, 3 = 19 (3d10)

>>2747531

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

>>2747531

Rolled 2, 7, 9, 2 = 20 (4d10)

>>2747531

Rolled 2, 3, 6 = 11 (3d10)

>>2747531

Rolled 1, 4, 8 = 13 (3d10)

>>2747531
>>2747559

Fuck.

Need more sleep.

>>2747531
“Gota Ámbar!”

You flinch as the golden cero strikes you, like a hammer striking an anvil with you caught in the middle. It lifts you off your feet and slams you against the side of a concrete wall, spreading around your body and splitting as it spreads around your chin. And then as quickly as it struck you the pain fades... as does any sensation from your neck down.

“What did you do!?” you demand.

“It's amber,” Menoly explains. “After playing with it for a few weeks I learned that by mixing it with my reiatsu I can adjust what it does... that glob I hit you with has a numbing effect. Like Sichuan flower peppers.”

“I know that!” you snap. “What I mean is what did you do!?”

That... can't have clarified it for her really.

“I... I restrained you?” Menoly stammers. “What, you expected me to hurt you? Loly, you're my oldest friend.”

“You've got a funny way of showing it!”

Menoly shakes her head. “You didn't use your poison... you feel the same way about me as I do about you. But even so, I won't hurt you, even though I have to stop you.”

>You know what? Fuck it. If that's how she wants to play it, you'll use your poison.
>You... hate her for this. But you somehow can't bring yourself to seriously hurt her.
>You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.
>Other?

>>2747584
>other
Squirm and scream at her, if she stays with them Lord Aiten will NEVER forgive her, how can she not see that!

>>2747584
>You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.

>>2747584
>>You know what? Fuck it. If that's how she wants to play it, you'll use your poison.
I'm interested in a bad end being forced here. I want some fireworks.

>>2747584
>You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.

>>2747584
>You... hate her for this. But you somehow can't bring yourself to seriously hurt her.

>>2747584
>>You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.

>>2747584
>>You know what? Fuck it. If that's how she wants to play it, you'll use your poison.
>>Other?
On the amber restraints for now though.

>>2747584
I'm so confused. I know which action I want to take, but I don't know if it's the action the character would take. Why we gotta be the enemy?

>>2747584
>You know what? Fuck it. If that's how she wants to play it, you'll use your poison.
Loly is not the kind of person to take that lying down I don't think

>You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.

>>2747584
>>You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.

>>2747584
> You underestimated her this whole time... maybe YOU haven't been a good friend.
> You... hate her for this. But you somehow can't bring yourself to seriously hurt her.

>calling it here, will finish up Menoly and Loly's story tomorrow

>>2749154
You have to admit that you're mad at Menoly for getting in your way like this... but you totally underestimated her abilities. You've always though of her as weak, more like a sidekick or a follower than an equal. And now she's soundly beaten you, with means no more lethal than what you were willing to use.

Even if you really didn't want to hurt her, maybe you haven't been as good to her as she's tried to be to you. You've always been a pair, she's supported you through thick and thin even before Aizen made you both into arrancars. And even that she agreed to over her own doubts, at your urging.

“I could use my poison,” you point out. “I could use it right now, break myself free. I could probably still beat you.”

“Maybe so,” Menoly admits. “Maybe you really are better in a fight than I am. But you do that? It's a question of me or Aizen... you couldn't have it both ways.”

“I'm sorry, but I'm doing this because you're more important to me than Aizen,” she declares. “I don't want to see him do the same to you as he did to me... because one of these days he's going to sacrifice your life, same as all the Espada so far. So now you have to decide.”

“Give up and sit the rest of this battle out... or keep serving 'Lord' Aizen, starting with killing me.”

“You'd force me to kill you?” you blurt out. “How could you say something like that?”

“Because if you'd do that,” she tells you, “then the person I'm trying to help is gone for good anyway.”

You chuckle grimly to yourself, almost at a loss for words. “Man... this got pretty fucked up pretty quickly, didn't it Menoly?”

“I wish things could just go back to the way they were, you know?”

“I do too, Loly,” Menoly admits. “But that's impossible, and you know it. When we sided with Aizen we gave that up for good, one way or the other.”

“And you think if the shinigami win, it'll be better than if Lor... if Aizen does?”
>3d10, best of three

Rolled 1, 7, 3 = 11 (3d10)

>>2751067

Rolled 5, 6, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>2751067

Rolled 7, 6, 4 = 17 (3d10)

>>2751067

>>2751067
“I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think so,” Menoly admits. “Miss Halibel, Starrk, Captain Kusajishi... they may all be monsters, but at least all the monster is on the outside, if you get what I mean.”

So... Menoly thinks Aizen is a monster inside? You don't see it that way, at least not in such absolute terms. He gave both of you power, and a purpose even if that purpose was to serve him. Were it not for the rift that's grown between you and Menoly you'd say without hesitation that your life now is better than it was before you became arrancar.

But looking at Menoly's expression right now, you can't help but think she's sincere. You're not convinced she's right, not even in the slightest, but something has her soundly convinced that you'll both be better off this way.

“Alright, fine,” you grumble. “We'll see how this plays out... but the minute it seems like your precious shinigami allies are going to lose, I'll do what I have to to save both our necks. Got it?”

Menoly sighs, apparently frustrated at your insistence. “Right, of course you will. When this is over we've gotta have a talk about this assuming we're both alive.”

>there will be a perspective shift starting tomorrow, but for now Menoly and Loly have reached a stalemate

>>2751577
You are Ichimaru Gin, a somewhat disconcerted and now very wet snake. The rain continues to fall even harder now that Halibel has gone down somewhere in the city, cracks of thunder echo through the ruined buildings for what feels like forever and flashes of lightning glint off what remain of the windows.

And then there's Gerard Valkyrie.

All twenty stories of him.

If the overwhelming beatdown that Halibel was able to deliver only helped Gerard grow in size you have serious doubts that even Kamishini no Yari's poison will do anything but the same. Which leaves you only one real option: delay. Delay until someone either figures out a solution or brings an ability to the table that runs more towards the esoteric.

You don't like it, but that's where you stand.

“So, what's the plan?”

You turn to glance at Rangiku with a wry grin. “Same plan as before... try not to die.”

“That's good, very solid,” Rangiku nods. “So what's the actual plan?”

“I just told you,” you repeat without changing your expression. “Try not to die.”

“So it's come to that.”

“Hitting him harder just isn't a solution,” you shrug, seeing no reason to sugarcoat it. “I'm not sure my ability will do any better. Captain Fēng is likely thinking along similar lines.”

>Maybe try to coordinate with Captain Fēng. See if something you can do will stick.
>Work together with Rangiku, try to take out Gerard heart-first with Kamishini no Yari.
>Hold the line and try not to make matters worse, at least for now.
>Other?

>>2753143
>Maybe try to coordinate with Captain Fēng. See if something you can do will stick.

>>2753143
>Hold the line and try not to make matters worse, at least for now.

>>2753143
>>Hold the line and try not to make matters worse, at least for now.

>>2753143
>try to coordinate with Captain feng

>>2753143
>Hold the line and try not to make matters worse, at least for now.
The dynamic duo in action!

>>2753143
>>Hold the line and try not to make matters worse, at least for now.

>>2753143
>Maybe try to coordinate with Captain Fēng. See if something you can do will stick.

>>2753143
3d10, best of three

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

>>2753600

Rolled 9, 9, 1 = 19 (3d10)

>>2753600

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

>>2753600

>>2753143
bruh this nigga 20 stories tall
couldn't feng just sneak up behind him while hiding her reiatsu, stick him twice and kill him?

>>2753959
this 'nigga' has heug stat boosts. to both size, strength AND speed.

>>2753961
and he's gigantic.
if she just hides, well, she's tiny as shit. it'd be a literal bee sting for him, but a fatal one.

Wait, does this guy's body obey square-cube law?
Even with super strength, if he gets too big...

>>2753976
it's ghost magic. also it's theorized that his size is proportional to the amount of Reishi and reiatsu he sucks up and maintains. He's basically a living Reishi/reiatsu tornado.

>>2753997
>he's basically a big balloon filled with reishi
So i wonder what would happen if rosa cut him...

i really hope it's this https://youtu.be/SQ2-R0Fk4mM?t=72

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>>2753600
You decide to try and make it over towards Captain Fēng, in order to better plan how to fight Gerard... just because you've reached your own conclusions doesn't mean your aunt feels exactly the same, nor does it even really mean she has the same information that you used to reach your own conclusion. In fact, you're not only positive that she doesn't know how your Bankai works you honestly can't say you know precisely how her shikai works, having never seen it work as intended firsthand.

“Rangiku, I need you to cover for me,” you declare.

She nods curtly. “Right. Say the word.”

After a moment, you give her a nod. “Now!”

You dash forward, aiming to slip under Gerard's right arm to get towards Captain Fēng. Though he moves it far faster to try and slap you out of the air with the same brutal blow that downed miss Halibel, Haineko is there to protect you with a series of shallow but strong slashes that slow his blow ever so slightly.

“How tiresome,” Gerard bellows loudly, “trying to crush ants in sand underfoot will take a miracle... how fortunate for me!”

You barely reach Captain Fēng with your life.

“Captain!” you hiss loudly. “We have a problem!”

“I can see that!” she snaps back. “The wounded and the Lieutenants are clear for now, but if that thing goes after them I'm not sure what we can do to stop it.”

“Well, what should we do now?” you press cheerfully.

“I haven't thought that far ahead,” Captain Fēng admits with her trademark straight face.

“Okay,” you reply with a shrug. “You wanna start thinking about that now, Aunt Fēng?”

“I think if you call me that again my first order of business will be killing you.”

“Okay, okay, sheesh,” you sigh. “Will your Shikai affect him?”
>3d10, best of three
>will continue in the morning

>>2754550
And before anyone mentions it yes, I realize this is a hybrid between the two top vote-getters. After mulling it over for quite a while I decided that the two were absolutely not exclusive, so I just did it this way.

Rolled 9, 9, 2 = 20 (3d10)

>>2754550

Rolled 3, 6, 8 = 17 (3d10)

>>2754550

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

>>2754550
She's gotten much better at thinking over the years

god damn I finished catching up on this quest, and reading this has brought a wave of nostalgia. even with all of the kubo bullshit I still like bleach. The music, the initial world building. So good. If anything it makes me sad how it all went to shit.

>>2754691
Is there a PDF for this quest?

>>2754958
There isn't, actually. I've tried a few times to edit a document but it's just more time than I want to spend that way and I'm not sure I really want to know HOW long the whole thing is.

>>2754958
it’s long enough for about six dissertations.

>>2755231
>>2755268
Alright I guess I'll see you guys in a few weeks or so.

>>2754550
“I don't believe so,” Captain Fēng admits. “As you probably suspected Nigeki Keissatsu relies on a venom secreted by Suzumebachi. Given the target's size and reiatsu I doubt it could spread enough to kill him.”

“Any anything that doesn't kill him makes him stronger,” you sigh. “Believe it or not I share your frustration, Captain.”

She shakes her head, glaring at the giant Sternritter as he tries and fails to knock Rangiku out of the sky. “Well, I suppose that means we'll have to work together until someone thinks of something.”

“Guess so,” you shake your head. “Butō.”

Your single attack leaves a shallow slash on Gerard's arm, blood washing down onto the streets below as the rain surges down towards the river... for all its realistic details, there wasn't enough time to give this false Karakura town a real, functioning sewer system. An unseasonable thunderstorm wasn't something anyone anticipated.

“There you are, Ichimaru!” he roars, smashing the spot where you were standing until a moment ago before roaring again in pain.

“My eye!” he shouts as Captain Fēng puts three fangs from a Shitotsu Sansen into his eyeball and eyelid. “You damn pest!”

She manages to avoid the retaliatory swipe.

>Pelt Gerard's softest bits with strikes using Butō, anywhere a wound might cause him to slow.
>Use Butō and Dankū as best you can to cover Fēng and Rangiku, let them be distracting.
>Try using bakudō more heavily. Harass him constantly without actually harming him at all.
>Other?

>>2755850
>Try using bakudō more heavily. Harass him constantly without actually harming him at all.

>>2755850
>>Pelt Gerard's softest bits with strikes using Butō, anywhere a wound might cause him to slow.
Hitting him in the balls sounds acceptable.

>>2755850
>>Try using bakudō more heavily. Harass him constantly without actually harming him at all.

>>2755850
>leave nicks and small cuts. the sheer amount of surface area would mean lots of bloodloss.
>hurt him without actually hurting him

>>2755850
>Try using bakudō more heavily. Harass him constantly without actually harming him at all

>>2755850
>>Try using bakudō more heavily. Harass him constantly without actually harming him at all.

>>2755933
Seconded, remember he's still got full speed at that size. Not sure we could actually hold him with bakudo without Riku.

If our Arrancar buddies were to own a house of their own. what kind of house would it be?

>>2756876
Starkk- A hammock. Albiet a very nice hammock.

Neliel - European knight's castle.

Harribel - Japanese inspired temple or palace.

Menoly- a Treehouse, complete with no Quincy allowed sign.

>>2756900
you forgot about the Tres Girls. Apacci, Mila Rose, And Sun Sung.

>>2756911
There better be a triple bunk bed involved, that's all I have to say.

>>2756911
99% sure they would just crash with sharktits.

>>2756876
>Starrk and Lilynette
A tiny house. All the amenities, far less upkeep, and a hammock out front.
>Halibel
A traditional Okinawan-style family home. She'd want Apacci, Sun Sung, and Mila Rose to live on the premises but she wouldn't force them to.
>Nel
A modest Edwardian house.
>Apacci, Mila Rose, Sun Sung
Flatmates in a modern three-bed two-bath apartment.
>Menoly
A cheap, clean studio apartment in a good location.

>>2756963
>>Apacci, Mila Rose, Sun Sung
>Flatmates in a modern three-bed two-bath apartment.
Does this mean no triple bunk bed? Sounds like a missed opportunity, because bunk beds are fucking awesome. Though I guess they'd probably kill each other after the first week.

>>2756979
it's awesome until the top bunkmate gouges their chest open on a dresser corner from the top down from slipping on the ladder. I speak from personal experience. There was blood everywhere and I got a scar from that.

>>2756963
omake for the Arrancar house tour with the local shinigami? Would be good material for the Seireitei Monthly Newspaper.

>>2756992
I've actually got an omake planned along those lines.

>>2755850
>>>Try using bakudō more heavily. Harass him constantly without actually harming him at all.

Honestly I can't see this actually *winning* the fight, or being anything other than buying time to be honest. But it seems a lot more helpful than the other options.

>>2757076
That is not how I intended to post that. Freaking name tags...

>>2755850
>If things are already untenable, perhaps we should take a page from Riku’s Playbook and make things even more ridiculous. Force Askin into the fight. Maybe get them to Gremmy each other.

>>2757142
anon pls. no.

Wait, is M's power sorta like Tatsuki? Is Gerrard or the source of his volstandig hanging around in one small part of his body as he gets bigger and bigger? Is it actually his body of just reishi acting and responding to damage "like" a body? I might just be retarded but I don't actually know in this case.

>>2757874
in canon, kubo never explained it properly other than it was clearly bullshit overpowered with no visible canon solution except for a kubo asspull.

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>>2757874
>>2757938
His death scene (As per the wiki anyway) shows him reduced to a giant skeleton, so I think he genuinely is growing here.

>>2758128
well then i wonder how is he still standing wothout square cube law making him implode?

>>2758142
Maybe using that goofy quincy string technique to lift himself in areas so the weight is distrubuted differently. I forget how that thing works.

>>2758142
You are literally questioning physics on ghosts fighting in the afterlife with magic bullshit powers. Let that sink in for a minute...

>>2758142
It would take some kind of Miracle...

>>2758242
God I hate that gerad is literally this joke incarnate

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>Omake: Hollow House Hunting<

“So what is this meeting about?”

Toshiro isn't the only one who seems to be confused at who called a Captain's meeting out of the blue and why. In fact there are many more unresolved questions from several of his peers, the most common is why Captain Kusajishi would be the one to turn up late.

“So... is she planning on being here or not?” Captain Fēng asks her mentor quietly.

Yoruichi nods in response. “She's here.”

“This had better be worth my time,” Kenpachi grumbles.

When Kusajishi lets herself in, she quickly takes a position at the side of the doors. “Head Captain?”

Shunsui seemingly wakes up from the nap he's been taking. “Hm? That time already?”

“Yes.”

“Then bring her in,” Shunsui gestures lazily.

Kusajishi pokes her head out the door and says something quietly to someone standing outside, before waving in a dark-skinned woman with messy blonde hair and a bony chin.

“Miss Halibel?” Toshiro frowns in confusion. “What could possibly be going on here?”

“Why don't you ask her?” Shunsui muses.

“Apologies for the trouble,” Halibel apologizes with a barely-noticeable bow. “But I was informed that this would be necessary given the nature of my request.”

“And what request would that be?” Komamura asks, curiosity evident in his features.

“I wish to request clearance to purchase property within the Seireitei,” Halibel summarizes.

There are a few moments of silence before Kenpachi is the first to speak his mind.

“Why should we care?”

Halibel glances across the room to him. “Why don't you ask Captain Kusajishi?”

“I asked for Shunsui's okay,” Kusajishi responds, scratching lightly at her dark hair. “And he went to the Central 46.”

“And what did they say?” Sui Fēng asks curiously.

“I dunno, ask Shunsui.”

“They said it was a security matter,” Shunsui sighs. “And here we are.”
>1/?

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>>2758381
“So in other words, we're here to give a strategic partner permission to buy a house in the Seireitei?” Toshiro asks, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Am I understanding this situation correctly?”

“That's exactly the situation,” Kusajishi replies with a single nod.

After a few seconds, Toshiro shakes his head. “Head Captain, can we all go home now? I have actual work I need to be doing.”

“Don't let me keep you,” Shunsui sighs. “Hell, I don't even want to be here.”

“Should we not put it to a vote first?” Captain Unohana offers. “At least to give the appearance of proper procedure?”

“Anyone opposed say so,” Captain Kusajishi counters in a loud voice. “You don't speak up you're on record as giving the okay.”

“If I say no will you fight me?” Kenpachi asks, almost sounding hopeful.

“No,” Kusajishi answers immediately.

“Then I don't give a damn,” Kenpachi declares, already on his way out the door.

“Kusajishi, I trust that you will oversee this process?” Shunsui asks.

“I concur,” Unohana butts in with something that looks perilously close to a smirk. “That should satisfy any concerns the Central 46 still has regarding the situation, and you are already very familiar with Miss Halibel and her companions.”

Captain Kusajishi sighs heavily... this clearly wasn't how she intended to spend her day, and Unohana clearly knows it. “I thought we were friends now, Retsu.”

“I apologize for the inconvenience,” Halibel bows, a little more sincerely now than the token gesture she offered on her arrival. “But I agree that it would help to have someone present who better understands the Seireitei.”

Having now been asked personally for her assistance, Captain Kusajishi can't say no. “Very well... I'm not exactly familiar with the real estate market though. I'll need to confer with someone...”

“You're dragging me into this too,” Yoruichi realizes.

“Actually, my plans go beyond that...” Kusajishi grins deviously.
>2/?

>>2758660
>“Actually, my plans go beyond that...” Kusajishi grins deviously.
THERE'S MORE?

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>>2758660
The next day, four women meet outside the Ninth Division's main gate.

Tia Halibel and Kusajishi Riku arrive first, having only had to walk a few hundred meters to the meeting point: the former wears a borrowed yukata with a pattern of blue waves across it, while the latter wears her white Captain's haori over a design of pale blue with white and purple flowers. They are not waiting long before the second duo arrives.

Yoruichi wears her own sleeveless haori over a golden yukata lightly woven with a pattern of ferns and reeds, while Shiba Kūkaku has joined her wearing most of a red yukata with white and yellow starbursts like fireworks. Her entire prosthesis, painstakingly made by Shutara herself, is exposed along with half her chest covered by her usual skimpy red top.

“Shoulder joint catches on the fabric sometimes,” she explains her unusual choice in clothing gruffly. “What're you gonna do.”

“Exactly what you have done,” Kusajishi shrugs. “So, you ready to lend your expert advice?”

“I dunno why you think I'm some kinda expert,” Kūkaku snorts.

“Because you've been moving every couple of years since I've known you,” Kusajishi insists. “If anyone can pick out a good piece of property it's you.”

“She has a point, Kūkaku,” Yoruichi admits, scratching lightly at her ear. “I'd grin and bear it this time.”

“That's what family does, sis,” Kusajishi reminds her.

Kūkaku rolls her eyes. “Make me regret doin' a good thing why dontcha.”

“Come on, let's not bicker in front of our guest,” Yoruichi smirks.

Meanwhile, Halibel looks as if she is silently reconsidering her plans for the day.
>3/?

>>2759189
>>“Because you've been moving every couple of years since I've known you,” Kusajishi insists. “If anyone can pick out a good piece of property it's you.”

She does remember she is talking to a woman who uses statues of arms as decorations right?

>>2759676
I mean if you were missing something important in your life, wouldn't you too have statues of it everywhere?

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>>2759189
Okay random question Queen.

Riku's 9th gets their own houkiboshi ending (the 3rd ed with one different version for each of the gotei 13) what goes into it?

>>2759905
First sequence is a three-quarters portrait of Riku in the background with the “main” image being Riku resting her arm against her left hip where her swords both sit.

Second sequence is Rangiku with her eyes closed in the background with the “main” image being Rangiku turning to face the viewer.

Third sequence is the commandos and Rangiku freaking out in the printing press room while Riku's facedown on her desk in a pile of papers.

Fourth sequence has Riku casting Byakurai at Rangiku who blocks it with Haineko, disperses her ashes, but ends up trading a series of punches with Riku, ending with a side view of Riku and Rangiku bowing to each other. Yoruichi and Gin are watching in the background with sake (this is a reversal of the normal pattern where the Captain and Lieutenant are shown in a combat or action sequence first followed by a more subdued, relaxed scene: the sparring IS relaxation).

End sequence is the Ninth Division seal with Rangiku exactly as she is in the canon ED (albeit with shorter hair), standing back to back with Riku with Tenkotsuki already drawn at her right side and in the process of drawing Kobara no Tachi, and the commandos fade in behind them: the current three closest with former commandos at the edges.

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>>2759189
It's a process that takes far longer than anyone anticipated.

The first home was a rather large, almost palatial manor house suggested by Kūkaku as being suitable for something like a new “clan” of arrancars.

“It would require servants to maintain a home of this size,” Halibel had observed quite correctly.

“And you don't have those,” Kūkaku sighs.

Halibel shakes her head. “Nor do I approve of the message reliance on such servitude might send other arrancars which may some day join our cause.”

With the importance of a self-reliant attitude firmly established Yoruichi made her suggestion: a smaller home, small enough in fact that some of its occupants would have to share sleeping quarters, but with expansive property that already included two distinct gardens and a training area.

“Can you imagine Apacci, Mila Rose, and Sun Sung gardening?” Halibel quips.

Yoruichi's expression sours as any number of possibilities plays out in her mind. “Actually yeah, I can imagine it... not going particularly well, that is.”

“They do tend to bicker a lot,” Riku admits. “And when they do...”

“Lots of fireworks?” Kūkaku guesses.

“A garden this size all to ourselves means too many combustibles, not enough sense of restraint,” Halibel concludes. “Sorry, but I do not think this fits our needs either.”

“I do not understand why we had to sneak into Captain Kuchiki's manor,” she would later admit after a brief side excursion at Riku's behest.

“Because it amuses me,” Riku insists.

“Did it at least give you any ideas what you were looking for?” Yoruichi asks.

Halibel shakes her head. “There are simply too many factors which I have no experience weighing against each other.”

“Well, what's your budget?” Kūkaku asks.

Halibel blinks once in silence before answering. “Budget?”

“Yeah, budget,” Riku repeats. “How much money have you set aside for this?”

"Oh, that. We...” Halibel begins, as her trio of companions each turns to stare intently.

“... don't have a budget.”

After the shock and dismay wears off, Kusajishi Riku simply resolves to build a small house on the Ninth Division's grounds near her own and give it to the arrancar, thus settling the matter.
>4/4

>>2760348
Kek
I mean what do hollows need money for

>>2760365
Not a whole hell of a lot.

So, has Starrk ever been sufficiently active to perhaps impart his technique to the other arrancar? The animate ceros I mean. I ask because of Haribel learns to make shark ceros, then she could make an actual sharknado. Also, why hasn't she just kept her enemies perpetually covered in deep water to minimize their ability to move around and allowing her to influence their every action. Gonna be tougher now, I suppose, with the bs unkillable dude that they never defeat in canon. They had to wait Bach to do it for them.

>>2761809
Animate Cero is a spell only Starrk can cast, it's something related to his intrinsic capabilities in much the same way that increasing his size is something Gerard could do before getting a Schrift.

Halibel's abilities would be very draining to maintain long-term without an external source of water, and even if that gets solved it's still something you can escape through brute force.