>>2908901
It's been three days since you accepted Inari's offer and moved into the Valley of Screams. You choose not to tell her that this is the same extradimensional space which will later end up pinned to the outside of the Soul Society as your private training area and a hiding place for the arrancar you'll have a hand in creating.

No need to spread around details like that.

Instead, with a little help from Inari, you've been busy getting seeds into the ground and pretending to listen while she god-splains to you how to make these crops grow at an accelerated rate. But you really can't complain, with her help setting up you'll be able to grow rice, onions, and at your insistence tropical fruits. Most of these are planted in familiar spots within the valley, spots where you'll eventually find them again.

You constantly have to fight back the urge to leave yourself a snarky message written in the arrangement of the trees.

But the morning you awake, finding that Inari has left you be for now, you're faced with a choice.

You have around a hundred and fifty to two hundred years to pass before you reach your 'final form'. The choice now is what to do with them.

>Back to basics. Polish the four basic shinigami combat arts to perfection.
>Spend some time in jinzen, commune with your swords for a few years.
>Try to manifest your zanpakuto in alternative forms, like a quincy might.
>Other?

>>2908906
>>Back to basics. Polish the four basic shinigami combat arts to perfection.
Always start with the basics.

>>2908906
>>Try to manifest your zanpakuto in alternative forms, like a quincy might.
ooh, new thing. Let's try it

>>2908906
>Spend some time in jinzen, commune with your swords for a few years.

>>2908906
>alternative forms of manifestation

>>2908906
>Back to basics. Polish the four basic shinigami combat arts to perfection.
We've got plenty of time, may as well start with the basics.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>flipping a coin

>>2908939
>3d10, DC 18, crit 23, best of four

Rolled 7, 5, 7 = 19 (3d10)

>>2908940

Rolled 7, 1, 7 = 15 (3d10)

>>2908940

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

>>2908940
LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

>>2908947
you're not defeatin' anyone with that roll

>>2908941
thanks for rollin'

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

>>2908940

And now give me a roll of 2d10, taking the second roll.

Rolled 3, 8 = 11 (2d10)

>>2908957

>>2908957

Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d10)

>>2908957

>>2908906
Seventeen years.

By your count you spend just a little more than seventeen years doing nothing but reviewing basic shinigami combat techniques for twelve hours a day, sleeping for eight, and dedicating the other four to eating, bathing, and tending to your food supplies.

You ran out of novel ways to cook your limited variety of crops after just two years, though thankfully that's enough variation to avoid becoming completely bored of your diet. Next time you see Inari you should definitely ask her for some spices.

Your shunpō and hirenkyaku are still utterly flawless, at least to your mind. If there's anything wrong with your movement technique it would be because Yoruichi taught you wrong, and you really can't see that being possible.

In terms of zanjutsu your technical ability is still incredibly advanced. Tennin Rishin-ryū and Jigen-ryū still form the core of your ability, though you have to admit that the jūjutsu techniques of the former have gotten to be quite rusty in your care. Particularly the use of the tasuki or sageo for binding techniques, which seem almost quaint compared to the far more specialized bakudō techniques taught at the academy. Though with a few years of practice you're able to improve your abilities with that body of techniques.

Your hakuda is in a similar condition to your shunpō, though you do spend three years in shunkō in order to be certain that you've covered all four of the combat arts with due diligence.

Which left the bulk of your time to practicing each numbered spell including the Goryūtenmetsu one thousand times.

That lasted for about a hundred times before you got painfully bored.

What's the point of even using most of these anymore? Like several of the whip or chain-like bakudō spells... they no longer serve a purpose in your repertoire.

The exception of course turned out to be bakudō 63, Sajō Sabaku, whose chain-like form is very similar to the generic kidō chains favored by some in the Shiba clan like your brother Isshin. This you practice for four years continuously, working tirelessly to reduce their size and increase their density to match and in terms of strength exceed Isshin's technique.

Then you spend six months training yourself to use it with the Tennin Rishin-ryū in place of a normal length of cord, holding it in both hands and relying on Tenkotsuki to strengthen it with a modified incantation.

Here, for the first time in a long time, is a modified kidō of your own making: a fine but impossibly strong slivery chain which has no name, but is the missing piece to your personal style which you never knew you had wanted.

Not bad for a seventeen-year investment.

>Continue working on your kidō, see what another decade or two yields in terms of inventive uses.
>Try to manifest your swords in different forms from their usual kōdachi, it may give you some flexibility.
>Mix it up a little, spend a decade in jinzen.
>Other?

>>2909010
>Try to manifest your swords in different forms from their usual kōdachi, it may give you some flexibility.

>>2909010
>>Try to manifest your swords in different forms from their usual kōdachi, it may give you some flexibility.
all the surprises

>>2909010
>>Try to manifest your swords in different forms from their usual kōdachi, it may give you some flexibility.

TO DEFEAT

>>2909010
>>Try to manifest your swords in different forms from their usual kōdachi, it may give you some flexibility.

THE HUNS

>>2909010
>>Try to manifest your swords in different forms from their usual kōdachi, it may give you some flexibility.

>>2909010
>>Mix it up a little, spend a decade in jinzen.

>>2909010
>Mix it up a little, spend a decade in jinzen
Casual decade of meditation, as you do

>3d10, best of three this time
>DC 16, critical 22

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

>>2909074

>>2909010
>Mix it up a little, spend a decade in jinzen.

Rolled 5, 9, 1 = 15 (3d10)

>>2909074

>>2909078
>>2909082
shit.
someone clutch pls?

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

>>2909074

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

>>2909074

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

>>2909074

Rolled 1, 2, 5 = 8 (3d10)

>>2909074

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>>2909087
my thanks

>2d10, taking the third roll

Rolled 7, 1 = 8 (2d10)

>>2909137

Rolled 9, 7 = 16 (2d10)

>>2909137

Rolled 8, 2 = 10 (2d10)

>>2909137

>>2909137
For twenty-six years you delve into the subject of your own zanpakutō: chiefly, the question of whether you can change their shapes. It makes a certain amount of sense: you do after all share some techniques in common with quincy who are adept at forming reishi weapons. So much to Tenkotsuki's consternation you spend several years trying to turn her into a gun... then a bow... then a halberd, a slightly longer sword, and in the end you spend a month just trying to adjust the curvature of her spine.

No luck at all.

After a while you begin to come to the conclusion that once forged and properly imprinted, a zanpakutō cannot change its shape without being reforged entirely. Some may well have a transformation gimmick like Hozukimaru or Kobara no Tachi, and others like Zabimaru may deliberately hide or withhold their own Bankai forms for years. But a sword cannot be a spear nor vice versa.

A caveat you recognize however is that all zanpakutō possess a limited ability to adapt to their wielder's needs and preferences. Kamitinbe functions now as a bayonet instead of a spear, and your own swords' fittings have changed slightly over the years as well. If memory serves Gin's zanpakutō Shinsō may also have grown slightly longer to suit his increasingly lanky frame as he grew up, it just did so subtly enough that nobody really took much notice.

Also, it's a little hard to know how long it “should” be in the first place, so any conclusions you come to in that regard are tentative at best.

But what you do get for your efforts is an ability you didn't have before.

It starts with a focused, year-long effort to make a single metal needle using the quincy art. Then that needle became a larger needle, and eventually a small, flat knife like those that Yoruichi is known for using.

Three years it takes you to get the hang of it, but this should be a nasty surprise for someone at some point down the line, even if the occasion never comes to use it on Aizen.

>Kidō
>Jinzen
>Take a peek at hueco mundo
>Hollow techniques
>Other?

>>2909217
>Take a peek at hueco mundo

>>2909217
>>Jinzen

>>2909217
>Hollow techniques
It's important to be holistic

>>2909217
>go topside and see what Mom is up to.
If mom refuses to let us out of the basement
>Hollow techniques

>>2909217
>>Jinzen

>>2909217
>>Hollow techniques
First we did shinigami stuff, then quincy things, time to wrap it up with hollow shenanigans.
And once that's done I'd be down for Jinzen.

>>2909217
>>Hollow techniques

>>2909217
>Hollow techniques

>>2909217
>Hollow techniques

>>2909217
>>Hollow techniques

>>2909217
>>2909252
>Take a peek at hueco mundo
Adding this if possible.

>3d10, best of two this time due to a certain disadvantage

Rolled 4, 7, 5 = 16 (3d10)

>>2909264

Rolled 10, 8, 9 = 27 (3d10)

>>2909264
Here goes nothing.

Rolled 6, 7, 5 = 18 (3d10)

>>2909264

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>>2909269
ENLIGHTENMENT!
GOOD ONE ANON!

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>>2909269

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>>2909264
>>2909269
Get fucked losers we're killin it today

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>>2909269
>certain disadvantage

>>2909264
Three years into focusing on your cero, trying very hard to force yourself to do it faster, you start to notice an odd sensation in the small of your back. Before long, you realize what the cause was.

One morning, when releasing your swords to begin practicing, it happens.

A searing pain shoots through your body, and your vision blurs. You think you can hear yourself shouting, and as quickly as it came the pain disappears as if it were never there in the first place.

The Valley of Screams has been wiped almost clean from the pressure, scoured of any vegetation for several hundred yards. It's only begun to occur to you that most of your food is gone now when you notice that something feels different.

One, two, three... eight in total.

You've reached eight tails.

“That was far more dramatic,” you muse, suddenly concerned over this new development. The release of your reiatsu did so much damage so instantaneously that it's almost hard to believe, but it's clear that in any event you have a very practical problem.

>Seek out Inari, you have questions which need answering.
>Go to Hueco Mundo, test out your new abilities in the wastes.
>Test your new abilities here, even if it does wreck the place.
>Other?

>>2909319
>Go to Hueco Mundo, test out your new abilities in the wastes.

>>2909319
>Seek out Inari, you have questions which need answering.
We don't want to hit 8.5 tails too soon.

>>2909319
>>Seek out Inari, you have questions which need answering.
we're concerned; time to go to mommy

>>2909319
>>>Seek out Inari, you have questions which need answering.
Something's probably happening out there.

I forget: what color are our tails again?

>>2909319
>Seek out Inari, you have questions which need answering.

>>2909319
>>Seek out Inari, you have questions which need answering.
Sure why not.

>>2909319
>Go to Hueco Mundo, test out your new abilities in the wastes.
THE HUNS

>>2909319
>>Go to Hueco Mundo, test out your new abilities in the wastes.

>3d10, best of four

Rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14 (3d10)

>>2909400

Rolled 8, 3, 7 = 18 (3d10)

>>2909400

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

>>2909400

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

>>2909400

Rolled 1, 8, 8 = 17 (3d10)

>>2909400
Hello, non-dusty Hueco

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

>>2909400

>>2909400
The immediate problem: you need to sort out your food situation.

So you seal your swords and head to the living world once more, making straight for the Inari shrine at Fushimi. A few minutes in quiet contemplation, and a familiar figure appears before you.

“It has been a few decades, Kusajishi Riku,” Inari greets you warmly. “How has your training progressed?”

“Well,” you reply. “Have you had your child yet?”

“A few years ago, yes,” Inari informs you. “I have not forgotten your situation.”

“There was one issue that's come up,” you admit. “We reached eight tails this morning, and when we did it blew away our entire food supply.”

“I can help with that of course,” she agrees. “But I take it that is not the only problem you encountered?”

>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?
>How exactly am I supposed to hide something more powerful than THAT?
>Other?

>>2909472
>>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?
>>How exactly am I supposed to hide something more powerful than THAT?
*Confused demigod noises*

>>2909472
>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?

>>2909472
>>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?
>>How am I supposed to cut off the ninth in time?

>>2909472
>How exactly am I supposed to hide something more powerful than THAT?
>other: "she" isn't here is she? *paranoid-Future-goddess-in-the-past-noises
>other: I think my rate of progress has gone too fast. How can I maximize the time without accidentally attaining tenko 700 years too early?

>>2909472
>>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?

>>2909472
>>How exactly am I supposed to hide something more powerful than THAT?

>>2909472
>>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?

>>2909472
>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?

>>2909472
>>The eighth tail appeared in an explosion... is that normal?
>>How exactly am I supposed to hide something more powerful than THAT?

>>2909472
“When the eighth tail appeared there was an explosion,” you tell Inari, your brow furrowed with worry. “Is that normal? And how exactly am I supposed to cut off a part of the ninth one if it happens that quick?”

Inari seems to consider her response for a few moments. “It is not entirely normal for such a transition to occur with explosive force, however your combat abilities are far more formidable than most. While there have certainly been beings who have reached nine tails in the past, myself included, only Inari is a true divinity among those.”

“And among those who are Inari, only you have the inclination and the training to be considered a warrior of any repute. So it is understandable that your experience would be more violent.”

“And the second question?” you ask. “What's the guarantee that I'll be able to do what I have to in the moment?”

“That is entirely dependent on your own ability to focus on the task,” Inari tells you. “Though I also suspect that it will take a substantially longer time to complete that change, giving you more of a chance to do what you must.”

>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.
>Ask her about the plan from there: how do you hide something like that?
>Thank her for her assistance, work on those solutions for yourself.
>Other?

>>2909556
>>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.
Shove it into a sword.
We 3 sword now.

>>2909556
>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.
>Thank her for her assistance

>>2909556

>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.

>>2909556
>>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.

>>2909565
I mean could we shove it in a daughter? Or a wife?

>>2909565
Rather than a sword, we DO have that sphere thing from Tenkotsuki's bankai...

>>2909556
>>Thank her for her assistance, work on those solutions for yourself.

>>2909556
>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.

>>2909556
>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.
>>2909565
>>2909580
Interesting ideas...

>>2909576
>>2909591
>>2909580
Being eco-friendly's hard work.
Can't just leave a piece of divine power around.

>>2909576
>shoving your "sword" into your wife

C'mon man

>>2909597
It's a tail!

>>2909556
>>Ask her about what might be done with the severed partial tail.

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>>2909601
You can call it whatever you want, we know what you mean.

>>2909595
watch us leave it to the Shihōin clan as an artifact

>>2909612
>and watch it be nommed by Aizen.

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>>2909618

>>2909618
Aizen didn't nom the Oen or whatever. He went after the spear Yoruichi WASN'T in charge of

>>2909556
>3d10, best of four

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

>>2909625

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

>>2909625
rolling for eco-friendliness

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

>>2909625

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

>>2909626

Rolled 1, 10, 10 = 21 (3d10)

>>2909625

>>2909631
good thing your dice didn't count.

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>>2909634

>>2909631
Indeed, linked to the wrong post. This doesn't count, right, Queen?

>>2909625
“Prohibit, Tenkotsuki.”

Your divine host watches with curiosity as you produce a small purplish ball of crystal, the Hoshi no Tama which is passed between yourself and Tenkotsuki.

“If I were to store the shinreiryoku from the half-tail I'm supposed to in this,” you ask, holding it out for Inari to see, “would that work? Would I be able to store it that way and use that shinreiryoku at a later date, if the need arises?”

Inari stares carefully at the Hoshi no Tama. “That is the source of your shinreiryoku in Bankai?”

“Yes.”

“Then I am unsure,” Inari admits. “I am not the right person to ask.”

That's a fair point. Tenkotsuki would be able to tell you whether this plan of yours will work or whether it would just go around in a circle, granting you that power anew whenever you used your full release form and thereby failing to solve the problem.

So you enter jinzen and pose the question.

Tenkotsuki shakes her head. “I do not believe it will work, Lady Riku. My apologies... placing the power you deny yourself alongside the power you allow yourself to use will only result in you using the power you were intending to deny... storing that half-tail in the Hoshi no Tama will not be a solution.”

“Thanks,” you sigh. “I'm a little disappointed it's not that easy, but then again I guess it makes sense. And it's better to know before we make the mistake.”

Returning to Inari, you shrug. “Apparently it won't work. Can I count on you then to keep it then?”

For a few more moments it seems Inari is doing nothing but considering your request. “I believe that is consistent with the rules, so yes. I am willing to do this for you.”

“Thanks, I appreciate it.”

>Do you have a plan for me to hide?
>Back to training.
>Other?

>>2909684
>Back to training.

>>2909684
>>Back to training.

>>2909684
>>Do you have a plan for me to hide?

>>2909684
>Do you have a plan for me to hide?
>other: "How is Tamamao by the way? Just wondering out of curiosity"

>>2909684
>>Back to training.
100 YEARS IN JINZEN OR BUST

>>2909684
someone remind me why we have to hide when we're chillin' in a Valley of Screams?

Also,
>Any embarrassing stories about Tamamo-no-Mae? We're all family

>>2909696
You share the memories while in Bankai, you already know all of them.

>>2909696
Our burst of power when we exercise could trigger the Royal Guard Radar.

>>2909696
Because eventually the Riku we used to be will open the Valley of Screams and we'd have to hide somewhere else.

>>2909696
Because this is the same Valley of Screams that Riku and Yoruichi eventually find.

>>2909699
did i miss the part where Tamamo/Tenkotsuki has eidetic memory?

>>2909684
>Do you have a plan for me to hide?

>>2909684
>>Do you have a plan for me to hide?

>>2909684
>Back to training.

>>2909684
>Back to training.
T I M E S K I P

>>2909713
The divine either store memory in another way or just have that much space.
Remember how the fullbringer dude tried to I'm your friend Riku that one time?
And how he also had his shit pushed in by the number of memories there are in Tenko?

>>2909722
Point. 3000 years of memories are not conducive to most brains.
I still think it'd be cool/fun to hear from Inari's perspective though.

>Jinzen
>Hollow powers
>Test the limitations of this new tail
>Other?

>>2909722
He apparently managed to "I'm your firend" yoroichi though from what I remember. Or rather he stripped her out of it.

>>2909740
>>Test the limitations of this new tail
Testing, testing; one, two, boom

>>2909740
>>Test the limitations of this new tail
Why not, it may prove useful.

>>2909740
>Test the limitations of this new tail

Maybe make sure to not nuke the pocket dimension though. We should set up some wards and such.

>>2909740
>Test the limitations of this new tail

>>2909740
>Jinzen

>>2909740
>>Test the limitations of this new tai
Sure

>>2909740
>>Test the limitations of this new tail

>>2909740
>Test the limitations of this new tail

>3d10, Best of four

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

>>2909826
tail

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

>>2909826

Rolled 10, 6, 2 = 18 (3d10)

>>2909826

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

>>2909826

>>2909826
“So, Tenkotsuki,” you muse, after taking your leave of Inari once more. “What can I expect from this tail? More of the same?”

“The old stories of what nine-tailed foxes were capable of suggest many things,” she tells you. “Though I am unsure what of that is possible given our circumstances. Might I suggest a change of scenery to ensure that our extradimensional refuge is not put at undue risk before we can discover it in several centuries' time?”

“Where were you thinking?”

“Hueco Mundo. The proper warding will also be a part of the test.
>Agree, conduct the test in an isolated spot in Hueco Mundo.
>Disagree, take the risk of damaging the Valley of Screams.
>Only if we combine this with a trip to look for places to hide.
>Other?

>>2909873
>>Only if we combine this with a trip to look for places to hide.
Why not, seems like a reasonable idea.

>>2909873
>Only if we combine this with a trip to look for places to hide.

>>2909873
>>Only if we combine this with a trip to look for places to hide.

>>2909873
>Agree, conduct the test in an isolated spot in Hueco Mundo.

>>2909873
>>Only if we combine this with a trip to look for places to hide.

>>2909873
>>Only if we combine this with a trip to look for places to hide.
Multitasking is a go!

>>2909873
>Agree, conduct the test in an isolated spot in Hueco Mundo.

>Attention local hollows, this is your 5-minute Kusajishi Riku warning. Repeat, Kusajishi Riku will be arriving here shortly. You are advised to hide your children and secure any loose possessions before evacuating the immediate area.
>Wait, who's that?
>Oh right, this procedure was only put in place after 1945...
They're doomed

Inb4 we cause a localized hollow reitsu density increase that results in some of our friends in eventuality.

>3d10, best of five this time for reasons

Rolled 6, 7, 2 = 15 (3d10)

>>2909911

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

>>2909911
>reasons

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

>>2909911

Rolled 7, 4, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>2909911

Rolled 9, 2, 6 = 17 (3d10)

>>2909918
Woops. Wrong dice.

>>2909911

Rolled 6, 5, 7 = 18 (3d10)

>>2909911

Rolled 5, 10, 4 = 19 (3d10)

>>2909911

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

>>2909911

Rolled 3, 8, 7 = 18 (3d10)

>>2909911

Rolled 8, 5, 5, 4, 3, 7, 9, 5 = 46 (8d10)

>>2909911
>QM roll

>>2909961
>>2909961
scared.jpg.

>>2909911
You manage to erect a fairly basic barrier and suppress your reiatsu as much as possible, and so you think that you arrived in Hueco Mundo without being noticed. But you very nearly crashed headfirst into a hollow, so for all your preparations it was almost a disaster anyway.

And for a moment, after extricating yourself from that, you have to take a moment to stop and stare.

“Is that... what I think it is, Lady Riku?”

You scoop your proverbial jaw up off the ground and manage to compose a response. “I think?”

“That's not the way I remember it,” Rosa agrees.

“There should be...” you begin, frowning at the aberration in front of you, “... a hole in the moon, right?”

There clearly isn't.

“That would be my memory as well,” Tenkotsuki confirms.

“Right through it,” Rosa agrees again.

“But there's no hole,” you observe dumbly. “Where's the hole gone?”

Tenkotsuki stares sidelong at you, having manifested to your right. “Has it simply not gotten a hole through it yet, or was there never a hole at all even in our own time?”

“Or was there even a moon to begin with?” Rosa muses, having manifested to your left.

You and Tenkotsuki both stare at her in shock. “What? I think it's a fair question at this point, why would Hueco Mundo even have a moon? Is this like an actual planet or something?”

“That's...” you begin.

“... brilliant!” Tenkotsuki declares. “You really can be a genius sometimes.”

That... wasn't where you were going with that.

“Explain.”
>1/2

>>2909965
we hide up in the sky disguised as Hueco's moon? jesus we're rippin' off that rabbit goddess

>>2909969
More like we're the cause of Ghost Mexico for having a hole in it's moon.

>>2909969
No WE put the hole in the moon

So question:
Why don't we just give our tail half to our wife?
She already has divine reitsu in her due to that native american pipe(?) used a while back, she should be able to hold onto it.

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>>2909974
>>2909976
is it a HOLE though, or does it just look like one? (y'know to hide that we're there)

>>2909990
probably because that's several hundred years in the future, and we're not that far off from getting a ninth

>>2909965
“Have you never stopped to consider it?” Tenkotsuki muses, now back within the confines of your mind as you stare up at the white crescent. “The peculiarity of a moon with a hole through it? So bright, with such a crisp edge to the edges?”

“A few times,” you admit. “Where are you going with this?”

“Hueco Mundo has no sun,” she points out.

… well fuck.

That makes sense to you now.

“The only reason the moon is visible in the night sky is that it's reflecting the light from the sun,” you realize aloud. “Its position relative to earth is responsible for the phases of the moon. But Hueco Mundo has no sun.”

“And my theory is that it has no moon either,” Tenkotsuki summarizes.

“That's what I was afraid of,” Rosa sighs. “The question becomes who put it there?”

“There are old stories of beings of such great power that they could weave illusions indistinguishable from reality,” Tenkotsuki declares. “Like a tree of impossible height, or a second moon in the sky... or in this case a first moon in the sky.”

>So... I take it that means we can't train there, then?
>We... should talk with Inari some more. That's a real mindfuck.
>Well where ARE we going to train?
>... I think I know where the hole came from.
>Other?

>>2909997
>>... I think I know where the hole came from.
hoo boy.

>>2909997
>>... I think I know where the hole came from.

>>2909997
>>... I think I know where the hole came from.

>>2909997
>>... I think I know where the hole came from.
cogito

>>2909997
>>Well where ARE we going to train?

>>2909997
>... I think I know where the hole came from.

>>2909997
>>... I think I know where the hole came from.

>>2909996
I Was thinking when we get back there instead of having a potentially dangerous artifact around.

>>2910014
we left in the middle of Aizen's battle. When would we have the time? Unless you wanna risk a paradox. Or distracting Yoruichi

>>2910021
Point, however if we know where yoruichi is at the time we left then we might be able to work something out. Really depends if we can pick and choose when we arrive back into the action so to speak.

In this case I was more wondering about the long term storage of the tail half after the battle.

>>2910035
Ah.
Idk I kinda like that Inari holds it: hard to target a god like Inari vs a shinigami like Yoruichi.

>>2910055
Conversely she may be restricted from holding it or forced to deny access to it for Riku when/if its ever needed. But we can always inquire. Always a little wary of including the gods more than strictly needed as divine politics can get messy.

>>2909997
>... I think I know where the hole came from.

>>2910068
Somethin' to ask about then

>>2909997
“Why have you called me here?” Inari demands several minutes later, after you retreated to her shrine to call upon her for the second time today.

“You see that moon up there?” you ask.

She stares at it. “Yes?”

“It's an illusion.”

She narrows her eyes for a moment. “So it would seem. Fascinating.”

“I need to ask another favor,” you admit.

“And that would be?”

“When the time comes,” you continue, “do you think you could disguise me as a hole through that illusory moon? Leave me that way until the day and time that I specify, then come to retrieve me?”

“That is a very specific request,” Inari replies thoughtfully. “In your time the moon of Hueco Mundo appears to have a hole through it?”

You nod. “Yes.”

“Then it sounds as if I have no choice,” Inari sighs. “I am glad that you brought this to my attention.”

“Thank you,” you bow to your divine mother. “I appreciate the lengths you are going to on my behalf.”

“I will admit,” Inari shakes her head. “I also must consider the timeline, and the position my daughter is placing me in with regards to divine politics.”

“I'm at least a little familiar with that problem,” you admit. “Sorry for that. But if it's any consolation the foreign gods will kind of be okay with it. Artemis and Coyote in particular.”

“Foreign gods agreeing on anything?” Inari scoffs quietly. “Seeing that would make this whole process worthwhile in and of itself. But this is also for the sake of my daughter... so of course you have my support. As you always will, even if not in a way that you can see I will be there for you.”

After a few moments of considering it, you offer Inari an awkward embrace. “Thank you.”

>>2910090
And it's quite late, so I have to knock off at this point. Hope you enjoyed the ride, and see you next time!

Archive is where it always is, Twitter handle is the same, Discord is up and active. Any questions you might have I'll try to answer in a timely manner in-thread.

>>2910090
HAHA! Fcking called it! We're the Bleach version of Nightmare Moon sealed in the moon!

>>2910096
thanks for running man, love this quest

>>2910096
Well this is a mindfuck in and of itself.

>>2910096
>tfw the entire time Riku would've encountered Future!Riku if she stared harder at the moon of Ghost Mexico and shunpo'd her way to the moon.

>>2910096
Thanks for runnin'!

Did we end up passin' or failin' those hidden DC rolls? Or just what they were for?

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>>2910096
I wonder if we'll be able to do some more investigating about the tidal forces from up there.
Also, throwback to thread 83, damn.
>Omake request: Aizen sends an arrancar to Hueco Mundo's moon

>>2910180
>>2910117
>>2910096
another Omake request: Riku somehow opens up the seal to Future!Riku on an investigative trip to Hueco Mundo's Moon.

>>2910096
Do Quincies have legends? Like why the Moon's a thing? An omake with Rosa's parents telling her such a legend, or somethin' would be cool

>>2910180
“And that's how we've developed it,” Szayelapporo concludes.

Most of the Sternritter and Espada are either asleep or so painfully bored by the lecture that their eyes have begun to roll and glaze over. But Aizen is simply sitting in his chair at the head of the long table, still listening politely.

“And so polishing sekki stone into a nozzle proved to be the most effective method?” he asks for clarification.

Szayelapporo nods. “Mayuri was trying to do it through more sophisticated means of course, though it turned out just enslaving some hollows to turn a big grindstone was much more effective.”

“And the hollows?”

“Dead from exhaustion.”

“Hah!” Gerard snorts.

“It's not like we have a shortage of those,” Askin agrees.

“So are we going to get to see the results of your work?” Aizen asks.

Szayelapporo claps his hands, and a rumbling within the building startles the still-catatonic Espada and the rest of the Sternritter awake as the walls and ceiling of Aizen's meeting room begin to slide open to view the interior of Las Noches behind a wide panoramic window. At the same time holes in the ground and in the sky-patterned ceiling begin to open, revealing the night sky as well as the rising form of a massive rocket, easily large enough to fit a gillian inside its fuselage.

“The gillian inside its fuselage will fire a cero into the induction system,” Szayelapporo explains excitedly, “which will be concentrated by the sekki-stone nozzle system and converted into thrust. This will then send the pilot, a fraccion of Barragan's, to Hueco Mundo's moon!”

“Who gave you permission for this?” Barragan grumbles.

“Don't worry,” Szayelapporo assures the old arrancar. “It was only that hammer-headed fool, and he volunteered.”

“I see,” Barragan nods as Szayelapporo contacts the pilot.

“Are you ready?”

A grainy image projected onto the surface of the window shows the hammerhead arrancar's face.

“I am ready to claim this moon for Lord Barragan and Lord Aizen!” the hammerhead arrancar declares loudly.
>1/2

>>2912141
>easily large enough to fit a gillian inside its fuselage.
>“The gillian inside its fuselage will fire a cero into the induction system,”
Sasuga Szayelapporo-san.

But how do they get the Gillian to fire when they want it to? I'm now picturing a lever that causes a mallet to strike the Gillian when pulled.

Oh, we should spend a little bit of our time to do something nice for mama Inari to thank her. Bit tough to imagine what we could do though. We can't just make her a painting to hang on the refrigerator . . . can we?

>>2912208
shit I didn't even notice that, fuck now I'm dying

So does all this mean that Riku is going to be Yoruichi’s senior now?

>>2910090
>>2910180
#83
>Riku: “Can we even GET into space from here?”

#136
>Riku: "Hide me on the moon pls mom"

best character development

>>2919264
#2
>Get a tattoo of the moon
#87
>Gosh that moon is looking pretty big
#136
>I'm gonna BE the moon

The whole quest has been leading up to becoming Hueco Mundo's moon, Queen's keikaku reveals itself.

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>>2920012

So wait, what exactly is our game plan? To just wait on the moon till the exact moment that we get sent back in time by that glorified lawn ornament and then replace ourself?

>>2920041
Probably? But we're also Onmitsu, so we can probably sneak around too, assuming we can hide our eight-and-a-half-tail power.

>>2910090
Also, I wonder if Inari could use our half-a-tail to give at least Tenkotsuki a body. The "Shortest Day" omake stuck with me. If not Inari, then could we do it at eight-and-a-half? Or shapeshift so Tenkotsuki looks like herself when piloting.

Oh, and who's down for trying to release Rosa with Akirashi Shunkō? We failed the roll and thought we'd go nuclear. And now we have more reiatsu.
Thoughts?

>>2920057
We were in full release with Akirashi Shunkō in our fight with the bird boy so I think we are good on that now.

>>2920041
Currently the plan is to use Jikanteishi on yourself, at which point Inari will disguise you as the hole in Hueco Mundo's illusory moon. For several hundred years hollows will just accept as fact that the moon has a hole in it, when in reality it's all just illusions and perceptual tricks layered on top of each other.

Inari will also ensure that you are released at the correct moment.

>will post part 2 of the omake later tonight when I'm done baking

>>2912141
“Begin the countdown!” Szayelapporo declares.

Just then Kurotsuchi Mayuri walks into the meeting room. “What is all of this commotion?”

“We're putting an arrancar on the moon, apparently,” Askin replies nonchalantly. “Wanna watch?”

“Why would I have to watch?” Mayuri muses. “You can hear that stupid thing from anywhere in Las Noches!”

“Call it 'stupid' once it reaches the moon,” Szayelapporo snorts. “That is, if you still can.”

In the background an assistant begins the countdown with thirty seconds.

“So, anyone want to take bets?” Askin muses.

“What would we even bet with?” Salao grumbles mutinously. “It's not like we have money.”

Askin sighs wearily as the countdown reaches twenty seconds. “And this is why we never hang out.”

“I say it's going to work,” Wonderweiss declares.

Barragan stares at him in disapproval. “Based on what evidence?”

As the count from ten begins, Wonderweiss shrugs. “I just have a good feeling.”

“Three... two... one...” the assistant counts aloud.

“Fire it!” Szayelapporo orders.

“I'm firing it!” the hammerhead arrancar shouts. “For Lord Barrag...”

And the rest of what he was about to say is cut short by the explosion.

The sides of the rocket split apart like a banana, visibly peeling away for a moment before the crimson reiatsu leaking from the gaps consumes the fuselage of the rocket. The vehicle disintegrates into a massive fireball the birth of which shakes all of Las Noches to its foundations.

A small piece of debris falls from the ceiling and lands on the table, and Aizen's expression doesn't change as he flicks it away with one finger.

As the rumble of the explosion subsides, the whole room is silent except for a single snort of laughter from Mayuri.

“Stupid!”

“Well, that went well,” Wonderweiss muses happily.

“It went... well!?” Szayelapporo repeats with an incredulous stare.

“What, was it not supposed to do that?”

"Szayelapporo," Aizen muses, still smiling even as the arrancar flinches instinctively.

"... yes, Lord Aizen?"

"Clean that up immediately."

Szayelapporo practically falls over himself in a rush to comply. "Of course, Aizen! Right away!"

Once the arrancar has fled the room, Aizen shakes his head. "Perhaps it would be simpler to move our base of operations to the Schattenbereich after all."

"But you just sent that guy to..." Askin begins, before realizing what he was saying. "Ah. Well, whatever. You're the boss."
>2/2

>>2921598
It's not rocket science without a few casualties.
At least he did not eat the moon cheese.

>>2921608
>he didn't live long enough to learn that there never WAS a moon in the first place
Only the dead know peace from Riku's bullshit.

>>2921632
Couldn’t someone have just used the ability to fly to go up and see what happened?

>>2921632
Even then, that's only sometimes.

>>2921656
The moon's dang far away if it's anything like the Earth's.

>>2921659
>if it's anything like the Earth's.
I severely doubt that.

>>2921632
Omake ideas:

SSQ!Rangiku vs Canon!Yoruichi
SSQ!Apacci vs Canon!Harribel
Yoruichi mothering
Young!Rosa being told a bedtime story
The birth of Riku's shrine

>>2921659
Once you leave atmosphere theres nothing stopping you from continually increasing your speed. So provided you didnt need to breathe or took a supply with you, once you got high enough (2 miles give or take for earth) you could then just keep using reitsu like a continual propulsion system. I mean youde have to know what you were doing of course since if you fuck up you risk crashing into the moon at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light, or missing and flying off into space for a while until you correct yourself.

>>2921598
>“What, was it not supposed to do that?”

Oh little white boi you are so precious.

Guys. Hueco Mundo's moon is totally different than Earth's, in that it does not exist.

>>2921853
>Young!Rosa being told a bedtime story
This one sounds wholesome. I'll do it.

>>2923030
That sounds like quitters talk to me.

>>2921632
Technically, aren't nearly all the people she encounters already dead? Is there a word for dead ghosts?

>>2923198
"Alive"

>>2923258
tell that to kaien

>>2920012
>>2920421
Hiding as a hole on the moon is cool and all, but not as funny a punchline as if we had hidden in hell

>"Where the hell were you?!"
>"Hell!"

>tomorrow

>>2926160
You are Kusajishi Riku... and it has been too long already.

It's been a hundred years since you made the decision to have yourself hidden as a hole in Hueco Mundo's moon, which should be visible in your own time. But having that plan hasn't made the passage of time any easier for you, leaving you all the time in the world to think about what you've left behind. The kids you adopted, the subordinates who have faith in you... your wife.

Man, do you ever miss your wife.

After a hundred years of denying yourself even so much as a moment to feel sorry about your situation, your frustration and grief may have started to manifest in different ways. For the last... maybe thirty years or so? For decades at least your favored training method has been to envision Yoruichi as a sparring partner, which doesn't seem to be 'insane' to you in the slightest. Age doesn't really do that to shinigami, and even if it did this will simply put you at a similar age to your wife... and she's never seemed any worse the wear for just a single century or so. No, what this does speak to is desperation. You want, more than anything in the world, to be home again.

The knowledge that when you are back where and when you should be you'll be thrown back into the middle of a war is what keeps you focused in spite of your restlessness, for one hundred years.

You can feel it when it begins, your apotheosis.

It's a tingling sensation like pins and needles that spreads from the base of your tails throughout your whole body, as if you've gone numb. Your knees give out and for a few moments you find yourself face down on the ground, before the Tenkotsuki in you realizes what must be happening.

It takes everything you have to will yourself back to your feet, to draw your swords and to cross them behind your back. For a moment you doubt yourself... with half a tail hacked off, will this be enough to defeat Aizen?

No, that no longer matters.

What matters is that you can still fight when the time finally comes.

A massive explosion of searingly-white reiatsu wipes the Valley of Screams clean once more in an instant, restoring it to the condition you'll find it in several centuries from now.

In an instant, you shear away a fraction of your full divinity with your twin kodachi.

The explosion becomes an implosion, the white reiatsu compressing into a single pale crystal which drops into a waiting hand.

Inari stares at you with obvious shock on her face.

You don't care if she's surprised. “Now, Inari Ōkami, it is time for you to uphold your end of our bargain...”
>1/2

>>2929438
wait. why is mommy shocked? And also what does our half a tail look like?

>>2929438
You are Shihōin Yoruichi, and you've managed to rejoin the second line of defense against Aizen's attacking force. Here Byakuya, Starrk, Retsu, and perhaps most significantly Kisuke have been observing the battle in the fake Karakura town, studying the defeat unfolding there in order to prepare countermeasures for those that managed to survive the engagement.

Unfortunately you've arrived slightly after Aizen's force.

“Ah, Lady Shihōin Yoruichi,” Aizen greets you with an empty mimicry of 'warmth'. “Nice that you could join us. Where is Captain Kusajishi, might I ask?”

“She'll be along,” you reply vaguely. “Had some cleaning up to do.”

So, what are we looking at here... you've got Aizen in a white outfit of some kind, seemingly fairly tight almost like a wetsuit, along with two quincies. One a tall, lanky bastard with messy black hair and angular features, and the other a tall bastard who's built as if someone taught a tank to walk on its hind legs. Neither one is wearing a shirt for some reason. And then there's...

“... Amagai,” you grunt in reluctant acknowledgment.

“Captain,” your former subordinate bows.

“You lost the right to call me that a long time ago,” you growl. “Do so again and I'll personally ensure you never get the chance to do it a third time.”

“Well, it seems someone's in the mood to play,” Kisuke smirks at you. “You do what you had to?”

“Was there ever any doubt?” you sigh, refusing to even make eye contact.

“It's just these four now.”

“That means we've got 'em outnumbered,” Starrk muses... he's already in his released form? How odd, to see that man take something seriously.

“You already had that,” you guess. “Or does the great Aizen Sōsuke intend to dirty his hands with any of us?”

“I understand when I'm being mocked,” Aizen shrugs. “But you know you're right?”

“Do you mean to insult us?” Byakuya demands sternly.

Aizen seem unimpressed. “If I intended to personally defeat every lowlife capable of lifting a sword, why would I have gathered an army first?”

Having confirmed your suspicions, you're left with a decision to make. You know that Kisuke would probably prefer to wait in reserve for a while longer, but you're not sure what Retsu plans to do. She might be willing to take to the frontlines, or she may be determined to serve a supporting role at least at the outset. It basically means that as things stand, the likely fighters will be yourself, Byakuya, and Starrk facing off against the two quincies and that traitor Amagai.

>Go after the larger quincy, his “gimmick” is probably pure power.
>Go after the scrawny quincy, try to overwhelm him quickly then shift your focus.
>Go after Amagai. This is a point of pride for the Onmitsukidō.
>Other?

>>2929446
>>Go after Amagai. This is a point of pride for the Onmitsukidō.
In true shonen fashion.

>>2929446

I kinda want to go after Amagai, but can Byakuya deal with one of the others?

>>2929446
>Go after the scrawny quincy, try to overwhelm him quickly then shift your focus.

>>2929452
also, I have no idea who these two Quincy are. Anyone know?

>>2929446
>Go after the larger quincy, his “gimmick” is probably pure power.

>>2929446
>Go after Amagai. This is a point of pride for the Onmitsukidō.

>>2929446
>>Go after the scrawny quincy, try to overwhelm him quickly then shift your focus.
Gotta go fast

>>2929456
I think one's Nakk Le Vaar, that dude with those bullshit dosage abilities. No idea about the other one though.

>>2929446
>Go after Amagai. This is a point of pride for the Onmitsukidō.
Why'd we sever our last tail again? Was it to keep our presence concealed or was there another reason I can't remember?

>>2929468
It was so we didn't become a god and thus shackled by their laws

>>2929468
>>2929456
Aw man, is one of them Pepe "The Love"?
I lost track of who we've already dealt with.

>>2929480
We left Pepe for dead after we made him a muggle. All that's left is cockroach girl (MIA) and then Gerard (the bullshit miracle man) and Askin (poison man)

>>2929468
>>2929480
The only Sternritter left standing are Askin and Gerard.
>>2929470
Correct. A nine-tailed kitsune qualifies as a "god" and is therefore bound by a certain set of rules. With one of her tails mutilated, Inari Riku is currently in a grey area: that form is neither completely divine nor permanent, so she gets a substantial amount of leeway.

>>2929495
Should have said, only MALE sternritter left standing.

>>2929501
Biological identifaction male or self identifies as male? Gigi self identifies as a female cockroach iirc...

>>2929495
oh so i voted for a rematch from canon. Eh, I'm happy with thrashing Amagai

>3d10, DC 17, crit 25
>best of three

Rolled 6, 5, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>2929513

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

>>2929513
hoo man

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

>>2929513

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>>2929519
clutch.
best cat doesn't immediately fail

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>>2929519

>>2929501
Wait, shit, is Gigi still around? We really need to eliminate her, before she can bring back her friends.

>>2929527
that is the implication, yes. Hell if I remember where she buggered off to though

>>2929529
She's probably skulking around, trying to get to one of her "Friend's" corpses. Anyone we can delegate hunting her down to that isn't engaging a target?

>>2929540
Actually, any chance we could get that chart we had that was showing the two sides again?

>>2929513
You immediately attack, drawing your twin butterfly swords and clashing against Amagai's swords. Surprisingly he manages to draw both katana and kodachi in time to parry, but unsurprisingly he's not nearly as quick to block the kick that connects with his gut. The former officer of the Gotei 13 crashes backwards through a square tower.

“In a way I'm happy about this,” you admit as Amagai frees himself from the rubble. “Things worked out so that I can deal with the traitor from my own Onmitsukidō.”

“It sounds almost like this has gotten personal,” Amagai muses, holding his kodachi behind his back. “Sever, Raika!”

His blade changes shape and consistency, into a long hook-like sword of what almost looks like heated glass more than steel, with a basket guard of many silver pipes that shimmer with a pronounced heat distortion.

You simply sidestep his fireball and kick him in the side. “You're not entirely wrong... that which dishonors the Onmitsukidō also dishonors its Commander. It's only appropriate that I answer for us all.”

“You've made a serious mistake in thinking you can beat me so simply,” Amagai asserts. “You may have noticed I have two swords now as well.”

“A bakkotō?” you muse. “I see that. I'm not impressed.”

“That, and we've fought before,” Amagai continues. “I know how you fight, while you hardly know the first thing about me.”

You can't help but laugh in his face... does he really believe any of this nonsense he's saying?

“What's so funny?” he demands.

“I've only ever fought two of my students with anything even approaching seriousness,” you chuckle. “With the rest of you I fight like a cat playing with her kittens. You couldn't have withstood me back then, so what advantage do you think play-fighting grants you now?”

You parry his next strike, smacking the fireball back into his face with the broad side of Raijūsenkō's blade, and kick him in the chest again to further demonstrate your point.

>I'd rather take you in alive for trial, so forgive me if I continue to go a little easy on you.
>I'm going to start releasing swords now. If you want to survive I'd consider getting serious.
>I've taken it as my mission to eliminate you, Amagai. Enjoy seeing me fight at my peak before you die.
>Other?

>Sorry that took a while, I haven't been feeling well lately

>>2929547
at this point, a list of people who are still alive/able to fight is way shorter, for both sides

SS
Kisuke, Retsu, Byakuya, Starrk, Yoruichi (surpirse Riku!) lots of injured, more or less incapacitated


Aizens bastards
Askin, Gerard (maybe a bit hurt?), Amagai, the boss bastard himself Aizen (Cockroach Gigi somewhere) everyone else dead or turned

>>2929637
>I'm going to start releasing swords now. If you want to survive I'd consider getting serious.
If you're hit by these spinning arms, it'll be your own fault!

>>2929637
>I'm going to start releasing swords now. If you want to survive I'd consider getting serious.

>>2929637
>>I'm going to start releasing swords now. If you want to survive I'd consider getting serious.

>>2929637
>other:no banter. just go for the kill. Get serious. but not all-out.

>>2929639
fuck i forgot the best of all: Gremmy, wiped from fucking existence by his own ability!
(i fucking love that episode)

>>2929649
>>2929637

>>2929637
>>I'm going to start releasing swords now. If you want to survive I'd consider getting serious.

I don't think Amagai has pissed Yoruichi off enough that she's NOT gonna run her mouth.
She can beat his ass, and if he dies, well, occupational hazard for traitors.

>>2929637
>I'm going to start releasing swords now. If you want to survive I'd consider getting serious.
The claws come out

>3d10, DC 17, Crit 23
>best of three

Rolled 10, 8, 3 = 21 (3d10)

>>2929697
i am so sorry