>>33868504
Aided by your inherited magics born of the Moon and the Earth you have been helping your sister and those who awaken to their destinies beside her under the guise of the mysterious cloaked figure, Eclipse. In turn, you have been aided by the Four Heavenly Kings. Guardians of your father in his past life who were distored and controlled by an ancient evil into betraying him and helping that evil burn both his and kingdom and the kingdom of your mother’s past life.

Now, purged of such influence they are hosted as magical stones bound temporarily within your flesh. Their presence within you shelters them from whatever force has arisen that could have manipulated them again or ressurected them as enemies. This unfortunately comes at a cost.

Now you wait for Kairi to return, that you may discuss her desire to help you, and decide if you will entrust her with Nephrite’s essence that he may guide her into being the first of your Guardian Knights, the successors of the Four Heavenly Kings.

>Ask something of Nephrite or talk to him.
>Summon one of the Other Shintennou to converse
>Talk to yourself
>Wait quietly for Kairi.
>Write in

>>33868524
>Talk to yourself
We don't need anyone else to tell us that everything is peachy.

>>33868524
>>Talk to yourself
I like the fact that our shadow is sort of becoming the voice of reason.

Writing.

Again guys, sorry for the delay to getting this thread off the ground

>>33868774
When we fill up our shadow gauge, we will become completely sane.

>>33869396
She is the Shadow, the true self.

>>33869442
Like, what evil lurks in the hearts of men? She's got that stuff down, totes.

>>33869096
>sorry for the delay
it has worked entirely to my favor, so I'm fine.

Part that saddens me is that I would have liked to have all four Heavenly Kings with us when we deal with the Beryl situation, but with PIT watching it will be had to sneak Kairi along with her mother's surveillance in play.

>>33869442
>Beryl is the echo of evil's past
>Shadow is the future echo of evil that may yt come to pass

>>33869676
Me too! Good morning everyone.

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Leaning back into the couch, you glance to the side and wonder about some of the things you’ve said today. The darkness inside of yourself which you accepted, that made you into a living weapon against the enemy that looms against your family and the people of earth, it had been particularly chatty today. You had rebuked it a few times, but you would be lying if you said you absolutely believed that nothing was wrong when it prodded at your earlier...

~I’m ready to listen if you have something to say,~

Nephrite turns to watch you, but feels the surface tension of your shadow. He turns away as you sit in a growing aura of sullen silence.

Its starting to piss you off.

~You were chatty earlier, why aren’t you answering me?~

Because you already know what the problem is, you were willing to acknowledge my concern. They’re your own feelings too. That I exist as a whisper is a symptom.

~I need them,~ you admit with a defeated sigh, ~I’ve invested so much into them...into the act of becoming. I’m not sure if I can give that up yet,~

And what was so hard about that earlier?

~You wouldn’t be asking me if you didn’t know the answer,~ you grouse and cross your arms, ~Well?~

Do you know?

~NO,~ you almost shout, ~I don’t,~

“Am I interrupted something?” Kairi asks, standing in the entry to the living room in baggy comfortable pajamas.

>How do you respond to Kairi and how do you start things.

>>33870141
"Don't mind me, just going a little nuts.

Fate and destiny are real things and I'm kind of going off script here, because the alternatives are unacceptable.

I have the chance to offer you something. It is both gift, and it is a burden, and it will not be without price.

I want the injector you have left. In return, you will host Nephrite, and he will aid you in aiding me, and others instead."

>>33870141
Can we have Nerphrite talk to her, or through us? After all, we might want to explain the shared connection with her mother and he'd have a better idea of the job description than we would.

>>33870383
That's an incredibly cold and mercenary way to present it.

>>33870466
All the better to be sure she's doing it for the right reasons.

But, feel free to improve.

>>33870141
>>How do you respond to Kairi and how do you start things.
"Having different facets to you life can be.. complicated, AND frustrating." Taking a dig at your own self-conscious, definitely healthy.
Sigh.
Clear the air, "Well, at least for the moment, your mom is probably busy, so I thought I'd try to talk to you about Things, since we haven't been able to have that talk we agreed to have.
I guess you've probably been thinking about it a lot while cooped up here.. so.. are you still set on putting yourself in danger and turning your life the rest of the way upside down?
I'm not try to dismiss you or force you away, but I think it's important that, when you have the choice, to know it won't be easy. This life, particularly the brand I seem to be making, involves a lot of secrecy and sublty, but also violence and.. ok, I do enjoy the dramatic moments a bit."
Grin.
"But it isn't easy, but if you are pig-headed and stubborn enough to keep wanting to put yourself by my side, I have someone that would like to help you with that."
Cue Nephrite.

>>33870526
I'm not feeling any specific lines, but this business completely broke us. We were out for over a year. We really shouldn't let her underestimate how dangerous this thing is that she wants to get into.

And if possible, we should manifest Nephrite in a way that he can talk to her.

>>33870577
>pig-headed and stubborn
And we mean that in the nicest of ways.
Those are important traits in our genre's heroes.

Alright, I need a Persuasion Test,

1d20+10

Best of 3, 1s and 20s wild

Rolled 1 + 10

>>33870763

Rolled 11 + 10

>>33870778
Whelp. We're boned.

Rolled 5 + 10

>>33870763

>>33870778
Ha.

>>33870778
Off to a flying start!

>>33870778
Still an 11, not terrible.
(Side note, if it is terrible, I'm suggesting Planet Power Surge)
Actually, let's just do that.

What's this? I've heard a call for a Planet Power Surge?

Yes or No?

>>33870847
It's wild, so it's a single degree of failure

>>33870887
For us losing our spaghetti? Yeah, I don't think we should spend it on that.

Especially when we may or may not be encountering Beryl this thread.

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>>33870887
I confirm.

>>33870887
I'd say yes.

>>33870888
I thought 1 were simply a roll of 1.

Rolled 19 + 10

>>33870763
I feel charming
Oh so charming
It's alarming how charming I feel

>>33870887
Nah. I don't think it's bad enough to be necessary.

>>33870887
I'd have said no.

She is most certainly not obliged to accept this.

>>33870918
Well, we have our full day's supply still.
..And it would be nice to have a single social situation with Kairi that we don't bomb horribly at some point.
We're 0 for 3 at this point.

>>33870986
That, and we've never once been so badly fucked by the dice that we ran out of surge.

>>33870887

Yes yes yes!

>>33870986
That's true, but everything REALLY important happens from here on out. After this we're going to intervene on Keiko, after that we're going to confront some maybe-magic delinquents, and THEN maybe drago.

There's a lot of places to slip up for the rest of the day.

>>33870986
>We're 0 for 3 at this point.
Let's see.. the morning we went to talk to her, breaking down at school, and the meltdown at the concert?
If we count the cafe it's more one where we didn't roll with her, to three colossal fails.
We are terrible at keeping it together around her.

>>33870986
With this reasoning, I'll say yes to using it. What could possibly go wrong?

>>33871050
Kairi is just as important as all of those. Or maybe you'd prefer she drinks her wonder tonic?

>>33871050
Well, Drago is probably tomorrow, unless he's out prowling for us tonight. We should remember to check our messages.

>>33870986
Honestly, I'm finding it amusing that she can't keep her shit together around Kairi.

>>33871077
Okay, fair point

Spend the planet power.

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>>33871086
We are still probably bombing, every other 1 with her we've also Plant Power'd and only decreased our amout of failure a bit.

>>33871086
>>33871137
Either way.. one thing is certain, Kairi is probably more aware than most how little we actually have our shit together.
Mikage is kind of a mess.

Rolled 1

In replies to the question, I have a dead heat. Because I want to get cracking I am rolling 1d2.

1 yes
2 no

Rolled 1

>>33871181
Rolling Planet Power

>>33871222
just shoot us

...

Writing

...its not as bad as you think.

>>33871222
That's disappointing.

>>33871266
>33871266
I think people are worried that we'll piss her off and she'll give us the silent treatment.

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>>33871222
>>33871266
HA. Oh man. par the course for us and Kairi.
At least the situation is probably less tense than our other failures.
At least we are consistent in our Mikage-Kairi interactions.

>>33871533
>Mikage-Kairi interactions.
THAT'S were we went wrong!
We should have put the shroud on and been all Eclipse-y, we're much more suave as Eclipse.
Mikage is made of spaghetti.

>>33871577
I think when talking to Kairi, she might understand Miki better.

~Don’t mind me, just going a little nuts,~ you laugh in embarrassment and scratch at the back of your head in a worry about how much of that she heard, ~Anyway. I promised you a big serious talk tonight, didn’t I,~

She stares at you seriously and marches over to the couch to sit next to you. Are you shaking again? Crap you are shaking again. Where is your confidence, where are your words. Miki could speak, Dan could speak, and even Red Eyes could speak to people. Kairi is your best friend and you can’t even speak…

She’s hugging you. Kairi is hugging you and you calm down. Releasing you, she leans forward and opens the plastic box of sugar cookies, slowly enjoys one, and turns back to you expectantly.

It takes a moment, but you find your voice.

~Your mom is probably busy, so we have time to talk about everything. I’m sorry it took so long for me to get over here. I guess you've probably been thinking about it a lot while cooped up here.. so.. are you still set on putting yourself in danger and turning your life the rest of the way upside down?~

Swallowing her latest mouthful of cookie, she stares at you blankly before furrowing her brow at you.

“Mikage. You’re falling apart at the seams. I know I’m not doing much better...but if you’re putting yourself on the line...if my mother is putting herself on the line...I can’t stay out and on the sidelines. You’re offering me a chance to make a difference and help you. So you don’t have to be alone, and neither do I. You can’t pull me away from this so easily,”

~I'm not try to dismiss you or force you away, but I think it's important that, when you have the choice, to know it won't be easy. This life, particularly the brand I seem to be making, involves a lot of secrecy and subtly, but also violence and... ~ you smile here, ~ok, I do enjoy the dramatic moments a bit,~

“But we’ll be doing it together,” she affirms.

~Yeah,~

>>33872174
Honestly, she probably understands Mikage better.
If we had to be someone else just for our best friend to get along with us, we're in a bad spot.

>>33872193

Her eyes soften and she smiles before composing herself in a more serious manner. She nods.

~Well, you’ve already met Nephrite,~ you manifest him visually as he turns and approaches the two of you from where he stood by the window.

>Guide this process, what do you do?
>Let Nephrite lead.
>Write in

>>33872225
>>Let Nephrite lead.
Everything we know about this comes from him, so he may as well lead the charge.

>>33872225
>>Write in
explain it as best we understand, let Nephrite make corrections where necessary.

>>33872225
>Let Nephrite lead.
Ah, I see, botching actually helped! Kairi saw that Mikage was pretty much losing it, so she decided to help out in order to support her!

>>33872225
>Let Nephrite lead.
The movement of the stars rules everything... and this is how we tango.

>>33872225
We know about Nephrite and her mother, right?
We may want to drop that in there somewhere, just so she knows her new friend has feelings for her mom.

>>33872315
>The movement of the stars rules everything
I'm going to miss having him in our head.
He was the one to offer the alternatives we needed at each turn so far, regarding the Shitennou.

>>33872417
someone else needs alternatives more, lest she charge into mortal peril again with nothing more than a fire axe.

>>33872455
Agreed, doesn't mean I can't miss him.

>>33872455
If anybody's going to do something that stupid/cool, it's going to be us.

>>33872417
That does remind me: my guesses for the other generals are Jadeite/Jade (pretty much blatantly intended by Artemis), Zoisite/Drago, and Kunzite/Drago's buddy. I don't really have a good reason for Zoisite/Drago other than them being the leftovers, but Kunzite would be perfect, since he, too, is a bear.

>>33872615
I suspect we haven't met Zoisite's match yet.

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>>33872888
All that time wasted setting up a pun and it's ignored.

>>33872932
I just quietly shook my head and hung my head when I got it.

I feel sad that Sasha's sisters brain doesn't seem to be in Boris (at least in this universe), because that would just make the possible pairing even more amusing.

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“Miss Osaka, I will guide you through this,” Nephrite’s manifested form speaks as you kneels before the two of you and lifts his hand to the girl, “I will be your guardian spirit as you will be a knight in the service of the Princess,”

~Just...give me the syringe first, Kairi,~

She nods and reaches into a the pocket of her pajamas and retrieves a capped and glowing phial of green liquid. She places it in your waiting hand and there is a surge of painful fire in your other hand. Nephrite’s phantom fades as your skin parts, revealing a small stone. It swirls in a vortex of golden, silver, and black energy.

The green gem lifts out of your hand and you feel momentarily weak. Engulfed in energy and light, it forms into a ring that drops into Kairi’s hands.

Sliding it onto her finger, she is wreathed in orbiting patterns of starlight and flame. When it fades, she wears a red version of Nephrite’s uniform...but fancier. Less utilitarian and more...showy. her hair is pushed up and out of her face and above her mask by a red ornament.

“...I feel weird,”

>Weird is good. Now come on, we’ve got a busy night ahead.
>I’ll leave you to dwell on that, I’ll see you in the morning.
>Write in

>>33873554
>Weird is good. Now come on, we’ve got a busy night ahead.
Let's fight CRIME! And what does her mask look like?

>>33873554

"You've taken your first steps into a larger world. Now come on, we’ve got a busy night ahead."

>>33873554
>>I’ll leave you to dwell on that, I’ll see you in the morning.

We've only got one little trip to make tonight, and we've got three more spirits with us.

I think we can probably leave Kairi and Nephrite to get acquainted.

>>33873554
>I’ll leave you to dwell on that, I’ll see you in the morning.

We probably shouldn't show up with a newly minted magical soldier, especially when Keiko only asked for us. We want to build trust here.

Plus they live in the same neighborhood, so she'll be nearby anyways.

>>33873554
>Write in
"I've got a busy night ahead, but there's still the problem with you being grounded. I'd imagine Nephrite has a lot to talk to you about, if you'd prefer to not get in even more trouble right now."

>>33873554
>I’ll leave you to dwell on that, I’ll see you in the morning.

>>33873554
Weird can be good, but I'll leave you two to get acquainted. I'd invite you along, by your mother is watching Keiko's right now, and you can see the problem there. Maybe we can talk later in the night, if you both think you can make it out.

huh, looks like you're going the rest of tonight solo.

writing

And the mask is white an topped with red flame patterns like the rest of the outfit

>>33873978
Wait, never mind.

Dead heat.
Hold on

>>33873978
Well, Nephrite knows where we'll be at Midnight if they want to sneak out.

>>33874004
Well, by my count:

>>33873702
>>33873716
Head out.

vs

>>33873722
>>33873730
>>33873749
Stay in.

vs

>>33873743
>>33873749
Stay in, or maybe sneak out.

>>33873978
>huh, looks like you're going the rest of tonight solo.
officially.

How Kairi chooses to spend her night is up to her.

Then in a moment, writing

>>33874115
I'll admit my vote was a little ambiguous. I don't want to force her one way or the other. I'd like her to come, but hauling her around outside when she's grounded could get us both in more trouble. It should at least be her own decision.

>>33874115
Oops.
>>33873749
was a stay in as well.

>>33873963
was stay in or maybe sneak out.

so 2v4v2?

>>33874143
This.

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~Well, I’ll leave the two of you to get acquainted,~ you set a few cookies on an empty plate on the coffee table before resealing the tupperware, ~I’ll see you in the morning,~

The outfit fades back into her pajamas, becoming fluid and withdrawing back into the ring upon her finger. She looks at the ring in silent conversation before returning her sight upon you. She quirks a smile.

“So you’re taking the rest of the cookies?”

~Hey, they may be my way into a better snack,~ you confirm, ~I got a weird call from Keiko earlier. Just going to swing by, take her temperature, and maybe solve her shadow problem,~

“You still haven’t taken care of that?”

~I’ve been busy. Besides, its going to be difficult. Your mother is staking out her place,~ you grouse.

“Really?” Kairi wonders aloud, twisting her ring.

The weight of Nephrite lifted from your soul, you bid the two of them goodnight and stride back out into the dark. Before much longer, Keiko’s home comes into view. There, parked a ways down the street, a different van than earlier lays in wait.

>How do you approach this situation?

>>33875271
> Go in as Mikage with some cookies to share with Keiko.
What? Friends can visit friends, no big deal.

>>33875271
My first instinct is to turn into Miki and just walk in.

>>33875367
Withdrawing first instinct because we were actually called in as Mikage, and because trolling the poor stupid mortals in the van won't gain us anything. I hope.

>>33875271
Have the Shitennou fan out and try to locate any other surveillance and see what's going down in the van. Figure out what eyes and ears they have on Keiko.

>>33875367
I really want to Dan up and just walk up and knock on the van door and ask them if they have a light, but... lets just try and keep this quiet, huh?

Mikage has an entirely legit reason for being there. and if they're tapping the phone, they know that.

>>33875546
Yeah... as much as I may want to be the howling chaos, we're meant to be the hero here. A good guy. A prince. The mother-fucking batman.

Which reluctantly means that I have to vote for not being a power mad bitch.

>>33875539
This is a good idea, and a stealthy one to boot. If a sensitive topic comes up, knowing what they can hear or see could help. Loose lips sink ships after all.

writing

delay

>>33875981
GoodLuck;HaveFun

back

>>33876602
Yay!

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Recalling your earlier tactic, you unleash the remaining three Shintennou as you continue your casual approach to the house. Kunzite reports no one strange on the street. Zoisite reports that the van does contain Captain Osaka, and her team is monitoring phone lines and has external visual on the house, no long range audio scopes or planted bugs.

Your picture as Miki has been printed and put on a list of persons of interest, and it seems that Hanako Minami was eventually successfully identified.

Jaedite reports that there is no one suspicious on the Sugimoto property, nor is there anyone inside the house besides Keiko and Midori.

Walking up to the door you knock and smile.

Keiko opens the door, there are bags under her eyes as the pungent aura of her shade overtakes you. It is intoxicating and enticing, plunging into your senses. Calling to me, singing sweetly. Oh she is a feast again, and you are hungry. You know how hungry you are, you know how much she wants the voice silenced. Ask her, just ask her...or we could just take it like we did with Kairi...and she’d thank us for it.

“Chiba-san,” she seems relieved as she discreetly glances to the empty space beside her, “thanks you for coming over,”

~It was no problem,~ you present the box of cookies, ~and I brought some snacks for line reading,~

As the door closes, you notice Midori standing at the top of the stairs looking down at you with eyes a mix of fear and wonder. Hmmm…

>Give me 3d20. I will add modifiers. They are Perception, Insight, & Will reaction.
>Best of 3, 1s and 20s wild

Rolled 10, 18, 10 = 38

>>33877077
For the one who treads the path of ambition, A SACRIFICE

Rolled 12, 7, 7 = 26

>>33877077
genuine smile

Rolled 4, 11, 18 = 33

>>33877077

HAIL CHAOS

Perception: 14. Failure, no degrees of failure
Insight: 20. Success, no degrees of success
Will Reaction: 21. Success no degree of success

>>33877349
I'm going to resist the urge to bump that with surge.
We know something is up from our phone conversation.
Let's just get in, away from a window, and see just what is going down here.
Fear and wonder from Midori a bit of an omen of is to come though.

Brushing off the gnawing hunger, you haven’t fed in days, you compose yourself and smile genuinely. You can almost perceive Beryl screaming into Keiko’s ear as Midori comes down the stairs. Guilt and hesitence across her features. The blinds are already drawn.

What to do, what to do.

>So, where’s the script?
>Cookie?
>I know there’s no script, what’s this about.
>What exactly has Beryl told you?
>Write in

>>33877610
>>Cookie?
Let's start this off as we mean to go on.

>>33877610
>Cookie?
People are scared and guilty and they need to calm down. I am not sure if cookies will help, but I do not think that they will hurt.

>>33877610
>>Write in
"So, you've figured out some things, I'm guessing? And you want to know what it all means?"

>>33877610
>>Cookie?
Seriously, our cookies are amazing.

Writing

>>33877610
"So, cookie? Mom and me got into a bit of a bake-off.."
See if we can maneuver things toward a side of the house not facing the Van, just in case flashes of light happen to come up.
Flop down to sit, watch them be awkward for a moment more, then interrupt with the "Ok, I know there's no script, what's up with the three of you?"

>>33877923
Damn, too slow.

>>33877923
I wonder, wow many people do we count as at this point?

>>33877955
I was thinking three with Midori, Keiko, and Beryl. We're four walking around, ourself and the Shintennou. It's been established that our Shadow is still just ourself, if a bit mouthy for a subconcious/id now.

>>33878030
Our other personas seem to be one at a time, which concerns us a bit. Miki, Dan, Red Eyes, etc check in, Mikage checks out, more or less.

Raising the box, you open up the tupperware lid and smile. You know what its like, having the world not make sense anymore. You know the importance of someone smiling and giving you the chance to let yourself feel better. That kind of trust and connection might not exist between yourself and the two girls here, but its one thing you hope you’ve inherited from your mother.

~Cookie?~ you offer.

Midori readily takes one and bites down. Keiko is slower to the action, but does it all the same.

“They’re good,” the reincarnated sorceress answers against an unspoken doubt.

~I’m glad you guys like them. My mom and I made them together,~ you laugh and head across the foyer to the living room.

“Your mom made these?” Midori wonders aloud.

~We made them together,~ you shrug, ~I’ve been avoiding her like I’ve been avoiding everyone at school…so we’ve been going through a bit of an extended kick reestablishing our bonds. Turns out most of that in our family is food based so I’ve had to double up my workout routine,~

Talking about your home life seems to lighten the mood, somehow. Midori giggles as you sit on the sofa and put down the box of cookies.

“Worried you’re gonna blow up like your mom?” Midori wonders while Keiko stays silent in the entryway to the living room.

~A little. Though I’ve been really active lately so I’m not worried anymore,~ you smile, ~So, tell me about the script we’re reading,~

“There isn’t one,” Keiko concedes, “but I do need you help, Chiba-san...I -”

>Let her finish
>Interrupt her, talking about what?
>write in

>>33878220
>>Let her finish
So we know what she's probably going to say. So what? It's only polite to let her finish speaking.

And after that, delicious peaches.

>>33878275
>So what?
We're reasonably sure it's private, yes?

"I've got a pretty good idea what it's about, and yes, I am totally Miki"

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>>33878220

>>33878220
>>Let her finish
Lets hear what she actually wants from us. Assumptions might be a bad idea here.

>>33878220
>Let her finish
I kind of want to write a note warning her about the surveillance van.

>>33878410
The Shintennou claim that there are no bugs or audio scopes on the house, so what we say here should be okay.

I'm to tired to check, so could someone remind me why they are spying on her in the first place?

>>33878220
I guess let her finish, but don't feign surprise or denial.
Just meet this one head on and try to seem like we know what we're doing in a reassuring way, seems they need something to stabilize against, and I guess that's us.

>>33878510
Because Jewel Thief blew two holes in our school and angled to murder her directly and personally.

Writing

>>33878510
They want to know why she was attacked, and are monitoring her in case another attack happens.

>>33878510
Because Jewel Thief, known enemy of the current Sailor Moon, smashed through the wall of her classroom specifically to try to kill her.

>>33878534
and in that respect, her being monitored is theoretically a GOOD thing for her.

It just makes life a little more awkward for us.

You’ll let her finish. Beside her, you can make out Beryl’s phantom glaring at you. As smug as it makes you feel, you don’t let it show. There are important moments and decisions ahead, and you’ll let Keiko say her peace. Even if you’re relatively certain Beryl knows what and who you are, there isn’t a damn thing she can do about it now.

Well, at least you think there is nothing that Beryl can do against you now.

“-I know you were Sailor Moon. I know the history, she showed me...she showed me horrible things Chiba-san,” she’s crying a little.

Where the hell does she get off still looking so pretty while crying. Nope, you aren’t jealous one bit as her salty and delicious tears rise and run down her cheeks.

Casually, you take a cookie. Midori turns pensive and says nothing.

~So, when did Beryl notice who I was?~ you ask absentmindedly.

“When your family was on the news. Your dad meeting the original Sailor Moon at the Metro building. Apparently it made her have a little rage out and she shared all her memories with Keiko-chan,” Midori begins, “So...its true. You really are Sail-”

>>33879025
~Was. Was Sailor Moon. And it isn’t exactly a time in my life I like revisiting, besides the larger risk and inconvenience of someone knowing. Anyway,~ you roll your eyes.

“I’m sorry, Chiba-san,” Midori averts her eyes, “for everything. You saved my life that day and I just treated you like trash,”

~Yeah, we’ve been over the part of it that matters. Don’t guilt trip. I already forgave you. To the matter at hand though, Keiko?~

“I need her gone. She’s getting stronger,” she cries more as Midori rises to take her shoulders.

Inside of you, Jadeite stirs. Regret, anger, and loss flood your periphery.

“I don’t want to hurt people like she did again. I don’t want to become her,” she pleads, “Please, either save me or kill me!”

>~Calm down and eat another damn cookie.~
>Get her worked up to seal in the flavor
>~Well, my purification spell only quieted her for a little bit last time. I’ll have to try something more drastic,~ Love this part
>~I have some magic that can help~
>~I can probably settle this in your dreams, if you don’t mind me traipsing around in your head,~
>write in

>>33879043
>~I can probably settle this in your dreams, if you don’t mind me traipsing around in your head,~

We're already eating cookies. I don't want to have to work off evil magician spirits.

>>33879043
"First up, have another cookie."
Help calm her down.
"Well.. this makes things a little easier, was trying to think of the best way to approach you about her. I've been working on a few ideas to help you with that, and having Midori here to help support you can't hurt."

>>33879043
>>~I can probably settle this in your dreams, if you don’t mind me traipsing around in your head,~
Something in me really enjoys the idea of being the heroine who protects people in their dreams. Especially since we got NTR'd by Mr. Dreamy Horsecock and only recently started to get rid of the dreamcatchers. Let's do that.

Also, we may as well check in with Jadeite and see what's got him riled up.

>>33879043
>>33879149
I think we want a combination approach as far as treatment.
Can we figure out how to take Midori into Keiko's dreams as well? Our Shitennou seemed to agree her moral support could help a lot.
Magic and maybe some draining to overcome Beryl and let Keiko's life be her own.

>>33879043
>>write in
"If it comes to it... I will. I can try and help, too.

But the truth is, just just need to know that you don't have to be her, and the strength not to be her. She's just a karmic ghost. A memory of a you who was, and who you could be at your worst.

So, ask yourself where is the you at your best?

Beryl will offer you anything to live again, but the truth is, she doesn't have anything you need."

>>33879254
>was
were.

I need to remember to proof-read after in-line editing.

>>33879178
Jadeite just really hate Beryl, and everything associated with her. This could be very cathartic for him.

>>33879272
Well 'hate' might be the opposite term.
His is angry and bitter about certain things though.

>>33879272
totally understandable. But I'd rather keep the Shitennou well out of this, and not give Beryl any avenues of attack/escape.

I'm not sure how well we can protect them if we're wandering around inside Beryl's dreams.

>>33879043
>>~I can probably settle this in your dreams, if you don’t mind me traipsing around in your head,~
This looks interesting and has opportunities for sleep snuggling.

No, we don't need to tell her the snuggling isn't actually necessary.

Writing

>>33879342
I'm thinking more weakening that bit of Shadow that Beryl held onto with magic, then take the whole crew, Shitennou and Midori, inside her mind to be moral support for Keiko to face down Beryl, likely with a drain finisher to keep Beryl's anguish from overwhelming Keiko.

Without Metallia or Shadow to back her up, I don't believe Beryl has any real hold left over. Also, might give the Shitennou, particularly Jadeite a bit of closure.

>>33879406
So we're totally turning this into a sleepover. This is a good social activity for Mikage.

>>33879497
Either it will help the healing process or freak out Keiko and Midori when they realized just how fucked up Mikage is. Win win!

I think, to some degree, this has to be Keiko's battle. This doesn't strike me as a "one night cure" situation.

Beryl has a lot to atone for, and as her reincarnation, that falls to Keiko, no matter how unfairly. We CAN help by keeping Beryl weak, though.

>>33879540
I think we're rolling as Earth Princess/Eclipse more right now than Mikage. All business and justicing. Less spaghetti.

>>33879584
Well, silencing a active mind that's been unnaturally trying to influence her is something we should help with.
Facing her down and coming to terms is more something Keiko should be in the lead for, but we should and can lend support toward that.

~It won’t come to that, Sugimoto-san. I can probably settle this in your dreams, if you don’t mind me traipsing around in your head,~

She hesitates and thinks about it, tears drying on Midori’s t-shirt. Jadeite forms beside you, invisible to the naked eye. He stares at the two girls with something between contempt and heartbreak.

<Princess,> he begins and Midori’s head perks up, <I apologize for my earlier...aggression on this matter. This girl is very much innocent, as Beryl was before her corruption.>

-You don’t think I know that? I’ll save her. I haven’t lost a fight yet in the dreamscape,-

Keiko looks up and stares at you, drawn out of her contemplation.

“How can I hear you...in my head?” she asks hesitantly, “Is that a Sailor Senshi thing?”

~Actually I didn’t know I could do that,~ you admit perhaps too quickly.

“And who were you talking to?” inquires Midori, “What aggression was he talking about?”

And Midori can hear Jadeite, he’s just as shocked as you are before his eyes soften as he watches the two girls, Keiko leaning against Midori for support. Great, and you were just starting to feel less bad about getting Kairi drafted into your war.

>>33879800
<I see, it would make sense for you to be compatible with my lingering spirit. Afterall, you feel for her as I did for Beryl once,> he laments softly.

Midori blushes, furiously, and mutters some quiet denials and half justifications which make absolutely no sense and are in no way coherent.

“Midori-chan? Are you okay?” Keiko asks seriously as you laugh. Keiko shakes her head, not privy to contextually hilarious to you parts of the exchange and turns serious, “Yes then. However you need to, Chiba-san, please enter my dreams and end my nightmare,”

“I want to help!” barks Keiko through reddened cheeks before finishing far more demurely than you’ve ever seen her, “In anyway I can,”

You know what, sure. The Shintennou did say that having Midori on hand for emotional support was good. Not like the girl was going to take no for an answer anyhow.

~Sure. Lets get this impromptu sleepover started then, time moves slower in a dream so I just need to set an alarm. I’m a busy ex-magical girl and I’ve got places to be,~ you giggle as you set an alarm on your phone as the present time is almost 9pm, ~So I need you both on this sofa, on either side of me. Keiko, as a matter of safety I need you to lean your head back like this with neck exposed,~

“So you can kill me if she takes over,” she says with some solemnity.

~Nope,~ you smile, ~different kind of contingency,~

Keiko sits on your left, Midori on your right. This is in now way awkward at all as the already exhausted girls close their eyes and fall asleep. You whisper to them with your newfound telepathic means of communications, comforting things to keep a mental connection open for when you too succumb to your own tired state.

The last thing you notice before your eyes slide shut is Midori’s hand searching out Keiko’s hand, holding onto it tightly in your lap.

Eclipsed Moon Episode 31 End.

Thunderstruck, Omake, and next interlude vote in the morning if this is still here.

>>33879813
*barks Midori

>>33879813
What the heck kind of contingency requires her neck exposed? Emergency hickies?

Good thread.

>>33879857
..pretty much.

>>33879876
... Christ I'm a retard. I forgot Mikage's a vampire.

>>33879813
Catch you in the morning! Hope we can continue things!

>>33879857
>>33879876
Anti-Shadow Hickies.

>>33879890
I guess I can stop trying to come up with a vampire pun. The moment is lost.

>>33879854
Yes, thank you...sleep has made me sloppy.

>>33879904
No, please, go ahead. I love a good pun I can sink my teeth into.

>>33879813
Thanks for the thread, Artemis

>>33880007
This has been fun

>>33879969
Can't fight the flow, man. That's how things get bloody.

>>33879957
Is cool, I just noted it in case someone was confused.

>>33880066
>the flow
this has... unfortunate... connotations

>>33880084
so, what's the short-term agenda here?

What the hell are we even likely to find in Beryl's head?

>>33884396
Well, we hope to find Beryl's head in Keiko's head, and defeat it in the face.

I hope you all had fun and that thing progressed well.

Congrats. You've awakened Nephrite Knight and found a Candidate for Jadeite Knight.

Congrats on choosing to resolve the Beryl issue the FUN way. By fun, I mean 8 bit Nintendo fun.

Congrats, snuggles attained

>>33884582
>8 bit Nintendo fun
Oh dear.

>>33884772
>confront Beryl head on
>without the Power of the Moon
>as heir to the Earth Kingdom
>with three compromised Shitentou in our head
Yeah, I'm thinking that this really may not have been the brightest move.

The two things it has going for it are audacity and Beryls relative weakness. But y'all better be prepared to roll plentya Twenties.

Omake and Thunderstruck have to wait until later this day as my morning is now JAM PACKED!

So interlude vote.

>Freedom
>Proper Protocol
>Landing
>Silence
>Drowning

>>33885227
They can never take our >>Freedom

>>33885203
I'd call them uncompromised, and call rocking the Earth mojo a plus.
Just beating her ourself we could have done easier, maybe, but I think it is more important to help Keiko win her fight than fight it ourself.

After I get the Omake and Thunderstruck out, how about a brief thread RESUME?

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>>33885227

>Silence

>>33885530
Fuck yeah.

>>33885227
>Freedom
>>33885203
It might not be the easy way, but it is the path that gives the most bragging rights.

>>33885227
>Drowning

>>33885227
>>Silence

Luna long on her way to work & Car dropped off for repair & maintenance, first of several tasks before writing accomplished.

Writing

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>>33887373
Party time.

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Interlude: Thunderstruck

Heading down into the basement to get the last batch of roasted beans for the day, you pause as you hear huffing, puffing, and the sound of repeat heavy impacts. Instead of heading over to the slow roaster, you turn into the room of the basement your father converted into a small gym. There were weights, pull up bars, space for mats, a few dummies, a speed bag, and a heavy bag. It was a fun place to unwind some nights. Mom and Dad had been teaching you and your sister martial arts since you were both little, and even if it wasn’t one of your passions, it was still something you appreciated.

There, lying on the floor of the gymnasium is your sister. It seems as though you’d just come in after she was finished going to town on the heavy bag.

“Hey, mana,” you draw her attention in portuguese as you kneel down beside her, “You okay?”

She rolls forward and sits up, avoiding looking you in the eye. Something weighs on her, and it has for days. Normally your sister is an open book, but she’s been closed off and angry since she and mom had their private talk a few days ago before all that craziness went down at the Venus Aino album launch.

It was sweet of Koyomi to invite you...not that you like her or anything. You just really enjoy sugary pop music, and even if it isn’t quite Kanari’s speed she seemed excited to go too. Plus you got to see Osaka-sempai socially AND got bragging rights about being at the place where the new Sailor Senshi came together.

>>33887557
“No, mano,” she replies in the same tongue as she hunches forward and pushes off the matt with the knuckles of her padded fingerless training gloves and lifts herself from the floor, “Just some girl stuff you wouldn’t want to get bogged down with,”

You know your sister. You know when she’s lying. You’ve given her space because you’ve NEVER seen her this angry before, even when people were picking on Koyomi when she was still a shrimp. She seems calmer now, so you are done giving her that space, even if she takes a swing at you now.

“That’s bullshit,” you cross your arms and rise to meet her, “Come on, mana, you can tell me what happened,”

She meets your gaze, and it slowly shifts from impassive to...sad. Reaching forward she takes the pendant on the end of your necklace and holds it, the chain becomes taught.

“Just...don’t meet your heroes,” she whispers before dropping your pendant, grabbing a towel, and heading back upstairs.

End Interlude

Omake

You awaken constrained, cotton mouthed, and light sensitive. Pudgy short arms hug around your torso and pin your forepaws to the side. In a panic you yowl and try to figure out where you are and what’s going on.

“Mama,” coos the toddler holding you tightly, hugging you to her chest.

Wait...she called you mama? Diana?! She’s already talking! And transforming.

If your tiny kitty body wasn’t being choked right now, you’d be so proud and happy.

>>33887572
Had to read that one twice before I remembered.that Kanari doesn'thave a sister.

So used to questing from a female POV.

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>>33887572
She's still mad, eh? Well, at least she's reportedly calmer.. which says frightening things about her mood beforehand.

>>33887651
Such a precocious kitten.

Thread RESUME

The song flits and flickers in the distance as the sky falls further away in the infinite distance above you. You are holding hands of others who fall beside you, but their fingers slip away from your grip and they plummet alongside you but further away. They...you...were supposed to be doing something? What was that?

Fogging your mind, the delirium of sleep and dreams breaks as you hit the water and plunge into blue black depths. In a sudden panic your swipe and try to claw up through the sudden swarm of rising bubbles around you, as the air that breached the surface of the water tries to escape up and out as you are pulled deeper into the darkness below.

Nothing has you, and your panic subsides and the world feels less cold and wet as you remember that you are dreaming. As the where and why of your slumber returns in full, you’ve fallen deep enough to be surrounded by the black, the distortion of your hands before your face confirm that you’re still deep in some dream sea, and you let yourself fall.

You know you are going somewhere important.

Touching solid ground, the sea is gone, and you are alone in the black. Turning around you find a vanity with all number of wig heads and masks arrayed around a light bulb lined mirror. Its something theatrical and oddly symbolic. You feel the pull on either of your hands, threads of mental connection opening a direct bridge between yourself, Keiko, and Midori.

>>33887929
There is a familiar blonde wig. A long silky black wig. A wig in the form of a stylized pompadour. A simple short brown wig with a pinned trendy beret, simple reading glasses across the styrofoam nose. A green wig in a single bun, unkempt and sloppily put together with earrings on either side of the head depicting the cute twin boys from a comic you used to read about a private school Host Club. A wig with pink hair like your own, but done up in the high tails you once wore, red gems upon the buns and white decorations like wings sticking up before them while a circlet rests beneath. The last stand has no wig, just black silk wrapped as a hood and mask.

The vanity is littered with full face masks and makeup.

Well, you’ve plenty of time. Where to begin.

-Two Choices-

>Go and collect Midori from her dream.
>Go and collect Keiko from her dream, though you know she is not alone.
>Try to draw Keiko into your dream now
>Try to draw Midori into your dream now.
>Write in.

&

>Take things with you from the Vanity. What?
>Put on your face here. Whose face?
>Leave the Vanity untouched.
>Write in

>>33887949
>Go and collect Midori from her dream.
We done picked hard mode. Let's get our reinforcements first.

>Take things with you from the Vanity. What?
Let's bring Miki and Sailor Moon. This is a dream, so we can be the hero they asked for.

>>33887949
Reach out for the Shitennou, draw them here.
Reach out for Midori, try to draw her here.
Prep time.

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>>33888062
I'm thinking we might consider a new look.
Something to throw Beryl off, or at least have her focus on us and less on Keiko.
A Mikage-Endymion Heir look.
The Moon may have gotten to have its words with Beryl, but the Earth still has beef.

>>33888068
Shouldn't the shitennou (except Kairi) already be here?
I suppose drawing Midori here is just as good as going to her, though.

>>33888127
Our masks already have minds of their own, and you want to make a new one? Are you nuts?

>>33888133
Well, I have to admit, the main reason I favor that is Jadeite and Midori seem to share a taste for disguise, and what better place for them to meet than in our mental costume shop.

>>33888153
It's just the role we've already accepted for ourselves, not a full persona, at least not more than Eclipse.
But it is the role that has drawn us into this mess.

>>33888166
I suppose it would be a good place to make that offer, if we're going to do it right now. And considering what we're up against, I'm less reluctant than I'd like to be.

>>33888133
>>33888166
Though that will potentially reveal a few layers of ourself to someone else. Admittedly, the she knows the Moon one, we were toying with revealing Miki to her already, and we are likely to reveal Eclipse in some why during this conflict anyway.. so it is more of a trust/comfort thing than the usual secrecy concerns.

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Well, through this mess I count two votes for bringing Midori here and 1 for going to collect her.

Also, I see one vote for Miki & Sailor Moon, 1 vote for Princed out Mikage, and a few people agreeing that we should out ourselves as Miki to Midori when she arrives.

Either way, I need confirmation of what you'll take from the Vanity before your next action, and ask for a test.

To draw Midori into your dream, I need 1d20+3 charisma test verse DC 15.

>>33888263
Personally, I feel that we might be moving too fast with Midori. Kairi practically had to blackmail us to get in. This is probably an emergency, but surely we had some kind of plan when we suggested the dreamwalk, right? Conscripting Keiko's best friend wasn't our first preference, right?

>>33888409
Well, conscripting her as moral support for Keiko to face Beryl was in the cards, I don't think we're planning on trying to add the complication of joining her with Jadeite, just that they might meet.

Rolled 7 + 3

>>33888345
I am not convinced that princing yourself is at all a good idea. Moon & Miki.

Rolled 8 + 3

>>33888345

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Rolled 20 + 3

>>33888345
Rollin'.

I kinda like the Prince'd idea, but maybe ask the Shitennou what Earth Kingdom attire would be appropriate.

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>>33888508
Oh yeah.

>>33888462
Now that sounds good to me. We didn't come here to recruit anyone, but it won't hurt to bring up the possibility.as a contingency plan.

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>>33888508

1 Degree of success, and WILD

Well, we're still uncertain on what to dress, but I can leave the indecisiveness as part of the scene to touch upon later.

>>33888561
Sounds good.

>>33888561
That sort of indecisiveness would be good flavor for the conversation we're about to have, anyway.

Crazy thought, but since this is the dreamscape, maybe we could take a shot at trying to call Nephrite and Kairi in. She could join us without leaving the house. Seems we may have a touch of telepathy with the right people.

>>33888736
That would work better if she was asleep. We really should have called her if that was part of the plan.

>>33888736
They'd need to be asleep for us to try that, and we can't be sure that they're asleep at the moment

>>33888898
The level of planning for this is non-existent, so it is hard for things to be part of it.

>>33888911
Nah, they'd just have to go to sleep to join us, nothing to say we can't call out to them.
Much like our otherself calling in her quartet.

Approaching the vanity, you hem and haw over what to wear, who to become. Its something that normally comes to you quickly, but for some reason you have a few inklings to try something new. Not just a new outfit for an existing persona...something outright new.

Your mind wanders back to the other potential forms your darkness could have taken, and racks of clothing descend upon the black plane upon which you stand. It becomes a little more full, besides the ambient presence of costumes, accessories, and general accessories.

Decisions decisions decisions.

Making something new might actually help, you imagine Keiko might react favorably to you showing up dressed as a princely knight in lacquered armor. And it could be just the right amount of mucking about with Beryl’s expectations that she’d be off of her game.

Holding the armored chest plate in front of you in the mirror, you sigh, replacing the hanging outfit with one of the arrangements you bought for Miki just earlier today.

Miki was familiar, it was a face that had already offered Keiko positive advice. If you were trying to foster a better sense of trust it could do well to appear first as Miki. Either way, you would probably wind up donning the mantle of Eclipse before the fight was out. Someone Beryl knew to fear and whom Keiko had already an invested measure of trust.

Trust that you were the slightest bit uncomfortable with, but trust all the same.

Hmm...you need a second opinion.

>>33889094
Tugging hard upon the telepathic thread of fate, a whole in the dreamscape tears open as seawater similar to what you had fallen through earlier briefly floods the infinite warehouse of costumes around your vanity. Midori Mori wearing the clothes of Jade sputters and coughs as makeup runs from her face and water drips from her now heavy blonde hair.

~What do you think,~ you muse aloud, ~Prince Charming, California Sun, or should I just go in with a seifuku and pigtails?~

Her eyes dart around, confused. She’s still coming out of her dream. Resting the two outfits across the back of your chair, you kneel down and help her up. Eventually she focuses on you and the wild surprise gains awareness, and her breathing steadies.

“Chiba-san...where are we. Where’s Keiko?”

~That way,~ you point along the psychic thread connecting your dreams, ~though I thought it would help if I wore the right face and outfit to help ease Keiko and psych Beryl out,~

“Right face?” she looks across your vanity as she leans a bit into you for support.

Taking the scene in, the clothes laid upon your chair, and the assorted wig heads strewn about the vanity. Breaking away from you, she stumbles forward and looks closely at the blonde wig, the wrappings of Eclipse, and one of the face masks upon the counter. She lifts one that is a beautiful tan color with white eye liner, shadow, and a bit of light color lining the center vertical of the nose.

“Miki?” she turns to face you with a certain value of disbelief and then anger, “This is my friend’s face. What is all of this, you tell me where the hell we are Chiba Mika-”

She pauses, looks down at the face, looks up to you, and then back to the face.

“Mikage...Miki…” she mouths and you see a recognition breach the skill of your work with just the ink of the disguise pen, “No...no way,”

>How do you respond?

>>33889108
"Yep. The whole time."

>>33889108
Reassure her, "Like I said, it's more of an escape.. now you have some idea what I was escaping from. I really appreciated our friendship, you were the best friend I had during a time when I blocked everyone else out and hid from myself."

>>33889334
>>33889295
Now we need to work together and save your best friend and my new friend from one hell of a jealous bitch.

(Are we getting anything from the Shitennou? If not, we'll need to ratchet up the concern a couple more notches.)

>>33889334

"Midori...Believe in the me that believes in you."

>>33889551
The fuck? We are no Kamina, and she is no Simon.

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>>33889551
Believe.

~Yup,~ you nod and fall back into a fluffy lounge chair that wasn’t there a moment prior, ~the whole time,~

“...we met after...but you were still freaking out at every little thing. How-” hmmm seems she’s having problems accepting this reality.

~Like I said, I came to the circle as an... now you have just SOME idea what I was escaping from~ the costumes fall away for a moment as as the black void around the two of your replays images from both of your perspectives of the violence of your Junior High graduation ceremony, the destruction, chaos, and the moments of helplessness while all eyes were upon Mikage Chiba dying in the arms of her best friend turned monster.

The image changes. You both watch invisibly as you’re alone in you are alone in the bathroom, tears streaming down your face as flashes with the final battle with magician replay across space and time. His face is blacked out, but the impacts echo, and the repeat cries of Escalation grow in intensity. You are washing your hands. The water is boiling but it won’t come off. It won’t come off.

The void black returns. Together you watch yourself stand in front of a mirror in your bedroom and punch it again and again until your hands are bleeding. You are holding the disguise pen, its magic enveloping you as you cry out to be anyone, anyone but yourself.

~I really appreciated our friendship,~ you say softly as she falls into the lounge beside having backed away from the display of pain, ~you were one of the few and precious friends I had during that time. When I blocked everyone else out and hid from myself, when I couldn’t bring myself to face Kairi,~

>>33890198
Who wears sunglasses at night?
Lets go with >>33889334
instead.

>>33890395
Miki looms faceless before the two of you as a tower into the infinite black. Red eyes snarls and rises beside her, equally without face. Daphne rises quietly with her face buried in a copy of The Three Musketeers. A nameless girl, frumpy and sloppily dressed rises in a cackle of laughter, her face a featureless red blush. Dan springs up, facing away from you and reaching up and out for a distant star he can never catch. A shadow envelops the lot of them until you are again before the black.

You aren’t certain if Midori is seeing the same things that you are as she reacts to nearby bursts and movement that you cannot perceive. Perhaps this is a pitfall for shared dreaming, you are showing yourself what you need to be reminded of.

The black robes land in your arms in a flutter.

“I think if you show up in the armor...it might upset Keiko. Its your father’s right?”

~Yeah,~

“Then if you showed up looking like him, like Beryl’s prince,” she composes herself, “Keiko would be thrown off and confused. Just show up as someone she knows she can trust,”

She grips the edge of the black fabric in your arms, there is a tinge of jealousy in her eyes as the fabric falls between her fingers.

“Him...of course you were him too,” she sighs and drops the cloak with a hint of frustration, “Miki, Sailor Moon, or j-just Mikage,”

~Well then, lets get a move on,~ you rise and stretch as you approach the vanity.

“Won’t I just get in the way?”

~We’re as strong as we want to be in a dream. You’ll find what you need to help protect Keiko, and maybe she’ll find what she needs to help protect you if it comes to it,~

She follows you to the Vanity, and then along the thread to Keiko Sugimoto’s dreams, the shadow of the Shintennou falling in step behind you.

-2 choices-

>Decide who you’re going as, and who you bring with you to become if you need to.
&
>Is there anything you want to ask Midori about on the journey.

Thread, give me a clue

Why is Kanari being such a bitch about us quitting?

>>33890452
In part because she blamed us for this landing in her life now.
Then we slapped her shit and gave her a dressing down for calling us a quitter.

Reportedly, she's calmed down since the concert fight and isn't so mad at us. She suspects that we are Eclipse.

>>33890430
I'm thinking Mikage, but with the shroud and sans the headgear, and crest on display. Doubly someone she trusts.

Talk about Keiko, Midori will need to be our guide.

>>33890452
bitches be crazy?

>>33890430
Bring along Eclipse and Miki, both faces that have helped Keiko.
Is Midori still done up as Jade?
If we can, I'd like to bring along Keiko's 'piss off Beryl Sailor-fan' outfit for her.

Talk to her more about what would reassure her and help her stand against Beryl.

>>33890656
This seems like a good idea, maybe.

Holy crap this thread is still running?

>>33890430

> Bring along Eclipse and Miki, but come as Mikage.
> Ask Midori about Keiko, and how they became friends.

>>33884582
NES Fun Way the best way. I have no regrets.

>>33890452
She's the daughter of Makoto, so she has a pretty strong sense of justice, duty, responsibility, et cetera et cetera, so the shock of the Sailor Jupiter thing being sprung on her as well as the realization that Mikage quit being Sailor Moon and left it up to her little sister and Kanari's best friend didn't exactly please her. She's calmed down since, but there's still confusion and frustration there, with the added fact of her brother being a huge fan of Mikage's incarnation as Sailor Moon and her knowing that she disappeared because she quit.

>>33890763
Set Midori up as Eclipse for this?

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>>33890739
Rolling up as Miki and Jade and bringing the anti-Beryl threads amuses me.

>>33890430
I find myself considering dressing Zoicite up as Miki and Jadeite as Eclipse.
So much confusion for Beryl while it seems allies are coming out of the woodwork for Keiko.

>>33890948
Fucking genius

FUCKING GENIUS!

But she's going to know that Eclipse in the news isn't Midori.

>>33890948
I think we need Midori as herself for this. We might go ourselves as Eclipse, since it will be tacit admission that we are Eclipse.

>>33891062
The one that could pull off pretending to be Sailor Moon and the one that loves disguise identities.
Sadly, Kunzite would just have be himself and stoic about the whole mess.

>>33890430
I maintain that we don't need anyone for this except Mikage, Miki, and Moon. It will probably throw Beryl more if w deploy as Miki.

Jade just told us that Eclipse is a bad idea. Why is everyone so hung ho about doing it anyway?

>>33891147
I think this is the best option

Miki and Moon

>>33890430
I'd still like to make an attempt at tugging on Nephrite and Kairi mental sleeve as well. Maybe they manage to show up eventually, maybe not, but it seems possible.

Counting. Hmm, it appears as though you want to bring Miki and Eclipse, but you are heading in as Mikage

To answer the question, yes Midori is still in her Jade clothing, though with most of her tan washed out from her drowning dream.

And Midori said the princely armor was a bad idea, I meant for her to suggest Eclipse as a good idea because Keiko is infatuated and Beryl fears him from before, but she was frustrated to learn that Mikage was Eclipse.

>>33891147
>Jade just told us that Eclipse is a bad idea. Why is everyone so hung ho about doing it anyway?
No she didn't, she warned us away from the Endymion armor look.

>>33891184
This was me, I dropped trip.

Everyone wants to talk to Midori about keiko.

>>33890656
>>33890763
Mikage with Eclipse clothes and glow crest

>>33890739
>>33890981
Miki and Jade bringing the Sailor V shirt to Keiko

>>33890916
Bring Eclipse and Miki, come as Mikage

>>33891062
>>33891125
Dress the Shintennou up as well

>>33891147
>>33891178
Miki & Moon, deploy as Miki

>>33891266

A lot of you definitely want to take Miki out of the gate, with Eclipse and your always present self as alternate options should things get rough? Is that okay?

>>33891304
Sounds good to me.

>>33891266
Let's see, well, no reason not to bring Eclipse, Miki, and the Sailor V fan outfit.

Guess the question is, who we want to start as.. Miki actually seems like a good start, just because it will confuse Beryl and have her underestimating us more.

Suggest the Shitennou stay hidden until with pop the Eclipse Shroud and Crest look on her.

>>33891304
>>33891354
>>33891365
Yes.

>>33891304
Works for me.

Sliding the robes into your pocket, you lift the painted face from the Vanity and slide it over your own. Your clothes ripple and shift to match. The transformation is complete as you place the blonde wig over your naturally pink locks. The clothing is far more glamorous than you’d ever imagined. Tight leather shorts and bustier wrapping your almost glowing bronze skin. Placing sunglasses over your eyes, you hand a bottle containing a miniature sun to Midori.

~You, like, lost your tan,~ you beam at the girl.

She nods in confidence and takes the bottle from you. As she uncaps the bottle, liquid fire fills the void with light. Dipping her hand into the bottle, a dark golden hue spreads across her fingertips and up her arms. Touching it to her face it begins to fill her cheeks and across the rest of her visage. Legs, chest, stomach. She slathers and rubs the metaphysical concept of a tan into her skin, ending up a few shades darker than you.

“So, is your tan and makeup a magic disguise or something?” she asks absentmindedly as her short denim jacket grows longer, her jean shorts extend into capris, and a pale pink color subsumes her lips.

~The makeup is all my totally awesome skill. The tan is a homemade mix with a few drops of ink from my magic disguise pen to keep it from running,~ you say proudly as you tease your eyelashes and then pull a dreamstuff copy of the vintage Sailor V shirt Keiko bought earlier today, ~The first couple of times it was all magic, but I had a real knack and got sooo good at putting myself together,~

“You cheating bitch,” she laughs as the two of you fall in step along the psychic thread connecting into Keiko’s dream.

~Cheating or not you can’t deny that I look good,~ you smirk and pull your sunglasses down a bit.

>>33891972
“Oh my god its like I’m talking to a different person,” she shakes her head.

~Just as different as I need to be,~ you chirp.

The warehouse falls away to sidewalk beneath your feet alongside black pavement. To your right is sand, sea, and sky. To your left is a road and a row of beautiful beachfront houses, the misplaced and perhaps inaccurate skyline of LA and the Hollywood valley sign beyond that.

Eventually the two of you come before a free floating black glass pane. The thread leads into it, and beyond the glass feels absolutely scrumptious dark.

>Go in slowly, because this is totally creepy and you aren’t sure if it isn’t a trap.
>Leap Forward, you’ve got the trail of breadcrumbs already in hand and Keiko, like, can’t afford for you to wait any longer.
>Try to break the glass first, it should totally have gotten out of your way because you are on a mission.
>Just, like, look into it for your own reflection and then believe you are your reflection and you’re already on the other side.
>Write in

>>33891996
>Just, like, look into it for your own reflection and then believe you are your reflection and you’re already on the other side.

>>33891996
>Just, like, look into it for your own reflection and then believe you are your reflection and you’re already on the other side.

This is the kind of dream world logic that I appreciate.

>>33891996
>Just, like, look into it for your own reflection and then believe you are your reflection and you’re already on the other side.

Ack, got distracted! Speed reading time!

“How do we get across is?” Jade aks in wonder because she is a bit of a ditz who doesn’t get dream logic like you totally do.

~Jade, look,~ you point at your reflections standing on the far side of the glass, to solid for the partial reflections in normal glass.

“Our reflections. Why is that important?”

~No, that’s like us, we’re already there,” you chide.

And you are.

Where the world was once warm and filled with sunlight, the dreamscape is cold and craggy. A ruined Kingdom stretches before you from the lip of the valley as snow falls. There, in the distance and atop a mountain is a giant woman of gray skin, wild whipping green hair, and a criminally tight little red dress for a woman her age.

Snow falls over the strange composite ruins of Elysion, The Moon Palace, and D-Point. Somewhere, Keiko struggles while the monstrous image of Beryl laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fizh0M8TczA

Episode End For Real this time.

>>33892603
Calling Midori a ditz....

Pot, meet Kettle

>>33891996
Also, try to keep our head together.
We are Miki AKA Mikage now, not Miki that is totally seprate from Mikage.

>>33892603
Thanks for the thread artemis

>>33892603
>Episode End For Real this time.
Thanks for the run!
MOAR!

>>33892603
No interlude vote?

>>33892776
Already had one, posted between thread end and resume.

>>33892776
Looks like Drowning won.

>>33892568
Even at high speed for your reading, did you enjoy today's thread?

>>33894028
Yesh.

>>33894028
It was, like, totally super awesome or some junk?

Oh, I posted the wrong version of Night on Bald Mountain. I meant to post the Kingdom Hearts Boss Fight version.

>>33896361
Very different?

>>33897669
It's a minor remix like all the KH boss fight so songs imported from other films.

>>33898972
I can see this fight is going to be all kinds of fun. I wish I'd thought about Kairi early enough that we could have called her in on this crazy escapade, though.

>>33899502
Not like you didn't leave her with the divination specialist who knows where you are going and both agree you plan things badly.

>>33899924
A fair point.

>>33899924
Well... it's not like this couldn't be a very good thing for us in the here and now, but I have a horrible feeling that it's going to cause us a lot of trouble sooner or later.

Are we going to get to see her character sheet soon?

>>33900222
I'm working on it. Your Shintennou aren't running off of Mythic Adventures like you are. I'm still building the template for the Knights.

Sheets for Kairi, Midori, and Keiko will be in play next thread. Also maybe a sheet for Sasha beyond the trainings you already know.