>>34707138
Forgot archive and twitter links

Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Card%20Priestess%20Quest
Twitter: http://twitter.com/QM_CardHeart
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/1XJESY5p

>>34707138
>Tell her about the dreams and the cards

>Go during lunch

>>34707138
>Tell her about the dreams and the cards
>Go to Fortune before lunch

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>34707138
>>Tell her about the dreams and the cards
>>Other?
After class. School first.

>>34707138
>Tell her about the dreams and the cards
>Go during/after lunch
Aww man, I'll miss the whole thread again. Oh well.

>>34707138
>Tell her about the dreams and the cards
and
>Go during/after lunch
After class of course. Also if we have to go their to do the inscribing, then this is definitely only going to be a once a week thing.

Also: I'm going to try a writing experiment that hopefully gives faster updates. We'll see how it works out

Voting open for another couple of minutes as people read my twitter and come in

Okay, that seems about long enough

>Tell her about the dreams and the cards
>Go during lunch

>writing

>>34707138
>Tell her about the dreams and the cards
>After class

>>34707331
After class just beat out 'during lunch' on my recount, so after class wins.

>>34707349
Don't need to change it because of that though, I was late afterall

>>34707385
you were only like 30 seconds late, so I don't think it's a big deal.

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"I'll go during lunch. I really don't want to disappear before school and have my friends looking for me."
I sip from this morning's tea, she really did an impressive job with this brew.

She nods as she dips into her rice. I do the same, and notice the rich texture of the moist granuals. She really does make the best rice.
"And as for what happened last night, I kind of had a nightmare and decided to go for a walk." I take another sip of my tea, clearing my throat.
Mom doens't seem very phased by it so far, "Mm. What kind of nightmare?" She idly says in a wistful manner.

"I dreamed of a young girl having a card taken away from her." This gets Mom's attention, and I can feel her eyes turn to me. "Somehow, I feel like I was linked to the card that was being taken away."

She downs the rest of her tea with a single gulp.
"Is.. that all?"
"Well there's one other thing." I say, smiling at her, "That girl looked a little like you."
I can tell the pressure has swelled in Mom's head. A small blush draws across her face as she pours herself another cup of tea.

I smile at her, "Why not tell me about your nightmare, next?"

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>>34707556
She quickly gulps this cup of tea down as well,
"Um, well sweetie, you see." She puts down her cup of tea and kneads at her hands in a worried manner. "I kind of had the same nightmare as you."

Two people having the same dream at the same time? That-
"That's weird." I say, stirring at my rice.
She laughs nervously as she scoops up more rice into her bowl. "It is, isn't it?"
The next few minutes are spent in relative awkward silence. Occasionally we reach over and gather more helpings of food for ourselves.

This is probably a really poor question to ask, but I'm going to ask it anyway;
"When you were younger, did that really happen to you?" I can feel my cheeks turn red as I finish asking that question.
She coughs slightly, looking back down at her plate.

"Uh, um. Hey! I figured out what these two new cards I got do." Awkward laugh all around.
She relaxes almost immediately, "O-oh? That's good."
"Yeah! One can jump really far and the other. "
Actually, I'm not sure how I should describe the other one.
"Well, the other is just for fun, I guess."

She leans forward, setting down her rice. "Can I see it?"

I nod and take out the card and slip it on over my pajamas. I can feel the weight of the blue and red outfit against me. I turn over to where my shadow is being cast along the floor from the morning sun. Just like last night and the shadow from the moon; there is now a black silhouette of myself standing in my shadow's place. It looks back at me with its inky black face. It probably wouldn't be so creepy if it had visible eyes or a mouth.

Mom looks shocked, "That's. really something sweetie, but-"
She cuts herself off, her eyes go wide and her jaw drops. Her gaze has turned from me and out the window.

Spinning around, I'm immediately face-to-face with Aiko. She stands in the driveway, peering inside, wide-eyed in terror. I'm suddenly very aware that my shadowy double is standing right in front of the window.

>WHAT DO I DO?

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>>34707918
>>WHAT DO I DO?
Wave.

>>34707918
"It's not what it looks like!"

Try to diffuse the situation as best we're able. Not lking our luck, but it's worth a shot.

A couple more minutes before I write

>>34707918
This anon has the right idea >>34708029

Okay so

>Wave!

Diffusing with humor, I like it!

>writing!

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I open the window and lean out of it, my shadow does the same.
"Hi Aiiiko!" Both my real hands and nebulous hands both wave at her.

She looks like she wants to faint onto the pavement. Slowly, she trudges toward the front door.

I dismiss the card and open the door, "Hello Aiko!"
"Masami.. What was that just now?"
"What was what?"
She's still wide-eyed and shocked "There was a-"
"a what, Aiko?" I can't keep myself from smiling.

She studders and tries to draw vague figures in the air with her hands.
Suddenly, her outbreak is interrupted by Mom, "That's not very nice, Masami."

"Oh okay." I can feel my mouth turn into a really goofy smile. "It's a new card, but I don't really know what to do with it yet."
I take the card out and put it back on, the shadow double appears behind me, mimicking my motions.
This didn't really seem to help Aiko's confusion, "That's.. uh."

"Want to come in for breakfast, Aiko?" Mom says, clattering some plates together.

"N-no, Um. Well. Maybe." She looks back toward my double, and sighs in resignation.
"..I'll have some tea."
"Great!"
Mom hurries off to the kitchen to get another teacup for Aiko.

Aiko walks up to the table and sits down. She's shrouded in silence for a moment, before a wicked grin shines across her face.
"Now that there's two of you, I can expect both of you to help with my homework, right? Or how about with club activities?"

"Uh. Um."

This came back to haunt me in a way I didn't expect.

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>>34708664
How devious of you, Aiko.

>>34708664
Good luck with the homework part Aiko, she's not very talkative.

>>34708664
hey, we can probably use this card for double hugs!

>>34708808
Yessss!

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>>34708664
We say our goodbyes to Mom as we step onto the driveway. I make sure my cards and phone are in my uniform before I shut the door.

Aiko and I chat about some minor things on the way to school. She didn't seem to be missing anything from her house, but she did notice that someone had moved some objects in her room. I jokingly suggested that maybe a bug was planted.

I really shouldn't have suggested it, because she took it seriously. Then started to worry about all the places that she didn't check. Like maybe in her lightbulbs? Or under the carpet? Or maybe even inside a light switch?
I tell her that she just watches too much television.

We round the corner a block away from school, when we notice something amiss.
There's a commotion occuring down a side street. I can hear some clashing and banging from down an alleyway. It sounds like something huge, like maybe construction equipment?

>Check it out!
>No, probably none of my business
>Other?

>>34708950
>>Check it out!
So much for being on time today.

>>34708950
>Check it out!

>>34708950
>Check it out!
Let's at least take a look. If it's not magical we can double time it to school.

>>34708950
>Check it out!
No way aroun it.

>Writing!

How has update speed been so far? Faster than normal?

>>34709120
Off to a good start.

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"Hold up Aiko, I want to go see what that sound is." I turn and start walking down the side alley.

"You heard it too? I thought I was just going insane."
She grabs me by my collar, "Hey! Don't just wander off without me."
"Sure, sure." I say to her. We both start off down the alleyway toward the sound of commotion.

The noises slowly start to become clearer as we approach their source, first it sounded like construction equipment, then like demolition work, now it has the clear sound of metal grinding on concrete and pavement.

What draws into view is another fully metallic monster. Again, this one is WAY taller than either of us. A definite contrast to their smaller counterparts that we've been fighting.

He thrashes at the pavement, he seems to be fighting something that's buzzing around him too fast for me to see.

Aiko turns to me, "Let's get Ryouta to help! We shouldn't be fighting that thing alone!"
She whips out her phone as she starts to run in the opposite direction, back down the alleyway. I keep up with her, until I remember that monster was still fighting a person, and that I should at least help until Ryouta gets there.

I run back toward monster, just in time to see something reflect off its armor with a bang. It's the masked girl from the other day.
"Are you okay?!" I yell at her, she looks back at me, and then tries to shoo me away with a hand motion.

"You want me to leave?! I can't just-!"
She ignores the rest of my sentence and jumps off toward the monster, leaving several dents in its armor and tearing away a pauldron.

"What do I do?"

>Help her
>Wait and watch, see if she uses another card
>Take Aiko's advice, wait for Ryouta
>This isn't your fight to begin with
>Other?

>>34709533
>Help her

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>34709533
>>Help her
>>Be in a position to stop her from escaping

>>34709533
>Help her

>>34709533
>>Wait and watch, see if she uses another card
Help if she gets in trouble.

>>34709533
>help her
Let's get Julie to keep battering this thing. two-pronged attack seems like a good move.

Let's not show off Cirrus until she starts trying to escape though

Okay so
>Help her
>But try to see if we can stop her from escaping this time

I like it, writing!

Rolled 5 (1d20)

Oh I forgot something

>>34709846
Oh dear, is that good or bad for us?

>>34710004
since HotC rolled, I think it's for our mystery girl. which means good for us...I think

>>34710144
Probably how well she escapes this time. ie. not very.

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I jump inside Julie's card with a running leap. Letting the sword take its hold in my hand; I dash at the monster full-speed. Nearly taking off one of its arms whole.
The masked girl is clearly upset by my interruption, but I'm not going to let that stop me. She holds something close to her chest, with a wave, she thrusts her hands at the monster.

A bolt, seemingly made of air, whizzes past his head. This is his cue to grab her and hit her as many times as he can before flinging her across the street with a mighty throw.
That's not good.

I slice at the air several times, the blue aura surrounding my sword forms into a very dangerous blade. With a flick of my wrist, it flies outward in a wave toward the monster. Slicing it directly in it's back.
That's new, I didn't know it could do that.

His attention is now firmly on me, the girl still struggles to stand as the monster approaches.

>Plan of action for this guy?

>Want to keep your card on, or change it

>Either ways, roll 1d20, best of three

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>34710414
>Use our new found ability a bit more, keep away from him and aim for his neck. Make sure we keep an eye on the masked girl while fighting.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>34710414
>Press the attack
Let's keep this sumbitch occupied. We can use Haruko once it's done (if Meada is any indication it'll make her drowsy too - hard to escape like that!)

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>34710414
>>Plan of action for this guy?
Stay with Julie for now. See if we can learn some more about blasting on this giant sized target.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>34710414
dodge and keep attacking him with the rays

>Rolled: 11

Here's a roll for someone else

Also

>Keep attacking with the rays

I like the way you guys think!

>writing

I hope we brought some gym shorts with us for the chase later.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>34710620
Oops, forgot a roll

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I step back several paces, really knowing that this sword can attack from afar changes everything.

Feeling the aura moving through my hands, I let the sword take a big gulp of blue, swirling energy, before unleashing it straight at the monster. He takes it right in the face, before bumbling backwards uselessly.

His armor cracks and splinters, falling off into chunks which all hit the ground and disintegrate.
He rears up for another attack, but is interrupted by several shots that bounce off his back. Ricocheting and splintering his armor.

The last few pieces of his chestpiece fall off, revealing a card floating in the darkness of his carapiece.

The masked girl makes her move, even though she's clearly injured. She hobbles in a light dash toward the card.

>Grab the card before she can
>Finish the monster off
>Grab her.
>Other?

>Roll 1d20 + 3 for this

Also

>Here's a roll

Rolled 6 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>34711516
>Grab the card before she can
Make her follow us if we can.

Rolled 12 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>34711516
grab her once she grabs the card.
follow with haruko healing directly

Rolled 10 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>34711516
>>Grab the card before she can
>>Finish the monster off
>>Grab her.
>>Other?
Form change Haruko.

Rolled 14 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>34711516
>Grab the card before she can

Rolled 8 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

So I'm seeing

>Finish the monster off
>Grab the card before she does
>Grab her

Then

>Haruko change for healing

Here's a counter-roll

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>34711713
I did that modifier wrong, that's a -2

Not good. Here's someone else's roll.

>>34711739
Welp.

She sure is lucky that you have Haruko!

>>34711739
oh boy...
and yeah, to make maluses you have to use "+-" instead of just "-"

>>34711769
Lucky indeed.

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No no, she's not doing it. She's going to grab that card and try to take off again.
I'm not letting that happen, at least not while she's injured.

Taking my sword in hand, I dash at the monster and unleash a flurry of cuts and swipes.
Slowly, he starts crumbling to pieces, exposing more and more of the card. First the pieces connected to his shoulders start to slide off, then the rest of his legs fall to pieces.

But just before his arms come apart, he pulls back for a punch directly at me.
And on his backswing, he 'accidentally' elbows the masked girl in the neck. She tumbles backwards onto the pavement, wheezes several times, and then stops moving.

Oh no.

While letting the energy build up in the sword, I take one might stab straight through the center of it, and detonate the energy. The blue wisps of light wash away the last remaining pieces of the beast.

I grab the card and stuff it in my pocket, I'll look at that later. But first, I flip over to Haruko and run over to the girl. I can tell she's out cold. Her breathing is short and her neck is sporting a bruise.

Immediately, Haruko's aura sets to work healing the girl. I scoop her up into my arms as they weakly try to push me away. Her eyes aren't open, but she can tell who the person holding her is.
Within a few moments, through some struggling and writhing, she falls asleep in my arms.

"Now what?"

>Take her with you and go try to find the others.
>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover.

While you're doing that

>Peek under her mask
>She must have a reason for doing this, I'll let her keep it a secret.

And also
>Leave the card with her
>Take it with you

>>34712468
>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover.
She's gonna get taken home.

>She must have a reason for doing this, I'll let her keep it a secret.

>Take it with you

Rolled 11 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>34712468
>>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover.
>>She must have a reason for doing this, I'll let her keep it a secret.
>>Take it with you

>>34712468
>>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover.
>>Peek under her mask
>>Take it with you

>>34712468
>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover.
>She must have a reason for doing this, I'll let her keep it a secret.
>Take it with you

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>>34712468
>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover
>Peek Under the Mask
>Take the card

ALSO
>Call/text someone to let them know what's going on
>Keep the girl's identity a secret between us

Information is good. Information allows us to work future events to our advantage. But information is the wrong hands is very dangerous. I'm all for getting as much information as we can, but let's not give too much out okay?

>>34712468
>>34712536
>Call our friends so they know we are alright and don't worry that we aren't in school yet.

A bit of a tie we have here regarding peeking or not.

Also next post may be the last post of the night. Sorry again for another short thread.

I was thinking: I wonder how having a multiple-day thread would work out? I don't have much in terms of a phone to keep my thread bumped, though. We'll consider it for another time.

>>34712705
In that case I'll change >>34712608 to
>Hide somewhere, wait for her to recover.
>Peek under her mask
>Take it with you

>>34712705
3/2 in favor of not peeking as I see it.

And if Hexer manages to keep his threads afloat for 3 days straight, I'm sure we could manage.

>>34712705
I vote to let her keep her identity hidden. To break the tie.

We should really just ask her. Unless she really is one of our friends, seeing her face doesn't really do us any good.

Okay, here's my count

>>34712764
You sure?

>>34712536
>>34712571
>>34712608
>>34712759

Hidden

>>34712619
>>34712579
>>34712759
Peek

If that's good, I'll write.

>>34712821
You counted the changed vote for both and still kept the one he wanted to change.

But I think its okay, unless anyone feels very strongly one way or the other ?

>>34712821
Yeah, it's good. If she want's us to know who she is, she'll let us know. Maybe she'll be more forthcoming with info because we healed her.

>>34712821
>>34712860
I was only changing to break the tie, but looking at it there wasn't one with it being 3:2 for leaving the mask.

Either way I'm good with the current vote.

>>34712860
Oh I did? Let me recount

>>34712619
>>34712759
>>34712579

>>34712571
>>34712536
>>34712770

So the people who voted to change created a second tie.

I'll just keep writing as if you didn't peek under her mask. If that's okay.

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I'm really tempted to look under the mask.
But at the same time, I know how it feels to have secrets that you don't want the world to know.
I know my friends tried to poke and prod into my personal life, and while they're still my friends, I felt hurt when they told me.
Everyone has their reasons for hiding something about themselves. I'm not even sure that I'm ready to come out with all my problems to my closest friends.

I take out my phone and send a text to Aiko and Ryouta, telling them that I'm fine. As well as telling them that it's under control and I'll be in class in a few minutes.

Ryouta texts me back a few minutes later, saying that he's coming over anyway. I don't really want him coming over and un-masking the girl either, so I start a light walk down the street, toward a small park.

We arrive at the park, and I lay her down on one of the benches before sitting beside her. The aura continues to slowly heal the lump on her throat.
Several minutes pass by, I watch several passerbys walking their dogs wave at me. Maybe they don't notice the suspicious person in a mask laying next to me, maybe they don't care.

I can feel her stirring after a short while. Her arm rises to the back of the bench as she pulls herself up.
And then snaps around to notice me sitting there. I smile and wave at her as she leaps from the bench into a stance.

"Calm down, you were hurt."

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>>34713792
She relaxes her pose, and turns her back to me.
"You didn't look, did you?"
"No! Of course not. I know what's like having something to hide."
This, for whatever reason, makes her ball her hands into fists.
"Thanks, but I don't need your help. I'll be fine on my own."

She wearily starts to walk away, but I don't let her go that easy.
I stand up and put my hand on her shoulder.
"Just, do you need my phone number? A place to stay? Anything?"
Her shoulders slump, she starts to say something, but hesitates.

"No.. I'll be fine. Just.. Go away."

That's not going to work, at all.
Running up behind her, I pull her into a hug. I take out my phone and show it to her.
"Here, Here's my phone number, just call me if-"
"PLEASE." I can tell her body has stiffened at that last line of insistence. She shrugs off my hug and continues walking forward.

She swipes a card against her wrist, I interrupt her again before she decides to disappear.
"Can you at least tell me what that thing is?"
As she's leaping away, she tells back to me,
"Why don't you ask your father!?"
And with that, she disappears from sight.

Great. More things Dad is hiding from me.

Thread end.

Thanks for the thread, everyone

Okay, my writing method slowed down near the end. But how was the rest of the thread?

>>34713959
I think it went a lot better, the time was definitely improved.

>>34714011
Whew, good.

I abandoned it for the last few posts because it's mentally intensive and it's late here, but I start by writing the dialogue first, action next, fluff next, flavor text last. Which means I have to plan the entire post ahead of time and keep track of it in my head.

Glad it's working out when I'm awake and aware, at least. I should just go back to running at 12PM EST where I had the whole day to write.

>>34713959
I didn't see much difference, to be honest.
Both this and the last one had roughly 8upd/5h, but maybe thats just me. The updates did seem faster at one point, maybe it just slowed down towards the end.
That being said, I never saw much problem with your "slow" (really only relatively) long updates. I actually like those more, personally.

Also, is this the first time Masami actually called the CEO her Dad ?

>>34714057
Ah, I'll keep that in mind.

Also, I think she referred to him as 'Dad' sarcastically once or twice.

>>34714057
well, we would never say it to his face, because fuck that guy.

I get the impression the masked girl uses cards the same way Izumi used to do, so we might want to ask her about that.

And thats totally not because I want more adorable hugs and crying that questions about moms past bring about

>>34714077
The pastebin needs updating with our new cards.
And I think we still need to settle the name for the shadow twin card.

>>34713938
>Running up behind her, I pull her into a hug.
So cute~
She is going to be our friend, she just doesn't know it yet.

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>>34714175
>The pastebin needs updating with our new cards.
>And I think we still need to settle the name for the shadow twin card.

I agree, I'll get to working on the pastebin before next thread.

Which is hopefully Wednesday.

>She is going to be our friend, she just doesn't know it yet.

Just befriend everyone! Even if they don't want it!

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>>34714281
>Masami right now.

Pretty nice session, always nice when nothing bad happens when you can't attend! Thanks for the thread!