>>36973538

Red ribbons tie across your chest, hair, and back. Yellow skirt and trim surround the white bodysuit. A circlet crosses your forehead where the now clear astrological crest burns and spreads its life giving warmth. Your hair explodes in that rising warmth, the far tips becoming reddened in a gradient shifting of color. The sun inside you tints your previously pale skin with a warm tan.

There is no time to strike a pose as the light fades, you are already running to the edge. You’ll leap from rooftop to rooftop once they get a little higher, until then you’ll make due with flying as fast as you can.

Its the beginning. You’ve been forgiven by everyone but yourself. Every life you save going forward, every chance you have to protect this world is another chance for you set a counter weight on the scale in your heart. This is how you’ll be redeemed. This is how you’ll be worthy.


You are a burning in light, a streak across the sky beheld by the worried people below.

Interlude End

>>36973549

Quest Start

The world beneath you slides by one alleyway or cross street at a time. Your group started with lower rooftops of short buildings and residential homes, but your climb has gone steadily through industrial, business, and commerce centers onward toward the great rise of buildings near to Tokyo Tower.

The boy in your arms stopped actively struggling few blocks back, and has relegated himself to a few idle unintelligible grumbles and sour expressions. Occasionally you can catch him looking at you or the others in curious suspicion and scrutiny or the world below with no small amount of awe.

Kairi and Midori flank you, keeping up as best they can with the coalesced magic encasing their legs. Kairi’s face is determined and serious. Midori’s face is etched with nervous excitement.

Together you soar from rooftop to rooftop toward your goal. Whatever is happening atop Tokyo Tower is big enough to blanket the whole of the city, possibly greater, in this supernatural jamming of communication. Whoever or whatever is responsible is going to in for a world of hurt, because you’re giddily thinking of tossing them off the top of the orange spire of steel.

Normally you are Mikage Chiba, some 15 year old high school girl who used to be the third sparkle crapping heroine of love and justice, Sailor Moon before she ran screaming from the title after a little gore and broken promises.

>>36973560

Now you are the Red Eyed Beast, urban myth and bane of delinquents and yakuza who dare to operate in Juuban. You are the person Mikage needed to be to find an outlet for her anger, and perhaps cope with the violence she had previously committed. Whatever, this is too much explaining about yourself and you are just getting super pissed off.

At least right now you’re impressed that Sasha isn’t shitting himself at the superhuman acts of acrobatics you and the other girls are executing. He took your transformation into the beast in stride, in all fairness you did tell the little bruiser that you were magic. It isn’t any skin off your nose that he might not have believed you at first.

Still, you’re a ways off.

>Keep yourself serious and determined. There is grim work to be done and without the ease of tactical communication.
>Look forward, giddily, to the likely violence and feasting ahead. Let the fangs slide out with your smile.
>Attempt to play with your telepathy again, you’re braced for feedback now, maybe try empathetic projections instead of language? With who? What emotions?
>Write in

>>36973570
>Look forward, giddily, to the likely violence and feasting ahead. Let the fangs slide out with your smile.

>>36973570
>Look forward, giddily, to the likely violence and feasting ahead. Let the fangs slide out with your smile.

Hooray shotty hospital connections.

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>>36973538

>>36973697
I feel like this requires a Pelor-Zarus image, or at least Conky, but I don't have any at hand and don't really want to look.

>>36973570
>>Look forward, giddily, to the likely violence and feasting ahead. Let the fangs slide out with your smile.
This is going to be so much fun!

>>36973735
Yes! Peaches will flow, we will pay the iron price for them!

Writing

>>36973950
Not exactly. Most of a vampire's iron intake is from blood, but we don't drink blood.

>>36974073
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Iron_price>>36973697

>>36973697
Sorry didnt mean to link you as well.

>>36974488
oh. Right. Game of Thrones. Can't be arsed to get a tv, so I've not watched it.

>>36974531
A song of fire and ice. It's a book series first. Good books.

>>36974544
I was aware that there are books. Perhaps I'll consider picking them up after I finish the pile I already have and need to read.

Despite, or perhaps because of, all the things potentially looming ahead you cannot contain your giddiness and excitement. The joy you take in violent confrontation is amplified by the implied scale of the impending conflict. Pupils dilate, perhaps aglow, while a sinister and wanting smile creases across your face.

You aren’t paying attention to anything now beyond what lies ahead, both literally and metaphorically. This whole phenomenon is likely magical, so you absently lick your chops at the prospect of a filling meal of shadow and suffering. The unintentional pleasant sensation of your fangs sharpening to their hungry tapering point only serves to further widen your smile.

There is a gasp from within your arms, garbled through the magical effect stripping the world of common languages and communication, as Sasha beholds the emergence of your still recently acquired tools of the enemy’s downfall. He says something, you aren’t sure what, and you can’t tell if its caution or reverence he suddenly regards you with. Your smile softens and you giggle at his shock. Still, he says something that comes out as nonsense through the strange filter choking your world. There is no mistaking the lessening expression of shock and calculation taking up his features.

>>36974689

As you get closer, you feel the surging of wild emotions around you. The panic and unrest in concert creating a symphony to your senses. Soon you are before the tower complex, where civilian authorities are setting up makeshift barricades while trying their best to contain the crowds.

Stopping on a rooftop you survey the scene, a few news vans are about the area as well. Even if no one can understand one another’s speech, this potential end of civilization would still be televised.

To either side of you, Kairi and Midori are wreathed in light as they don their disguises.

Kairi motions that she and Midori will go wide and around, you assume to offset your combined arrival.

Now how to approach the tower, bathed in eerie light.

>Try to stay out of sight with Sasha, stealthily
>Straight ahead, overhead, still carrying Sasha
>Straight ahead, overhead, let Sasha figure things out for himself
>Try to get underground.
>Write in

>>36974700
>Straight ahead, overhead, let Sasha figure things out for himself
Sorry, boy. Magical girl time is now. Enjoy the view.

>>36974700
>Straight ahead, overhead, let Sasha figure things out for himself

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Home from the holidays, will catchup shortly.
Hi folks.

>>36974700
Stealthily.
Let Sasha figure out how he wants to fit into this.

I think it's kind of hard for Sasha to operate independently if he isn't magic and can't understand us.

>>36975154
Mainly I hope that hinders him from getting directly involved. Particularly since we can't coordinate at all.

I'm also going to push for switching gears to Eclipse once we're clear of him.

Finally home.

>>36975188
I don't know. Red eyes has been ticked off that we've swapped her out before a fight before. She's been revving to go the whole way here.

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Writing

That being said the Holiday sale is on steam. Any of you guys want something off of there?

>>36975260
Yeah, but I'm hoping to put that anger to use on Justicing and Heroic Righteous Ass-Whuppin', rather than just angry savage beat-downs.

..I wonder if it would be odd to have Red-Eyes become more one with Eclipse before integrating fully into Mikage proper.

>>36975306
I'm afraid to open Steam during sale time.
I could be tempted by it.

>>36975365
Eh I'm offering.

>>36975331
>Yeah, but I'm hoping to put that anger to use on Justicing and Heroic Righteous Ass-Whuppin', rather than just angry savage beat-downs.

I think angry savage beat downs might be the order of the day here.

That said, I don't think it's a good idea to be the beast while the scouts are hanging around. Not unless we want a lightning bolt to the face. So we need to consider swapping when it gets too late.

>>36975530
but don't the scouts know that we're the beast?

>>36975530
They've seen red eyes take down the bad guys on two occasions. And I think Koyomi is aware that Mikage is Red eyes. Didn't we straight up tell her? Or am I mistaken?

>>36975539
Not all of them, and they can't exactly tell each other to not fire on us.

>>36975530
That would be another good reason to switch, more self-serving-ish, but alright.

>>36975539
Yes to the Beast, but we're trying to build a Tuxedo mask deal with Eclipse, and frankly I feel like we've been slacking in the Mysterious Hero department lately.

>>36975547

Thanks to Aiha's magic eyes, they figured out Miki was the Beast...then we were still Miki when they came home. Then we straight up told Aiha, and later Koyomi. The others are all in the know. Presumably when Rin, Venus, Aiha, and Kanari went home in Venus's mom's driver's car.

>>36975547
We did.

>>36975547
Which is why we don't want to be the Beast when they show up.

>>36975673
Seeing Mikage as a visceral combat monster that will go toe to toe and demolish foes is a bad thing?

Putting fear into Sailor Jupiter. Seriously though she's my favorite scout, all that passion. Shame she gives Mikage so much shit. I feel like Red eyes shows her just how Brutal/Powerful Mikage is and should really spark the question.. What made her quit

>>36975787
She sees a bit cooler with Mikage now, more competitive especially given the run scene. She's concerned about trusting her, but I think she's stopped giving her shit.

>>36975503
You literally cannot give things away.

>>36975787
I like to fight smart, and I have a feeling we're going to need to get mighty tricksy against whatever Shadow Scientist has cooking here.

>>36975833
He can, I'm just having to poke around the sale a bit since I hadn't before.

>>36975818
I'd totally poach her from Koyomi if possible. Love the spitfires.

I'm still pleased by that interlude where she stated.. sure Mikage Scared her in that fucking alley.. but that Beast thing. Goddamn. HAH YOU WERE EXPECTING A MONSTER! YOU WERE RIGHT! BUT IT WAS I MIKAGE!

>>36975833
Right? Goddamn Hollow quest over Halloween.

>>36975859
Ah Cool Welp just send me your steam tag or email or what have you and what you want. I've got about a 70$ Cap for random people on the internet total. Hell if no ones interested get like Farcry 4 or some shit.

You nod to the girls and they break off away from you. Kneeling you let Sasha down, he composes himself and adjusts his shirt while you back away and then turn toward the edge of the roof.

~This is it,~ you take a deep breath and laugh in the gravelly voice that comes with your form, ~I know you can’t understand me, Sashy...but the stage is set,~

Turning back to face him, you spread your arms wide and then take a rather theatrical bow. He says something you can’t parse, confusion across his face.

~I couldn’t just leave you back there, but here,~ you gesture wide, ~you’ll be able to see it all. So keep a sharp eye. This is the world of the magical girl you idolized...it isn’t for people,~

Turning away, you stride toward the edge of the roof and drop down, giving him a casual wave. You hear his protests and turn in mid fall to see him rushing to the edge and reaching out for you. Smiling maniacally you kick off the face of the building and soar over the crowd, landing in a low crouch on a police car. Springing off of the vehicle, and laughing the whole way, you continue over the barricade to the shrieks and sudden attention of the crowd.

Their fear is palpable. Fear of you is empowering. In the back of your mind you feel a surge of awareness, the power over natural darkness in bloom. Power you never expected to exist. It is you. Your own. Not born of the stolen weapon of the enemy that you turn against them with senses and fangs.

>>36975980

Landing in a roll, you run as spot lights fall on you, though fall away as you leap over and around obstacles toward the base of the tower. The air is thick with the sweet, savory, and sour flavors of shadows. Whatever they are, they’re weak and inconsistent. Black puddles litter the area, occasionally clawing hands reach up from these dark pools and disintegrate.

It chills you, the chance that there could be shadows without people, but excites you all the same.

The tower looms before you.

>Go up the elevator
>Take the stairs
>Leap about inside the superstructure
>Leap about outside the superstructure
>No, you can do something else...you feel it, or you could save it
>Write in

>>36975996
>No, you can do something else...you feel it, or you could save it

Mystery box? Can we get Mikage to extrapolate on this a bit?

>>36976030
I am also curious.

>>36975996
>No, you can do something else...you feel it, or you could save it
Recognize it, save it for later. Climb up the tower from the outside. We are absolutely here for a fight, so let's make it obvious.

>>36975996
>Leap about outside the superstructure

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>>36975996
>No, you can do something else...you feel it, or you could save it
>Write in
Now that we're in, let's change up to Eclipse.
Don the Midnight, draw the Rose.
Sneak up, recon, figure out this odd feeling.

>>36975996
>No, you can do something else...you feel it, or you could save it

>>36975996
>No, you can do something else...you feel it, or you could save it

You touch the power gained from the fear others have in you, the red eyed beast. The bubbling magical power you’ve naturally accrued over darkness from the same place your claws come from. It is a greater power, a magic you didn’t know you had at your disposal. And you know just how to use it.

>Shadow Conjuration Spell like ability used. Conjuration Spell Mimicked: Phantom Chopper.

You let darkness bloom in front of you and coalesce into a weird shape that solidifies into a shining motorcycle. Oh yes. You like this.

Straddling the vehicle, you rev it and take off in a wheelie, cackling madly to the base of the tower. It takes and rides evenly up the surface of the tower, single headlight burning a path ahead of you through the weird light and aura of the tower, as you feel its natural force of gravity behaving strangely. No matter, you roar onward up the side of the superstructure of tokyo tower.

In you wake rise lesser shadow creatures. Incomplete and lacking something born of a human. Poor projections that are weak, those that do rise ahead of you break beneath the wheel of your vehicle.

Clearing the lower observation deck, you rocket toward the secondary one high above. The long drive ending with a hard landing and your own heartbeat racing.

There, standing between three scintillating spheres of rippling light is a bulky and muscular figure with blue circuitous skin wearing a lab coat and torn pants. His eyes burn yellow, and his small tuft of hair is white. He is surprised and seemed to have been in the middle of cleaning his glasses.

“Well this is a surprise,” he comments idly and not affected by the tower’s field, “I was expecting the Sailor Senshi,”

>Write in

>>36976544
"Well this is awkward. So was I."

>>36975892
Well, I'm Bat Gun on there.
Main sale items that stand out is the two newer DLC for Democracy 3, Social Engineering & Clones and Drones (which isn't on sale).
Hm, couple Saints Row IV costumes I'd missed.
No sale on the Gat Out of Hell pre-order yet.

>>36976544
>Phantom Chopper
Not what i was expecting, but: Ah yisss.

>Write in
Well, guess we aren't going Eclipse anytime soon here. Let's see..
>large evil scientist
Might be a bit unnerving for us, but we'll have to power through..

Power..
Well let's see about seperating him from these glowing spheres that are probably powering this mess.

Horsepower?
Who wants use a shadowcycle to help us pull this guy off the edge?

>>36976698
Did I add the right batgun?

>>36976715
Did I accept the right person playing Worms?

>>36976544
>>36976677
>>36976698
>Who wants use a shadowcycle to help us pull this guy off the edge? Sounds good. Maybe we can slam his ass into the ground as well. IT's a long drop.

>>36976677
This

>>36976698
Also this

Guys

You shouldn't pull him off the ledge

Remember, he's a real person. We don't want two scientists dead.

>>36976857
I beg to differ. Dangling him off a ledge would be totally Batman.

>>36976544
wait wait wait
I CAN UNDERSTAND YOU?

>>36976874
To scare who? The shadow?
You're assuming the shadow cares if it gets scared or not.

>>36976857
Can't hear you, option is too awesome.

>>36976901
It probably isn't affecting him.

It's probably affecting us.

>>36976754
Ooh, Ooh. ME, ME!!

>>36976857
Crap, didn't think that far ahead.
And Red Eyes isn't about hesitation.

Let's hope for the best.

>>36976995
YES! No one else wants to destroy the guy by cratering him?

Oh also anyone else want something from steam?

>>36977166
Do you want anything from steam?

>>36977144
I was thinking more going ghost rider with a shadow chain and dragging him down the tower.

>>36977213
Nope. I'm good man. I got what I wanted already.

>>36977223
Okay, forget it.
I'll back this if we can do it.

Slightdelay.

>>36977223
Yeah I'm fine with this or cratering him. This is also amazing.

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>>36977166
I was wanting Magical Battle Festa but someone else gifted it to me.

Fun game for beamspam Magical Girls, even though I can't tell what is going on most of the time.

Is that right, use the MotorCycle to run him off the roof? (You don't have a chain)

>>36977481
YES!

>>36977481
Yep

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>>36977481
I'm thinking more assisted grapple/run off.
Long bomb body slam.

>>36977481
Yes, Pit Fatality!

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>>36977481
Oh man

I hope we do air combos on him like Dante on the way down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHY6xRpktk

>>36977511
>>36977532
This seems to be the right vein.

>>36977532
>>36977511
>>36977481
>>36976754
These all express the ass whoopin' we need to give him.

Rolled 2 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

You barely let his words hit you before you rev your bike to life again and circle wide so you aren't facing the center of the tower viewing platform. You'll run this bastard right off of the roof. Evil jerk in a lab coat, they know. They fucking know what they did to you and they're mocking you.

"Awkward, so was I!" you snarl and charge at him with the bike.

You will not be fucking mocked!

He smiles as you close the distance.

"Foolish child! That bike is made of magic, and it will be nothing against-"

You pass through a shimmering field of energy, you are reminded of the bubble shell Aiha used in her first fight to keep low level magic at bay. This structure is stronger, but not by much, and you pierce through it.

>Globe of Invulnerability Lesser over come using Shadow Conjuration's spell level

His eyes shoot wide beneath the recently returned spectacles as you draw within a hair's breadth.

>give me dice+1d20+7 vs the above. 1s and 20s wild, best of 3.

Rolled 10 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36977671

Rolled 3 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36977671
Yippie Ki-Yay!

Rolled 1 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36977671
This guy is starting to look like kind of a pushover.

>>36977729
Goddammit

>>36977729
You had to taunt the dice gods

Planet power.

>>36977729
Jesus fuck. But our total is still higher.

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Rolled 1 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36977671
Up Up and Away!

>>36977747
JUST STOP

>>36977729
>>36977736
Wait, that's still an 8.
That still beats his 6.

>>36977729
>>36977747
What. Two of them?!

>>36977729
>>36977763
I'm still tempted to use a surge to get an extra margin on this guy.

>>36977739
>>36977763
Ones are wild. I would assume that means overriding fail.

>>36977779
>overriding fail
Unless we Planet Power

Call for surge? Y/N

>>36977795
Y

>>36977779
Nah, Wild means we have to take the 1 as our roll even if the other two were 19s. If the amount on the roll is still enough we can still succeed.

>>36977795
But in a situation like this I would like to do more than merely succeed.
Y

>>36977795
Sure

>>36977795
Y

>>36977795
Yea

Rolled 4 (1d8)

Surging

Spend success on grapple?
Drag down the side of the tower and slam into the ground?

So Eclipse is Batman and Red-Eyes is Bayonetta/Dante? This is madness.

>>36977891
>>36977986

So.. If this goes off successfully. What's the reaction of the scouts showing up to Rage Mode Mikage slamming the big bad into the ground after a few story fall?

>>36977986
>>36977891
Maybe, does our Dark Knowledge ability think he's tough enough to not be a murderous move?

>>36977990
Optimally, it would be awesome to be gone before they arrive on the scene.
Just seems more badass.

>>36978011
Naah Naah. They show up to see the guy crater. Red eyes comes out of the blast zone. Jumps off into the night. Knights in trailing behind.

Suddenly everyone can speak again. And they're speechless.

>Bullrush successful, congrats on picking the way to beat the puzzle fight with no muss because going over the crowd made you aware of your Darkness Domain

The front wheel slams into him an you lean forward, laughing and burning the engine as hard as you can. Black smoke spews, quasi real, from the back of the vehicle as the wheel leaves it's mark upon the floor of the platform.

"-HOW!?" he roars as his hands clamp down on the headlamp as his feat lose their footing. For all his bulk he seems to have no idea how to use it, "Magic to cross that barrier should have been beyond almost anyone in this world!"

All you do is laugh.

Crossing the length of the platform, the three spheres quiver and distort as he is pushed away from them. They crackle with energy as the barrier around him dissipates, the careful arrangement of his ritual undone by removing him from the protected space. Had you or the young Senshi unloaded your usual supernatural salvo against him, it would have been useless.

Pushing him over the edge of the observation platform, he seems to calm down. By some aspect of its supernatural nature, your bike continues along open air as though it were solid ground.

"This will require a require a revision," the hulking blue scientist sighs as he releases his grip on your bike and begins falling like a rock fading from sight, "A tactical retreat,"

Your charge continues for a forward until your bike is reminded of the hold gravity has over it, your back lifts off the seat as you begin to pitch forward and fall, several hundred feat from any surface. You doubt the enhanced power of your Jump will do much to deter it.

And, even though you appear alone, and appear to be about to fall a few hundred feet to certain death, you are again surrounded in that ambient scent of anger. And back on the tower, far below and away, you can make out the distant combat between your knights and the weaker shadows on the lower observation deck.

>write in, 1 full round action

>>36978030
Too easy. There must be a gotcha in here somewhere.

>>36977986
You required a degree of success to get him off the tower. You got it, just.

>>36978060
Can we use shadow slide to make it back to the roof?

>>36978060
Fuck just happened. Can we speak? I'd love to pursue that scientist but he's apparently fucked right off.

Goddamn everything is ruined. IF there's nothing up here evil and magical to smash run down there and start destroying and consuming lesser shadows. Guy bitched out of an awesome fight and a glorious finisher.

>>36978060
>write in, 1 full round action
Now for the part where I review the sheet for extra ideas.
Though I'd love to find the source of that anger.

>>36978084
Groovy.


Alternate solution: Mundane knife and precision damage express from the batman approach could have worked as well.
I will admit, this cycing was more fun though.

>>36978104
Unless we're Wile E Coyote, running anywhere isn't really an option at the moment.

>>36978060
>>36978104
Yeah when I say evil and magical or what haveyou. Anger source as >>36978118
suggests. I hope some one got a shot of that bike thing. Or it'll be on the news later. Something that flashy has to be seen.

>>36978060
>>36978103

Or maybe we can try trying a powered up personal force field to survive the fall?

Much is fall damage anyway?

>>36978142
>>36978135
>, you are again surrounded in that ambient scent of anger. And back on the tower

Blow up the bike in mid-air and use the explosion to propel us back to the tower.

It's crazy enough to work.

>>36978103
Your slide is 55 ft, you are more than 100 feet away.

>>36978151
or am I misreading this? Are we seeing our friends back on the tower or are we back on it? Turn that bike into wings.. or a Guider if we're falling.
>>36978060

>>36978151
Don't crop the sentence, it's telling us that we can see Kairi and Midori fighting on the tower. Not that we are on the tower.

>>36978164
Bike is a set form.

>>36978164
Wings sound good. Make them look like they are made of bone or something.

>>36978177
I see... If that's the case does it HAVE to follow the rules of physics? It's a shadow after all. Maybe it can be a Flying bike again!

>>36978195
Or we could do an on the fly glider conversion.

>>36978155
So we have to clear 45ft of space to slide back to the tower?

How about we jump off the bike, propelling us toward the tower, could we clear 45 feet with that?

>>36978195
Well i guess we did drive the thing up the side of a building, so maybe?

>>36978211
Yeah if we can turn it into a bitching evil lookin' Glider we can do it.

>>36978060
>>36978118
I got it!

Bike is made of magical shadow.
>Control Darkness and Shadow
We can cause shadow to move in a small, area.
In the most limited reading, we can at least stop the bike from falling from a 5 foot area.

>>36978240
Oh shit, that might be it.

So then we would be floating. Could we use this to float the bike back toward the tower, Artemis?

>>36978240
We can slowly make it look like we're riding it to the ground. Bitchin'

>>36978240
And if we can move the area, we could float the bike back to the roof if we can maintain concentration.

You cannot change the phantom chopper into a glider.

>>36978267
Can we do >>36978240

>>36978251
At worst we can hold it in the air until we have a better idea.

>>36978277
Uh...huh. Gimme a minute to read and make a ruling.

>>36978240
5 foot cube per level.
So 30 cubic feet of area we could move it in if we can't move the area of effect.

>>36978155
If we spend the extra mp to use shadow slide as a move action could we cast it again as a standard action during the same turn?

>>36978329
There is a question of speed. Closest mention is it says we can move them fast enough to follow us within the area.
If we are allowed a reasonable amount of speed, we could use that 30 cubic feet as a ramp back toward the roof.

Even if it isn't enough, it might be close enough to Slide.

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At least death-defying flight motorcycle stunts run in the family.

>>36978395
I wonder if we could use a vertical slide, in the worst case, to at least reduce our falling damage some?

>>36978313
>>36978240
Failing that, suggest sending telepathic distress signal as we fall, and ready Entangle to try and have plants cushion us, or grab us if we pass close enough to a building.

The only thing this doesn't work on is Magical Darkness. This is not magical darkness. Writing

>>36978480
Sounds like we just broke out the synergy!

>>36978523
Tricky thing is that it is still 1 round+Concentration, so gotta stay focused.
We'll have to see if the area of effect can be moved, I could see ruling either way.
One way could get us an aerial jump ramp (depending on movement speed). the other could net us concentration-based flying motorcycle time (not a thing to rely on, but cool).

Rolled 5 (1d100)

You exert your supernatural ability to control shadows upon the Quasi real material from the edge of reality. It responds in kind and holds fast in mid air. Willing it to slide, you force it back 40 feet toward the tower. Maintaining your concentration will be easy enough, you sneer in the direction your foe fell, it should take another twelve seconds to the tower.

>Maintaining concentration on this spell is a standard action.

The anger still coalesces around you, though you feel a tickle as the wordless shouts below become distant words. Lights spark and sputter back on the tower as the spheres glow in erratic intensity, causing the wind to pick up.

There is a slight pull on your neck. Your locket floats ahead of you, something is tugging on it weakly. The anger reeks of desperation. It is trying to pull it from your neck.

>you have a move action if you choose to maintain concentration on your spell. You are two rounds of this spell from setting your bike safety on the platform.

>write in

>>36978655
Keep that goddamn locket. Wrangled into GMing. Good luck gentlemen.

>>36978655
How far away until we can shadow slide? One more round? Shadow slide is 55 feet, correct?

In short: I don't think we can keep this up for two rounds if something is tugging the crystal away.

Is it a free action to grab the locket and secure it?

>>36978655
>maintain concentration on your spell.
Use shadow slide as a move action to get get to the tower when we are close enough.

>>36978655
Can we concentrate and cast a spell?

>>36978655
IF we start to lose the locket. Transform with it. They can't fucking take it then.. probably.

>>36978655
I'm concerned that this seems to be the same angry presence that was with us as Mikage, and that it is after the locket with us as Red-Eyes.
Need to lock this thing down.
Now.

Cast Entangle on the bike.

>>36978655
Priority is on keeping the locket over not falling out of the sky. But if we can do both, do both.

>>36978759
Agreed that locket is top priority.
Secondary is that whatever is on is stopped. It has seen too much.
Third is not falling.
Thus >>36978753
Entangle and anchor whatever it is to us.

>>36978655
>>36978714
If so, suggest using Scream.
Area effect, stunning and wounding.

(Entangle requires plants nearby to entangle)

Final Destination
4 minutes, just number, no nothing else or don't count

1 Move 40 ft closer and shadow slide to safety
2 grab locket and move 40ft closer

>>36978922
>(Entangle requires plants nearby to entangle)
Except that our Mythic Augmentation goes around that problem.

>>36978922
2

>>36978922
2

>>36978942
Fudge, forgot about that part.

>>36978922
2

>>36978966
Though I'd prefer to use magic in our defense, given the option.

>>36978922
2

>>36978962
One of the things about it that sold us on it at the time. Was a mite limited otherwise.

>>36978942
The mythic entry for entangle says it causes plants to spring up out of the ground.

We aren't on the ground, or anything remotely like the ground.

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Well, apparently we need ANOTHER FD, because it was originally an even 3 way vote.

So, usual rules abide. Sorry for shenanigans.

1 & 2 are the same
3 is entangle and continue moving (you have a few rounds after you stop concentrating)

>>36979057
2

>>36979057
2

>>36979047
Yeah, but you and the crystal are the earth.

>>36979057
3

>>36979057
Well, one more round of movement gets us close enough to Slide the rest of the way.
Anyone else up for an entangled motorcycle drop?

>>36979057
2

>>36979108
...usual Final Destination rules apply.

>>36979108
Eh, considering the height, could be a bit murderous.

>>36979121
Aye, just fishing for more votes my way.

>>36979057
3

>>36979149
Appreciate the thought, but missed the vote window.

>>36979147
A fair point, though we don't know how tough it is or isn't, ICly at least.

The wind picks up as the spheres fall into one another, taking on a weird amoeba shape of scintillating light and color. Your will over the darkness surges and you push it closer to the tower, almost there. Almost to safety.

You are pissed that you didn't get you fill and fight, but that was still amazing. You will be further pissed if something takes your locket.

Reaching up, you grab the necklace holding it in place. The tug against you pulls weakly, desperation and rage rising.

~Let it go,~ you snarl, ~This is MINE,~

A silhouette forms in the air between you and the amorphous shape the spheres merged into. It floats twenty feet away, and is humanoid in shape. You can't make out the finer features as the light shines through it, transparently, but it's small and wearing some kind of dress or smock.

"Give it back!" it snarls at you in a young and high pitched voice.

>write in your next round. Talking within reason is a free action.

>>36979266
Use it. "It's Mine."

>>36979266
Hm.
This warrants a bit more thought/investigation.
"Who are you that you think this is yours to have?"
Cast Force Screen, might need a shield that block spirity-ghosty things.
Continue onto the roof with remaining non-concentration round of Control.

>>36979266
>Use it. "It's Mine."
Cast shadow slide as move action to get to the roof. Use the locket to cast a moonbeam at the thing.

>>36979343
>>36979266
Hold it

We can move shadows, here's the description

Move Shadow: The affected shadow moves as you direct within the area. You can create shadow illusions (as those created by a silent image spell, but without color), reveal hidden creatures by taking their shadow away, cause shadows to follow you within the area of the spell, or otherwise move the shadow as you see fit. You cannot move areas of darkness in this way.

Maybe we can move its shadow and reveal what it is?

>>36979287
Using it is very not recommended, it hasn't been mended of prepared for use at all.

>>36979420
Isn't stopping someone from trying to take it. I'm under the impression that if we use it. They can't take it.

>>36979457
Issue is that either we can't use it, or it does Horrible Things of Unstable Magic.
The brooch is setup for that kind of work, but as Setsuna said, the Crystal isn't ready for use.

>>36979482
I'm'a have to side with the Guardian of Time on this one. It'll be fine if we keep a good grip on it. We can take a few bites out of ghost girl if we have to.

>>36979287
>>36979343
>>36979383
>>36979389
So we've got a four way draw of:
Try to transform, "It's Mine."
Talk to it and cast Force Screen
Slide and Moonbeam, "It's Mine"
Try to reveal it more with shadows

Gonna need someone to change up to move forward.

>>36979420
Well, Usagi's broach worked before she got silver.

>>36979266
Finally back from Christmas stuff. I'll go with >>36979383

Moonbeam and move it is.

>>36979543
I'm partial to talking, but that was my suggestion.

>>36979389
Shouldn't need to Slide at this point, we can keep Control rolling a round after concentration ends.

>>36979576
But that didn't protect the Crystal at all.

>>36979581
>>36979597
And a tie-breaker.
Wonder what effect a magic spotlight has on it.

>>36979651
I'm hoping it'll show us what this thing is. I think I remember moonbeam doing something like that when we were fighting in keiko's dream.

>>36979775
It's Mikage! or something. Or an after image of her. Old self.. or.. Weird anime reasons! It's Mikage from the past brought to the future! Fuck time!

You move the bike back to the rooftop and take hold of the locket, eyes on the translucent creature as you move. In the light of the amorphous gooey shape against the spire. As it rests upon the solid surface, you point the locket at the misty figure and shout.

~Moon BEAM!~ you shout out and shine your revealing light on the figure.

It shields their eyes and you are met with a sleight figure with dark skin and in a hospital gown. Her thin blonde hair appears matted against her skull and there is a trickle of blood from her lips. She is familiar, you've seen her before.

The magical light bends around her and she appears as a small child in a hooded dark dress. The blood and matting of her hair fades.

You were wrong before. It wasn't Sasha you saw inside the Shadow bear before. It was this figure, and Sasha's earlier words about his family echo in your memory.

'There was an accident,'

Below you, lighting pulses at the base of the tower. Fire burns. Light beams soar. Mist spreads. Your sister is there, probably laying into the rabble you passed on the way.

The figure before you isn't soaked in shadows, it left the bear in anger when you removed the crystal...how long had she been in there? She doesn't smell of shadow taint.

>Say something to her. What?
>Attack, how?
>Leave, go to your knights below
>Leave, go to the Senshi below
>Hey, what's up with that glowing mass of undirected magic?
>write in

>>36979927
Neat.
>Hey, what's up with that glowing mass of undirected magic?

>>36979927
>>Hey, what's up with that glowing mass of undirected magic?
At the risk of losing our chance to grill this bitch a little, holy shit what's that over there?

>>36979927
>Hey, what's up with that glowing mass of undirected magic?

>>36979927
>Say something to her. What?
"Can we talk about this later? This is a bad time, a bad place, and I'm the wrong mask if you're expecting some kind of pity."

>>36979927
>Say something to her. What?

Why do you want this back so badly?

>>36979927
"Look, I want to help you out, but I've got to deal with this and make sure no one else gets hurt, alright?"
Let's reign in the magic whatsit.

>>36979927
>>36979960
Still want to do this. But if we can also say >>36979999
Sounds good.

>>36979927
>Hey, what's up with that glowing mass of undirected magic?

~Can we talk about this later? This is a bad time, a bad place, and I'm the wrong me if you're expecting some kind of pity,~

You drop your hand and turn to inspect the glowing mass formed of those three spheres the blue doc was mucking with. The beam catches the hem of your skirt, and beneath it's light is the white of the gown of your heritage.

Carefully, you inspect the mass without getting too close. You stare at it a moment with your ability to recognize certain things about magical lore. The ghost child floats beside you, anger given way to other emotions. Confusion, if you were to wager by the look on her misty and translucent face.

The pulse of light hastens. And you feel the energy building. After a moment you see the magic at work...those spheres were some kind of remote magical casting constructs. Coalesced their power is unstable. It's going to discharge a fusion of magic set upon a summoning core around an explosive eruption. Luckily it will explode way up here where it can't hurt anyone...but you.

>To the stairs!
>To the elevator!
>Down the exterior! (Jumping or bike!)
>Stay and try to diffuse this, how?
>write in

>>36980276
>Down the exterior! (Jumping or bike!)
Bike.

Or.. I don't know how defusing these things work.

Could we act as some sort of magical Grounding and channel the energy out at a target?

>>36980276
>>Stay and try to diffuse this, how?
We don't need Tokyo Tower blowing up, that could rain debris or demoralize people.

>>36980276
>>Down the exterior! (Jumping or bike!)
Fuck it. If nobody else is at risk, we may as well just let it go off.

We take the chopper. Totally metal.

>>36980327
Diffuse this, How?

>>36980276
>Down the exterior! (Jumping or bike!)
bike

>>36980276
>Down the exterior! (Jumping or bike!)
bike

>>36980276
>>Stay and try to diffuse this, how?

Can we remove any of the spheres? If so, grab one and throw it.

If not, we still can eat one of the spheres and leave. So if it explodes, the effect won't be as potent.

>>36980317
>>36980327
>>36980345
Arcane Lore, see what we know about shorting out or redirecting these energies.
Or better yet harness them for something practical.

>>36980375
Eat it? What's it made out of. If it's peaches we could try one...

>>36980406
I am not so optimistic or reckless as to believe that bomb would be made out of anything delicious OR nutritious. It's probably just mana-enriched nitrates.

>>36980276
>hose spheres were some kind of remote magical casting constructs. Coalesced their power is unstable. It's going to discharge a fusion of magic set upon a summoning core around an explosive eruption.
>It's going to discharge a fusion of magic set upon a summoning core around an explosive eruption.
>upon a summoning core
Wait, so at heart it was originally setup to channel into Summoning magic of some sort?
Can we hotwire the energies and funnel them into another Summoning effect?

>Phantom Motorcycle is a Summoning Spell

>>36980276
>Stay and try to diffuse this, how?

Can we use the golden crystal to redirect the energy like we did when we absorbed Usa's power?

>>36980429
At the moment we're getting to ride down the tower as the top explodes and land on a motorcycle.

Bad ass.

>>36980429
Oh shit that's an idea.

>>36980429
>focus energies into our shadow copy of a summoning spell.
I like this.
The side effects could be AWESOME.

>>36980276
>>36980317

>>36980429
Eh if we can manage it. Super powering the Bike would be awesome. So yeah I'll swap to this. But I don't think you're going to get the votes.

Counting and writing.

>>36980378
>>36980429
So that answers the 'How?', barring a roll telling us that is a terrible idea or a better one.

>>36980483
If I'm counting right, I think your vote change takes it from tied to Diffusing.

Final Destination

Only reply with the numbers.

1 Bike down the side of Tokyo Tower
2 Try to diffuse this shit

4 minutes from now. No comments etc.

Go.

>>36980513
Yeah but Gnash is hoping we'll fail and hurt or kill Mikage with bad rolls.

>>36980525
1

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
1

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
2

>>36980525
2

>>36980526
Not entirely true.

We could fuck up and spawn feels. Hell maybe even kill that ghost. Or we power up the bike. Which I'm also good with. It's a win win for me.

>>36980557
Error.

>>36980557
4? What's that meant to be?

>>36980587
It's deleted so probably a 2 judging by the votes that came in.

>>36980581
Well, it looks like your side has this one. Maybe my concerns will prove to be unfounded.

>>36980581
>Error.
Yeah, was in another window and suddenly noticed the Final Destination.
Hurry and tired results in going "Ok, the second option!" "Which one is that?" "The one under the other, duh!" and then typing the 4 under the 1 and 2 and not noticing while wrestling with multiple captcha failures until the moment it sends.

>>36980604
Energy overload. Mikage passes out. Loses the crystal. Is recovered by the knights/scouts/enemy

Energy overload. Mikage is blasted same as above. Ghost is destroyed. Hah!

Everything goes fine and we get a goddamn fantastic bike! Or least fun.. the bike is destroyed.

Give me an Arcane Lore test to see if you can shunt this power into your currently active and manipulated spell.

DC 25
dice+1d20+9

Rolled 3 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>36980679

Rolled 8 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>36980679

Rolled 10 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>36980679

>>36980642
It's a temporary spell anyhow. It's only quasi real.

I'm afraid to roll..

>>36980642
Spell is only temporary. In the positive side effects category for be extending the duration, not exploding in our face, or, in my wildest dreams, making it nearly permanent.
In the negative would be exploding in our face, it being controlled by the enemy, or becoming super-awesome and ceasing to exist immediately.

>>36980687
>>36980699
>>36980704

Surge?

>>36980687
>>36980699
>>36980704
This is gonna hurt...

>>36980704
Calling for Surge.

>>36980721
Hm... do we have to match or exceed the DC? That's 12% difference in our odds.

>>36980742
Match, I believe.

>>36980742
Could mitigate a failure too

>>36980750
>>36980755
Both near ideal arguments. I second the surge.

Surge? Y/N?

>>36980797
Y

>>36980797
N

>>36980797
Y

>>36980797
N

>>36980797
Y

>>36980797
Y

>>36980797
Y

>>36980797
Y

Rolled 4 (1d8)

Surging.

>>36980891
Neat!

>>36980891
Fuck

>>36980891
Well, 5 of 8 possible results were going to amount to approximately this. At least we tried.

>>36980915
Indeed. It's the thought that counts.. or something like that.

>>36980915
>>36980891
That's alright, at least we have no margin of failure. Which may mean this is recoverable.
Margins of failure usually mean major screw up, no chances.

Rolled 8 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

Good news, give me an agility reaction test.

dice+1d20+7 vs the above role. Best of 3, 1 and 20 wild

Writing

>>36980891
So guys, any last moment ideas to prevent us from losing that crystal?

We REALLY can't afford to lose it, and the spirit girls likely to try and grab it if we get knocked out.

Rolled 2 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36980955
Gaaah!

Rolled 17 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36980955

>>36980891
Now we just have to hope we can get an aid another from somewhere for the last 2 to tie it.

Rolled 1 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36980955

Rolled 8 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36980955

>>36980977
Sigh. Surge.

Rolled 20 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>36980955

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>>36980977

>>36980976
The shitennou cast that once. Not sure why they don't seem to anymore.

...writing

>>36980977
This is really gonna hurt.

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>>36980977
>>36981000

Well great. Time for us to lose the crystal and everything to completely go to hell.

>>36980977
I'm sorry i'll never roll again

>>36981048
Why would we lose the Crystal?

>>36981056
Baah. You can't base that on one roll. Hell I get ones and twenties on and off. It's.. almost as if the dice are random.

>>36981056
Don't sweat it, man. It happens to everyone 1 time in 20.

>>36981057
Ghost that wants to take it may have an easy time with a Mikage who's been blown up.

>>36981056
Ah, don't worry, it happens to all of us.

>>36981009
>>36981014
That is a good point, were the Shitennou able to Aid Another on the Arcane check?

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>36981062
The dice Gods... Random? Heresy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0oUP_cq5I

>>36981098
Well said Tom. We must have Failures. Without them the successes feel meaningless and hollow.

>>36981085
This isn't strictly a physical explosion. She may have her own problems with it.

>>36981151
I'm aware.

See
>>36980642

Unfortunately I can pretend to be awake no longer.

Please try to treat Sasha's family well.

>>36981087
Wish Sol flew faster.

Oh, we hit autosage with the thread still running... which we've been doing for 10 hours now.

We have failed once in every roll this thread

Go back and count.

>>36981267
What?

>>36981294
Every time Art has asked for a 1d20 roll, we've crit-failed once.

>>36981294
The dice have not been on our side tonight at all.

~Go,~ you growl over the din of warping magical energies, ~Find me after if this doesn't fuck everything up!~

You lose sight of the ghost girl. Good. You approach the the shimmering energy and direct your bike into the swirling energies, trying to use it to siphon off the power by tricking it with you faux summoning. It was your hope to channel all the excess energy into the shadow of the world...but...

There is a pulsing wave as your shadow conjured motorcycle collapses, and that burst of energy hurls you back and again over the edge of the observation deck. Again to presumably fall to your doom, you twist as a rag doll in the air.

The shock of the blast, rattles you and you can't react quite quickly enough. As you turn in the air to face the ground, you expect to see the approaching means of your death. Be it the ground or the lower observation deck below. Instead, you see salvation.

Shining like a rising sun.

Flying toward you from below in a burning aura is a figure in white, red, and yellow. Determination is etched across her face as the newly hewn Regalia of the Sun clings to her form, red ribbon trailing behind her along with red and black hair.

Is this the Senshi of the Sun?

"I've got you!" Keiko says as her arms wrap around you and stop your fall.

Far above there is a blinding eruption and a bone shaking roar.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 63
End

Interlude Vote
>Silent Night
>Little Drummer Boy
>Miracle of Light

>>36981358

Thanks for running Artemis.

>Silent Night

>>36981358
>Silent Night

>>36981358
>Miracle of Light

>>36981358
>>Silent Night
I guess I would like to see what Hotaru is up to.

>>36981358
Apparently crit fails aren't actually a bad thing. Why were we even worried?

>Miracle of Light

>>36981358
>Silent Night

>>36981415
It's going to mean more drama afterwards. Just because the effects aren't seen immediately, doesn't mean they aren't there.

>>36981462
Nope. As it stands Mikage is fine the tower blew up, as it would have if we'd have road down on the bike, and Keiko gets a confidence boost because she just saved Mikage. The fail made things even better.

So, how was today's thread. Not as full steam/speed as I would have liked, but it happens.

Good reveals? I congratulate you on circumventing what should have been a methodical and tactical puzzle boss. Your dice rolls may have been shit all night, but damn if you didn't make (almost) all the right choices.

Also, how do you like Keiko now?

>>36981559
I already liked Keiko. That wasn't going to change.

How are we doing on XP gain? Since we short circuited a team boss on our own?

>>36981559
Hitting the boss with a motorcycle is far more fun than a puzzle. The dice attempted to bring me feels and have failed.

Keiko is still fantastic. I just wish she had been a bit later. Or sooner caught in the blast would have been fantastic.

>>36981592
You'll get a choice next down time between surpassing the E6 barrier or getting a Tier Up.

>>36981616
I hope MAG is around for that. I'm not really sure what the difference is.

>>36981559
Keiko is brilliant. And we've shown Gnash that nothing can go wrong so maybe he'll finally stop.

Kind of upset we didn't play the puzzle game.

>>36981636
>that nothing can go wrong

Heh. Hehehehe HAHahAHHAAHa

Getting a bit too optimistic friend. But I suppose that's a trait acceptable of someone watching Usagi's progeny

What you didn't pick:

>Little Drummer Boy: Sasha not leaving well enough alone, charging into danger, punching shit, and witnessing something worthy of awe.

>Miracle of Light: Venus-chan being Venus-chan in the field, a miracle.

>>36981658
GAah You know when you tell us we can't see them that makes us want to see them. Especially Venus. Goddamn she's adorable.

>>36981653
Artemis won't let anything bad happen to Mikage you'll see.

>>36981681
That is the kind of attitude that will get us considerably more than just blown up.

>>36981636
It involved a lesser globe of invulnerability, excessive Deflection bonus/natural armor buffs, and a shell game of magic defenses/offenses coming from the spheres as he gives the Senshi a chance to stop him. I expected tactical eclipse scouting to solve the puzzle and inform the Senshi after the opening salvo.

>>36981718
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlHY6xRpktk

You allowed us the ultimate CQC weapon.

So

Was disarming the right idea?

>>36981761
Makes me wonder how goddamn funny a critical failure would have been while trying to ride the bike down the tower.

>>36981761
No.

>>36981761
Don't see why not.

>>36981504
Was right, we aren't really any worse off and it gave us a chance at saving the tower.

>>36981811
They're has got to be an actual draw back from the fail. I'm guessing Mikage is at least somewhat injured.

If happy go lucky is right and even fails can't have bad results the rolls are pointless. Personally I'm thinking he's full of it and Keiko was fated to show up in front of the other scouts during the big puzzle.

Otherwise we're dealing with some Keiko ex machina. But not sure what else saves you from a fall to your death.