>>40285137

Quest Start

>You have started Social Combat.
Initiative Order
>Red Eyed Beast
>Mikage Chiba (Purely Mental Actions only)
>The Damned

A loud voice, muffled through the walls, embarks on a fantasy journey describing the shattering of a pristine utopia of glass. The return of death and discord to otherwise immortal lands beneath the machinations of a deadly phantom. There is something in the music that fans at the fires of the rage and spite coursing through your veins that would appear to anyone but yourself as misplaced.

>Will Reaction Test dc 19, best of 3, 1d20+7, 1s & 20s wild

You are The Red Eyed Beast, the out of control mask and outlet for the anger of a troubled young woman, baying at someone whose only crime against you is feeling hurt by similar behavior to what that woman put her friends and family through.

You are Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student 15 years old, and formerly the third woman to be known as the Champion of Love & Justice Sailor Moon. Certain problems caused you to abandon this name and create new faces to hide yourself behind to deal with the parts of yourself and what you had believed you had done that you could not deal with. One such part is running wild and you are on the verge of awareness that she may hurt someone.

Well, someone who probably doesn’t deserve it.

He stands in front of you, bristling in anger at your insistence at carrying on this conversation despite demanding you leave his dressing room. You just stared him down for his presumptions of being in a position to try and make you afraid of him, and he blinked. Whatever happens next, you’ve gained ground.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>40285201
This man is the frontman for a local Metal band calling themselves The Unrepentant Damned. Clad in high strapped leather boots, side laced black pants, and a black fabric and leather straight jacket, he stares at you with an undercut resolve through the skull face makeup across his features. Despite his loss, he seems adamant in his wishes to force you away from him, whether its with words or with bodily force has yet to be seen.

A part of you wants him to try something, to try and grab you. It just gives you an excuse to go wild. Not that you really need an excuse. All this threatening and barking is starting to bore you, maybe you should make the first move.

>Strike him
>Accuse him of not being man enough to protect someone he cares for
>Tell him he shouldn’t be so selfish with his feelings, maybe the girl who hurt him feels guilty she let so many people down
>Attempt to use a Social Maneuver on him, what maneuver & with what message?
>Take a breath, calm your running track sore tits, and sorry not sorry about being a bitch. You get where he’s coming from, and he shouldn’t just keep that shit to himself
>Let something unexpected build
>Say and do nothing
>Leave, let him have what he wants
>write in

A part of you wants this to stop, you finally understand that what you need isn’t for Red Eyes to work through your shared issues but you need to accept those things about yourself and sooth this rage inside. You need to accept her. The Red Eyed Beasts needs to feel the love you are willing to give yourself; willingly or unwillingly.

>Trust her to do the right thing, she is you
>Order Zoisite and Kunzite to impede her
>Attempt to talk her down, what do you say to yourself?
>Demand she stand down, threaten yourself
>Try to wrest control away from her.
>Don’t give yourself away, attempt a social maneuver against yourself.
>Telepathically reach out to this guy, say you’re possessed and tell him how he can help
>Write in

>>40285248
He's a musician, so go for his instrument.


>>Order Zoisite and Kunzite to impede her
oddly appropriate, since the Beast works alone.

>>40285248
I feel like I've missed something.
Give me a moment to reread last thread.

>>40285248
>Write in
Roar in rage, punch mirror. (Symbolic no?)
We're mad, but he's not what we're mad at. Get it together Mikage/Beast. We get where he's coming from all too well.

>write in
Focus try to direct the Beast away from this guy.
She/we is/are mad at someone else. The Beast is mad at us/herself/ourself.

>>40285399
By all means. Not married to >>40285381

>>40285248
>Say and do noting.

>Try to direct the beast away from this guy.

Rolled 1 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>40285717
Forgot to add this.

>>40285815
No more rolling for you anon.

>>40285904
Third Episode in a row that I roll a one as my first roll. Oh, and you can't make me.

I know there are two more of you who haven't voted.

And I also need the next two rolls, you could still make it, right?

Rolled 14 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>40285201
Was this a Will test that bonus against mental effect from Conceal Thoughts would help with?

>>40286234
It is a Will reaction test. You are saving against an effect.

>>40285248
>Tell him he shouldn’t be so selfish with his feelings, maybe the girl who hurt him feels guilty she let so many people down

>Trust her to do the right thing, she is you

Rolled 16 + 7 (1d20 + 7)

>>40285201

Leaving this open just a touch longer, as we are all over the place right now.

Remember, take a moment to read the other votes so far, it can help us avoid deadlock!

...unless your aim is to cause deadlock?

>>40286256
The effect is coming from the music.

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Yay home in time!

>>40285137
Aww

>>40285399
Yeah had a bit happen..

>>40285248
This seems good >>40285650

>>40285815
Ah crap. Hrm, Surge to lessen the severity?

>>40286234
That was mind -reading- not mind affecting.

Off to a rough start.

>>40286456
In which case, reading the votes will also help.

Alright! Closing this almost hour long opening vote!

And its already creating a great visual in my head!

Give me a Persuasion test for Mikage! 1d20+10 best of 3!

Rolled 12 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40286541

Rolled 14 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40286541

Rolled 1 (1d6)

Rolled 1 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40286541
Dice Roll Activation!

>>40286600
FML

Surge?

>>40286627
Yeah sure.

>>40286627
We have got to be running out of Planet Powers by now.

Surge?

>y/n

>>40286649
>checks sheet
>Planet Power: 3/11
What the hell? Have we seriously used it that much since we woke up?

>>40286681
y

>>40286697
Pretty much.

>>40286681
I'm going to have to ask what we are up against.

And have we really used it 8 times today?

>>40286697
actually, i just updated it, you should have 6/11

>>40286734
Persuading yourself of something is a DC15 in this case. You have an 11 with your roll of 1. Your surge is 1d8

>>40286681
y

>>40286737
So roughly about 1 a thread.

>>40286681
Y

>>40286737
We're fine then. We have it to use it after all.

Rolled 3 (1d8)

SURGING

>>40286820
Bah

>>40286820
So close.

>>40286820
Shake the Shitennou until they try to help?

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>>40286873
Appropriate image is appropriate, I won't decline a carry.

That music, it stirs something in you. You’re already pissed off and aimless, but it makes you see red. It makes you hate. It burns in your core and falls into the pit of your belly. Pitching forward you snarl. You want to make someone hurt. You want to make someone bleed.

Cocking your fist back you let out all your hate into a howl and shout, pitching right you lean into your strike and land it against the makeup counter mirror as your own voices cries out in your mind not to hurt someone needlessly.

The glass cracks along with the baseboard of wood behind it. Shallow bits flense into your knuckle.

Your broken reflection looks back at you as you bleed.

You bleed, she bleeds. That’s something.

As much as this guy is pissing you off...its just a symptom of the disease. You. You’re the disease. A parasite clinging to hatred. Something pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. You want to stop looking at yourself like that.

-That’s enough,- the real you pleads from within the back of your mind, -Something isn’t right. We need to get away from him,-

~Get fucked,~ you stare into the broken eyes of your cracked reflection and let out a low growl, ~don’t tell me what to do,~

This is a hail mary, your last ditch effort. She isn’t going to let you out again after this. Why should she? So why trust her. You're angry. You hate her. You hate yourself.

Why won’t she listen. Why can’t she see what’s going on. It’s all wrong, and you could hurt someone.

>The damned is taking a full defense action against social and physical combat.

“The hell is your problem,” The Damned shouts at you as he takes a step back and becomes guarded.

Beast
>Take a social or physical combat action
>Say something to Mikage, what?
>Leave
>Write in

Mikage
>Let her calm down herself
>Talk to the beast, focus on what?
>Fight for control
>Have the Shintennou impede her
>Write in

>>40287282
>Leave
>Have the Shintennou impede her

>>40287282
>Beast
>Social combat?
Address The Damned, ask what the hell he's gonna do with himself when this kid isn't angry anymore? What happens when the mask doesn't want to die?
That's right, address The Damned separate from the kid who's still putting him on. Kinda crazy. I'm not sure it this is combat or what, but it feels crazy-right.

>Mikage
Fight the Beast. The Beast loves to fight, that should get her attention, then we can talk more.

>>40287282
This is way too abstract for me.

>>40287282
I like the Red Eyes action here: >>40287547

But let's just go straight to the talking for Mikage. Focus on what makes us one. Red is scared/angry about her existence, we need to assure ourself that she isn't going anywhere but home, in us.

>>40287632
Stop hitting yourself time?

>>40287694
I think for Mikage that's a good move, but I have no idea what to do with the Beast.

>>40287632
Not abstract, just controlling two different aspects of the same character at once. one of which is really angry. Like Banner chatting with the Hulk.

>>40287751
So beast needs to find some purple pants, tear them up, and just wear them?

>>40287282
>>Say something to Mikage, what?
"I don't take orders, Princess"

Well, Looks like we're writing.

>>40287801
>terrifying topless red-eyed anger beast
Scarousal.

>>40287751
Well then I feel like we should try and get some kind of reaction out of the Damned. Like if the Beast is having a breakdown, she might feel compelled to make anyone who can see her react negatively towards her, fear preferred but anger also acceptable.

>>40287905
Matches a bit with my thoughts, those the existential poke at The Damned, hell if it can rattle The Beast, why not The Damned too? immune to most anything else it seems, beyond making him paste.

-I’m sorry,- you whisper, -That you’re afraid. You were never supposed to be afraid,-

You turn and level a bloody finger at The Damned.

~You want to know what the hell is wrong with me? What the hell is wrong with you,~ you snap at him and plant your feet wide, ~What are you going to do with yourself, Damned, what the hell are you going to do when this punk kid isn’t angry anymore!?~

He looks at you, confused and worried, his guard is not dropped as he takes a step back toward the door.

“Punk kid?” he grits, “Listen, I don’t know what you think you know about me-”

~WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO WHEN THE MASK DOESN’T WANT TO DIE?~ you half snarl and half plead, ~Making someone else to be because someone you loved hurt you...what do you do when you are separate from the mind that brought you to life?~

“So you were listening,” he mutters under his breath before his eyes lock tightly onto your own mad and shaking points of red.

Your cheeks feel hot. Something warm is sliding down your cheeks.

-You’re me...I shouldn’t have tried to escape you,- you imagine your arms sliding around the beast’s shoulders and holding her close.

>>40288420

You shudder and tense in revulsion and disgust at your own imagined touch. Too much, you’re filling up with too much anger.

-And when I accept you,- you whisper, -I’ll be you. We’ll be together, you won’t be gone and you’ll never be forgotten,-

“I know who I am,” The Damned says with a calm confidence, “I know why I’m doing this, and I know it makes me feel better. I don’t know who you are or what your problem is...but it's not me and it isn’t here,”

He turns his back on you and approaches the door.

“So get your own shit sorted out before you try projecting on someone else,” he laughs and reaches for the handle, “Go back to hell, Beast, and maybe we’ll see each other there later,”

Beast
>Wait, you can’t just leave!
>Yell increasingly crazy things
>Let her embrace you
>His back is turned, hit him!
>Write in

Mikage
>Keeping talking, love yourself
>Impede her with the Shintennou
>Ask her to give you control
>Try to take control
>Write in

>>40288452
>His back is turned, hit him!
>Impede her with the Shintennou

>>40288452
>Beast
Damn him for being so calm.
No, not while his back is turned.
Shadow Step in front of him and backhand his face.

>Mikage
Keep talking, stay focused on the love, try not to let the ensuing violence throw you off.

A note, he attempted to make you socially flat footed on his exit.

You are immune to being made socially flat footed. No rolls were made.

You did not directly target him, you attempted to target something that wasn't there. You did unnerve him, and he thinks you are crazy...which is accurate. No rolls were made.

>>40288575
Yeah, we are not making a great case for sanity here.

>>40288452
>Let her embrace you

>Keep talking, love yourself.

I don't know, this just seems like it's getting silly. I don't give a shit about the Damned even if he is our ex-boyfriend or whatever the fuck his deal is.

>>40288575
Have you ever done a recap thread? Because it might be a good idea.

>>40288663
I've done a semi recap opening. I can do a longer recap thread soon.

>>40288663
79 had a bit of recap.

>>40288571
Maybe? I don't know. Like is this angsty jackass supposed to be important to Mikage?

>>40288626
>>40288828
Main issue with him at the moment is that he's blowing us off and getting under our skin with his unflappableness. It just feels like he's pushing a big dangerous button with that. Instead of socially flat footed, he's gonna make her mad.

>>40288452
>Beast
>>Wait, you can’t just leave!

Mikage
>Keeping talking, love yourself

Being all about love for Mikage, alright. I need a persuasion test dice+1d20+10 against another 15. Say its the Mikage roll. Best of 3, usual things apply.

Then, I need 3 rolls of 1d20+17 for your slap

>>40288872
I guess, but I'm not really interested in this dude.

>>40288452
How about: Crazy Eyes time?
Appear in front of him. Calmly thank him for his insight. Apologise.. for what we are about to do, can't let an opponent go away unmarked.
Punch in the face. Bloody his nose. Wave and scamper off ~Maybe we will see each other there~.

Rolled 14 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40288980

Rolled 8 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40288980

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Rolled 12 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40288980

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Rolled 7 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>40288980

Rolled 6 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>40288980

Rolled 6 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

Rolled 3 + 17 (1d20 + 17)

>>40288980

Writing on.

Rolled 3 + 2 (1d3 + 2)

And 2 degrees of success.

Where will you spend them? Vitality or Wounds?

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d6)

>>40289585

>>40289585
I have no idea what that means.

>>40288452
>Wait, you can’t just leave!
>Yell increasingly crazy things
>MAYBE TRY YOUR FISTS

>Keeping talking, love yourself
>Ask her to give you control

>>40289634
We don't use HP, we use a variant system from Unearthed Arcana. Vitality & Wounds.

Vitality is your ability to avoid harm, and is a larger number that normal damage rolls are dealt against. Wounds are a smaller number equal to your Endurance score that only take damage one of three ways.

1. Target is out of Vitality to soak damage
2. A critical hit is dealt against them, bypassing the Vitality. Sneak attack dice can be traded for 1 die to 1 wound point similarly.
3. For every 5 points you get above your target for a to hit roll is a degree of success. You can trade them for extra vitality damage, apply them to wounds, or use them to initiate some maneuvers.

>>40289585
Can we spend to stun him for a moment? Or knock him back? and similar for any precision damage?

>>40289704
Then I guess Vitality.

You can do either of those things.

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>>40289771
>precision damage?
Oh.. oh dear.

Well, the panicked healing might bring her around. If he survives.

>>40290032
He is not flat footed, but you do get your Skirmish.

>>40290031
Maybe a bit of both then?

Rolled 2 + 8 (1d20 + 8)

Rolled 1 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

He’s leaving? No. You won’t be ignored.

You blur and fall through the darkness, taking only what is your’s with you. Behind where you once stood, the bits of silvered glass that had been in your fingers and knuckles fall to the floor. Falling out of the darkness between him and the door, you whip the back of your bloody hand across his face.

Carried by the momentum of your transition, he reels from the force. His cheek is stained by your blood and the manic searching on your face grows.

It isn’t an absolution of victory, this strike. It undermines you, tears at your foundation. Its admitting that he got under your skin by not engaging you. An admission that you need to define yourself by others.

-Its okay,- the imagined grip holds you tenderly, as her hand travels up your arm to cradle your stinging own, -You don’t have to fight anymore. You can rest, let me help you. Please just calm down,-

You calm. Acutely aware at the anger of the edge of your mind where the beat of the music continues, the warm sensation on your face continues.

Even the beast can cry. Even anger can have sadness, much like the man in front of your uses sadness to inspire things that sound angry you have turned your own sadness and helplessness into hate and rage like you never knew.

Exhausted from this, you lean back into her heart. It hasn’t brought you to be home and whole...but for right now, you need to rest.

You are Mikage Chiba, and you are again in control. The sharp pain in your hand from broken glass and shoddy impact lingers, as does the situation in front of you.

The Damned looks down at you, down because you feel suddenly small, through intense anger. This glare is belittling, it says that you’re weak for resorting to what you have. Powering past it, you get your heading.

The beasts sadness and fear is your own, as are her tears.

And now her mess is your own to deal with as well.

>Write in

>>40290216
Stand of straight. This is our weakness, let's own it.
For only the weak can be strong in wisdom.

Apologize politely to him for projecting. His situation struck a nerve with an aspect of ourself.

>>40290216
I don't know, can we throw around enough magic to make him forget? This whole thing is just dumb.

>>40290332
I'd say it has been a major moment for us.

>>40290323
Amusingly, it has been so long since Mikage has been polite to anyone at school, he probably won't recognize it.

>>40290348
The Red Eyed Beast part maybe, but this guy feels like he's just a convenient prop.

>>40290216
How much damage did we do? Enough that I'm worried we'll need a heal here, or enough that his metal look is just that much more complete?

>>40290414
Nah, we wouldn't have really gotten into this situation without his steadfast refusal to be messed with and similar story to get under Red's skin.

>>40290414
Yeah, he seems like a set piece, though only convenient to us because we players know who he is. Otherwise he's just someone we've gone off on.

>>40290432
Dented his vitality, he is unwounded, and your blood is smeared across his face.

>>40290494
This was me.

>>40290462
I don't really get who this guy is though? Like I don't remember Mikage having any boyfriends back when she was Sailor Moon.

Unrelated to anything, I realised the other day that it seems we have Summon Monster V instead of Shadow Evocation, not could swore it was on that domain.
Says we can summon "shadows", but shadows aren't on the summon monster list, and I don't think we'd ever want to summon the Shadow in the monster manual.

>>40290518

It was mostly implied until Art did a spoiler texted aside from back in middle school.

I don't think they were boyfriend and girlfriend...at least nothing official.

Young love, am I right?

>>40290518
We, the players, find out about her history in piecemeal. He's been trying to interact with us and be nice at every turn, and it seems we studied together in middle school and he wrote music for us to play. Our grandfather even assumed it was him when talk of a date came up.
They may not have been at the admitting/confessing feeling stage at that age. Particular since Mikage was still likely burned out on love from the whole dream NTR.

>>40290570
>>40290621
So does he recognize us now?

>>40290648

Neither of you recognize the other right now.

>>40290559
If Art got creative with what "1d3 shadows" means though, given their usage in this setting, that could be interesting.

>>40290648
Magic disguise is still up. Though I imagine our entire mannerisms just took a hard shift.

Persuasion test 1d20+10 best of 3.

DC based on the current track on the Diplomacy chart I am looking up now.

Then I write.

Rolled 14 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40290806

Rolled 18 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40290806

>>40290494
>>40290514
Alright, we'll let that ride.

>>40290216
>>40290323
Sure, I <3 humanity.

Rolled 12 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40290806
So many ones, I've been getting gun-shy.

Rolled 4 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40290806

28 beasts the DC 25 to move hostile to indifferent

Getting this party started.

I just realized who we should talk to about the Beast tonight. After a bit of cathartic Lurk check up, we should see if Red's Lurk friend that she knows in person, that isn't a boy. A good enough friend that she called to the Beast for help, and Mikage was moved to answer.
And one we promised to talk to about the Beast "later" anyway.

Despite the fury and hostility looking down at you, he makes no move. Her, your, strike must have left him stunned in some manner. Taking the opportunity, you reign yourself in and right your posture.

You can barely read the confusion on his face as the shaky and wide eyed mania you possessed just a moment ago gives way to the sad and worried calm of someone who has only just realized what they had done.

In a way you have only just realized what you’ve done, more than that you understand that portion of your own weakness. With certainty, you will face this weakness and grow stronger from it.

Inspecting the back of your hand, and glancing back up to The Damned’s face, you notice your tears and mechanically wipe them away. Even with your thoughts concealed behind a psionic fortress, you can’t help but suppress the surprise you are feeling. Surprise that the beast could cry. You shall let her cry all she needs.

~I’m sorry,~ you bow your head and shoulders as your hands find each other in front of you, ~You were right...I am projecting. Your story sounded very familiar, it got to me and I reacted rather harshly. I am truly sorry I let myself get out of control,~

He lets out a breath he couldn’t take as your eyes screw tightly instead of boring into the floor. His frozen feet shift again but his language somewhat relaxes.

“Whatever,” he says noncommittally.

>>40291858

Glancing back up, he isn’t looking directly at you anymore. It isn’t pity, whatever he feels now, but there is a definite uncertainty.

His hostility, at least, has been sated.

“I’ve got a set to get ready for,” he shrugs before leaning around you to open the door behind you, “Enjoy the show or go home, I don’t much care,”

The door slides open behind you and a lazy voice enters the room and stops short. Behind it are the hopefully presences of giddy and aggressive young women.

“I know you said not to,” the new voice drawls, “but these girls seemed to insistent that I thought to introduce them to your company before the- oh...am I interrupting something,”

Looking back over your shoulder, you see a lazy looking man in a tacky suit with crimped and wavy hair. Behind him are indeed a number of young women. One in a black leather jacket with one sleeve, another with the Rockabilly style of dress coming up in popularity, and another who you can only describe as being clad in spikes and death.

“Kal,” The Damned narrows his eyes, “Now is not the time,”

“Oh my, what happened in here? What happened to your face?” he says in lazy concern, “And who is this?”

“She was just leaving,” he huffs, “And so was I,”

>Feign the Beast’s mannerisms and be spooky
>Excuse yourself, get out of here now
>Slyly congratulate the Damned, hope he has a nice time
>Engage this new fellow or the girls, about what?
>Write in

>>40291900
>Feign the Beast’s mannerisms and be spooky

>>40291900
>Feign the Beast’s mannerisms and be spooky
>Excuse yourself, get out of here now

Time to go.

>>40291900
Spooky exit time.
"Well, you heard The Damned, time to go.."
Vanish away.
-To Hell!-
Snicker as we ninja away. I'd say back to the catwalk. Would like to hear what the band sounds like, and I don't think we feel like mingling.

>>40291900
I'll fourth the spooky and fifth the exit.

>>40292124
Maybe catch the show and hit Lurk too?

>>40292315
Er, third the exit. I can count, honest.

Writing

Give me a deceive test, best of 3, 1d20+10, 1s and 20s wild.

Rolled 19 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40292387
Okay!

Rolled 9 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40292387
Wouldn't that be +20 with Conceal Thoughts?
We at good at lying to an unhealthy degree.

Rolled 12 + 10 (1d20 + 10)

>>40292387

>>40292455
Huh, you are right, I'll factor that into the final tally.

Feigning the Beast’s casually masculine body language, you chortle and swing around to face the lot of them.

~You heard The Damned,~ you bite, ~Time to go,~

And your presence disappears from their sight. The women gasp, the man known as Kal looks shocked. You force force your way through the girls and chuckle in their minds to sell the point home.

-back to hell- it echos in all their minds.

Whatever transpires next between them, you are uncertain. You rush through the backstage and up the stairs. Finishing around the way back to the catwalk, you look down at the assembled crowd and flashing of light. The writhing mass of dancers. Whipping limbs of the mosh pit. Loose gathering by the bar, and wallflowers beyond that.

On the stage are three, the man in white stage armor you ran into backstage before at the fore singing a song while his fingers dance across a guitar. A man with short dark hair in blue stage armor rattles and slams upon the drums. Another man with no shirt and red hair stands with a bass whilst covered in fake blood. Together they sing about a green eyed dragon, brought low by her own hubris and blind love to a dying cause.

The room feels thick with tension and a building aggression, as you listen to the music, your mind wanders through your actions today. Everything settled, and the supernatural happiness suffusing you having run its course, there are actions and words that weight on you this day.

Embarrassment burns your cheeks from what you said to Kairi, what you showed Kairi.

Among the lights and scaffolding above the crowd...you are in this moment alone as the sound beneath shakes you.

>From here, watch the show, wait for the headliners, and think
>Fool around on Lurk while you wait, check up with friends
>Head down into the crowd. Dance, Fight, Drink, or Hug the wall
>Something feels wrong, time to investigate. How?
>Leave the show
>Write in

>>40292955
>>From here, watch the show, wait for the headliners, and think
>>Fool around on Lurk while you wait, check up with friends

>>40292955
>Something feels wrong, time to investigate. How?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJMSO5IF4as
Album title.

>>40293093
Not sure we have enough to go on yet, though if we notice that aggression is building unnaturally, that will merit investigation. Figure we bide our time with thoughts and lurk, then notice things are wrong and look into it.
At least that's my thought.

>>40293321
>>40293093
How about try insight to see if get a feel for what feels wrong?

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>>40292955
>>40293070
>>40293093
>>40293321
>>40293537
Chill up here, check Lurk with an eye toward Aiha, and think/insight, if we get a bite there, we sigh and get to suspicious work.

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Important random question:
Was the Ancient Millennium language the general language of the day, or Moon specific? I'd like to think it there was a different one we'd have learned it from dad, but I just want to make sure.

Writing, give me an Insight test. best of 3, usual is wild

1d20+6

Rolled 2 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>40293798
HERE COMES A 1

Rolled 11 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>40293798
Alrighty.

>>40293924
Don't tempt it!

Rolled 11 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>40293798
Go go brain action?

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Rolled 11 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>40293798

>>40294008
>>40294007
>>40293957
>11
>11
>11

>>40293924
>HERE COMES A 1

>>40294086
snerk

Writing

>>40293177
I think Sincerely With Love was my favorite.

You sit on the catwalk, kicking your legs over the edge and resting your forehead against the middle support bar of the guard rail. The metal, despite the ambient temperature of the room, is cool to the touch.

~Stupid,~ you mutter to yourself, ~I need to take this seriously,~

Pausing in this line of thought, you groan.

~I need to take me more seriously,~

The Beast was out of control, and you aren’t going to ignore that. You aren’t going to ignore her. This is something you need to pursue, a conversation you need to have with yourself in a safe place where you can’t easily hurt anyone. Or, you guess looking down at your knuckles, yourself.

Is that how messed up you are, that you are making enemies on the inside of your head? And what about earlier today with Kairi? Midori didn’t have to laugh, she knows you know about how she used to look at Miki as a light of hope amidst her worry over losing Keiko.

Well, it was a point of conflict really, remembering what she explained to you of her dream is weird. You actually saw parts of it and she described in detail how she fealt. The dichotomy of being unable to save Keiko from sinking while someone else was rushing in after her. To save her.

Given that and Kairi’s nervous embarrassment and lack of denial, you are relatively certain that you are two for two on having Knights who are in love or lust with you on some level. Is being into you a requirement? Everything keeps coming back to love, you figure, so maybe.

And then you think about Koito’s hero worship of your tenure as Sailor Moon, and your experiences so far with Sasha. Both potential hosts, both-

It's all too confusing.

>>40294650

Your masks are breaking, thats easier than relationships. Mimi was as she normally is, that she was able to recommend things to Kairi was a miracle. Its been forever since you’ve been Daphne. Dan is still so new, and you are beginning to understand what he means about you. Much like how you’ve decided to give the beast that heart to heart, all of them deserve the same with you.

Won’t that be fun.

Beneath you another song plays. This one about four ghosts.

You tune it out; it is good, but not great. Taking out your phone, you look through your lurk contacts list and see a flurry of activity and mentions for you today. No photos made it out from your track incident, but a few made it online from people seeing you on campus at Zodiac.

Messaging Aiha, you let her know that you are ready to chat with her about the beast. Noting that you had a strange incident, and you really do need to talk about it.

A couple of girls recently posted you were sighted backstage; the photo on the profile reveals one of them as the rockabilly girl. An insinuation is made that you must have had exhausting violent demon sex with The Damned, otherwise why would her turn down three eager groupies?

That leaves you annoyed. People supposing about your sex life. Its like when people used to think Miki was promiscuous because of the way she dressed.

It doesn’t make you angry, at least. Just annoyed. That was a rather incriminating and easy to misinterpret scene you left.

>>40294666

Wait, you are getting angry again. That’s weird.

Between that sensation and the tension of the room, you take a deep calming breath and reach out with your extrasensory abilities.

You don’t find much, other than that your own anger is unusual. Unnatural even. Something is stoking the embers of rage within you, and the whole of the room. How? What?

This took you time and concentration. Malefic Black finishes their set, and The Unrepentant Damned are about to take the stage.

Footsteps sound, you aren’t alone on the catwalk.

There, listing lazily in a tacky suit, is the man from downstairs. The man who lead would be groupies to the dressing room.

“Good evening, Miss Beast,” he smiles and presents a grey business card, “My name is Kal, I don’t suppose you have a moment to talk?”

>Ignore him, something is wrong. What next?
>Hear him out.
>Tell him to get lost
>Write in

>>40294684
"I'm not an act you can rent out, piss off."

>>40294781
Seconding

>>40294684
>Hear him out.
Mikage is in control right?

>>40294684
>Hear him out
but be Beastly and maybe threaten to toss him over the edge if he bothers you too long. Or worse, take the card with one hand.

>>40294684
How about, "I'm not an act you can rent out, what do you want?"

Suppose he's waiting for a stronger vote, or nodded off?

>>40294684
Considering that, for most appearances, we just rented ourselves out to Venus, we may as well hear him out. Though stay in-character as the Red Eyed Beast.

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

Just dozed off...

Thread Pause Activate. Keep up around and I'm going to catch some sleep to resume in the morning.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 83, Pause.

Really sorry about nodding off.

Huh, Aiha is going to have to deal with a very confused Mikage.

What should we focus on with her and how do you think she'll react.

>>40296497
Currently it seems that beast thinks that the reqson she's being pulled back in is because Mikage doesn't need her anymore. An important thing to focus on is that Mikage still needs the beast, but they can't stay separate like this. Sort of like Voltron.

>>40296550
As a side note my current prediction is that Mimi will be next. We're just about to go back to school where we ooc know that we're gonna get bullied to hell, which sounds like the kind of thing that Mimi would react most to.

>>40296571
Once it starts, we could always go running to the principal about withdraw request.

In retrospect, it was selfish of her to make us wait a year.

>>40296550
Aye, more than that, we're gonna need that drive and violence to deal with folk that mess with the girls/Earth.

>>40297252
I think we were suggesting or planning to suggest, a partial self-study program, taking a couple non-academic things at school, but acing the academics in our spare time and leaving us more free time to Eclipse around.
Alternatively, we could study and jump grades, but we didn't want to leave Kairi alone.

As for bullies: They have no idea what they are in for, spider-power or no.

I wake again. Hydrating, nomming, counting, and writing.

>>40296497
>>40296550
Outside of issues of Red going too far or losing control, Mikage likes being the Beast. Let's face it, she's an action junkie deep down, and being spooky is fun too. Also, beating up punks and cleaning up town is deeply appealing, for justice reasons as well as violence.
She is just getting fit into the larger whole instead of being a side piece.

I have another issue to ponder, we had at one point considered infiltrating the Enemy, and an opportunity might be approaching. Do we go for it, or maybe play hard to get for now? or go for immediate strike?

I'm thinking play coy and slip away, then change up our disguise and investigate hard and prep for fight. Play it off as not being much of a joiner, but we'll think on it, sort of thing, perhaps?

>>40298209
How close are we to the next mythic tier?

>>40298305
I think we gotta do a big thing. Tiers aren't quite as clean-cut as levels.

~Listen, Kal,~ you run the foreign name over your lips as your boots rise and find steady footing on the catwalk again, ~I’m not some act you can just rent out. I’m the red eyed beast, summoned from hell, what do you want?~

He rolls his eyes in a lazy and seemingly half awake fashion. The hiss of the crowd below mask the groaning sound you think he makes as he leans against the upper guard rail. Approaching him, you take the offered business card and give it a once over. Kal Unite, Talent Agent and Management, Ellis Media. Its a gray card with an oddly white watermark, a strangely familiar silhouette that you cannot place.

“I want to talk to you about your,” he hums a moment and clicks his tongue, “Let's say, your brand. I overheard from the owner what you were doing here in the first place, and I must admit that after everything this city has seen you do, and what its long whispered about you, I think you are starkly intriguing and have a very important message to give this city,”

~Yeah, I’m kind of a big deal,~ you shrug in feigned self confidence of the beast, ~a big deal that doesn’t work for anyone but herself. Tonight was a favor for someone I chose to help,~

>>40298436
“Yes, after being summoned, right,” he chuckles and draws an electronic cigarette and slides a cartridge into it, “I’ve seen enough of this demon from hell shtick from the boy. I really don’t think a demon would put so much effort into cleaning up her streets,”

~I,~ you growl with gravel in your voice, ~do what I want,~

Below you, the crowd cheers as the Ogre strides onto stage and takes to his drum kit.

“And I think a group I could help connect you with could HELP you do what you want,” he says with a smile, “If you’d be willing to meet with them, at least,”

The Red Devil and The Black Witch step onto the stage from either wing, from here you notice the setup of a very impressive illusion. Through trickery and misdirection, The Damned is about to rise bound and caged from nowhere as the Drums begin.

>Not interested.
>You have three seconds to get away from me before I throw you over the railing (bluff)
>Keep him talking, but activate Dark Knowledge
>I’m listening
>Write in

>>40298436
Can we roll academics or something to see if we might recognize a mineral name in there? Or nudge the Shitennou and get their opinions?

>>40298443
"I do seem to be having issues with some people not showing proper respect.."
>Keep him talking, but activate Dark Knowledge
Him and the card, I'm suspicious about it too.
".,but maybe that just means I'll have to trash people that much harder. What sort of 'help' could a talent agency provide? I don't need backup dancers." Or similarly snark, best I could think of.

>>40298443
>Not interested.
The Beast needs no one!

Also, this sounds fishy.

>>40298547
Super fishy, we should find out what he wants/is up to.

>>40298443
>Keep him talking, but activate Dark Knowledge
~I don't need help. What the hell are you offering, a fucking TV show and action figures? Yeah, I'm sure you'd just love to tap my 'brand'.

>>40298563

Fair point. Forget >>40298547

>Keep him talking, but activate Dark Knowledge

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>>40298676

>>40298443
>I’m listening

I want to see what happens.

>>40298711
I am. I'm tickled by it.

>>40298776
>>40298676
We do seem to keep tripping into that as Red. Didn't think about it until I was posting, and was like.. yeah again.

Writing

You stare this Kal down and try to be as you as you can possibly be. At least, be as Red Eyes you as you can be.

~Yeah,~ you begin as you try to gauge his abilities just to be safe, ~I DO seem to have issues as of late with people showing me proper respect,~

That you said that to him isn’t lost on the talent agent.

“Indeed, but with the right representation people will have no choice but to respect you and what you do,” he shrugs and looks over at the show as The Damned rises onto stage and breaks the restraints on his straight jacket, “You’re running around Juuban like an overtaxed immune system. Make no mistake, this world IS sick,”

>Target is within a range of even talent to your abilities.

He’s experienced enough to match you? Unusual, people like that are rare.

~So what if it's sick, maybe that means I just need to trash people that much harder,~ you scoff and narrow your eyes at the man, ~What kind of help could your talent agency really provide, I don’t need backup dancers,~

He smiles, and laughs as below The Damned announces that he has returned to earth again from Hell. He does not regret what he has done, and these lost souls that have come with him will bring ruin and horror to that which is beautiful.

“Oh, the people I want to introduce you to can get dancers who you don’t even know you’d need,” he raises his hands, “And after a look at you, well who knows what you could help each other do,”

-Princess...there is something wrong here,- Zoisite speaks into your head carefully.

>Target possesses Spell Casting and Psionic abilities. Capable of resisting damage from non magical sources.

~Is that right?~ you say to both his last comment and Zoisite’s assertion. You need to keep him talking even if the latest revelation is worrying, ~I don't need help. What the hell are you offering? A fucking TV show and action figures? Yeah, I'm sure you and your friends would just love to tap my 'brand',~

>>40299025

He smirks, and you roll your eyes as you realize what you just said. Red Eyes keeps putting words like that in your mouth, even when you aren’t emotionally her.

-Be careful, Princess,- Kunzite agrees, -I think I recognize this man, look at his card!-

You look down at the name on the paper. Kal Unite.

-This man,- the knight marshal beings.

“Oh, we could tap your brand in amazing ways,” he smiles and crosses over to look down at the band, “Look how we’re tapping the potential of these youngsters here,”

>Target is possessed of supernatural and spell like abilities, is identified as an Augmented Construct Undead.

“This music of theirs, through the filter I’ve provided, can sway the balance of the human heart. One of the reasons I know you aren’t a demon, I saw it affecting you as you left the dressing room. If we can accomplish this under their noses...imagine what we could help you achieve,”

-he is,- his lover continues.

You stand and watch him, your eyes also darting to the shadows of the catwalk to ensure that you are alone up here before settling on him.

“They’ve tried to make contact with you before,” he sighs, “but the agents in question were sloppy, and by my preference imprecise and crude. I much prefer civility to press gangs; especially for TALENT as advanced as yours,”

-Kalunite of the Elysion Royal Guard,- Kunzite finishes in sleight disbelief, -He died by my possessed hand during the fall,-

>Write in

>>40299040
I guess that's the start of the fight then.

Let's at least use fist of the earth.

>>40293761
This question feels more important now.

>>40299102
General Language of the Day, even across the bridge of space, earth and the other worlds of the Sol System somehow shared the same tongue.

>>40299040
Alright, let's use that civility.
Through the filter of the Beast.
"The fuck, using music to make people angry? That's your big deal? That looks more like a pain in my ass if people start getting out of line because of it. Whose head do I crack then, theirs or yours?

>>40299150
A cranky, bitchy kind of civility, with a hint of violence. Seems about as nice as I could expect from Red.
Is this the 'coy' plan?

Leaving this open a bit longer to see what wins out between out two suggested votes.

>>40299185
Yes. I mean, he doesn't know we have a reason to strike at him, though we could understandably shift to seeming more angry as we "realize" what the previous attempt was. Might as well string him along, be angry and bounce out, threatening him over messing with your night out.

>>40299150

This.

>>40299040
>>40299348
Ok, I'm down with playing hard to get, though I want to be angrier about all this bullshit with monsters and scouts getting dragged into our turf.. though it did help expand our territory.. (add thoughtfully to give him hope)

>>40299398
I'm not sure we can connect him with that yet, i mean from what he said. We can connect him to the psi punks messing with schools from what he's said though, that was also on our turf.
Maybe complain about monster/scout bullshit as an aside with this guy being one more piece of bullshit to add to the pile?

Writing.

~The fuck,~ you scoff in direct offense to what he claims he’s doing here, ~using music to make people angry? That's your big deal? That looks more like a pain in my ass if people start getting out of line because of it. Whose head do I crack then, theirs or yours?

He shrugs.

“Well, I hope not mine. Definitely not theirs,” he gestures down at the crowd, “Emotions are a powerful thing, and we intend to harvest these extreme feeling from the crowd below at no harm to them. They are innocent, at least as far as our aims go, and we are giving them a chance to combat the same sickness you have taken up against,”

You bristle. Harvesting negative emotions means one of two things...either this is how they make the stuff to turn people into monsters or they aim to create shadows out of the crowd below.

~Argh, so the Psi punks tearing up schools looking for me are with your outfit?~ you say with a dangerous edge, ~You know thats been causing me trouble, between monsters and a new set of Sailor Senshi running about,~

Your growl is honest as your fist ball up at your side and then relax. Might as well make it seem like he has something on your good side.

~Then again that did help me expand my territory,~ you muse with a finger to your lips while glancing up at nothing.

He tensed at the mention of the Senshi.

“Yes, those punks as you call them did work under a satellite manager beneath my employers. Their tactics were unfortunate, which is part of my aim in changing by recruiting you. On the matter of the little cheer squad,you’ve had two encounters with those young Senshi,” he muses as a confident spark takes his eye, “if I recall correctly. Tell me, what do you think of them,”

>>40299662

Beneath you, intense and complex metal covers of older pop songs scream by. Lovely Innocent first love ballads are screamed and snarled. Dance and pop become deep percussion as sugar turns to flame. It raises the ire of the crowd. The dancing becomes more aggressive. The mosh pit is thrown more violently.

The Damned Leaps and bends his knees low as he lands on the lower portion of the stage to the upper, microphone in hand and wire trailing behind him. Rising up he cranes and pans his torso across the crowd as a demonically tinged lyrical composition rises from his throat.

The hurt you know that birthed this creativity; it fills you with worry. Worry that this is the kind of hurt you have caused in others. The beast was right to be upset with you, and now you are upset with yourself.

That takes a backseat to now. You need to dig deeper, you need to know what Kalunite is really up to. Maybe, maybe you can take him out or get a solid line of sight on his enigmatic masters.

“You can take your time answering,” he says lazily, “Or, what do you think of the music?”

>The Senshi, they’re alright
>Prissy little princesses with a magic show
>Good kids trying to help people
>I hate them
>You are annoyed they are on your turf
>Write in

&

>Its fucking metal
>They’re nothing special
>I hate it.
>I feel sorry for him
>Write in

>>40299675
>>You are annoyed they are on your turf

>>Write in
We're annoyed that our night out has been messed with as well.

>>40299797
>>40299675
That works. Maybe add a bit about them being a little too sugary to get along with.

>>40299662
Sound like harvesting negative vibes to make the shadow juice. Harvesting the shadows would take putting something in, then getting the shadow and that definitely seems to have a different result than 'no harm'.

Writing

>>40299675
>Prissy little princesses with a magic show
>You are annoyed they are on your turf

&

>Its fucking metal

>>40299040
>Augmented Construct Undead
>-He died by my possessed hand during the fall,-
Hmm, healing is bad for them then, I'd imagine.
Also means the enemy is capable of putting the dead to work for them. Dead from ages past.
Raises a question of why they have trouble with the Queen, or what is wrong with them that they don't want to be wrong with the Queen?

Also should ask our Shitennou what Kal here was like in life.

~I can’t think about the music right now because I’m annoyed how your planned harvest is screwing with my night. You know, getting me riled up,~ you grouse, ~I almost put a big hurt on your little meal ticket down there,~

“Hmmm,” Kal hums to himself before laughing lazily, “Tell you what, I’ve heard rumors about your dietary preferences. How about I share some of tonight’s take with you. Think of it as a gift, not a payment or a signing bonus,”

He draws a simple translucent dark stone from his pocket and walks it across his knuckles.

“Will that help smooth things over for tonight?”

>It might (YOU HUNGER)
>Fair warning, I don’t like being bribed (not saying no)
>No way in hell (but...hunger?)
>Write in

“Alright then, and what about the Senshi?”

~I’m annoyed that the Senshi are on my turf,~ you snarl and cross your arms, ~And they’re a bit too sugary for me to get along with,~

He chuckles to himself and tosses the stone up and catches it in his hand.

“Well, what if I were to tell you that the Senshi are more than just sugary and annoying,” he emphasises the last two descriptions, “That they represent a danger greater than you could possibly know, a story older than you can imagine?”

>I’d ask you to tell me more
>Have, have you met them? They’re kids
>Yeah, they’re powerful. I was at Tokyo Tower.
>I’ll call you, don’t call me
>I know the story, Kalunite, so kneel before the daughter of Endymion.
>Write in

>>40300243
Well, that verifies that they're harvesting to make the shadow taint.
>Fair warning, I don’t like being bribed (not saying no)
If it comes in a form we can take with, it might serve for research, or at least cutting into the cut.
Wait, what rumors cover that? Hm..

>Have, have you met them? They’re kids. Ok, powerful kids.. alright tell me more. This better not take all night.
Seems like we'll be getting an alternate take on this story..

>>40300243
>>40300338
I'll second this.

>>40300243
>>No way in hell (but...hunger?)
Probably slip us a mickey of something.

>I’d ask you to tell me more

>>40300243
Take it suspiciously (don't eat it), ask to know more.

>>40300243
My main issue with taking it is that we confirm the 'rumors' he has heard. Is that something we want to do?

>>40300338
Damnit, Niji!

>>40300243
>Fair warning, I don’t like being bribed (not saying no)

>Have, have you met them? They’re kids

Writing.

>>40300603
Bah, that would explain it.

>>40300508
>>40300438
Fair points. I was already paranoid about the card.

>>40300508
Why not? We can always squash the little shit later.

~Fair warning,~ you tut him, ~I don’t like being bribed,~

“Its not a bribe,” he yawns as the music below you dies down, “It’s a gift. And if the rumors aren’t true you can do whatever you want with it,”

~Is it something I can just take with me? Because a to go bag would be useful,~ you shrug.

“Sure,” he smiles, “Oh, here we go. Watch this,”

He holds the stone out over the catwalk. The Damned asks the crowd if they’ve had enough of those corrupted hymns of innocence and pop. They roar. He obliges with an a scream, before another song erupts.

You feel it, but it goes unnoticed by the crowd. The sadness underpinning the rage, what Venus talked about. You know music, and this is a sad song.

Rabbit Run, a metal ballad of unrequited pain and shunned injury.

The feeling of tension leaves the crowd, to be reignited by the song of The Damned. Watching it coalesce around the stone in Kalunite hand, you feel a rumble of want inside of you. Atop the stone, the energy coalesces into a sphere of black.

He plucks the black orb from atop the gem, it is the size of a fist. He tosses it to you.

~On them being dangerous,~ you muse, ~Have you met the Senshi? They’re kids, okay, powerful kids. You know what; tell me more, just make sure it doesn’t take all night,~

>>40301199

He nods and leans back against the guardrail with his pockets in hand.

“Lets start a long time ago, longer ago than anyone thinks humanity has actually lived,” he muses, “In an age where all the people of earth existed under one kingdom, and when that kingdom was oppressed by those that lived above us,”

He explains, over the music beneath, how a stellar empire ruled over the solar system. How they kept advanced magic and technology from the people of earth, eventually this lead to ruin. A monster from beyond the stars infiltrated the unprotected earth. It devastated earth and launched an attack on the seat of power in the stellar empire, the moon.

Evil fought Tyranny...and the people of the earth and the empire all suffered. The senshi of today, the first ones, were the reincarnations of the guardians of that empire. Sailor Moon herself was the heir to the empire. The new ones, they are a danger. Though they protect the earth, he believes it is their ultimate aim to rule as they had in ages past.

“At least,” he shrugs, “That’s the version that won’t take all night,”

Standing up from the guard rail, he gestures wide as the tempo and pace picks up below. The show is back in full swing, and the anger is again on the rise.

“So, that’s the story. What do you think?”

>Om nom nom
>Nope, good luck with all that
>Hell no (push him)
>Sign me up
>Write in

>>40301210
>Hell no (push him)
I heard enough. Over the railing he goes.

>>40301210
"I think you're a bit crazy." Turn to leave.
"So am I though. I'll think about it. This night is a wash though."
Wave him off and leave.
Then get ready to sneak back in as someone else to investigate.

>>40301210
Ok getting good intel and building a chance to meet the higher ups.
This is good. Time to break contact though. Don't want to appear overeager or out of character, light brush off but ask if the info on the card is good for this topic.

>>40301257
Eh, that blows our chance to get a meet with whomever he works with though.

>>40301325
Investigate, yet. But here's the hard question, do we interfere?

>>40301210
>>40301325
I second this.

>>40301210
> Leave without saying anything. Then when we are deep enough in the shadows to disappear/'port away give him a snub in the old tongue.

Writing

~I think you’re a bit crazy,~ you scold and turn away from the man and toward the entrance to the catwalk, ~So am I, though, I’ll think about it,~

He nods and turns back toward the show. Unlike his physically pushy associates, he seems somewhat sane. This will be a good way to gain intel, the only question is who do you share this intel with before you dive in further.

As you close the door to the catwalk behind you, Kunzite voices his concern.

-Is it wise to leave an enemy at your back, Princess?- he wonders.

~No, but I’m not leaving this people to his devices,~ you exclaim and activate your disguise field, ~I have something else in mind,~

You drop the face of the beast as you step down the stairs, your VIP pass still hanging around your neck. Your black hair gains length, cleanliness, vibrant pink color, and volume. A few young men and women back here have them, so you don’t stand out much. Doubly so considering your face will be a forgotten phantom to them in passing.

Needing a better beat on these circumstances you-

>Adopt a new disguise, who?
>Drop your disguise field and attend this show as a normal teenage girl
>Continue on as you presently are, a cypher
>Write in

&

>Poke around the green room
>Go back to the Dressing room
>Stand among those watching the show backstage
>Go into the dancing crowd in the hall
>Hit the bar, observe from there
>Mosh in the pit
>Grow roots on the wall like a flower
>Leave
>Write in

>>40302172
>Continue on as you presently are, a cypher
>Hit the bar, observe from there

>>40302172
We need to be more background if we're going to poke around here.
>Adopt a new disguise, who?
How about what, a roadie. Not a fragment of ourselves or anything, let's see if we can do that.
Ok, sure we do love to get into our roles, but just remember that it is a role.

Not sure where to start poking around, but should be able to move freely.

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>>40302172
Take a picture of the business card, then ditch it.
He was rated with plenty of abilities, don't want one of them to be a magical tracer.

>>40302267
>>40302210
Damn. Like both. I want to have Mikage mingling for possible drama there, but I also like the practicality of a roadie (I shall name him Jack).

>>40302379
Getting rid of the card does sound like a good idea.
I am amending my vote >>40302210 to include
>Take a picture of the business card, then ditch it.

>>40302379
I was about to object to more crossdressing, but it we have to shift from roadie to Eclipse, the gender switch should help keep them from connecting with Red.

>>40302172
Can we sense magic?

Because if so, we should look around backstage and see what we sense.

>>40302379
And yeah, ditch the card.

>>40302515
You can subtly detect magic with insight, but nothing certain or fol proof.

Writing

Give me an Insight Test, DC 20. 1d20+6 best of 3, 1s & 20s wild

Rolled 16 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

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Rolled 17 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

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Rolled 12 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

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>>40302747
That is not the image I selected.

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>>40302768
Prompted by this error, I did a search for: star wars sailor moon

I expected results. I did not expect there to be quite so many.

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>>40302973
Considering the presence both have in pop culture, you should've.

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>>40303044
I suppose so.

When you’re relatively certain that you are alone, you take the disguise pen back out, the orb of darkness not forgotten from its place in your jacket pocket. You’ve resolved to check it out later, and you are doing a damn good job of not cramming the oversized sphere into your mouth with greed y want.

Even if you can’t sniff this stuff out of people anymore, this much so close to you is incredibly tempting.

Taking a picture of the business card with your phone, you throw the untrustworthy piece of cardboard away. You may be a touch paranoid, but trusting paranoia hasn’t let you down so far.

-Well, maybe a little,- Zoisite chortles in a very feminine laugh.

Rolling your eyes you hold the disguise pen high.

~Make me an awesome Roadie!~ you command before depressing the activator.

When the sparkling lights fade, you have shoulder length black hair, a painted on gray on your cheeks and chin, a leather vest, bindings keeping your chest down, torn jeans, and a metallica t-shirt. Striding out of the backstage and into the main hall of the venue, you wade through the dancing crowd as you feel the unnatural anger again grow.

The song Rabbit Run continues, from what you’ve heard through muffled walls and under the voice of Kalunite, as you reach the bar.

There are no seats or stools, it's a standing affair only given the nature of the venue.

Leaning against it after ordering a shot, you turn back to the stage and scan the area with your eyes and your extrasensory abilities.

It doesn’t come from the stage itself, nor the musicians. You get nothing but vague impressions from each of them. The challenging and outrageously provocative love and lust shared by the Witch and the Devil. The easy going and deceptively joyful nature of the Ogre, accustomed to being ridiculed for his appearance as normal but reveling in the momentary happinesses granted to him by this stardom. And a familiarity from The Damned you did not expect.

>>40303365

You are beset by a vision, within the school gymnasium. A cypher figure, empty save for the reflective surface of their glasses rushes to the side of your own facsimile and that of Midori as you are pressed against the door. You are shocked at this unknown presence as they brace with you against the weight on the door. Shouldn’t he be trying to help-

The vision ends as your eyes focus upon the banks of speakers. There is magic in them, magic forced upon them...now there is only the matter of how to gum up the works.

Rabbit Run comes to its end in chord and thrashing riff. Their next song is another original, Escape from Fire.

What to do, what to do? Your subtle magic will serve to protect yourself from being found out in trying to throw a wrench into Kalunite’s villainous works.

>Cast a spell
>Utilize a power
>Attack something
>Get closer to one of the speakers
>Write in

>>40303395
Find the central sound mixer and cast restoration into it and see if that will clear the whole system at once?

>>40303552
This.
If that doesn't work, let's unplug them to give us some time to figure it out until it's replugged.

>>40303395
>Get closer to one of the speakers
MOSH PIT!!!!

>>40303395
Whatever it is, we do this roadie style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD6dRXIvEU0

I think everyone can approve of that.

>>40303395
>Get closer to one of the speakers

looks like we have a final destination.

between getting up to the sound mixer and casting restoration on it, and getting closer to one of the speakers, getting into the mosh pit along the way.

Queue up and I'll post the final destination in a minute or two.

Remember, when it goes live, you have four minutes from the initial posting to reply to that post with only the number of your choice, no comment, line breaks, greentext, or dice.

It will be up in a moment.

>>40303871
TIL Roadies are helpful Ninja.

FINAL DESTINATION

Rules posted already so here are your choices.

1 Sound mixer
2 Get close to the Mosh Pit speakers

>>40304120
2

>>40304120
1

>>40304120
1

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>>40305168

Downing your shot, it burns in a way to which you are unaccustomed, you drop a few coins on the table and head toward the backstage. Slipping around with fake professional talent and a backstage pass you work your way around the well lit hallways and up a half flight of stairs into the stage area.

There the Unrepentant Damned continue to shred, key, pluck, and smash as you sidle along with the rest of the crew around the equipment in the wings.

You hover around the sound mixer, and leaned against it casually as your work your purification magics into the device and circuitry. Your hope is to rid the speakers of their enchantment.

It takes time to work the energy into your purification spell, but whence it is complete you watch in delight as the light moves not unlike circuitry into the device and down the cables.

It puts a smile on your face to see the light invisibly snake through the system, you know your powers will protect you from being found out in this action.

What you do not expect, having sent your magic into the sound mixer, is for it to pass against the flow of electricity to the instruments and players on stage.

The speakers distort with the strange sound of your magic pressing through alongside the analog signals. It gives the band on stage pause. Those holding one instrument each seem unphased in this song, but there is a spark of light at The Damned takes a knee. The guitar hanging from his shoulder and the Microphone in his hand. For a moment you are worried you’ve hurt him.

Everything comes to a hault. You feel the broadcasted anger stop from the speakers, but the tension remains in the crowd.

>Big Damned Perk unlocked in The Damned, Bardic Harbinger

Restlessness and upset takes the crowd at the end of the music and the strange distortion. The Devil and witch are at his side, helping him rise. Other crew people are checking everything, making sure it's all okay.

>>40305760

A strange look takes the damned eyes as he looks over his once adoring and now angry crowd. Understanding takes him, as he glances down at his fingers and places his microphone back in the stand.

“SHUT UP,” he bellows without the mic and then he plays.

The others have yet to join him. It awes the crowd; filled with his pain, his anger, and all of his sorrow. It is something new. It is something wonderful.

Calmed and again dancing, life takes to the club without anger. Kalunite’s efforts likely destroyed tonight, you slink back from the scene of your action and into anonymity as you see the enemy above you fade from sight in annoyance.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 83
End

Interlude Vote
>Clarity of heart
>Staying up late
>Reading of forbidden love
>Forbidden love

>>40305168
>>40305760
>>Big Damned Perk unlocked in The Damned, Bardic Harbinger
Intriguing.

>>40305783
>Clarity of heart

>>40305899
>Reading of forbidden love
Kairi looking at BL manga?

>>40305899
Well, really, its Bardic Music, Harbinger list.

>>40305783
>Reading of forbidden love
Enjoying those books, Kairi?

Though I wonder about who exactly Forbidden Love is.

>>40306148
I'd wager our other Knight and Sol.

Clarity of Heart though, I think might shed some light on what just happened with The Damned.

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>>40306007
Your d20-Fu runs deep, found it.

>>40306590
My d20-Fu is strong, grasshopper. When you can snatch the die from my hand, your training can begin.

So, this was fun.

>>40307386
Aye. Good times. We should do this more often. The late Sat to early Sun worked well too.

>>40285137

Koito will make a good knight if we pick him.

>>40306590
The magic face and body paint in that issue now intrigue me.

>>40305783
>Clarity of heart

>>40308130
I say we pick him.

>>40308130
>>40309230
I want to jumpstart his starseed. Bring some Zeus to the party.

>>40309382
Okay, just putting this out there. He doesn't possess a true starseed.

If you took away Kanari's starseed, she would disappear

If you took away Koito's he'd become a Phage.

There are other ways to awaken him to other powers certainly, but he cannot acquire a senshi tier.

>>40309709
Dang. So much for heritage on the male side. Also, feel like I have misunderstood what a starseed is.

>>40309828
Starseed, or as they were called in the stage musicals Sailor Crystals.

So....

If you had gone with just being Mikage, I would have given The Damned perception tests to notice you in the crowd or off stage if you went there. Congratulations on the secret identity shuffle.

>>40310071
Thus why I was drawn on that vote.
Practicality vs Drama.

>>40309048
Also, Cloak of Khyber.. no idea how to acquire that though.

>>40310462
And an announcement of Promise of Power's release on the N-Gage. Sigh. Why did it have to get tied down to that system?
Old magazines are a trip sometimes.

>>40309844
Does dad actually have one? Or is it something else?

>>40310676
Mamoru has the Starseed of Earth.

Also, yeah they are. I actually have that issue from when it was printed. Its got the demon queen of fungus on the cover. Ironically someone spilled water on the issue at the game table. We joked that Zuggmoty (spelling?) would now infest the pages.

>>40310867
So is it more of a Chosen One thing for Starseeds then? Just working on getting a feel for how these things work.
Starseeded folk, demons, people reborn from being superdemons, who else could exceed the E6?

Also, keep some blessed fungicide on hand.

>>40311308
Exceptional people.

>>40305783
>Clarity of heart

>>40311449
Excellent answer.

Dangnabbit. Well, we'll figure something out.

>>40311581
Though failing to break the level cap nets you a feat for every experience level you would have gained after 6.

>>40309709
Well thats sort of a bummer. I was hoping he did - I mean Koyomi has one and she's not the oldest.

I still think he's probably a badass though.

>>40311662
We can see what we can work out, he may still have potential for paranormal/supernatural, just not Senshi power. He can still be a formidable force even if he doesn't crack the E6 barrier.
Same goes for Sasha, who already has something going on with his spirit/dreams tied to a freaking bear and a ghost girl.

>>40311848
Like I said, I still think he's probably a badass. There's no way Makoto Kino and Thiago Souza raised a kid who isn''t hero-capable.

Good thread Artemis, thank you and good night.

>>40312078
The trick is seeing if there are ways for them to survive being heroic.

>>40312132
Yeah.. I guess. But we're already putting Kairi and Jade out there... Koito can't be any worse than that, He would be at least as strong as them, and possibly stronger.

>>40306330
Well they are in Lesbians with each other.

>>40310258
That it hasn't come out yet will make inevitable school shenanigans better.

>>40311848
You know, we should chat with the Shitennou about their training and the training of the Elysian Royal Guard.
One, for some insight on some of our opponents.
Two, for some insight into what it takes to train humans to that level.

Also randomly remember there was talk of the Enemy hunting/calling to Elysian relics in general and is promising to help keep them out of enemy hands. Did we ever get any leads on those other items and people other than the Shitennou and Helios?

I thought every human had a starseed, but the one in normal humans is just weaker?

http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Seed

>Star Seeds are crystals contained in all life. All planets, stars, and asteroids have a star seed. A regular star seed is within regular humans and once removed the light within it fades (turning the victims into phages).

>>40318635
Difference between starseed and truestsrseed

>>40318635
>>40319251
I find it interesting that those with a True Starseed can't exist without it. Spirit is the body, I suppose. ..Also explains the exceeding human E6 limits.

Would not feel creepy if it weren't for the version of that from Madoka.

>>40319856
Madoka: be Liches, slay witches, get mad bitches.

I want to make an accusation about the Primroses, but I think it wiser to let it sit.

>>40312132
Would our knights gain surges if we took Mythic Companion?