>>40718085

“I think we may be able to turn her into a resource,” you groan, “maybe. She seemed receptive to our pitch and warning against the Senshi,”

The door to the room opens, and a man in black armor and cloth enters silently. When you first met him, he was a young man. Now, after your resurrection, he carries a great and terrible weight on his body and soul. He is Hiddenite.

“She is more than receptive,” he intones as he points a device to the main screen.

There, displayed before you is a fray in the streets. Sailor Sol doing battle with the Red Eyed Beast, a bolt of lightning streaking into the sky.

Your lips curl into a smile.

Interlude End

>>40718110

Quest Start

“I,” the younger girl, Aiha Mizuno, chokes up a bit, “I think I like girls, and it terrifies me,”

You and Keiko stand there in mild surprise at the younger girl’s statement. You appreciate and understand immediately her fears, as they are a part of your own struggles as well. Not that the younger girl knows of your recently self admitted proclivities; these worries are presented to your friend Keiko Sugimoto after she admitted to the younger girl that she was in a relationship with another girl named Midori Mori.

Aiha is the new Sailor Mercury, daughter of the original and a long time family friend of your’s. Keiko Sugimoto, through circumstances which you played a hand in, is a young woman recently awakened as the soldier of the sun known as Sailor Sol. They are magical girls, defenders of love and justice, like you were once before.

You are Mikage Chiba, second year highschool student fifteen years old, formerly the champion of love and justice known as Sailor Moon. You were the third woman to carry that title after your mother and elder sister. Now that title belongs to your younger sister.

Well, before you is a young girl in need of guidance.

“I know that isn’t really a question,” she groans and drops her hands into her face, “I was supposed to have a question. I don’t know what to do about this, and-and I need your help. I don’t know what the others will think of me,”

“Well,” Keiko begins before being cut off.

“Then when Mikage-chan just showed up I almost didn’t push it further, but she seemed comfortable and reactionary to you and Mori-san but I don’t know what Koyomi-chan, Rin-chan, Venus-chan, and Kanari-chan will think of me and I’m really worried,” the blue haired girl blurts out, “You are all the first people other than my family that I didn’t feel like a freak around...but what if this was too taboo?”

>>40718128

The momentary silence hangs between the three of you in the street lamp lit dark. Detritus and small bits of litter shake in either a late night wind or the subconscious force of the blue haired girl’s obvious and frequently spiking telekinetic abilities.

“What if that’s too far?”

Wow, she’s on a bit of a roll here. This is a bit uncomfortable, honestly. As much as you’ve dealt with your own feelings, which is not much at all, recently you aren’t one hundred percent on board with helping someone with something that hits quite this close to home. For a moment you debate simply vanishing from the scene outright, but that would be a real jerk thing to do, and not the kind of thing you would be too proud of.

>Let her keep going, she seems to have a lot pent up.
>Let Keiko take this.
>Interject, offer your own experiences so far or what have you and admit to it to her yourself. What do you say?
>Confer with Keiko over how to address this issue together. What do you suggest you say?
>Write in

>>40718146
>>Let Keiko take this.

>>40718146
>Let Keiko take this.

You know, I’m surprised I missed it for so long.
Episode 46:
>“What I’m trying to say, girls, is that I think Mikage is Eclipse,” Jupiter expresses to the general shock of the group.
>That...no. Eclipse was a man. You remember his features clearly. His radiant warmth as you took you away from that place in his arms. His voice. His red eyes.
>If Eclipse were actually Mikage...but...you aren’t supposed to...
Then Episode 85:
>“Well, what I want to ask you about,” she seems nervous, “and if you still don’t want to talk about it, it's okay,”
>“Please, this is really hard for me to ask!”
>“Beast, Mikage, do you have any more dissociated psyche in your mind? Are you also Eclipsed?”
Then last time:
>“I,” the younger girl chokes up a bit, “I think I like girls, and it terrifies me,”

Aiha is in love with Eclipse.

>>40718146
>Let Keiko take this.

>>40718308
Also, if we do say anything:
>I don’t know about the others, but Koyomi?

>Aiha, let me remind you that just a short while ago Koyomi said goodbye to her oldest sister, who is also me, before she went back to her alternate future where our mom is queen of the world. Oh, and she grew up with a talking cat in the house.

>Don’t think that you can produce something strange enough to make her question her willingness to call you a friend.

>>40718308
That Aiha liked Eclipse was obvious, but that she preferred girls, I missed until she said it.

>>40718146
>"You do realize everyone likes Haruka and Michiru. Why would they have a problem with your sexuality?"

>>40718444
I suspected it early on, and then the interlude with Rin looking at possible futures when she was about to interact with her and acting flustered confirmed it for me.

"Like, exclusively?"

If so,
>>Let Keiko take this.

>>40718146
The real answer is what does it matter, it's important to be true to yourself.
It is figuring out what yourself is that is tricky.

Also confer with the couple in our head for insights.

Home from an errand and writing.

Got distracted by things, writing again. Sorry for the delay

>>40718775
>It is figuring out what yourself is that is tricky.
Probably not a field in which we should be giving lectures.

>>40719990
I think that Mikage of all people would be very well suited to talking about how difficult figuring out what yourself is.

>>40720371
Its true that we have more practical experience in the matter but I'd think the ideal candidate wouldn't need practical experience.

Besides we're not even close to done

Hanging back, you allow Keiko to field this issue. After all, it was Keiko who she asked this of. She shoots you a concerned look as Aiha hides behind her hands in embarrassment, and you gesture for her to take the stage. Keiko, for her part, nods and goes over to the younger girl and lays a calming hand on her shoulder.

“Hey, its okay,” she smiles gently, “It’s okay to be worried about that, I was lucky to have people I could trust with that when I realized it was who I was,”

Keeping quiet, you walk a wide circle around them as Aiha looks up at Keiko.

“I just-” she takes a sharp breath, “This is all so confusing. I mean, I wasn’t sure at first, but-”

Aiha goes on to describe her circumstances, from being confused about how her peers at school would fawn over boys when she didn’t feel that way. Her confusion over feeling that way to other girls she knew, and then further confusion over her mysterious savior the day she became Sailor Mercury.

The collar of your new outfit feels uncomfortably tight at that admission. You knew she was crushing on Eclipse, your secret heroic guise, and you can frankly understand her identity crisis.

“Then when Kanari-chan kept insisting that Eclipse was,” she pauses and looks over to you for a second, “was Mikage-chan, a part of me hoped that she was wrong so I could be normal; but it still felt,’

She trails off.

>>40720783

Keiko nods and pulls the shorter girl into a hug.

“You don’t have to run from who you are, especially from your friends,” she then holds Aiha away from her by the shoulders, “And yeah, Eclipse sounds like it would be a big point of confusion,”

“How did you, I mean,” she asks hesitantly, “You like Eclipse too, right. I remember at after Venus’s show,”

“Yeah,” Keiko laughs and you catch her sending you a pleading glance, “Since then I found out how Midori feels and, well,”

“And, you’re right,” she sighs, “I probably can trust my friends. After that, though, what about everyone else? There are people who’ll think I’m bad for being that way!”

“Don’t sweat that, yet,” Keiko wilts a bit, “honestly I haven’t figured that out either,”

>Back away slowly
>Admit your own until recent confusion, cite Usa’s existence and proclivities
>You need to nip this in the butt, Aiha’s sweet, but she’s like a kid sister to you. You should know, you have a kid sister.
>Be flattered that she's attracted to you, or even someone she thinks might be you.
>Don the regalia, remove the hood
>Write in

>>40720814
>Be flattered that she's attracted to you, or even someone she thinks might be you.
>Is there any one else you're attracted to?

>>40720814
>Admit your own until recent confusion, cite Usa’s existence and proclivities
>Be flattered that she's attracted to you, or even someone she thinks might be you.

>>40720814
I.... don't reveal Eclipse.

Eclipse is literally a mantle, a cipher. He's part of the Story. There HAS to be a Tuxedo Mask type, even if the person in the mantle changes.

Thats just part of how the universe works.

>>40720814
>You need to nip this in the butt, Aiha’s sweet, but she’s like a kid sister to you. You should know, you have a kid sister

>>40720814
>Admit your own until recent confusion, cite Usa’s existence and proclivities
>Be flattered that she's attracted to you, or even someone she thinks might be you.

>>40721312
Girl butts seem to be a weakness.

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Writing

Seems we have a deleted vote so no need to Final Destination.

Writing momentarily.

Work escaped hope I'll be home in time for next vote

>>40721936
Yay home.

>>40721139
There came a toward the end of the first arc where they knew who he was.
Though there was one season where they knew and he didn't.

~You know,~ you approach the two of them with a soft voice, ~you aren’t the only person who has ever been confused about those kind of feelings,~

“Mikage?” the younger girl seems surprised by your soft approach after your earlier anger.

Keiko takes a step back from Aiha at your approach.

~Until very recently I’d been having issues with figuring out...me,~ you grouse before pointing at your head, ~Kind of compounded by all this,~

“I guess that would make things a bit harder,” she giggles at your levity.

~Anyway. You know the deal with Usa, right?~

“Yes. The parallel future,” she nods a bit confused.

~Yeah,~ you take a deep breath, ~She’s got this whole thing going with Tomoe-Sensei and Helios. I knew about one, found out about the other kind of recently. It threw me for a bit of a loop and forced me to actually think about something I’d been avoiding,~

“You seemed pretty sure of yourself this morning,” Keiko giggles.

~Knock it off,~ you playfully shove her shoulder, ~I was riding a magical feel good high,~

“Magical feel good high?” Aiha questions.

~Its not what it sounds like. I had my mom help me with something the other night which was like a purification. It put me on cloud nine for most of the day,~ you raise your hands defensively.

You pause and smile slyly and self confidently. Perhaps a part of you is still riding that high, not that you care all that much one way or the other.

~I gotta say, I’m flattered you’re attracted to me, and or someone you think I may or may not be,~

>>40722546

She blushes and suddenly finds her shoes incredibly interesting. The rattling of loose objects near the three of you ceases until her eyes snap wide and she whips up to face you and stamps her foot in shock. Whatever she was about to say dies in her throat as her eyes search around in tune with whatever train of thoughts she is trying to parse. Eventually her shoulders slump in a kind of defeat and she smiles.

“Thank you for saying so, Mikage-chan,” she shakes her head tiredly and smiles, “And that was a pretty good dodge there at the end,”

~What can I say,~ you adjust your jacket and explain noncommittally, ~I’m nimble,~

“We should talk more about this, at length,” Keiko shrugs and chuckles as she kneels down to adjusts her sneakers, “for now I’m heading back to Midori’s. I’ll see you two later,”

She isn’t wrong, it is getting late.

>Time to head for home
>Walk Aiha home and then go home yourself
>Head back to Aiha’s
>Write in

>>40722574
>>Head back to Aiha’s
Take 2.

>time to head for home

Damn, I just made BLT's and there's Eclipsed Moon quest? Its a good day.

>>40722574
>Head back to Aiha’s

>Head back to Aiha’s

There is more to talk about.

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>>40722751
The only thing better is casual discussion of things in quest! You know, because we never hit the post limit.

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>>40722931

Well, you know what they say about computers and Sailor Moon.

>>40723104
...

Touche.

>>40722931
I'll bite.

Am I the only one thinking that Sasha will probably see us as Red Eyes fighting Keiko on TV. And as we still have not explained to him about wtf is going on, he will not take it well.

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Quest. Quest never changes.

>>40723195
Yeah, that could likely be a thing.

>That awkward moment when you consider lesbianism to differentiate yourself from your time-duplicate sister only it turns out you're both just bi.

Counting and Writing

>>40723274
>the awkward moment where it comes out that she's sleeping with your formative mentor figure.

>>40723305
Always one step ahead iwi

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~Alright Keiko,~ you smile broadly, ~Say hi to Midori for me,~

“I’m going to sleep,” she grouses, “I’ll say hi for you in the morning,”

With a quick step she rises into the sky and pitches forward to pick up speed. Her motions drift south into Juuban before she leans toward the building where Midori’s family apartment waits for her.

“Goodnight Keiko!” Aiha calls out to her before stifling a yawn.

You ruffle her hair and she blushes.

~Come on, Aiha-chan,~ you sigh, ~We’ve got a slumber party to get back to,~

“Uh, oh,” she starts as you break off and start walking to the south before taking a few steps after you, “Isn’t that, inappropriate now?”

Pausing, you look over your shoulder at the younger girl and think a moment.

~Should I be worried for my chastity?~ you joke.

“What! I mean! NO!” She sputters as the two of you fall into step toward her home.

~Good,~ you walk onward.

“I know Koyomi knows about Usa,” she says quietly after a few blocks, “She was talking about it a bit this afternoon before we all split up,”

~Oh, then why would you be worried about coming out to them?~

“I don’t know,” she groans, “I don’t know about any of this. I’ve been all over the place,”

~I hear the big advice for that kind of stuff is to get out of your own head,~ you muse.

“Hah!” she almost chokes, “I think I actually might if I tried,”

>So, interested in anyone besides me?
>Let her vent about her problems on the way to her house
>Assure her that Koyomi will always accept her friend, because reasons
>Ask about when she absolutely knew she was into women over men
>Companionable quiet for the rest of the way
>Write in

>>40724380
>Assure her that Koyomi will always accept her friend, because reasons

Let me quote myself from >>40718436

>Aiha, let me remind you that just a short while ago Koyomi said goodbye to her oldest sister, who is also me, before she went back to her alternate future where our mom is queen of the world. Oh, and she grew up with a talking cat in the house.

>Don’t think that you can produce something strange enough to make her question her willingness to call you a friend.

>>40724380
Your friends will always accept you.

(I'd qualify that with 'real friends' but I think we know the senshi families are the only ones she has..)

>>40724380
>>Write in
"Consider finding a boyfriend... if you can."

It'd be a tragedy if someone as adorkable as Aiha doesn't have babies.

>>40724380
>Let her vent about her problems on the way to her house
>Assure her that Koyomi will always accept her friend, because reasons

I mean, it's Koyomi of all people, and she's a Chiba.

She's probably a little bit of it herself.

>So, interested in anyone besides me?
>Assure her that Koyomi will always accept her friend, because reasons

"Koyomi will always support her friends. It's just the way our family works. But she will also want to hear all about who you are interested in. This is also how our family works. So are you into any other girls or just me?"

>>40724672
LESBIAN SCIENCE BABIES

>>40724380
>Assure her that Koyomi will always accept her friend, because reasons
Koyomi has her mother's heart after all.

>>40724799
Or, you know, one night stand.

She doesn't need a boyfriend for long.

Writing shortly. I require noms.

As you make your approach toward her hose, you offer her the most important truth she will ever hear in this lifetime.

~You know, Aiha, no matter what I know Koyomi will always accept her friends,~ you smile, ~she’ll always accept you as her friend. Do you know why?~

“Why?”

~Because she has one of the biggest hearts I’ve ever seen. As big as our mother’s,~ you smile, ~You know, she’ll need you and the others more than ever, just as much as you’ll need her. Mom left, Usa is leaving or her own time soon, so she needs the family you’ve all built on the sparkling hem of a magical skirt. That is writing friendship and reading it as family,~

“Mikage,” she says quietly.

~It's the way our family works. Anyone important to us IS family,~ you nod as you come to a stop before the door, ~So have faith in her, and the others,~

Her smile in the porchlight is warm. There is a contentedness there, that she is assured by your words as she opens the door and the two of you head back inside and upstairs.

“Mikage-chan,” she asks carefully, “Did you want to talk more about yourself or the things that are going on with you?”

She seems keen on not setting you off again, not that you’re easy to set off. That’s Red Eye’s game; okay you can be snappy and snippy with people when push comes to shove, but you doubt she could say or do anything tonight that would really put you off.

>I’m exhausted, lets just sleep.
>Go into why you think Red Eyes snapped at someone who didn’t deserve it
>Talk about your issues Re: Usa & Tomoe Sensei & Helios
>Ask after more of her problems
>Write in

>>40726029
>Talk about your issues Re: Usa & Tomoe Sensei & Helios

>>40726029
>Ask after more of her problems
Seems she's been keeping a lot to herself, time for her to ger stuff off her chest. Maybe get back to Red later.

>>40726029

>I’m exhausted, lets just sleep.

>>40726029
>Go into why you think Red Eyes snapped at someone who didn’t deserve it

>>40726029
>>Go into why you think Red Eyes snapped at someone who didn’t deserve it
>Ask after more of her problems

>>40726029
>Ask after more of her problems

>Go into why you think Red Eyes snapped at someone who didn’t deserve it

Writing shortly

COMBINING

~Well, I guess I could pick back up with my take on what happened with Red Eyes earlier tonight,~ you slouch down and sit next to Aiha’s bed again, ~So, I was at this concert...and Venus was talking to this guy about the inspiration to his songwriting,~

“This was tonight?” she asks.

~Yeah, they were an indie band who applied for a cover license. Venus-chan wanted to meet with them in person and she asked me to help sneak her in,~ you shrug.

“Remind me to ask you to show up to classes with me one morning as the beast,” Aiha laughs, “Maybe that will help me at school,”

~Hey, if it works,~ you share her laugh and then let your shoulders slump, ~anyway. I was eavesdropping on their conversation, do not tell Venus I was, and the guy’s story was familiar. It hit close to home,~

“Oh?”

~When everything happened, when I quit being Sailor Moon, I shut everyone out,~ you explain, ~Something happened to this guy that sounded way too much like what I did to all my friends back then. More than that, besides my family there was someone who wouldn’t let go of me,~

Arching your back, you stare at Aiha’s ceiling and groan. She moves from standing to sit on her bed beside her position, looking down at you as she gets comfortable.

~There was this boy,~ you begin and Aiha nods, though you can feel the tension, ~We had this thing, never really confessed or official, but it was probably going there. He tried to help me, but I shut him down hard every time and pushed him away. After Venus left with their nanny, I went back to the guy from the show and tried to pick a fight,~

“Because he reminded you of the guy you liked?” Aiha asks carefully.

~Yes. No. Maybe?~ you curl forward and clutch your head as Aiha lays down on her side, ~He reminded me of how I treated him. Then he goes and stands up to me, and that just pissed the beast off even more. First at him, then at herself. At me,~

>>40728184

“That’s sounds, concerning,” Aiha offers as she props hands beneath her chin, “Do you hate yourself?”

~A little,~ you offer quietly, ~I thought I was protecting the people I cared about from me. I thought I was a monster. I thought I didn’t deserve anyone caring,~

Uncurling, you again lean against the bed, and tilt your head far enough back and to the side to look at Aiha.

~And doing that hurt more people,~ you sigh, ~And I broke myself. I broke myself so hard that bringing the different parts of me home feels like it might as well be murder,~

“Have you forgiven yourself?” she asks softly, “For any of it?”

>Yes
>No
>I don’t want to
>I don’t deserve it
>its hard…
>Write in

“So,” she looks pensive for a moment and then resigns herself to asking the question, “

~Enough about that,~ you sigh heavily before spinning around on your knees and draping your arms up and across Aiha’s bed, ~What about you. Are you doing okay with your mom leaving, what about with your whole lesbian thing. I can probably point you at some good literature,~

“Self help and coping literature?” Aiha asks with a sudden perkiness and smile, “Because I was thinking about ordering some books on the subject and how to adapt and prepare for coming out, if I even do in junior high,”

~Err, no,~ you laugh nervously, ~I was going to suggest some manga I’d started reading about it,~

She stares at you, and laughs demurely herself.

“While probably self affirming,” Aiha reasons, “I doubt Shoujo-Ai books are what I need right now,”

~Well,~ you frown, ~It was just a suggestion,~

“And one I appreciate,” she rolls onto her back to look at the ceiling and lets her arms spread wide across her comforter, “I think, no, I know in all of this that I’m starting to have frustrations with men and how to deal with them,”

>>40728206

She pauses and raises her arms so they fall off the foot of her bed while she squirms a bit, more of a revulsed shiver.

“Well, not men,” she reasons in mild disgust, “I don’t think I really feel anything for or against men. I just can’t stand pervy boys,”

~Oh?~ you query.

“The way they talk about girls, the way they just think lewdly,” she grouses, “Not that I can blame them, argh. I almost want to join in on their conspiratorial conversations about which girls in my class are attractive but that would never fly,”

~This is becoming a bit contradictory,~ you observe.

“I guess it is,” she sighs, “Maybe I just don’t want to wind up as a target of unwanted desire from them. Maybe I’m looking at an excuse to hate boys because I’m starting to see them as competition,”

~Is there someone worth competing over?~

She doesn’t answer.

>Does Aiha have a crush? Is it you? Someone else? Press the issue
>Let it sit, Affirm Aiha that she’ll figure out what she needs to do
>That’s enough of this, time to sleep
>Talk about tomorrow's ghost hunting
>write

>>40728232
>its hard…
>Let it sit, Affirm Aiha that she’ll figure out what she needs to do

>>40728232
Where's Dan when you need him?

>>40728206
>I don’t want to
>its hard…

>Let it sit, Affirm Aiha that she’ll figure out what she needs to do

>>40728232
>its hard…
>Talk about tomorrow's ghost hunting

>>40728380
Oh man
Switching to Dan right now would be the weirdest thing for Aiha.

Let's do it

>>40728232
>its hard…
>Let it sit, Affirm Aiha that she’ll figure out what she needs to do

>>40728206
"One thing, the Big thing.. yes.. I'm just now recognizing the harm I did pushing people away."

>>40728232
It is fun to join in, I suppose..

>>40728232
>Press the issue

Wrting

~Its hard…~

“All the more reason to give it to yourself,” Aiha offers.

~I mean, I forgave myself for what happened that night,~ you grouse, ~but everything I did after I can barely stand,~

“Well,” she says unsteadily, “You didn’t really push me away, so I can’t really forgive you for anything. Has anyone forgiven you?”

~My whole family for one. Hell, Usa even apologized,~ you snort.

“What about,” she takes a moment to pause her query and then asks slowly, “that guy,”

It's the way she says it that strikes you, uneasily. She’s treading carefully, but curious all the same. You were really worried about Aiha being infatuated with you before, now you don’t care as much. There are plenty of people whose heads you can probably turn now, so let them fall for you. The way you feel now is probably because of Miki’s reintegration. That you can let yourself be loved, so let them have their feelings for you.

~No,~ you whisper, ~Though he’d probably forgive me in a second if I asked,~

~

~Okay, okay,~ you smile dismissively and pull your hair over your right shoulder and smile, ~No need to explain your competition goal. Just know, Aiha-chan, whatever you decide or feel you need to do I’m sure it’ll lead you to happiness,~

“Thank you, Mikage-chan,” she beams, “And I know you’ll get through your problems too, because we’re all here for you,”

~Ah, thanks kid,~ you reach up and ruffle her hair.

“Hey,” she weakly pushes your hand off of her head, “I’m not a *yawn* kid!”

~Sure,~ you shrug, ~I’m going to go get changed and then we can get to sleep. Busy day tomorrow,~

“Mhmm,” she smiles, “You, me, and Rin are going to go ghost hunting!”

You rise up and grab your bag before heading over to the bathroom to get changed into your triple comfy soft pajamas. It has been a monumentally interesting night, if incredibly long.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 87
End

Interlude Vote
Unfamiliar Ceiling
Welcome Embrace

>>40729986
>Welcome Embrace

Thanks Art
>Welcome Embrace

>>40729986
>Welcome Embrace

Thanks for the thread, Artemis.

Thank you for the thread /tg/

>>40729986
Unfamiliar Ceiling

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Not my best thread as far as update speed goes, sorry about that guys.

I hope you all had fun and was happy for the participation this thread.

See everyone next time!

>>40730378
Had fun here.
Went well with my catching updates speed this evening.

>>40729986
>Welcome Embrace

Well, we’ve been doing alright on the Guardian of Justice front, now it seems we’re starting to catch up on Guardian of Love.

>>40730538
We've been so busy fighting evil by moonlight that we need to win some love by day light.

Does this mean we need to interact with Yoshi under the auspices of getting his forgiveness for the way we treated him when we were completely broken?

Will this be a thing that is happening before it gets interrupted by spiders? Because if it happens at school then its going to be interrupted by spiders.

Spiders everywhere.

Even our lightning wounds.

>>40723195
Yeah, Sasha will probably not take that well. Especially if we open with "Hey, we have your dead sister's ghost"

>>40732028
I imagine he'll need to be brought into the process relatively early on.

>>40729986
>Unfamiliar Ceiling

>>40733063
We should talk to him tomorrow, before the ghost hunting. Explain about the magical powers and what not, but maybe not their source.

You know, I'm sitting here thinking, Sasha isn't very normal with all this surviving have Golden Crystal fragments in him, spirit link to his bear, and ghost girl hanging around.
With his interest in Magical Girls, I wonder if he'd start doing his own Tuxedo Mask thing on his own eventually.
That or more adventures of Tuxedo Bear

>>40735052
He already knows who we are, just look at the scene with him at the hospital. It's subtle, but he warns us to make sure Koyomi is more aware of when and who she cries neesan to.

>>40736551
All the more reason that he's an excellent candidate for a ghost friend.

>>40736673
I really hate having to chose between canidates, I can see alternate paths for both too though. Need to figure out which alternate paths are viable ones though.

Here is a valid question about current goings on.

We let someone who we didn't know too well in about our problems (Sasha) but are still in some kind of emotional standoff with Yoshi.

Do we still have feelings for Yoshi?

>>40736985
It is sometimes easier to open up to people that are not as close to our pain.

>>40737231
Probably right.

Anyone else looking forward to Saori shenanigans?

>>40739489
I just have her lumped in with 'school antics'.

Been thinking more about spending time with Diana, ghost hunting, and wondering how time with Tomoe will go.

>>40740772
Well, our next meeting with Tomoe Sensei is going to be, what? A social visit? A clinical examination (Christ that'll be physically uncomfortable for both her and Mikage)? Crystal Science Project?

>>40741358
Discussion of repairing crystal and meditation suggestions from Helios.
I think spending time learning the magic science around it would be very good.
Also, has us spending time with her and hopefully working things out with her more.
Really think we need to help get Mikage's head on straight as step one to getting the Crystal whole as well.

>>40741948
Don't forget talking about Venus' condition and what can be done for her.

>>40741981
Wonder what the fallout from our heal spell will turn out to be?

>>40743507
Hopefully? Remission.

Writing.

Dreams.

>>40744343
To sleep, perchance to dream?

You are curled across a marble floor, soft to your touch as you lay but to the tips of your fingers cold and hard. As they brush against this place, you stir and rise, pink tresses unbound flow behind you as the sheer fabrics of white and pink fall from you. In this material, billowing and long, you are enveloped. It trails behind you bound by gravity as you find footing and move, your hair flowing up and free as though a wind strong enough to lift you from the earth blows.

There is no wind, you notice. You feel no lift or pull upon your neck from the flowing and waving locks and tresses above and behind you.

Beneath you is marble, to your feet it is uneven and has give. To your eyes it is hard and sheen.

Moving forward, you see through the endless white. Shapes and colour take form as you move forward. A figure in black waits as void turns to stone, the empty white becomes a hewn and gray brick dungeon. Torches line the wall.

“Do whatever you like,” it says dispassionately as it is bound to the wall in chains, “I don’t much care,”

There is no face, only darkness. The leather binding arms flat across their chest is the same dark nothingness where the face is. White hair litters the ground, in shining lengths as tall as you. They too are taken up in the wake of your dress as you approach the figure and push such litter aside.

~I don’t have to,~ you say in apprehension and sadness, ~Like it, I mean. Any of it that happened then. Anything I’ve done or am going to do,~

“Should that matter?” there is blood upon their cheek, and your hand stings with a familiar sensation, “Can you do as you will without becoming mad?”

~I’m not mad,~ you admit as you place a hand atop the bindings across their chest, that hold them fast to the wall, you close your eyes and lean into them, ~At least I don’t mean to be,~

>>40746091
“You never meant to be what you were,” the voice consuming you in the darkness you welcomed says softly, “What do you mean to be now?”

~I don’t know,~ you sigh as your hands rise and find purchase upon bare shoulders, ~Someone who could be forgiven?~

“Do you think I could ever forgive her?” it says as you cry against a flat and masculine chest, “Your crime is the same? Where I him, I wouldn’t care,”

~You’re the same,~ you murmur as you crane your neck and lean up, ~You want to forgive her?~

“Does he want to forgive you?” he asks as your lips press into the cold ivory of the ivory skull you expect, “Are we the same as one another? Am I just a proxy of convenience? Do you feel guilty for awakening power within me, without explanation or cause, and stranding me without answer?”

~I don’t know,~ you ease back and try to rest your head against his chest again, ~I don’t know about any of it,~

There isn’t anything there anymore, you lean against not the strap and binding held chest of a human and rise from sleeping upon the smooth hard surface of an academic desk. The classroom is full around you, as you sit in the middle. No wall to your side as you are accustomed, no familiar faces that you can see. Nothing familiar.

With a start, you rise. Clad in dark blues that you find familiar. Whipping around, there was somebody sitting at the desk reading the whole time amid the faceless and unfamiliar class. They all turn to your sound, white empty things without feature. Only presence.

She sits there, eating her lunch slowly from an open bento. Her blue hair is a touch unkempt, and her eyes are oddly flat and without depth. Within her open box are cut and whole fruits. Strawberries, grapes, apples, pears, peaches, dragon fruit. In colors familiar and wrong. Seeped in slowly overflowing syrup and juice from both the lid and base of the box's surface.

>>40746119
Primly and with chopsticks, carefully holding a hand beneath them as they move to catch anything dripping, Aiha Mizuno eats slowly and deliberately of the sweet bounty as the slow flow of the juices and syrup spill across her lap and the floor as they reach the edge of the desk.

“Even if you wanted me to know,” she speaks at a different motion to her own lips, “Does it help you yet? Does it protect me or any of us one way or another if we know the one truth you still keep away from us?”

She wraps her tongue around the cut of pear between lacquered wood and slides her lips over it. You are transfixed at this as her scene slowly drifts away from you and the scrutiny of the surrounding presences increases.

“As much as you want to claim its for their own good,” there is a rusting as wading through the sea of syrup upon Aiha’s desk is a familiar woman with wavy and shoulder length red brown hair.

The miniature Kairi wears a familiar outfit, a terrible outfit. A long coat of velvet with sleeves too long, simple black slacks and a top hat upon her head. It is unstained by the clear and glistening much she wades through before she rests against the edge of the bento box and you are again close. Kneeling beside the desk to stare at the miniature girl as she reaches into the bento, bare feet kicking up in the air as she tips over the edge.

“Isn’t it more for your own good,” she says as she pulls a wedge of syrup soaked peach as wide as her reach from the depths of the box, “It's okay if it is. They’ll forgive you that. I’ll forgive you that,”

~I might not,~ calls a third voice both your own and foreign from over Aiha’s shoulder.

>>40746137
You are there, looking at yourself from the place at which you kneel beside Aiha’s desk. She hovers over Aiha’s shoulder dressed in the black gown and with her hair done up as you once had. Twintails snake around the classroom and bind the white presences in place, slowly dragging them to the ceiling and away from the rising tide of juices and sticky sweetness.

She pulls at the younger girl’s collar, exposing her neck and hovers there, mouth open.

~Though I can’t be counted on for much,~ she sighs and draws her fangs closer to Aiha’s neck, ~can you,~

She frowns as she pulls away from Aiha and you stand.

~She isn’t quite ripe yet,~ you observe as she nods, ~Not that it would really stop us,~

“What about this?” Kairi lifts the peach, Aiha nods and brings her chopsticks close to the miniscule girl.

Lifting her up, she rises from her desk and drifts through the syrup toward the door of the classroom. Your dark mirror follows.

~That will do quite nicely,~ she says as she takes the chopsticks from Aiha at the door of the classroom and holds the tiny Kairi and Peach above her open maw, ~You prepared it well, Kairi-chan,~

~That isn’t right!~ you cry out and fight against the sticky thick resistance to reach them.

“Its fine,” Kairi smiles as she sinks beneath your sight, blocked by your own pink tresses as seen ahead of you, “This is what you want isn’t it? All you need to do is ask,”

Aiha stands there, watching you sadly as you chase the other out the door. Passing through the frame, desperately trying to stop yourself from taking her whole and willing to your hungers, you find yourself somewhere else entirely.

>>40746165
She is reading in the chair, you can’t read the title but you see the two of you on the cover. She waits in a chair beside a bed, Kairi doesn’t pay you much mind as you stand there. You feel different, tired and older. Hair short and body clad in unfamiliar clothes, a suite? Someone you don’t recognize sits in a bed, soft beeps fill the room as something runs around her neck and down her nose. She’s tall, willowy, and young.

“I won’t let you keep doing it, you know,” she says weakly but with conviction.

There is a head in her lap, with long golden hair. She brushes it slowly. You think it's her hair, but it isn’t on the head on her shoulders.

“I shouldn’t benefit alone while others still suffer,” she is sad, “So, while I’m thankful for these years I shouldn’t have had...I don’t want you to give me more,”

~But you shouldn’t-~

“This was more than enough!” she shouts and Kairi looks up from her book, first to her and then to you.

Her words lift you up and hurl you against the wall. The room shatters, revealing a black space where there are jars filled with uncertain parts. They fall around you as you see her eyes and smile above you while you fall away. Blue eyes sparkle with joy and her smile couldn’t be bigger no matter how far away you fall.

The jars strike water beneath you, you hit the blue yourself and as you submerge you are young and your hair is long and unbound again. Floating in the warm sea naked, you see the things plummet around you as you fall toward the darkness.

Clawing for the surface, you watch the light of it fade further and further away. The light of that smile, a smile you tried to save. As the darkness takes you, the sea turns green. Space contracts as you bang against the glass around you. Bubbles rising as your arm burns.

>>40746188
Beyond the glass is a woods you’ve seen before. One of your arms burns in pain, and when you see it, it blackens and bubbles from inner heat. You watch as someone runs through the woods, tanned skin and blonde hair laughing as the sun itself gives chase. Happy and laughing together.

She and the sun are as bare as you. They stop to watch you, the sun is upset at the sight of you in beneath the glass and holds Midori back, stopping her from going to you.

The pained hand is without flesh. Ebony bone shatters along with the glass as you break free. The water rushes away and the forest washes away with it.

The sun drags the girl into the sky away from you, flying fast, fearful, and hard as you cough up sludge and hatred from within your lungs. With only one arm you cry out. You know no words, you scramble dumb to the last puddle of fluid, and see your reflection. Eyes stark red, hair midnight black. Face familiar and strange, but shrinking and far too young.

You cry, a naked babe alone within nothing else.

There is a start as you cradle the child to your chest, her arm restored and of pale flesh as you offer her love denied. You shush her cries, following an instinct and walk with the child toward the missing woods.

A bear blocks your path. It roars and lumbers to you, but your are unafraid.

It licks your face and shakes itself dry of the sea that took away the woods. Roaring again it pads about like a dog and lays upon a mossy floor.

“He doesn’t know any better,” a voice scoffs from the far side of the bear, “He still likes you,”

Walking around the ever longer wall of fur, you follow the voice. Around the bend you wind him sitting against the wall that is also a bear, short blonde hair and deep brown skin. A broken handlebar in his hands.

~Do you still like me?~

“Don’t you know how you feel?” he snaps, “How can you know what I feel,”

>>40746220
~I wanted you to think I was strong,~ you admit, ~I wanted to show you I didn’t have limits,~

“And what am I supposed to do with that,” he groans and hops to his feet, “Relish the chance to fight someone who I might not be able to beat? Fight without rules because you aren’t bound by any?”

~We can fight however you want to,~ you admit and set the baby down amid the soft and warm fur, where it gurgles and laughs, ~I’ll be as challenging as I want to be. I’ll destroy you,~

“I’ll fight you on that,” he smiles and reaches up toward the now clearing sky, towards the stars, “Don’t you want to know what happened to me?”

He takes off the jacket, and there are marks across his back. Claws, bleeding with dark ichor. The tower bathed in strange light forms around you, the light beyond as all the versions of yourself you don’t remember step out of the dark.

~What was that?~

They vanish. He vanishes. The scene shifts as the circuitry forms beneath your feet in gold. Golden metal that saps the strength of your magic at the touch. Moving from its way, you watch the equation form. The fight long passed replays around you. Friends and enemies you may never see again from distances unknown. Faces that you know, but are ciphers to the specifics of your memory. A rotting corpse looms over you, over the fray.

“Was it worth it?” the hooded mass asks without inflection or emotion, “To preserve what was?”

The circuitry glows hot.

“Instead of stopping me,” it sighs, “You could have taken it. You could have had anything. Changed everything,”

~Not for the cost you were willing to pay,~ you tell it defiantly and turning away.

You walk away. Parting ways with those you both met and did not meet. Some you’ll see again on shelves and across pages, others will be cipher to your future. They were friends.

>>40746241
The cherry road is bare and empty. Crossing it back home, you wonder what lies ahead. Time twists around you as a river interrupted, and you fall upon a frozen earth again taking motion.

There, among the world in motion is the man in black. The Jewel Thief. He has what is yours, your think. Should he be one of your own?

“Do you oppose me?” he asks with the crystal in hand.

~I rule you,~

“That remains to be seen. You rule nothing. This is no age of kings,” he scoffs.

~Then it will be an age of gods,~ you declare as you feel the belief and the fear take you.

A city’s belief. A world’s fear. Collapsing upon you and subsuming your soul. The city breaks around your ethereal weight. He stands fast as the ground beneath him vanishes.

“No gods, no kings,” he says sadly, “It should have been different,”

Hands reach across you and pull you away. You fall. You plummet again. You scream.

Everything screams as they hold you fast and tight. Trying to find uncertain purchase. Everyone pulls at you as you grasp for the emptiness above you. Every direction pulls and grabs at you.

When you land, the crystals are everywhere. A palace, a city. You walk through it, it's warm.

She is there, suspended before you beneath their sheen. Young forever, watching. This is her purpose, this is her fate. This is fine. Everything is fine. Her golden hair falls to either side. White gown stained with blood.

Why are you holding the knife?

With a start you awaken. The last vestiges of a strange dream fleeing at the edge of your memory. Nothing makes any sense as it becomes a numb spot on your memory. However this world come back into focus, something fell on you, hard. She is still asleep, having rolled off the bed beside and above the floor mat you slept on last night and on top of you.

A new days begins.

As these dreams are eclipsed by the waking world.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Dreams
~fin

Consider this extended dream sequence a confusing apology for yesterday's slow update speed.

Also, for something to pick apart, read too much into, read not enough into, and etc etc.

>>40746939
Thanks again Artemis.

I prefer to skim through it and then act surprised when things foreshadowed in it come to bite us later.

>>40746939
>read too much into, read not enough into

You son of a bitch. I had other things to do, but now I'm going to be mulling that over all night as I try to analyze every last word.

Thanks for running.

>>40747208
Truly I am a vampire of your free time.

>>40747208
I second the motion.

>>40748283
>>40747208
I look forward to your interpretations and findings.

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I have been thinking that we should just tell the young Senshi about being Eclipse.

I mean, they basically already know.

>>40749900
Rin - Knows, blatantly.
Aiha - Suspects, strongly
Kanari - Would bet her life on it
Venus - she has to know more than she's letting on
Koyomi - Cannot fathom it

>>40749900
I had planned on telling Aiha after chatting about Red Eyes and stuff, but plans went askew on that front.

>>40750168
Exactly.

Also, on the same train of thought:
>>40746137
>“Even if you wanted me to know,” she speaks at a different motion to her own lips, “Does it help you yet? Does it protect me or any of us one way or another if we know the one truth you still keep away from us?”

I can’t speak for everyone, but I never thought it was about protecting the kids.

It was always about protecting Mikage.

>>40750915
Micro Kairi says as much right after.

>>40750788
Strange, I was thinking the same thing.

Kind of ironic that Aiha could’ve gotten an answer to her question if she’d just waited.

>>40750915
It was about Mikage shielding herself so she help them more freely without her baggage.

After picking up some power, it was also to try and hide how much power we had from them and our/their parents in the event of Rin's Bad End happening and needing an ace in the hole. That was the protecting them part.
With the original senshi off-world now, we don't have to worry so much about that leaking to them now.

>>40751519
Okay that's one part of the dream.

What about miss head in lap?

>>40751332
And thus, character motivations and timing continue on in flow and in turn affect they way we react or act.

>>40752147
That one is sad.
We need to grow stronger.

>>40750915
>It was always about protecting Mikage.
No, I don't think so. There's certainly an element of that, but insulating her from what she was doing was necessary to get her back on the horse, and getting her back in action has already averted at least one probable tragedy, so...

But I think keeping Eclipse a secret is important. We've worn him a few times, but he's not a persona, exactly.

I thought this was interesting
>The scene shifts as the circuitry forms beneath your feet in gold. Golden metal that saps the strength of your magic at the touch. Moving from its way, you watch the equation form. The fight long passed replays around you. Friends and enemies you may never see again from distances unknown. Faces that you know, but are ciphers to the specifics of your memory.

>>40755523
Our missing time after the thread with the omega number/zalgontext?

>>40752457
Is greater strength really the solution to that?

>>40756639
Who would you replace from our cast for this song? Relevant on the subject of strength.

>www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFctQMCs3k4

I replaced the m with www, that's how you change links to the mobile site, right?

>>40757234
I mean, just to confirm, it still links to strong in the real way?

>>40756639
Greater ability, more skill, increased options.
After this, I am decided on putting our mythic feat toward crafting.
I was thinking on it before more for dealing with our Crystal and such, but if there is a possible future where we can't get completely deal with it and she feels we spend too much of our time, we shall make something that can do it for us while we strive to become better.

>>40757417
yes, it does.

Think I preferred www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5i-sbh7UCw

Especially with Lapis recent callback

>>40757799
Just... don't skip leg day.

>The scene shifts as the circuitry forms beneath your feet in gold. Golden metal that saps the strength of your magic at the touch.
Can't always count on magic to bail us out.

>>40757837
A fair point.

>>40757799
I do remember it once being suggested that we should put skill points into Silver Millennium tech.

>>40757837
Is Mikage in the Lapis position of putting too much on herself?

>>40759139
I don't think so. In the past, maybe, but not now. We've tried, very deliberately, to leave the problems that should be in the hands of the scouts, in the hands of the scouts.

>>40757882
Well, we have plenty of hard striking precision damage.

>>40758084
Something along those lines couldn't hurt either. If alt-future Serenity can leverage enough magic/science to restore some of humanity and eliminate death, we should be able to figure something out.

>>40763390
Instead of becoming absolute queen of earth, what about a super magitech constitutional monarchy?

>>40765211
I'm ok with this.

>>40765211
Can't speak for anyone else, but I got no plans to take over.

Would be sweet if we could just get a normal week to have a normal life again, but ghost-hunting is fine too, I guess.

>>40766302
I think a Normal Week is a wonderful place to start season 2, frankly.

Normal week sounds good.

>>40759139
>>40758084
>>40755523

That said, all of this is a great argument for splitting off Eclipse into his own personality.

As crazy as it sounds, him being autonomous would solve a lot of these problems.

And we wouldn't be lying, *we* wouldn't be eclipse.

>>40767888
I think we're closer to coming out as Eclipse. We're just looking for the right time.
Coming out is hard, even when people pretty much know.

>>40767957
Huh, that sounds familiar.

Aiha is going to be so angry

>>40768000
Mikage, inspires rage.

>>40768000
Hey, we didn't lie. And she asked the inappropriate thing.

>>40767957
I can imagine Kanari's reaction now. She will be electrical euphoria.

>>40760295
Will it be those young scouts who saw the day during school shenanigans?

>>40769739
She so certain about it that I would love to mess with her some illusions or something to see us both at the same time.

>>40771154
That's cruel. Hilariously cruel.

>>40771154
That would be quite the feat. Are you sure you want to pursue it?

>>40771154
>>40772259
Huh, just occured to me that we should work on prepping something like that anyway. Not for lil' Jupiter specifically, more just a visible incident at some point make it harder to connect Eclipse and Mikage.
It is a classic Batman move, afterall.

If somehow the timing was such that she saw it and didn't know it was a trick, well that would just be a bonus.. particularly if by that point everyone else on the team actually knew.

>>40773061
Who's our Alfred in this idea?
Midori has Jadeite, so there's a likely canidate there.

>>40775778
One idea would have been to have Dan turn into Eclipse but I am pretty sure Rin already knows that he is Mikage.

>>40776244
Don't need to get it too complicated.
Main thoughts are on whether it should be just an illusionary image, or have Jadite go master of disguise as us. While more interactive, the chance of hijinks happening increases exponentially.

>>40776567
The problem with that idea is that Midori does not have Conceal Thoughts as a protective measure. Even Jadite's powers of deception are useless against telepaths like Aiha.

>>40776681
Well, at least nearby Aiha.

>>40776681
Well, we can cast Conceal Thoughts on others. Not detecting anything is likely similar to nothing being there though.
And we aren't really trying to hide from Aiha at this point.

>>40778529
We'll need to hide from the bad guy's inspection soon enough.

>>40778566
fortunately, our split personality, in conjunction with natural telepathy seems to serve exactly that purpose.

>>40772259
Well, the obvious thing is, we're gonna need a guy to play the part.

And ideally it needs to be someone who can actually take care of themselves.

>>40778797
Who do we get to moonlight as Eclipse? At least, who believably?

>>40778815
>>40778797
I think Alter Self was one of Jadeite's spells, so being a guy can be arranged too..

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>>40778852
Down that way lies Madness; not that there isn't precedent.

>>40778852
But Jadeite is with Kairi now, so does that mean it'll be on her spell list eventually?

>>40778969
Well, Kairi was the Beast, and that didn't work out so hot.

so, no, we're not repeating that particular fuckup.

>>40779050
Kairi was the Beast?

>>40779098
>>40779050
Oh yeah, to fake out giant mostly naked gator party girl.

>>40779050
I think you are missing the point of the impliction here >>40778969

>>40776244
Plus, Dan as Eclipse probably wouldn't get a lot done.

>>40779595
I'm too amused by that to form cogent thought.

>>40779595
the slacker brother

>>40780813
makes sense, Mikage is so busy that she can't sit still.

Seriously do you see how many hours of things she packs into a day. Gotta be exhausting

>>40780916
I think Dan would go mad if we actually started not-sleeping to get more done during the day.

>>40781516
Yeah. Mikage needs her rest.

>>40781751
Sleep is for the sleepy.

Yawn.

Couple we use another Divine Source to select a planar domain?

http://dndtools.pw/spells/domains/elysium/

>>40782918
I think Divine source taken again doesn't give two? Someone link the prd!

Though D&D Elysium is different from our Elysion, how would it work thematically?

>>40784344
Normally the additional time around gives another domain and a couple sub-domains. But sub-domains are just a PF thing, and Planar domains are just a little used 3.x thing, so interactions are fuzzy.

Now that I think of it, on the sub-domains, would that be the whole set or only the substitutions themselves added in?

Looks like the planar one might not be a bad set, though we may not know enough to say it would work out.

Making me read rules and junk. Are you guys suddenly my Friday night group? Hold on a second.

A planar domain takes the place of both domains gained by a cleric.

Each additional time you take Divine Source, you can add a domain or two sub domains.

Now, right off the bat I have to say nay. And not because of the granted powers (which you don't get) but because a domain worth two domains with a massive spells granted list will be a no go for you guys. As fast and lose as I play with these rules, te substitution is not balanced.

Sorry.

>>40782841
Bunnies are made of energy!

Yawn

Bunnies don't need sle-

Zzzzzzz

>>40785539
I was thinking more along the lines that one helping normally gives 2 domains, and the second gives 3 (though two have to be related).
Though more a thought about what an Elysium domain might be like.

>>40786999
An interesting concern

>>40785539
>Each additional time you take Divine Source, you can add a domain or two sub domains.
"And", not "or", on that one.

Frankly, I'm still terrified of the implications one of the natural choices for subdomain brings to mind.

>>40790800
Yes? Go on? What's the natural choice?

>>40784344
Presumably it'd be Crystal Tokyo. adrift in time and space, but still intimately connected with here and now.

>>40793802
An early suggestion for Divine Source was the Resurrection domain, which is a subdomain for Pathfinder so Healing had to come first.
I don't believe we had realized at the time that the tier boosting feat applied to that too. At least I hadn't.
The ability to bring people back to life who had been dead for years seemed like a thing for some far off future Mikage.

>>40793866
So we would make our domain a kingdom that might not even come to pass?

>>40795809
It is the Kingdom that was on Earth and lives on in the dreams of mankind.

>>40796717
So you want to build a dream crystal tokyo and implant it into the collective dreams of mankind like the memory of Elysion?

>>40796835
No?

>>40796980
I don't even know where this conversation has gone.

>>40795809
It's a paradox plane, because if it doesn't come to pass, we can't exist.

But the impossible is magic's bread and butter - anything else is just inadequately explained science.

>>40797871
Wait, but we already exist even without Crystal Tokyo coming to pass?

Or is it we can't exist without Elysion having existed?

>>40797897
Theoretically, Crystal Tokyo still exists as a potential future and possibly as something more because it's magic and magic is capable of telling causality to get to fuck.

>>40798389
Magic and causality do make for strange bedfellows.

>>40797871
Kinda hoping we don't have to attempt the impossible soon. Imagine if we ended things on a series 1 style reset?

>>40799202
We shall accomplish the impossible by diverting such harsh ends to the season.
This is my mission.

Full disclosure, I have several different end game scenarios. Good, Bad, Ugly, Neutral, and Best.

A reset end was considered, but is too full of fuckery as far as timing, events, and causality is concerned.

>>40801683
Would it be possible, if we ever get to that point, to 'go back' and try to get a different ending?

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>>40802861
You will have to lay in the bed you make.

Pluto's intervention potentially considered

>>40803268
Have we ruled ourselves out of any particular ending so far or is that too much info?

>>40803408
You have ruled out a few of the worst endings, and there is something you can do freely at this point which can drastically alter the ending scenario.

>>40803435
Great, now I'm going to be sitting here trying to think of what we can do freely.
Most I can think of are who we talk to about what and when.

Note that he said drastically, not whether it was good or bad, nor whether it was doing it or not doin it that causes the difference.

>>40803699
Seems pretty likely that it's the gem that Kal gave us.

>>40803748
He didn't so much give you a gem as much as give you a stable mass of harvested emotion turned to shadow. He kept the gem used to focus it.

>>40797350
What if it looped back around and was somehow back to where it started?

>>40807127
Then I'd start discussing food.

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>>40807607

>>40807127
That's usually the point at which it turns out that you're not really back where you started because you remember how things turned out last time and then it turns out to be some kind of mental attack,

>>40808496
That doesn't seem like the MO of any of the baddies introduced so far, so maybe a specific monster of the week? Wait. What things have they done so far.

Okay, so that's a plausible scenario. More terrifying if they know enough about us to craft such a deception.

>>40803748
Eh, that seems like less of an anytime.
Could be referring to the Locate Node spell we've been sitting on the entire game.
Source of power and the time we stumble onto one the enemy was already entrenched there.
We really should be stepping up our game there.

>>40795122
You need some serious zen or pragmatism to handle that sort of power.

So. Thinking about next thread on Saturday or Sunday?

>>40809555
>>40803748
>>40804883
>>40803699
Won't it be fun finding out what.

>>40810428
Something Mikage might lack at the moment.

>>40810513
>Something Mikage might lack at the moment.
Aye. Feeling like we have a growing list of things to take later on, but no clear winner on what to take next.

>>40810637
For when next Mikage wakes, she'll have a ghost hunt with a psychic and a priestess.

>>40810672
Should be interesting to have an adventure as just Mikage.

>>40813679
Ghost Adventure!

>>40810637
Maybe Impossible Speed or Shatter Spells?
Shatter Spells could be more useful, but Impossible speed just seems fun to have.

>>40815517
Why go Impossible Speed when we can fly at 240 ft per round in atmosphere with Star Walker, an that is only a fringe benefit.

>>40815614
Can we do that while in combat, though?

>>40815614
Can't select that until tier 6, so we still have to decide what we want to take the mythic tier before that.

>>40816034
Well, what's good. Spell shatter seems nice

>>40815517
>>40815614
Why not Eldritch Flight?

Only 60 ft. per round, but at tier 6 (Which we sort of are) we can fly at will without Star Walker’s two mythic power activation cost. Also, we can get it next tier, unlike Star Walker.

Though, I will support anything that would let Eclipse make an entrance by slowly floating to the ground standing upright with arms folded.

>>40816949
I'm pretty sure dad has the Gliding one, combined with jump that could be sweet.

>>40817070
True.

I just think At-will flight would be awesome and useful.

>>40817164
Also probably fun. Keiko can't hold her abilities over us forever!

A question was brought up in spooky about how many feMCs paint their nails.

Does Mikage? Seems like something she would have done in middle school (and as Sailor Moon during transformation), something she probably does as part of her Miki guise, but not something the great and reclusive Princess No would partake of, or Mimi, or the Beast.

What color should Mikage paint her nails as herself if she were to paint her nails?

>>40818016
Considering the tendance to color coordinate, I'm thinking a dark glaze. Like the clear coat stuff with a bit of a darker color mixed in, such that you have a semi-transparent paint you can see the natural nail through, but adds some color.

I dunno. flying seems kinda anti-earth, somehow.

Also, city of heroes taught me that super speed is way more fun than flight.

>>40817917
Practical for day-to-day use at home as well. Never have difficulty reaching the top shelf again!

>>40819135
Should it be a transparent pink for hair or red for eyes?

>>40819187
The earth flies, kinda. All planets fly.

That is a poor analogy, really they orbit suspended in a pattern by gravity.

>>40819187
Nah man, if CoH taught me anything it was that leaping is awesome.

>>40819520
Drawn between redish pink and black myself.

>>40819647
Why black? What message does that send, especially if we're trying to ditch the crazy loner thing?

>>40819685
Translucent black glaze would just look nice. Not talking solid black or goth style.
With the natural pink underneath I think it would be a nice look.
On a similar note, I'd say red like the eyes over pink like the hair since the natural pink will be softening it.

>>40820086
We should plan Mikage's general makeup load out for casual and formal things now that she's going to be working on re-socializing herself.

>>40820390
Thinking clear coat initially at school, clear red for out with friends, clear black for dressing up.

Heh. Make up

>>40820558
Well, not just nails. Makeup in general. Blush. Eyeshadow. Foundation. Etc

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>>40815517
>>40816949
I might suggest Archmage's Crafting Mastery, Combined with the Mythic Craft Wonderous feat (which I imagine is the right category) we have amazing ability to work and rework magic items, which isn't just helpful to ourself and girls we might want to give a healing item too, this is useful to the whole team, both ours and the senshi team. Particularly our knights, since they are largely magic item powered as it is.

Thinking about it, the enemy may have similar, or a stockpile of old kingdom magic items. Jewel Thief's extra power seemed to be magic item based, and Kalunite was using a crystal as well.

If you can, magic items, or Millennium tech, are a great way to outfit people, and the PF version doesn't do experience drain.

Elemental Bond could be neat too.
Wonder if Artemis would allow a Shadow variant, though we might be investing too heavily in Shadow by that point.

>>40821968
What kind of magic items should we make?

Something to help us fly to avoid taking up other resources?

>>40826334
Flight item with Keiko's assistance.
Heal item for Venus.
Various useful items and a belt to store these items of utility.
See what upgrades we can work for our knights.
If we can, work with Artemis and Luna to make useful items for the scouts and possibly future upgrade bits.

>>40826422
Actually, not sure we would require others for stuff done with the just the power spending. Though with the path ability doing it properly could go much faster.
Curious how costs might apply, and if this is the right tree to bark up since most work from our Mau friends often seems to be either hi-tech or magitech.

>>40821968
Being completely honest, like half of the things in that image are sex toys.

>>40826667
More than half by far so if you account for bloodplay with the sword. The masks as marital aids, utilizing the earrings for-

I'm going to stop talking now,

>>40826422
>>40826635
>>40821968
Putting this out there. Magic Item creation takes extensive time. Can we really afford to spend so much time hunkered down in a lab?

Do I need to remind everyone about what happened in Peter Parker Quest? I don't need to remind Artemis, he's a fan of Cosgrove's.

>>40826837
Pathfinder is a bit friendlier with it, and with the Path/Feat combo we can either get work done very fast, or in the regular timeframe with no effort except for a planet power each day.

>>40826925
And that's raw magic items.
Kinda hoping simpler stuff we can work with the cats and serve as more of a force multiplier for their own Millenium tech work.

>>40826925
How quick?

>>40828129
Assuming standard values?
If we wanted to make something like an amulet of mighty fists +2 for a certain someone, 16 days with just Planet Power, 5-6 days if we put 8 hours in and make the check each day.
Though we do have the x-factor of how costs would be handled.

>>40828630
Obviously we'd need things that fit in thematically, and no telling what the conversion rates might be, and there"s some sort of optional downtime system with different math too.
I like to vague things up to give more wiggle to the runner.

>>40828630
That is a significant time investment.

>>40832498
With school we'd wouldn't be putting in the 8 hours most days anyway.
I'd call two weeks with no daily time investment really good.
That was also an example of something that would take a bit. Minor items and improvements would only take a day or two of no effort.

But in the long run, a couple big projects could have big impact on things. Sure it isn't a short term solution, but neither is Longevity, which I would also push for as a later tier selection (if tech secrets of Crystal Tokyo/Millenium Kingdom don't cover that.)

Well, if it is tech we might not need a feat or path at all, unless using ones from some modern and future settings.

>>40833600
yeah, but look at what can happen in an in game day. Look at how much stuff happens in an in game day.

>>40826800
>>40821968
>>40826667
Now I both want and don't want such a doujin to exist.

>>40836841
Downtime may happen, and even if not, it is not wise to focus on the now and ignore the future.

>>40838638
I'd be willing to bet it already does, but don't wish to investigate.

Shiny Makeup needs a lab to make, but beware the time it can take. I'll play a little loose with item creation once I figure things out from a magi tech perspective if you guys want to do that.


Which means I gotta read more rules

The Futures that Dreams can bring..

>>40842829
If they are to be sweet ventures or unrepentant nightmares.

>>40842829
fleeting tomorrows with each closed eyelid.

>>40842829
..the side effects of psychics sleeping on another.

I wonder how blue's dreams went.

>>40847252
Full of weird feedback, at one point eating lunch in her class room and having a different conversation with a Mikage whose lips didn't match the sounds she was hearing.

At least, that was one part. Other things happened.

>>40848590
Wait, did she see us having an argument with the other Mikage?

I'm kind of intrigued, we should share dreams more often if that's the case.

>>40848621
It was described that there was a weird disconnect between Aiha's words and her mouth. Maybe she got the same or similar visuals but in a different context and the same for us.

>>40848708
I have to commend Artemis on his attention to detail.

>>40850101
Despite being a hack, I enjoy being particularly dense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34

>>40850101
did either of those anons who were going to comb that dream ever post their overall breakdowns/findings?

>>40850729
Think there was some chatter along those lines.
Seemed fairly clear to me though.

>>40850729
Let's see..
>>40746091
Not entirely certain on the opening imagery, dream-like certainly though now I wonder if the uneven terrain is feedback from Ahia's.
The Damned/Yoshi with his feelings and ours imprisoned, talking about things Mikage does't know yet. Not positive on the consuming darkness that was welcomed, could be Mikage's depression/despair she had surrendered herself to following Magician's defeat, might be Metallia.

Dark blue is Aiha's school colors, and the one we wear as the Beast. Facelessness of others might be because we don't know them so they aren't visible in this vision, probably visible in Aiha's version.
Presumably questioning us about Eclipse. Along with some increasingly distrubing imagery and overflowing PEACHES, hunger/feeding of such grown too much.

Next up is the gut punch of a future where we seem to have aided Venus alone, without complete success. Also we seem to be the Uranus of the relationship with an unemotional Kairi (book possible u-boat operations manual), perhaps an outgrowth of devouring her and keeping the hunger going.
Older Venus (with maniquin head and wig of her lost hair in lap), who likely is visible because we know her even if we don't recognize this version, seems upset with the amount on attention she has been receiving, possibly to the exclusion of others. May indicate what we have at our disposal has not been enough, and perhaps it becomes less effective and/or that we haven't been sharing with others and that is part of her anger- which if this is the future where we would devour Kairi and leave her emotionless, it certainly seems like one where we would be selfish enough not to share healing more widely. (Think we should add hitting a hospital each night we haven't used Heal elsewhere to our activities).

Next up is the suicide forest and sea from Midori's dreams with her and Keiko frolicking. Not sure where the jars come from.
cont

>>40854393
We burn from the inner corruption and resultant negative emotions. Our wounds and condition mirroring our grandmother at the moment. (Enough so that I wonder if we are sharing a perception with her at the sight of the face in the puddle).


Further continuation after breakfast.

>>40854395
Thought that was supposed to evoke clone earth queen in a tube.

>>40855153
That's our grandmother, metaphysically speaking.

>>40855290
Oh yeah.

As you post about the dreams, please sage your posts that we can start the new thread after this falls off board.

>>40854395
Let's see if I can pick my train of thought up where I left off. At least I'm getting some quest thought in before work.

Next we have a perspective shift of us comforting the corrupted child of the previous perspective, who becomes a baby at some point (rebirth?). Then we meet Boris, who is still our friend, and a prelude to Sasha's concerns.

Then a flash of the tower, the the visions seen there, and what I imagine are hints about the big sidequest we went on.

Then we meet Hiddenite, presumably with the Golden Crystal and an interesting bit of interaction.

Then, what? Crystal Tokyo? Queen Neo-Serenity encased in crystal and watching? Someone else?
Why are we holding the knife?

And awake again. We should ruffle Aiha's hair.
After I typed that I realized it might resemble her hair in the dream. Hrm.

>>40855333
16 more to auto-sage too.

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>>40855464
>We should ruffle Aiha's hair.

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>>40855700
Ruffling is good.

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>>40854393
>Think we should add hitting a hospital each night we haven't used Heal elsewhere to our activities).
Sounds like a nice plan now that we know of the power in-character.

Might want to consult with Hotaru to get pointed toward the most in-need cases.

>>40855700
>>40855729
Great.
Now I'm picturing Tennant with blue hair.
Or Aiha with Tennant hair.

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>>40855939
Stranger things have happened.

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>>40855939
Stuff like that makes me wonder if Pluto needs a blue-haired sidekick.

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>>40855939
This is kinda ruffled.

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>>40856042
More Sherlock ruffled than Tennant.

>>40856066
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>>40855900
Excellent, more Hotaru interaction opportunities!
And helping people, helping people is important too.
But what form do we take for this?

Nurse/doctor? Eclipse? Princely? Ghost of the Third Sailor Moon?

Let's see, what kind of to do list do we have today?

>>40856468
Kicking things off: Ghost Hunt with Rin and Aiha, likely to transition to meeting with Sasha and discussing things with him.

>>40856435
We go in with the same "remove our face from memory" mojo that we used at the concert.

>>40856485
Past that is the to-do backlog.

Spend time with Usa and Big Di before they leave.
Spend more time with Lil Di.
Talk to Helios about Black Clan alternates dreaming of a distant future that isn't.
Talk to Hotaru about crystals, meditation, Venus, and now patient healings.
Talk to Naru about concerns about a breech in PIT with the lack of response to Magician's lair being accessed until we called.
Meditating and trying to sort ourself out, and looking for any traces of Metallia .
Locating and securing Earth Nodes. Likely held by the Enemy.

>>40856501
We do that anytime we're in costume.
Going as a doctor would give a nice boost to medical knowledge and be relatively low-key up until curiosity stirs up regarding mystery healings. Then we'll have to rely on our other forms more.
Or we can roll as Eclipse or Prince of Elysium mode when appearing to heal to keep scrutiny off random hospital workers we'll be sneaking around as.

Or just keep rolling roadie style and see how out of sight we can be.

300
And time for work. Have a good one folks, hope to catch the thread later.

>>40856594
A "faceless" girl roaming the hospital not dressed as a doctor or nurse giving out Dr. Saturn approved heals seems to be the more fun route. The resulting ghost stories seem to be a fair tradeoff.

>>40856594
Prince(ss?) of Elysium mode for hospital healing time sounds good to me.

Doubly so if we get the Resurrection Subdomain.

Vacuuming now. Will finish and post OP once I'm done cleaning if this has fallen off board by then