Oh good, I was just about to wish to be the little girl. Glad to see you're ahead of me on that. Carry on.

Approach!

ADVENTUREEEEEEE

Is George a big grizzly or a stuffed bear. What powers does imagination have?

George is a polar bear, with slightly rounder edges than an ordinary one. He has spoken to you exactly once, to apologize for being banished by Mallory during your battle with her. Other than that, his willingness to obey you, and your ability to summon him (along with anything), he is a normal bear.

>Imagination allows you to summon things, mostly friends. You have a limited supply, but it replenishes if you banish a thing you have summoned. If something you have summoned is destroyed, it does not come back for some time, and the imagination spent on it is temporarily unavailable.

>Updating.

You stay on your current course, heading towards the border between the two castles. Once you are flying over the border, you bring the balloon lower for a better look. The two different styles of wall butt up against each other, sometimes pressed together, sometimes merging but always irregularly. In a few places, small misshapen wall offshoots trail off into empty space.

Mallory looks uncomfortable. When she sees that you notice this, she quickly hides her expression.


>Vote ends at a solid consensus, in 10 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>>14987722

Ask Mallory if she knows about this place.

>>14987740
"I've never seen anything like it."

>Vote continues.

>>14987769

Find a nice place to land around the tower castle grounds and look around for any people or anything of interest.

>>14987780
You hover around, unsure of which castle to land in. The one to your left is carved from the bare rock of the mountain on which it sits, and the one on your right is flat and immaculately landscaped.

>Vote continues.

You steer your balloon to the right, quickly finding a large, flat grassy area free of obstacles to land on. Your balloon collapses to the ground as you and Mallory exit, vanishing by the time you look back at it. You can always make a new one, but for now you don't need it.

You take a brief walk along a cobblestone road crisscrossing the walled in area. After a short time, you find yourself at a small stone building guarded by a suit of armor. It moves slightly to stand at attention, and then remains perfectly still.

>Educated guess on which castle you meant.
>Vote ends at a solid consensus, in 10 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>>14987937
"Hello, does anyone happen to live here?"

The suit of armor turns its helmet to look at you with a grating noise, but is otherwise silent.

"I do."

The voice comes from inside of the small building. The door opens. Inside, you can see a the edge of a workbench, some scattered tools and scrap wood, and a young girl who approaches and smiles, about to greet you. When she sees Mallory, her expression changes.

"You travel with HER? And you would bring her HERE, of all places?"

>Vote ends at a solid consensus, in 10 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>>14988036
>"You know Mallory?"
>Glance between the two girls "This is all terribly confusing, would anyone mind telling me what exactly is going on? Or perhaps where exactly 'Here' is?"

"I can sense what she is. This is a refuge against evil. She has no place here."

Mallory is behind you now, letting you stand between her and the stranger.

"Stand aside. You're welcome here, and we don't need to be enemies."

Inside of the workshop, you hear the sound of wood being scraped against stone.

>Vote ends at a solid consensus, in 10 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>>14988121
>Turn my back to the new girl, to face Mallory; "Ev..il? Mallory, do you.. what is she saying?"

>Hold out a hand towards the new girl glancing back "Surely you can't want to harm her?"

Mallory shakes her head. "I don't know what she's talking about... I'm scared."

The stranger looks concerned. "Surely you can't want to defend her? She is a creature of pure destruction... you only survive because she is not powerful enough to defeat you."

There is one suit of armor. Now you can't quite focus your eyes on it. You look away. There are three suits of armor. The door of the workshop opens again. Two simple wooden mannikins walk out. One is in the process of attaching its leg to its body.

>Vote ends at a solid consensus, in 10 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>Next vote gets it.

>>14988474
>Imagine a blanket of fog, to cover everyone's vision
>"Mallory, RUN!"
>Also, make a run for it, like hell

>Updating.

rolled 55 = 55

To battle stations!

...
actually, I dont know
Can we talk this over?

I mean if she is good, why is she attacking unprovoked?

"Mallory, RUN!"

After summoning your fog wall, you heed your own advice, only to find that the landscape around you has changed. Walls have sprang up around you, and are still slowly rising, though they are grinding to a halt.

You glance behind you. The girl is holding a sword and a shield in her hands now. Both of them reflect the sunlight.

>Imagination: 20/70. This is enough to summon George, or roughly one George worth of other things. Willpower: 30/30. Move: 3
>Wisp Stats: move: 0 range: 4 damage: 1 power: 5

>Voting:
>Discuss all you like.
>Greentext a specific, concise version of your plan if making a new proposal.
>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>Combat specifics:
>Opposed rolls are stat+d10 vs stat+d10. Ties go to the attacker.
>All characters may move and attack. Moving into hexes in melee range of an enemy costs double.
>Characters with a power stat may attack enemies in range using an opposed power roll.
>Instead of attacking, you may believe. Choose a friendly character and spend willpower to alter its stats until the end of the turn.
>Instead of attacking, you may roll to disbelieve. Choose an enemy character and spend willpower to make an opposed roll using the amount you spent against its power.
>Auras around their units represent their attack range.
>You have a default Power: 1 Damage: 1 Range: 1 innate attack, but none of these stats.

>>14988705
>Re-imagine George
>Step back to Mallory and whisper "You have to believe in George, he'll protect us!"
>Top two wisp vs Top Knight
>3rd & 4th wisp vs Bottom Knight
>5th wisp out of range.

>Updating.

George appears in front of you, standing on his hind legs.

"You have to believe in George, he'll protect us!"
Mallory cries out "I will, but... I don't know if I can help!"

The fog swirls around the empty knights, but they swing their swords and trudge forward, clearing themselves a small area. The wooden men stumble about, limbs flopping unnaturally.

From the middle of the fog, the stranger calls out to you. "Surrender! I don't want to fight, but you leave me no choice!"

>Update continues.

The empty knights move through the fog at a slow, steady speed. The wooden men have more trouble, the tendrils pulling them back each time they take a step, but they manage to drag their bodies forwards as if they were being pulled by strings. The stranger stays back and directs them onwards.

>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first vote or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.
>Imagination: 0/70. Willpower: 30/30.

rolled 24 = 24

I propose the tactic of gangraping single target and moving on to the next, pulling away wounded units

rolled 63 = 63

Also, move in George, he will fare better fighting in a group rather than facing them alone later
WILL him to be stronger

>>14988863
>Top three wisp @ top Manikin
>Bottom two wisp @ bottom Manikin
>George forward
>"Then stop this at once! There is no reason to try and cause harm to anyone!"

>WILL him to be stronger
This only lasts one turn, and he isn't hitting anybody this turn unless the other team gets an incredible speed boost. We're better off saving it.

>>14988951
Getting behind this.

>Updating

"Then stop this at once! There is no reason to try and cause harm to anyone!"

"I can destroy those who do evil, or I can let them overrun the world. I've made my choice."

She pauses. "I'm sorry."

The fog wraps around the mannikins. The one to your right has its arm wrenched out of its socket by the fog's grasping tendrils, but it continues to wobble forward. The one to your left fares better, but it is still battered back and covered in scuff marks as it leaks wood chips.

George shambles forward, the fog parting around him as he moves.

>Update continues.

The knights clank steadily forward, swinging their swords in wide, slow, powerful swipes. Where they do, the fog is blown back. One of your wisps fades away until it isn't visible anymore, and the others around the center seem to be less solid, but the line holds.

>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>>14989110
>Top two wisp @ top manikin
>Bottom two wisp @ bottom manikin
>George @ Single knight
>WP 5 Center wisp, more dense/defensive
>Also pout a little about her bad decision

rolled 28 = 28

unimagine a suit of armor I guess

>>14989181
>To roll to disbelieve, choose an amount of willpower to spend and a target.
>Rolling to disbelieve is willpower spent + d10 vs power + d10. The power stat, and all other stats, are capped at 10. However, higher margins of victory make your disbelief more difficult to counter.

>No specifics on rolling to disbelieve.
>One successful vote. Updating.

George charges. He has trouble getting a grip on the metal armor of the empty knight with his teeth. You do your best to not worry about this. Seconds later, the knight loses an arm to George's attack. The arm clatters to the ground in bits, deanimating immediately.

The bottom mannikin struggles in the fog, slowly losing ground and fighting to remain in the same spot, its wounded arm now dangling uselessly. The top mannikin fights its way through the mist with some effort.

>Update continues

Isabella should stand directly beside Mallory; Mallory moves up right, Isabella moves up left.

The knights try to attack George, but he keeps both of them off balance, charging and knocking them back. The one trying to use its two handed sword with one arm has particular difficulty.

However, the knights and mannikins take their toll. Your wall of wisp-fog has nearly dissipated in the center. You can see the stranger clearly on the other side.


>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.

>Believe in George, and his ability to take stacks on the mill.
>Tell the stranger that attacking visitors is an evil act in itself
Can we get our balloon back at all?

rolled 18 = 18

10 Will for george to boost him
10 to unimagine one of the suitd

>>14989469
>Imagination: 0/70

>>14989473
One disbelief/belief per turn. Choose one.

Maybe we could run around the back and girl pile on top of the stranger, and while George tanks with belief.

rolled 29 = 29

>>14989485
george

>Updating.

>>14989524
I dunno, sounds risky, the other girl actually has a sword and shield, we're just little ninnies.

>>14989469
Concur

>"Please, stop, we don't want to harm you, or any of your friends!"

George gets bigger. He takes up the same amount of space, but you can still tell. With a roar and a swipe of his paw, he takes one of the empty knights heads off. The remaining sections of armor collapse and fall apart.

The mannikin to your right struggles to remain standing, the fog pulling it down to the ground.

>Willpower: 20/30

"Please, stop, we don't want to harm you, or any of your friends!"

"I don't want to harm you, but I can't let you protect an evildoer! Please forgive me."

>Update continues.

The mannikins are having trouble merely keeping their heads above the surface of the fog, let alone fighting. They flail their arms, trying to stay upright.

The empty knight fighting George swings bravely, or mindlessly. George deflects the swing with a growl.

The last empty knight clanks forward, advancing slightly.

>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.
>For best results, give every character an action, and come to a consensus with other posters.

>>14989625
>Wisp vs Manikin (Your call, I trust you)
>George vs half-dead knight
>Step forward and Disbelieve in the full knight, WP 13
>Check on Mallory, how is she?
>"It's ok, they aren't going to hurt us."

rolled 23 = 23

10Will to unimagine the advancing knight

george to keep pounding the other knight

wisps to keep their distance and holding the mannequins

>>14989638
This, with an added
>Both girls move downward
So they are further from the knight

>>14989664
This.

What is it that Mallory actually does?

The mannikins struggle in the fog's grip, unable to gain ground but unwilling to lose it as well.

George charges the rear knight, but it holds firm, its feet knocking cobblestones loose as he pushes it backwards.

There is only one knight. There appear to be two. This does not bother you. The one in front, by itself, not doing anything? It must be a trick. You will it to be a trick. It is a trick. The knight starts to slowly float into the air and become less detailed.

>Update continues.

>>14989696
Assumable all the 'little girls' in this setting have similar ability in the form of Imagination/Willpower and can create/alter reality.. as they know it.

Last episode, she attacked our peaceful forest, we defeated her, and now we're on an adventure.

I am assuming since we beat her and more or less have her captive, that she isn't regaining power like we are; so she doesn't rebel or try anything nasty... assuming she is actually evil, which she very well may be.. but as a good character I think we should defender her anyways.

>Update continues.

You glance back. Mallory is fine, if terrified, in comparison to how she was when this battle started. Though she was as strong as you when she attacked you, her powers show know sign of recovering after her defeat at your hands.

The mannikins are having trouble, but the one on your left is managing to keep its balance and keep swinging its fist. Your wisp is having trouble holding itself together.

The stranger, seeing her knight about to blow away, stares at it intently, and it re-solidifies. This occupies her attention for the moment. The knight continues its painstakingly slow advance through the fog.

>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.
>For best results, continue to give every character an action and come to a consensus with other posters.

>>14989761
What was the WP use last turn? 13 or 10 lol?

Either way
>All 1v1 combat as usual;
>Believe in the Wisp having problems 5 WP
>Mallory & Issabella advance towards the girl.

>George and the wisps attack whomever they are currently engaging
>Issabella moves down
>Mallory Moves down right.
>All remaining Willpower against our pursuing knight.

>>14989786
>13 had 3 votes, 10 had 1. You have 7/30 Willpower remaining.

>>14989786
On the matter of "Mallory & Issabella advance towards the girl", she seems scary, and I would rather try to kick a manikin and hid behind a wisp. The stranger has a sword after all.

>>14989818
I agree, down right is the move
I guess 'towards her' is a little more up

I vote down right

rolled 88 = 88

Inb4 Mallory uses the fact that we are exhausted to strike us

>Updating.

>>14989852
Huh. Well it is either that or hand her over to the stranger, and frankly, I love being a shining beacon of justice

>Tie breaker for believing in the wisp having problems vs. disbelieving in the forward knight, please.

>>14989880
Believe > Dis-believe

We are the power of hope!

>>14989882
Yeppers

The newly solidified wisp begins to choke the mannikin and fling it around. Little else happens, but you manage to advance slightly yourself and coax Mallory along with you.

>Update continues.

The mannikins flail uselessly.

The empty knight manages to separate itself from George, swinging its sword at his midsection. It scores a solid hit, and the blow sends white fluff flying in the direction of the swing. George is still standing, but the gash in his stomach continues to leak fluff.

The stranger decides that this is the time for her to enter the fight herself. She moves forward, lifting her feet awkwardly as she enters the fog for the first time.
>Vote ends in 20 minutes, or with a first or tie-breaking vote after that time. The specific plan with the most supporting votes wins.
>For best results, give every character an action, and come to a consensus with other posters.

>Better picture.

>>14989934
>George & Bottom Wisp vs Wounded armor
>Girls Towards bottom manikin
>Wisp top v manikin top

Were getting close to losing.
>Both girls to the right
> Remaining 2 willpower to George
>Wisps both attack manikins
>George attacks Knight
Can we actually attack?

>>14989965
>You have a default Power: 1 Damage: 1 Range: 1 innate attack, but none of these stats.

Wrote
>>14989965
prefer
>>14989955

>>14989972
I have no idea what this means. We do not have the stats, of which we have 1?

>>14989984
>You can attack using those stats, but you don't get to use those stats for other things (slowing enemies in range of your attacks, etc).

>>14989984
We're plot characters, but we can 'hit' for one, or at least try to defeat what we'll call 'Friends' for now.

Also I thought about healing George, but I think it should wait till we must.

>Banish All
>Make a balloon
>Bail

George is having trouble. Much of his mass has floated away in the wind, and the empty knight is having an easier time deflecting his bites, swipes, and body checks.

You sneak up on the mannikin that is occupied with the wisp and strike it as hard as you can. You knock it off balance, but it remains standing. Mallory is close behind you, apparently more scared of being left alone than she is of charging.

>Update continues.

Out of the corner of your eye, you see George slump to the ground, slowly deflating like an old, heavy balloon, the knight's sword protruding through his back.

The mannikin turns to you, its arms outstretched. When it is about to reach you, you cry out in fear. You can't help it. Of course, your wisp, connected to you as it is, responds, placing itself between you and the monster attacking you. Your wisp is gone.

Out of nowhere, the front empty knight is upon you as well. It floats toward you, much faster than it has ever been able to walk. You see the stranger in the background pointing at it with a look of concentration on her face. Again, you scream, and your final friend appears to absorb the blow. Try as you might, you can't get them back.

From then on, you are helpless. The knight and the mannikin quickly grab you, and you soon find the stranger's sword pointed at your chest.

"Do you yield?"

>Fixed picture.

>>14990069
Umm... Yes. Yes I do.
>"Only an evil person would kill another, If you are righteous you will not hurt Mallory."
Shoulda made a balloon...

>>14990084
I wonder if the other castle would have been more friendly

>Also pout a whole lot

You pout.

"Umm... Yes. Yes I do."

You pout some more, just to be sure.

You add, "Only an evil person would kill another, If you are righteous you will not hurt Mallory," as quickly as you can.

The stranger sighs. "I'm sorry, but I can't let her escape justice."

Mallory's feet have sank several inches into the cobblestone. She is unable to pull them out.

The stranger's sword shines once as it catches the sunlight. It is very sharp. She turns away from you, and wordlessly runs Mallory through with it. The sword is made of wood. Mallory and the stranger stare at each other. You blink. Mallory is gone.

>>14990116
Man, we suck. Introduce yourself by name. You can't kill someone if you know their name.

"I'm Issabella. You're... you're not going to kill me too, are you?"

She hangs her head. "No... I can see that you aren't a threat to the world."

She does her best to start over. "...I'm Penelope. You can stay for as long as you need to. This is a safe place. It won't fall, I'll make sure of that."

Rocking on your heels, ask if she needs help taking care of the evil castle across the way.

>>14990157
>Hang head & start to sniffle
>"What are you.. going to keep me captive?"

>>14990214
Oh I assumed the knight/manikin were still holding her
xP

Who says the other castle is ebiill?

>Captcha
>Tormanst would
Tormanst, torment, same thing right?

>>14990214
>>14990215
First the latter, then former.

You look at the ground and sniff. "What are you.. going to keep me captive?"

"No... you're free. But if you get into trouble without your powers..." she trails off.

"Do you need help with that castle across the way?"

She grimaces. "...yes. But I don't think you have the strength to help me anymore. This is my fight now." She looks quite distressed. And tired.

>>14990238
Does this mean we have lost our powers like Mallory? If so, have a nap under a tree in the courtyard.

>>14990257
You reach out and try to find George. Unable to imagine him into existence, you try every single thing you remember summoning, down to your earliest, most basic memories. None of them work. It's as if you've forgotten how.

>>14990267
You tell Penelope that you'll think about what she said, but in the meantime, you haven't slept in a day, and you're going to take a nap. You do so.

>End of Chapter 2
>There will probably be 4 chapters total.
>E-mail in field.

>>14990276
I certainly hope there is a tree involved.

>>14990276
I assume this will continue then,
tomorrow and the next?

>>14990288
>I should do it tomorrow and the day after at the same time, but there's a chance I won't. E-mail me if you want to be sure to find out in advance.