>>35071317
Kouki Hakumei. The gifted scholarship girl who didn’t fit in at first. A girl you at first thought nothing of, until circumstances brought you together as friends. Your mind is flush with questions. Where is the beast? How was Kouki that monster? Where did the scout go? What happened up there?

Doesn’t matter. You slowly step forward as the member of Venus’s entourage break away from Akane and Kouki, and carefully join in on the hug with the girl.

“Akane-chan. Yukiko-chan,” she’s crying, “Is it over...do you remember me?”

“A’course we remember ya,” Akane sobs into the smaller girl’s shoulder, “course,”

You remain steady, you have to maintain your poise in all of this. Someone has to.

“I don’t know how we could forget,” you say shakily and WILL NOT cry, “What happened? What happened to you,”

“Its all a blur...I couldn’t do anything,” her knees go slack and she leans against you and Akane for support, “It was in control. It was supposed to take you somewhere to make you like I was,”

“What all happened up there,” Akane begins to recompose herself.

“She ate it,” the girl shakes and rubs her forehead weakly, “That woman...with the red eyes. It ate the thing inside of me,”

End Interlude

>>35071390
Quest Start

Crouching as you hit the grass, side by side, you and your best friend dart forward toward uncertain danger. Before you is the academic building of the Zodiac Academy for Girls. Using your psychometric sensitivity, you know the monster you seek entered the sewers beneath this school through this building. Its a race against time, to rescue the kidnapped girls, the rescue the forgotten girl turned into a monster, and to do it before the Sailor Senshi arrive on the scene.

Well, they can arrive once its started. This rescue is a matter of your pride.

“Doors locked,” Kairi Osaka, your Nephrite Knight, complains ahead of you.

You are Mikage Chiba, second year high school student age 15. Presently you wear the guise of the Red Eyed Beast. One of your shielding or escape personalities who has become the scourge of punks, thugs, and delinquents throughout Juuban ward. The other day you made a promise to some would be girl gangsters to locate their missing friends, then two more of them were kidnapped, and in keeping tabs on one of the last two to remain you happened upon one of their originally missing friends.

She was a magically powerful monster who had come to steal the girl you were shadowing in the guise of Miki, your bubbly ganguro fashionista persona. Luckily, you were magically stronger and hungry for the dark energy coursing through her body.

>We’re breaking the door.
>We’re breaking a window.
>We’ll check another door.
>Head for the Roof access.
>Write in

>>35071411
>We’re breaking the door.
To resurrect the topic from the end of last thread, I'm thinking that after this upcoming fight, we tell mom we need a vacation due to the packed and draining week. While on the vacation, have heart-to-heart with mom. We start with telling her what happened the night we fought Naru’s ‘dad’, and our mental state when we quit.
Then, we tell her about our 'undercover' activities and semi-split shielding personalities, including just how fragmented they are, by each one of them chatting with Usagi. Sound good? Sound bad? Why?

>>35071411
Good morning!

>We’re breaking the door.
Direct and blunt.

>>35071511
Sounds bad, at least the vacation part. Gotta deal with the threats on the table first.
Support getting around to that talk about The Night, and our life and mental state before that.
Against getting into our undercover activities.

>>35071625
>>We’re breaking the door.
>Direct and blunt.
Maybe Eclipse time? If Red Eye doesn't mind, of course.

>>35071664
Well, we did a Not!telepathic message from mom saying we can talk to her about anything, so why not the undercover work?
Additionally, I had also suggested talking with Usagi about the Hotaru situation, including Usa's complication. What are your thoughts?
>>35071720
He gets next round. Red Eyes got asked save two kidnapped girls, she saves two girls and beats the crap out of the kidnappers.

>>35071747
Well, we're avoiding telling Usagi the full depth of our actives to better save her and everyone else is prophesies of them getting turned or shadow-doppled or something pans out. More or less keeping her apace of Eclipse playing Tuxedo to the new scouts as a weaker support person, not the heavy hitter we might actually be.

I think talking about Hotaru is an important part of covering our feeling, though Hotaru x Usa is something for those to talk about, not us.

>>35071411
>We’re breaking the door.

PUNY DOOR! RED EYES SMASH

>>35071720
I am thinking that Red will split toward the end before we have another rescued girl scream in terror at us, but this one is Red's mission.
Is nice to charge in instead of be support occasionally.

All in all, I'm feeling like the Beast is a good influence to bring into the fold that it Mikage's psyche. A little more umph and not being afraid.
Probably the wave she needs to ride to have that talk with Mom.
Side note, looking at the end of last thread, Luna hadn't told her specifically what Mikage said, she's waiting for when we're ready to tell her about that night.

Rolled 8 (1d100)

Kicking down the door, eh? Might up in this shit with the Jump enhancement.

Best of 3, dice 1d20+11 vs DC 23

1s and 20s wild.

And I'll just roll this % against a 30% threshhld

Rolled 3 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>35071853
To make sure I understand you correctly, you support heart-to-heart with mom on: 1. The night we broke. 2. Our mental state AKA why we shut everyone out. 3. Our feelings on Hotaru, given she's going to train our Imouto.
Additionally, are you saying we should tell her about Eclipse? "cause I'm not sure she knows, or if that's just Dad.
>>35071976

Rolled 1 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>35071976
We hulk now?

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>>35071317
Nice, picture and OMGity deflects suspicion!
Though it is amusing that it is easier to think about Miki as a Scout than a Beast.

Also, occurs to me that the picture could draw someone else's attention to Miki and the fashion circle..

Muh-aha-AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH~

Who do we know that is a fan of Magical Girls and has been exploring the area and willing to ask people about their experiences?
Center Guy Intensifies.

>>35072026
So... when you say wild... what exactly do you mean? Because I may or may not have dropped the ball here...

Rolled 3 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>35071976
>30% threshhld
>8
Hmmmm..

>>35072026
not with that we're not.
>>35072064
yes. yes you did.
>>35072049
true. We do need to get Sasha to meet Mikage. Less painful final reveal that way.

>>35072085
and NOW we're screwed. Planet power time anyone?

>>35072064
Wild means they take precedent over other rolls and cancel each other out.

For example...

Well, no example really.

Writing.

Don't worry about that threshold. The door is not opened, so that roll for the security system is irrelevant.

I mean, for a security system that may or may not exist.

>>35071995
She knows the early version of Eclipse, when he was just a disguise pen and encouraging words.
The Shintennou. Earth heir, and shadow stuff came that night, after we helped Koyomi and Aiha. We unloaded it all on dad, and he's respecting our secrecy on the details toward mom.

>>35072127
I... I have failed.

>>35072089
That's not meeting Mikage, that's meeting Miki.
Her brain is going to get in a catfight with itself.

dropping out for an hour or so, got tutoring to attend.
Please Don't get us killed.
>>35072127
You REALLY like us skittish and paranoid, don't you.
>>35072152
Thanks anon. So should we tell Usagi the complications since then or not?

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>>35072177
We all want the boytoy, so there's no need to fight... we want just do different thing to him.
>>35072173
>pic related

>>35072215
I'm still slightly upset we missed the evil queen /u/boat

>>35072064
1s take out any roll but a 20. With a best of three format, tends to work out well, we generally do very well at things, but sometimes we drop the ball. At least this is just kicking a door. Usually the 1 comes when we're talking to someone.

>>35072173
Actually.. I think you just saved us from the security system that we don't know about.

>>35072232

We seem to be building our own court. We'll have our Knights, maybe we can invite Keiko to be our court sorceress. She wants to help.

Then have our court attend to us. Or is that Evil Queen Mikage territory?

>>35072248
I... I did good?

>>35072272

Evil Queen x Evil Queen.

Dark Mikage and Dark Keiko. Would have been fantastic.

Fun factoid: By handling Metallia/Beryl the hard way, you jumped Keiko up to comparable Hit Dice to you when she was previously a lvl 2 human.

>>35072183
Generally against. Eclipse and Scout saving sure.
Even the Helios dream thing we have Usa painted as the one that did the heavy lifting.
Probably need to chat about Keiko, one- knowing that Usagi knowing that Beryl's soul was redeemed should make her feel good, particularly since it was her that sent it on another cycle, it seems. Also, PIT is likely to bring it up as well.
We can truthfully say that we just supported and encouraged Keiko to see it through. Not sure I'd go into detail on the Metallia or Starseed part, maybe need to talk to Keiko before we decide that.

Been meaning to track down the archive to remember what we told Usagi about the school attack.

>>35072275
Amusingly, I think so.
Probably bruised our foot and embarrassed ourself, but that's recoverable.

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>>35072272
We can always use a Sage..

>>35072289
Eh. Evil versions of those two doesn't seem like a good couple, fuck frienemies at best.

>>35072576
Sounds like a couple to me.

The whole point is that they're not good...

>>35072332
Cool. It seems a lot like the option that could help a person's mind the most is also turns out to be the hardest way.
Hugging it out with our inner Shadow and Moon, helping Keiko face down her past self.. I think Mikage, deep down, really wants to help things be mentally sound and healthy. Same with our initial drive to help the scouts, more for the moral and morale support that fire support.
We know firsthand that aspect is desperately needed.

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~Then its already dead,~ you snarl and step forward into a magically enhanced kick as Kairi steps back in surprise.

You foot connects, wrong. All the force of magic and energy rests upon your ankle as your foot slips to the side. The door shudders in its frame at your crash and Kairi yelps at the unexpected failed impact.

Swallowing your yelp of pain, you retract your foot and kneel to the ground, clutching the appendage. Damnit, you are the terror that stalks the night. You eat monsters. People think you are a monster and you just were defeated by a door.

A door!

You are so mad.

“Are you okay?” Kairi asks coming to your side.

~Door, a fucking door,~ your growl and stand up, shaking out your leg until it feels better.

Kairi rises up with you, granting you an extra measure of balance with hands on your shoulders. She looks at the door critically and notes something through the wire framed security glass panel and gives a relieved sigh.

“Just as well, red blinker on the inside. Probably an alarm,” Kairi observes with a huff, “The last thing we need is the cops showing up while we’re trying to work,”

~Grrrr,~

>~Fuck the Police!~ Kick the door again
>~Then we finnesse~ you reason and try to pick the lock
>Break a fucking window.
>Cut a hole in a window, with your super powers
>Find another door
>Head to the roof access hatch
>Write in

>>35072886
>Cut a hole in a window, with your super powers

>>35072886
>>~Fuck the Police!~ Kick the door again
It's not that we've always wanted to say that. We probably haven't ever wanted to say it.

It's because we mad.

>>35072886
Damn, I'm drawn here.
Want to be direct, but don't want to be tripping on police..
Blink.
I got it.

"Tell your mom she's got and 'anonymous tip', trouble under Zodiac Academy, Scouts en-route, police should hang back."
Kick open door.

>>35073240
Doesn't even need to be 'anonymous', she could attribute the tip to Eclipse.

>>35073240
Should go an extra step in case anyone looks later. "Weird guy in black just told me to tell you 'trouble under Zodiac Academy, Scouts en-route, police should hang back' and disappeared, what the heck?"

The rest of the time we're practically in fear of dealing with Naru, but Red Eyes would be the one to step up and be like, hey- resource!

>>35073356
You are aware that Naru knows of Kairi's status of your Nephrite Knight.

OK, I'm back for the night, what happened? Are we dead yet?

>>35073425
Yes, which is why we'd message her at all.
Just in case anyone else were to see the message.

>>35073524
Totally dead. We have to find King Kai and train a new technique while our friends collect the Dragonballs to wish us back.

>>35073240
PERFECT! seconding this.

>>35073558
Is the technique how to create clones of ourselves so we can have all our personalities out doing things at once?

Alright, standard rolling rules

1d20+11

dc 23

Rolled 8 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>35073625
We still calling Naru for the anon tip ala >>35073240 and >>35073356?

Rolled 19 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>35073625

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It's times like this that I'm reminded that phones are like a goddamn superpower.
(Though we do need to use them discretely.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2B9F-GPm0

We still need to get around to talking about super-widgets with Luna.
We've been meaning to do that since forever in this quest. One of the first things we were discussing after going to save Aiha.

Though instead of perception, something to mask our phone communication would be super useful.

>>35073616
I don't think we can or should learn a skill like that, if only because I'd expect Red Eyes to drag Miki into the Thunderdome.

>>35073672
Oh good. Not another one.

Rolled 9 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>35073625
Rollin'

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>>35073677
You say that like it's a bad thing. As for the can, I'm thinking something like Naruto-esque Shadow clones. What's our main element? Shadow. It's a logical connection. Probably something learned at a very high level though, and I have no idea if Pathfinder has anything resembling it.

>>35073616
GREAT IDEA! Surely nothing horrible could come of it... Like the real Mikage losing parts of herself. We should totally do this.

>>35073814
>implying its not a trial to pull her split personalities back into herself like we did with our Shadow.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

30 vs 23. Success, 1 degree.

Writing after this roll

>>35073889
so we trip the alarm?

>>35073926
You are above threshold

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>>35073964
you're not helping my paranoia, Artemis.

>>35074039
Shaka, when the walls fell.

>>35074039
I do not understand. You attempt to be reasonable when I am not.... yet when I am reasonable you attempt to spread paranoia.

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>>35074105
>mfw
>>35074124
The latter's me either A. Joking, B. not seeing something you all see and thus freaking out, C. seeing little consequence for mikage doing something OTT.

The former... is when I see Bad Ends resulting from our choices down the line.

>>35074124
I would argue that he's not so much propagating something new as manifesting something that was already there.

>>35074204
From the beginning, there was only one ending... is what I would say, but this isn't a megucca quest and we've got proof to the contrary. Bad Ends can be as fun as Good Ends if you play them right.

>>35074255
I must respectfully disagree. I, personally, want a good end for as many people as possible, if not everyone. Do we have to work and suffer to get the happy ending, yes, but that's what makes the happiness worth it: the price of victory.
>TL;DR, I'm not an NG:E fan. just personal preference, but I'll take the expensive happy ending.

>>35074360
I'm down with a bad ending if it's bad ass.

>>35074105
Zinda, his face black, his eyes red.

>>35074397
I'm for trying to avoid bad ends, if at all possible.

>>35074397
Bad ass as in heroic death for ultimate victory? Or...

>>35074431
It's always possible you're just not always able to see the route. Certain bad ends those are visible.

>>35074439
Heroic death can work...

Bad end could just be never actually restablishing all those lovey dovey ties you seem to be obsessed with but everything else generally working out.

Mikages happiness after all should be second to you know the survival of the planet or what have you.

Sometimes you have to do awful things to ensure the overall good. I'm not afraid to get all machiavellian up in here.

You are not letting some door defeat you.

~Call your mom, tell her you got an anonymous tip that something supernatural is going down at the Zodiac Academy for Girls. Senshi are en route and cops should hang back,~ you reason and kick out your leg once more before performing a solid round house kick and slamming into the door with new force and resolve.

The lock cracks off within the metal paneling and the two doors swing inward.

After the crack and warping of metal, there are no other sounds.

Kairi breaks the empty sound with a whistle and pulls out her phone. Trailing behind you slightly as you charge forward, searching.

“Hi mom, you got a minute?” you hear behind you before you begin tuning her words out.

A quick reconnoiter of the first floor, built in a large hallway loop, reveals to you a maintenance door on the north side, an auditorium, an adjacent external gymnasium access, and assorted classrooms. No clearly labeled entryway to anything subterranean.

Still, there has to be a basement of some kind. The auditorium would be a sound bet, with the understage or back stage being a good place to set a stairwell. The gymnasium also a likely location, given proximity to pipeline and electrical controls. The science labs on this floor offer another likelihood. The maintenance door could lead to basement access or just a sink and some mops.

Somehow you saw now electrical closets. Unless they’re in the academic offices.

>Auditorium
>Gymnasium
>Labs
>Maintenance door
>Offices
>Write in

>>35074478
>Labs

This sounds like a trigger for awful things that have happened before. Let's take a look see.

>>35074360
Well, it's not like I won't accept a Good End, just that I can accept other things as well.

For the record, though, NG:E isn't a good Bad End. It's more what happens when the director goes off his meds and ruins everything.

>>35074478
>Gymnasium

>>35074505
we've had our PTSD moment, no time for more.
>>35074525
eh, personal taste on endings then. But, We can agree that creators should stick to their meds and have good mental health care.

>>35074478
>Maintenance door
Janitors are essentially gods. Evil school, evil gods. I am so good at logic.

Misfortune, an alarm, and a bad kick come together to make us expand the people we work with instead of trying to be stubbornly self-reliant to avoid hurting others.
This pleases me.

>>35074687
That and Magical Mother Usagi.

>>35074736
So it's her fault... hmm... Well Gentleman it's clear... we must kill the rabbit.

>>35074478
>>Maintenance door
Check that first.

Though where we do find it will speak a lot as to who the people doing this to the girls has access to in control of this place. Janitor, Principal, who is mixed up in this?

I'm thinking offices after that.

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>>35074773

>>35074797

Wait a second. The location of the basement will tell us which person in the school is evil?

We're hunting a monster in the sewers.

Writing

>>35074831
Ya, but who's ordering the monster?

>>35074853
Someone who really really likes chicken fried godzilla?

>>35074853
Doctor Kurt Conners. I've seen his like before. Always creating lizards in sewers... from school labs.

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>>35074905
>mfw

>>35074831
The monster in the sewers under this school that gets in and out through the school itself that was kidnapped and wiped from this same school.
There is too much centered on this school for there not to at least be a mole.

Heading for the maintenance door, you find it poorly locked, the pins in the door jam fall out at a push.

Taking stock of the room, you find a few lockers, assorted tools, a sink, a bathroom, an office desk, and a key ring hanging on the back of the door. Kairi jogs up behind you as you snatch the key ring. Its an assortment of large and old keys and shiny new thin things.

>Item acquired, Key ring.

“Anything?”

~Just something to make the next step easier,~ you shrug and heft the jingling ring.

She nods.

“My Mom said there were no alerts over here on the local PD. She said she’ll mobilize a PIT Response and Investigation Team, they’re already moving in on our last party and the next one will be here in thirty minutes,” she pockets her phone, “She’ll need a few minutes but she’s going to text me a PDF map from city planning once we get down there,”

~Good,~ you nod, ~We won’t be going in there blind,~

>Gymnasium
>Auditorium
>Lab Classrooms. Why do you think these would be like an evil lab? Seriously its just some gas hookups, an emergency eye wash, a white board, and an emergency evacuation fan. I did not explain that well enough the first time, I’m sorry.
>Offices
>Write in

>>35075265
>Gymnasium
get to the sewers.

>>35075265
>Lab Classrooms. Why do you think these would be like an evil lab? Seriously its just some gas hookups, an emergency eye wash, a white board, and an emergency evacuation fan. I did not explain that well enough the first time, I’m sorry.

I WONT BELIEVE YOUR LIES

>>35075265
>>Lab Classrooms. Why do you think these would be like an evil lab? Seriously its just some gas hookups, an emergency eye wash, a white board, and an emergency evacuation fan. I did not explain that well enough the first time, I’m sorry.
Way to make it super meta suspicious, man. It's like a murder mystery where the suspects are played by three bums off the street and Sean Connery.

>>35075265
>Offices
This is my actual vote. Cause I'm so meta that I intentionally don't pick the meta option.

>>35075367
and here's the part where I call for reason. it's diction shows that its legit; and we're just jumping at shadows now.

>>35075265
While logic is telling me gymnasium or auditorium, my gut is insisting we double check the office area.

>>35075417
Easy peasy, we already stole the keys.

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>>35075414
YOU'RE IN ON IT! AHHHHHH!

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>>35075454
calm your self my boy... and take you goddamm pills while you're at it.

Writing

Give me a perception test, dice+1d20+2 vs DC 17

Rolled 12 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35075531
see, you're all just overreacting.

Rolled 13 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35075531

>>35075560
>>35075579
Ok, we may need a SURGE for this roll.

>>35072272
>building our own court
calling it a court is a bit grandiose.

Really, we're just dealing with some inherited responsibilities that refuse to go away just because Mummy and Daddy gave up their Kingdom.

Rolled 18 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>35075531
>almost typed "dick" instead of "dice" to roll
Just your friendly neighborhood pervert.

>>35075629
Never mind the SURGE call, we're good.

>>35075643
I guess when the chips are down and we need a good roll, the answer is to whip it out.

>>35075265
>Auditorium

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>>35075560

>>35075629
Good going, pervert, you've just saved us all.

>>35075676
I have no idea what that means.
>>35075698
Indeed. The sniper outside has been told to hold fire for 15 mins. keep rolling good, anon.

>>35075663
>when a problem come along, you must whip it.
Devo was right!

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~We’re heading for the offices,~ you declare and head over, ~something about this place doesn’t sit right with me,~

“That a gut feeling?” Kairi asks falling into step and summoning her sword anew.

~Instinct, experience, or psychometry~ you grouse, ~Take your pick,~

“I’ll give you a hand,” she takes a deep breath and presses her ring finger to her temple, “This doesn’t last long, but I managed to grab a sweep of the closet you were just in,”

~What’s it do?~

“Shows hidden pathways,” Kairi smiles as her eyes glow with faint azure light.

Getting to the office, you grab one of the newer keys and try a few on the door. A quick sweep of the main lobby of the office shows nothing. You’ve got a niggling distrust of the principal of the school after you remembered what you heard about her being an American witch of some kind so you head there next.

“No secret doors,” chimes Kairi as she does a visual pan of the ornate office.

Charms. Iconography. Diplomas. Photographs. Books. A bowl of hard candy on the desk. You’ve never seen their brand before, and pocket a few for later review when you notice a spark of light coming from the back of her desk. Leaping over the polished oak you push the seat back and look underneath.

A narrow hole bores into the space beneath the desk. A few errant sparks fill the darkness about twenty feet down, but you can see clearly anyhow.

~Not a secret door,~ you whistle, ~Just a hole,~

“Right,” her phone buzzes, “Yes, mom came through,”

~Well the,-~

>Head into darkness
>You want to check something else first. What?
>Write in

>>35076203
>Head into darkness

*~Well then-~

>>35076203
>Head into darkness

Where we're going.. we won't need eyes.

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>>35076262
pic related?

>>35076298
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTr5CjpSp-g

>>35076203
>>Write in
"Mark" the office in some fashion so that it'll draw the immediate attention of the Scouts so they come right here, then head in.

In extreme cases, setting the room on fire would work, but even just turning on all the lights will be sufficient.

>>35076326
God that movie was creepy. Took them a few years but eventually they made it a game. Not sure why the named it "Dead space."

>>35076326
Ok, how am I supposed to look at that and not see Warhammer 40k.
>>35076366
Let's do this, then jump down.
>>35076370
funny, the game I played was called Space Hulk. Tabletop game, Dark Heresy Rules.

>>35076203
>>Head into darkness
Let's rock this shit

>>35076203
Well then indeed.

"Take a quick check for clues, but it looks like we've found what we needed.. and this is super creepy. Can these people fly or turn into mist or something?"

Peer at the sides of the hole for claw marks.
Thing that took the girls left claw marks. Did it use this way, or are there others as well?

After that, alert.. Luna about the entrance in the principal's office to have her pass along mysteriously as she sees fit before we jump in.

>>35076262
Sure we do, our eyes can see in the dark.

>>35076404
If you haven't seen the movie it's fantastic. It's a full on Geller field failure scenario.

>>35076366
Clearly we just need to get a separate cell phone and text them as *not*tuxedo mask

It saddens me that it's automatically assosciated with WH40k, when it's so much more than that.

>>35076504
This way is better. We guide without overt involvement.

>>35076478
That's even more reason for me to avoid it. I'm not a horror fan, at all.
>>35076504
It's been mentioned before how easy that would make things.
>>35076519
hey, GW steals from everything and everyone, just be happy that someone new got exposed to the source material.

>>35076573
Shame one of the best horror movies I've ever seen.

>>35076573
It occurs to me that it's been a few months since I've trolled any 40k threads with claims of ripping off Warcraft. Yes, I know it's the other way around. Though immediately hiding every mtg and 40k thread I see in the catalog might have something to do with that.

>>35076591
1. I have very little tolerance for 'frightful suspence' for lack of a better term.
2. Over-the-top practical gore, like Event Horizon and John Carpenter's The Thing, freak me out even more.
>strangely, gory war pieces like The Pacific don't have the same effect. go figure.

>>35076644
You've listed the exact reasons I enjoy the movie.

~Let me head down first,~ you slip your feet into the hole, ~I can see in the dark,~

“Too useful. Don’t suppose you could teach me to do that?” she shakes her head.

Looking up at Kairi, you open your mouth wide and smile. Running your tongue across your triple fine sharp and white fangs, you quickly twitch your eyebrows.

~Package deal,~ you laugh and push the desk forward to better expose the hole, ~Kind of a one time thing. Hit the lights up here first. I want the girls to find this,~

She nods as you let gravity pull you down into the crevice, arms and legs braced against the side slowly moving down. You catch sight of several large marks from claws used to scale this course before. Wood, concrete, earth, and unhewn stone have given beneath their might. You become mildly excited at the prospect of meeting a physically challenging foe.

Kairi is in the whole descending above you.

“You know, when this is all done, could you use those things to take another hit off of me?” she asks as she struggles to move while holding her cellphone out for light.

>>35076366
I'd back the fire, but there might be evidence for PIT to follow-up on in here somewhere.

>>35076669
The smell rushes up from below when you get past the sparking exposed wires. They were burning it off, nice trick.

~After we’re done here? Maybe, no biting until you’ve grabbed a shower,~ you wrinkle your nose.

“Ugh, sewers,” she grouses, “Wait, aren’t you going to go to town on the monster when we find it down here?”

~Yeah, but that’ll actually feed my abysmal dark hunger,~ you look straight up at the girl above you, ~Argh, smart. I should have worn pants,~

Getting to the bottom of the hole, you find yourself in a narrow corridor with a raised walkway alongside a shallow stream of slurry. Once down beside you, Kairi begins playing with her phone, looking at the pipes just above you and looking for markings before checking the flow direction of the muck.

“Okay, I’ve got three likely places for something big to be holed up with guests,” Kairi explains, “and I think I can get us to each one from here. We have a multi line drainage junction. We have an underused electrical maintenance platform. Last is an unfinished tunnel meant for system expansion, but developing the athletic field prevented it from being needed,”

>Junction
>Platform
>Expansion
>Fuck it, Explore
>Write in

Fact: Having Kairi call Pit Mom got you access to all this delightful PDF map.

>>35076661
to each their own then.
>>35076682
>Expansion
people with character sheet in front of them, do we have any magic/psychic powers that might help?

>>35076682
Hah while reading this buck cherries addicted to medicine came on. Girl needs her fix.

>Expansion

>>35076682
>>Platform
We never did see any electrical boxes. It's entirely suspicious.

>>35076682
>>Platform

>>35076682
My first instinct was electrical maintenance for power access, then I think about that hole we crawled down, and I think
>Expansion
Less risk of being visited, and they obviously have their own tunnel-making capacity to expand that or run power down to it.

>>35076701
Naru is good contact to have.
And she probably appreciates being in the loop.

>>35076708

Sometime down the line, we're in a relationship with Sasha and Kairi is seeing Gai. They walk in on us while we're snacking on Kairi.

"Wait, Its not what it looks like!"

>>35076682
>>Write in
efficient exploration. Visit each of the points Kairi has highlighted, Closest to nearest.

The unfinished tunnel seems the most likely, though. If the school admin are involved. The electrical maintenance is also high probability if they need any kind of power load.

>>35076804
"It's... delicious."

>>35076703
>people with character sheet in front of them, do we have any magic/psychic powers that might help?
We did have something about nodes. We even used it earlier. I don't know if it'll supply any more information down here, though.

>>35076838
That reminds me. Kairi's character sheet is still conspicuously missing.

>>35076838
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Let's give it a shot.

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I keep ending up watching people stream Destiny, or playing Borderlands 2 while questing.
I worry it will eventually begin effecting my choices.

>>35076854
Yes...yes it is. The final version should be up this weekend.

As a note, she only has access to second level spells, and the power of her Ring...which is (appropriately) a Ring of Shooting Stars.

>>35076893
*puts down controller* Clearly it has no effect on any brash choices.

Into the expansion? Clever reasoning as well.

Writing

>>35076893
>Destiny, or playing Borderlands 2
Tgis is /tg/. We only watch Wasteland 2 here.

>>35077061
Sadly, I was too broke at the time of the kickstart and am even more broke now. But I want to play it before I watch others do that one.

>>35077216
Should have saved the sixty bucks from Destiny and however much you got ripped off on the season pass.

>>35077279
I said I'd watched people stream it, there's no way short of a miracle I will be affording anything approaching a console.

>>35076938
I agree with this.

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>>35077326
Sorry. It's midnight, I have no RedBull, no 5 hour energy, and about 3 chapters to read before tomorrow morning. I am not feeling the sanity.

>>35077401
I started to wonder where in the world you were, then I looked at the time and realized it's nearly midnight -here-. Fuck, time flies.

~Expansion seems like it’ll be the least traveled ground,~ your snarl curls into a pleased smile, ~Lets hunt. Lead the way,~

Placing her gloved hand on the grime slick wall, Kairi advances to the north toward where you believe the school’s athletic fields are supposed to be. It makes sense, that with an athletic field going there instead of a full building foundation or development that there would be unfinished sewer extensions.

Kairi dims her phone after a while and navigates by slow and careful touch while you can see perfectly clearly. Reaching out a few times you pull her away or push her away from a dangerous misstep. Before too much longer you find a noticeable increase in the gouging claw marks.

Kairi freezes up as a disjointed chorus of a broken song echoes through the tunnel. The sensation of shadow fills your nose despite the overwhelming scent of filth around you. A soiled paper party hat, pom pom hanging to the top by a thread, floats by in the darkness.

“This is really creepy,” whispers Kairi.

~Come on, we’re almost there,~ you whisper behind her, ~If you need to back out, I’ll understand. I’ll handle this,~

“No way. I’m standing beside you,” she resolves.

~That a girl,~ you smile and clap her lightly on the small of her back.

>>35077455

Ahead of you, the sound becomes more clear. The song breaks into a mild argument.

“No no no no no!” snarls a happy voice, “It needs to be happier. That wasn’t right, sing it again,”

“LEAVE HER ALONE! I CAN SING LOUD ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US!” screams the familiar proud screech of Nijiko.

“If we can’t have a happy song, then it isn’t a party,” the aggressor says with childlike glee, “Come on, Chou, you can do better than that,”

Kairi turns to you, or where she thinks you are, and nods sharply. Progressing forward the two of you come to the mouth of the expansion tunnel. Beyond the concrete oval walls give way to unhewn earth and a flickering light around the corner. Despite there being no working water or sewage lines there continues to be a deep flow of...something beside the two of you.

>Scout carefully
>Time to charge in
>Walk in calmly
>Write in

>>35077469
Have Kairi hang back.

>>Walk in calmly
>>Write in
While Singing.

>>35077469
>>Scout carefully
Pretty sure we can re-roll a failed stealth so this.

>>35077469
>Scout carefully
Sneak attacks are our bread and butter. No need to alter our combat style just cause Kairi is here, gives up our biggest advantage.

>>35077508
>While Singing.
but what should we sing?

>>35077455
Sing a happy crazy song.

>>35077563
may I recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RzLJ9dce0g

>>35077469
>>Scout carefully

>>35077502
But that is precious blood we want to drink.

er..Shadows

>>35077555
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2rwxs1gH9w

>>35077555
>>35077563
>>35077508
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yugACaFW88U

>>35077553
on second thought, this is how we win: By playing dirty. changing my vote to this.

>>35077555
A jaunty tune about parties and eating monsters.

>>35077469
>Scout carefully
Time for sneak attack.

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>>35077617
>this is how we win: By playing dirty.
Can we really resist the urge to make an entrance, though?

Especially if we have Kairi here to provide the sneak factor?

>>35077588
too hocky.
>>35077599
changing my earlier recommendation, how does this sound: One, two, Redey's coming for you...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TBsJKY8oAU
>>35077679
point made: Kairi sneaks, we're the distraction.

>>35077469
Singing casual entrance for Red Eyes. Have our Nephrite Knight hang back and hide-sneak.

>>35077553
I'm leaning toward the beast doing her style.
Being scary, spooky, and wrecking things.
Eclipse is the sneak around guy.

>>35077679
If one sneak is good, then two is better.

>>35077679
Kairi can't see in the dark. On top of that Kairi also doesn't have was it 5d6 Sneak Attack, +14 to stealth and the ability to reroll a failed stealth check once per thread. If entrances are going to be made, Kairi should make them in this situation.

>>35077747
...huh, that's actually a very good suggestion.

Best of both worlds.

>>35077747
...could we

could we Disguise Kairi as The Beast?

Scholar, you can stop deleting your old votes.

Please. I dislike seeing posts go grey.

>>35077774
If you give her the pen, your disguise persists.

>>35077747
Sneak attack is only 3d6, we have skirmish for 2d6, but that doesn't rely on stealth.
Also, we can always catch opponents flatfooted if we need to.

>>35077747
Considering that there seems to be hostages, I'm not sure why we are dead set on giving up the element of surprise.

We should sneak attack, and have Kairi sneak in and free the hostages

>>35077774
We could, post sneak attack do a "You have fucked up now." Kinda speech.

I'm gonna go with the singing entrance with Kairi watching our back suggestions.

>>35077756
So Kairi makes stereotypical Magical girl call out, we sneak up for grappeling and noms. Sound good?
>>35077774
don't see the point. enlighten me, why?
>>35077795
got it, won't happen again.
>>35077822
that sounds good to me.

>>35077827
I rather like the idea of showing Kairi that we trust her to watch our back.

>>35077832
>don't see the point. enlighten me, why?
It's the Beast's territory. They asked for the Beast's help, so the Beast's help they should get.

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It seems like there is a significant mix between Scouting Carefully and a unique perspective of the write in sing a song rider on top of walk in calmly.

Do you guys want to Dress up Kairi as the beast? Do you want to sneak invisibly (with enhanced vanishing move for extended invisibility) while she plays creepy distraction?

Is this the plan?

If it is, are there any other buffs or spells you'd like to prepare?

There seems a divide between

Scouting Carefully
Calmly Walk in Singing with Kairi at your back
Kairi Distraction with beastly sneak noms

>>35077812
I'm saying that IF we must do an entrance it gives up all our advantages to make said entrance personally.
I'm all for not making an entrance until post sneak attack.

>>35077882
This sounds fantastically in character. Go for it.

>>35077882
what Melee said, I second.

>>35077882
>Calmly Walk in Singing with Kairi at your back

>>35077884
>>35077911
For the same Planet Power, we can pull out a flatfooted attack, and even gor for DR ignoring.

>>35077911
Also: Full Buff.
Fist of Earth, Greater Invisibility, Mythic Enhanced In The Name of the Moon, etc.

>>35077882
>Kairi Distraction with beastly sneak noms
Kairi Distraction with beastly sneak noms

>>35077882
Still favoring the singing entrance.

>>35077959
Hard to do Recitation stealthily.

>>35077953
We can ALSO do those things. True Strike sounds hilarious right now.

>>35078021
likewise

>>35077882
Do you guys want to Dress up Kairi as the beast? Do you want to sneak invisibly (with enhanced vanishing move for extended invisibility) while she plays creepy distraction?

sounds good.

>>35078021

We have Kari do the singing duh.

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>>35077882
>Calmly Walk in Singing with Kairi at your back
As much as we're a stealth build at core, we've got a legend to maintain. Let's go in loud, turn up the spooky, and show this monster just who the scary one is.

>>35077882
>Is this the plan?
Yes, lets go with this at least.

Okay. Proper Final Destination coming in a few moments. Folks chime in that you're up and I'll put up the Final Destination in a few minutes.

This will lead into tonight's final post.

>>35077882
This + all of Melee's suggestions + Kairi doing our best singing impression.

>>35078056
more accurately, Kairi has our legend to maintain.

>>35078056
why not disgues Kari as the beast... and have her sing.. so we can still do super stealth attack?

>>35078021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lF-oouxH8Q
The happily sung refrain from this.

And I sang

Death, death, devil, devil, devil, devil, evil, evil, evil, evil songs.
Hell, you know that's how I get along.
The world is full of tragedy so how can it be wrong,
Singing death, death, death, death, devil, devil, evil, evil songs.

>>35078089
Ready to burn.

>>35078089
yep. still here.
>>35078101
sound appropriately dark and creepy.

>>35078089
Still here.

>>35078089
yo

>>35078121
I personally prefer the song from Willy Wonka's Wild Ride (river boat scene)

If we need to, we can do a super-stealth attack regardless of entrance. I remind you all that we DON'T want to do incredible amounts of damage lest we accidentally kill the young girl we're trying to save inside the monster.

-Surprise Strike (Ex): As a swift action, you can expend one use of mythic power to make a melee attack or ranged attack against a target within 30 feet, in addition to any other attacks you make this round. When you make a surprise strike, the target is considered flat-footed regardless of any class features or abilities it might have, and you add your tier to the attack roll. Damage from this attack bypasses damage reduction.

Final Destination

4 Minutes, No comment, green text, punctuation, or line break.

Link this post.

1. Calmly walk in singing
2. Go in stealthy, full buff, Kairi disguised as you singing a distraction, let it begin

>>35078201
1

>>35078201
2

>>35078201
2

>>35078201
2

>>35078184
Also, unless it can see invisible, we can always set-up more sneak attacks with non-augmented vanishing moves.

>>35078184
We can initiate a grapple with successes, and if we claws out, it'll be hilarious.

>>35078201
2

>>35078201
1

>>35078201
1

>>35078201
1

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind Red eyes
And no one knows
What it's like to be hated
To be fated to telling only lies

[Chorus:]
But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what its like
To feel these feelings
Like i do, and i blame you!
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through

>>35078201
2

>>35078201
2

Gotta admit, I didn't realize there were so many of us here.

Party time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB8KDQG6VVs

>>35078184
>>35078222
>>35078224
note made.
>>35078245
nice. What's it from?
>>35078260
>implying they do't just show up for the final vote and ignore the rest.
>>35078273
already put that forward anon.

>>35078260
We seem to agree more often than not. More step forward when we really disagree, or are making hard choices.

>>35078201
2

>>35078281
the original song is "Behind blue eyes" Tiniest of tweaks and it works so well.

>>35078281
>already put that forward anon.
I know, I was gonna link that Hellsing AMV to the song to your's, but the post was gone.

>>35078281
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfuWXRZe9yA

>Doesn't know the who

Where... where the hell are you from?

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>>35078301
yeah. so many good song choices, let's leave it up to Artemis to make that choice.
>>35078309
sorry. pic related.

>>35078245
>>35078301
I like.

>>35078291
I think it says something about the personality of our hive when choosing whether to favor sneaky or spooky while still basically being both is the kind of thing we have a heated disagreement about.

It's a wonderful feeling.

There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing

Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing

Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing

Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing

Well, if we do end up with the Kairi disguise option, we should bring Control Shadows online to help her out, and Conceal Thoughts to help her pretend to be us.

Also, Force Screen for ourselves, we forget that too often.

>>35078329
Indy, mate. born 1993
>inb4 'kids these days don't appreciate good music'.
hey, I'm a bit of a busy guy, I can't listen to 40+ years of music.
>>35078355
I know that feeling. Its the kind of feeling you get when you don't take your pyromania pills.

>>35078374
You know, even if we DO go in singing ourselves, we should disguise Kairi as us as well. Further confusion.

>>35078358
it is undoubtledly an excellent choice.

>>35078384

I...
>kids these days don't appreciate good music

>>35078410
Infact i don't think there's been one choice of song I don't approve of, so far.

>>35078412
Anon did appreciate it. Anon just hadn't heard it before.

>>35078384
As long as you know Floyd and Queen you're fine

>>35078384
Hell, it's not ringing any bells for me, and I've got 12 years on you.

I suppose you're going to tell me not to burn the pills. If they're not supposed to be on fire, they're not really pyromania pills now, are they?

Within the time limit, 2 won by 1 vote it looks like.

Writing

>>35078457
Dude The Who is pretty high on the list of BANDS YOU SHOULD KNOW.

But if he doesn't know Queen we need to strip him of the title Gentleman and take him out back and shoot him.

>>35078435
It's like saying you've never heard Moonlight Sonata. Sure it's possible, but do you really expect it?

>>35078501
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI

>>35078474
Well, alright, though how about this prep work as well: >>35078374
Get Kairi buffed and ready, ourselves, sneak in while providing shadow control to enhance Kairi's entrance (and slowly lessen the shadows around things we want to make sure she sees)

>>35078549
>and slowly lessen the shadows around things we want to make sure she sees
..What should be scarier for a scary monster than the shadows retreating from it leaving it more well lit?
The inverse of scaring people with encroaching shadows.

As I type, what is the consensus about the song you want Kairi to sing?

>>35078583
Personally, I favor Willy Wonka.

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>>35078464
*sigh* yeah I suppose you're right.
>>35078494
>>35078501
Hey, knowing OF the band is one thing, being expected to recognize EVERY SINGLE SONG EACH BAND RELEASED? No, that ain't human. and of course I've heard moonlight sonata, Queen, Pink Floyd, and most of the big name rock/metal bands, just don't expect me to be a goddamm encyclopedia on them.
>>35078542
Goddamm it Fire. come 'ere.

>>35078583
These two are my favorite suggestions so far:
>>35078245
>>35078101

>>35078583
>implying we have a consensus
I vote this: >>35078245

>>35078583
I don't think we have one.

What would Kairi pick?

>>35078542
I cannot believe I set myself up for that. I'd like to apologize to the entire thread. I am terribly sorry.

>>35078583
The variant of Behind Blue Eyes

>>35078583
Willy Wonka boat song

>>35078621
I wonder what Nephrite would recommend.

>>35078583
I like the wonka song.

>>35078583
Behind Red Eyes.

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>>35078245
This reads like a Red Eyes' theme song, except for a couple tweaks.. her dreams are more empty than her conscience, and she bites hard with her anger, rather than biting it back.

>>35078630
I'd apologize too, but impulse control is the opposite of what I stand for.

Let's blow something up.

>>35078762
mind waiting on that until after the quest ends for tonight? Please, thank you.

>>35078730
I have to disagree. It is completely off from what Red Eyes is. Behind Blue Eyes is a very sad melancholy song, and not much is going to change that.

>>35078788
Why wait? We're in a sewer. I'm sure it burns all kinds of pretty colors!

Though I suppose we should Clever Girl this monster first.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI
Hey you Mrs. I don't know what the fuck your name is
I'm drawn to you, something's magnetic here
If I could approach you
Or even get close to the scent that you left behind
I'd be fine

No doubt that (no doubt)
You bring out (bring out)
The animal inside

I'd eat you alive
I'd eat you alive
I'd eat you alive
I'd eat you alive

>>35078831
Good theme song going into an episode of The Red Eyes Show

>>35078838
Remember, we're here to rescue HOSTAGES! Not charbroil them! Go burn a gas station down between threads or something, whatever keeps your head clear for these situations.

>>35078878
Don't forget rescuing the monster as well.

Less concerned about rescuing anyone that did that to her though.

>>35078831
I'd have voted for the Willy Wonka song, but hearing it again is dredging up childhood nightmares....

>>35078898
that is included in hostages.

>>35078730
>>35078876
Mind you, I'm not says a soul-barring themesong should be what she should sing, unless Kairi feels like being too open about Red.

>>35078905
"I want to get off Mr. Wonka's Wild Ride "

>>35078992
I know old meme is old but,
>The Ride Never Ends.

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>>35078878
Hey hey, we're a legend here. Us, and maybe Kairi. And these girls are not hostages. Hostages are bargaining tools, and we're not here to negotiate. Trufax.

Those girls... are eyewitnesses.

>>35079022
actually, they're ammo.

We need them free so they can't be used against us.

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>>35079022
and you wonder why no one invites you to birthday parties, bar crawls or campaigns that aren't mindless monster killing.

>>35079079
Ammo... or... Food? I bet they're all feeling just Preachy right about now.

>>35079088
I'm told I become quite the silver tongued bastard when I'm playing Catan. But we are not playing Catan, so tonight I'm a psychopath.

You whisper your plan of action to Kairi and press the Disguise pen into her open hand. Eyes meeting in the dim light, a communication and resolution that there will be no backing down. That there will be no surrender.

Wrapping the darkness around you like a blanket as she depresses the jewel on the back of the pen, you step into the unhewn cavern of loose dirt invisibly as you weave the rest of your defenses unseen and go round the corner toward the light.

Decorations cover the room, sloppily adhere and pinned into the dirt walls. There in front of a simple card table is the hulking green back of the monster enemy.

“I guess that’s enough singing. We’ll have lots more fun and plenty more songs when the others get here,” she sighs in a large mock pout before exploding back into pep, “Then we can all remember. Won’t that be fun!?”

She is larger than Amazonite, though her figure is clearly feminine. She wears the torn remains of a skirt. Long straight and wet hair hands across her spined back, and cascades down her front, providing some amount of decency. Her skin is deep green, and as she turns into your field of vision, her face is happy and would be cute aside from the thing and sharp teeth.

Weaving your magic in the time afforded to you before Kairi provides your distraction, you observe the girls bound to folding chairs. Their Pajamas are dirty, and Shizuka has been crying. Nijiko’s voice is hoarse. She grits her teeth in defiance.

“You aren’t the girl I can’t remember,” she snarls barely able to keep talking, “I would never be friends with someone so terrible,”

>>35079022
>>35079079
>>35079142
I'm thinking more ignoring the girls, when it says we can have them, we shrug and be like 'why would we want them?' or Kairi should, whoever it asks.
That should put it off balance.

Egad.
I just realized my main thought for this fight is social combat. Confuse, chat up, ask about the principal, make out like we're their new monster friend. Then, when we've learned all we can, or when the scouts show up, we hit hard. Grapple Restoration, or keep it locked down while Koyomi cleanses.

>>35079232
Fists crackle and turn to stone. Walls of telekinetic force form around you. Powers surge as you invest your mana back into yourself and feel yourself grow strong, waiting for your moment.

The brute of a woman turns, pupils dilating within her lavender sclera as they look through you to the pathway you came from.

Slow steps proceed out of the darkness, as a familiar figure walks with swaying rhythm.

Yes. This will grow your legend. You will feast on the fear even in heroic victory.

“Round the world and home again
That's the sailor's way
Faster faster, faster faster
There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing”

She begins. Gamu approaches, walking past you to take in the sight of your friend. And the song continues.

Manipulating the shadows on the wall you create a play of horrific shadow puppets which give the green goliath pause. Nijiko starts laughing nervously.

“She’s here for you,” she whispers while Shizuka curls further into the chair and screws her eyes shut, “God and Buddha can’t help you if she’s come for you,”

The song continues as Kairi steps into the dim light. The monster snorts as steam jets from her nose.

“Are you a new friend?” she asks innocently, “There’s so much fun to be had here,”

>>35079259

“Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing”

As you lunge forward at Gamu’s exposed back to strike, you paint a mural on the wall in the shadows for Nijiko and Shizuka to see. Your clawed shadow with fanged mouth agape sneaking up upon the green woman, from the other side than you are actually on. Not going to take any chances even with the theatrics. Just from looking at her for so long, you instinctively know that she has no innate spellcasting power, just brute strength and beastial ferocity. Physically, she exceeds you.

And you’ll relish this fight.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 43 End

>>35079259
Aaaaaaaaand all that just went right over her head. Great.
>>35079283
Next thread when?

>>35079283
Thanks for running dude. I can now pass out.

>>35079283
Good times.

>>35079302
>Aaaaaaaaand all that just went right over her head.
It's at least as much for the girl's benefit as the monster.

>>35079283
Oh yeah. This is gonna be fun.

No interludes tonight?

>>35079333
I'll admit, I was hoping to banter more, or have Kairi banter more while we poked around.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkD-lmQ9BcU

Interlude Vote:

>Crowning Promotions, the Mysterious Owner!
>Second place, Determined to finish the race!
>Stop, Hematite.

So, how did you guys enjoy my puzzle dungeon of clues, cues, and blind luck.

You made smart choices which wound up helping you out and cutting down the time, and you made some good logical choices. I figured it would be easier than running a complex dungeon crawl with drawings I couldn't reliably make quickly.

>>35079437
>>Crowning Promotions, the Mysterious Owner!
Sounds like somebody's been caught browsing 4chan~

>>35079437
>>Crowning Promotions, the Mysterious Owner!
Time to meet the owner.. why is there a cat here?

>>Second place, Determined to finish the race!
Not sure.

>>Stop, Hematite.
A new challenger has appeared!
And I'm getting them some gold parachute pants.

Once again, I am drawn.

>>35079458
Seemed to go well, awesome that our collective guts were right about the offices.

As for next thread.

Next few days I have Holiday Plans, to which I must wish everyone a sweet year as is my custom.

And this weekend I have a big D&D session/send off party for a friend moving far out of state on Saturday...so next thread will be sometime next week unless time opens up and I'm not at services for as long as I think I'm going to be.

Either way, good night. No Omake in the morning as we are in autosage. Lively thread.

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>mfw I realize that for the next 9-10 rounds the girls will just see "The Beast" fighting the monsters while it keeps screaming as vicious wounds keep scraping into it from no apparent source while Red Eyes' growls seem to be in distorted stereo. With that mural of shadow blood being accompanied by a thatchwork of claw slashes and punishing bruises.
1) Ouch.
2.) That's a new kind of terrifying that's come to save you from the terrifying thing.

>>35079437
heh, wrong picture.

>>35079638
I was going to ask wtf that was.

You know, we should talk to Kairi about setting up a support group for people that have traumatically been monsters.

>>35079651

If you've seen all of Madoka Magica, and movie 3: Rebellion...then you know just how horrifying that image is.

Just how horrifying.

>>35079693
>peers closer
Ah.
The cut of the image had me seeing that as a completely different hairsyle on the blonde and I didn't recognize.

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>>35079693
ARTY! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>35079693
But Nagisa is adorable! I mean, sure, she plays with her food, but what kid her age doesn't?

>>35079813
I'm horrible.
I laughed.

>>35079789

Watch as I distract you with a terrible secret!

Something or someone(s) was meant as a one off gag but evolved into something more involved. How has no one called me on it yet?

>>35079789

Watch as I distract you with a terrible secret!

Something or someone(s) was meant as a one off gag but evolved into something more involved. How has no one called me on it yet?

Forgot my trip

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>>35079949
I've no idea who you're talking about, but let's just say they're in good company.

>>35079437
>Second place, Determined to finish the race!

>>35079949
The whole Tuxedo bear thing? I figured it was part of your master plan.

Well, with immediate points of interest like Jojo, SAO II, and the duo of Sailor Moon shows out of the way- any suggestions on things to watch before a sink into another evening of Borderlands 2 (is rather addictive, friends got it for me in recent sales heralding the new one).

>>35080032
Space Dandy
Aldnoah Zero
Barakamon
Nichijou
Monthly Girls Nozaki-Kun
Place to Place
Log Horizon (SAO but infinitely better)
Accel World (SAO's infinitely better "sequel")
Arrow

>>35079949
I'd question whether it was Mikage's various identities, but she seemed to start with an extensive list.

Though the first time we realized how 'in character' she put herself was a nice ride.