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They said a midlife crisis came wrapped in chrome, or in some extreme sport.

And those were the best cases.

Worst case, a midlife crisis comes wrapped in frilly underage girls, with all the implications. You know, the implications that lead to arrests.

At least that's not your midlife crisis. Sure, there are frilly high school girls involved, but that's just because you recently found out your daughter was a magical girl, and had been hunting demons on the sly for a year, with a pack of crazy friends.

...who you're pretty sure are a bad influence on her.

And even if they aren't, the magic rat (you're pretty sure he'd prefer to be called a ferret) that you discovered breaking into your house certainly is.

Of course, the silver lining is that your midlife crisis also came wrapped in fluffy tails, when you discovered your wife was a kitsune. Then your daughter tried to kill her.

They came to an understanding, then they were conscripted into a family bonding remodeling project to repair the damage they'd done to the house.

And then, her friends showed up. A blue haired girl (Sue?) who's had the hots for you after she went after you with a samurai sword, and you responded by blowing her arms off with your shotgun.

A black haired girl (Harriet?) who's repeated this year thirty times to stave off the apocalypse. And failing every time. This is the first loop she's met you, so she thinks you might be the key to stopping it.

A redhead (Karen) who got into this world of "attempted murder = hello" as... a fucking hobby? Goddamn thrillseekers.

And a pink haired girl (Mary?) who seems to maybe be a goddess. You're still not sure exactly how classifications work in this brave new world of gods and monsters.

You grilled for them, chatted with them, and then managed to talk down a young goddess with your dadly wisdom, and a handful of profanities.

So they stayed over in your daughter's room for a sleepover, as your wife dragged you off to bed.

Midlife crises, man.

Can you pick them, or can you PICK 'em?
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>>2639338
Don't forget that we can supposedly do magic if we can figure it out because we married a kitsune. Also, I love what you're doing, our character was and is absolutely the dadliest catch our wife could hope for.
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>>2639338
You wake up in the dark, pretty sure you've had a crazy dream, but you can't quite remember it.

Your wife is still sleeping next to you, looking more relaxed than she has for years, tails spread across the bed.

Maybe it's the relaxation that come from not having to keep that sort of secret anymore.

You're certainly not relaxed about all the recent revelations. Well, your reaction to your wife's has been positive, but certainly not "relaxed". It's been, uh, rather 'hard'.

Your reaction to your daughter's demonslaying has been hard in a different sense.

And then you remember that today is Monday, and you settle into the ingrained routine of workdays for years. You're an accountant - of course you have a routine.

You disentangle yourself from those oh-so-fluffy tails and head into the kitchen to make coffee and rustle up a little breakfast.

As you fry bacon and eggs, waiting for the coffee to boil, you hear soft footsteps coming.

You don't turn around. Bacon and eggs takes CONCENTRATION, dammit, but you do catch a reflection in the front of the microwave.

>It's black hair (Harriet)
>It's pink hair (Mary)
>It's blue hair (Sue)
>It's a red ponytail (Karen)

[META NOTE: Votes run on 20 minute timers from first voting post at first, then shift to 10 minutes from first voting post, once the thread accumulates a critical mass of players. Occasionally, I'll ask for D100 rolls - high is good, low is bad.]
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>>2639415
>It's blue hair (Sue)
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>>2639415
>It's blue hair (Sue)
Never gonna get tired of shooting her down, sometimes literally.
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>>2639415
>>It's blue hair (Sue)
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[META POST]
Twitter: for rutimes and my comments:https://twitter.com/HaikuDeluge
Please treat all comments about happening quest events as you would the joshing commentary of an older brother who's seen the show before. It is all in fun, and definitely not canon.

Archive: for catching up on this quest: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Shotgun
Due to archiving issues, 'Shotgun' is the only tag that works.

You don't know why?

Read the damn threads.


>>2639383
>absolutely the dadliest catch our wife could hope for

Why do you think a multi-tailed supernatural fox even bothered to marry him?

>>2639418
15:03 - 15:23 Voting Period (or 20min from quoted post, for other timezones)
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>>2639415
>>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639415
>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639415
>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639415
>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639415
>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639415
>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639338
This shit is still going on? I thought it was supposed to be a 1-2 shot.
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>>2639497
It's fun. Why not keep it going?

>>2639415
>It's black hair (Harriet)
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>>2639415
>It's a red ponytail (Karen)
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>>2639415
>>It's black hair (Harriet)
HA HA TIME FOR MORE DAD THINGS TO DO!
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Votes:

Sue:
>>2639418
>>2639434
>>2639439

Harriet:
>>2639446
>>2639462
>>2639465
>>2639469
>>2639475
>>2639487
>>2639499
>>2639516

Karen:
>>2639506

>>2639497
>I thought it was supposed to be a 1-2 shot.
I started thread 1 blackout drunk, on a whim, but I've realized there's a lot of good material in the premise to unpack.

...And apparently a playerbase that wants to be along for the ride.
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>>2639499
>>2639527
Oh great a oneshot being stretched out to a full series. We all know how well those always turn out...
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>>2639527
We can't help it Haiku. We enjoy a good Dad-Quest.
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>>2639415
Usually, you're up and out of the house before either your wife or daughter is awake. Being in early pays in your business, and even if it didn't, you'd prefer to spend your time at work instead of sitting in traffic.

It's too bad you don't get to see your family in the morning most of the time, but your wife's a stay-at-home novelist, writing urban fantasy, and your daughter's a schoolgirl who can get away with running after the bus with toast in her mouth.

"You're up early," you say to the black-haired apparition behind you, "smell of bacon wake you up?"

"Not really," she says, sitting down at the kitchen table, already dressed in her school uniform, "I'm an early riser. Might as well make the most of the year."

You can't quite argue with that, but you feel something pressing on your heart at the thought of a girl that young, who's repeated the same year over and over to try to stave off the apocalypse.

Or maybe she's delusional.

"So," you ask, as a father, "you ever try telling your parents about this whole thing?"

"Yes," she says, her expression getting a degree colder, "once. And it worked out so well that time that I've been getting legal emancipation from them as fast as I could every time after that. Little more freedom that way."

That gives you pause. Did they commit her to a mental institution? Do something even worse?

They don't sound like wonderful parents. When you found out what your daughter had been doing, you hugged her and took her out for ice cream.

You flip the bacon.

>So, you live on your own now?
>How does the world end?
>How did you get emancipation that fast, at your age?
>WRITE IN
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>>2639604
>>So, you live on your own now?
You could live with us.
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>>2639604
>So, you live on your own now?
>Coffee or Orange Juice?
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>>2639604
>>So, you live on your own now?
>>How does the world end?
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>>2639604
>that abd huh?
>>So, you live on your own now?
>Coffee or Orange Juice?
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>>2639604
>>So, you live on your own now?
>Coffee or Orange Juice?
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>>2639604
>How does the world end?
>How did you get emancipation that fast, at your age?
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>>2639614
15:46 - 16:06 (20min after quoted post) voting period.

Might go Speed Questing (10min votes) very soon. Response times are justabout there now.

>>2639547
I appreciate your vote of confidence.
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>>2639604
>So, you live on your own now?
>You could live with us.

>Did you just... tell them? Not show and tell? I mean there's very little to argue about once you've seen this hubbub with your own eyes.
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>>2639604
>So, you live on your own now?
We're playing the daughteru gacha game.
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>>2639652
>gacha game
Hey, you get what you get via votes, and you don't even have to pump real money into it!
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>>2639662
>you don't even have to pump real money into it!
Your loss
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>>2639666
I'm now going to steal this idea.
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>>2639604
"You tell them," you ask, trying to get a full handle on this, while dishing out the bacon and eggs, "or did you show them?"

"Oh," she says, with an intense look in her eyes, "I did both. When you tell someone, you need proof, right?"

There's a slight pause, then she says "you know, every call into the police, into CPS, into the FBI, NASA, SETI, any government agency that could be a threat to them, somehow gets routed to the demons?"

"I'd really prefer not to do that again," she tells you with a sigh, "and my parents aren't exactly the type to go to a shaman or a wizard instead of someone with an acronym on their business card. An acronym that's not their name," she adds, as you raise an eyebrow.

Then the toast pops. Usually, you'd have both pieces, but you slide one onto each plate.

"Coffee or orange juice?" you ask, getting ready to set the table.

"Coffee," she says, "black as my hair."

Alright, you can do that. There's enough in the pot for three. One for you, one for your wife's first cup, and one for her second.

By the time she's through her first, she'll realize that she needs to make more.

"So," you ask, as Harriet begins to tuck into the bacon and eggs, "you're living alone?"

"Yesh," she answers thickly through a mouthful of eggs, "crazy what an apartment a teenager can get when they win the lottery, right?"

Oh. That's time travel for you.

"Enough money to pay off the right people to turn a blind eye to the fact that they're not a legal adult," she continues, crunching into her bacon, "and usually enough, although I've had problems in the past," she says with a grimace, "to pay off enough of the human government to get out into my own place."

>You could live with us
>You're a damn resourceful girl
>As an accountant, I respect you
>Are the bacon and eggs good?
>WRITE IN
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>>2639753
>>You're a damn resourceful girl
>>As an accountant, I respect you
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>>2639753
>>As an accountant, I respect you
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>>2639753
>As an accountant, I respect you
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>>2639753
>As an accountant, I respect you
>You could live with us
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>>2639753
>You're a damn resourceful girl
>As an accountant, I respect you
>Are the bacon and eggs good?

Why not all three?
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>>2639764
Alright, we're speed questing now.

16:26 - 16:36 Voting Period.

I've got a paper towel shoved up my nose for a spontaneous nosebleed. Is this a questing injury?
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>>2639753
>You're a damn resourceful girl
>As an accountant, I respect you
>You could live with us
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>>2639753
>You could live with us
Winning the lottery is cool and all, but did you never consider crashing at a friends place?
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>>2639753
>>2639782
>You're a damn resourceful girl
>As an accountant, I respect you
>Are the bacon and eggs good?
>You could live with us.

Why not all four?
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>>2639753
>As an accountant, I respect you
>But you could always live with us, if you prefer
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>>2639790
I'd say air humidity is the likelier culprit.
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>>2639753
>>You could live with us
>>You're a damn resourceful girl
>>As an accountant, I respect you
You need to socialize more. Being alone is a bad thing at your age.
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>>2639753
>>You're a damn resourceful girl
But
>You could live with us
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All you people offering a place to live, whilst not even questioning the wife.
Not even letting her have the first cup a coffee.

You all might be liable for a couchin', were the past days not so interesting.
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>>2639753
>You could live with us
If you ain't making us roll I'll be sad.
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>>2639753
>"you know, every call into the police, into CPS, into the FBI, NASA, SETI, any government agency that could be a threat to them, somehow gets routed to the demons?"

Tch, you're just killing my plan to invite all of their parents and forming a kick-ass parent association.

But you won't foil me that easily! TT owes us one, surely he can host a meeting.

Now unfortunately I need to go to bed. Everyone, write-in and vote sensibly, make us all proud!
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>>2639753
>You could live with us
>You're a damn resourceful girl
>As an accountant, I respect you
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>>2639753
>You're a damn resourceful girl
>As an accountant, I respect you
>Are the bacon and eggs good?
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>>2639753
"You're a damn resourceful girl," you say, "and, honestly, as an accountant, I respect you."

There's an innate force of hostility that rages up around you, but she tames it down.

She sees your expression, and apologizes, "Sorry," she says, lifting a mouthful of bacon on her fork, "I just..." she sighs, "have a hard time accepting that. Anyone who praises you wants something from you. Parents. Schools. Employers. Everyone. And yes," she says, fixing you with those intense eyes, "even you. At the very least, you want information. You want to know how to get your daughter out of this mess. You want to know what apocalypse to prepare for," she says, standing up from the table, half her food uneaten.

"I'm going back to bed," she tell you, "It'll be inconvenient if some of the others find out I woke up before them."

You watch her walking back down that hallway to your daughter's room, knowing there's nothing you could say or do that could bring her around right now.

That girl is looking for something else.

Something you're not sure you've ever seen. Something you're pretty sure you can't give her.

She wants closure on the end of the world she's seen thirty times.

And then she turns a hair, winks, and whispers "especially Sue."

...Well, that makes some sense.

>Call out after her: "You could live with us."
>Don't -0 you have to go to work
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>>2639890
>>Call out after her: "You could live with us.
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>>2639890
>>Don't -0 you have to go to work
That's a nest hive we don't wanna shake, also, who can guarantee we can live up to any hope we give her?
That's just cruelty for cruelty's sake.
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>>2639890
>>Don't -0 you have to go to work

We already pushed her too far for now.
We'll ask her later.
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>>2639890
>>Don't -0 you have to go to work
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>>2639890
>I'll have to ask my wife but I want you to come stay with us.
Call this out.
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>>2639890
>>Don't -0 you have to go to work
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>>2639890
>>Don't -0 you have to go to work
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>>2639893
16:52 - 17:02 voting period.

You know the drill.
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>>2639890
>>Don't -0 you have to go to work
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>>2639890
>I'll have to ask my wife but I want you to come stay with us.
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>>2639890
"I'm not Harry Potter," you whisper, remembering what you told her last night, and maybe she heard it. Maybe she didn't.

More of your mind is taken up by emptying the remaining coffee in the carafe into a thermos, then setting it to brew three cups. So your wife doesn't have to brew her own later today.

...ok, someday you'll get a better coffee maker.

And then it's off to work.

Stil early enough to evade most of the traffic.

Then you walk in through the familiar doors, and something feels off. Have you just spent enough time with the supernatural that the natural feels odd?

You slam through spreadsheets, review documents, calculate deductions and payroll, you are a typhoon of accounting wisdom and knowledge: co-workers, even those you'd never met before stop by your desk to ask questions you find simple, but they choke on.

And with a few words from you, they see the truth.

A typical Monday.

At least until you hit lunch break. It's not with a client today - you have it to yourself.

>You brought a lunch, eat it while trying to brush up on supernatural things via the internet
>The rat's squeaking a bit, isn't it?
>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639890
>Don't -0 you have to go to work

Wait till we get home and make sure its good with our foxy wife.
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>>2639967
>>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639967
>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639967
>>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639967
>>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639967
>>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639984
17:13 - 17:23: Ten minute voting periods.

We're speed questing.
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>>2639967
>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639967
>>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
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>>2639967
>TFW we and T.T so drunk we just happily singing in the middle of our road about our girls being mahou shoujo
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>>2639967
>>Call T. T. to set up a Dad's Night Out on the bars!
It's time to bro it up!
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>>2639967
Alright, you've got a business card, and you should use is to make a decent business connection.

T. T., it reads, flipped at you when you'd helped him absorb a demon in Eastern Europe. After he'd praised you.

Harriet's words echo in your ears as you dial the number: "Anyone who praises you wants something from you."

"Good noon," a subservient male voice answers, with a hint of an Indian accent, "who do you wish to speak to?"

"T. T." you say, in unmistakable English.

"Are you sure you don't have the wrong number?" the voice asks, with a hint of hindi in it.

"You wish I'd been there at Tunguska," you say, remembering what the red-clad magus? had told you.

"Oh," he says, in a voice bearing nothing of India, "it's you -"

And then you cut him off with a curt "Let's go for beers."

"Sounds good," he says, and name a place to meet that's in an alley near you, assuring you it's a new craft brewery.

You accept - this is what you wanted, after all - beers with another dad. A dad who had a daughter caught up into these rats' magical nonsense.

Now it's back to the daily grind.

>Keep going with Accountant day
>Interrogate the rat somewhere - like a supply closet
>WRITE IN
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>>2640084
>>Keep going with Accountant day
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>>2640084
>>Keep going with Accountant day
See if the rat can help us crunch numbers
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Also, let's make sure to notify the wife.
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>>2640084
>Keep going with Accountant day
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>>2640084
>Keep going with Accountant day
ARBEIT MACHT FREI!


>>2640084
Also this as well
>>2640098
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>>2640084
>Keep going with Accountant day
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>>2640084
>>Keep going with Accountant day
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>>2640094
17:40 - 17:50 Voting period. Ten minutes from first voting post.
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>>2640084
>>Keep going with Accountant day
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>>2640115
https://youtu.be/LHsbypcJfkw?t=3m32s
How I imagine the dad to sound like.
Also a tale about bulls, in the embed.
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>>2640084
>Keep going with Accountant day
>See if rat can help us crunch number...he can't be a normal japanese salaryman for nothing
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>>2640084
...It's another day of accounting. Taxes for small businesses, appreciations, being heralded as a god for quoting the right government publication to an associate, when he didn't know what it meant.

It's who you are.

You just wish you could make all of them, all the people involved, what you are. But it's not like you've got authority for salaries. That's HR.

And you doubt if they'll recognize some of those up-and-coming talents for anything.

So at the end of the day, you take the elevator to the parking garage, and walk almost straight into the arms of T. T.

"So," he says, "Let's go."
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>>2640162
The man opens a wedgie into spacetime. One that opens into a bar.

Then... you go. It's the sort of place you never would have gone to in your Country Boy days. Never you'd have gone to in your college days, except to snag the sorority chicks there...and that was just as a wingman.

This is a good bar.

A fancy bar. The sort of thing T. T. would drag you into.

And he gets a pair of seats away from the hoi polloi, and asks:

So, why did you accept my invitation?

>Dad beers
>You know about the rats.
>Write in
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>>2640246
>Dad beers
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>>2640246
>>You know about the rats.
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>>2640246
>>Dad beers
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>>2640246
>Dad beers
We are going to drink and do karaoke!
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>>2640246
>Dad beers
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>>2640246
>Things are getting a little hectic with my rat situation. I just needed to get away from it all with some Dad beers for a while.
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>>2640246
>>Dad beers
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>>2640246
>Dad beers
>Yeah, and you know about rats
>Plus i really needed a breather
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>>2640251
18:13 - 18:23, you know the drill.
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>>2640297
(You)
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>>2640297
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>>2640246
>>Dad beers
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>>2640246
>>You know about the rats.
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>>2640246
"Dad beers," you say, "I only get some many opportunities to talk to someone in the same situation."

"Well," he says, "whaddya wanna know?"

...if you didn't know better, you'd say the man had been pregaming.

"From one father to another," he says, "the rats are full of fuck. Any more questions?"

Yeah, they're full of fuck, and this guy is full of that red wine he seems to love.

Maybe you can get some good answers out of him while he's tipsy.

>What are the contracts?
>Why do you hate the 'rats'?
>Look, I've got a 'rat' in my pocket, want to interrogate him together?
>Jesus H. Christ, why do you drink like that?
>WRITE IN
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>>2640380
>What are the contracts?

I feel like pulling the rat out just gets it fucked by T.T.
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>>2640380
>What are the contracts?
>Down for some Karaoke in a while?
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>>2640382
18:33 - 18:43: Voting Period.

Do the stuff, make your dad proud.

...As if you ever could.
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>>2640380
>What are the contracts?
>Down for some Karaoke in a while?
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>>2640380
>What are the contracts?
How did you get started with magic?
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>>2640380
>>What are the contracts?
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>>2640380
>>What are the contracts?
>>Down for some Karaoke in a while?
yea time for dad shinenigans
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>>2640380
"There are a lot of contracts," T.T. says, looking you straight in the eye, "some are good, some are bad."

You know that, you're a fucking accountant. And no matter how many drinks that waitress gives you, you'll always be an accountant.

"You know what I'm talking about," you tell him, leaning in, "the ones the rats make."

He starts laughing.

"That's what I'm a few over already," he says, eyeing you with a piercing blue eye, "I don't like talking about that when I'm sober."

"As near as I can figure out," he says, and motions for a waitress to refill his glass of wine, "it's, uh, a lot like the standard contract: 'I grant you the ability to cast my magic, you kill demons, I get a percentage of the energy from those demons'. Except there's an extra rider," he says, leaning in toward you, "it's a debt franchise. And one they can't get out of. The rats transfigured our daughters to transform, and the energy that took is given as a loan, which is, eh, far over what their killing demons could get them in five years. Without interest."

"To be fair," he continues, "changing a human to be able to transform like that takes a lot of energy -" he says, then stops to take another swig of wine, "and makes the human in question dependent on magical energy to survive."

"They're trapped," he says, those blue eyes locking with yours, "and since they consented, we can't abrogate it."

A waitress shows back up to your table out of the blue, and asks what you want.

You suddenly realize why the man in front of you, this proud wizard, drinks. And why he takes on "S-Class" demons.

>Something to blow this out of my mind
>My daughter's in debt to this the worst debt collectors - do you have something?
>Double Whisky
>Double Vodka
>WRITE IN

[The karaoke may come. I'll file that away as an option]
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>>2640525
>Something to blow this out of my mind
>My daughter's in debt to this the worst debt collectors - do you have something?
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>>2640525
>Whiskey

>Alright, now, what if our daughters could generate magic on their own? Or did the fuckers screw that option entirely too?
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>>2640525
>>Double Vodka
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>>2640535
19:00 - 19:10. You know the drill.
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>>2640539
i like this,
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>>2640525
>Double Whisky
What if the girl is half Kitsune? would take less energy to wield magic, no?
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>>2640525
>Double Whisky
So basically, they screwed them over? Damned magical mustelids.
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>>2640542
Lets not get sloshed.
Just an old fashioned.

If we slosh, long island Ice tea. 2.
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>>2640525
>WRITE IN

Is there anyone that the rats (as a whole) answer to?
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>>2640562
If you respond to the story post, it makes it a lot easier to count votes.
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>>2640525
>>Double Whisky
Bring us some of that Ol' number 7
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>>2640525
>Double Whisky
JACK DANIELS HEED OUR CRY FOR YOU!
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>>2640525
"Double Whisky," you tell the waitress, and then she flits off.

Something, anything, to blow this out of your mind, is what you want right now.

"So, T.T.," you ask, "what if one of our daughters could generate her own magical energy?"

His eyes go wide. He begins to mutter,

"What if they could transform on their own?" you ask, "how would that interact? What if they were half-kitsune and got pulled into a contract like that?"

With the air of a true scientist, he looks you dead in the eyes and says: "I don't - " then with the eyes of a father - "fucking know."

Then the waitress brings you your double whisky. And you down it.

Just for tonight, you'd like to forget about all this, all this crazy shit that wasn't on you before you landed in this magical world.

"Hey," T.T. says, "got any more questions before I'm too sober to be truthful?"

>WRITE IN
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>>2640638
>How much do you know about time travel and end of the world prophecies?
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>>2640651
19:22 - 19:32 voting window (10min from quoted post)

You know the drill.
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>>2640638
>Whens the next time we do this
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>>2640638
"Is it possible to give these girls more than enough magical energy to pay off the debt?"

I wonder if demons worshiping us can produce magical energy or if it HAS to be life energy to pay off the so called debt.
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>>2640638
is hell real?
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>>2640638
>couldn't you make your own magic generator from the bad demons to pay off the debt and juice the girls?
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>>2640638
>How much do you know about time travel and end of the world prophecies?
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>>2640638
Are there other ways of harvesting magical energy?
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>>2640638
>show him your ring "she's a kitsune, we've been married for years, think i could have gathered mana passively or something?"
>"how do i fireball?"
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>>2640638
How can i harvest energy to help my daughter (like you do).

What do you know about prophecies or time travel.
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>>2640638
"Too sober to be truthful?" you ask, "more like too drunk to lie."

"Same thing," he says, "so go on."

"You know anything about Time Travel and End of the World prophecies?" you ask him.

"There was someone I had a... passing acquaintance with," he says, grimacing a little, "who did time magic. Not a friend. And I don't know anything about End of the World prophecies other than the influence of 'Revelations' on demonology and Gnosticism."

Well, that's a strikeout. So you'll try hitting close to home plate this time.

"Any other way to harvest magical energy to pay off that debt?"

"Why do you think I was trying to absorb an S-Class?" he asks you, "when you first met me in Eastern Europe."

Well, it wasn't to get power for territory, as Mary (the young pink-haired goddess, and also gang leader) had assumed.

There's an intensity in his eyes that only another father could ever understand. He did it to get the best for his kid.

"Did it work?" you ask, wondering if you should just find an S-Class and kill it for your daughter.

T.T. shakes his head, a little too forcefully, then fixes you with his eyes, "Do you know how interest works?" he asks, "What about franchise loans? Franchise loans on a body modification? The franchise loans on a body modification that's supposed to be a lifetime asset for the rats - lifetime for the assets, not the rats. As far as I know, the rats are immortal.

Our daughters will be in debt until they die. All we can do is stave that off."

That should have hit you like a sledgehammer. Sounds like usury.

...But it didn't. You're a little tipsy. And you blurrily realize that this is what T. T. has been doing.

How he's been dealing with having a magical girl for a daughter.

"Let's go somewhere more interesting," T.T. tells you, opening a portal, a terrifying wedgie in the universe's backside.

>This had better not be a strip club - I'm a married man!
>Are you sure you're good to portal?
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>>2640818
>>This had better not be a strip club - I'm a married man!
>>Also my wife will kill me.....in bed
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>>2640818
>>Are you sure you're good to portal?

Please, we probably have the best woman in the world. The strip club will do nothing to us.
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>>2640818
>Are you sure you're good to portal?

Note to Drunk Us: Interrogate Rat to find the best way to completely pay off the debt that won't take a literal fucking eternity.
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>>2640818
>This had better not be a strip club - I'm a married man!
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>>2640818
>Can you get me a copy of a contract?new, used, doesn’t matter long as it’s while and up to date.
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>>2640818
>Are you sure you're good to portal?
>[Laugh] The girls need serious help from an accountant and I just happen to be one.
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>>2640828
19:54 - 20:04, yadda yadda.

>>2640832
>Please, we probably have the best woman in the world.
T. T. is also a married man with two daughters.
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>>2640851
Buut, his wife isn't a literal kistune.
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>>2640818
>Are you sure you're good to portal?
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>>2640841
The usual ways apply.
We can make the rats owe us their lives, hostile takeover their corporation(or equivalent), find something that would make them consider waiver away the contract. etc.
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>>2640897
Basically, become the bigger evil.
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>>2640897
yep. we'll become fucking google(or comcast) if we need to.
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>>2640897
>>2640911
Other ways:

>Find alternative (magic) income sources. (Check with in-laws)
>Reduce energy expenditure. (Refine the girls transformations and attacks to lower costs)
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>>2640818
> So how do we kill the rats is the question.
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>>2640818
>Are you sure you're good to portal?
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>>2640818
"Are you sure you're good to portal?" you ask the wizard, wondering about those eyes, and a few of the things he's said.

"Definitely," he says, "and we're not going to a strip club," he tells you, somehow chucking you through spacetime's wedgie as he leaps through it.

You'll chalk it up to not expecting it. There was nothing you could have done.

Maybe he had you from the moment you walked into the former bar.

You're now outside a very different looking bar. The accountant in you categorizes it as both a dive bar and a 'real money earner'.

"So I've got a few tips for you," T.T. says, "don't fuck with the bouncers, don't get slammed, and, if someone wants to fight you, don't pull you magic or your weapon before them."

"Oh," he continues, "and I feel like some of the other dangers in there, you're insulated from as a VERY married man."

...He's slammed. And you can't place this bar front on any street you know.

So you walk in the doors with him.

And the bouncer intones, in the beepest bass you've heard from any throat:

"T.T., and GUEST, please ENTER".

And suddenly you're inside.

>Hang with T.T.
>Just hit the bar
>The poker tables looks like a great place to be
>Write In
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>>2640925
>(Refine the girls transformations and attacks to lower costs)
Doubt that is possible, since the rats transform them. It would be easier to ask TT how he seals the demons and teach them how to do that.
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>>2640952
>>Hang with T.T.
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>>2640952
>The poker tables looks like a great place to be
>Inb4 we literally clean satan out of his money while drunk off our ass by complete accident and we won't remember any of it.
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>>2640952
>The poker tables looks like a great place to be
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>>2640964
20:20 - 20:30 VOTING PERIOD

>>2640965
How do you know Satan would be at those tables?

(He's a bit more honorable on his debts than some of his troops.)
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>>2640952
>>>Hang with T.T.
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>>2640978
Because Satan can't turn down a good game of poker.
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>>2640952
>Hang with T.T.
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>>2640957
Give them magic shotguns. Must be cheaper than transforming
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>>2640952

>Hang with T.T.
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>>2640952
You've seen this before.
You just didn't expect to see it with him.

Half the folks in the bar know this guy, and he walked in drunk.

You were supporting him.

So you walk him to the bar. Order a water for the amazing magus.

...And then someone slides into the bar on your other side.

>Do I know you?
>Do you know him?
>Who the fuck are you?
>Write in
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>>2641048
>>Do you know him?
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>>2641048
>>Do you know him?
His turf; his people.
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>>2641048
>>Do you know him?
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>>2641048
>Do you know him?
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>>2641048
>Do you know him?
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>>2641053
>>2641054
>>2641057
>>2641058
Why would someone go for that?

Give that idea to me and I will find a world worth dying for in what you wanted
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>>2641048
"Alright, cocksuckers"

That's what you slammed into those those various ideas.

Did those terrible ideas profit off my ideaition of what an electric guitar is him?

Suck my cock, douchebag,
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>>2641066
>>2641074
what?
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>>2641082
... my guess is that op might be drunk. or has someone else that is shitposting while he's away.
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>>2641066
>>2641074
He's lost it, shame.
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>>2641048
Its our brother-in-law.
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>>2641048
"You to wanted to create you we all moved, didn't you all?
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>>2641089
I wonder if our alcohol choices at the start of this bar hopping adventure literally us picking out what booze he's going to down.
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OH. i know what is happening! the pretty motherfucker is telepathic, is drunk as balls and is projecting is ramblings on us.
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>>2641048
> Hey, are we related?

Fox dude, we married a Fox, IDK how many there are kicking around.
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>>2641048
This guy is trying to come on as the kitsune idea that NONE of us could do, do matter how CRISP those ideas are.
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>>2641066
>>2641074
>>2641095
>>2641124
Do you need medical help?
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>>2641134
This could also be his way of bailing out, but let's watch the madhouse unfold.
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>>2641124
Wait what is happening?
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>>2641167
I think OP got mugged
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>>2641181
RIP QM, another good one bites the dust.

Press F to grieve.

F
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>>2641185
F
This is all that fucking rat fault
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>>2641048
There's something about getting a father drunk that no other man should do.

Even if the warp comes to him him to create some strange court for it.

...And even if that other man is down for those ideas.>>2641048
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did someone drop GHB in the mc's glass?
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>>2641208
How did you get this fucked up in under an hour.
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Something about being in here, in this place, destroys what should be, and substitutes what it.

Votes from last thing what I remember:

Do You know him?
>>2641053
>>2641054
>>2641058
>>2641064

It's our brother in law
>>2641094

>>2641251
You don't want to know how I drink.
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>>2641253
>You don't want to know how I drink.

But we do Haiku. We do want to know how you drink.
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>>2641253
please stop using liquor bottles as suppositories, it's just wrong
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>>2641253
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LO_uew-F9M#

Reminder that you can't vomit vapor
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>>2641054
>>2641057
>>2641058
>>2641064
>>2641066
>>2641074
>>2641082
>>2641089
>>2641091
>>2641094
>>2641095
>>2641106
>>2641119
>>2641121
>>2641124
>>2641134
>>2641164
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>>2641181
>>2641185
>>2641195
>>2641208
>>2641246
>>2641251
>>2641253
>>2641261
>>2641265
>>2641267
You feel piledriven into hell, but you're not quite there.

Something looking over you from above dies into a sea of vodka.

...He's fucked, but your're a dad, not some drunk dick running quests.

And you're ok, right?

>Grab T.T. to get you the fuck out of this bar
>Just get out to the exit yourself
>Close your eyes and hope this was all a stupid nightmare.
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>>2641307
Guys, best to let OP rest for now.
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>>2641307
>Grab T.T. to get you the fuck out of this bar
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>>2641307
>get another whiskey.
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>>2641308
First voting post at 21:54, voting closes at 22:04
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>>2641307
>Grab T.T. to get you the fuck out of this bar
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>>2641307
>>Grab T.T. to get you the fuck out of this bar

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>>2641307
>>Grab T.T. to get you the fuck out of this bar
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>>2641307
>ask T.T. if he's seeing the same shit as us and if any of this is normal?
>get ready to gtfo with him
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>>2641307
>>>Grab T.T. to get you the fuck out of this bar
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>>2641307
. . . .

Just go to sleep bro.
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>>2641307
I'll support >>2641315
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>>2641307
You climb toward the fuckface that brought you here and mouth "get me out".

He pulls you through the door.

"I was pretty sure sure you could take it," the guy in the red suit tells you, "the atmosphere in there is damn intense. Even if it's a neutral zone."

"Neutral how?" you ask him, "and you said this would be fun."

"Look," the winebibbing cocksucker says, "I didn't realize you'd collapse in there. I thought you'd have an idea of what you'd be facing, I thought it would be a good guys' night out for us."

Ok, great, T.T. is drunk off his ass.

...And somehow you're worse.

>GET. US. OUT. OF. HERE,
>This was a good idea, a wonderful idea. Fantastic, even, T. T. Just get us out.
>You baited me into this and got me wrecked, this is your fault, T. T.
>Write in
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>>2641359
>>Write in
Maybe next time we should begin in a place like this. Remember that i just have one week dealing with magical stuff.
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>>2641359
>>GET. US. OUT. OF. HERE,
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>>2641359
Supporting this
>>2641365
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>>2641359
backing this >>2641365
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>>2641359
>seriously, the fuck is going on? yesterday i was still standing in front of a.. goddess in training? and now i just don't even
also, this: >>2641365
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>>2641365
22:15 - 2:15 Voting Period.

Help me god, I've fucked up and pissed off my questers. What is my penance?

Selecting Squares with vehicles?

I can do that.
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>>2641359
Supporting >>2641365
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>>2641377
i thinnk people are more confused than mad
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>>2641359
I'll support>>2641365
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>>2641377
And now we've entered the stage of Bargaining/Depression.

>>2641383
As far as I'm concerned, I think it's okay so far concerning the whole drunkenness incharacter and out of character.
Now that I think about it. I wonder if it is too late to drunk confess our love to the Rat?
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>>2641389
our love to skin him clean and then throw him away in some old forgotten redneck county? yes.
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>>2641359
"Maybe next time," you say, "we should start in a place like this, instead of coming here half drunk."

"That's a good idea," your red-suited burden tells you.

...Ok, he's fucked, and you're at least 3/4ths fucked. By liquor.

You're a married man.

,,,But you might be a divorced man after this stunt. Which you really had little control over.

>Just don't try your magic like this - I'll get you home
>Just portal us home, man
>Just, uh, that fire thing? Do it!
>Look, man you're fucked up, don't try anything. I'll get us home
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>>2641399
>Just, uh, that fire thing? Do it!
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>>2641399
>>Just, uh, that fire thing? Do it!
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>>2641399
>>Just, uh, that fire thing? Do it!
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>>2641399
>>Just don't try your magic like this - I'll get you home
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>>2641394
We're drunk so we have to cut off at the I love you part for the humorous part
>>2641399
.>Look, man you're fucked up, don't try anything. I'll get us home
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>>2641401
22:29 - 22:39 Voting period

You know the drill.
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>>2641399
>Look, man you're fucked up, don't try anything. I'll get us home
and so we took a taxi out of hell
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>>2641399
>Just don't try your magic like this - I'll get you home

Jesus dude. Learn some better coping skills. It's a Monday FFS.

> make the rat port us hime, keeping it out of T.T.s sight.
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>>2641399
"Hey," you tell him, "don't try shit unless I'm dead."

His limp acceptance tells you everything you need to know about the alcoholic battle he's waged against the knowledge that the rats had one, or both of his daughters.

He's been dealing with it like this.

You've taken a shot (or several) at what he's doing. And it's just not worth it.

The alcohol is clearing from your synapses as you hail a taxi and bundle him into it.

...Hopefully he can remember his address. Before he racks up a terrifying taxi bill.

Now you'd got to deal with anyone who followed the two of you out of the bar.

"Hey!" you hear down the alley, "this is still where no mortals give a shit!"

>Run
>Take him
>Ask what the rules are
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>>2641434
>Ask what the rules are
"AND A CHING CHONG BING BONG TO YOU TOO GOOD SIR!"
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>>2641439
22:52 - 32:02 Voting Period.

Here we go.
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>>2641434
>Ask what the rules are
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>>2641434
>>Ask what the rules are
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>>2641434
>Alright! Good to know!

i really want to say >>2641439 , but being drunk its not an excuse to fuck up.
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>>2641434
>Ask what the rules are
then immediately kick trash into his face
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>>2641434
"So what are the rules?" you ask, and then you see someone dressed in sunglasses dash out of the shadows.

"Alright!" he yells, "You should all know back alley rules for this bar!"

"Everyone starts with fisticuffs! If you pull weapons or magic out first - well, if you lose, uh, you know what that means. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?"

"YOU SUCK!" the fast gathering crowd yells.

"If you win," he continues, then waits for the response,

"WHO FUCKING CARES?"

"Oh, and," he says, looking around, as if he wants to see his supervisor, "we'd prefer if you didn't splash someone across our walls. Police suck cock."

"You guys ready?" the guy in a ref' uniform yells.

>Yeah, you're ready
>No, you really, really, need to consult with your corner,

Who happens to be:
>Blue/Sue
>Red/Karen
>Your Daughter
>How the fuck did T.T. get back here?
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>>2641477

>Yeah, you're ready
>How the fuck did T.T. get back here?
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>>2641480
second
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>>2641480
23:10 - 23:20 Voting Window.

You know the drill.
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>>2641477
>No, you really, really, need to consult with your corner,
>Blue/Sue

In the times like this where this girl is very very useful
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>>2641477
>>Yeah, you're ready
>Red/Karen
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>>2641485
also not stalking us because you know....she dont want his daddy hurt or anything....or at least bone him once in her life
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>>2641477
>>Yeah, you're ready
>>How the fuck did T.T. get back here?
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>>2641477
>No, you really, really, need to consult with your corner,
>Blue/Sue
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>>2641477
Ok, how the hell did T.T. get back here? You just packed him off to his family in a taxi.

...It's probably better not ask.

"Look," he tells you, just in your ear, "I vouched for you here, If you get killed by that guy, I'll lose face."

And THAT'S supposed to give a good explanation for him coming back to sit in your corner like a boxing manager?

"And remember," he whispers to you, "even if you bring out that shotgun first, he still loses if he loses."

"That guy's a psycho," he tells you, "and if you can just taunt him into a stupid attack, you can probably get him!"

..Then the GONG goes off.

> It's fisticuffs - just close with him
>You're better at wrasslin', so go for that
>Hang back and look for an opportunity

[GIMME A D100]
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>>2641513
>You're better at wrasslin', so go for that
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>2641513
>>You're better at wrasslin', so go for that
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>>2641519
23:31 - 23:41, or 10 minutes after quoted post - voting period.

>>2641519
Give me a roll
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Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>2641513
>It's fisticuffs - just close with him
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Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2641513
>>You're better at wrasslin', so go for that
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>>2641527
>>2641526
Stop rolling

The average is high
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>>2641513
You jump at the fox-eared bastard.

Wrasslin' is something you know. You shoot at his knees, then feel him fall.

Wait, fox ears?

He doesn't want to go down, and he has more power than you.

And he smells familiar.

>Bait him into pulling his weapon first (an idea flits across your mind): "I fucked your sister last night!"
>Sling out the shotgun, and try for the shot on it
>Wrassle him to the ground
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>>2641539
>>Bait him into pulling his weapon first (an idea flits across your mind): "I fucked your sister last night!"
>Write-in
>Punch in the gonads
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>>2641547
23:44 - 23:54 voting period.

YOU KNOW THE DRILL

TAKE HIM OUT
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>>2641539
>"I fucked your sister last night"
then >>2641547
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>>2641539

>Bait him into pulling his weapon first (an idea flits across your mind): "I fucked your sister last night!"
GO FOR THE DICK
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>>2641539
this, >>2641549
a cheap shot is a good shot
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>>2641539
>>2641547
yes
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>>2641539
>>Bait him into pulling his weapon first (an idea flits across your mind): "I fucked your sister last night!"
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>>2641539
>Bait him into pulling his weapon first (an idea flits across your mind): "I fucked your sister last night!"
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>>2641539
"I fucked you sister last night," you tell him, as you realize what you've been smelling from him.

"Yeah," he says with a sharp indraw of breath, "Makes me your brother-in-Law, huh?"

...There's still something dangerous, even if he's being civil.

The he suddenly unsheathes his sword, and tries to stab you with it.

"You want a draw," you ask, your shotgun pointed at him, "or do you want to die?"

[The apparent Brother-in Law:]
>A draw sounds good
>How about you come to visit us sometime?
>No, I'd REALLY like to keep going with this
>WRITE IN
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>>2641596
>>How about you come to visit us sometime?
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>>2641596
>How about you come to visit us sometime?
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>>2641596
>How about you come to visit us sometime?
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>>2641596
>>How about you come to visit us sometime?
mouth "please help"
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>>2641596
>>How about you come to visit us sometime?
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>>2641596
>How about you come to visit us sometime?


> In fact, if you come you can stay forever

Lunge and kill the uppity human!
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>>2641616
Fuggin' gay.
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>>2641596
Oh shit I finally caught up!
>A draw sounds good
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>>2641623
>Lunge and kill the uppity human!
What?
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>>2641623
>>2641634
Found the fox
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>>2641596
How about you come to visit us sometime
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>>2641638
>>2641307
>>2641164
Are we going meta? I don't know if this is supposed to include other characters acting as a player now.
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>>2641596
"or," he says, "you can suck mine."

This isn't too good.

You've got a shotgun.

He's got a sword.

"Hey," he says "want to visit us some time?"

He stares you down. Out of the corner of your eyes, you can see onlookers flattening, like the magical girls had around you wife.

>Sounds good - Been meaning to visit the in-laws
>Fuck it, you're a dad with a shotgun, and if his sister decided you were a good match, that's her decision!
>Just blow him away
>Write in
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>>2641661
>Sounds good - Been meaning to visit the in-laws
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>>2641661
>Just blow him away
After he lost
>Sounds good - Been meaning to visit the in-laws
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>>2641661
>>2641596
>[The apparent Brother-in Law:]
>>2641648
Oh. This was a perspective switch, now I get it. I thought we were still playing as the father. I thought you stopped doing perspective switches.

>>2641664
+1
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>>2641663
00:36 - 00:46

You know the drill.
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>>2641661
>Sounds good - Been meaning to visit the in-laws
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>>2641661
>>Sounds good - Been meaning to visit the in-laws
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>>2641661
>Sounds good - Been meaning to visit the in-laws
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>>2641666
Nice try Satan
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>>2641661
"Sounds good," you say, "been meaning to visit the-"

And that's when he jumps you with a sword.

A fucking sword. In the 21st century,

Here we go.

>make him fellate your shotgun
>Just blow his arms off.
>All the above.

[ROLL D100s, please]
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Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>2641687
>All the above.
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Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>2641687
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>2641687
>make him fellate your shotgun
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Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>2641687
>>All the above.
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>>2641691
>>2641690
Seconding
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>>2641687
>All of the above
I have a bad feeling our brother-in-law will be after our dick as hard as Sue soon.
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>>2641690
00:52 - 01:02, voting period, ya know?

>>2641692
Con-fucking-grats.

>>2641694
Holy shit
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>>2641687
>>2641694
"This is much less awkward than the last time I did this... so long as you don't start humping my leg."
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>>2641694
>>2641687
The dice have spoken.

Take out his knees in true Murderface fashion
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>>2641700
> He also starts to suggestively lick our shotgun

Goddamnit that was suppised to be intimidating! Now we just feel tired at how fucked up this whole magical world shit is. Come on, I have a wife!
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>>2641705
Pancakes, Whiskey, cigarettes, and victory anon.
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>>2641687
He just jumps at you.

Hey, he pulled out his weapon first.

...It's too much like the last time you did this.

If he's in the air, he can't dodge.

You pull. Like it's a clay pigeon.

Right arm.

Pump.

You pull.

Left arm.

Pump.

Then he lands in a heap at your feet.

Then it's time for the finishing move.

[SHOTGUN IRRUMATIO]

You shove the hot barrel down his throat.

He gags.

>COUP DE GRAS
>Pull it out of the poor man's throat
>You understand why your sister married me now, don't you?
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>>2641717
>You understand why your sister married me now, don't you?

It's in poor taste to kill a relative.
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>>2641717
>You understand why your sister married me now, don't you? And what I do to her mouth every fucking night now?
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>>2641717
>ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

play to the crowd!
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>>2641720
Especially when if anyone is going to do it, it's going to be our wife.

In fact letting him live to face her is *probably* crueller, since we have work in the morning and don't have the time to drag things out.
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>>2641721
Dude. She's still our Wife. Don't ve talking bad about her like that.

Instead ask him

> I doubt you like this as much as your sister does, lucky for you she'd bw jealous if we blew load in anyone else's mouth.

Or something.
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>>2641717
>You understand why your sister married me now, don't you?
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>>2641717
>>You understand why your sister married me now, don't you?
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>>2641717
"You understand why your sister married me," you say, joggling the shotgun barrel in his mouth, "right?"

"And why I had her scent all over me?" you continue, "right?"

"and that I hold your life in one finger of my right hand," you say, smiling at him, and then finish with "Judge!"

"Winner!" the redhead says... and you can't help but think this guy is little older than your daughter.

And he's calling fights in a back alley between supernaturals.

And you.

"And his opponent pulled his sword first!" the redhead umpire yells, "and he couldn't finish it!"

"What do you think of that?" he asks the spectators (wait, there were spectators?).

You hear a wave of "cocksucker!" "Serves him right!" and "glad he finally fellated a shotgun!" from the crowd.

>Look, he's done. Let's let him go.
>Alright, I'll finish him
>WRITE IN
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>>2641748
>Look, he's done. Let's let him go.
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>>2641748
>Look, he's done. Let's let him go.
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>>2641748
>>He's done. Let's let him go.
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>>2641750
01:22 - 01:32 voting period.

Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker?
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>>2641748
>WRITE IN

Take him home to face our wife.
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>>2641748
> WRITE IN

Also take his sword. Dude doesn't have hands to hold it with anyways now that he's been . . . Disarmed

> Our true revenge, Dad Jokes.
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>>2641748
Guys should we be afraid when we get home about Sue?
>Take the Katana from him
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>>2641761
Why? We won, and we didn't kill him.
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>>2641748
"Look," you say, "he's done. let's let go. Do you remember Battle Royale?"

There's a murmur from the older portions of your audience.

"Do you want to do that to this guy?" you ask, "he only killed demons. Not his classmates."

They part like the Red Sea.

And he gives you a look over his shoulder.

"And I'll take his sword because," you pause for maximum dramatic impact, "that means he won't be able to do as much evil with it!"

Cheers.

You never thought you'd get cheers.

"Now that he's been..." you pause for the crowd to understand what you about to do, "Disarmed!"

...You really never thought you'd get cheers for a dad joke.

Particularly for something like that, where you just went all in on the dad jokes.

Then you disappear.

Out of the crowd's sight, you're suddenly in front of someone.

Must have been the rat.

>You're in front of your wife
>You're in front of that Blue-haired psycho
>You're in front on pink-hair (Mary?)
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>>2641765
>You're in front on pink-hair
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>>2641765
>You're in front of your wife
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>>2641765
>>You're in front of that Blue-haired psycho
COME ONE GUYS LETS GIVE HER A CHANCE OF CHARACTER EXPOSITION!!
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>>2641766
01:47 - 01:57 Voting period
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>>2641765
>>You're in front of that Blue-haired psycho
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>>2641765
>You're in front of your wife
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>>2641765
>You're in front of your wife
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>>2641765
>You're in front of your wife
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>>2641765
"So," your wife says "you took that good-for-nothing brother of mine out. I'm surprised he thought he could take you down."

"after all," she tells you, and then you realize you're on your bed, spreadeagled on your back, with a hungry fox atop you, "I never liked that guy anyway. He was always a cocksucker, and, uh,"

She pauses.

"No," you say, "he only sucked my shotgun."

"What about that visit your folks want?" you ask, almost innocently.

"If you've taken him out," your wife says, "then that shouldn't be a problem."

>So, did you take announcer out?
>Did you humiliate him?
>WRITE IN
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>>2641781
> So, what were you doing there anyways in the first place? With a strange man, when we haven't been out on a date in so long?

Yes, use this to make him take us out and pamper us!
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>>2641781
I'll support this>>2641783
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>>2641783
Yeah i support this
also add this
>Yeah i have to introduce Melon to our in-laws too
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>>2641783
This
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>>2641781
Seconding this >>2641783
Also will this turn out to be Melon and friends in the country?
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>>2641786
It's from the perspective of our Wife, so it would be introducing her to our Family.

Gotta get our allies prepared for war against the Rats.
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I have been curious but why did our wife declined their hand in proposal to us i mean what is there that is none from their demon peers?
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Welp OP asleep see you tomorrow
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>>2641797
Who proposed to our Wife?
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>>2642024
Probably what he meant is why our wife choose him than those demon prince in her Homeland.
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>>2642052
> Probably

> What he meant

Dude. Do you see the orange with the numbers above your post? That's your ID so people can see that >>2641797
>>2641805 and >>2642052 are all the same ip address.

So it comes off as you talking about yourself as if you were a different person, maybe English is your second language, but it comes off as someone new to the board samefagging.

I agree actually that it would be interesting to deal with one of our wife's ex-suitors when we visit her family though.

Then again, maybe she's just rather terrifying to other foxes and we were the first one to propose to her while treating her like an average American woman we met at a bonfire party out on a buddy's farm and bonded together over our love of beer, bonfires, and shooting off guns.

> A fun game is to get a .22 and tie a bunch of beer cans to a branch.

You shoot the can from about 5m away then run up and shotgun the rest of the beer before it drains out. The trick is to hit it neer the top of the can. Lucky White is the best for this, or alternatively AGD.

> MFW reading this as an actual Canadian redneck who went into a white collar job

> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-AYvotXVF-c

'Berta!
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>>2642052
For some reason I also imagine our wife came from like, Yamamoto in Akita or some other hick region full of booze and gun fetishism so she came to America because everyone there was a little bitch about things.

And also that she hates being called a Bitch because it means dog, and everyone called her "The Akita from Akita" because of her "unrefined nature"


Pic related, classical Akita look for women.

Yeah it's surprisingly hard to find the Japanese equivalent of rednecks.
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>>2642116
i think she liked us because we were the only "normal" proposal she got. Every other demon got her some tortured souls and some other shit, while we got her a nice dinner in a nice place and then we hit the bar after that.
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>ywn get fuckeyed on malt liquor with the QM
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>>2642156
Pffft you don't know my life.
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So what the actuall fuck happened to our qm. Did he get as drunk as the character
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>>2642337
seems like he was representing all the noise the bar patrons were generating and how our MC perceived it.
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>>2642337
>So what the actuall fuck happened to our qm.
I fell asleep on the floor mid-thread.

Sorry about that.

Hopefully I'll be able to resume this in an hour or so.

>>2642164
That's a great picture
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>>2642337
From what I gathered from the his twitter and his inbetween posts, yes he did get shitfaced.
Or at the very least, is very very good at trolling.
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>>2642385
Ah cool, that answers that.
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>>2641781
"So, what were you doing there anyways in the first place?" she asks you, growing a bit more menacing, "With a strange man, when we haven't been out on a date in so long?"

Oh.

Right.

Home remodeling doesn't count as a date, as much good as it is for family bonding.

And how does she know where you've been, anyway? you wonder. You're not still drunk enough to pass something like that off as "women's intuition".

She takes a deep sniff.

"I don't smell a woman on you," she continues, "so it looks like I don't have any scores to settle there."

"But really?" she asks, pouting a bit, and that's a dangerous look on a hot supernatural creature who's been around god knows how many years, "getting shitfaced with a magus instead of taking me out?"

>Dad beers!
>I just needed some time away from all this
>How do you know where I was?
>WRITE IN
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>>2642454
>>Dad beers!
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>>2642454
>>Dad beers!
> and trying to find out more about all the magic stuff
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>>2642454
>>>I just needed some time away from all this
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>>2642454
>>Dad beers!
>Just two men, trying to comfort each other.
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>>2642454
>Dad beers!
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>>2642454
>Dad beers!
>"Want a beer?"
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>>2642454
We married best girl.
>Dad beers!
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>>2642460
14:28 - 14:38

FYI, sleeping on the floor is uncomfortable.

[spoilers]And half a 1.75l of vodka does not make them more comfortable.[/spoilers]
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>>2642454
Backing this >>2642467
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>>2642454
"Uh," you say, not sure if you're up to fighting a second kitsune tonight, "dad beers. Just a couple of men talking about their families. And magic. And trying to comfort each other a bit."

Then you realize you found out nearly nothing about T.T.'s family, or his real name.

"Or just trying to get a bottle to comfort them," she adds, smirking, "not that we haven't all done it," she finishes with a barking laugh.

...That's a lot of teeth for someone holding you down on a bed to be showing.

"Y'know," she says, laying down on top of you, and whispering in your ear, those sharp canines just brushing your earlobe, "you dealt with finding out our daughter's secret a lot better than I did."

>How long have you known?
>How did you deal with it?
>Seriously, how did you know where I'd been?
>WRITE IN
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>>2642499
>>How did you deal with it?
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>>2642499
>How long have you known?
>How did you deal with it?
>Seriously, how did you know where I'd been?
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>>2642499
>>How long have you known?
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>>2642499
>How did you deal with it?
>Seriously, how did you know where I'd been?
>"Our daughter is in debt! We have to get her out of it!"
Not really much of a point asking how long since she probably has her own magical senses.
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>>2642507
14:46 - 14:56, you know the drill.
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>>2642499
>>How long have you known?
>>How did you deal with it?
>>Seriously, how did you know where I'd been?

all the things
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Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2642499
>How did you deal with it?
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>>2642499
>What even is life?
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>>2642499
Note the ring.

Also glasses for the wife then?
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Ffs
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>>2642499
"So," you whisper into her ear fluff, "how DID you deal with it?"

"I, uh," she says, her face flushing, "got shitfaced right after you and Melon left in the mornings. Every day. For," she pauses, cocking her head to the side while trying to remember, "a few months, I think? I was usually sober by the time she got back from school."

Oh.

You HAD wondered why 'makeup' was a line-item expense in the family budget for a few months, since you never saw her put any on.

...Not that she needed any. Jesus.

"Got a publishing contract out of it," she tells you, grinning a little, "turns out I write the trashiest urban fantasy tripe when I'm slammed, and that's apparently what sells."

Then the smile falls off her face, like a cloud passing over the sun.

"Although finding out our daughter was in debt to the rats," she says, "that's a worse story than anything I wrote. And I kept wondering if she'd have gone for it if I'd let her in on my secret earlier."

There's something in her eyes that speaks to the year of knowing the situation (you'd bet that she smelled the magic on your daughter the first time they met after the contract), but being too afraid to say anything.

After all, look what had happened to the house when she did come out to her daughter.

You wouldn't have been too happy to come home from work one day to that scene.

>WRITE IN
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>>2642567
"We'll find a way for her to get out of the debt. We can't just do nothing about it."
"Say, how did you know where I was? Was that bar an old stomping ground or something?"
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>>2642578
Supporting
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>>2642578
15:24 - 15:34
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>>2642567
So, how do we pay off that debt? And apparently one of our daughter's friends is a time traveler, who thinks i'm the key to saving the world in a year or so, which seems important. Ideas?
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>>2642567
I'm not going to lie, I wish you at least told me sooner. I'm mainly dealing with it by acting. If I think about it too long I start remembering sis, or doing something dumb like getting drunk on a Monday.
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>>2642567
>Well we might have a way but we need energy and to refine the transformation and all that stuff.
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>>2642587
>>2642598
>>2642580
>>2642601
Wait guys. What if there is a loophole in the Magical Girl contract that we can exploit or make the contract voided? Because if the Rats can enchant items despite saying they can only give magic to the girls, then there has to be something in the contract that can be fucked with because it was worded a certain way.
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>>2642567
You wrap your arms around her and say "don't worry - we'll get her out of the debt. We're all in this together now, right?"

"Yeah," she says, leaning into you, "I probably should have said something sooner about all this."

That statement deserves the 'Understatement of the Year' award, no matter how cutely she's snuggling into you.

"As it is," you tell her, "I'm just acting like I've got it together. I've got some bad memories about this kind of stuff."

Her ears perk up.

"So I'm not the only one with secrets?" she asks, one eyebrow raised.

"I was there when my sister died," you tell her, "and she was a magical girl."

>She turned into something
>A demon ate her
>I'd really prefer to not talk about it
>WRITE IN
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>>2642619
AMERICA has usury laws. The contract is illegal and she is underage and signed it without a guardians permission.

Not that they give a shit... But if the demons run the world, lizard style, I'm sure they'd hold a magical trial to void MG contracts. I mean, they would be getting rid of pests that run around and kill them.
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>>2642637
She stepped into a portal, turned around and gave me one last sad smile. Told me to "Take care of Mom and Dad". Then the portal closed, and she never came back.
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>>2642637
>>A demon ate her, swallowed the mobile trailer whole after I went outside for a piss
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>>2642656
Ooh I like this.
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>>2642637
>She turned into something

"Something worse than a demon. A Nightmare incarnate. Last time I saw her she went into hell and never came back out."

Combined with this Anon's post
>>2642656
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>>2642656

support.
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>>2642656
15:49 - 16:00 Voting Period.
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>>2642637
>>A demon ate her
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>>2642637
>>She turned into something
Then promptly fled into a portal and never came back.
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>>2642656
I like this, voting
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>>2642637
>She turned into something
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>>2642664
This
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>>2642664
>>2642675

Pretty much this.
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How fluffy are Kitsune tails, and what do they feel when stroked?
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>>2642656
I support this.
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>>2642637
Your wife says nothing, waiting for you to continue.

So, you do, although it takes a lot of effort.

"It was back when we were teenagers," you say, "pretty soon after I figured out what she was doing. She asked me to keep quiet about it, and I did."

You've got to force yourself to go on, even with the look of concerned interest on Liska's face.

"Not sure if that was really the right call," you tell her.

"Anyway," you continue, "the last time I saw her, she stepped into a portal, told me to 'take care of mom and dad', and then the portal closed."

You can see it again, like it was yesterday. The image haunts your nightmares every so often - your sister turning around to give you one last, sad smile, standing in the blasted landscape on the other side of the hole between worlds.

Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you in the dream - sometimes she turns into something nightmarish, sometimes you see her eaten by something on the other side.

Sometimes you jump through after her. Those dreams are the worst ones.

"Where was the portal to?" your wife asks, an odd look on her face.

"It looked like," you tell her, "Hell."

"Taking the fight to them, huh?" your wife says gently, then looks like she's struggling with whether to say something.

It's a strange look on her usually confident, smiling face.

"There's a chance," she tells you slowly, as if she's not sure if she'll regret saying this, "there's a chance she's still out there."

"It's been at least thirty years!" you tell her, trying to process what that would mean, the hole in your heart hurting even more with the faint hope it could be filled, "she didn't pass 'go', didn't collect two hundred dollars, didn't get to live her life, just walked straight into Hell!"

"It's only a chance, dear," your wife says, gently stroking your cheek. Then she smiles, "so that's where the protective streak comes from."

"...and that's why you do stupid stuff like leaving your car at the office and coming back slammed with my brother's sword in your hand," she continues, "that's a hell of a thing to carry that many years."

"I always liked bad boys," she tells you, licking her lips, a a hungry blonde incarnation of your fantasies, "do you have any idea how hot a tragic past is?"

That's really not the reaction you'd expected. This is a damn crazy world you've walked into.

>I'm not sure I'm in the mood
>Go with it
>Honey, I'm going to need a ride to work tomorrow
>WRITE IN
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>>2642767
>Honey, I'm going to need a ride to work tomorrow

>"Can we take it slow tonight? It's just that talking about that part of my past puts a damper on my passion."
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>>2642767
>Honey, I'm going to need a ride to work tomorrow
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>>2642767
>>2642779
Yeah taking about trauma we kept for thirty years seem like a boner killer
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>>2642767
>>Honey, I'm going to need a ride to work tomorrow
Can we just cuddle?
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>>2642767
>>2642779
this
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>>2642767
>>Honey, I'm going to need a ride to work tomorrow

>"It looked like," you tell her, "Hell."
Is our sister DoomGal?
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>>2642779
16:28 - 16:38 Voting Period

>>2642786
Someone hasn't played enough H-games.
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>>2642794
I think we're the proto doom slayer, shotgun wielding, demon slaying badass
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>>2642812
>>2642794
What if the big factor in the MG Apocalypse was that was no DoomGal/Doomguy involved? And because of this happening, this might heavily affect how this interval plays out.
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>>2642794
I'm actually convinced we are alt world doomguy.
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>>2642767
You hear something that might have been a peevish squeak from your pocket saying "just fuck already."

Might have been the bedsprings, or your imagination.

Unfortunately, talking about the secret that's colored your life for years doesn't really get you in the mood for that sort of thing. It might have been a nice release, but it's just not what you want right now.

"Honey," you say, dragging things back from the magical to the mundane as she gently bites your neck, "I'm going to need a ride to work tomorrow."

She laughs softly, and says "you really don't know how to read the mood, do you?"

"That's a bit rich, coming from you," you tell her, "bringing that part of my past out kind of puts a damper on my passion. And you say I'm the one that can't read the mood?"

She gives you a little smile, then wraps herself and her tails around you.

"Mmm," she says, "I can be content with cuddling... tonight," then gives you a bit of a devilish look, "stop worrying about this stuff for a bit and just get some rest."

That actually sounds like a good idea. A REALLY good idea. And then you pass out.

You wake up to an empty bed for the first time in a number of years, with a bit of a hangover. The first thing you notice is the clock - it's a little later than you usually get going in the morning.

Then you notice the smells of someone cooking breakfast.

Something seems a little different about the room, and then you realize that the sword you won last night is hanging on the wall at the foot of the bed.

One shower later, and you're walking into a kitchen where your wife is cooking breakfast, and your daughter is a little bundle of energy getting ready for school.

...It's actually pretty nice to see everyone else before heading off to work.

>Hug your wife
>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?
>Chat with your daughter until breakfast is served. [WRITE INs/topics appreciated]
>WRITE IN
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>>2642859
>>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?
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>>2642859
>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?
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>>2642859
>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?
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>>2642859
>>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?
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>>2642859
>Hug your wife
>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?

JustDadThings
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>>2642859
>Hey, Melon, want to see a souvenir your dad got?
It's a glorious kitsune steel folded 10000 times even the guy who used this said human go home you're 10000 early to use this and I introduced him to my partner shotgun sama

Honey please stop laughing
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>>2642863
17:02 - 17:12

>>2642747
On a scale of '1' to 'Fluffy', they're 'Pretty Damn Fluffy'.

So fluffy I'm not sure I can really describe them.

>>2642878
I love you.
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>>2642878
Supporting
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>>2642878
This, maximize ham.
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>>2642878
I like your style Anon.
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>>2642878
>Shotgun-sama
Hearty /k/eks were had, thanks Anon. Also supporting this
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>>2642859
Looks like nobody noticed you come in to the kitchen yet, and an idea strikes you.

You turn around and grab the sword from your bedroom wall, then walk back into the kitchen, hiding it behind your back.

"Hey, Melon," you say, using Marion's pet name, "want to see a souvenir your dad got?"

She look at you excitedly, then her face falls a little.

"Are you talking about that black eye?" she asks, with some concern.

Oh. You hadn't really thought about it, only giving it a glance in the mirror.

"No," you tell her, holding out the sword, "I'm talking about this."

Her jaw drops, and she fumbles in her pocket.

"It's glorious kitsune steel folded ten thousand times," you tell her, with a stupid grin on your face, "the guy I won it from said 'go home human - you're drunk, I mean a thousand years too early to face me'. So I introduced him to my partner, shotgun-sama."

"Honey," you say to your wife, "please stop laughing."

She's almost bent double with an attack of the giggles.

Melon, on the other hand, is smiling at you with rapt attention.

"Man, Dad," she says, "that's... wow. Ok," she says, pulling out her phone, "you have GOT to let me take a picture. Sue's gonna be so jealous."

To oblige your daughter, you pose with the sword in front of you, and pull it a few inches out of its sheath, so the pattern of the blade is visible.

It actually looks really, really good.

"HUMAN," a voice thunders in your head a second after the flash goes off, "YOU'RE A THOUSAND YEARS TOO EARLY TO DRAW ME!"

"Oh, honey?" your wife calls from the kitchen, "did I forget to tell you there's a ghost living in that sword, and we haven't figured out how to get it to leave yet?"

>That would have been good to know, dear
>Now I get why your brother was so nuts when he had this out
>Just push the blade back into the sheath
>I'm better than the last guy, Sword
>Do you have a name?
>WRITE IN
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>>2642943
>Sword, Do you really want to be in this fucking house. I have an evil rat making contracts, I have a daughter who murders demons, My sister is dead, and my wife has got to be half Sucbuss. Either shut up or be nice.
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>>2642948
support.
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>>2642943
>Draw the sword and hold it above the barbeque to show superiority.
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>>2642948
>Now I get why your brother was so nuts when he had this out

Also supporting this because it's too funny to not be used.
>>2642948
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>>2642943
>>2642948
This then

>Just push the blade back into the sheath
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>>2642948
>>2642958
>>2642963
>>2642971
Everyone who wants this, start rolling dice.
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>>2642943
>Do you have a name? NO WAIT LET ME GUESS!
Proceed to rattle off a list of names ranging from not unreasonable to gut busters.
Fox claw, kitsune blade, thousand year waiting period, self assured doofus 2: Electric Boogaloo, sord, glorious nipon 1000 fold steel demon razer, pointed stick (VERY clear and slow pronunciation on this.), and any other suggestions my fellow anon's have.
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Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>2642978
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Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>2642978
CHING CHONG BING BONG!
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>2642978
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Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>2642978
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>2642978
Fuk u
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Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>2642978
but >>2642959 at least threaten it with the BBQ
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>>2642943
...That would have been nice to know before pulling this thing out of its sheath.

Really nice to know. The damn thing doesn't want to go back in, and your hand holding it is inching up as if under a compulsion.

"Sword," you think, assuming the thing can hear your thoughts, "do you really want to be in this fucking house? I have an evil rat making contracts in my pocket, I have a daughter that murders demons to pay off a debt, my sister is dead in Hell, and my wife has got to be part succubus. Either shut up, or be nice. Also, I'm pretty sure I could ruin your temper with a night in my grill."

There's a pause, and you can almost feel the ghost in the sword thinking. And it stops trying to get you to draw it.

"HUMAN," it continues, in a slightly subdued voice, "DO NOT THREATEN ME WITH YOUR GRILL. MY WAS FORGED IN A VOLCANO, FROM A FALLEN STAR. MY SOUL IS THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN OF MY AGE OR ANY OTHER, AND I CHALLENGE YOU TO FIND A TORMENT I CANNOT SURVIVE. I AM THE THOUSAND-YEAR BLADE, AND YOUR HOUSE SOUNDS LIKE EXACTLY MY SORT OF PLACE."

"I HAVE BEEN A WALL DECORATION IN WORSE," it says, "WITNESSING CRIMES AND INCESTS YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE."

"WHO WOULD YOU TURN ME ON FIRST?" it asks you, in a hungry voice, "YOUR WIFE? YOUR DAUGHTER? THE RAT? WOULD YOU USE ME TO CARVE A PATH INTO HELL AND SLAY YOUR SISTER AGAIN?"

>Your wife
>Your daughter
>The rat
>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?
>That's it, you're going back in the sheath, and you're going to hang in a room where I don't fuck
>WRITE IN
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>>2643046
>"Unless you can destroy magical concepts like contracts and demons I ain't interested in what you're selling."
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>>2643046
>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?
note to self become the weaboo fightan swordsman we were always ment to be,
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>>2643056
17:55 - 18:05
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>>2643046
>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?
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>>2643046
>>"Unless you can destroy magical concepts like contracts and demons I ain't interested in what you're selling."
>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?
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>>2643046
>SLAY YOUR SISTER AGAIN?"
ok, you'd better elaborate on that, you phony butter knife.
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>>2643056
>>2643046
This please and
>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?
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>>2643046

>>2643070
Damn, didn't notice that. Adding to my vote >>2643064
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>>2643046
>sounds like you want to be kitchen knife
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>>2643046
I will use you as my butter kni-
>Wait you can carve a path to hell?
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>>2643046
>I'm going to make a barbecue skewer out of you if you seriously don't shut the fuck up.
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>>2643046
I support >>2643065
Though I agree with >>2643058 that this sword could become a powerful ally in our quest to rid the world of demon scum, free our daughter (and our sister?), though
>hanging it in a room where we don't fuck
is a pretty good idea in general, perhaps we could invest in some kind of magically-reinforced or suppressive glass case for the thing, maybe promise it a nice velvet cushion if it cooperates?
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>>2643046
backing this >>2643056 and


>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?
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>>2643046
>Maybe later, but if you threaten my family again I will shatter you.
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>>2643046
>Wait a second, you can carve a path into Hell?

> Can you do that, but like, going to ky office instead?

Fuck traffic!
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>>2643046
>>2643145
This literally cut commute time
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>>2643145
>>2643046
Support
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>>2643046
Your daughter is happily texting away with her friends, but the expression you catch from your wife is concerned.

You've just been standing there, holding the sword, for a minute.

"Wait a second," you think, "carve a path into Hell? And what do you mean 'kill her again'? This had better be good, or you're going to be a grill accessory or a butter knife."

"I ASSUMED," the sword speaks into your mind, "THAT SINCE YOU MENTIONED YOUR SISTER WAS IN HELL, YOU HAD SENT HER THERE YOURSELF. MY APOLOGIES. LET ME INSTEAD OFFER MY HELP IN AVENGING HER AGAINST HER ENEMIES. WAS IT A RIVAL LORD? BANDITS ON THE ROAD? AN ATTACK BY DEMONS?"

You must have twitched on that last one.

"AH," the sword says, "THAT IS WHY YOU WISH FOR A PATH TO HELL."

"THE PATH TO HELL I CAN CARVE FOR YOU IS LITTERED WITH THE GASHED CORPSES OF DEMONS," it continues, "THEIR ENTRAILS SPILLING OUT AS THE LAST ONE ALIVE TURNS TRAITOR AND OPENS A PORTAL FOR YOU, HOPING IT WILL BE SPARED THE FATE OF ITS FELLOWS."

"BUT IT IS WRONG," the sword says, with glee in its voice, "YOU CLEAVE ITS HORNED HEAD FROM ITS SHOULDERS AT THE VERY MOMENT IT BELIEVES ITS TREACHERY HAS SECURED ITS LIFE!"

This thing is giving you a slight headache. The sheer bloodthirstiness of it, and the way it turns every avenue of a conversation to a solution involving bloodshed is slightly disconcerting.

"You say you can kill demons," you think to it, " but can you kill concepts - magical contracts, for instance?"

"NO," it tells you, with finality, "I CANNOT KILL CONCEPTS. BUT DO YOU WISH A DEMON DEAD?" the sword asks, "YOUR WIFE, PERHAPS?"

"We're having a failure to communicate here," you think at it, trying to contain your irritation, and your raging headache, so you lapsed into business-speak for a second, "the people I mentioned earlier were those I want to save and protect, not targets."

"AHH," the sword says, "I AM TOO USED TO MY WIELDERS GIVING ME A LIST OF TARGETS WHEN THEY DRAW ME. MY MOST HUMBLE APOLOGIES."

"WHO MUST YOU KILL TO PROTECT THEM?" the sword asks, "DEMONS? ARE ONI DESCENDING FROM THE MOUNTAINS? HAS THE LOCAL LORD DEMANDED YOUR DAUGHTER AS A CONCUBINE? OR A NIGHT WITH YOUR WIFE? WOULD YOU WISH TO DESTROY HIM AND RULE IN HIS STEAD?"

This is going nowhere, fast. Damn thing seems to think it's stuck in an ancient feudal society, where you can solve all your problems with violence.

And you're not a swordsman.

>No, I want to invade Hell
>No, I want to kill magic rats until they release my daughter
>No, you cannot help me accomplish my will
>Yes, let's go kill my boss
>I'm no swordsman.
>WRITE IN
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>>2643165
>No, I want to kill magic rats until they release my daughter
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>>2643165
>..... you’ve been asleep a while. You up for listening how the world has changed?
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>>2643165
>>..... you’ve been asleep a while. You up for listening how the world has changed?
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>>2643165
>No, I want to kill magic rats until they release my daughter
>Though I'm down with invading hell if we need too. Like seriously, Fuck those dudes and there asshole followers calling ME the bad guy for charging money.
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>>2643165
>No, I want to invade Hell
>No, I want to kill magic rats until they release my daughter
>..... you’ve been asleep a while. You up for listening how the world has changed?

Might as well pull all the plot threads.
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>>2643165
>>>..... you’ve been asleep a while. You up for listening how the world has changed?
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>>2643165
>No, I want to kill magic rats until they release my daughter
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>>2643165
>No, I want to kill magic rats until they release my daughter
Invading hell is fine too.
>..... you’ve been asleep a while. You up for listening how the world has changed?
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>>2643165
>>2643178
second
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>>2643180
>>2643165
This plus

> Can you learn math? Won't work, won't eat.

I mean has he SEEN our shotgun?

Wait. Could they possess and empower our shotgun instead?
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>>2643165
>>I'm no swordsman. I am a caring father, husband and brother who just wants to protect my family. I may be able to use you to protect them against those who wish them harm.
>But right now i'm running late. Can you cut me a portal to the office so I can "slay" my reports and "demolish" the piling accounts.
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>>2643165

I will also support this option: >>2643178
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>>2643184
I support this. Though we are no swordsman, perhaps it could fix that problem? Though we should probably put a pin in this discussion before the wife really gets worried.
To the other players: How opposed are we to becoming the next shogun of [insert town here]?
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>>2643210
I prefer being the Shogun of our Suburbia but if need be we can do the whole Shogun of the entire town deal just fine.
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>>2643214
However, if we do go shogun route, we'd have to deal with the demon-infested government.
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>>2643224
This is true, however nothing says We can't be the Brutal Shogun Father of Heaven.
Because if we're gonna weeb, then we're gonna weeb hard. (Note: There is a high chance that someone will come up with a better title for our character that is even more weeb than the title I made. Viewer Discretion is advised)
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>>2643244
Oh God, what have I done?
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>>2642619
Depends upon how magical laws/contracts interact with legal laws or at least local religious laws. (Basing the religious laws off of old jokes from the middle ages where Jesus hires Moses as a lawyer to deal with a devil or something along that line) I'm betting that most people aren't savvy enough to know about all of the loopholes and Frankly that's mountains upon mountains of paperwork/research to check through.
Technically our daughter was probably below most standards of independence/adulthood too.
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>>2643253
What's wrong with Brutal Shogun Father of Heaven? I thought it was a pretty good title for us once we get the demon murderfest going on.
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>>2643244
Protector of Daughters, Lord of headpats, Prince of cuddles, knight of fluffy tails, wife of kitsune princess, captain of magical girls, general grill and feudal Lord of this house.

Did I miss anything?
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>>2643165
"You've been asleep for a while, haven't you?" you ask the sword in your hand, "want to wake up and see how the world has changed?"

You feel... interest? radiating off the blade.

"MY WIELDERS," it says, "ONLY UNSHEATHE ME WHEN AFTER BLOOD. THEIR THOUGHTS ARE OF WAR, CONQUEST, DUELING, BECOMING STRONGER. YOU ARE DIFFERENT, THAT I KNOW FROM YOUR MIND, BUT ONLY SO MUCH."

That's slightly disturbing to hear, but seems like a step forward.

"DO YOU WANT TO SHOW ME?" it asks.

"Yes," you say, "I want to show you," not quite realizing what the sword means.

Then you realize all too fully, and it rushes into your mind, sorting your thoughts, sifting through your surface memories, seeking to understand who you are, and the world you live in.

Your wife is watching you intently, as sweat beads down your forehead, and even little Melon seems to feel that something is wrong.

Maybe it's the grimace you're making.

"YOU ARE AN OFFICIAL?" it asks, finally retreating, "A SCRIBE? YOU COUNT THE GOLD OF OTHERS, AND MERELY TAKE THAT WHICH THEY GRANT YOU?"

"Summed it up rather nicely," you tell the sword, "they call it 'accounting' nowadays."

"THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE HERE," the sword thinks at you, its words reverberating in your mind, "DEEPER THINGS THAT YOU HAVE LOCKED AWAY. YOUR CURRENT SPIRIT/SOUL/MIND/EGO IS ONLY THE TIP OF A DEEP ICEBERG."

That doesn't sound ominous at all.

"AND I SEE THE HATRED OF THE RATS," it tells you, "FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO YOUR FAMILY. I SEE THE WAR YOU COULD WAGE AGAINST THEM, FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL TO THE SPIRES OF HEAVEN. I SEE WHAT A SHOGUN YOU COULD BECOME."

"DO YOU WISH ME TO PLUMB DEEPER?" it asks, strangely polite.

Polite for a sword that seems to just want blood running down it, to see its enemies dead, to glory in the lamentations of their women.

>No. I have to go to work, and you're coming with me.
>No. I have to go to work, and you have to go back into that sheath.
>Yes, fine, drag through my memories of the war.
>Yes, fine, drag me back through my sister's death.
>WRITE IN

[Also, roll d100 for all options]
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>>2643260
How about Master of the Grill instead of General Grill. Makes it sound like it's a holy artform akin to swordsmanship.
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Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>2643268
>>No. I have to go to work, and you're coming with me.
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Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>2643268
>No. I have to go to work, and you have to go back into that sheath.
Assure it that we'll be back later.
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Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>2643268
>Yes, fine, drag through my memories of the war.
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Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>2643268
>>No. I have to go to work, and you're coming with me.
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Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2643268
>>No. I have to go to work, and you're coming with me.
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Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>2643268
>>Yes, fine, drag through my memories of the war.
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Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>2643268
>Yes, fine, drag through my memories of the war.
>Yes, fine, drag me back through my sister's death.
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Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>2643268
>No. I have to go to work, and you're coming with me.
>By the way, what should I call you if we'll be together from now on?
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Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>2643258
Nothing at all. I'm just lamenting being the can opener, lol.
>>2643260
You forgot the shotgun, also how are WE the wife?
>>2643268
"--I SEE WHAT A SHOGUN YOU COULD BECOME."
Motherfucking goddamn it!
>No. I have to go to work, and you have to go back into that sheath.
Assure it that we'll be back later like >>2643280
said, but >>2643298 is right about getting a name:
>By the way, what should I call you if we'll be together from now on?
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>>2643278
18:58 - 19:08 Voting Period.

>>2643260
I regret nothing, and this is not necessarily canon:

Shotgun Shogun of Suburbia, Protector of Daughters, Patriarch of Headpats, Count of Cuddles, Knight of Fluffy Tails, Consort of the Fox Bride, Captain of Magical Girls, Master of the Grill, and Lord of This House, First of His Name.

Let all knees bow before him, lest they be blown away by the holy shotgun.

All Hail!

- Excerpt from the notebook of the Herald of Hell, from the "List of Proper Titles for Announcing Noteworthy Personages"
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Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>2643268
Is there something deeper to plumb?
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>>2643268
"As you can see," you tell the sword, "I have to go to work, and you," you say, hoping you don't regret it, "are coming with me. You'll look good on the wall there."

You could swear the sword made something like a 'hmph' inside your head, but all it said was "I COMPLY. I TRUST YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO PLUMB THOSE DEPTHS ONE DAY."

Maybe. You can't quite remember what depths there are to plumb, but that's why they're hidden depths, after all.

You slide the sword back into its sheath, and sit down to breakfast. Your wife's been doing more than just watch, apparently.

"You're the first person to commune with the Thousand Year Blade that deeply in a long time," your wife tells you, as you begin on your coffee. Something tells you you're really going to need it today.

You already feel worn out, and you haven't even left the house.

"I could tell," you say, "it's got some... antiquated notions about the world."

"Oh, Melon?" she says, looking toward your daughter, "that sword is an heirloom from my side of the family. Your father took it off your uncle last night."

Your daughter is still staring at the thing as you shove its sheath through your belt.

"That's an amazing souvenir," your daughter finally says, as she goes back to eating.

The meal and the car ride to the office blur together, and then you're at the curb in front of your workplace.

Suddenly, as you step out of the car, your wife grabs your tie and half-stands out of the car to french you.

...You could swear you heard a wolf whistle and a couple cheers from somewhere, but when you can finally turn to look, as the car speeds away, you can't tell who they were from.

The receptionist barely gives you a glance as you walk toward the elevators. A perfunctory "good morning" follows you dimly down the hallway.

Once the bell dings, you step into an elevator with...

>Your boss, Bernie
>One of your underlings, Christiansen
>Someone you've never seen in the office before - probably a client
>WRITE IN
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>>2643362
>>Your boss, Bernie
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>>2643316
Rad afk.
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>>2643362
>>Someone you've never seen in the office before - probably a client
>They are asking for you in particular.
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>>2643362
>>Your boss, Bernie
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>>2643362
>Your boss, Bernie
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>>2643362
A Japanese salaryman who says he has business with you about his brother.
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>>2643369
19:27 - 19:37 Voting Period
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>>2643362
>Someone you've never seen in the office before - probably a client
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>>2643362
>Your boss, Bernie
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>>2643362
>Your boss, Bernie
we don't know this yet, but the real Burnie died years ago and now a pair of people are keeping up a farce with a lifelike puppet, and excellent makeup, to pretend he's alive as hitmen continue to try and off him. This is hilarious and when someone does find out they'll pitch the idea as a movie, with a shorter timeframe for realism.
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>>2643362
It's your boss, Bernie, looking as offensively preppy and fresh as ever.

You've never understood what puts you edge about this guy. He's not a bad boss, as bosses go, and seems like a good worker, so there shouldn't be anything to complain about.

Of course, there's a betting pool is the office about how old he really is - is he a youngster with great family connections? A youngster who's just that good? And older guy with a fantastic self-care regimen?

So far, nobody's gotten enough evidence to collect.

His eyes drift down you, before coming back to your face?

"Rough night, hey?" he asks, "didn't have that when you came back from vacation."

"Someone at a bar thought they could improve my face," you tell him, as he slouches against the side of the elevator, "not like I've got any client meetings today, so it should be fine."

"KILL HIM AND CLAIM HIS DOMINION FOR YOUR OWN," the sword says straight into your head, "OR FORCE HIM TO BECOME YOUR SERVANT."

Ok, that's going to get hard to deal with.

"What's with the sword?" Bernie asks, gesturing at the scabbard shoved through your belt, "finally going postal today? Am I that bad a boss?" he asks with a smirk.

>Family Heirloom. My father took it off a Jap in WWII.
>Picked it up secondhand, thought it'd be nice decor
>Souvenir from the trip, forgot to bring it yesterday
>It's here for your head. Figured that blond mug of your would make good office decor.
>WRITE IN
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>>2643416
>Brother in law told me to hold it and wife does not want it in the house. The thing is old and probably hasn't been sharpened in ages.
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>>2643416
>Family Heirloom. My Brother In Law was being a cock with it, so I took it off him.
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>>2643416
This >>2643424
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>>2643424
This.
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>>2643416
>A prize I got after rearranging someone's face last night.
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>>2643416
>Brother in law told me to hold it and wife does not want it in the house. The thing is old and probably hasn't been sharpened in ages.
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>>2643424
Yup.
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>>2643424
Good one anon, supporting.
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>>2643424
This
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>>2643416
>>2643424
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>>2643416
"Family heirloom," you tell him, "my brother in law was being a cock with it, so I took it off him. My wife doesn't want it in the house, so I figured it'd make good office decor."

"So that's how you got that shiner?" he asks, a smirk playing on his lips, "sorry to hear there's been a family situation, but that thing should give your office just the touch of 'corporate samurai' it needs."

"I like your sense of style," Bernie continues, winking at you, "even it it's a little bloodthirsty."

...There had also been a betting pool on what team the man batted for, but that one paid out pretty quickly.

"HE STROKES YOUR EGO IN A GAME OF FAVOR EXCHANGES," the sword says, "PAY THIS FAVOR BACK QUICKLY, LEST HE DEMAND A LARGE ONE IN RETURN FOR SEVERAL SUCH SMALL ONES."

Are you actually taking advice from a sword now?

Well, complimenting your boss can't hurt.

"Those shoes are pretty snappy, too," you tell him, "alligator?"

"Dragonhide, actually," he deadpans, "sort of a trophy from a dustup I got into a while back."

Your face tightens a little, then he claps a hand on your shoulder.

"Of course it's alligator!" he tells you, laughing, "did I really get you with that one? By the way," he continues, stepping toward you, "could I hold the sword for a second? I do rather like antiques."

"HE SEEKS FOR YOU TO OFFER YOUR SWORD TO HIM," the sword says, "A SYMBOL OF LOYALTY. IF YOU DECLINE, HE MAY SUSPECT REBELLION IN YOUR HEART AND HAVE YOU KILLED."

"Chill," you think to the sword, "this is an OFFICE, not the Warring States."

"DID HE NOT CALL YOU SAMURAI?" the sword asks, "AND HE AWAITS YOUR ANSWER."

>Let Bernie hold the sword
>Don't let Bernie hold the sword
>WRITE IN

[Roll 1d100 for either option]
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Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>2643461

>Let Bernie hold the sword

>SWORD REMEMBER YOU ANSWER TO ME, I AM YOUR MASTER. ACT LIKE A NORMAL SWORD AND DO NOT LET HIM TAKE YOU OR ANYTHING.
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Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>2643461
>Let Bernie hold the sword
No way this could go wrong.
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>>2643461
>>Don't let Bernie hold the sword
>nah my wife's family would kill me if something happened to it. Or if someone not in the family touched it. I can pull it and you can look, but no touching.
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>>2643461
>Let Bernie hold the sword
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Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>2643461
>Don't let Bernie hold the sword
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>>2643470
20:08 - 20:18 Voting Period

>>2643472
Hot rolls on this one
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>2643474
>>2643461
roll
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Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>2643461
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Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>2643461
I support >>2643474
This could end badly otherwise.
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Rolled 96, 54, 71, 44, 38, 75, 96, 73, 58, 7, 60, 23, 37, 45, 35, 11, 2, 7, 89, 33, 69, 20, 85, 79, 2 = 1209 (25d100)

>>2643461
I CAN'T MAKE THE CHOICE, SO INSTEAD I OFFER A SACRIFICE OF DICE ROLLS!
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>>2643461
>Don't let Bernie hold the sword
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>>2643461
>>Don't let Bernie hold the sword
Fuck that, get your own, Bern.
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>>2643461
>Don't let Bernie hold the sword

Don't mindfuck our boss yeah?
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Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>2643461
Letting my boss play around with an ancient family heirloom like a toy seems a bit disrespectful to the in-laws.
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>>2643461
"Sorry, Bernie," you tell him, "but my wife's family would kill me if anything happened to it. Or if anyone outside the family touched it. Letting an in-law have it is pushing it as it is."

"They'll trust you with their daughter, but barely with their sword?" Bernie laughs, "alright, just pull it out a bit and let me see the hamon."

"MASTERFUL," the sword intones into your mind as you pull the sheath out of your belt to display it, "YOU APPEAL TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY OVER HIM TO AVOID HANDING OVER YOUR SWORD, AND ALSO TELL HIM THAT YOUR SWORD WILL BE RAISED FOR YOUR FAMILY, NOT FOR HIM. TRULY MASTERFUL."

Bernie starts smiling when he sees the full scabbard, and he's almost ecstatic looking at the patterns on the blade.

"I get it now," he says, looking at you over the sword, "this thing's a museum piece. It should be under glass instead of shoved through your belt - and the fittings look like they're original. They have to be the best reproductions I've ever seen," he says, eyes glancing at you sideways, "because cloth and rayskin don't hold up for a thousand years."

A thousand years, huh?

"HE KNOWS MY NAME," the sword says into your mind, "AND THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL FITTINGS."

"Just coincidence," you think at the sword.

"You'll have to stop by my office to see it every now and again," you tell Bernie, as the elevator dings open, "and I'll think about the glass display case."

Then it's another day at the office. Well, sort of. It's not every day you hang a genuine antique on your office wall, and everyone coming in to your office has their attention divided between the sword and your black eye.

...They only make comments about the sword, though.

Before you know it, it's lunchtime. You usually eat in your office.

>Spend it cruising occult information online
>Text T.T. to make sure he's alive after last night
>WRITE IN
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>>2643534

>Spend it cruising occult information online
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>>2643534
>Text T.T. to make sure he's alive after last night
Just spit T.T. a message, no more no less

>Spend it cruising occult information online
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>>2643534
>Spend it cruising occult information online
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>>2643537
20:35 - 20:45 Voting Period

>>2643474
I was looking forward to Bernie holding the sword, but that was a great write-in, so I'm glad people voted for it!
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>>2643534
>>Spend it cruising occult information online
>>Text T.T. to make sure he's alive after last night

why not both?
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>>2643534
>Spend it cruising occult information online

It seems our anti-weirdness filter broke last week because we seem to be working as a dragon's accountant.
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>>2643534
>let me see the hamon

Oh shit are we a Jojo ?
Is our boss a Speedwagon?
Why would he say something about breathing techniques?
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>>2643534
Why not both?
Write in: Google How do magical contracts work?
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>>2643534
>"HE KNOWS MY NAME," the sword says into your mind, "AND THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL FITTINGS."

>"Just coincidence," you think at the sword.

I now see how this man might not know his wife is a demon and daughter a magical girl.
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>>2643534
>"HE KNOWS MY NAME
so the sword's name is hamon?
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>>2643534
>"and I'll think about the glass display case."
Our God is a mysteriously benevolent God.

I support >>2643543
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So, we're really going to do an unfiltered search on our work computer about occult topics immediately after getting a mysterious sword and while knowing that all the law enforcement authorities are corrupted?
Lets see where this ends up.
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>>2643579
You're right, we should also look up some anime and hentai alongside it so we come off as a weeaboo.
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>>2643558
>>2643568

No, the hamon is the blade's pattern. It is basically the blade's finger print.
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>>2643579
If our boss is a dragon he can handle some shitty demons. The most that happens is HR funnels info on what we're searching up on to the boss.
I also just tried to google magical contracts and got nothing but harry potter shit so it's we probably aren't going to find anything during a lunch break.
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>>2643585
Of course a dragon would be the head of an accounting firm. He can even appraise tje sword just by looming at it. It makes so much sense
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>>2643534
You slam a text at T.T. perfunctorily: "You still alive, coach?"

Then you proceed into researching what historians and folklorists know about the kinds of things you're tangled up in now. Oh, and the occultists.

Holy shit, you never realized how much magic there was out there online. The Key of Solomon, Cowley's works, alchemy, all sorts of things.

And some of it might be real.

"You gotten in with any of the Goetia crowd?" you send as a second text to T.T. Wouldn't hurt to let him know you're doing your research.

You're getting pretty sure he's a demonic practitioner. Their contracts usually operate on a strict pattern:

1. Draw a circle/seal/sigil to bind the thing
2. Summon the thing
3. Negotiate with the thing to have it do what you want, while giving it something it wants
4. Banish the thing or let it leave
5. DON'T OPEN THE CIRCLE AT ANY POINT IN THE PROCESS. HOLY SHIT DO YOU WANT TO DIE.

Hmm... There's a lot of material out there on summoning and binding demons, and working with inner energy, but very little about absorbing or eating demons?

The part of you that resembles your dead weird uncle says "that's because they don't want people to know they can eat demons. They're controlling the information." That guy was a conspiracy theorist, and never amounted to anything, but he was better read than anyone else you've ever met.

No mention of contracting with magic rats, at least in the historical/mystical documents.

...Then there's the fiction. There's a disturbing amount of stuff out there about banging foxgirls/kitsune, and you're half tempted to tell someone on an imageboard "it's all true - I live with one, and she's WILD in bed."

You think better of doing it before you hit 'Submit'.

And, boy oh boy, are you glad you didn't end up with the Korean version. Your liver's taken so much punishment you're sure it wouldn't be a good snack, but holy shit.

And six wings - 'S-Class' probably stands for a fallen six-winged seraph. No wonder Mary and her crew were scared T.T. had gotten that sort of power. You hope you won't encounter any P- T- or D- Classes.

"POWERS, THRONES, AND DOMINIONS," the sword thinks at you across the room, "YOU'LL FIGHT THEM AND KILL THEM ALL. I SEE THE SEEDS IN YOU."

You studiously ignore it.

Alright, you've got a decent working knowledge of what's out there - at least the folklore that's trickled down about it.

Your phone vibrates. It's T.T.

"I'm as good as I ever am," he texts, "and some of those guys have gotten me out of a pinch. Reading up on this stuff, hey?"

Well, he's alright. That's good.

>Time to finish out an uneventful workday
>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
>WRITE IN
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>>2643591
Oh God also dragons also fancy rare and antique things to grow I to their pile of collection.

OUR BOSS IS A DRAGON AAAAAAAA
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>>2643612
>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
Yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to fill in your TPS reports, yeah
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>>2643612
>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
"DAMNIT BOB I did not sit My butt on the scanner again and you know it!"

>>2643615
What if he values us just as much as he values the sword?
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>>2643612
>>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in

Seraphim are actually the most powerful fo the bunch.

Hierarchy goes lowest to highest
angel
archangel
principalities
powers
virtues
dominions
thrones (aka Ophanim)
cherubim
seraphim

and at the top you get ARCHANGELS, Like Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and once, Lucifer.
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>>2643616
21:09 - 21:19 Voting Period

>>2643584
This guy gets it. It's a term only someone who knows the subject would use.

>>2643568
The sword reacted to the mention of "a thousand years".

It's name is the Thousand Year Blade, after all.
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>>2643612
>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
>Dragon Bernie who is VERY interested in our katana
>You smell like fox you know
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>>2643612
Reminisce about the crazy ideas our uncle used to have, like the government being run by satanists.
I'm starting to suspect he's actually a wizard
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>>2643612
>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
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>>2643612
>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
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>>2643612
>>You would finish out your uneventful day, but then someone walks in
AND ITS FUCKING SUE, CLAIMING SHE IS OUR ASISTANT.
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>>2643642
How much you wanna bet she pads her bra?
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>>2643621
arent archangels low tier?
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>>2643645
there are Archangels and then there are ARCHANGELS.


Archangels are only just above normal Angels.

ARCHANGELS are the shit kickers that lead the warhost (Michael) or are so charismatic a third of heaven fell t his convincing argument despite them all knowing God is almighty and all knowing(Lucifer)
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>>2643643
Worse, she has cleaveage on her non existant bust.
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>>2643649
i call bullshit, but i accept it because i'm at work and cant do some research.
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Anyone else think that we should eventually text TT on if it's possible to lock the rats up in a seal meant for demons or something? It's probably not the best idea to let it listen to every idea we have while we brainstorm ways out of the contract that it's probably going to be trying to doing it's damndest to maintain.
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>>2643612
It's an uneventful afternoon, the monotony broken only by co-workers coming in to ask questions about what should be simple accounting concepts, or about the history of certain clients you know all too well.

...Then you look at the clock and realize you've been working a good hour and a half of overtime. Maybe more, but you're salaried, so payroll doesn't care.

You begin packing things up, getting things in order for the next day.

"YOU REALLY ARE AN OFFICIAL," the sword intones into your mind, "BUT AT LEAST YOU'RE A GOOD ONE."

You ignore it, and continue setting things up for the next day, when your boss walks in.

Even if he did get his position by family connections, you can't help but say he works damn hard at it. Even has an armful of paperwork. At seven PM.

"About those TPS reports," he begins, smirking.

You cut him off short: "That's a software thing, and you know full well I'm not on that team. Is this about Bob scanning his ass again?"

"No," Bernie says, and laughs, "that one's winding its way through HR. I just dropped by to chat. And, actually," he says, fiddling with his collar, "to invite you out for drinks."

"HE WANTS," the sword screams into your mind, "TO BUILD A BOND OF PERSONAL LOYALTY WITH YOU. AND PERHAPS EXCHANGE SAKE."

...That thing needs to figure out that it's not in a period drama or a Yakuza flick.

>Want me to bring the sword?
>Sounds good
>Sorry, I've got to get back to my family. Surely you can understand?
>Got something you wants to get off your chest?
>WRITE IN
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>>2643660
"AND MAYBE HAVE CARNAL RELATIONS WITH YOU," the sword finishes.
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>>2643660
>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
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>>2643660
>>Sounds good
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>>2643660
>Want me to bring the sword?
>Sounds good
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>>2643660

>Want me to bring the sword?
>Sounds good
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>>2643660
>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
That and the wife is quite miffed about my little escapade
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>>2643660
>I just got in trouble for going out drinking too much last night.
>A double date at some swanky restaurant, venue, or something like that with my wife might be a safer bet right now.
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>>2643660
>Sorry, I've got to get back to my family. Surely you can understand?
Our wife would be pissed.
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>>2643660
Take him to a sake bar
Since we got this sword and samurai vib
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>>2643660
>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
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>>2643660
>>Sorry, I've got to get back to my family. Surely you can understand?
This isn't Japan. We don't neglect our wives to go drinking with the boss.
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>>2643660
>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
Because I want the events of last night to be a memory before I even try to go on T.T.'s Wild Ride again.
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>>2643660
>Sounds good
>>But let's keep it soft and short, my wife would kill me this time
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>>2643660
>>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
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>>2643664
21:30 - 21:40 Voting period
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>>2643660

Changing >>2643670
To:
>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
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>>2643660
>Can we reschedule? not really up for bars after my brother in law jumped in one yesterday.
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Reschedule/Got to get back to my family:
>>2643664
>>2643672
>>2643673
>>2643675
>>2643677
>>2643685
>>2643689
>>2643692
>>2643697


>Let's Go:
>>2643666
>>2643667
>>2643676
>>2643690

This seems clear.
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>>2643672
*yipp'd
Not miffed
Cause dad jokes
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>>2643718
nah, she is a two at most, she is not a furry.
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I've been reading the last two chapter's of this while waiting for a 3D print to finish, and I must say that I have been enjoying it greatly! Can't wait to see what crazy quest this poor dad is taken on next.
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>>2643722
He can't catch a break....poor dad
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>>2643660
"Could we reschedule that meeting?" you ask, "I'm not really up for bars after my brother-in-law jumped me at one yesterday."

A shadow flits across your boss' face.

"Trust me," he says, "this place won't be like that. And with that," he continues with a smile, "I'm pretty sure I know where you were last night, 'Shotgun Shogun'."

You gaze into two pits. This guy is something. You're not sure what.

A few thoughts crowding into your mind scream 'Dragon', but that's just a suspicion.

"Do I still have a job if I don't go?" you ask, "I'm in a little trouble with my wife over last night, and I'd prefer to not make that permanent."

"PUTTING HIM ON THE SPOT!" the sword yells into your head, all too gleefully, "NOW HE HAS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN HAVING YOU TONIGHT, AND HAVING YOU STAY ON."

"Of course," he says, smoothly, "and given the situation," he says, grinning, "I'd be surprised if there wasn't some trouble. Not, mmm, just from your wife," he finishes.

"They're going to want you back for another round," he tells you, "I hear you put on quite a showing."

"I don't remember," you lie, "I was blackout the entire time, and woke up with the sword."

"Well," he says, turning to leave, "show up blackout sometime. Sounds like you're damn effective like that."

"What about a double date?" you ask him, "I think my wife might like that."

He fixes you with his eye over his shoulder.

"That could work," he says, "bring the sword. And I might have some accounts you should take over now."

"You understand their world, after all," he says, and you feel something behind him, a presence far beyond your own, trying to crush you.

You've felt this sort of thing before. And you stand up from your desk, as if you had two hundred pounds on your shoulders.

"You're DEFINITELY getting those accounts," he tells you, as the pressure fades.

Then he walks out the door.

"Oh," you hear from the hallway outside, "don't leave that sword here overnight. Someone might steal it."

"HE HAS TESTED YOU," the sword says into your mind, "AND HE HAS FOUND YOU WORTHY OF FURTHER ATTENTION."

That's pretty good advice, actually, considering that this sword is a family heirloom and museum-grade piece. So you shove it through your belt and leave.

The drive home is fast, with little traffic at this time of night. It's not too late when you get home.

>Walk in and hug your wife
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion
>WRITE IN
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>>2643739
>Walk in and hug your wife
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Now that I think about it. I wonder if we can drain magic from the Rats and if so, how much does each Rat contain for magic? Are they all connected to the source or do they have their own self supplying reservoir?

>>2643739
>Walk in and (fug and) hug your wife (hard)
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion (gently)
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>>2643739
>Walk in hug both your girls, Kiss them and then ask them if they have heard of our boss on the supernatural scene.
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>>2643739
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion
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>>2643739
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion
>Walk in and make out with your wife
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>>2643739
>Walk in and hug your wife
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion
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>>2643739
>Walk in and hug your wife
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion
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>>2643751
support
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>>2643739
>Walk in hug both your girls, Kiss them and then ask them if they have heard of our boss on the supernatural scene.
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>>2643746
22:03 - 22:13 Voting Period, you know the drill.
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>>2643739
>Walk in and hug your wife
>Walk in and hug Melon/Marion

I wonder do we have a motorcycle in the garage and is there an old belt in the closets?
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>>2643739
>Hug wife, kiss her on the cheek and generally butter her up incase she doesn't like dragons.
>My boss has probably been a dragon this whole time and we might have a double date in the future. Think my good tux still fits?
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>Walk in and hug the wife
>If Melon/Marion is at home/still awake, do the same
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>>2643739
I like >>2643772
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>>2643739
backing this >>2643751
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>>2642644
>Not that they give a shit... But if the demons run the world, lizard style, I'm sure they'd hold a magical trial to void MG contracts. I mean, they would be getting rid of pests that run around and kill them.
>Trusting demon lawyers
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>>2643739
"Honey, I'm home!" you call out, as you open the door.

There's more chatter than you would have expected. Maybe your daughter has friends over?

You move into the kitchen and hug your wife.

"And not smelling of booze this time - that's an improvement," she says, leaning into you, then whispering in your ear, "Melon's got some friends over, and, uh, don't go off on them this time, please?"

That's new. You kiss her, and proceed out into the living room, where there's a spirited Mortal Kombat match happening between Sue (the blue haired psycho?) and a redhead boy that you think looks familiar.

Oh.

He's not wearing sunglasses, and you're not drunk, but you could swear he was the announcer at that back alley brawl last night.

You approach silently, and hug your daughter. She jumps a little, then nestles into you. You peck her on the cheek.

The match on the TV is pretty intense. Two fighters dancing on a pixel of health. And then suddenly it ends in a fatality.

"Hey Melon," Sue yells, "Your turn!"

Then she turns around and sees you, and the sword still shoved through the belt of your suit.

...You could swear there are hearts in her eyes.

"Good evening, sir," the redhead says, turning around with the practiced ease of a bartender, then the facade drops, "holy shit, the Shotgun Shogun!"

>In the flesh
>Why are you here?
>I hope dinner is on the table soon, because we're going to need some explanations
>WRITE IN
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>>2643811
>We'll be talking later kiddo. After dinner.
>Give Dad glare as he is a boy around our daughter's age in our house.
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>>2643815
22:29 - 22:40 Voting period. Hey, I like round numbers!

>>2643722
Always glad to have one more person enjoying this crazy fuckup.
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>>2643811
>I hope dinner is on the table soon, because we're going to need some explanations
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>>2643815
Supporting because HE MUST PROVE HIMSELF WORTHY OF STANDING IN OUR DOMAIN.
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>>2643811
>We'll be talking later kiddo. After dinner.
>Give Dad glare as he is a boy around our daughter's age in our house.
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>>2643811

Supporting: >>2643815
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>>2643811
>And you would be?
Does that last statement make us think he was in that bar with fake ID or that he's an adult that's apparently been running around with underaged girls?
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>>2643811
backing this >>2643815

YOU MUST PROVE YOURSELF BOI.
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>>2643811
>>2643815
this

and Sue is growing on me.
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>>2643811
"We'll talk later, kiddo," you say, looking the redheaded boy straight in the face, "after dinner."

You give him a withering dad glare (something you learned from your father, watching how he was around your sister's potential boyfriends), and see him, uh, give it back?

...Ok, if he works THERE, maybe he has a lot of experience in glares.

"He's in my class," your daughter says, "and just came over to play a bit with Sue and I."

'Play'. So that's what the kids are calling it these days? Well, maybe it's just Mortal Combat, but you still have a bad feeling about this guy.

"I bartend as a part-time job," the kid says, eyes still fully on yours, "but tonight's my night off. Thank you for welcoming me to your home."

"HE IS A HARD WORKER, AND WISHES TO FORM AN ALLIANCE," the sword says into your mind, "AND YOU SHOULD FIND OUT WHETHER HIS FAMILY IS WORTHY OF IT."

You could really do without the sword giving you Warring States parenting advice. After a few minutes of reading during your lunch break, you're sure that's where it gets its ideas.

And the redheaded kid is still staring at you, with wide, gold eyes that speak of untold horrors witnessed, absorbing your Dad Glare into their depths, as if it pales before other things he's seen.

Then Sue breaks the tension.

"Can I hold it?" she asks you, "Please? I just had to see your sword after Melon sent me that picture!"

She's talking about the sword shoved through your belt, right?

Right.

You catch a glimpse of your wife smiling, so this obviously isn't the 'sword' she'd protect.

>Let her hold it
>No, I'm afraid not
>WRITE IN
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>>2643859
Also, I want 1d100 rolls on every option.
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Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>2643859
>No, I'm afraid no
Sorry, kid. Family only.
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Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2643859
>ask my wife, it's her family's sword.
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>2643859
>>No, I'm afraid not
entirely out of safely and the fact theres a warring states spirit in our sword, i mean i kinda want to just to see the result, but then again the sword might do some shit.
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Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>2643859
>No, I'm afraid not
>It's a family heirloom and I'm afraid you might break it by accident.
>But if you still want to touch it, you'll have to ask my wife for her permission.
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>>2643859
>ask my wife, it's her family's sword.
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Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>2643859
Hell no, you can't
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>>2643870
Nigga pls roll, our lives depend on it!
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Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>2643859
>>2643870

oops, forgot dice
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Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>2643859
>>Let her hold it
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Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>2643859
>Ask my wife
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>>2643875
Oh this should be good.
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>>2643875
NO SCRATCH THAT DON'T ROLL! WE MADE A TERRIBLE ERROR!
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>>2643809
Trust them to fuck over their enemies
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>>2643865
22:53 - 23:03 voting period, you know the drill

>>2643875
Those dice should have stayed forgotten.
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>>2643886
The harder the situation, the more badass we look when we bullshit our way out. My dice roll was completely intended.
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Rolled 66 (1d100)

>>2643869
+1
>>2643880
>>2643886
rip
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>>2643859
"I'm afraid not," you manage to tell the little smiling face in front of you, "It's a family heirloom. My wife's family. Museum quality, and they'd all be after you if you broke it. And they're not people," you grimace, "that you want after you."

"So," she asks, looking up at you, "does that mean I need to ask her for permission?"

"Yeah," you say, "go ask her."

She runs off to the kitchen, and you turn back to the two teenagers in front of you.

"YOU HAVE SAID YOUR SWORD IS NOT YOURS," the sword speaks into your mind, "BUT BELONGS TO YOUR WIFE, AND HER FAMILY. IT MAY WORK WITH YOUR LORD," and you internally scoff - a boss isn't a feudal lord, "BUT IT IS A DANGEROUS PATH - CEDING YOUR BLADE TO ANOTHER'S WILL."

"It doesn't matter," you think at the sword, "as long as it's the will of someone I trust."

"So," you ask them, confident your wife will say 'no', "I heard there was a spot in the rotation."

"You can have mine," Marion says, and flits off toward the kitchen, "I'm not too good at Mortal Kombat."

"So," you ask the redhead teenager, "Who do you play?"

"Everyone," he says, giving you another glance from those destroyed eyes, "I just play my opponents, not a character."

You grab...
>PICK A MORTAL KOMBAT CHARACTER
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>>2643913
Scorpion. He's the dude on the box art. he must be good.
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Who is the most dadesque of Mortal Kombat characters? I think it needs to be an MK1 character but I don't know which one.
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>>2643913
Motaro
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>>2643928

Probably Raiden. He's an Elder God who advises Earthrealm and doesn't afraid of anything.
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>>2643927
23:22 - 23:32 voting period
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Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>2643859
Nope.
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>>2643913
Raiden because >>2643934 thinks it works.
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>>2643913
Raiden
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>>2643941
>>2643913
Derp. ignore that. it's almost 3 am.
>Scorpion- The undead champion of eternal dad rage.
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>>2643913
Johnny Cage

>>2643941
Where were you earlier?
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>>2643913
Smoke. If he's not there or already taken then Scorpion.
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>>2643951
Half passed out from lack of sleep.
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>>2643913
Raiden ftw
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>>2643913
Scorpion
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>>2643927
>He's the dude on the box art. he must be good.
Consider this: We are old enough to have played Mortal Kombat in the arcade and seen the creation of the ESRB. Mortal Kombat is likely /our/ game that we use to unwind after work.
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>>2643913
Liu Kang.

Even though we're better with Shang Tsun since he can copy other players styles.
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>>2643961
He was the character all the cool kids played then.
Unless we pick Reptile because he was awesome as the secret boss in MK1. They wouldn't nerf him too badly, right?
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>>2643961
We'd probably be the kind of guy who has his own button and joystick controller just for mortal kombat right?
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>>2643913
Sub-Zero
Obviously because we're a COOL dad
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In any case I hope we have a fight stick hidden in our garage. One we only bring out when particularly bothersome clients come around and we need to unwind with plain old Mortal Kombat
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>>2643976
>>2643913
The potential for bad puns with Sub-Zero is too high.

Oh my god. Thisbkidnis probably too toung to have seen Batman and Robin and we can just steal Arnold/Mr. Freeze quotes the entire time we play against him.

Then we can switch to Liu Kang and destroy him with FISTS OF JUSTICE after upsetting him by being more focused on freezing him and making puns at the expense of actually winning.

Nothing more frustrating than being disregarded, especially since he stood up to our Dad Stare.
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>>2643913
You're not quite sure who to pick, as you vault over onto the couch. There are so many options, and you think about going with the guy on the box art, but finally decide on Raiden.

He's really the only character on the roster you know how to use well. Nobody in this house really plays the game seriously, just going for flashy moves and hoping the opponent doesn't block.

You are a taoist Thunder God, and you are facing some fool with boxing gloves.

You used to play this in the arcade when you were a kid, so the controllers have always felt a little odd.

But you're still going to school this kid.

This guy is reading your teleports like there's no tomorrow for him if he loses, a weird intensity punctuated by his looks over at you as you play.

It he really judging what you'll do by the minute motions you make?

Then you'll make those motions too large to read. You flail the controller like a madman, throwing moves half at random, hoping something hits.

...and a lot of things hit. That superman move is pretty good.

This is it. Everything's down, and you're both at a pixel of health, playing for footsies.

Then you land a lucky jab, and the TV screams "FINISH HIM!"

So you do.

By that point, everyone is in the living room, watching the madness unfold.

The redhead kid looks at you, then says "so you got it."

"Yeah," you tell him, "I was playing this in arcades before you were born. Figured out what you were doing pretty fast, if I do say so myself."

"No wonder you're the Shotgun Shogun," he says, and drops the controller, "I'd hate to go up against you for real."

"I have," Sue says from behind you, "and your wife says I can try the sword."

...That's not what you thought you'd hear, and you look over at your wife, who's twitching her tails with a grin.

"The Thousand Year Blade hasn't gotten a chance like this in ages," she says, "communing with two people in one day? That's beyond its wildest sheathed dreams."

Well, you told her that she could do it if your wife said yes, and maybe it's just bad luck that this is happening.

"Fine," you say, "but we're going outside for this."

Everyone follows you to the backyard, and you hand the sword to Sue.

She pulls the blade out a few inches, and even you can feel the pressure.

Your daughter and the redheaded boy have gritted their teeth, but your wife still has that grin on her face.

Then Sue fully unsheathes it, holding the blade like she did when you first met her.

>Tackle Sue
>Just stand back
>Fatherly advice [WRITE IN]
>WRITE IN

[And give me those 1d100 dice, please]
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>2643995
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Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>2643995
>Just stand back
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Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2643995
>Fatherly advice [WRITE IN]
"Don't listen to the ghost telling you to kill"
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Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>2643995
>That is not how you hold a sword.
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Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>2643995
>>WRITE IN
...Oh tarnation... DON'T YOU DARE.
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Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>2643995
>Fatherly advice [WRITE IN]
"Remember, you have to be the one in control. Not the blade. Do not be led by the blade."
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>>2644007
"don't listen to the blade! he's a well intentioned asshole!"
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>>2643995
>Just stand back
Grab popcorn, this gon be good.
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>>2643995
I'm assuming we at least gave her suitable distance for posing and if she wanted a selfie or something.
>Push redhead in front of you and hand him a camera
>You two kids have fun and make sure not to poke an eye out.
>Casually mention you suspect that your boss is a dragon to your fluffy hunny bunny.
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>>2643995
Remember - step IN to the attack and give her a Glasgow Kiss if she tries anything.
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>Sue, no listening to the voice in your head telling you to kill!

Also, does anyone else want to casually mention to the wife that we have a potential double date with our boss, oh and we're like 95% sure he’s a dragon and/or wants to bang us?

Just to see the look on her face?
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>>2644039
We mentioned the double date. We already pointed out we aren't interested via mentioning out wife.I f he wants to continue from there then he can deal with his entire company turning on him after HR gets informed of his attempted booty plundering during a time when after accusations go public he's not screwed in the way he wants to be. I think he values his company/wealth enough to not risk losing it like that.
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>>2643995
>Fatherly advice "lead the sword, not the other way around."
Then talk to our fluffy buns about our boss being a dragon and possibly going on a double date.
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>>2644054
I think the not interested was for going out for drinks, we then made an offer of a double date instead, and he accepted and told us to bring our sword.

And wanting to bang us doesn't mean he's gonna go full sexual predator on us man, this isn't quite that kind of quest.
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>>2644060
I'm no expert as social cues, but I think mentioning your partner in marriage after being propositioned is a giant blaring not interested sign when it comes to adultery. Her presence also shields us from any further attempts at seduction if they're the type of idiot that finds matrimonial dedication to be an even hotter reason to seduce a person.
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>>2644062
You seem to be confusing "wanting to bang us" with "actively pursuing us" and "any chance in hell we'd cheat on our superhot nympho possibly half-succubus-because-holy-shit fox wife".

Also, anime tropes, man. This quest is not the epitome of serious real-world matters. And in any case we can deal with it if it comes up down the line.
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>>2644075
In all honestly I felt like it's more like you're the one who was taking it out of proportion after my first response and I followed that lead you were making.
Probably just a mutual misunderstanding and mentioning that X wants to bang us after we already tried to avoid dealing her finding out that Sue wants to bang us seems out of character unless we really want our wife to take that as a serious threat.
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>>2644082
More like the sword was actually right, and our Boss wants us to be part of his power base or "gang" now that we're stepping into this world.

And that's fine so ling as he's willing to go to war against the Rats. We just have to create an alliance of "natural" Demons and fallen Magical Girl demons to overwhelm them.

We should also really clear things up with our own pet rat. Namely that it's too late and he's on our side anyways because of the magical shotgun thing, so his only hope of survival is for us to win.

He should know firdt hand what kind of bastards he's working for, whereas we're uninterested in anything except saving our Daughter + we're willing and able to stand up against our own allies as much as our enemies to uphold our standards.

So really, even if we never like each other, we're the least likely to kill him when all is said and done.

Because we're probably the only person he'll meet that sees something wrong with murder for convenience, or fun, or spite, or accidentally due to malicious negligence.
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>>2644098
Now it's definitely a mutual misunderstanding here since you jumped straight into yakuza territory out of nowhere when our character doesn't believe the sword.
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>>2644082
I doubt that dragon boss wants to bang us. Bernie seemed more interested in the fact that we seem to be able to resist massive amounts of spiritual pressure. He likely seems to want us to take on the cases of various troublesome supernatural beings. I'd guess the kind of accounts he wants us to deal with are things like Shuten Douji's taxes, insuring the Queen of Darkness' crown jewels, Zeus' paternity payments, etc.

>>2644098
Bernie seemed worried that we could (and would) kick his ass in order to claim the firm.

I'm starting to suspect considering how we've no sold both Goddess Harriet's and Dragon Bernie's spiritual pressure that Dad might actually be a Hero (or Big Bad) suppressing a ton of shit. We likely have a custom bike under a tarp in the garage and a very fancy belt tucked away in the closet.
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>>2643654
Michael wields a sword made of fire as long as the River Nile.
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>>2644106
Now that I stopped to think about it, new work at the firm means we need to negotiate a new pay increase and contract(nonmagical) if it turns out to be something other than mundane accounting of magical assets since anything else probably doesn't count as the work we're hired to do.
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>>2644103
Our character doesn't believe in the sword, but that doesn't mean the Dragon doesn't believe in the sword.

We already work for him in one capacity, makes sense he would scout us for another now that we're suddenly stirring shit up as an apparently baseline human which honestly most likely makes them all quite nervous since that premise is ridiculous so OBVIOUSLY we're just strong enough to hide our strength.

>>2644106
I think it would be most fun if we didn't really have any special power, we just don't have an appropriate frame of reference for all this and so we just ignore what should be terrifying power levels.

Our secret powe is literal shounen density that denies supernatural fear and insanity inducing powers and creatures by putting them in a little box labeled "No Time for this Bullshit" and ignoring it.
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Did Haiku fall asleep on his floor again?
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>>2644117
then if you say something like that
>Final fight
>you being almost scratchless despite being in war with magical rats
>your nakama/family is kinda out of breath
>BBEG stands in your way
>Dad: Can we just talk this? I have the grill and Dad beers
>BBEG:......
>few minutes later
>BBEG: And my daughter said DAD I MUST KILL HUMANS and i said NO DAUGHTER YOU ARE HUMAN and he is the cutest i mean look at this picture
>the rest of our party just look at us in death glare and stare realizing their fight are meaningless
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>>2644109
and cherubs are wheels of eyes and fire (or are those thrones); regardless, biblic powerlevels are weird
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>>2644127
> BBEG is actually just trying to reconnect with his daughter through traditional Demon pasttimes such as invasions

> Daughter was unexpectedly good at it and loves it

> He doesn't want to stop because he's too doting and can't stand her witholding attention from him.

> Asks us to stop her because she spends so much time ravaging though that he never sees her anymore.

Also I know I referenced Shounen level density but let's not go full weeb and start speaking Nihonglish and using words that have perfectly good English equivalents. Try to keep it to proper nouns maybe.

Or not, I can't stop you.
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>>2644129
Maybe the really strong ones can't actually act so much directly on the world, creating a paradoxical situation where you can only kill/absorb that small projection og their power into the world but ypu can't significantly harm the main body without going to where they can bring their full force to bear on you, and the connection with their projected power is a weak spot if properly targeted.
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>>2644127
I welcome having dadbeers with lucifer and god knows what eve the fuck we end up against.
I almost wonder if we are gonna into angels and shit at some point considering we are ass whooping demons and shit with a fucking shotgun and a serious lack of fucks.
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>>2644143
A MAGIC shotgun.

I wonder if we could grind up the contractors to make literal ratshot.
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>>2644125
Yes.

Considering that it's 2AM here, and I've been asleep for two hours, let's pick this up tomorrow.

I'll announce on Twitter when I'm good to go: https://twitter.com/HaikuDeluge

Sorry about that.
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>>2644156
Sleep well QM, great run!
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>>2644137
Not really, because michael, an archangel(one of the lowers tiers in powerlevel) was able to strike down lucifer (who was second only to god).
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>>2643995
As you feel the pressure rolling off of Sue in waves, you feel like your luck has run out. Maybe it ran out a while ago.

And you're still not sure why your wife thought this was a good idea. You glance over at her, and her madcap grin has gotten even more wild. She's standing there looking as if she's waiting for the critical goal of a game or something.

She's actually enjoying this? Jesus.

The Blue-haired girl in front of you looks like she's not seeing anything at all. That's not even a thousand-yard stare - it's as if she's just not THERE. As if she's a thousand miles away from her body.

Or a thousand years away.

"Alright, kid," you say, "remember. You control the sword, it doesn't control you."

You're not sure if she can hear you, but it's the thought that counts, right?

Then she goes frilly, transforming in a flash of blue light, her eyes still empty.

...And one of them is glowing red.

"Please," you say, seeing your daughter and the redheaded kid step back another couple of feet, "please don't listen to the murder-happy Sengoku ghost. Lead the sword, not the other way around."

Then she turns sideways, bringing the sword down faster than your eyes can follow. Then a guarding position, another turn, a cut, and she's launched into an emphatic dance, as everyone, including your wife, backs up nearly to the backyard wall.

It looks like, no, you're sure it is, one of those choreographed routines martial artists do, where they imitates fighting multiple invisible opponents.

Except this one's different. With each little twist of her thin wrists, each cut and block, you can almost see a series of ghostly shadows flitting around her, blocking her attacks, ruthlessly swinging their swords at her tiny frame.

She's fighting some battle in her head, but at least she's not fighting you, right? Or your daughter, or your wife, or your grill.

...You wouldn't care so much if she roughed up the redheaded kid. You still haven't quite gotten a read on him, but what you've seen makes it look like he can handle himself.

Maybe he's just learned to put up a good front.

Well, you think, watching Sue slice the empty air, and then ruthlessly decapitate a shadow drawn in by the feint, this is certainly more interesting than the days when you would have stumbled in from a workday and ignored any friends your daughter had over.

You put an arm around your wife and daughter, as they watch, spellbound. Your wife still has that wide, toothy smile, and your daughter is...

Filming?

She's got her phone out, and is recording this. Huh.

Kids these days.

>Honey, I think my boss might be a dragon
>Melon, do you really think we need this on tape?
>Hey, redhead, what's your name?
>WRITE IN
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>>2644372
>Honey, I think my boss might be a dragon

Well it's the polite thing to do, to talk about your work day.
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>>2644372
>>Honey, I think my boss might be a dragon
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>>2644372
>Melon, do you really think we need this on tape?
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>>2644372
>I need to see a therapist, preferably a human one
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>>2644376
10:06 - 10:16 Voting Period

>>2644382
Actually made me chuckle.
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>>2644372
>Honey, I think my boss might be a dragon
And he may promote me to the VIP accounts
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>>2644372
>Honey, I think my boss might be a dragon
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>>2644372
>Honey, I think my boss might be a dragon
>I need to see a therapist, preferably a human one
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>>2644372
"Honey," you say as you watch the silent dance, "I think my boss might be a dragon."

You said it softly, so the redhead wouldn't hear, and if he did, there's no reaction. Although it probably wouldn't be a shock to him, considering that your boss seems well aware of what went down at that bar last night.

"Oh," she says, eyes never leaving the fight, "Bernie? Hmm. Would make sense with the whole accounting thing, but I've never smelled a dragon on you. Why do you think so?"

"His reaction to that sword," you tell her, "like he was eyeing it as a fine addition to his collection. And a joke he made about his shoes being dragonhide, from settling an old score or something. He also knows about the fight last night."

"Mmmhm," she says, leaning up against you, "if he is one, then he's certainly had enough time to perfect hiding his smell - and enough reason. The Middle Ages were pretty rough on the Western dragons."

So those stories about knights in shining armor killing dragons were true? Suddenly, you're hoping Bernie's partner for your double date isn't a princess with Stockholm Syndrome.

Then you glance back at the fight, and see that the shadows have grown larger, more monstrous. They look like images out of the mound of folklore you dug through earlier - oni with horns, winged tengu with those long-nosed masks, and a few things you can't recognize.

And the fight's no longer silent. You can hear Sue's ragged breathing all the way across the yard. She's tiring out, but still fighting.

"What about the Eastern ones?" you ask your wife, lips nearly touching the fluff of her ears, "are they still around?"

"It's a funny story with those guys," she says, "most of them ascended. They were always curious, and liked walking among humans, particularly discussing things with scholars. So they picked up buddhism, taoism, and the rest. Turns out that when you have immortality to sit on a mountaintop and meditate, you can reach enlightenment - at least that's the story I always heard."

"Of course," she says, shrugging her shoulders, "some of them are probably still hanging around playing at being gods and living off rice offerings."

That's... huh. There's nothing wrong with that, if that's your thing. And given the flippant way your wife talks about it, maybe she's tried it before.

Suddenly, her look changes to intense concentration, and you look back to Sue's dance.

Wow, that thing is big. Taller than your house, but still a barely visible shadow. Sue darts between its legs, slashing at what you assume is the back of a knee, then jumps up above its head.

She seems to hang in the air for a moment, before coming down like a meteor, dragging the sword through the giant in a bisecting cut.

Then, shakily, she flicks the blade as if to clean it, and slides it back into the sheath.

She's tottering on her feet, and looks like she's about to collapse.

>Catch her before she falls
>Take the sword
>Ask your wife "is this normal?"
>WRITE IN
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>>2644181
>Michael is low tier
Michael and Gabriel are considered on the same level roughly. Michael may be an "archangel" but he is basically THE ARCHANGEL. In most Catholic dogma comparing the Archangel Michael to a normal archangel is like comparing that one guy who is recently out of boot but showed promise, to Solid Snake or Raiden from Revengance.

If I remember right Michael is referred to in the Ritual Romani and is basically invoked to bitch slap a demon or several thousand back to hell. He is generally considered to be the General of Heavens forces and is believed to be a pretty big step above most other archangels (lowercase is important) in power, but unlike a Throne or Power his purpose is for personal intervention with people were the upper tiers duties are to influence kings, nations, lands, etc. in a more general way. Comparing angels based on the hierarchy is like comparing the Head of the mailroom/communications with customers and business partners to the regular level accountant sitting in a cubicle. Although he has a much less glamorous job he holds much more power in the company. It gets confusing pretty fast, expecially when the maildude has a 100 mile long sword and the accountant who people think is above him has to fetch coffee on occasion and everyone has way too many eyes.
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>>2644412
>Catch her before she falls
>Take the sword
I'm sure the wife will speak up if this wasn't supposed to happen.
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>>2644412
>Catch her before she falls
>Take the sword
>Hey Melon would you like to try out the sword?
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>>2644412
>Catch her before she falls
>Take the sword
>Ask your wife "is this normal?"
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>>2644418
10:42 - 10:52 Voting period

>>2644416
>and everyone has way too many eyes.
Everyone always forgets that angels look like something out of a terrifying acid trip, unless they're trying not to. Pic related.

There's a reason their first words are usually some variation of "be not afraid". If you see an angel, you hit the deck and hope it's not there to smite you.
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>>2644412
>Ask your wife "is this normal?
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>>2644412
>>Take the sword
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>>2644422
>tfw you won't get headpats from an angel of the LORD
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>>2644412
>Catch her before she falls
>Take the sword
>"So, had fun?"
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>Let her hit the floor, she tried to turn you into sashimi, grew back the arms you blew off, and You wouldn't put it past her to try and kill your wife.
>Take the sword
>Ask your wife "Is this normal?"
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>>2644422
I know, that is one of the first things taught in most decent Christian schools. "There is a reason the first words out of an Angels mouth are almost always 'be not afraid'." That isn't some typical ancient Hebrew greeting. If they choose to look human than can look like straight up stud-muffins, average looking nobodies, anything. But the Judeo-Christian divine beings are basically Lovecraftian tier entities. It is bad when the "good guy" spirits are more likely to obliterate your brain, consciousness, soul, etc. just by looking at them than the nastiest demons are. I mean demons have to work to corrupt and destroy people, angels would just have to forget to put pants on one day.

So after saying all that, props to the human women who looked at them and said "I'm gonna get that dick and raise it's child!" and actually managed to do it. I mean, until the kid grew to 8-20ft tall and ate them in a fit of cannibalistic fury.
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>>2644412
>Catch her before she falls
>Ask wife "is this normal?"
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>>2644412
Really only one thing to do here - what any dad would.

You run of to the girl and catch her before she falls. She's shivering in your arms, as if she's just run a marathon, and hey eyes are rolling back in her head.

You take the sword, still in its sheath, and the lights behind her eyes begin to come back.

"H-h-h-oly s-s-h-h-it," she mutters, in a breathless voice like she's just had the most intense org... Yeah, you cut that thought off mid way. She's your daughter's friend, and it still weirds you out to think of someone that age doing anything like that.

"SHE WILL BE AN EXCELLENT VASSAL FOR YOU," the sword bellows into your mind, "I HAVE NOT BEEN HELD BY A SWORDSMAN OF HER CALIBER IN A THOUSAND YEARS! AND TO THINK," it continues, nearly laughing, "A WOMAN! A SLIP OF A GIRL PASSING THE THOUSAND DEMONS TRIAL!"

It's just always 'a thousand this', 'a thousand that' with this thing isn't it?

"I've got a barely-conscious teenager in my arms here," you think at the sword, "and I'm not really in the mood for your Sengoku showdown nonsense right now."

Your wife is already opening the back door for you, as you princess-carry the limp girl into your living room. As you pass her, you mutter "is this normal?"

"No,"she says, "usually the oni get them. I've never seen anyone pass the whole trial, let alone be standing when they finish."

You lay Sue out on the couch, and the redheaded boy and your daughter file in through the door. At least Melon's not still filming.

Sue gasps, gulping down air, then looks up at you and weakly asks, fighting to get the words out, "can I keep it?"

>Hell no
>We'll see
>Sure, it seems to like you
>She looks like she's in a bad state - see if there's anything you can do
>WRITE IN
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>>2644416
That was more or less what i was trying to convey. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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>>2644449
>We'll see
We gotta wait for the waifu's family permission. But you can practice with it if you want
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>>2644449
>We'll see
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>>2644449
>We'll see
>You just rest now
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>>2644453
11:17 - 11:27 Voting period.

I think "We'll see" is the ultimate parent phrase.
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>>2644449
>>Hell no
I might lend it to you. MAYBE, but you can't keep it.
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>>2644449
>We'll see
Consult with waifu.
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>>2644449
>Give her a speech on great power coming with great responsibility, she isn't ready to handle the blade yet
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>>2644449
>We'll see
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i know the perfect motivator
"Maybe if we manage to get out of this time loop and i don't get my memories erased, maybe then i'll consider giving the sword to you"
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>>2644453
>>2644449
Gonna support this
>We'll see
Also don't want to just hand this over to her. She might be a great swordswoman but the battlelust she has combined with the sudden power jump this will likely give her, might be dangerous.

If we were a RPG protaganist type trying to get our party members the optimal gear then sure great idea, but we are a RESPONSIBLE PARENT goddamnit.
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>>2644449
>She looks like she's in a bad state - see if there's anything you can do
>>2644453
This
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>>2644449
"We'll see," you tell her, putting your hand on her forehead. Seems like she's got a fever, "you just rest for now."

"Mmm," she groans, "that's the most intense thing I've ever felt. I saw it - I saw the battles he fought in, the wars, the glorious last stands, the times his swordsmen were cut out from under him."

So that's what the trial is? Putting the new swordsman (or, in this case, swordswoman - no, swordsgirl) through all the things that killed its former wielders, to see if they would have survived?

How many people have held this thing?

"I'll have to check with my wife's family," you say, "it's their heirloom, after all."

"You're not shrugging responsibility that easily," you wife says, from over your shoulder, and lays a cold towel on Sue's forehead, "you took it off my brother in a fair fight, in front of witnesses, so it's yours now. Good excuse, though."

"Some fight, too," the redheaded kid says, "you utterly humiliated him - and mostly drunk too. I wonder what you could have done to him sober."

...If you were sober, you probably would have avoided that fight in the first place, you think.

"In the final stroke," Sue says, eyes far away, "the swordsman becomes the sword, and the sword becomes the swordsman. The yin and yang fade together into a circle of gray."

"Ok," you think at the sword, "what the hell did you do to her?"

"IT IS NOT WHAT I DID TO HER, MY LORD," the sword thinks at you, "IT IS WHAT SHE DID TO ME. SHE DOVE INTO MY SPIRIT LIKE A SHINING SALMON INTO A RIVER, LIKE AN ARROW THROUGH THE HEART. I COULD NOT STOP HER SPIRIT."

So that's what you were seeing? She was fighting the sword? None of this makes any sense.

"SHE SAW INTO MY DEEPEST HEART," it continues, "SAW MY BATTLES, AND THE BATTLES OF THOSE THAT HELD ME. SHE OVERCAME THEM ALL, ALL THE TIMES THE OTHERS HAD FALLEN. I SAW INTO HER AS WELL, HER DESIRES, HER NEEDS. THE HUNGER WITHIN HER."

You get the weirdest feeling that you just witnessed some sort of combat psychiatric session. With shadow monsters.

"SHE WOULD MAKE YOU A FINE CONCUBINE," it finishes, and you swear he's grinning, "SUCH A FIERY SPIRIT DESIRES NOTHING MORE THAN TO BE SUBJUGATED BY ONE STRONGER. AND YOU HAVE ALREADY SUBJUGATED HER, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT."

You look down at the nearly-broken teenager lying on your couch, fading into blissful unconsciousness.

She's your daughter's age. She's your daughter's friend. And you're married.

Whatever this sword thinks, that's really not a good way to look at all this.

Then the redheaded boy pipes up again, "so, is this a normal Tuesday night here?" he asks, very innocently.

[SET 1:]
>Answer the sword [Write in]

[SET 2:]
>"No," you answer the redhead, "and we're going to talk outside. I need a little air."
>"No," you answer the redhead, "and now we're going to make this a normal night with that dinner on the table."
>"Yeah," you answer the redhead, "sometimes it gets crazier."
>WRITE IN
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>>2644503
Oh lordy the sword is in FUCKING LOVE.

[SET 1:]
>No, and that's final.

[SET 2:]
>"No," you answer the redhead, "and now we're going to make this a normal night with that dinner on the table."
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>>2644508
11:55 - 12:05 Voting period.

You know the drill.

>Oh lordy the sword is in FUCKING LOVE.
Can love bloom on the battlefield?
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>>2644503
>[SET 1:]
we'll see
>[SET 2:]
"No," you answer the redhead, "and now we're going to make this a normal night with that dinner on the table."
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>>2644503
>Answer the sword [Heh, maybe in time]
>"No," you answer the redhead, "and now we're going to make this a normal night with that dinner on the table."
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>>2644503
>Set 1
>"She is not worthy."
>Set 2
>"No," you answer the redhead, "and now we're going to make this a normal night with that dinner on the table."
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>>2644513
Our backyard is not a Battlefield! We'll make damn sure that our Backyard remains pacifistic neutral ground!
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>>2644503
>[SET 1:]
>I-I'll have to check with the wifey...

She's gone bloody feral, she probably won't mind.

>[SET 2:]
>As of last week. Things have taken an odd turn
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>>2644503
>she my daughters age and I’m married.
>"No," you answer the redhead, "and now we're going to make this a normal night with that dinner on the table."
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>>2644528
Also supporting the waifu
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>>2644503
Thoughts crowd through your head, conflicting opinions and ideas. You can't deny there's something attractive in the idea, but you feel the girl needs a father more than a lover.

At least, not a married lover, of your age!

"No," you finally think at the sword, "I've got a wife to answer to."

It was tempting to give it the ultimate dad line - "we'll see", but you're pretty sure the bloodthirsty ghost (and maybe other types of thirsty, now that you think about it) would take that as a "yes".

"ARE YOU NOT LORD OF THIS HOUSE?" the sword thunders into your mind, "YOUR WIFE ANSWERS TO YOU, NOT YOU TO HER!"

"I'm not debating gender roles with you right now," you think at the sword, "but get this through your steel skull - she's my partner, not my servant."

"AND SHE WILL BE A WORTHY QUEEN FOR YOUR EMPIRE," the sword intones, suddenly shifting gears, "I HAVE SEEN HER SINCE SHE WAS A KIT. YOU ARE TRULY LUCKY TO HAVE HER."

That's, hmm. You might be able to get a few clues about your wife's past out of this thing, but the redhead's question still hangs in the air.

"No," you tell him, "this is nothing like a normal Tuesday night. And we're going to try making it a little more normal - Honey, is that dinner I see on the table?"

She nods at you, and everyone but the unconscious Sue heads toward the table. You notice your wife put another plate over Sue's meal, and stick it in the cooling oven to keep warm.

She's always been thoughtful like that.

Dinner smells good, and it tastes better. Nobody says anything about what you all just saw, although your wife does get up to check on Sue a couple of times, looking slightly guilty. Seems like she regrets letting the girl have the sword, now that she's no longer in the moment.

The noises of contented chewing dominate the the air, until you break it with a question:

>Dear, why did you think that was a good idea?
>So, Melon, how was school?
>I don't think I've seen you around here before, Ginger.
>WRITE IN
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>>2644556
>So, Melon, how was school? Did you score high on your math test?
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>>2644556
>I don't think I've seen you around here before, Ginger.
Soulless fucks
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>>2644556
>>So, Melon, how was school?
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>>2644559
12:27 - 12:37 Voting period.

Also, I really like Sengoku Showdown Sword. Please let me know if he gets annoying, since that's in my blind spot right now.

And I hope I handled that last exchange with him in a way that worked for everyone. Seemed like votes were almost even, slanted toward "no".
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>>2644556
>>So, Melon, how was school?

>>2644568
he's fun
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>>2644556
>So, Melon, how was school? Did you score high on your math test?

>I don't think I've seen you around here before, Ginger. Is it true that you have no souls?


>>2644568
The sword is great
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>>2644568
I think the Sword's personality works perfectly since we now have a rough second opinion to work with when we interact with other people, regardless of how excitable it may be.
It also helps that it has a contrasting personality to match with our caring fatherly/working man methods.
It might get a bit annoying after a while to do the whole "roll to willsave to not have bloodthirsty blade possess you". Would there be a way for us to tame the blade to a point where we don't have to do that?
Also we really should ask it about some stories about our wife. We seem to be in agreement that she is a wonderful woman so it would be nice to gab back and forth about her like a couple of gossiping old ladies.
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>>2644568
Eh only way I’m convinced I saying yes is if waifu is okay and thirsty for it.

And even then, she’s jailbait for a man our age
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>>2644590
so At best give it 5 or 10 years
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>>2644590
The world's gone mad and we with it!

Anyway, it's only going to be played as a joke isn't it? I'm envisioning tons of really awkward comedy with Melon as the butt of the joke
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>>2644590
I think she's illegal for a man our age. Which should be a hard no regrardless of how Okay our wife is.
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>>2644556
"So, Melon," you ask, after the eating has slacked off a bit, "how was school? You do well on that math test?"

Seriously, a math test on a Tuesday? When everyone's barely gotten back into the swing of school after the weekend?

Her teacher must be some sort of sadist.

She swallows, then tells you "I think I did well, but I won't know until it's graded. Harriet has the best study notes."

...of course she would, if she's really been looping this year thirty times. You wouldn't be shocked if someone like her wrote down the entire year's curriculum every time she showed back up in this timeline.

"Really," you say, "hopefully you're learning something, not just riding her notes, right?"

"Of course, dad," she says, "I'm thinking of skipping into Calc 1 next year. Pretty sure I'll be able to handle it."

Your wife shoots you an undecipherable look. You think there's something in it about being supportive.

"Well," you say, remembering a torrent of report cards, "you have been getting better marks in math for a while."

"Yeah," she tells you, eyes shining, "I think I'm finally understanding what's behind it! It's sort of like magic - there's a weird set of rules, but once you understand them, everything works out!"

That's... definitely one way of looking at it.

"Must have gotten that from your dad," Liska tells her, tails gently waving behind her. "he's always had a head for numbers."

The idea of your daughter following in your footsteps, or maybe even becoming something more math-reliant than an accountant - maybe an engineer? fills you with pride for a second.

Then it deflates, as you remember Harriet's pronouncement that the world ends this year.

You've got to get her out of this contract, you've got to save the world from damnation, you have to give her a shot at that future.

"So all dads get that look," the redhead butts in, "not just mine. You look like you want to be a hero."

>A hero?
>Sorry, I didn't catch your name
>I'm not trying to be a hero - just a decent father
>WRITE IN
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>>2644623
>>I'm not trying to be a hero - just a decent father
>Sorry, I didn't catch your name
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>>2644623
>I'm not trying to be a hero - just a decent father
>Sorry, I didn't catch your name
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>>2644623
>Sorry, I didn't catch your name
>I'm not trying to be a hero - just a decent father


>>2644590
I am Halfway convinced because our wife is ninetailed DP her with us because she can shapeshift.
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>>2644623
>If a father doesn't get this look when thinking about their children's future you should call child protection services or a family counselor.
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>>2644623
supporting: >>2644632
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>>2644624
13:06 - 13:16 Voting period.

>>2644585
"roll to willsave to not have bloodthirsty blade possess you"

You pulled that off the first time, and it's not likely to keep challenging you, once it's decided you're a decent master.

>>2644604
>Anyway, it's only going to be played as a joke isn't it?
That's how I'm playing it so far. It's kind of fun.

>>2644621
>I think she's illegal for a man our age.
16 is a pretty standard age of consent. Besides, you're a QMC. Your limiter is your own morality, not the laws of the land.

That said, I am not going to be pushing anything on you guys. I'm not looking forward to writing that potential scene. I'm not looking forward to not writing it. I really don't care.
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>>2644635
As I said depends on how okay and in maybe 5 to 10 years

If out of our daughters friends Harriet seemed the most likely of those
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>>2644623
"Sorry," he tell the redhead, fixing him with your stare, "but I'm not sure I caught your name earlier."

"Shelby," he tells you, staring back at you with eyes that seem to have taken in an ocean of horror. Eyes that speak of a soul stripped bare.

Did his job give him those eyes, or has he always had them?

"Well, Shelby," you say, "I'm not trying to be a hero - just a decent father. If a father doesn't get that look thinking about their child's future," you pause, "they're not worthy of the name. And you might want CPS or a family counselor."

He gives you a hint of a smile.

"That's one way of looking at it, isn't it?" he asks you, then continues, "but getting Melon into college isn't something that you're going to need to fight the world for. She's an excellent student."

Was that really the look you'd given off? Fighting the world?

"HE CHALLENGES YOU," the sword says into your mind, "AND PRAISES YOUR DAUGHTER AT THE SAME TIME. YOU MAY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN AN HONORABLE ALLIANCE AND AN ELOPEMENT."

"They're kids," you think at the sword, "and you're being a little premature."

Then, you realize belatedly, that kid - 'Shelby?' used her pet name. Even some of her magical girl friends use 'Marion' instead.

And she's smiling at him.

"This food is great!" he continues, looking at your wife.

"Oh," she tells him, with a bit of a smile, "Melon helped out with it."

Then you catch her eyes. She's baiting you.

She wants to see this. She wants to see how you're going to react here.

"By the way, Honey," she continues, batting an eyelid at you, "there's a pork loin that needs smoking. Want to go see about that?"

You can see a grin begin on her face, but she's trying to hide it.

>Go smoke the roast, and drag the redhead with you for a conversation [WRITE IN TONE]
>Go out to 'smoke the roast, and fight this guy
>WRITE IN
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>>2644658
>Sorry," he tell the redhead, fixing him with your stare,
Should have been "you tell the redhead". I blame my keyboard.
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>>2644658
>Go smoke the roast, and drag the redhead with you for a conversation [WRITE IN TONE] Tired. Of all the bullshit going on lately you were hoping boys wouldn't be on the list.
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>>2644658
>>Go smoke the roast, and drag the redhead with you for a conversation [WRITE IN TONE]
You know how to grill? Too bad, you're learning now. It's a man thing
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>>2644658
>Go out to 'smoke the roast, and fight this guy

WE MUST BEAT HIS ASS FOR DEFYING US IN OUR OWN HOUSE.
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>>2644658
>>Go smoke the roast, and drag the redhead with you for a conversation [WRITE IN TONE]

Who ARE you to my daughter? What is your job really? Dad interrogation mode.
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>>2644658
>Go smoke the roast, and drag the redhead with you for a conversation [WRITE IN TONE]
"So, tell me about yourself... Shelby, was it?"
Calm interrogation tone
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>>2644661
13:34 - 13:44 Voting period.

Oh, wait, I'm lazy with these, so it's up already.
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>>2644568
I've only known one other talking sword in my time gaming. While probably equally insane and bloodthirsty, this one's not nearly as annoying, is genuinely hilarious, and occasionally gives good advice - even if his advice is probably responsible for half the bloodshed in feudal Japan, and concubines notwithstanding.
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>>2644658
You get up from your empty plate at the table, and head into the kitchen.

There's definitely a pork loin on a platter sitting on the counter, and you remember the stupid things you thought about this cut or meat when you were a kid.

...You took 'loin' a little too literally, and assumed some things about male pigs. THAT made 'the talk' with your father a little funnier than it should have been.

Jesus Christ, you're tired of all this. One thing after another, ever since you plunged into this world.

And now it's boys. Well, there's a page in the parent's handbook for that, even if you hadn't bothered reading it yet.

You walk back past the table, carrying the meat. They're all making small talk.

"You know how to grill, boy?" you ask the redhead - Shelby, huh?

"I was just about to ask if I could come with you," he says, smiling, and rising from his seat, "I like cooking."

There's a little apprehension in your daughter's face, like she's not sure what you're going to do to this guy.

The two of you walk past the sleeping girl on your couch, still passed out from her ordeal with the sword, and out into the backyard.

"Starter's in the shed," you tell the boy, jerking your head towards it.

He hares off to go grab it, and you set the meat down and start dumping coals into the smokebox. Not too many - you want it to burn cold, but for a long time.

He returns with the electric starter, and you take it from him with a grunt, then push charcoal over it, and finally plug it in.

"So tell me about yourself," you start, "Shelby, was it?"

"Yeah," he says, leaning against the wall of the house with you while waiting for the coals to catch, "I'm just an ordinary high school student, and work part time as a bartender/referee. Do a bit of martial arts on the side - everyone's got a hobby."

You could swear you've heard something like that before, from another redhead, by this very grill. But this guy seems different from Karen - he's not being straight with you. She sees the magical girl stuff as a hobby, but this guy?

He looks like he's got a reason for practicing. And you can't quite tell what it is.

"I also cook," he tells you, smiling, "wish you hadn't been too toasted to try any of it last night. What wood are you going to smoke with?" he asks, giving you an appraising look.

"Hickory," you tell him, "there's a bag in the shed. After it's been out here for a bit, Liska'll finish it in the oven."

"That's a good choice for pork," he agrees, "although my old man says it's a little too strong. Not sure if his tastebuds are good anymore," he tells you, with a slight frown.

>He sick or something? Hickory is great with pork.
>Kid, what's the deal with those eyes?
>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
>WRITE IN
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>>2644658
Damned punk-ass soulless urchin! What the hell kind of a dumb name is Shelby for a guy anyway? I agree with the sword this time, SCREW THE ALLIANCE - HE IS NOT WORTHY!
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>>2644724
Backing this >>2644725
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>>2644724
>>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
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>>2644724
>He sick or something? Hickory is great with pork.
>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
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>>2644724
>>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
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>>2644724
>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
Time to find out our child's relationship with a GUYKILLMAIMBURNKILLMAIMBURN
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>>2644724
>He sick or something? Hickory is great with pork.
>>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
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>>2644724
>>Alright, let's cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?
>>Kid, what's the deal with those eyes?
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>>2644728
Oh shit man, I was late-to-table last round, but still wanted to comment, sorry.

>>2644724
>There's a little apprehension in your daughter's face, like she's not sure what you're going to do to this guy.
Yeah, there better be apprehension young lady.

>But this guy seems different from Karen - he's not being straight with you.
Unless it's Karen IN DISGUISE making a move on our precious Melon!

>although my old man says it's a little too strong
>"Who's your old man, kiddo? For that matter, who are you to my daughter?"

We can at least suppress the typical dad-rage long enough for an explanation before we take the sword's approach. Sadly.
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>>2644724
"Alright," you say, leaving off the Dad Glare since it doesn't seem to work on this guy, "let's just cut to the chase here - what are you to my daughter?"

"Hopefully," he says looking at you, with eyes that seem like they're constantly sizing you up, "a friend. And you don't need to pull out the good old shotgun-cleaning-on-the-porch routine - I've seen what you can do with that thing."

Well, you have put the fear of god into this one, at least.

"God damn," he continues, "I just came over here to play games and hang out. Didn't think something like that," he gestures broadly at the grass Sue trampled down earlier, "would happen. Or that I'd get pulled into this 'boyfriend evaluation' routine."

It's not a routine. It's just who you are as a dad.

"Pretty glad my work stiffened me up for this sort of thing," he continues, "but this is still a way less chill night off than I was looking for."

"Didn't expect to meet the 'Shotgun Shogun' again this fast, hey?" you ask him, "or like this, did you?"

"Not really," he admits, "and the guys do want you to come down to the bar again some time - everyone's itching to have a go at you, after what went down last night. Nobody's ever taken him down, and you went and made him blow your shotgun! While taunting him about fucking his sister!"

Then a look of something like terror crosses his face, "wait," he says, eyes widening, "that means she's... Melon's mom is... And you..." he blanches, "I meant no disrespect," he finishes hurriedly.

"Yeah," you tell him, staring him full in the face, not quite sure what sort of realization he's having, "he is my brother in law. NOW do you get it?"

"I, uh," he half-stammers, but there's still something in his eyes that refuses to give, "look, yeah, Melon's - uh Marion's, the greatest girl in our class, and I admit, I, yeah, I kinda like her. Not sure if she wants me, and there's nothing going on yet, but a man's gotta try, right?"

"Am I going to have to fight you for that chance?" he asks, and you feel something from him, something like you felt from T.T.

>Yeah, kid, let's go
>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
>Let's get this thing in the smoker. Go grab the hickory for me, hey?
>WRITE IN
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>>2644794
>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
>Let's get this thing in the smoker. Go grab the hickory for me, hey?
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>>2644794
>>Let's get this thing in the smoker. Go grab the hickory for me, hey?
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>>2644794
>>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
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>>2644794
>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
>I'm just here to make sure she can have the chance to have a happy childhood the best I can give her
>Let's get this thing in the smoker. Go grab the hickory for me, hey?
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>>2644798
14:47 - 14:57 Voting period

>>2644725
>What the hell kind of a dumb name is Shelby for a guy anyway?
Oddly enough, 'Shelby' used to be a guy's name before a certain point in time.

Histories of names are weird.
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>>2644794
>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
>>Or do you maybe WANT to show off?
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>>2644794
>Yeah, kid, let's go
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>>2644794
>>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
God, no. This isn't fucking 1500 AD. I'm not selling my daughter's hand to whoever can win a trial by combat.
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>>2644794
>>Fight me for a chance? Kid, it's her call whether she wants you or not
>>Let's get this thing in the smoker. Go grab the hickory for me, hey?
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Damn it...
I support >>2644802 plus
"But if you do wanna spar sometime - it'd be nice to know you could hold your own."
"So who's your old man anyway?"

>>2644803
Fair enough, man. I had gf with that name, lol.
Also, damn you for inspiring us to be reasonable dad, lol.
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Wifey is apparently famous huh, and after spending how many years playing human and writing novels?

What kind of family did we fall into?

Some funny shit if there's a direct relation to inari
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>>2644806
I almost want to say he does need to fight us to see how committed he is. Maybe later.
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>>2644825
If we are fighting, we're going to do it somewhere else. Backyard is sacred ground. It's where we grill food afterall!
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>>2644794
>what kind of world do you live in where fighting me is a sane, reasonable option? I want better for Melon, and for the rest of you as well
>let's get this thing in the smoker
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>>2644794
"Fight me for a chance?" you ask the kid - Shelby, was that his name?, "kid, this isn't 1500 AD. I'm not going to pull some trial by combat shit on you."

He relaxes, just a bit, and then you hit him with the next one.

"It's her call whether she wants you or not," you tell him, staring straight into those half-dead eyes, "and a woman's heart is scarier than anything I could hit you with."

"I..." he starts, "yeah. That's definitely, uh, do you know the worst fights I've ever broken up?" he asks you.

"No," you tell him. The charcoal is almost ready, so you take the starter out and spread the coals.

"Wives and mistresses," he says, "that poet was right when he said they should never meet. Women are incredible."

...He can say that again, in a lot of contexts, and he wouldn't be wrong.

"Go grab the hickory chips in the shed," you tell him, "time to get this thing in the smoker."

He runs off, and the sword shoved through your belt pipes up, "BUT WIVES AND CONCUBINES, WHERE EACH KNOWS THEIR PLACE..." it begins.

"Enough," you think at it, "we've had that discussion."

You've had that discussion, but you're not sure what discussion you're about to have with this redheaded kid.

>So, your old man doesn't like hickory smoked pork? Is he sick or something?
>So, what's with the reaction to my wife?
>What is wrong with your eyes?
>WRITE IN
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>>2644855
>So, your old man doesn't like hickory smoked pork? Is he sick or something?
>So, what's with the reaction to my wife?
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>>2644855
>>What is wrong with your eyes?
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>>2644855
>So, your old man doesn't like hickory smoked pork? Is he sick or something?
>So, what's with the reaction to my wife?
Let's get the basics out of the way
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>>2644855
>So, your old man doesn't like hickory smoked pork? Is he sick or something?
>So, what's with the reaction to my wife?

the hickory thing is probably mystical, but maybe i'm just paranoid
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>>2644857
15:20 - 15:30 Voting period.

You know the drill
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>>2644855
>What is wrong with your eyes?
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>>2644412
I go away from this quest for a bit and come back to our stalker chick ruining the lawn. How did none of you catch that?
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>>2644862
>>2644855
>>So, your old man doesn't like hickory smoked pork? Is he sick or something?
>>So, what's with the reaction to my wife?
Got a feeling it is mystical too, probably paranoia but normal kids don't fall into that kind of job easily.
>Write In Add On: "Most kids don't get caught working in magical bars, you got anything mystical you are hiding? Doesn't look like you have made any contracts with the rats at least."
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>>2644855
>So, your old man doesn't like hickory smoked pork? Is he sick or something?
>So, what's with the reaction to my wife?
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>>2644855
>>What is wrong with your eyes?
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>>2644870
You may need to point out the parts where she was ruining the lawn in the descriptions, because I can't tell an elbow from a socket wrench.
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>>2644855
He comes back with the bag of hickory chips, and you scatter them over the bed of coals in the smokebox.

As you're about to put the pork loin in the smoker, he asks, "aren't you going to salt it?"

That's actually a good idea. You haven't tried it before, but you've heard salting meat before you smoke it can be pretty good.

"Alright," you tell him, with a look that you hope conveys the idea of trial by combat, "be my guest. But you'd better not fuck this up."

He goes to work with your grill salt grinder, sprinkling that stuff onto the pork loin, covering it. Adds in a bit of pepper and the other spices you have sitting around the grill.

Hey, you do things thoroughly.

"Should be good," he says, "let's put it on. I'm just glad Sue didn't mess this thing up earlier - it's one hell of a smoker."

"Yeah," you tell him, "I've had it almost twenty years. Does good work, but I might need someone to weld in patches for the bottom."

"I might," he says, with a guarded look, "know a couple of guys who do that sort of thing. You might even get a discount, if you told them who you were."

"Contacts from that magic bar you help run?" you ask, all too casually, as you slide the pork into the smoking chamber and close the lid, "and why the hell does your 'old man' not know hickory is the best wood to smoke pork with? Is he sick or something?"

"Something like that," he says, eyes falling a little, "he's, well, decaying inside. Something a demon did to him a while back, I think - I don't know the details. It's like he's keeping himself going purely on willpower."

There's something there, you sense. Something interesting in this guy's family history.

"And why do you call him your 'old man'?" you ask, making sure the temperature in the smoke chamber isn't too high, "sounds like he's your father, and you're talking about him like he's your grandfather, with one foot in the grave."

"He has one foot in the grave," the boy says, "and I'm adopted. Not really sure where I came from. It's all ash, flames and smoke. I think he pulled me out of it. But he's definitely my father," he tells you, something in his eyes that brooks no argument.

You're going to have to meet this guy. It sounds like he knows what being a dad is all about.

"So," you ask, shifting gears on him, as the two of you lean back against the wall, "what's with the reaction to my wife?"

"That guy you took out last night?" he asks you, "at the crazy bar I work at? He was untouchable. He was a god, lounging at the end of the bar and taking fights at his leisure. Nobody could take him down. Old kitsune lineage or something. And that sword..."

His voice trails away, as if lost in thought, "and she's his sister. And you managed to marry her."

You almost hear "and Melon's her daughter," but chalk it up to the wind.

>So what magic are you hiding?
>Know anything about the rats?
>What's wrong with you eyes? Have they always been this empty?
>Let's just go inside while this smokes.
>WRITE IN
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>>2644894

>So what magic are you hiding?
>Know anything about the rats?
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>>2644894
>So what magic are you hiding?
>What's wrong with you eyes? Have they always been this empty?
Good questions to ask.
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>>2644894
>>What's wrong with you eyes? Have they always been this empty?
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>>2644894
>What's wrong with you eyes? Have they always been this empty?
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>>2644901
16:01 - 16:11 Voting period
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>>2644894
He's starting to sound suspicious in a seduce our daughter mainly for the purpose of gaining/stealing magical power in a way that can go very poorly way is starting to occur to him sort of way.
>So what magic are you hiding?
>I only learned about this stuff last week etc Hoping it drops his guard enough that we can later check on if his type can go very wrong when we text TT asking about why kitsune are supposed to be a magical jackpot.
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>>2644913
I'm gonna point out that he hasn't completely blown his long term shot at me not hating him It's just that a kid with eyes dead inside,working a bunch of jobs all the time, in a world where evil demon debt collectors exist that suddenly got interested in your daughter's lineage is setting off all the dad alarms for person that could get desperate and do something that he's going to regret. Best to learn about him and consider ways to make him not need to make such a dumb choice in the first place.
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>>2644894
"Kid," you say, looking deep into those half-destroyed eyes, "What the hell is wrong with your eyes? Have they always been this empty?"

"They've been like this as long as I can remember," he tells you, staring you full in the face, "the shrinks said it was something about the fire my dad pulled me out of. I think the phrase was 'survivor's guilt'," he continues, as if challenging you to prove him wrong.

You've seen a few guys like this before, and the phrase that occurs to you is 'PTSD', but you're not going to stop him. You see the half-image of someone he could become hanging around him.

And you can't tell whether you like it.

"I might have lost something that day," he says through gritted teeth, "but I'm living my life. I'm living a pretty good life, better than I deserve - I've got a loving family, good friends, and a damn interesting job. Maybe," he tells you, "maybe one day I'll find something to fill the holes in these eyes."

And you think it's going to be my daughter? you wonder, looking at this kid.

Well, you'd told him that was her choice to make. But you could certainly give her some advice about it.

"So what's your magic?" you ask him. Because if there's one thing you've learned recently, it's that damaged teenagers seem to draw magic to them like moths to a flame, "the Rats?"

"No," he says, staring you down, "they don't go for guys. I'm a Natural."

He says that like it should mean something. Maybe your confusion registers on your face, because he continues, "I'm a man that can do magic on his own. It's rather..." he pauses, and you see the teenage boy in him below the sharpened surface, "specific, though."

>Oh, give me a demonstration!
>Now that the meat's smoking, let's go inside
>You're not going to find your answer anywhere outside yourself, kid
>Figure I could meet your old man sometime?
>WRITE IN
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>>2644936
>>Oh, give me a demonstration!
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>>2644936
>Oh, give me a demonstration! As long as it doesn't end in a fight.
>Figure I could meet your old man sometime?

And before we go back inside the house I want to use this choice
>You're not going to find your answer anywhere outside yourself, kid
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>>2644936
>Oh, give me a demonstration!
>Figure I could meet your old man sometime?
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>>2644944
16:36 - 16:46 Voting period

>>2644945
>As long as it doesn't end in a fight.
You're no fun
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>>2644950
>>2644945
>>2644944
We gonna meet father Kirei and have a round of beers with T.T

Dad night out
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>>2644936
>Oh, give me a demonstration!
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>>2644936
>Let me guess, pyromancy?
>Oh, give me a demonstration!
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>>2644936
>Oh, give me a demonstration!
Well shit, if Shelby's a Shirou expy do you think he's already ahead of us and T.T and is planning to break his own sister's contract or just help heal his dad?
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>>2644955
>You're no fun
I SAYS IT ONCE. I SAYS IT TWICE! OUR BACKYARD IS OUR SANCTUARY! NOT A GLADIATORIAL ARENA!
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>"Define specific."
>You're not going to find your answer anywhere outside yourself, kid
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>>2644974
He said, ten minutes after letting Psycho Sue give us a wonderful swordsgirlship demonstration in said backyard sanctuary.
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>>2644986
Hush, I'm thinking of having her repave the driveway as a punishment!
To be fair I'm using the movie famous depiction of a gladiator arena, not the historically accurate one.
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>Not telling !Shirou that if he wants the GOOD END with our daughter he'd have to help with getting her out of magical debt.

On a side note, we should consult the wife on the Sue situation.
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>>2645008
i'm sure she should know more about it, considering she has known that melon is a MG for far longer than us.
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>>2644936
"Oh," you say, "give me a demonstration - unless that's a euphemism for a fight."

He give you a hard to read look. Maybe he wants to test himself on the 'Shotgun Shogun'?

Geez. You would have picked a better pro wrestling name for yourself.

"Sure," he says, gritting his teeth as energy crackles around him, "watch this!"

That's IMPOSSIBLE.

There's no fucking way.

The Thousand Year Blade is still shoved through your belt. You put a hand down to feel it, and, yeah, it's still there.

But it's also in the boy's hand.

"BROTHER!" his sword shouts.

"LIQUID!" yours replies.

"SOLID!" his sword yells.

"KANEDA!"

"TETSUO!"

"KANEDAAAA!"

"TETSUOOOOOO!"

Is this some sort of ancient greeting ritual? You've never heard of anything like this. Then his sword shatters into pieces, and the boy screams and falls to his knees.

"Ok," he says, a little shakily, kneeling on your back lawn, "note to self - don't try it on weapons with their own consciousness."

"You alright kid?" you ask, picking him up off your lawn. Those are some impressive grass stains on his jeans.

"Yeah," he says, leaning into you as you pull him off your lawn, "I really shouldn't have tried that. Swords are my thing, but," he smiles wryly, "that thing isn't just a sword. How the HELL do you deal with it?"

"Dad stuff," you tell him, as he staggers toward the house, supported by your shoulder, "figure I could meet your old man sometime?"

"Yeah," he gasps, almost stumbling into the door, "he'd probably like that."

"You're not going to find your answer anywhere outside yourself, kid," you tell him, as you open the door and the two of you spill into the living room.

Your wife is grinning again, but your daughter has a concerned face.

>I swear we weren't fighting!
>Ok, we've got another one to put on a couch
>Hey, at least I didn't blow his arms off.
>Was that what you expected, dear?
>WRITE IN
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>>2645008
We seriously need to get a damn list together of things To-Do.

1.Get Daughter out of Magical Bullshit Debt.
2.Go on Double date with Dragon Boss.
3.Plan a trip to meet with the In-Laws again.
4.Get Milk and Eggs
5.Interrogate Rat some more
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>>2645021
>Was that what you expected, dear?
Say it in the most innocent way we can muster. Bonus points if we do a cute childish pout.
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>>2645021
>I swear we weren't fighting!
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>>2645021
>Ok, we've got another one to put on a couch
>I swear we weren't fighting!
>Still, that was pretty impressive
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>>2645021
>Hey, at least I didn't blow his arms off.
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>>2645021
>His got both arms and knees unlike the others for now. Relax
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>>2645021
>I swear we weren't fighting!
That entire fucking Metal Gear segment.

Shelby's pretty good.
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>>2645030
17:06 - 17:16 Voting period.

>>2644974
Great. Someone's posting Caim. This cannot end well.
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>>2645050
You tossed in Not-Madoka and Not-Shirou.
I'm still waiting for Not-Mikhail to show up and be adorable.
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>>2645008
>On a side note, we should consult the wife on the Sue situation.
You mean the sit-Sue-ation?

>>2645022
The rat interrogation seems to keep sliding down the list.

>>2645021
The Shotgun Shogun is a pretty boss-ass wrestling title, just sayin' daddio.
>"BROTHER!"
Also, QM, has anyone told you lately you're a glorious son of a bitch.

I support >>2645042
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>>2645050
And besides.
No one does an Apocalypse of What-The-Fuck proportions like Drakengard!
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>>2645021
"I swear we weren't fighting," you tell them, "look! He's got all his arms and legs!"

Your wife's grin is wide, but you're pretty sure THIS isn't what she'd anticipated.

"And we're going to need to put him on the loveseat," you tell them, "since the couch is taken."

"Just," the boy leaning on you says, "went a bit too hard showing off my magic."

You lay him out on the love seat (and wonder, for the thousandth time, how the hell that piece of furniture got its name).

"It was pretty impressive," you tell him, as your daughter runs off to get him a drink.

Your wife just stands there with the grin on her face

>So, what did you think I was going to do, Honey?
>How's Sue doing?
>Yeah, he's interested in our daughter. But that's her deal, and I swear I didn't beat him up for it.
>WRITE IN
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>>2645021
>No Naruto Sasuke shout
Shit sword 0/10
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>>2645075
>So, what did you think I was going to do, Honey?
>By the way, when are we gonna get your parents to come over?
>That reminds me, where is that Rat?
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>>2645075
>>So, what did you think I was going to do, Honey?
>By the way, when are we gonna get your parents to come over?
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>>2645075
>>So, what did you think I was going to do, Honey?
>>By the way, when are we gonna get your parents to come over?

>>2645084
the rat is in one nondescript pocket of our clothes.
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>>2645088
Is that the one with the pen cozy or the one we put our wallet in?
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>>2645084
17:28 - 17:38 Voting period.
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>>2645075
>So, what did you think I was going to do, Honey?
>By the way, when are we gonna get your parents to come over?
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>>2645096
the one that is more uncomfortable for the rat at any given moment.
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>>2645116
Ah, the one where we place our Multitool in. A excellent choice as any.
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>>2645075
"So," you ask her, "what did you think I was going to do, Honey?"

"Mmm," she says, taking a step toward you, "some sort of dominance battle over our daughter? Something to make him admit your leadership before being allowed in? Something like that, I guess?"

"And I think you did it admirably," she says, suddenly close enough to kiss you.

"YOU MADE HIM SHOW THAT HE WAS UNABLE TO HOLD YOUR BLADE," the sword yells into your mind, "OR EVEN A COPY OF IT! AND YOU GOT HIM TO DO IT HIMSELF!"

You really don't have any attention to spare for your sword - what your wife is doing with your mouth takes every ounce of attention you can give it. And her body takes all the rest.

And when she lets go, you realize that you have an audience of three teenagers.

Who have just gotten a demonstration of something sex ed probably never taught them. Schools these days.

Your daughter looks scandalized. Her face is completely red, as if she'd tried applying rouge for the first time, and gotten it everywhere. She nearly spills the glass of water she's holding before taking it over to Shelby.

He's managing to prop himself up on one elbow, and you catch a look of near awe on his face at the fact you're embracing someone who might have once been a goddess. That sort of "Dude, you SCORED!" look you remember from earlier times. He wipes that look off as Melon brings him, the water, then smiles at her, almost gently.

He'd better not be thinking about trying anything like this on your daughter, as long as his eyes are that empty, you think to yourself.

And then there's Sue. She's still half-conscious, and you're really bad at reading women, but you could swear she's wishing she was in your wife's place right now.

You studiously ignore all three of them, and draw your wife even closer. The rat squeaks in your pocket as he nears being crushed.

"So," you ask her, "when do we get your parents to come over?"

"Well," she says, a little breathlessly, "they'd rather we went to their place. They've been inviting us for months, you know?"

Oh. That's right. Those letters you'd been putting off for a while, out of a man's natural desire to keep a safe distance from his wife's family.

>No, Mohammed must come to the Mountain
>So, maybe we could go there next week?
>How are we going to get these kids home?
>WRITE IN
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Titles for Liska's new suburban fantasy novel series:

>Honey, Our Daughter is a Magical Girl.
>Kiddo, Your Mother is a Snow Maiden
>Crap, My Boss is a Dragon.
>Damn it, the Neighbors are Dwarves and Elves...
>Great, My Sister is the CHRO of Hell
>Dad, the Cat Needs Arbitration

>>2645144
>So, maybe we could go there next week?
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>>2645144
>So, maybe we could go there next week?
>Take the rat out and ask him if he needs food or something before we shove it back in the pocket

we don't want him to die of starvation
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>>2645144
"Honey it would actually be nice to show the folks where we live our lives."
>How are we going to get these kids home?
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>>2645150
17:58 - 17:08 Voting period

>suburban fantasy novel
You should feel terrible for even writing that.

And yet, it's immensely hilarious.
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>>2645155
Wait, that's 17:58 - 18:08 Voting period. Sorry.
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>>2645144
>>So, maybe we could go there next week?
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>>2645144
>So, maybe we could go there next week?
>How are we going to get these kids home?
Japan here we come
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>>2645155
You were the one who made the foxy wife an urban fantasy novelist.
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>>2645150
>Sword, I am not taking you for a walk.

Yeah I got nothing, that series seems perfect.
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>>2645144
>no mahommand must come to the mountain
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>>2645144
>>So, maybe we could go there next week?
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>>2645144
"So," you say, "what if we went there next week?"

You should be able to grab the time off, even if your boss is going to put you on the 'special accounts', and you're not really looking forward to finding out what those are tomorrow.

"You sure?" she asks, eyeing you with an unmistakably hungry look, "you actually want to meet them for real this time - knowing everything?"

There's probably one man in a thousand that could answer that look with anything other than 'yes'.

"Yeah," you tell her, "if we're lucky, we can get there before your brother runs back with his tails between his legs."

"We might even," she tells you with a glint in her eye, "hide what you know and try seeing how long they can keep the charade up - when you're looking for it."

That sounds like a plan that ends with someone saying "you look like you've been tricked by a fox!" at the end.

But it sounds hilarious.

And, judging by the look in her eyes, it's exactly what your wife wants.

"Book the tickets," you tell her.

"So," she asks, cocking her head to the side, "are we taking Melon?"

>Yes
>No
>WRITE IN
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>>2645180
>Yes
>They might be able to help with her magical debt or teach her some new stuff.
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>>2645180
>Yes
>WOO! FAMILY VACATION!
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>>2645180
>Yes
they might teach her a thing or two
but i have a bad feeling about the rat, we should call TT to see if we can get a special cage to contain it
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>>2645180
>Yes

Confirm with Harriette that it'll be okay for the timeline.

Also we have to find that Demoness we let gonat some point and forcefully Dad her.
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>>2645180
>Yes
>does our daughter have a tail and ears
Can we touch them?
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>>2645180
>Yes
Though similar to what >>2645195 said:
She should check with her fellow magical girls that they can handle the workload without her for a while.
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>>2645180

>>2645195 has a great point, if she knows something big is going to show up we'll probably have to delay
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>>2645150
some additional titles
>My Katana can't be this cute
A Tsundere Katana found a venerable master yet she isn't really honest to her feelings.
>Shotgun Sempai Diaries
A diary of a certain anthromorphic gun character who held her for the first time and is now stalking his owner in hopes of him to held in her own body again
>Loan of the Rings
A certain man who is evading the loan rat collector who charges a lot of money for a single ring for her to give in his wedding day. Will he pay the loan before the wedding day or will he apprehended by shady rat loan shark
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>Melon learns to summon her fox ears and tail
>inb4 this brings a spark of life back into !Shirou's eyes
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>>2645226
>that's the moment when !Shirou discovered he was a furry.
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>>2645226
I want Melon to have a normal boy to marry just like us.

Well not really but you know my point.
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>>2645180
"Yes," you say, "sounds like a better family vacation than remodeling, right?"

She gives a barking laugh, then kisses you again.

...you're pretty sure that this relational side of things DEFINITELY wasn't covered in sex ed, judging by the looks your teenage audience is giving you.

"And they might be able to help us out with the debt," you whisper in her ear, once she lets you have your mouth back, "or with something else useful for her."

"Always the accountant, aren't you?" she asks with a smirk, "you've just got to make everything end up on the black side of the ledger."

"You know why you married me," you tell her, smiling.

"Oh," she says, "go on - make me remember," she continues, that ravenous look coming back into her eyes, "but we've got a couple of half-conscious kids for you to deal with while I book those tickets."

Then she darts off, leaving you standing in the middle of a room with three teenagers staring at you, in various degrees of awe, lust, and disbelief.

"I'm good to sleep over here," Sue volunteers, "cleared it with my folks."

"SHE WISHES FOR HER SLEEP HERE TO BE IN YOUR BED," the sword thinks into your mind, "AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO BIND HER TO YOU? SHE COULD LEAD YOUR ARMIES, VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF LOVE!"

You're learning to tune out that sword.

Before you say anything, Melon steps in to drag her friend off to her room.

You hear a muffled "HE'S MY DAD, SUE!" from down the corridor, but pretend you don't.

"Alright," Shelby says, "I guess that leaves me. My folks won't be too mad if I crash on your couch," he says, looking up at you, "but that's your decision."

>Give me your address - I'm driving you home.
>Give me a phone number - I'm getting your folks to pick you up.
>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.
>WRITE IN
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>>2645229
Didn't we say the same about Sue? And look how well THAT'S working at the moment.

FFS Captcha, I've had this tab open for literally days now, can you just piss off already? I feel like I'm playing Catherine, I have to clear a shitty fucking puzzle every time I want to progress the story or conversation.
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>>2645242
>Give me your address - I'm driving you home.
No flags for you
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>>2645228
Monster girls =/= furries.

Hunan secondary sexual characteristics and human face is the dividing line.
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>>2645242
>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.

We've got more important stuff to worry about right now. Should probably ask the wife about what the whole loving forever thing means for Melon since she's half kitsune. And what it means for us.
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>>2645242
> You don't want to take this opportunity for me to meet your folks?

>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.
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>>2645242
Sword knows where it's at.
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>>2645242
>Give me a phone number - I'm getting your folks to pick you up.
It's not a excuse to make Prisma Illya to pick SHirou up or Taiga for that matter
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>>2645247
18:38 - 18:48 Voting period.

>No flags for you
Does this make playing Dad like playing flag football?

>>2645171
It seemed to fit.

>>2645195
You'll get an opportunity to do this soon enough.
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>>2645242
>>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.
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>>2645242
>>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.
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>>2645242
>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.

>Double check with her parents however first.
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>>2645257
Give me your address - I'm driving you home.

Don't give too much on turn one tovarisches.
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>>2645242
>"SHE COULD LEAD YOUR ARMIES, VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF LOVE!"
Because that worked out so well for Cleopatra and Mark Antony.

>>Fine, crash on the couch. Try anything, and you'll know what the Shotgun Shogun can do sober.
I mean, our house is rapidly becoming a hostel for wayward magical youth anyway.
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>>2645242
>To the sword : "what don't you understand about MONOGAMY?"

>Call your dad to make sure, but as long as you stay on the couch, i don't mind
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>>2645268
Responding to the story post you're voting on >>2645242
makes this a LOT easier for me when counting votes.

>>2645245
>FFS Captcha, I've had this tab open for literally days now, can you just piss off already? I feel like I'm playing Catherine, I have to clear a shitty fucking puzzle every time I want to progress the story or conversation.
You're telling me.
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>>2645275
at least captcha din't try to fucking ban you... right?
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>>2645254
You're not wrong.

>>2645256
We already saw !Rin's-Dad, you really think it's not gonna be !Rin. (QM's choice of art is hilarious, especially Cooking Shirou.)
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>>2645242
"Fine," you tell the kid, "crash on the couch. but I'd just like to make sure it's good with your folks."

He gives you a phone number, and you dial.

"Hello?" a perky yet sultry voice says, "who's this?"

"Shelby gave me this number," you say, "when I said he'd have to clear crashing on my couch with his folks."

...You hear muffled conversation from the other end of the line. One voice is the perky woman you spoke to at first, and the other is a man that actually sounds like he's dying.

Gravelly voice and all.

"So that means you're Melon's dad?" the woman says into the phone, "we've got so much to talk about!"

This is really something for your wife to deal with.

But she's off booking tickets.

Oh hell.

At least you manage to walk away from her son (apparently adopted) before continuing.

"Yeah," you say, "and what do you mean we've got a lot to talk about?"

"He's head-over-heels for her, you know," the woman says to you, then you hear a deep-voiced grumbling from the background, and a muttered 'you know it's true, dear', before the other end of the phone lights back up, "and I'm sure you;d like to know a little more about him."

>On second thought, just come pick him up
>Know more about him? What should I know? [WRITE IN QUESTIONS]
>Can I talk to his father, please?
>Wait a second, he's been talking to his mother about my daughter?
>So, I take it he has your permission to crash here? I just hope you didn't give him any advice on what to do.
>WRITE IN
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>>2645297
>Well I won't need to kill anybody if they are respectable and don't do anything stupid.
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>>2645297
>Well I won't need to kill anybody if they are respectable and don't do anything stupid.
>So, I take it he has your permission to crash here? I just hope you didn't give him any advice on what to do.
>Wait a second, he's been talking to his mother about my daughter?
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>>2645297
>Wait a second, he's been talking to his mother about my daughter?
>He was telling me a bit about himself earlier on, is he...okay?
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>>2645297
>>2645317
Also you have excellent taste QM, Iri is best girl.
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>>2645297
>Unless he's a serial killer i think i'm past the point of caring...
>It'll work out if she wants it to work out.
>So, I take it he has your permission to crash here? I just hope you didn't give him any advice on what to do.
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>>2645301
19:01 - 19:11 (like the pistol!) voting period.

>>2645321
You fucking know it.
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>>2645297
>perky yet sultry voice
Oh sweet merciful christ...

>Know more about him? What should I know?
>Hand over receiver, whisper to Shelby: You've been talking to your mother about my daughter?

On a similar note, having the other girls' parents (and maybe the boy's too) over for a BBQ (read: magical PTA meeting) might be a good idea too. But we should probably swing that by the waifu before randomly inviting people.
inb4 the sword thinks we're holding court
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>>2645330
>covering the receiver, not handing over the phone

>>2645022
Can we add, "Interrogate Daughter" to that list too?
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>>2645345
Of course, as long as it's important it'll go on the list.
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>tfw this a world where Iri is alive and well.

QM confirmed for having best sensibilities.
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>>2645297
"So," you say, "I take it he has permission to crash here?"

...And then some, you think, based on what his mother's said so far. Maybe she's reading too much into whatever he's said.

"Of course!" she says in a tone far too chipper for this time of night, "and you should look forward to breakfast in the morning! He's an excellent cook."

You could swear you felt a wink through the phone.

"So he's been talking to you about my daughter?" you ask, unamused.

"Not really," she says, "but from what he's said about her here and there when he comes home from school..." then she covers the phone again, but you can barely make out a 'kyah!', "I'm pretty sure there's something going on. Or he wants there to be!"

There's a distant grumbling in the background, and you can almost make out the tones of a fellow father having exactly the same reaction you are to his wife.

"Well," you say, "I won't need to kill anyone if they're respectable and don't try something stupid. I just hope you didn't give him any 'advice' on what to do if he's under this roof."

There's a gasp from the other end of the line, and you hear 'he's being mean to me!' filter back through a half-covered microphone.

Then a noise like the phone got passed hand-to-hand.

"Hello," a voice says. Deep, gravelly, male - it sounds like this guy has been smoking a pack a day since he was sixteen.

But you hear a tone you recognize.

This is a father's voice.

"I heard you were asking about my son staying at your place?"

>Yeah - that good with you?
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
>Taking a long shot here - but do you happen to have a daughter contracted to the rats?
>WRITE IN
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
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>>2645378
>>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
>Taking a long shot here - but do you happen to have a daughter contracted to the rats?
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
>Taking a long shot here - but do you happen to have a daughter contracted to the rats?

Man we really should start a group dedicated to parents with Magical Girls.
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>>2645385
19:30 - 19:40 voting period.

>>2645374
I am honored by your praise, and humbled by the fact that I'm running Expy Quest.
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
Melon's got her MG gang, we need to make our own MD (Magical Dad) gang now.
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
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>>2645378
>Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter
>Taking a long shot here - but do you happen to have a daughter contracted to the rats?
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>>2645378
"Only if he doesn't try anything with my daughter," you tell him.

And then you get the last response you'd expected.

Laughter.

Peals of laughter, coming from deep inside, belly laugh after belly laugh, culminating in a paroxysm of smoker's coughs.

"The only thing he'd try," the man says, once he finishes trying to hack up his lungs, "is cooking for her. Shelby's a good kid, if a little intense, and if he passed out on your couch," he pauses, and takes a deep breath, "it's probably because he overused his magic showing off or something."

Is this guy psychic, or does he know his boy that well? Would you know how to answer a call like this from someone asking about Melon crashing at their house?

"Don't mind Iri," he says, and a storm of high-pitched invectives envelops his voice, "she'd pair any two things with warm blood. Isn't that right dear?"

You really never thought you'd hear a French kiss through a phone.

Is that really what you and your wife sound like?

"Sorry about that," the smoker says, "but you probably understand. As long as he makes it to school, he can crash on any couch in this city, for all I care."

That's, uh, surprisingly callous.

"I did worse at his age," the man continues, "at least he's not fighting vampires in the streets. Or going all Oedipus Rex on me. But really, he'll be good, or you can have my head."

Is everyone you deal with, everyone in this brave new world of gods and monsters, categorically insane?

Or is it just you?

There's a noise like someone trying to cover a phone mike, then you hear "and he'd have a damn good reason for going Oedipal, wouldn't he, dear?"

...This is definitely the oddest phone call you've had in a while.

"Taking a long shot here," you ask, hoping to get things back onto firm ground, "but do you have a daughter contracted to the rats?"

There's a sudden change in the tension on the line. It snaps from jokes (at least you hope they're jokes) to a dead seriousness in a heartbeat.

"How did you know?" he asks, years of smoking evident in his voice, "got good informants, huh?"

>We should meet up sometime
>Just a wild guess
>Informants? I beat the info out of your son
>My daughter's in that fix too.
>WRITE IN
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>>2645451
>>My daughter's in that fix too.
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>>2645451
>We should meet up sometime
Misinformation ftw
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>>2645451
>Dad instinct, i guess.
>>My daughter's in that fix too.
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>>2645451
/*Desire to get more feudal retainers intensifies*/
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>>2645451
>Father's intuition
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>>2645451
>We should meet up sometime
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>>2645451
>My daughter's in that fix too.
>Hey, the next time I'm having a cookout I'll give you a invite, bring the family too, I'm sure I can cook enough to feed an army."
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>>2645456
20:02 - 20:12 Voting period.
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>>2645451
>>My daughter's in that fix too.
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>>2645451
>>We should meet up sometime
>No, just your son looks a lot like one of the girls my daughter runs with. Same red hair.
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>>2645451
My daughter's in that fix too.
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>>2645451
>and he'd have a damn good reason for going Oedipal
*pause mid-sip, continues sipping* You almost got me.

>My daughter's in that fix too.
>We should meet up sometime
I know what I said about checking first, but the time has suddenly arrived, and now this seems pretty important, so fuck it.

>>2645470
It's contagious.
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>>2645451
>My daughter's in that fix too.
>We should meet up sometime.
>Either a cookout if you want the family along, or drinking, if not.
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>>2645475
And Shelby can be our sous-chef, and ride *sunglasses* shotgun with us on the grill.
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>>2645451
> I'm thinking of starting up a support group, or maybe a war. Still not decided yet. But we should talk sometime with another friend of mine in the same situation.
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>>2644412
>sword
>a fine addition to his collection
Well played qm-sama, well played.
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>>2645516
It's a fucking General Grievous meme isn't it?...
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>>2645392
>I am honored by your praise, and humbled by the fact that I'm running Expy Quest.
I'm fucking riveted and invested here, so don't feel too humble.
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>>2645451
"Fatherly intuition," you tell him, "you know how it is."

Before he can reply, you follow up with "and my daughter's in that fix too. If the rats screwed them -" you say, and he cuts you off, suddenly more intense than before,

"Let's screw 'em worse," he tells you, a smoker's gravel lending weight to his words.

"If we don't hang together," you start, hoping to find a kindred spirit here.

"Then we will all hang separately," he finishes for you, "us, our families, and everything around us. DAMN have I been waiting for this call for a long time!"

If you don't misread the noise from the other end of the line, the man just suddenly got vertical out of a sickbed.

"YOU HAVE SECURED AN ALLY," the sword says into your mind, "ONE WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING. YOU SHOULD BE SURE HIS SWORD ALWAYS REMAINS POINTED AT YOUR ENEMIES, AND THAT YOU ARE NOT ON THAT LIST. ENSURE HIS LOYALTY - AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN HIS SON AND YOUR DAUGHTER MIGHT BE IN ORDER."

This sword might be useful, just for reading people, if it didn't see everything in positively feudal terms.

"So who are we taking out?" he asks.

"I'm not sure yet," you say, realizing that you have no idea who to go to to solve this, "how about," you rummage in your mind for a decent, dadly idea, "coming by for a family cookout sometime?"

As soon as you say it, you realize that this means Liska and 'Iri' will be in close proximity.

That can't be a good thing, but maybe you can head things off.

Somehow.

"Later this week?" he asks, "I'm not sure I can do next week."

>That sounds good
>I've gotta clear this with the wife first
>What's got you busy next week?
>WRITE IN
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>>2645539
>That sounds good
May as well since next week is the family trip.
I like this and our alliance against the rats.
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>>2645539
>That sounds good
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>>2645539
>That sounds good
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>>2645539
>That sounds good
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>>2645539
>That sounds good
>Bring a sidedish
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>>2645539
Oh God no he has something possibly going on when we go to visit the wife. Is he a family member... or a relative... fuck which is worse? Oh no, the wife... Iri is...oh no...
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>>2645550
SPEAK MAH BOY! WHAT TERRORS DO YAH SEE?
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>>2645539
>>That sounds good
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>>2645539
>What's got you busy next week? You dying? Got a posession issue? My man T.T. can maybe help with that.

> This week will be . . . Full, but let's pencil in Sunday then.

Friday - Double Date.

Saturday - Meet wife's family, gives us a reason to not drink too much Friday.

Sunday - Family BBQ, all dads invited.
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>>2645550
i feel like i'm missing something...
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>>2645539
>That sounds good

>Busy next week
QM you better not have Kerry have his yearly failures to save Illya in this quest as well you madman
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>>2645557
I thought we were going over to Japan to meet our In-Laws, not the other way around. Since we're booking the tickets and everything.
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>>2645539
>AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN HIS SON AND YOUR DAUGHTER MIGHT BE IN ORDER.
What'd I say? He might be the inspiration for bloodshed through the ages but the insane metal stick makes some terrifying sense.

>>2645547
>That sounds good
>Bring a sidedish
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>>2645550
OH NO IRI IS LISKA ONEECHAN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PANIC
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>>2645539
"That sounds good," you say, "maybe Thursday? I'll send a text. Oh, and bring a side dish." You should probably invite T.T. and his family as well.

"Alright," he tells you, "I'm looking forward to it. And I feel a hell of a lot better about my son spending the night at your place now."

Then he hangs up, and all you have is a dial tone.

Well, that family is certainly... hmm, what's the word?

You settle on 'interesting', and put a blanket over that guy's son.

He's got a decent look on his face, at least when those eyes are closed.

Then you:
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
>Go tell your wife you've scheduled a family BBQ thing for this Thursday
>Ask the sword for advice - it seems like you're becoming something of a feudal lord
>WRITE IN
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>>2645575
>>Go tell your wife you've scheduled a family BBQ thing for this Thursday
>>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
Wife first, then Rat
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>>2645575
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
Don't forget the power tools.
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>>2645575
>Ask the sword for advice - it seems like you're becoming something of a feudal lord
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
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>>2645575
>Go tell your wife you've scheduled a family BBQ thing for this Thursday
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.

Gotta let the wife know about our Magical Cookout.
Also we really need to get a fucking lawyer on reading those Magical Girl contracts.
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>>2645575
I support >>2645579
>Wife first, then Rat
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>>2645575
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
>Go tell your wife you've scheduled a family BBQ thing for this Thursday
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>>2645575
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
>Take the sword with you
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>>2645575
>>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
>>Go tell your wife you've scheduled a family BBQ thing for this Thursday
Rat first, then wife. Gotta deal with bullshit before you get to go play...
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>>2645579
20:45 - 20:55 Voting period.

HOLY SHIT CAPTCHA - IT'S A CAR. IT'S A STOREFRONT. SHUT UP AND LET ME RUN MY QUEST DEAR GOD.
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>>2645600
Don't you just love it when it asks for a bridge and all you get is a car parked in a driveway?
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>>2645559
Right before we made this phonecall our wife went and made arrangements to go meet her parents. Suspiciously this boys father has business next week, the same week we are meeting our in-laws. Which means there is a good chance either the guy is a relative of our wife, is an assasin going after our wife and her relatives, or his wife is a relative. He might be the brother-in-law, very small chance, the reason he is sick and dying is us, doubtful after his drop of hunting vampires.

Most likely option is his wife, Iri, is the sister or mother of our wife. The amount of Kitsune Keikaku we will have to deal with will be twice as bad. Especially once they start comparing husbands. Her behaviour almost mirrors our wife, could also be a SUCCubus.

Finally, how awkward would Shelby feel when he finds out Melon is not only the daughter of a Kitsune and the Shotgun Shogun, but the Shotgun Shogun is technically his uncle and Melon is cousin.
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>>2645600
Once he want me to pick a car I gave him trees and he accepted it
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>>2645608
That's some shadowrunning anon.
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>>2645575
>Go tell your wife you've scheduled a family BBQ thing for this Thursday
>Grab the rat - you're amassing an army, and don't yet know where you should point it. He might have answers.
as much as we all hate the little shit, i think he could have left anytime, so he might not be all that against you

>>2645604
just hit any bar looking thing on the top squares, enjoy the satisfaction of fucking with google's machine learning
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>>2645608
Soooooo incest?
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>>2645604
Its better when I use a family members computer who has it like permanently set on 800x600 resolution. "Whelp time to take a random guess at whatever the hell Captcha wants this time"
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>>2645617
Well it's adoptive, but if Melon takes after her mom and that side of the family, she might prefer to think of it that way.
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>>2645608
Well if worst comes to worst it's a good thing we'll be nipping it in the butt. That'll be a big no-no for cousin fucking regardless if the're not biologically related.
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For some reason I want a smut scene between dad and kitsune waifu
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>>2645631
I'd say write it yourself and then poast a link in the thread.
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I doubt Iri is related to our wife. I think they are the same type of woman, but not related.
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>>2645575
You've been putting this off for a while - it's time to interrogate the rat again.

You head to the garage, and pull him out of your pocket onto the toolbench. There's a rather impressive array of power tools gathered nearby - the sort of things that are useful to have around for home remodeling.

Or rat remodeling.

"Look," he tells you, as you hold him down on the bench, and grab a drill, "you don't have to torture me. I have seen you take two people out with a shotgun (one while drunk!), kneecap a demon, go drinking with a wizard, turn down a kitsune trying to fuck you, cow a demon sword, stare down a dragon, and bait an amateur magus into nearly killing himself. You're squarely on my list of People With Whom One Does Not Fuck."

So your boss really is a dragon? Huh.

"That makes this a little easier," you tell him, setting the drill down and eyeing him, "since you've been in my pocket the whole time, you probably have an idea what I want to know."

"There's a Chinese story," the little rat tells you, "about a Chen Sheng - an officer serving the Qin dynasty. After a hard day's march, he turned to his friend, Wu Gang, and asked 'what is the penalty for being late'? Wu Gang answered 'death'. Then he asked 'what is the penalty for rebellion?' Wu answered 'death' again," then the rat pauses for impact, with what you could swear is a smile on its furry face, "and before Wu Gang understood his meaning, Chen Sheng turned and yelled to his troops 'gentlemen! We are late!'. Thus the Quin dynasty fell."

"I'll be hanged if I go back," he tells you, "just for enchanting your shotshells. I'm behind on my quota (of demonic energy/souls) this month, because you commanded one demon to leave, and let T.T. eat the other one. Gentlemen," he says, striking as dramatic a pose as a rat can, "I am late."

"So I'm the lesser of two evils?" you ask the little rodent, "glad we could reach an understanding. Now tell me everything."

"I'm only an account manager for this magical girl cell," he tells you, "so I don't know everything. But I do know a few things that you might find useful - first off, your daughter? She's a special case. She's half-kitsune, so her contract magic had to be done custom. That's part of the reason I'm here, instead of my predecessor, who authorized it. I'm not joking about the hangings, in case you were wondering."

His ears droop, and then he continues, "a wizard might be able to compare her contract and transformation magic to a normal magical girl's, and figure out what's common between them. Might be a lead."

He stares you dead in the face, and has the gall to say "it's a long shot, but I know you specialize in those."

>What happens if they default on the contract?
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
>How does someone open a portal to hell?
>Where are you guys based?
>WRITE IN
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>>2645700
>What happens if they default on the contract?
Shit.
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
As a gesture of goodwill, I can literally squeeze the life out of him in furious patriarchal rage, if you'd like.
>How does someone open a portal to hell?
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>>2645700
>What happens if they default on the contract?
Hostile takeover soon
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>>2645700
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
>>Is he the kind of boss that could end the world?

>Tell me more about your list, i'm curious.
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>>2645700
>What happens if they default on the contract?
And more importantly, how can we bait the other rats into coming to earth? That way we can potentially drain them of their magic.
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
Sounds like the first test subject in our little "Conspiracy".
>Tell me more about your list, i'm curious.
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>>2645700
>>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
>>What happens if they default on the contract?
Since the rat is willing to throw down with us since his ass is on the same burner we are we should probably prepare for our war against the rats.
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>>2645700
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
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>>2645700
>What happens if they default on the contract?
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?

At some point, should we get some type of enclosure for this little fucker? I mean, we've been caring this weasel/ferret/rat/whatever around in our pocket for how long now? It seems to have no intention of going anywhere and has enough information to be of value to us currently. Doesn't have to be anything impressive, but enough to hold it so that we don't have to.
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>>2645713
21:30 - 21:40 Voting period.
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>>2645726
We should set him up in a Ferret or Hamster cage.
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>>2645726
eh i'm willing to give him a single chance shot at being treated alright since he himself is pretty much on a tightrope between getting hung and being shot to shit by an assmad father who can stare down little goddesses and shit.
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>>2645700
Damn, son, I like this rat already. I get the feeling that he's particularly impressed by us turning down our foxy wife. In all seriousness though, his little story would seem to imply that we've all been fucked from the outset here.

>What happens if they default on the contract?
>Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
>Where are you guys based?
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>>2645700
> Wait, you said you were behind quota - does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?
> We should think of ways to hide you from them or fake your death.

> Just so you know, I'm actually pretty reasonable by my standards. If you help me with this, you're free and clear. I'm not about revenge.

> Maybe even hook you up with one of my wife's relatives if you impress them enough.
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>>2645700
"Wait," you say to the little furry fucker, who claims to be on your side, if only because he's afraid of you, "you said you were behind quota? Does that mean your boss is going to show up soon?"

He blanches, something you didn't realize a being with that much fur could do, "yes," he tells you, face pale even under the white fur, "holy fuck. We've gotta kill some demons and get my numbers up so that doesn't happen!"

"This the kind of boss that could end the world?" you ask, thinking about what Harriet told you, "some sort of apocalypse monster?"

"I'm not sure," the rat tells you, "but he could sure as shit end me, you, your family, and this entire city. I'd prefer not to risk it."

"By the way," he continues, "could I get a drink? I'd prefer to not contemplate my probable impending messy death sober."

"EXCHANGE SAKE WITH HIM," your sword growls into your head, "BIND HIM TO YOU WITH BONDS BEYOND FEAR. MAKE HIM YOUR BROTHER."

...When you want advice on becoming a shogun (or a yakuza boss), well, you know right where to go.

[SET 1:]
>Don't get the rat a drink
>Sake
>Decent Glenfiddich
>The cheap shit
>Vodka

[SET 2:]
>What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?
>Could he take down a dragon?
>You sure he could take down the Dad Alliance?
>Want to exchange sake with me?
>WRITE IN
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>>2645756
>>Sake
>Could he take down a dragon?
OP remember to not drink it all at once.
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>>2645756
>sake

>could he handle the dad alliance?
>Also what happens if a magic girl defaults?
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>>2645756
>Sake

>What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?
>Could he take down a dragon?
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>>2645756
>Sake
>What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?
MAGICAL DAD SHOGUN QUEST HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
WE GOT A WORLD TO SAVE PEOPLE, GOTTA GO MURDER UP A FUCKTON O DEMONS.
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>>2645762
21:49 - 21:59 Voting period.
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>>2645756
>>Sake
>>Want to exchange sake with me?
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>>2645756
>Sake
>What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?
>Could he take down a dragon?
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>>2645771
>Implying we're not going to channel our Inner Ratcatcher

It's the best class in Warhammer Fantasy RPG for a good reason Anon!
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>>2645771
>>Want to exchange sake with me?
to add to this post by the by haiku.
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>>2645756
>Sake
The sword is fucking spot on. SHOGUN PLOT HO!

>What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?
>Want to exchange sake with me?

Also, if the little bastard gave us magical shotgun shells, then I think we've found our arsenal gentlemen.
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>>2645777
>6
I know m8, problem is we are underlevelled a bit to deal with rat warlords who could probably nuke this whole damn city dragons and goddesses and all.
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>>2645771
I don't say this often but: mah nigga
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>>2645781
This is true, but we're already on a good start. Let's see if we can go even higher with our strength.
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>>2645785
personally part of the reason i want to go murder a fuckton o demons, perhaps by ripping a hole to hell, is to see if we can get magical components like demon horns and shit and see if we can get someone who can forge that into magical shit for us so we have more of an arsenal for our war against the fucking rat planet.
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>>2645786
I wonder if demon blood is a good component to use in Quenching metal to enhance it's natural strengths.
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>>2645756
>Sake
>What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?
>Want to exchange sake with me?
>>2645771
>>2645786
>>2645790
Are we aiming to become DOOM Dad?
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>>2645794
I always figured we were what happened if doomguy decided to start up a family instead of fuck demons up all day, so yes, we are just embracing what we were always aspired to be m8.
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>>2645794
Brutality: It runs in the family.
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>>2645756
>Sake
>Want to exchange sake with me?
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>>2645794
We aren't already there?

> Exchange Sake

> Want to exchange sake with me?

We don't make contracts, we make bonds of Brother/Fatherhood.
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>>2645794
Pretty sure we already are at this point.

People just don't know it yet.

Also with the way things are set up, it seems like if Demons didn't exist to provide them with energy they would have to create them OH FUCKING WAIT A MINUTE.
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>>2645798
Guess we need to make certain the chainsaw is fully gassed up.
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>>2645794
Makes sense considering our strength seems to be an endless reservoir of willpower and the ability to take down things which should not normally be taken down with a magical shotgun.
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>>2645807
>People just don't know it yet.
Jokes on you, I knew it the second we started getting high rolls against Sue in the first fight.

>Also with the way things are set up, it seems like if Demons didn't exist to provide them with energy they would have to create them OH FUCKING WAIT A MINUTE.
It's why I'm of the opinion that we start draining the Rats. Or at the very least find some way to hijack the magical essence shipments.
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>>2645756
>>2645798
>>2645803
>>2645807
>>2645813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6BbvCC0VI0
>So rat, it seems like we're both in deep shit, so what do you say to enchanting this chainsaw, and we go cut a hole through this bullshit?
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>>2645756
Well, you can't help but respect that. You go grab something alcoholic from the liquor cabinet.

...it turns out to be sake. Probably a relic from your wife's 'makeup budget'.

And maybe also score one for the sword.

You set out a dish for the rat, and he starts lapping it like a cat.

"So what else to you want to know?" he asks you, cleaning his little whiskers, "by the way, that's pretty good stuff."

Trust your wife to have good taste in alcohol.

Suddenly, you wonder what the usual alcohol tolerance for a creature that size is.

"What happens if a magical girl defaults on their contract?" you ask.

He gets a real 'I've covered wars' expression on his face, and starts lapping up the sake like there's no tomorrow.

The way he's talking, there might not be.

Once he's finished his bowl, he turns back toward you, and starts off: "so you've got to understand - humans aren't meant to transform like that. Takes a hell of a lot of energy to make it happen, and it took the research guys a long time to figure out how to do it, I'm told. 'Course, that was long before my time," he says, with what should be a cute expression on his little rodent face.

Ok, he's drunk.

"We supply a little bit of our power to keep that magic stable," he tells you, "and if that supply cuts off, like it does when they default, well, it's not pretty. Nobody's defaulted on any of my accounts," he tells you proudly, arching his back like he's begging to be petted, "but I've heard stories. They can wipe out cities. You ever heard of 'you are what you eat'? he asks," those beady red eyes going wide.

"I'm familiar with the expression," you say, and take a swig from the bottle. You're pretty sure you know where this is going, and you're going to need that.

"Well," he tells you, "magical girls need to eat magical energy, or souls, or something on that wavelength to survive normally. It's not a lot, but it keeps them, well, together. Sustains the magic or somethin'. Usually gets taken care of by splitting energy with us from demons they kill. And when the contract goes, they try to replace that energy input from us with something, anything else. Trouble is," he says, still looking far too cute for a drunken rat, "it's not...right, somehow. Can't replace it. Dunno how it all works myself, but they usually just go on a rampage, eatin' everythin' in sight, tryin' to replashe it. And if ya ahre what ya eat, and ya eat demonsh..."

"I get the picture," you tell him. And you're not a fan.

Sounds like these rats have a leash on the magical girls - they stop supplying energy, and boom.

>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
>You think your boss could take on a dragon?
>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?
>WRITE IN
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>>2645828
>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
>You think your boss could take on a dragon?
>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?
>Is it possible to revert the magic sustaining them, or turning them into something other than demons. For example turn my daughter into a kitsune?
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>>2645828
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
fuck it, hes in the shitpile may as well swear to it.
>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?
may as well find out.
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>>2645828
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
>More importantly is there someone that you might know of off the top of your head that is looking into stabilizing them without the aid of the rats?
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>>2645828
>So who's responsible for maintaining the energy flow to the girls?
>Any particular way this energy can be transported? Maybe diverted?
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother

Anyone want to do a magic heist?
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>>2645828
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
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>>2645828
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?
>You think your boss could take on a dragon?
>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
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>>2645828
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>WRITE IN

Know any particularly shitty rats that we could knock over for their supply, and then you could "generously" take on their magical girls? Maybe T.T.'s girls, and that other kid's sister?
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>>2645832
22:26 - 22:36 Voting period.

How the hell is this quest even alive when there are something like three other Edgy Magical Girl quests on this board?

Guess it must be the power of dads.
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>>2645828
>>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
>>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?

>>2645838
Chanting: MAGIC HEIST! MAGIC HEIST! MAGIC HEIST! MAGIC HEIST!
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>>2645828
>Let's exchange sake - become my brother
>How many demons do we have to hunt to keep your boss off our backs?
>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?
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>>2645838
You clever devil.
I'll support your post because of that.

>>2645843
It's because it's a quest about Hope. Fatherly Love. And Fluffy Tails. And making sweet as fuck love to our hotter than hell Waifu.
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>>2645843
m8, the best quests are when you are dropped into an impossible utterly grimdark situation with hell on earth or the whole damn universe, and you try to actively oppose it because it is wrong.
This is the power of good in a grimdark land.
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>>2645828
>Sounds like you guys are acting like energy transformers or converters. Wrong voltage is fucking the girls up when they default.
>Let's exchange sake.

I'm half expecting this exchange is going to allow us to act as a battery/generator for the girls.

Kitsune mom -> Doom Dad -> Freeble -> girls.
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>>2645828
>So are you supplying this trickle of energy to my daughter's squad?
Since Melon is half -demon, would she hold together being as her normal self had the demonic energies meant to hold her together?
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>>2645844
Two birds with one stone, we take the Demon Energy for ourselves and replace it with energy from the Rats, weakening them and further reinforcing our own forces.

Meanwhile our Rat gets to rise up the ranks, looking like he's able to make up for the others failures, hopefully getting the responsibility of investigating what's taking out the other rats.

Then we can have him appear to "drive us off" while we use the excuse of him having taken on too much responsibility to chase us off, and we start hitting other Rats farther afield.

I'm sure our Wife's clan has some enemies for us to go after as well.

Maybe we can pay off the Dragon Boss to help us out too.
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>>2645850
> Daaaaaaddy, I need to recharge my energy! Fill me with your white hot stuff!

> GODSDAMNIT SUE! THAT'S. MY. DAD.
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>>2645853
We should also look into changing the energy on our shotgun shells as well to pure demonic energy or something, to throw them off the trail.

Hell, we can probably work with the Demon we let go to a) sucker punch other Demons, and b) make it look like Demons are going after the rats.

All we have to do is get the Magical Girls to help us set the rats up too.
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>>2645854
i don't know which gag i like more, the fact of melon constantly telling off sue, or Harriet being mad as shit about the fact our character can fix all kinds of shit and it literally took her 30 cycles of this shit to figure it out.
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>>2645854
>Sue sidles up beside Melon
>Our Dad now.
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>>2645828
supporting >>2645838
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>>2645856
Lets be honest here, teenagers are stupid and lack foresight. Considering they have resorted to violence for almost everything, its save to assume they stopped being creative or logical a long time ago.
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>>2645843
So what is the other 3 edgy magical girl quest?
Dark Magical Girl Quest
Magical Girl Noir
and?
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>>2645838
>>2645853
>>2645855
So, we're thinking we could hunt demons to get some extra energy on the side, but our true goal would be to start gunning down these rats for the real power and taking their girls under our wing, effectively amassing an army fueled by both demon and rat energy?
I'm totally down, but I am curious to ask the Black-haired looper girl just how the world ends, and how much she thinks this plan may mess with that.
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>>2645843
because we already have enough edgy stuff, and this isn't edgy, its funstuff with a coat of quasi-edge.
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>>2645875
Nah, we hunt down Demons to provide a reasonable explanation for our Rat doing his job.

We spend more time hunting other Rats and stealing their energy, which we stash and use to cover for us actually going out and finding allies and shit.

Meanwhile, the "Demons" we hunt we can be more picky and choosy about, using it to solidify our relationship with our Wife's Clan and to purchase the Dragon's might to use when we eventually confront the Rat Boss.

Also, it lets us position more magical girls under OUR Rat, both providing them with a stable supply of energy so that they can fight less often while also increasing our firepower for the eventual fight.
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>>2645828
[CUE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMT1aAbnCLQ]

"So," you ask the ferret (mentally, you've upgraded him one step from 'rat'), "are you supplying this trickle of magical energy to my daughter's squad? The one that keeps them stable?"

"Yesh," he tells you.

"And can your HQ cut you off?" you ask, the beginnings of a plan forming in your mind.

"Don't think sho," he answers, "as long as I get energy, from dead demons or whatever, I can keep shupplying them that trickle."

"Hmm," you say, pondering the options that opens up. You've got the sword's vote.

"Exchange sake with me," you suddenly tell the rat. He stares at you, then his little eyes go even wider as his former lifetime's cultural knowledge hits him and he realizes what you're asking.

"You're fuckin' joking," he says, but a huge smile hits his little furry face, "theresh no way we're gonna get away with this. But god damn, I like it," he says, and starts scurrying around your workbench, finally coming up with three strips of wallpaper and a pot of paint.

He slams his paw into the paint pot, then writes a drunken parody of Japanese on the blank side of the three strips, and hangs them over the workbench.

Then you exchange sake with him, under the names of two gods and the current emperor.

"So, brother," you ask him, after the deed is done, and you lean back in your chair, putting your feet up on the workbench, "you know what I'm thinking?"

"Nah, bro," he says, "what are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking you keep my girls hooked up, and we kill enough demons to keep your boss off our backs," you tell him.

"Sounds good short term," he says, a glint in his eye, "that can't be it, bro, you're dreaming bigger."

"...Until we've got enough muscle to put him out of the game," you say, and then add "you think he could take on a dragon?"

"Definitely," the ferret tells you, "gotta think bigger."

"A dragon and a bunch of angry dads?" you ask.

"And their daughters, that no longer answer to him?" you finish.

"Not sure, boss," he tells you, jumping off the desk and curling up in your lap.

"You know any rats running more girls around here?" you ask him, "particularly if they aren't treating them right? You know what I'm thinking, bro?"

His little red eyes shine - he knows where you're going with this.

"I'm thinking we knock them over," you say, "knock 'em over, and then you 'generously' take on their contracts. You look good to your boss, we get more girls out of this fucked up system, and we buy time to put together a real offensive."

There's a grin on the little criminal's face.

"Sounds good, bro!"

>Then your wife walks in
>Then your daughter walks in
>Then Sue walks in
>Then Shelby walks in
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>>2645882
>Then Sue walks in
>With your daughter chasing after her
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>>2645882
>Then Sue walks in
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>>2645882
>>Then Sue walks in
>>With your daughter chasing after her

guys, we also need to teach the girls to fight without transforming. SPECIALLY the little goddess. I have the feeling she and harriet and all the time loopers is the end of the world scenario harriet is worried about.
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>>2645882
Bloody hype mate.
HYPE
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>>2645882
>>Then your wife walks in
"OH HEY TIME FOR BED NOW DON'T BOTHER PUTTING ON YOUR PJ'S HON IT'S GONNA GET HOT TONIGHT"
>Followed by Sue
"NOT IF I GET HIM FIRST"
>Followed by Marion
"STILL MY DAD, SUE"
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>>2645882
>>Then your wife walks in
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>>2645882
>>Then your wife walks in
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>>2645886
23:01 - 23:11 Voting period.

Tried to get to as many of the write ins and votes that worked together.
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>>2645880
>>2645875
Like, we should have a strategy of both sniping Demons from other Rat's territory to make them look bad, including our own Rat, and then actually knock a couple of them off and have our Rat take over their MG's. At which point he uses them to "drive us off" and end the poaching in his territory.

The Rat & his girls focus on fighting specific demons, working with our wife and her clan to build them up as a power base. We roam out to get extra energy to supplement our girls, so the ones with PTSD and whatnot can fight less often.

When it reaches the breaking point for other Rat's teams, that's when we fake a big battle with our Rat to draw out the Boss Rat, and then suprise ambush him using the extra energy to pay off the Dragon and have our Wife's Clan counter his power and suppress him while we go medieval on his ass, with everyone getting a share of the kill.

We can probably get some local Gods in on it too, for the protecting the area part.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE384LhkRiI

During this build up, we should also be looking for a way to convert the MG energy into something more stable. OR into becoming a Demon Lord and letting them fall intentionally and then supporting them.
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>>2645882
>Then your wife walks in
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>>2645882
>Then the demon we told to fuck off knocks on the garage
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>>2645894
You did good mah nigga.
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>>2645882

>Then Shelby walks in

Ask him if he's ever gone shooting before, and if he would like to learn how. In the vein of >>2645889, get those bitches some cannons.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYqxyCUn5uc
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>>2645882
>>Then your wife walks in
she would understand.
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>>2645882
>>Then Sue walks in
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>>2645897
Nah, we shouldn't run into her until later when we go hunting or try to get into hell.

Why wait for the Demons to come to us, after all.

Which in turn should probably wait until after we meet with our Wife's Clan, and then have the family BBQ so we can get Shelby, T.T., and Co. along for the ride.

It occurs to me that the Magical world probably hasn't had anyone actually just talk to people before and try to get everyone to work together, while still being totally selfish about their reasons. And willing to shotgun kneecaps.
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>>2645882
As much as I want to support >>2645886 we did agree to talk to Liska next so...
>Then your wife walks in

Any word from the sword on this latest development?

>>2645890
THE HYPE TRAIN IS LEAVING THE STATION
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>>2645882
Also, ask the Ferret

> why not wipe out the demons altogether in Hell? Why wait for them to come here? In other words, what is countering your boss that he has to mess around like this with the whole system.
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I wonder how tough the demons in hell are. Desperate measures might mean we start ganking a few demons from there for farming instead of waiting for them to show up on Earth.

I think we should figure out later on if the demon transformation thing is theoretically reversible if you supply something instead of demon energy to them? It probably also sounds like a way to "break" the contract since if the rats tear up their side then it might no longer be binding while you take that moment to fix the problems that cause turning into a demon.
>>2645895
>We can probably get some local Gods in on it too, for the protecting the area part.
Offer those Eastern dragons that probably hang out where the in-laws live some modern delights when we go? I'm sure that eating nothing but rice for a thousand years must be boring as shit.
>>2645828
I am starting to get the suspicion that our sister is the apocalypse that homuhomu is scared of.
>>2645882
Sue walks in, and she was actually being a sane human being this time instead of 9000% horny.
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>>2645906
You never know, it could be that our wife told our daughter to go get us and Sue overheard and decided to "take the initiative".

>>2645890
My body is ready for this lifestyle fampai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB-D9qEwzI
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>>2645882
>>Followed by Sue
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>>2645909
>Offer those Eastern dragons that probably hang out where the in-laws live some modern delights when we go?

Set them up with a moonshine still, with literal moonshine.

>>2645911
> Offer to drink Sake with Sue

Haha now we're brothers and can't bone!
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>>2645882
"I'll have a list in a few days," the ferret tells you, "and then we can get to work, bro."

"YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS," the sword intones into your mind, "GATHER YOUR FORCES, PRETEND LOYALTY TO THE POWERFUL, CREATE YOUR ALLIANCE, AND THEN STRIKE!"

You don't even feel like telling it to shut up.

Then your wife walks in.

Her stare takes in you, the ferret on your lap, the three scrolls, and the sake.

"I leave you alone for half an hour," she says, "to book tickets - and you're starting a 'legitimate business enterprise' in your garage? With a rat? Anything else you've been up to I should know about?"

You can't tell if she's angry, aroused, proud, or some dangerous combination of all three.

Well, you're in now. Double or nothing.

"I'm planning a family barbecue Thursday night," you tell her, as the ferret preens itself, "thinking it'll be Shelby's folks, T.T. and his family, and our daughter's little gang - with as many of their parents as want to come along."

Her jaw drops.

"Are you planning on fighting a war?" she asks, a dangerous smile replacing the shock on her face, then she jumps across the room at you, the ferret barely managing to jump out of the way as she mauls into you, "a war for little Melon? Honey - I'm so proud," she says, and kisses you.

"POWER ATTRACTS," the sword tells you, "AND ABSOLUTE POWER ATTRACTS ABSOLUTELY. EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY, AND SECURE IT WITH YOUR FISTS!"

And that's when Sue walks in, and her blue eyes go wide, taking in the same scene.

>Oh, hi there.
>I'm starting an army - want in?
>Feeling alright after that fight earlier?
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
>WRITE IN
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>>2645917
Unless we were secretly in Europe this whole time I don't think we'd be responsible parents if we gave random teenagers alcohol.
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>>2645919
>Oh, hi there.
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
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>>2645919
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
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>>2645919
>Oh, hi there.
>Feeling alright after that fight earlier?
>You’re visiting our room beeecause?
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
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>>2645919
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
>Feeling alright after that fight earlier?
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>>2645919
How come I get the feeling this quest is derailed in some shape or form, visions of that infamously terrible game of thrones quest comes to mind.
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>>2645919
>Oh, hi there.
>I'm starting an army - want in?
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
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>>2645919
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
>Feeling alright after that fight earlier?
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>>2645919
>>Oh, hi there.
>>I'm starting an army - want in?
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>>2645919
>>I'm starting an army - want in?
That fucking timing. So good.

Put song from previous QM post on repeat.

>>2645928
No, we were always headed this way, we're just embracing our destiny now.
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>>2645928
This quest has basically become the dad quest of protecting our little girl.

Pretty sure it got derailled a while ago.
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>>2645924
23:28 - 23:38 Voting period.

Liska and Sue were tied by voting time, so I just went with it.

>>2645928
>this quest is derailed in some shape or form
Can't derail if there never were any rails to begin with!

Although this is really not where I thought things were gonna go.
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>>2645928
Is that the one where the GM decided to buttfuck the players over by "lolgunpowderdoesn'twerkbecausewesteros" bullshit?
Well who knows Anon, we can only strap on our helmets and stay on this Wild Ride to the very end.
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>>2645919
>Oh, hi there.
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room.
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>>2645928
Well yeah, probably. QM's pretty good though, riding the wave as it comes.

Besides, wouldn't you commence a virtuous mission to save your little girl (and her friends) from an organization which preys on the (relatively) inexperienced teenage mind to form soul binding contracts?
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>>2645928
m8 this quest was all about the dad saving the damn world, we are literally gonna amass an army and shit on all the edge that be.
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>>2645937
No that was the one where the GM decided to go along with anons who put the write-in to have the MC get buttfucked by John Snows uncle.
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>>2645942
Damn there was more than one shit-tier GoT quest? Thank God I never really bothered with those quests. It sounds like a headache and a half.
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>>2645919
>Please tell me Shelby's still on the couch, and not in Melon's room or getting nursed back to health.

These rats have seriously pissed off every single magical person we've met in some form or another. Their pyramid scheme must be funnelling some serious juice to their boss for everyone around not to have murdered the shit out of the head rat honcho.
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>>2645943
It's always a headache when you have a bunch of dickbags come in and do a stupid write-in that is obviously a troll and the GM goes along with it like a bitch instead of calling it out.

But maybe I'm being a bit paranoid, because it just feels like the tone of the quest suddenly changed in one post it's like in one scene of a film or show it goes from a crime drama to a comedy/heist flick
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>>2645947
It is always healthy to have a decent amount of paranoia. It's what keeps us alive.
Well that and the Nitrogen & Oyxgen admixture that makes up the majority of the air we breathe.
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>>2645936
I'm kinda curious where you thought it was gonna go.
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>>2645919
That's all but two of the people and other conscious entities in the house in your garage now.

And then it hits you who the other two are.

Melon and Shelby. That's potentially dangerous, your daughter alone in the house with that dead-eyed guy. Although he seemed to be a decent sort, and you had said it was up to her...

"Please tell me," you say to Sue, "that Shelby's still on the couch, alone, and not in Melon's room or something."

"Actually," she says, looking unusually sane, "I think he left. I went for a drink of water, and he was gone and the front door's unlocked."

Ok, you tried. You let the guy crash on your couch, even after that crazy conversation with his parents. And then he up and leaves in the middle of the night?

Some people just have no sense of self-preservation.

"Great," you say, "hopefully I won't have to explain things to his folks. You doing ok?" you ask the girl.

"Yeah," she says, and you can't quite see what sort of look your wife is giving her, "kinda slept it off."

>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
>I think it's bedtime for everyone
>WRITE IN
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>>2645957
>>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
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>>2645957
>>I think it's bedtime for everyone
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
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>>2645957
>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
>After we find him we're all going to go to bed.
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>>2645957
>>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
>>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
He should've at least let us know before he bounced.
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>>2645957
>>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
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>>2645957
>>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
>>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
>>After we find him we're all going to go to bed.
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>>2645960
23:51 - 00:01

>>2645953
>I'm kinda curious where you thought it was gonna go.
I never knew - that's the fun part!

Starting a magical mafia / shogunate / thing was definitely not on the agenda, though.
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>>2645957
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
>I think it's bedtime for everyone
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>>2645957
>>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
>I think it's bedtime for everyone
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>>2645921
Did you miss the Redneck part?

A sip of wine is also common even among American households unless you're super WASP/Mormon.
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>>2645957
>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
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>>2645957
>I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
you can wait to answer though
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night
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>>2645957
>I've got an idiot to find - kids shouldn't be wandering around in the middle of the night

As we leave

> I'm starting an army/gang/mafia - want in?
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>>2645976
>Wine

niggah, get that gay shit out of here. Its beer or something else.
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>>2645919
Also, pretty sure that pic is a male kitsune.

> Cuteness = Justice

>>2645935
> /tg/ wants to be the little girl

> /qst/ wants to be the Good Ol' Boy Dad.
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>>2645980
> Fake redneck detected

Box Wine is fine, but the best kind of alcohol is free and the second best kind is cold.

Also we were literally just drinking rice wine.

It IS more common to let your kid sip the foam of a fresh cracked beer, but I used Wine because obviously >>2645921 comes from some faggot bitch ass puritan household where they probably don't even drink at all, but even those have wine at special events like weddings and shit, and there's always one person willing to slip a kid a taste of wine to laugh at them as they try to pretend to enjoy it while additionally partially including them in the "grown up" portion of the night even though they still sit at the kids table.
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>>2645987
> Fake redneck detected

I'm a city man, I just hate wine and shit like that. You give'm something strong so they either develop a proper taste or grow to hate it.

However you do make a valid point, so fair enough.
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>>2645980
Depends on location. Midwest/Southwest Box Wine is a common resident of Upper Middle class household refrigerators.
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>>2645957
"Looks like I've got an idiot to find," you say, "and after that, it's bedtime for everyone."

Your wife gets up languidly, then walks over and puts her arm over Sue's shoulders.

"You heard the man," she says, throwing a smile at you, "it's bedtime."

She walks the girl back into the house, as you grab your shotgun, and the ferret hops into your pocket.

You punch the button to open the garage door, and wonder if you should have invited Sue to join your little army. Part of you was all for it, but maybe the time just wasn't right.

...she's part of another gang already, after all. And that reminds you that you're going to need to iron things out with Mary/pink-hair.

Somehow, you're pretty sure that's not going to be as simple as "I own your supply now", you think, walking out into the dark night.

Just a couple days ago you were getting on her case for operating what seemed like a gang, and now you've got a talking ferret as your sworn brother, yakuza style, and are looking to expand your own little underground army?

Funny how things work out.

"Now if I was an unstable magical boy," you muse to yourself, half aloud, as your feet find the sidewalk, "and I'd just walked out of a house, where would I be?"

"IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIGHT," the sword tells you, "BATHING IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES."

And then, right on cue, the ferret squeaks out "demon ahead!"

Well, it's a chance to give him the power he needs to keep the girls from tearing themselves apart, and keep his boss off both your backs for a little while. You start running, and it doesn't take you long to find the action.

The kid's fighting a hulking red behemoth that's probably out of his league by a good half-ton. It's all horns and spikes, and roaring like its voice is a weapon.

Shelby's giving it a good try, but he was already tired when he left your place.

Swords flicker into his hands as he blocks an axe swing, and his knees bend under the crushing impact.

Why the hell hadn't he just stayed on the couch?

>Back him up with the shotgun
>Jump between him and the demon, blasting away
>Just stand back and watch - kid got himself into this mess
>WRITE IN

Gimme them 1d100s
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Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>2645996
>>Jump between him and the demon, blasting away
DYNAMIC ENTRY
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Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>2645996
>Back him up with the shotgun
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Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>2645996
>Back him up with the shotgun
SHOOT HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>2645996
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Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>2645996
>Back him up with the shotgun

Kneecapping is always a good start. Limit mobility, bring the head down into range for a coup de grace.

In fact that's what we should do. Approach the Demon from behind, shoot out a knee and when he kneels down stab the sword into the head from the back of the neck right up into the brain.
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Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2645996
>>Just stand back and watch - kid got himself into this mess
shit rolls tho
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>>2646003
>>2646002
>>2645999
>>2645998
>>2646005
Looks like we got a difficult fight on our hands.
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Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>2645996
Well at least we have a ranged option so hopefully it just doesn't work well instead of us getting countered.

> Shoot from behind.

We a distraction at least.
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Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>2645996
Supporting >>2646003
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>>2645997
00:25 - 00:35 Voting period.

FYI, these were the voting posts I saw in before 00:01:

>>2645960
>>2645961
>>2645962
>>2645963
>>2645964
>>2645966
>>2645970
>>2645972

On another note:
>>2645947
>it just feels like the tone of the quest suddenly changed in one post it's like in one scene of a film or show it goes from a crime drama to a comedy/heist flick
We've probably done that six or seven times now. I think we went from eating ice cream with Melon to blowing Sue's arms off with a shotgun in two posts in the first thread.

I find it entertaining, but I can imagine that the all-over-the-place tone can be super jarring for people
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Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>2646009
>>2646007
>>2646003

In light of these die, changing plans to shoot `n scoot, fire and then dodge behind cover.

Dodge roll here.
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>>2646010
I'm half tempted to do a Dice Roll Sacrifice.
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>>2645947
Well, to be fair that's how life is. A mix of all the things.

Look, look how comedic we are right now in combat. We were kicking ass and taking names and now we're about to be bodied by a random demon right after deciding we're hot shit

Life, it's like that and that's the way it is.
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Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>2645996
>Back him up with the shotgun
You're a guest an my house and I have a reponsibility to protect my guests.
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Rolled 90, 80, 53, 20, 34, 85, 75, 64, 47, 9 = 557 (10d100)

>>2646013
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>>2646015

this man gets it.
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>>2646013
Nah, this is a chance to fail forwards. A reminder that we ARE just an average Dad who don't hold with all this magical destiny lifestyle bullshit coming in and hurting his little girl.

So, let's take the hit and hope that Shelby actually knows what he's doing, or better yet takes the chance to run back and get help. In fact, let's yell at him to do so while we hold the Demon's attention.

Honestly, he better not have been trying to impress anyone by running out to fight it on his own. That's just fucking stupid.

Like I would say we should run away too if we didn't need its energy for our little Melon Head.

But fuck heroism. This is gonna hurt. That's okay, there SHOULD be some pain when you're trying to hit above your weight.
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>>2646019
> Namefagging

I FOUND ANOTHER DEMON THAT NEEDS A SHOTTY TO THE FACE, GUYS.
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>>2646021
Purging dice isn't about giving us a good deal. It's about clearing the field for both parties so we have as close to a fair fight as the dice are involved.
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>>2645987
Oh please. Alcohol is for teenagers to get on their own or stealthily steal from a cabinet. You don't just give it to them, handing it to Sue would have given Melon free reign to think drinking is ok for her too, which would probably work worse than it does for girls in colleges since she has magical powers she might explode something with.
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>>2646026
I just mean that we shouldn't rely only on good dice rolls in the first place to proceed. We should have a plan so that we only need mediocre dice rolls to succeed whenever possible (which is why I clarify things like approaching it from behind, going for a cripple shot instead of a kill shot, etc)

We should also have a plan for what to do if we fail the roll (maintain our range advantage and run/hide like a bitch in this case, while Shelby gets help from one of the many magical powerhouses back at our place)

We can always try out the sword, but . . . . ehhhh, I'd rather not try it against the demon's axe.
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>>2646034
There's nothing wrong with a good plan. However even the most efficient plan will always take it up the ass from a Crit Fail on a dice roll regardless.
And yeah I am in agreement, we got straight up no experience with using swords.
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>>2645996
You come up behind the kid - Shelby, right? and take a pull at the demon.

The shot barely scratches its armor, and it laughs at you. "Foolish mortal," it says, staring at you through a forest of horns, "did you really think that would bite me? I have feasted on CITIES of your kind before."

That's, uh, that's a bad start. Shelby glances over his shoulder at you, startled by the noise. Almost tries taking your head off, but realizes who you are just in time.

"What were you thinking?" you yell at the kid, and pump the shotgun, "running off in the middle of the night like that?"

"Thought I'd go home," he says, taking up his defensive stance again, "you didn't seem like you were a huge fan of me hanging around."

Ok, maybe you had come on a little strong with that 'dad inquisition' thing, but that just comes with the territory, right?

"Kid," you say, trying to aim more carefully at the demon this time, "I put that blanket over you. You're a guest in my house, and I protect my guests."

"THERE WE GO," the sword says straight through your skull, "EMPHASIZE HIS CONNECTION TO YOU. PUT HIM IN YOUR DEBT."

...you could really do without the gleeful ghost yelling at you while you try to draw a bead on this thing. It's way faster than it has any right to be, swinging those axes like an oversized lawnmower.

And it's armored. You curse as another round of buckshot scatters off one of those stupid pauldrons.

"Thanks," Shelby mutters at you, deflecting another slice with those odd-looking appearing and disappearing swords, "any good ideas for getting out of this one?"

At least he's able to keep the demon off you, giving you time to pump the shotgun, but this isn't a great situation. That last slash carved a few feet into the pavement, and you're under no illusions about what it would do to flesh.

>You need backup
>You need to get in close and hit something soft
>WRITE IN

1d100s, please.
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Rolled 80 (1d100)

>>2646038
>You need to get in close and hit something soft
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>>2646034
Kiddo said swords are his thing, right? Let's toss him the sword next round. We ARE the Shotgun Shogun after all.

And speaking of magical powerhouses... get the wife on speed dial?
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Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>2646038
I need to hit something squishy like his eyes or some meaty bits
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Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>2646038
>WRITE IN
Aim low, go for that sweet sweet knockdown.
We mount a head tonight boyos.
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>>2646041
He can't hold the damn sword without getting backlashed into next week. It's us or nothing if we want the sword used in this scenario.
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Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>2646038
>You need to get in close and hit something soft
CIRCLE STRAFE!
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>>2646040
00:54 - 01:04 Voting period.

I'm fading out over here.
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Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>2646038
>Shoot it in the face/eyes
>While it screams curses at you make it fellate the shotgun and explode it's head.
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>>2646049
Sleep if you have to, we can wait
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Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>2646038
Fuck it!
>WRITE-IN
>Can we get the ferret to help us with ammo again while we try the sword on some soft squishy bits?
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>>2646052
Agreed
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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>2646038
>You need to get in close and hit something soft
WITNESS ME ANONS
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Rolled 80 (1d100)

shoot it until it dies
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Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2646038
>>You need backup

Shelby should run for backup while we continue to distract it with pot shots and focusing on evasion.

>>2646041
Shelby passed out from a copy of our sword, that's not useful.
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>>2646056
It helps to link your post to the QM post but good try nonetheless.
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Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>2646038
> Circle strafe, but with the shotgun not the sword. Shelby should dart in and out to harry him while we do so.


At least the noise will make us easy to find.
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>>2646038
So, should we all pick names to namefag it up in the quest?
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>>2646057
I was thinking maybe it went screwy because he copied something with a soul, rather than having the real thing.
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>>2646065
I'm pretty sure that is the exact reason for it.
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>>2646065
Blue's reaction does not inspire confidence in me.
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>>2646038
You've got to get in and hit something soft. That's the only way you're going to be able to put this thing down with your shotgun - the armor's getting in the way too much.

"Gimme an opening," you yell at Shelby, and he directs a slash just over your head as you try to dash inside the demon's guard.

Then the damn thing parries your shotgun with an axe.

Just shoves it aside.

Your shot goes wild, and you nearly miss being decapitated by the follow-up swing.

Is this guy just that much more powerful than what you've faced before?

"Bro," the ferret in your pocket squeaks, "I can get any of my contractors here if you want. True strength is relying on your friends and family," it says, sounding far too much like the frilly mascot it looks.

That might be a good idea, but you can't quite spare the attention for platitudes right now. And you're really not a fan of yanking a teenager out of bed just to save your ass.

Sparks fly off of Shelby's sword as he narrowly deflects a strike that would have decapitated you.

"It's only a matter of time," the demon roars, pausing its attacks for a second, "before I will consume your souls!"

You wing it in the leg, and it roars in pain. That should teach it to taunt you.

Then it just, you're not sure you understand what you're seeing, but the already roided-up monster hulks out.

That's the only way to really describe it. It gets bigger, angrier, and redder... as if that last thing was possible. And it's putting out pressure now, nearly pushing you back just with its roar.

One slash from its axe nearly forces Shelby to his knees.

"We're not gonna be able to take this much longer," he gasps at you.

>One more try with the shotgun
>Kid, you got anything up your sleeve?
>Alright, bro, call in [INSERT HAIR COLOR HERE: Yellow (Melon), Black (Harriet), Pink (Mary), or Red (Karen)]
>Hope a wandering hero shows up
>WRITE IN

1d100s, please
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Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>2646070
> One more try with the shotgun
> Alright, bro, call in all the girls

Why half-ass it.
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>>2646073
Supporting
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Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>2646070
>One more try with the shotgun
>Alright, bro, call in Black (Harriet)

Shoot it's chopping hand off.
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Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>2646070
I support this >>2646073
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>>2646070
I notice that blue isn't an option despite being the best one to hand the sword to for this fight.
>>2646070
>Call in everyone. We wrecked some S class demon thing that they were slightly scared of or impressed by us damaging with the shotgun while this thing is shrugging that off. We need all hands on deck.
>Ask Homu homu for info on the thing.
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Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>2646073
This, also
>>2646070
Rollan for shotgun supremacy.
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Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>2646077
>>2646070
I forgot to roll
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I think it's for the best that everyone stops rolling now. Because it's only going to drain that 90 even harder
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>>2646073
1:28 - 1:38 Voting period.

>>2646076
I'm hoping there's a thread out there where people are getting godly rolls to balance the universe out.
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>>2646078
>>2646076
>>2646075
Remember, he takes the average of all the rolls that are made.

So.

You know.

When we get high rolls, it might not help to add to the pile.

> Great writing, shit mechanics in true /qst/ fashion
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>>2646082
>>2646083
Just my damn luck...
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>>2646083
The 90 went down to 37 after averaging all the rolls.
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>>2646083
On the brightside, we're not dead yet.
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>>2646086
Keep trying to stab the giant demon with a close combat weapon and we'll see how that goes.
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>>2646088
Well if that fails we could always try seducing it.
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Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>2646070
>>2646090
i roll to seduce then
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>>2646070
"All right bro," you say to the ferret, "call them in. All of them. And try to make it fast."

The little guy disappears from your pocket.

Now you've just got to hold out until the cavalry arrives.

This isn't something the two of you can take out on your own. It's a lot more powerful than the first demon you drove off, and the second one was already restrained in a summoning circle.

You've been damn lucky so far, but this is the big leagues.

"How long do we have to do this?" Shelby asks you, almost desperately, as a blow shatters one of his swords.

Another appears in its place right after, but you can tell this is taking a toll on him.

"As long as it takes," you tell him, as he catches one of the axes between crossed swords. You seize the opportunity, and snap off a shot at the thing's hand.

It explodes in a shower of gore, soaking Shelby in demon blood, and the thing roars in pain as the axe falls.

You catch a flare of pink light out of the corner of your eye, from the top of a water tower, and instinct forces you to tackle Shelby to the ground.

"What the f-" he starts to say, and then the arrow hits the distracted demon.

Jesus, if that's friendly fire, you really don't want to see unfriendly fire. Arrow after arrow slams into the demon, glowing pink spears piercing it through again and again.

You're barely out of the blast zone.

...Was Mary watching the whole time, just waiting for a good shot?

The ferret reappears in front of you.

"She was already here, bro," he explains, with what looks like a shrug of his furry shoulders, "not sure why she didn't act faster."

>Let's go back home, and don't run off this time, kid
>I wonder why? And she's got to stop playing 'danger close' with us
>At least you didn't have to drag someone out of bed
>How much closer to quota does that get us?
>WRITE IN
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>>2646105
>I wonder why? And she's got to stop playing 'danger close' with us
>At least you didn't have to drag someone out of bed
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>>2646105
>At least you didn't have to drag someone out of bed
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>>2646105
>They're all gathered so it's a good time to mention the plan to them
> Maybe float ideas on if we should start grabbing demonic energy directly from hell for the quotas instead of getting your sleep ruined. >Your sister managed to do it so it can't be that difficult to start hit and run tactics via portals
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>>2646105
>At least you didn't have to drag someone out of bed
>i think i'm going to need slugs, or some kind of HE shells
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>>2646109
2:00 - 2:10 Voting period.

>>2646083
> Great writing, shit mechanics in true /qst/ fashion
We can't all be Gygax.

Dice usage is a bit of a weak point, particularly for combat (where it's used most, of course). Any suggestions for better dice systems for quests that don't require an actual stat sheet?
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>>2646105
>Let's go back home, and don't run off this time, kid.

Mary probably wanted to see our dope skills. Sadly we don't actually have any, we just don't let that stop us.

Personally I would prefer a system that's less . . . manipulated to trend towards mediocre results. Like a DC with the first 3 rolls resulting in either total failure, partial failure, partial success, total success depending on how many of the rolls meet/beat the DC but that's just me.
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>>2646116
>>2646115
See my suggestion here.

Congrats! You now have too many players for the original system of "everybody roll" to work!
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>>2646115
You could do TN's and degrees of success/failure for every 5/10 points players beat/fail the target.
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>>2646114
I concur with getting some different types of shells. Flexibility in shot is one of the main advantages of a shotgun after all!

>>2646116
To avoid stat
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>>2646115
The only thing I got off the top of my head would some sort of fatepoint system to give the players a form of the "Ohshit" seatbelt. Nothing too extreme, just something to take the edge off of a Super Bullshit Fail at the most critical moment.
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>>2646116
First 3 rolls is too much of a rush to try to interact since there are so many players. Maybe at least separate the actions picked from the dice rolls so that anything fun or well thought out that you really like gets suggested has a chance.
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>>2646121
>>2646116
Or do a combination.

Say, have 35 be easy, 50 average. 65 hard, 85 very hard DC and then grant advantage/disadvantage bonuses or malus to rolls based on planning / situation.

Like, since we are the Shotgun Shogun, using a shotgun in close range against a large target could reasonably be called "Easy" for us, with called shots being "average" difficulty.

But since the enemy has armor, that would give us a -20 to success since we're using buckshot rounds.

Since combat is broken down instinctively into different "rounds" by you, this allows you to just wing advantage/disadvantage modifiers as the situation changes.

Of course, it becomes more important for people to first vote on a plan and THEN roll, otherwise people just vote for whatever has good rolls.
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>>2646124
>Maybe at least separate the actions picked from the dice rolls so that anything fun or well thought out that you really like gets suggested has a chance.

I mean that's standard for good quest mechanics. It isn't necessary for quests that have low players, or crunch heavy systems that need a lot of dice rolls anyways (cough, mekton) and us opposed rolls (not a good idea unless you want a crunch heavy game, which we don't).

That's why I like Vote - QM states modifiers after vote is confirmed - roll

This allows for both dynamic and narrative influenced mechanics without requiring stats.
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>>2646126
Would it be possible to have degrees of success depending on how many people beat the DC roll?
Or would that over complicate things?
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>>2646105
"Well," you tell the ferret, as you stand up off the boy, "at least you didn't have to drag someone out of bed."

But something feels off about the whole situation. Why was she just watching?

Trying to see what kind of skills you had? Whether you were all talk?

And if that was the case, why hadn't she intervened when Shelby was on his own?

On a whim, you wave at the distant water tower.

Nothing.

Well, you're glad she took the thing out before it killed you, but you're not too happy with how your night ended up.

"Let's get home, kid," you say, pulling Shelby to his feet.

"Thanks," he tells you, as the two of you start walking back together, "that wasn't exactly the walk home I had planned."

"I'd be rather concerned if it was," you tell him with a smile, "try not to pull that one again. You did good work out there, though."

After you walk for a couple of minutes, a thought strikes you.

"You know what I need, bro?" you ask the ferret.

"What?" he replies from your pocket.

"A way to deal with armor," you tell him, looking forward to nothing more than a good sleep in your bed.
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I'm calling it here tonight/this morning.

It's been a fun ride so far, and hopefully I'll be able to run again soon.

Thanks for the dice suggestions - I'll put some thought into how and why I use dice.
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>>2646128
Yeah, that's what the 3 rolls are for.

0 success - failure with penalty

1 success - failure

2 success - pass

3 success - pass with bonus

the penalty/bonus doesn't necessarily have to be severe, it should ideally scale up with how difficult the attempt is.
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>>2646130
Check out "Black Company Quest", a lot of people like the dice system involved.

There ARE stats, but they're pretty much exclusively abilities related to the group combat mechanics for discipline/wounds.
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>>2646130
Have a good sleep Haiku.
I'm going to personally slip into something comfortable, like a fucking coma so I can regain back some of the energy lost by the dice rolling.

>>2646132
Ah ok, that makes sense.
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>>2646129
Clearly Pinky has a thing for Melon. Yuri intensifies
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>>2646135
Yep, and just replace stats with advantage/disadvantage modifiers based on the narrative.

So you can still use a 1d100
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>>2646130
Thanks for running!
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>>2646130
thanks for running
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>>2646129
Thanks for the run QM
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>>2646009
It's kind of expected at this point desu. It was always going to come to this.
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>>2646154
Pfft everyone but him is having fun with it anyways.

We're just a dude who had everything normal thrown out the window and we're now trying to roll with it, while still keeping our peaceful life and previous values.
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Our checklist (Best ending)
Saved to world from apocalypse
Girls are out of that bullshit contract (maybe keep the magical girl)
Saved sister from hell
Another daughter from Fox waifu
Promotion from Dragon boss
Domain from demon world
Make a mercenary force of magical girls as punished dad (pun intended) (optional)
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>>2646177
Do you mean Pun-isher Dad?

Sister is dead.

Boss gave us a promotion.

I don't particularly think we WANT a Demon domain, sounds more like a pain in the ass than anything else. But one migbt be necessary.
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>>2646129
>A way to deal with armor
>Propably the easiest way:
Buy some slugs (sabot?) For our shotty, hottest loads it can fit and still cycle, and have the rat enchant those
>The fun way
Buy an elephant gun in something like .700 nitro express and once again enchant the rounds
>oh shit senpai what are you doing?
Buy a milsurp anti-tank rifle like a PTRS-41, PTRD-41, or a Lahti L-39 (my personal fav bc 20x138mm a sex) and the necessary 14.5mm or 20mm rounds and enchant them. Or alternatively get a not-so-milsurp gepárd M3, if you don't like slavshit or feel that 20mm is overkill for whatever reason.
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>>2646233
there's also one thing that might not always be effective, but would still be worth having
napalm rounds
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>>2646234
I was thinking more on the lines of APFSDS but i doubt anybody makes those in any rifle or shotgun calibre. Besides aren't demons by nature resistant to fire since they, y'know, come from hell?
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>>2646235
depends on the version of hell, i guess
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>>2646233
Would it theoretically be possible to make a gun that shoots magical pipebombs which we could shoot into the mouth of an unsuspecting demon?
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>>2646244
...thats a grenade launcher.
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with all this magic stuff, it might be worth trying to find dwarves and have them make a magic gun directly
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>>2646251
Grenades are harder to get our hands on without altering the FBI.
I want pipe bombs that I grab the parts for from from hardware stores in some random countries.
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>>2646235
>>2646237
So we make a water gun?
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>>2646262
maybe a holy water gun
REJOICE
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>>2646260
we can make a potato launcher that uses pipebombs as ammo. will not have the same range, but it should be enough.
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Which one is the pink one again?
Black is the looper
Blue is the psycho bitch
Yellow is our little Melon
Red is the leader
Is Pink the potential goddess?
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>>2646298
Red's the hobbyist, Pink is the leader and potential goddess.
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>>2646235
>I was thinking more on the lines of APFSDS but i doubt anybody makes those in any rifle or shotgun calibre.

Those exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz7GUxBATp8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5ORwHdAQbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eIC_7l_600
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we could create thermite paste that would stick to the armor and melt it off. The recipe to create it is relateively simple and shouldn't pick up any suspicion.
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>>2646130
Dear OP,

Your writing is great, plot twists and tonal changes included. Don't let anyone get you down, I'm enjoying this wild ride and I wouldn't change anything...

...except maybe the dice system? There's a reason why averages aren't popular, what with 4chan dice historically being skewed to roll low. A system like Black Company where:

DC x, roll under
1 success - negligibly favorable outcome with minor inconvenience
2 successes - favorable outcome
3 successes - favorable outcome with minor bonus

would be a good fit. I know your writing skills are up to par.

Thanks for running this quest.
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>>2646265
That'd make a great sidearm as in it will compliment our main gun perfectly with all the various ammunition types we could craft to fit any situation.
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>>2646447
the only thing with that is that pipebombs suck as impact weapons because they aren't designed for that. we might need to detonate them manually with a remote or make them stick so that they explode on the intended target once they are launched.
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>still no talk of a belt
it's like you don't want to be a dad
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>>2646450
My original idea was chuck em in a body cavity (eg fuckhuge mouth/throat of a giant demon. I'm sure some anon will end up using it for a suppository.) and then detonate em remotely with the bomb itself hopefully being easier/cheaper to enchant than explosives of the same size.
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>>2646450
Impact fuses aren't that difficult to make, the real problem is the projectile's orientation, which could be solved either via fin stabilization or affixing a parachite on to the projectile opposite of the fuse, but that would turn the launcher into more of a mortar like solution (and one with slow as fuck projectiles at that) which is not ideal.
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>>2646490
we are fighting with a shotgun. geting into melee range its a bad idea.

>>2646501
fins would be easier to make and to deploy in battle, because the demon would move if we use a parachute for the projectiles.
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>>2646451
Belts are for boys.
>>2646511
Which would be why we shoot the bomb into it's screaming face.
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>>2646513
then lets use fins and be done with it. we could even rifle the barrel of the launcher for added stability in those long range shots.
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>>2646129
>>2646129
If we need to deal with armor, we just need boxes of slugs... maybe some flechettes.
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>>2646439
>>2646134
>>2646132

Hive mind.
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>>2646912
Secondig just getting a box of Ssbots. We can use magic to fancy them up.

Let's not do anything that would result in allowing Demons to come after us using the Feds, that's how you lose your dog. And house. And job.
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>>2646932
But we don't have a dog?
>inb4 the ATF buys us a dog before shooting it
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>>2646939
>inb4 the demon from the first thread disguises itself as a dog and it calls you master
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>>2646947

yeah, whatever happend to that demon
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>>2646947
>demon as a dog
>a.k.a a dog the ATF can't shoot
Where do i sign up?
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>>2646949
Probably waiting for the perfect moment.
Like sitting in front of the front door waiting for us all night after we go to bed.
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Oh, hey, I leave for a few hours, and suddenly it's a /k/ thread.

Can't say I dislike that.

>>2646932
>not do anything that would result in allowing Demons to come after us using the Feds
It's surprising what you can buy perfectly legally in America.

And if you guys are serious about the path you've started on, the Feds are the least of your worries. Someone you've talked to can get you damn nearly any gun or round you'd want.

>>2646939
>But we don't have a dog?

The wife's close enough, right?

>>2646949
I feel like we've had a bunch of other people and things taking too much of the spotlight to get back to that recently.

I do run this off of what I think you guys want to see, so tell me what you want, who you want, and where you want to go.
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>>2646961
>Someone you've talked to can get you damn nearly any gun or round you'd want.

Even a magically enchanted Obrez with accuracy runes to shoot the better?
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>>2646961
>I do run this off of what I think you guys want to see, so tell me what you want, who you want, and where you want to go.
I mean, there's a to-do list somewhere around here.
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>>2646969
>Even a magically enchanted Obrez with accuracy runes to shoot the better?
If you really want an Obrez. Not sure you've got anyone on tap for the rune magic, though. (Or if there is rune magic to do that.)

There are purpose-designed high powered pistols (some firing rifle rounds) that don't have quite that set of drawbacks.

>>2646970
>there's a to-do list somewhere around here.
If you're talking about >>2646177
That's a lot of long-term objectives without the mid/short-term methods to achieve them that people want to go with.

Or, more importantly for this style of narrative, the characters you want to have along with you to do them.
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>>2646961
Can this guy get us a suit of armor that can absorb the energies of hell and its demons to power itself up and the user? Pic related
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>>2646949
>>2646957
she likely is obeying our orders and is staying in hell. probably gathering resources and waiting for our return or something.
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>>2646990
we can get a normal suit of armor and strap the ferret(we need to check up what is his name) in front of it. the results are more or less the same.
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>>2646984
Surprise twist on >>2646991.
We eventually meet her again, and she's been preparing offerings for us, including demonic energy and equipment.
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>>2646984
>There are purpose-designed high powered pistols (some firing rifle rounds) that don't have quite that set of drawbacks.
This is a good point. But the big reason why I wanted an Obrez was because the age of the weapon might actually affect how well the magic sets in. And thus be able to handle much stronger energy than a newly built gun.
Unless of course that's not a thing then sure I'll go for a Colt 1911 chambered in 45. ACP.
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>>2647006
why would the age affect how the magic settles in? if anything, a new gun should be better at absorbing magic because it has been exposed to the world less.
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>>2646991
>>2646961
>>2647002
could be interesting to have her as a guide in hell to find our sis, if we do go that way
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>>2647011
>why would the age affect how the magic settles in?
Because that's actually a thing in some fantasy stories where the ancient weapon is more powerful than the newer weapon and I wanted to make sure whether or not it's a thing here.
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>>2646961
I want us to become a massive threat to our enemies without actively trying for it
>we go to talk to a separate branch of magical girls.
>They see a man who has single handedly taken over the strongest team in the area, along with their handler, demanding submission
>visit the in laws and get to know them
>they think it's some high level diplomatic talks and we're being nice just to fuck with them
>having beer with notkiritsugu
>some how get every door in the black market opened to us
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>>2646990
>Can this guy get us a...
Seems like we're operating in modern times where that tech isn't available.

>>2647006
>the age of the weapon might actually affect how well the magic sets in.
Maybe. Old weapons are often more magical because they were created in an age when people cared about, or tried, magic.

A fresh cast and/or grind should be just as amenable to magic, depending on who got to work on it or enchant it.

>>2647020
>the ancient weapon is more powerful than the newer weapon
If it was created/infused with magic during its creation, it may well be.

...and there's a higher likelihood a demon or Sengoku ghost, or something got forged into it.

They don't do those things, nowadays.

>>2647025
>taken over the strongest team in the area
I'm pretty sure our latest encounter showed that Mary/Pink was far more powerful than us.

That's going to be a hard mountain to climb
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>>2647037
>They don't do those things, nowadays.
Ok, now I'm interested in a story involving a gun forge where a ghost got caught up randomly, forged into a gun during a modern era.

And It's possible I'll be hitting this thread again with the next installment of this quest within an hour and a half.
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>>2647037
Well, we need some form of protection we're not as durable as our daughter or have raw magical strength like our wife.
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>>2646961
Iirc you can even buy a nuke legally under very strict conditions. Im not american tho so i really don't know the legislation that well...
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>>2647037
You don't necessarily need to be stronger than someone to gain their loyalty, though it sure as hell helps. Not that it won't still be a bitch and a half, but I have faith in us
>>2647056
I said it once I'll say it again
>raid museum
>magic the fuck out of some stuff from the medieval/renaissance exhibit
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>>2647037
Hey now, Doomguy didn't start off as the baddest mofo around. I'm sure we'll reach pinky's power level.
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>>2646984
I meant more this >>2645022 but I see your point.

>>2646996
>we can get a normal suit of armor and strap the ferret(we need to check up what is his name) in front of it. the results are more or less the same.
That's a terrible way to treat our sworn (magical) yakuza brother, and you should be a ashamed, sir.

>>2647037
>I'm pretty sure our latest encounter showed that Mary/Pink was far more powerful than us.
And reading over the first thread, she might be a little miffed with us that we're going full mahou shogun on the situation, so perhaps a pow-wow with the magical girls might be in order?

Also, while we're considering armour, some magical reinforcement of the house (which is rapidly becoming headquarters) might be a good idea too.

>>2647077
>Iirc you can even buy a nuke legally under very strict conditions. Im not american tho so i really don't know the legislation that well...
Even IF it's legal, even IF we can get our hands on a nuke, and as much as the idea of opening a portal to hell and shoving said iffy nuke through it to blow the holy helling bejesus out of a few million demons appeals to me -- and I can't believe I'm saying this -- I feel like getting our hands on nukes is crossing some sort of line. Like we'd no longer be the Shotgun Shogun of Suburbia, or the head of a burgeoning yakuza family, we'd be the head of terrorist organization at worst, and head of a rogue state at best. At some point the human authorities are gonna notice shit's going sideways.
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>>2647144
You.

I like you.
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>>2647144
>Like we'd no longer be the Shotgun Shogun of Suburbia
But who needs that when you can literally become Kasper Hekmatyar?
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>>2647149
Arms dealer<magical warlord
Though an entourage/retinue is a must either way
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>>2647144
You're a good man Anon. I'm also in agreement of reinforcing the house.

As for the armor. Perhaps we should have different types of armor? Like have a Kevlar Vest for the times when we can't go out in a suit of armor like a proper Knight. That way we can still have some form of protection.
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>>2647159
But magical arms dealer > magical warlord. Arms dealers literally have the power to decide who wins the war, especially if you have your own private army for "security". As for my original nuke comment it's point was to explaind that the feds wouldn't give a shit if we were to buy a ww2 era anti-tank rifle for demon huntan.
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>>2647166
in theory we could be fine with a magical set of armor. in reality those things are very light (they weight way less than what the current soldier carry each day), and if we manage to enchant it to protect us from bullets and such, we are set.
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>>2647148
That post is far more terrifying than it has any right to be.

Also, I just told Captcha a bike was a car, RIP
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>>2647172
I'm referring to the fact that we don't have the "IGNORE ME NORMAL PEOPLE" magic that the Magical Girls and walking around in a suit of armor will attract unneeded attention.
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>>2647187
and a full set of kevlar armor brings less attention?
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>>2647192
I wasn't talking about a full suit of Kevlar. I was talking about a Kevlar Vest.
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>>2646961
I never said that the legality qould be the issue. Alsk while you can legally get about anything, as we saw there isn't magical rconstruction for after we actually USE them. Also fire and explosives are only a sometimes friend.

Mostly though I just want to keep the redneck aesthetic of Shotguns, also begmcause there's a ton of flexibility with it depending on what shells you use, and I don't really want to deal with full /k/ dragging out threads as we try to decide on what guns to bring.

Finally, shotguns are what we have a background in. We aren't ex-military, nor an explosives expert. We are the regular dude dealing with shit the best we can.

Although I like the idea of us getting a bunch of hockey armor and shit and strapping demon bits and pieces of enchanted armor taken from our enemies to it. Redneck ingenuity, repurposing stuff to do wht we need it to.

Speaking of which, let's gra some of that Demons armor. Shall we roll to see how much is useable?

> Haha your armor looks stupid

> Tanks a big hit, looks like we're down. Enemy turns away, and we get up begind them

> If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.
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>>2647149
Totaly should get a sword or bayonet for our shotgun and turn it inot a gun blade
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>>2647144
I pretty much support this.

They gonna put us on LISTS, yalls, they won't let us fly!

Quick question - where do Scientologists fall into in this setting?
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>>2647201
Strap an axe head to the end of the barrel?

Modify it to shoot the sword?
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>>2647196
We just need to build a charm that summons our armor to us! A quest to get one could be done from our wife's family maybe, they ARE transformation specialist.

> We get a magical girl sequence

> Melon: OH GOD WHY DOESN'T THE SPARKLES HIDE THE HAIRINESS

> Our Wife: Because that's my fetish!

> Sue: Wow those sparkles go a long way down.

> Wife: Smugs smugly in a smug manner.
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>>2647212
[i]violently approves[/i]
give plz mr. HaikuDeluge
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>>2647212
I approve Anon. It would be a good idea to work towards as an end goal.
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>>2647168
>buy a ww2 era anti-tank rifle
You know, that's not a terrible idea, though wouldn't we run into the same sort of ammo problem as with the grenade launcher?

>>2647187
Maybe we could start with a dragonhide or demonhide leather jacket and one of those undercover vests? Though maybe the wife's family has a set of enchanted samurai armour kickin' around? I mean, we're gonna be the Shotgun Shogun then we're gonna need to start looking the part a some point.

Maybe we should start practicing with the sword if we're not just gonna toss it to Sue?

>>2647198 has a point, the shotgun is kinda our thing. Though slugs would be a good idea. And demonhide would be pretty tough, right?
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>>2647224
ammo for large calibers is just expensive. get a hand loader and pick up the brass for lowered expenses.
that said, shotguns have flexibility. get a bigger shotgun and stuff it with the good stuff.
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>>2647212
Anon, you glorious son of a bitch.
Samurai armour, helmet, and banner, with bandoliers of shotgun ammo. Maybe leg holsters with sawed-offs?
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>>2647237
Just a bunch of ugly kludged together shit spray painted into the Stars and Stripes
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So, armor piercing shotgun shells do exist, and I'm being led to believe that they're not currently controlled by US armor piercing ammunition regulations.

So there's that.
I managed to find them for 5 bucks a shell.
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>>2647255
God bless the United States of America
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>>2647265
Amen brother.
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What about a Winchester Ringmaster with some minor modifications?
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>>2647255
>>2647271
>>2647273
oh hai /k/ how's it goin?
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>>2647255
If I remember right off the top of my head. It's perfectly legal to own a tank in some states.
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>>2647230
But with a, say, Lahti L-39 we could get the demon to fuck off from miles away thanks to glorious 20x138mm boolets and from that far because the fucking thing weighs 60kg loaded
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>>2647298
So we're gonna need a bag of holding...?
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>>2647304
We're gonna need more than a bag.
We're gonna need a fucking Backpack of Holding.
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>>2647298
shotgun for general use, then god's middle finger for long range support?
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>>2647308
That'd wor quite nicely actually. Provide fire support/overwatch for the kids from several blocks away but if shit becomes too much for tgem to handle we channel DOOMguy and whip out the shotgun and charge in.
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>>2647292
Yup, and without paperwork.
The shells are what you need a permit for. Which makes sense, cause it's basically a well armored tractor up until then.
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>>2647237
If we wanna go samurai, we need a judge, a sawed off, and a full length shotgun, to copy the Tanto, Wakizashi, Katana theme.
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>>2647311
> Not getting the kids to provide fire support / overwatch

Bitches + Cannons.
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>>2647318
We aren't a Weeb, anon.

This is America. So we need to strap all that into one main gun.

I'm proud we've managed to avoid going full faggot weeb so far, despite being married to a Fox-girl and having a Magical Girl daughter.

> 2 nukes not enough!
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>>2646129
Then, you wave up.

This morning's rough on you.

You're not hung over. That'd be a good thing, except that you remember everything that happened last night.

Everything.

Sue taking the Thousand Year Blade out for a spin, the conversation with Shelby, and with his folks, swearing brotherhood with the rat, uh, ferret/bro, and a final fight with a demon, where Mary engaged from long range and almost blew you and the stupid kid up.

You're under no illusions that it wasn't a warning. She could have killed you, and you wouldn't have seen it coming.

Alright, if you're really going to go for this - and you've got a few misgivings, despite your wife's hearty approval, you're going to have to convince Mary to bend the knee. Or at least you'll have to broker some sort of deal with her.

And you're pretty sure you can't do it through straight force. She could kill you across the city if she wanted.

So how are you going to make her exchange sake with you? you wonder, and then realize the damn sword must have infected you.

That's exactly what it would say.

>Consult with sword
>Get out of bed and get going - we have work
>Consult with ferret
>WRITE IN
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>>2647330
>Consult with sword
>Get out of bed and get going - we have work
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>>2647330
>>Get out of bed and get going - we have work
WE MUST INQUIRE WITH OUR DRAGON BRO
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>>2647324
Not with a lahti that's for sure, the fucker's one of the most sought after guns among collectors for a reason. A PTRS/PTRD however...
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>>2647330
>Consult with sword
>Get out of bed and get going - we have work
DO WE HAVE TIME FOR SHOWER? IF SO THEN SHOWER FIRST, WE MUST BE CLEAN!
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What are some appropriate theme songs for our MC? I think it needs to be 80s or early 90s Rock/Metal.

>>2647318
No need. A Samurai would find a Shotgun an honorable replacement for his Tanegashima (Japanese matchlock)

>>2647330
>Get out of bed and get going - we have work
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>>2647329
A lot of people seem to be going for the yakuza angle that's getting incredibly dangerously weeb especially with some people wanting to get enchanted samurai armour, they're listening to that damn sword too much with this 'bro this and bro that' with the yakuza shtick.

I would prefer Doom Daddy over Shogun
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>>2647330
>Consult with sword
>Get out of bed and get going - we have work
We can consult with Ferret-Bro on the drive to work.
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>>2647330
>Consult with ferret
He contracted her so he must've observed her for a while
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>>2647333
19:46 - 19:56 voting period.

Oh hey, we're back!
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>>2647340
Because the magical girls and the fox-wife weren't already "dangerously weeb"...?
I was half joking about the samurai armour but where else has both a history of kitsune and potentially-armoured demon hunters?
I mean, we exchanged sake with the ferret, we're an honourable dad. Unless you think we should go back on our word, and give up on this whole plan to free our daughter and the other girls or have a better plan? Because if you're just miffed about the supposedly "weeb" aesthetic then we could easily draw comparisons to the mafia and feudal europe instead and wind up at the same results. We're gathering forces to free our daughter from her contract, and we're not the only ones who want that so flying solo DoomGuy style seems dangerously impractical for the time being.
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>>2647330
You sling your legs out of bed, aiming for the shower.

Then something catches you, and you look back at the bed.

Liska's sprawled out there, tails splayed under her, teeth just a bit too sharp for a human.

And you - you love her. You didn't run away from what she was, and you think she loves you for it.

Shave.

Shower.

Clarity.

As the warm water sluices off of you, it just decks you that Mary almost killed you last night. Would have killed you, if you hadn't dodged. That she would have killed a teenager who had nothing to do with any of it, if you hadn't tackled him out of the way.

Jesus. How'd she get wrapped up in this stuff?

You've got no good answers yet, so you shrug on a suit, and head out to the kitchen.

Something catches your nose as you walk in.

Cooking.

But you're always the first one up in this house. Someone else is up even earlier than you, and they're cooking.

...of course it's Shelby. His dad warned you about that, didn't he?

>You doing penance for that stunt last night?
>How'd you sleep? Was the couch comfortable?
>There enough for me there?
>Glad to see you're ok, kid
>What are you making?
>WRITE IN
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>>2647366
>Mornin
>How'd you sleep? Was the couch comfortable?
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>>2647340
The yakuza flavouring is a bit weab, but you can't deny we're doing exactly what we told Mary to do.
That being said,
>>2647330
Get back to work.
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>>2647366
>How'd you sleep? Was the couch comfortable?
>"remindsm e of collage"
>dad level cooking advice
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>>2647366
>How'd you sleep? Was the couch comfortable?
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>>2647366
>>How'd you sleep? Was the couch comfortable?
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>>2647362
No I simply don't want us to give up what we have or rather what we had before the sword and become some American samurai, in fact, I would say ditch the sword all together we're not a swordsman and we shouldn't even bother trying to learn, leave that to Sue.

All it's good for is reading people, taking it's advice is a bad idea, period.
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>>2647371
20:09 - 20:19 Voting period.

Is the violence in our nature just the image of our maker?

This E3 has me hype for Metal Wolf Chaos, Cyberpunk 2077, and Devil May Cry 5, in that order.
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>>2647380
Total War: 3 Kingdoms, Cyberpunk 2077 and Devil May Cry 3
MEGA HYPE: KH3
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>>2647380
It's been a good year for Vidya.
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>>2647378
I even suggested tossing the sword to Sue earlier, but the sword's actually made some surprisingly good points despite thinking it's still in feudal Japan. We're not giving anything up here except perhaps the view that we can get by being purely mundane because we almost got our asses kicked last night. In fact, last night was pretty much a humbling object lesson in why we can't just go around solving every problem with our shotgun. We're gonna have to get creative and embrace some aspects of the weird world we've been dumped into including our "weeb" in-laws if we're gonna survive long enough to achieve our goals.
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>>2647366
"How'd you sleep?" you ask the kid, as he flips everything in the frying pan again, "was the couch comfortable?"

He barely spares you a glance, concentrating on his cookery.

"Best couch I've crashed on in a while," he tells you, and you wonder where else he might have slammed down on a floor.

Particularly considering where he works. And what folks he runs into in that line of work.

"HE MIGHT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE MAGICAL SIDE OF THIS CITY," the sword intones, "HE REMAINS NEUTRAL, SO HE MAY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYONE."

Alright, you'll ask for advice when you want it.

"BIND HIM TO YOURSELF BEFORE HE BINDS TO ANOTHER," the sword tells you.

...Considering what you think the sword means by 'bind', you're not as sanguine about it as the Sengoku Showdown Ghost is.

"Omelette with mushrooms, onions, and sausage?" Shelby asks, moments before slamming something out of his frying pan onto a plate that he hands to you.

That, uh, that smells REALLY good. So you start eating.

>Hey, I'm starting an army/gang/mafia/thing - you want in?
>You're pretty good
>Sure you shouldn't dish some for yourself and eat with me?
>WRITE IN
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>>2647411
>Hey, I'm starting an army/gang/mafia/thing - you want in?
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>>2647411
>You're pretty good
>Sure you shouldn't dish some for yourself and eat with me?
>Say Shelb, got any tips or tricks concerning magic?
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>>2647411
>Grab some and sit down, eat with me.
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>>2647411
>Sure shouldn't you dish some for yourself and eat with me?
also
>Hey, I'm starting an army/gang/mafia/thing - you want in?
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>>2647410
Of course, which is why I'm all for becoming a cross between Constantine, the Punisher, and Doom Guy, we don't need to become a swordsman to fight demons, just upgrades to our current arsenal and some protection like I've suggested previously and not primitive armor.
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>>2647411
>>Sure you shouldn't dish some for yourself and eat with me?
>>Hey, I'm starting an army/gang/mafia/thing - you want in?
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>>2647415
20:35 - 20:45 Voting period.

It's wonderful when you see players arguing very good points against each other.
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>>2647411
>This is delicious
>Oh, yeah, also, I'm starting a gang. Your dad's in it. You want in?
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>>2647411
>Hey, I'm starting an army/gang/mafia/thing - you want in?
>Sure you shouldn't dish some for yourself and eat with me?
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>>2647420
Well, we don't have the tech for power armour Anon. It'd be nice if we did, so it's probably gonna be kevlar or "primitive" armour made from some magical materials (which would probably work better than kevlar, despite how offensive you may find the aesthetic). And I get the feeling the sword would actually be a pretty good teacher of swordsmanship. It wouldn't hurt to expand our skill set. Pretty sure the Europeans used swords and primitive armour too. Constantine was basically a magic user with a gun, and I don't recall The Punisher hunting demons. We can't just blast our way through every situation. It'd be great if we could learn some magic too while we're expanding our horizons, so that might be something to bring up with the ferret.
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>>2647411
"Aren't you gonna deal yourself in?" you ask the kid, "you made it - you should have some."

A look you can't read crosses his face for a second, and he stands transfixed in your kitchen.

"C'mon," you say, "you're pretty good, kid. This stuff's delicious. Sit down and enjoy the fruits of your labors. The oven's got a 'warm' setting - leave the pan in there for the girls."

"Alright," he says, quickly making himself an omelette and joining you at the table. Then he takes a bite.

"FORCE HIM TO EAT THE FOOD HE HAS PREPARED," the sword tells you, "AND HE WILL BE LESS LIKELY TO POISON YOU IN THE FUTURE."

You're getting pretty decent at tuning it out now.

...He's sizing you up with eyes you haven't seen for a long time.

As if they're trying to figure out how to copy you.

"Wild night, huh?" you ask him, grinning and raising a bite of the omelette, "not sure why she was playing 'danger close' with us, but damn glad she was there!"

"Pink's like that," he tells you, after he finishes chewing a bite, "if you're on her turf, you just have to hope she doesn't want you dead. Took a bit of a risk coming over here last night, but my old man and I are neutral as hell."

'Neutral as Hell', eh? From what you've seen, the 'neutrality' of hell is in the way it attacks everyone equally.

"We aren't really in any faction," he continues, "dad takes contracts from all of them. and I work a bar where everyone comes. It's nice to meet someone else who's not out for their slice of the pie."

Well, you'd had half a mind (exactly half) toward inviting him into your group, but that seems like it might not be politic.

>Wait, 'contracts'?
>Pink? (try to get what he knows)
>Factions?
>WRITE IN
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>>2647469
>Wait, 'contracts'?
>Factions?
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>>2647469
>>Factions?
>>Pink? (try to get what he knows)
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>>2647469
>>Wait, 'contracts'?
>Factions?
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>>2647469
>Pink? (try to get what he knows)
>Factions?
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>>2647469
>Wait, 'contracts'?

Good to see the small businessman can survive in Magical America!>>2647469
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>>2647457
I'm standing my ground on the sword issue, no swordsmanship, period.
That sword wants to be used, give it to sue, she'll make better use of it than we will.
I'm sure there is a magical black market and they would have modernized their wares, you don't see hunters in knight armor running around so a kevlar vest and additional armor that is modernized isn't out of the question.
The Punisher didn't hunt demons but he had guns, lots of guns, lots of ammo and a van that was arguably a tank, that is what I'm going for when I mentioned him.
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>>2647476
21:08 - 21:18 Voting period.

And 'get him to eat with you' and 'try getting him into the gang/mafia/yakuza/etc.' were 5 and 5 at end.

So I went with the one that worked better.
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>>2647489

The Punisher also used swords when necessary/convenient, along with plenty of weapons taken from his enemies.

I definitely think we should get a big fuck-off knife or even a tomahawk for utility purposes in case we run into a situation where guns aren't working.
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>>2647490
It worked out in the end. No need to put pressure on the kid, especially when he was thinking we hated his guts.
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>>2647483
>>2647469

Yes, approve of the American Spirit being alive and well in the modern youth.

Also

> What does Pink think about you and my daughter?
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>>2647505
A knife gets between armor plates better than a sword but that's personal opinion, and I believe a lot of our foes will tend to be bigger than us unless the big bads are like most media depictions and they're small but powerful.
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>>2647518
It's also useful for quiet kills, and cutting shit.

Like, it's mostly utility.
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>>2647469
"Factions?" you ask him, one eyebrow raised, and the kid almost chokes on his omelette.

"Yeah," he says, gulping it down, and staring at you with slightly wary eyes, "the magi. The magical girl groups. And, uh," he pauses for a second, and looks over his shoulder, "the Dragons. And all the rest - the families: kitsune, oni (although we don't have many here, thank god), vampires (and I'm pretty sure we have none here, thank god twice), and all the rest - you know, right?"

No, actually, you don't know.

But you're not going to let this kid know that.

"So," you start, twirling a piece of egg and sausage on your fork, "the division of the city. Everyone staking out their territory."

"Something like that," he tells you, gulping a bite off his omelette, "there's only one dragon here, and he's like a stabilizing force. Nobody could take him down. Well, maybe - eh, let's not go there," he tells you.

"HE AS WELL AS TOLD YOU," the sword yells into your mind, "THAT SOMEONE HE KNOWS COULD KILL A DRAGON."

...You'll file that away for later. And you would have gotten the implication in a few seconds without the sword saying anything!

"But it's mostly carved up by magi and magical girls," he tells you, spearing another piece of egg, "they're the ones that prey on demons. And that's why they dice up territory - they're the only ones that need to hunt demons."

This is a really good omelette. Kid should go in for being a chef, not a ref in a magical back-alley.

"Oh," he says, eyes narrowing, "and they NEED to hunt demons. I've seen what happens when a magical girl doesn't get her fix, and it's not pretty."

>So you're a natural, totally out of this cycle?
>Worried about your sister?
>So what happens? What happens if my daughter doesn't get her 'fix'?
>What about 'magi'? Do they have the same need to hunt?
>You said your dad takes contracts.
>WRITE IN
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>>2647553
>>Worried about your sister?
>>So what happens? What happens if my daughter doesn't get her 'fix'?
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>>2647553

>So you're a natural, totally out of this cycle?
>Worried about your sister?
>What about 'magi'? Do they have the same need to hunt?
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>>2647553
>Worried about your sister?
>So what happens? What happens if my daughter doesn't get her 'fix'?
>Now, here's a pretty important question for you, Shelby... What are you willing to do to keep that from happening to my daughter?
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>>2647553
>Worried about your sister?
>So what happens? What happens if my daughter doesn't get her 'fix'?
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>>2647553
>Worried about your sister?
>What about 'magi'? Do they have the same need to hunt?
> Have you met the Dragon before? I can introduce you if your dad is looking for work, maybe send some his way.

We would like to pick targets that won't hurt people who need the energy.
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>>2647555
21:50 - 22:00 Voting period.

>>2647489
>I'm standing my ground on the sword issue, no swordsmanship, period.
Becoming a swordsman is not necessary for Good End.

There are better swordspeople than the MC already in this quest, and it would take him years to catch up.
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>>2647553
>>So you're a natural, totally out of this cycle?
>>You said your dad takes contracts.
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>>2647553
>Worried about your sister?
>So you're a natural, totally out of this cycle?
>You said your dad takes contracts.
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>>2647553
>Worried about your sister?
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>>2647553
>You said your dad takes contracts

From who?
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>>2647563
I just think he's being unnecessarily allergic to certain notions, like dealing with non-western cultural motifs.
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>>2647563
Nothing wrong with having the option to stab someone though, to be fair.

It just probably shouldn't be our first resort given our complete lack of training or experience.
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>>2647582
Agreed
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>>2647553
>>What about 'magi'? Do they have the same need to hunt?
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>>2647553
"Worried about your sister?" you ask - almost innocently.

The kid was passed out during your conversation with his parents last night.

At least, you're pretty sure he was.

That, uh, actually doesn't seem to matter.

Before your eyes can track him, he's got a blade at your neck, and breathes "how the fuck did you know?" at you through clenched teeth.

"Talked to your father last night," you tell him, hoping he won't give you a Glasgow Grin with that sword, "while you were out."

He takes his foot off your chest, gives you a look, and then stalks back to his seat at the table, like some caged predatory animal.

"So," you ask him, "you're a Natural, totally out of this cycle? You don't have to worry about it, do you?"

You only get a glare over the eggs, but he doesn't bother putting a bite into his mouth.

"So what happens?," you continue, "What happens if Melon doesn't get her fix?"

And you lean forward over the table, your bulk dwarfing him.

"What happens, Shelby? What happens if my daughter doesn't get her fix?"

There's a crack in his eyes, and you realize you've hit home, after two strikes.

"What are you willing to do to make sure that doesn't happen?"

>Join up with me, and we'll make sure that doesn't happen. God knows I want to save her from it - and your sister too.
>Go on, tell me. Tell me what your sister or my daughter could become. [1d100]
>WRITE IN
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>>2647581
No, I just feel our energy and effort would be better spent elsewhere than trying to make an American samurai, even the QM himself said it'd take years to catch up and we don't even have one year before the apocalypse happens.
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>>2647633
>I'm willing to a lot of things, including demonic genocide if it means it doesn't happen to my daughter.
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>>2647633
>>Join up with me, and we'll make sure that doesn't happen. God knows I want to save her from it - and your sister too.
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>>2647633
>I'm willing to walk into the bowels of hell itself, shotgun in hand and bring back the head of the devil himself if it means my daughter is spared such a fate.
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>>2647641
22:27 - 22:37 Voting period.

>>2647638
>even the QM himself said
Don't quote me like I'm a god (or even like I'm Paul), If It's not a story post.

Please.
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>>2647653
got it boss but I'm returning to lurking status anyway I'm not going to bother making my opinions known outside of voting.
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>>2647638
>Not going to ask for our kitsune in-law for a hyperbolic time chamber for training montage
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>>2647668
that would be cool but I'm not sure if that's a thing.
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>>2647633
"I'm willing to do a lot of things, Shelby," you tell him, staring deep into those half-dead eyes, "to make sure that doesn't happen."

You put one foot up on the table, and barely manage to restrain yourself from looking over your shoulder for your wife, "demonic genocide?"

"Wading into Hell itself?" you say, still locking him in your glare, "shotgun in hand, and hoping to come back out with the devil's head?"

"Yeah, that's about the size of it," you finish, looking down at the kid over the table, "that's what I'd do - as long as it means she's out of it. As long as it means she doesn't have to go through whatever you're talking about."

He gazes up at you with eyes of awe.

"I thought you were crazy," he demurrs, "after you came in to save me from that demon last night. But now I know you are."

"Your sister's in the same fix," you tell him, "and it's going to take crazy to get her out."

>Swear your oath to me - drink, and let us be brothers
>I've got to get to work
>So, I trust you didn't try anything with my daughter last night
>WRITE IN
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>>2647681
>Swear your oath to me - drink, and let us be brothers
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>>2647633
>Join up with me, and we'll make sure that doesn't happen. God knows I want to save her from it - and your sister too.

> What am I willing to do? What any good parent would be . . . Which scares me when I think what I might have to do or become for her. But if it's just myself, no sacrifice is too much - even if she does become a demon. Tamed one of them already anyways.
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>>2647681
> Swear to stand beside me - if you back out now, that's fine. It's a shit situation.

> But I'll be damned if I'm willing to let my little girl give her heart to a man not willing to go to hell to save her.
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>>2647681
>I don't know about you, but I plan getting my little girl out of this hell she's in. You with me?
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>>2647684
22:53 - 23:03 Voting period

>>2647663
>got it boss but I'm returning to lurking status anyway I'm not going to bother making my opinions known outside of voting.
Dear god, that's not what I meant. Say whatever you want. How would I know what opinions are in here outside voting if you (and others like you) didn't?
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>>2647681
Join me my son
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>>2647681
Combo these

>>2647693
>>2647688
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>>2647663
I'm personally okay with this, if the alternative is passive aggressive posts like this one.

I even agree with the sword thing, but get a thicker skin dude.
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>>2647706
No, I'm fine, I guess my choice of words was poor and could've been improved, not to mention tone isn't easy to convey over text.
No intention for passive aggression.

But personally, I guess I was just having a little spat which I'm summarily over and done with, I'll go with whatever majority rules say, it's how these quests function after all.

>>2647696
No, it's just that I tend to prefer to not post a lot or get too involved in a discussion, I haven't posted this much in a thread since that mecha quest that had the tournament where people made OC's and entered them into said tournament.
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>>2647712
MSPQ ended on a high note!

> You aren't weeb enough to be BA.

Personally I will argue myself blue in the face up to the vote, but after that I drop the issue.
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>>2647720
Oh good, glad to hear it wasn't abandoned, life dragged me away and I eventually lost interest in trying to catch up.
>pic related
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>>2647681
"You prepared to pull that kinda thing?" you ask the poor kid across the breakfast table, "I'm planning on doing anything I have to to get my little girl out of this thing, but you can pull out if you want."

"I," he says, before something ignites deep inside his eyes, "yeah, I'd do that. What kind of man wouldn't go to Hell for the girl he likes?"

You're torn between telling him "that's the spirit!" and telling him to go to hell.

Wait.

You're asking him to go with you to hell.

Or at least be prepared to come in with you.

"Willing to swear to that?," you ask, "you willing to follow me into the depths of Hell?"

"If you are," you tell him, turning away from the table, and stalking toward the last sure domain of the suburban male.

"then follow me."

You stride toward the garage.

This is his last chance to back out, and he should know it.

If he follows you in here, it's on his own head.

You snap on the lights as you walk in. Everything's still there - the sake, the cups, the scrawled banners.

Everything necessary to perform the parody of a ceremony this kid sounds like he's signing up for.

"I'm in," he tells you, stepping over the threshold, "I'll be honest - I was halfway in for anything when I saw you take that guy behind the bar."

"But I'm 150% in," he says, walking over to the workbench, "no, 300%, now that I know it's for my sister - and for Melon."

"Then drink," you tell him, exchanging cups. This can't be too bad, right? It's just a little sake, and you're pretty sure you're in loco parentis enough to give him a sip of alcohol.

You drain the cups, then place them back on the workbench.

"Little brother," you tell him. "why are we doing this?"

He stares at you without hesitation, and says "TO RECLAIM OUR BELOVED ONES FROM HELL ITSELF!"

...you're not really sure the rats are down with hell, but that's exactly what you wanted to hear.

"Then let's do it," you say, and guide him out of the garage into the arms of:

>Your wife
>Your daughter
>Sue
>Nobody - you're up before them, and you're going to work
>WRITE IN
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>>2647747
>>Your daughter
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>>2647747
>>Sue
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>>2647747
>Your Wife
>Your Daughter
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>>2647754
23:33 - 23:43 Voting period.

>>2647712
>I tend to prefer to not post a lot or get too involved in a discussion
Ahh, we're opposites, then, and I made an assumption.

I've always preferred discussing in quests to actually voting.

Why make one vote when you could marshall five or ten times as many, by making your point?

There's a good reason I'm a QM, and not a quester.
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>>2647747
>Nobody - you're up before them, and you're going to work
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>>2647747
>Nobody - you're up before them, and you're going to work
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>>2647747
>Sue
Because Sue
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>>2647747
>Nobody - you're up before them, and you're going to work
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>>2647747
>>Your wife
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>>2647747
>>Sue
She wants in on this boys club
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>>2647747
Oh man when Melon gets married to this man we will shed a lot of manly tears.
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>>2647787
A-fuckin-greed, comrade.
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>>2647747
Nobody.

That's not surprising - nobody else would be up at this hour, anyway.

You're surprised that this kid is even up - he looks damn tired, and he's panting a little bit.

But after the night the two of you have had, that seems almost refreshingly normal.

"You know what happens if you try anything with my daughter, little brother?" you ask, as the two of you file back into the kitchen.

"Yes, SIR," Shelby tells you, "and I assume I should have breakfast waiting for the women?"

"If you want," you tell him, "or just crash back on the couch until they wake up. You've got enough material for three omelettes warming in the oven. No need to stay up."

"And that was a damn good omelette," you tell him with a smile, as you vanish out the door to your car.

The drive to work is uneventful.

...despite the sword screaming at you a few times in traffic about how you should be entitled to run them over as a lord, and it's their fault if they don't get out of the way.

And then you're strolling past the receptionist, who barely gives you a nod, and you're in the elevator.

With Bernie, of course.

>Mornin', boss
>What do you think about rats?
>So, what were those 'special accounts' you were talking about yesterday?
>Nice scarf
>WRITE IN

[META NOTE: most dialogue options are not mutually exclusive, and I'll try to fit them together. I reserve absolute discretion for how I handle anything that isn't first place.]
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>>2647797
>>2647787
woah woah brothers. Let's at least try to get her out of this bullshit deal before we start thinking about walking her down the aisle.

>>2647820
>Mornin', boss
>New Scarf?
>So, what were those 'special accounts' you were talking about yesterday?
Let's start things off slow for now before we start asking about Rats and sheeit.
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>>2647820
>>Mornin', boss
>>So, what were those 'special accounts' you were talking about yesterday?

>>2647826
>woah woah brothers. Let's at least try to get her out of this bullshit deal before we start thinking about walking her down the aisle.
But it gives us even more to *sunglasses* shoot for.
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>>2647820
>Mornin', boss
>So, what were those 'special accounts' you were talking about yesterday?
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>>2647826
00:00 - 00:10 Voting period.

>>2647826
>woah woah brothers. Let's at least try to get her out of this bullshit deal before we start thinking about walking her down the aisle.
Who says this 'Shelby' kid is the only option for her?
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>>2647829
We miss him already. But our aim's getting better.

>>2647834
You say "Hordes of Suitors" I say "Target Rich Environment".
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>>2647820
>Mornin', boss
>New Scarf?
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>>2647820
>Mornin', boss
>Nice scarf
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>>2647834
I still stand where i want our daughter to marry a normal man who do normal things with normal lifestyle.
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>>2647820
>Mornin', boss
>So, what were those 'special accounts' you were talking about yesterday?
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>>2647720
Where's the last thread of MSPQ? I could never find any after 106 on suptg.
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>>2647820
>Nice scarf, Demonskin?
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>>2647820
>Mornin', boss

> Hey, you do any work with (whatever the fuck Shelby's Father's name is)
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>>2647845
The measure of normal can change a lot.
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>>2647834
>>2647836
"Spray and Pray" - we spray, they pray.
I can't wait for the "So just who are all these BOYS you seem to keep bringing home" moment.

>>2647845
But that'll probably have to be balanced out with "can handle the revolving freak show that is the magical world." I mean, would we want our daughter to have to live a lie just to please someone? At least kiddo here knows full well who and what she is now, and he ain't backin' down. It'd still be nice for her to have a fully normal life, maybe meet a nice engineer at engineering school, and getting her out of that contract should go some ways towards that. But I don't think anyone in the family is going back to "completely normal" anytime soon.
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>>2647820
"Mornin', boss," you tell him, and take the other side of the rising metal box.

"New scarf?" you ask, "looks good."

"YOU PLAY THE GAME OF VERBAL FAVORS," the sword shouts into your mind, "AS HE DID YESTERDAY! YOU LEARN QUICKLY."

"Thanks," he tells you, smiling, "it's actually an old one, but I haven't worn it for a while. My mother made it for me."

His mother? If this guy's a dragon, you don't have a clue what that could mean.

An actual dragon?

Some woman who took him in after he hatched?

Is he being metaphorical?

"So," you ask casually, "what about those special accounts you mentioned yesterday?"

His eyes graze you, despite the hand tousling his hair.

"Those are going to take some explanation," he tells you, "got anything booked for 10 to 12 this morning?"

"No," you tell him, very truthfully, "I'd planned to be working on-"

"I'm re-assigning those," he tells you, "and, yes, you'll get to give the files to the next guy. You're not getting fired."

"You might even be getting promoted~," he says, before waltzing out out of the elevator.

A "depending on how you do!" floats back into the cubicle corridor after him, and you walk to your office.

>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
>Slam through you firm's databases to find anything that looks like supernatural activity
>Plot to bring your boss into your faction
>WRITE IN
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>>2647868
>>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
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>>2647868
>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
WORK WORK WORK

And we do this on lunch time.
>Slam through you firm's databases to find anything that looks like supernatural activity
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>>2647868
>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
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>>2647868
>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
Boss won't join. The money is in the middle. He might sell weapons, armor and info though.
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>>2647871
00:25 - 00:35 Voting period.

>>2647872
>And we do this on lunch time.
Oh, you'll get a separate vote for lunchtime. Don't worry.
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>>2647868
>>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
>Fail to contain Excitement from getting a promotion....fail harder
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>>2647868
>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over

We are RESPONSIBLE.

> Ask our Boss' secretary if he has any favourite snacks, then call our wife and ask her to bring some down if possible.

10-12? That's right before lunch! We might be peckish. Also, for some reason people are okay with openly brown-nosing.

If we go up to his secretary and say that he wants to have a meeting with us and we're a little nervous about it, and if she has any advice, then ask if he has any favourite snacks, it will probably go okay.

We can get our wife to pick the Secretary up something as well as a thank-you. We COULD just rely on our Dadly charm, but no need to not be thankful to her.
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>>2647868
>>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
>>Plot to bring your boss into your faction
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>>2647876
I agree. We should make sure that it's much more beneficial for him to work with us even if it's just on a professional basis.
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>>2647868
>Gather together your files for the people who have to take them over
> Pump Bernie's Secretary . . . For info.
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>>2647884
But we must CATCH THEM ALL! (Sorry I had to.)
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>>2647884
Dragons be Dragons yo.

Honestly the fact that we aren't interested in power or anything means that there's a good chance that he could end up solidifying his position here after we take out elements that could challenge him.
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>>2647884
Please don't poke the dragon i want to stack so many favors before we come and get those favors. Dragons like to have something in return and now we dont have anything to offer.

So yeah i say we should go fish for more info from our dragon boss.
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>>2647891
Oh you misunderstand. I'm not saying we recruit him or do some of that messin about.
I'm saying we make ourselves more valuable kept alive than dead.
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>>2647868
You put together the files for the unlucky sods that will have to take them over.

They're not pretty. You find yourself putting notes on them like "don't ask pointedly about this - lead into it by degrees".

You always got the 'special' accounts, and you'd figured that meant 'special' in terms of being able to think through managing money.

And then you start seeing other things crop up.

...someone's upgrading your database access on the fly.

Some of the entries are a little disturbing. Not so much the money, as what the line-item expenses are.

"23 Human corpses."

"13ml Basilisk Venom."

"153 Worms - Matou Vintage."

"15 Virgins."

"200-year Chardonnay, and I don't care WHAT vineyard it came from! An entire case!"

"60 rounds of specialty point 47-70 Government.."

"A Box of Cigars. The best. Bonus for running them out of Cuba."

You finish up putting together the normal accounts for your successors, slam them into emails, and stagger out of your office.

...then you're face to face with your boss' secretary.

>Bernie got a favorite snack?
>How much do you know?
>Nice day, isn't it?
>WRITE IN
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>>2647905
>Bernie got a favorite snack?
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>>2647905
>Say I know this is out of the blue but does the boss have a favorite snack or soda?
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>>2647909
00:57 - 01:17 Voting period.
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>>2647905
>Bernie got a favorite snack? I have to beard the dragon in its den today.
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>>2647905
>Bernie got a favorite snack?
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>>2647905
>>Bernie got a favorite snack?
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>>2647905
> Hey, I was going to get my Wife was going to swing by with some treats for lunch meeting with the Boss. There's a share of the action for you in what she picks up if you could let me know what his favorite lunch food is.
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>>2647905
>Bernie got a favorite snack?

In other news, HOLY FUCKING SHIT that database though!
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>>2647905
>>Bernie got a favorite snack?
>>How much do you know?
Might as well shoot the breeze
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Holy crap, is this the spiritual successor to Best Dad ever quest?

Either way, same premise. I'm in.
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>>2647930
we got 3 threads over 1000 posts m8, you got some catchin up to do.
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>>2647905
"Sorry," you say, "almost ran into you there."

"No," she starts off, "it's my f-"

"No, it's not," you tell her, "I just rushed out for some coffee."

The two of you walk together down the cubicle 'corridor', as you try to process some of the things you saw in that database.

"Been Bernie's secretary for a while?" you ask, striding along.

"Just since he's been here," she tells you, "and he's a lot, uh, better than the last guy."

You crack a smile.

"Nobody was sorry that bastard left," you tell her, "not a good person for a reputable firm."

"That's one way of putting it," she says, shooting you a glance as the two of you near the coffee machine, "man was a PIG."

That speaks to more than you'd ever known.

And you're not sure EXACTLY what.

...you're pretty sure you don't want to know EXACTLY what.

By this time, she's taking the first go at the coffee machine.

"SO THAT IS WHY YOU DID IT," the sword trumpets into your mind, "BECAUSE IT ALLOWS YOU TO QUESTION HER WHILE WAITING. DEVIOUS."

That's not what you'd meant to do, but it works, you think, leaning against the wall.

"So does Bernie have a favorite snack or something?" you ask, trying to sound innocent.

"Guy's a fool for smoked salmon," she tells you, "any time I'm in late, I grab some from a decent store, chuck it on his desk, and everything's fine."

She smiles at you.

"It's almost funny, how much he loves that stuff," she finishes, as her cup of coffee fills to the top, "you'd think he was a cat or something."

'Or something,' you think, watching her walk away.

>You've got just enough time for your wife to bring smoke salmon to the office
>Fuck that - you can smoke a better salmon than any bastard in Norway - you'll just have to remember Bernie next time you do it
>WRITE IN
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>>2647937
>Fuck that - you can smoke a better salmon than any bastard in Norway - you'll just have to remember Bernie next time you do it

BERINE! TAKE MY LOVE! MY HATRED! AND MY PASSION FOR COOKING! AND ALSO THIS SALMON THAT I FOUND WHILE MUGGING A GRIZZLY BEAR TWO DAYS AGO!
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>>2647937
>Fuck that - you can smoke a better salmon than any bastard in Norway - you'll just have to remember Bernie next time you do it
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>>2647937
>>Fuck that - you can smoke a better salmon than any bastard in Norway - you'll just have to remember Bernie next time you do it
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>>2647937
>Fuck that - you can smoke a better salmon than any bastard in Norway - you'll just have to remember Bernie next time you do it

We get the !Shirou to assist. Nothing can go wrong.
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>>2647937
I support >>2647944 especially mugging the grizzly bear, I feel like that's a legitimate training exercise at this point.
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>>2647937
>>You've got just enough time for your wife to bring smoke salmon to the office

All these people wanting to rush smoked salmon.

No, what we do is we get our Wife to bring some store-bought shit for now, and THEN we tell him we can smoke a better Salmon to bring along to the double date.
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>>2647944
01:32 - 01:42

MY LOVE! MY ANGER! AND ALL OF MY COCK!
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>>2647937
>You've got just enough time for your wife to bring smoke salmon to the office

If he asks how we knew about it, just say it's not like he made a big secret out of it.
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>>2647937
>>Fuck that - you can smoke a better salmon than any bastard in Norway - you'll just have to remember Bernie next time you do it
I'm glad our grill has many uses

Placating a gang of magical girls
sizing a potential husband for our daughter
Barricading full of girls who wants to fight you
and now pleasing our boss with our MANLY GRILL

GOD BLESS AMERICA
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>>2647953
>Turns out the Rats can turn into other animals
>One of them is a large Rooster
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>>2647937
Smoked salmon, huh?

You usually do that in the winter, when temperatures are low enough that it can really smoke well. And you'd back yours against anything the Norwegians could put out, let alone the tripe on the store shelves.

...maybe you'll have to put Bernie on your list this Christmas, you think, as your coffee cup fills.

The guy probably wouldn't have taken such a shallow overture as that anyway, you realize, as you walk back to your office. Dragons respect subtlety, from everything you've ever read.

You walk back into your office, and a voice from behind you almost shocks you catatonic.

Right.

You have visitors chairs for clients.

"Oh," the man says, in a voice speaking of years of abuse via cigarettes and alcohol, "I'm here about my account. They told me it had been transferred to another associate - sorry about the trouble."

There's no mistaking that nearly-dead voice.

This is definitely Shelby's father.

>Was this about your tax liability?
>Were you coming in about your potential alimony exposure?
>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts
>WRITE IN
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>>2647981
oh god thats hilarious.
anyways:
>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts
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>>2647981
>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts

>>2647960
I can't stop laughing at that fucking rooster.
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>>2647981
>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts

Keep our work life and personal life separate.
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>>2647981
>>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts
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>>2647981
>>Was this about your tax liability?
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>>2647981
>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts
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>>2647981
>Was this about your tax liability?
Or, would you prefer to reschedule. On thursday,perhaps?
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>>2647981

>I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - they just gave me these accounts
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>>2647981
"I'm afraid I didn't catch your name," you say, settling into your chair, "they just gave me these accounts today - you know how it is," you tell him, smiling a little.

"Kelly Edwards," he tells you, and you punch the name into your computer, "I just want to make sure there aren't any complication funneling the funds through my shell companies - my son's birthday's coming up, and I'd hope to get him something nice," he says, slumping back into his chair and lighting up.

It's this a no-smoking office?

You pull up 'Edwards, Kelly,' and instantly wonder how the hell your extremely reputable firm keeps this guy one step ahead of - not the IRS (he pays his taxes), but from some of the deposits you're seeing through the basket weave of shell companies around the man, the FBI, NSA, Homeland Security, and the secret police of at least thirteen countries (and the legitimate police of another twenty) would be damn interested in the man who's lounging in front of you.

"Well, Kelly," you say, scanning through the intricate network of Nevada corporations and Cayman Islands holding companies in front of you, "I think you're covered for anything up through a Learjet. The last payment coming through said something about 'nice touch, putting his head in a'-"

And then he cuts you off.

"Yeah, yeah," he says, with a wave of his cigarette, "a public toilet. Rather gauche, but you do what the client wants, right?"

And then he fixes you with a stare the probably has him wanted in six countries, and asks "is your voice familiar, or is it just me?"

>...Yeah, we all do what the client wants.
>We're glad to have your business, Mr. Edwards.
>I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night.
>WRITE IN
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>>2648009
>I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night.
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>>2648009
>I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night.
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>>2648011
02:26 - 02:36 Voting period.

Damn, that should have been "with a stare that probably has him..."

Typos, man.
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>>2648009
>I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night.
> Which we can talk about later, for now are there any other questions you have about your account?
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>>2648009
Not SUPER thrilled to find out what buddy does, but we do what we have to for our family.

Assuming of course that he HAS to do this, if Shelby DOES end up dating our daughter he sure as fuck isn't going to be following in his fathers footsteps. Our end goal is to get our kids away from this sort of shit.
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>>2648009
>I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night.
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>>2648009
>>I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night.
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>>2648019
This. Business is business.
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>>2648009
"I'm pretty sure your son crashed on my couch last night," you tell the man, as you put your feet up on the desk, "but we can talk about that later - do you have any other questions about your, er, rather complicated account?"

"I appreciate the personal touch to the accounting," the man says, in the gravelly voice of someone who's living on 'you have THIS many months to live' from the lung cancer docs for years, "he get up to any trouble last night?"

"Jumped off my couch and tried to go fight a demon down the street," you tell him, "nothing big - he just had to get bailed out by Pink."

"And that," he tells you, "is a debt I'd much rather not have to owe. Surprised nobody's put a hit out on her yet."

...but there's a smile on his face, like he's ever so proud of that idiot Shelby.

>Put out a hit on her?
>You think that's a good thing for him to be doing?
>Could we talk about this later? I have some other clients lined up today.
>WRITE IN
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>>2648019
Ditto.
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>>2648019
this is pretty respectable, lets do it.
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>>2648032
>Put out a hit on her?
Please explain
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>>2648032
>>Could we talk about this later? I have some other clients lined up today.
>Anything else sir?
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>>2648039
02:55 - 03:05 Voting period

>>2648019
>>2648033
>>2648035
I tried putting in an option on the current vote for something like this.
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>>2648032
>>Could we talk about this later? I have some other clients lined up today.
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>>2648032
>>Could we talk about this later? I have some other clients lined up today.
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>>2648032
"Mr. Edwards," you tell him, "could we talk about later? I have some other clients lined up today, and you know - we do what the client wants. Anything else about your account?"

"Nothing right now," he tells you, standing up, "but there might be a big payment coming through next week. Make sure you're set up to process it."

"And thanks for taking care of my son," he tells you with a smile, walking out.

He stops just short of the door, and says, not even turning toward you, but to the air in general, "for what it's worth, that guy had been doing unsavory things in public restrooms for years before I rubbed him out. My client's daughter..." he trails off.

And then he leaves.

You can sort of understand that take on things, but you're still having trouble processing.

So THAT'S Shelby's dad? You're surprised the kid turned out so nearly normal.

"AS I TOLD YOU," the sword says into your mind, "ONE WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING. EITHER ENSURE HE IS WITH YOU, OR DESTROY HIM UTTERLY. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND."

That's, uh, something to keep in mind. Maybe the sword's right some of the time?

Maybe it just gets lucky.

"HE IS A FORMIDABLE WARRIOR," it continues, "SO YOU SHOULD SEEK TO ALLY HIS HOUSE WITH YOUR OWN. PERHAPS A UNION BETWEEN -"

...alright, and it's back into Sengoku Showdown nonsense.

Just then, Bernie strolls into your office, and takes a sniff of the cigarette smoke.

"Didn't know you went in for that," he says, eyeing you, but not sitting down.

"Last client in here lit up," you tell him, "and it seemed like he was on that special list you were talking about."

"If you're talking about Edwards," Bernie says, sniffing again, "he definitely is."

"I'd hoped to get here before a client did," he continues, "but it seems I was a little late on that, and a bit early with the data acces - you know how I.T. is. I'm sure you're got some questions."

>Who puts down '15 Virgins' as business expenses?
>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?
>So, I'm guessing they're all... on the 'other' side of things.
>WRITE IN
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>>2648060
>Who puts down '15 Virgins' as business expenses?
>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?
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>>2648060
>Who puts down '15 Virgins' as business expenses?
>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?
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>>2648060
>>2648066
03:36 - Whenever I wake up - Voting period.

I'm calling it here. Hopefully we'll resume sometime later today. (6 to 8 hours? I'll announce on twitter when I'm going again: https://twitter.com/HaikuDeluge)

I really need to sleep.

Let me know if you think I should keep going with this thread or start a new one.
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>>2648060
>>Who puts down '15 Virgins' as business expenses?
>>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?
all while being cheeky as fuck about this too.
Anyways i recommend a new thread, after 1500 posts or so in a single thread I know Suptg at the very least starts to get wonky shit with the threads, not sure why but it tends too.
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>>2648060
>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?
Or more of a Bermuda Triangle type thing?
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>>2648070
Start aa new one

To be honest we become my daughter is a magical girl quest to supernatural backalley arena quest to my waifu is a foxgirl quest to accounting simulator quest I wonder what is next?
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>>2648060
> Not really, the job seems to be the same as before. Accounting is either all magical, or all mundane depending on your point of view.

> Glad we don't have to do the whole "who's" tougher song and fance everyone else seems into, though. You pay me to handle accounts, I handle accounts.
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>>2648060
I feel we should wait for him to bring up the issue of the Rats having a contract with our daughter. Suddenly I remembered the rules from Shadowrun, one of which is "Never cut a deal with a Dragon".

I also can't wait for our Wife's family to ask us about the Shotgun Shogun nickname so we can say "Yeah, I like the name. It's pretty cool like a John Wayne character".

Because I like watching people twitch.
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>>2648060

>So, I'm guessing they're all... on the 'other' side of things.
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>>2648060
>Who puts down '15 Virgins' as business expenses?
>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?
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>>2648060
>>Who (in the fuck) puts down '15 Virgins' as business expenses?
"Wait, don't tell me, it's vampires isn't it?"
>>So, I'm guessing they're all... on the 'other' side of things.
"And occasionally, the law? Speaking of which..."
>>Am I going to need to brush up on my Cayman Islands law?

>>2648080
>>You pay me to handle accounts, I handle accounts.
Does this make the Lawful character who just happens to also be Good or the Paladin of Accounting?
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>>2648421
Paladin of accounting needs to go on our list of titles.
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