Where are we going to put them? Mami's closet?
I mean, I think Homura is very familiar with being in a closet at least.
The man on the scaffold hacks and coughs, spitting up black ooze that rolls off of Mami's ribbons. With one final, horrible retch the Crude is forced up out of his throat.
Oh, good, we didn't need to go down the list.
. The first swarm had descended while you and Sayaka were tending to some of the trapped people, only to be reduced to ashes by a claymore mine suddenly appearing in the middle of their pack. The few stragglers had been similarly blown apart by a few well-placed rifle shots.
Homura showing how reliable she can be. Hope it gave her some positive points in Sayaka's and Mami's heads.
Madoka had tentatively offered to carry one, but aside from the fact that she was still just a thirteen-year old it would be wrong to make an innocent serve in the place of a willing soldier.
Ok, we really need a serious, long, and private discussion with Madoka, she is feeling more and more worthless and will wish soon at this pace. We need to sit and explain a little about our life with someone too, and I think we can do both of those things at the same time that way, though the priority is Madaoka's well-being.
Your thoughts are interrupted by an enormous horde of Petrols descending on the group as you approach a towering building sitting at the center of this layer. Contrasting the incomplete and run-down structures surrounding it, this building is pristine and decorated, covered in gold filigree and surrounded by a garden of brass statues of skeletons. Sound of a Star flashes into existence around you, Mami and Homura each to one side draw their weapons. At your back, Sayaka draws her sword and takes a defensive position in front of Madoka and activates her Magic.
Prepare for epic last stand against horde of ennemies.
*Sound of pierced ballon letting our it's air*
In sharp count easy to the first,
Typo: contrast.
After blasting your way through a reinforced steel door, your group descends into the Barrier's second layer. In sharp count easy to the first, the manor's decorated halls positively drip with wealth and decadence. Paintings depicting macabre imagery adorn the walls, sculptures that resemble bone fill the halls, and you even stumble onto a dining hall with each plate piled with precious jewels.
Hmmm, do you think King of Greed would like the place?
"How can you be so calm about this? Why are you still just staring like that?"
Sayaka stalks towards Homura and grabs the raven-haired girl by the shoulders.
"You saw what they did to people! How can you not feel anything when you see this? Why do you just keep going?"
"Sayaka, she-" "Sayaka, that's not-"
*Sigh* We'll also need a discussion with Sayaka about Homura. So little time, so much to do.
Madoka is first in priority for me, the explosion that could happen is way bigger.
"Argh, whatever!" Sayaka pushes Homura away and then stomps further down into the Barrier, past the still-smoldering crater left by the explosion. You start to follow her, but as you turn you catch Mami giving Homura a pitying look before heading off after as well.
Seems like Mami understand way better than Sayaka here, we might be able to let her take care of explaining this to her.
Atop her head is a crown of shining platinum, several empty spaces meant to be filled by gems clearly visible across its brilliant surface.
...These *Jewels sockets* wouldn't happen to be Egg Shaped, do they? Because I just had an horrible possibility about what she does with soul gems go trough my mind.
"I- We just saved these people, didn't we? Like real heroes."
Ah, so that's what the vote's about.... Difficult question, I'll look at the discussion before voting there.
Isn't encouraging sayaka literally will make her act more like a moron? Like in canon fighting Witches after Witches alone until eventually she got trapped in grief spiral and witch-out?. And this is will be worsen by the fact that her magic is more support oriented in her than in canon
Yes, pure encouragment is bad here, it will lead to Oktavia sooner or later, a big part of why Sayaka witched out in canon was that she refused to use grief seeds because *heroes don't need a reward*, we can see hints of the same problem her, with her not wanting the seed at the end.
I refuse to vote for that wall of text monster, and even the alternative is on the wordy side. Still, my time is limited.
At least even the one who wrote it agrees that the wall of text is too long, this isn't always the case. (Votes the sizes of updates.... *Sigh*)
[X] Write-In. Let the kids talk it out. But mention that Homura meant well. She just has the social skills of a hedgehog.
Just a little change:
[X] Let the kids talk it out. But mention that Homura meant well. She just has the social skills of a hedgehog.
There, that *write in* was hurting my sense of aesthetics something fierce.
