Libra's Lament, a Magical Girl Quest [Complete]

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Now that you are clean and had food, everything is much better. Ludger looks a lot happier, too... probably because he is out of the bath again.

There are a few other girls in the center room right now, playing games or just chatting with each other... but no Knight and you can not see Red or Purple, either.

"Dragon, where is Knight?"
The older girl shrugs and combs her fingers through her hair again, the tail slowly bobbing up and down behind her; Eva still wants to pet it. "No idea, I guess she's still in the main building down the street."

"A-And Red and Purple? Where are they?"
Eva is curious about it, too; but for some reason, your friend gets a little pink around the cheeks and looks away. Dragon slowly plays with the ends of her gloves. "Um... uh... you mean Ruin Red and Ruin Purple, right?"

"Yes?"
Of course you do, that is obvious... or do they have another Red and Purple here? Dragon squirms around a moment longer and then shrugs again. "No idea, maybe they turned in early?"

...curious. You think about pressing the issue, but there are other things you are more interested in at the moment. "Okay... we can still go out, right?"
"Huh?"

Dragon throws you a glance and goes back to normal; Eva does notice a few other girls looking your way... maybe they are curious? "I don't think there's a problem with that, we don't really have a curfew. Anything in particular you want to do?"

"Nope~"

Eva giggles at Dragon's huff and you grab her hand before pulling her along. "Let's go, Moon!"


The moon is pretty bright today and the stars are nice, too; it is a little hard to see them properly with how bright your sister is, though.

That is why she is sitting on the ground far below while you hover a few hundred metres in the air, completely invisible from the ground; even your silvery wings seem more like stars, you can tell from Rico looking your way. You lie on your back, arms spread and looking at the sky.

It feels really nice, the light around you almost touching you; your glow is stronger at night, that is now good to see. In fact, you can almost feel the light gathering all around and slowly sinking into your skin.

You feel tingly all over, relaxed and... not happy, you need big sister nearby for that... but this is nice; Rico is quiet and you can tell she is lying on the ground, looking up at you.

So peaceful.

Everyone has hopes and dreams... you are not the only one and you know it. All of them are trying to make them come true; some are bad, but not the people behind them. You refuse to believe that. There is always hope and everyone deserves being happy.

Your scepter slips out of your fingers and starts hovering next to you... weird, since when could it do that? You make it fly up and down a bit, then back into your hand. Gloved fingers grasp for the metal shaft and you can feel the light around you resonating, magic tingling in your whole body asking to be let out.

Hm...

"Soothing Moonlight!"

A handful of streams coil around the tip of your scepter as you speak, grasping for nothing because there is nothing to aim at when you let go of them... but you can feel more magic rushing in. Where you had to wait with casting for a while after each time, maybe with this...

More light sinks into your form and you continue to wonder.



Waking up is weird... but you have Eva hugging you tight, so it is fine. She is still sleeping, her body still shaking a little from taking in so much light last night; you felt a bit of what she felt and it was really relaxing, like a warm hug all over.

You look around the small bedroom; there are no other girls with you, Knight said it was better to leave you separate for some reason. At least for now.

There are no other girls your age here, so you figure that the older ones do things you're not doing yet. No idea what, though.
Or Knight wants to make sure you get to sleep properly? The bed was not bad, but you miss your own a lot. Being cuddled together with Eva was nice, even though you did not really needed to this time.

While you were flying with Igni, you had to sleep on the ground; your friend let you use her as a pillow without saying anything, but you could tell it was not good for her so you stopped letting her.

You feel good after lying around on something soft again, Eva slowly blinking herself awake next to you. She gets up first, letting you lie around while she walks around the place. Heh, you can bundle up in the blanket and still get to see what is happening. Ludger stays in the little basket they found for him to sleep in, too.

"Hey Sun!"
You see your sister's head turn and find Dragon sitting at one of the tables, with a big bag by her side and some papers in front of her. Oh wait, that is a map.

"Ah, miss Dragon. I am Moon, though..." "Oh, sorry."
Eva makes her way over to the older girl and looks at the map from next to her; you can see how her eyes flash over to the tail time and time again; heh. If you wanted to, you could take Eva's hand and make her pet the tail, but that would be mean.

Maybe you do it later.
Eva pokes you a few times... oh, she noticed what you thought about. Aww...

"What are you doing?"
You stop pouting and nestle further into the warm covers while listening; Eva is as curious about this as you are, so maybe something interesting will happen?

"Thinking about our route, actually. Uh... we kind of didn't tell you, did we? Knight wants us out there doing something, so we'll be gone for the next two weeks."

Neither of you wants to know what this 'something' is. You can guess it anyway... and you do not like it at all. At least they will be back before you leave, so you can actually say goodbye at the time.

"Anyway, what are you doing here? And where is Sun?"

Eva giggles a little and pokes you with lazy, but this is entirely unfair; you still hate getting up in the morning.
"She's always groggy after waking up... I wanted to help in the kitchen."

Ah, right. Knight said that everyone helped out here, so you would get to do a few things in exchange for staying here, too. Just things like that, helping out a bit. You think about sleeping another three hours or so anyway, but you want to do stuff... and it will not work with all the things you get from your sister.

"I see. Honestly, half the girls here are like her; good to hear you're one of us early birds, then.

Dragon leans over to pet Eva's hair; your twin giggles and you roll your eyes before crawling out of the covers, giving Ludger a sleepy look and sighing in woe. Then you pay no more attention to what they talk about, get dressed and wander over to the big bathroom to wash your face and wake up some more. There are a few other girls there and you are not the only one groaning about having to get up so early.

Actually, what time is it?
...on second thought, you do not even want to know.


So you had breakfast with a lot of other girls, waved Dragon and Igni goodbye, walked Ludger -weird to do that without a leash, but he was good- and helped carry a few things.

Now you have noon and afternoon to spend, but there is something you really want to try first.

With what Eva did yesterday, you are wondering. There is something with the sun and you, something interesting. Walking out of the dorm already makes you feel a little tingly under the warm light... even though it is pretty cold today. You shiver and transform, Eva doing the same.

Then you two fly upwards, your sister a bit behind you; looking right at the sun is nice, it feels warmer. As if it was actually summer.

You do the same thing Eva did and float around; heh, lying down on air is pretty nice.

With a few deep breaths and another glance at the bright eye in the sky, you close your own eyes and let the light flow around you. It tickles a bit before slowly flowing through your skin and filling you with a nice warmth.

Eva's light felt like a warm hug, yours feels more like a hot bath. Less comfy, but easing your muscles a lot more. Your sister hums in your thoughts and you shoo her, enjoying the sun on your belly.

People do bad things at times, yes. People are scary at times... but they are not just evil. You get that now. Some people just hurt so much they see no other way.

And you want to help. To try your best to make sure everyone can be happy in the end. Your family's faces flash in front of you, reminding you of where you are. Not with them, that is. You want to see them again, your mother and your big sister. You will see them again.

But right now, you are filled with light and know it wants out.

Huh? Why is there a-
"Hey there."
-shadow. You open your eyes and blink up at Soul a few times, the older girl flapping gently a bit above you; the sun behind her makes her shine, but you can still see her well. She is smiling.

"You know, sunbathing at three hundred metres above the ground is new. You're pretty lucky you don't actually have to keep yourself in the air like I do."

"But we didn't get pretty wings."
You shift back into a standing position while answering, Eva nodding while floating next to you; why did she not see Soul? I had my eyes closed, too. Oh.

"Pretty? Huh, I guess... you do have wings, though."
"But those are cute, not pretty!"

Why do you always have to explain obvious things to people? Soul just stares at you for a moment, then she snorts and shakes her head. "Okay, fine. Do you have anything to do?"

When you both shake your heads, Soul comes down to eye-level with you and holds out a hand. "Then how about some training? I heard you're new."


You move together, swinging in from both sides so you can definitely hit her... but Soul just leaps over both of your swings and gets back to the ground after you passed her. When you turn to look, she has this knowing smirk on her face.

You try to hit her again and again and again and again and a lot more agains, but Soul just steps around, above or below everything. She is so fast you can barely see her at some times.

Then, after a while of this going on, she flips over your latest attempt and kicks you in the chest; you go flying with a pained groan and only barely manage to not land on your back, but Soul slides around Eva and brings down her sword.

(Soulsword: +2000 Base Damage, -1000 Blunt Side, dice suppressed = 1,000 Total Damage
Primordial Sun: +105 Base Resilience, +67 dice = 172 Total Damage Reduction

828 Final End Damage

Primordial Sun Health: 1,100 - 828 = 272)

You hit the ground with a shriek, pain blossoming from your stomach where she hit you. Tears come to your eyes, but you blink them away and get back up-

(Soulsword: +2000 Base Damage, -1000 Blunt Side, dice suppressed = 1,000 Total Damage
Primordial Moon: +155 Base Resilience, +15 dice = 170 Total Damage Reduction

830 Final End Damage

Primordial Moon Health: 850 - 830 = 20)

-only to hear Eva cry out in pain; you can feel a stinging in your side for a moment, but then it goes away and your sister is on the ground, too.

Ugh, that hurts... not as bad as what happened before, but it still hurts.

Soul stands before both of you, her sword lowered. "See? I haven't even started. But I don't mind teaching you a few things if you want. You can ask Knight, too. She usually isn't around for long periods of time, but she never minds helping out."

You both get up while she talks; there is no need to look at each other, you know what you want.

And your defiant looks tell Soul the same; she shrugs and gets up again. "Alright, just keep in mind what I said."

"Soothing Moonlight."

A wave of pleasant feelings rolls through you and takes the pain away, making you sigh. Soul turns to look at your sister before nodding and grimacing. "So Moon is a healer... I see."


A few hours later, the two of you sit at one of the tables and have dinner; your everything hurts from exercise, even after Eva healed away the pain from being hit over and over. Soul was really, really mean...

But you kind of made her hit you over and over because you refused to stay down, so you can not even blame her. But you want to...

Ugh... and you don't get what Red was talking about; when she saw you and how disheveled you were -still transformed, you really do not want to feel all this without your suit-, she said something neither of you heard and was dragged away by Purple.

Dragon and Igni are not here, either.

So... what do you do now?

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Choose one thing to do for the evening:

[] [Evening] Go to bed early, you are somewhat tired

[] [Evening] Look around and maybe meet someone new

[] [Evening] Maybe you can do something with your Affinities?

[] [Evening] Go find someone to talk to
-[] Someone in particular? (Write-in who)

[] [Evening] Write-in

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You have time to spend. Due to the fact I could easily push out 100k words on just your stay here if I wrote out everything, we will do a mix of timeskip and regular chapter.

What do you spend your time on while in New York? Pick three:

[] Training with Abyss Knight
(Unlocks Skilled)

[] Training with Soul Queller
(Unlocks Skillfull Dodge)

[] Working on magic
(Chance for new Spells)

[] Exploring
(Events)
(Of note, Events need not be positive)

[] Playing
(Does nothing productive)

[] Getting to know the girls
(Unlocks more data on character sheets)

[] Write-in (Maybe add a quick line about what you expect it to do)

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[] EXP-Plan
-[] Write-in what to buy
-[] Save it


+4xp Filled with Light
+1xp Raised Morale (only Eva)
+4xp Goodbye for Now
+10xp Got Your Butts Handed to You
+5xp On a Silver Platter
+2xp Repeatedly

EXP Gained: 25 + 26 = 51
Total EXP: 181


(New Shop-Items Unlocked: Sun, Moon)

ShadowAngelBeta said:

... Why do I get the feeling this is going to go the way or Ar Tinelico? Omnicide for everyone!

Click to expand...

Click to shrink...

Well... considering that I only ever heard of Ar Tonelico... I have no idea.

Let me tell you that interesting things are about to set in motion, though.

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By the way, I was told I should rather clarify something regarding the multipliers Moon can suppress now.
You see, there are two types of increasing damage.

One is additional damage:

(Test Sword: +500 Base Damage, +250 Ability A, no dice = 750 Total Damage)
The above has 50% Base Damage added to the attack by Ability A; this is a damage increase, not a multiplication.

All is Equal only negates the second type, which is damage multipliers:
(Test Hammer: +500 Base Damage, no dice, x3 Crush = 1,500 Total Damage)

In this case, Eva could decide to negate Crush.
(Test Hammer: +500 Base Damage, no dice, x3 Crush = 500 Total Damage)

Of note also, every last Slayer Ability counts as additional damage, not as a multiplier.