A Typical High School Life Filled with Supernatural Battles

[X] You go take care of the new golem. You want those sparks damnit! You're confident that you can handle the new golem. It's stronger but not by that much from what you can feel. You can fight it and escape if the need arise.
 
...I can't stomach James being that clueless as to recognize he heard the voice, know who has the information about him having abilities and whom he introduced himself to, hear about a rather cautious friend supporting a socially awkward character who is also a mascot - and not put one and one together. I refuse to call it 'two and two' - that's be complex math.

Then who is the mascot?
 
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"Ah, that's because you have this strange looking star-shaped attachment just like the one – ," Whatever Mary was going to say next was cut off when Zelda clapped her hand over the shorter girl's mouth. Zelda suddenly looks afraid and is staring at you with suspicion. You simply raise an eyebrow at that. You don't know what Mary meant by part but the moment she mentioned star, warning bells started ringing in your head. Was Zelda a "Gifted" like yourself? Was Mary one as well?
"Mary's like the mascot character for 2-C while Zelda's her protector of sorts"
"And my power...well...I guess...I...um...I...turn into this? Yeah!"
Who indeed. :whistle:
 
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[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead?"
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead?"

If you're right, @Nevill, then we look psychic and awesome. If we're wrong, we play it off as us having weird quirks.
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead?"
 
Come to think of it, we've previously encountered a possible sensor Gifted.

And that letter was dropped directly at James's shoebox.

That person knew James and/or got introduced to him.


[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead?"

Because paper is not always soft. (And dense.)
It can also be sharp sometimes.
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead?"
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead
 
Zelda's personality is assertive, confident and careful. The very opposite of how Mary behaves.

If it swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, chances are, it's a duck.

Lucille wants to hang out today, so I figured we don't play along with this badly acted clandestine bullshit and go introduce the girls to her, since whatever alliance we are entering, Lucille will be a part of it anyway.
 
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Mary already alluded to having a Detection type power. She mentions our 'Star Shaped Attachment'

And Zelda is supposed to be Mary's Protector.

Turning into a giant moscot sounds like the perfect way to protect the ones close to you.


If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, but is instead a giant mascot, than you are dealing with a shapeshifter, and everything you see and hear is suspect. The complete turn around in personality could be related to the power, or it could be some kind of false persona to keep people from realizing who it is.

I honesly suspect something along the first.

It could very well be that her transformed shape has some interaction with the person who is the cause of her transformation - Something along the lines of turning into something that makes the one they are protecting feel safe. In that case turning into a giant living stuffed animal makes perfect sense.
 
Well, we can argue about it. I can say Zelda is less of a protector and more of a guardian, since Mary is a cuckoolander and probably finds herself walking into all sorts of trouble by accident. And of course she can't display her powers in public, though if not for Zelda, she'd probably try, because why not - the mascot is so awesome and fluffy! I guess it's easy to see what she needs Zelda for.

(My first thought was to ask her what amounts to 'by the way, where's Zelda?', and I would expect her to answer before doing a double-take, because that's how Mary rolls.)

I can point out all the 'ums' and 'ahs' and general sense of uncertain goofiness that Zelda distinctly lacks. But if you keep involving secret personas and thinking that she deliberately lies about a friend who sounds suspiciously like Zelda, I doubt that's an argument for you. I mean, if the first thing you think looking at a duck is that it's a shapeshifter out to get you, I can't beat that line of thought. :p

Let's just watch and see.
 
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I only tend to bring up shapeshifters when there are people who are obviously not in their natural...

Huh.

What if it is Mary - But her power allows her to possess stuffed animals and such, turning them huge?


I refuse to believe that her power is s straight forward. None of the other powers have been so simple or straight forward. They are all really interesting.
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
 
[X] Go take down the golem together. You want to make an ally right? Now's a good of time as any. This will give you the chance to show them what you can do and see what they can do hopefully. You probably won't get much sparks but at least you'll learn more about this living mascot character.
-[X] "Rex is a perfectly fine name, but can I call you Mary instead

If we are right, it will be cool.
If we are wrong, it will be funny.

Win-Win.
 
2.1 - You came for a 3D girl and got a 2D girl
Something had awakened him from his slumber. Had some disturbance roused him from limbo? Did a pulse beat once more through his veins as it did in the past?

Or had the tedium of the black void finally bored him to the point that he had to wake from the dreams?

Whatever the reason, he had awoken and it was time to resume weaving the tapestry which bore the tale of the chaos that would soon engulf a city and the players and movers that lived in the midst of said chaos.

Grabbing a thread, he looked carefully at where he had left off but the longer he looked, the more he found what he had weaved unacceptable. Indeed, before his slumber, the tale had taken a turn that he had not truly planned for and in desperation and frustration had weaved whatever he could to try and force the tale to continue. Looking back, it had been a mistake that had caused him to fall into deep sleep as his muse find itself unable to provide inspiration.

Shaking his head, he took hold of a loose thread and pulled, unravelling what he had weaved into the tapestry. The part that had been unravelled was then remade and thus the story was once more able to continue its intended path.

It was time to continue anew and he would try once again to weave the tale until the next deep slumber overcame him once more.

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[X] Go to the cherry tree by the school lake after school. Even if it turns out to be a fight, it'll only make you stronger. After all, receiving a challenge to a fight after school is a man's romance. Right after giant robots of course.

[QM] Go see who your secret admirer is after school. After all, getting a love letter and having a girl be the one who confesses her love to you is enough to earn one of life's trophies, according to Zane.

You stand outside room 301, holding the love letter that had been placed in your locker.

….

Wait a second.

Weren't you going to do something else?

No, that's…you must be really out of it. You hardly remember what happened in the rest of your classes today. You think you might have been struck over the head with a paper fan at some point but everything feels…fuzzy for some reason.

Quick mental check.

Your name is James Miller. You have the power to manipulate paper to some degree, a power that is apparently called a Gift and thus you are a Gifted. You're part of the Occult Research Club, ORC for short, and the club president who you're friends with is also a Gifted. Also, you got a really sweet coat from whoever is behind this whole Gifted thing.

Okay, looks like there's nothing wrong with your brain.

Huh, weird. Maybe you're not getting enough sleep or something.

In any case, you were standing outside room 301 to see who it was that sent the letter. So that you can politely reject them since you're not looking for a relationship right now. That and you had nothing better to do.

You open the door and raise an eyebrow at the darkness you see.

The hell?

The windows all have their blinds down and closed. The light is off and the only source of illumination in the room was coming from a computer monitor running a screensaver. Frowning, you flip the light switch on only to find that it isn't working.

Way too suspicious.

You pull out a random notebook out from your bag and hold it at the ready. Was this some lame attempt at a trap? Well, whatever. You'll just have to deal with it just like you did with that punk from last night.

Your heart nearly jumps out of your chest when music suddenly started playing – some kind of peppy sugar-filled J-pop stuff. It's coming from the computer's speaker and the monitor has changed to a scene of a hill with a cherry blossom tree. Okay, now things were more weird than suspicious.

Still wary, you enter the room, ready to give any assailant the worst paper cut they'll ever experience in their lives. However, as you approach the computer, something appears on the screen.

"Senpai!" A female voice cries out in joy. On the computer monitor, there was now a rather well-animated image of an anime schoolgirl with a black ponytail and an expression of tearful joy – a generic bishoujo if you had to describe the character. "I'm really glad that you came. There's been something that I've been meaning to tell you for some time now."

You have absolutely no idea what the hell was going on. Was this actually some kind of prank? Did someone actually went through the trouble of setting up some random visual novel to play a confession scene when you came into the room? If so then why!?

"Senpai…." As the animated character on the screen was about to confess their love, they suddenly froze along with the music. You wince when loud static began screeching through the speakers while the frozen animation began to glitch out, then as sudden as it had happened, dubstep begins playing.

"What."

"ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!" Your heart very nearly stopped at how loud the cartoon girl had cried out. You watched with your hands over your ears as the scene on the monitor changed from a scene straight out of a visual novel to something from a sci-fi game. The former schoolgirl character had transformed into a white haired girl with red eyes, wearing a sleek black bodysuit that had neon blue tron lines running all over it.

"What the fuck?" You mutter in complete confusion. What the hell was going on here!?

"…PFFFHAHAHAHAHA! You should see the look on your face!" The cartoon said as they clutched their stomach. The atmosphere of sweetness and innocence that the girl had early was gone, now replaced by a smug and mischievous cyber girl. After laughing for a few seconds, the cartoon wiped away her tears and took a deep breath before looking straight at you with mischief in their eyes. "So, Mister James Miller, how did you like my act?"

"…Are you for real?" The way the cartoon was moving and the way she looked at you told you that you weren't looking at some extremely well-animated video.

"Fufufu, who knows?" She replied with a hint of mischief. "Do you want me to be real?"

"No." You give the dark classroom a quick look around. As far as you can tell, there's no camera or microphone but those are probably hidden. You think that whoever's actually talking is using one of those facerig programs or motion capture to do this. After all, an anime character can't leave a letter in your locker after all. "So who the hell are you anyway?"

"Uh uh uh, a girl has to have her secrets who know. But you can call me CG Girl" The cartoon chides you while wagging her finger at you. "Well, in any case, I suppose you're wondering what's going on?"

"Yes." You growl. You were starting to get annoyed.

"Very well, then I'll get straight to the point. I wish to form an alliance with you, James Miller."

Huh?

What follows is a short but concise explanation of the situation. CG girl or at least the person using her is a Gifted who has limited control over information apparently. However, her Gift did not lend itself well to physical conflict, and with the Gifteds of Ichiyama High's declaration of war, things weren't looking good for her. So she made a decision to lure you to an empty classroom so she could speak privately to you.

"So you want me to form a…alliance with you in preparation for when Ichiyama attacks, right?"

"You don't have to give me an answer right now. We still have some time before Ichiyama makes their move so please think it over and discuss it with your fellow Gifteds." Damn, so she was aware of Lucille after all. "There's also the fact that you're still relatively new compared to a lot of other Gifted so it would be ideal if you worked on raising the power of your star."

You frown. At the very least you're glad that you don't have to join immediately but you're still wary of this person. You got a feeling that they haven't told you everything. What were their true intentions?

"Well, I suppose I should let you go now. School's done for the day and there's still much for me to do so I'll be in contact with you again." You let out a sigh at this.

"Okay." Finally, you were done with listening to this 2D girl talk. However, there's still something that was bothering you. "So what the deal with the love letter?"

"Oh that? I thought I'd just have a bit of fun messing with ya. After all, isn't it a love letter left in a locker a symbol of a youth-filled school life?" And with that, the computer suddenly shut itself off. At the same time, the blinds opened up, illuminating the once dark room.

For a few minutes, you stood there before making your feelings know on the matter.

"What the hell?"

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Having met with the sender of the love letter, you were now left with a lot of free time on your hand. Leaving the school building, you ponder a bit on what you were going to do now. With dinner being several hours away, you weren't really due back home anytime soon.

What do you do?

[ ] Go golem hunting. Regardless of what's going on with CG girl, you still need to become more powerful, what with Ichiyama soon to attack your school. You're sure that there's a good chance that Ichiyama's Gifted will be targeting you first.

[ ] Head over to the arcade and relax by playing some games, chill at the lounge, and push all thoughts about Gifted and Stars to the back of your mind for a little while.

[ ] Go wandering around aimlessly. Yorizen is a fairly large city and there are still lots of interesting places that you've never been to before. Who knows what you may find.

[ ] Go home and spend time with your family. Family is important after all. Even if you're sick of your parents acting like newlyweds all the time.

[ ] Write-in
 
[X] Go golem hunting. Regardless of what's going on with CG girl, you still need to become more powerful, what with Ichiyama soon to attack your school. You're sure that there's a good chance that Ichiyama's Gifted will be targeting you first.
 
IT LIVES! :D I was afraid that this one died! No worries on the retcon; if you've gotta change something, it's gotta change. I'm just glad to have this back.

[X] Go golem hunting. Regardless of what's going on with CG girl, you still need to become more powerful, what with Ichiyama soon to attack your school. You're sure that there's a good chance that Ichiyama's Gifted will be targeting you first.

Gotta keep busy.
 
Well, obvious plot option is obvious.

BUT!

[X] Go wandering around aimlessly. Yorizen is a fairly large city and there are still lots of interesting places that you've never been to before. Who knows what you may find.

There is even a better one where instead of hunting for plot we let it find us.
 
[X] Go golem hunting. Regardless of what's going on with CG girl, you still need to become more powerful, what with Ichiyama soon to attack your school. You're sure that there's a good chance that Ichiyama's Gifted will be targeting you first.
 
Well, that's one way to pull off a ret con.

[X] Go golem hunting. Regardless of what's going on with CG girl, you still need to become more powerful, what with Ichiyama soon to attack your school. You're sure that there's a good chance that Ichiyama's Gifted will be targeting you first.
 
Like a badly written essay, erased and rewritten.
Welcome back, @shibosho.

[X] Go wandering around aimlessly. Yorizen is a fairly large city and there are still lots of interesting places that you've never been to before. Who knows what you may find.

Possible Golem encounter and/or Mystery Box option.
 
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