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Black Kingdom Rising - Anime Villain Quest [CK2 Quest]

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Hm, speaking of crisis crossovers, do you guys suppose that the mages and sensor characters of other factions are going to freak out progressively worse as each of the keystones of the Ebon Emperor's powers are restored and thus his own power?
 
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Interlude - Magical Girl Inquisition/Examination Results
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    • "One two ninety-six hundred and one. One two ninety-six hundred and two. One two ninety-six hundred and three. One two ninety-six hundred and four. One two ninety-six hundred and five…"

    Aestia Creed laid on her cell's cot, mentally counting how long she had been in this cell - excluding the time spent on her physical examination. She had been here since her left arm changed back into that strange black metal and saved her team from a Demon-level Wraith. While she was happy that she had been able to save her friends, she was rather put out with how the Company higher-ups reacted to the revelation of her metal arm.

    Huh. She only really noticed now in this cell of hers that she had stopped thinking of it as a replacement at some point and saw it as her proper arm. Weird. She should be more freaked out about the whole thing really but she felt rather calm about it. No need to get all stressed out about her awesome black steel arm. Oh wait, Ebon Steel arm. That was what Ebon had called it.

    Still, she was getting kinda bored in this isolation cell. To be honest, if she used her arm, she could probably break through the barriers that made up the walls of this place. Although she would then need to figure out how to bypass the magic suppression field though. The fact that her arm wasn't affected by the field was a clue but for now, she was content with waiting.

    Last she heard, her friends were going to get Ebon to come and clear things up. Hopefully, when that was done, everything will go back to normal.

    "One two ninety-six hundred and ninety-seven. One two ninety-six hundred and ninety-eight..."

    Well, until then, she'll just continue counting down the seconds.

    ....

    "What the hell is she?!"

    "Well according to the scanners...she's still...well, human. Mostly."

    "Don't give me that cheek! You know full well that after what she did, she can't possibly be human! Run the scans again! At level five sensitivity and - wait, mostly?"

    "I was getting to that, your ladyship. Miss Creed is human as far as the scanners are concerned. However, she's been enhanced - both physically and mentally."

    "...Explain."

    "Very well then, give me a moment...Here we go. Now as you should already know, my manipulating the magic in our body, we can enhance our physical capabilities while we are transformed. However, this enhancement has always been temporary with very little permanent changes. Despite our own research, we have yet to find a way to safely enhance a magical girl permanently without negative side effects."

    "I am fully aware of that. Eurgh, I still can't eat steak without remembering what happened to Georgia."

    "Yes. Now after we examined Miss Creed's body for any peculiarities, we discovered some very interesting things. We've found that her bodily functions have somehow been enhanced to the pinnacle of human conditioning.

    "...What."

    "Peak human condition. Strength, speed, senses, agility, durability, stamina, dexterity, reflexes - everything. Even intelligence! She also now has an accelerated healing factor as well. Any ailments and physical and genetic imperfections have been healed. As far as I'm concerned, she's the perfect specimen of human development and conditioning - just without any noticeable changes in her appearance."

    "H-How did everyone miss something like this?!"

    "Well, I theorise that her transformation from a baseline human being into her current "peak" human state occurred over the course of several weeks."

    "...And that...arm. It's the source of this change?"

    "Hmm, yes...Logically it would appear to be the case but…"

    "But?"

    "Our scanners have not been able to detect its existence. Whatever the material the arm is made from, it either has some kind of enchantment that prevents it from being detected or our scanners are simply not advanced enough to detect it at all."

    "T-That's ridiculous. Nothing? What about the Tainted's blood? Surely there's something in there!"

    "Again, nothing. No unknown magic, chemical or even foreign objects could be found in Miss Creed's body. And we are quite sure that she isn't a Tainted. The only thing that we know is that an independent mage who calls themselves Ebon is the one who created the arm."

    "But she absorbed enough dark Emotica to make an entire company of Magical Girls fall and yet she has shown no signs of falling herself! She has to be a Witch or Darkbreed!"

    "While I understand your concerns, Miss Creed has shown absolutely no sign of corruption. Though you just reminded me of something that might be of interest."

    "Well? What is it then?"

    "Okay, these are the charts monitoring her emotional state since imprisonment. Do you notice anything unusual about them?"

    "...She's calm….Too calm."

    "Correct. For all intent and purposes, it is as if she had a Zen monk's mind. Usually, most who have been quarantined are usually in a state of high stress and anxiety. Miss Creed has demonstrated no sign of such. That's not to say that she has stopped experiencing such. Rather, it's as if something is removing nearly all negative emotions before they become noticeable."

    "...The arm."

    "It is the most likely cause."

    "....What's the status on making contact with this...Ebon?"

    "Still a work in progress. Agents have been deployed to the location that Miss Creed gave us but there has been no sign of Ebon's presence. Diviners are also having much difficulty in trying to detect his presence on the material plane.

    "Very well. Continue observation and the search. Maintain level 4 alert until further notice."

    "Your Ladyship?"

    "Until we've uncovered Ebon's true motives and the full nature of what has happened to one of our own, be prepared to terminate Miss Creed should anything abnormal and tainted occurs."

    "Understood your ladyship."

    "Now then, shall we have some afternoon tea? I believe that Madeleine has found a new patisserie and I can't wait to try out their cakes!"

    …

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    AN: Hey, still alive. Just been busy with Uni. And cleaning the rust on my muse's writing utensil. Been working on and off a thing where Clone Jacob ends up in RWBY. I might post it as a sidestory, maybe. Also Aestia rolled a bunch of crtis in the background rolls in regards to her adaption to her arm.
     
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    • So just had this idea, what if we sold the power generating plants to companies operating coal power Plants?
    Like we make a breed of generators which all co2 in convert that into oxygen then install that into the smoke stacks of power Plants? Income and magic at the same time.
    Plus can we modify the punching bags into armour? Like if one were to shoot at you, then have the bullets bounce back, then armour right? We can sell his to the military of we're lucky.

    On a more related note.

    YES IT LIIIIIIIIVES!
     
    So... how long until Aestia loses all of the hair on her head-

    Wait. That comparison doesn't work when she's already at peak physical condition AND she can probably blow through her prison cell's containment fields with ONE PUUUUUUUUNCH.
     
    Honestly, aren't her fucking parents worried about her? How about the teamates she fucking saved? Is the company mind fucking everyone?

    You'd think there would have been some outrage by now but nope. Apparently everything is calm enough where this lady person can have cake with a smile. As if she didn't order a little girl's death for no reason beyond "I don't understand so lets kill her." And I say this because her arm itself is abnormal so she's already doing something abnormal just by existing and the girl said to kill her if she did anything abnormal or tainted. Though this is just me being uncharitable.

    I hope the girl comes to work with us because we at least won't imprison her because she saved someone.
     
    OverReactionGuy said:
    Honestly, aren't her fucking parents worried about her? How about the teamates she fucking saved? Is the company mind fucking everyone?

    You'd think there would have been some outrage by now but nope. Apparently everything is calm enough where this lady person can have cake with a smile. As if she didn't order a little girl's death for no reason beyond "I don't understand so lets kill her." And I say this because her arm itself is abnormal so she's already doing something abnormal just by existing and the girl said to kill her if she did anything abnormal or tainted. Though this is just me being uncharitable.

    I hope the girl comes to work with us because we at least won't imprison her because she saved someone.
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    not so much "I don't understand" as "did something only evil witchs are capable of".
    Now normally this might be countered by "but shows no signs of being one"
    Unfortunately, it's also paired with "demonstrably can spoof our detection methods"

    Plus the kill order was conditional on showing signs of being an evil witch ... which they hunt and kill anyway
     
    mastigos said:
    not so much "I don't understand" as "did something only evil witchs are capable of".
    Now normally this might be countered by "but shows no signs of being one"
    Unfortunately, it's also paired with "demonstrably can spoof our detection methods"

    Plus the kill order was conditional on showing signs of being an evil witch ... which they hunt and kill anyway
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    Only the arm can spoof the detection methods and they know why, everything else was examined and came back normal. No taint or anything. So they are basically just keeping her imprisoned to science her or something.

    They know she isn't a witch already I mean.

    Honestly surprised she isn't pissed off but that may be the arms fault.

    DuManHeiu said:
    So, Willy pete, mustard gas, or some other Geneva violation?
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    ...I have no idea why you're jumping directly to that in response to my post. If you're going for a joke that's understandable, but if you're not that means you think I would automatically go in that direction and that worries me.

    What is it about me that you think I would automatically violate the geneva convention? The fact that my avatar is a cat?
     
    We should just make contact with them and engage in diplomacy.

    Thier freak out is perfectly reasonable in this land of demon possession and corruption.

    We are also kinda (read extremely) shady. Doing due diligence on this when we have a small profile of operations only makes sense. Especially as they now know the arm is affecting her mental state.

    For all they know we can use the arm to puppet her or witch out, which we can.
     
    Quick question but how many (Not)Heartless do we have? Also we may want to do something about their seemingly endless multiplying numbers.
     
    First of all,


    Second of all, shit, Sorry girl, we didn't mean for that to happen!!

    saving Aestia is a must
    along with relocating her family

    If we must remove the arm, see if that magic antique shop we do business with has access to any powerful healing potions that can restore limbs
     
    shibosho said:
    "I am fully aware of that. Eurgh, I still can't eat steak without remembering what happened to Georgia."

    "T-That's ridiculous. Nothing? What about the Tainted's blood? Surely there's something in there!"

    "But she absorbed enough dark Emotica to make an entire company of Magical Girls fall and yet she has shown no signs of falling herself! She has to be a Witch or Darkbreed!"

    "Still a work in progress. Agents have been deployed to the location that Miss Creed gave us but there has been no sign of Ebon's presence. Diviners are also having much difficulty in trying to detect his presence on the material plane.

    "Until we've uncovered Ebon's true motives and the full nature of what has happened to one of our own, be prepared to terminate Miss Creed should anything abnormal and tainted occurs."
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    ........................................... o_O o_O o_O What did happen in Georgia?
    Must remember those red key words for later. We already know what a witch is to them
    Also they are in contact with the more magical society of mages side of things, good to know
     
    I don't understand why people are stating that we need to do horrible things to the company, they are frankly doing nothing worse then what we would do if our situations were reversed.
     
    OverReactionGuy said:
    Only the arm can spoof the detection methods and they know why, everything else was examined and came back normal. No taint or anything. So they are basically just keeping her imprisoned to science her or something.

    They know she isn't a witch already I mean.

    Honestly surprised she isn't pissed off but that may be the arms fault.
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    Their legitimate concern is that if the arm can spoof their detection, then anything on the same tier of magic or tech inserted into her body/bloodstream can do the same thing.

    They're spooked: If only the mark one eye-ball can see the arm, literally anything could be inside Aestia from their perspective.


    Also folks, on that note. That means that we could theoretically turn captured mooks into walking suicide bombers.

    Capture a guy, stuff 'em full of ebon metal bomb stuff in their stomach, mind wipe them and deposit them back where you found them.

    Assign a ninja to watch them and wait till they go somewhere that is a known strongpoint or a hideout and trigger the bomb.

    Given the ridiculous amount of power that Ebon energy can generate, even a relatively small bomb (like dinner roll sized) could flatten a building.
     
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