Remove ads

Confringentur, Mk.2; a Madoka Magica / Fate/Stay Night crossover

Reader mode
[X] TIme-stop, go over to the group and drop a lit pipe bomb, and return to where you were with Mikuni and exit time-stop. Keep an eye out for any sign of the Witch, and when you find it take Mikuni into your time-stop and dispatch it quickly as you normally did with Witches before Archer entered your life. If any more duplicates appear of either of them dispatch them quickly in case they share any attributes or abilities they have.

No secret boss-battle abilities for you, random Witch, for Homura has the power of [THE WORLD].
 
Last edited:
[X] TIme-stop, go over to the group and drop a lit pipe bomb, and return to where you were with Mikuni and exit time-stop. Keep an eye out for any sign of the Witch, and when you find it take Mikuni into your time-stop and dispatch it quickly as you normally did with Witches before Archer entered your life. If any more duplicates appear of either of them dispatch them quickly in case they share any attributes or abilities they have.
 
Remove ads
Day 20 Chapter 19.1
  • Threadmarks
    • [X] TIme-stop, go over to the group and drop a lit pipe bomb, and return to where you were with Mikuni and exit time-stop. Keep an eye out for any sign of the Witch, and when you find it take Mikuni into your time-stop and dispatch it quickly as you normally did with Witches before Archer entered your life. If any more duplicates appear of either of them dispatch them quickly in case they share any attributes or abilities they have.
    ​

    Even though you can see it, plain as day, you still cannot believe the sight before your eyes. You are absolutely certain that that's you, and Mikuni Oriko, sitting down at a banquet with a troupe of familiars. Even though the both of you haven't even walked into the room yet, and are still standing in the doorway.

    Immediately, you stop time, and the world around you goes grey as you take your first hesitant steps into the final chamber of this witch's labyrinth.

    As you enter the banquet hall proper, you notice something strange- "You" have gotten closer to you, despite having never moved from "your" place at the table. This would have seemed impossible to you outside of this place, but inside a witch's labyrinth, anything goes. You ready several explosives, scattering them across the table, and turning around to return to Mikuni Oriko. As you turn, that's when you notice a second something that is strange. In another corner of the banquet hall lies another pile of dead bodies, in exactly the same position as the first.

    "Of course... This mansion is a hall of mirrors. It would only make sense that an object appearing somewhere would just be a reflection. That other 'me' must be a reflection as well... But then, where is the witch?"

    Colour returns to the world, and you have three seconds before- "Akemi-san, look out!"

    Mikuni Oriko tackles you to the ground, just in time for three explosions to go off right where you had previously been standing. You and Mikuni Oriko pick yourselves up as the smoke clears, seeing that the table, feast, and familiars have all been torn to shreds; but "you" and "Mikuni Oriko" remain in place.

    Why? Why didn't your bombs destroy your reflection as well? And how did you manage to get caught up in your own explosions? You made sure to plant them on the table, so how did they wind up at your feet instead?

    No, that's not right... They didn't "wind up" at your feet; those were separate explosions from yours... But how?

    [ ] Wat do?​
     
  • Threadmarks
    • I'm going to be trying something new for this fight, hence why it's such a short post and why it's 19.1 as opposed to just 19. Don't plan your order of battle *too* far ahead.
     
    Last edited:
    SVS said:
    And what are we doing with it? Making some ice, obviously, but what's our goal for using that ice?
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...

    Basically as an experiment. We planted the explosives over there and both over there and over here blew up with it. So if we freeze the ground over here, will it also freeze the ground over there?

    Basically just probing to see what's going on.
     
    [X] Thank Oriko for the save and inform her that it's likely that their reflections are capable of taking the same actions as they do and share their condition with them, either by copying their abilities or by miming their actions some other way. Observe your and Oriko's duplicate and attempt several actions to try and confirm this theory, such as seeing if your duplicate moves with you, by carving an Isa rune into the ground a few yards ahead of you to create a small emplacement, by time-stopping for but a second while moving to a different location, projecting and shooting an Isa arrow at a target nowhere near your duplicates, etc. Time-stop if necessary to extract you and Oriko from danger.
     
    Last edited:
    [X] Thank Oriko for the save and inform her that it's likely that their reflections are capable of taking the same actions as they do and share their condition with them, either by copying their abilities or by miming their actions some other way. Observe your and Oriko's duplicate and attempt several actions to try and confirm this theory, such as seeing if your duplicate moves with you, by carving an Isa rune into the ground a few yards ahead of you to create a small emplacement, by time-stopping for but a second while moving to a different location, projecting and shooting an Isa arrow at a target nowhere near your duplicates, etc. Time-stop if necessary to extract you and Oriko from danger.
     
    Day 20 Chapter 19.2
  • Threadmarks
    • [X] Enetious
    ​

    No, that's not right... The second explosions didn't "wind up" at your feet; those were separate explosions from yours... But how?

    "Thank you," you say to Mikuni Oriko, as you brush your skirt a few times to rid yourself of debris, watching as your reflection performs the same action in the mirror. The only logical explanation that you can think of is that "Our reflections must be capable of taking the same actions as we do."

    Mikuni Oriko nods, saying "Agreed," as she calls up several drones, the action mimicked by her reflection. "And not just our actions either, but their effects. Look-" Mikuni Oriko points towards the drones summoned by her reflection; they're hovering in the exact same formation as her real ones.

    "In other words, anything that we do, and anything that happens as a result of what we do, is reflected back on us." That much is obvious to you now, but even an ability like this must have some kind of limitation to it, right?

    With no way of knowing just what the limits are for these reflections, you'll have to try a few different things out. You advance by a few meters; your reflection performs the same action, coming closer to your position, but never quite reaching you, as though it's being stopped by something before it can close the gap. You crouch down - and it does the same - and draw Isa into the floor.

    Ice erupts just in front of your feet, spreading out along the floor to form a low, jagged emplacement. The same happens for your reflection, and in an instant there are now two emplacements of ice barely a meter from one another. You stare, and your reflection stares back at you.

    Next, you try something that you are at least fairly confident is something that your reflection cannot do; stop time. With your shield at the ready, the world once again goes grey. With your eyes fixed squarely on your reflection - and its eyes fixed squarely on you - you take a single step to the side. Against everything you thought you knew about your time-stop magic, your reflection takes that same step. You allow time to resume, still completely baffled as to how your reflection could have moved while time was frozen.

    Lastly, with your bow drawn and an arrow nocked, you think to take aim. Not at your reflection, but off to an angle above your reflection's head. Taking aim - as your reflection does the same, for an angle above your own head - you let your arrow loose. Up and up it soars, and if your aim is true, it should strike the wall well above your reflection's head, but for its own arrow, heading straight on a collision course for your own.

    The two arrows collide in mid-air, and in a flash of ice, they fall harmlessly to the ground side-by-side, leaving only a creeping, disc-shaped spread of ice floating in the place where they collided.

    While you were doing all of this, it seems that Mikuni Oriko was performing her own set of tests on her reflection, bouncing the path of blasts from her drones into various directions to see what her own reflection's limitations might be. If that contented smile on her face is any indication, it looks like she's found something out. "I think I see it now, Akemi-san. What about you? Can you see it?"

    [ ] Wat do?​
     
    Last edited:
  • Threadmarks
    • SVS said:
    Next, you try something that you are at least fairly confident is something that your reflection cannot do; stop time. With your shield at the ready, the world once again goes grey. With your eyes fixed squarely on your reflection - and its eyes fixed squarely on you - you take a single step to the side. And when you unfreeze time, your reflection has done the same.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    Do you mean that the reflection took a single step to the side after time-stop was undone (like lag), or that it appeared in the same location as Homura?
     
    Last edited:
    Enetious said:
    Do you mean that the reflection took a single step to the side after time-stop was undone (like lag), or that it appeared in the same location as Homura?
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    The reflection also took a step to the side.

    EDIT: At the same time that Homura was making her step inside the frozen time, and not on a lag. I've since edited my post to better display my original intent.
     
    Last edited:
    [X] Inform Mikuni of how your reflection was somehow able to continue operating in stopped time, despite that being an impossibility. If this were just an illusion or machination of the Witch then the Witch would have to be able to make the reflections act or create the magical copies, or manually be manipulating your perceptions magically, and shouldn't be able to see nor manipulate such things while stopped in time.
    -[X] Tell Oriko your guess is that the only way to attack the witch is by making your mirror images do it since the witch is either the mirror or in the mirror, but... you haven't spotted it yet.

    Edit: Put in Nachtigall's vote
     
    Last edited:
    [X] Inform Mikuni of how your reflection was somehow able to continue operating in stopped time, despite that being an impossibility. If this were just an illusion or machination of the Witch then the Witch would have to be able to make the reflections act or create the magical copies, or manually be manipulating your perceptions magically, and shouldn't be able to see nor manipulate such things while stopped in time.
    -[X] Tell Oriko your guess is that the only way to attack the witch is by making your mirror images do it since the witch is either the mirror or in the mirror, but... you haven't spotted it yet.

    BTW, I randomly found this image.
    ... That's supposed to be Oriko, apparently.
     
    Last edited:
    @SVS, is there something inside the mirror that Homura suspects to be the witch? I that case, we could force our doubles to attack her...

    There's no reason to destroy our mirror images if we can use them for our own ends.
     
    WanderingTwix said:
    BTW, I randomly found this image.
    ... That's supposed to be Oriko, apparently.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    She's happy that she made a cake that will be shared with Kirika. You can even see her shadow watching in the background- That's Kirika. You know, the one bright spot in her life that she still has after having to deal with things like:
    - Walking in on her father's corpse after he hung himself, because he was embezzling money from his cushy government job and was about to be found out;
    - Being bullied and ostracized at school because of what her father did;
    - Bearing witness to the end of the world and feeling personally responsible for stopping it;
    - Having lots of blood on her hands because she's making her girlfriend kill people in part of her plan to prevent the aforementioned end of the world.

    So yeah, if I were in Oriko's shoes, I'd be pretty damn happy about making a really good cake for the person I loved, too.
    ​
    Nachtigall said:
    @SVS, is there something inside the mirror that Homura suspects to be the witch?
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    Oh, you're so close, but I don't want to spoil it.
     
    Last edited:
    [x] Tell Oriko your guess is that the only way to attack the witch is by making your mirror images do it since the witch is either the mirror or in the mirror, but... you haven't spotted it yet.
     
    Last edited:
    Nachtigall said:
    [x] Tell Oriko your guess is that the only way to attack the witch is through your mirror images since the witch is either the mirror or in the mirror, but... you haven't spotted it yet.
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    My question to you is, if your guess is that the witch is the mirror/through the mirror, then how do you propose we go about attacking/defeating it without having our attacks bounced back at us/hurting ourselves in the process?
     
    SVS said:
    how do you propose we go about attacking/defeating it without having our attacks bounced back at us/hurting ourselves in the process?
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    I made a small edit to clarify that in the vote:
    attack the witch [...] by making your mirror images do it

    Since we wouldn't attack our mirror images, they wouldn't attack us back.
     
    Last edited:
    SVS said:
    But then, how do we make our reflections attack the witch?
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    That's why I asked whether Homura saw anything in the mirror world that could be the witch (probably signified by only existing on one side) and added the "you haven't spotted it yet" part. I'm expecting Oriko to reveal the last part of the puzzle.

    Once we know where to target, it's as simple as attacking the equivalent position this side of the mirror, or potentially the mirror frame if such a thing exists.
     
    Enetious said:
    [] Inform Mikuni of how your reflection was somehow able to continue operating in stopped time, despite that being an impossibility. If this were just an illusion or machination of the Witch then the Witch would have to be able to make the reflections act or create the magical copies, or manually be manipulating your perceptions magically, and shouldn't be able to see nor manipulate such things while stopped in time.
    -[] Tell Oriko your guess is that the only way to attack the witch is by making your mirror images do it since the witch is either the mirror or in the mirror, but... you haven't spotted it yet.

    Edit: Put in Nachtigall's vote
    Click to expand...
    Click to shrink...
    @Nachtigall Compromise ahoy!

    Also as a side-note, is it just me or is this seeming more and more like the Multi-Dimensional Refraction Phenomenon in regards to their "reflections"? It could be that those reflections are actually them seen and interacted through the Second Magic.
     
    Reader mode
    You must login or register to reply here.
    Remove ads
    Back
    Top