Crystalwatcher's Magical Girl Quest!

... You accurately explain the idea of the attack behind the lesser known game, and inform me the game, that I'd have to actively go out of my way not to know exists, exists... without explaining how his attack works.

I'm honestly not sure what you're thought process was on this one, but I was referring to the attacks themselves.
Pokémon attack animations aren't the most detailed things in the world, and it's not like Judgment is an attack that gets many appearances in the anime :V
 
Pokémon attack animations aren't the most detailed things in the world, and it's not like Judgment is an attack that gets many appearances in the anime :V
Might as well just go with my giant "Fuck You" nuke level one then. Or the single target variant. Would it really matter?

The only other variant I can think of would be another Nuke that involves a small star (highly compressed Light/Judgement ball) exploding when it hits the ground/something. And honestly its just redundant anyway.
 
Might as well just go with my giant "Fuck You" nuke level one then. Or the single target variant. Would it really matter?

The only other variant I can think of would be another Nuke that involves a small star (highly compressed Light/Judgement ball) exploding when it hits the ground/something. And honestly its just redundant anyway.
Joshua's at least has the unique trait that the number of beams is directly dependent on the length of the combo. Not sure how to implement that mechanic, but that at least does make a nice upgrade.
 
Well, an idea of an ability to add to Flight is.... Divinity Based.

While we're flying we do more damage to those below us.
Trait: Smite, restricted to those who have Divinity. Provides reduced bonus to damage dealt to other Divinities.

You smite those below you.

Or something.
 
Maybe an upgrade that makes it so that if we physically attack multiple enemies in quick succession and then fire a Purifier Beam, the beam splits to hit all those enemies simultaneously (for full damage on each)?
 
How about an upgrade called "Chaining Purifier"? Like chain lightning, but with our Purifier Beam.
 
[X]Go to bed Early. It's an early start, and you'll need all the rest you can get.

Since it looks like nobody ever ended the tie I'll change my vote to the other option.
 
GEAR ACCELERATION
"So kid. What are you going to do now?"

James' question reaches you as you huddle in your bunk, staring at the picture of you and your sister. The peaceful scene was captured only a mere three years ago. She was sixteen, and had just beaten your mother in the custody battle... It hadn't been a happy year, but somehow, she had found a way to make it all better. A way to prove to you that the world wasn't ending, and that the day after would be better than today. And at the time, you had somehow convinced yourself that life would be as close to perfect as it could get from then on out.

And now she was dead.

"I don't know. My sis... she... what am I supposed to do? Everyone's been so helpful but... I still don't know what I'm supposed to do next! I'm so lost right now that..." You half gasp, half sob, as you bury your face into your knees, as you pull your legs close. "I'm so scared! What do I do James? I'm so confused!"

James sighs as you curl even tighter into your little ball. And for a moment, sat in silence. "I honestly don't know kid." You manage to stifle your sobs and look at him: he's cleaning a handgun, frowning in thought. "I joined the C-Force when a fight between them and a Hell attack force swept through my neighborhood. Got to watch my girlfriend get raped and chopped to bits right on front of me. After it was all over and I was saved, I decided that I'd join up and keep something like that from ever happening again. And here I am."

From there, silence creeps in. But... its a slightly more comfortable silence of understanding. The two of you sit there for several more minutes as James finishes cleaning his gun and puts it away.

"Hey, James?"

"Hm?"

"Thanks."

"No problem kid." He kills the light and you go to bed earlier than everyone else, but not as early as you originally planned.

-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-

Flashes. Images. A world you've never seen.

A flash from a sword. An image imposes itself: a woman with angelic wings, facing down a man with a massive sword.

Another flash. A wave of golden light facing down a wave of black. Blood flies.

"Hey sis! Look at me!"

"Careful Ana! You know climbing trees, is dangerous."

"I know S▄▄▄."

Static. A scream.

You see your sister's cold corpse. Crushed by the nightmare beast. She smiles at you...

"Don't worry. It doesn't hurt at all..." A tendril of flesh grows from the stump of an arm. "Won't you join me? ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄?"

You wake screaming at four in the morning as Jessica's alarm goes off with a loud bang, waking everyone instantly.

No one is groggy when Rei comes to collect you.

-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-

"You wearing your skin suit?" When you nod at Rei she smirks at you, "Good. Strip down to it."

"Eh?" Your voice is reduced to a squeak. "S-s-s-s-strip?!"

As if to answer, Rei promptly shucks her jacket and loose pants to reveal a bright yellow skin suit of her own. "Of course. They're going to be using the suit to attach a number of Leeds to you in order to measure your Quantum Imprint to figure out what your magical affinities are. As varied as magic is, there are some constants that can be identified. Otherwise the other Factions wouldn't have gotten as good with it as they have. I'll be providing demonstration."

And probably to show off, a traitorous little voice in your head muttered to you. She was definitely far more developed than you, and completely lacked any shame of that fact. You studiously ignored the little pang of jealousy that shot through the back of your head as you walked out of the changing room behind her and into the main testing chamber.

The room itself was actually rather small. Runic arrays covered the walls, with lines of English text forming circles in the center of the room. Among these arrays stood a small handful of scientists, thankfully all women, who were prepping a number of cords that stretched off into the wall to some hidden machines.

"As you know," Rei began as the scientists waved you over, "Humans have only recently confirmed Magic's existence. This means that despite what they're teaching in schools now a days, we know very little of what it's truly capable of. But the Fairies and False Heaven have generously donated some of the few universal thing they know about magic to aide in our own research.

"The first thing is that excepting a few specific details, all magic is customized to an individual species. One of those universal constants are Affinities. All the different groups of the Local Dimensional Cluster originally believed that there were only Elemental Affinities. And this was mostly true, until Humanity came into the picture and we introduced Conceptual Affinities."

A brief word to one of the scientists, and Rei stood in the middle of the room. From there, she raised her arms and the scientists began to attach Leeds to her. Since she was busy with that, a scientist standing off to the side picked up the explanation.

"All magical practitioners have a minimum of one Affinity. An Affinity denotes how their magic works. For example, someone has a Water Affinity: that means that person's magic is based around the manipulation of liquids and semi-solids. Or someone has a Summoning Affinity. That person's magic would be based around the summoning of different things to facilitate their magic. But I digress. The more Affinities someone has, the stronger they are. Or the stronger their potential. Someone with Two Affinities is considered a genius, while three would be normally reserved for the oldest of Practitioners. A Magical Girl though, is unique in that they all have a minimum of three Affinities. This chamber allows us to scan and identify those Affinities."

One of the scientists helping Rei called out, and you turn to her.

She stands, hands spread, in the middle of the room. Cords and thin cables stretch through the air to the walls like chains as she slowly opens her eyes... and you can feel her magic rise and travel down the false-restraints to the arrays around the room. Said marking begin to light up, one by one, until the entire room is bathed in a dull red color.

The English characters that surround her begin to move on their own. Each slowly rotates across the floor, lining up into three easily identifiable words that stick out in stark contrast to the jumbled lettering of the rest.

Rule
Annihilation
Epic


They mean nothing to you. But the scientists collective nod in satisfaction.

The one that had been explaining before starts up again, as the others begin to help Rei remove the Leeds. "Each Affinity represents something different. For example, Rei's Rule Affinity means that she grows stronger the more she believes she rules over. Her Annihilation Affinity grows stronger the more solidly she believes she can destroy something... But her Epic Affinity represents something else entirely." The last of the connections to Rei's skin suit are removed and you are beckoned forward.

With a gulp you do so. Self-consciously you hold your arms over your head, giving the techs room to work as the scientists continues her lecture. "The third Affinity of all Magical Girls we've been able to identify signifies their growth potential. It also has some other exotic effects we're still looking into such as Immunity to specific abilities for some reason but it isn't bearing as much fruit a we'd hope-"

"Doctor. You're rambling." Rei's grin is slightly amused as the scientist blushes. She quickly looks down at her clipboard to hide it, while the techs attach the last Leeds to you and guide your arms down so you don't accidentally dislodge any of them. From there, they immediately activate whatever mechanism that draws your power out for the magical array to analyze. The room lights up a light violet as the letters begin their crawl across the floor.

And just as quickly as it starts, it's over.

Purity
Faith
Divinity


You blink. "Are those normal?"

It's only afterwards that you realize that Rei Mitsubishi actually Squeed.

-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-

Your merely human teammates find you sitting in the cafeteria with a slightly shell-shocked expression plastered on your face.

"Damn kid. You look like you got goosed." When you fail to react to Michael's jab they share a look before Samael dumps his drink over your head.

"Pfft! H-hey! What was that for?" You squawk as Jessica passes you a few paper towels to clean up the resultant mess.

"Well, you were a little unresponsive there for a moment. So, we did what any good friend would do." You blush in embarrassment as they all sit down with some kind of breakfast. "We just got out of orientation for being your new teammates for the foreseeable future. How did testing go?"

You wad up the towels you just used and dump them onto Michael's plate - "Hey!" - before you respond, "Turns out I got three really rare Affinities. Two of witch have only ever been shared by four other Magical Girls ever. And the last happening only a handful of times in the past. So I got to watch the research team collectively flip their shit and got to sit through three hours of being poked by needles, while listening to my new mentor gloat over a phone. Apparently our first team practice is going to be against another Magical Girl. So yeah. Happy days."

"Huh. So we get the really rare Magical Girl that probably has some upper awesome prophecy about her floating around?" Michael scarfed down a hot dog. "I can dig it."

Jessica Rolls her eyes, "Yeah, just watch: most of us will probably wind up dead before she even learns it."

"Mou- lets not joke about that guys!" They just laugh at you.

-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-

You stare at the person standing before you.

Right behind you Jessica slapping Samael is actually audible. Part of you is curious, while the rest of you fervently doesn't want to know why she felt the need.

So instead, you again focus on the very famous person right in front of you.

More specifically? Magical Girl Red Rose.

Her outfit looks like it's made of silk. Her dark purple hair is almost as entrancing as her blood-colored eyes. But the most distinguishing feature is the scent of blood.

A scent that you were very familiar with now. But was still unnerved by.

"This the kid?"

Her voice is rough. Almost scratchy.

"It is." Rei's voice is almost giddy as she confirms... something.

"She's cute. I'll give her that."

"Bitch. She's fucking adorable. And mine."

Now you're sure you were missing something.

"Don't you have enough stuff? I've never had the chance to equip a little sister before."

Wait... Oh no. Oh god no. Please-

"She's my pet. No little sister equipment for you."

Yup. It's happening. "Oh, come on... not again." Your whispered despair attracts the attention of Richard beside you. He leans over slightly as to not draw the attention of the now arguing Magical Girls.

"What's wrong?" You glare at him in an adorably cute way.

"A bad joke got out of hand years ago between my sister and her friends. It only lasted a few days but it ended with me getting the nickname 'Nepgear' and it never left! And at this rate it's going to come back and I'll never be rid of it!"

He smiles at you, "For what it's worth I think it's a brilliantly adorable name!" He says it loud enough to draw everyone's attention. Then tells Rei and Red Rose what you just told him.

Once Rei announced that your new name was 'Nepgear' you decided that you would leave the bastard to whatever fate the coming training had in store for him.

-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-

"Help!"

"Nepgear, help him!"

"Not until he apologizes!"

"If you don't help him we're going to lose!"

"We were going to lose anyway!"

"How do you know that?"

"Have you seen her throw those spears? I try going up there to help him, she's going to 'catch a sister' as Rei so eloquently put it!"

"You should still help him..."

"Not until he apologizes!"

"INCOMING!"

"For wh-OH SHI-!"

The explosion knocked you and the rest of your team out.

-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-

"Uhhgggg..." You moan softly into the cafeteria table. Red Rose had left shortly after the... training, you were hesitant to call it. Citing that she had to return to the front. Rei had then promptly hauled you and your team to a healer to get patched up and then led you all to the cafeteria.

Said woman was eating heartily of a steak that you hadn't even known the cafeteria served, grinning amusedly at your pained whimpers. "Don't worry. I've known several fliers over the years. A bit of practice and you'll be far more at home in the air than your performance just now." She ignores an incoherent moan from you and continues. "That beam cannon of yours is also rather impressive. It takes you too long to charge up right now, but once you can fix that little kink you should be good. And while I don't know what that little barrier trick of ours does, I have the feeling that it's important to something. I have you roughly a week before your ready for the front lines. In the mean time you should focus on improving what you got." She downs the last of the steak in one massive go, before polishing off the rest of her food. A deep drink later, she asks another question that floors you.

"Also, have you all decided a name for your squad yet? It's a bit of tradition amongst support teams for MGs across the front."

You blink. Really? It seemed a bit weird and really informal, even amongst the already-informal nature of your little 'posting' as it was. It seemed a bit too free-form for a military assignment.

"Why would they-"

Your half formed question is answered by Samael. "It has to do with morale. A Mahou Shojou is like a super soldier. Think Spartans from that old video game. When a MG's support units takes the field, it almost always means their MG is with them and out there as well. So, in order to differentiate them from other - regular - squads, they're given custom names. When really infamous ones show up, it tends to end with weak-willed enemies running in mass. So it's become a bit of tradition to name a MG's squad with something."

Huh. Interesting bit of trivia there.

"Anyway, you have the rest of the day to your selves. Tomorrow you'll be getting up with the rest of the soldiers at their usual times around Oh-Five-Hundred. So you'll be able to get a bit more sleep today then yesterday. If you need anything, I'll be near Barracks 23. I have some reading I need to catch up on." And with that Rei leaves you.

So, You think to yourself, now what?


[]Go to bed Early. That training Session kicked your ass.
[]Look around the base. There might be other Magical Girls here that you don't know about.
[]Get to know your teammates. You'll be working with them in the future, better to know them.

[]Name Team? -Write in-

(Character Sheet Unlocked! James Robert! Level 4!
Character Sheet Unlocked! Jessica Robert! Level 0!
Character Sheet Unlocked! Samael Balier! Level 0!
Character Sheet Unlocked! Michael Rodriguez! Level 0!
Character Sheet Unlocked! Richard Nixon! Level 0!
Character Sheet Unlocked! Magical Girl Red Rose! Level 1!

New shop Item Unlocked!)

Met Red Rose! +5XP
Got your as kicked by Red Rose! +2XP
Bonded with James! +1XP
Equipped as 'Little Sister'! +1XP

Total XP Gained: +9

A/N Will add updates to shop and new character sheets soon.
 
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[x] Team Name: Purifiers

[x] Get to know your teammates. You'll be working with them in the future, better to know them.

What comes to mind are the Protoss Purifiers from Legacy of the Void...
 
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[X]Look around the base. There might be other Magical Girls here that you don't know about.
[X]Pretty Princesses of Adorableness. (all the other names were taken:oops:)

[X]Exp plan: Better safe then sorry
-[X] Buy: Purifier beam:extension, flight boost, armored core: Iron
-[X] Increase flight level to 3, Purifier Beam level to 3,celestial severance to 3, increase solid core to level 2

I'll see about what to buy with the exp later. We definitely need to upgrade our flight and our fuck you beam canon though.

-edit-

Btw, I'm terrible when it comes to names.
 
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[X]Look around the base. There might be other Magical Girls here that you don't know about.
[X] Team Gear

If we're gonna be equipped, we'll equip others too
 
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[X]Look around the base. There might be other Magical Girls here that you don't know about.
[X] Flight boost upgrade
 
[X] Team Gear
[x] Get to know your teammates. You'll be working with them in the future, better to know them.
 
Anyone know how much Exp we have?

Was thinking about getting the flight boost and the upgrading our flight for more mobility and our main attack for more damage.
 
So we have enough to buy these.
Purifier Beam: Extension
-50xp
Double the base power of the Purifier Beam.

Flight Boost
-25xp
Allows Solid Core to create platforms on which to push off for aerial combat.

Armored Core: Iron
-100xp
Adds a resilience Modifier to base stats. Gants Ability: Solid Core: Armor Level 1.

Which would add decent survivability, mobility and damage.

And we have enough to upgrade our base skills as well.

114 exp to be exact, and everything costs 10x its level right?

So upgrade flight to 3 which is 30 exp, so 84 exp left. But we would be able to earn more faster, the more we raise our skills and shit.

So saving our exp probably isn't the best idea and would likely see us dead.

So we have enough to upgrade our weapon to three and fuck you beam spell to three.

Leaves us with 24 exp.

What else would we need, and is everyone ok with this?

Being stingy with exp is likely going to get us killed, just felt like pointed that out. Sure there would be amazing abilities in the future that we could save up and buy, but it wouldn't matter if we die in the process of getting them.

-edit-

With the last 20 exp we could upgrade the new ability to 2.

Leaving us with 4 exp left. But more survivability.
 
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I thought we're better off buying the Purifier extension later on after leveling the attack?
 
Being stingy with exp is likely going to get us killed, just felt like pointed that out. Sure there would be amazing abilities in the future that we could save up and buy, but it wouldn't matter if we die in the process of getting them.
I don't think we have anything to worry about. Getting through that first monster was probably the hardest thing we'll have to do in a long while and we passed that with flying colours. With our growth bonus and MGGG helping us out, we'll be fine.
 
I don't think we have anything to worry about. Getting through that first monster was probably the hardest thing we'll have to do in a long while and we passed that with flying colours. With our growth bonus and MGGG helping us out, we'll be fine.

Better safe then sorry. Considering what has happened in the quest so far, kinda have to forgive me for being a tad bit paranoid.

I thought we're better off buying the Purifier extension later on after leveling the attack?

No, it would still grant the same effect and our damage would end up being the same as we level it up or save it regardless.
 
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