Crystalwatcher's Magical Girl Quest!
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ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Possibly, possibly. Either way, I believe the best way to find out is by buying the upgrade, and we have enough XP that we can afford it. Purchasing a few levels of our main attack spell is definitely something we should do though.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
It can already hit multiple targets at once though, as seen in our opening salvo in New York, and our fighting against multiple groups with Truth. We hit at least 5 demons, and the 2 buildings besides them with a single spell in that first one.
Crystalwatcher
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Voting is closed.
Vote tally:
##### 3.21
[x] Go to the funeral.
[x] Mourn with them both.
No. of votes: 1
LightMage
[X]Mourn with them both
No. of votes: 3
Nix's Warden, UbeOne, MobiusC
[X] Go to the funeral.
No. of votes: 1
Lordsservent
[x] Mourn with them both.
[X] Purchase
-[X] 3 levels of Celestial Severance
-[X] 4 levels of Core Containment
-[X] No Longer Human
No. of votes: 7
Rei of Sunshine, Gore17, Highwind, æDrake, veekie, Shadowward, Astaroh-M
[X] Mourn with them both
[X] Purchase
-[X] Armored Core: Steel
-[X] No Longer Human
No. of votes: 1
Bugs
[X]Mourn with Team GEAR
No. of votes: 1
hcvquizibo
[X] Mourn with them both
[X] Purchase
-[X] 3 levels of Celestial Severance
-[X] Severance: Echo
No. of votes: 2
ReaperofInterest, Serous
Vote tally:
##### 3.21
[x] Go to the funeral.
[x] Mourn with them both.
No. of votes: 1
LightMage
[X]Mourn with them both
No. of votes: 3
Nix's Warden, UbeOne, MobiusC
[X] Go to the funeral.
No. of votes: 1
Lordsservent
[x] Mourn with them both.
[X] Purchase
-[X] 3 levels of Celestial Severance
-[X] 4 levels of Core Containment
-[X] No Longer Human
No. of votes: 7
Rei of Sunshine, Gore17, Highwind, æDrake, veekie, Shadowward, Astaroh-M
[X] Mourn with them both
[X] Purchase
-[X] Armored Core: Steel
-[X] No Longer Human
No. of votes: 1
Bugs
[X]Mourn with Team GEAR
No. of votes: 1
hcvquizibo
[X] Mourn with them both
[X] Purchase
-[X] 3 levels of Celestial Severance
-[X] Severance: Echo
No. of votes: 2
ReaperofInterest, Serous
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
So it looks like we're having a private funeral, our damage and defense are going up, and we get to see what No Longer Human will do.
It was a question mark one until we were told about how our body isn't human anymore. So probably something related to that.
Level Up 5
Crystalwatcher
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Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
Hell Yes, We can murder mooks aplenty now! And we can maybe take a Hit! Possibly Two, with the new ability!
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Hmm...so No Longer Human is definitely nice, what with the 50% End Damage negation. Ignoring body damage modifiers sounds good, though hopefully it'll be more of a side-benefit. I don't think we want to go about losing limbs willy-nilly. As for the other two, the Double Cast Ability sounds nice,can't wait to hear more about that. The Core Containment though...looks like it simply gives us (50 X Core Containment Level) extra health. Still, another 200 Health is definitely going to come in handy during future fights!
We need the health, so its not like its badly spent XP.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Oh, I'm definitely agreeing! I was just laying out what looked like the likeliest formula for how Core Containment worked. We started out with 100 health, purchasing Core Containment gave us another 50, and raising Containment to level 5 got us another 200, bringing us to 350 health.
Not seeing anything on the Double Cast in the Char sheet yet?
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
While Core Containment only gives 50 Health per level, there is still the possibility of it gaining extra sub-skills at higher levels, like Celestial Severance gained at Level 5.
Next in the buy list should be Severance: Echo and/or Armored Core: Steel, but I'm still partial to raising all our skills to Level 5, just to see which ones get extra abilities. That's 40 exp for Armored Core, 70 more for Flight and another 70 for Purifier Beam, for a total of 180 exp points.
Also, a second version of Core Containment might be behind Steel. Never know.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
Interesting fact, with out new health and Armored Core: Iron, all incoming damage now has to be greater than 17.5 to actually inflict damage on us. I'm guessing that the 17.5 is going to be rounded, hopefully up.
That's really not a lot you realize?
Core Containment is currently level 5, and no sub-skill.
More importantly, any damage we take is reduced by 55%.
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
- Location
- Brazil
That's really not a lot yet. Increasing Armored Core further and improving it with AC: Steel and subsequent upgrades should vastly increase the damage reduced. And the reduction will increase the more Health we have too, meaning it could improve faster than it appears.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
I know. I just thought that it was interesting to know. Still, the fact that we have access to a health increasing abilitiy is rather nice, since it increases the amount of damage Armored Core will block. Plus what Gore17 said.
Highwind
To Rise From The Ashes
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- Brazil
Core Containment might get a Sub-skill at level 10. Or it might get a Sub-skill at level 6, or it might never get any extra skill at all. The only way to know is to keep increasing it.
I'm just saying that increasing the other skills is a good idea and it might prove to be rather cost effective too, if they do get extra abilities.
Kinda, upgrading Iron doesn't increase the percentage it blocks. Its been 5% since we got it, its upgrades only increases our resiliency. I think we need Steel to improve the Skill/Ability itself.
OverReactionGuy
Verified Sanity
.... Damn I forgot to vote.
BROKEN GEAR
Crystalwatcher
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James is sitting outside the remains of the base store. He and Sam watch as workers slowly pick it over for bodies and anything salvageable. Sam is in his dress blues, neat and tidy. James is missing the jacket to his, and you find that you don't care. Your silent presence draws their attention shortly after you appear off to the side of where they're sitting.
"Nepgear? What you doing over here kid? Shouldn't you be getting ready for the-"
"I'm not going." Your silent proclamation is broken with grief. The both of them are surprised until you lift up a soot-covered object in your hand. "I... found this under Richard's bunk. So I thought... instead of going to the funeral and listening to the meaningless platitudes for the fallen..." You don't need to finish. And it's obvious that you need not explain as the two of them stand up.
"Any one else invited?"
You smile.
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
Rei Mitsubishi is slumped in the half-melted remains of her once-gaudy throne. Her head is propped up by a hand, her eyes dull. Mind lost to wondering thoughts of which you know not. And, again, you find that you don't care.
This time, instead of waiting for her to notice you, you simply walk up and grab her wrist. Startled from her reverie Rei doesn't resist as you pull her to her feet and drag her after you.
And that is how what remained of Team GEAR and the Goddess Four found themselves a short distance above where they were holding the funeral for the fallen. Perched on a hill, you lean against Rei as the five of you lounge in the grass, a soft breeze stirring the air. None of you have spoken since the procession below you started.
James is the first. "Me and Jess grew up in Kansas. Lived in a small town near some farm but not much else. Most interesting thing there was this huge well. Tended to act as a pit stop for travelers going through. After the Unification Crusade dissolved the world's countries me and Jess got into Highschool. Turned seventeen when the first Demons attacked openly and the Akashic Pillar joined the Unified Light. Graduation day, my town was attacked by some Dark Lord looking to make a quick name for himself before the Second Fall. Jess was at her boyfriend's place when it happened. He and his family got through it fine, but Jess had to kill a demon with a spoon. We both joined up not long after that."
"Joined because I was a glory hound." Michael is swirling what's left of his drink around in it's bottle. "Wanted to join up, kill some demons. Come back hailed as a hero. I was there at Reluxus and Gabriel's Last Stand. A single battalion of angels facing down a horde of demons dense enough to hide the ground beneath their feet. A literal ocean of hellfire and brimstone charging the Gate. I was the last one through actually: I got to watch as a paltry hundred angels stood alone against damn near the entire Fifth Legion. Instead of accepting the discharge after that battle I fought tooth and nail to stay in the Counter Force. Been on mostly shit duties but... It frees up actual soldiers to fight instead of wanna-be washouts like me."
Samael isn't even watching the funeral with the rest of you as he speaks, instead contemplating the sky above you. "Discovered I was a practitioner when a girl at school started making love potions and selling them for cheep. Got the genius idea to buy one and try using it on a teacher that I had a crush on at the time. Brilliant way to find out she was actually a doppelganger hunting for Magical Girls hiding among the student populous. My magic woke up and burned the entire school down to the ground. Started checking out magic books from the library shortly there after, and not much longer before I found my self signing up with the Counter Force to fight the good fight. Got a little awkward when I also found out my girlfriend - the one selling the love potions in the first place - was actually a succubus. We've been thinking of marrying after my time's up."
Rei has already finished her drink, having already tossed her own bottle aside, and is now running her fingers through your hair. "Me and my sisters got it into our heads early on in the war to beat the Unified Darkness. Promised each other we'd be heroes worthy of legends being written about us. That when we were added to the history books we'd all return home to mom's grave and tell her of all the adventures we had. Of all the people we helped, and how much good her little girls did. When Ichi died at Hope, and Ni went off the deep end... San just left. Said she couldn't fight Ni and Ichi. Told me that she'd find a way to get us all back together again... And to not kill either of them until she found it. I promised her but... I haven't seen her since, y'know? I've been trying so hard to convince the both of them to come back to me. To come help me find San so we can just go home... We were like four points on a compass. Nothing could beat us. And now... I just don't know any more."
You stare through your own empty bottle at the funeral. Letting their words wash over you as the soldier below pay their respects. "Dad was in the Counter Force. Engineer for the Seventeenth. Would have been infantry but took a bad blow to his back in college football. He died when the D9-7 sector was overrun. Mom never really recovered from his death, and started taking her grief out on me and sis. Sega tried to protect me from it as much as she could but... she wasn't always there, y'know? I always dreamed that she was out helping people, but it's silly. After she turned seventeen she got a job and moved out, then fought mom in a legal battle for custody over me. After she won, mom killed herself. Moved to another city, but... you all know what happened to it. I survived by dumb luck... straight from the beginning. I would have died when that thing launched my roof across town if it wasn't for the bully tripping me. Made it to the street because it was busy eating my school. Survived long enough to activate my magic because a local magical girl tried standing up to it. Survived long enough for Rei and the Counter Force to save me because it was probably laughing it's ass off from my attempt at shooting it."
You all watch as the funeral slowly comes to an end. You had heard that the Counter Force had taken elements from the old United States, Great Britain, and Russian military funerals. Your not sure how true that was, but you could easily identify bits and pieces of the old American Military influences thanks to old vids you had watched.
"What now?" Your voice cracks. Tears blur your vision but you refuse to wipe them away. "I'm barely strong enough to go up against their Rank and File. Rei can't be there forever... and... I'm so lost. How can we win this?"
Your not sure if it's telling how none of them answer you.
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
The survivors from your now ruined base are loaded up and moved to a new location. A hastily set up firebase recently christened 'Defense Base Momo' is little more then a handful of pre-fab structures at the moment, and wasn't expected to actually be up and running fully for several weeks. It was to be your new home for the foreseeable future.
A small part of your mind notes that you had never actually learned the name of your last base.
Several minutes after arrival you and what is left of Team GEAR is with Rei as you all report to the acting commander to find out exactly what the last attack was supposed to do. And it's not a pretty picture.
"The attack on New York and the second attack that Goddess Gold intercepted have turned out to be part distraction, and part of a greater scheme. After plotting the two locations on a map we were able to find out that they were using our responses to the two attacks to pinpoint the location of our North-East American base. They then sent Goddess Grey to take it out while our forces were otherwise indisposed in order to hamper our defenses. We have reason to believe that more attacks are incoming across the region. And until this base is fully operational there's shit we can do about it. So be prepared to mobilize at even the hint of a dropping hat. We won't catch everything, but we hope to minimize damage until we can start interception duties again. Understood?"
"Yes Ma'am." You're nervous as hell about going into another fight like New York but you knew it would be inevitable. Funnily enough Rei is the only one in the room that doesn't respond to her. Considering the lack of reaction, this is probably normal.
"Good. Get settled in and keep your guns close. Dismissed."
The room is hastily cleared, and you shuffle out of the tent right behind James. Once out you take a quick look around you and nod to GEAR. A wave from Samael, and they're off to find your new barracks. Rei is already gone, but Carnage gives you a hug before wondering off towards the makeshift airfield to stay near her Dragon.
The sun is sinking slowly. Your fifth day as a magical girl is almost over.
[]Now might be a good time to learn some more about how the War is going.
[]Sam, Mike, and James are only Human. It's time to look into something to help them survive the coming battles.
[]Now is not the time to rest. You need to train.
[]Go to bed early. You need sleep.
+30xp Revealed your painful past
+10xp Mourned the Lost
+40 Total EXP Gained: 47 EXP Total
(Character Sheet Unlocked! James Robert (Max)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Samael Balier (Max)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Michael Rodriguez (Max)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Goddess White (Level 1)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Goddess Red (Level 1))
"Nepgear? What you doing over here kid? Shouldn't you be getting ready for the-"
"I'm not going." Your silent proclamation is broken with grief. The both of them are surprised until you lift up a soot-covered object in your hand. "I... found this under Richard's bunk. So I thought... instead of going to the funeral and listening to the meaningless platitudes for the fallen..." You don't need to finish. And it's obvious that you need not explain as the two of them stand up.
"Any one else invited?"
You smile.
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
Rei Mitsubishi is slumped in the half-melted remains of her once-gaudy throne. Her head is propped up by a hand, her eyes dull. Mind lost to wondering thoughts of which you know not. And, again, you find that you don't care.
This time, instead of waiting for her to notice you, you simply walk up and grab her wrist. Startled from her reverie Rei doesn't resist as you pull her to her feet and drag her after you.
And that is how what remained of Team GEAR and the Goddess Four found themselves a short distance above where they were holding the funeral for the fallen. Perched on a hill, you lean against Rei as the five of you lounge in the grass, a soft breeze stirring the air. None of you have spoken since the procession below you started.
James is the first. "Me and Jess grew up in Kansas. Lived in a small town near some farm but not much else. Most interesting thing there was this huge well. Tended to act as a pit stop for travelers going through. After the Unification Crusade dissolved the world's countries me and Jess got into Highschool. Turned seventeen when the first Demons attacked openly and the Akashic Pillar joined the Unified Light. Graduation day, my town was attacked by some Dark Lord looking to make a quick name for himself before the Second Fall. Jess was at her boyfriend's place when it happened. He and his family got through it fine, but Jess had to kill a demon with a spoon. We both joined up not long after that."
"Joined because I was a glory hound." Michael is swirling what's left of his drink around in it's bottle. "Wanted to join up, kill some demons. Come back hailed as a hero. I was there at Reluxus and Gabriel's Last Stand. A single battalion of angels facing down a horde of demons dense enough to hide the ground beneath their feet. A literal ocean of hellfire and brimstone charging the Gate. I was the last one through actually: I got to watch as a paltry hundred angels stood alone against damn near the entire Fifth Legion. Instead of accepting the discharge after that battle I fought tooth and nail to stay in the Counter Force. Been on mostly shit duties but... It frees up actual soldiers to fight instead of wanna-be washouts like me."
Samael isn't even watching the funeral with the rest of you as he speaks, instead contemplating the sky above you. "Discovered I was a practitioner when a girl at school started making love potions and selling them for cheep. Got the genius idea to buy one and try using it on a teacher that I had a crush on at the time. Brilliant way to find out she was actually a doppelganger hunting for Magical Girls hiding among the student populous. My magic woke up and burned the entire school down to the ground. Started checking out magic books from the library shortly there after, and not much longer before I found my self signing up with the Counter Force to fight the good fight. Got a little awkward when I also found out my girlfriend - the one selling the love potions in the first place - was actually a succubus. We've been thinking of marrying after my time's up."
Rei has already finished her drink, having already tossed her own bottle aside, and is now running her fingers through your hair. "Me and my sisters got it into our heads early on in the war to beat the Unified Darkness. Promised each other we'd be heroes worthy of legends being written about us. That when we were added to the history books we'd all return home to mom's grave and tell her of all the adventures we had. Of all the people we helped, and how much good her little girls did. When Ichi died at Hope, and Ni went off the deep end... San just left. Said she couldn't fight Ni and Ichi. Told me that she'd find a way to get us all back together again... And to not kill either of them until she found it. I promised her but... I haven't seen her since, y'know? I've been trying so hard to convince the both of them to come back to me. To come help me find San so we can just go home... We were like four points on a compass. Nothing could beat us. And now... I just don't know any more."
You stare through your own empty bottle at the funeral. Letting their words wash over you as the soldier below pay their respects. "Dad was in the Counter Force. Engineer for the Seventeenth. Would have been infantry but took a bad blow to his back in college football. He died when the D9-7 sector was overrun. Mom never really recovered from his death, and started taking her grief out on me and sis. Sega tried to protect me from it as much as she could but... she wasn't always there, y'know? I always dreamed that she was out helping people, but it's silly. After she turned seventeen she got a job and moved out, then fought mom in a legal battle for custody over me. After she won, mom killed herself. Moved to another city, but... you all know what happened to it. I survived by dumb luck... straight from the beginning. I would have died when that thing launched my roof across town if it wasn't for the bully tripping me. Made it to the street because it was busy eating my school. Survived long enough to activate my magic because a local magical girl tried standing up to it. Survived long enough for Rei and the Counter Force to save me because it was probably laughing it's ass off from my attempt at shooting it."
You all watch as the funeral slowly comes to an end. You had heard that the Counter Force had taken elements from the old United States, Great Britain, and Russian military funerals. Your not sure how true that was, but you could easily identify bits and pieces of the old American Military influences thanks to old vids you had watched.
"What now?" Your voice cracks. Tears blur your vision but you refuse to wipe them away. "I'm barely strong enough to go up against their Rank and File. Rei can't be there forever... and... I'm so lost. How can we win this?"
Your not sure if it's telling how none of them answer you.
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
The survivors from your now ruined base are loaded up and moved to a new location. A hastily set up firebase recently christened 'Defense Base Momo' is little more then a handful of pre-fab structures at the moment, and wasn't expected to actually be up and running fully for several weeks. It was to be your new home for the foreseeable future.
A small part of your mind notes that you had never actually learned the name of your last base.
Several minutes after arrival you and what is left of Team GEAR is with Rei as you all report to the acting commander to find out exactly what the last attack was supposed to do. And it's not a pretty picture.
"The attack on New York and the second attack that Goddess Gold intercepted have turned out to be part distraction, and part of a greater scheme. After plotting the two locations on a map we were able to find out that they were using our responses to the two attacks to pinpoint the location of our North-East American base. They then sent Goddess Grey to take it out while our forces were otherwise indisposed in order to hamper our defenses. We have reason to believe that more attacks are incoming across the region. And until this base is fully operational there's shit we can do about it. So be prepared to mobilize at even the hint of a dropping hat. We won't catch everything, but we hope to minimize damage until we can start interception duties again. Understood?"
"Yes Ma'am." You're nervous as hell about going into another fight like New York but you knew it would be inevitable. Funnily enough Rei is the only one in the room that doesn't respond to her. Considering the lack of reaction, this is probably normal.
"Good. Get settled in and keep your guns close. Dismissed."
The room is hastily cleared, and you shuffle out of the tent right behind James. Once out you take a quick look around you and nod to GEAR. A wave from Samael, and they're off to find your new barracks. Rei is already gone, but Carnage gives you a hug before wondering off towards the makeshift airfield to stay near her Dragon.
The sun is sinking slowly. Your fifth day as a magical girl is almost over.
[]Now might be a good time to learn some more about how the War is going.
[]Sam, Mike, and James are only Human. It's time to look into something to help them survive the coming battles.
[]Now is not the time to rest. You need to train.
[]Go to bed early. You need sleep.
+30xp Revealed your painful past
+10xp Mourned the Lost
+40 Total EXP Gained: 47 EXP Total
(Character Sheet Unlocked! James Robert (Max)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Samael Balier (Max)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Michael Rodriguez (Max)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Goddess White (Level 1)
Character Sheet Unlocked! Goddess Red (Level 1))
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Crystalwatcher
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Shortest update yet. I hope this doesn't start a trend.