FORMLESS GEAR
Crystalwatcher
(Verified GM)
- Location
- Limbo
You nod to your self. The thought of loosing any more of your team was something you didn't want to contemplate. As it was, it was only a matter of time before you got strong enough that the stronger forces from the Unified Darkness came gunning for you. And with their standard issue equipment Team GEAR was horribly outclassed. And if nothing changed, they would die.
And you weren't going to stand for that.
But the problem was: how exactly were you going to pull that off? You frown in thought for a moment, crossing your arms and squinting. It was actually a really good question.
The Titanium Plate Armor was standard issue for all Human soldiers for the simple fact that it was the strongest and cheapest protection that the Akashic Pillar could produce. It was leagues ahead of any other faction in terms of durability that didn't somehow involve magic. And thanks to the Elvin Empire giving mining rights to the Pillar resources weren't actually all that scarce. Some Human practitioners could enchant their standard issue armor, but that was on their own budget. There were also a few Magical Girls that could drastically enhance and empower their own teammates, but you didn't have anything like that. Yet or otherwise.
At the moment, Team GEAR had the best standard issue equipment they could get without Samael finding some way to enchant it all with his own magic. Or you for that matter.... Wait.
Standard Issue. Standard.
"There's an idea..."
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
Ten minutes of being lost and confused as you attempted to navigate the mess of tents and mud roads that was Firebase Momo found you at the longest tents of the camp. Apparently, this was where the researchers were piecing together their own setups. Like that affinity chamber thing from a few days ago.
It was also were they stored all their research: magic, demonic, nightmarish, and so on.
You were here for a very specific thing though: Weapon Research. The war between the Unified Darkness and the Unified Light had been going on throughout the Local Dimensional Cluster for nearly eight thousand years. Originally started by the Fairy Home Realms and Dark Star over the Fairies wanting all races to live in harmony and peace, and Dark Star wanting the strong to rule the weak with lots of blood and chaos mixed in. This inevitably led to the two polities declaring war on each other and starting the whole thing off.
Hell heard that shit was going down, and after a bit of poking into the sudden conflict, had joined in on the orgy of destruction with gusto on the side of Dark Star, the idea of ruling everything else just because they had a bigger stick appealing to the rulership at the time. Heaven, being well... Heaven, had leapt in on the side of the Fairies in order to try and keep their nemesis in check. Everything spiraled out of control though when the largest faction at the time joined in on the mess: the Elvin Empire.
With the Elf Legions sweeping onto the battlefield in hilarious numbers the Unified Light had damn near steamrolled the Unified Darkness. Individual Elves were rather weak, their magic subpar, and technology was nothing compared to Heaven, but they fielded armies in the hundreds of thousands. A tide of steel and flesh, an Elven invasion was compared to tidal waves.
But with the seeming inevitable defeat of the Unified Darkness, Hell was contacted by a previously unknown group: the Children of Nightmare. No one's sure what exactly they want but they had joined the Unified Darkness, and fielded... things, that had almost collectively crushed the Unified Light's advance.
The tide's sudden change had almost spelled the end of the Unified Light up until a Demon commander had fucked up.
He got the genius idea to invade Earth that had only recently discovered that yes, magic is a thing, and colonized an unclaimed dimension. The event was known as the Second Fall of Rome to Earth. To the rest of the LDC it was known as the Moment of Fury.
A single battle, and deployment of a single weapon had erased a Demonic Fortress, and an entire Legion from existence. A smoking radioactive crater was all that was left of the Seventh Duke's holdings. So, with the Akashic Pillar's entry into the War the whole thing ground to a stalemate. The Unified Light didn't have the forces to push back the Unified Darkness, but if the Darkness tried to force their way past Earth they'd more than likely leave themselves open to another Nuke up their asses.
The Pillar's scientists were working to find a way to break the stalemate. This lead to research into everything from super-soldiers, to powered armor.
The Super Soldier track had yet to give anything adequate as far as you knew. But then again... your clearance level wasn't all that high. What you were positive about though was that the powered armor track had been giving results. The problem was finding a workable mass-production design that could be handed out. So, Scientist teams would mock up different design with the potential to be mass-produced, and allow a few groups of soldiers to take some prototypes and test them out to see their effectiveness.
So... since you wanted to ensure Michael, Samael, and James' survival... why not see if any of the local research teams had any open slots for power armor testing? Which is why you were now standing right inside one of the extra-long tents and staring in confusion as one of the scientists ranted at you for 'interrupting her delicate research with your childish whimsies and why are you here children shouldn't be on military bases or in highly classified locations they could break something and why are you standing there staring get out outoutoutoutout".
You're are nearly catatonic from confusion as the scientists you had been hoping of asking questions of all but physically tossed you out of the tent. As it was, you had a hand half-raised in defense and were flat on your back staring at the sky a you tried to process what just happened. Sadly, you find yourself failing at that.
"Sorry about that. Liz doesn't like anyone trying to interrupt her when she's on a roll." You blink as a new face intrudes into your vision of the sky. "My name is Alexandra. You can call me Alex for short: I was one of the techs that helped you during your Affinity Testing."
"You survived?" For some reason that's the only thought that actually makes it through the mess of your thoughts. "I thought everyone had died." You unconsciously flinch at that. The feel of Jessica in your arms as she died suddenly there at the small reminder.
It was going to take a while.
Alex smiles softly at you, and reaches down a helping hand. You grip it and she pulls you to your feet, "I was lucky. Me and my team were looking over the Affinity testing room when Goddess Grey attacked. Room got wrecked, but we survived. I heard that Carnage and one of your teammates managed to hold her off long enough to cause her to retreat."
You grin wirily and scratch at the back of your head, "Yeah... It was really impressive. I only showed up at the end of the fight."
"I'll need to get the full story from you at some point. But I'm sure talking about the fight isn't what your here for. What can the science division help you with, Solid Core?"
Thankful for the change in topic, you take a deep breath to brace yourself incase of another rant. "I want to see about signing my team up for power armor testing."
The smile slips from Alex's face at your sentence. "You do realize only certain soldiers are allowed to sign up for powered armor testing? We can't just hand them out willy-nilly you know?"
"I know." You bow your head. "It's just... I almost lost my entire team last night. So... If I can, I want to find a way to make sure they can survive. Ya'know? So I'm here to find out if any of you have any slots open, I don't want to loose anyone else."
The scientist looks at you for a long moment. You know not what goes through her mind, but a part of you knows that this was a very important moment. Something that had to happen.
"Alright. I'll take a look into it and let you know what comes up. Swing around here next week, I'll tell you what I find out."
Your smile is brilliant, "Thank you."
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
After you finish with Doctor Alexandra, you leave to find your team. Which you succeed at.
What you hadn't expected though was that Rei had decided to commandeer you and your team and have them bunk in her tent. When you tried asking she said, "Large tents get lonely." Which kind of made sense when she led you to a very large tent, where Mike, Sam, and James were setting up their own areas near the entrance, and Rei drug you over to a very large four poster bed and declared you her teddy bear.
You would have objected but you found having her curling up against you with a near-lethal grip a good counter argument.
It took you a while to go to sleep after that.
It is not Jessica's alarm clock that awakes you in the morning. Instead it is the sound of Rei humming a sweet tune.
You are struck by grief and comfort in equal measures.
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
After you get dressed, you catch up with James just outside Rei's tent as the older magical girl wonders off... somewhere.
You decide not to ask as you get James' attention, "So. What for today?"
The older soldier shrugs at you. "Nothing really. What little training was left for you was nothing more than basic tactics, and you've already shown a decent grasp of those yourself as you are. Not all magical girls are so lucky. Your time will be more or less free so long as your ready to move out in case something comes up. I'll probably be looking for something to do myself. Might visit the memorial later today, but I don't have any real plans. Mike went to the cafeteria already, he's planning on looking into what magical girls are getting moved into the area to help out since Carnage and Truth are down for medical. Sam's looking into magical research. Got any plans?"
You shrug, considering you had thought that today was going to be filled with another round of training, you hadn't made any plans. "Nope. But I'll think of something. I'll see you later James."
"C'ya kid." And with that he walks off. You turn away and gaze across the already bustling firebase.
All this time and nothing to do with it.
-pick three-
[]Check to see how the war is going.
[]Mike has the right idea: time to see who's in the area.
[]Visit Carnage. You know she's still on base, but your worried about her arm.
[]Sam's doing magic research? Maybe you should check into it yourself.
[]Bug Rei. You want to know more about the other Goddesses.
[]Training time. Now's as good a time as any to work out some of the kinks in your fighting style.
+5xp Firebase Momo acquired~
+5xp 'Moved' in with Rei.
+10xp Possible Battle suits in the Future
20 Total EXP Gained = 67 EXP Total
(Progenitor Frame Upgraded: Progenitor Golems Acquired)
And you weren't going to stand for that.
But the problem was: how exactly were you going to pull that off? You frown in thought for a moment, crossing your arms and squinting. It was actually a really good question.
The Titanium Plate Armor was standard issue for all Human soldiers for the simple fact that it was the strongest and cheapest protection that the Akashic Pillar could produce. It was leagues ahead of any other faction in terms of durability that didn't somehow involve magic. And thanks to the Elvin Empire giving mining rights to the Pillar resources weren't actually all that scarce. Some Human practitioners could enchant their standard issue armor, but that was on their own budget. There were also a few Magical Girls that could drastically enhance and empower their own teammates, but you didn't have anything like that. Yet or otherwise.
At the moment, Team GEAR had the best standard issue equipment they could get without Samael finding some way to enchant it all with his own magic. Or you for that matter.... Wait.
Standard Issue. Standard.
"There's an idea..."
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
Ten minutes of being lost and confused as you attempted to navigate the mess of tents and mud roads that was Firebase Momo found you at the longest tents of the camp. Apparently, this was where the researchers were piecing together their own setups. Like that affinity chamber thing from a few days ago.
It was also were they stored all their research: magic, demonic, nightmarish, and so on.
You were here for a very specific thing though: Weapon Research. The war between the Unified Darkness and the Unified Light had been going on throughout the Local Dimensional Cluster for nearly eight thousand years. Originally started by the Fairy Home Realms and Dark Star over the Fairies wanting all races to live in harmony and peace, and Dark Star wanting the strong to rule the weak with lots of blood and chaos mixed in. This inevitably led to the two polities declaring war on each other and starting the whole thing off.
Hell heard that shit was going down, and after a bit of poking into the sudden conflict, had joined in on the orgy of destruction with gusto on the side of Dark Star, the idea of ruling everything else just because they had a bigger stick appealing to the rulership at the time. Heaven, being well... Heaven, had leapt in on the side of the Fairies in order to try and keep their nemesis in check. Everything spiraled out of control though when the largest faction at the time joined in on the mess: the Elvin Empire.
With the Elf Legions sweeping onto the battlefield in hilarious numbers the Unified Light had damn near steamrolled the Unified Darkness. Individual Elves were rather weak, their magic subpar, and technology was nothing compared to Heaven, but they fielded armies in the hundreds of thousands. A tide of steel and flesh, an Elven invasion was compared to tidal waves.
But with the seeming inevitable defeat of the Unified Darkness, Hell was contacted by a previously unknown group: the Children of Nightmare. No one's sure what exactly they want but they had joined the Unified Darkness, and fielded... things, that had almost collectively crushed the Unified Light's advance.
The tide's sudden change had almost spelled the end of the Unified Light up until a Demon commander had fucked up.
He got the genius idea to invade Earth that had only recently discovered that yes, magic is a thing, and colonized an unclaimed dimension. The event was known as the Second Fall of Rome to Earth. To the rest of the LDC it was known as the Moment of Fury.
A single battle, and deployment of a single weapon had erased a Demonic Fortress, and an entire Legion from existence. A smoking radioactive crater was all that was left of the Seventh Duke's holdings. So, with the Akashic Pillar's entry into the War the whole thing ground to a stalemate. The Unified Light didn't have the forces to push back the Unified Darkness, but if the Darkness tried to force their way past Earth they'd more than likely leave themselves open to another Nuke up their asses.
The Pillar's scientists were working to find a way to break the stalemate. This lead to research into everything from super-soldiers, to powered armor.
The Super Soldier track had yet to give anything adequate as far as you knew. But then again... your clearance level wasn't all that high. What you were positive about though was that the powered armor track had been giving results. The problem was finding a workable mass-production design that could be handed out. So, Scientist teams would mock up different design with the potential to be mass-produced, and allow a few groups of soldiers to take some prototypes and test them out to see their effectiveness.
So... since you wanted to ensure Michael, Samael, and James' survival... why not see if any of the local research teams had any open slots for power armor testing? Which is why you were now standing right inside one of the extra-long tents and staring in confusion as one of the scientists ranted at you for 'interrupting her delicate research with your childish whimsies and why are you here children shouldn't be on military bases or in highly classified locations they could break something and why are you standing there staring get out outoutoutoutout".
You're are nearly catatonic from confusion as the scientists you had been hoping of asking questions of all but physically tossed you out of the tent. As it was, you had a hand half-raised in defense and were flat on your back staring at the sky a you tried to process what just happened. Sadly, you find yourself failing at that.
"Sorry about that. Liz doesn't like anyone trying to interrupt her when she's on a roll." You blink as a new face intrudes into your vision of the sky. "My name is Alexandra. You can call me Alex for short: I was one of the techs that helped you during your Affinity Testing."
"You survived?" For some reason that's the only thought that actually makes it through the mess of your thoughts. "I thought everyone had died." You unconsciously flinch at that. The feel of Jessica in your arms as she died suddenly there at the small reminder.
It was going to take a while.
Alex smiles softly at you, and reaches down a helping hand. You grip it and she pulls you to your feet, "I was lucky. Me and my team were looking over the Affinity testing room when Goddess Grey attacked. Room got wrecked, but we survived. I heard that Carnage and one of your teammates managed to hold her off long enough to cause her to retreat."
You grin wirily and scratch at the back of your head, "Yeah... It was really impressive. I only showed up at the end of the fight."
"I'll need to get the full story from you at some point. But I'm sure talking about the fight isn't what your here for. What can the science division help you with, Solid Core?"
Thankful for the change in topic, you take a deep breath to brace yourself incase of another rant. "I want to see about signing my team up for power armor testing."
The smile slips from Alex's face at your sentence. "You do realize only certain soldiers are allowed to sign up for powered armor testing? We can't just hand them out willy-nilly you know?"
"I know." You bow your head. "It's just... I almost lost my entire team last night. So... If I can, I want to find a way to make sure they can survive. Ya'know? So I'm here to find out if any of you have any slots open, I don't want to loose anyone else."
The scientist looks at you for a long moment. You know not what goes through her mind, but a part of you knows that this was a very important moment. Something that had to happen.
"Alright. I'll take a look into it and let you know what comes up. Swing around here next week, I'll tell you what I find out."
Your smile is brilliant, "Thank you."
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
After you finish with Doctor Alexandra, you leave to find your team. Which you succeed at.
What you hadn't expected though was that Rei had decided to commandeer you and your team and have them bunk in her tent. When you tried asking she said, "Large tents get lonely." Which kind of made sense when she led you to a very large tent, where Mike, Sam, and James were setting up their own areas near the entrance, and Rei drug you over to a very large four poster bed and declared you her teddy bear.
You would have objected but you found having her curling up against you with a near-lethal grip a good counter argument.
It took you a while to go to sleep after that.
Images. Fire.
Screaming metal, and a rain of blood coming down around you.
You hold Jessica's mutilated corpse close to you as Richard rests a hand on your shoulder, ignoring the blades impaling his own corpse.
Screaming metal, and a rain of blood coming down around you.
You hold Jessica's mutilated corpse close to you as Richard rests a hand on your shoulder, ignoring the blades impaling his own corpse.
It is not Jessica's alarm clock that awakes you in the morning. Instead it is the sound of Rei humming a sweet tune.
You are struck by grief and comfort in equal measures.
-/LINE BREAK IDENTIFIED\-
After you get dressed, you catch up with James just outside Rei's tent as the older magical girl wonders off... somewhere.
You decide not to ask as you get James' attention, "So. What for today?"
The older soldier shrugs at you. "Nothing really. What little training was left for you was nothing more than basic tactics, and you've already shown a decent grasp of those yourself as you are. Not all magical girls are so lucky. Your time will be more or less free so long as your ready to move out in case something comes up. I'll probably be looking for something to do myself. Might visit the memorial later today, but I don't have any real plans. Mike went to the cafeteria already, he's planning on looking into what magical girls are getting moved into the area to help out since Carnage and Truth are down for medical. Sam's looking into magical research. Got any plans?"
You shrug, considering you had thought that today was going to be filled with another round of training, you hadn't made any plans. "Nope. But I'll think of something. I'll see you later James."
"C'ya kid." And with that he walks off. You turn away and gaze across the already bustling firebase.
All this time and nothing to do with it.
-pick three-
[]Check to see how the war is going.
[]Mike has the right idea: time to see who's in the area.
[]Visit Carnage. You know she's still on base, but your worried about her arm.
[]Sam's doing magic research? Maybe you should check into it yourself.
[]Bug Rei. You want to know more about the other Goddesses.
[]Training time. Now's as good a time as any to work out some of the kinks in your fighting style.
+5xp Firebase Momo acquired~
+5xp 'Moved' in with Rei.
+10xp Possible Battle suits in the Future
20 Total EXP Gained = 67 EXP Total
(Progenitor Frame Upgraded: Progenitor Golems Acquired)
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