To make people actually remember, here's it once for posterity: Minako is nonbinary and uses they/them. This message will be pinned so you people stop getting it wrong and pissing me off. If you get it wrong in the future I'm going to be much less nice, considering you have to scroll past it just to read the quest.
I expect to hear something like "You, evil adult megucas of Mitakihara, hoard the Mega-Seed for yourselves, while we, poor megucas of Kasamino, barely scrape together enough Seeds to stay alive!"
Ah yes, the hoarding of the seed that is literally right there in public view, that is being oh so selfishly hoarded by the 50 odd megucas in the city.
The seed that you can literally walk up to and tap to use. That hoarded seed.
[Q] Pull out a pampleth and invite her to the next guided meguca tour around the city, where she can meet all fifty-something meguca who wandered in one day wanting to benefit from the Walpurgiseed.
-[Q] And before she can call bullshit, there will be free ice cream.
Devil's Advocate: Magi can be plural, grammatically. It's possible nobody sent her specifically and she just thinks she's hot shit enough to take on both of em. Kids are stupid sometimes.
Yeah but 'The' usually isn't plural. If she'd said 'You're one of the adult magi?' or something similar I'd be inclined to consider your reasoning but everything she said points to a singular rather than plural unless she talks like the absolute worst sort of hick.
Yeah but 'The' usually isn't plural. If she'd said 'You're one of the adult magi?' or something similar I'd be inclined to consider your reasoning but everything she said points to a singular rather than plural unless she talks like the absolute worst sort of hick.
[X] Tie her up with your chains and watch out for her powers just in case she's got a trick or two up her sleeve. Immobilize her so that you can chat like civilized Meguca.
-[X] Talk to her, just talk to her, why did she come to fight 'The Adult Magi' anyways? Who told her about you and what did they tell her you did that makes you worth a stupid suicide run?
So two thoughts
1. We'l want to give the other adult magi in town (Akane the 20+ year olds, the ducklings if they come visit) a heads up because it looks like these girls do not have the best targetting information and are ready to be very stupid teenagers.
2. So how many times will we have to wrap up a stupid teenager in chains to upgrade to a 2 or even 3 dice + roll? Because I am feeling very confident that that will happen.
[X] Tie her up with your chains and watch out for her powers just in case she's got a trick or two up her sleeve. Immobilize her so that you can chat like civilized Meguca. -[X] Talk. Let her know she got sent into a suicide run. Ask if she needs help.
Yeah you could squash her like a bug if you wanted to. You could impale her through the chest, twist your blade, slice off her head, any number of things. But you're halfway through your thirties. She looks like she's not even eighteen yet. You twirl your spear over your head with a single hand.
The first thing you send out is an image. The girl swings her poleaxe awkwardly, a wide, careless swing towards the face of your illusion. You follow it with a lunging spear thrust past her weapon. The girl's eyes widen in shock before she comes back with a follow-up swing. The attack is clumsy; her weapon is massive and the head seems incredibly heavy.
You give her a few quick pokes to the chest, one hand at the very back of your weapon, the other on the shaft. She blocks each poke with a swing before she deflecting you downwards, right into the railing.
Your spear plunges into the catwalk, but instead of yanking it out, you instead push it further in. The spear's wings slice through the edge of the catwalk, and the entire structure shudders under the sudden new weakness. The girl loses her balance, and you pull your spear out of the catwalk and whip it to the side.
She holds onto the side railing instinctively. You don't bother. The catwalk begins to dip further and further as you swing your whip-spear around. The girl deflects each blow, but she's clearly getting tired just from your opening salvo.
So of course that's when you bring out the big guns. "Rosso Fantasma."
Arms emerge from behind you as you're surrounded by a burst of red. Your arms circle around your head, each one rotating around your body before you twirl them. Red flames shimmer around you and point in all directions; towards the sky, towards the earth, over your head, and above your rock-solid abs. You know they're rock-solid because you worked hard for that.
The girl stumbles backwards as your hands flex and twist around your body. She pulls her poleaxe behind her...but then one of your many arms catches her blade. She freezes in shock before you twist your spear over your head. She tries to impale you before you plunge it into the ground. You circle the spear over your head, each segment of the chains stuck in your hands.
You pull. Each of your arms goes straight. Each segment breaks off, the chain shatters apart, before they all burst into their own individual spears. The girl in front of you tries to attack, but each time you just keep on deflecting blows and blows and blows.
Finally, you're done playing with your food. You throw several of your spears at her feet. She glances behind her before you grab the end of one spear. You pull the chain across the ground. One hook yanks into the girl's ankle, before the chain twists around her leg and around her body. She falls over with a yelp. There's a soft sputter (probably her attempt at using magic) as she wriggles and tries to escape.
You instead kick her over the edge of the catwalk. She screams in shock as the chain goes taut and she starts swinging just above the concrete floor.
You casually walk over the edge. The catwalk's probably going to fall apart soon, and you're gonna just break it afterwards; you'd rather someone have to repair it rather than someone walk over a structurally compromised catwalk.
You step in front of the dangling girl, cracking your neck and flexing your hands. "You know, I ain't the only adult Magi."
She struggles against the chain. "Y-you said you had your w-wife?!"
"Hah." You step in front of her. "Well, yeah." You push her forehead and she struggles against it. "Look. You were suckered. This isn't a real fight and it's not one you can win. You were sent in for a suicide mission. Or they wanted some intel and didn't care if it got you hurt." You sigh. "Are you being extorted?"
"W-what?" She struggles. "N-no I'm n-!"
"There's nothing weak about admitting that you need help." You stand in front of her. "Do you have family in Kasamino?"
She stops struggling. She looks at you for a second, chain rattling, body stuck in place. She looks away.
That's a no. "No family, nobody to miss you when you're gone. They thought that you're expendable." You lean over. "That's how I was."
She doesn't say anything.
You continue. "Look, kid. I don't want to hurt you. There's enough death and destruction with the systems at play here. But I can't help you if you're not willing to be helped."
She wriggles against the chains for a bit. She squeezes her eyes shut. "I-I don't want to be lectured by a fucking dy-"
You cut her off. "Let's put it this way: if you go back and they were truly expecting you to kill me or my wife or any of the numerous adult magi in town, then they're either going to shatter your gem or..." A quick look at her. She's older, she probably knows. "...witch you out."
She doesn't react. She knew.
"There are very few outs for you at this moment. But one of the safest that you can take is if you calm down and let me help you. I may even be able to find you a place to stay. Either with me or one of my friends." You dissolve just enough chains for her to let her arm out. "So, what do you say?"
She stares at your hand, then at you. Her fingers flex and her jaw is set but every so often she looks past you towards Kasamino in the distance. Her jaw flexes again...before she raises her hand to yours.
"Good choice." You shake her hand. You snap your fingers. The chains dissolve into a puff of dust and smoke, but there's still one more just hanging off the catwalk over your head. "Do you have a place to stay?"
"I can handle just sleeping on the streets." She rolls her arms. "It's fine."
You've done that yourself. She could probably handle some of it, honestly. Probably do her a little bit of good, and you don't want someone that you just fought to be in the same apartment as your kid.
You also don't think Sayaka would like that very much.
[] Find her a place to stay. (Write-in where)
[] Just go home and trust that she can find a place to sleep.
Adhoc vote count started by TheOneMoiderah on May 18, 2019 at 3:59 PM, finished with 99 posts and 25 votes.
[x] Find her a place to stay. (Write-in where) -[x] Contact Tomo, Yoko or Sukuyo. Maybe they could give you hand.
[X] Tie her up with your chains and watch out for her powers just in case she's got a trick or two up her sleeve. Immobilize her so that you can chat like civilized Meguca. -[X] Talk to her, just talk to her, why did she come to fight 'The Adult Magi' anyways? Who told her about you and what did they tell her you did that makes you worth a stupid suicide run?
[X] Tie her up with your chains and watch out for her powers just in case she's got a trick or two up her sleeve. Immobilize her so that you can chat like civilized Meguca.
-[X] Talk. Let her know she got sent into a suicide run. Ask if she needs help.
[x] Okay, now you have to get her talking. Be a cheeky motherfucker, get your taunt game going and rile her up so much she'll have to drop something useful.
-[x] When it becomes clear you aren't getting more, restrain her with your chains.
[X] Severely injure her. (1 Difficulty; the intent is to scare her off permanently. It's not great but it'll be better than killing her, and it leaves a chilling effect on Kasamino)
[x] Warn Sayaka that theres another new girl in town. [x] Find her a place to stay. (Write-in where) -[x] Teach her the old hotel rooms tricks if she doesn't know them already.
[x] Warn Sayaka that theres another new girl in town. [x] Find her a place to stay. (Write-in where) -[x] Teach her the old hotel rooms tricks if she doesn't know them already.
She does the arm thing in Rebellion. Technically it's abusing her clones for it, or something? But it's a very impressive dance, and it seems like she's turned that up into a much more intimidating power move here.
I wonder if Homura's place is still empty? It'd be just like her to keep a bolthole, just in case. I'm sure she wouldn't mind if we borrowed it, right? :3
[x] Find her a place to stay. (Write-in where)
-[x] Teach her the old hotel rooms tricks if she doesn't know them already.
Alternatively @TheOneMoiderah would there be any contacts Kyouko might be able to call upon to get a girl a place to stay? I can't imagine stranded or wandering Meguca are so uncommon that we don't have a few just-in-case setups somewhere...
She does the arm thing in Rebellion. Technically it's abusing her clones for it, or something? But it's a very impressive dance, and it seems like she's turned that up into a much more intimidating power move here.
As expected, Kyouko's now even more of badass. And the dice apparently no longer hate her, too!
Hmm... I wonder who's strongest overall out of the adult meguca? They're obviously all hideously broken and powerful in their own way, but I'm curious as to who's the most unfairly overpowered.
You guys do know that, as an adult whose wife at least has a job, if all else fails Kyoko could just
rent a hotel room
instead of breaking into one
Like, if we do go the hotel route that's probably an option? At least for a bit.
Might be a good idea to stick her with or near another magical girl, though. Y'know, just in case whoever sent her or someone with a grudge over the (hopefully only near-)murder of a local puella rolls around.
[X] Find her a place to stay. (Write-in where)
-[X] Contact Tomo, Yoko or Sukuyo. Maybe they could give you hand.
Might be a good idea to stick her with or near another magical girl, though. Y'know, just in case whoever sent her or someone with a grudge over the (hopefully only near-)murder of a local puella rolls around.
