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.
A thing that got very annoyed with us/Sayaka at times. Like those times we requested a time stop save and then that time she informed us how much those costed.
A thing that got very annoyed with us/Sayaka at times. Like those times we requested a time stop save and then that time she informed us how much those costed.
Hear me now;
Oh thou bleak and unbearable world,
Thou art base and debauched as can be;
And a knight with her banners all bravely unfurled,
Now hurls down her gauntlet to thee!
I am Miki Sayaka,
The Dame of this City,
Destroyer of Evil am I!
I will march to the sound of the trumpets of glory,
Forever to conquer or die!
Hear me, heathens and witches and serpents of sin!
All your dastardly doings are past,
For a holy endeavor is now to begin
And virtue shall triumph at last!
I am Miki Sayaka,
The Dame of this City,
A name near and far soon will know!
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow!
You push past the familiar, grabbing its face and walking right into one of the tunnels.
"What do you want to accomplish by diving into an unknown hole in the wall?" Takane looks over all the walls. "This doesn't seem like that great a plan."
"It's probably not buuuuuuuuut if there's something dangerous on the other end..." You tap your chest. Your soul gem shimmers with a bright red light, one that echoes down the tunnel and to an infinite blackness on the other end. It's far enough so that you can react to whatever could come towards you, but in a tunnel, there are very few places for you to go.
"Witches with tunnels like these act in weird ways. Namely, this one seems to go on forever. Probably reemerges way far up...?" You pull a brick out of the road, break off a tiny chunk of it, and throw.
The pebble flies through the air, bouncing across the roof of the tunnel and across the floor. The bumps keep echoing as it flies through before finally just stopping. "Huh. There's no echo."
As you say that, Takane looks up, and you hear a soft pat as she catches the pebble that you just threw. She looks towards you. "They emerge at random points further up the tower."
"Yeah, that's what I figured. The witch is probably close to the top." You start to enter the tunnel. "Wanna come with?"
"I can lead," she says. "I have more tactical options." She quickly reloads her gauntlets. "Incendiary."
"Nice." You motion for her to lead, and you both start to walk deeper into the labyrinth...
[=]
Your name is Miki Sayaka, and you have currently left your wife to sit on the bridge overlooking Kasamino Bay. You're sitting on a beam, high above the cars and trains below as you wait for an inevitable meeting. For some sign of a magi.
Either they're going to take a train (in an attempt to evade you), take a car (in an attempt to meet up while looking fancy), or approach by foot (if they want to immediately get into combat).
You, thankfully, have plans for all three. And as usual, you're going to try going for an actual meeting rather than anything immediately hostile, as much damage as this Glow or whatever has caused. You wait at the top of the girder, before finally, you see a single magi.
She's dressed in a jean jacket, a pair of slacks, and a generic, cutesy-looking t-shirt. Her hair is neon purple, and you can tell from the gleam on her finger that she's one of you. She waves at you, clearly cheerful, a broad smile on her face.
Her expression falls when she notices that you're not waving back. She quickly brings her smile back up. "Ah! Not the friendly type?"
"You've kind of exhausted our goodwill," you shout back. "I can tell you, trying to kill my wife, attempting to kill another one of our magi, and sending a hitperson after one of your own isn't exactly going to get you on our good side." You cross your arms. "So! Are you here to try tying up loose ends? Try to strike a deal?"
You take a step off the girder as she gets closer. Your legs bend as you hit the concrete with a thud, and a cloud of dust is thrown into the air. A car passes by, sending your hair into a tizzy as you look this magi dead in the eye.
"Or are you going to explain why the hell we found a walpurgis grief seed on the boardwalk today?"
Her expression freezes as she sees you standing before she grimaces hard. "Oh."
"Oh, did you think we weren't going to find that? That thing was embedded into the boardwalk, with its base about an inch into the support pillar." You walk towards her and, well, you're a grown woman. She is a teenager. She takes a step backwards. "What did you think was going to happen? That I was going to let you walk away? That I was going to let you walk all over us?"
"I thought we moved-"
"This was after I caught the two magi before you, three including your enforcer. I don't give a fuck what your justification is."
"I-I-"
"If I catch you, any of you, in our territory again, I will personally walk up to this 'Lady Rin' of yours, crack her soul gem in half, and shove it down her throat." You take a step forwards, careful to keep your balance as you loom over her. "Do you understand?"
"We-" She stares at you in mild terror, before she quickly glances back behind her. She motions for someone else to walk up.
And immediately, someone else does. It's another person, this one far, far taller and far, far more regal. Alongside the bag on her waist, she's wearing a black dress that's perhaps a bit much for the middle of an autumn day, with a purse and a black beret.
Her hair is brilliant silver with a single streak of perfect pitch black, and she doesn't so much walk as glide. Finally, she reaches behind the girl and motions for her to move out of the way.
"Hello, Ms. Miki-Sakura." She bows. "My name is Rin."
You cross your arms. She's taller than you are, and you're not sure if she's even standing on her actual feet; this woman is easily over six feet. "Bold of you to arrive yourself, considering what I just said. And I'm running low on patience," you narrow your eyes, "Lady Rin."
"Apologies. The grief seed was an...unintentional side-effect. Yes, there was some miscommunication among the lower rungs of my organization, but I assure you that the attempt on your wife's life was unintentional. We simply told Uriko to find an adult Magical Girl. And perhaps fight her, to get an idea of how powerful you were."
"Well, you found some." You raise your arms wide. "Congrats. I hope the information was worth potentially pissing off everyone in my town, Rin." You narrow your eyes.
"Lady Rin." The younger girl hisses, before Rin just raises a finger. The girl flinches, then takes a step backwards.
"It was. I've learned a great deal. Namely how great of a threat you are." She looks you up and down. "I've never seen one of us grow to your age. I did not even think it possible for us to reach past twenty-five, so I just felt it was pertinent to investigate." She sighs. "I will be punishing the enforcer who planted the seed dearly. She disobeyed our orders, and that demands retribution."
SAYAKA VOTE -
[] Attack her. Now. (DIFFICULTY 3. You have a really bad feeling about this...)
[] Ask how they will be punished. (DIFFICULTY 3. Lady Rin is very tight-lipped)
[] Leave without asking anything more. (DIFFICULTY 2. Sayaka is not comfortable with leaving this person alone to her devices).
[] Make demands (Difficulty Varies; write-in what you want to demand of Lady Rin)
[=]
You are Kyouko, and you've finally reached the other side of the tunnel after what felt like an eternity. Your soul gem's beam cuts through the darkness and out the other side before you feel gravity shift. At the end of the tunnel, you realize that it's pretty hard to keep yourself from slipping downwards.
The tunnel has turned upwards without you noticing. Takane punches a hole in the brick, while you take your spear, jam it into the wall, and use it keep yourself upright. "Okay, can you get up without burning my face off with a rocket?"
"Yeah." She looks down on you. "Help me up?"
"Sure, kid." You raise your left hand. She puts her foot on top of yours, bends her knee, and jumps. She rockets upwards before kicking off the wall and jumping right out the hole. You press your own foot against the wall and leap, first with a twirl, then with a twist. You snap your fingers and your spear splits into segments before flying right back into your hand.
The momentum of your leap and the spear in your hand pulls you out of the hole and onto a brick surface, where you see a monstrosity roaming the brick road.
It's twitchy, misshapen and malformed. The legs slip and slide across the ground, unable to hold a grip against the brick road. Every so often, a leg just falls into one of the holes and the entire creature tumbles before more legs burst from its torso and pull it upwards in a shower of metal.
You walk behind it, with Takane just staring in quiet horror. "Is...that's...that doesn't look normal."
"This walpurgis didn't integrate well." You take a step in front of her. "It's going to be volatile." Next to you, one of the familiars drifts towards the witch, as though it wants to ride its back. So you decide to grant its wish.
You grip your hand around its head and pull it off the body. The entire thing turns corporeal, revealing metal skeleton of red rubber and leaking oil as it lets out an unholy screech. The head in your hand gasps for a breath that will never come before you throw it right towards the monster.
It makes a dink as it bounces against the back of the witch's head, and it stops in its tracks.
It slooooowly turns. A human-like mouth with human-like teeth opens wide as drool drips from its jaw. The tongue in its mouth lolls over as its spine of mouths masticates and squeals. The metal cage on its face digs into the flesh, the glass impales the eyes, and a pair of ruined, human-like ears hang out of the sides.
It looks like a horse head that was crammed into a bus, with its legs removed and replaced with those of a spider. And every step it takes looks as though it's roiling in agony. That is, before it notices you. And before it notices the very, very dead familiar on the ground.
The mouth opens wide, jaw twitching with shock. It takes a step back, its abdomen of wires dragging across the ground. Then it howls.
KYOUKO VOTE-
[] Defend with Rosso Fantasma (DIFFICULTY 1 - You can easily block its attacks with a clever use of spears and clones, but it's no guarantee that you can keep Takane safe against this thing)
[] Dive into its mouth. (DIFFICULTY 2 - If you can impale it through the head, you could end this fight quickly. Fail, and, well, you meet teeth)
[] Try to force it off the walkway. (DIFFICULTY 2 - Also an easy way to end this fight quickly, but the witch is still healthy enough to resist)
[] Write-in an attack plan
Adhoc vote count started by TheOneMoiderah on Jun 4, 2019 at 11:10 PM, finished with 13 posts and 3 votes.
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back.
[X] Try to force it off the walkway. (DIFFICULTY 2 - Also an easy way to end this fight quickly, but the witch is still healthy enough to resist)
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back. -[X] The one who planted the seed will be turned over to you. Your territory and people were the ones they put at risk, you'll be the one to handle any punishment.
-[X] You also want the NB who tried to 'clean up' the mess they made by taking a shot at killing you and gonne girl handed over to you, assuming that they're not the person who dropped the seed off as well. You don't plan on killing them, in case that worries her, but they don't just get to walk off scot-free after attempted murder.
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back.
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back. -[X] The one who planted the seed will be turned over to you. Your territory and people were the ones they put at risk, you'll be the one to handle any punishment.
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back. -[X] The one who planted the seed will be turned over to you. Your territory and people were the ones they put at risk, you'll be the one to handle any punishment.
-[X] You also want the NB who tried to 'clean up' the mess they made by taking a shot at killing you and gonne girl handed over to you, assuming that they're not the person who dropped the seed off as well. You don't plan on killing them, in case that worries her, but they don't just get to walk off scot-free after attempted murder.
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back.
[X] Well, she's done her investigation. Most of it you would have been happy to share with her if she'd just asked, but that ship has sailed. She and her little gang are banned from Mitakihara. So far you've been nice to her pawns. If you catch any of them in your city without a damn good excuse, you'll stop holding back. -[X] The one who planted the seed will be turned over to you. Your territory and people were the ones they put at risk, you'll be the one to handle any punishment.
[X] Ask how they will be punished. (DIFFICULTY 3. Lady Rin is very tight-lipped)
I have a feeling Lady Rin might be the sort of enemy you want to cheat with. Have three on one odds, etc, etc. Making demands might be good, but considering how bad the odds are... maybe don't?
At the same time, my first guess is that this is the classic 'blame your underlings' thing.
No clue for the other vote, will vote on that later.
"It was. I've learned a great deal. Namely how great of a threat you are." She looks you up and down. "I've never seen one of us grow to your age. I did not even think it possible for us to reach past twenty-five, so I just felt it was pertinent to investigate." She sighs. "I will be punishing the enforcer who planted the seed dearly. She disobeyed our orders, and that demands retribution."
Honestly, I think emphasizing to 'Lady Rin' that we don't give a shit is important. Like, we're all grown-ups, sweetie! We have a job, a marriage, and a kid. This dumbass Lord of the Flies pseudo-feudalism bullshit is a waste of our damn time and energy, and quite frankly we couldn't care less about whatever she does so long as it's out of our city.
We also should emphasize how much we were containing ourselves in our battles and how easily we could have annihilated them without any consequence like crushing a fly, but we chose not to do it.
And that she should not try to make the absurd supervillain mistake of regarding mercy as weakness, we can afford to be merciful because we are strong.
"W-we were told to go after the adult magi." She says. "Th-they never said how many there were, but I don't think they knew. I think that's why they sent us." She sniffs. "They didn't need to convince Uriko b-but that Enforcer was...they were why I came in."
"Because you didn't...?"
"Because they didn't convince me." She sniffs. "I-I don't know how their leader does it but she...she does something to people. They don't come out the same."
"Magi are immune to mind control." You say. "It's intrinsically a part of how we operate."
"She didn't get the memo, then. Because she...I don't know why I was immune but Uriko was not." She stares at you. "She's...she's not under her influence, is she?"
"Yeah." She traces her finger on her cheek, along her own jaw, before she shoves a piece of pizza into her mouth. Uriko looks deep in thought, but the way she's eating that pizza says she was hungry. She swallows and continues. "I actually do have a name. It's the only thing I really remember."
but I assure you that the attempt on your wife's life was unintentional. We simply told Uriko to find an adult Magical Girl. And perhaps fight her, to get an idea of how powerful you were."
Well she's not likely outright lying yet given mind control - but well mind control. So either she thinks we killed Uriko and don't know the threat or is misleading to our faces
