Eldritch Avatar Quest - You are the Outside-Context Problem!
- Thread starter shibosho
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Danger sense makes that rather hard.
if the power of friendship exists then plot exists and plot will fuck up the abilities of characters, and make situations that any chance of common sense thrown out the window getting a stick and beating it to death,brings it back to life and punts it to a another universe that attacks everything that is the common sense.
nkd1325
KNIGHT OF ORANGE
- Location
- AT HIS MAJESTY'S SIDE
[X] Just let Maki decide for herself. It's her problem, not yours. You'll just deal if something bad happens.
I'd say its pretty definitive that we're not interfering. Also just got finished reading and I'm liking this so far. I just want to see us slowly corrupt this magical girl until we can hit the team with maximum betrayal.
I'd say its pretty definitive that we're not interfering. Also just got finished reading and I'm liking this so far. I just want to see us slowly corrupt this magical girl until we can hit the team with maximum betrayal.
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- Location
- .... earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I think that we should stop asking for info on the quest setting. This looks to be an interesting quest so far, great work!
Because Powers Fit The Person
You probably can't give explosion powers to someone whose temperament isn't itself explosive.
Terran Imperium
[French]
- Location
- Southern France
It's a common trope. That's like asking why the hot-head character is a red-head... Or to simplify it, Japanese stereotypes for personalities and other such things in anime.
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0.4 - Failure to See. A Desire for Energy.
shibosho
The Face of Procrastination
- Location
- The Land of Oz
[X] Just let Maki decide for herself. It's her problem, not yours. You'll just deal if something bad happens.
…
Caught off-guard and unprepared, Maki eventually relented to Barnaby giving her sword an examination. Though she didn't believe the sword to be cursed or anything of the likes, she couldn't refute Barnaby's logic. It was quite a common occurrence in movies and tv shows for someone to find an old object in a tomb and for that object to be cursed or evil.
"Thank you, Maki. Now then girls, please give me some space so that I can get to work," The plush toy requested, placing the sword in front of him in preparation for the examination.
Complying with the fairy's request, the Crystal Stars stepped back as Barnaby began to work his magic. Clapping his paws together, Barnaby closed his eyes and began to mumble something in another language. Points of light appeared around the lion before they began to move, drawing lines of glowing light on the ground. When they formed a large elaborate magic circle, the sword became covered in a soft bluish glow.
The girls watched Barnaby do his thing, unsure of what to make of this rather direct display of magic. Barnaby usually kept his magical talent lowkey, preferring subtlety to an overt display of magical prowess. This "scanning" spell was the most magical thing that they've seen the toy lion do. However, as time went on and the end of lunch approached, the girls were starting to get worried. Not helping was the growing expression of frustration on Barnaby's face.
Finally, just five minutes before the end of the lunch break, Barnaby released out a sigh of exasperation and clapped his paws, dismissing the minor light show, leaving no trace of the magic circle anywhere. Pointing to the sword, Barnaby raised his paw, lifting the sword up with his mind before presenting it to Maki.
"Here, take it. I'm done here." Maki didn't need to be told twice as she grabbed her sword and held it possessively. Realising she was getting looks from the others, Maki had the awareness to at least blush and revert the sword to its necklace form. "...Oookay...That was mildly concerning to see. Right then, what would you girls like to hear first, the bad news or the good news."
"Bad news then the good news, so that we can all finish on a good note!"
"Give it to us straight, B."
"It doesn't matter either way as long as it's not too serious."
"Get on with it, Barnaby."
"Whatever, just spill it. What's the sitch with my sword?"
"Alright, if you girls insist. Bad news, I couldn't sense anything." Barnaby declared, pausing dramatically for effect. When the girls simply just stared at him, he shrugged his shoulders and continued. "According to my magical sensors, which can detect even the smallest mote of necrotic magic in a five-fold field of prismatic chaos, your sword apparently doesn't exist. Every analysis spell I know came up empty, and it does ping on the anti-magic factor either."
"So...that's all. You can sense it with magic?" Izumi asked, a little concerned that that was all Barnaby had to say about the sword.
"Okay, so it might not seem all that much to you girls but it is ringing serious alarm bells in my gut. Something like this screams bad news."
"But it's safe to use, right?" Maki asked, undeterred by the new information that the plush toy gave her and her teammates.
"...Were you not listening to me, Maki. Bad. News."
"You didn't answer my question, toy." Seeing Maki unwilling to budge over the sword, Barnaby sighed and shook his head.
"Tch, fine! I suppose it's technically safe but just because I'm not able to sense anything doesn't mean that it's not some evil soul-eating sword or something. So I advise you to not get too carried away with that sword, Maki."
"Yeah yeah, I'll be careful."
"Um, so what's the good news then?" Hana asked.
"The good news is that I know this pair of angels who were also some of the strongest sensors back in college. Last I heard, they were assigned to job looking after some magical artifact. I still got their number so I'm pretty sure I can get them to give the sword a look. So I highly recommend that you hold off using that sword until the professionals have taken a look at it."
"I thought you were a professional, Barnaby."
"...Whatever, lunch is about to finish so I'll leave it alone for now. Crystal Stars dismissed!"
With that, lunch comes to an end and the girls went to their classes, unsure of what to think of Maki's new sword. Izumi was most worried for her friend considering Barnaby's warnings but was fully aware that Maki was unlikely to give up on the sword until it actually did something bad to her. All Izumi could do was wait and hope that the sword didn't turn out to be some kind of cursed evil weapon of a dead evil king.
The school day eventually comes to a close and while her teammates were at their respective clubs, Maki headed off on her own with her sword concealed as a necklace around her neck. While she did had to admit that the sword was shady as hell, it was no different than how she ended up becoming a Crystal Star. She vaguely remembers awakening to the power of the Crystal before meeting some knight fellow in a freaky dream who just wouldn't stop yapping on and on about crap.
If she had known what kind of responsibilities she'd have been saddled with in accepting her role as a Crystal Star, she would have punched the guy and thrown away the power. Or at least that what she tells herself. Truthfully, she was far more worried about her childhood friend Izumi and the rest of her teammates.
She and the others were fully aware that at some point in the future, they will have to make a choice - to sacrifice themselves to save the world and its people or fail and witness the consequences of their failure to do what was necessary. Maki knew full well that Izumi wouldn't hesitate for even a heartbeat in order to help someone in need, even if it meant sacrificing their own lives to do so.
And there was no way in hell that Maki was ever going to let things ever get to that point.
Duty to the Crystal Stars?
The responsibility of a hero?
Those meant nothing to Maki and her desire to protect what was truly precious to her.
Rubbing the bracelet which her new magical sword was hanging from in its miniature form, she reaffirmed her resolve to become strong enough to protect her teammates and keep them from ever making the ultimate sacrifice.
…
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...
As expected, the fairy failed to pick up anything from its attempts to scan you. However, it seems that they will be calling in someone more specialized in the appraisal arts to come and examine you. Whether they'll be able to or not is something that you are not certain. While the fairy's appraisal spells were nowhere near strong enough to even try and pick-up Ebon Force, a specialist might just be able to do so.
There is also the matter of whether or not they'd recognize Ebon Force though and considering the absence of Ebon Force in the world prior to your release, you doubt they'll make the connections or even realize what your true nature is. Most likely they will draw conclusions based upon what they already know and assume that you are something else.
Leaving the musings for another time, you wait patiently as you are once more in your pocket form, hanging from a created chain around Maki's left wrist. Occasionally you pick up small slivers of what is on your wielder's mind. Unfortunately, with what little connection you have with Maki, you are unable to pick-up anything that is coherent or with context, save for a few things.
One in particular.
A desire to become strong for the sake of another.
You could empathize with that feeling.
In any case, you need to build up a better connection with Maki and to do that, you need to start generating ebon force, the main source of your powers. By absorbing special form of energy such as life-force, mana, soul-power, and so on, you can produce Ebon force which you can use for all kinds of things.
Important things like strengthening your connection with Maki, altering your body to some degree, and empowering Maki and slowly mould her into an ideal vessel for your power.
However, since you are now a sword, you'll need to be used as one in order to absorb the necessary energy needed to get started and that means Maki needs to stab or slash someone with you and take what you need by force.
It'll be messy. It'll be bloody. But it will be good.
In any case, you wait patiently as Maki returns home to an empty home to unload her school stuff and make a quick meal. Maki does some of her homework for the week before cleaning up.
You then watch as Maki starts her transformation with a wave of a star-shaped gem that appears before her on mental command. You idly note the pillar of light that appears as her clothes disappear and her body starts to float into the air by pure light. The sheer amount of power that she's emanating is immense yet you can only sense it thanks to the fact that you're on her wrist. You pity the fool who would try and attack Maki while she is transforming. Ribbons of light wrap themselves around her body and with a twinkling flash and change into her Crystal Star uniform.
"Crystal Star Nova is here to…Whatever." you watch Maki finishes lamely, having realized what she was doing mid-sentence. "Alright, enough messing around, Maki. Time to get to work and see what this baby can do." The last part is said as she pats the bracelet that you are part of.
Your confusion abates when Maki opens the window to her apartment and proceeds to leap out and land on a nearby rooftop. It seems that Maki is headed out to seek battle to test your might. You are pleased with this decision of hers.
However, as time passes, you become aware that Maki lacks some important - a means to draw in worthy opponents. You can feel her frustration grow as time passes with little to show for it. You suspect that she did not really think this sudden excursion through. Seeing how she is pretty much just wandering around randomly in futile hopes of running into something she can fight with little guilt or worry, you decide to help her out a little.
You send out a pulse of ebon force and concentrate as the wave of your power spreads out into the surrounding area. Through this expression of power that is invisible to all but the most sensitive of beings, you pick up all kinds of energy signatures as well as slivers of emotions.
Carefully you gauge the stronger energy signatures as well as the accompanying emotions to make sure that Maki doesn't bite off more than she can chew. While there are well many different entities that you can sense, only a few of them seems to be involved in some sort of conflict and are around Maki's level of power.
The one with the strongest lifeforce is apparently doing battle with a number of weaker energy signatures judging by the emotion they are releasing. Curiously, the weaker ones have either have no emotions or are very good at suppressing them. Near that one is a strong mana signature who seems to be watching the fight while feeling confident about something.
Two fairly strong life-force signatures are also fighting nearby, against each other apparently. Both are evenly matched but that is only because one of them is apparently being empowered by another weaker one nearby. The weaker one is feeling both fear and worry for the one it is empowering while the one being empowered is fully focused on the fight. The strong one that fights alone feels both anger and frustration.
Finally, there's a strong soul-power type energy signature that is somewhere underground. For whatever reason, weaker soul-power energy signatures are being drawn towards it and are being absorbed. The feeling you get from this one is that of hunger. Simply hunger.
All the others are either are too out in the open surrounded by non-combatants and civilians or alone but feeling relaxed or busy with something else.
Focusing on the strong energy signatures, you proceed to feed their locations to Maki. With how weak your connection is with the girl, she should only get a vague feeling that something in the general direction of where you sensed your targets.
As expected, Maki stops as she received your knowledge of nearby energy signatures. She looks around before thinking to herself with her eyes scrunched up in deep thought. Before long, however, she opens her eyes and immediately heads towards one of the locations you provided her.
Which energy signature that she heads off towards?
[ ] The one with the strongest lifeforce doing battle against an army created by another.
[ ] The duel between two strong lifeforce signature. One is protecting another and in turn, is given strength to match his opponent.
[ ] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
…
Caught off-guard and unprepared, Maki eventually relented to Barnaby giving her sword an examination. Though she didn't believe the sword to be cursed or anything of the likes, she couldn't refute Barnaby's logic. It was quite a common occurrence in movies and tv shows for someone to find an old object in a tomb and for that object to be cursed or evil.
"Thank you, Maki. Now then girls, please give me some space so that I can get to work," The plush toy requested, placing the sword in front of him in preparation for the examination.
Complying with the fairy's request, the Crystal Stars stepped back as Barnaby began to work his magic. Clapping his paws together, Barnaby closed his eyes and began to mumble something in another language. Points of light appeared around the lion before they began to move, drawing lines of glowing light on the ground. When they formed a large elaborate magic circle, the sword became covered in a soft bluish glow.
The girls watched Barnaby do his thing, unsure of what to make of this rather direct display of magic. Barnaby usually kept his magical talent lowkey, preferring subtlety to an overt display of magical prowess. This "scanning" spell was the most magical thing that they've seen the toy lion do. However, as time went on and the end of lunch approached, the girls were starting to get worried. Not helping was the growing expression of frustration on Barnaby's face.
Finally, just five minutes before the end of the lunch break, Barnaby released out a sigh of exasperation and clapped his paws, dismissing the minor light show, leaving no trace of the magic circle anywhere. Pointing to the sword, Barnaby raised his paw, lifting the sword up with his mind before presenting it to Maki.
"Here, take it. I'm done here." Maki didn't need to be told twice as she grabbed her sword and held it possessively. Realising she was getting looks from the others, Maki had the awareness to at least blush and revert the sword to its necklace form. "...Oookay...That was mildly concerning to see. Right then, what would you girls like to hear first, the bad news or the good news."
"Bad news then the good news, so that we can all finish on a good note!"
"Give it to us straight, B."
"It doesn't matter either way as long as it's not too serious."
"Get on with it, Barnaby."
"Whatever, just spill it. What's the sitch with my sword?"
"Alright, if you girls insist. Bad news, I couldn't sense anything." Barnaby declared, pausing dramatically for effect. When the girls simply just stared at him, he shrugged his shoulders and continued. "According to my magical sensors, which can detect even the smallest mote of necrotic magic in a five-fold field of prismatic chaos, your sword apparently doesn't exist. Every analysis spell I know came up empty, and it does ping on the anti-magic factor either."
"So...that's all. You can sense it with magic?" Izumi asked, a little concerned that that was all Barnaby had to say about the sword.
"Okay, so it might not seem all that much to you girls but it is ringing serious alarm bells in my gut. Something like this screams bad news."
"But it's safe to use, right?" Maki asked, undeterred by the new information that the plush toy gave her and her teammates.
"...Were you not listening to me, Maki. Bad. News."
"You didn't answer my question, toy." Seeing Maki unwilling to budge over the sword, Barnaby sighed and shook his head.
"Tch, fine! I suppose it's technically safe but just because I'm not able to sense anything doesn't mean that it's not some evil soul-eating sword or something. So I advise you to not get too carried away with that sword, Maki."
"Yeah yeah, I'll be careful."
"Um, so what's the good news then?" Hana asked.
"The good news is that I know this pair of angels who were also some of the strongest sensors back in college. Last I heard, they were assigned to job looking after some magical artifact. I still got their number so I'm pretty sure I can get them to give the sword a look. So I highly recommend that you hold off using that sword until the professionals have taken a look at it."
"I thought you were a professional, Barnaby."
"...Whatever, lunch is about to finish so I'll leave it alone for now. Crystal Stars dismissed!"
With that, lunch comes to an end and the girls went to their classes, unsure of what to think of Maki's new sword. Izumi was most worried for her friend considering Barnaby's warnings but was fully aware that Maki was unlikely to give up on the sword until it actually did something bad to her. All Izumi could do was wait and hope that the sword didn't turn out to be some kind of cursed evil weapon of a dead evil king.
The school day eventually comes to a close and while her teammates were at their respective clubs, Maki headed off on her own with her sword concealed as a necklace around her neck. While she did had to admit that the sword was shady as hell, it was no different than how she ended up becoming a Crystal Star. She vaguely remembers awakening to the power of the Crystal before meeting some knight fellow in a freaky dream who just wouldn't stop yapping on and on about crap.
If she had known what kind of responsibilities she'd have been saddled with in accepting her role as a Crystal Star, she would have punched the guy and thrown away the power. Or at least that what she tells herself. Truthfully, she was far more worried about her childhood friend Izumi and the rest of her teammates.
She and the others were fully aware that at some point in the future, they will have to make a choice - to sacrifice themselves to save the world and its people or fail and witness the consequences of their failure to do what was necessary. Maki knew full well that Izumi wouldn't hesitate for even a heartbeat in order to help someone in need, even if it meant sacrificing their own lives to do so.
And there was no way in hell that Maki was ever going to let things ever get to that point.
Duty to the Crystal Stars?
The responsibility of a hero?
Those meant nothing to Maki and her desire to protect what was truly precious to her.
Rubbing the bracelet which her new magical sword was hanging from in its miniature form, she reaffirmed her resolve to become strong enough to protect her teammates and keep them from ever making the ultimate sacrifice.
…
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...
As expected, the fairy failed to pick up anything from its attempts to scan you. However, it seems that they will be calling in someone more specialized in the appraisal arts to come and examine you. Whether they'll be able to or not is something that you are not certain. While the fairy's appraisal spells were nowhere near strong enough to even try and pick-up Ebon Force, a specialist might just be able to do so.
There is also the matter of whether or not they'd recognize Ebon Force though and considering the absence of Ebon Force in the world prior to your release, you doubt they'll make the connections or even realize what your true nature is. Most likely they will draw conclusions based upon what they already know and assume that you are something else.
Leaving the musings for another time, you wait patiently as you are once more in your pocket form, hanging from a created chain around Maki's left wrist. Occasionally you pick up small slivers of what is on your wielder's mind. Unfortunately, with what little connection you have with Maki, you are unable to pick-up anything that is coherent or with context, save for a few things.
One in particular.
A desire to become strong for the sake of another.
You could empathize with that feeling.
In any case, you need to build up a better connection with Maki and to do that, you need to start generating ebon force, the main source of your powers. By absorbing special form of energy such as life-force, mana, soul-power, and so on, you can produce Ebon force which you can use for all kinds of things.
Important things like strengthening your connection with Maki, altering your body to some degree, and empowering Maki and slowly mould her into an ideal vessel for your power.
However, since you are now a sword, you'll need to be used as one in order to absorb the necessary energy needed to get started and that means Maki needs to stab or slash someone with you and take what you need by force.
It'll be messy. It'll be bloody. But it will be good.
In any case, you wait patiently as Maki returns home to an empty home to unload her school stuff and make a quick meal. Maki does some of her homework for the week before cleaning up.
You then watch as Maki starts her transformation with a wave of a star-shaped gem that appears before her on mental command. You idly note the pillar of light that appears as her clothes disappear and her body starts to float into the air by pure light. The sheer amount of power that she's emanating is immense yet you can only sense it thanks to the fact that you're on her wrist. You pity the fool who would try and attack Maki while she is transforming. Ribbons of light wrap themselves around her body and with a twinkling flash and change into her Crystal Star uniform.
"Crystal Star Nova is here to…Whatever." you watch Maki finishes lamely, having realized what she was doing mid-sentence. "Alright, enough messing around, Maki. Time to get to work and see what this baby can do." The last part is said as she pats the bracelet that you are part of.
Your confusion abates when Maki opens the window to her apartment and proceeds to leap out and land on a nearby rooftop. It seems that Maki is headed out to seek battle to test your might. You are pleased with this decision of hers.
However, as time passes, you become aware that Maki lacks some important - a means to draw in worthy opponents. You can feel her frustration grow as time passes with little to show for it. You suspect that she did not really think this sudden excursion through. Seeing how she is pretty much just wandering around randomly in futile hopes of running into something she can fight with little guilt or worry, you decide to help her out a little.
You send out a pulse of ebon force and concentrate as the wave of your power spreads out into the surrounding area. Through this expression of power that is invisible to all but the most sensitive of beings, you pick up all kinds of energy signatures as well as slivers of emotions.
Carefully you gauge the stronger energy signatures as well as the accompanying emotions to make sure that Maki doesn't bite off more than she can chew. While there are well many different entities that you can sense, only a few of them seems to be involved in some sort of conflict and are around Maki's level of power.
The one with the strongest lifeforce is apparently doing battle with a number of weaker energy signatures judging by the emotion they are releasing. Curiously, the weaker ones have either have no emotions or are very good at suppressing them. Near that one is a strong mana signature who seems to be watching the fight while feeling confident about something.
Two fairly strong life-force signatures are also fighting nearby, against each other apparently. Both are evenly matched but that is only because one of them is apparently being empowered by another weaker one nearby. The weaker one is feeling both fear and worry for the one it is empowering while the one being empowered is fully focused on the fight. The strong one that fights alone feels both anger and frustration.
Finally, there's a strong soul-power type energy signature that is somewhere underground. For whatever reason, weaker soul-power energy signatures are being drawn towards it and are being absorbed. The feeling you get from this one is that of hunger. Simply hunger.
All the others are either are too out in the open surrounded by non-combatants and civilians or alone but feeling relaxed or busy with something else.
Focusing on the strong energy signatures, you proceed to feed their locations to Maki. With how weak your connection is with the girl, she should only get a vague feeling that something in the general direction of where you sensed your targets.
As expected, Maki stops as she received your knowledge of nearby energy signatures. She looks around before thinking to herself with her eyes scrunched up in deep thought. Before long, however, she opens her eyes and immediately heads towards one of the locations you provided her.
Which energy signature that she heads off towards?
[ ] The one with the strongest lifeforce doing battle against an army created by another.
[ ] The duel between two strong lifeforce signature. One is protecting another and in turn, is given strength to match his opponent.
[ ] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
Jesus jumping Christmas biscuits! This one took forever to write thanks to a combination of being distracted by the grind in Fate Grand Order's latest events - both JP and NA, as well as some administration stuff with my university. And writer's block. Not too sure about this update but I want to get going.
- Location
- United States
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
Terran Imperium
[French]
- Location
- Southern France
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
ThatGuyWithIdeas
Treize died for our sins
- Location
- Romania
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
- Location
- Voidbetweenstars
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
On one hand this might look like we drew her to this thing to be eaten.
But at least no one will watch her kill it *hopefully.
On one hand this might look like we drew her to this thing to be eaten.
But at least no one will watch her kill it *hopefully.
- Location
- USA
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
Conceptualist
Best Mega Sceptile
- Location
- I'm on the internet. Duh.
[X] The hungry soul that lies underground, devouring the souls that it draws in, growing ever stronger even as its hunger grows as well.
- Location
- Italy
[X] The duel between two strong lifeforce signature. One is protecting another and in turn, is given strength to match his opponent.
It's a test run, let's take it easy; also, if the hungry thing grows... Well, the team might be unable to defeat it without us, maybe our host could request more power in exchange of giving for more control?
It's a test run, let's take it easy; also, if the hungry thing grows... Well, the team might be unable to defeat it without us, maybe our host could request more power in exchange of giving for more control?