The language is a clusterfuck because it was born from one?
Magical Girl Home Base Quest
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I think it just leaves the main character no worse off than they were before- restricted to doing meatball surgery in a hopefully clean room, albeit with a bit more expertise than he had the last time he patched up Trompdoy.
The language was born as a chain of clusterfucks piling up on top of each other, merging into a single revolving lava lamp of crazy, and then randomly reaching out across the world to steal loan words from just about every language it could find in the general vicinity of a coastline.
Omake 1: Stop in the name of the sign
For those of you who enjoy such things, have an omake! I have been sitting on this for a few weeks until finally deciding to put it here for your perusal. I'm not a native English speaker and this has obviously not been betaed, so read at your own peril.
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Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
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- Cold snow fields of Finland
That was very nice look into our possible future, especially that ending punchline. But you didn't need to put it into a quote box. I'd also recommend giving it a title.
I put it in a quote box to avoid cluttering the thread. It's not exactly a short omake. You are right about the name, though. I will have to figure something out.
It might be better to put it in a spoiler box in that case.
7734
Trust and verify.
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- Philmont
Well now, what's this? An omake?
This is a bit of a malproper translation, but it's not cursed TL tier. I'd probably say 'Casa del brujas jóvenes" which is "home of the young sorcerers" or possibly "Casa del chicas mágicas" which would be a bit more literal: "home of the magical girls". You could also replace "Casa" with "Hostal" or "Albergue" respectively, making it a hostel or a refuge.
I was saving this for later, but yeah, dead on the money there. Magical girls will absolutely use drugs as a payment medium.
Not only is this overkill to the point of being a ridiculous drain on resources (as in a good Czech Hedgehog is like 8 mundanes per and it takes a week to make six) the defensive layout is ass-backwards!
With safe path in green, ward in orange, AV mines in red, AP mines in purple, barbed wire in yellow, and Czech Hedgehogs in blue. Basically, anything that can punch through a good solid seven-layer ward has the engineering tools to deal with everything else inside this magical fence. Something like a dragon- because a dragon is the low end of "brute force a ward" scale- would just fly over this stuff, and an Alchemist attack group that managed to bypass the ward can literally clear the minefields with Bangalore torpedoes while under covering fire from artillery.
Defending the hostel is hard, mostly because you have no space and most of the space you do have is tarmac. This leads to most of the defenses being magical in nature, and when they become releveant there will be votes on it.
Also, roof cameras? Ain't nobody got money for that!
ahahahaha implying anyone trusts Homer, the blind guy, with a gun. Ohhhh that's a laugh.
(not saying he couldn't hit shit; point at noise and pull trigger works suprisingly well. The issue is when you shoot your friends because of an accident or something)
*Looks at map*
*raises finger*
*lowers finger*
I mean that could work, but hmmm. Very hmmmm.
All in all @Random Shinobi pretty good work!
This is a bit of a malproper translation, but it's not cursed TL tier. I'd probably say 'Casa del brujas jóvenes" which is "home of the young sorcerers" or possibly "Casa del chicas mágicas" which would be a bit more literal: "home of the magical girls". You could also replace "Casa" with "Hostal" or "Albergue" respectively, making it a hostel or a refuge.
I was saving this for later, but yeah, dead on the money there. Magical girls will absolutely use drugs as a payment medium.
Not only is this overkill to the point of being a ridiculous drain on resources (as in a good Czech Hedgehog is like 8 mundanes per and it takes a week to make six) the defensive layout is ass-backwards!
With safe path in green, ward in orange, AV mines in red, AP mines in purple, barbed wire in yellow, and Czech Hedgehogs in blue. Basically, anything that can punch through a good solid seven-layer ward has the engineering tools to deal with everything else inside this magical fence. Something like a dragon- because a dragon is the low end of "brute force a ward" scale- would just fly over this stuff, and an Alchemist attack group that managed to bypass the ward can literally clear the minefields with Bangalore torpedoes while under covering fire from artillery.
Defending the hostel is hard, mostly because you have no space and most of the space you do have is tarmac. This leads to most of the defenses being magical in nature, and when they become releveant there will be votes on it.
Also, roof cameras? Ain't nobody got money for that!
ahahahaha implying anyone trusts Homer, the blind guy, with a gun. Ohhhh that's a laugh.
(not saying he couldn't hit shit; point at noise and pull trigger works suprisingly well. The issue is when you shoot your friends because of an accident or something)
*Looks at map*
*raises finger*
*lowers finger*
I mean that could work, but hmmm. Very hmmmm.
All in all @Random Shinobi pretty good work!
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- The state of Paranoia
So instead of mines and stuff, we need something more like AA guns and artillery? Maybe a few dozen batteries of fireworks with magical bombs in the tips? Tie the fuses together, rig up a contraption that lets you point them all in the same direction, and send a dozen T3+ bombs hurtling towards whoever was dumb enough to breach all those wards. Even better, do it while they're trying to breach the wards, so that they're a stationary target. Maybe design the inner wards specifically to take as much time as possible to break, and an outer ward that just warns the defenders when someone breaks it.
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I would like you to know that it was this one guy named 7734 who came up with that name. I simply copied it. You may direct all complains and comments to him.
I will admit it. I put that scene in just because found the idea of magical girl drug-pushers hilarious.
I kinda imagined it so that only the notice-me-not ward covered the whole property, while the actual magical defenses hugged the building to conserve power.
You probably missed it, but Homer did have magical eyes in the omake.
Firstly, I spent like two seconds coming up with that generic name. Secondly, do you actually have map?
7734
Trust and verify.
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- Philmont
Yes.
We're back to that "I can't talk about this" things again which is highly annoying.
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- Plato's Cave
So Homer's eyes are the "payment" or "price" he paid to get his magic crafting powers, akin to Medicine Boy's fingers.
Well, that sound reasonable anyway.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
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- Cold snow fields of Finland
If that's the way they gained their powers, then gaining artificer skills that way sounds pretty much like facing with Truth in Full Metal Alchemist.
Someone, somewhere lucked-in and paid for it with his body hair.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Hm.
There's one known artificer other than Medicine Boy and Homer, and that's... uh, the girl who was making costumes in the garage sidestory. I forget her name off the top of my head for now.
It'd be interesting to find out if she had to make some kind of injury or sacrifice. I don't remember seeing/hearing any evidence of it.
There's one known artificer other than Medicine Boy and Homer, and that's... uh, the girl who was making costumes in the garage sidestory. I forget her name off the top of my head for now.
It'd be interesting to find out if she had to make some kind of injury or sacrifice. I don't remember seeing/hearing any evidence of it.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
If she's a skill-based girl, it might be her one special skill. Like Mistletoe has her once-per-day killshot.
Btw, pretty sure Homer's a seer, not an artesian like us. Different character class. He can make scrolls, but that's within the bounds of magical girl powers as Ouroboros could do it. Of course, taking the powers a four hundred year old magical girl channeling the Great Time Snek may not give a fair picture of things.
QM said upgrading the car would be on his upgrade path, which points to some item powers, but also that it wouldn't really be on ours, so who knows what that means.
QM said upgrading the car would be on his upgrade path, which points to some item powers, but also that it wouldn't really be on ours, so who knows what that means.
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Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
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We don't need to restore Homer's sight, his scroll work has zero need for him to see. Depending on the magic at work, it could even be detrimental to him.
So instead, work around it. Make a construct that does it for him, like a magical seeing eye dog, or a doll that whispers to him what there is to see. Or take advantage of his blindness, and how his other senses are growing sharper to make up for it. A gadget that takes his hearing up to levels where echolocation is possible, or his sense of smell so sharp he knows who's in the next two rooms over and what their last meal was.
Trying to fix what broke is only one path, and frankly it's one well trodden. Better to try new things and see what can be done with them.
So instead, work around it. Make a construct that does it for him, like a magical seeing eye dog, or a doll that whispers to him what there is to see. Or take advantage of his blindness, and how his other senses are growing sharper to make up for it. A gadget that takes his hearing up to levels where echolocation is possible, or his sense of smell so sharp he knows who's in the next two rooms over and what their last meal was.
Trying to fix what broke is only one path, and frankly it's one well trodden. Better to try new things and see what can be done with them.
Happerry
Bat out of Hell
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- Kanto
I just want to remind people he already had his magic stuff before he lost his eyes, given that he lost his eyes while using his magic stuff to mess up the Witch Ritual Grounds, remember?
Op uses Confuse.
Its supper effective!
Similarly the same is true for Medicine Boy. He healed up his first Magical Girl at eight and given the flow of the first chapter that is strongly implied to be before he lost his fingers.
It is just Medicine Boy was a stupid child and played with fireworks, including lighting them in his hand:
with recklessness like that an accident was inevitable.
Going by:
I'd guess he was either trying to cover something or shield something (like his face) from an explosion. Because the only arrangement I can think of that puts those three fingers next to each other is right hand parallel with left hand, touching index to pinky, with the ring thumb tucked out of the way.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I guess doing some item crafting could be her Rare Skill, but that seems a lot more divergent than Mistletoe's Rare Skill. Mistletoe's special ability is a combat ability meant to be used on enemies, which is in keeping with the general theme of "magical girls fight."
Now, we can be confident that there isn't some gendered thing going on where only boys can craft and only girls can use Wholesome Non-Evil Fight Magic, because we have the example of the New Orleans crafter who made the Level 3 Bomb of Drowning, and of the girl who sews costumes for Elise's crew.
Yeah. If both hands were clasped around something and a chunk blew out, it could slice through those three fingers and no others.
Imagine holding a baseball bat. Your hands are 'stacked,' and the index finger of one hand is right up adjacent to the little and ring fingers of the other. Now, I'm pretty sure that a proper baseball bat grip puts the right hand on top normally, so it wouldn't be exactly the same. But the reverse of that grip, with the left on top and the right on the bottom, would position someone where they could lose specifically those three fingers to a single debris strike or impact.
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Only if its all hair. No eyelashes or head hair either.
dinomannitro6
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And then it turns out it removes all hair so the hairs inside the ear are gone, so now you're deaf
7734
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- Philmont
Yep. The best part is that depending on how someone gets their ability depends on how this kicks in, too. That reaches too close to my Core Concept folder to cover the how's and why's in detail, but I can say that there's an element of conceptual weight in it as well. If you were to be sacrificing your hair because it is beautiful, defining it as taking your hair wouldn't target the hairs in your eardrum since that isn't hair as how you defined the term. Rather, that would be part and parcel of your hearing, which would be how you perceive beauty. If you were to sacrifice your hair because "well I don't need it" then hair as a component will be targeted and removed from your entire body; including your eardrums. This would also fuck over your balance, leaving you in eternal vertigo.
You also have the reverse example of Melchior, who cast magic in battle against the Magical Girl team. While crafting versus fighting aren't exclusive traits nor gender-tied ones, they do strongly correlate with gender. I have to resist the urge to spoil the update here, but magic is inherently shaped by one's view of it and their conceptualization of it.
If the roll hadn't fucked Joselyn over, the next vote would have been the path to guide her magic on in recovery. While she started as someone who worked magic externally, through the work of literally having chunks of Tyrfang buried in her and being exposed to so much internalization of magic would give her the choice to accept her nature and become a Magical Girl; or she could choose your instruction and help to work on controlling the magic embedded in her externally, becoming an Artifacer like Medicine Boy.
If Joselyn became a Magical Girl, her theme would be [Evil] and her tags would be [Malchance] and [Blood] culminating in her final form gaining access to the clear Andvaranaut and the ability to curse wealth to become Rhinegold.
If Joselyn became an Artificer, her strength would be Bombs, and her tags would be [Tragedy] and [Deception] culminating in a Masterwork Bomb that would fortell the doom of whoever would drink it, telling the true future that pierces the veil of divination.
If Joselyn became a Magical Girl, her theme would be [Evil] and her tags would be [Malchance] and [Blood] culminating in her final form gaining access to the clear Andvaranaut and the ability to curse wealth to become Rhinegold.
If Joselyn became an Artificer, her strength would be Bombs, and her tags would be [Tragedy] and [Deception] culminating in a Masterwork Bomb that would fortell the doom of whoever would drink it, telling the true future that pierces the veil of divination.
Honestly, with regards to Jocelyn, I'll be satisfied with fucking over the designs the Alchemists had with her. Giving her a human life back free from the Sword of Damocles that hung over her would be as good of a prize for me as either of those two other paths. This *is* after all a quest entirely about dragging the setting kicking and screaming from the edge of the abyss into the light.
Hell. Who knows, maybe she'll get lucky and be able to go a third path.
I wonder if magic can have themes like Redemption.
Hell. Who knows, maybe she'll get lucky and be able to go a third path.
I wonder if magic can have themes like Redemption.